The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 17, 1931, Image 3
"^MBtgaMoitgage Lif teis
Ie $2,100 Last
Year On 60 Acres
11 place five mile* from Orange
beside the road to North, Fred
(yl|tr has been showing how farm
jo Soutl' Carolina can upproach
I the idyllic state. In the
there is '>nly 00 acres of land.
I cleared $2,100 laat year and I
L to jfet through all right thia
eaya Mr- Quller, a member of
Kid and numerous family of Or|burif
county farmers, Across
road front him i$ the home of
Lr Culler, his cousin, who is a
Iber of the State Highway Com|ion
and one of the biggeat-pcaled
[era in this section. Fre^ Ouljer
L.t boast, but he declares that
|ft found intensified handling of
90 acres much more satisfactory
I the cultivatin|k-flf<ig?veral hunI
acres in the traditional way of
|n and croppers, as he farmed
| long time.
|e key link in his present opera|
is poultry, which he dodsn't
| as just hens and chickens and
I He use* poultry as a medium I
disposing of what he grows for
|on his farm. And he purposely
s scarcely anything for sale that
|ot be fed to his flock of hens.
get $3 to $4 a bushel for grain
I market it in the form of
H" ays he. And most of what
K|b is so marketed. But he hasHjjat
commonly would be called
Htry farm. The b&Se of his opHas
is hi- 00 acres of land and
His chicken houses and their ocKts.
He cultivates those sixty
J with the view of producing ns
| as possible of his own food and
oes produce much the greater
of it. The rest of hisprodueI
is for his chickens, for which
|uys only those necessary feed
Hdients he can't produce, such as
| scrap. When there is an e*H
of it, he markets grain, but he
|s nothing in the expectation of
|eting it as harvested. ,
keeps a flock of 500 to 700
H leghorn hens. He feed* - tO:
his grain and markets eggs
Lghout the year. He ^ells his
I in Columbia, during most of
lyear to a single customer.
Five to seven hundred hens are
Lgh for a 60-acre farm," he says.
II increased the flock beyond that
btr without adding more land I
be more poultry-man than
Rtt md would have to buy much
R it times and have help in takRcutolthe
hens."
Hr. Caller was for long a general |
B'i< lit Ihui produced cotton An
main. He gradually reduced-.hit J
Bf* lo the present minimum.]
le he has produced no cottor.
' he has done in the cultivating
soil improvement Ways with hiSj
cre& is illustrated by the fact
I this year he^ cut 46 bushels ofj
per acre. Last year he gath-l
VA wan pea* ?w/twr
$2,100 he made on the yetar's
ations was of course in addition
is home, a modern one in a pretty
and the greater part of the
consumed in the home. On the
he does everything feasible to-1
I* getting what he markets into'
form that will yield him most.
Mixes his own chicken feed and
ates his own hatchery, using sur"
capactiy for public hatching.
uas first to go in for comia:
'poultry operations in that comty.
Now most of his neighbors
gone ir. f0r poultry. Among
are his cousins, Edgar and
Ptor. ( uller. each of whom cultfc
several thousand acres of land.
| Poultry operations are on a
w scale, each of them maintainBlock.?
of several thousand hens.
House telephone bills for
Bitions between President
V11 the White House and SecHMfllon
in Paris; during the
over the Hoover debt
H^Plan ran up Into thousands of
J1 The cost was about $10 a
J* and the estimated cost of the,
Prions are as,.high as |7,QOQ.
1 Mary Brown, claiming Green*.
C., as her home, smartly
p and young, was sentenced by
stonia polioe court this W*ek
f?w months in jail fpilow?r
capture there, on a charge
wejsion and transporting. She
choice variety of liquors in
^ when she was caught on a
* 8? wkm it is prewas
delivering some of
customers.
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Master Farmer Sees
No doom in Farming
Several years ag*^ The Progressive
Farmer designated Mrs. Carrie
Senn, a widow, "the master farmer of
Newberry County, South Carolina."
U?t year a mid-June hailstorm almost
annihilated Mrs. Senn's growing
crops. About five years ago, she accidentally
contracted the rare disease
known as "rabbit fever" and it
still puts her abed0 during several
weeks once a year. Once when she
was ill in bed a high storm wind
blew off the top of a chimney above
her and the brick tumbled through
the roof and ceiling into her room,
most of them falling upon the beJ,
Luckily shd had gott% up to get
something in another part of the
room and escaped. You'd have to go
a mighty long ways to find happier
woman than Mrs. Senn, whom
none of her neighbors would deny
present standing as a master farmer.
"We, my children and I, have made
a go of it and come T>ut ahead in
all but one of the years since my
husband died about nine years ago,"
says she. 4*The ona year was 1930,
when we would not have lost money
but for the hailstorm. Then we
might have lost nearly everything, including
possibly the place, but for
our cows. We still could replant for
them; they saved us."
In addition to six plows of general
farming, Mrs. Senn operates a commercial
dairy and grows practically
all the feedstuffs for it and for a
laige herd of hogs and a sizable
flock of chickens. iShe and her childi
en now milk over 30 head of grade
and purebred cows and sell milk both
wholesale and'retail.
Among the children are two boys,
both of whom have gone through high
school and one through and another
partly through college. The oldest,
William ,Senn, helped with the place
and served a milk route in Newberry
while going through high school and
college, and attaining a high scholnstic
record as a student. At 24 he is
recogntted a* an agricultural leader.
Mrs. Senn expects to send both of her
two daughters, who are younger than
the boys, to college.
"A lot of people advised me to sell
the place when Mr. Senn died," says
Mrs. Senn. "I might have got more
for it then than it will bring now.
,But I wanted to raise the children
on the farm and preserve the place
for them. I didn't know much about
managing a faiun. But I went ahead
and ^ have gotten along all right
and expect to do so in future. It
has hem great, for the children amj
I've enjoyed it."
Diversification is the rule with
Mrs. TSenh In her farming. "We are
selling something all the time and we;
produce almost everything by way of
food and feedstuffs that is consumed
here in the home and on the place,"
^ays Mrs. Senn, ^hose enthusiasm for
farming and farm life hasn't waned
a bi t.
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Captain Frank Hawks, noted American
flyer, just back from a throe
months flying tour in Europe, this
week flew from Montreal, Canada, to
New York, a distance of 350 miles in
135 minutes, or at a speed of 201
miles per hour.
MASTER'S SALE
State of South Carolina
County of Kershaw
(In the Court of Common Pleas)
L. A. Savage, Plaintiff,
against
Eddie Davis, Defendant.
Under and by virtue of an Order
of Court made in the above entitled
case, the Master for Kershaw County
will offer for sale at public auction,
before the Kershaw County Court
House door, at Camden. South Carolina,
during the legal hours of sale
on the first Monday in August, 1931,
being the 3rd day, the following described
real estate:
"All that piece, parcel or lot of
land in the iState and County aforesaid
and in the Flat Rock neighborhood
about thirteen (13) miles North
of the City of Camden, being Lot
No. 20 on plat by Will Clark of Kirkland
or l>avis lands and bounded as
follows: North and Woat by Mollie
Krttand and East and South by
WttHe Truesdale, and containing
forty-eight (48) acres.'.1
Terms of sale shall he cash. Anyone
desiring to bid at the sjtid sale,
other than the plaintiff herein, shall
first deposit with the Master as evidence
of good fsith, e certified check
or cash in the sum of thirty dollars
At the conclusion of Said
sale, the Master, shall return to the
nneuccescful bidders any sum so de.W.
L. DePlASS, JR.,
(Master for 'Kershaw County
July 8, 1081.
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Something To Eat
For Fall And Winter
Clemton College, July 14.?A little
time devoted to efficient garden
management and work will pay one
hundred per cent more than equal
time devoted to the general run of
farm workj an hour or two a day
or a day a week will do wonders in
the garden, and especially at this
time of the year in providing Jor *
fall and winter garden, 8ay{, a. E.
Schilletter, extension horticulturist,
who advises gardeners to take stock
now on the prospects for u supply
of fall and winter vegetables and to
be sure of abundance and variety.
"Garden products may be substituted
to advantage for many foods
we buy. This is another reason for
giving the garden more uttention.
Still another reason is that the surplus
may l)e exchanged . for badly
needed Cash," Mr. Sehdlettor continues.
Twelve vegetables that may be had
through the fall and winter fresh
from the garden are beets, cabbage,
carrots, celery, collards, onions, parsnip,
kale, rape, salsify, spinach and
turnips, &
Get your seed catalog, make your
selections and order no'w. . Manure,
prepare, and reprepare the best available
part of the garden and fertilize
well.
Rutabaga turnips should be planted
during the last two weeks of July
or the first week in August.
Fall and winter celery should be
set in late July or early August. Use
large and well developed plants of
the Giant Pascal or Winter Queen
varieties. Set the plants eight inches
apart in rows six feet wide.
Tomato plants transplanted during
late July and early August will produce
tomatpes until frost. In late
summer it is necessary to have plants
eight to ten inched long, toughened
by withholding water, and set very
deep in the soil?about two-thirds of
their length?water freely and cover
the moist surface with dry soil.
Kershaw county farm people
Bhould do all they can to provide a
good all-year garden. Please don't
just read about these things you can
have this winter?but let's actually
start today to plan and work and
have a better garden than we've ever
had. It's good business. It's a profitable
business. A real business-like
farmer will have a real garden. It
can be done and it's up to the people.
Let's do it?have better gardens, advises
Henry I). Green, the county
agent.
I ^The Corn Products Refining company
was fined $5,000 at Springfield,
111., this week on charges of entering
into a conspiracy to violate the prohibition
laws in providing supplies
for the manufacture of illegal alcoholic
beverages. The Corn Products
Refining company was indicted along
with the Fleischmann Yeast company
and more than a score of individuals'1
for conspiracy to violate the prohibit.inn
laws hv shipping com syrup and
yeast to bootleggers in Benld, the
town which the Wickershnm commission's
survey termed to be the worst
\n Illinois.
MASTER'S SALE
State of South Carolina
County of Kershaw
L Clo the Coprt of Common Pleas)
The Federal Land Bank of Columbia,
Plaintiff,
against
Stephen Haile, Defendant.
Under and by virtue of an Order
of Court, made in the above entitled
case, the Master for Kershaw County
will offer, for snle at public auction,
before the Kershaw County Court
House door, Camden, South Carolina
during the legal hours of sale on the
first Monday in August, 1931. being
the 3rd day, the following described
real estate:
"All that piece, parcel or tract of
land situate, lying and being in the
State of 'South Carolina, Caunty of
Kershaw, and DeKalb Township, containing
fifty (l50) acres, more or less,
being composed of tract No. 5 and a
strip of two hundred and forty (2401
feet wide off the Western side of |
tract No. 4 on the plat of subdivision
of the Truesdale Place of record in
the office of the Clerk of Court for
Kershaw County in Plat Book No.
4 at page 14. The said traet is
bounded on the North by lands of
Clarkson; East by remaining portion
of tract No. 4 of said subdivision;
South by lands of Ray, formerly of
the Buraell estate; and West by tract
No. 6 of the said subdivision, conveyed
to Q, Ff Watts."
The above described tract of land
is the same conveyed to Stephen Haile
by deed of E. L. and W. L. Wooten
bearing date December 17th, 1919,
said deed being of record in the office
of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw
County in Book A. Z. at page
41." ?*' ?' A
TERMS: One-third of the accepted
bid tp be paid in cash and the
balance on dredit, payable in three
equal annual installments. Anyone
bidding on said property except the
plaintiff shall be required to first
deposit with the Master One ftundred
($100.00) -Dollars in .cash, Or certified
check on some responsible bank.
pW.JL DePAJSS, JR.,
Master for Kershaw County.
July 16, 1931.
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Personnel Named
For Power Rate
t
Columbia, July I3tb.?The technical,
executive end clerical personnel
of the South Carolina Power Rate
Investigating Committee, authorized,
by the (General Assembly to investigate
the question of power rate atruc '
turea in this state, is about com-!
pleted as far as the initial progress |
of the work justifies, stated \V. J.|
Cormaok, executive secretary, at Co-1
lumbia today. |
To dutc other than Mr. Cormuck, i
Major Arthur H. Well wood, of Co-!
lumbia, has been elected chief engin-j
eer and S. P. Darlington has been
appointed his assistant. l>avid K |
Cohn, of Columbia, has beei) made
statistician; J. B. Parrott, of Clin-!
ton, field engineer, and R. M. Sumwait,
of the engineering faculty .of
the University of South Carolina, valuation
en^ineeri
Dr. John Bauer, of New York City,
one of the leading engineers of the
country, is scheduled to meet with
the Committee sometime this week
fpr the purpose of consulting with it
on the work to be accomplished. Dr.
Bauer is well known in this state, as
during the Richards administrutian
he prepared a very exhaustive brief
on the electric service and rates in
South Carolina for the Railroad Commission.
It is the purpose of the
committee to have with it certain
leading public figures in South Carolina
interested in power rates and
development to meet with Dr. Bauer
on his appearance here.
The Power Committee organization,]
said Mr. Cormack, has done a greg,V
deal of preliminary work preparatory
to a survey of the utilities situation
in South Carolina, it has received
and has compiled and analyzed rates
from the municipally owned power
plants of tho state and it has been
studying very valuable data supplied
to it by public service commissions
in other states which have direct]
bearing upon the South Carolina situation.
The committee is composed of Tom
B. Pearce, of Columbia, chairman;
C. W. Coker, of Hartsville, vice-chairman;
B. H. Peace, of Greenville; H.
Klugh Purdy, of Ridgeland and E. P.
Vandiver, of Anderson.
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British cruisers entered German
ports last week for the first time
since the World War.
Big Turnover in Cigarettes
Retailers are making quick profits
from the sale of cigarettes, according
to the survey of grocery sales
just completed by the Department of
Commerce in Louisville. Grocery
stores are now one of the important
outlets for tobacco products because
of their accessibility and cigarette
j sales are increasing, according to authorities
in the industry, since more
and more people are_paying atteuf
tion to their Adam's apples and are
using cigarettes from which certain
harsh irritants present in all tobaccos
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have been removed by modern methods
of manufacture such as the toasting
process including the use of ultra
violet rays. The Louisville survey
showed that tobacco products had a
turnover rate more than twice as
great as that of all grocery goods,
excepting perishables, and that cigarettes
had the highest turnover rate
at mora than forty-two times a year.
The U. S. battleship Wyoming took
?the polar submarine Nautilus in tow
after the sub's engines became disabled
and started towittfr thCf disabled
boat to Queenstown, Ireland.
I j l^o Where you please
| On your Vacation...
Mother
likes the mountain*?sonny wants to go to camp
and so does little sister?dad must work most of the summerbut
they may go where they please and still keep together
by telephone. Mother and the children may arronge to call
dad regularly at a certain time, at office or home. It makes
vacations more enjoyable and dispels anxiety to bear the voices
of loved ones, telling of the day's happenings.
Calling Qt a prearranged time enables you to use the
cheeper station-to-station service with no risk of missing the
person wanted. If you call by number at night there is a still
further reduction in cost In using station-to-station service, ask
for the distant telephone by number or location instead of asking
for a particular person. When the distant telephone answers* <,>
you may ask for whomever you want.
Wherever each member of the family goes this summer, the
local telephone office will gladly give the cost of calling back
home. Just ask for "Long Distance."
Southern Bai Telephone and Telegraph Company
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Stronger than any Bank I
Stands the Community I
Behind it I
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quality of its banks.
It is therefore our constant aim to add to
our fast growing list of customers, every citizen
of responsibility so that we can present to the- ?
business world that combined strength assuring
security and growth.
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The First National Bank
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