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8 FOR KEEPINfi FOOD PuRE! IN THK HOT SVMMKK MONTHS, j Practical to Help Public Avoid Sickness From Fating Spoiled Articles of Diet. Washington, July 10.?The departmen of agriculture has issued j the following practical suggestions j In regard to keeping food and drink . in hot weather, with a view to help- I ing the public to avoid sickness from i eating spoiled articles of diet: CITT7W 11a nkA..l,l i w unc prupir pjiuuiu uc taiuiui about the condition of the food they 1 eat at all seasons of the year, they ( should be particularly watchful dur- ! lng the summer months. In hot , weather bacteria multiply far more rapidly than in cold weather and 1 produce chemical changes in some foods which greatly lessen their nu- j tritive value and often make them i unlit for human consumption. Un fortunately, there is no quick, absolute, simple, practical way of determining the presence of hurtful bacilli in foods, or of obtaining positive evidence of the existence of | ptomanies. The average family does not have the delicate apparatus needed for these tests, nor the skill to detect these micro-organisms. "The housewife will find eyes and nose the Bafest practical detectives of bad food in hot weather. If any article has any suspicion of an un- j usual odor or looks abnormal. It 1 should be avoided. People eating in ! doubtful restaurants should be particularly careful about meats or fish , cooked with a highly spiced or aro- |, raatlc sauce which might disguise a , bad taste or warning odor. Only i; sweet smelling, clean food should be eaten. Spotted, green, slimy, or | frothy raw meat, or meat which is I! soft In spots also should he regard< <! with suspicion. Taste of course is a supplementary test, mil one to oe i used after eyes, nose, and fingers. A 1 mother before she allows her child | to eat anything, should examine It . carefully In a good light, smell It, and finally taste it. "Milk particularly deteriorates rapidly under summer heat, especially If it already contains bacteria. Housewives, therefore, should see to it that their milk after being left by the milkman does not stand for any length of time on a hot back porch or stoop before it is put in the icebox. Milk bottles should be kept closed, both in the ice-box and out of it. If there is any doubt at all as to the excellence of the local milk supply, pasteurize all milk. "All foods should be keqt covered or wrapped, and always out of the reach of flies, which are deadly carriers of typhoid. All vessels, pitchers, etc., in which food is to be stored should first be scalded. Food chould be handled as little as possible. The df A Woman Wan The Home I MAKE HER HAPPY BY TAK IT THE YEAR R Kill Take a about o 1st? H Heads, ??????1 MAIN STREIi 1 , V. ice-box, especially its drain-pipe, should be cleaned thoroughly and frequent*- with boiling water and washing soda, and given an occasional airing. A persistent battle should be waged against flies in all parts of the home. i "Uncooked foods as a general proposition should be avoided. Children should not be allowed to eat the skips of fruits, especially fruits which have been exposed to flies or street dirt on unscreened stands or pushcarts. "Those who go away for vacation should not get the idea that everything in a summer resort or strange city is necessarily pure and wholesome. The danger of typhoid fever in country resorts is very great. < Many of the cases of typhoid fever recorded in the fall in cities where , ho U'ntor la ml ro hod ltd nrleln 111 water or contaminated substances drunk or eaten at some summer resort. Insist on boiled water. If you absolutely cannot get boiled water, make very sure about the reputation of springs, wells, or tap water. Refuse absolutely to take any water that comes from a source near an outhouse or stable, or in a neighborhood where fever is at all prevalent. ! "Boiled water can be made Just as palatable as unboiled water. The ' flat taste which boiled water has soon after it has been boiled is due to the fact that boiling drives out of it the air which it held in solution. If the water after boiling is put in scalded shallow open pans and allowed to stand for 24 hours where flies or dirt cannot get at it, it will regain Its air and have its usual taste restored by the second day. "Finally it is particularly important in summer that people should not be misled into believing that the label 'Guaranteed under tho Food and Drugs Act on cans and packages means that the government has tested these foods and pronounced them pure and debirable. The gov- 1 ernment does not make the guaran- i tee. The guarantee Is made wholly by the manufacturer, and means no ' more than when your own corner 1 grocer guarantees that the sugar he ' welghB out for you Is all right. Ex- < amine goods labeled 'guaranteed* just as carefully as any other kind." < i i Russia Selected by Bulgaria to Stop ( Bloodshed. St. Petersburg, July 10.?Bui- ! garia has placed herself unreservedly in tlit hands of Russia with the view . of bringing about a cessation of hos- ; tilities in the Balkans and in order to prevent further bloodshed, according to an announcement made here today apparently on good authority. ' Mrs. P. B. Morrah of Mount Car look and ut. Have ow about Receipts, :T I mel is the guest of her parents, Mr. ! and Mrs. W. C. Thomson. T] 7 'aper mm V ING O'IND - Eight THE LANCASTER NE\ SOIL TREATMENT. A Young Colored Farmer Tells of Its Importance?Rotation of Crops Suggested. To the Editor of The News: If I can interest anyone with con versauon, or try 10 ireai some suoject, that might interest some gentle reader, it would be no better subject than the soil. To treat this : subject as it ought we shall have to go far back in the dark, dim ages of ihe past, before the wrinkeld faces of the rocks appeared, even before animal life existed, for out of the soil grew all plant life; it is the home of all the plant food which plants seek to satisfy their wants. Then the question comes to us, "What is the soil?" It is God's great garment of the earth, which has in her store house, plant food lying in three states, available, not Immediately available, and tightly Becured. This being an established ract, we are not concerned about the real beginning of soil making, but what it is capable of doing now. How shall we keep these plant foods In the soil? Shall it be by applying 8-8-4 fertilizer, or some other high grades, or shall it be by the proper rotating of crops? This question we need not answer, but veery individual that tills the soil, needs to go to It and make a definite study. This subject should arouse every Individual because of this great fact that everything; comes from the soil. Pood, shelter, raiment, happiness ind the promotion of civilization, come from this inamlnate thing we call dirt. QROVER CLEVELAND ANTHONY. PRAISE AND CRITICISM. I Eminent Hanker Discusses the NewCurrency Bill. Duluth, Minn., July 10.?George i M. 'Reynolds, president of the Conti- I tiental and Commercial National Rank of Chicago, spoke before the Minnesota Rankers' Association here today on "The Administration Currency Bill," and had both praise and criticism for the measure, Mr. Reynolds said that as a result i of personal interviews with Presl- j dent Wilson and others at Washington charged with the responsibility of preparing a currency bill, he had been Impressed that it was the deBlre of all concerned to devise the host nlan nossible to enact into law. Foremost among his criticisms and by way of suggestion for Improvement, Mr. Reynolds pointed out that the sevfii members of the proposed fedeifl reserve board would all be appointees of the President to the exclusion from the deliberations of the board of bankers and. business men generally and that this would be calculated "to place our whole system of banking under the domination and control of a purely political board." T I ne l< $L Pages and C see if yoi 5 you plei V A your Lett Etc.? Li "HE I VS, JULY 11, 1913. GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT c 12 KING CORN KKKiNS IN AMERICA.' a Department of Agriculture Issues Reports on Conditions of Coun try's Principal Crops. Washington, July 10.?The first , idea of the size this year of the j! vuuiury s Krvaiesi crop?corn?was " given yesterday, when the department of agriculture issued its report showing the acreage, condition and ^ estimate of the number of bushels of , corn which condition reports indi- i cate will be produced. More defi- * nite figures as to the size of the great wheat crop, expected to be the second largest ever gathered, also were given as well as the first idea of the size of the potato, tobacco 51 and rice crops. Details of the acroage, condition, j on July 1, and indicated acre yield {! and total production, interpreted irom condition reports, or the various crops follow: WINTER WHEAT CROP. Winter wheat: Area planted, 30,938,000 acres, 31.6 per cent of a normal, compared with 83.5 per 2 cent on June 1, 73.3 per cent on " July 1, last year, and 79.9 per cent, 2 the 10-year average on July 1. Indicated yield 15.6 bushels per acre, compared with 15.1 bushels last year and 15.2 bushels the average for the c past flv years. Estimated total pro- t duction, 483,000,000 bushels, com- i pared with 399,919,000 bushels last i year. 430,656.000 bushels in 1911, 434,142,000 bushels in 1910 and ( 418,000,000 bushels in 1909. ' The condition on July 1 of winter j wheat in the Southern states was as t follows: I Ten-year ( States? 1913 1912 av. J Virginia 93 R3 86 Kentucky 92 71 82 t Tennessee 92 85 82 Texas 85 85 73 North Carolina.. ..96 77 84 ^ SPRING WHEAT NOT SO GOOD. Spring wheat: Area planted, 18,- r 663,000 acres, compared with 19,- J 243,000 acres last year. Condition. , 73.8 per cent of a normal, compared , with 93.5 per cent on June 1, 89.3 r per cent on July 1, last year, and 85.3 per cent the 10-year average , on July 1. Indicated yield, 11.7 , bushels per acre, compared with 17.2 bushels last year, and 13.3 , bushels, the average for the past , five years. Estimated total produc- , tion, 218,000,000 bushels, compar- . ed with 330,348,000 bushels last i year, 190,682,000 bushels In 1911,' 200,979,000 bushels in 1910 and ' 266,000,000 bushels in 1909. I All wheat: Area planted, 49,-1 601,000 acres, compared with 45,- i , 814,000 acres last year. Condition, 1 I uicastei ou a i omes Every 1 lr Printed lty Bill B er Heads, A " et us nave NEW* '8.6 per cent of a normal, compared with 87.2 per cent on June 1, 10.1 per cent on July 1, last year, ind 81.9 per cent the 10-year avertge on July 1. Indicated yield, 14.1 >ushels per acre, compared with ,5.9 bushels last year and 14.5 >ushels the average for the past five 'ears. Estimated total production r01,000,000 bushels, compared with r30,267,000 bushels last year, 621,138,000 bushels in 1911, 635,121,(00 bushels in 1910 and 683,000,100 bushels in 1009. The amount of wheat remaining in farms July 1 is estimated at about >5,515,000 bushels, compared with 13,876,000 bushels on July 1, 1912, ind 34,071,000 bushels on July 1, 1911. CORN CROP VERY GOOD. Corn: Area planted 106,884,000 teres compared with 107,083,000 teres last year. Condition, 86.9 per ent of a normal, compared with 11.5 per cent on July 1, last year, ind 84.0 per cent the 10-year averige on July 1. Indicated yield 27.8 lushels per acre* compared with 29.2 lushels last year and 26.5 bushels, he average for the past five years. Sstimated total production 2,971,>00,000 bushels, compared with [,124,746,000 bushels last year, !, 531,488,000 bushels In 1911. !.886,260,000 bushels in 1910 and 1,552,000,000 bushels in 1909. Oats: Area planted, 37,241.000 icres. compared with 37,917,000 icres last year. Condition,*76.3 per ent of a normal compared with 87. >er cent an June 1, 89.2 per cent on luly 1, 1912, and 84.5 per cent the 10-year average on July 1. Indiated yield. 26.9 bushels per acre, compared with 37.4 bushels last re%r and 29.7 bushels the average or the past five years. Estimated otal production, 1,031,000,000 >ushels, compared with 1,418,337,100 bushels last year, 922,298,000 >ushels in 1911, 1,186,341,000 bush*ls in 1910, and 1,007,000,000 >ushels in 1909. Acreage planted to corn in Southern states and its condition July 1, vith comparisons, follow: Ten-year 'tates? Acreage 1913 1912 Av. rexas ...7,081,000 83 84 78 Oklahoma 5,176,000 87 90 82 leorgla .. 4,066,000 91 78 87 Kentucky 3,636,000 90 82 87 rennessee 3,365,000 88 86 87 Mabama .3,244,000 87 82 86 Vliss'ippi 3,230,000 85 82 84 V, Caro. .2,836.000 89 88 88 \rkanRag 2,500,000 81 84 84 Virginia .1,980,000 91 88 89 3. Caro. ..1,992,000 86 79 81 Liouisiana 1,931,000 87 88 82 Miss Maude Holley of Winnsboro ib the guest of Miss Charlotte Jones. Mra. W. B. Cauthen, Mi68 Lallagc ind Master W. B. Cauthen, Jr., are visiting relatives in Winston-Salem. r Nev ear [Tuesday and \ [ Statione leads for Envelope your ord i LAN V SHOULD NEGROES BE SEGREGATED? Present Conditions, It is I>eclared, (live the Negroes n Flagrantly Unfair Advantage. Raleigh, N. C., July 10.?Chairman Clarence Poe announces that the program committee of the National Farmers' Union has asked local unions at their next meetings to discuss the problem of segregating the races in the South's rural districts as is already the policy In the townfi. It is asserted that thousands of v>hlte farmers are being driven from their homes by the growing number of negro farmers around them and the consequent lack of adequate white social life. The hope is to develop a public sentiment which will require negroes to buy land in communities to themselves instead of breaking up white communities by indiscrimi- , nately sandwiching white and negro farmers together. In discussing the matter further, Mr. Poe said: "For the good of both races, the tlPPTnPQ uhnul/1 huv lun/1 enHln as largely as possible In neighborhoods of their own. For example, fifty negro families and fifty white families together In a district can have only half as good schools for either race as they could have if the hundred families were of one race; and with regard to churches, libaries, co-operative societies, social meetings, and nearly all other agencies of vital civilization the same thing is true. To have half the community composed of a separate race cuts in half all the social power for progress. "The big fact we have to face is that in thousands and thousands of communities in the South, the negro farmers are not only subjecting the white farmers to more or less dlsaastrous economic competition by their lower standards of living, but In many sections the growing number of negroes is driving the white people to the towns for social reasons. When the white population in a community becomes too small or too scattered, when the white farmer's wife and children find more negro neighbors than white neighbors around them, a tremendous motive is given for moving away?and if the farmer moves some negro will probably buy his land at a sacrifice because other white farmers have the iiauio itremiK ana ao noi care lO DUy land in a predominantly negro community. Such is the negro's flagrantly unfair advantage for driving white pepole off the farms and tak| ing the rural South for himself. , Public sentiment must find us a remedy." ! I Dr. W. W. Fennell of Rock Hill i was in town on professional business Tuesday. /s _ ) ? Friday >ry isn't August *s, Note er now. CASTER, S. C.