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THURSDAY, JANUARY 1«. 1M0. THE BARNWB1X SOUTH CAROLINA Census Takers Start Counting Noses Soon They Will Ask Many Questions, Some of Them of a Personal Nature. Will Begin April 1st. Uncle Sam will begin to count his liepfcvws .and nieces on the .first of April, 1930, and this year he is going to find out a lot more about them than has been known before. Some time during the month of April an enumerator of the United States Census Bureau will call at ev ery dwelling in the nation and ask the head of the family 24 questions. Some of them might be considered imperti nent if asked by a stranger, or even by a neighbor, but the census enumera tors are under oath not to disclose any facts learned by them except in their official reports. And those reports are not open anywhere to public in spection. Like the figures of your in come tax return, they are official se crets which prying g&SSips have no access to. Uncle Sam is concerned, for census purposes, only with totals and averages and not at all with indi viduals. But a clear picture of the people of the United States as a whole can be obtained only by getting, the facts about each individual inhabitant to start with. Average Age. For example, one of the things which it is important to know, be sides the number of persons m the United States, is the average age of our people. Ig it higher or lower than .it was when the last census was tak en, ten years ago, and how much? This average age has been increasing steadily. But if the census of 1930 should show a decline in the average age it would be a danger signal, warning to speed up public health measures, a call to Investigate the cause and apply science toward im proving and guarding the general health. So don*t think rt ig impertinence when the census taker asks your age! Uncle Sam wants to know, not your individual age but the average age of all of the people. Another question the enumerators will ask is “Who is the head of the family?** That doesn’t mean what it sounds like. Uncle Sam isn’t interest ed as to whether the wife wears the breeches or not, but does want to know hew many men are dependent upon the earnings of their children, how* many women are self-supporting. The head of the family, from the cen sus point of view, is the one who earns the money. Whether you live on a farm or in a town, whether you are white, black, red or yellow, male or female, mar ried or unmarried, able to read and write, where you were born and where your parentg were born, when you came to America if you are an immi grant, what your native language was and whether you can speak English are questions the reasons for which are clear enough. On the totals com piled from these answers depends, among other things, the number of persons from your native country who can be admitted to the United States in the next ten years. Get Occupations. Everybody who is employed will be asked to give hig trade or occupation and the particular industry in which he or she works, or if working on his own account or as an employe, to say so. But a question on that line this year will be: “Are you employed now?” That is, a s of the first of April. There will be for the first time an accurate record of unemployment, figures on which heretofore have been largely estimates. __Another new question will be whether you own your own home. In a general 'way the proportion of home- owners ha s been estimated in the past, but nobody has ever had exact figures. The figures have a decided bearing on the important subject of our na tional prosperity. - And if you do not own your home, the census man will ask you how much rent you pay. That Red-Oat Section v - Making Change Sowing of Spring Variety Shows-Increase in West ern States. Berries. Without * -Thorns Promised Fame of Sargon Now Spreads Over World (Prepared by the United States Department , / of Agriculture.) How to make oat growing more gen erally profitable, particularly spring- sown red oats. Is discussed by T. R. Stanton, an agronomist of the United States Department of Agriculture in Fanners’ Bulletin 1583-F, “Spring- Sown Red Oats,” just Issued by the department Red Oat Areas. Spring-sown oats are grown mainly In the region comprising the southern parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, southeastern Nebraska, and Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Kan sas, Oklahoma, and northern Texas. According to the 1919 census, about 8,000,000 acres of oats were grown In the principal red-oat producing states, about 6,000,000 of which were spring- sown and the rest fall-sown red oats. Since then the proportion of spring- sown oats has Increased markedly, and it is estimated that about 7.000,000 acres were sown to red oats In the spring of 1927. This decided Increase In acreage, Mr. Stanton says, is due largely to the development and distribution of the Fulghum oat for spring seeding. Red oats, he says, are often referred to as “warm-climate oats” and tbe ability to withstand hot, dry w^^r. especially at heading and filling time. Fulghum and its various strains are at .present one of the most Important varietal groups in this country, their extreme earllness enabling them to escape Injury by hot weather and drought to some extent. Varieties Discussed. There Is detailed discussion of the several Important varieties in the bul letin. Copies may be obtained from the office of information. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C„ upon request. Machinery Increases Production. “Machine methods of production have not ruined our agriculture,” de clares L. J. Fletcher, formerly pro fessor of farm engineering In Califor nia university. “We should rather credit farm machinery with reducing the expenditure of manual labor on our farms, with shortening the work ing day and Increasing the production per worker^ Progresa consists of con tinuously solving the problems of to day which arise out the the solution of the problems of vesterrtnv." Blackberries and Dewberries Being Tested by Many Scientists. (Prepared by the United Statea Department of Agriculture.) Blackberries and dewberries without thorns has been a subject of Interest to plant breeders for a number of years. Doubtless those who have picked either of these fruits are in sympathy with the efforts of the scientists to eliminate the thorns, aqd It now looks as if it were to be done, according to George M. Darrow of the United States Department of Agri culture. Two thornless varieties—the Cory blackberry and the Austin thornless dewberry-placed on the market in recent years have met wiath fairly good success. These thornless types are adapted to certain southern local ities only. Recsnt Developments. One of the most recent develop ments In the production of thornless fruits is the work of E. L. Pollard, a fruit grower of California. In the summer of 1928 be observed thornless sports of the Young dewberry on his place. He tested six of these this year and all but one proved to be worth less. The one exception proved to be apparently as good in every way as the original Young, and all propaga tions of this sort were thornless. « ‘The success of this grower In find ing a productive thornless sport of the Young dewberry,” says Mr. Darrow, “calls attention to the desirability of finding similar sporta of the standard blackberries of each section. All thorn less sports should be propagated and tested for their productiveness. Many Advantagsa. “Thornlessness in the dewberry Is ad vantageous not only in lowering the cost of training, but what Is more im portant, also in reducing thorn Injury to the canes themselves. Even greater advantages might be obtained with thornless Oregon Evergreen and Hima laya blackberries.” Investigations looking to the devel opment of thornless blackberries and dewberries are now being conducted by the department and by a number of workers at state experiment sta tion!. People of This Country.Sending Fam ous Medicine to Relatives and Friends in England, Scotland, Ire land, France, Canal Zone, Norway, ' Sweden, Cuba and Many Other Dis tant Lands. snd a screen-grid, if any. Now look at the blamed thing! There are ao many receiving seta that Uncle Sam is going to count ’em, to find out how many of hit family he can talk to at once. Marriage Too. For the firat time, the census taker will ask how old you were at your first marriage. The information will be more important ten years from now than it is now, because the second set of answers to it, 1940, will disclose whether the average age of marriage is getting older or younger. Our grandparents married in their teens, as a rule; today 25 ia nearer the aver age age in all probability. Will the younger folks of the next ten years continue to postpone marriage or will they revert to the youthful marriages of their ancestors? You will be asked whether you have attended school or college since last September. The figures for educa tion have, been climbing steadily ever since the first census was taken. Be yond question they are still climbing, but how fast ? And as a final question every one of Uncle Sam’s nephews will be asked whether he has served as a soldier, sailor or marine in any war in which his country was involved. We will know for the first time just how many veterans of each war are still living. And that will help to estimate future demands on tax-payers for pensions. The census is the oldest of all our federal bureaus, as- old as Congress and the Presidential office and the ju diciary, for it was set up in the Con stitution itself, which requires that the inhabitants be counted every ten years. The original purpose was to ;s another useful index of the size of , ^ n( j ou ^ j 10W man y jived in each State the national bankroll. Taking the two . n or ^ eY apportion members of Con- together, the government will be a bl € ,/g Tegg - amon g the States. That is still to tell us whether home ownership is one ^ p Ur p 0Ses> though Congress on the increase, w’hether there is a de-, jt se if hag dilatory in reapportion- Tonnage of Hay Stack Is Easily Estimated To estimate the volume or number of cubic feet of hay In a stack, find the length and width of the stack and measure the distance over the stack from the ground on one side to the ground on the other side. This last measurement Is found by throwing rope over the stack. These three measurements are multiplied togeth er. and from one-quarter to one-third of this product will give the number of cubic feet in the stack. If the stack slants toward the top from close to the bottom of the stack, one- fourth of th# product Is taken; if the stack goes up straight for about half Its height and then slopes toward the top. one-third of the product Is takeh. The most difficult problem is to es tlmate the number of cubic feet of hay required to equal one ton. One rule states that when hay has stood less than one month It requires 580 cubic feet of hay to make a ton, when It has stood one month 512 cubic feet, five or six months. 422 cubic feet, and when it has stood one year, 343 cubic feet. ' , Gatherers of Nitrogen Are in Legume Family Nitrogen gatherers belong to the leg ume or clover family, most of which take their nitrogen from the air and do not reduce the content of soil ni trogen. These crops, when plowed down as green manures, add directly to the crop producing power of the soil. In order that the plant may ob tain its nitrogen from the air the soil must originally contain or must be Inoculated with a special type of bac teria, the presence of which is noted by the growth of nodules upon the mots through which the nitrogen is obtained. If you had found a medicine that was of such benefit to you that you would go to the trouble of sending it to relatives and friends in distant countries, you would have to be con vinced in your own mind that it pos sessed real merit, woundn’t you? That’s just what thousands'of peo ple throughout the United States have been doing with Sargon. From all over America and wher ever Sargon has been introduced, thousands of letters have been receiv ed from grateful users telling of the gratifying results that have been ac complished by this celebrated medi cine. THOUSANDS EXPRESS GRATITUDE. On November 27th, a letter dated November 23rd, was received at the Sargon office advising that in one week one drug firm alone had received orders for Sargon to be shipped to Cavite, Philippine Islands; Coca-Solo, Canal Zone; Belebrook, Ireland; and Paris, France. Only recently a well-known resi dent of Denver, Colorado, who hac been restored to health by Sargon sent a full treatment to London England, to his sister, who is the wife of an, executive of one of the greatest retail drug firms in the British Empire. During the past month there ap peared in the Toronto papers the statement of a well-known Work War veteran whose health had been grealy impaired while in the service who stated among other things, that he owed his restoration to health to two bottles of Sargon sent him by a friend in Minneapolis. LETTERS RECEIVED FROM THE NORTHWEST. From the Northwest, many letters of this kind have been received ad vising that users of Sargon are send ing it to relatives back in their old countries of Norway and Sweden. Many such letters and endorse ments have been received from men of prominence, including former gov- emorg, business ’and professional men, mayors, state and county offi cials, and even Ministers of the Gos pel have deemed it their duty to come forward and tell what Sargon has done for them. These are only a few thousands of such cases and not a day nor a week passes that does not bring hundreds of statements from the people con cerning the good this medicine is do ing, and reciting case after case that would convince the most skeptical. Sargon’s fame is built on actual re sults—not empty premises, and only these who have put it to thef test know its real powers. Sargon’s aim is not mere tempo rary relief, but new and abundant health. No wonder it is now called the medicine with a million friends. 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TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE! , ( The Courty Treasurer’s office will be open from September 16th, to March 15th, 1930, for collecting 1929 taxes, whicn Tr.cTude real and personal property, poll and road tax. All taxes due and payable between September 15th and December 81st, 1929, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not paid stated w be subject to penalties is provided by law: January 1st, 1930, one per cent, will be added. February 1st, 1930, two per cent, will be added. March 1st to 15th, 1930 seven per cent, will be added. Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection a£ ter March 15th, 1930. When writirg for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district property is in more than one school district. All personal checks given for taxes will be subject collection. m. = s a m i? § 6 fc S * CQ T3 - 8 ^ m •S c & o O i 6 <c> I s4 5 Agricultural Notes mand for more individually owned dwellings, and those facts have a bear ing on the lumber industry and the production of all other building sup plies as well as on the market of all sorts of household equipment and fur nishings. \ Another new census question is whether you own a radio set. Noth ing could better illustrate speed with which new inventions take hold, once they strike the public fancy. Ten years ago, when the census of 1920 was taken, there wasn't a radio set in the world except experimental ones; there was nq such thing as broadcast ing; nobody but a few experts knew the difference between a heterodyne ^ ^ncJe Sam. ing its membership in proportion to population. The first census, taken in 1790, showed fewer than four million inhab itants in the new nation; 3,929,214 to be exact. We passed the 25 million mark between 1850 and 1860; by 1880 we. had almost exactly 50 million and forty years later, in 1920, we had doubled that figure with 105,710,620 persons living m continental United States. The Census Bureau ‘experts have made estimates from year to year of the increase since that time, and give it as their belief that enum eration of 1930 will show between 121 and 122 million nephews and nieces Most fungous or bacterial parasites thrive best where moisture is plenti ful. _ * • • Calves fed at shorter Intervals are also less subject to digestive disor ders. • • A Not all plants need a “sweet” soil; some do better at a fairly high degree of acidity. It pays to- know your plants. ’ • • • When they get to using rustless Iron and steel In agricultural Implements, the sky-roofed machine shed will not take Its toll so rapidly. • • • Weed patches Ip grain fields should nnt be treated with sodium chlorate until after harvest when they need I not be disturbed further with farm ; machinery. i The first and most Important step .In gathering the materials for use in i manure-heated hotbeds la the manure The beet is fresh horse manure. Pile ( la rows four feet wide, not over §h feet high and at leaf as ia . far the bads te be SUsC Good Breeding Shows There are few defects In our nature No. 34—Kline so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and gootf breeding.—Stanislaus. T. B. Ellis J. B. Ellis ELLIS ENGINEERING CO. Lend Surveying e Specialty. Lyndhurst, 8. C Wm. McNAB HEALTH AND OfSUEANCH COMPANIES. SABjnrmi* a c No. 24—Ashleigh No. 23—Barbary Branch . No. 45—Barnwell — No. 4—Big Fork No. 19—Blackville No. 35—Cedar Grove No. 60—Diamond No. 20—Double Pond * No. 12—Dunbarton - No. 21—Edisto No. 28—Elko ... No. 53—Ellenton No. 11—Four Mile No. 89—Friendship No. 16—Green’s No. 10—Healing Springs. No. 23—Hercules No. 9—Hilda No. 62—Joyce Branch No. 32—Lee’s _ No. 8—Long Branch No. 54—Meyer’s Mill __ No. 42—Morris No. 14—ML ^Calvary No. 25—New Forest No. 38—Oajc Grove No. 43—Old Columbia No. 13—Pleasant Hill No. 7.—Red Oak ... No. 15—Reedy Branch . No, 2—Seven Pines No. 40—Tinker’s Creek . No. 26—Upper Richland . No. 29—Williston 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 •10 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 -12“ 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 1 1 1- 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 1 1 1 1 V “K 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 8 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 r 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 12 30 29 18 St 28 14 **19 27 9 30 11 14 14 20 20 27 35 26 t8 10 17 26 14 28 28 19 26 15 16 21 12 n 26 ,82 •»>- 47 65 64 5S 66 63 49 54 62 44 65 46 49 65 55 62 70 *4 45 52 61 49 63 03 54 61 50 51 56 47 52 61 67 ns The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male between the ages of 21 and 55 years. All male citizens between the of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00. Dog Taxes for 1929 cad be paid at the same time other taxes are It is the doty of each school trustee in eech school that this tax ia collected or aid the Magistrate in the the provisions of this Act, Checks will not be accepted for taxes