Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ ,-J , v,;v ,• I V v jm **!■ Thursday October 2, 1930 * ^WKM ? n 'KNGER, McCORMWK, South Gmrolm*. Ptfee; NmoK#>r Sere® 3^*- OCTOBER Farm Calendar * ‘ THINGS THAT SHOULD BE DONE THIS MONTH Agronomy . Win^'r r^ ri% r crop*! reduce losses of plant food from soils and (if le- { gumes) also add nitrogen for use of future crops. Oats planted early in October give best results. . Barley, which may be grown al most anywhere in South Carolina, makes excellent feed. Rye is the standby for grazing | and for soil improvement on poor 1 land. Sow early. . Horticulture Keep old strawberry beds clean of weeds and grass. Harvest sweet potatoes before killing frost. Transplant pansy plants to open beds. Set out narcissus, tulips, and oth er bulbs. Gather green tomatoes just be fore frost and store in a cool place. Thin out young turnips, beets, kale, spinach and lettuce to hasten development. Order fruit varieties adapted to your section from a reliable nurs ery. Agricultural Engineering Clean out seed and fertilizer cells on grain drills and set to plant de sired quantity of seed. Set grain drill furrow-openers to run three inches deep. This may prevent some winter killing. Use three-mule riding turning plows and four-mule disc harrows for preparing fall seedbeds where tractors are not available. Use com husker and shredder or ensilage cutter to convert com fod der into desirable roughage. Entomology Control the peachtree borer by applying paradichlorobenzine Oc tober 1-15. Fumigate stored grain with car bon bisulpphide to kill weevils and grain moths. Kill plant lice on fall vegetables by spraying with nicotine sulphate and soap. Feed windfall apples to hogs to help control fruit worms. 'Harvest corn early to reduce wee vil infestation in the field. Plant Patholo.gy Before seeding, treat small grain for smut control. Select sweet potato, seed from disease-free vines. Control powdery mildew on beans, peas, and ornamentals with superfine-dusting sulphur. Bees Requeen before cold weather. See that the hives have super room for aster * and goldenrod honey. ? Animal Husbandry Provide a creep for. the young pigs and feed them separately from the sow. ^ Feed liberally sows that are suck ling pigs. Wean pigs When eight weeks old. Vaccinate pigs when they weigh about 50 pounds. TrCat sheep for stomach worms with copper sulphate solution. Prepare comfortable shelter for all classes of livestock. Sow at once forage crops for hogs—rape, rye, oats. Dairying Use the dairy cow to clean up hay fields and com fields after harvest. Keep daily milk records on each Head; New Fertilizer Bag Lightens Heavy Work "A ttow years ago, I found that I was very weak and nothing I ate seemed to give a* aa^y strength,” writes Mrs. PI R. B. Douglas, 704 South Con- 4l j'J gress St, Jackson, Miss. Q] ”1 suffered intense pain in my head and back. At times I would have to hold to some thing to steady myself so as to do my little work. I was worried about my condition. "My mother told me that I .should take CarduL After taking two bottles, I felt stronger, but I kept on taking it until my head and back quit hurting. I took about six bottles in all, and have never quit praising CarduL” It GARDUI USED BY WOMEN FOB OVER 50 YEARS £-166 Take Thedford’s Black-Draught for Constipation, Indigestion. Biliousness. is) trj Furniture Costs Money Have you protected yours with adequate insurance so that a fire can not sweep away all the time and labor it rep resents? Adequate insurance means taking. care to safeguard the possessions for which you orig inally spent large sums of money. It makes your home a permanent investment, because disaster can not sweep away the money you have put into it. Frank C. Robinson Insurance Agency PHONE 66 McCormick Records Prove That Hen Lays And Pays . .mlii.. CLEMSON COLLEGE, Sept. 27.— Ninety-dhe poultrymen in different sections of South Carolina,; keeping records on a total of 9,919 hens, ob tained an average egg production of 11.2 eggs per bird during Au gust, reports P. H. Gooding, exten sion poultry specialist. 'Hie hens in the 91 flocks ate 24.3 . cents worth of feed and produced a to tal income of 55.5 cents each, leav ing an income above feed cost of cow and feed grain in proportion Z ± 2 CentS P * r bird for the month - j These records show that if the hens are fed right they will make money. Poultrymen receiving the highest egg production in the different size flocks are as follows: flocks small- to milk yield. Save all crops suitable for hay this winter. Cull out low-producing cows tq keep from wintering them. L _ . . , Increase hay and silage, or hay i ^ an ^ birds » Mrs * Jno * H - if silage is not available, as the ; flocks between 50 and brown and dead.!?? 0 Dirds ’ _ Mrs * Carrie Bragdon, than Ow- pastures become Secure the services of a .well se lected purebred bull so that your next crop of calves will be more valuable. Poultry Plan for winter green feed. Treat pullets for worms, if need ed, before going into the laying j house. Feed mash and grain liberally to molting hens. Begin artificial lighting with pul lets the latter part of the month. X — You have to be naturally addict ed to honesty before there is any profit In it. x When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in the end and hold >ih. Bears are almost invariably bom fn. the winter. ~ Manning; flocks with more 500 birds, M. B. Henderson, ings. Among the poultrymen keeping calendar records Mrs. O. G. Dorn, Oswego, received the highest egg production in the class of flocks with less than 50 birds. Misses L. and M.‘ Theilkuhl, Walhalla, re ceived the highest egg production for flocks consisting of more than 50 birds. X A slippery concrete feeding floor is undesirable for livestock. A rough surface that will give a good foothold can easily be provided when making the floor by sliding a straight-edge along the side forms with a sawlike motion and “jig ging” it up and down. Do this while the concrete is fairly soft. Anoth er way is to roughen .the surface with a stiff broom after the con crete has set sufficiently. Another hard lob on many of our farms will disappear as a re sult of a repeat from Chile an nouncing a change in the size of nitrate bags. ‘ Formerly, shipped in 200-pound 'bags, Chilean nitrate of soda will ; henceforth be offered only in 100- | pound bags- The new size will be •introduced this faltr* ; : ! The change was made after a (careful survey of the preference of farmers in all parts of the country. The handling of a 200 pound bag is 'a strenuous job, and the smaller bag should mean real relief on the ;farm and better condition of the material. That a vast army of farmers will be benefitted by this improvement is indicated by a report recently compiled which showed that near ly 1,000,000 use Chilean nitrate in their mixtures and for side-dress ing and top-dreSsing purposes. THINGS*WORTH KNOWING Extra Money ^ On Sweets SPECIAL PRIZES FOR POTATOES AT STATE FAIR The finest brushes used * in Chinese writing cost as much as $16. There is probably more living matter in the sea than on dry land. Kentucky has led the states in tobacco production since the civil war. Ellis island has been greatly en larged by filling in of earth, much of it being ballast brought on in coming ships. The famous teddy bear is more like the Australian koola than like the real bear. A substitute for gum arabic and starch as a filler for fabrics is now being manufactured from seaweed of the Pacific coast. The brain of Anatole Frapce, brilliant French author, weighed considerably less than the brain of an average day laborer. A steam engine designed by a Frenchman in 1769 was run on the streets of Paris at a speed of three miles an hour until it ended its career by turning over. The world’s total exports of steel in 1928 reached a new high record. It has been found that parrots learn Spanish more easily. r .than English. ..More than 2,200,000 old automo biles were scrapped in the United States last year. CLEMSON COLLEGE,- Sept. 27.— One hundred dollars additional prize money has been offered by Clemson College for the best sweet potatoes exhibited -at- the State Fair, according to announcement! of Prof. R. A. McGinty; horticul turist, in charge of the big exhibit of the state’s horticultural re sources. These prizes, made pos sible through the liberality of the N. V. Potash Export My., will be awarded as follows; prizes of $25, $15, and $10 to individual growers winning first, second, and third places; similar prizes to county ex hibits, these to be made up of ex hibits of five oi^ more individual growers from a given county. “Jump in and win some of this money,” says L. P. Watson, exten sion horticulturist, “by selecting a bushel of youl* very best No. 1 potatoes. Wrap each potato care fully in tissue paper;- pack them into a bushel basket and send to Moffatt B. DuPre & Co., Columbia, S. C., being sure to mark on the tag —FOR FAIR EXHIBIT. You furn ish the potatoes and the container for shipping them and we pay all other expenses, express, storage, drayage, etc. We prepare the pota toes for exhibit at our ; expense. You may enter as many bushels as you wish; We do not want very large potatoes or small ones. We want medium-sized potatoes, uni form in shape. These are to be ehibited in trays which we furn ish - and unless the potatoes are uniform in shape and all practical ly the same size, it will be impos sible to exhibit your potatoes to the best advantage. For further in formation see your county agent, who is in position to aid you in this matter.” Furman Will Play Wofford At Spartanburg GREENVILLE. Sept. 30.—The Furman-Wofford football game, originally scheduled to be played in Greenville on November 15, has beeiv shifted to Spartanburg * and will be played in that city on the same date. ' * Transfer of the game to Wofford was done.in order to balance the Furman home schedule this and next year. As the 1930 schedule was orig inally made, Furman was to play all her state rgames, six in number, in Greenville. This arrangement would give the hurricane a* weak home schedule in 1931 as most of the games are on^an alternating basis. . The first plant outside of China for the production of tung-oil as a paint and varnish base has been established- in Florida. Shade trees are often- “gassed” and even killed by Illuminating gas from leaky pipes in the soil. Insulating wallboard made from cornstalks is used ih a radio studio in Washington, D. C., to minimize reverberation of sound. Rabbit fur has had the distinc tion of bearing more than sixty different names in the fur market. Lichens are extremely hardy plants, which can stand a tempera ture of 50 or 60 degrees below zero. Ever since the first United States census was taken, there have been more men than women in the Unit ed States. The metal caesium is soft enough to be cut with a knife. Peach trees which catch the con tagious disease of peach yellows al ways die. A home-economics specialist points out that a mirror may some times take the place of an extra lamp to brighten a dark corner of a room. The world’s first bird, as far as scientists can determine, was the archaeopteryx, presumably a con necting link between reptiles and modem birds. The law of gravitation can’t be seen, but you know it is operating when, the brakes won’t take hold on a steep hill. Buying Feeder Cattle The time to buy feeder cattle depends principally on. the system of fattening, the quantities and kinds of feeds available, and the quality of the cattle says the U. S.. Department of Agiiculture. Early fall is usually the best time to buy the lower grades of cattle for im mediate fattening in dry lot, in order fco market them in late whi ter or early * spring. The lower grades usually reach their peak prices before June, though steers with considerable quality and con* dition may sell to advantage a .lit- • tie later in the season. Cattle to be finished ett : grass and carfied through the winter on roughage, should be'bought in the fall. Buy ing feeders in the spring for fin-: ishing on grass the following sum mer should be limited to fairly ma ture cattle. Not-much finish can be expected "from young growing cattle that are -roughed through ] the winter and marketed off grass j the following summer. .. ^ ■ \ X —— ; | Farmers could get better prices J for their cowpeas if the peas were 1 recleaned after thrashingror hull*- ing, the U. S. Department. of Agri culture believes. Practically all the foreign matetr and light-weight and broken seed which are often found in cowpeas at the market could be removed on the farm by running them through a .. small cleaning machine. If such a 1 ma chine is not available, run the cow peas through the huiler a second time. Screenings : from cowpca~ will serve as feed for livestock. Many a man who is smart enough to make money hasn’t sense enough to enjoy it. 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