The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-05-05

WllAl UUk UUUNly
: FARMERS ARE DOING
The Club Boys who attended the
luncheon given them by The Manning
Board of Trade last Saturday report
a good time. Mr.. l.. l.. Baker, State
Leader of Boys Clubs was present and
gave the boys 4 very interesting and
instructive talk. Mr. g. r. Sprott, of
the Manning Oil Mill, offered to let
any boy who could not finance his
acre OF peanuts have the fertilizer and
seed peanuts necessary to plant an
acre now and pay for them after his
crop is harvested. Luncheon was then
served and each one did his share to il
putting ham and cheese sandwiches,
pickles, fruit salad, ice cream and
cake out of sight. AS soon as luncheon
was over the Bradham Farm was
VISITED: The big hogs were quite a
SIGHT for the boys and they seemed to
ENJOY seeing those fine hogs almost as
much as they did the luncheon. When
the contests are over and the crops
harvested next fall there will be a
petter time in store for the boys.
heard a rumor this week that a
man near Summcrton had torn down
an old house and found about a busbnI
OF Doll wcevils hibcmating in tho
cracks and crevices. The amount no
doubt is somewhat exaggerated but at
that III bet he found a lot of them,
enough at least to convince him th,t
the boil wccvil is with us. There are
stlll a large number of farmers in
Clarendon who think there is nothing
IN this boil weevil talk Those peo-
pie, Pm afraid, will be wiser thoupb
saddcr next fall. They remind me
or the man who was attending a circus
1or the first time. While going,
through the menagcrie tent he came
to the pen in which was giraffe. lie
stood looking at it for some time and
finally half to himself and half TO.
the man next to him he said, "rhere
amt no such animal"
Mr.: A. I. Barron has piece of
1ufnlture on his back porch that is
dong flourishing business. 1t is q
flytrap and Mr.. barron said it naiJ
FOR itself in half day as it keeps the
flies away from the doors and
windows. The trap is built A shaped
with wire netting. In the center of
the floor of the trap there is an open.
ing through which the flies enter the
trap and once inside they cannot find
thelr way out again. Just under this
opening is placed a shallow pan in
"1lch Is syrup or some other sub
'tance that will attract flies. Such q
trap is necessary article on n farm
ana II more of them were used there
would be less sickness.
"A prominent farmer stopped me on
the street the other day and said,
Mr.. Musscr we certainly want a
cotton grader in Clarendon next wear,
This is the first year have sold strict
middling cotton and | have no reason
to believe that my cotton is better this
year than it has been other years. I.
believe the cotton grader saved the
county $5O,000.00 this year and /
would be willing to pay so cents bale
to have my cotton graded" I'll saw
we want the cotton grader back next
year, how about you?
The Summcrton Hardware Company
gave demonstration last week in one
or Mr.. Lucian Broadway's fields in
chopping cotton with the new cotton
chopping machine which has been put
on the market in this section of the
State Tor the first time this year. This
machine not only chops the cotton
but cultlvatcs the row at the same
time. The cutting blade is 9 inches
VIDE and space Of three inches is
left between chops. The cultivating
attachment can be unbolted from the
machine and used as one or two
horse cultivator. The general opinion
is that this chopper works fine when
there is good stand but in a poor
stand it is liable to chop out the only
plants that have come up and thus
ncceS&itatc rcplanting.
Mr.. j. NJ. Rowe Of Summcrton is
screening his porch. Screens and
flytraps arc certainly needed on farms
where as general thing the mule
stables are but short distance from
the house. Horse and mule stables
are about tie only place i'm which
flies breed. Sprinklng powdered boraW
ON the manure will be q great hclp
in ridding the place Of flies. TO be
effective all summer the boraX must
be sprlnklcd on in frequent intervals.
Almost every week some one tells
that he has purchased some register
ed pigs or hogs and as yet has been
unable to get the registration ccrti-
flcatcS for. the animals he purchased.