Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-10

IIOunu Inal lHIOIIlldllOn CCIitIt, W.
But l was telling you about the con-
dition of the folks. l saw with my
own eyes numbers of negro men who
had no clothes on-nothing but an old
sack around their waists. There were
lots of white farmers around there
who actually had no shoes to wear and
| don't think l saw a negro farmer
wearing shoes. Crops of all kinds in
that particular section have failed this
year and it is a hard matter for lots Of
people to get something to eat. The
colored women seem to be faring better
than the colored men since many of
them are finding employment in other
sections as cooks and mattresses.
Laborers can be gotten down there for
their board and 81 week and even
for less No wonder you hear stories
about so many colored people from
Georgia coming to South Carolina and
North Carolina seeking work"
WeeviI in Corn.
There is always more or less weevil
in corn, of course; but there has been
more of it this year than usual, ac-
cording to many farmers who lave res
ported on the subject. AS previously
stated in The Yorkville Enquirer, it is
an exceedingly difficult matter TO get
old corn that is fit to make into meal,
and the new corn is also badly infested.
Quite a number OF people also have
been asking for information as to the
best means of holding the weevil down,
or of eradicating him entirely, all of
them being apparently helpless about
the matter. The Yorkville Enquirer
has not seen proper to try to answer
the question heretofore, because it
simply did not know; but in a talk
with T. NJ. Oates, we'll known, and
generally successful farmer of Tirzah
yesterday, Views and Interviews got
some ideas on the subject.
We've always had weevil ever since
1 can remember" said Mr.. Oates, "and
don't know that he is any worse this
year than usual. Maybe he is and
maybe he is not; don't know.
But" Mr. Oates went on, II am told
that Mr.. D. E. Jackson, OF Filbert,
never has any trouble with weevil, and
| it is because he has a simple and eff
| fective remedy. He makes it a rule,
so 1 am told, to put some green wal
nuts among his corn, when he puts it,
in the crib. l have not talked to Mr..
Jackson. get that from Fred Smith,
who got it from Mr.. Jackson and
have enough faith in ii TO try it,"
81 have always thought" Mr.. Oates
remarked further, that it was n good
idea to leave corn in the field until
after there has been one or two good
frosts on it. l think that helps do
away with the weevil."
incidentally Mr.. Oates remarked that
he did not have much sympathy for
the farmer who trys to keep a crop Of
corn more than twelve months; that in
such case the wccvil ought to get the
corn, because It should have been dis
posed Of in some other way before it
goes into the second year-fcd up,
eaten up or sold.
Nearest Route South.
THE distance from Gastonia to Co.
lumbia by Glover, Yorkville, Chester
and Winnsboro is exactly 1O5 mills
said Wednesday Mr.. j. u. Carroll Of
| Yorkville, who was telling Views and
Interviews of his trip by automobile
between the two points Tuesday in
company with Mr.. T. c. Marshall for
the purpose Of making a map to be
distributed among tourists from the
north and east who are going south
for the winter. Mcssrs. Carroll and
Marshall recently raised among local
business people a sum sufficient to pay
for getting out folder with view to
trying to get the tourists to come this
way rather than go by Gastonia to
Blacksburg and thence to Spartanburg
and on to the south.
I'VE noted t." exc It distance with q
| SpCeuOulClCI, Sdlu MI. CdlHOll, ana
Mr.. Marshall made a map showing the
exact distances between various towns
on the route. We had intended origi-
nally to 80 from Chester to Great Falls
and then to Lugoff and Camden; but
the route that way is some twenty
miles further and while good, the road
might make up for the difference, still
! there is nothing wrong with the road
| from Gastonia TO Columbia via Chester
and Winnsboro except a stretch from
BlackstOck to WinnsborO. However as
we We're returning through Winnsboro
! tuesday night we were advised that
the citizens of Fairfield had that day
voted a 100000 good roads bond issue
so it won't he a great while before the
Fairfield road is as good as any of
the rest Of it.
"In Columbia we visited the offices
of the state highway commission and
were told that there was no question
of the fact that the route from Gas
tonia to Columbia in which we are in
tpvpsfed was tho most direct rOlItc and