The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 19, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
Agricultural
Two Hundred Cotton Warehouses
being Built in Texas.
Dallas, Texas,?It is said by
officials of the Texas Farmers'
union at the state headquarters
in Dallas that, in Texas there will
be ready within a few weeks
about 200 cotton warehouses,
la these it is intended to store a
large part of the cotton crop of
the state, to furnish a steady and
level supply to buyers, especially
for the direct selling to spinners
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ana weavers. n is esumareu i
that it will bo possible to store
indefinitely, iffnecessary, as much
as 650,000 to 750,000 bales of
cotton. Next year as much as
1,000,000 bales may be stored.
Many of the farmers are ready to
store large quantities on their
own farms.
The advantage for the warehouse
is said to be that a reasonable
advance in mouey will be
made to any farmer who is unable
to carry his crop without financial
assistance. Practically all of
the warehouses are bonded, and
thus nrnnarAil for Hip lnnninor
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feature. Adequate msurance ac
comruodations are arranged for
by President Calvin for all of the
warehouses, through a Dallas insurance
agency.
"In no previous year have the
farmers of Texas beeu in such a
position for holding their cotton,"
declared A. H. O'Keefe, state
business agent.
"Talk of a surplus crop is foolish.
I feel sure that if it were a
16,000,000 bale crop we could
hold the market to a reasonable
price level, and could, through
the warehouses furnish spiuuers
and consumers with cotton just as
they should demand it. This
would save them the expense of
advance buying, storing and insuring,
and the middleman's
a J I * m
prom ; aim we nave no rear oi a
slump at any aort of a orop.
The Government to Educate
Hens.
(From the Philadelphia Enquirer.)
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural
department, ia now ii
the tenth year of his Cabinet service
in the same position?a record
which i9 uot equalled in our
annals. He has accomplished a
great deal for the farmer and for
the consumer. We eat American
dales, American tigs, not to mention
a whole list of things which
used to he imported, and ho has
accomplished much in making
four spi.gB of wheat grow where
formerly there were three. When
the history of this country comes
to be written the agricultural
Hftnurf rr\ out u/i
kuivaib ?? 111 ii c% t u UlMi. II Ml 1 I M
credit, and WiIhoii will have
nu>:4 because of his long incumbency.
Just now he is preparing to educate
the hen, the simple-minded,
industrious fowl winch adds to
much to national wealth. The
hen lias been doing pretty well
in tiie past, producing eggs and
hatching chickens and making
HO flJSH a hull I It Til? ri.niilun.
make all the noise in fin- barn
yard, but the hen produces the
wealth. Last year there were
twelve billion eggs laid in this
country, a number that Jn utterly
incomprehensible, but worth
about as much us all the gold and
silver taken from the rnin. s. The
hen deserves respect. She con
Department
taiuH many potentialities and w
have always thought she did he
work admirably. Not so, say th
experts. The heu must be educal
ed.
It is considered a pretty goo
job for a hen to lay 140 eggs
year. At a cent apiece this pr(
duces large returns from the it
vestment. But the Governniei
lis not satisfied. It thinks it ca
produce a hen that will lay 36
eegs a year, allowing no rest o
Sundays or legal holidays. Th
idea is to keep the hen from r<
verting to its maternal instincts.
Every one who has any know
edge of biology, either theoreti
or practical, knows that all an
mated nature persists in repr<
ducing the species at rapidly f
possible. The hen does not cor
sciously and of its own free wi
lay eggs for breakfast table. H<
desire is to fill the nest and hate
out chicks. Her wish to "set"
fundamental and correct. Th
Government proposes to elim
uate this instinct as far as possi
b!e, so that hens will lay all th
year round and not be dissatisfie
when there is no brood to cai
for. Incubators will do the natu
al work.
This is hard on the hen, seen
unconstitutional in fact, but it
a tine exhibition of thestrenuou
ness of modern life, the beBt e:
amplification of the law of tl
survival of the fittest. Uei
must work all the time and on!
incubators without mother!
feeling must rear the brood. Ye
it is is rough on the hen, but *
welcome the change in the inte
ests of the enlarged breakfa
table.
Adulteration of Cereal "Rreal
fast Foods.
(From the Scientific America!
The cereal breakfast foods :
a class, according to Dr. Charl
I). Woods and Prof. Harry
Snyder in a bulletin issued I
the Department of Agricultur
are ordinarily free from adulte
ation. Various experiment st
tion chemists and public anal
sists in States having pure fix
iiws have examined the brain
in the market, as indeed tin
3xamine all classes of food
frequent intervals, and foui
that as a genera) rule they we
made from good, sound gra
| without admixture of harmfi
substances. Some may be ma<
I i rum coarse mining product
such as wheat middlings, ai
some doubtless contain innlassr
glucose, or other similar materia
which do not appear in the ma
ufaclurer'sdescription, but whit
are not injurious.
Occasionally the percentage i
ash or mineral matter in breali
j last toods is abnormally nig
but this is apparently due I
common salt added to give llav<
and not as an adulterant. In gel
eral, it may be said that there
every reas >11 to suppose that til
manufacturers endeavor to m
wholesome materials, and tin
il an impurity is occasional 1
found in their goods it is accidei
tal rather than intentional. Km
thermore, cer?'?) breakfaat food
as pr- viouely noted, are genera]
iy made from well?cleaned irr.u
and are marketed in a cleanl
way. In the case of the paekag
goods the form of marketing at
fords special protccMon * iin
the goods are in tho dealer
hands aud also in the household,
where they are very commonly 3^
kept in the original cardboard Wa
- box or package. U
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t The Fate of Salaried Men. Nj
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(From Washington Letter to the ^
(1 Milwaukee Journal.) J*
a Wage-earners and millionaires
are the only people who are en 2%
'* joying the present era of pre?- |l
lt perity. Farmers fall into one or
11 other of these classifications. The '?!
> Government bureau of labor has
11 just issued a lot of statistics
e about wages and the cost of liv9
ing. Some people have been mis
led into thinking that the figures
show that incomes have increasc
ad more than the cost of food
' This is true only for that fortu
"> nate class known as "wage earn
i* ers they and the very rich.
?- But there are several million
11 of salaried men in the United
5r States. They are the clerks, the
h bookkeepers, the Government ^
>R employees, policemen, firemen,
? barbers, barkeepers andrepnrters
i- What the salaried man has suf
i- fered in the frightful prosperity
i? which has afflicted the country
d he only knows. He has no un'?
ions, and he never strikes ; so his
r- salary remaius stationary while
the cost of living soars.
The way the cost of living has
increased in the past 16 years i*
?- enough to make a man's hair
turn gray. Take as a standard
i? the average cost of commodities
during the 10-year period from
l.v 1890 to 1899, and look at a few
ly staple articles of food. Bacon
>s, has gone up 38 8 per cent,
t* eggs 31.6 per cent, fresh pork 26.
r' 6 per cent, ohickens 23 6 per cent,
corn meal 22.2 per cent, Hour 19.
9 per cent, salt bam 18.8 per cent,
and so on all through the list,
k- As compared with the cost of
food 10 years ago, the average
cost of food has increased 17.7
per cent. This is the finding of
i.) the labor bureau, based on care
ful and conservative investigation.
Unless a man's salary hatbeen
advanced 17.7 during the
past five years he has uot been
getting his share of the prosneri
by j ty. In fact, he has been sutler
e, ing as much as if he had beer
,r reduced by that per cent.
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y- Orphan Work Day.
3(' Saturday, September 29th is
the day. It is a very thoughtful
a.v linbit that is growing upon our
a' people?the setting apart of the
1(1 last Saturday in September as a
re day to work for the orphans.
1,1 On that day, unless yourself iin
need of help, devote your in
h* j come to the fatherless. Give them
p? I the proceeds of your day's work. j
I There are 250 orphans in the
"si '.'lii.rnwell Orphanage, Clinton,
's S. C. And this is only one of our
" | Homes for the fatherless.
I Remember w hat Job said "If
I 1 have eaten my morsel, myself,
"1 I alone, and the fatherless hath
>-| not eaten thereof, ihen let mine
h, aim fall from my shoulder blade.*'
I"' Whether, therefore, the reader o!
lT 1 tllAJH I IIAU l.A I ' ? ..... ? . I ..
| 11 hop up t; m ui fcu ill 11, I
proteslant ??r Catholic, let Inn. I
h mvo the 2t)th. September to work |
10 ! tor the orphan?, Rending his con- j
10 i tribution to the Institution thai j)j|,
*t Ije ih most interested in.
.V ) W P Jacobs
j Thornwell Orphanage,
Clinton, S. C.
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|_ In Self Defence
U Major llivmni. editor and Aluiiacer of tlie
Con ditniioiialiat, Kiuinotico Ky.. when
y lie was fiercely attacked, four years I
by I'lles. bought u box of Ri.oklen'n Arnica
Naive, of u hu ll be Riiy h : "It caret I me in
? ten ibt\siuul no tioublo nince." (^nicke-i
. I cr of Ibirun, S iron, Ctita anil Wounds.
" ! !if;c ni !. K Mackey Co., Cruwfoi 1 lima., f-IIA
U | i'uuueiburk I'burtuucy. i
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When the bolls begin to pop
The people begin to hop?
Don't forget to stop
At J. C. Edwards's, headquarters for bargains. Best
Granulated Sugar 20 lbs. to $1.00. Seed Tick Coffee at
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ii i-^.c iu , mi utner groceries soia in proportion. Magnolia
Flour gets better every day $2.25 per i>811 ?s. standard
weight. Largr line of Cooking Stoves on the way
that we are going to sell so cheap anyone can buy. We
expect to save you 3 or 4 dollars on your purchase. Our
Dry Goods, Shoes and Notions are bargains. All summer
Dress Goods at first cost; all Low-Cut Shoes at cost.
Come to see us and let us show you everything we have. 1
If you don't buy we will still be friends. Always when
you are in town leave your baggage with us. Tell your
friends to meet you at the store where goods are very
cheap and customers are heartily welcomed
To spend their time.
To spend their influence,
To spend their money
To the best advantage for themselves and
J. C. Edwards *
in Bennett's Old Stand.
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The First National Bank of Lancaster. .'
LECTORS I I Besides tbe well known character
and ability of our hoard of PiroeT.
S. Carter, I tora, we keep your money i(inured
J. D. Funderburk, against every kind of loss. making ?
(") P Month this bank a safe plane to deposit
Chas. 1). Jones, your saving*.
Jt'neS, We extend every courtesy and nrR.
C. McManus.
, i urnuMiuni ion conn intent wiili ?omt
H. E. Wylie. hanking.
Accounts From $1.00 Up Solicited.
S. !', JONES, I'reaiilent. It. K WYI.IK, Vice-I'feaiilent.
K. M.CKOXTON, Caabier.
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