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VOLUME LX.
BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1936.
NUMBER 7.
Finds Way to Extract
Fats From Pine Trees
Removal Would Provide Finest Bond
Papers, W'ith Soap as By-Pro
duct, Says Herty.
Savannah, Oct. 11.—Discovery of
fat in pine trees, fat containing the
same stuff as human and animal flesh,
was announced today by Dr. Chas. H.
Herty, director of the pulp and paper
laboratory of Savannah.
With the fats he found a cheap,
easy way of extraction which he said
promises two new industries. Rid
ding the trees of fat, he said makes
it possible for the first time to manu
facture the finest grades of bond and
book paper from the Southern forests.
The fats themselves offer a new
by-product industry to the present
newsprint makers. For Dr. Herty
found the same fats in the spruce
trees from which the world supply of
newsprint is made.
The tree fat is useful for making
soap and for making flotation process
es. With it is a mixture of fatty acids
and waxes. One tree acid is oleic, a
potent ingredient in the human body
sought by physicians for medics! ex
periment. Another is linoleic used
for paints. In the waxes* is choles
terol, which can be converted into
vitamin D.
Found Two Years Ago.
Dr. Herty discovered the fats while
trying to make book and bond paper
out of Southern pires. This he un
dertook two years ago after he had
developed methods of making news
print out of all grades of Southern
pines. His pioneering work is spon-
AGRICULTURAL NOTES
By George R. Evans,
Vocational Agricultural Teacher,
Barnwell High School.
FEED AND FOOD TO BE
SCARCER THIS YEAR.
Because of the terrific drought in
the North and West, there‘will be a
need to save every possible pound of
Southern grain and roughage to sup
ply our own demands. Those farmers
of Barnwell County who are in the
habit of buying hay and grain from
the West had better make arrange
ments now or else sow a winter feed
crop. As has been pointed out oats
and oats and vetch together will give
to the Barnwell County farmer a good
growth and yield next spring thereby
furnishing a supply of feed. Rye will
furnish an excellent pasture when
planted this month and allowed to get
a sufficient growth befort pastured.
Meat and flour show indications of
reaching a new high in cost for the
coming year. The farmers of Barn
well County can over come this cost
Hand-Picked Cotton
Pronounced Better
Sharecroppers W'in Out in First En
counter With Rust Brothers’ Cot
ton Picking Machine.
Record-Breaking Deposits.
I
New Orleans, La., Sept. 13.—A mil
lion families of sharecroppers have
won their first encounter against the
Rust Brothers’ mechanical cotton ,
j y deposits
picker, an economic battle now in
progress down South that may end
ultimately in a massed exodus from
the cotton farms.
The American Cotton Co-operative
association has announced to its 253,-
000 farmer-members that in a fair
test, hand-picked cotton was found
to be three grades cleaner that cotton
reaped by that ungainly contrivance at
Stoneville, Miss., and therefore worth
$8.50 more a bale.
This means, in effect, that under
normal conditions on an average farm,
it would cost about $21.50 a bale to
pick cotton with the machine, while
hired hands could pick it for $15 a
a bale.
But not all cotton farms produce the
average, or have the same topography
Total deposits in The Bank
of Barnwell for the month of
September amounted to $1,244,-
099.31, which breaks all records
for deposits in a single month
in a Barnwell bank, according
to Perry A. Price, cashier. Mr.
Price said that he does not re
call any previous month when
reached the million
In the appointment of the cadet of
ficers and non-commissioned officers
for the current year at The Citadel,
the Military College of South Caro
lina, Cadet William D. Jones, of Co
lumbia, was appointed to the grade
of first lieutenant. He has been as
signed to the second ba tall ion staff as
anti-aircraft officer.
Cadet Jones is a member of the
coast artillery unit of the Restrve Of
ficers’ Training Corps at The Cita
del. He was until this time a mem
ber of Company D. During his sopho
more year he was a corporal in that
company and during the year just
past held the rank of sergeant in the
ion of the land, and finally where nee-' extensive tests this year in the long tame organisation. He is a member
1 with most others who have studied the
invention of John and Mack Rust, that
it already has definite advantages
of living to a large de*ree by the or moisture, and ACCA officials agree
planting of wheat this fall and the
raising of hogs this winter.
In deciding whether to plant a
winter cover crop it is well to remem-1 over h >n< f-Ta kers in some regions,
ber that it will not only serve as a I The Memphis brothers have been
soil builder and conservator of plant demonstrating their creation since
food but will greatly reduce the ero*~ I AMI. But it was hauled out for first
mark. This reflects not only .j.
the improved business condi- $
tions in this immediate section
«{• but is a strong testimonial of
X the faith depositors have in the
i soundness of the local bank.
Triple “C” News Notes
W. TEAL, Reporter.
Makes Good at The Citadel.
essary. furnish a large amount of hay 1 staple section of Mississippi delta and
and grain this spring. It must be the world cotton industry sent its ex
remembered, however, that soil con- perts to watch.
serving crops need to have conditions Rhat they saw was a device mount
sored by the industrial committee of' right or there will be no growth of rd on two wheels, pulled by a tractor.
Savannah and financed by the Chemi
cal Foundation, Inc., of New York
Oitv.
crops. It is the purpose of these crops The picking port wss close tu the
to build up the nitrogen content snd ground, under a steel frame that
organic matter in the soil. It has straddled the cotton row. As it
was what the paper industry rails
“pitch.” It is the stuff which shows
The handicap to making book paper | been frequently noted that those ports moved along about 31% miles an hour.
of the fields that are in need of sail the plants entered a metal trough that
building are the very ones where the ™*aprese»d them ee that revolving
as an occasional slightly discolored cover crop does not do well. This Is spindle• could mesh theosoelves
spot in paper. It is not pitch, but Dr.' merely o not her wsy of saying that through the plant.
Herty said no one knew exactly what j there is eat sufficient amount sf plant j There were IJI44 ptndfes in rows
it wss made of. * food on the paster ports sf the field* sf If snch an a revelvum heM. Tha
To find oet he s’Iced sections of t to produce good resu-ts from the sod , aptndhre were moistened by a revofv-
tree wood thin as tissne He color- J improving crops. In the rase of the mg rubber drum. M staters made cot -
winter legumes, which are to be plow- too stick la the spindles, which, as
gd under for the fertilisation of the they reached the end ef ibe bait, were
spring crops, the mtnefsl elements net combed <df and the rot too b own
le of.
oet he s'wed sections of
thin as inane He color
ed the slices with his logical steins like
a physician looking for the cause of
d>eeoae. The result was discovered
that the “pitch" was made of ohst
of the business staff of The Sptnx.
Citadel yearbook, and has been active
in other campus activities.
Scholastically. Cadet Joues. a sen
ior la the school of engines nag, stands
well in his Haas. He is a son ef the
late William Hatcher Jones, a native
ef Virginia, whs was far a nember ef
years sspermtendeot sf the Barnwell
gisilsd school snd who also served as
county supertn'endeot ef edorallau.
Hta mother la Mrm. Laura Bel tagev
Jones, a native ef Barnwell.
New
Bnhert I
la having
fuaaua, cW* h ef mart.
modem hungsloo bo lt
on hm Jackson Street let, apposite
the P. M Buckingham property It
ua^ 81 rr
only met eose the ) i
legume but also inn
of the arep. This
Isrtnrr (<• tarn uad
dd
• inter through an angular pipe to W dro; j *d I is to bs of hallow tils and star re
the
ran
hnvi
( ells ( an He Heea.
t V
urii-
»
filled with fa
These cells art
mtaeroacopr. Th
times smaller than th
which make paper.
tmrte«i by diluting the
ting it run by gravity <
screen. The small cells
with the water.
There ta no machinery
of the downgrade Dr.
•wed
fstti
md I mac
iree
fi
th
At the md
Herty has a
good growth of gram is
ed. a fertiliser of |5d |
per cent, super-phos|hal
of murute of potash will pay in n
large measure. Many farmers con
sider this fall fertilisation enapee*.
vary, psrtuula ly where small grain
into a receiving bag that held 4fi§ 1
pounds
These were two sb|ertioua: The
machine, while doing the work of IM
men, left some cotton behind. It psch*
eg some leaf and plant with the cot
ton. Best estimates were that an a
second run over a row It gathered a-
bout PO per coat, of the crop, which
wos its maximnm rffK lenry
The question then siosot What of
thy quality of machine-picked cotton?
The ATCA obtained two samples from
adjoining rows on the farm of J. L-
Weileman. of Stoneville. One sample
was picked by hand, the other by the
machine. Government graders made
the test at ACCA offices here.
•irsbie readeucos are at a pev
Ba> swell at this tlam.
Advevtls* m
The
la following cotton or me'ona. How-
new type of pulp, more free from the ever the experience of the Experiment
fat than even the spruce pulps now | Stations hav e shown that potash i* ! picked The
used for the best grades of paper, absolutely necessary for good growth m . ch jne-picked .ample was graded
Another new process separates the on€ | the best yields; that phosphate |ow m i dd | in|r i n color; strict good or-
water from ‘he fat I causes the crop to fill out big heads , etf Both Mm p,„ were ,
Srriice trees. Dr Herty n e xt spring. The noils of Barnwell ,. 8 inch , Uplft Kinne<1 , t the g , me
tam only about H* per cent, of the t oUnty aief in the maint 8andyf thouKh ^ ^ by ^
new govern-
a s. i out trn pines a con j there is a smal. amount of clay scat- men t standards, it was a difference of
much more of the living stuff, j tered over the county. This being j !hree Krad „ in favor of hand-picked
probably accounts for them growing ^ true j t j 8 a step f or ^ f arrnera co ^ on
neatly five times as fast as spruce. 0 f coun ty to take advantage of: r . . , ... ., .
One of the Southern pines, -loblolly, this knowledge and use an abundant I . Co8t of machine P ,ck,n *’ therefore,
has 8 per cent, of fat.
None Extracted Now.
amount of potash.
A great many of the farmers of
“If,” said Dr. Herty, “all the sul- Barnwell County failed to successfully . ^ ^
phate pulp (the newsprint pu p) used store their sweet potatoes last fall. -. .. . u j i
1 . F * v * * F , rn_ i/ . ., , Operating cost was based on Mack
in this country annually were made The Piogressive Farmer states that R , .. . - ...
_ „ , * . ./ 1 , Kust s estimate of $1 per acre, with
from Southern pines it would mean where the number-is small that pota-
a daily production of fats and waxes toes can be successfully stored in a
of about 420,000 pounds. None of brooder house. It would be well to
these fats are now being extracted thoroughly clean the brooder house
here or elsewhere.” ; and spray twice with a spray con-
- Getting rid of the fat in trees has sisting of 3 pounds of bluestone dis-
been also a big stride ahead for an- solved in 50 gallons of water. Do
other of Dr. Herty’s scientific this spraying before'the potatoes are
“dreams,” the making of clothing put into the house and at an interval
dwo holy to tto work.
“So,” mid Btoolry Aodww* of th*
ACCA. ‘*tm*il *11 stop* coo W mo*h*o
nod. I bo o*o <*f x oucbioo would m*oo
that •htrorvoyyvr* Icofod oo tboir
(root yorvho* dortog picking Umo."
Soc tolugui ■ 4 iff or oo poooi bio r«ooo
qoooco* of a *orroaful machioo. Some
oovtaagv great cot ten oototva with
balf tha •barveroppora tumod looao
on tbo rood*. Other# *ee co-operative
•moll farm* pooling their fund* for
a community machine. Son*, aa doe*
Toehnically, they found the hand-1 Dabney Crump of Anderaon Clayton
and company, believe labor aoviqg de
vices only create more employment, aa
witness the textile mill where one
girl apina aa much cloth os 36,0011
could spin by hand in a day. Others
think whatever happens to the share
cropper it will be for his good, a re
lease from penury.
In defense of the machine, experts
said: •*
included 10 per cent, or $7 a bale (1) It was more effective in larger
waste; $8.50 a bale loss in grade; $6 yielding fields because it moved at the
a bale cost of operating the machine, same speed, while hand-pickers were
slowed.
(2) In sections like Texas, where
rainfall was low and weed and stalk
yield at half a bale an acre, above 1 growth restricted, little hand work
the average. It was estimated the j was needed before harvest and the
machine would have to make three machine would eliminate all need for
trips over each row because of the hired hands.
Rain, But No Holidays.
In spite of all .the rain we have
had in the last week, the members of
Co. 4468 have lost no time from work
in the woods. It has just happened
that rain has dodged the work crews
while they have been on the job.
They say it is “G. I.” rain, all in
favor of the government.
E. M. Padgett is now in charge of
five crews. v 0ne of them under Lead
er Louis Faver is constructing Truck
Trail No. 32. Another under Leader
. B. Potter is constructing a bridge
on the same trail. Crews under
eaders Henderson Williams and
Grover Gideon, and Assistant Leader
lubert Ricker, are gathering pine
cones.
These cones are to be sent to
the nursery at Georgetown and used
: r or seed.
A tool check made by W.’C. Smoak
and D. C. Jones, of the State Forestry
office in Columbia here Saturday
showed all equipment of Camp P-70
to be in good shape. This camp was
said by the inspectors to be one of
the best in the State, so far as the
condition of tools was concerned.
Back From Ridgeland for Visit.
Mr. Gamble, surveyor, of Camp P-
70, who is in charge of a detail at
Ridgeland. was bock in camp for the
rek-end. He reports that they like
their arrangements in Ridgeland fine.
Sam Ellison and Herman Harvey
ere also here at the aame time. Sam
went bock on th* job Monday morn
ing. hot Harvey remained In camp
here with a aofo feet.
Canteen Dreuoed Up.
Several improvemeota hi the ap-
paarnnre of oor re crop lion hall have
wn made In the Iasi
notable among them being
d rortaaa fee oor mat*
are very pretty, and *et a
teen and roc root lea hall ta
Nendo, ~ Mmi 1*1
With the eeaamc m t
•eoeeo. the Wye have
"Monday M»ruing CWch."* sad they
are amhiag teorhdewne all oeue the
recreatiea hall every evening, ae woil
( a*e ta Work hi BetlB.
M. Cane, oar efficient feeoatry
Highway Patrolman
Dies in Road Mishap
Body of W. T. Thompson, Killed Near
Cheraw, Buried in Blackville
Thursday.
The body of Highway Patrolman W.
T. Thompson, 31, who was fatal
ly injured Wednesday morning six
miles from Cheraw on the Chester
field road, was laid to rest in Black
ville Thursday afternoon, the funeral
services being conducted at four o’
clock from the home of Mr. and Mrs.
S. G. Lowe, of that town.
Mr. Thompson, who was a nephew
of Forrest Gyles, of Blackville, and
Herbert E. Gyles, of Aiken, died in a
Florence hospital, where he was taken
shortly after the accident. It was re
ported that Mr. Thompson apparently
had attempted to avoid a head-on col
lision with a truck entering the high
way from a side road by twisting the
handlebars of his motorcycle to one
side. The machine sideswiped the
truck and bounced off the rood into a
field, where he was later pickad up
and carried to the hospital.
Mr. Thompson had been a patrol
man at Cheraw for one month, it be
ing his first assignment. He went
from Aiken to Cheraw. He had been
in ther Regular Army before joining
the State law enforcement body sad
his superior officer spoke very highly
of the patrolman. He was known as
a ronscientious worker while on duty
and to be ef pleasant and friendly
demmaor when at leisnre.
Mr Thompeea Is semved by hie
widow and one child.
I RGBB TAKB ADVANTGB
or good hog
F’oreare, Oct Ifi -The
crap In the com belt aa
1 price of feed are
posse te
tael checker, he* beg
m a drug etoco In Eat ill
him Inch.
are
their
WINTNNnr tllMXAB AMN.
a week’s ton!
We wwh n 7J£ f ^r > ^ (
gilts that eogmally would
fee be** heg pospeaes am he
ed *• th* market hp the feed
TO WEST IN AIBKN OCT. M Th* will reme e
fee nest year’s
The annaa! cmifcreac* ef the ihi**i* M *4» •eU* %
hraivrn t*w»tf>ct. W ifitkrop tlomnee f• mrrv ohe have U
A*eort*(»oa will be held Aetarday. Or- *stra gilt* te their
tehee 24. at 19:30 a. m. ta the Cam- Three gtHa heed la I
awrcial Hotel at Alkea, with Mrs raw ahem next February, and
Lean Cate, director, perildmg. Speak spring pigs will he ready far the
era for the ecrsaiea taclede Dr. Bhel market,
ton Phelps and Dr Jams* P. k nard. Te eff*et the con
of Wmthrop College, end Hen. J. 8. whet th* specialist
Thurmond, of Edgefield. crop*, such as eats, rye, barley er
A Dutch luncheon will be eerved at rap* for winter grating sad green
on* o'clock, after which the visitors soybeans for summer graxing. Oat%
will be gursU of the Aiken Chamber aa grain, may be substituted for corn
of Commerce on e tight-seeing tour m the rations of work stock, and
of the famous resort aity. j breeding hogs, and even for ono-
All alumnae of the Western and fourth of the ration of fattening hogs-
neighboring districts are invited to| The use of oats and forage crops wBl
be present. Those expecting to attend help carry these hogs over until a
new corn crop is made to finish them
for next fall market.
are requested to notify the hotel
manager as soon as possible.
The People-Sentinel’s Friends.
intermittent blooming of the plants.
The average hired hand earns $1
(3) Ginning machinery might be
improved to remove most of the leaf
per hundred pounds this season and it, f r0 m machine-picked cotton and im-
takes about $15 worth of his product prove its grade.
from Southern pine forests. The fat of about three days. Make the lost
to make a bale of ginned cotton.
(4) It would be profitable in South
in these trees has been a barrier to spraying just before the sweet pota-
makir.g rayon. j toes are to be stored. Such a practice shareeroppei^has another advan-
Preliminary tests of the “fatless” will tend to prevent the loses uesult-! tage over ‘hat would take
Asidte from his mathematical value, 1 America where labor was scarce.
(5) Cotton left by the machine
could be plowed under as fertilizer and
pine wood indicates that it will make ' ing from black ro^ and similar dweas- ove ^ ^' s back-breaking job. He is pay dividends in improved soil
standard rayon.
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“Even Steven.*'
boy Mkdl the other day: “Daddjp
are they going to move Dr. Steven^’
office bock?"—reference being to th*
street improvement in Barnwell.
-No," replied the father, “they're
jam moving Lemon Bros eineo hock
even with Dr flevenn"
“Oh! on fc will ho EVEN
•md (he Ufi
es. Treat the sweet potatoes so stor-; ne * ded to cultivate the farm in ad- 1 (6) It could mean that the South
ed just the same as those potatoes v * nc e of the crop. I would produce 50,000,000-bale crops,
Such authorities as Oscar Johnson, sell them cheaper, but at a bigger
cotton expert of the United States profit, and regain America’s declining
1 department of agriculture, believe that export trade market.
stored in potato storage houses.
Burglar Alarm Urns Off.
" 11 the machine ia impractical because
The burglar alarm ia Codia’s liquor hired hands pick only about 19 per-
stove, at th* earner of Mam and Wall cent, of tha ratlea.
toeets, was *et eff hg aaaaa m- There are about 2999499 fauulte*
known cuuaa about three e’darh Sun- sf aharerrepperu who park the tost,
day aflaruaaa and (touted a httAa They hot an th* farm the four iwnufL
not*.. K •*■» a*>i' in ptoa *4 m*.* e, rhoppaag ssmosm
New and renewal subscriptions to
The People-Sentinel have been re
ceived reoently from the. following
good friends:
Miss Mildred Lewis, Columbia.
Mrs. J. A. Templeton, Blackville.
Victor Lewis, Kline.
Winchester Smith, Williston.
H. C. Creech, Kline.
J. H. Zorn, Barnwell rfd 1.
J. D. Davis, Barnwell.
Mrs. Rosa Wall, Martin.
Mrs. R. L. Jones, Detroit, Mich.
C. F. Rizer, Olar.
S. J. Hutto, Hilda.
Main Sreet Work Progresses.
State Fair Opens Monday.
The work of remodeling the store
of Lemon Bros., preparatory to widen
ing Main Street, is progressing slow
ly but surely. Last week the work
was retarded to some extent by thq
inclement weather, in spite of which,
however, the north wall has been
practically completed, the old front
on Burr Street has been torn down
and an entirely new front is being
const: ucted.- Some of the scaffolding
on the Burr Street side fell last week
and several workmen narrowly es
caped injury.
Meyer's Mill 4-H Club.
The Meyer’s Mill 4-H club held its
first meeting of this year at the home
One thing was generally conceded
to the Rust* brothers* machine. It Is
1
m muse mb at mush.
•md pashaug
Columbia, Oct. 12.—With the great
est fair in its history ready for the of Mias Gene Swett, local leader,
public, the greater South Carolina Wednesday, Oct. 7. General
State Fair will open Monday, Orto- tiona were taken up by the members,
ber 19th, and continue for the week, after which Miaa Elisabeth Mr Nub
This year’s program has been ot-gava an interesting talk on "Msu-
ranged so as to scatter the events uers. 1 *
over more days, getting away, if pas- Officer* were elected aa
■9 Talula Wit
Though
•r which ranged “Big Thursday* w*B sldl he the hsg-
ee to eurtaau mm- pee* day. thm your'• seoaiu m a hig
4 meu. iponlhi mm- day everyday and fsurman ho«e Smo
I
he beet ef 759 mechanical ration athl*. from the whole shew 1
ochcrs the*, hoe* been peteuted einrp , cemlruled eo "Big Thursday