Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-07

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terhouses. Large buttons are made OF
vegetable saps of a rubber nature, and
| few buttons are usually employed
| in very cheap or very, ornamental
| forms.
S. When were Jews given the first
official permission to enter America?
BY whom? In 1854. BY the Neither
lands.
9. What noted author was exposed
in the pillory, fined. and imprisoned
for writing an intolerant tract? Dam
iel De Foe. His tract, 'The Shortest
Way with Dissenters," in which he
called upon Queen Anne to hang dis
senting ministers and exile their
fiocks, brought about the punishment.
10. Who was Whistler? James
Abbott McNeill Whistler QS34-19OS)
was an American painter noted for his
originality and individuality. His best
works are THE Artists Mother: An
Arrangement in Black and Gray" and
the Portrait of Thomas Carlyle"
Marlboro Is Fighting.
"The fields of Marlboro are white,
not with cotton; but with calcium ar
senate. The calcium arsenate, you
know is white, and as almost every
stalk of cotton has been touched with
it, our fields have a new and strange
appearance. But whatever else you
would understand from that, you may
take it as evidence that our people are
fighting"
So spoke Mrs. Henry Grassland of
Bennettsville, when asked about boil
weevil conditions in Marlboro county,
shortly after her arrival on a visit to
her father, Mr.. Sam NJ. Grist Of York
vile, few days ago. Mrs. Crossland's
huband is merchant and farmer, be-
ing extensively engaged in both lines
of activity. Until the coming Of the
weevil the firm of which he is mem-
Der, conducted one of the largest sup
ply businesses in Marlboro county. It's
business is still large-probably as
large as any of the rest of them; but
like the others everywhere, under boil
weevil conditions, it is no longer risk
ing it's all to the tender mercies of the
boil weevil. Marlboro business is now
on a basis of cash or more substantial
security than the crop mortgage. But
Mr.. Grassland is still in the fight with
all he has to beat the weevil and in
sure the continued prosperity Of his
county, and Mrs. Grassland is contrib
uting her full share to the struggle.
YES" continued Mrs. Grassland, I'VE
are fighting. All of us are fighting. In
the whole county there are very few
slackers. We are trying to beat the
weevil with poison, with better and
faster cultivation, with more fertilizers
and last, but by no means least, with
diversification. All of us recognize the
seriousness of the situation; but we
believe we can win out, and we are
growing more and more interested in
the unueTlaklnS.
For the most part we are relying
on the liquid poison method of Mr..
Coker: but we feel convinced that later
on we must also adopt the busting pro-
cess. You know that as rule our cot
ton grows bigger than it does up here,
and we never lay-by as long as we can
get a plow through it. We are apply
ing the liquid poison in the buds, and
as the stalks grow bigger, branch out
and make more buds, it requires more
care and labor to get at them. Pres
emily when the limbs begin to inter-
twine in the rows we anticipate using
the busting process.
But there is another noticeable
change in conditions in our county. 1t
has not been so long back you know
since the corn field was the exception
rather than the rule; but now every
body is raising corn, and where the
land is suitable they are also raising
tobacco. But that is not all. Many
people have adopted the practice oi
alternating cotton with potatoes, and
potatoes are being shipped by the car
load. OF course there are not many
single farmers who raise as much as
carload Of potatoes; bat the crops OF
the smaller farmers are being collect
ed and consolidated in many cars.
One of our farmers lost $4,000 on his
potato crop last year, but it did not
discourage him. He took it philosoph-
ical!y and tried it again, coming out
better next time. He made potatoes
last year. many carloads: but it hap
pened that the market was glutted at
harvest time and he could not place
them. Another farmer had similar bad
luck with watcrmelons; but he follow
ed with peas and got back his losses on
that. Others are producing immense
quantities Of cabbage and other crops
and while we have not got it worked
out yet. we are coming. We are going
to fight it out and we are going to
WIN"
- The dedication of Barkers Creek
Baptist church in Anderson county