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V- '|' . 1 '"^qT-p?HJ^tti. 1 I 1 ? ....... - T-I . ??. v ? ?'?** - . .. . _ School and Office Stationery and Supplies PRICES LOW?QUALITY HIUH - NEW GOODS NOW ON DISPLAY I Zemp's Drug Store -SLTr tfsglg City Drug Company "ai-sr Interest in Booths at The County Fair in n ' ' (' r"-T ' '! ' The rural communities are display* Iiik a great deal of intercut In the approaching Kerehaw County Fair as is evidenced by the number of community booth# being planned. The following communities have signified their intentions of having community exhibits and have had space reserved: Malvern Hill, Flat Rock, Midway, Mt. Plsgah, DoKulb, Hlanoy and Lugoflf. This Is an increase of three over last year. The new premium book, direct from the press. Is being circulated throughout the county and many Individuals are planning to enter exhibits in the various departments. Indications are thut not only wH! there he "!? tn.croase In entries in all departments but that the products exhibited will ho of a higher type, according to a statement by Miss Margaret Fewoll, the county home demonstration agent who keeps l? close touch with affairs In the rural sections. The Kershaw County Fair offors communities and Individuals an opportunity to display their produces and a chance to show what is being done In the rural areas of the county. The Tair each year Is a source of wonderful encouragement and Inspiration as It shows steady progress In all fields of home and farm endeavor. The county fulr Is tho year's great social gathering where friends meet frlendB?new acquaintances are made and old friendships renewed. DRIVERLES8 TRACTOR PLOW8 ROW OF COTTON Out on Oeqrge Hitler's farm, near Lake Providence, La., there's a row or cotton SO miles long, aud Mr. Hider wouldn't be surprised if that isn't abouj the longest unbroken row of growing crop anyone ever had. Of course, it isn't straight. If it ??-waa.'-U?would run (rwn-thure to Vlckriburg, and 40 miles beyond. It Is a spiral, starting at the center of a 40ttcre plot and spiraling out, mile after mile. The. 80-miles row of cotton Isn't Just someone's Idea of being different. Behind it is something that Mr. Hider's neighbors think may revolutionize / . farming. The idea is to cultivate the land almost entirely without the touch of the human hand. Mr. Hider doesn't say he's got that solved, but he'H got something pretty neatly that remarkable. Mr. lllder can ariso with the duwn and walk back to his 80-miles row or cotton. He can start his tractor at one end of the row. Then he cun stroll in to breakfast, read the papers, go to town, or do what-he wants to and the tractor will keep right on cultivating that row of cotton just us slick as you'd want. It makes no mistakes. It comes just as close to the growing cotton plant as Mr. Hider wishesA little after lunch, the farmer goes out to his mechanical farm land, refuels it. ami away it goes down the row again, chugging contentedly, at the three miles an hour pace, never fuming and never stopping to go lie down under a shade tree. litis Is one idea that goes round in circles and really gets somewhere. The tractor has attached to it a strong but small airplane wire. The other end is attached to what looks like a small oil derrick in the middle! of the field. It is about twelve feet high. A Urge pipe, about a foot in diameter, extends from the top. like a smoke stack. The outer surface of the pipe is threaded so that it lakes the thin wire like a winch takes a steel cable. By starting the tractor at the outer end of the circle, Mr Hider has found that the pull of the wiro slowly winding about the pipe pulls the tractor steadily inward, following the sptralcd cotton row The tractor can also be started from the center and wm': outward, pulling away ah it receives slack from the unwinding pipe. Although the row is 80 miles long, the tractor Is never further than an I eighth of a mile from the outor edge j of the circular 40-acre tract. The experiment* at the Hider farm began In 1936. All of the planning and wofk haa been done by Mr. Hider, a Cornell graduate, a legionnaire ahd town councilman of Provide**, for many 7?ari- ' V Feeding School at Sumter Tuesday oiitt'duy feeding ?chool lor dairy farmers has been scheduled at Sum< ter on Tuesday, September 21, and will be held iu the court house beginning at 10 a. in., and lasting thru until 3:20 p. m., according to an announcement by W. C. McCarley, the county agentv Professor J. P. ImMaster, of the 'Dairy Divlslpn of Clemson College, will lead the discussion throughout the day. Subjects to be discussed will cover a great many problems In the production of milk. The meetiii# will start with a discussion of the costs of milk production and where they are to be found. Th^is discussion .will bo followed by a diocUootoir of the digestive tract-of the cow and what happens in it, what is in feed, what the cow does With feed-, proper methods of feeding, making and curing of roughage crops, permanent pasture improvement, temporary grazing crops, silage production, and other problems reiatod to the cost of milk production. The discussion will bo taken from experiences of dairy farmers throughout the state enrolled in Dairy Herd Improvement Association work where definite costs are obtained. Experiment station results in the production of silage and particularly in the improvement of permanent pastures will have a prominent place on the progra m. In a scries of such feeding schools held two years ago approximately 700 dairy farmers throughout the state attended ten of the schools scheduled at different points. This will bo the first opportunity offered dairy farmers In the territory surrounding Sumter to attend such a school and the county agents In surrounding counties are very hopeful that a wide representative attendance of their dairy farmers will be present. Danger of Heavy Loss in Seed, Lint Clemson. Sept. 14?Because of the excessive rains for the past several weeks the cotton that is open and exposed to the weather has been so badly damaged thut cotton Beed crushers have cut. the price on cotton seed and in many places are threatening to quit buying until conditions are Improved, says B. E/ CI. I'richard, assistant extunslon agronomist. If this situation is to improve, the farmer must use extreme care in the harvesting of his cotton or the cotton seed will be n total loss as well as the lint badly damaged, he states. In the harvesting of cotton under these extreme moisture conditions the agronomist suggests that it is absolutely necessary to store the cotton in a house where it can be turned and aired out. This may necessitate a little more work but will prevent serious losses in seed and lint values. "Oil mills cannot store cotton seed containing the high amounts of moisture that are present this season." says Mr. I'richard, citing a test on ."?t? (allots of seed which showed the seed to contain almost 21 per cent moisture. "Partners need to keep those facts in mind and pick cotton as dry as possible, store it in a suitable place, and turn it several times daily. A little work to save the cotton seed may mean In or 2") dollars per bale The oil mills cannot use rotten cotton seed and will close down if they cannot get seed that are worth running." An unidentified woman flagged a train at Bulla Gaps, Tenn . by using her bub} as a nag. Around me curve ahead was a groat boulder ou the traik. She disappeared in the excitein F^om Hongkong, China, comes a report that more than 100 persons were drowned by the capsizing of an overcrowded motorboat in the swift Yullng Ho river, in Kwangtung province. Nobody's Business Written for Tho Chronlclv by Gee MeGee. Copyright. 1928. I AM THANKFUL THAT MY VACATION IS OVER '..I have Just finished a week's vacation. 1 am -so tired and wornout. 1 don't know what to do. I am sum | I won't be able to work for several days 1 am under treatment; my doctor says it will possibly be 10 days before I fully recover from "loafingrltls." -.1 tried mighty hard to rest but there were so mahy places to go ea# so many pretty girls at oar "apjnmar hotel' and so. ?ach olgantng up and dressing up sad gettlqjf raady for d&j ner and suppsr a?4 Viriakfast sad . r/5*r ? ' V - - ~v ?U - - . ,1 .. lunch apd visitors. . I aru not used to wearing anything except work clothes, both for Sabbath and weekdays. ..The food waa fine, but I was .never hungry. The water waa cold, so that kept me from swimming; well, an a matter of fact, I can't swtflijRLUGhnohow. The beda were soQ and comfortable but not quite soft and comfortable enough to my nffnd off of my business and my .small bank balance and the bills that 1 owed.gnd still owe, high taxes, low-priced cob toq, poor collections and indigestion. . v ^ - V . . rS&r > ..I'd hate to be so rich that I'd have to take a vacation twice a year of a duration of 6 months each. I could not possibly l??*t thrs ? 10 period. I was not made to sit around, I talk, listen, and take naps all thru I the day. 1 have a cousin that was "horned" to vacations; he's better satisfied not to work; and jail ho needs to rnako him happy is a t-ofi piece of wood, a sharp knife, a chair, stomp, box, or door-steps and a half plug of tobacco and several thousand cigarettes. He can out-sot s hen. C ..Science will soon move the deBired weather into our own homes, offices and places of entertainment. Then we can spend the summer at home in winter and the winter at home In summer, or better still; do away with winter and summer entirely, and usb only fall temperatures; not too hot .nor too cold. X guess the Good Lord made most -of us to like work better than play .... bo's those who like to play will have some cash to play on. '; c I ..Well, 1'rn glad it's cvOr. ! w*? never ho happy in my life to return to my office and iind my desk loaded down with mail and the telephone hopping up and down from ringing, and the -<><rvvCT-twa ail uetul ia our trucks, and several bad checks under my noso, the burglar alarm out of fix, the cat dead or gone, the stuff I bought last week down 15 per cent, the canned goods I booked with my trade in June cancelled, and 2 of the warehouse fellows unable to lift auy.thing on account of a touch of rhemumatlsm and arthritis, etc. Yep, I'm glad to be back In trouble again. e*,l,5RF5R,"*?5WR*51**H*fS!5Hy5H55 8ALE OF PKRftONAL PROPERTY 1 ..a big auction sail was hell at the ( late residence of Josh m. skinner who i died in the state a few weeks ago, all of his housebote and- kitchen furniture fro* knocked down tp the highest bidder, his wife hewer could let him to make a will; it remained him too much of the hear-after. ?i??.< ' im iff"ii '*7r"r" -M 'C* . the foito fetched I6f and went to holsum moore. the organ was bid ib by his socont darter, as It was con* sidered a valluable hair-loom of the familey; her grainpay played on same enduring his life-time, for 5$. dish-' pans, skillets, tea kittles, ansoforth . brought all the way for c5 to |20. f *> " * ; - . - . * r ' . ..the bed ftiwn consisting- cf S QUiJtS, 3 blankets and 3 pillars went to the wldder without her first ?bld of 1$ being raised, and she appreciated their kindness with a smile .on her r, - ?- . faqe. altho, she was heavily ^dressed In black and should not of smiled this early after his funneral ansoforth. the 3 dogs and 7 cats were not sold; they could not be ketched. * 1 . .the wash pot, which had only 2 legs, ?????U?? brought a handsome flgger. the boi and pitcher iu the company room w? bid in by hey son-in-law who plai to keep their own house as soon a the th.s. puts the famlley out of th old homestead, he allso got the cu board, the center table, the rookli I-lullr and the dishes. .. nirs. ekluner to live wtt some of her klnfolks, if possible, hi husband let his wow insurance polk lapse, and if he gets a toom-rock, Will have to be bought from anotlu soarce; when his policy lapsed, h boom-rock allao lapsed, he win 1 badly missed,byall concerned, espe (ally at rehober church, where he sqq in the. quire oyer 3rd sunday. * *' ..the sail took In nearly 65$, coun lng everthlng. the widder was s lowed to keep the cow and her ped greed pen of 4 hens and 2 roosteri she was verry calm all thm the 0; deal, and wunk at the auctioneer orHA times whU$ he was crying he artlckles. 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