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Farmers W.r!l Decrease Production il Prices A.'i ^/iiprofitable Factories have always decreased their output when necessary to maintain profitable prices. Town and city people have gradually reduced the number of hours of labor to enable .i*l fo find employment, but a mightj ! ovl is now going up from these same people over the passage of a resolu 'ion by an Indian farmer's organization i^jsvoring a one-fourth decrease in the crop acreage to be planted ir 1920. They are very much opposed t( the farmers taking steps to curtai production. The reorganization of Europear agricultural and the decreased Euro pean demand for American foodstuff: mean a decrease in prices for fam products, and will not continue t< use every cent of available capita and every ounce of energy to produc< enormou3 crops as they did durinf the war. Intelligent farmers realizi that unless war production of farn products will prevail within the nex few years. Of course, farmers are a conserva tive class and, regardless of the policy pursued by factories and laborin* men, will not act hastily and brin? starvation on a large per cent of th( population of the world. They wil continue to produce as much food a: the world is willing to consume at i profitable price.?The Progressive Faremr. The Need for Better Farmintr Svitemi The most real and vital problem before fkarmers just at this time is to work out a safe and sane system of ' farming; one that will include crops to enrich instead of wear out oui land; one that will include plenty of livestock to consume the surplus products and the leguminous crops must be grown to enrich the land and to make manure to still further enrich the land?a system of farming that will grow the necessary corn, oats, wheat, rye, sugar cane, vegetables, fruits of all kinds, hogs, mules, horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock for home use and to sell at a profitable price. The growing of cotton impoverishes the soil, and attempt to kecyi THC TCrr^lTV CT TT!0 CO!!, S>y TP? use of commercial ^fertilizer r.utst give way to a new system of farming. In this new system of farming, we will practice o rotation of crop', including leguminous crops, such ns cowpeas, soy beans, peanuts and lespt-deza,a iid the crops grown will be largely fed to good livestock, the manure carefully saved and applied to the soil, and the necessary commercial fertilizer judiciously applied ine too exclusive culture of cotton has exhausted the huhus or the lifegiving principle in our soils; the washing and leaching of our clean cotton fields havegone on such an extent millions of acres of the best land will not yield profitable crops of cotton, grain or grasses. The too exclusive culture ofcotton establishes the credit system, As long as we raised corn, oats, wheat, rice, sugar ??"? nnf.timo fmits AnH vegetables. vaut, |/vv?*wvw| ? - ? - ? ??? - -w had good pastures and hay meadows, raised plenty of poultry, hogs, sheep, goats, mules, horses, cattle, and other livestock, there was no necessity for the credit system.?(The Progressive Farmer. Jfflk AM VM HIDES ExpressTo athcas Hide Co. : .mew. * "X r immmmmrn i ~ mam mw i > ri the; f (KIRS' I I n /\ n r T ^ rUR 1 t i ) 1 1 5 ! { 1 ) 1 a t Got Perhaps inquired s clothes? tiprAccan; most nece of clothes house whi which aim <i j e r BOLL WEEVIL NEWS 'Kershaw, S. C. It would Clemson College, Nov. 13.?Ow- ever, to fin* ing to the continued warm weather much furth< and the scarcity of squares, migration within the of the cotton boll weevil is still in movements J progress and unless stopped by cold j by abunda I weather there is no way of knowing abundance j at this time, where his migration will|where cotto ~ ?iio ninro ran end, says Professor A. F. Conraai, 01 " ?r the Crop Pest Commission. At this In order writing (Nov. 12) the weevil has been j territory wl found at Hartwell, Ga., a little south ty line runs of Anderson, and Laurens and Ker- points appr shaw. The northernmost point report- Pickens, Pa ed by North Carolina is Chadbourne. joins the N No boll weevil maps are being proximatelj j issued at this time because such maps no longer made one day would become obsa- tine zone, jlete and misleading by the next. The ?_ ilino indicated below as a current one SUGAR land may have changed by the time! |this article reaches the reader. j The line on November 12 would run . Whose is approximately as follows: j is filching Hartwell, Ga., Anderson, Laurens, sugar bow I 'KCiSS Ai\D 13 AIM 1\ TiM. ? v uxc. w. \j. Lil JSAU ^ YLE ! FOR QUAI Do You. od Clothesj Men of the United Sfc find enough clothes? ^ Reliable woolens are t few. Production is fa months to come. In s clothes maker will fa f quality ? When he a f as he pleases and still u i:i.J..V U UK C you have never before o ibout the ongin of your a never before though? it t< Well, today it is the b ssary step in buying a suit n ?to find out about the h -t- ? ~ A ~ '4- To f?j Lll IllciUC 11. 13 AC a. 1IVUJI, s to make clothes better? y Copyright, 1919, A. B. Kirschbauat Comp he new Autumn models in have just arrived and < for your insf, \ I A MTi!Y &r. i ABBEVILI* C., and Chadbourne, N. culprit, some observers not be surprising, how- whj|e some sn3p(,ct pnAib i weevils at some points . . ->r north than this line otherB P0,nt accU3mK fin* l A?,?a Woouii direction of the profiteer. lit: A L iCry uajo. < vv. are governed by weather ies agree, apparently,, on tft nee of squares and by fact; that although 18 per of cotton. In sections a million tons, more stiffs? n is thin, weevil migration in the United States from J 'id- September this year th*n < to protect the little free corresponding period of las^ lich is still ours, the safe- American breakfast table i through the following experiencing a sugar shoi oximately: Mountain Rest this mysterious state of aff colet and Rock Hill, and the Philadephia "Press", 1 orth Carolina line ap- "many theories, but no au r at Van Wyck. There is explanation." This shortaf i 1- in some any need for the quaran- mucn U1U1C AW u vv ? than in others, is nation ? many localities rationing ,SUGAR, WHO'S GOT been resorted t?, as durin THE SUGAR? and there are predictions conditions and higher price > the Mysterious Hand that "The sugar vorld is upsi the contents of the family declares the San Francisco '1? National prosperity is Confectioner" ( to which L / IGLOl ,ITY! FOR V Know kxe Scarc ites this Fall will not 1 -good clothes?to g< oo scarce. Skilled t r behind demand?m uch a situation is it lik ma S* 4 >e "tussy" on the si m turn out his prodi find a ready market r merely to make them faste house with the moral ;> shut its eyes to unfilled >ut to keep them wide c laintainmg standards? ouse with a long, clear, ?ccrd for quality? Is it i ou can trust? any Kirschbaum Clothes rrro in rpndiness ? V r*r section SILLIAfl S a*sure us, debted fox the caption of this ai itien, and >nd goCS on to sa^ "That . an enormous increase in the p ere in the .. ? , consumption of sugar is app Authorit- but as to the positive reason wi is point of | should he so no one seems ab cent, half j advance anyhting1 Ibut rtheorij was sold j The "prosperity" theory i Fanuary to the American gttblic, being- a luring the | afferd all the sagar it wanted, t year, the recent months so over-indulg is today sweet tooth that the country's rtage. Of j reserves have been reduced bel< aire, notes' normal level. Says the Philad ;here are "Evening Ledger:" thoritative Prohibition is at least a < *e, while butory cause of the sugar sh< i sections many experts affirm, because -wide. In increased the demand for cant has again soft drinks, in the manufacti g the war, which a great quantity of sugai of worse ecj . "Prohibition undoubtly h is to come. mUch to do with the mattei de down," clares Mr. Henry E. Costello, <'We3tern man 0f the raw sugar division we are in- United States Sugar Equal [HESI A T TTT7 I II ALU JD I /. . .? ' ? ** . t . . ...... ' : . w . ' " ' ; # # - '. .* . e? **; n ye able to o 'round. t . mors too ill be for ely every ibject of jet about / : for it, is r? hk ! courage \ orders, >pen in ? T Is it a steady v | . i house , I " J j ^ f ' I rticle) Board, who explains that "sweats *ene is tjje p]ace 0f ajcohol to ?< ceis rtflcut ^.n extentj an<j we jjg eatingf rent, ty this out t^ce as natch candy as be 1? to fore." Remarking: that "whens Gores/* erntment under takkes to sapenrise s that the appetites of nankkind it enters ble to, upon a iongr an(jj road" the New ed its' ^orIc "World'* adds frepreaehJully; sugar'"T? ^ate principal achievement >w the' has been to afflict persons not given lelphia to alcohol* nut sunaaee or bonbons with a sugar famine." ?Literary Dieontri gest. >rtafe, ? it has THE EFFECT IN MINNEAPOLIS ly and ? ire of Minneapolis, Nov. 18. ?When j ??? nviiraco that the 1S US- | wuru vouic ixw... 0 _ as had federal judges there had ruled against r," de- the wets, Minneapolis brewers lost chair-! hope. One brewery emptied 34,000 of the J gallons of beer into the Mississippi ization river. . i t v -