Thomas Eskew Wheat Plat Results on 4% Acre Farm
In Greenville South Carolina on August 7 1917 Thomas Eskew reports his 4 percent-acre wheat project. The land had been in alfalin seven years and plowed ten inches deep with tractor. It received stable manure acid phosphate cotton seed meal and Mascot Ground Limestone. One bushel per acre Tennessee blue star wheat drilled in November produced 143 bushels on 4 percent acres equals 32 bushels per acre. Spring wheat damaged about 10 percent by hail reducing expected yield to about 35 or 86 bushels per acre.
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Mascot
Pickens Chronicle picks Freeman essay on Pickens history
The News considers Joe Frank Freeman's winning essay on The State of Pickens as valuable and well written. It highlights Pickens County history and urges schools to study and publish local histories, inviting students to submit county histories for publication.
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Joe Frank Freeman
Pickens High School
Pickens Sentinel
Pickens
Greenville County
Why He Wrote It Editorial Highlight Pickens Essay Winner
Frances H. Maupin reports that the Pickens Chapter U D C awarded its annual high school essay medal to Joe Frank Freeman for the best essay on a given subject. The medal aims to encourage educational and historical study and will be sent to the state historian for archival preservation.
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the Sentinel
Greenville News
Pickens County
Colonial Times
Joe Frank Freeman
Organization of the United Daughters of Confederacy
U.D.C
Pickens School
Frances H. Maupin
Pres
Pickens
Tax Notice 1917 County Treasurer Pickens County
The books for the collection of State and county taxes will be open from October 1 to December 31. Those who pay in money will incur 1 percent additional. pay by mail adds 2 percent. paying in March 1918 incurs 7 percent? levy. Taxpayers should request receipts and note township or school district. Write by December 15 for amount due and payment by check or money order. Levy details include state tax 5 mills, county taxes, and numerous school district levies. Capitation dog tax of fifty cents per hog. all residents 21 to 60 liable unless excused by law. County Treasurer Clar Tinton.
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Wilkens
Waa
Viewch
Eywery
Clar TN
Tinton
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American Ballast Company Knoxville
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Pickens Chronicle
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