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REVOLUTIONARY TORIES - Cunninghams ol Laurens Were Fine People. LISHT ON CUSTOMS IN THt COLONICS Vir-it to Roscmont Solcndid Old Wanoi ?Descendants of People Who Were on the Other Side Hnve no Apologies. 1 ty Larry <!: nil. K?U* a hoi: t ;i erillivy after the eh'S <<l ; Revolutionary war. hilt rllt -5S nf l.'i" vie! "rions ? c.' >ni- . , inst , the families of those? who espouserl the Kii x's sivl' was unre'erlinp. The Kmclisli termed their friends !n America '1 ?yalists," hot 1'ioir neigh ho : designat.'d them as "Tories," and the sins of the fathers weri visited on tin* ehilduii unto the third ui"l |our<li . . .lion. Take tile drseendmits and kii'simn of "15Ioe.lv llil! Cii'tnintrha.ni," tin m.Ii il l;t?ya isl of I^'iorens < a ::y. AI l!?" ni'isracrt of Hayes St lion in L in. n> eouniy. S. ( .. ufier their surrender, "Ifloody Jtiil," with hi' sword, kith .1 si v :l I. h ., and William and h n! his men m;is: lem evi ry pi" ten r. Over this eiuol ;uL hale and iane??r ran!:.t il in the ho. nm of tinI I So \ s ; ihLTi i! lillins.'. 'a! to,- nri" than 1 > - -? ?l... - . hlmi ..il l sim !if ! tin kinsmen of 1 lie* murderer t !!i atmestors. The J;n I tli:it the * . 'I >11 \V. IV I I I' u:\tl 11(1 I'lie i>? '>:>!( lint it v\:is ;t daiijfht i?f 1111 I l! ": who I'lljijilt .Ml. V' inoll, till heme I*. Wa.sliiiintnn. |i^ pres. rvdtion hi! iluit iu all sul)b?<|iH'n1 wars the iiKi! * gallantly fought for tin' republic u was not considered. During our Civil war the Cunningham* were nil iiir the I>i-,ivi.st soldiers of tin Inst Cause. , S ..til yi lis an", wTiil'1 on a visit I IV led Si;, es Suiator J. I.. M. Irhy, la to il im that lie wanted to carry iii to one of tin- most interesting old colonial h< nn s ia our up-country, where I w< tiId unit a very line and interot^ i.i,' 'ataman. Captain Hob Cunningham Kr. vim- the feud of hate that existed h<'tween llm irhys and Cunningham, 1 txiri-e's.sed, u ru prise at i his visiting their home, tie explained thai in and ?11??1 u liol Cuniiinghun had rhanc' d t" meet at an old soldi i< reunion in C:. nviitlr y had a laik and mutuall" decided that it was the height of tolly fo two nciglih >rim? j families in tlte sunn to carry that old iv ?; ntnient into a soeor.d renin;;., and that tiiey we.-o now wanr ' 1 lid:.. ' I w..s only too glad to make the ( ? pilgrimage and spent one of the mostl in' ic-iiny i!:ij;; .11 my memory. Tin irrteepmii nnme*'of Be Cunning^*! ,i . ,.? ir ti ; o' W.lt. ' loo, "II tlie I lit W .iv lc: time' 1*11 u| (ii < i ir .'iud lo }-ip ii'(ai l ir:;. | ai d m i .1: ba "f r1-" Salmi.i river. ( Thi i . I tin i"ii is the most iii'.cre-t inv , ic ?,f cel'-nii! 11:n s in tin upper <- untry. li was erected about thel mi-Mi - I iin <:-h'enth cctiliny, when t' .1 I : rtM-ll Y.'IIS 111 llllr'e iv-I v. ihleinii i. . I' ' * r. l.n'.e \vt ! tiilil'Ii'i-;. t*he timbers 11 "in which i! i nii.i :n-ti (1 \\ire.tll ut i'in s- h et1*-1 tiws : *uI uflH st i idlng for more tlrm :t." nta ami .- half, ill" house is i.i : > -iI -1 r-- <if pi 'servaii"ii. The r. ' -. were felh'l i- Laurens Mmntyi :iinl ih< Imp II . ( ?! ?,i- rtfliil down the .< I'l I :< "I t" .v li. "5*1 s they M l" |-111 I. In 1 <)' . in:4" Ve! < is .lll'l < iii-M t-? l.!i';'-'iiil. Tin ' l"ir~. vi-. i ' ,i I'm'- r :m<l the <-m'- f'niii <1 i <1 tin limilM-r : ::ij?;?- <I l>nrk ! ? t N. \V- M. TV hi n i"P u r c . ' "Itie"tno::t I! !i" in i . it, . Mi ll 1" ||. lif t.ll *11 ! i f i . '; I llll. In i! est !.v . - tt!?mi ni ?tf lint j;e'*?!i 111 i \-.iiel" lip-* mini t y, tii "iin . ' i in : 'if v ' ' a li-' . \ -"I ' - ' "" *. K\ n in t'.i . i \ nlil I. . -i?i. . I . . ij.ii i.i iini i -1 .. i "i i j 11 i-r ii 1 I. 'li l-'-u.- li;-'! > - - t III' ..' -n 1 M I - i -1 f -' ,: ; -i ill el the .\| V \V"1 I t. til st\ Ill ; ' J? ' . I ; 11 i * i Jiflei ' ' !. -n ! : ? 'J. tintl - ' in litis !tiii!tlii:^r heins; eleei -i fr- 11- > v.": n V ? !! -:* \ I| -ii-' i:l? v.. . i -I 11 - * - : i it . lint < f ': i'-' i I - . : : i?_ . : t f i.- siir I 'KM ! i ?" p;. ' ; i *1. i :i.' : i? '! ?? * f "M hun II i . .hint* ?' i i t j.) : . ' l i ti? - V ! '. 'If: y Ml > iu'.l . ; . ? ? > iv nil"' V IT. * ' I ' ! ply , . in 'i. Til l iiiiIMTS f ' !! ii n \ ! ' 1 i! ' -J. -'I it* : * . i t. .K) | - " ' ; ;> ' it'll. . I; ii i i uiiilit : i; jp I.j ; i ; ?; -- ! inii'i ' ! : ' -ml . ami >< < t t tiitu- <>i in ; 1 |,lm::5 ?> , ... : ! <" I fill 11 i > 11 i" * V p. .. k?-r ul' i I T!i . * ? - ' I ?l>0- ir?> .1 '?! J. <1 . ' Hi\ r. J ' ^ . 4 ? !?: * 'T I ?>!:! .11! I 6 11 . I' '1 ! : nimr v '11 nl'l in in ;< ii. ri >< ?'til' i. f v?- ii*** hi " I' ji?*?po|< ?-?! tif > nrf. Isuch .is are scon In these days only in I broken sots. Hut here every sot lias l>;>< n < -1 iff 1 j !ly preserved l?y Ron era - | lions of Cunninghams. For instance, : there is a beautiful China cup. one j ' piece front a set of a dozen that had | been a cidt nta'ly broki 11 more than a | -e-.ittir.v ok". As the piece could not! !?_ replaced, this cup was sen?. to I Fi inee where the broken pieces were J so neatly cementi d together that it re- | ! united tin- closest inspection to detect, the repairs. To -inspect these treas- j ire>, to an antbiii ary would be like an artist visiting one of tlie great col- | i -lions of the old World. Tlie OunI ninghnms would never part with nl -single article from their home and j 1 from generation to gon< ration tieI furni: bing.s < f th's old mansion have been kept uahrok'-n and carrfAlly preservi <1. Capt. I tab Cunningham, the owner of ' t lii. est a t and home at tin- time of my visit, was a gentleman of culture and n tin ment lie fought gallantly under .b Stars and Cars, for courage is In- , In rent in his family. Capt. Cutnminghum talked freely wiib me about his ancestors, and had; ! no apt lone s to offt r for their ei poiisal ' of the Ihitish side during the Itevolution. He told me that the Cunning-1 ! mis belonged to the nobility of Mug-, land, and Sir Patrick Cunningham, his ' " ? twii-.it in.1. nlviii was his broth *, known as "Bloody Mill" Cunningham, was appointed by King Re igc and commissi! ncd to come toj his I'.ovinee of Carolina arxl survey, tin lands for set fcmcnL or grants to fivoriiis. In surveying the section known as Ci-.nvill . Anderson, I/iur i n Abbeville and other counties in tiiat seotioTi, (hey selected, on the hanks of Siludn liver, a large territory | that 15ie\ knew to he the richest and ' m?>st villi <1 1:iih1h in tlio state fori their own po.ss ssion. and the tract w.i - g;ant< d to them hv their king as a rcwatd for loyalty and their services.1 *!* p.-' a: f.p in of tin- Cunninghams, including the old Roscmont Mansion, i a small part of this grant. After the victory of the Colonists, the Rc.pnhi'e contiscab d tlie lands of all Tories, and the feeling against the Cunninghams was csp< eially hitter.; Rut owing to tiv fact that s nie member.; hf that family were married into tried and loyal America* families, the, slic now held b> t!ie family was given lo them. And ! will add that among the portraits and other pictures I saw at R?s? mont, were many distinguished 1 Carolinians of past times, as the hos-l natality of. the Cunninghams was unbounded and the o'd mansion the scene of many grand social entertain-! in lit.-*. .Ammg the beautiful women of 1 tl pas\ who lived at Rosemont and wire related to the Cunninghahis, were several lovely girl* named Bird and who ;*i 'heir d*.y iivil.t-1 for ar.ee: tn?) i. an: the Cibr.on girls. Owing to e at h auty of the Misses Bird. ' in- house was called and described on 1 * ? i.. << i ."< .\viiiry. i : v. <iiiii>iik i'" P'rtui' ? 'ii tin ir eallcrv th(iso of Ta' I ii"'. II.i- haimIm tiir yi'iui;;' man of Char- ' Ic-ton v.lio was killed at Illicit in a 1 iliii'1, as also that of Win. I<. Yancey ' ' when a youinr mail and many others.j t'ujit. l!ol? Cunningham stated to mi" 1 that liis f.nii'y were not traitors toi 'I i: Mill.lie. llUt v.i'lll'l h.iV? I" I II the " h'a u t traitors had they deserted their kisik nd linked with his enemies. | 'i'll y v. ip v.'li-t'- and in taking sitl ablins! tin- Colonists all of them under nl; tn serve as brave and lionor i'ill soldiers. In ,-|i akiny of "Itlnody Id1!" l e d nied that lie dit d in limri iu<i i ke. unto Cell diet Arnold, relink.it'd a '?l reoi iied for tronchery in i is country. <mi l!ie otiit hand, llntn is no eoiiipa: ison l? twocn the two m mi. \i'liehl \\:i a doiilih dyed traitor to hi; eountry, ! avintf ' deserted in ea use for oild "el u'om; over to the i n< in", a-fti r takinjr tin oith of nl'o i.iiii io WashifitOon. ' ?n the other hand, the thnr :;y:tains option d and, fi>ie. hi tiyaiiit' Its t'o'onists from tin in" ai: ny io tit i lot oi the war, and' " r i' tlieir >ii and kins. tln'y w purrslicd l'? tii ir loyalty hy 1? in-, . ::o'd oj tilth pi op rt y and > 11;''? a |i< r i ill' .1 that they hud to a. the country they lutd assisted in vii 'iie fi i i a wil'lernes... "i Moody j kill" ie vt wet 1 ( i Ihiela.'i'!, iitil afl? i hi i!' vo'iii ion set' ifl iii Nassau, n. v. h' e he d i' i| 'i d v. a > j it11 e d. '!' a i ,. ! tie 11 ii l is l.ithi i s| i r toil! tli'"iiuh i/inii lis eoutl- , "' i |.\ all on , 'i ni ike a |<i 1 i i > l i "" iii i'd. and they iii in- re tind "if 111 ih most iti'i r- ' :i " and !'yolu Sii or American Family. Ise .ase: <lurin ilast deeade hi the average I luloi III' OS in .1 f IIDI ; 'id to a I. '. ) in! ittve statistics made 1 pijbli. M mihiy hy tin census bureau.! .< c'n.-n o<' d. a statement id. fha so( nniiotiv ji'ijuil ttf.in w:is i "i"i,; : int.. i.i; p piilic resid-| i* io i d*.\ 'llines niuiditg r.n I < I ,n son '.i a family aial . i 1 i i 1 ; .. ' . lI'Mllli. I n'' |? -I - j ems i . lain ,\ w s and to a 'i a a ve! ; j;e ri both ' sii i i,::'1 r iii 1 ? el ;iv ! p . to fami a.td 5.6 persons to' I ! 'l il l i! vdan ii it.' nlily : itn < . Tin 11#ihui'?jtii ai>|i!ics tii" '' ' 1 V ' 1" ' : } I of |l Mjl:.. I ' i " !' 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"Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be w ise." ignorance is always ctT-ditl- j ous, taking statements without inves-| tigntion?to accuse is to convict. Front j 1780 to 1921? 111 years is long enough to take a clear view, without preju- ! dice of conditions then existing. The pioneers here were having a hard time establishing liom.es, menaced by In-, dians and enduring all the hardships! of pioneer life without money, or I markets nearer than Fayettevillc and Churl ston. No bridges and rough j roads. While England was hard press-! ed in war with France, her closest| neighbor and greatest rival, ller claims here had been a source of much | expense and no profit?"Like the Phil-j ippincs have been to us," so she con- j eluded to collect a little tax off of them on tea and stamps. New England and Virginia rebelled and drew North Carolina and the other Carolina into the controversy. England thinking the cause not sufficient j for much trouble sen^ a few troops [ over to assist li r loyal subjects to i put down the rebellion. Like the north did the south in our civil war. North Carolina was about equally <11vidid as to whiff?the rebels and tory, j the loyalists and most of the flffhtinff here was between our own people. At' Ramseur's Mill at Lincolnton and .Moons Crock near Fayettevllle no British took part and at Kinffs Mountain. only 200 or 300 British were there with 800 or 000 torics. Most of these tories were recent recruits, raw, untrained militia on their way to join Cornwallis at Charlotte. The whips seemed to have been veterans pa the red 1 by the eleven colonels who commanded them. Anyway they out foupht the Tory crowd and surroundinp them on the mountain forced their surrender' after their brave commander Col. Fer- | puson bad been killed with the great I part of his brave Britons. "Billy Price pot away and ran to Cub ' Creek in Rutherford county?and that; was enough of that war for Billy." See N. C. State records for 1780, in the court house, where both whip and j l iiti. 'i . ronunts of the battle of Kings M< until in arc given. The British say iIn- prisoners were most cruelly treat- [ rt', marched two days without any-1 tiling to cat to Biggerstaffs old field in liutherfonl county where a num- j i> -r of thtni were hanged, including I Col. .Mills, Capts. Chitwood and W1I- ! son. the bost mcn in the country. Captains Croen and Hampton were sen-| LeiH'cd to hang hut made their escape. The British officers were forced t" ' li YEA tot I We worked c 011 the market meriting with t And now, E1 ing experience I are concentrate that can be pro There's noth there's nothing [fine tobacco fl RETTY AFTI That's why C ever. jf | ?* witness the execution of those brave men who died like Romans, with a hurrah for King George as they were swung off. That was a cruel civil and political war. All wars are cruel in the j abstract. The whigs were evening up for what had been done to them. That probably was the turning point as events proved. It had been so long since the Whigs had. gained any victory, that little battle was greatly magnified. At Camden, S. C., the whigs under Gates were badly beaten. Gen. Green met the fleeing remnants at Charlotte?reorganized them and at Guilford Courthouse, made another Ilio D?.ot,t thorn M.'IIIU ?niCI f V'Minuuio oit vj/v out of his way?and they retreated to Virginia while Cornwallls tired of chasing them matched to Wilmington and from there to Yorktown, Va., where he intended sailing to New York. But a French fleet blocked him in and Washington brought up his little army of 5,000 ragamuffins. The French landed 7,000 well equipped troops with guns and ammunitions, forced Cornwallls to surrender and to humiliate him made him turn over his sword to Washington. England and France worn down with long war made terms of peace. Franco stipulating that England free her American colonies, and thus she got even with England for taking Canada from her. And that is how we whipped England for our independence. Yet there are people here still prejudiced against England about the war for independence and the war of 1812 in which we invaded Canada and were whipped out, and in which the British with 4,000 troops routed 13,000 militia defending Washington and took the capital of our great country. Finding nobody else to fight they sailed to New Orleans expecting to march into it like they had at Washington. They found Hickory Jackson with his trained southern Indian fighters. They were pivon a surprise and stayed out. That battle ocrurred three weeks after terms of peace had been signed up, and we are not done bragging about how we whipped them at New Orleans. Yet the peace terms provided that neither side should fortify the Canadian border and we have trusted each other as good friends ever since. Canada did not rebel and they would fight harder to stay with England than we did to leave her. The Carladians are a better people than some of our folk? between them and us. Where was the principle of self-determihation during our civil war? England never has treated any people so mean as did the north and south land. She still has colonies that she treats like we do Porto Rico, Alaska, the Philippines and the Sandwich Islands, Canada, Australia and New Zealand run their own affairs as they please and are loyal to her. All nations are as selflBh as the individuals who compose them. For three hundred years England had led the world's civilisation, in the*arts, science, literature and commerce. The first to grant the right of trial by jury?and to make her dominion free soil. When a slave stopped on her territory he was a free man. As our mother country we inherited our love of liberty, our laws, religion and sense of justice from her. Her mission has been to keep the seas open for free trade with ook n c ii rr> n LKoana y c,t> levelop EL QUA >n Camels for years befoi . Years of testing?blei he world's choicest tobaco /ERY DAY, all our skil and lifelong knowledge c ?d on making Camel the duced. ing else like Camel QU else like Camels wonder! - j T7nT?T?r\rvnr < i avor ana r i j RTASTE. darnel popularity is growi A better cigarette can We put the utmosl TTTTQ ONT? RPANFl J. .1. JL X W V A1 M B. J. RFTBOLDS TOBACCO CO., 1 all people and to preserve the peace of I the world. The highest civilization is \ sustained by English speaking people > which must stand together to maintain c it. . r Our English cousins are our best friends. Woodrow Wilson, William H. i Taft, Charles E. Hughes and Elihu t Root, our most noted statesmen, I s think, endorse these views. That Irish r question, the tall, red-headed high- ^ brow Irish of North Ireland are fight- c ing to stay with England, while the c shore, dark-eyed flatheaded, bow-leg- c ged Irish are fighting to be free. Cath- d ollcism is the main issue. > ?J. C. Elliott., n ^ c THICK SPACED COTTON t Government Gets Unexpected Results in Mississippi. The United States government maintains an experiment station of the Department of Agriculture at v Stoneville, in Coahoama County, in the Mississippi Delta, the chief work 8 of tha/t station being to cope with the e boll weevil problem, and to develop a r long staple cotton best adapted to that * soil. 8 July 21 the station had a field day rally at Stoneville?a couple of thou- 11 sand planters from various sections of *1 the Delta being present?and a revo- * lutionary discovery was divulged to them. It was, simply, that by planting cotton very thickly the boll weevil is * outdone and a handsome : leld per 1 acre obtained, despite heavy infesta- * tion. The dispatch about the meeting I . Y contained tne ronowmg: And then came the thick-spaced f cotton and there was no doubt, judg- ^ ing from their action, that this was * the star attraction, the lodestone. = which made these planters brave the long ride through the rain. This cot- ' ton was chopped out so as to stand two stalks to the hill, 12 inches apart. This would be equivalent to one stalk every six-inches or 24,982 stalks to the acre. It is averaged live bolls to the stalk, then assuming 60 bollr to the pound, the yield would be 2,224 pounds of seed cotton to the acre. Several of the plats, on ordinary sandy land, unfertilized land, averaged that many bolls, and that, too, in fields alive with boll weevil. The economic Importance of this discovery can hardly be overestimated. Thus amazing find ranks with Whitney's invention of the cotton gin. It will do more to lift the Mississippi farmer out of poverty and make him a prosperous citizen than any scientific discovery of the age. Beyond a doubt it will make the Delta the wealthiest farming country in America. It has already restored the confidence of the Delta planter and has pointed the sure road to-beat the boll weevil. . ? . Simple? Yes, it is simple, but it i has taken over 100 years to discover the secret, the amazing simple fact j that the greatest factor is growing i cotton over which the farmer has coni trol, the greatest crop producer yet j discovered is thick-spaced cotton. | Thcie was hardly a row, scarcely a stalk of this cotton which was not ! examined with the most minute care I by the visiting planters. Beside this cotton was a crop spaced ajid treated ? ' IlllllllllllllllllillllllUlHHlHiillHiHUllH iKS !' V. LiTy e we put them iding?experios. 1, manufactur>f fine tobaccos best cigarette ALITY. And 'ul Smoothness, ?ROM;CIGAngfaster than not be made, t quality into /i Viaitoi-StUa, N. C. Jnlll 1 I mil iiiiiiiiiillillllllllllllllllllffilllBllll % ike the ordinary Delta crop, and it vas a good crop, tpo. But when the isltors began to count the blooms >n the rows of this crop and com>are them with the thick cotton, there vas no comparison. In nearly every nstance the thick cotton had three imes as many blooms as the wide ? J T?U?f *>Aff1,wl If Tkn tuiiuu, 1H(41 owvmcu IV. HIV nun who came to scoff caved in. Here vas indubitable proof that through?ut long weary years he had been :irttlng down bis crop by thinning it ?ut In response to his question the lirector told him that for several ears the thick cotton had yielded oore than double the wide-spaced :rop, and that now there was not the east doubt that through all these ears the farmer had been making a errlble mistake in spacing his cotton. -Birmlnghan^ News. New Use for Old Bulb*.?Here is a aluable use for your old incandescent :.mp bulbs. By adopting this sug:estion one can have a Are extlnguishr ready any tiime. Carbon tetrachloide bombs have found favor in many Lmcrican power plants for fire extin uishlng, and their use has j-es'ulted n the prompt quenching of fires that night have resulted in serious conse[uences had quick action not been aken. Burned out incandescent lamp tulbs of a suitable size are converted nto bombs by removing the metal >ase and filling the glass bulb with he liquid. By breaking the tip from he bulb, while It is Immersed In a >ucket of the carbon tetrachloride the 111 in? can be easily^ accomplished. A Irop of wax is placed over the small tole at the Up to seal the bulb. Sowwi 7L One Biff Soi GREATEST LIV In the history of the Fair Association lng the boll weevil menace. AUTOMOB] Fast track, well known drivers, 8] Auto races on Friday1; 28th. ' ' HORSE On Tuesday, Wednesday ahd Thurst races for purses of IJOO each event, t purses of ?150. each event, with added AUTO POLO?S( Stripped automobiles in excitir.g' po South. One exhibit each day between day; also once each evening: during: fi BIG FIREWORK! On the Midway, the famous C. 'A. Yfc POULTRY under the auspices of the South Caroll In conjunction with the State Fair. B AGRICULTUR from every section of the state, biclud also GlrlB' Club work. CAROLINA-CLEMSON The oije big football game of the 8,000 sbectatofs. Football Day. Thun REDUCED RATES C Admission*! Adult*, TScj children rate* for school children's tickets wh tickets not sold at fair around*, but treasurer and will be redeemed at ft We each. . For premium list or Information, w c D. F. EFIRD, Se 'n ' ' ' " I Phone 153 HARD t. i ?r X Crockery, I | Al GLASS an jj wa SAY! | See our I Cal< : It's a Pleasure am 1 waa tVier. ' Let 1] I I TV VUUt?* _ I home and install : RED weatI IWT YOR St.* WARE Millions of Wasto.?Fertilizers with a crop producing value ot'more than 800,000,000 bushels of wheat are an- 1 nually being wasted as a result of the practice of burning raw bltqmlnou*' coal instead of coking It, according to figures presented to the State Finance committee's hearing on'the Chemical Schedule recently. . , ,i , Basing his figures on an annual production of 585,883,000 tons; Henry B. Ruat of Pittsburg estimates that the A# AiMAMltlm ttlllltkat? llm I auuiiai iyno ui aiuvuitun PH<K*W*^ ?*?W to present methods* Is 5,900,620 tonp worth at current prices $354,M7^60 or enough to fertilize 118,000,0<^>\cres ot land. Agricultural experts estimate that an acre of land fertilised' with 100 pounds of ammonium sulphate Wlfl show an average increased yield of seven bushels an acre. '-"i- t A four-foot seam of coal eohtatns enough ammonium sulphate to fertilise the land above it for 500 years, declared Floyd W. Pearsons. By bdrnlng raw bituminous coal all of this ammonium sulphate is wasted. "' .?( The total capacity of our coke oven* Is approximately 60,000,000 tons a year, of which only one half cornea from byproduct ovens, the remainder being burned in bee hive ovens. The ammonium sulphate wasted by these bee hive o\ens would, it is estimated, increase the country's wheat production by more than 60,000,000 bushels a year. "Prior to the war" says Mr. Pearsons "the Germans were the leaders in the practice of extracting the by-products from coal through coking. When the world war commenced, Germany was coking 10,000,000 tons more coal in Byproduct ovens than the rest of the world combined. 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