The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, November 21, 1929, Image 3
THTJR8DAT. NOVEMBER 11.
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Of Interest to Farmers
1000 Iba. 0-4-4 applied; Jvm, 500 IW.
manure aalU and 000 Iba. nitrate of
soda par acre.
Cow paaa planted in middle of rows
and asparagus was cut-walled clear
all through.—Prepared by H. G. Boyle-
ton, County Agent.
iWater Is Essential
j for Working Horses
! Should Be as Pure as Pos
sible an,d Free From Odors.
Horses require from five to fifteen-
gallons of water a day, the quantity
4“ depending on the temperature and the
amount of work performed. The wa
ter should be as pure as possible, clear
in appearance, and free from taste,
color, or smell. Pure water Is' Just
as essential'to a horse as it is to a
man, and it is a mistake to suppose
that a horse can drink badly contami
nated water with impunity.
Water obtained from pools or shal
low wells contaminated with surface
drainage, or containing decomposing
organic matter, frequently causes
diarrhea, and generally predisposes to
colic. Water that contains a large
amount of sediment causes a mechan
ical irritation of the membrane of
the stomach and intestines, L e., sand
colic.
' When the horses are at rest in the
stable, water should be given three
times a day, and should Invariably be
given previous to feeding.
This latter point is of considerable
practical importance. A horse’s stom
ach is small In proportion to the ani
mal’s size, and water does not remain
in it, but passes through the stomach
and small bowel to the caecum, or wa
ter gut If water Is given after feed
ing, besides weakening the digestive
juices, a considerable portion of the
food in the stomach and small Intes
tines will be washed out in an undi
gested state, and indigestion and colic
may result
Water in small quantities can be
given within an hour or so from the
completion of feeding If desired. After
a long journey, a good plan Is to give
water a mile or so before the journey’s
end, and take the horse slowly in aft
erwards.
World’s
Watermelon
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Rust-Proof Steel Easy •
to Weld, Says Expert
Washington.—Rustproof steel Is eas
lly welded by the acetylene-oxygen
process and is even more rustproof
after welding than Jbefore* 4ue4o Jots
of carbon, silicon and manganeae dur
ing melting. These findings by W.
Hoffmann, German metallurgist, have
Just been announced by the national
advisory committee for aeronautics
here.
The physical characteristics of rust-
, proof-steel welds are better than
those of soft-steel welds, but the hard
ness of the metal due to welding
must be removed by heat treatment.
and the muddy banks of
the pasture help to depoett • let of
bacteria on the teats, udders, sod ad
jacent parts of cows.
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"Safe," “sure,* and “cheap- art
terms which may be applied to dairy
cows when home-raised, provided they
are of good breeding, from healthy
cows, and well grown.
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This Is believed to be the world’s largest watermelon, grown this summer
by Edgar Laseter at Hope, Ark. It weighed 152^6 pounds.
Whitewashes of Cement
and Lime Quite Useful
The following lime and cement
whitewash recipes are recommended
by the Illinois agricultural experiment
station.
**A whitewash formula that la rec
ommended as being very satisfactory
for new surfaces Is as follows:
gallons of finishing lime, 2 gallons of
white cement. 2% pounds of sal soda,
2 pounds of table salt and S pounds
of powdered alum. These should be
mixed dry and then enough cold water
added to make five gallons of the
wash.
M For old surfaces a good mixture
can be mode from gallons of fin
ishing lime, 2** gallons of white ce
ment, t pound of sal soda, I pound
of table salt and 3 pounds of pow
dered alum. As In the case of the
other formula, these ingredients should
be mixed dry and then enough water
added to make five gallons of the
wash. This wash should be applied In
the usual way after the loose particles
and scales have been cleaned off.
The caution that snould be kept In
mind in whitewashing is to be sure
that the surface on which the wash Is
applied is entirely clean before the
application is made.”
Offers Agriculture
Great Opportunity
May Be Placed tit the Realm of Big
Btiaineiui by Support of the Fed
eral Farm Board.
Dairy Herd Improvement
Reflected in Milk Pail
Wisconsin lands ail other states In
the number of dairy herd improve
ment associations. It has 154 out of a
total of nearly 1,100 in all the states,
according to reports compiled by the
bureau of dairy industry of the United
States* Department of Agriculture.
These associations give dairymen In
formation us to the profitableness of
their cows. On the basis of such In
formation, association members have
been weeding out the less desirable
animals and retaining heifers from
the more productive cows. The value
of this practice Is reflected In the
steady increase in the average produc
tion of the cows under test in these
associations. In 1020 the average
- production nor cow-ja-ihesd herds was
247 pounds of butterfnt In 1024 this
had increased to an average of 279
pounds. According to the bureau’s rec
ords the production figures for the
years from 1925 to 1928 were 284
pounds, 289 pounds, 293 pounds, and
295 pounds.
Columbia, Nov. 19.—support
being given by the Federal^arin Board
and the United States government to
cooperative marketing offers a wonder
ful opportunity for having agriculture
placed in the realm of big business
with its attendant advantage, in the
opinion of Alfred Scarborough, gener
al manager Of the South Carolina Cot
ton Growers’ Cooperative Association.
“First of all,” said Mr. Scarborough
in a statement, “to my mind one of the
most important accomplishments i s
that every cooperative obtaining any
Federal Farm Board money will be
supervised by that board. The coop
erative, efficiently qnd properly man
aged, will have a great asset in this
because it s proper procedure will be
confirmed and sanctioned. It will be
the best possible safeguard against
the farmer placing his commodity in
an institution that is not up to stand
ard in every way. They must neces
sarily lend government money only to
cooperatives as any creditor would
when they know that the character of
the institution is what it should be as
in the case of an individual, that its
management is capable and that its
financial status and responsibility
make it safe for a loan.
“Secondly, we have the President
of the United States, Congress as evi
denced by the passage of the act, ev
ery member of the President’s Cabinet
and the heads of all departments of
the government in Washington solidly
behind cooperative marketing and de
termined that there shall be proper co
ordination and effort put back of this
program.
“Third, under this law with the cre
ation of the Federal Farm Board wo
have one of the ablest groups of men in
“Third, the Federal Farm Board will
recognize that it is a s much the in
alienable right of the farmer to sell
through his farmer-owned cooperatives
the product of his labor direct to the
manufacturer or consumer aa it is the
right of all other lines of industry that
have been practicing it for genera
tions, having in mind at all times that
there are three parties to be consid
ered, the producer, the manufacturer
of the raw product and the consumer,
Heretofore it has been lost sight of
that the producer was to be consid
ered.
“Fifth, set up large scale central
ised national commodity sales organi
zations through which the respective
cooperative associations within a gov-
en commodity will combine their 8*1*8,
thus gaining bargaining power in s
large way, and being assured of com
plete elimination of any internal com
petition as between associations with
in a commodity. Of course, this wll
insure the sale of the product in con
formity with the demand as to time
and place. It will tend toward stand-
aidization and stabilization in all
phases of busness.”
Philanthropist Buys Camp
for Students Who Work
Springfield, Mo.—L. A Jones of
Bristow, Okla., millionaire olLman and
philanthropist, has purchased a 1,064-
acre tract of land to be devoted to
boys who work their way through
school. The tract, purchased Id the
iOzarks, will have a large administra
tion building, dining hall; dormitory,
; and several cabins erected on It A
1 large lake and swimming pool are also
to be built.
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French Court to Reform
Bandits With Marriage
Bourg, France.—Will marriage re-
• form a bandit? Three bandits think
j It will and the justice of peace of this
town has decided to give them their
choice of hymen over a prison ceiL
The ceremony was performed in the
town Jail. The bandit trio married
three sisters whom they hove courted
off and«on between raids around the
countryside.
Kill Mediterranean Fly
by Cooling All Fruit
The Department of Agriculture now
plans to fight the Mediterranean fruit
fly by cooling fruit to a temperature of
28 degrees for five hours followed by
holding It for about five days at a
temperature of 30 degrees. Another
treatment Is to bold the fruit at 110
degrees for eight hours. Both the high
and low temperatures are f#tal to the
eggs or larvae of the fly. It is also
feasible to attain either the maximum
or minimum temperatures iu the ex<
istlng practices of handling citrus
fruits.
Loam made tame day
application received.
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Attorneys-at-Law
BamwelL S. C.
Wm. McNAB
FIRE, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT
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Personal attention given aQ hneinaas
Offles in Harrison Block, Mata 01
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P. A. PRICE, Manager.
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Cream for Churning
The best way to hold cream on the
farm where ice is not available la to
keep It in a water tank in a building
near the well. A good way Is to have ]
a small water tank to keep the
cream and then to pump the water
for the stock tank through this tank.
This will 1 change the water in the
cream tank often and keep it cooler.
The best temperature to hold cream
Is between 50 and 00 degrees Fahren
heit When it is churned it should
ha>e about one-half of 1 per cent acid.
An Interesting Demonstration Report.
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Present Production Can
Be Doubled by Feeding
A careful study of the tens of thou
sands of herd averages and of the
hundreds of thousands qf yearly indi
vidual cow records, has shown that
7 present production can be doubled by
keeping better cows and by feeding
them 50 per cent more feed. Through
soil improvement, through use of bet
ter seed, and through the more gen
eral production of com silage and al
falfa hay as feed for oar dairy cows
we may, when the need arises, be able
to double tbe production of milk and
bntterfnt with the same number of
cows. To accomplish this, these cows
must be bred end selected for high
production.
TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER
FOB SATISFACTORY RXSULT&
our country whose duty it will be to
study the great problems of agricul-
Of special interest to asparagus
growers is the report given below of a
demonstration showing benefits of af
ter-cutting applications of potash and
ammonia. Thi s demonstration, which
is beng made by R. S. Weathersbee, of
Williston, will be continued for 1930 to
compare with 1929 results.
Asparagus, 2% acres; rows, 7 ft.;
drill, 2 ft.
Report of Spring, 1929. Age, 2 yrs.
1927 fertilizer, 1500 lbs., total of
equal par^s of meal, acid and kainit.
1928 fertilizer, 1000 lbs. per acre
8-4-4 early Spring, 400 lbs. 20 per cent,
manure salt, 200 nitrate of soda per
acre in early JHme.
Check plot received 1000 lbs. per
acre of 8-4-4 but no manure salts and
soda.
Agricultural Hints
The earlier the plowing for wheat,
the better the crop.
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A shelter belt enhances the value
of the entire farm property.
manure broadcast.
1929 nothing applied before cutting
ture and work out a long time pro- except compost mentioned above,
gram that will establish an economi-! Yield of asparagus. 1929, cutting
cally sound national policy towards | stopped April 22nd, it being young
America’s agriculture. Heretofore
these things have been matters of in
dividual opinion and suggestions of
fered have been inadequate and at best
only means of temporary help. This
board is to deal with causes and means
for their remedy. Remember, this
•board has almost unlimited authority
power and financial resources to effect
uate their program. They will go the
limit in forwarding a program that
has the farmers in partnership through
their organizations with Uncle Sam in
helping the farmer to help himself, but
they will not deal with individual
farmers and be a party to perpetuat
ing the individualism and indifference
that has heretofore existed and large
ly been the cause of tty farmer’i ina
bility to cope with the economic situ
ations and changing conditions devel
oping in the midst of the moat highly
m which ha tbea.
grass: 89 crates were cut—40 crates
Colossal; 4J9 crates Fancy; 20 crates
Choice; average net price, |3.53 for
season.
On plot receiving no additional pot
ash and soda shows a decrease in yield
of: Colossal, 16% per cent.; Fancy,
38 per cent.; Choice, 12% ’per cent.
This average fecuition would show
a decrease in yield of $28.24 per acre.
Cost of additional potash and ni
trate wa 9 $10.00 for potash and $14.50
for nitrate; total cash $24.50 for
tilizef for 2% acres or about $10J
per acre.
$24.50 spent in this fertilizer gave
increase in asparagus of $70.00 or
about three times in money for that
spent for the fertiliser. Thi g showed
that it paid to make after-cutting ap
plications of fertiliser of nitrate and
potash to asparagus.
April 22nd, 1928, at plowing down,
Proper cleaning ahd repairing of
harness may double/or treble the pe
riod of its nsefulne/
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For next year’s clover to be seeded
in wheat on sour soils, apply lime soon
after tbe land is plowed.
It pays to grade and standardize
farm products. 7 They sell for a better
price and are more in demand.
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Eradicatloiy of abortion from a herd
presents a dinlcult problem, but can be
accomplished by means of the blood
tests.
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Trees j
gome infested with mites, which can’t
be eradiated as easily as from a
shelter.
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Calves which are being fattened dur
ing the winter must be well fed tq be
ready/for market next spring or early
i summer.
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Three points of a good silo are:
strong avails, smooth inside, and tight-
ih‘ss enough to keep the juice in and
the air out.
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In handling the farm gardens it is
probably just us well to bum sll the
residues, rather than to turn
them under.
Prune in Winter
Tree fruit plants and hardy grape
vines may be pruned any time dosing
the winter. December 1 to March 1,
•ays R. J. Barnett of the Kanaas
State Agricultural college. The par
ticular data within these boundaries
la not Important except that the wort
may be more accurately and comfort
ably done daring periods if
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