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FARM DEMONSTRATION Edited by T. Start Fighting Boll Weevil for 1923 Cotton Crop. Will you make any cotton next year ? I Whether or not you are a cotton grower, you are interested in whether your county produces any cotton. There is one big thing that you can do now to help save your county. If you are a farmer, cut your stalks at ~fVow nn/lor anrl trv unct, aiiu luin uiviu unuvi ?.... ? ^ to get all your neighbors to do the same. Organize your community now for the purpose of destroying every stalk. If you are a banker or business man this fight means just as much or more to you, so go your limit to get all stalks destroyed before frost. If the stalks are destroyed now there will be no place for the weevils to live until hibernating season, and they will die. Besides destroying their food you cover up thousands of young weevils that haven't hatched, and it is these late hatched weevils that come out late in the spring after the squares are formed, so you can readily see the necessity of destroying their breeding places as early as possible in the fall. Try to get a green growing winter ??'?>? /?w\r? /\n all f?ott.dn land. Plant W?Vi VAVj# VM ?M? rye and vetch or oats and vetch. It will improve your land by adding Humus, and the vetch will take valuable nitrogen from the air and store it up in the soil for the next crop. Boll weevils cannot live over winter in green cover crops. They must have dry*winter hotels to hibernate in. I Don't burn your cotton stalks, cornj stalks or grass off the field. It makes your land poor. Turn all stalks, grass, etc. under?It makes your land richer. Plant cover crops for boll weevils hotel, and you will have fewer weevils next year. ?e a good citizen and do your part to establish prosperity. Don't leave j it all for the other fellow to do. Destroy your stalks, then ask your neighbors to do likewise. Remember every weevil you destroy ! 1 nla.A vnn ' j\of- ana erciJ amciuaiuig in?v<. j ?~ destroy now means less weevils to! live over winter. ""Kill the weevil before he kills you." j Kill Stored Grain Insects. Now is the time of the year to se> lect your corn for the reduction of j f wee vil injury. Go into the fields j while the ears are still on the stalk and select ears that have a tight fitting shuck extending well over the tip. This ear should be in a drooping position so as it will shed water. If it stands upright on the st&lx, water will cause the silks to shrivel j so that the weevils can enter and de-; posit their eggs whil? the ears are { still in the leld. Corn thus selected should be kept separate and used for seed another year. Make the crib tight and apply car bon bisulphide at tne rate ox < or o pounds to the hundred bushels. Apply evenly over the infested corn. Dig holes in the corn, pour the calculated amount in, pull the corn back in the hole, and then, if some burlap or crocus sacks are handy, cover the gram to keep in the fumes. Do not bother the crib for about 36 hours. In Fumigating small grains as oats and wheat, spread the grain on the floor to a depth of 6 inches. Sprinkle the grain with carbon bisulphide and cover with some old burlap or crocus bags. In treating beans and cowpeas the same directions can be used as those given above for treating corn, in the crib. Caution?The gas that carbon bisulphide gives off is highly inflammable and explosive, so no fire should be allowed around it. An Acre of Corn Costs About 30 Bushels. It takes about 30 bushels of corn at ordinary prices to pay for the production, of an acre of corn on the average farm. Such yields of corn pay you for your labor and for rent on your land, but give no profit in addition. It is evident that it is not profitable to farm a large number of acres in such a manner that the yields secured barely pay for the actual cost of production. The sure way to#secure a profit is to increase the yield. This may be <lone by making the soil more productive through the growing of leguminous crops such as bur clover, vetch, crimson clover, through the keeping of livestock, through systematic crop rotation, through better cultivation, and through the use of better seed. The time to consider cultivation, legume crops and better seed is right | now. The farmers who are most successful are those who make preparation in the fall for next spring's planting. Delay means another unprofitable crop. Orchard and Garden. Have you planted your fall garden * - & *' . { - ' vs* ... > -4,p AGENT'S DEPARTMENT M. Cathcart. , yet ? If not now is the time for beets, i kale, lettuce, mustard, onion sets, radish, rape, spinach and turnips. Now is a good time to purchase : books and send for bulletins or maga zines in order to get new ideas for making the work more ?profitable. 1 Every farmer should subscribe for at least one good farm paper. Read mpre and get the other fellow's ideas. It will heln vou solve some of vour nutty problems. Grow a few bulbs in" pots; they make nice house plants for winter ' blooming, making things more cheerful when everything out of doors is dead. : Make cutting of bedding plants before they are killed by frost. Tip ! cutting are best. Why envy your town neighbor his 1 nice lawn? At small cost you can have one equally as pretty. If you haven't sown a cover crop 1 in your archard yet plant rye, oats or vetch in it. It will pay you handsomely. 1 _________ i The Nation's Seed-Bed. A contented rural population is not only the measure of our nation's strength, an assurance of its peace ' when there should be peace, and a resource of courage when peace would be cowardice, but it is the nursery : of the gTeat leaders who have made ' this country what it is. Washington was born and lived in ! the country. ' Jefferson was a farmer. Henry Clay rode his horse to the ] mill through the slashes. * Webster dreamed amid the solitude of Marshfield. Lincoln was a rail splitter. 1 Ben Hill walked between the handles of the plow. Brown peddled barefoot the product | of his patch. Stephens found immortality under the trees of his country home. Toombs and Cobb and Calhoun were country gentlemen, and, afar ; from cities' maddening strife, estab- \ Jlished that greatness that is the heri'tage of their people. The cities produce very few leaders. Almost every great man in our history formed his character in the leisure and deliberations of our village or country life, and drew his strength from the drugs of the earth even as a child draws his from mother's breasts.?Henry W. Grady. Why Williamsburg County Should Raise More Dairy Cattle. 1. The dairy cow is the greatest soil builder known. 2. The dairy cow pays the greatest dividends of any other farm in| vestment Assures a steady, sure income. 3. The dairy cow affords the highest market for farm crops. A home market 4. The dairy cow affords the most profitable employment for farm labor the year around. 5. Pigs and chickens make rapid and profitable gains when fed skimmilk. 6. Every year over 15,000 pounds \ of butter is shipped into Kingstree. This money could be kept in the county if we had more dairy cows. ? ? e Unthrifty Pigs Unprovable. v An unthrifty pig is a sort of a j standing invitation to any and all i; kinds of disease. Clean quarters ana c well kept stock is a very good in- e surance against disease. Keep a j good tonic powder before the pigs f at all times. The following is a good one: Charcoal one bushel, wood ashes f one bushel, salt ten pounds and cop- ^ peras two and one-half pounds. Mix c the charcoal, salt and wood ashes, dissolve the copperas in a small ? amount of hot water, and sprinkle ? over the mixture of ashes, charcoal c and salt, and stir until all is well j mixed. Keep a little of this in boxes v in a dry place at all times. ^ Wage War on Lice. t Close observation will prove that i many hogs are lousy. Lice are very v injurious, especially to pigs. Normal j development cannot be obtained from i swine infested with lice. The loiiow- s ing home mixtures are recommended 1 for ridding swine of lice: t 1. Equal parts of kerosene and i machine oil. c 2. Crude oil thinned with kerosene, r 3. Make up a soapy water by stir- t ring laundry soap in hot water. To two gallons of this mixture add one 1 quart of kerosene. ( Numerous coal tar preparations or i dips are on the market. These should } give satisfactory results if used as ? per directions. i See that head, ears and flanks are well sprayed. 1 Sleeping quarters must be kept , clean. Sprinkle floor and bedding i with kerosene. i This treatment should be repeated every two weeks until lice disappear, i then repeat every five or six weeks 1 * V to keep down infestation. In addition to keeping stock free from lice, dipping at regular intervals aids greatly in preventing disease. Would Change County Government. 'Almost convinced" that the present system of county government is a "failure," the Saluda county grand jury in its final presentment for the year 1922 requests the legislature delegation "to give their best thought to the subject with a view of enacting some law to better safeguard the interests of the people of the county." The grand jury would abolish the supervisor's office and the chaingang unless the latter can be financed mo:e economically than in the past. Suspicion that road authorities are partly responsible for the "deplorable condition" of roads and bridges in the county is expressed in the presentment. Rather than unduly shorten the term of any school in the county, the grand jury advises trustees to borrow money and repay it when deferred taxes are paid.?The Saluda Standard. If the conduct of the boys and girls of today is as careless as some insist the blame should be placed upon the parents who have neglected to make the home the institution it should be in the forming of habits and the building of character. No people will rise higher than their home life and unless it is made attractive, wholesome, and worthy of imitation, the child that grows up in it will not be prepared to make the contribution to society which the needs of his generation demand. If the father laughs at lawlessness, if the mother makes pleasure seeking a profession, the ihild will confuse liberty with license. ?Florence Times. o ALIENS NOT FIT FOB CITIZENSHIP BARRED Reduction of Immigration Quota and Stricter Tests Proposed. (Capital News Service) Washington, Oct. y.?unairman Johnson, of the Immigration Committee of the House of Representatives, is urging a reduction in quota and stricter tests for incoming aliens. Mr. Johnson has just stated: "The jountry seems to want complete suspension of immigration. That is impossible, it seems to me, for we should leave an opening for the admission of immediate relatives of ritizens of the United States and per manently domiciled aliens; for their fathers, mothers, and children, but not for their uncles, cousins, and aunts." The chairman's recommendations ire to the effect that the present quota >f three per cent of nationals of any country already in the United States, is the number to be admitted in a jrear, be reduced to two or even one md one-half per cent. He also ad/ises that authority be provided for ;he exclusion of the mentally inferior ind emotionally unstable, and wants i stricter physical as well as mental | examination. To prevent injustice, ? Mr. Johnson proposes that certain classes, such as students, actors, and nembers of certain professions, be idmitted beyond the quota number, ; >ut for temporary stay only. o Indiantown News Notes. Indiantown, Oct. 9.?The Rally Day sxercises of the Sunday school, which vere to have been held on October 1, tut were postponed, were held on ast Sunday, October 9. The program onsisted of songs, music, dialogues, itc., and was both interesting and nstructive, and reflected credit on >upils and teachers. Mr. W. C. Wilson gave a fish fry or his friends on Friday night, at Vilson Lake. This affair was thor ughly enjoyed by all present. Mrs. F. H. Lovett has organized a girl's scout club here, and already Laa quite a number of members. An irgamzation nice mis is mucn neeueu iere, and let us hope that someone rill organize a boy's scout club too. Ne hope for the girls much success. The circus given in the school audiorium by the Girl Scouts Friday light was quite a success in every vay. The side shows afforded much ileasure for the crowd, to say nothng of the main show which was pre;ented on the stage of the auditorium, rhe children, directed by their capain, Mrs. Lovett, did some real actng. After the circus ice cream and :ake were sold, also balloons, peamts, etc. The neat little sum of hirty-one dollars was realized. Rev. W. R. Pritchett and Mr. M. N. Rogers represented Indiantown :hurch at the Presbyterian Synod held n Chester last week. Mr. Kogers las returned but Mr. Pritchett is spending a few days with his mother n Goldsboro, N. C. Miss Emmie Wilson and Messrs Wilmot Daniel, Cle mer Bartell and loe McCutchen, students of the Kiogstree high school, spent the week-end , sith their parents. Mr. Kirk Cockfield of Johnsonviile, was a pleasant visitor at Indiantown ast Sunday afterncon. "t S It's Your Low-Priced Battery The CW Battery (Wood Separator) is built for you and the thousands of other car owners who arc looking for low prices?but who can't afford to take chances with batteries of unknown or inferior make. Quality plates?selected cedar wood separators?best material and workmanship throughout. Sixes to fit all cars. Price: for 6-volt, -I.L. etc i.: ifyuiist ?io.i o Kingstree Battery Co R. E. Donnelly, Mgr. At W. M. Vause & Sons Shop. Day I'hone 238 Representing TOllard Batteries (THREADED RUBBER QTSULATKBT) and ^ Batteries fWDOO SEPARATORS) (merihouium 1 Vgjsas&g/ ?wt-W? ?I | CYPRESS j ^ SASH If If DOORS k ^ BLINDS MOULDINGS ^ I AND M1LLWORK * 666 cures Bflktts Ferer. Rub-My-Tism for Rheumatism. Valu of "Cha New med and manufi R P Avi & Sons Pitman Connection to Ki a self-adjusting device that takes up wear?one of the j improvements ever made o * Outer End of Pitman < dosed and an oil chambe that holds enough fil f?r i cutting. I Coupling Yoke thX^tta ter bar to the frame STlfc DH( Kingstree, i NOTICE. The County Board of Commission* era of Williamsburg County will receive bids at their office in Kingatree S. C., on Tuesday, September 6th, ana on the first Tuesday in each month thereafter, for groceries in bulk' lots for the chaingang for one month at a time. S. J. SINGLETARY, County Supervisor Williamsburg Co. 9-18-21-tf. DR. FRANK 0. LENTZ DENTIST Office Over Baggett's Jewelry Store. Main Street OFFICE HOURS: 9 a. m. to 1 p. in. and 2 to 5 p. m. rffff rifTffffyifyrTTfffy?y? iTiTiTiTiT iT itit it it ixiT iT i 1 COTr I We Wil | (bale value) | Reasonable 1 bank intere m No Selling ( I J.F.MAYBi | S. H. TIF S KINGSTREE, - Efl 10-6-tf v 1 WAI> Chickens Before you s< and Eggs, come tc every Chicken anc buy and'will give price. J. H. Propi The Palac : Klngstree, * ? able r eal mpion" I icteie* life Head has This gives it automatically the cutter b* most valuable even in the h< n a mower. medhaE Srank Box fa fa simple, stroi r is provided , several hours' Champion s Champion side , . naming maies ches the cut* ?Hj^lly wide. Come in and } HARDWARE COMP ? 1 - , ' ?? i ?? NOTICE All claims against the county to receive attention of the County board of Commissioners must be filed in the office, properly verified and itemized, not later than Saturday before the regular meeting on the first Tuesday In i each month. . I S. J. SINGLETAliY, v J County Supervisor Williamsburg Co. a aM 8-18-21-tf. . m FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER KINGSTREE HARDWARE CO., Day Phone 35 Night Phone 126 4 YiTiHHTiTniimrn mm i1 roN! I: 1 Lend 75% jjlJ on Cottons. |i | storage and |< -| ;st charged. | ^nmmicctnnc I tfi> ^ Vf HI M.M.A AUV/AV/ HV/ g \NK&CO. I rT, Agent \ jj . ... so. car. ? JTED | 1 and Eggs ;;; ;;; i ill your Chickens j > see me. I want I 1 Egg that I can iij | : the top market jj. ^ i >f ' t EPPS || i ietor 9-28-tfc ; jj. :e Market:: | South Carolina | IIIHHIIIinillllHIIIIH :ures ; ! lowers f | i 'I Tj^UMggg ' & v- i I i ..., ... m great leverage so it noius n ^ ir securely in alignment iaviest cutting. " lism that drives the knife ag and smooth running. teel self dump rakes and i delivery rakes are worthy for Champion Mowers. look these machines over. * i ANY * j South Carolina.