Edgefield Advertiser, 1927-12-28

mers. As secretary Jardine said, "It is no exaggeration to say that through the research accomplish accomplishments - ments accomplishments of recent years the average farmer today knows more of the "sci "science - ence "science on which his industry rests, and brings it more into constant tTdnT than Ihe Scientist' knew years ago." Lest the significance of the fact that science has become the prevail prevailing - ing prevailing factor in farming in America es escape - cape escape us, let us pause a moment and consider its bearing upon the life side of farming. I conceive the far farmer's - mer's farmer's scientific attitude of mind with respect to his everyday occupation as but the precursor and herald of the new day in American rural life. Note what this new attitude toward farming means. Is it not a veritable resolution in the mechanique of the farmer's thinking 'when he substi substitutes - tutes substitutes in agriculture a reliance upon accurately observed facts, for tradi tradition, - tion, tradition, ideas of luck, of irrelevant causation, of fate, of punishment, of vagary, of fear, of superstition? For the rank and file of farmers to be convinced that good things in agri agriculture - culture agriculture follow in a sequence certain ascertainable facts, is to have taken one of the most revolutionary steps upward on the ladder of human pro progress. - gress. progress. That this scientific habit of mind pertains, as yet, almost solely to the practices of agriculture and to certain few practices of housekeep housekeeping, - ing, housekeeping, should not deceive us into think thinking - ing thinking that this science is a matter es established - tablished established and isolated in fields and barns and kitchens. No. It is a con concept - cept concept established in the rural human mind; and what is there established as a habit in one department sooner or later becomes-operative in all de departments - partments departments of living, and its effects may be looked for in due time not only in crops but in human beings.

First Prize in Cotton Contest Awarded Arant ir. M. Arant, Chesterfield county farmer, was last week awarded first prize, $1,000 in cash in the five acre cotton contest conducted in South Carolina during the past year under the auspices of the South Carolina CarolinaCotton - Cotton CarolinaCotton Manufacturers association. The contest committee consisting of two members of the Clejnson college extension department and three rep - ' resentatives of the manufacturers as association - sociation association awarded the prizes. Second prize, $500.00, was won by J. H. Hendrix of Pickens county; third prize, $200.00, went to C. C. Edwards of Chester, while fourth, fifth and sixth prizes, $100.00 each, were awarded G. A. Sherrill, Chester Chesterfield; - field; Chesterfield; O. J. Fletcher, Marlboro, and A. W. Hall, Anderson, respectively. Arant's yield on the five acres was 5,857 pounds of lint with a 1 and 3 332- - 32- 332- inch staple. The other winners made more than 4,200 pounds of lint and seven-eighths inch was the short shortest - est shortest staple. Hendrix produced his cot cotton - ton cotton at the lowest cost, among the winners. His outlay was only 4.9 a pound. There were 437 entered in the con contest, - test, contest, of which number fully 60 per cent completed their records. Data from the records as announced Dy the contest committee shows an av average - erage average yield of 575 pounds of lint per acre was made, against a general generalstate - state generalstate average estimated at 145 pounds. Members of the contest committee were: V. M. Montgomery of Spartan Spartanburg; - burg; Spartanburg; A. W. Smith of Greenville; and Alfred Moore of Tucapau, rep representing - resenting representing the Manufacturers, and D. W. Watkins and R. W. Hamilton rep representing - resenting representing the Clemson extension ser service. - vice. service. - Spartanburg Journal.

Rural Life Progress in 'the United States Industry is outstripping agricul agriculture; - ture; agriculture; and the question which eypry thoughtful person has on top of-his mind is, "Has rural life had its day; or has it a new day coming; is the farmer a disappearing human factor in American economics, America^ so social - cial social life, American religious |life, American politics; or is the farmer about to take a step in American life, and fill a role - a fitting _)pew role, which corresponds with the -no -noble - ble -noble pioneer role he has played imthe first 200 years of American national life?" Progress in the Science of Agricul Agriculture - ture Agriculture and Homemaking Although the first college of Agri Agriculture - culture Agriculture dates back 70 years, although the-U. S. Department of Agriculture and the system of Land-grant Col Colleges - leges Colleges date back 65 years, and ^ al although - though although the first state agriculturalex agriculturalexperiment - periment agriculturalexperiment stations date bgck 50 years hope that the American farmer film filmself - self filmself would become initiated into^the scientific techniques of agriculture and household science did not b«ve real evidence in its favor untill ;less than forty years ago, when the Ha,tch act and Adams act had gained con considerable - siderable considerable headway; then there .was increased evidence after the Smith SmithLever - Lever SmithLever extension act and Smith SmithHughes - Hughes SmithHughes Vocational act, had beguft to operate with momentum. But begin beginning - ning beginning with this short period of crisis since 1910, within which is set our special ten-year period, 1917 1927, the principles governing the occupa occupation - tion occupation of farming have come to be the possession of the rank and file of far -

"Of Asia's six longest rivers, four are in Siberia, the Ob, Yenisei, and Lena flowing north into the Arctic ocean and the Amur emptying into an arm of the Pacific. The other two are the Yangtze and Hwang, or Yel Yellow, - low, Yellow, River of China. "These twelve river basins repre represent - sent represent the greatest variety of climate and civilization. The Amazon and the Congo flow through lush equato equatorial - rial equatorial jungles inhabited by birds of brilliant plumage, wild animals and savage tribes, while the mouths of the Yenisei and the Lena are above the northern timber line and their ^^qsaueppjjipjft thjg, sparsest popula population. - tion. population. The Mississippi and the Yang Yangtze - tze Yangtze flow through established, if di divergent, - vergent, divergent, civilizations, with rich cities alohg their banks like jewels on a string. The Nile is one of the cra cradles - dles cradles of world history;,the Mackenzie is still a frontier stream. "Up-Hill" Rivers "From the point of view of a world map five of the dozen rivers 'flow up uphill.' - hill.' uphill.' That is, flow to the north. These are the Nile, Mackenzie, Ob, Yenisei, and Lena. The Mississippi and Niger flow south. The Amur, Yangtze, Hwang and Amazon run eastward. Only the Congo points toward the west. "All these streams overflow their banks at intervals but the results are strangely different. In the case of the Mississippi and the Yangtze, floods are national disasters bringing untold suffering to millions. The pnnual overflow of the Nile with resulting fertilization of the valley by the deposit of silt is the source of the wealth of Ee:ypt. The Hwang, or Yellow river, from its habit of over overflowing - flowing overflowing its banks and changing its entire course at intervals, is known as the 'scourge of China.'

Oats - 71 cents per bushel. Corn - $1.70 per bushel. Legume hay - $37.80 per ton. Cotton seed meal - $58.90. If seed are exchanged for meal and the meal fed to cows, the income for cotton seed is $120.00 per ton as compared with $40 per ton when sold to the oil mill. Trot the cow with cotton as well as with legumes. "I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the gold ! of Ophir" - Isaiah 13:12. I "If ye be willing, ye shall eat the good of the land." - Isaiah 1:18, 19. I The best dieticians in the world ] teH us that there's nothing to equal milk as a food. In fact there is a cure known as "the milk treatment" which will often cure when all else fails. It consists of the use of milk alone as a food. I have seen 70 70year - year 70year olds gain 15 pounds a month on this treatment. Milk, cereals, vege vegetables - tables vegetables and fruits; all of which can be produced in Edgefield county to al almost - most almost perfection, will lend length of years and we can feed on "the good of the land," "if ye will." What about your will? "Whosoever will may drink of the water of life freely." Just as applica applicable - ble applicable to this life as any. Doctor Wiley, formerly of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, sail during the World'war: "Give me a pint of milk and a pound of corn meal a day, and I will rear as fine a child as any one with any kind of food." Yet, we think we are poverty stricken if we have to resort to so simple a diet. Verily, "there are more people digging their graves with their teeth than are dying from star starvation." - vation." starvation." Even the Lord of Hosts had to chide His chosen people for "whoring after the flesh pots of Egypt." "Whosoever will." W. H. BARTON, Co. Agt.

Cancer Increasing The defiinte increase of human cancer has engaged the best minds of the surgical profession for some years. There is no doubt but that the people in this country are suffering from cancer to a larger extent than at any previous period. The annual death toll from this dreaded disease is enormous, and increasing. Dr. James Coupal, official White House physician, in a recent article in the American Journal of Surgery, cails attention to the study of figures for the last twenty years. Sherechew Sherechewsky - sky Sherechewsky estimates cancer increase at 46 per cent, while F. L. Hoffman thinks it is 50 per cent. All accessible can cancers - cers cancers are being decreased except those of the breast which continues to take its toll despite the measures of sur surgery. - gery. surgery. Internal cancers of course are the source of much of the increased cancer growth. The estimated 50 per cent increase is subject to interpretation, 'fen per cent is caused, it is thought, by the 'trfflgeV life now ehjd^ea' by mankind," which enables a large number of peo people - ple people to reach the dangerous cancer age. Thirty per cent is credited to better diagnosis rather than an actual increase of the disease, which is cre credited - dited credited with only ten per cent of the increase, according to Dr. Coupal. The point we have in mind in call calling - ing calling these figures to the attention of the readers of The Enquirer is that cancer, in its early stages, can be cured. People should watch anything that persists in growth. A small "sore" may be the beginning of a cancer. When in doubt see a physi physician - cian physician and let him use his judgment. - Yorkville Enquirer.

Would Curb Speculation Changes in the federal banking laws which would check speculation on the stock exchanges and provide cheaper credits for the agricultural communities are demanded by U. S. Senator Smith W. Brookhart, radical Republican of Iowa, as a means of alleviating the present agricultural depression. He also attacked the Federal Reserve system. "The Federal Reserve law is di diverting - verting diverting most of the surplus credit of the country into speculation at a low rate of interest, while the farmers are compelled to pay a high rate of interest for their bank loans," he as asserted. - serted. asserted. "When the law was presented in congress it was said that the big can cancer - cer cancer in the American banking system was the accumulation of the surplus credit of the country in New York banks, where it was loaned for spec speculative - ulative speculative purposes. It was proposed to cut out this cancer by denying to speculative loans the rediscount priv privilege, - ilege, privilege, and these loans are outlawed on the rediscount side of the Federal Reserve Bank. "At that time the speculative loans Vere $776,000,000. On August 31 of this year they amounted to $3,764, $3,764,000,000. - 000,000. $3,764,000,000. Instead of reducing the can cancer - cer cancer the Federal Reserve law has in increased - creased increased it fivefold. "A farm bill alone will not cure this discrimination against agricul agriculture, - ture, agriculture, and I estimatte this evil to be 65 per cent of the cause of the pres present - ent present agricultural depression. The rem remedy - edy remedy for this situation must be found in a bank bill." - Bamberg Herald. Renew your subscription today.

Many Bird Policemen Aid Southern Farmer Birds vary in beauty, plumage, and song, but their economic value to agriculture depends very largely on what they eat and at what time of the year they eat it. The Biologi Biological - cal Biological Survey finds tb" facts by analyz analyzing - ing analyzing the stomach contents of birds. In Farmers' Bulletin 755-F, "Common ^ Birds of Southeastern United States in Relation to Agriculture," there appear detailed reports of the food habits of 23 of the more important of the 460 species of birds found at one time or another in the south southeastern - eastern southeastern quarter of the country. The kinds considered are the house wren, Carolina wren, mockingbird, brown thrasher, cardinal, gray grosbeak, painted bunting, common crow, blue jay, meadow lark, boat-tailed grackle, bluebird, Carolina chickadee, tufted titmouse, purple martin, scissor scissortailed - tailed scissortailed flycatcher, red-cockaded wood woodpecker, - pecker, woodpecker, chuck-will's-widow, night nighthawk, - hawk, nighthawk, yellow-billed cuckoo, bob bobwhite, - white, bobwhite, barn owl, and turkey buzzard. Of these, only the boat-tailed tailed grackle was found to be guilty of doing more .harm than good. This bird lives on the coast and depends on marine crustaceans for a consid considerable - erable considerable share of its animal food, and corn is the principal vegetable food. One good report from Texas was an analysis of the food of six birds tak taken - en taken in fall and consisting largely of bollworms. In any locality where this grackle is very abund. nt, it is almost necessarily harmful.. to' the corn crop without rendering any well defined service in return.