The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 17, 1918, Page SIX, Image 6
OUR BACK-YARDS
SOURCE OF PROFIT
MiN Workers' Small Gardens
Furnish Vegetables for
Families
PLANT IT ALL IN
Tiir in A D VCAD 1Q1Q
I nc ?v?n iLHn ic/iu
H? Family Should be Without
a Garden Where
Possible.
Cotton-mill workers in eerta'n
North and South Carolina manufacturing;
communities mak0 their hack
yards feed their families a large part
of the year. The members of the
family cultivate vegetable gardens,
attend to a cow and chickens, and thus
.produce low-cost food that has made
home gardening a very important
factor in the life of these commuui-1
ties.
This survey suggests opportunities j
for industrial establishments else- j
where to promote the welfare of their
employees, as has been done in these
mill villages, by making it possible
and convenient for the workers' families
to reduce the cost of living by
the hom(. production of food. In tlm
ease of these cotton mills, the plants 1
"have been located hi the open country '
where cheap land is available for gar- i
dens and pastures common.
The gardens are small in size, av- 1
waging about one-fourth of an acre, j
but they supply the family with veg
ctablos for six months in the yea;
and longer in the case of winter gar...
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dens. In one town one-third oi th<\;
j^r.nlens averaged $48 worth of veget- j
iibles per garden?at 1915 loein j
prices. The good garden.- were only I
one-tenth of tin acre larger and cost !
only $1 more to cultivate than tilpoor
gardens. Care ful planning and
attention brought the best results.
These gardens were for home con- j
uuption principally, although the I
vegetables sold readily when placed |
en the local market.
These facts were obtained by a care |
ful survey of home-gardening condi- ;
lions in cotton-mill towns in North
and South Carolina, made by the Office
of Farm Management of the
United States Department of Agri- !
culture and discussed in bulletin No. ;
(502 oi* Ih.e departments !t was found!
that 22 varieties of vegetables were i
gi own in the towns visited?not all in
any one garden, of course?and that
the most su -cessful gardens grew
more than U) kinds of vegetables,
do and Do Likewise.
Kvery family with even a smal:
yard can do as wed as these cotton
mill families hav0 done in back yad
food production. I'Vw homes are
found where the < ulitions and opportunities
are not as favorable, and
.very often they are better.
In the cotton-mill towns where
these investigations were conducted
there are rows and rows of cottages
occupied at low rent by those who
work in the factories. Kach house
has a small patch of land for a front
ya'rd and a tlnv tract in the rear. As
these industrial sections grew it became
apparent that home gardens
would better the economic conditions
o 1 the community. At cardinaly some
mills employed demonstration agents
and conducted experiment farms to
encourage their employees to have
homo pardons. The space around
each cottage was p ovnkd primarily
for gardening purposes, and. in addition,
some employers set aside a pasture
immediately adjoining the m il
village for free pasturage of the employees'
cows. A no Liu r mill owner
gave the services of a purebred dai;>
bull to his employees who owned their
cows. In another village the mill
owner offered nrizos far the best
garden.
Vvoragc Results (Jond.
In nine diffen nt mill villages m
North and South Carolina, records
worn taken of f>4K gardens, H>.*> poultry
flocks, 74 cows and <52 hogs, Instances
of poor management as wdl
as of good were included in the s<
cases, and the result is considered :i
r..;.. Tiw. i..- i
i .in cavi i a in- i\ y * \ciiur * i
vegetables raised in the Hardens wa$29.87.
These figures are on the basis
of 1915 local prices. Prices 01
course, would be higher ai the pros
ent time. The average size of tlv
f ai dens vats one-fourth of an a "re
The average cash cost per garden w-i
The Quinine That Does Not Affect the Heat
5?ec. usrol its tonic nnd laxative effect. I.AXA
TIVK BKUMO Of IN1KE is betlei than ordinnrj
C'jfninc nnd docs net cause nervousness no
;iti|tiiiK in liead Itemeinber the till name am
He-* lor the bigaaturc o? I.. W. OUOY& iu*
$5.54, of which $1.51 was for labor.
$1.51 for seed, and $0.52 for fertilizer.
The labor expenditure was limited
practically to the cost of having the
garden plowed and furrowed.
Of 144 families who had gardnes
ranging between 500 and 499 square
yards in size, 55 produced on an average
nearly $50 worth of vegetables
considerably more than they paid for
I rent per year. It was found that *.he
j best success on a limited area involved
careful planning so as to have as
much as possible for each class of
1 vegetable. The proper succession of
vegetables must be known Late vegetables
may be planted between rows
of early vegetables, allowing the late
vegetables to grow while the early
ones are maturing. Individual attention
and knowldege of gardening are
essentials to success.
Bulletins giving the necessary detailed
gardening information may he
; secured from the* Untied States Do
partment 01 Agriculture, or 110111
State experiment stations
Ccllards as <t Winter Crop.
One of the best winter garden crop,*
found in these communities was col|
lards, a variety of kale. These were
grown on about one-fourth of the
gardens visited in the cotton-mill
towns. Turnips, sown after the oth-v J
vegetables are removed, were also |
grown for winter greens.
Little fruit was raised in these j
! communities. This is explained large j
ly hy the continual changing of ten- !
ants. The person who has doubts of |
remaining on a place for more than a
year or so will not set out and attend
to fruit which will not yield for four
or five years and the benefits of
which will go to some one else. This
condition presents an opportunity for j
mill owners to initiate a plan for the !
planting* of fruit trees in the factory
villages.
Poultry Pays Well.
It was found that a large number i*
families in these towns keep small
flocks of poultry, usually of mixed
breeds and with poultry houses of a j
temporary and inexpensive type. The !
average size of the flocks was be-1
tween thirteen and fourteen fowls,
with an average egg yield of Nil dozen.
Tiie total average expenditure per
flock for eggs, fowls, wire, and feed
was $1(5.22 i.nii average retuin was
$.'10.12 per flock, or a net average of
about $1 per fowl. Labor cost and interest
on investment is not charged
against th0 flock in these figures.
The labor was performed by the fanu
ily, and the interest on the investment
was negligible.
In most cases the feed consisted
largely of cracked corn and other
; cereals. Table scraps were fed to
the poultry, although this is not included
in the feed cost. Twelve flocks
wore fed wholly 011 table and garden
waste. Unlike the average farm flock
the fowls in these towns were no:
able to run about and j'ind their own
feed, being penned the greater part of
[ the year to keep them from running
[ on the gardens.
Families Keep Cows.
In most of the cotton-mill villages
I
; the mill worker was encouraged to
keep a family cow. Frequently pastures
just outside the village were
j av ailable for the free use of families
! having a cow, and these were found
! to he fully utilized. In some villages
! the mill companies put up substantial
stalls for sheltering the cows. The
whole milk is churned by most of the
people in this section, and the quantity
of buttermilk nearly equals the
quantity of whole milk which is produced,
This, at the time the survey
i was made, soid at 10 cents a gallon,
much of it being e-<d for drinking
purposes by each family. The average
cost of feed per caw was $80.00 a
j year and the average returns were
*110.00. Those comparatively high
returns are attributable to the high
I value of buttermilk, which was wort i
'a little more than the butter. Tie
i butter alone would pat\ for the feed.
I In most of the mill .'owns pigs are
barred from the village for snnita y
' masons. Some families haVe pens
!coated just outside the town, but the
necessity of carrying the fend a Ion
, distance is a discouraging factor.
I leans and tomatoes wore the vegetables
grown in largest quantities in
all the gardens studied in the mill
towns. And yet although these vegetable
are particularly adapted to
canning, one-third of the families in
these towns did no canning at all, and
those who did can put up comparative
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I i i.v .snian <iuanuiios. Aiier nouns an>
tomatoes, the vegetables most genci!
ally grown in the mill-town garden*
. jwcrc corn, sweet potatoes, greens, cuI
cumbers, Irish potatoes, onions, call1
huge, collards, peas, okra, pepper.
? j turnips, and beets.
COLDS & La&RIPPE
5 or 6 doses 600 will bred
- any case of Chills & Fever, Cold
& LaGrippe; it acts on the live;
better than Calomel and docs no
1 t?ripe or sicken. Price 25c.
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r (jet land deeds and mortgages o
J real estate at the Herald office.
THE HORRY HERA
PLAN MIGHTY ATTACK
ON THE CATTLE TICK
Washington, D. C., Jan 15. "To
free 100,000 square miles from cattle
tick in 1918, in cooperation with the
States."
"To eradicate all ticks in Louisiana,
Arkansas, and South Carolina
this year."
"To carry on eradication work thai
will free Alabama and North Carolina
in 1919, Georgia and Oklahoma
in 1920, and Florida and Texas in
1921."
These arc the objects of a conference
of over 200 employees of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, United
States Department, of Agriculture, to
b( held at the St. Charles Hotel, New
Orleans, La., January 15 to 18. Rcr?.
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resentatives ot the department trom
Washington, Federal inspectors in
charge of tick eradiation from each
tick-infested State, and as many ot
j tlie Federal field men as can be
j spared from the actual building of
dipping vats in their counties are to
meet to plan a campaign which will
surpass even the tick eradication results
of the record year 1917. Meet!
nig with the Federal tick-eradication
i forces will be ronresentatives of the
I
State live-stock boards o<" practically
| every State with territory still quarantined
because ol' cattle tick.
The Federal tick-eradication forces
at these meetings will lay plans for
cooperation with the States to widen
immediately the tick-free wedge
which the release of Mississippi last
year pushed through the tick lines to
the Gulf of Mexico. Every effort
will be made to widen this tick-free
area to the westward by cleaning up
Louisiana and Arkansas before the
year ends. To the East efforts will
t0 redoubled in Alabama, which, it
believed, can be entirely freed from
cattle tick before 1919. Similarly intensive
work in other States still infested.
it is hoped, will leave the tick
at the end of 1920 with a cattle hold
only in the two southern corners in
parts of Florida and Texas. By 1921
?t is believed that the fever-giving
blood-sucking, milk-rcducing*, fcedv.asting
tick will be banished from
the United States and the tick's toll
of $40,000,000 a year on the South
will be ended forever.
The Federal experts and representatives
of State live-stock boards will
discuss during the four days practic
ally every phase of tick eradication.
One of the purposes of this annua:
meeting: is to serve as a clearing
house of ideas for thc. bureau's forces
so that each worker will be made
thoroughly familiar with every sucI
cessful plan for stimulating interest
' i>i eradication and for organizing
j counties for the building of vats and
'dipping of cattle. There remain \ e{
| to be freed 249.000 square mile;[which
the Federal agencies, with tie
j cooperation of the States, hope to reI
duce to 249,000 square miles by tiv
lend of 1918. It is honed that bv nc.'t
: :
January, eight of the fifteen States
( quarantined in iyiif? will no uh.-oiutoiy
fiord from quarantine regulations >s
I account of the tick.
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Wood's Seeds
'I' IF""OP 1Q18'
The patriotic duty of farmers and
gardeners everywhere is to increase
j crop and food production. Inteni
sivo 'arming and gardening, and
the libera! use or fertilizers, together
with proper rotation of crops, so
as to increase and improve the fcrI
tility and productiveness of the
land, are ail vital and necessary
considerations at the present time.
j Wood's Descriptive Catalog
i rv,r V>18 gives the fullest and r o? t
! ;p-?.o-datc information in regard j
^ t o a i 1
| Farm and Garden Seeds
And tolls about tle'bent crops to
grow, both for profit and homo use.
Write for Catalog and prices of
Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed
Potatoes, Seed Oats, or any
I Farm Seeds Required,
i Catalog1 Mailed Tree On Itorinoot.
T. W. WOOD & SONS,
SEEDSMEN, Richmond, Ya.
JAMES SMART ESTATE
I OFFERED FOR SALE
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"I Wo have for sale the estate land of
' j the late .Mr. Jas. Smart, containing
thirty-Uvo acres, with 1(> or IS acres
cleared, with dwelling house, lying :n
Bucks township, on Pee Dee Public
l<oad. Wire tencmp- round about oneI
fourth of field.
I Call or write us your best offer for
I this property which th(? heirs want .?>
dispose of at a fair price. The only
time to buy land is when it is offered
for sa'o. Afterwards it is too late. nd
HORRY LAND AGENCY, Conway,
i .U. M. Hodrick. II. H. Woodward.
LD, CONWAY, 8. O.
I WAR TALKS II
By UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Must Help.
Mrt^ftl^ V? ft - VX * . a ?
ncuo, uncie uan, jimraie and l
have been waiting for you."
"Sorry if 1 have kept you long," said
Uncle Dau. "Your mother has been
telling me how bashful 1 used to be.
She said If a girl sjH)ke to me I would
blush to my hair roots. Well, 1 reminded
her of the time your father
first came to see her and the joke we
played on them, so I guess that will
bold her for a while."
Continuing, Uncle Dan said: "You
want to talk more about the war, do :
you? Well, war methods have under- |
gone many changes and they are still i
changing. No two wars are fought |
alike. In early times, the weapons were I
stones, clubs, spears, bows and arrows. ;
swords, etc. In this kind of warfare, !
victory was with the strong right arm. i
Men of enormous size and strength I
were the great warriors. The inven- .
tion of gunpowder. however. tins
changed nil this. Il has enabled men j
to kill one another at a considerable t
distance, and do it wholesale. The
war, as we know it now, is a combination
of chemicals, machinery, mathematical
calculations and highly trained |
men. Just think of it! Airplanes,
submarines, armored tanks, or caterpillars,
poison gases, and curtains of
lire are all used for the tirst time in
this war: and they are destructive* beyond
anything heretofore known.
"The methods followed by the kai- |
ser and his allies are simply devilish.
He must answer in history to the kill- i
ing of thousands of innocent women
and children. Me has broken every,
international law and every rule of
warfare: he has bombarded hospitals
and undefended cities, sunk Red Cross
ships on errands of mercy; he has destroyed
cathedrals and priceless treasures
<if art that can never be replaced;
he has made slaves of his prisoners;
he has tried to get us into war with
Japan; bis emmissaries have blown up
our ships, burned our factories and
fired our forests. Me knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take of tills blood-thirsty tyrant
is that he is crazy.
ll/-\ .1.! ! - - -* * 1 '
uiic uong is certain, coniumod i nclc
l>;in. with great emphasis, "Our
liberty. the safety of our homes and
our country, and the security of the
world demand the speedy and absolute
overthrow of the kaiser and
crushing out once and forever the ,
reign of Prussian brutality."
"How about the German people,"
said Pillie.
Uncle Dan replied: "The splendid
German people were happy, thrifty,
prosperous and contented. They have I
been tricked into war and made to
suffer the tortures of the damned;
they have been cruelly and systematically
deceived. God grant tHut the real
facts may get to theni, and if they do.
Lord help the kaiser !"
"Of course the allies will win," said
Mrs. Graham.
"Probably so." said Uncle Dan. "But
if we are to win. we must go the limit, j
We must check the awful destruction to
shipping by the German submarines. |
or we may not he able to get food and
supplies to our own men and to our allies;
we must also put hundreds of i
thousands, and perhaps millions, of
first-class soldiers in the battle line.
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I VIV M I 1^ I 111 II 111 > Mill ill II Ml, I 11- i
cle Dan contimiori. "No army can hold
out against hunger. It has been said
that food will win the war, and this is
largely true. Hence the importance
of tlie farm in the war plans of our
country."
Mrs. Graham interrupted by saying:
"In view'of the importance of farming,
don't you think, Daniel, that the farmers
ought to be exempted from war
service?"
"No, a thousand times no," said Uncle
I>an, striking the table so hard to
emphasize his protest that lie lipped
over a vase of flowers. "We must
have no class legislation. Hhe?sJ\Hy to
serve is the common duty of a'!, and
no class must be relieved of (this oh
Iltfnnon 111<v (luestlon ol wceunpumi
irmsi be a personal one and decided by
tlie facts surrounding each ease. In
no other way can we have a square
CHICKEN
is often vi
Mirnciilioitsrvi
k foe Jincsl shorter
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looi, anil to Insure this, It Is the duty
of congress to pass Immediately the
Chamberlain bill, or some such measure,
which Is fair to all classes. It
would settle all these questions and
do it fairly. Safety now and safety
hereafter demands such legislation,
and let me suggest that you and your
friends get busy with your congressman
and senators and urge them to .
prompt action. I
"It is time for us to realize that we'
are not living in a fools' paradise;
that this great country of ours cost
oceans of blood and treasure and It Is
only due to the loyalty, sacrifice and
service of our forefathers that we have
a country, and it is our highest duty
to preserve it unimpaired and pass It
on to posterity, no matter what the
cost may be. Our citizenship and their
ancestors came from all parts of the
world to make this country a home
and enjoy its'blessings and opportunities;
hence, in the crisis before us,
it is tlie duty of everyone to stand
sqiudvly back of our country and he
prepared to defend the fistjtf. Everyone
In this crisis is either pro-American
rr r.o-Oennan. Great us the country
is. there is not room enough for
two tlags."
TO PROVIDE HOMES
FOR SHfflUUERS
Shipping Board Sets Aside
$1 pnnnnn tn rc iic^ri
V . ,-ww,www ?V UV HI
Newport News.
w ashington. The shipping boar<? i
today set aside $1,200,000 of its go>
oral appropriation for providing:
lu using- facilities for shipyard wora?
rr at Newport News, Va.
The sunt was provided after a eon
foronc(? between I>rcsi<lent Ferguson
of the Newport News Ship Building
company, shipping board officials ano
; special subcommittee of tlv? Senate ,
commerce committee, appointed yesterday
to get quick avion on Mr. For.
guson's request for money for borrow
iitg. It will be expended immcdaiteiy
for .">00 homes fop workmen.
The Senate committee, investigating
the progress of ship building wa
deeply stirred yesterday by Mr. Fee
gu-on's testimony of housing conditions
at ids own and other plant:*.
Shipbuilding cannot be speeded in*.
Mr. Ferguson declared, until housing
provided by the government. Kor
; inn months lie sa'd he had been try
in# to get the govvonment officials t
see ?i? seriousness of the situation.
DESIRABLE RESIDENCE
FOR GOOB CITIZEN
The florry Land Agency has in
.'.and J'or sale on attractive lei ms the
i?;ht room ?l\vo!lin*?* and il.e lot ?n
which it stands, owned by .Mi, A. .M.
.Sutherland, near the handsome resi
!? nee occupied by him; and which !.; ]
a very desirable home 'or a good J
fan ily.
It is situate in the Oully section J
whieh has been constantly building
up for many \cars. li is a splendid
neighborhood where one would want
to stay. The place is at present occupied
by l?i of. Power W. Hethca.
IjO()1\ the place over and see M. M.
Hedrick at Hotel Clraee who will give
you the terms on which you may purchase
this nice home. udv
M USfANG
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Sores, Cuts, Rheumatism
Penetrates and Heals.
Stops Pain At Once
For Man and Beast
25c. 50c. $ I. At All Dealers.
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EL H. WOODWARD. %
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R. R SCARBOROUGH ;
Attorney at Law.
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Auto Supplies, Fancy Grocerie* i
Ajax Tires, guaranteed 50 * *
miles.
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Complete Waterworks Steam Hot water
and Hot Air Heating Plant?
INSTALLED ANYWHERE
Only Plumbing and Heating goodfc
and material of highest quality umeVPull
line of Tub, Toilet. Lavatory,
Sink and other Bathroom Accessories
and rep^*^ on hand at all time?..
Ploiublng and Heating.
PUT HOT WATER AND
HEAT IN YOUR HOUSE
T. B. LEWIS,
Atty. and Councellor at Law
CONWAY, - - - S. C,
J. M. JOHNSON,
CIVIL ENGINEER
MARION, S. C.
My Engineering and Surveying
office will be open during my absence,
and prepared to take care
o." any work as usual. Addressall
communications as heretofore.
i I
WILLIAM EUGENE KING. M D
Physician and Surgeon
Office iu Piatt Drug Oo
AYNOR,. ... S. C,
DR. J. D. THOMAS
Physician and Surgeon
LORIS, S. C.
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J. O. Norton E. S. C. Bakoi
NORTON & BAKER
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
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LUM JUNG LAUNDRY,,
CONWAY. S. C.
Beginning July 1st. 19H
Ail persons must lake tickets !?. r
work left hero Possitiveiy
wo"k delivered until ticket is presented.
Laundry not c tiled for in
'50 days will he sold for <iharj:e*
LUM JUNG
. W C SINGLETON A...
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Conway, S. C.
Office op Stairs Buck Building
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DR. 6.1. LEWIS
DENTAL SURGEON
Office Ofer Norton Drug Company
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