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EARLY COTTON BEST WITH BOLL WEEVIL Cleauoa College Sends How Method \ of Preparation And Cvltare To Combat Peat. The following practices are ad visable in getting an early crop of cotton boll 'weevil conditions, says Prof. C. P. Blackwell, agronomist of Clqbison College. ' 1. Thorough preparation of the seed-bed. 2. Application of fertilizer con taining a smaH amount of readily available ammonia. The fertilizer % should be well mixed with the soil before planting, so that seed will not come in direct contact with ferilizer. 3. Planting of only varities that have proved their worth under boll weevil conditions. The following are recommended: (a) Short staple .cotton on land free from wilt^Cleve /' land Big Boll; wilt-infested land, Dixie Triumph; (b) Long staple cot ton Delta Type Webber and Webber 49. 4. Working the cotton well so it is never stunted by weeds. ? 9 v -6. Chopping early and leaving plants close in drill. 6. The delinting of seed where f';. , i convenient. Delinting is especially i,. valuable when condtions are unfav orable for seed germination. It has K teas germination from two to eight days depending on soil and climatic conditions. Delinked seed can be more evenly planted, and it requires to nlant an flfre. Below are directions for delrnting seed with sulpheric acid. Delisting Cotton Seed. _ ^Materials deeded.?Concentrated sulpberic acid about 9 pounds for each bushel of seed. Three wooden or earthen tubs, one of which should have a number of small holes in the center of the botiom with a copper wire scre?* over them to prevent the l^eed from passing through. A large v glass or earthen funnei " with a .screen may be used instead. Plenty of water. . * Directions for treating seed.? Place seed in tub "A" which has no tholes in the bottom and cover with acid five to ten minutes. Stir seec constanlty with a wooden stick until, lint is removed. Next pour seed and acid in tub "B" 'which has *been placed over tub "C" which has no holes in bottom. As soon as the acid is drained off, wash seed with water until free from acid. If a good stream or running water is applied this does not take long. Spread seed on floor or on sheets to dry. When ;dry they are ready to plant. Cautions.?(If lejft unnecessarily long an the acid the seed will be killed. Wooden tubs must be tight Tubs whi<& require to be tightened by swelling with water will not do. as the acid takes all the water out of the wood. Acid must be handled :with care, for it eats .holes in any clothing which it touches. A Pennsylvania surgeon sixty years af age recently removed his own-appendix by the use of a local anesthetic. Next day he was fur ther on the road to recovery than is usual the day after such an opera tfion and dictated a number of let ters giving directions regarding the conduct of his personal affairs and j practice. PU UAS The Best By Eve Less Carbon v : uuarante Mile Sherar< bervice hrst-oat \ AMERICA IS DOING A BIG BUSINESS WITH SOVIET RUSSIA Despite New Agreement With Eng land Most of the Good* Are Skipped From U. S. ______ I Reval, April 5.?Despite the new trade agreement between Great Brit ain and soviet Russia, the largest proportion ' of the extremely small amount of goods entering Russia through Esthonia continues to be of American origin. One freighter in this port has just unloaded 100,000 pairs of American shoes and a quantity of leather for shipment into Russia, while another American steamer, similarly laden, has just arrived here. These deals were negotiated by the Robert Dol lar Concern some months ago. / Reval has been considered the r most important port for Russian im ports, but the official statistics pub ished by,the Esthonian government show that only 15,569 tons of goods were in transit to Russia through Esthonia from Reval from January 1 to March 81. Docks Congested. The shipments included 3,528 tons 3f agricultural machinery, 2,826 :ons of textiles and footwear, 1,458 ;orts of miscellaneous machinery, 620 tons of textiles and footwear, 1,458 The docks at Reval are still congest ed with shipments of machinery, iome of which are held up for lack of transport, and others because of reported financial hitches after their arrival. No Russidn goods were exported hrough Esthonia, during the first three monthhs of the present- year. / The latest issue of Economic Life, published in soviet Russia, says that in February, Russia imported 1,401 250 poods (aboat 25,271 tons) of all commodities of which 1,261,000 poods were coal from * the United States going to Archangel and Mur mansk. Exports, it is stated, by the same publication, were only 132,575 poods (about 2,386 tons^ including lumber to England and flax to Letvia. TO BUYERS OF PLANTS Clemsori Cdllege, April 5.?The South Carolina State Crop Pest Commission has adopted regulations prohibiting the sale or shipment of such plants as sweet potatoes, cab bage and tomato plants unless they have been inspected and found to be free from injurious insects and plant diseases. Every person who buys such plants for j transplanting should make sure that these plants are sold and transported iri accord ance with the rules and regulations require that every package have attached to it a permit tag issued by the Commission. These tags are about two by four " 1 ova faA in /iftlnr illVUCS Hi 9U<C auu Miv. AVU m* vv.v-1 so that they are easily distinguished. They contain a printed statement to the effect that the plants have bee? inspected and found free of disease and insect pests and this statement is signed by A. F. Conradi, State Entomologist, :?and H. ' W. Barre, State Pathologist. Look for the red tags on your package of plants. LF.. OLINE I r? .-IT, ry rracticai i est and Worry ed More sage rl Rfnc La VO? isfaction always" | LATIN AMERICA KNOCKS AT DOOR Expect* Financial Cooperation. In United State*?Handicap At Bfcnk*. Washington, April 5.?<(We are at the opening of a new era in our international financial relations, and many of the countries of Latin Am erica are knocking at our doors for the financial cooperation they have the right to expect from the United States," l!i. S. Rowe, director gener al of the Pan American union, de clared here today in an interview. "Our bankers are anxious to extend this cooperation, but they are handi capped by reason of the fact that the American investor of moderate means cannot be induced to pur chase securties of those countries in large quantities. "I have recently made a careful study of the foreign loans made to Latin American countries, and it is astounding to find how insignificant the losses have been relative to the total amounts advanced. I am thor oughly convinced that during the next few decades, the purchase/ of securities of Latin America ^coun tries will mean one of the safest in vestments, not only for the larger capitalists, but for the man of mod erate means." There is another aspect in our fi nancial relations 'with the republics of the south, according to Dr. Rowe. The international/ financial situation of todav makes it essential for the m i peoples of Latin America to develop capita], native capital, with greater rapidity than in the past. This ne cessity is dictated by the world situ ation, Dr. Rowe states, and in view of the marvelous,natural resource!) of these countries, it is easily seen they have not contributed their share to the world's capital." "It is evident," Dr. Howe believes "that the most* effective interna tional financial cooperation on the American continent will be the com bination of American with native capital in developing the resources of the countries of Central and South America. Such a combination cause it' strengthens international # i ties, but it affords a most effective protection to the invesment of for eign capital." i 'There ii evefy indication thai; tW: conditions are favorable today for strengthening Ihe ties between North, South and Central America,' according to Dr. Rowe. 'United in the closest cultural, economic and fina&cial bonds, the republics of the American continent are destined to exert a stabilizing nn the destinv of the world. Cooperation between them, while serving important national in terests, possesses a far deeper sig nificance. Without such cooperation the future of the world is shrouded in doubt and even menaced with dis aster." , ' \ Commercial, travelers' conven-1 tiohs between the United States and Ecuador. Nicaragua and Haiti, al ready signed, but not raiined, will receive early consideration by the senate when congress assembles in extra session next month. Seven J such treaties, with as many coun-j tries of South America, already j have been ratified, although none of, them are yet in actual operation, j pending the drafting and approval j of regulations putting them into force. The object of the treaties lis to promote commercial relations be tween the countries by facilitating the operation of commercial travel ers, particularly as regards license; fees and the customs treatment of samples. This is accomplished by the J substitution of a single license fee; for the numerous local fees and! taxes now collected in some of the countries. Samples without commer-] cial value shall be admitted free of: duty, under terms of the treaty,! ?v:i? comnloc ora crnrifpH ' Willie UUACX M*. v free entry under bond for the reex portatipn within six months. The \ countries signing these treaties j agree to simplify the customs for-; malities as much as possible. Thej commercial travler must have a certificate o? identification proving! his authority to act as agent for the j company he claims to represent.!! One hundred business men of Ar-| gentina are to visit the United], States this spring and summer on' an extensive tour which will take in I the principal manufacturing cities; and farmng districts of the North,! South, Central and Middle Western ' 1 states. Arrangemens for their recep tion by the various chambers of WANT DIVISION OF TEXAS STATE Austin, Texas, April 5.-*-Along side the new State of "Manhattan" being clamored for in New York, may be set up the State of West Texas. ~ /til of West Texas is now np in amis over the action of Governor Pat M. Neff in vetoing the bill esta blishing an agricultural and mechani cal college at some point in the wes tern part of the State. me ^uusutuutm uy wuivu x cam became a State provided for the eventual division of the State into five States without congressional 4c* tion. People of West Texas claim that they are taxed without repre sentation and that the Legislature has always been in ignorance of the vast resources of the west. Several towns are already entered as candidates for capital of the new State. 'A mass meeting held at Sweet waters, in Nolan couny, passed reso lutions asking for justice at the hands of the State Government and demanding the establishment of the educational institution vetoed b? Governor Neff. ., 9 w commerce and boards of trade in the cities they will visit are being made by the Argentine embassy here. The paity Will come by way of the Pana ma canal and will reach New Yorfc May 2. They will remain in the Uni ted States until the latter part ol August ' ' . , Dispatches reaching Washington from the Buenos Aires American ' ? v 1 chamber of commerce describe a at uati'on which is said to be bad foi importers of American automobiles in Argentina. The situation is due primarily to the 'unfavorable rate of exchange and the 'increased cus tom duties, "with , general; business depression. A decline in the.automO bile business in Argentina is Immi nent, it is stated, unless help is forthcoming. Three thousand fivt hundred American made cars arc held in customhouses and importers warehouses and many importers face bankruptcy. A radical curtailment of opefa tions in some of the large coppei mines of bhile is imminent, accord ing to consular reports received here.** Great numbers" of native em ployees already are being discharged and many Americans employed in the operation of copper mines will be sent back to the United States. These mining camps absorb a large quantity of American products and their practical suspension will mean restriction of Chilean imports from the United States. ' ; Through the Argentine embassy here, a number of pecan trees se cured from Texas and other Sou thern states are ' being shipped to Yerua, provincej of Entres Rios, Ar gentina. The ' trees were selected with the help of the United States department of agriculture. The cli mate of the district to which the trees are being sent resembles that of our Southern states, and the con: ditions for growing and cultivating the trees are said to be much the same. Everything is being done Jiere to insure the success of the under taking the results of whicfy may mean the establishment of a new in dustry in Argentina. '/ v j LM IB GREAT BRITAIN IS GETTING MORE TIPSY Washington, April 5.?Great Bri tain's drink bill increased by more than $400,000,000 last year as com pared -with 1919, says a report to the Dej>artmerit of Commerce from Con sul Hunter Sharp, at Edinburgh, Scotland. The amount spent on in toxicating liquors in the United Kingdom in 1920, the consul says, is estimated at $2,285,795,050, as ags.inst $1,878,469,000 in 1910. . The All live business me ADVERtK ! Are you a "live" bi : ^ ' That Prove saves more than nine, when batteries. ' Don't wait 'til your battery ge full of pep all the tinje. W comes to repairs, we're wizart JOur charges are moderate and present storage battery, we've a year and a half guarantee. CITY GARAC Look (or this sign I iiHk I ? i ' : l_ MAKE U BOOKK] Men and women v in keeping track of ey goes are invite their cash account Open a checking ac pay every bill by c i -j r* J HBlIlNUfU SUWCfSUTK)# EVEKEA STORAGE BKT1 You will always 1 where you stand money went Planter "The Friem The Home of Over 1C POSTMASTER WAS FOUND BOUND AND GAGGED Douglas, Ariz., April* 5.?L. B. Bailey, postmaster of Bisbee, Ariz., who was found in his office today bound and gaged, said he had been held up last nignt by two . masked Mexicans, who forced him to 'open the poBtof^ce vault. The robbers es caped with $50,000, according to word received here. total, however, is about 24 percent less than before the war. n believe in >ING isiness tin an ? - m Urin PHONE Calvert Building Viena Street . ~*rr: ' (<<r x,, 'a : fe rbial Stitch' it comes to testing storage ts weak. Insist on its being e're the doctors and when it is. * when it's time to replace your i the reliable Eveready?withr |? Abbeville, S. C. Dt V8Y eVEREADy~ 110-431 I w*' S YOUR EEPERS fho have difficulty where their mon :d to let us keep | for them :count with us ar.d heck..... enow just exactly and where the s Bank rIKr Rant" 100 Bank Accounts J