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FAGB FOUB. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1932. IKE MACHINE AGE SPOILS A PKOPBECY H. L. RUSSELL By H. L. RUSSELL Advisory Council, Agricultural Commis sion, American Bankers Association. A NOTED Brltlnh BHenTfsTToreeast thirty yearn jiro that by 1931 all available wheat land In the world would be under cultivation, and if the yields per acre could not he increased beyond mat which then prevailed there would be a world shortage. The av erage yield then was 12.7 bushels per acre. During the past seven years, the world over, it has been 14.1. On the 320,- POO,000 acres in cultivation this in crease would amount to almost a half billion bushels more production than the world standards of thirty years ago. In place of dire distress due to shortage, wo have had dire distress due to surplus. Wheat farmers have shown no great Inclination to curtail materially their output; perhaps a 10% decline com pared with 70% reduction in steel. This unwillingness, or perhaps inabil- r , ity, to adjust production to current needs makes the problem all the hard er to solve. Not only are wo now growing more •wheat per unit of land, but acreage has been very greatly extended. In /twenty years Canada haq increased acreage 250%, Australia almost as much. Another significant fact is the materially lessened use of wheat. A ihuch more diversified diet has devel- »ped. More vegetables and fruits are used than formerly. The reduction of l.f bushels /consumed per person per a/inAim since the last generation neces sitates nearly 150,000,000 bushels less w^eat than was formerly required. Machines Increase Supply The factor that has exerted the most potent influence In tills rising world flood of grain has been the rapid de velopment of the machine. The old days of the cradle required from thirty to forty hours of hand labor to harvest an acre of graih. Then came the bind- v er, which reduced the process to four or five hours per acre. Now the com bine does the work in forty-five min utes per acre. Where it used to cost - ten cents a bushel merely to thresh the grain, the modern combine>cufs and threshes at a cost ranging from 3 to 5 tents a bushel. With this reduced cost of pro duction, the possibility^'of acreage ex pansion is tremendous. Lands here tofore regarded as worthless except for grazing have recently come into competition with the older wheat bejts. The/ Russian iff or t Within the past two or three years another disturbing element has come Into the picture. Soviet ft>tssia is at tempting a comeback fraught with possibility that cannot yet be fully evaluated. Russia is eagerly utilizing the very latest of scientific knowledge to enlarge her agricultural possibili ties. With feverish anxiety she is literally pouring millions Into the ex pansion of her university research in stitutes, experimental stations and breeding farms. Her scientists are combing the earth for new crops and new methods. No country in Europe is manifesting more interest and activ ity in laying hold of the best science, wherever it may be found. It is of more than passing interest that the wheat yields reported on the huge trust farm known as the ‘‘Giant” ran Ta&t jrMf Bi muciraa 18 bushels to ■ the acre. On this single farm the crop • i- harvested is reported to have been 3,865,000 bushels. A single farm of 427,OOOi acres under government con trol and mechanized as fast as human energy can be applied is a new factor in the world’s picture. There can be but liitle doubt that the Russian situation may yet assume quite a different attitude front what obtained even in pre-war days. Bankers Hold Farm Conference A “feeders’ conference” was held In a state bank at Presho, South Da kota, attended by fifty farmers. The conference stressed the feeding of low price wheat and barley, and marketing it through livestock. Later, booklets on the feeding of wheat were distrib uted among the farmers, and a feeders column was carried In the local paper each week. “We have had more success with the conference and with the feeders ♦column In the local paper, than with •any other undertaking we have tried," the bankers said. “As a result there is about three times as much livestock being fed out In our territory than ever before. We plan to hold other similar conferences the coming ^ear.” Plan Roadside Gardens ' for American Highways An ambitious plan to plant roddslde flower gardens along the entire length of all the main American highways is being sponsored by womens’ or ganizations in several eastern states. A considerable extension of the move ment is expected to develop during the coming year, witli the enrollment of sponsoring organizations in all the remaining states of the Union. Backers of the movement urge that the common roadsides are telltale rev elations of the civic spirit dominating a community. Four states—Massachu setts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia—have already oflh r ully rec ognized this fact in their highway de partments by making substantial ap propriations and attaching a compe tent landscape architect to the staffs in charge of road maintenance and up keep. Many other states are moving to Join tills progressive group, the Woman’s Home Companion reports, and organ ized committees are concentrating in many localities on roadside work which will eventually bring the more backward, commonwealths into fine. The benefits of clviliMtion exist be cause of the capital accumulated b} those who have gone before. Through -accumulation of capital our great rail- roads hare been constructed, our pub- lie utilities have been built and dur ' mills, office buildings and homos have arisen. Chance for Home Owner to Improve Property A few hundred dollars spent for al terations or remodeling will do more today for the borne owner than a sim ilar purpose any time since the begin ning of the World war hack in 1914. Scores upon scores of home owners are taking advantage of this oppor tunity and a number of far-seeing Imsinesg men, sensing the demand for modernization, have equipped special departments to furnish the supplies and oftentimes the workmen. Homes that wore thought to have passed their day of usefulness, al though situated ip a good residential section, have blossomed forth with new exteriors, adding not only to their own appearance, but to the appearance and deslrabilty of their neighborhood. The home owner of today, like the automobile owner, wants to be mod ern. He wants the latest in design, appearance and operation. While the automobile, due to its construction, is limited in life, the residential dwelling, if properly cared for, will last a cen tury.—Cleveland News. Concrete Tree AkominaffUa With “modern’* art and “moder\*‘ architecture occupying more and more space in our magazines, ona naturally expects to find the “modeiri” in gar den design. Gardening seems to re spond more slowly to modernism, how ever. The tree, the shrub, or her baceous plants, 'is old-fashioned and will- not change its manner of growth. Concrete trees, which we understand have been introduced in Europe, in evitably lack the appeal of seasonal changes. While their introduction would nat urally he opposed by both nursery men and tree doctors, they would re quire treatment, perhaps, by the satid blaster, which might, aft^r all, he econ omy. Actually, It Is possible that with their use one could illustrate the fact that design is of the greatest im portance In tlie garden, and Hint a landscape composition cun he achieved without the use of plants, but it is hard to be serious about u concrete tree.—Washington Star. City-Planning Idea Grow* More than SOO American cities now have city-planning commissions and zoning regulations. The rapid growth of the city-planning hiovement, which got Its real start at the beginning of the present century, is due to th« business man and property owner’s Why Stigk to Unprofitable Crops? Diversify and, Plant Read these voluntary letters from Satisfied Kirby Planters “We take pleasure in advising that we have planted your Kirby Cucumber for the past eight year?. We always find this cucumber the best by far in earliness, dark green color, yield and in fact the best in every respect. We sell, as you know, about 3,000 lb?, of Kilby here ennuaily, which is about 80 per cent, of the cucumbers planted around Williston. (Signed) Mixson & Newsom, by J.^G. Newsom. Oct. 27, 1931. Williston, Fla. “We have u?ed your Kirby Cucum- ► •i;j ber seed for the past ten or twelve years, and while we have been induc ed to try other varieties which pro ducers have claimed just as fc 0 °d» we have been unable to find any other seed that will produce as early and a s green cucumbers in color. We will plarvt 1,500 to 2,000 lbs. of your Kirby Cucumbers this year and will use no other variety. (Signed) Beville $ Oldham, by G. G. Oldham. Oct. 27, 1931. ' “ Center Hill, Fla. “I purchased six lbs. of your Kirby Stay Green Cucumber seed through cur cucumber association here and they certainly are dark in color and uniform in size. Tb-.-y run around 95 per cent Fancy. They are a beautiful sight to look upon. (Signed) C. J. Crown, May 25, 1931. Gainesville, Fla. “It Stays Green” CUCUMBER ORIGINATOR’S STOCK wa s paid for one carload of 645 bushels of'Kirby Cuke? and$lt> to $15 per bushel fqr fiist pickings was a common expeiience of Kirby Growers last season. / It was th e most successful crop planted anywhere. Is it any wonder that an increasing number 1 cf farmers are putting more and more acreage into Kirby Cucumbers? There~is no gamble .with a crop-like that. —- -— V - ■i ■ ! ‘ — KIRBY CUCUMBER<i s the earliest of the White Spine type with firm, cylindrical fruit 7 to 8 inches long. Its exceptionally daik greei) color from stem to blossom end is retained longer than any other variety and they will run 85 per cent Fancy, uni- 1 form in shape and color. Kirby Cuke is a vigorous grower and enormou 3 yielder with unexcelled shipping qualities. In addition to bringing the highest prices, there is al ways .a ready market for Kirby and it is e-pecially adaptable for pickling and slicing. For your protection and to prevent .sub stitution, Kirby^. Cucumber ORIGINA TOR’S STOCK is sold only in the Sealed Lithographed Cartons illustiated above. Our New 1932 FREE CATALOGUE has just been published. Hundreds of Simon’s profitable Specialties are illustrated, de scribed and priced. Send for your copy. I. N. SIMON & SON Wesley D. Simon, Seedsmen Norval E. Kirby 438-S Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa. For Sale By THE BEST PHARMACY, BARNWELL. S. C. SIMON BROWN’S SONS, Blackville, S. C. GREEN & COMPANY, Elko. S. C. FARRELL-O’GORMAN, Blackville, S. C. BRABHAM & MORRIS, Olar, S. C. R. G. HIERS, W illiston, S. C. X W. H. HUTTO, Sr. & SON, Denmark.S. C. Social and Personal News from Williston Local and Personal News of Blackville Mrs. W. G. Thompson, Jr., spent nes Scott, spent last week-end With a few days at Winthrop college last h er parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman week, attending a meeting of the Brown. State Music association. Williston, Feb. 6.--J. W. Folk spent Blackville, Feb. 6.—Mrs. Isadore a few days with hi? daughter, Mr. Brown, assisted by her daughter, Mrs andtMrs. M. B. Robertson, of Yonges ,j oe Golding, of New York, entertained Island. , the members of her bridge club Mrs. J. C. Folk and little daughter, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Sem 1 Mary Joyce, are spending a while received highest scoie prize for the . with the former’s parents, Mr. and occasion. re«4^atK»n A*f.tha.lact that money put. t v j_ n ^ into well-kept parks, pleasant Hodgcoj, Aconea, Ga . Mie* Jpnirp Rrn^yn, student at Ag- and beautiful buildings is not an ex travagance but an investment, the Architectural Magazine observes. Even the intelligent remodeling of a single house may raise *he standard of an entire neighborhood. The dif ference between profitable and un profitable rental of either home or* business property is often dependent upon the attractiveness of its sur roundings ns well as the features of the building Itself. Informal Garden Beit The average home owner vho must attend to most of his garden work himself will find it advantageous to plan his outdoor living room his gar den along informal lines. Such iufor- Miss Margaret Thompson, of New Brookland, spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Sdsan Thompson. Misg Dorothy .Whittle, who is in the nurses’ training school at the Univer sity hospital in Augusta, spent Thurs day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Whittle. She had her guest, her room mate, Miss Kennedy. Those attending the annual meeting of the Barnwell association of the Woman’s Missionary Union, held at mality will give hi, gar,Ion a delight- Ehrhardt Wednesday, Were Mr,. .W. ful air of freedom and grace, and in- j Cook, Mrs. T. P. Mitchell, Mrs. W. asmueh as the plants are permitted to ! M - Hair, Mrs. T. R. Pender and Mrs develop naturally they do not require the constant care to keep them look ing well that the formal planting de mands. — Cadet Charles Asbell, of Commerce, Ga., is the guest of Gadet James Buist, both having received leaves of absence from the Citadel at the close of the first semester. 4-H MEMBERS WELCOMING MANY BABY CHICKS R. L. Peacock, th e Rev. ,\fr. R. Davis and Misses Edith and Mildred Bell. Miss Pat Baxley spent last week end in Cblumbla, the guest of her ! mother. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Thompson and Details Make Difference Detail^ very often mark the dilT^r enoe between a charming garden and Misses Belen and Billie Scott spent , Sn , a r: e ’ 6 r e "-; Th ! pr : ,Kr Monday in Charlotte. En route they placing of a bit of rock work, a flow- . j - « , . erlng tree, a flagstone path, or an In- | stopped ,Tl Rock 11,11 and were afi - vlting lawn seat may be Just what U c«mpanied by Misses Harrydelle needed to make your garden individual Thompson and Jeanette Ussery, stu- county agents in the care and feeding of the chicks, and accurat e records must be kept on all phases of the work. For economical brooding all mem bers are using home-made brick brooders in which wood is burned, thus reducing to a minimum the cost of brooding. Again costs are reduc ed by using home-mixed feeds. As much as possible, grain s raised on the farms are utilized in the' rations, r.lnhhor and buttermilk, also, find very prominent places in the chick’s dietary. The balmy sunshine days are quite conductive to the growth and health of the chicks, so small yards and open front houses will be in constant use in order to utilize all the vitamin D so generously provided b| “Old Sol.” In order to avoid parasite infection and diseases, strict sanitary measures will be ptacticed by the club mem bers in taring for tbeir chicks^ Sani- and appealing. Mated Maatc It’i a moot question In social ethics whether the gentlemen who blows his own horn makes^a desirable member of the commanity band.—Country Home. dents of Winthrop college. Mrs. T. P. Riley and little son, of Greenville, and Mrs. Jasper Johns, of Allendale, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Kennedy. ♦ ♦ ♦ Advertise in The Hecpie Sentinel The 4-H Poultiy member? had their chick brooder s in readiness on Feb ruary 3d and received the hundieds of chicks arriving at their new homes with hearty gieetings filled with as surance of tiam, southern hospitality for these little strangers. The "visits to the club members last week by Mis? Juanita Neely, Ex tension Poultry Specialist and Mis? McNab, Home Agent, were accom panied by the cheeping and chirping of hundreds of baby chicks. The familiar extension service automobile was converted into a veritable chick 1 pullman, carrying these little friends to their future homes in the rural communities of BarnweU.County. Un der the care of the Major 4-H Poul try raisers, these chick s will fufnish delectable dishes for many tables in the county. The club members are given definite instructions by the specialist and tation is one of the key notes in suc cessful chick raising. The accredited hatcheries of the State are showing their deep interest in the Majqr 4-H Project by providing first quality R. W. D. tested chicks at reduced rates. The fine quality chicks ^’ill be the means of developing better farm flock s and in encouraging 4he improvement of flock manage ment in Barnwell County. The club members must plan to produce more of the needed poultry feed on the farm. For spring rang^ oats and rape are very satisfactory: white soybeans or cowpeas make ideal summer range and grazing. Plenty of yellow corn must be planted in the summer to provide fall and winter feed for the laying flock and meal for the baby chick ration in the spring. Yellow corn is more valuable than white corn on account of the vitamin Arnuirent; which prurnuies giuwih and health in ^he chicits; increases egg production witK hens, a s well strengthens the hatchability of the eggs. „ The following Major 4-H Poultry club members started brooding chicks this year: Annie Rebecca Shuler, 350 chicks; Margaret Black, 200 chicks; Mildred Grubbs, 100 chicks; Mary Riley Whitaker, 600 chicks; Gladys Black, 200 chicks; Louise Hartzog, 550 chicks; Billy Manning, 800 chicks; besides the 4-H members, three adult members are brooding about 1,000. All the ,club members are keenly interested in their project, and if they finish the year with as much earnest ness as ig shown at the beginning, they will have done their part in help- to defeat this terrible old tnonster, “Depression.-^—— — BROWN & BUSH* . /' ' - .1 Attorneys-at-Law ~ i BROWN-BUSH BUILDING BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA PRACTICE IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS ♦ D)) c \