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GRAIN CROP WILL . SAVE THE SOUTH Commissioner Watson Issues Plain Call to Farmers. MUST FORGET COTTON. Jjine lTp <> > Only Clear Paths That Will IjPwI Out of the Financial Wilderness. mand for foodstuffs now, and it can not fail to grow in intensity. The world must be fed. Aside from the present harvested American and Canadian crop and what South America can furnish, there is no prospect of the world producing anything to eat. When the present available grain is consumed?and 20,000,000 men are under arms in Europe, all now nonproducers, the fields of their countries lying Idle?that section of the world?and the only one?that can iirst furnish oats, wheat, rye and barley and then corn, is the section that is going to get the harvest of gold?money. By reason of climatic conditions the cotton belt states can get off a great grain crop months ahead of any other section of the world and send it to starving Europe. and she can on the same land In the same year, do the same identical thing with corn! This is no theory; it is plain truth. Such a policy, <|uickly pursued, such an opportunity rapidly seized, right now, will not only bring ready "war-time prices" cash by June 1, and again by October 1?twice in the same year, show the Southerner something he's never realized?that grain and corn are actually money crops, but It will automatically, as Mr. Edmunds expresses it, "contribute to the maintenance of a reasonable price for raw cotton, and the success of the policy will fix upon an enduring foundation the systematic marketing of cotton toward which the South has been striving for more than a decade." ^ And when 1915 ends. If cotton is not forced to a sacrifice In the next six months, then the farmer, or the South, will have the cotton also to let out on the market sanely and reasonably. General planting of grain now is sane; if followed by corn planting, as it must be, it will of itself tend to keep down a mur nerous cotton acreage to be further sacrificed. Wholesale planting of cotton In 1915 would be nothing short of Insanity and suicide. So, the advice that must of economic necessity be given the farmer now is to plant oats, wheat and rye on every available elenrned acre of land, except what ought to be put tc burr clover and such crops to care for the hogs, for the hogs and poultry must play an important part In the new farm economy rising from the deprivation of money and credit with which to buy meats and other IUOU. Plant the grain an early as you ^ can get It In to get the early harveet an?l larger yields, avoiding the dry May that always comes and to prepare for the early corn to follow. Rheumatism Pains Stopped. The first application of Sloan's Liniment goes right to the painful part?it penetrates without rubbing ?it stops the Rheumatic Pains around the joints and gives relief and comfort. Don't suffer! Get a bottle today! It is a family modlelne for all pains, hurts, bruises, cuts, sore throat, neuralgia and chest pains. Prevents infection. Mr. Chas. H. Wentworth, California, writes:?"It did wonders for my Rheumatism, pain is gone as soon as I apply it. I recommended it to my friends as the best Liniment I ever used." Guaranteed. 25c at your Druggist. I 1" - i ^ > iii ii/- --a . - . L - By E. J. Watson, Commissioner of Agriculture, In Charge of State Bureau of Marketing. Everything in the world right now is in an abnormal condition. The European war, in its effect on South ern conditions, is producing a revolution. And so. the regular weekly bulletin of the bureau of marketing is giving way on this page, in this hour of distress for cotton, to a plain call to the farmers of the s 'e to speedily line up on the only clear path that leads out of the financial wilderness. Forgetting our trouble over cot ton for the moment, and assuming that somehow or other we are going to be tided over the next six months, let's appeal to reason and business common sense and look at tlie golden grained opportunity that is sitting in the shadow on our doorstep?the vision of a new, well-balanced agriculture and two real money crops for 1915, where we have had only one before. Let'8 forget cotton for a moment and realize that to plant cotton for 1915 is like planting jim^on weed, so far as money for li is concerned. If not the cotton that we alone know as our money crop, what? Grain?something to eat, of course. Why? The decrease In the demand for cotton is more than offset hv tho The crop ought to be iu right awa; Get the best home raised sec through the bureau of marketing < from your neighbor. Don't let on of-the-state seed houses union shlpped-in feed oats or bad wheat < no germinating power on you. G< from your county demonstrate agent the circular of exact instru* tions how to plant and follow then Mr. Long has had such circulars pr< pared and the agents can give th?n to you. Get some ground Hmeatore an release the fertilizer now in the soi and if you must have fertilizer hu some phosphoric add. Don't try 1 borrow everything you can 011 yoi cotton, if you can do it, an 1 pile u mure luriiuzer mils. If there is It! yield per acre for lack of fertilize make up the difference in increase acreage. It would, indeed, in view of tl vital Importance of speedily gettiii in a crop of grain, be an admiral* thing if those who are buying co ton in the "buy-a-bale" movement i 10 cets a pound would decline to bi unless the seller would agree to plai a good percentage of his acreage ft 1015 in grain. The movement for necessary el ~s to handle the crop is well ui tier way and it is safe to predict th) the marketing of the grain crop wi he as well or better cared for- :yt on a basis of ready cash?tlia^co ton has ever been cared for. The remainder of this artic shows that the department of aen culture, through its bureau of ma keting, has been endeavoring make a quick planting of the cr< with as good seed as possible, farmers are found who would plai grain, but who are unable to bi the seed, it 1r to be hoped that me chants and banks will aid them get the seed, as they have for far le hope of returns in the past help* them to pile on fertilizers and plai a big crop of cotton . If the opportunity afforded by tl world's crying demand for grain Heeded this year, and cotton can I saved through the efforts now b 'ng made, there is a good chance the Southern far.uer hv the end ti e year forever breaking the nac les of the year-behind cred't syste of farming which has for so mai years been the great overpowern curse of Southern agriculture. GRAIN SEED OFFERINGS. During the past week, in additi' to the quantities listed the week b fore, the following otters of gra seed through the bureau have bet made: Olio hundred bushels of count raised Hastings No. 101 oats. One bunder bushels of count: ..used Appier oats. One hundred bushels of Fhincrc oats. Three hundred bushels of Appl oats. Three thousand bushels of Appl oats from stock grown and select* for last 10 years. "Best Appier oa I have ever seen.'' Free from when rye. cockle and grass seed. R cleaned and sacked In heavy ne sacks. All trash, dirt and ligli small oats removed. In perfect co ditlon for grain drill. Offered at ' cents per bushel, f. o. b. Fort Mott Five hundred bushels of Fulgu oats?about a fortnight earlier th: Appier?affording great advantai in harvesting. Fine for plantii with vetch for hay. Offered at $1.! per bushel, f. o. b. cars at Fort Mott i?y ?ame grower as in foregoii offer. Two hundred und fifty bushels Appier seed oats. One hundred and fifty bushels seed oats from seed secured fro Coker's pedigreed seed farm. Fifty bushels of good seed oats 80 cents per bushel. Ten or 15 bushels of fine se? wheat at $2 per bushel. Five hundred bushels of Fulghu seed oats, pretty and bright sav? without rain on them; weight. J pounds per bushel struck measur Price, $1.50 per bushel. Grow* makes a specialty of growing se< oats. Several hundred bushels of fii Appier oats at 7 5 cents per bushi "Within one mile of me there a more than 2,000 bushels of these A pier oats that I know to be pure h cause 1 sold them the seed. Price ' vniu^ |>C?I IMIMH'I. Six hundred bushels of Appier se< oats at 85 cents per bushel. One hundred bushels of Red A pier seed oats at $1 per bushel, fro pedigreed seed; sample sent on r quest. Five hundred bushes of Appb seed oats In Ave bushel sacks. Wou like to have bids f. o. b. Johnston. Five hundred bushels of horn raised, pure Rancroft seed oat sacked f. o. b. Abbeville, at 80 cen per bushel. Two hundred bushels of hom raised Appier seed oats, sacked, f. b. Abbeville, at 80 cents per bush* "I own and operat the flour mills near this place?wat< nnunr mill C.plnH pnotn,*. .1.* t V*> IIIU vuoiuui micill I improved roller process for my cu tomers, many of whom reside Richland county. I have read yoi communication in the papers as seed wheat; hence am writing yc as to that. I pick out and save up a the best wheat that comes to the ml for seed purposes. I prefer to se same in my territory so as to get l grind same, but if you will do so will appreciate any reference to n for good seed wheat. Same will 1 promptly shipped as ihe Southern close to the mill. I have aboi 1,000 bushels on hand now for sale (This is Lexington-raised wheat.) i i vjm v:'|'FT? \TF\V y. Three thousand to five thousand ltj bushels of Appier oats at 65 cents per bushel. Orangeburg county M grown. Six hundred bushels of Fulghuni .d oats. Orangeburg county grown, at ,f $1.25 per bushel. ,, One hundred and twenty-five bushels of Fulghuni oats. n Seven hundred bushels of Hants croft oats. ' ?- iV * [j, i iwin mo luieguiuK it is seen inai more than 13,000 bushels of fine !home-raised seed oats and over 1,000 *l bushels of wheat of like character have been offered during the past (j week. All others who have seed to sell should send In their addresses with iy information as to quantity and prices o asked. ,r OTHER OPFER8. Spanish moss In large quantities. '' Seventeen registered #Tam worth pigs, 10 weeks old, fine specimens, r Trice $10 each, either sex, crated f. .,{ o. b. Lykesland. Wool of good quality. Five White Leghorn cockerels at le $1 apiece. il? Several bushels of large green u<. matoes suitable for pickling. Five pounds of fresh country butter, weekly, it "Through the bureau I S?Td ten iy bushels of burr clover and I . wish to list next week tjju^ushels of carefuly screened burr'" clover seed ,r in the burr at $1.25 per bushel." "The first of December I will have e. for sale some Berkshire pigs from registered stock. The pigs were farrowed the first of this mouth ; nd 11 are from fine individuals." ill Among the wants of the week may fd be mentioned the followsing: , A second-hand steel tower and wood tank of 2.000 gallons capacity Inoculation for crimson clover and ie alfalfa. .t Burr clover seed in the burr. 1r >p From Mr. Twitty "y of Valdosta r To the Kditor of The News: ss Lest your readers forget the fact >(] I take this occasion to remind then: " that I ant still opposed to soft drinks baseball and moving picture shows 10 Let us agree 011 the point and with 's hold our patronage and but one re suit can follow, viz: the death knel of the growing evils. A large clas: "f of women throughout the country persist in urging legal claims to vote It means (to some extent) that thej want to carry pistols, chew tobacco y smoke cigarettes, drink liquor, us* u' "cuss" words and kill somebody. Lei our good sisters show a lively hand , against woman suffrage. It is nc >n place for a nice, refined lady amonp e- ruffians in a political campaign. A in writer said, recently, that Colt mi Hlease and little Joe Brown are both innocuous and 11 is hoped that thei? rv like will never again appear to muddy the waters. On all sides, and from Virginia to fl Texas, it is said that not more than a half crop of cotton should he plantpr ed next year. Now all admit that such a course would he best for tht ci(^ country. They argue that it cannot ts he carried out. They (the planters* it, will meet and pass resolution* e" (unanimously) to carry out the hall Lt crop plan, but when the time come* nl many of them will put in a full crop 15 hoping the half crop idea will pre p- vail and good prices will be the re suit and I will make money notwith i?P standing 1 perjure myself. It is a ig sad commentary on the character ol -5 many of our people. If the law ^ makers of the cotton growing states would pass a law, covering the case of it would be better, though no doubt many would violate the law. W< think the press should agitate this matter and urge the planters tc at plant corn, wheat, oats, etc., make it a point to grow hogs and signalize *(] the year 1015 as the nrovision crm m year. I)o not allow the wind tc nl blow through their corn cribs am '8 smoke houses because they are ful c" of corn and met. er 3d ' Your late pritnnry, I have nc doubt, desiguated good men as youi Jj' representatives in the state legisla re Hire, though I am personally acp quainted with but one of them Little Reece Williams (as he Is call 7 K ed) will do good work In the sen >(j ate, will be popular and will be a good man to put at the head of the P" finance committee. Mr. Hailes will m make a good member of the lowei ehouse. 1 judge him from his father er whom I knew as a good friend and id first class man and farmer, the clasg of men we should like to honor Mr. Massey has been tried?weighed ts in the balances and not found wanting. The county (Lancaster) showe" ed its hand, and as is the tendency these days, to put forward younR ? men and relegate old men to the ?r rear. Of course the young men ol the country must take the place oi jn the old men sooner or later, but the jr writer thinks that old men should to not be put aside too soon, on account "J of their experience. Suppose an old Ill man nas t?een a failure. He know? til better how to guard others against t? the same mistake. Sometime ago I saw a short "say" >o | about the Dead Sea. It surpriaed mo i* I knew there was such a sea on the map, but of the peculiarity of Its I make up I was totally ignorant. It 'K SKl'TKM HK1\ 22, 1<)H. is called dead because it receives all and gives nothing. This body ol water?the most remarkable in thf world?is at the southern end or the Jordan valley In Palestine. It ?s 4 7 miles long and 10 miles wide. Is (according to my informant) 1,21)2 feel below the sea level and is in one ol tho hottest regions on earth. It receives five million tons of watei dally Oust think of it) from th? Jordan river, but gives none out. Its < water is five times as salty as th< ocean, is bitter to the taste, oily tc the touch and leaves a yellow stain No fish live in its waters. No flowers bloom or fruiit grow on Its shores. Birds do not live near it It is ai scene of desolation, and look; <i? ii luc i'uiw ui v?tm csumi un ill the region. Contemplating this phenomenon, the grea^volume ol water pouring intw'fTs bosom, ii would seem that it had eonneetloi with thpMnfernal region to absorb 01 dr*, #p the water. I presume your city has made . long step forward. I mean that t sewerage plant is a realilty, by this time and that you are to be con gratulated. 1 do not know whu 1 comes next, unless it is paving youi 1 streets. You can make out withou sueli work in the summer, but whei the rain and heavy travel comes oi in the winter, you can stand it, but i I is mighty bad. "Do about" am keep up tin' good 'work. I Our city and county are better of than most of the counties of tin state (Ceorgla.) The planters raisi i long (or sea island) cotton an.! fo that staple \v have a fair market So you see we are blessed notwtth standing the terrible war in the eas* Just as I had finished the last sen tence our old friend, Tom McManus called in to see us, very unexpected lv, but we were glad to see him. Il< looks well. He is a good talker an< we enjoyed his visit. He is ver: much wedded to Florida, his hom< ' state and says he would not changi his home for any place. He is a ver; enthusiastic pecan grower and hope I to realize a $lo,onn yearly incomi from his grove. I could not hel] calling to mind the pear industry Twenty-five or thirty years ago al of this section of Georgia seemed t< think all they hail to do to get rich ' was to turn over a good portion o their farms and cultivate pears. It ' a few years they changed theii ' views. A destructive blight nmonf ' 1 the trees resulted in their death am ' abandonment. I did not tell Ton that he might expect the pecan tree; to go the same way, but I thought it ' Ti>111 snpnl llio nicrlit utwl lofi i early train for his home. ' Miss Marie Craig has reached oim city and has taken up her work ii the college. We have no fears as tc i | her qualification and fitness for tlu work and that ;he will distinguisl herself as "a workman that needetl ' not to be ashamed." Of course, b<> ing among strangers, she has mon or less anxiety as to the impressiot 11 she is making. I take it that Col. Leroy Spring' i I is optimistic, from his late publishei . interview. If he can see a silver lie ing to the dark cloud overshadowini the county, the rest of us (poor d ? should take courage. i J. W. TWITTY. r Valdosta, Ga? Sept. 16. 1014 . J l/ook Your Best. , Progress Magazine, t There is great power in appear ? ance. You are usually judged lr < tllP WAV vnii lonl/ o??'l 11 - .. luun, aim }UU uailitll; > look the way you feel. Rut you cat > feel the way you like, and you oai > live in any mental attitude you like > Therefore, discard all attitudes o > inferiority. Never think of yoursel I as inferior. Never appear as if yo\ I were inferior. The mind and tin body should be well dressed, es , , peeiallv the mind. If you loov r common, you will think of yoursel as common and lie who habitual); . thinks of himself sis common be comes common. To look your best is no texpensivc . Clothe your mind as richly as yo\ L can; that will cost you nothing; an< , be as neat, as clean, and as pre I sentable in person as you can. Any . thing that lends to make you reck less will weaken mind, character am anility. Make it one of your stronj , points to always look your best, botl in person and In countenance. An( to look your best you must thin! your best, and feel your best. Lancaster & Chester Ry. Co Schedule In EfTect Nov. 9th, 1913. Eastern Time. ? WESTBOUND. Lv. Lancaster 6:00a?3:16j . Lv. Fort Lawn 6:30a?3:55j Lv. Bascomvllle 6:47a?4:15{ ! Lv. Rlcl.burg 6:58a?4:30j 1 Ar. Chester 7:40a?5:15i EASTBOUND. I Lv. Chester 9:30a?6:45j Lv. Rlchburg 10:20a?7: 27f 1 Lv. Bascomvllle .... 10:31a?7:38i Lv. Fort Lawn 11:03a?7:56j Ar. Lancaster 11:30a?8:2 , Connections?Chester, with South ern. Seaboard and Carolina & North western Railways, i Fo.t Lawn, with Seaboard Air Lini R.-llway. Lancaster, with S-uthem Railway A. P. McLURE, Supt. 7 11 :| To Our Customers r I .I Owing to the MONEY condition just now, (irocery people are (leuiandiiig'the cash for goods ! before we get them. OUR | n hys been in the past t<> collect at the , end of wchjtfionth, but we are asking our custonicrs/iH^''to pa\" bv the week. MOST ot < ur customers get their MONEY bv the we\k and we would like to know if this plan i ^ will suitVou, and oblige. 1 This is rc>t intended to compel any one to pay " by the weefk, but ask them to co-operate with us in these Ward Times. : Bennett-Terry Co. KenAinber we uive votes in the I'onv Contest L lor mon\v paid on account or for easli sales. r \ h.-t. co. We Still Lead In/1 ho quality of goods and the ex1 cellenpe of service expected by the patrons of up-to-date grocery stores. If ^ you are not already a customer become * one and be convinced, j Our 'phone number is .'iS, and delivery follows immediately. Fresh shipment of cakes today. ; EDWARDS & HORTON The Quality Stare Phone 38 * * : ( = } \ For Results?Try a News Ad. : 3 ? um\ i ' You Seen Florence? I If not, waste no time. She is very beautiful. f Take her into your home, she will give you com1 tort, keep \ou cool, and the cheapest cook you can * find, you cannot afford to be without her. Autoi matic, valueless and wickless. The Florence Oil Stove is one of the wonders of the world. Guaranteed to/cost you less money, stive out less heat - V" ' and to give you less trouble than any stove made My guarantee behind every one sold. And just to think, you don't have to go in that old hot -1 1 kitchen when you have a Florence, neither do you have to wait on the fire to start as you get the heat i you want at once, saving that fuel and that heat to stand while you are waiting on the other stove , to get hot. Come and investigate, it won't cost >>[ you anything to see for yourself. ) J. B. Mackorell ; > *