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# PEANUTS FOR PROFIT. Scarcely a day passes that inquiries are not received relative to the peanut industry in the South. It is strange, indeed, that the southern fanners have so long overlooked the real value of the peanut as a part of their cropping system and that the present high market prices of peanuts were necessary to awaJken the farmer to their opportunity. Nothing has been found that will excel the true Spanish variety for general cultivation on southern farms. Great difficulty exists, however, in procuring pure seed. The only way that the farmers of the South can be sure of a high-producing strain of purel Spanish is by growing a seed patch from specially selected seed. * Thirty-six poundsvof clean Spanish I peanuts in the shell will plant anacre, and a one-acre seed patch, if properly handled, will produce enough seed to plant about 30. acres the next year. With this fact before them, it should be a comparatively easy matter for the peanut growers to get on the right basis, so far as the seed supply is concerned. The stock seed for planting the seed acre should first be carefully selected in the pod, then shelled by hand, and the shelled peas again carefuljy gone ft over, and all that are off color or inferior either ifl size or shape should be discarded. A few years ~ oi proper selection j ^ will give the farmer a strain of seed peanuts for his* conditions that can! not be had from any other source. , By this method, together with proper cultural practices and crop rotation, the yield per acre can J>e greatly in,4. creased. About the only method V-*- whereby-the farmer .can hope t? ^ make 8 profit is by tuting down pro- ( duction v costs through increase 'j _c yjeldj^per acre. '-The future of the ^ g. peanut industry in the South is al-;^ moet witiout limitations,; and -the'] farmers who get into the business on , the *right b^sis are going to obtain ^ ':i the highest profits. / ? - ' >* v-. ? ?5?^ ? 1 FARM FIREWOOD A^ ' , VALUABLE CROP ( % | That farmers helped materially in ( t conserving coal in 1918 by substi- j toting wood as fuel is shown By vsta- j tistics recently tabulated by the Bu- ] - reau 01 urop estimates, . uime^. States Department of Agriculture. An average, of 11.5 cords of wood, or a total of 77,092,0*00 cords, were burned on the farms of the country .\ during 1918. The total production of cordwood during the year, which in- ] eludes wood burned on farms .and j that sold by farmers to city dwellera, amounted to approximately 102,903- , 000 jords.v The average farm value 1 in 1918 was $4.73 a cord. Upon the | basis of estimates for 1918, the^Bu- reau of Crop Estimates says the ( farm fuel-wood crop is one pf the , important crops of the farm, inasmuch as onlv five croDS?corn. oats. wheat, ry4, and cotton?exceeded it in value in 1918. The figures show that farmer in the Southern States) are the heaviest fuel-wood users. | i North Carolina leads with an average!: ; of 18 cords used on each farm dur? ' ing the year. The farms of SbutTi I * Carolina and Arkansas averaged 17 ' * cords; of Mississippi, 16 cords; of t Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Ken tucky, Nevada and Vermont, 15 1 cords. " . % . CARE OF THE PIGS. Observations indicate that in many | of the Southern States too many hog raisers follow the practice of wean-!' ing their pigs too young. In manyj localities it is found that they are weaning them at the age of 5 and 6 weeks. There is no better or cheaper feed for the young growing pig than its mother's milk, and hog growers should take advantage of; this feed to the greatest extent pos-| ^ sible. This can best be accomplished' by feeding the sow everything she] N will eat during the suckling period, and not weaning the pigs until they; are at least 10 weeks old. It is pre-! I ferable to have them nurse the sow; lnntror? nrnhn'hlv until she would, wean them herself. . N It is realized, that under certain conditions this plan can not be followed, but it is quit^ possible it could .be followed to a much greater extent thai* ft is in many insances. Before JfTevpigs are'-weaned they should "have: access to a self-feeder 'filled witli tankage, fish meal, shorts, middlings, * or ground oilcake. Best results in hog growing are ' ' * C* ^ going to be obtained by pushing the pig to the greatest extent possible from the time he is born until he is driven over the scales. Never let the hog lose his pig fat; keep it going forward all the time. Proper feeding and care is the only way this can be successfully accomplished. t />nAn BILLION-UU3HE.L. WMbAi tnur MAY CONGEST ALL STORAGE With a wheat crop of over a billion bushels in prospect in the. United States this season?the greatest crop the country has ever produced?the need for efforts by farmers and elevator companies to market and store the grain with the least possible loss and congestion of traffic is impressed by the Bureau of Markets of the United States Department of Agriculture. In calling attention to this great marketing problem the department says that every possible measure should be taken to insure the safe storage and handling of this enorfnous crop. Last year, with a crop .of about 900,000,000 bushels, the rushing of the grain to market immediately af* ^ - 11 ter harvest caused a congestion an the way from the terminal markets to the farm. The wheat "backed up" after the terminal elevators wene full and congested the railroads and. all country elevators. The result was that embargoes were placed, on further shipments until the terminals could be cleared. Fortunately, the winter was $n open one or the loss due to lack of proper ^storage w<?bld have been heavy. v : "j ? '< . ' HARROW AND CULTIVATE J Every practical fanner realizes the importance of kiilirij^weeds and jrass coming in the young crops during May. It is ii. well-known fact that if the crops can. be-kept clean during this month they stand a much better chance of producing maximum yields?also that the later cultiva*! tions will., be less difficult. Nothing will accomplish so much in cleaning the. lancrand cultivating the growing :rop as the section- harrowlight cultivator. If you wanj; to be sui* >f a full, crop at the Iea^t expense use the harrow, freely ,even if it re-j juires a little" extrft htgh-priced helprj [t is sure to pay in ,the long run run. I ' r?; " 'r i START ALL THE "FOOD CROPS, j May and June throughout the cotton States' are the farmers' busy time. All the early planted crops must be frequently cultivated in May and a number of the minor, but important, food crops should be seeded during this month to get best rev turns. Peanuts, sweet potatoes, feor erhum, cowpeas, soy beans, and velvet beans usually do best when seeded at this time in# practically every 3ection of the South. AUSTRIA MUST GIVE UP NAVY UNDER TERMS The peace terms to be presented to Austria are rapidly taking concrete form. It is announced from Paris that the drafting committee has begun work on the document as a whole. The naval terms as completed, contemplates "wiping out the entire Austrian navy, the surrender of every ship of the Austrian naval arm being demanded. The allied and associated governments will decide later what disposition shall be made of the vessels. No hint has yet been given as to the other conditions of the treaty. Meanwhile, the German peace delegation at Versailles continues its formidable task of digesting the peace terms handed to it Wednesday by Premier Clemenceau. According to reports originating from a high British source in Paris the delegates are divided in their views on the drastic conditions laid down. Feeling apparently is running high in Germany over what is termed the severe peace terms and a review of opinion in' Berlin says that the people are discussing the consequences of a possible refusal to sign the treaty. "Rather anarchy than slavery," is the remark heard on all sides, the review declares. . One newspaper credits Herr Giesberts, a,member of the German delegation-.kt Versailles, as asserting that thVcnly immediate solution is a neace with Russia and the emnlov ment of Bolshevik troops" by Germany. .? Unofficial advices from Paris deV " - .. . . c',; - j? clare that the controversy overj Italy's claims to Fiume and the Dal-j matian coast is far from being settled. President Wilson, according to these advices is not in agreement , with the compromise plan by which J Italy would be given a mandate to .administer Fiume until 1923, and +V?An 4-olrrt nAoaoooiAn r\-f flia /lifv I VI1V1I ^V/vJOUUOiVil VA VUV Viscount Milner, British secretary for the colonies, has been called to Paris to discuss the question of Belgian protest against Great Britain acting as mandatory for German East Africa. The Hungarian communist government forces continue to suffer military reverses. Czech troops have obtained a foothold in Nagyszecseny, and Roumanian forces, according to latest reports, are 80 miles east of the capital. Operations have been begun a- gainst the Afghans tribesmen who j crossed the border and took up posiI tions on the Indian side. Russian j government advices says that an Af| ghaji mission seeking the establishi me'nfc of relations between Afghanistan and Russia has arrived at Mos- I i I COW. I * I CHICAGO REBUKED BY THE AMERICAN LEGION St. Louis, May ,9.?Efforts.on the part of leaders in the?Americart Legion to prevent questions considered ' of^a political nature coming ,to a vote in the caucus, a vigorous ptiaclc , on: the patriotism of Chicago and its mayor. William H; Thompson, and* selection of Minneapolis as the rfext convention city were among the- developments in todays session of -the soldiers, sailors and marines arganization. which is holding its^ first national, caucus here, f7* * :'w . ' f ^For the time being, 'at least, the question of the caucus' attitude on prohibition and on the'charges of" national guard officers that they have ; been unfairly discriminated agtfinst | in favor {>f regular army men, was set, aside.- . Tifc: prohibition" question was miiecr in a -special uieci*ni^; vx lithe national resolutions committee r '# . - ? and" national.; guard question r.also temporally laid aside. The mov^ ls j. understood to have the backing of ? riff^ut; Col. Theo'dore 'ftooseveltv Gol. ? Bennet Clark and other leaders In w] I the organization. Backers of "resolu- or tions regarding these two questions ^ insiV they will force, the caucus to take some action. - CT v Chicago and Mayor Thompson were bitterlyvtfenounced as unpatriotic when the question of the next ^ convention city caipe up. The Chicago delegation had decorated the convention hall with signs boosting that ^ I '** M ^ city, but, ftfter a speech by J. F. J. Herber of Massachusetts, delegates tu tore down many of them. "Massachusetts will not agree will, 8C ingly to having a convention of soldiers in -the great war go to a city that has as its first citizen by vote, P? one who "can not measure up in any 01 small part to the tes$ of 100 per la cent. American," said Mr. Herbert, 1 when Chicago was suggested. P? "The hall is placarded by signs or saying 'The American-Legion, Chi- 1* cago wants you in' November.' If 1 these signs said 'Chicago soldiers'and sailors want you,' we could consider ps | it, but our reply now must be: "Chi- '-.u cago can not have us now or any I other time until Chicago has an Am- \\ erican for mayor." ' 82 . QC GREATEST WHEAT. CROP IN COUNTRY'S HISTORY a? ac f " ar Washington, May 12.?The great. est crop of winter wheat ever pro! duced in any country is in prospect es for this year's harvest. Today's forecast of production, estimated by the Department of Agriculture, places its or j size at. almost 900,000,000 bushels? 82 | in exact figures 899,915,000?which M J would make this year's harvest worth Art AO A AAA AAA iU? MAvravrtmAnf^a O | d L 1/IiC gutcimuvi* ww v? j price guaranteed of $2.26 a bushel. 7"3 Kansas is producing an enormous ye [crop, the forecast of production for that being almost 22 per cent of the co country's total indicated output. Illi- ye nois has a forecast of nearly 66,000,000 bushels, Indiana about 56,000,- tic 000*, Ohio 55,000,000 and Oklahoma of slightly more than 54,000,000. cr The acreage is the largest on rec- ov ord and the area abandoned from di winter, killing, overflows and other ca causes is extremely low, 1.1 per cent. Jo' Growing, conditions, have been spjen-. / did and the crop" from April . 1 to ii< May 1 made an improvement, tfriiijf* ing- it to 100.5 per cent ofa notfrrtalyrbt _ . .i * . New Sty For St An Especially Inte tion of Dainty Vi It would be quite imp< expect frocks of this low prices, if we 1 factory purch more for' ' profit ... A Clearaway of S Every suit ofl . and worth mucl need the spaqe: them, at ridicule \ T, * T Special Millinery | Yotf can't/vas millinery ojfferii i visit us before! tions have been ; Mtl, and small ; " "ored feats-iafid fc; *? v styled; ^ ; #' * *'7 t\ -' ; *-* /,7 ., ?Y ?. -4 x3 - ? ' ' ' . ' ^ - .- .-vJ ..V- 1 1 Ddn't put off until tomb J. M. Anc I .Jv/' ' .: ' ^ ' M "N- ' :"M | azM ' V t\, . . i .. .I . ,icih is.^he highest condition on^rec- lrn'd 4,493, dt for May? 1. Continued t god(| 883,000; , owing conditions from ' Tiow to 000; Missi ne oi harvest might Result in a * op larger than 900,000,00p bushels -dj Prospective rye * production was . recast at 122,946,000 bushels-over ^ That fig e April forecast. ^ . been susp Winter vtfieat production, bas#d on man who , pril 1 conditions, was estimated tjiat they 17,000,000 bushels, and rye produc- readily ac< >n at 101,000,000 bushels, while V. E. ? st gear's winter wheat crop was teresting < .8,449,000 bushels and the rye crop tion. Th< 1,102,000 bushels. * t' abstract ir Condition of winter wheat com- bridge, Mf ires with 99.8 per cent of a normal "He prt i April 1? this year,. 86.1 on May 1 them into st year and 8_._ the ten-year May end with average. Condition of rye com- the other ires with 90.6 per cent of a normal outlet was i April 1 this year, 8-8 on May 1 had ( 3t year and 89.9 the ten-year May away front average. , select any The winter wheat average com- e*Per"nen ires with 49,261,000. sown last au- ^he mn and 26,704, harvested last yearj p*afn s0^a I it and bac Production of hay is forecast at | truded Iov .4,930,000 tons, compared with 89,- despite wi 13,000 tons laA year and 98,439,-;and guip^, 10 tons in 1917. The expected hay j frQm p< reage this year is about 71,224,000 up ag>aing1 res,'consisting of 55,927,000 tame1 With mQrj id 15,297,000 wild. - } " ! rejection , Stocks of hay on farms May 1 are became su timated at 8,493,000 tons, against g-vyim over .,476,000 on May 1 last year. j solution ai The average condition of pastures J away f roh i May 1 was 90.3, compared-with tion, whih t.l last May and. 84.5 the ten-year j dope fiend ay average. j short expo Spring plowing was 72.7 per centjthe solutio mpleted on May 1, compared with, to it until ! ttr.'iL -XT '.5 per cent last year and a ten- *?1W1 emy :ar average of 70.5. s?on learn Spring planting was 61 per cent about 10 i mpleted, compared with 60.8 last and stayed & and a ten-year average of 58.1. They are Winter wheat prospective produc- 'semi-intox >n this year in Southern States east drunk a a the Mississippi river shows an in- are unable ease of almost 13,000,000 bushels cheerfully er last year's production. The con- of alcohol tion of the crop May 1 and fore-1 killing pov I ? % % m st of production by States fol- e<i naai an wrs,;. fuljr grown :Vjjgmia', condition^ -99; produc- such a ten )n, 18,848,000 bushels; North Car- guess. Pe lnfrp8$?nd 2*351,000; .Georgia, 90 firms estal HSig MI . les in Fi immer W< nesting Seiec oile Dresses a )ssible for you to. quality at these vei hadn't made a very ase. We could chai them, but we pref e: by our. shrewd plani luits.... Eered is a this-seaso: i more than we ask, for othej- stocks, am Dusly low prices. ... .. ?? . . . - .M,':.- ; _ Clearance.... sualize the charm oi igs. That's why you he more notable c selected. There as hafe; black hats,,a "eaefo one is "arti - 'V'- * ' P v , now] what: tfciu 'ca lerson Coj ' ' \. ' J-J? ' i i rf* ,000; 'fenessee, 97 and 9f- j>r Alabama, 91^and 2,011t? >!o ssippi, 90 and 641,0001 v. ?r?\?? si UDirAijlu run. . m V' h were """wet" has long ected, but here ^ eomei a jroyes "it?'ptoves not .only n< like booze, but that they ^ juire the' drug-habit. Jihelford tells of some- , injxperiitaents in this direc- 'r i quotations are from an m i The Little Journal (Cam- jeJ ias>. Says this paper: ^ >vided a shallow tank for ^ which water flowed at one a drug in solution and at end without the drug. The in the middle, so that the :ompl?te freedom to swim i the drusr or into it and to s^j concentration. His first stl t was with carbon dioxid, co fish a kind of attenuated -water. They swam into ^ ked away again with prorer lip and lifted gills, but, au lat seemed like coughing co ig, they did pot turn away jrhaps they were practising ; a sporting life to come. m< )hin there was n9 apparent!m< sven at first. They soon fficiently addicted to it to rei to the inlet of the morphin tu nd stay there. Some kept an 1 the greatest concentra^ t0) i others became regular: !s. With cocain, after a|0^ sure they refused $o leave | n inlet and remained close ou they died from its effects. 1 or grain alcohol they ^ ed where a solution of in* )er cent, was to be found s^( I there as long as possible. reported to have becme ec* :icated,' but just how fiah is we to say. A tadpole basked in a 20 per cent, solution' and water which has the rer of average whisky mix- He d half with Water.; What a ;Th bulfrog woqld uiider rel aptation it is 3ifftcuLt'_ ,to afl rbaps he *would a-wooing' we /liff.ftn v2f*nn? *tEI - " ... v & i V5f-^ % ' . .. ~ - - .-m* ocks . " - * >.< ' .* sar N" ' . ' ' n J~:. -' sj . -vijVa ' - ' ' s-; . *-jv " 4E1 950 ; - . > : j . . \ ' I 7 : ' satis- $ -n : ? "ge much r to let you nimg. ; || . . "' ' ' ' . is - / \ ' . n style, - ; . " but we i offer ' U. -- W E these w " H should-.'."^' ) aagmat . ^ elai^e - 'ri. , C| r?B ntilL ' ^- ;%;;???.{ /S . i \.?'i'_' .'-, " ' > -V?viH . -' J 'V' ?> ..'; ^ " '. :[' ' v ~ y.. -*r.r-C: >"' %? n:<h TOmY ,V ' 4i mpany Oallpatterns >1 ' n 7 - irT-.- 1 . ' ''% $ eferred. the strength of a full- ;i-:a died'ipinffe for their*/'/;' ^ ^ JMMER SCHOOL AND "FARMERS WEEK Cleinson Colfege, May SL^-Dr! F. ^ ? H. Calhoun, Director of the Ag lultoriil Department, h? .Moon- " ^gg d the dates and courses for the :> .-jjj immer Sclfool which will be con- ' icted by* the.Agricultural' forces ont June 30 to: August 6.' Thens 11 be courses in the following sub** // [-J# eta: Agricultural Education, jronomy, Animal Husbandry, Club ork, Cotton Growing, Dairyings ;Js? viticulture, and Poultry Husband- ->i;; The week of July 21 to 26 will be irmers' Week. The main features V x this week will be: first, demonrations including tractor demon- ^ rations and stump pulling and \ ncrete demonstrations; second, ily lectures by the members of . e Clemson College agricultural v I culty and by visiting agricultural ithorities of note throughout the untry; third, moving pictures aling with agricultural, developsnt, with a view of presenting the :>st approved and progressive ?thods in.agriculture.. The agricultural workers of the '' sident teaching force in ,d?ri<yijre, and of the Experiment Station d the Extension Service, will work, ^1 .i.: ^cbiici in in a iv i u g Luis ouiiiiiici hool and Farmers' Week the best the kind ever held at Clemson , ~y tllege. Details are being worked t in the various divisions with a jw to presenting the very best * it each division is capable of giv- * ? j. Farmers throughout the state oul3 begin planning to attend. t , stailed information can jje obtainby writing to Dr. F. H. H. Calun, Clemson College. f * ATTENDING THE FUNERAL i Mr. and-Mrs. Herbert Allen and srbert, Jr., went up to Greenville ' ursaay ana visneu tuuuii^ iwu lativei and friends until Sunday ierrioon. On Saturday Mr. Allen rnVover'tp Spartanburg and att&&^^e^i.: oi . his uncle, V v?.1* g *..V y'_ ~-"X ^ / - .^V"' v..' - :'v I v.' v . .3