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Newspaper
Georgetown Index
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1920
Page
7
County agent outlines poultry classes including general purpose, egg, and meat breeds. Emphasizes purebred stock, early spring hatching, and utilizing incubators. Details broody management, nest setup, dusting, and feeding for baby chicks with a practical four day to starter regimen.
The article urges Southern farmers to adopt harrows, especially disc and drag types, to prepare mellow seed beds. It warns sandy coastal soils may differ but stresses in the cotton belt that proper harrow use boosts germination and yields by breaking up clods before planting.
S. White of Sumter South Carolina captured the silver medal and $500 cash prize for the second largest lint cotton yield in the United States for 1919. The Farm Journal offered eighteen prizes for six crops to reward top yields and promote wartime food production.
Rev Joseph Fort Newton warned in a New York sermon that twenty percent of prewar pastors have resigned to pursue other jobs. He noted only 44 million of 110 million Americans attend church and three million fewer children attend Sunday school since the war. He questioned Bolshevik influence and recalled a man offering to buy his church.
Miss Isabella Dunn frets over leaving her home with Effie Worrell gone to California and Nora missing. Drusilla Liscomb volunteers to manage the house and ends up charming star boarder Mr Alling while a Guernsey cattle show and sale is announced for Darlington on March 20 with prizes and wide participation.
A fragment from a historical column cites Senator Wil remarking on a fatal flaw related to a figure called The German. The brief note hints at a wider political debate and a dramatic accusation shaping public discourse.
The article urges farmers to stop planting corn on poor land and instead prepare and fertilize it for leguminous crops like cowpeas peas nuts velvet beans and soybeans. Planting legumes is presented as restoring fertility and yielding profits, avoiding losses from poor corn yields.
The article traces soap from Pliny the Elder noting its medical use and hair whitening as a Gallic invention. It cites Rome's import from Germany and marks the first soap factory in Marseilles, France, in the 13th century.
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