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A GOOD COTTON CROP CAN BE MADE, SAYS BOYLSTON With about 75 per cent of the cot ton crop planted over and the balance replanted, many farmers are not very much encouraged about making a crop this year. There is still an op portunity to make a good crop, says H. G. Boylston, county agent. Last year Newman Connor who lives near Barnwell entered the cotton contest. His rows were 34 inches apart. The seed were planted too deep. The second planting did not come to a good stand and replanting was mec- essary. It was about the middle of May before he had a stand 1 . In spite of the lateness of his crop and the unusually bad ra"ny season with heavy boll weevil infestation, Mr.! Connor gathered a little over one bale per acre. If the following important meas ures are carried out the farmers have an even chance to make a crop with medium good seasons: _ 1st. Chop cotton one hoe width apart, leaving 2 to 4 stalks to each hill. 2nd. Apply Nitrate of Soda, Sul phate of Ammonia or other quickly available ammonia immediately fol lowing chopping and plow cotton. 3rd. Continue to cultivate as fast as possible. 4th. When first squares are the size of a pea start applying 1-1-1 mixture calcMixn areetoaA.a, molasses and water, making three applications five days agart. (Note.) Poisoning to start when squares are seen. Do not wait cctint the weevils per a c re.—Prepared by H. G. Boylston, County Agent. ♦ ♦ PIGS 1$ PIGS. YIELDS INCREASED BY SIDE-DRESSING COTTON INSURANCE FIRE WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS ' AUTOMOBILE * THEFT Calhoun and Co. P. A. PRICE. Manager. Wm. McNAB Bepra—ntlng FIRE, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. Personal attention given all hnrtnaef office in Harrison Block, Main Si. rarnwpll. a. c 6 6 6 is a Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It is the most speedy remedy known. 5-2-22t. SPECIAL! “Mikado” Pencils: 6 for 25c. Per doz. 45c The People-Sentinel Barnwell, S. C. •x~x~x~x~:~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~> Terrell County used to be one of the big cotton-growing counties of Southwest Georgia. Plenty of cotton is still grown but Terrell County farmers grow something else along with it. Between- January 1st and March 15th of this year, they shipped fifty-one caaloads of fat hogs, worth $68,303.58. On a single recent sales day seven carloads of hogs were sold, bringing the farmers $9,848.05. Two carloads of poultry were sold the same day. A. R. Carter, of Florence County, South Carolina, says he has never bought but one piece of meat in his life and has never bought a pound of corn, hay or fodder. It isn’t a case of doing without, either. His eight-horse farm is operated on a self-sustaining basis. Not only does he fatten enough meat on home-grown feed for hi s family, but he also furnishes his five tenant families. Five'years ago Doyle Helms, a 4-H Clyb. member, of Clark County, Ar kansas, started in the hog business with one Duroc gilt for which he paid $15. Keeping a careful record of all income from the sale of pigs and meat and deducting the value of all feed consumed, his figures show a net profit of $1,068.90 for the five years. And he had eight head of hogs to begin this year’s work. W. J. Thibodaux, of Lafourche par ish, Louisiana, raises all the pork needed on his faim and sells around $700 worth every year. The hogs are raised chiefly on scraps and waste about the place. They also have a> ctas to paiAure land that would other wise be unproductive as it'i's-not fit for cultivation of crops stlch as are grown in that action. For the past three years the farmers of Dale County, Alabsma, have been relling over $100,000 worth of hogs a year. This year it is ex pected that total aales will amount to something like IfbO.OOO. One hun dred ninety farmers recently re ceived $16467.82 for 1,060 head of hogs. An income of $840 from two Pole..d China brood sows in 12 months is the experience about which H. A. Miles, of McDuffie County, Georgia, will tell you if you aik him whether thete is any money in raising hogs. J. M. Edens of Sumter County, South Carolina, says that hogging down corn and soy beans was the most profitable project on his farm last year. This fall 10 of the beU acres of land on his farm will be hog ged down. F. P. Bradford, of the same county, says that hogging down hit 18 mores of corn last summer was tho most satisfactory and profitable thing he has ever done on his farm. The hogs- fteid him $1^82 net per bushel for the com. Fate Griffith, of Sequatchie County, Tennessee, has also found that hogs pay handsomely for the privilege of saving him the trouble of gathering, storing and marketing com and aoy beans. He turned 45 pigs, weighing 80 pounds each and costing him 12 cents per pound, into a field of 24 acres of com and beans. Whtn fat, the hogs sold for $1,039.22. His total cost, including $40 worth of dry com, was $472, leaving him $567.22 cash for the crop of com and beans. Some Bugs Do Best or Worst During Extremely Hot Weather. Chapin, May 20.—In projects con ducted by five Chapin farmers under the direction of W. B. Murphy, voca tional teacher of the Chapin school, they found that the application- of side-dressing to cotton resulted in increased! yields ranging from 230 pounds of -seed cotton per acre to 853 pounds. .. ''' The five farmers who conducted the projects are G. A. Bauknight, William Rister, E. V. Derrick, S. E. Shealy and G. A. Derrick. AH of them are mem bers of Mr. Murphy's evening class. In conducting the project each of these farmers used no side-dressing on one plot, while they used at the rate of 200 pounds of Chilean Nitrate of Soda on another plot. At the end of the season they compared the returns on the plots on which no soda was used with those on which soda was used as a side-dressing. G. A. Bauknight madte 600 pounds per acre on his plot where no soda was used as compared with 930 pounds on the plot on which soda was used. G. A. Derrick made at the rate of 577 pounds per acre on the plot on which no soda was used as against 1430 pounds per acre on his side- dressed plot, an increase of 855 pounds per acre. William Rister’s yield per acre on the plot where no soda was used was 750 pounds compared with 980 pounds on his ecre on which soda was used. E. B. Derrick made 1000 pounds on his acre on which no soda was used compared with 1300 pounds on his acre which was side-dressed with 200 pounds of soda. S. E. Shealy made 860 pounds per acre on his plot where no soda was used compared with 1510 pounds on hia side-dressed a<re. The total production on the five acres on which Chilean Nitrate of Soda was used was 2,363 pounds grater tha- on the five acres where none wag used, or an average increase of 472 pounds per acre. Allowing $5.20 for the 200 pounds of Nitrate of Soda and valuing the seed cotton at 7c per pound, the average return per acre was $27.88 greater on the side- dreeed plots than on tho plots where no side-dressing was used. . . _ Making His Farm Go. Midsummer heat has a decidedly cooling effect on one thing at least- enthusiasm on the part of the amateur gardener. Conversely, as the tem perature mounts, so does the ardor of the bugs which are interested iu flowers. Worst Garden Insects. “Some of the worst insect enemies of the garden are doing their utmost just at the time when the gardener wants to take a rest,** says Victor H. Ries, extension Horticulturist at Ohio State university. “As the season ad vances the real gardener must become more vigilant and active Instead of less so.” The blister beetle, the tar nished plant bug and the red spider are among the most vigorous enemies of plants during July and August The blister beetle, a black, hard- shelled Insect about half an inch long, eats uj the plants and escapes before the average poison can get In its work on him. The tarnished plant bug is particularlly active on asters. Both may be controlled by one of the sev eral newer spray materials which con tain pyrethrum as the active ingredient These sprays are not to be confused, Ries points out, with the old-fashioned pyrethrum powder. Another antidote for the two bugs mentioned is dusting with sodium fluosllicate. Nicotine oleate is also recommended. Both In sects mentioned are active and numer ous, and will require regularly repeat ed applications of spray. The red spider, a semi microscopic mite. Infests many evergreens as well as the common garden phlox. It may be Controlled by dusting with pow dered sulphur or spraying with miscible oil, which Is greatly diluted when used as s summer spray. The satisfaction of owners is proof of its reliability I Through the fine things said about it by its owners . • • through their complete satisfaction • • • their freedom from disorders . • • their enthusiastic recommendations to their friends. In this way the world Is coming to know the New Oakland All* American as a remarkably good and reliable automobUe. • • • Reliability itself c'annot be demonstrated. But the reasons for it can be. Come in • • • and we will show you why this car is so dependable. Prirm $1145 f $1575, /. •. b. ft Spring commrt mnd L&rmjoy Hi tut priem. Butnprrm mnd rvmrfi Timm Pmymmnt Ptmm M. B. Calhoun & Son Funeral Directors and Embalmers. Steel and Cement Vaults. Ambulance Service. Phone 25 Allendale and Barnwell While CcngTeai it in roaion for the purpose of helping the fermert we Me* to think of a few determined men of that occupatior who am not particularly conremed about farm aid bilUk * A few years ago a young man mar ried and rented a farm near Greer. He didn’t have anything but a lot of determination with plenty of common sense and a strong body. He couddnt buy a fifty pourd bag of flour on credit. But today he owns a good farm of moderate size, and has a modem dewlling on it with reasonable conveniences. The boll weevil ard the panic folowing the war did not ruin him; the dry years 1925 and 1926 did not keep him from living at home. There is no particular secret to hi« success. With three good cows, two hundred hens, and eight or ten hogs, the family table has been full three timep a day. And from the sjame three sources of revenue he bought a car ard maintains it. During a fair year he makes twenty-five bales of cotton and fivti hundred bushels of Com. The farm dc&s better than that during good crop years. This farmer does not know what Serator McNary’s bill provides for, but he has learned that steady work and diversification will make a farm go at a profit. —Greer Citizen. Alfalfa Seed Injured if Mixed With Sweet Clover There Is no way by which alfalfa seed may be separated from the sweet clover, os they are similar In size and shrpe. Only the experienced seeds man enn detect the prevalence of the sweet clover in any lot of alfalfa of fered. Sweet clover Is a wonderful crop, and It has a distinct place in the world, but Its place is not among the alfalfa either In the sack or in the meadow. If the alfalfa Is never Intended for anything but hay. a little eweet clover may not matter, but when the one having seed for sale. In cluding alfalfa. Is admittedly some what adulterated by natural process with sweet clover, see to It thst the price is plenty low enough. The chances are that he bought the supply at a bargain up where the growers and seedsmen are wrestling with this very problem. The sweet clover may not do any barm in the corn belt mea dow, but better it would be for a good stahd of alfalfa if all the seed town were alfalfa and not partly something else. _____________ Not Advisable to Bum Off Sweet Clover Land It Is not a good plan to bum off the land any kind of trash which will make humus in the soil. Even old sweet clover grass Is worth too much plow'ed under to be burned off. Of course. If there is enough fine trash in the field to afford a good harbor for chinch bugs there may be some justification for burning over a field. But sweet clover growth does not usu ally afford good enough protection for the chinch bugs to live over win ter. Burning over red top, timothy and blue grass does sometimes make it look as though it was helped, but this is likely to be only an appear ance, because one can see tbs new grass starting better than when the old growth is not burned off. Consider the delivered price as well as thejlst pries whoa comparing automobile values • • • Oakland-Pontiac delivered prices Include only reasonable charges for delivery and nnsndng. Youmans Motor Company Allendale, S. C. . OhtMw OAKLAND ALL-AMERICAN SIX raoDUCT or cbnbbal motobb Vacation Time! TRY THE COOL PLACES IN THE Southern Appalachian Mountains OF Western North Carolina Eastern Tennessee Making Money With Corn. X ^X-X"X"X~X~X~X~X"X-X~X~X"X~X~X~X"X~X~X~X~X"X-«X"X~X"> HALL & COLE, Inc. * i 94-102 FANEUIL HALL MARKET. BOSTON, MASS. .^ Commission Merchants and Distributors of ASPARAGUS One of the Oldest Commission Houses in the Trade. Send for Shipping Stamp. Greenville.—G. D. Butler, of Trav elers Rest, in Greenville County, made ! a net profit of $186.31 on five acres of | com* and soybeans in 1928. Though i the storm in August tangled up the J stelks very badly, his average yield was 42 bushels of ccm per acre. The cost of seed, labor and fertilizer was $14.36 per acre. Mr. Butler’s field illustrated the well proven fact that corn yields de pend largely upon the supply of m- trogen food, says R. Vf. Hamilton, acting assistant driectojr of the Ex tension Service in reporting Mr. But ler’s experience. All of the field was fertilized with two hundred pounds of ritr&te of soda per acre, except a small check plot, which made only 19 bushels per acre. Mr. Butler believes that the State average yield of 14.3 bushels per acre can be doubled by proper ferti lizing of the growing crop, and the •even to ten milKon dollars South Carolina speeds annually for western cSkn would be kept *t home. ,000000000000000000000000“ < Farm Notes i oooooooooooooooooooooooo 1 Meadow fescue is a perennial grass with habits of growth much like timothy. • • • Sudan hay Is low in protein, but has about the same feeding value as prairie hay. * • • There are only two safe bulls—the one confined iu a “safety first” bull pen, and the dead bull. Among the most desirable varieties of the red currants are the Fay or Fay Prolific, the Perfection and Pomona. * * • *-* A reason why the soy bean Is grow ing in popularity is because It is easy to seed, cultivate, harvest and thresh. * * * lacope is the name of a new variety of cabbage which is claimed to be highly resistant to the disease, cab bage yellows. • • • Farmers who use a large number of electrically-driven devices ou their farms report that they save the cost of many days of hired labor. Tree planting on idle land and woodlot thinning of aecond-growtb timber go band in hand. Both prac tices aid in the development of the greatest pooaibU income anl tioo from that part of the which they are applied and which is yielding little er no OR North Georgia “The Land of the Sky — Jersey Seashore Resorts . 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