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mpu il l U 1 Vi * ■ " 1 - . * ■ *T r ’ J T';™'' ' ; ■" '‘dMCiMTiwii* niirwrilMiliW)iiiiw(tiMi«MaiiM>iiiiiM»iiii bMAMUIIittiflWHWftKS^SNi -t THE STORY OF ALLENDALE— •!$: A STORY OF DIVERSIFICATION (Continued from first page.) weevil had made its appearance in clouds and swarms and the raising successfully of cotton was rendered almost impossible. The people must have money and cotton seemed the only thing that would procure it. The limits of Allendale county were known to surround land that would ‘raise everything and peanuts in particular. The farmers told the Southern Cotton Oil Company that in ds much as the raising of cotton was practically pre cluded, it as well as, they would suf* fcr loss. They told the officials that they would raise peanuts if the com pany would furnish a shelling plant and in that wise guarantee a market. The company told the farmer to plant peanuts and a market would be provided. The result was that a plant that would shell thirty tons of nuts a day was built. It was understood that only white Spanish peanuts be planted and "when the land census was taken it showed that not less than 17,000 acres of the nuts hud been planted. The effect of the peanut howitzers, the velvet bean long range guns, the cattle mortars, the hog grenades, and the melon machine guns has been deadly on the advancing army of wee vils and the farmers have realized the real value of diversification and will continue their war, not so much against the boll weevil as against General Low Priced Cotton. They have found that there is money in oth er products whose market is sure and whose price is not nearly so fickle. Peanuts in Allendale County. As stated, more than 17,000acres of White Spanish Peanuts were planted in Allendale County last season. They yielded more than 900 pounds to the acre in nuts and about a ton per acre of peanut vine hay. The farmers have sold more than 1,800 tons of nuts and the shelling plant is buying daily. For the nuts, the farmers have re ceived prices ranging from a hundred dollars a ton to as low us 48 dollars per ton, with an average of 60 dol lars. For the hay they have re ceived from 20 to 23 dollars per ton. Last year was much lower than the average year in the piatter of produc tion per acre. Where 900 pounds of nuts were raised last year, 1,200 pounds can be raised in even a med ium or average year. There has at all times been a market for the nuts. This market has been off. Peanuts should and will bring from 90 to 110 dollars per ton when the money mar ket becomes less stringent, so it is stated. Peanut hay has had a ready market all year. Even when the market for other kinds or forage was practically bottomless and at times there exist ed no market at all, peanut hay was selling at a reasonable price. The Shelling Pint. The peanut shelling plant of the Southern Cotton Oil Company .locat ed at Allendale under the management of Mr. J. H. Boylston and under the supervision of Mr. II. . C, ’ Brown, ,.manager, of the Augusta district of the company, superintended by Air. H. C. Hill, was erected less than nine FroiriP3,500 Acres in Cotton to 800 Acres The largest individual .farmer in the State of South Carolina says he absolutely runs his / plantation on .money derived from the sale of pork and has cut his labor bill from a thous and dollars a week last year to 200 dollars this year and will’ use one quarter of the fertilizer he used in 1919. This is not a fairy.story but the actual story of Mr. W- I. Johns, whq. began as a plow hand and today owns more than 11,000 acres of the best farm lands in western South Carolina. -- Mr. Johns cultivates about 6,500 acres. He operates more than 175 plows. He used last year 1,500 tons of fertilizer. He will use less than 400 this year. BECAUSE HE HAS CUT HIS COTTON ACREAGE | FROM 3.500 TO ABOUT 800 :* AND WILL RAISE ” DIV ERSI - FI ED PRODUCTS AND MEAT Mr. Johns has on hand e- nough corn to supply his vast plantation for two years. He uses 1,000 pounds of meat a week and has enough left over to run his place on the sale of it. His money crop this year will be PIGS AND PEANUTS. a hundred thousand dollars. It con sists of a five story concrete building in which is installed the shelling ma chinery;, a boiler roon»containing two 75-horse-power boilers, and many storage houses. The plant has bought 1,800 tons of nuts and is buying daily.Every house on the property of the company is filled with unshelled nuts and the plant is working overtime filling or- ' ders. Thirty one cars, 30,000 pounds to the car, of shelled nuts had been shipped Tuesday The plant employs more than 80 persdns in its various departments. Prices for the nuts have ranged from 4 3-4 cents a pound to’6 1-4 cents. The first and second class nuts are shipped to confectioners from Montana to Maine and from Michigan to Tennessee. The culls are shipped to crushing mills. The hulls are used to fire the boilers and have reduced the tonage of. coal from three tons daily to 12 hundred pounds daily. -v ^ — — ..Method .of Shelling. The nuts arrive at the plant either sacked or loose in cars or in wagons. They are conveyed by a weighef-ele- vator to the fifth floor where they are emptied over a "cleaning shaker that takes out the sand and sticks. They pass tri the stoner which re moves the pebbles and stones and then they go to the next floor where they are broken and the hulls removed by an aspirator. The hulls go to the boiler room to he used as fuel, On the third floor are located the separa tors which sort No. 1 nuts from the . No. 2’s. The culls of nubbins ^Jiass^ months ago at an approximate cost of down a different’'' chafineL. On 1 a,. second floor the nuts pass over a specific gravity machine which frees them of all remaining nubbins. The Number two nuts go through a similar operation and the rniTi stock, or nuts to be crushed are. removed. On the ground floor both grades of confec tioner’s nuts pass on a belt ovet* a picking table where the last remnant of culls, mill stocked trash are re move/!. They are then racked by a sacking machine. The plant h^s a capacity of 30 tons daily and within the next few weeks will exactly double that capacity; there is on hand now some of the ma chinery for the increase in output. White Spanish^ Only. The most important feature in the culture Of peanuts is this. WHAT EVER YOU DO, PLANT ONLY WHITE SPANISH PEANUTS. There are untold reasons for this advice. First and foremost is the question of monetary value. White Spanish Peanuts always bring a price easily a third higher than Carolina Runners or any other variety. There are many reasons for ,this preponder ance in v^lue. First, the White Spanish nut com- -mands a higher price from the confec- tioner as'they are uniform in size. They are not so large as the other varieties and look better in candy. The confectioner strives to give a beauti- ■s’ * ful appearahce to his product knowing that the senses of sight and taste are closely related. Seecond, the White Spanish n-ut eon*'- TO CHANGE YOUR OIL. Bring your car in and let us drain out your old oil and put in NEW OIL, THE BEST IN BARNWELL. -We charge* you for the oil only, no charge for the work. Then, too, it might pay you to have “the old boat" tuned up for the nice Spring weather 4 'thatlif now headed this way, ** Fisk Tires Philadelphia Storage Batteries Vulcan Springs We also strive to please the Ladies. ASK THE ONES WHO KNOW. Vickery Bros., Barnwell, S. C. | General Auto Repairs and Accessories Machine Work <£+ . i - ^ - ■ . ■ . * (CONTINUED 6N PAGE SEVEN.) WE CANT AFFORD NOT TO OSE FERTILIZER THIS YEAR MONEY TO LOAN Loans made same day application received. No Red Tape. HARLEY & BLATT, •w. Attomeys-at-Law Barnwell, S. C. Advertise in The People. ••X~X^~X*< , X**X~X~X~X**-X»*X**X*><~X~X , <"X~X~X~X~X~X**X ,< X~X~X* LONG TERM MONEY to LEND ■. A ~ . t — I I - - — ■■..I,, i) ■ II ■ -1.1 Ml |—» 6 per cent, interest on large amounts. Private funds for small loans. LAWYERS BROWN* BUSH BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINJ (Progressive Farmer) With fertilizer at its present high prices, can we afford to use it this year? This is the uppermost fertilizer ques tion In the minds of the farmers in fertlUzerrUslhf «actions—of t)K South. ^ The Progressive Farmer has gone thoroughly into this question from every angle, and the deeper we go the more convinced we are that our farm ers can't afford not to use fertiliser to make their 1921 "crops. The per acre coat will be increased, but the per bushel or per pound cost will be re duced, and it is the bushels and pounds that we must sell at a profit. This is not time to plunge on fertilizer in order to get phenomenal yields, or to experiment with new mixtures. Use safe amounts of the kinds of fertilizer that have given paying results on your types of soil. # Not only should^ the farmers whq have. herqfore used fer tilizer continue tbs cofiservative use of it. but there are farmers in every community who have depended solely \ on‘their own efforts and the original -plant foods in poor soil to make their crops, who should now supplement these things with added plant food, at least on a few acres, and get a^way from unprofitabiy low yields. We can not afford to farm at a loss again this year, and yields, of 15 to 20 bushels of corn or a fourth to a third of a bale of cotton an acre will not pay for the labor, seed and use of the Ihnri and leave a profit. It is essential, then, that our yields be " raised well above the average, and the only prac tie-able meatls of doing this for this years Is with fertilizer Wisely. used. -L ■ - * I . • ,n get the utmost enjoyment ■ ' . • • • . ^ > ; . ' ^ .J ydut car it must be kept in good running condition. The motor needs occasional “tuning Up“ and annoying squeaks and rattles should be elimi nated. x is in charge of Mr. White, an expert mechanic, who is ready and willing at all times to render efficient, courteous service. rvr t ENTRANCE PEANUT SHELLING PLANT. Yields, Economy v and Fertilizer ^Southern Ruralist i „ ‘ To make the <;rops of 1921 larger ftud more economical than they would otherwise be even on reduced acreage there can be no'doubt that the judi cious use of fej-tuizfrs is to be recom mended. X. X great many people are arguing, with particular reference.to, cotton, that we should’not try to increase our yield per acre because that would in crease. the total production. That is Jike arguing that a man should make "tw-o trips to town, hauling a half-load at a 'tim.e, when one trip would do the job. We should buy co-operatively in car lots, paying cash if possible, and in sist on the better grade materials. Per unit the plant foods in the better grade goods "cpme cheaper. Like the argu ment against increased yields, there Dealersjfor-Studebaker cars and International Trucks NO, 79. . r 7 f ^ ) ^ ■ ' - ' • . x '..?v , : ‘ - • Barnwell, South Caroling i V r V ■ ' r ■ - V ♦♦♦ “ •' .♦>’ GET IN You who have sporting blood afict like a good clean game «|> | —and what normal person does nol-have you tried the game of ^ X saving money? It is an old game - ' 1 is not ouo single sound argument in favor of low grade fertilizers. Buy whatever gives best results on your soils. W. M. U. to Meet. \ The Western Division of the W. M. U. will hold an institute at Newberry April 7th. Speakers for the occasion will he Dr.. C. E. Bu rts, of Columbia, ?4rs. W. W. Lnwton.^of China, Mrs. McLure. of the Training School, MrsY J. D. Chapman, Mrs. J. Fizer and otjiers. . An attractive prograrm has been ar-’ ranged for the evening of the 6th lot the mapy who -Will reach Newber ry by that time, a pageant, special music and an address by Qr. Burts. A good delegation from each Bap tist Church in Barnwell Association U urged to attendi 1 Let us make this a Loyalty Institute Mias Jessie Willis. ' onef-Those who *♦* play regularly are very enthusiastic about it. Try it, if you are .j! nol already a player, and you’ll like it, too. And if you keep at it, you will surely win. That is the beauty of this game-all ^ jqpfMy-ftfc bnunrl tnjgxn. \ X \ .X- Come to see us and get in the game. Capital Stock, $5O,OfH).O0 Make This] Bank Your Best Servant. J. E. HARLEY, Pres. N. G. W. WALKER, Vice-Pres. S. E. MOORE, Vice-Pre^. L. P. WILSON, Cashiei RALPH SMITH, Asst Cashier. ♦X’*X”X’*X’’X’‘X m X’^’X”Xk~X’’XK”X”X’’X”X’’X m ;”X , ’>&