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Newspaper
The Dispatch News
Location
Lexington, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1922
Page
7
Local notes recount farming shifts toward Kernel Corn and citrus details of residents visiting kin. A fire destroys Boyd Berry’s house. community sympathy voiced. Social items include visits, family gatherings, dog tagging query, and a St. John’s school cake walk with prizes.
Health of the community is fine with plentiful rain. Mr. and Mrs. J A Ballentine and family visited the former’s parents Mr and Mrs George W Corley. Misses Thelma Ruby Katherine, Mr Homer Hook spent time with cousins Ralph and Raymond Hendrix. Mrs Jeff Rawl visited Mrs Willie Leaphart briefly. Miss Corley visited with friends Thelma and Ruby Hendrix. Miss Ernestine Price and Mae Jumper visited with Elsie Ray Hook. Ralph and Raymond Hendrix called on their uncle Earle Hendrix. Lynwood Shull returns home from an absence.
The column notes Spring has arrived and predicts bell weevil activity as cotton farming wanes. It records several local visits and family gatherings, listing Mr. Jacob Ballentine, Mr. J. J. Long, E. S. Crout, T. S. Amick, B. E. Snelgrove, A. J. Shealy, D. D. Amick, P. B. Warner, Julius B. Hyler, and Eugene Amick among attendees in the Macedonia section.
South Carolina markets feature a large sale of 4-H butter organized by the Home Producers Association. Palace Market on Taylor Street in Columbia handles most sales and ships the dairy product from a centralized facility.
The supervision of the hire demonstration dairy specialist describes small initial shipments that grew as demand rose until last week’s total of 138 pounds. A customer praised 4-H butter as “too good to keep,” while the home demonstration department aims to develop profitable home enterprises. Mr. O. B. Martin of the Washington Department notes early efforts to standardize products for year round sale and urges focus on packing vegetables fruits meats and other marketable goods from farms and farmsteads.
Clemson College criticizes boll weevil control agents for pushing paid exterminators and patented methods that fail to deliver results. Director W. W. Long says farmers waste millions buying devices without proof, and Clemson offers to test agents tools with the U S Department of Agriculture to verify merit and save costs.
Government backed plans and farmers urged to adopt skim milk and by products in hog rations. Dairy expert D T Herrman argues skim milk, buttermilk and pasteurization improve pig growth, bone and muscle development while reducing disease risk. Recommendations give milk to corn ratios by pig weight class.
Clemson College reports that demonstration work in the Boys' Club movement shows teams from Fairfield and other counties winning prizes. The program spreads efficiency through communities as county winners rise from various state districts, promoting better livestock care and farm practices.
Advertisement for RAT-SNAP rodent killer by Harmon Drug Co. and Lexington offering cakes sized 1 for kitchens or cellars 2 for chicken coops 5 for larger buildings with a money back guarantee.
Lexington SC store advertises Daylos batteries and lamps in every size and style with unit cells and flashlights. Auto electric bulbs and renewal lights for home use are offered. Prices are stated as reasonable and goods reliable.
Clemson College notes celery can be profitable for home and local markets. It profiles Giant Pascal as a top winter variety, seed sowing, shading, thinning, transplanting to beds and fields, soil fertility, and timing from late Septem ber to late November.
Patron voices confusion amid a muffled scene as a tense exchange unfolds about a knock and a listener’s late spouse in a fragmentary dialogue.
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