The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, April 18, 1929, Image 3
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THURSDAY, APRIL IMA. IMt.
BARNWBLL. SOUTH CAROLINA
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Of Interest to Farmers
A Word of Explanation.
In beginning publication of this
special department in The People-Sen-
tiel, the editor wishes it understood
at the outset that he is in no way at
tempting to tell the farmers how to
manage their affairs. It is hoped,
however, ^that the articles that will
appear from week to week will be of
timely interest and may help in the
solution of some of the difficulties
that beset the agricultural interests
in this section. These articles will be
gathered from various sources and
any items of interest to our farmer-
readers will be welcomed. If you,
dear reader, know of successful farm
ers in your community, write us a
short story about them. ‘ Their ex
periences may be of help to others.
Your name will not be used for pub-
uication if you object.—The Editor.
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OFFERED
FOR REST STALKS OF COTTON
MONEY CAN STILL BE
BORROWED THIS WEEK
> FROM THE GOVERNMENT
The County Agent’s office has just
been advised that the allotment for
Barnwell County from the govern
ment farm relief fund has not been
taken up. Those desiring to make ap
plication to the government for loans
should do so not later than the 20th
of April. No applications will be re
ceived after that date. Farmers
needing money for the growing of
crops should take advantage of the
opportunity to secure this money, as
the money borrowed bears interest at
5 per cent per annum only; therefore,
all farmers are urged to make their
applications this week if they^ are in
tending to do so.
Many inquiries are being made as
to the proper spray for fruit trees at
this tim? of the year. The following
formula should be used: Arsenate of
Lead one pound. Hydrated Lime five
pounds. Dry-Mised 12 pounds, 50 gal
lons of water. Repeat the application
in two weeks.
Irish Potato bugs are easily eon-
trolled by dusting the plants early in
the morning with Calcium Ai senate.
—Farmer« wtH do well to we*
those fields of oats which were plant
ed with seed that were rot treated
against smut as well as those that
were treated. Untreated seed oats
show as much as 15 per cent to 20
per cent damage in some rases.—Pre
pared by II. G. Roylston. County Agt.
Somewhere In ihe South this year a
single stalk of cotton will be grown
that will be worth $1,000. Two oth
ers will Tiring prizes of $500 each, and
several thousand dollars will be di
vided among 57 other stalks, prizes
ranging from $300 down to $10, at
three sectional fairs—Memphis, At
lanta, and Dallas.
These prizes are being offered by
the National One-Stalk Cotton Show,
which will be staged again this year
by the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural
Foundation and the Southern Division,
Soli Improvement Committee, The Na
tional Fertilizer Association. The
show will be held in three sections as
follows:
Tri-?tate Fair, Memphis, Tenn.,
Sept. 28 to Oct. 5.
Southeastern Fair, Atlanta, Ga.,
Oct. 5 to 12.
State Fair of Texas, Dallas, Oct. 12
to 27.
Stalks winning first prize at each of
the three fairs will be judged at the
State Fair of Dallas, ancf the winner
awarded $1,000, which will Include the
sectional prize.
This show Is to be held again this
year to stimulatcTTnTPirest in economi
cal production of better cotton from
which the farmer gets bigger profits,
according to those In charge of ar
rangements.
Any farmer, whether landlord or
tenant, white or colored, or any one
member of his family will be allowed
to enter a single stalk for competition.
Only one stalk may be shown from
each farm unit Premiums for single
stalks will be given as shonn In the
table at the top of the next column.
RuIm of Contest
The stalks exhibited must be grown
In 1029.
Stalks must come from a field where
at least one acre of cotton was grown
In 1929. However, any spacing, fer
tilization. protection, or cultural prac
tice may be used.
Stalks shown must contain the cot
ton that grew on the atalk. Picking
and refilling will not be |»eemitted.
Branches must not be cut from
sftritrt exhibited. All leaves must be
removed.
PREMIUMS FOR (
BEST SINGLE \
COTTON STALKS
For the Best Stalk In the South
(Including sectional prize)....$1,000
Premiums at the three sectional fairs!’
Atlanta
Memphis
Dallas
1st
$500
$600
$500
2nd
300
300
300
3rd
200
200
200
4th
100
100
100
5th
50
60
50
6th
25
25
25
7th
25
25
25
8th
25
25
25
9th
25
25
25
10th
25
25
25
11th
10
10
10
12th
10
10
10
13th
10
10
10
14th
10
10
10
15th
10
10
10
16th
10
10
10
17th
10
10
10
18th
10
10
10
19th
10
10
10
20th
10
10
10
The
name of the variety
must be
shown
on the stalk.
Score cards to
be used In Judging
the stalks will be prepared by compe-
tent i
r.gr! cultural
leaders.
including
agricultural college experiment station
workers. Actual Judging will be dons
by competent authorities from each
section.
Exhibitors need not necessarily ac
company exhibits, but may ship same,
charges prepaid, to the National One-
Stalk Cotton Show. In care of the
I fair In their district. Entrants living
In Virginia, North Carolina. South
Carolina. Georgia, Alabama and Flori
da should enroll by sending their
names and addresses to The National
Cotton Show. Atlanta. Georgia. Those
In Oklshoms and Texas to The Na
tional Cotton Show, Dallas. Texas,
and those In Tennessee, Mississippi,
Arkansas, UHiisiana. Missouri, snd
I Kentucky to The - National Cottos
I Show, Memphis. Tenn.
Farm Relief and Living CoM
To the average citizen the ogre of
the high cost of living looms in the
romirg farm relief bill. Already w
read in b : g hcadl.ne* pf the Chicago
Tribune that “farm relief prospects
aid p>t<*v of wheat, corn market to
string, oats advance sharply.”
The latest figures of the United
States department of agriculture
show that orly 27,511,000 people now
reside 'mi the farms and that means
about three-fourths of the nation’s
population is anxiously watching the
sky-rocket outlook for farm pioducts
r—which means food and clothing.
The farm population has dwindled
from 32,000,000 in 1920 down to the
figures recited above, but strange to
relate agricultural production totals
continue to mount. There is but one
answer to the inquiry as to how it
comes about. That is farmers are
applying intelligent methods to their
operations and using machinery.
In this section the former is largely
true, but the machinery utilization has
just started. Strange enough the
prospect of farm relief is not having
any noticeable effect on cotton—the
South’s major product and that which
keeps the international trade balance
on the right side of the ledger for
this country. Tobacco, now third
in exporL, is also a Southern product.
Regarding this bugaboo about the
high cost of living coming from any
prospective advance in farm products
the public* can disabuse their minds.
The relief the public needs is in
transportation and distribution costs,
especially short haul matters. It
costs more to get food to the con-
isumers after it reaches the depots in
New York than it does,to bring it
from the bread basket—the meat cen
ters—of the West.
Farm relief may bring farmers
some aid, but assistance for the public
must come from another direction.
The negligible increase in farm pro
ducts prices will not materially affect
living costa.—Augusta Chronicle.
FOR QUICK SALE:—Cantaloupe
crates in carload lots, f. o. b. Fayette
ville, N. C. Submit your prices to
R. L. Burns, Sanford, N. C. 4-18-4tp
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Tate of Stoneville, Miss., Winners of Sweepstakes Prize
in National Cotton Show, 1928.
CKOF ACRE AGE,” B A KRTNG
COTTON 1.9 PCT. GREATER
Washington.—An increase in acre
age of crops other thar, cotton of 1,£
per cent over plantings in 1928 w T as
estimated for 1929 by the Depart
ment of Agriculture after returns
from nearly 50,000 farmers. _ The
acreage of winter wheat and rye
which on March 1 gave promise of
surviving to harvest w r as slightly lar
ger, inaieating that the average
abandonment of these crops would be
somewhat less than a year ago.
Evidenjes were given in the returns
that farmerij planned to reduce the
corn aerclag? thnuughout' (he com
belt except South Dakota and Nebras
ka, and also in Alabama, Colorado,
Mississippi, Texas and Wisconsin. In
other important com producing States
the acreage is expected to be increas
ed. The farmers indicated in some
States intention to reduce the cut
ting of tame hay and also to decrease
oats acreage.
“Thirteen bales.”
“Mr. Simpson, how much land did
you plant in cotton to make the 13
bales?"
“Twelve acres."
“Wasn’t that an unusual yield, Mr.
Simpson?"
“Well, no. In 1927 I made 18 bales
on 13 acres. You see 1928 was not a
good cotton year.”
“What did you get for your cotton
this year?"
“It’s out there in the shed, I have
not needed to sell it yet."
“How do you account for such good
yields on land which was once called
poor, Mr. Simpson?"
• “Lespedeza."
“Did you make anything else on
your farm last year, Mr. Simpson?”
“Well, yes, I have it all down here
in the book. Here it is, you can see
for yourself. My figures show that
we sold last year and received in cash
the following: <
“Chickens and eggs, $2,870.14.
“Cows, $327.50.
“Pork, $42.50.
“Butter, $50.00”
“To make all that produce you
must have hired many hands, Mr.
Simpson?”
“I did hire some hoeing done, but
I worked out for my neighbors my
self witft my tractor and earned more
than I paid for my additional help.
My wife and I made it all. Of course
we made a great deal of feed, forage
and other things, including com, that
,1 have mentioned and which we did
not sell directly. Come to the house
and we will talk more about it."
And Mr. Simpson will then take
you into a thirteen room bungalow
with modern conveniences. Every
penny he has made out of the soil of
a farm that wa* so poor a few years
ago the people said he would starve
on it. They said he could not stick a
plow in the land then, but now it ia
mellow and he loves to plow it. If
you don’t believe all this just hop in
your flivver, go by Monroe and pick
up Tom Broom and he will carry you
to see Mi. Simpson and get you there
in twentv minutes.
market for corn, and will laugh,
hereafter, at the man who tells him
‘there i* no local market for corn, to
why raise Itf"
In Mr. Wells’ column will also be
found the story of Billy Reed, a
tenant farmer, who found that he had
four pigs more than he needed for
family uce. So he inquired of the
farm agent as to feeding methods,
and as a result of following same he
sold these four pigs for $92.39. In 35
days Biliy fed, according to orders,
and he put 209 pounds of extra
weight on the nigs, or a gain of one
and one-half pound per pig each day.
We need more tenant farmers like
Billy Retd, who, like Mr. Mace, has
some cash in April—and there are few
others who can make like claim.
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Kudzu.
In on? acre there are 43,560 square
feet, according to Webster’* diction-
ary.
On a plat 30x60—1,800 square feet
—I grew the pant season over 2,000
Kudzu plant*. Forty thousand plants
could have readily been produced on
one acre.
One d(.y this week I received an or
der for -iO.OOO plants at $7.50 a thous
and from n farmer in Tonne* see.
The* m.ly reason that I did not pick
up 300 j^rfectly good dollars, grown
on an u.*ie, is that I didn’t have the
plants *o sell.
Not only does the Tennessee farm
er want Kudztf plants but dolens of
other orders have come by mail dur
ing the {art few weeks from Georgia,
Oklahoria, Texas, ard other States.
A* ruiny persons know, 1 have for
the past several years been greatly in
terested in Kudzu, which is a peren
nial, ar.d closely related to the velvet
bean. Ii produce*; on almost any well-
drained soil an enormous quantity of
fire cattle feed.
By tuo of a pound of Kudzu seed it
is possible for a farmer to produce
thousands of plants, the demand for
which throughout the Southern States
has just begun.
I have a few seed that I can spare
after seeding the 50 acres I propose
to stare this spring.
Any one desiring a pamphlet I have
published on the growth of Kudzu, I
will be glad to supply them either by
calling at The Enquirer office or by
postal card.—Monroe. N. C.,
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FRESH STOCK OF
Seeds of All Kinds!
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Watson, Excel and Dixie Bell
Watermelon Seed.
Kirby Stay Green and Henderson
White Spine Cucumber Seed.
Gets $1,000 for 39 Young Hogs.
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mtore manufacturing plants, but
the most, satisfactory manufacturing
for this section is the manufacture of
raw farm products into milk, but
ter, chickens, eggs, etc., and it is pos
sible to have one of these little manu
facturing plants on every farm, says
the Ma»shville (N. C.) Home. When
this is done there will not be so many
people in need of employment in
manufacturings plants in the towns
and cities. As an example of what
a manufacturing plant of this kind
can accomplish, we quote from The
Old Hickory Weekly as follows:
Z. K. Simpson is a farmer of
Marshviile township not yet forty
years of age. His oldest -child is
about thirteen. What he has done he
and his wife have done. They set
tled on poor land which the neighbors
laughed at him for buying, especially
sir.ee he had to buy it on credit. Drive
up to Mr. Simpson’s bouse today and
ask him how much cotton he made
last/year, so —
“Mr. Simpson, how much cotton did
you make ia 1928?"
Marion.—In County Agent W. R.
Wells’ column this week appears some
interesting statements, chief of which
is the srory of Phil T. Mace, of the
Tabernacle section of the county ,
who has succeeded wonderfully well
with pig.*, as a side line to agricul
ture.
Last September Mr. Mace sold 19
pigs for $486.00,. Last week he sold
39 fall pigs for a total of $1,000.55,
bringing his 6 months total for pigs
to the tidy sum of almost $1,500.00.
Mr. Weirs is authority for the state
ment that the cost of feeding these
pigs was less than $600.00. In the
meantime Mr. Mace hag $1,500 with
which to purchase fertilizers or other
things desired or needed, and he re
quires lacs bank aid than the money-
crop farmer, who places all of his
faith and all of his acres in a cotton
and tobacco gamble.
In the cost of feed used by Mr.
Mace it will be found that he sold
corn, raised on his farm, to himself, as
a feeder, and that the market price
thereby obtained was very high, com
pared to the price he could have ob
tained oa the open market. Tliere-
fore, Mr. Mace has found a splendid
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