The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 21, 1931, Image 3
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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