The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, May 16, 1929, Image 3
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Of Interest to Farmers
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EDGEFIELD FARMER
FOR VELVET BEANS
Otto W RoUtimi on Laa4o of L. F.
Holme* AttrmcttiiK Attention.
Government Expects
to Collect All Loans
Borrowers Wanted to Use Money Ad
vanced by Uncle Sam for Pur
poses of Making Crop Only.
Last Year Cotton Winner
Didn’t Plant Til May 14
County Agents and Chairmemi of
County Committees:
It recently has been brought to our
attention that there are instances of
where some farmers who have made
application for seed, feed and fertili
zer loans, and after having their ap
plications aproved by this office, have
used a part of the money advanced to
them for expendritures for purposes
other (than that for which they were
authorized by law. All money ad
vanced to them by the U. S. Govern
ment must be used for the purpose of
crop production, and they are only
permitted to use the funds so loaned
for the purchase of seed and fertili
zer, and feed for work stock.
It has been reported that in some,
section? of the seed loan area that
the United States Government does
rot seriously contemplate the collec
tion of these loans this fall. Such re
ports should be corrected at once,
since this office is already making
elaborate plans for collection of these
loans.
Loans made by the U. S. Govern
ment from this fund are secured by a
first crop mortgage on the 1929 crop,
and it will be unlawful for any mort
gagor to sell any pait of this crop
without first satisfying the claim of
the U. S. Goverrment; and we will ex
pect payments of these loans to be
made from the first proceeds of crops
sold. Any violation of the foregoing
will be severely prosecuted.
Yours very truly,
Farmers’ Seed Loan Office.
Many farmers are feeling apprehen
sive about the prospects for cotton on
account of having (to plant the crop
over between May 3rd and May 15th,
which is two to three weeks later than
the normal date of planting.
According to J. Rhett Clark, county
agent for Richland County, the win
ner of fhe first prize in the Central
district of the State in the five-acre
cotton contest in 1928, did not plant
his prize jSlot of cotton until May 14.
R. Stoudemayer, of Peak, was the
winner of first prize in the Centfal
district in 1928.
Mr. Stoudemayer’s cotton came to
a good stand a few days after plant
ing and he worked the crop fast and
fertilized it well and this cotton
yielded more than earlier planted
cotton. This cotton was poisoned
with the 1-1-1 molasses mixture
sweetened poison ahead of squaring
to kill the old weevils and was dusted
three times with calcium arsenate
dust during the fruiting period. This
field was fertilized with three tons of
compost per acre. There was applied
in the drill before planting 600 pounds
of 16 per cent acid phosphate, 50
pounds muriate of potash and 75
pounds of Chilean nitrate of soda.
This cotton was side-dressed with 125
pounds of nitrate of soda per acre at
the first working after chopping. The
five acres produced 5,557 pounds of
lint cotton, or an average of 1,112
pounds of lint cotton per acre.
Mr. Stoudemayer says that he thinks
that fast and shallow cultivation,
careful weevil control measures and
side-dressing with quick-acting nitro
gen to hasten growth and maturity
are important on late planted cotton.
MONEY IN FEEDING HOGS.
Considerable interest has recently
been shown regarding the cost of pro
ducing hogs up to market weight,
says J. R. Hawkins, Live Stock
Specialist. The record of weight and
feed consumed by ten pigs fed out
from birth to the time they were sold
by W. D. Herring, Route No. 1,
Marion, S. C., deals directly with this
problem and is of more interest bo-
cause of its newness, having been
completed within the past month.
These ten pigs from birth to the age
of 180 days, at which time they were
sold, together with the sow for a
period of ten we<ks, consumed 85.6
bushels of com, 500 pounds of fish
meal and 500 pounds of wheat shorts
in addition to pasture obtained from
range to begin feeding at the proper
time.—Prepared by H. G. Boylston,
County Agent.
No Further Applications Received.
County Agents and Chairmen of Coun
ity Committees:
Please advise the members of your
committee to take no further appli
cations for seed, feed and fertilizer
loans.
We have practically exhausted the
$6,000,000 appropriation' which was
available for loan purposes You may
forward to Ua applications you now
have on hand that have already been
approved by your committee, and we
will take care of these ir.< so far as
our funds wn]l permit.
Nitrogen Needed
By Cotton Plant
In Early Growth
Cotton growing has undergone many
changes In the last ten years, but none
has been more marked than the meth
od of fertilizing. Results throughout
the Cotton Belt show conclusively
that the cotton plant must have an
abundant zupply of nitrogen at the'
time It la attaining Its most rapid rate
of growth. The cotton plant at this
time is nqt unlike a growing child,
whose hunger U only occasionally sat
isfied and then for short Intervals
Recognition of this need of the
plant is doubtless responsible for the
remarkable Increase in side-dressing
during the last ten years. The prac
tise teems to be confined to DO one
locality and in tact Is growing rapidly
from North Carolina to Texas. Of the
131 farmers who completed the Geor
gia Five Acre Cotton Conteat last
year, 64 used a side-dressing of some
kind on their cotton and nitrate of
soda was the choice of 40 of these.
In the 1926 Georgia Contest, the 6
farmers making the largest yields
need a side-dressing of nitrate of soda.
Texas farmers, generally speaking,
are not as familiar with fertilizers as
are the cotton growers of the South
east. It Is often argued that climatic
conditions of Texas are unfavorable
for side-dressings. Yet In the “More
Cotton on Fewer Acres” Contest held
there last season the winners of the
first four prizes used side-dressing ap
plications of nitrate of soda ranging
from 100 to 300 pounds per acre.
Thirteen of the 31 leading contestants
used nitrate of soda applications.
E. C. Westbrook, cotton and tobacco
specialist of the Georgia State College
of Agriculture, says, "Yield per acre
usually determines ths amount of
profit. Abundance of quickly avail
able nitrogen is an important factor
In securing large economic yields of
cotton. Liberal aide-dressings of ni
trate of soda will not only increase
yields of cotton, but will stimulate
growth and promote early fruiting and
thereby give a better opportunity to
get ahead of the boll weevil.”
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How to Handle Cotton Planted Over
At this time I wa-h to express to
a small field of green rye. This gives | you and the other members of your
a feet! requirement of 4.2 bushels corn, committee the appreciation of the
28 pounds wheat shorts and 28 pounds office for the wonderful co-operation
Most all cotton was planted over in
Harnwell County. It is necessary to
lasten the growth of it as much as
possible. As soon as it is up to a
itand, plow it. Immediately chop it
>ne hoe chop apart leaving 2 to 4
slants to the hill.
Then make application of nitrate of
(oda or other mimral nitrate and
jlow cotton again. Do hot wait to
lide dress it until later. Do it when
is chopped out. Plow it often.
Leave a full stand.
Next week another statement will
« given by the County Agent on what
o do to help make a crop of cotton
his year.—By H. G. Boylston, County
Igent.
TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER
FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS.
fish meal for esch 100 pounds gain.
At the retail market prices which Mr.
Herrirg paid for this feed, $4.19 per
hundred for fish meal, $2.42 per hun
dred for wheat short* and $1.00 a
bushel for corn, the feed cost was
$6.45 for each 100 pounds gain in
weight on the hogs.
These hogs sold for the top prices
on the 'Richmond market or $11.75
per hundred, giving a net return of
$198.50 for the ten {>igs at ISO days
of age. The facts contained above
together with aimilar records give a
black eye to the old opinion so often
expressed that the cost of gains come
exceedingly high while the pig is
young. A great deal of data pccumu-
lated from Experiment Station rec
ords and feeding demonstrations on
farms show that the cheapest gains
are produced on young pigs. A bushel
of corn fed to growing shoats will
produce more pork than the same
feed given to larger hogs. We are
also warranted in making the deduc
tion that even in years like this with
a short corn crop and high priced
feed, it still pays to feed the sow and
litter of pigs with a plentiful supply
of good feed.
It is interesting to note that these
ten pigs weighed a total of 1840 lbs.
before being loaded on the cprs at
Marion and when sold in Richmond
they weighed 1800 pounds. This
shows a shrink of 2.2 per cent.
Freight, stock yard and commission
charges amounted to $13.00, or a cost
of 72c per hundred. In* the same car
we have records on three other lots
of hogs containing 32 head which
were weighed before being loaded.
These 32 hogs weighed 5^922 pounds
at home antfT,790 over the ?cales in
Richmond, thus showing a shrir.k of
132 pounds of 2.2 per cent. These
figures are directly in line with a
considerable number of results secur
ed in the same manner, all of which
go to show that hogs properly -fed
out on a good greenpasture where
proper feeds, such as corn and fish
meal are used, the shrink between
home and market weights is not ex
cessive, generally ranging from 2 to
3 per cent. In contrast to this method
hogs fed on corn alone in a small
floored pen frequently becomes sore
and lame and lose considerable weight
in shipping. Proper methods in this
as in other things pay good dividends.
The above shows conclusively that
hogs can be produced profitably.
Farmers of Barnwell County are not
feeding their hogs profitably. Cotta
should be supplemented with fish
meal or tankage and shorts. This
balanced ration along with green
grazing will give profitable gains.
Arrangement* are now being made to
assirt fanners in this county to feed
out at least one car of hogs for the
September market. Those who are
interested let the County Agent know
ml once, to that he can help you ar-
that you have given us on the matter
of handling those applications for
loans from your county, and I as
sure you that it has been a pleasure
for this office to serve your commit
tee. *
Yours very truly,
Farmers’ Seed Loan Office.
Barnwell Cashes In.
South Carolina’s first cash divi
dend from the iodine-content move
ment is reported in a dispatch from
Barnwell, sying that producers there
got a premium of 75 cents a crate
upon off-standard asparagus, labeled
"South Carolina’s Naturally Iodized
Product,” when sold in a Northern
market.
The particular lot of asparagus did
rot rate the growers* association
brand, whi.h is jealously restricted
and the shippers merely put on the
informal iodine label as a catch-as-
catch-can potential make-weight with
terminal purchasers. Returns from
the consignment demonstrated that
the lure was promptly taken. Novelty
doubtless played its part in the deal,
but the transaction ii* nevertheless
hopefully indicative of possibilities
when foodstuffs from South Carolna
shall be systematically available in
goiter-belt centers under the State’s
copyrighted brand.—The State.
In 1928, L. F. Holmes bought the
Wise old place of 350 acres for ap
proximately $14 per acre. In 1927,
100 acres of this deep sand produced
only seven bales of cotton, which puts
it in the class of “dog poor” land.
On part of the farm, he sowed 1H
bushels of Brabham pea* per acre and
on part one bushel of Early Speckled
tveftvet (beans broadcaify. Thebe (he
turned under last fall with a three-
horse disk turn plow and followed by
oats. It will pay you to ride 100
miles to see this grain and to observe
the difference in grain grown after
peas and that after velvet beans. Mr.
Holmes says that at least 25 farmers
have already been to see this demon
stration and that he knows of at
least 300 acres of velvet beans that
will be sown as a result.
Mr. Holmes’ system for such land is
a two-year rotation of grain followed
by velvet beans, to be turned and fol
lowed by cotton and then back to
grain and velvet beans again.
To prevent the light sand from
blowing, whipping and covering his
young cotton, he precedes it by a rye
cover crop and he leaves a small balk
to grow in each middle as a wind
break. This works to perfection and
his soil is benefited besides by the ad
dition of organic matter and by the
conservation of fertility during the
winter.
His system of financing his tenants
is two good cows grazing on velvet
beans during the winter. He says
that one of his tenants the past win
ter sold $5.40 worth of sour cream
from one cow to the cream collecting
station each week and fed his cow
nothing. She ran on the velvet bean
field. He gathered 10 bushels of vel
vet bean seed last fall for seed to sow
this summer, and the balance were
grazed and turned for soil building.
The tenant produced his own meat on
the same kind of winter grazing.
Mr. Holmes ha* some of as fine
wheat on sand after velvet beans
turned as I have ever seen this side
of the black lands of Texas.
Some people within walking dis- ]
tance of these demonstrations will re
fuse to go to see them, because? Well,
I don’t know why, nor does any one
else.
God will "destroy them which de
stroy the earth.”
W. H. BARTON,
Edgefield. • County Agent.
SINGLE WHEEL HOES FOR
THE CHAMPION GARDENERS
It costs very little
to recondition a
MODEL T FORD
THE Ford Motor Company is making a new car,
bnt it is still proud of the Model T. It wants every
owner of one of these cars to run it as long aa
possible at a minimum of trouble and expense*
Because of this policy and because of the
investment that millions of motorists have in
Model T cars, the Ford Motor Company will eon*
tinne to supply parts as long as they are needed
by Ford owners.
So that yon may get the greatest use from your
Model T, wc suggest that you take it to the near
est Ford dealer and have him estimate on the cost
of any replacement parts that may be necessary.
Yon will find this the economical thing to do
because a small expenditure now will .help to
prevent costlier repairs later on, increase the
value of the ear, and giv& yon thonsands of miles
of additional service.
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For a labor charge of only $2.60 yon have
your generator put in first-class condition. A new
universal joint will be installed for a labor cost
of $3. Overha tiling the carburetor costs SI .50$
steering gear, $3.50; radiator, $7.50. A complete
overhauling of the rear axle assembly runs hc^
tween $5.75 and $7 for labor. An average price
of $22.50 covers the overhauling of the motor
and transmission.
These prices are for labor only because the
Meed and namber of new parts depend on the
condition of each ear. The cost of these parts la
low, however, because of the Ford policy of nuun*
factoring and selling at a small margin of profit*
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Pie Making as Home
Industry Is Passing
"The mincing of meat in pies sav-
eth the grinding of the teeth,” wrote
Bacon. ‘‘The devil speed him. No
man’s pie Is freed from his ambitious
finger,” says Shakespeare In Henry
TOL As far back as the Fifteenth
century the pie was used ns a theme
for comedies. “The Pie and the Tart,”
in France, and in later years "The Pie
Dish” and the "Pie in the Oven,” in
England.
"The pie,” wrote Harriet Beecher
Stowe in "Oldtown,” "is an English in
stitution which, planted on American
soil, forthwith ran rampant and broke
forth into an incredible variety of
genera and’ species.”
The pie, as a breakfast dish, is dis
appearing from American tables, but
remains in popular favor for luncheon
and dinner. But the bakers of today
are performing such feats with pastry
and fruit that the home-made pie of
traditional depth and circumference,
covered, open-face or with lattice-work
trimmings, is threatened with extinc
tion. Should it be banished, to be
succeeded by the less difficult tart or
Jelly-roll, there will be lost forever
a means by which the cook may ex
press her artistry In tracing patterns
with a fork on crust Pie-making and
quilting were two arts of the pioneer
American woman.
ADVERTISE IN
The People* Sentinel.
The ol’ gwimm’n’ hole will not lure
the Willies and Johnnies of a thous
and and more farm communities this
Spring quite as much aa ft did of
yore.
At least, such is the prediction of
the National Committee on Boys’ and
Girls’ Club work in Chicago in an
nouncing the nation-wide garden con
test among 4-H clubs in all counties
of the United States with at least 25
members. The rational organization
boasts a^' enrollment of more than
665,000.
And so Willie and Johnnie, if they
want to be winning gardeners, will
have to buckle down to mighty hard
work. Competition, they know, will be
keen; everywhere in the country other
ambitions contestants will be dig
ging, hoeing, and raking just as eager
ly as they. There’ll be no slipping off
for a secret swim in Farmer Jones’
creek as long as a single weed is to
be found!
The champion gardnener in every
eligible American county will be pre
sented with a single wheel hoe of new
design by S. L. Allen and Co., Inc., of
Philadelphia, whose interest in foster
ing scientific gardening has made the
4-H contest possible. County cham
pions will then compete for the State
prize, a valuable feeder and wheel hoe.
The great incentive 1 to forego
Springtime pleasures for diligent in
dustry, however, will be the final
prizes of $300.00 and $200.00 awarded
for national and reserve champions
respectively, and to be used as schol
arships by the winners in institutions
of higher learning.
County extension agents, repres
enting the United States Department
of Agriculture, will supervise the gar
den contests in their districts and de
termine champions. Girls as well as
boys are eligible to compete, 4-H of
ficials state.
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