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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE ATLANTIC COAST LINE AND CLEMSON . COLLEGE LIVESTOCK SPECIAL TRAIN TAKES PROSPERITY IDEAS TO STATE Btlkvtd State’s Agriculture Csn Not Be Permanently Prosperous Without Livestoch. For the encouragement-e# flyestock farming as a means of diversifying the income and improving soil fertility a livestock development train is being « * run over the Atlantic Coast Line, the Charleston and Western Carolina and the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens rails in South Carolina June 18 to July XI, stopping at 52 principal towns and inviting all people interested in live stock or poultry development aboard ito see the free exhibits. With the co -operation of the Clemson College Ag ricultural Extension Service, dairy, I hog, sheep and poultry exhibits from jthe_college will be carried and repre sentatives of the extension service and 'of the Atlantic Coast Line will ac .company the train to talk with inter- iested visitors and to take part in j programs. v One poultry car will carry exhibits of desirable type hatching eggs, hens of desirable breeding type, the type of hens to cull and the type to keep as good layers and samples of feeds |that are giving good results on the 'Clemson College poultry plant. A flat car will have built on it a Clem son type brooder house and a Clem son type laying house, both fully equipped and carrying flocks (%f live birds that are managed just as good poultrymen handle their flocks. Jersey and Guernsey cows of goot type, both, of which have good milking records, yearling heifers, calves ant bulls of each of these breeds will be stabled on one car with a “piney woods rooter” hog, a pig club gilt, a / purebred Poland China sow,, a Berk shire boar and a few pigs feeding from a self - feeder in Just the way Clemson College recommends for eco nomical pork production. There will be a 12-pound fleece clipped this spring from one of Clemson College’s purebred Hampshire ewes hanging beside a two or three-pound fleece clipped from an average native scrub ewe. Purebred Hampshire and South- down sheep representative of their breeds will occupy pens, while in one pen a grade ewe will stand with her superior lamb which got its better quality from purebred ram parentage. Another car will carry equipment, feed, disease and parasitfe pest exhib its: equipment needed for the most practical farming with these classes of stock, feeds that every farmer should grow and feed at home to good animals, and samples of the disease and pest troubles that every farmer must combat, together with advised control measures. A lecture coach is being equipped to give lantern-slide or movie-illus trated lectures to audiences, while a loud-speaker will be used to carry the lecturer audibly to audiences gath ered for some distance around the train, where they may sit in the shade or in convenient places. County agents and local organiza tions are arranging programs to be , given at each place W’here the train stops and where visitors gather. The entire train will carry only ideas that farmers can make use of on their owm farms. CLEMSON PLAN OF HOG FEEDING PAYING FARMERS WELL FOR CORN One hundred and three carloads of hogs were fed last year by South Car olina farmers in co-operation with the extension livestock specialists of i Clemson College on Clemson College rations, were shipped to eastern mar kets and returned to the farmers sub stantial profits on the corn they grew and fed. Last year 12 litters of pigs in this state were finished to a ton weight or more by six months of age. < While there is no final report of the year’s results with demonstration-fed hogs, many reports show very satis factory prices for the corn marketed in the form of pork. A carolad of hogs fed out in Marion county and shipped April 4 showed that 100 pounds of gain were put on with five and one-fifth bushels of corn in addition to supple ments at a cost of $5.92. These^farm- ers got $1.80 a bushel for their corn on the Richmond hog market. On ; April 11, another car of hogs was load- ,ed in Marion county by seven farm ers, netting $1,616 at the car door. Demonstration-fed hogs in George town county last year made their gains at a cost of $6.35 a hundred \ pounds, while five bushels of corn and 31 pounds of fish meal made the hun dred pounds of pork. Records of Dorchester county hog feeding ehowed l».t summer <*>»t | college of s swlneherd thst wonld not gains were being made for about $5.35 a hundred pounds. \ « • Grant Berkshire* At Clem sen Offer F< • Unusual Opportunities Animal husbandmen of Clemson College Interested Parker Bros., fam ous Berkshire hog breeders, of Niles, Michigan, In the development at the In fact, many of the hogs fattened by the Clemson plan have made gains at about five cents a-pound, according to J. R. Hawkins, extension livestock specialist, who is in charge of this co-operative work. An unusual number of farmers are this year feeding pigs while many are looking for good hogs. Purebred boars have been in demand too. The Clem son feeding plan is pleasing so many of the co-operators and their neigh bors that doubtless the hog will take its place on South Carolina farms soon to stabilize the farm income, to consume feeds that can be grown and to occupy part of the farmer’s winter time, not to mention its part in build ing up the fertility of the land. These fattening methods will be explained to visitors on the Atlantic Codst Line- Clemson College Livestock Develop ment Special Train. • CLEMSON BUILDING FLOCK TO GIVE STATE BEST OF SHEEP To Help Farmers Breed Up More Profitable Sheep and Make More Use of This Livestock; Leading Shepherd Handling Flock. This Litter of Hogs Fed by Jud Austin, of Pimopolis, S. C., by the Clemson College Fattening Plan, Produced a Ton of Appetizing Meat in 180 Days. As the Picture Shows, the Whole Austin Family Was Interested. only be an example of good animals but further would be a source of stock to greatly improve the breed ing of hogs all over South Carolina. So, in 1822, Clemson Baron and Mich igan Baroness Third, two of Parker Brothers’ best hogs came to the col lege herd at a sacrificial price. Thus was founded a swineherd that com petent judges claim to be the best in the Berkshire world. From it some of the best swine blood to be found anywhere has been sold to farmers of South Carolina. Now the A. C. L.- Clemson College Livestock Develop ment Train is encouraging farmers to profit by boosting hogs. Because Clemson Baron and Michi gan Baroness Third, possessed cer tain remarkable qualities and also be cause no other animals of such qual ity were In the college’s possession for breeding, these twp animals and their offspring have been inbred skill fully, an experiment not usually prac ticed with good results, and there was produced stock Tar surpassing the fondest hopes. Much better hogs than either of the parents resulted from this mating. On the show cir cuits of two years their triumphs have dazzled hog breeders the country ov er, many of whom were surprised that the South could produce anything but ‘‘piney woods rooters/* L. P. Crawford, swine herdsman, has fitted and showed these hogs with such marked success tw'o years and will cover the show circuit again this fall. day of July, 1928, on which Rsj afl claims will be proved in the CmmCmE Probate; and all persons indeMai R» the said estate of M. M. Hofijr wBB please make prompt payment tm Mbs* undersigned Executor or to his at torney, V, S. Owens. L. A. PLEXIGCL. Executor- By his Attorney: V. S. Owen*. Barnwell, S. C., Jude 18, 1928L Believing that sheep offer excep tional money - making opportunities and are ideally adapted to South Car olina farmers, Clemson College has set finest Hampshire rams in the coun try, another, fine one fi*om the Uni versity of Minnesota, and from Can ada a Southdown ram of rafe merit. 10 Creameries and Many Cities Offer Palmetto Dairymen Good Markets about to develop one. of the finest; These and three superior putebred sheep flocks in 4ke country from which | ewes brought into the original cpl- stock can be sold into the state to lege flock of a few purebreds and sev- carry some of the besfavailable blood eral scrubs that had come from the at reasonable prices and improve Coastal plains the kind of blood that J flocks to greater profitableness. is already bringing noticeable im- i To further this program, Ted Cook, provements and will in the future re- ] one of the country’s leading shepherds, suit in a flock that should be worth ■ was put in charge of the flocks and; thousands ’of dollars to^South Caro- J is lending his practical understanding **— * * v, “' “ All Creameries and Several Cities Are Within Shipping Distance of Every Farmer In the State. Kai Schwensen, Dane, Has Built Prosperous Dairy Business in Spartanburg Soldier, Librarian, Athlete Made Small Start and Finds Dairying j.. the Life He Loves. Since 1920, when net a single creamery stood within yjthe bounds of Kai Schwensen, soldier, athlete, li the state, 10 have sprung up Within r brary worker, who was born in Den- to the breeding program. ~ ■ From -Senator Camdenrat Versailles, “Ky., the College bought one of the Una farmers. A few young rams have already been sold in the state. The flock"today hws 42 purebred ewes, 50 grade ewes and a crop of lambs. profitable shipping distance of a*iy farm within the boundaries and are clamoring for more milk. Further more, a great number of cities in this mark and there learned to love, the dairy cow, found the life work nearest his own heart when he settled in and surrounding states need more , Spartanburg at the close of the war whole milk than they are getting and| and built up one o{ the gthtes most will pay such prices for it that Pal metto farmers could prosper on that trade alone. Yet the dairy cow has successful dairies. In his school days this young Dane not come into her own to bring great- ' not only developed a liking for books Ted Cook, With One of Clemson College’s Purebred Rams. POOR LAYING HOUSES TRIM CAROUNA’S POULTRY PROFIT > ‘ . Recoras Show Effect of Housing During January Freeze. So popular is the notion that a hen needs little care on the farm when grains can be picked up, the barn loft or manger or the brier patch make an ideal nest, and the tree top or wood shed are good enough for roosting. On the other hand, records show that birds poorly protected In cold weath er or crowded in hot weather ease _ up on the eggs and may take their time about getting started laying again, while those in a good house are little affected by such weather changes. Records of two flocks in Barnwell , county, both about the same size, lay ing about the same number of eggs, show that one of them very poorly housed started down grade on .Tan- , ^uary 2, when the weather dropped from 18 degrees t.o nearly zero, and In one week were laying 72 eggs in stead of the previous 219 eggs a day. Still a week later they were far be 1 - low normal production. At the same time the* other flock laying 328 eggs on January first scarcely dropped be low the 300 mark on* any; of the fol lowing cold days, and' two we^ks later had recovered to 306, practically nor mal. During the month of January the poorly-boused hens averaged only eight eggs apiece, while the well- housed liens averaged 16.4 eggs. Many other record-keepers with poor laying houses had more .violent reactions to the colfl wave , The Clemson type, open front, shed er prosperity ancTstability to our agri culture. These, says Prof. J. P. La- Master, chief of dairying at Clemson College, are the reasons why the At lantic^ Coast Line-Clemson College Livestock Development train is fea turing this industry to the people of the state. At Florence the oldest of the pres ent creameries is drawing cream from one of the finest Guernsey sections of America, the Pee Dee, where the dairy cow is bringing prosperity to her owners because she is given fhe attention of ifien who appreciate her worth. Darlington, Chesterfield, Dil lon, Marion, Williamsburg, and Berk eley counties’ farmers 1 send cream there and get checks we&ly in return. Two dreameries io* Sumter since 1923 get supplies from surrounding counties but, strange to say, get little milk from Sumter county Itself, al though nearly perfect conditions for dairy forage and feed growing make this one of the best dairy opportuni ties in the state, according to Clemson College dairymen. A creamery at Charleston gets milk from the entire Pee Dee and many other parts of the state but handles very little cream. Batesburg, Saluda, Greenwood, Au gusta, Newberry, Chester and Rock Hill each have a. creamery and John ston, Abbeville and McCormick a cream station each. Aside from Mc Cormick county, where 40 or 50 farm ers get $200 to $250 in weekly cream checks from 100 to 150 cows and roof laying house, which is very simi lar to the one that protected tke above hens and prevented any egg-sacrifice last winter, will be carried on a flat car with the Atlantic Coast Line- Clemson College Livestock Develop ment Train and a flock of-chickens will go with it over the state to show to the public this economical and sat isfactory building. jit is a common fault of South Car olina pdhltrymen that they have too little floor space for their flocks. Crowding is especially undesirable in hot weather. Then, most of them are shed-roof houses, their success de pending upon tightness of construc tion. Poultry Hatehory ( Poultry Marketing and Poultry Management for Profits Will Be tfftkstrated With This Exhibition on the Liveetock i:/ _ Devolepment Train Touring South Carolina. ~ ~ ti ~ where the steady profits of the enter prise are spurring dairy farming, cows are scant throughout the Savannah River Valley. True, purebred bull rings in some of ;hese counties a few years ago improved the farm cattle considerably, and there is a gradual increase of cow’s on the farms nearer creameries. Newberry’s creamery gets its supplies from small farm herds "'generally scattered through the coun ty, Recent employment of a dairy specialist in the county bids fair to boost the number of cattle as well as to lead into greater profit from that branch of farming. Good cow's all over Chester county, particularly j small farm herds, are making that creamery thrive. This and the^ Rock Hill creamery, youngest of the bunch, draw from York, Lancaster, Cherokee and Union counties and general farm ; interest in this business will doubtless Increase the number of cows. As yet, none of the creamerieu get the amount of cream for most profitable opera tion. They will buy all they can get. Greenville, Spartanburg, Columbia, Charleston^ Sumter, Florence, Ander son, Arfheviile, Charlotte, Augusta, Savannah, Atlanta and all of the Flor ida cltiea are close enough to pay farmers to ship them whole milk; all need more ni^d will pay good prices, says Prof. LAMasUr. but also started an athletic career that later led him to more than one Olympic game. As an all-round track t star in such-events as runs,^jumps, pole vault,, discus and javelin throw and shot putt, he was • one of the world’s greatest. He also collected, during his military travels, represen-1 tative war w eapons of many ages and j -many landa. — — Upon America’Sj entry into the war,! Kai quit the library of the City of New York fot; service, was camped near Spartanburg and later mustered out in; that vicinity. He was surprised at the scantiness of dairy cow’s to supply South Carolina cities with milk and was attracted to possibilities awaiting enterprising dairymen. Out of the army, he worked on a Spartanburg dairy for experience and saved money until opportunity allowed him to pur chase 20 acres of land just out of the city limits and three or four good grade cows, both on terms. Thus came the transformation of a library worker into a dairyman of the first rank. ' 1 There was little trouble” getting the first few customers. Mr. Schwensen milked his own cows, delivered his own milk, grew his own crops and In fact was the entire business. It is not- able that he has always made his small acreage grow more roughage in a year than many 100-acre farms, for he daily hauled manure out of the barn to the land and kept every acre growing something all the time. He grows alfalfa, /^Soybeans, cowpeas. sorghum, and has small grains on Tils land every winter, kll of which he cuts and feeds green in the barn. By daily distribution of manure, a habit he still persists in, the Schwensen barn has few'er flies on the hottest summer day than the average dining room, and his land is growing richer literally day by day. By feeding In the barn he is able to keep a more uniform butterfat NOTICE OF ELECTION. A petition having been filed in ao- cordance with section 2603, General School Law, 1924, notice is herrfiy given that an election will be hell ■» Long Branch school district No. 8y mu Saturday, June 23, 1928, for the pwr- pose of determining whether or not a special school tax of three (3) ad ditional mills shall be levied in the above named school district. The said election shall be condortaR as is provide^ by law for the holding: of general elections. The polls win be opened at the school house and the following trustees are hereby ap- poir.tejd managers o*f election: E. GL Birt, Luther Black and CalHe D. Krrt_ Those favoring the proposed ferjr shall cast a ballot with the wunf “Yes” written or printed thenefon; and those opposing the proposed levy shall cast a ballot with the word *No**' written or printed thereon. HORACE J. CROUCH, Sec. Co. Board of Edmalioa. Barnwell, S. C., June 11, 1928. 6-14-2tc. SHERIFF'S SALE. Walter Hagen America’s pre mier golfer. ha$ returned to the United States with his British Open Championship Cup. which he has won for the third time State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. THE STATE vs. DICIE-DUNCAN. Under end by virtue of a Tax Exe cution to me directed by J. B. Arm strong, Treasurer of Barnwell Count/L I have this day levied upon and wifi sell to the highest biddef for cash, be tween the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House at Barnwell, SL CL. on Monday, the 2nd day of Joijv 1928, this being Salesday in said month, the following described real estate: ^ One lot and one building, and boanrf— ed as follows: North by A. C. L. Rail road. East by Rosa Rice, South by lands of J. H. Lancaster, West by WL~. Ryan. Levied upon and sold to satisfy the nbo/v* Execution snd Costs. BONCIL H. DYCHES, Sheriff, B. C, Barn well, S. C., 26th day of May. , Notice of Discharge. Legal Ad/ertisements In compliance with an order of Judge R. C. Watts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, notice is hereby given that a special term of the Court of Common Pleas will be held at Barnwell Court House, Barnwell, S. C. commencing at 10 o’clock a. m., July 16th, 1928, and continuing for a period of two weeks as provided in said or der on file with the Clerk of Court o:’ Barnwell County. R. L. BRONSON, Clerk of Court, Common Pleas aiyl General Sessions for Bam well County, S. C. Notice is herby given that I inH file my final return as AdminiVtratw of the estate of Fairy Bell WiUuMim witjj the Hon. John K. Snelfiog’, Judge of Probate for Barnwell ty. State of South Carolina, upon urday, June 30th, at 10:06 o’clock m the forenoon, and petition the smd Court for an Order of Dischaige sad Letters Dismissory. DAVID WILLIAMS, Admr. Est. Fairy Bell Wiliams 6-7-4t. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF . CITATION NOTICE. / pasture part of the time. Not only clean, wholesome milk, btit also personal attention are boosting his business. When he delivers milk he has found babies, from time tc time, wrhich were not getting milk o. £he right butterfat content and wen suffering the results. He took it upor himself to provide these families with milk balanced to^uit the babies’ need. 1 according to physicians directions and brought' many of them “qpt of tht. kinks,” all as a matter of service without additional cost. Naturally his customers grew In numbers. Yes he buys concentrate feeds but can better rfford that than to live farther from l town and have enough land to growf them, in his opinirn Good cows, improving land, efficient farming, hard \ork, good tnilk per sonal service anu^a love of nis labors tells the story of KsF Schwensen. > 4 c* s.S' State of South Carolina, County ',f Rarnwel. In ihe Court of Common B. F. Owcn<, Plain tiT, v«. Virginia Thompson, Miller Thompaoa,. Henry Thompson, Mickey Thomp son, Doctor Thompson, Archie Thompson, Victoria Mitchell, Roms Glover and Ira May Dunbar, Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVK NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED C. Sextbn/Letters of Administration j and required to answer the complaint: jf the E^ate of and effects of W T m. V. in this action, and to serve a copy your answer to said Complaint on the' subscribers at their office in Bana- well, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail tcv answer the complaint within the tune* aforesaid, the plaintiff m this action will apply to the Court for the re lief demanded in the Complaint:. Herman I. Mazursky, Plaintiff’s Attorney- ~ Dated: 2nd day of June, A. D., 1928- The State of South Carol ?na, IT / . County of Barnwell B} John K. SnelHng. Esa.. Probate Judge. ""WHEREAS, Mrs. NelHe S. Cave and Mrs. Lenna C, Buist made suit to me to grant H. 0 Buist and Mrs. Floride n /Lei Ei lave; THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular kindred and creditors "of the said .. .m, L. Cave, deceased, that they /!. n „. W .‘l e / t ., rUnnlng C0WS ° E /be ard appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Barnwell, S. C., on Wednesday, June 27th, next, after publication thereof, at 11 o’ clock iff the forenoon, to show cause,* if any they have, why the said Admin* istration should not be granted. Given under my Hand this 12th day of June, A. D., 1928. John K. Snelling, Judge of Probate, B. C. Published on the 14th day of June, 1928, in The Barnwell People-Sentinel. Notice to Debtors and Creditors Notice is hereby given to all per sons holding claims against the estate of M. M. Holly, to file them with the undersigned Executor or his attorney, j V. S. Owens, on or before the Seventh 6-7-3tc. • NOTICE ! TO, THE ABSENT DEFENDANTS MILLER THOMPSON, MICKEY THOMPSON, ARCHIE THOMP SON AND ROSA GLOVER: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the complaint in fkr» above entitled action was on the 4tjf» jday of June, 1928, filed in the office: of the Clerk of the Court for Bara* well County, South Carolina. Herman I. Maxursky,.