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f*?gEe?Mortgage lifters !ut of a job? i by Agricultural Hxtent merit, Atlantic Steel Co., *ecnt years, a let of our left the farm to try their ub.n work in town. The n tnovement was made up. ost part, of folks, who t, April every year regretred themselves and gruinblitied that it was about tart work. Planting the cultivating it kept them y until about the middle ci "iaying-by" time which, hey were concerned, might >11 be described as lyingfood year with some promfir half of the crop would na little change after payy would stay on and gathp. Otherwise, they would log, spit in the fireplace, down the road" to where landlord would give them > repeat the process, ey were in town they can't I to learn that about the g that call happen to a be out'of a job and how is to get along there withig full time. It is to be ; they have carried back to the farm a better un; of the advantages of a K>me farming is a twelveb. The man who practices atehes up with his work, sheep to shear, it's hogs fruit trees to prune and; to cut, wheat to harvest,' )uild, chickens to cull, cows j gardens to work, corn to < ?stock to house, or somethat's waiting to be done, is regular but so is the i enerally true that a man prospers in proportion to nt of productive work he d in no part of the world er for the farmer to keep ctive work throughout the i here in the South. Our ilimatk advantages, and unopportunities for raising hogs, sheep, beef and dairy ake it possible for the Souther to busy himself at profitduct ive work every day in . rcial and industrial enteric be forced to close their times of economic stres3, i what may, the /Southern ho makes the most of his ties keeps right on doing it the same old stand. You >v him out of work for he i nr>H hia ja a life-time can't bankrupt him because o much sense to risk everyany one crop. Things may with more than one activity, as a variety of production >ugh to offset ihe failures, never the case that all actil on the Southern farm that ed Drimarily for the products of food and feed for home tisi. Srnest L. Jones, of Harnett county, C., didn't make any money on his Jon and tobacco last year but the of his )25-acre farm that he voted to chickens brought him in -100.00. He charged his ohickens 00 per bushel for the corn and GO its per bushel for the oats that *ed them, which showed a good or, "the grain-growing phase of s farm activities. ^ IX Graham, of Rowan county, C., attribute- his success to the e-at-horr.e policy that he has folded ever smce he started farming h:mseit years ago. He says it instead of trying to make money, lias trlea to live and, as a result, li^s l.vt'd well and made money, 1 Another successful North iCara1IU/ ci tki. ?> ? ? ? Una farmer, R. A. .Stevens, of Wayne county, ?ayS he thinks high-priced cotton and tobacco was the worst thing that ever happened to Southern farmers. They quit talking and thinking about making a living and began speaking in terms of dollars and cents. In his opinion, the cowhog.hen route is the only road leading back to independence. During the winter and early spring ?f 1931, 38,000 Alabama farmers divided among themselves #?60,000.00 that they received from co-operative shipments totalling 105 cars of poultry. These figures compare with 01 cars during the same period in 1980 participated in by 34,000 farmers who received #?30,000. Only 43 such cars were sold in 1928 when the cooperative method of selling wag started. While the value of hogs produced in Alabama last year was #16,119,000.00, or approximately 20 per cent of the total of all livestock produced ahd 7 pgr Cent of the value of both crops and livestock, nothing like enough pork was produced to supply the state's requirements, and the production fell far short of being as well distributed over the state as it should be. Of every hundred farms only forty have a brood sow, and thirtytwo have no hogs of any kind. It is hard to understand why so few Southern farmers can say, with R. -D. Gray, of Carroll county, Georgia, that they have never bought a bale of hay in their lives. Perhaps they have never realized that all these years they have been killing ^jrass to grow cotton to buy grass. But Mr. Gray, although he has always farmed in one of the largest cotton-producing counties in Georgia, says he has never been crazy about cotton. His frist thought, from the start, was to make a living at home, and that left only a few acres for cotton. The Rutherford County (Tenn.) Dairy Herd Improvement Association closed another year with May. The records show that 336 cows produced 1,806,261 pounds of milk with ap average butterfat content of '5.5 per cent. The 99,259 pounds of butterfat sold for #41,067.79. The value of feed consumed by the cows during the year was #18,098.09, leaving an income over the actual value of all roughage and grain fed of #22,968.80. These figures show a return of #2.26 for each dollar's worth of feed. More Than 20 Kinds Sold Off Small Farm A. F. Arthur, who operates the equivalent of a 2-horse farm near Aiken, markets annually more than iwviily different kinds of t.hfagg. His money products include hay, straw, rye, milk and butter, chickens and eggs, syrup, vegetables, sweet and Irish potatoes, honey, hogs, a cow and calf or so every year, nine to ten bales of cotton, and, sometimes, even rabbits. Usually he finances operations with sales made as he goes irenarally finds that his fall harvestings are mostly prom on wv year's operations. 'He gives a .part of each of two days a week to marketing. "The depression doesn't scare me at all," says Mr. Arthur. The old Constitution will visit Charleston November 24 to 30, the Navy department announces, after stopping at Wilmington, <N. ., and going next to 'Savannah. Many thousands of people are expected to go to Charleston during the week she will be there to see Old Ironsides now restored to exactly the condition she was in while gloriously active as a fighting frigate, in the war of 1812. Her restoration Was made possible by the contributions of school children, and children are especially invited to visit her in port in November. v" ouni/AY tXCURSIONS ^PCent P?r Mile Traveled BVwo,r. all points 150 miles or Goad in coaches only. Return V1-' iate of sale. #EEK END TICKETS l^e and One-Fifth Fares I Round Trip I*'1 points in -Southeast. Sold Saturdays i end Sunday trains. Return limit Tnetiy following. <* "V i TEN DAY COACH EXCURSIONS and One-Tenth Fare |. Round Trip Points in Southeast. Sold Frh ^ Saturdays and Sundays. Oonault Ticket AftnU. SOUTHERN railway . Trawl By Train ^Hemical ? Comfortable ? Safe 1*^ > * - SORENESS ALL OVER "I vu in a rundown condition and suffering with my back and aldaa," aaya Mrs. M. M. Cook, of Fort Payne, Ala. "Tho Pain In my aid* was I as 'great ft sausad a ' soranaaa ail through my body. I was readtrrjr the newapaper v hnd' aaw Cardul advertised. I thought it might halp ma. After my first bottle. I fait kHUr. 1 took asether, aftar which X Rea -faoommSdad Cardu! alnoa." EconomistTwnpares! Dairy Product Prices Clemson College, Aug. 15.?Only two states, Massachusetts and Florlpaid to producers higher average price for butter than that paid to producers in South Carolina, according to report of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture as of July 16, 1931. The price in South ( aiolina was IK per cent higher than the average for the country as a whole and 22V4 percent higher than the average for the seven West North Central States. "However," says O. M. ('lurk; extension farm management economist, commenting on the Situation, "there were It) states in which the average ^prices for butterfat were higher than was that paid in iSouth Carolina. The average price in 'South Carolina was four percent higher than the average price fo* the West North Central iStates. "In 'South Carolina butterfat price was 73 percent of the butter j)rice, in Minnesota it was 96 percent, and in Wisconsin it was 104 percent. The greater difference between the price of butter and of butterfat existing in South Carolinu as compared with some other states would indicate that our creameries are not operated as economically per unit of product as are those in the butter surplus states. Thiq difference is due largely to the difference in the volume of product handled per plant, and therefore it would seem sounder economy under present conditions to undertake to increase the volume per creamery rather than establish additional creameries." Hogs Get Good Returns For Corn "Half of Sumter county would be devoted profitably to growing corn at a dollar a bushel," says J. M. Eleazer, demonstration agent for that county. He declares that most Sum-| ter county farmers who have sold corn in the form of hogs have netted a dollar or better a bushel for it even this year. Four Sumter county farmers who kept detailed records on hog raising last winter found that production costs ranged from 4.37 t > 6.09 cents a pound and that they got from 7.16 to 7.23 cents a pound for hogs sold last March. The returns thus received for corn ranged from 94.6 cents to $1.28 a bushel. A Septic Tank For Farm Homes Clemson College, Aug. \S.?Any homestead without an effective means of disposing of farm sewage is hardly a safe plate to live; and the installation of a septic tnnkt> will provide a imple, effective and inexpensive method of disposing of farm sewage, says C. W. Stromart, assistant agricultural engineer, announcing Agricultural . -Enginppring Circular No. 7, "A Septic Tank for Farm Homes." The circular gives in detail the location, size, construction, plans and sketches, bills of material, care and operation of a system which Mr. Stroman says should work for years without any attention except occasional inspection. An ?? ? ??'?* ,farmer state Senator Neils Christenson, Beaufort, president of the Farmery and Taxpayers League, in guiding its political affairs was formed at Columbia this week. The new executive board is composed of J. Ross Hanahan, of Charleston, Joseph Bouknight, of Johnston, A. R. Johnston, of Reevesville, B. W. Crouch, of .Saluda and W. P. Conyers of Greenville. Diversification of farming has been accomplished in Anderson county this year on an unprecedented scale. Garden produce in large quantity gold in the city, peaches, a large tomato crop, a large crop of wheat, some peanuts, and various other things are being grown there. Clemency by pardon, parole or other lessening of his sentences, will not be given Albert B. F*all, secretary of the interior under Harding, Attorney General Mitchell announced yesterday when he said any clemency will not be granted'by President Hoover. The reason is, he said, that none of the judges nor prosecutors asked recommended a*y clemency, and under the condittoha.-ke will not take the case to the president, but will file the papers,/ fall's sentence is for a year and a day and a fine of $100,000, and he is now serving the imprisonment. Mrs. Geraldine Grey Loffredo of Buffalo, N. Y., is planning to hop off from Oak Orchard, Del., in a few days for a trial at a non-stop flight to Rome. She will fl^y the "Liberty" the machine that Otto Helig and Holger Hoiriss a few weeks ago flew across the Atlantic to Denmark. y ' " s c z I ii am i in ; ; Live-At-Home Expositions Columbia Aug. W.Za live-at-hom* program, sponsored by ? ^up of state-w^de organizations, which ?m. braces tep exhibits of South Caroline products to be held in key marets of the state from September unti early next summer, was announced here today. The program has been endorsed ami approved by the South Carolina Natural Resources commission. Four sponsors announced today are The Peoples State Hank of South C arolina, J he State newspaper, radio station WIS. and the Liberty Life Insurance company* of Greenville. Three other sponsors are considering the plan and now have the matter befoie their boards of directors. Lo-' cal banks and newspapers will sponsor the individual expositions in the various cities. In addition to the exhibits, the program includes a general and sustained advertising and publicity plan to inform people of the state of it* products from the farm, the factory and the packing house and to stimulate South Carolina enterprises. The program will be" carried on through a non-profit organization working for the betterment of the state. The program will be directed by a sponsors' council, composed of public-spirited enterprises which have consented to finance the overhead charges incident to the live-at-home program and the expositions. Expenses of each exhibit will be paid by South Carolina Products, Inc., through the cooperation of the cities where the^shovvs are presented and of .the exhibifors. o - ? Headquarters will be established in Columbia the first of next month and the first exhibit will be held in some t-'ity, yet to be selected by the sponsors, sometime- in September. The other exhibits will follow the first one until at least ten cities have been touched by. next June. Build A Trench Silo And Can Green Feed v-TyC. Clemson College, Aug. L 45.?The farmer with a small herded not to be denied the advantage of* having green feed during winter at'low qost, now that the trench silo has been found entirely practical in many sections of the state, says Jv T. McAbater, extension agricultural engineer. As the name implies, the trench silo is nothing more than a long trench dug in the ground, preferably in hard clay soil. The cross section of this trench usually measures seven feet wide at the bottom, nine feet wide at the top and seven feet deep. The length will depend on the number of animals for which silage is to be provided. In the "Coastal Plains section the water table might be too high, and thereby cause the silage to rot, and in such instances Mr. McAlister suggests a long trench constructed of creosoted lumber and partly?aboveground. He advises a roof over the trench in either case and in addition a layer of straw over the silage and a layer of earth on the straw. The agricultural engineering division's Information (Circular No. 6 giving full information on the subject of trench silos, is for free distribulT. ^ +k?uu?. interested. Feud Ends With Fatal Shooting Cheraw, Aug. 16.?Alex Brown shot and killed Will Johnson in the Ingram's mill section of Chesterfield county this morning. Witnesses said when Brown had shot toward Johnson's house, Johnson went to Brown's place, about 500 yards away and protested. A heated argument followed during which it is charged Johnson shot Brown in the head, inflicting minor j wounds. Johnson is said to have I returned home but, with his son, Carl, and three neighbors, went to Brown's house again and the argument began anew. Witnesses said the neighbors urged Brown to shoot Johnson. When the latter turned away, they said, Brown shot him fh the back. An inquest held this afternoon, resulted in a verdict that Johnson came to his death from gunshot wounds at the hands of Brown. Brown and two of the three unnamed neighbors are held in the Chesterfield jail. to . * Enonghr people did not demand a refund of their radio tax, illegally collected, to leave $16,000 with the state, and that money is being used to build three new buildings at ?tate Park, near Columbia, the tuberculosis state sanitarium. Bids were opened and contracts let for them this! week. Captain Lisandro Garay, a wouldbe solo flyer from New York to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, was rescued from his wave lashed wrecked plane off the North Carolina coast Tuesday after* he h^d been in the water for 36 hours. He was picked up by the steamship Biboco in"" an almost exhausted condition. The Greenville delegation has been psked to provide $15,000 to feed and clothe the needy next winter and says it will action the request before cold weather. business depression is so great in England and Scotland that when the famous shooting grounds of \Scotland were opened Wednesday foj grouse shooting, only half as many sportsmen as in former years were found in the fields. Even American millionaires?ware?mating frnm the grouse ranges. The postoffice at Anderson may need later a clerk-carrier, and only 68 applicants for th% job have qualified to take the civil service examination. I $10 DOWN ~ht)tr u)iwvL ifeuAoto pay* Ate - m %* ** * ? 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