Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-09


Il 10 only a little more than a month
now until The Enquirer's club con-
test comes to a close, and during that
time there Is probability Of consider
able change in the present status or
the clubs. There is also room for
each and every clubmaker to secure
additional names.
There 10 moro or less inquiry among
the sewers of small grain for nitrate
of soda, and the present quotations for
that fertilizer are from $3S to $40 a
ton, delivered in carload lots. Most
growers Of wheat and oats insist that
nitrate of soda should be applied with
in the next two or three weeks and
that failure to apply this fertilizer
means positive loss in both yield and
money.
We have heard several inquiries
lately as to what has become Of the
robins. The following dispatch from
Beckley, West Virginia, may help to
answer the question: Hundreds Of
thousands Of robins have descended
upon an old rookery n a dense pine
woods near here and have evidently
determined to spend the remainder Of
the winter there. 1t Is unusual for
robins to winter as far north as this.
Every afternoon near shutdown great
fiocks of the birds arrive at the rock
cry from all directions. The birds
are 80 closely packed in the roosting
trees that many are killed nightly by
breaking limbs"
Still we hear people claiming from
time to time that the buy a bale
movement of last fall worked great
injury to the holders Of cotton. There
is no good ground for such a claim.
The buy a bale movement vas we'll
worth while, II for nc other reason
to encourage the holders Of cotton
and prevent decentralization. II the
farmers of this section had allowed
themselves to part with their cotton
at 6 cents and a little better that
was being offered, the price would have
quickly fallen still lower until the bot
tom would have dropped out entirely.
1t is a fact that very few mills were
able to raise money to buy cotton even
at 6 cents about that time, and all Of
them, Of course were in for getting
their supplies as cheaply as possible.
The buy a bale movement helped Won
derfully.
Tho question az to whether cows
may be kept in the corporate limits of
the town Is probably involved in the
outcome Of a notice that DR.. Hayne Of
the state board Of health, has sent to
Mr.. C.. F. Sherer Of Yorkville. Mr..
Sherer is feeding a number Of cattle
in a barn on West Madison street. Not
long 6 Mr.. D.. E. Boney and others
complained to DR.. Miles Walker, chair
man of the local board Of health, with
regard to the matter and DR.. Walker
ordered MI. Sherer to move the cat
tie. Mr.. Sherer stated that II the feeding
Of the cattle IA in any way a menace
to health he would obey the order
without question, regardless OF per-
sonal inconvenience or financial loss.
He had taken other physicians n
| certain citizens to the barn, however,
and all had expressed the opinion
that they could not see or smell any
| thing about the premises that appeared
to be prejudicial to health and he said
he would pay no attention to DR..
Walkers order. The secretary of the
state board Of health came up and
looked over the premises and on his
return to Columbia wrote Mr.. Sherer
a letter in which he instructed that
the cattle must be moved by the first
of March. Mr.. Sherer had calculated
on continuing the feeding Of the cat
tie to about the first Of May, or the
beginning Of fly time" and he says
he does not intend to obey any per-
emptory orders from anybody until he
has been convinced that such orders
are by proper authority, and packed
by the law. II DR.. Hayne pushes the
case, as his procedure up to this time
indicates it Is his intention to do, and
as he says Is his purpose II necessary,
one Of the results will probably be to
determine whether sanitation Is a
matter of opinion or a matter OF fact.