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« * A THURSDAY^ AUGUST IT, IMS. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA A ' A A' \ \ AT JEEEE HOTEL —V Columbia. South Carolina ^ \ ' \ «■' \ . » • During Trade Expansion Days and at All Other Times and BEST Visit Chatterbox Farmers Claim $3.50 For Ginning Is Fair *teclM»t*f C. Smilh. Jr.. HarawHI 1 (HIHi) . \ppo4Rtrd Ml C MBMltlr* I* AmmI . (cdambui, Aug. t —A ma»» mrrting of Sooth C aro! na roll, n farmer* made (>an» berr today to carry to Waahmirton a Aght for o hat it da- cided »** a “fan price" for ginning tfci» fall. ftinto! uti adopted aaid:* "That baaed <n the Rieeent price of cotton, a price of 13.&0 per bale for gtnn ng including bagging and Utt is a fair price, that for cotton in ex* cans of 1 1-8 inch staple, an addi* tional SO cent* per bale be allowed." A price cf 17.63 a bale which the rraolutitn said wa, “repotted in the press” ait having been proposed in a tentative national ginners code was characterized as "exorbitant and un justified.” J. Rcy Jones, commissioner of agri culture, who called the meeting to pretest against the piice he said was included in the proposed ginners code, press the fight in Washington for a ‘‘fair price.” A s also authorized in the resolu tions, Commissioner Jcnes named as a committee to assist him: Represen tative Neville Bennett, of Marlboro County; Winchester C. Smith, Jr., of Barnwell County, and D. B. Ander son, of Spartanburg, master cf the South Carolina Grange. The meeting, attended by approxi- mately 150 farmer s representing all section? of the State, also went on record in favor of government control of cottcn production. Badham Lumber Co. Robbed. The Badhham Lumber Company’s store in the northern part of the county, near Springfield, was entered and robbed Sunday night, according to Deputy Sheriff Gilmore S. Harley, who wa g called to the scene to investi gate the alleged crime. Three shot guns * quantity of sugar, meat and tobacco were stolen. The officer searched a number of housed in the vicinity but was unable to locate the stolen goods or discover any clue as ta the ideality of the guilty party. T it. rueoarch acttvMlea of the fait eg State* Bureau ef PuMtr Roads have been carried oa behind the sceaee so far as the general public b eourerued Ther have however, roetrtbeted materially to the progreea of highway conatrue* (too for maay years, and are now about to play aa Important part ta asturlag that the roads to he built or Improved under the I ♦O'* to* ooo allotment from the public work* fund shall Rive the service to be demanded of them. In Ita teats laboratory at Arling ton. Virginia, across the Yttcmar fr**n Washington, the Bureau has carried on research covering both sub-surface, or foundation, road soils, and the problem of providing satisfactory surfaces for low-cost highways. The latter phase of its research will prove of special im portance to rural districts where high-cost roads are noi necessita ted by the amount of traffic, and where they would impose a heavy tax burden for maintenance. Surfacing Low-Cost Roads The extent to which low-cost roads can be provided with a smooth and durable surface de pends largely upon retention of surface moisture, for it is tlie pre sence of a moisture film between the surface particles that provides the “glue” to hold them together, and that keeps the surfaces of clay, sand-clay and gravel roads from disintegrating. Such moisture content can not be satisfactorily furnished and maintained by sprinkling or any other known means of mechanic ally applying water to the surface. The attention of the engineers, therefore, has been directed to the use of some chemical which will automatically draw the desired moisture from the air above or the earth below. Calcium chloride is a chemical of this kind. Applied to the road sur face it both draws moisture from the air and slows down evapora tion. A rairfall carries it beneath the surface, but as JJie surface moisture evaporates, the calcium chloride solution rises to take its place and furnish the “glne” to hold together the surface particles. With each rainfall and subsequent evaporation of sarface moisture the process is repeated, the net resalt being that the sarface has no opportunity to dry out and dis integrate. iV* \1L A V & The shrinkage test, another of the many tests used to determine the reactions of soils when subject to changing load, moisture and tem perature conditions. A moist sample cf soil is placed in the laboratory “oven” and the amount of shrinkage observed when all the moisture has been removed. Among the most Important fac tors that influence the action of the sub-surface soils is capillarity, or the extent to which capillary ac- 'Tiqn perfneates them with moisture drawn up from the ground water. As'in the case of the surface soils, a certain anfount of moisture is highly desirable, but too much dis integrates them just as too much water disintegrates a handful of damp sand Bub-snrface toils which attract excessive capillary moisture are also subject to the frost heaves that rule many roads. The Drainage Indicator, used to study the rise of water in a soil sample under varying conditions of pressure. A device developed by the Bureau and known as a drainage indicator makes it possible to de termine both the maximum capil lary rise in the soil under test, and the rate at which the ground water will rise due to capillary attraction. The device shows also the relative amounts of air, gravitational mois ture <rain water, etc.), capillary moisture, and solid particles which go to make up the soil. The Capillary Rise The tremendous amount of water that can be furnished by capillary action is indicated by the composi tion of a sample ten-foot column of soil. The sample contained 5.9 feet soil particles, .6 foot gravitational moisture and air, and 3.5 feet capil lary moisture. The maximum ca pillary rise was 9 feet, and at 1.5 feet above the ground water the rate of the rise was 10.4 feet per 24 hours. Soil is not a calculable and stable material to the same extent as steel, stone or wood, but the tests developed by the V. S. Bureau of Public Roads enable the highway engineer to forecast the reaction of his soil under varying ! conditions with a high degree of accuracy. At the same time they show in what necessary qualities the soil be most depend upon Is deficient, end indicate what con stltneBts should be added to repelr these deflcienciee. Tto gectety eg ludepeoilvai Art lets. Bow Tort, bee recot*eg e doeoa petal* lag* fftNB tliafaa pneea. I*aaae-»eem. aa laatitatkm better haowa tor rtato than artistic prod art lea. 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