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(EJje JBantfrerg ^eralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 31. Number 38. Thursday, Sept. 28, 1922. / \ Mr. Blease can not again point to the fact that an opponent did not carry his home county. Mr. Blease came from Newberry, and that county gave a majority against him ^ in the second primary, as did also his adopted county of Richland. A striking and particularly pleasing feature of the recent primary election was the failure of the Grace faction in^ Charleston to dominate the vote in that city. Blease carried ? 1? ? Tmtnp lv a rwl 1116 CUUllly uy <X lev* * UISS) VUl;, the backbone of Grace's strength in Charleston appears to be well nigh broken, if not quite so. Someone ha9 proposed toput Edge- i field county on the honor roll for its ( splendid vote against Blease in the primary. However, as attention, was called in The Herald last week, the signal honors of the primary belong to Sumter county. We do not discount the good county of Edgefield in the least, but Sumter's majority against Blease far exceeded that of any other county in the state. Edgeiield comes next. Bamberg comes fourth. ' / ^ IUI Wl It is to be hoped most sincerejy that the efforts of Governor Harvey to ferret out the murder of the two Southern railway guards at Hamburg and run down the murderers will result in the apprehension of the guilt ty parties and the proper punishment meted out. This was one of the worst crimes in the history of the state, being, apparently, a cold blooded murder. That it was incident to the railroad strike seems entirely likely, although that fact has not been ascertained beyond a doubt yet. The 1922 cotton crop will soon be all gathered. As soon as the cotton is out of the fields, according to boll weevil experts, the stalks should be ( cleared away and either turned under or gathered and burned, in or. der to kill off the crop, of/weevils. Our farmers, here in Bamberg coun ?ty, are thoroughly convinced that in so far as this county is concerned, we must continue to make cotton, in spite of the boll weevil. The planters here are fa?t learning the proper methods of producing a fair crop of cotton under weevil conditions, and they have also learned that, with very few exceptions, they have little hopes of profit in any of the substitute money crops. TTip "Ramhere' Herald did their readers a splendid service the morning after the recent primary. The Bamberg people I . had to depend entirely upon their local paper as the* early morning train had been taken ' off the railroad. The Herald, in cooperation with the News and Courier, of Charleston, issued theft regular weekly edition earlier than usual and had it delivered to its readers Wednesday morning with full returns.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Thanks for the compliment. In turn-, it gives The Herhld pleasure to ' compliment^ the Times and Democrat : on the excellent election service it j1 rendered at each of the primaries. ' The editions of that splendid paper : reaching Bamberg the morning after the primary carried a full report of the primary results, and the carrying 1 of these reports entailed much more 1 work than The Herald had to exper ience, as the vote in Orangeburg 1 county far exceeds that of Bamberg, * and there were many more offices and ' candidates in the running. Generous to a Fault. ( A congressman was in the office of i a friend, a justice of the peace in an < Ohio town, when a couple came in to i be married. After the ceremony the ! justice accepted a modest fee and : handed the bride an umbrella as she < went out. The congressman looked on grave- : ' ly and asked, "Do you always do that, i Frank?" i "Do what? Marry them? Oh, yes." < "No, I mean bestow a present upon i the bride?" "A present? Why, wasn't that her < umbrella?" gasped the justice. < "No; it was mine," replied the con- 1 , gressman. ] 1,00 Acres of Seed Melons. j ??? , " For twelve years a Florida farmer " has raised watermelons on 1,000 ac- , res. In all that time he has never shipped a melon but let them spoil in i the fields, except those he and his j 'neighbors eat. The melons are grown s exclusively for their seed, which, are ,j sold to planters of Florida, Georgia ( and other southern states. ( 1 v * 1. W Drake C Weevil, Wo Out of the red hills four miles south of this city has been carved a farm, the making of which comprises one of the brightest pages in the romantic and agricultural history of Anderson county, says an Anderson special of Friday to the Greenville News. Romance and energy are so blended that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins, for where huge gullies once held sway, a farm that is among the most productive in the state and a rural home with every modern convenience now greets tne passersDy aiong ine general road. J. Wade Drake has forever earned a high place among the builders of the Palmetto state, if the expressions obtained today from the 400 farmers of this section who visited the Drake farm may be taken as an indication. The state of South Carolina has produced a number of illustrious sons, but probably none have so effectively blended energy and brains as has Mr. Drake on the farm which today was] visited by 400 farmers from the counties of Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, Oconee, Laurens, Union, Abbeville, Greenwood, McCormick, Cherokee, Newberry and Chester. Ten years ago a rolling tract of red hills, as full of gullies as a vaudeville show is of ragtime, was purchased b^ Mr. Drake. At that time some of the neighbors are said to have expressed the opinion that Mr. Drake was "off" in his^ mentality as the farmers of that immediate sec* tion were having a hard time of it making a living on the farms which they possessed more by circumstance than by choice. From the outset Mr. Drake made things hum on the tract of several hundred acres. He worked almost dey and night, rotating his crops and endeavoring to bring down from the air and out of the earth the fertilizers which would take the place of those made in factories and shipped in sacks to the consumer. And the adventage of nature-made fertilizers over chemicals has been demonstrated by the waving fields of corn and the white fields of cotton, tang with the spirit of Dixie, that have been grown where clover and velvet beans once grew. To ^etr^down to the meat of the story, Mr. Drake's methods have succeeded so well that N. E. Winters, specialist in soil fertilizers and farm crops of Clemson college, has pointed out the D/ake farm as a model in his trips over the state. Some time ago he started a movement to have the farmers of the Piedmont visit this farm and to see for themselves what could" be accomplished out of what once was a mass of washing ditches and poor red hills. 1 - ... Four hundred farmers, not from I the valleys of Hall or the hills of Habersham, but from over the entire Piedmont of South' Carolina, came here today and witnessed a fight that has been going on for ten years?a fight made more difficult by the presence this year of the boll weevil. But in spite of this insect, Mr. Drake has* conquered and the yield on the Drake farm is expected to be from three-fourths to one bale per acre this year?with the cost of fertilizers kept down to about $6.00 to the acre. With megaphone in hand, Mr. Winters today headed the procession 3f interested spectators that wended their way over the Drake farm. Each point of interest was explained in detail, including the methods of cultivation, the time of planting and other information. Cotton on the Drake farm was planted on April 3 and April 27. Twenty-four days doesn't make much difference in the calendar, maybe, but t will mean a difference of one-fourth of a bale of cotton per acre, according to Mr. Winters's estimate of Mr. Drake's crop. Cotton planted on April 3 is expected to produce a bale of cotton to the acre, according to Mr. Winters, while that planted on April 27 is not expected to produce but ihree-fourths of a bale. With the exception of the planting there was no difference in the treatment of the two fields of cotton. Crimson clover, velvet beans, and ether cover crops have been used liberally to make fertile the soil on this farm. They have takem the place of fertilizers that most farmers buy in sacks and for which they pay ?ood money obtained from the sale pf cotton. Mr. Drake has stopped his outflow of money by growing his Dwn fertilizer. Where no clover preceded the cothn crop the difference in production is also expected to be one-fourth of i bale per acre. In other words, the Selds where, cloyer was turned un3er are expected to make a bale of 20tton more to every four acres than! onquers Boll ishing Soil, Etc. the fields where no clover was grown. Mr. Drake dusted his cotton with calcium arsenate four times during the month of July, the total cost being $2.50 per acre. He would have dusted during August "also but there has been no rain on the Drake farm since July 7, making it impossible to use dusting methods to any advantake. Mr. Winters explained that Mr. Drake did not leave the dusting operation to ''some negro" but that the owner of the farm, with the aid of a son, did the work. Twelve nights during the month of July the dusting operation went on, the owner and his son attempting to catch a little sleeD during the day. that they might fight the weevil by night. The weevil came but it did not stay. It might have been that far away the fields looked green, as they some times do to humans, and the insects left. But the more probable reason is that the dusting method literally smothered the boll weevil out of house and home, causing the invader to throw up the sponge and quit in disgust. Today the Drake farm is said to have less weevil infestation than any other farm in the Piedmont if not in the entire state. The corn crops grown by Mr. Drake have been equally as successful as the cotton crops. There has been no such thing as need on the Drake farm and the cribs have been filled ' with the healthy ears of red and white corn. The methods used have been similar to those used in cotton, crops being rotated to bring out the best that is in the land. A cotton gin in the front yard takes care of the fleecy staple grown on the Drake farm. Silos 'and corn cribs, to say nothing of fat porkers, take care of the yawning crops of corn and grain. A bank in Anderson is said to find one of its best depositors in the man who has brought it all about, showing that the game of cooperation has worked to the good of all concerned. When Mr. Drake acquired, this farm there were seventeen huge gullies on the place (for the benefit of those not familiar with the farm terms it can be said that a "gully" is a ditch chat nature rather than' man has dug, by the constant wash ingway or tne son.j sixteen 011 these have beei* filled up and today I crops are growing where a man once could be hidden as he stood upright. The seventeenth is also being filled in, velvet beans and other cover crops helping sand and soil in this battle to reclaim Anderson county land. There may have been other causes than intelligent farming in the upbuilding of the Drake place. In the front yard, on a conspicuous sign, is the warning that aj^y and all agents are forbidden to come on the place and that any agents delivering goods, etc., will be prosecuted. Mr. Drake believes in living at home and buying from the home merchants' as one would infer from the sign in the front yard, and he does not propose to have the fruits of his laborers go ! for the upkeep of unknown agents. Those who have doubted that farming could be made to pay in South Carolina should visit the Drake farm. The skeptics and doubters who have continually said, "I told you so," upon hearing stories of abandoned farms and deserted homes would be put to utter confusion. J. Wade Drake may never attain the place in history that others of his native state have but in causing two blades of gras3 to grow where none did before, he has gone a long ways towards solving the problem of the rural southland. tm mu m Misunderstood. He was in his first week at college, g,nd when he went to the stationer's to buy a fountain pen he felt desirous that the young woman who waited on him should* know that in spite of his youth he was no high-school boy. When she handed him a sheet of paper he wrote on it with many flourishes, in a large, bold hand, "Alma Mater, Alma Mater," eight^or nine times. The clerk watched him with a simper, and at last she spoke. "Why don't you let her try it herself," she suggested, "and then if it doesn't suit, of course, we'll change it for you." Miss Helen Shellemberger, of Lewistown, Pa., has been licensed to _ V. in llift Drfli Viron f?Tl 11 ? / > Vl yi Cd^li 111 IUC VIA VUUi V/U. Queen Wilhelmina has been made a honorary member of the Huguenot-Walton Tercentenary commission. , Miss E. M. Robinson, an English >girl, recently walked from London to Brighton, a distance of thirty- . five miles, in eleven hours. Bootleggers Prey 0/ " Knockpff" Men Washington Post. Criminologists believe that all crimes are old. They admit, however, that new angles to standardized crimes have been developed by master minds of "specialists" of the criminal world. That admission has been engendered largely since the beginning of the Volsteadian days in the District of Columbia by the activities of the Washington bootleggers and the organized gang of "knockoff men," who term themselves confiscators." and steal another man's liquor open-j ly and with less fear than such noted bandits as Jesse James ana tne Tracy outlaws, who had the broad prairies to effect an escape in. Tourists Complain to Police. This new crime against society has developed here to such an extent that many automobilists touring to the capital and even after they arrive here complain to the police that they have been stopped on the roads leading to the city or on the streets by the men who force their machine on the curb and flashing revenue badges compel them to submit to their machines I being searched. The local police are in a quandary [ just how to proceed against the well known whiskey "confiscatory' who have been plying their trade against bootleggers as well as motorists who take their family for a ride to the suburban districts. . V * The bootleggers and "knockoff" men seem to fully realize that the authorities can not molest them other .than to take them in custody on an investigation charge which terminates in a swift writ of habeas being issued and the supposed charge of robbery dropped. Cars Searched for Liquor. More 'than two score cases 6ave been reported to the district and Maryland authorities during the last two months by motorists who have been held up at -pistol's point by the "knockoff" men and their machines searched for liquor. A tourist coming to the capital from Philadelphia, told the local authorities that when the whiskey confiscators 9toppei: his machine just outside of the district\limits that they went about their business in such a quiet and thorough manner that he really believed they were revenue agents: Internal revenue agents say that the "confiscators" or "knockoff men" have practically run well known bootleggers from the Baltimore boulevard. They lie in wait for a machine that has been to the Monumental city for whiskey and being tipped off from a confederate at the distributing center that the whiskey car had left for Washington, patrol thfe roads, and?when the bootleg machine comes in sight, the "knockoff" men in two highpowered cars sandwich their victim between them and force the bootleg machine to stop. After taking the whiskey from the'bootleggers with threats of death they start the machine in an opposite direction and themselves speed to the city and safe- j ty. Transferred to a 4'Fence." It is said that all of the whiskey that is confiscated on the roads or on the streets of Washington is transferred to a ''fence" in the southwest section where it is distributed to local bootleggers on a small scale. The authorities seldom hear of the bootleggers that have been held up and robbed of their whiskey by the knockoff men on account of the fact that to inform the police that they had been robbed of whiskey would mean the confiscation of their machine for illegally transporting whiskey and also that they were bootlegging. A daring holdup and robbery occurred on the much traveled thoroughfare of Rhode Island avenue and Fifth street northwest shortly after 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Five men in an automobile furnished excitement to government employees and automobilists, when Vith drawn revolvers they forced another machine to the curb and under threats of death took six cases of whiskey from the machine and drove away. The affair was reported to the potnfrpthpr nrith the fact that the victim had been robbed of $90 in bills. Baltimore Man a Victim. Investigation by the police, who thought that it was a bootleg deal, wa9 made when the victim told the ( police, they say, that he had been robbed of the whiskey. The victim, a Baltimorean, told the authorities that it was his first trip to Washington. He said that he had heard from inside bootleg circles that it was almost impossible to get through the lines Of the knockoff men who patrol the roads with the assiduity of an army of France. After the. confiscators had taken the whiskey, the victim was told, he said, that in the future he would be allowed to come into the district unmolested by the rest of the members' i I 9 of the organization. Several arrests were made in the robbery, but they resulted in the suspects being released. Legislation Needed, Grant Says. Inspector Clifford L. 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