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Make Tax Survey in City of Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Aug. 10.-W. G. ?". Querry, J. P. Derham and C. T. Ham by of the South Carolina tax com mission, were in the city today for the purpose of making a report on the preliminary survey which was made of ten blocks in the city by Mr. Hamby some time ago. The total amount of taxes for the ten blocks, ?which were, taken from different sec tions of the city, amounted to be tween $15,000 and $20,000. 'The city -will receive about $4,000 of this if the errors found are substantiated. Tn one case ten buildings and lots .' owned by one concern were omitted ?altogether, and in a number of cases the returns were correct and the en try by the auditor was in error. In -?one case there was an error in trans scribing of about $1,200 for 1918, 1920 and 1921; 1919 being correct City council has decided to have a complete survey made of the city in an effort to get all the property on . the tax books. The state will pay one third and the county one-third of the cost of the survey. All property will be returned by the front foot, and a permanent record will be made of all the real estate in the city. Maps and blue prints will be made of every block. Back taxes may be collected for ten years, and in some cases the tax-: es will be considerable. The members of. the commission went from here to Greenville to put on the same kind of a survey. Bids Received For Auto Plates. The Pres-Teel Manufacturing and Enameling Co. of Cincinnati submitted the low bid for the manu . facture of the 1922 automobile and motor vehicle license plates at the opening of bids by the state highway department yesterday. This firmNbid .0784 . cents per plate on the larger licenses and .0475 cents for each motorcycle plate, a record low bid en this kind of work it was said. The contract calls for 113.850 plates and the Cincinnati firm bid approximately five cents each for the motorcycle licenses. Other bids received were: The Green Duck company of Chicago, flat rate of nine ce??s'each; The S. G. Adams Stamp and Stationary Co. of St. Louis, flat rate of nine and one half cents each; Joseph Stolz and Sons, Inc., New York, flat rate nine and seven-eighths cents each:; Nation al C?lortype company df Newport, Ky., 10 % cents on automobile and and seven cents each on motorcycle plates; The American Can Co. Shonk Works,"M?ywo?d m./17, 16 l/2 and 13 hs ecnts. Money Saved. Department officials said- yester day. that they felt that considerable money had been saved by accepting bids at^this time, due to a big drop in steel prices and other material used in making the plates. Had the bids been received some sixty or nine ty days ago the figures would have been much higher. No further time could be spared, however, as the manufacturers must have time to get the plates made up and delivered here by December 1 in time for their .delivery to the motor vehicle owners between January 1 and February 1 of the new year. Another phase of the bids yester day was the number of firms seeking the work. In Georgia and Alabama a few weeks ago when the states ad vertised for bids only three or four companies bid on the work. The 1921 plates,cost 12 cents for the larger and nine and one-half cents for the smaller.' No Formal Award. As stipulated in the advertisement no award of contract will be formal ly made until approved by the state finance committee as no "funds are on hand for the work, due to a legis lative act forbidding the expenditure of money before it is appropriated. The low bid will be recommended to1 the commission at its meeting'Tues-1 day and the commission will probab ly in turn recommend the bid to the state finance committee. Officials of the department have changed the type of license plate this year and will inaugurate a new sys tem of delivery to automobile own ers. The 1921 plate will have embos sed black letters and numerals on a white background as compared with a red background and black fig ures ofi921. i Department officers have made a study of different makes .and dif ferent systems used? by the several and expect to put South Carolina a . hove all other states.. Another plan ;o be followed the coming year will be *o mail every automobile owner an pplication blank, a notice that his icense is due and every detail neces ry, leaving the owner nothing to o except send the application back ?th a money order or a certified heck. This information will be got een from the records now in the de artment.-The State. flR.KIWS HEW tUsSCOVf Surety Stoo Bal Couo!> -Presbyterian Churches Show Membership Gain. Presbyterians particularly, and other denominations generally, will be interested in the fact that this state stands fourth in membership in the Southern Presbyterian church in the .15 states comprising that organi zation and is outranked by North Carolina, Virginia and Texas. Prob ably no synod is better organized. This/and other interesting facts are available in the min?tes of the meet ing bf the general assembly held re cently in St. Louis. In South Carolina there are 32,911 members, a gain of 7,688 in ten years; just about 30 per cent. There were received into the church on pro cession of faith last year 1,041 per sons or about five to every 100 mem bers. The Sunday school enrollment was 26,555 or 80 to ?ach 100 mem bers, the largest ever reported. The receipts for benevolent causes amounted to $456,786 or about $13. 87 per capita. This is well above the average of the church as a whole. The total gifts to all causes amount edto $1,049,183 or $31.84 per capita, the largest amount ever contributed. In 1911 they gave .to all causes only '$12.11 per member. The report shows that the year just closed was the best the church ever had. The membership incrasd 25,542 in the entire Southern ' Presbyterian church, making the total now 397, 058. There were six persons received into the church on profession of faith for every hundred members of the church or a total of 24,369. The Sun day schools showed an increase of 12,992. There are now 93 members of the Sabbath school for every hun dred members, while ten years ago there were 69 Sunday schood mem bers per hundred church members. The receipts for the designated causes such as foreign missions, home missions, Christian education, orphan ages, ministers'. relief, etc., were $4,938,550 or $12.43 per member. Last year the receipts were $3,699, 760 or $8.82 per member. This is said to be the best record of any .church in this country. The total re ceipts for the year for all causes amounted to $12,124,891 or $30.53 per member as against $9,236,836 or $24.53 per member last year. Church memb ers state that they do not ex pect the receipts for benevolent cause to be affected by the financial depression as their experience has been that the designated benevolent causes and the salaries, of the pastors of. the church, are. things that the members consider just as they con sider food and clothing or other ne cessities. The report brings out that the re newed activity of the laymen of the church is giving the ministers great hope for the church. The reports' show an increased attendance at prayer meetings and less difficulty in securing men to do much of the church work that formerly fell on the minister. Another feature of the church re- . port of special interest shows that there are 13,080 persons who practice tithing; that is pay into the church one-tenth of their income. This is the first year .this report has been made and as many of the church did not give the numbers it is thought that there are at least one fourth more than the figures would indicate. The report is very interesting not only to members of the Presbyterian denomination but to others who like to study church statistics.-Cheraw Chronicle. " A Dairyman's Advice. . A dairyman with years of experi ence and a record of success places great emphasis on the "little things"* in the management of cows. For ex ample, he shows that a nervous cow should be handled with the greatest of care, at no time being frightened by harsh treatment. In fact, no dairy animal should be allowed to suffer from annoyances as worrying by dogs or abuse by. careless milkers. This farmer attaches great impor tance also to comfort and cleanliness in the barn. The use of modern equip ment and scrupulous care to maintain health and sanitation aid in increas ing profits, he points out. Regular feeding at stipulated hours likewise is most desirable, he asserts. The cow accustomed^ to being fed and milked at certain times is dis turbed by any deviation in the sched ule:. All these factors, of course, are secondary to breeding and ration, but are extremely important in making big records and satisfactory profits. -Orchard and Farm. Wanted: Application for Chief of Police for town of Edgefield. Want man who can run tractor on road machinery, and is willing to work. Election to be held Tuesday, Aug. 30, service to begin Sept. 1, salary, $125 per month. J. G. Edwards. Mayor. 8_17_2t. Agricultural Credits. In reply to a letter from Senator Dapper, Secretary Hoover recently named five kinds of credit needed by :he agricultural industry.^Of these, beyond the farmers' own capital, all are he says, "partially covered by present credit machinery and some of them fully." The five kinds named are: Loans up to six months for either production or marketing annual pro duce, "Loans from one to three years for producing and marketing of cattle. Loans from one to three years for farm equipment. . Long term loans for purchase and improvement. Of these the first and, in normal times, even the second, are partially or fairly well, covered by the present .banking system, though, as Mr. Hoover points out, the "Federal '"Ber serve system being a mobilization-pf the demand deposits of the country, they cannot be called upon for loans of over six months on agricultur?l paper without jeoparding the whole commercial banking structure." The deposits of banks must be readily available for payment at any time and one of the peculiar conditions as to agricultural loans is that the cre dit demand is "largely seasonal, com ing in bulk at about the same date. It is chiefly theri\a seasonal demancL and even six months is a longer pe riod than is warranted as a practice; by commercial banks. These, also, are largely what are in fact consumptive credits. They are. such as show lack of available capi tal or the use of such in some form or farm investment. They should be restricted as far as possible as bank ing credits. Yet this need has never been acute beyond the ability of the present banking system to fairly well meet it in well developed and pros perous ' farming sections until this year with its emergency conditions; It is never possible to meet it through banking > channels in the newer set tled regions. The last named type of credit is now sufficiently covered by the land loan bank system. This leaves but the third and fourth unprovided for save by emergency provisions and they are both credits for production. These are loans for buying, or in vestment in personality which is rea sonably certain to pay back the l*an with a profit. Cattle, farm machin ery, cows, pigs, explosive for clear ing land, fertilizers and the like will of themselves,, not alone pay their cost in added production or price, but they will thereafter have a con-, tinuing, or remaining value which be comes an asset or capital. It is such credits, those for which no adequate provision is now made, that cover the whole field of increas ed agricultural production. They are all subject to security through ? in surance. With such collateral, they become among the very safest of loans. It is this type of credits, se cured in this way, for which the Mc Fadden-Kenyon bill provides. 0 It makes this.the most important agri cultural measure ' before the present Congress and one whose passage will be of the utmost value to agriculture. There is another result of this measure which will be helpful to commercoal banking. Those familiar with ordinary farm management and the average farmer who is slovent and good credit, recognize a general weakness in the usual agricultural financial process. When farmers sell their products and have cash in hand, instead u? saving enough to carry them through to the next crop year, they have a habit of using too much of it to buy something needed on the farm. They do not indulge in lux uries, but in productive needs or what they feel to be needs. They will buy a machine of some kind ?cattle, hogs, or other livestock, something by which they may increase income. Fre quently they do this while renewing notes at bank, if banking credits are seeking a market. They do it to an extent which assures a demand for credits for consumptive needs. If this new credit system was in operation with a low interest rate, farmers would use it for such pur poses. They would pay their debts of all kinds from their crop returns; they would borrow from production through their local commt?he; they would keep cash.in hand, especially, as these more thrifty financial bahits would establish them as a sound cred it risk with their local commune. Banks would be relieved of any ex cessive seasonal demand for farm credits, quite uniformly over long time or known as subject to renewal and so always an unsafe factor of commercial banking when re?ching a material volume. In every way this measure would supply the need outlined in these five forms of agricultural credit. It would close the gap now almost wholly vacant for supplying produc tive credits, the most pressing and im portant in farm development, both as to the pioneer settlers without fixed qredif, and the established, fairlj prosperous farmer. It would relieve commercial banks of overdemand foi . '. '.?. j >?' 7 such accomodation; assure against any possible excess of frozen agri cultural credit; clean up farm debts; end purchases on partial payment at prices to match the ris,k N and put. agriculture on a safe, sound develop ment basis?free from all paternalism and official, or political, meddling. Editorial, Washington Herald. ford Proposal Gets Attention. Washington, Aug. 13.-The secre :tary of war indicated to newspaper correspondents this afternoon that there would be certain developments in the Muscle Shoals situation "after Tuesday of next week." He did not specify, however, and I there is no doubt as to whether the "developments" will consist of new [offers or a statement by the secre Jtary setting forth his opinion of the proposition submitted some time ago by Henry Ford. Mr. Weeks stated that the amend ment which would he required to the Ford offer was "material." It is thought that the secretary is having trouble in adjusting the requirement of Ford, that his ownership endure for 100 years, with the federal power act which limits ownership of pro jects to 50 years. It is understood ,too, that Mr. Weeks has. been informed by certain Republicans in congress long biter | enemies* of Muscle Shoals, that the government is fulfilling the* pro- j posed Ford contract would be com pelled to spend not $30,000,000 but j approximately $60,000,000. It is known that the secretary has been informed that it would be difficult for him to secure the necessary ap propriations at this time when every effort is being made to reduce ex-j penses. Great pressure is being brought to J bear on the secretary .by Southerners [ in congress in the hope that he will accept the- Ford proposition. Repre sentatives from practically every Southern state have seen him this W.e?k. This afternoon Representative ?lmond of Alabama and Represen tative Jacoway of Arkansas inter viewed him and subsequently issued statements in behalf of Ford. The secretary gave them no information of a definite character. How to Care for Corn. A crib that will hold 340 bushels clean shucked corn in the ear will measure about 12-12-6 feet. Eight .hundred and sixty feet of lumber will line and ceil it completely so that ora can be fumigated in it against reevils. Thc coct cf. fixing any of the ordi nary cr "bs this way will be more than returned in one season in valu? of) corn saved'in one seasonr In harvesting the corn it should be shucked clean, so that there will be nothing on the ears for the weevils to hide under. When the corn has been stored, place saucers or pans of corbon bi sulphide about three feet apart over the surface of the ?corn. (A gallon of this liquid will fumigate from 500 to 600 bushels of corn.) After plac ing the liquid, close tight all win dows, doors and ventilators. Cracks can.be stopped with sacking. Leave closed for forty eight hours. In about two weeks repeat, so as to kill all I weevils that may have hatched from ?eggs laid before the first fumigation. In handling carbon bisulphide care should be taken to keep fire away from,. it,*-for it is highly inflammable j in vapor form.-Farm and Ranch. . Notice To Edgefield Farmers'* Gentlemen :- If you have some good" seed wheat to sell, or have some shoats t weighing from 80 to 100 pounds and up, or have cedar posts for farm fences to sell, please let me know at once just what you have. I should prefer you seeing me about"*1 this matter. I may be able to assist you in selling your products, but of course at this time can not make jany promises. A. B. Carwile, County Agent. Poultry Expert For State. Seeing the need to 'build up the farm flock of poultry in this State, the Extension Service of Clemson College has engaged the services of Mr. Norman Mehehof, of the State of New Jersey, the greatest poultry state in the Nation, to work in coop eration with the various Agents of South Carolina on any poultry prob_ lem that may come up. In writing the County Agents, Director Long made mention of the fact that the average farm flock of poultry numbers 16 while the average for the whole ILS. number 40.' And yet this state im ports from other states $3,000, worth of butter and eggs, meaning hundreds of thousand dollars worth of poultry products e achyear. It would seem that a few could make commercial poultry business pay in this State County Agent Carwile expects to I have Mr. Mehehof in the County to begin work in the poultry end of farming. , SJCKLBTS ,8THEO"LT SENUIKE 1 SOUR MILK VERY USEFUL AS FOOD _ y Has Some Food lt Originally Had Because lt ls Source of Lime for Bone Building. ? LACTIC ACID IS HEALTHFUL Clabber Is Relished as Refreshing and Wholesome by Many People, Espe pecially If Served With Sugar and Sweet Cream. {Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) "Accidents will happen in the best regulated families." In spite of th6 most careful protection from dust, Ales, or exposure to the sun, milk oc casionally turns sour in the refriger ator during the hottest months. It may be that there Is more left-over milk than usual, or that the* ice sup ply ls low, or that heat or thunder have affected the milk. Sour milk, nevertheless, has the same food value as it had originally, specialists In the United States Department of Agricul ture say, because it Is still a source of lime for bone building, of protein for tissue repair. Lactic Acid Considered Healthful. The bacteria which have caused souring are not necessarily harmful, If the milk was properly cared for, and the effect of those which caused the development of the lactic acid In the milk Is thought by some to be beneficial. Many who cannot get but termilk to drink like to churn thick,' freshly soured milk with an egg beat er tiil the curds are broken up Into ..fine particles, and use lt In the same way. Clabber-the coagulated, semlllquld state of fresh sour milk-ls relished as refreshing and wholesome by .many people, especially if served with sugar and sweet cream. The addition of maple sirup, honey, orange, marmalade, or other preserves to clabbered cream makes a delicious dessert. An excel 'Just One More Cookie, Grandma, I Please." lent'Cake filling can be made of thick, sour cream, whipped and sweetened, with nuts added. Whipped sour cream ls often added to mayonnaise salad dressing for fruit salads. No housewife needs to be told that good gingerbread can be made with sour milk, as well as corn breads of various kinds. In most recipes where sour milk Is used as a leaven with soda, fewer eggs aro called for. Very good' pancakes and cornbread can be made with sour milk, omitting' eggs entirely. Farmers' Bulletin 565, Corn Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It, gives no less than nine recipes call ing for sour milk. Among them is this easy way of making Boston Brown Bread : Boston Brown Bread. 1 cupful corn meal. 1 teaspoonful salt 1 cupful rye meal. % cupful molasses. 1 \ cupful graham 2 cupfuls sour milk, flour. or 1% cupful? sweet 2% teas poonfuls milk. soda. Mix and sift the dry Ingredients and add the molasses and milk. Beat thoroughly and steam 8% hours in well-buttered, covered molds. One pound baking powder tins are satis factory. Remove the covers and bake the bread long enough to dry the top. This may be made also with 1% cupfuls cora meal and rye meal and no graham flour. A cupful of seeded and shredded raisins or prunes or ? cupful of currants may be added. This serves eight people. If there is only a very little sour milk on hand, why not make some cookies? They may be made with corn meal. Oatmeal cookies are also excellent. | Corn-Meal Cookies. % cupful fat. 2 cupfuls corn meat M> cupful corn % teaspoonful soda. sirup. 1 cupful flour. M cupful molasses. 1 teaspoonful clnna 1 egg. mon. 6 tablespoonfuls sour milk. Combine the melted fat, sirup, mo lasses, beaten egg, and sour milk. Sift together the corn meal, soda, and flour. Add the liquid Ingredients to the dry Ingredients. Drop from a teaspoon Into a greased pan and bake 15 min utes in a moderate oven. This recipe makes 55 to 60 cookies 2 Inches In diameter. Sour milk or buttermilk and baking soda may frequently be substituted where the recipe, calls for sweet milk. In place of one teaspoonful of baking powder a scant half teaspoonful of sod? ip 'used to each cupful, of sou* milk. Chocolate cake Is particularly good when this substitution ls made. In griddle cakes and muffins the sam* pian may be followed. Bran Muffins. 1 cupful flour. 1 tablespoonful 1 teaspoonful Bait shortening*, melted. 1 teaspoonful soda. VA to 2 cupfuls sour 2 cupfuls clean milk. bran. \ % cupful seeded rai tt to % cupful eins or c h o p p ed sweetening. nuts. Sift together the flour, salt, and soda and mix with this the bran. Add to gether the sweetening, melted short ening, and part of the milk ; then mix with the dry materials. Add the raisins, dusted with flour, and enough more sour milk to form a batter of such consistency that it will drop but not pour from the spoon,.but be as wet as possible otherwise. Bake in greased muffin pans about half hour. VINEGAR USEFUL IN VEGETABLE CANNING Time of Processing May Be Somewhat Reduced. Two Years of Experimental Work ?fl Subject Made by Home Economice Kitchen-Much Corn Reported Spciied Last Year. (Prepared by the United States Depart? ment of Agriculture.) A little vinegar added to beans, corn, peas, asparagus, or spinach when canned by the water-bath meth od, will add materially In the reduc tion of loss by spoilage. Moreover, tba time of processing these vegetables may be somewhat reduced when a sufficient a'mount of acid is used, the? home economics kitchen of the United, States Department of Agriculture re? perts after two years of experimental work on the subject. In certain sections of the country in 190.9 and 1920 canned sweet cor?, did not keep well, whether processed continuously or Intermittently. In the home economics kitchen quart cans of corn processed for less than six hour? continuously spoiled, while others* canned at the same time, with the addition of four tablespoons of vinegar to one quart, did not spoil either year, although given only two hours process ing. If only three tablespoonfuls of vinegar are used, process four hours; two or three tablespoonfuls of lemon juice to a quart have equally good re sults when processed three hours. Com should ^always be bolling hot when packed Into the Jar. With spinach and string beans the addition of two tablespoonfuls of the acid proved equally effective in reducr ing spoilage. Vinegar or lemon juice * In the small' amounts' used modifies to some degree the natural flavor of the vegetable, but the acid taste ls not objectionable to most persons. Moreover, much of the acid taste* can be washed off before the vegetables are served. Experiments with vinegar and other acids in canning vegetables! will be continued in the kitchen next year. . FRESH FRUIT IS EXCELLENT lt Supplies Some Sugar and the Im portant Mineral Matters, Mild Acids and Vitamines. Fruit Is food. It supplies some sugar and the Important mineral matters, mild fruit acids, and vitamines, say experts in the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, office of home economics. These food substances help to keep the body In good health and to prevent constipation. Use fresh frclt whenever possible and can the surplus. Apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, oranges, grapefruit, grapes, bananas, avocados, berries-the list Is very long. Some where In the United States some of them are always In season, and some are in market everywhere much of the time. ' . Use dried fruits, either home dried or those on sale almost everywhere. Soak prunes, dried apples, dned apri cots ID water overnight and .cook them long enough to make them tender. Use dates, figs, or raisins. 'These are very good added to breakfast ce real 10 minutes before taking It from the stove. 0FI?STT0 1 HOUSEWIFE Laundry bags of Turkish toweling are excellent * . . Bananas should be thoroughly ripe, eaten slowly and well chewed. * . . No cake should be moved in the oven until it has risen Its full height. ' . . . An old mackintosh can be turned into a most useful apron for wash ing days. .. * . A steel needle is excellent foi* loosening a cake from the center tube of the cake pan. ....>.". , The French, Belgian and Swiss na tives cook a mess of young lettuce leaves Just like spinach. . . . A delicious peach Jam ls made with dried peaches, and shredded almonds. Flavor with a little cinnamon. . * . . i Soap chips or soap powders should be thoroughly dissolved in boiling wa- - ter: before being used. Sometimes washing preparations eat the clothes if allowed to rest lu undissolved bil?