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THB BARNWELL PEOPLE-RENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA Save the Cotton Crop if Possible Investigations in the cotton fields of this section of the State show that there are 300 to 400 boll weevils per acre. This is a most unusually heavy infestation of weevil for the time of the year. Seventy-fiveper cent, of the cotton was planted over. We must get busy now. All-side applications of Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Am monia or other mineral v ammonia should be made now if best results are to be gotten, because we mui t assist cotton to begin fruiting early. Late growth is not desired. Poison Early. Start now on all old cotton, making two or three applications five days apart, using either dust or liquid. If dust is used, be sure to apply it when the dew is on and when it is quiet and still. If liquid is used, make a mix ture of one gallon' of syrup, one gal lon of water, one pound of good cal cium arsenate. Of 22 tests made in 1925 on early poisoning, a«i average profit of $11.60 per acre was made. Are you expecting to wait for dry weather? It may not come! Begin poisoning young cotton when squares are seen.—Prepared by H. G. Boyls- ton, County Agent. INSURANCE FIRE WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhoun and Co. P. A. PRICE, Manager, Turkeys Pay Better Than Cotton Crop For the Edgar Hankinsons of Aiken Wm. McNAB FIRS HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. Personal attention given ell bneinaaa Office la Harrison Block. Mein fft BARNWELL. B. C 66 6 is e Prescription for Cold*, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It ia the most speedy remedy known. SPECIAL! “Mikado” Pencil.: 6 for 25c. • Per doz. 45c The People-Sentinel Barnwell, S. C. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. (Miss Juanita Neely in The Aiken Standard.) Although the majority of South Carolina farmers, like those of other Southern States, have leaned too far towards the one-crop system of,cot ton farming, some farm women of the State for the past five years have been making more profit from chick ens and turkeys than their husbands have from cotton. i Among the number of farm women who believe in turkeys and who, with their husbands and boys, find turkey raising more profitable than cotton growing is Mrs. Edgar Hankinson, R. F. D. Aiken. For a number of years it has been the pleasure of the writer to know Mrs. Hankinson and note with gratitude the progress she. has made with her turkeys and chickens. She believes in. taking advantage of every oportunity made available by the State Extension Service through personal assistance, club meetings and farmers’ week programs. She, with her husband and two sons, attended farmers’ week last August, and one of her sons, Julian, won a scholarship on his turkey record to the 4-H Club short course held last July at Clemson Col lege. * v # The Hankinson family last year, on thehr Shady Grove poultry farm, raised 487 turkeys, from which they made a* profit of $1,574.17. The tur keys were marketed at $2,574.17. Af ter deducting $800 for commercial feeds and $200 for home grown feeds, there was left for the labor of the family in raising these birds $1,574.- 17. Mrs. Hankinson says that for sev eral years they have been raising Mammoth Bronze turkeys, but had never kept more than four hers until 1927. That year ten hena were kept, from which they raised 198 fine birds They were encouraged, so decided to try turkey raising or- a larger scale. In 1928, 25 hens were kept for breed ing purposes. Faom the year’s labors they’^acceeded in raising 500 fine birds, 487 of which were marketed. Many of these were sold to breeders in various sections of South Carolina, Georgia and other States, but the gieater number found market in Ai ken. Mrs. Hankin/on says: \ “Tne first step in surcestful turkey raising is keeping healthy breeding stock. We alway* keep the finest early maturing birds for breeders, as it is poor economy to sell off the fin est because they will biing more on the market. “We mate 10 to 15 hers with one tom and last year the flock all ran together. We believe, however, that it would be better to separate the pens, which method we are using this year. The birds are inclosed in yards covering three acres and are fed corn, oats and an egg mash. Grit and oys ter shell are always kept before them. By having the breeders confined in lots, no eggs are ever lost or chilled. “Our eggs are all hatched in incu bators, from which we get higher per cent, hatches than with hens. The pullets are left in the incubator as long as possible to harden oft, and are old enough to be fed when they are removed to their warm brooder house. “The poults receive as their first feed sour milk and a little sharp grit. After an hour or two some commer cial chick starter is moistened with sour milk and spread on a board, al lowing them to eat °nly a tiny bit at first. This is fed every three hours for the first week. Beginning the sec ond week we feed three times each day, allowing more to a feeding, and continue this schedule for two months. After two months we feed only twice and sometimes once a day, depending on the kind and amount of feed the poults pick up on the range. “Grain is introduced to the ration when the poults are one month old, and when two months of age receive about equal parts of mash and grain. On ttie range dry peas are found from which the birds pick part of their liv ing. “The little poults are brooded 100 to a house and are put outside oro the first sunny day. Small mesh wire is used to confine them in a small yard at first. A turkey hen with a few poults is placed near the house iii a coop, so when we get ready to let the poults on range she takes the whole bunch and directs them. “They are kept confined in an acre pen until about two months old when they are given the range of the farm —150 acres, enclosed with good strong wire.” Mrs. Hankinson says that they nev er let the turkeys range with the chickens, which accounts in a large measure for their splendid success. The Hankinsons enjoy turkey raising, ever, though it gives them plenty of work, and find that it is more pro fitable than cotton growing on their ftav** { Mrs. Hankinson had 175 fine poults off May 1st and was planning to bring off more than last year’s crop. This demonstrotion carried on in Aiken County at Shady Grove Poultry farms proves most emphatically that condi tions in South Carolira are splendid for turkey raising. Keeping Flies Away by Screens on Milk House While experience has shown that It ts not practicable to acrefrn the cow stable, tbla cannot be used as an ex cuse for not screening the milk house. Tl*e best type of screen for the milk house windows Is that which swings out. for, say a the New Jersey agricultural experiment station. New Brunswick, this readily enables one to dear the room of fllei during the day. The door should tie double- screened If possible. Farmers who have electricity available claim that a fan blowing directly on the*strainer and cooler Is a most effective way of keeping flies away. The treatment of manure heaps with commercial disinfectants will rid the barn and milk house environs of fly-breeding placet. The common practice In keeping flies off the cows at milking time Is to spray them with the common commercial fly prepara tions as soon as the cows are brought into the stables. M. B. Calhoun & Son Funeral Directors and Embalmers. Steel and Cement Vaults. Ambulance Service. Phone 25 4 r . Allendale „ and Barnwell Hypnosis Shows Anxiety Plays Havoc With Body Atlanta, Ga.—New evidence that anxiety can play havoc with the body no less than with the mind has been obtained by use of hypnosis. The tests were made by Dr. J. C Whltehorn, Dr. Helge Lundholm and G. E. Gard ner of McLean hospital, Waverley, Blass., and were reported before the American . -Psychiatric - association here. The experiments Indicate that when an individual becomes extremely anx ious and fearful his body engine may race like a motor under pressure and strain. On the otber hand, moods of depression, elation, or irritability do not appear to produce any certain increase in the metabolic rate, that is, the rate at which the body engine converts food Into tissues and energy. Obtaining data on bodily processes during an emotional state Is difficult because an excited individual is not likely to remain sufficiently quiet to permit the making of accurate tests with apparatus. A psychologist who consented to be hypnotized was used for the tests. SPECIAL EXCURSION TO Washington, D. C Thursday, June 6,1929 iis via. Southern Railway System Limited to reach original starting point by midnight June 11th, Following round trip fares will apply froto principal points. Barnwell $15.00 Springfield 142SS Blackville $15.50 Perry id 9R Aiken — 15.50 Denmark 14.50 - • Fares from other points in proportion. SEE TH EBIG LEAGUE BASEBALL GAMES ■0* . For Schedules, reservations and other information consult Ticket Ag Southern Railway System «00»S»»0# Hii Another Cotton Crop Wiped Out h Farmers trusted to luck, while Bill Boll Weevil “sawed wood” Will this be the sad story that you will carry to your banker this fall? It was all too common a story last fall. Would you sit still in your house and let a thief haul your bales of Cotton from your yard? Why show more consideration to 3fr. B. {Thief) Weevil? DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOUR CROP IS LOST! Get ready now and start your fighting while you have a good chance to win. If you were going ouit to get a thief stealing your cotton, wouldn’t you want the best gun and ammunition available, or would you buy the oldest and cheapest you could buy? Your life and that of your family is at stake. The best ammunition is NIAGRA BRAND CALCIUM ARSENATE - “The Dust That Makes the Cloud With the Silver ($$$) Lining'' Recognized as the standard of quality from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Why not buy the best? All the difference in the world! Our stock is FRESH STOCK, NEWLY MANUFACTURED, from Niagara fac tory. ..... . i WA TCH YOUR STEP—BEWARE OF OLD STOCK Modem Feeding Calling for More‘Mineral Matter Poultry baa a high mineral require ment. This Is also true of dairy cows and hogs. Modern feeding practice is calling more and more for Uie addition of mineral matter to the rtUlon. Hog feeders today are using thotvsands of tons of mineral mixtures annh^Hy- In the poultry feed the use of grit, xjyster shell, hone meal and the nilneral\nlx tures is rapidly expanding. The v of such material is apparent, farm flock of hens cannot get anythin better than the mortar in the old chim ney of a tumble down house, it will in crease their egg production. If you could actually eliminate all of the min eral content of a dairy cow’s ration, her heart would stop beating and she would die more quickly than though- you took away all her drinking water and provided no more. Lots of old Calcium Arsenate is being offered all over South Carolina, to farmers at all kinds of prices, and is expensive at any price. For a fraction of a cent more, you can have the best and take no chances. Insist on Niagara Brand. I A WORD OF CAUTION TO TOBACCO FARMERS DON’T BURN YOUR TOBACCO. Use Niagara Quality Poison. We have it in convenient small packages for tobacco worms, either Arsenate of Lead or Calcium Ar senate. t You haven't made an^t money if you buy something cheaper and hum your tobacco* Dependable Dusting Machinery The only complete line of dusting mac hinery in South Carolina. We carry only approved machines, that have become the standard on account of their standing the test of time. FAMOUS NIAGARA DUSTERS IN THE FOLLOWING MODELS: \ HAND GUN—1 row % 20.00 HAND GUN—2 Row 22.00 MODEL U—3 row 160.00 f.o.b. Florence MODEL C—3 row 260.00 f.o.b. Florence MODEL C—5 row 325.00 f.o.b. Florence MODEL AERO—Power Duster 512.00 f-o.b. Florence (Carries 20 rows at the time) | FARMALL Power Duster—5 row 327.00 f-oTb. Florence Also,- CHAMPION—2 row 80.00 f.o.b. Florence CHAMPION JUNIOR—2 row 60.00 f.o.b. Florence PERFECTION—2 row - 71.25 f.o.b. Florence J <mX~X~XK~X~X~X~X~X~X~X~X~X’*X~XK~X~X~X~X~X~X~X~X~X~X~> HALL & COLE, Inc. 94-102 FANEUIL HALL MARKET. BOSTON, MASS. Commission Merchants and Distributors of ASPARAGUS / l One of the Oldest Commission Houses in the Trade. * Send for Shipping Stamp. Mst»»e»+4Mee*eee»eM»»»ee»teeeMMM»e«snMMM , t>c><><x><><><>o<><x><><><><><><><><><><><><> < Agricultural Notes o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 1 \ It Is far hotter to do much soli Im provement before setting out the peach orchard. * • • Low milk yields and low profits from dairy cows are very frequently the result of poor feeding. . * • * Not $11 plants need a “sweet” soil; some do better at a fairly high de gree of acidity. It payrto kflow your plants. • • « Nature grows both good and poor trees, and the final crop will be com posed of both kinds unless the poor ones are removed. • • • There Is little trouble In opening the silo, but many farmers have no ailoa to open, and this la really their prin cipal troohle DON'T OVERLOOK OUR SERVICE DEPARTMENT — The only line of dusting machinery in this State that maintains a service depart ment to get you going in case you have any trouble. You surely wouldn’t buy an auto mobile unless you knew where you could get service. The best farmers have decided the pme, concerning dusting machinery. Full Line Repair Parts For All Machines — LAST BUT NOT LEAST When we tell you that so far as we have been able to get the facts we do over 50 per cei and perhaps 75 pqr cent., of all the insecticide and machinery business done in Sopth rolina, it should be proof to you that we have “delivered the goods.” Businesa doesn’t hie just by wishing. • •• * *" WE HAVE THE QUALITY AND THE SERVICE Get in t uch with our nearest dealer, as shown below, or if no Niagara local dealer is convenient t you, get in touch with us direct. ■■■ ERS PRODUCE & STORAGE CO. FLORENCE. S. C ' UNION MERCANTILE Co. BARNWELL, S. C OLL WEEVIL UNDERTAKERS” * * . «