The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 17, 1937, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
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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
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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
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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.
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..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.
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..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
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..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.
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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$. dish-'
pans, skillets, tea kittles, ansoforth .
brought all the way for c5 to |20. f
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..the bed ftiwn consisting- cf S QUiJtS,
3 blankets and 3 pillars went to the
wldder without her first ?bld of 1$
being raised, and she appreciated
their kindness with a smile .on her
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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.
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. .the wash pot, which had only 2 legs,
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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.
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..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. (he was an old sweethheai
of hers, but he Is marrlod allso.
there being no further blzness afte
4 p. m. the crowd adjburned.
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BELK'S DEPARTMENT STORE
CAROLINA MOTOR COMPANY
EICHEL'S DEPARTMENT STORE
McC ASK I LL'S GROCERY STORE
PALMETTO DRY CLEANERS, Inc.
WALGREEN CUT-RATE DRUG STORE
WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE
| BURNS A BARRETT HARDWARE COMPANY
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CITY DRUG COMPANY
ZEMP'S DRUG STORE
DeKALB PHARMACY CITY
FILLING STATION ttF' it
PALACE BARBERSHOP
SANITARY BARBER SHOP I
CENTRAL SERVICE STATION
A. SHEHEEN GROCERY STORE
HOME FURNISHING COMPANY
W. G. WILSON DRY GOODS STORE
BARRINGER HARDWARE COMPANY 11