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THE STORY OF ALLENDALE—
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A STORY OF DIVERSIFICATION
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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.
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— ..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-
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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 <£+
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WE CANT AFFORD NOT
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THIS YEAR
MONEY TO LOAN
Loans made same day
application received.
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Barnwell, S. C.
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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.
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running condition. The motor needs
occasional “tuning Up“ and annoying
squeaks and rattles should be elimi
nated.
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is in charge of Mr. White, an expert
mechanic, who is ready and willing at
all times to render efficient, courteous
service.
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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
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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
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