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FARMERS MEETING. Held at Mr. Wade Drake's Farn Near Anderson. County Agent Bowen, accompar ied by Messrs. B. F. Freeman, Ron O'Dell and The Sentinel editor, al tended the farmers' meeting on th farm of Mr. Wade Drake near AT derson l--t. Wednesday. Though th weather was inclement a large nun ber of interested farmers were pre! ent and those in charge o fthe mee ing pronounced it th best they ha ever held. People were present froi Pick ns, Oconee, Anderson, Abbi ville. Chester and Greenwood coul ties. Mr. Drake has used a greater vi riety of legumes and other covt crops and has accomplished more i the way of soil building than an other man in that part of the cour try. He is now being followed b many other good farmers who ar adopting his methods in some mod: fled form but Mr. Drake' bears th distinction of being the first to begii the work and proving its worth. In 1909 Mr. 1)rake bought 204 acres of poor run down land, gullie( and scarred with abuse. Ile Legar to plow a little deeper and prepar< the soil a little better for his crop: thereby getting better yields that his neighbors. Then he turned under a few crops of cowpeas, sowed (luite a good deal of small grain, and fol. ]owed this with peas. In a few yeart his land was producing more than double what it was when he b'ought it. In 1914, 225 acres more were added to the original tract. This was handled much to the other tract but Mr. Drake was not satisfied with the progress he was making in bring ing back this soil, so he began to as semble all of the information obtain able about soil building and the best methods of gowing crops. lie reas Otned that cowpeas were good but if he could just add some winter crop to his summer soil bulding crops he could build up his soil much faster. 11e knew that the leaching of plant -food from his fields <lnring the win t('er was very greait, so inl addition to putting in a syst(m11 of ter''aces he pamted rye and other grains simply as a protection to the soil during th 'winter. A .litt.le later he heard of the soil building qualities of .b",r vetch, :o he tried that. II t'/ -at(d the soil wherec he --- l' di aid(1lovd v. as phIintin v)teh 1111d follower (I1 + bes:t mellthod( he 17. 1ott.(',.' f'riom ditfl'i'ent sm(u-e i es and to htis sliplise aid grat ifica ti)on he pto dl 'o i tod a gmood Crop [) (I vetch. 'T'he fiirt tiop was allowsc to S:e(d on the haud i nl then wla., hr ves-ted for seed . 'I Thre' were eno ugh2 Seed left on It' hmid to insuire a pet' feeit stanad of' vohinateer' vetch'l the fol lowing l'all andl with tihe seedl saved'o fromi this huuli many~ me' acr's wer seeded t that fall. TIhe' following Spring (I11;) many aen1's which wouhni hai veio iotdnnr tan ao fe rtilIize~cr. Manyi of hiis neighbhoris caOlled him foolish and even pro posed to cut anad haul the feed away if he would give it to them for they could not beat' to see so much feed wasted. During the followving years, Mr. Drake had added crimson clover, vel vet beans, bur'r clover, Abruzizi ryt and other crops to his system of soi building. Every acre of his lam( pr'oduces aeover crop each yea1 wvhich is trned under' for enrichinj the soil. In speaking of his wvork recentl: -in answer' to the question, "Why did you fall upon this soil building prac tice?" Mr. D~rake replied, "My lan< was so poor I could not prodluce 1 goodl crop or get satisfactor'y treturn| from my labor'. I knew somtethin; had to be (done so I stairtedl out to se< what I could do. I thought if pea were so good as a summer crlop tha if I could get a er'op on the land fo: the winter that wvould bte as goodl a cow peas ar'e fotr the summer, would enrich my soil twice as fast Ihave found that crimson clover' am v'etch will (10 this. They are add( ing niltrogen and1( humus to my soi during the winter instead of the lani washing away. In the 'beginnnig Mr. Driake uset( about 30(0 lbs. of fertilizer' per acri and his yields were about a half bali of cotton per acre, 15 bushels o: coirn or 15 bushels of oats. By thu method outligied above this same lan< has been brought up to a high statt of cultivation. D~uring the past fev years this same land hats averaged tons of hay per acre, 50t lbushels oi oats, 25 bushels of wheat, 50 buisheb of cor'n, andl 1 1-2 bales of cottoi' per acre. In 1 920 this farmn piroduc'ed on average of 70 bnshels of cor'n pei acr'e, 50 bushels of' oats, 25 busheb of wheat and at total of I107 bales 01 cotton from 1 00 acr'es of land. IFo, 196an aver'age of' 600 pounds oi acid pIosp~hate and cotton seed mn: were used pter acre andl 50 poundI nitrate of soda per' acre for cotton, applied just after the cotton was r chopped orut. 'As a test on corn, ni trate of soda was applied at the rate of 600 pounds per care. So full o nitrogen is this soil, no results wer a obtained by the use of even thi heavy application. In connection with these crops,Mi Drake has used two tons of groun a limestone per acre on all of his cu' tivated land. He is a strong belies e er in the use of limestone. 1- He has found that because of th e gullied condition of his farm at th - beginning, terraces on the level wer - not satisfactory so he is retracin: t- his farm with slight fall to all ter (I races. Mr. Drake is a firm believer in in oculation for all legumes that ar< 'low, commonly grown or for whici he is not certain the soil carries the - bacteria. Ile has used the soil trans r fer method and several kinds of pur: n cultures. All have ben more or les y satisfactory The soil transfer meth 1- md is now used exclusively. Mr Y Drake's method on inoculating vetel e is to secure soil from a field that ha: previously grown vetch successfully e moisten the seed with water to whicl I has been added enough molasses t< make them sticky and roll and rol the seed in the soil until each seed h I covered with soil, sow the seed anc cover them lightly before the bac teria is killed by the sun. A hall bushel of soil is sufficient to furnish inoculation for enough seed to son an acre. A bout 30 pounds of seed aire used per acre. Planting is done from September to November. Vetch never freezes out once it gets well established. The same method is used with crimson clover as for vetch. Soil is secured from a field that has pre viously grown crimson clover, or other clovers that carry the germs for crimson clover, the seed treated the same way as for vetch, sown and covered lightly with a harrow or heel sweepTwenty live pounds of cleaned seed or 25 to 35 pounds of unclesa ed seed are used per acre. Vet.ch seed are saved b raking the vetch oil' the hay rake after the s -d i, ted. Somietimies ru - ph Uanted with vet ;;I. I vei/tch is i. ed........h and thresh Vt'0 lb, \. Drake has mIa, oe poutid. of Vc 'n sec* ITIEI KEY tHAT UNLOCKS THE DOOR TO LONG LIVING. The men of eighty-five anil ninhet years of age ire not the rot nod, well fed, but thin, spare men, who live on I a slen ler diet. li aS carefll as he will. however, a nIan past middle age 1will occeasionally -atLtoo 1M uc i o r I o'1 somel( article ofI food nolt. suited to his ermast i~ttion, causintg indigestion)1 or 40onstipaltion1 uand will need ai dlose of ('honbe~trhin's Tablets to move his lhowelIs and 11invigora'te' his stomacllh. IWhen this is dlone, thee is no rea'ison why the ave(rage mana sho uld not live to ai r'i) old1 age. PICKENS COUNTY H-AS SMALL EST NEGRO POPULATION. W Xashington, D. C., Aug. 25.-Trhe population of the state of South Carolina, as recently announcedl by the Bureau of the Census, Depart ment of Commerce, is 48.6 per cent w hite and 51 .4 per cent negro. In 191 0 the percentage negro was 55.2. The negro population, wvhich wvas 835,843 in 1910, increased to 864,. 719 in 1920, an increase of 3.5 per cent. The wvhite population in the same periodl increased from 679,161 to 818,538 0or 20.5 per cent. The white population of the state consists almost entirely of native A merican horn native A merican par. ents, the total native wvhite of' native p)1are ntage being 799,18, while the foreign element is replresented by 6, 401 foreign-born whites, 7,025 na tive whites who had foreign born [parents, aundt 5,6941 who had one parent fporeign born, the other being native. Thue total population in eludes also 304 Indians, 93 Chinese, an a1 Jpan ese. In most5 counties of the state the percentage of negroes has decreas edl and in 19 of the 46 counties there was also a (decrease in the number of negroes. Pickens county has the smallest pecr cent of negro pqpulation than any other county in the state, heing 17.4. Be aufort county has the lragest per cent negro population, FEDERAL COURT JURORS. Thle following Pickens countyv men are on the jur ly for ledelral ('0urt. to convlenle in Rock H-ill on SepItemnberi Ilith. Gr'and jury: Bruce Ilagonid, E~as Iey. l'etit jury: WV. D. Frleemlan. Eans Iey ; J1. W. Holcombe, Dacusville; . L. Murphy, Central; Joel Allgood, Pickens; ,J. HI. Ramnseur, Central. Jolly Glasses going at 45c dozen to closq/dut. Bennett Mercantile Co. f PICKENS ROAD NEARS COMPLE. TION. South Carolina Road Boosters Inter view Commissioners Who are to Build Connecting Link. Brevard News. e J. T. McKinns . supervisor Pick e ens county, and Ar. E. ). Sloan, e state engineer in charge of roads in Pickens county, met with the Road ~ commissioners of Transylvania coun ty on Monday, August 22nd. The - South Carolina officials have spent d during the past twelve months ap proximately $100,000 in the con 3 struction of the road between Pick - ens and Rosman. It will take two years to complete the road from South Carolina to Rosman. The - road on the South Carolina side will . cost Pickens county approximately $300,000. What the South Carolina officials wanted to know was what Transylvania county expected to do about connecting the North Carolina side which has length of 6 1-2 miles as they did not want to spend $300. 000 without assurances from our county that the link would be con pleted by our county. The road commissioners of our county assured the South Carolina commissioners that they never had any other intention other than to build the connecting link as the peo ple of our county regard the Pickens county connection as one of the most important roads. When this road is completed it will put Brevard 100 miles nearer Atlanta than at the present time, which means that all tipper South Carolina will use this road when completed. There are hundreds of families in upper South Carolina who would have summer home , on the many beautiful hill located between the Rosman it Pick- r (ounty line as well as b'':ard. This will mean thousan(s dolhrs to our county. and too vithin :a few hour- the farmers coul( ai ry their product < to tile South Carolina narkets. I: will moean greater de(lvelopmenivit in truck gr 1ening and the open ing of thousands of acres of virg'in timber forest;. Our citizens ha,\ hoped for ye'ars that the G;reentvI le C 'nn1eCtion woul d bet made and we have d(one e cry tlhing 1o(sibhIle to get. this conIItectIon anid have spent over *..I9.1.00 on the ro'l leolingi to C !eniville. It is (quite at different proposition with the l'ikemn. county ollicials as they halve already start ed to ot-k on the road between Pickens and Rosman 1an1d have spent. $1(0,(1(10) in the construe ftin o the sanme. The road con miionrs of IS I Tra nsylIvaniia were fav nrably imipressed wtith ',lr. McKinney anad MTr. Sloan's pro position and we explect. to vi.Ait the Sou thI Carolina olleials within the next few weeks as they are all aiXous to work to gether~i ini every way Possible. This roadl project is altogether di f feren t from the Greenville proposi tion which after tive years prolmises and T'ransylvania's spending $40,000 has failed to abide by their agree ment. Picliens county has built her line and now it's up to Transylvaniai county to connect up the 6 1-2 mile I ink. THE CENTER OF WHITE POPU LATION. Pickens, Oconee, Greenville nad Spartanburg--four great counties of the Piedmont section, are the center of white population in South Caro lina. Figures aninouncedl yesterdlay by the bureau of the cen'sus give these four counlties predominance in the wvhite population among t ie coun ties of the state, excepting the coun ty of Horry which seems to hav-e car rolled a large perCentage of native whites. Pickens has the largest percentage of white population of any county in the state, its percentage of coloredl population being only 17.4 of the to tal. Oconee comes second with a colored population of only 21.2 per cent. Greenville has a colored popu lation representing 26.5 of its total, while Spartanburg's relative colored population is 29.1 per cent. These four great counties of the Piedmont section have an average of 76.5 white population. That is of far greater importance than the aver-! age person realizes. At least 98! per cent of this white population is native. B~y far the laiger part of it can11 bet tracedl to Scotch, English and irish settlers of more than a century ago. Trho people of these counties, bound by kith and kin and imbibed , with the spirit of freedom iand pro gressiveness, can for years he look ed uipon to lead Soth Cariol ina in oult look and1( initiatvie..--Greenville. News. Fresh shipment Sweet Sixteen flour, the best quality plain flour sold in Ea'iley. We can prove it. Give1 It a trial. Bennett Mercantile on. Central Mercantile Company. CENTRAL, S. C. We have received our New Fall Line of Samples for the International. This line is the line we have been handlinp for ten years. Better this season 'than ever, and the prices are re duced. Let us show you the samples. CENTRAL MERCANTILE COMPANY, CENTRAL, S, C. MCimmmm&iCMiCimmCimV MORGAN AND ALLEN INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS. Central, S. C. If your Life, House, Barn, Automobile or anything you have is not" insured we will be glad to write the policy for you in one of our good strong companies. Consult us today, tomor row may be too late. Yours truly, MORGAN AND ALLEN Insurance Of All Kinds. BANK OF CENTRAL. F. B. MORGAN, Pres. B. E. Allen, Cashier Central, S. C. A number of our customers are farmers. We are con cerned that the Boll Weevil has been found in Pickens County. We hereby offer ten dollars in gold to the man, woman or chlid who gives the Pickiens County farmers the best advice. You must live in Pickens County and on a farm. Contest open all of August. A committee of three farmers will pass on your ad vice. Mail what you have to say to the Bank of Central, Central, S. C. Boll Weevil Dept. Lock Box 67. BANK OF CENTRAL, Central, S. C. PIEDMONT COLLEGE, Demorest, Ga. Non-Sectarian; Positively Christian. Standard Four Years Senior College for men and women. No college or University in Georgia with higher standards. Large outside income and its own supplies reduce Board, 'Tuition and Fees to $259 for nine months. For catalogue and full information, write 'Dean J1. C. Rogers, Piedmont College, Demorest, Ga. Next week see announcement of High School of Piedmont College Low Toll Rates at Night* Long distance calls on a STATION Tvo STATION basis, when made in y the evening between 8:30 and midl 'night, are appoxi mately ONE-HI-A LF .tlie day rate. Between midnight and 4:30 A. M. they are about ONE FOURTH the day rate. At these LOW rates you must 'be prepared to talk to whoever answers the telephone. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE( AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Belting Big reduction in price of Goodyear Rubber Belt. We can supply your needs in sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 inch. Get our price be fore buying. Also see our line of stoves and ranges at the new prices. BARR BROS. Easley. S. C. Hardware Phon 68 Effective July 15th, 1921, Chevrolet Motor Car prices are: Model 490 Touring . Car $725.00. Model 490 Sedan $1, 100.00. Model F. B. (Baby Grand) $1,100.00. Model 490 Sedan and F. B. touring have been reduced' $375.00. All above prices deliv ered. For information or de monstration see H. L. Barr, care Barr Bros, Easley, S. C. J. J. McSwain Sam B. Craig A Greenville, S. C. Pickens, S. C. McSWAIN & CRAIG Lawyers , Practice in State and Federal Courts Pickens Office Phone 39 For Best Resut Use LIVE STOCK. REMEDIES Sold by Druggists and Dcler5 I}'. TOBEOR NOT TO BE-' Eyeglasses or spectacles ? That is the question. Let s deide fol you hW y examinlinlg y our ey es and prescrib~ing yeglasses or spectacles, wh~ ichever(~ is preferable. We y they look as ihouigh madle for ~selection and do the fitting. Kodak Films Developed by Experts ODOM-SCHADE OPTICAL CO. A. A. ODOM, A. H. SCADE, President Sec'y. & Tres. Consulting Optometristu. Masonic Temple, Greenville. S. C. 3. R. Martin J. H. Eairle Greenville, S. C. Pickens, S.'C. MARTIN & EARLE Attorneys-at-Law. Practice In All Courts Pickens Offie in Court House. Greenville Omeie opposite Postoffee, ( Phone 404. The next time you buy calomel ask for alotabs The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure. Medicinal virtu4 retain.. ed and improved. Sold #e only-in sealedpakgs Price 35c. paags