The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, December 08, 1921, Image 11

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' 1 * ^MHBBBBMHOBSBBr55WSMSSSBBSBBBWHBSSSBfli j THK GINNING FVGCltBB. y The News and Courier. There are mahy people who will be ffc Interested in on analysts of the cen,sus report on cotton ginned by counts ties in South Carolina for the crops of 1920 and 1921, made public as of ~ November 21, and printed yesterday. 1% This report shows a total for the State rm< of Cotton ginned in 1921 of 684,617 12j bales as against 1,089,443 bales for nn 19.20; linters not included. '?' The cotton crop of South Carolina l"T^Q for the several years last past, ex* elusive of linters. as given in Shepy ' person's "Cotton Facts", was as follows: 1,462,227 bales in' 1919; 1,561,726 bales in 1918; 1,267,135 bales in 1917; 970,702 bales in 1916; 1,174,213 bales in 1915. In 1-915, 1916 and 1917 the acreage was considerably reduced. In 1916 a dirastrous storm did great damage to me crop mrougnout a large part the State. The crop this year has been considerably lens than half the normal crop as shown by the ginning figures for 1918 and 1919. A study of the figures in detail will show that in fourteen counties of the State the boll weevil this year did practically no damage. These fourteen counties are Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Dillon, % Greenville, Lancaster, Marion, Marl. boro, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, Union and York. In one or two of these counties, as in Marion and Marlboro for example; the ginning figures this year.are smaller than in some of the big years in the p'ast, but they compare favorably with those for 1915, 1916 and 1917 and with last year. In some counties, as in Dillon, Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg and York the yield is distinctly larger than last year. Such fluctuations as have occurred in the fourteen counties named are normal fluctuations. These fourteen counties produce*'. J thin year over 400,000 bales of cotton, or about three-fifths of the total production for the State. This would | have stood as a Rood yield for these [ ] fourteen counties at any time. They ? ginned 427,000 bales in 1917 and 356.000 bales in 1916. 3 There is another group of counties, eight in number, where the yield this year has been decidedly better than half as large as in a normal year when the whole state was f-ee uf the boll weevil. These eight counties are Abbeville, Darlington, Fairfield, Florence, Greenwood, Laurens, Lee and Newberry. About 145,000 bales of cotton have been ginned In these eight counties, or a little over one-fifth the total for the State. These 8 counties never have made ic the biggest year more than 300,000 bales of cotton, they have never avtraged anything like that. All of j tliem have been seriously affected by 1 - ? *1 iuc do11 weevil this year but in none of them has the production been cut to less than 50 per cent of a normal crop. It appears, then, that the twentytwo counties named have produced over four-fifths of the total cotton grown in South Carolina in 1921. ThiB leaves sixteen counties still to b considered. Of these sixteen counties there are five in which cotton" : ?"? practically disappeared. Beaufort. Berkeley, Jasper, Charleston and Georgetown together have g.nned this year only 2,417 bales, a.s-| against a normal- ginning of 40,000 , bales in the recent past. Five or six years ago 'lie Aotton crop of Beaufort County amounted tc^ 6,000 or 7,000 ; bales a year;' in 1918 it was 9,745. . Berkeley's cotton crop has been cut' from a normal crop of 10,000 of 11, I 0C0?in 1918 it was 16,133?to 823 : this year. Jasper county grew 7,296 | bales in 1918, its normal crop until the boll weevil came being 5,000 to 6,000 bales. Jasper this year has ginned 681 bales. Charleston which in] 1918 grew 18,176 bales of cotton and i which had a normal crop of 10,000 I to 12,000 bales, and Georgetown. I ? which until 1919 had a crop of over ! * 5,000 bales a year, have ginned this year together only 526 bales. The boll weevil has practically destroyed the cotton industry, at all events for the time being, in these five .counties. The following table will show the counties in which the boll weevil has made its greatest ravages this year: ; 1921 1920 1919 Aiken __ __ 13,232 37,000 40,708 Allendale 4,207 11,947 20,206 Bambere 5 ?1R ioiqa oa cjo Barnwell 7,724 26,210 30,559 Calhoun 4,844 28,791 34,960 Clarendon 7,976 35,226 39,221 Colleton ___ 1,976 5,783 12,543 Dorchester __ 1535 8,052 15,373 Edgefield __ 6,977 21,364 23,939 Hampton ? 2,706 6,449 10,692 Horry 3,066 4,666 9,530 Kershaw 11,181 26.858 30,199 Lexington 7,908 23,338 29,723 McCormlck _ 4,006 13,115 16,956 Orangeburg 17,014 69,598 87,939 Richland 7,710 27,026 26,417 Saluda ? 8,162 23,844 24,927 Sumter 17,791 41.649 46.615 Williamsburg 7,028 22,271 26,963 Total __ 138,845 451,*80 652,108 In the counties which lie between the Savannah river and the Pee Dee river and from the coast to the center of the State the boll weevil has now done sufficient damage to put the cotton crop of South Carolina virtually in half. Some of the counties listed in the table Just given may be Sable next year to increase their yield over this year, poor seasons having bad something to do with the diminished yield in 1921. On the other ?] hand the counties in the group first Fiven which escaped injury from the boll weevil in 19.21 can scarcely hope 0to be so rortunate in 1922. The weetil is moving northward in South S Carolina as well aa eastward. The up~ per counties should not be hit so hard ?] as some o* the lower counties have glm fx been but they will be hit next year EiSj \jtt and the yeitr after Just as Abbeville and Greenwood ->nd Edgefield and , Newberry and Laurent bare been bit j this ye*r. ! We do not tee how anyone can study the figures for South Carolina and not he convinced that to long as the boll weevil remains with ut we may iook for a permanent reduction in the cotton yield of South Carolina, as compared with pre-weevil conditions, sufficiently large to make it lout of the question for this State to | produce at the outside over a million bales of cotton in the most favorable seasons. It will be a marvel if it ever goes that high. In a bad year it may fall decidedly below half a million ; bales. When we take this into consid' eration and consider further that : what the weevil is doing in South Carolina is being duplicated in Georga and Alabama the conviction grows that the shortage in the American crop is bound to be sufficient to bring about a permanent improvement in the price just as soon as something can be done to stablize . unrlH A1 .. w.iU vuuuiviuue auu gi*? vie uanuns ol Europe valid money. For a good many people it is going to be hard to hold on in the meantime but they can find comfort in the assurance that for those who do hold on a better day is coming. HOME DEMONSTRATION DEPARTMENT. (Conducted by Miss Etta Sue Sellers) The South Carolina Home Producers Association. The Home Demonstration Club people of South Carolina under the leadership of Miss Christine N. South are beginning to realize that a cooperative organization handling the products of many producers is in a betteV position to establish and maintain outlets for these products than are the individual growers. As a result, we have a state wide organization I known as the South Carolina Home ! Producers' Association. This organisation, founded as it is for the purpose of disposing of the surplus products of the farms converting the same into cash, has the best opportunity to succeed as does any organization which fills a well defined need. i It is ? knnwn fsir-? (Vinf ^vi-.ro ! ?., .tions brought into being as a result ij e: an enthusiasm created by an appeal to prejudices or misconceptions, ! are not nearly so secure as one creat; ed by a well recognized need. Success; fill, cooperative marketing ventures usually come from small beginnings, : and are the result of a gradual permanent growth. A Few Milk Facts. If the modern housewife knew the amount of care used in handling milk I by the modern dairy she would use j more care In the handling of It in the : house. A few suggestions in that [line might be appreciated at the present time. The first one is to take in the milk as soon as possible after it is delivered and put it on the ice. Wash the top of th# bottle before pouring any ox the milk out of it. Keep the milk as cool as possible at all times. Pour out only enough milk to meet the need of the moment. Do not pour the whole quart in a pitcher and set it out on the table for breakfast and then return it to the ice box and take it out again for dinner and then return until needed again. It is best if you take out Just what you need each time and leave the bottle on the ice. Do not set the milk on a window sill where the sun can strike it and let it sthnd all day and then blame the milk man because it is sour before night. In most of the large cities of the country public schools conduct nutrition classes. Every child is weighed and measured for height. Children that are apparently undernourished. which is indicated oy not Dring nor- T mal as to height and weight, are put | on a milk diet, which is furnished by the school or by some civic organiza- | ticn. In the thousands of cases that . have heen reported they have yet to I find a single case where the diet has i failed to show a marked improve- ' ment in the children, both mentally I and physically. In more than 90 per cent of the | cases under observation of children i that were backward mentally the I reason had been shown to be a lack i of sufficient vitamines in their diet. ' It is surprising what splendid | ! drinks can be made by the addition of some flavoring syrup to a half ! or quarter glass of milk and then filling the glas3 with charged water. Any flavor ' can be used for these drinks, with the exception of lemon, which will cause the milk to curdle. However, a delicious lemon drink can be made by taking some lemon flavor and adding it to one half glass of buttermilk and filling with charged water. The addition of a little salt before adding charged water and 'a little grated nut meg afterwards will greatly improve the flavor. There are numerous others recipes that can be used and are easily obtained by anyone Interested. ?M. V. Anisdon, Pa. o damson Notes. Clem son Collere. Dse. 1. ?The Cross-Country track team won the silver cup at Newberry on Thanksgiving day. The colleges represented were: Carolina, W of ford, Presbyterj lan College, Newberry and Clemsen. C mson's closest rival was Wofford. Tuis Is the second consecutive year that the Tigers have captured the cup. The Tiger Pressing Club was completely destroyed by fire about twotlilrty o'clock Thanksgiving day. The Cadets were unable to save the pressing club building but succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading to other buildings. ' i "C" company defeated "A" company today in a very exciting game of football, the score being nineteen to *ero. A. C. A. , o There will be a play, br.zaar and entertainment, at Hamer school house on tip} night of December l?th which, the public is invited. BRICK BRi Come to oar pl? 1 we km to offer LAYTON BRICK ^ MARIO PROTECT YO and also yourself by taking i Life wbi cb provides for ten < in case'of Total Disability ai policy in case of deatk by acc is paying a lot of tbese total i mty claims all over tbe count wko would need tbis protectic stead of being a liability in ci disabilty. is an asset; it costs Prom it and at tbe same time you family it daprivcd of ant one dollar pr< paid at dcatb. A. G. KOLLOCK. Dai Cedar t I have just receivei No. 1 Red Cedar Shingle which are lower in pri< war. Also I keep on and 5 inch Cypress Shii as the lowest in price, W. Ellis | LATTA PALM F I; TANK Gives quicker re seed meal at GUARANTEE' Ammonia a. p. a.__ : If your loeal agent cam with us direct. A. F. PRIf< charles HISSISHilSSHH?? a a a a Business M a A a America a ? have confidence in th 99 H " America?financia ? emerging from a s gF) into a period which \ g lasting prosperity. *1 Definite improvem is the best evidence ? certainly conditions e ffl ing this improvement 93 g] This bank has confi m iq naaf 1^1 <W U11U laillU lilt g) ture holds much of g< ffl SB SI m We invite your pat | FIRST NATO S DILLON, Soi ? National Bank Pr< ? 3avi 111 ffl , / 1 MHH| mm. mmm\ ummM i i *??? i ' i Sw3c r' at and fee wbat f before you buy. JVORKS, (Est. 1885) N. S. C. v I , i - - i UR FAMILY | i policy 'in the New York dollars a montk on tke policy ad double tke amount of tke :ident. Tke New York Life s disability and double indem- | ry, and you might ke one >n. A policy of this kind inue of total and permanent you nothing; you get income get your dividends, and your taction because tbis full amount is rlington, S. C., Special Agt f.nr S. C. ? ia Shingles I a large shipment of s from Vancouver, B. C. ce than since before the hand a quantity of 4 ngles, which are as low with quality considered Bethea. ? s. c. i SETTO |! STT JnL :age suits than cotton id costs less. i analysis: 7 per cent 2 lot supply you communicate IGLE, Inc., i TON. S.C. I aBaaaaaaaaa! a a r r. a f en of ? a a' a< e future. gj 1 and business?is ? tate of uncertainty ? >romises healthy and ffl IS SI ient along all lines (+) of adjustment, and gj very where are show- gj * ffi j 11 -1 < * 131 uence mat tne worst st the immediate fu- gg sod for all. gj SI BE S ronage, g] INAL BANK? ith Carolina ffi! )tection For Your ? ngs | BE \ [g aissimsiiiiasifflffli .. ? * ; > " v - s 0 / ; T**? . jpjr t a2J^ ^ To Our P With a view to serving plying with law, and pro well as ourselves, no perse doing business with us on ? 1922. will be allowed to o\ our books, nor will we * other instruments that ma; in our cash longer than poi liability. The overdraft ev extent that it causes considi forces them to take loai would not otherwise make; a careless and extravagant Therefore, we have agreed and we trust that we will i tion where we will have to especially, that our patrons cers or employees to accomi overdrafts, which to allow is First National Bank, By J. R. Regan, Cash\\ The Bank of Dillon, By Jno. C. Bethea, Vice-Prest. I The Peoples Sank, By V. L. McLean, Vice-Prest. THE UNIVEI FORD CARS, FORL AND TR When you plow do it you gin use a Fordson. V use a ?Fordson. When you . son. For pulling saw-mill, or anything else that requi] s m Tractor. It is thorough of these operations. We ; Trucks and Cars at all tirn vpails for same. Our servi the charge of the most skil be obtained. W. B. FOR Lake VieMotte Busin Florenci When you chooi you have many r< For some positions training is necessar you choose to enter get a good position time by taking a busi modern Business Cc ment pays larger div mess education* wh on tlie farm or ei world. Only tke woman is out of w full information at i MOTTE BUSIN1 FLORENCI 1 You to take a camping out if f ii of tome sort, in whisk WW you should have a flrat-^jf J ^ new Wall Tent, as ^owilttflM t out. We can giro you a Mjfl 9 feet 4 inches by 11 (mM yLp 8 inches of 10 os. ''USAMlf ?] material for $80. "USAMlflJV ^ stands for U. S. Ardj^J Mildewproofed. Ufl COLUMBIA SUPPLY CO., 823 West Oerrais Street ^gH Ml atrons: ? ,<r . s? m \ all impartiali. g si m teeing our caitot^ |{ t J in, nrm or cortf^ m 1| ind after Janua!=; m j rerdraw any acct? m f| carry checks, dr? }=J J y result in indebf^j j=j ;y isible without incurrrcig il hat grown to snch ar erable Tots to the banks HI is that perhaps they |J| and worse still, cause' I I : spirit in our patrol J to entirely eliminate ll tot be placed in a p?q gl turn down checks; at J will nit call on our off nodate them by allowir *9 i really a violation of lav. *g| The Bank of Lake View, y ByR 5. Rogers, Pres. JSy rheUnionBk.&TrustCo. By C. R. McLeod, W Cashier. 9 i he Back of Little Rock, rjj By J. H. Meadors, ?L Cashier, a m 12BZBHZJ7 BHBUBHBM '^19 *Wc? I iSAL CAR |3 )SON TRACTORS |3 *UCKS fa with a Fordson. When V /hen you thresh grain ? bale hay use a FordStump Puller, Skidder res power use the Ford- wt ily dependable for any M also carry a full line of jtfi Les and a large stock of W ice department is under m Iful mechanics that can D, Dealer 1. w, s. c. 4* w 11 coo wuiifgE; fp* ^s c- i 1 fc se your li. ? 1 i W* >ads open t<zn I a long perg | jjNr y. However, u11^ business you can ^ l in a very sbort ^ mess course in this allege. No invest ldends than a bu etber you remai^(|Rjr iter the business ^ untrainea man ur ork. "Write for out this School. .? ESS COLLEGE Jgj