Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 . L TRAINING PLANTS FOR FOOD PURPOSE LITTLE KNOWN MEN WOR . WONDERS IN IMPROVING NATURE S PRODUCTS. I* (E. L. Farrington in The Dearboi Weekly.) Certain men i.ave done such spe tacular thinge in the way of plai breeding and hybridization that the have gained titles or plant wizard There are others little known to tl general public wno have worked woi oers in bettering the ratural produd of tho earth. In Central New York lives Calvi Keeney. Mr. Keeny is the man wh took the rtrings out of string bean Surely, that is achievement enoug to give ruiyone fame. Everybod knows string be ins were very proj er!y named. Foimerly, it was alwaj necessary to unw.nd a snarl of string in dining on this vegetable. M /Jfc'eny grew beans for seed, hundred them. He realized th r ^eflfteSilitj? of the stringless strir. t about to produce one. \ln J&fcrey got down on his knee ? jan-h^ppt frcm plant to plant, trj f imjgW^flnd a single bean without rtring. He broke hundreds of bean, raid spent weeks in labor before hi ltward came. Then he found a bea which did break clean. He marke the bush on which it grew with white rag, an I continued to searcl Only a few plants were found in th whole field, but the seed from thet was saved very carefully, and th next year planted in a separate plo A considerable proportion of the bear from this plot were also stringles; They, too, were saved, and plante< This process was kept up for sevei al years, until practically every bea was a stringless bean. . Down South lives "Old Sol' Wrigh the man who gave the rice growei the Blue Rose variety. Salmon Lus Wright is his name but he is bette Imnwn to his associates by the nam of "Old Sol." Mr. Wright has don for rice producers what Mr. Keene has done for bean growers. He wer to his fields one day and returne with a pocket full of rice grains froi various rows. He shelled them an found & big difference in the grain: Some were long, soir.e short, som fat and some thin. Many wer stunted, and not a few misshape] Several hours that night were spei in an effort to find a perfect graii Disappointment was the result. Agai and again he had this experiena At last, however, several berries wer fou d which approximated his idea Th' j -were carefully planted and th see i from them collected. Sligl im; rovements were noted, and anothe cro was nursed along. I ?r months Mr. Wright spent hi "evenings examining hundreds of tin fceries by an oil lartip. For si years' he worked this way, until h had accumulated several hundre greatly improved grains. In 1911 a almost perfect American-grown see rice had been produced. It was foun to yield f:om 25 to 30 per cent moi head rice than any other variety Mr. Wright called his new strain th lUuo Rose. It was an odd name, an i? the way it came about: While Mr. Wright was spending hi long evenings inspecting rice see< his wife's mothe- read to him. On right she read a story telling of th labors of a priest who perfected rai roses. A parishioner, intending to b sarcastic, asked the priest why he di not produce a blue rose. The pries replied: "My dear man, if I could d that I would not have to be you nriest any longer." At this poir Wright stumbled on the perfect grai he had so patiently sought for year *nd on the spot he named it the Blu Rose. It is one thing to perfect an in proved grain of rice, and another t get the growers to adopt it. Th mill:; knew only Honduras and Jap; nese rice. The growers were afrai that the mills would not buy thei product if it were a new kind. A last, however, all prejudice has bee broken down. In a single yea Wright has sold twenty-three thou: and dollars' worth of seed. Fort bushels returned to one grower a income of $4,600. At the presei time, Blue Rose is being planted o nearly 400,000 acres, or more tha half the total rice area of the Unite 3 ?A1J states, ;uiu v/iu oui vvnguv W'Hll II 111 1 111- I'Hl Mill ? > ? I ])ledge myself to give ! 1 S to Williamsh ?i J J purpose of erotting a momumeiv ?? lost their lives in the World W; J ! Signed: in witr ian, it is a tvuuzivu growers to receive 40 or 50 cents : r~ box, and oftentimes the plants keej a on bearing until the fruit is frozei 5> cn the vines. Certainly, strawberry is lovers owe a debt to those reo^es n men who have given much of theii d lives to the improvement of fall ber a ries. * Sometimes, an improved variety o: e fruit is obtained much more quickly n The strawberry is a notional fruit e Varieties which thrive in one sectioi t- are almost useless in another. Som< IS j ears ago, fanners south of Bostci s- needed a better strawberry than any b which they had been able to grow Among them was Lester Blanchard n Going through a small patch of ber ries in his field, he saw one whicl t? vas easily distinguishable from thi s (thers. It seemed unusually largt k and solid Mr. Blanchard dug up th< >r clant to use for propagation purposes e In a few years, he had grown enougl ic plants to set out a field and star y producing the berries commercially it This was the origin of the Abingtoi d strawberry, now one of the leading n varieties of the East, aid a berw d which can be shipped to market un s- der conditions fatal to other varieties e Originally, Minnesota was not look e ed upon as a fruit-growing state Yet, several horticulturists, workinj it on the experimental farms establish ed by the state, have produced : n number of splendid new plants, som< 5. of which are especially well adaptet e to northern climates. Professo: 1- Charles Haralson, superintendent o: e the Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm it worked quietly for years testinf r thousands of seedling berries an< larger fruits, is Perhaps the finest of his new fruit; y is a raspberry which was first calle( x Minnesota No. 4 but is known now a; e Latham, being named for the secre d tary of the Minnesota Horticultura n Society. Many common raspberrie: d are not sufficiently hardy to g* d through a Minnesota winter. Thi: e new variety, however, is hardy an< f- and produces a great amount of large e delicious fruit d Most of us are acquainted with th< logan-berry which comes from Cali is fornia. There are various storie: i, about its origin. Many attribute i e to Judge J. H. Logan, of Santa Cruz e jIn 1880, Judge Logan started a frui e vegetable garden, planting ever] e variety of blackberry and r ispberrj d he could obtain. A great many seed Jt i lings were raised, and one day Judg< !o | Logan noticed one entirely unlike th< ir I others. A few weeks later, the ber it | rles began to ripen. Judge Logai n realized that he had discovered n nev s,! fruit, and took pains to propagate it ie; He named it the Loganberry. Thi; I berry, a cross between the raspberr 1 and the blackberry, has several ad o | vantages over each. The berries grov ie very large, and the yield is enormous i- It is said that a hundred small frui d lasketfuls have been taken from on< ir plant. It ccntairs a great amoun -t of juice, so refreshing that it haj n been put on the market as a beverage r, The time may come when nutswil s- be depended upon to feed the world y Before the war, ruts constituted thi n largest smgle food item amoung ou it imports, the value reaching $22,874, n 000. Thousands of strong, energetic Ji persons take 75 per cent, of thei: id protein from nuts and thousands mor< n could do so to advantage. For year I'M"! 1 1 1 I 11 I"I I I ! on June 1st, 1922, the sum of 4 4 4 urg Post American Legion for the ?j 4 J t to the white soldiers and sailors whc J 4 1 ar* 3 3 4 iiiMinnniinniiit?mi' has saved the rice industry for Araer ica. SWhen people were told a few year ago that a strawberry which wouli bear all summer had been developed they were inclined to raise their eye K brows in surprise. Now fall-bearin/ and everbearing strawberries are n< longer novelties. It is as easy to ea strawberries in the fall as in thi m spring. For nearly 20 years, Harlow Rock c~ hill, of Iowa, worked to breed straw berries which would produce contin ;y uously throughout the season. Thous s- ands of seedling varieties were de ie \ eloped. A few gave promise, whil the majority were discarded befon ts came. Mr. Rockhill, though, was no the only man who hit upen the ide; 'n of fall-bearing strawberries. Samue 10 Cooper had the idea in mind and he S- \t*oc? cnppoccflll WV, ?.?o OWVVVUWAM** h The fall-bearing strawberry is es y ^ecially valuable for home gardens It produces a big crop in the fall i s the blossoms are picked off until th? :s first of July. Then the next sprinj r- the same plants yield another gen 's crous supply of large, red, juicy ber e lies. These berries grow best in hill: & where they cm be kept cultivated 7 ' ?*- ito AM f A - a number of enthusiast? have been devoting their time to the develop5 ment of better nut trees. One of cl these men is David Bush, an old-time 1, Pennsylvania horticulturist Mr. - Fush has made eating easier by per? fecting nut strains which have thin 0 shells, easy *o break, and a large t amount of meat. Mr. Bush and othe ers have produced pecans which can be grown in the North, and walnuts _ which thrive in New York state. The development of better qualities . in nuts has engaged the attention of . many scientific and studious farmers. . L. F. Wilkinson, of Rockport, Indiana, e is one of these. Born and reared on e the spot where he now lives, he has t given lifelong study to nut culture a with important results. 1 j In addition to practical efforts to , better the quality of nuts, J. F. Jones, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has giv . en much time to preaching to the !_ general public the value of nuts as f fcods and of nut-berring trees ?as e valuable shade trees, important to the , growth of vegetable life in general. . "Jones, the Nut Man" is the title by . which he is known far and wide, a s title, by the way, in which he takes the greatest pride. r There are many others whose quiet t work for the advancement of their 3 profession of cultivating the soil have 3 contributed largely to the uplift of . vegetable food. But for want of a I press agent, most of them work their r quiet wonders, unknown to the world . they aid. f FORTUNE FLIRTS WITH HIM. Negro Convict Worth 4 Million Unless t There's A Mistake. ? Jefferson City, Mo.,?Report Says: , Maybe D. H. Mays, a 51 year old .; negro serving three years in the state prison here for forgery, is I worth 4 million dollars?and maybe . he's just an out-of-luck negro. x, Warden Samuei Hill Doesn't know, ? and Hays, like Bre'r Fox, he "lay low," ? and like the Tar Baby, "he ain't say ;; l-uffirV' # 1 For, if Lady Lvck's looking his way, ! Hays doesn't-warn to scare her off by t i lalkin And she does seem to have been looking mighty coy in Hays' 1 direction this week. f He has had letters from various j persons urging him to sign away oil . leases on 160 acres of land he owns in Mexico, and telegrams from law. yers in Oklahoma City, telling him .1 not to sign a thing for less than 4 r million dollars. So Hays isn't singing, and Hays ! isn't talking, or doing anything but ? w&at he's been doing for the last five i months?making shirts for the state r of Missouri in the prison shirt fact tory. t! With the allowance for good behavj: icr in prison and everything going I right, he may get out by September 1923, and get a chance to spend those , four millions that his lawyers say his j land is worth since oil has been dis5 covered. .1 Hays says he owns the land?about 1 a quarter of a section of it. But 5 that's all he has to say. It's some>i where in the northern part of Old 3' Mexico. Prison officials have seen 1 the telegrams from the lawyers and the letters. } The prisoner who may bo a million;' aire came to the penitentiary Decern.1 ft mm Oi _ jL>er ?,t izt.1, nvai ok. ovocjjn, ovimvk s ed of forging a draft. He is part t Indian, and has two other names, . | Henry Hubbell and James Manuel, t j Manuel, he says, is his real name. j! And he's not a stranger to prison, j either, having served one term in the .' Oklahoma state prison at McAlester ;! and one in the federal prison at ;! Leavenworth. But that's another . i matter about which he chooses to j! "lay low." r J When he gets out Well, if those lawyer gentlemen are right, looks 5 like a boy ought to be able to get a j sight of noble food and good clothes . and three or four red motor cars for j 4 million dollars. L "Sho' gets old, makin' these ole t jail shirts when a fellow maybe is ? r millionaire," lows Mr. Hays. t o g Another One on Henry. I# The other day a big car pulled up 1 at a filling station out of Chicago L some miles. The driver asked?"How a far is it to Chicago?" Answer?"140 r miles." "All right, give me twenty . gallons of gas and a gallon of oil." c Later came another big car and r rfked?"How far is it to Chicago?" e Answer?"140 miles." "All right, s give me ten gallons of gas and a half gallon of oil." " | Comes next a Ford. "How far :.s H it to Chijago?" Answer?"140 mi: -s." C j "Is that all! Well, give me a quart fcicf water and .a battle of Three-ir.-One ; oil." j KINGSTREE : lOllgf; Nil. 46 Meets the second Thursday night in each nonth. Visiting bretheren > cordially invited. H. U. Kinder, W. ! M., Donald Montgomery, Secretary. NOTICE OF SALE. I STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, \ County of Williamsburg. Court of Common Pleas. S. B. Boston, Plaintiff, , j ag*i?st Amos Syrus and Farmers & Merchants National Bank, a Corpora-! i tion, Defendants. 1 Notice is hereby given, that pursuant to a Decree for sale in foreI closure, made in the above stated case by his Honor Judge S. W. G.' j Shipp, on the 1st day of May, 1922, II will sell to the highest bidder, for !cash, before the court house door, in ; Kingstree, S. C., on the first Monday l in June, 1922, the same being the' 15th day of the said month, during J the legal hours of sale, the following! described tract of land: j All that certain piece, parcel or I tract of land, lying, being and situate ; in Williamsburg county. State of 1 South Carolina, containing twenty | (20) acres, more or less, and bounded t as follows, to wit: North by lands 1 of Samuel Syr is; East by lands of Thomas Cooper; South by lands of : W. D. Daniel; and West by lands of ; Jones. Said tract of land conveyed to me by H. 0. Britton, Clerk of | Court for Williamsburg county on the j 3rd day of February, 1914. Purchaser to pay for papers, and ! I in the event of his failure to comply | with his bid. the said land will be ! resold at his risk . J. D. BRITTON, ' j Clerk of Court of Williamsburg county, S. C. 5-18-3t. J. D. B. Notice of Stockholders Meeting to Dissolve Corporation. ^ Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Stockholders of the J. H. L. Chandler Co., a corporation duly chartered under the laws of the State of South Carolina, will be held on Monday the 29th day of May, 1922, at twelve o'clock noon, in the office of the J. H. L. Chandler Co., Salters Depot, in tko County of Williamsburg, State of South Carolina, for the pur-' pose of considering the liquidation and dissolution of the said J. H. L. Chandler Co., the winding up of its affairs and the surrendering of its Charter, and for the adoption of such I resolution as may be necessary to this end. I Salters Depot, S. C., April 26, 1922. j J. H. L. CHANDLER, President.' MRS. M. N. SPARKS, Secretary, J. H. L. Chandler Company. ( <t-29-5t. Subscribe for the Retord now. , 1 IBrickl j are Advancing I Due to the Coal Strike Buy Now! Shipments Within ' 48 Honrs After Acceptance of Order LAYTON BRICK WORKS 1 Established 1885 a MARION, . . . . S. C. I 5-ll-tf g CARDUI HELPED REGAIN STRENGTH ! _____ i AUaai Lady Wis Sick Fir Three lean, Safferiaf Pirn, Heroes ad Depressed?Read Her Diva Story of Recovery. Paint Rock. Ala.?Mr*, a K. Stefan, fef nets ken, recently related the Sollowing lntereetlng account of her ro* rrery x "I wu In a weakened con* dittos. 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