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» THURSDAY, OCTOBER ft, IMS. THE BARgTWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA Sown in Fall l^rgent in Dairying Vx. Large Acreage of Small Grains Has Particular Significance for Dairy Farmer. •v Clemson College,Oct. 1.—Larger acreage of small grains has particu lar significance for the dairy farmer, since the small grain crop ls the key to the natural advantage the south ern dairy farmer has over the north ern and western farmers, thinks C. G. Cu?hman, extension dairyman. Failure to grasp that advantage, he says, is failure ^ to reap maximum pdofits. ^‘The proper feeding of dairy cat tle for maximum production and consequent profit may be viewed from three angles; adequate amount.? of roughage crops, continuous and abun dant grazing, and supplementary grian rations,” Mr. Cushman contin ues. “The western and northern dairy farmer is offered the possibility of but one roughage crop per year- summer-time crop. The South Caro lina farmer has two. Oats and vetch make a/Y’ nter growing roughage crop which is growing in popular favor rapidly. If cut when the oat is in the dough stage and a good cure is ob tained giving a bright green forage, it is one of the best roughages in quality, is well liked by dairy cows, and compares favorably in total food nutrirpents with any of our popular legume roughages. When properly seeded on productive soil£ it is a high yielder and can be followed by another annual legume crop or corn. “The Forage Type Norton oat, de veloped by the Coker Pedigreed Seed Co., which is just being released, of fers promise of an improved oat and vetch roughage both in quality and yield. This type of oat is very leafy, is cold-resistant but net rust-resist ant, anfi, with vetch, --hould yield a superior roughage crop to any of the commonly used oat varieties. Un der field tests covering a period of three years thi.- oat yielded an aver age of 962 pounds more of cqied rcughage annually than the nearest competing oat variety and 1680 pounds more than the third variety compet ing. “The planting of oats and vetch for hay is not recommended because it is .-uperior to the summer legumes but because it minimizes the risk of a failure on the basis of one crop per year, and in using both the win ter and .-ummer forage system, greater use is made of the land. Few farmers ever make sufficient rough- age for their dairy cattle, which re quire two to three tons for each ma ture animal yearly.” ment, hens will return a creditable income; and to keep trap nest records of every individual hen so that at the end of the year each club contestant will know from which hens to breed in order' to increase the egg produc tion in the home flock. All the club members ‘’of the county will be in tensely interested in the monthly contest reports and the competive “egg race” among the pullets sent by club members from every section of the State. A number of the 4-H poultry rais ers are training and pluming their birds preparatory to the State Fair. The poultry club department is al ways filled with fine quality bird? that would compete favorably with those shown by the veteran exhibi tors. The Barnwell County junior exhibitors will have several creditable entries which have chances of being prize winner 1 .?. Poultry club members completing the years’ work in this county are: Annie Rebecca Shuler, Mary Riley Whitaker, Louise Hartzog, Billy Manning, Margaret Black and Mur'- riel Norris. IF Home Demonstration News. Following are selections from a paraphrase of one of Kipling’s famed poems. We are told it appeared first in a Virginia newspaper whose name is unfortunately not given: If you can see what some folks call “Depression” As nothing but the spin of For tune’s wheel; f .you can keep your poise and .self- possession No matter what you think or how you feel, i XXX f you can rise above the mess and muddle, If you can glimpse the rainbow through the cloud . When Doubt and Dread and Fear are in a huddle And hope is being measured for a shroud. XXX If, briefly, you can spend an extra dollar, If you can pry the sacred Roll apart Arid buy another shirt or shoe or collar, And act as if it didn’t break your heart, If you have faith in tha>e with whom you labor, And trust in those with whom you make a trade, If you believe in friend and next door neighbor And heed examples pioneers have made; If you expect the sun to rise tomor row; If you are sure that skie? are some where blue— Wake up and pack away the futile sorrow, For better days are largely up to You. YOUNG POULTRY RAISERS COMPETE WITH VETERANS The Major 4-H Poultry club mem bers of Barnwell County are prepar ing their flocks to compete with the best standard ^>f the State. Under 1 the supervision of the Home Demon stration Agent, ’ Miss McNab am Miss Juanita Neely, extension spec ialist, these amateur poultry raiSers have folfowed all instructions in brooding, feeding, summer manage ment, and sanitation, which consti tute the main essentials in maturing quality pullets. The next to prominent phases in developing standard flocks are select ing and blood testing the pullets With low grain production this year, it is more necessary than ever for all poultry raisers to closely cull their flocks and keep the best producers that will give the - greatest returns says Miss Neely, who was in the county Monday and Tuesday visiting the club members with Miss McNab These flocks y?ere culled, and a num ber tested for the Pullorum Disease fehich is one of the most destructive diseases among baby chicks, and the only known one transmitted by the parent stock to the chicks. These blood tests were made by Dr. Vandegrift representing the Clemson Livestock Sanitary Depart- Owens—Dicks. Many friends in Augusta and North Augusta and all this section will be intere ted in the announcement of the marriage of Miss Gladys Owens, of Midville, Ga., and Mr. Clarence II. Dicks of Dunbarton, S. C., which took place in Aiken September 28th, at the parsonage of the First Baptist Church, Rev. P. J. McLean, pastor of the First Baptist Church officiating. The wedding was a quiet one with no attendants but the family and a number of out-of-town friends. The bridn was very lovely in an ensemble of Burgandy crepe and velvet with which she wore a velvet hat and shoes and gloves of black. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Dicks left for a motor trip through Carolina and Tennessee, and will on their retuin be at home in Dunbarton. Mrs. Dicks is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Owens, of Midville, Ga. She is a very handsome and charm ing girl and has many friends here where she has spent much of her time with friends in North Augusta. For the past seven yeprs she has been teaching in Ellenton. Mr. Dicks is a successful young planter of Dunbarton, who has a host of friends. Among the out-of-town guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Owens, Sr., of Midville, Mr. and ment located in Columbia. The’Mrs. Jos. Owens, Jr., of Bath, Mr. eradication of the Pullorum Disease | and Mrs. George Mood, of Waynes boro, Dr. and Mrs. Brinkley, of El lenton, Mr. and Mrs. Horne and Mrs. in the flocks of South Carolina will help solve brooding problems, and im prove the quality of the parent stock. Two club members, Margaret Black and Mary Riley Whitaker have been selected from the county to enter pens of pullets in the 4-H Egg Lay ing Contest which is conducted each year at Winthrop College. This con test is the first of its kind in the U. S. ever conducted for 4-H Club mem bers, and on November 1st it will open for the seventh contest. The purposes of the contest are: To prove that with proper housing, a balanced ration, and good manage- 1 Maggie Heath, of North Augusta.— Augusta Chronicle. 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