The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, January 16, 1930, Image 3
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.
The Best Pharmacy, Barnwell, S. C.,
Agents.
Earth a Rabuka to Athaisas
God never wrought Miracles to con
vince atheism, because His ordinary
works convince It It is true, that a
little philosophy Incline!h man’s mind
to atheism; but depth In philosophy,
bringeth men’s minds about to re
Uglou.—Francis Bacon.
Besides the
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lawyers rarnwbll. south cabouma.
TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE!
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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.
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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.
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Calves fed at shorter Intervals are
also less subject to digestive disor
ders.
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Not all plants need a “sweet” soil;
some do better at a fairly high degree
of acidity. It pays to- know your
plants. ’
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When they get to using rustless Iron
and steel In agricultural Implements,
the sky-roofed machine shed will not
take Its toll so rapidly.
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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.
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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
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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