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T W U New for tli BY JNO. C. BARKSDALE, CC AN OPPORTUNITY FOR li rnTmMcrrn r?u imtfrfqts ' VV A A ViWJL.t.1/ v**-i 141 & ^ , At the instance of National Food:] Administrator Herbert C. Hoover,': acting through the Interstate Cotton- j1 seed Crushers' Association, there has.i been created an "Interstate Cotton-'] seed Products Council," to co-oper-j1 ate with the Government in the con-i] servation of food and feed in the|' emergency of national defense. j; Following a series of conferences < between Mr. Hqpver and President jl Fielding Wallace of the Insterstate' i Association and the voluntary offer j J of the association's facilities and re-!i sources to the Government, President ! < Wallace called a special meeting of i j the association's executive commit-js tee at Memphis this week, at which < delegations of officers and members i were present on invitation from all i State associations of oil-seed crush- t ers. | ] It was voted to create a council of five, as above, with President Wallace as chairman. The other four' will be appointed by the president j. from among the leading members of ,1 the association. Mri Hoover desires'5 to have the council ready for confer- * ence with has as necessities may re-j* quire, and this action is in accord k with his policy to work with and ] through the large industrial organi- l zations of the country in co-ordinat- * ing the patriotic impulses of the peo- * ' pie for the war emergency. 3 To supplement the work of the 0 Interstate Council, an "Interstate j j Advisory Committee" was created,!1 consisting of the chairmen of ten|? State committees of five members ^ each, the ten chairmen being named ^ as follows: t Alabama?C. W. Ashcraft, Flor- * ence. t Arkansas?E. S. Ready, Helena. * Georgia?J. L. Benton, Monti- e cello. 11 Louisiana?Bryan Bell, New Or- t leans. j * Mississippi?E. M. Durham, Vicks-:* burg. |u North Carolina?C. L. Ives, New-Is bern. t Oklahoma?E. Cook, Guthrie. South Carolina?Russell Acree,; i: Darlington. s Tennessee?J. H. DuBose, Mem- c phis. y Texas?C. C. Littleton, Fort i Worth. 8 President Wallace will spend as i much time in Washington as is nec essary to the furtherance of thejF plans, but in order to concentrate t the forces of co-operation a resident "V Washington director was appointed! ' ' in the person of J. J. Culbertson of I Paris, Tex., who will open headquar-! ters in Washington and be on hand| for service constantly during the!* war emergency. ? A systematic correlation of duties!I is thus provided, through the presi-j1 dent and executive committee, act- 'c ing with the resident director, and I the National Cottonseed Products i Council, the interstate advisory com-jc mittee, the State advisory commit- s tees, the secretary of the Interstate i Association at Dallas, the assistant ? to the president at Memphis and the i various State organizations. s Indeed, it would not be a bad idea t for the cottonseed-oil mill interests t to call a convention in Washington, I representing every cotton mill, now, c while Congress is in session, and c through this convention proclaim to;c the world, in every way possible, the r strength of the cottonseed-oil indus- i try as well as that of peanut and soy-bean oils, so closely connected ,1 with the cottonseed-cil industry, in t largely increasing the food supply i of the nation. A broad discussion t in Washington at the present time by I representative men of the industry i might be of grer.t value in helping to arouse the Administration, Con-* gress and the country at large to the tremendous value of the cottonseed-, oil business, and in connection there J with to the growing importance of 1 the peanut and soy bean oil industry, < all of which combine to increase the < food supply of the nation to a lar- ] ger extent than it has yet been pos- i Bible to make the public realize. 1 BEATING THE BOLL WEEVIL. j i THe boll weevil drove many a' Tovnc fnrmpr to npanuts. From what seemed to be a hopeless situation the t . peanut has rescued him, and at the same time rescued the oil-mill men who were on the verge of a shutdown with their supply of cotton' seed diminished. The department of Agriculture had long been advocat-j ing a change from the single crop! standard set by cotton. As long as ! cotton was the only money crop the; arguments fell on deaf ears, but, j backed up by the boll weevil, the campaign began to bear fruit. The farmers began to give part of the cotton acreage to peanuts. This presented a new problem and the oil e Farmers I )UNTY DEMONSTRATOR. mill men began to ask questions. The-found that many of the growers were "hogging down" the' peanuts; that is, they were turn-' ing the hogs into the fields to har-; vest the nuts, and were marketing the crop "on the hoof." The De- '! partment of Agriculture had proved that a 40-bushel crop of Spanish'' peanuts would produce more than 100 pounds of pork to the acre, and; suppliet a good ration that needed' anly a little topping off with corn' to harden the meat. Furthermore,11 if the peanut hay is harvested be- ^ fore the hogs are turned in, the hay ilone almost pays for the growing 1 )f the crop, because it furnishes a 1 palatable food to which all kinds of j stock will turn eagerly from any^ )ther kind of hay. And if that were , lot enough, the peanuts, in common j xntVi nthpr lee-iimes. hear nodules on j ;heir roots which gather nitrogen | from the air and put it in the soil. HELPING THE OIL MEN. 1 ^ Practically no peanut oil was made ' n this country prior to 1915, and ;o far the oil-mill men had not been 1 >enefited; but it was brought to heir attention that the United ? States, in 1914 was importing 1,332,-j1 .08 gallons of peanut oil, and 44,- ,s 49,789 pounds of nuts. More than J lalf of the oil went to Chicago and r iresumably went into oleomargarine, ? md the lower grades into soap. The. I iil brought more than cottonseed oil. j ^ I few changes in the oil mills, hav- * ng to do largely with the cleaning f the peanuts, and they were ready * or the extraction, and the peanuts ^ iegan to come to them. Recently, i* here has been such a demand for)' he nuts themselves, for manufac- ,* ure into products elsewhere, that J he mills have not been doing much s hppanse thev could make s AV4MVV.W.. ~ ?r J lore handling the nuts themselves han they could by selling the ex-;c racted product,. A single manufac-i4 ure of peanut butter, for example, * ises more than 200 carloads of ^ helled nuts a year and expects soon *1 o go to 500 carloads. Bakers use immense quantities c n cakes and confections, and it is ^ tated that many a chocolate cake is c oated with a mixture of which pea-,? tuts form a considerable part. With I mports cut off by the war, prices; ire high and give a present large mpetus to growing peanuts; and * sVen at present prices for cotton,;1 (eanuts are more profitable where (l here is serious depredation by the 1 veevil. 1 _ S PEANUT OIL MARKET. I i Peanut oil promises to be in great- j' >r demand than ever before because, iccording to the Department of Ag-: _ Smiltiiyo aiitVinrifipc. it is one of the 1 nost important of the world's food ( >ils, and doubly important under < >resent conditions. With European 5 mports cut off and a scarcity of 1 :otton-seed oil there is every as- J irance of a considerable demand at ^ ,ro'od prices. American mills, howsver, are not getting the best prices 1 'or their prodct because they do notj hell and clean the nuts and remove he germs. Where this is done, and' he first pressing is made without 1 leating the! material, the extracted' >il is clear and clean and equal in( juality to the finest imported olive ' >il, though of a different and more| lut-like flavor. To many persons it: s more palatable than olive oil. The Spanish type of peanut should \ >e grown for oil, and the only addi-;J ;ional equipment needed is that used 1 n peanut cleaning and shelling fac- [ ;ories. Peanut meal, left as a by- 1 jroduct of oil extraction, is a very lutritious stock feed. A BALANCED AGRICULTURE. I I The department's advice is not to substitute peanuts for cotton and ;hus maintain the uneconomic system' jf one-crop agriculture. On the 1 contrary, the advice is to utilize the peanut in certain sections by making : it a part of a well-balanced agricul-^ ture and especially by using it in 1 ;ireas of serious boll-weevil depre- ' dation as part insurance against cot-: LUI1 X lie XUliUVi *?ww I hesitate to plant a somewhat larger; acreage than his present needs for hog and cattle feed. If the price happens to be low, he can buy more; hogs and market the peanuts in that way; if the price happens to be high, he can sell the surplus to advantage. To raise peanuts year in and year out as the sole money crop would be as unwise as to depend upon cotton alone. KEEPING SWEET POTATOES. ! "I have read directions for the' curing and keeping of sweet potatoes on a large scale, but this is; rather expensive for us who grow' but 25 or 30 bushels. How can we keep them?" I have kept sweet potatoes in banks outdoors sound till June. Select a high and dry spot. Put down a thick layer of pine straw. Dig the potatoes if practicable on a warm sunny day after a slight frost has nipped the leaves. Handle carefully and let lie in the sun along the rows till afternoon. Gather them up carefully in baskets and pile them on the pine straw. Now build a rough shed or roof over to keep the rain off. Let them stand a day or two to sweat and dry off. Then cover with earth thick enough to keep out frost. The shed is important.?The Progressive Farmer. TO THE CLUB MEMBERS. Girls, now that the days are getting hotter, and your club garden is requiring more time and harder work don't get discouraged, but go at the work each day with a greater determination to make your plot pay for itself over and over again. Even the seasons haven't been the best don't be a quitter. Stick to Jrour club after starting and make the "jHistory jf your crop an interesting chapter jf accidents if nothing else. KeeD jp with your record book from the /ery beginning and it will save you loads of work later on. Now that your tomatoes are getting ready to can, don't allow a one :o waste or to be destroyed by insects. If you haven't staked your ;omatoes, do so at once or fix them some way to keep the fruit off the ground. Wheat or oat straw, pine leedles or brush may be used initead of stakes and will answer the )urpose allright, but if fruit is alowed to lie on the ground much will >e wasted by rotting. Pick over and grade tomatoes, ^eel by plunging into scalding waer long enough to break skin and hen dip in cold water to make fruit irm. Cut out core and hard porions, pack can full and cover with uice. Add two teaspoonful of saltiugar mixture made by mixing 1 part ialt and two parts sugar, to each juart. Exhaust five minutes and :ook twenty minutes. Be sure that ivery tomato used in a can is uni'ormly red and of good color. One rreenish yellow tomato will lower he quality of your whole can. Use your small tomatoes and left >ver pieces in making soup mixture, :etchup, puree or paste. These re:ipes furnish a means of saving cans ind gives you a good concentrated iroduct ready for immediate use. Soup Mixture. Use one-half tomato pulp, onefourth corn and one-fourth chipped )kra. Steam corn on cob 15 min ites; cut tips of grains off first, then emainder of grain. Steam okra in )an 15 minutes, cut tomatoes in small pieces. Mix ingredients in jroportion given. Add salt-sugar nixture as already specified, exhaust 3 minutes and boil 45 minutes. Ketchup. For every gallon of tomatoes, cut n small pieces, add 1 cup of chopped mions. Boil until thoroughly cook;d. Strain through a course wire >eeve or colander; mashing all the julp possible through. Measure the pulp and juice and proceed as in the Following recipe. 2 gal. strained mixture, (tomatoes ind onions.) O nn?Aii r> /4 <n r> n?nr 0 ICVCI tcaopuuuiui gxuuuu guigwx. 2 level teaspoonfuls red pepper. 3 level teaspoonfuls ground cinlamonJ 2lh level teaspoonfuls nutmeg. 1 level teaspoonful white pepper. 1 % cup sugar. % cup salt. 1 quart vinegar. Place strained material in vessel, idd spices, sugar and salt, cook about L V2 hours or until almost thick. Then xdd hot vinegar and boil until thick >r about 30 minutes. Seal in sterilzed bottles. Rapid cooking will give a brighter :olor than slow cooking. Tomato Puree. .1 gal. thick tomato pulp. 2 medium sized onions. 1 teaspoonful salt. 2 teaspoonfuls sugar. 4 teaspoonfuls chopped sv/eet red pepper pulp. Press pulp through seive discarding seed and skins, add onion, pepper pulp and seasonings to strained pulp, ;ind cook until consistency of ketchup. Stir frequently in order to keep mixture from burning. Seal in sterilized bottles. Paste is practically the same except that different seasonings are used. Don't fail to put out plants for late tomatoes. Keep vines bearing until killed by frost Mary B. Martin. PICNIC AT SHiLOH CHURCH. There will be a picnic at Shiloh school house, (4 miles west of Hodges) August 4th. The Ladies Improvement Society will sell refreshments, the proceeds to go for the benefit of the school house. The Good Roads speakers will be present. AN INTERESTING FIELD MEETING1 An all day meeting was held last Thursday at the home of Mr. andj Mrs. Monroe Burriss, out at Hester. Miss Martin and Mr. Barks'dale, the county agents, met a num-| 1 ber of people at the Burris home and spent a very pleasant ana proniaDie day. Miss Martin demonstrated the canning and prestrving of fruits and t vegetables. Of particular interest was Miss Martin'fi method of peeling fruit. In earning the operation of r peeling is anything but a lark. The l lye method enables you to remove the peeling in a jicy and with little trouble. Put one tablespoonful of e Red Devil lye to a gallong of boiling water; sack the fruit and place in the lye solution, allow to remain for two minutes. Remove and cool, the peelings can be easily removed. Mr. Barksdale discussed the care ' of orchards and growing feed crops, j A numbtr of acres will be seeded to I cover crops in the Hester community } this fall and several additional or- f chards will be set. Mr. Burriss has f a splendid old orchard and also has two young ones that will be bearing I soon. The family get a great deal | of pleasure out of their orchard and j Mr. Burriss stated'ttiat the orchard ] I paid better than anything he could | put on the land. The neighbors say | Mr. Burris' success is due to his un- f tiring care and attention to his trees. j In this we concur; we get out of an I orchard, as in life, just what we put f into it. we must not fail to- men-|| tion Mr. Burris' excellent patch of ' sorghum for wintering his livestock. More of we farmers should follow Mr. Burris' plan. . THE COTTON RED SPIDER. Look out for the appearance of the cotton red spider. He is reported at wirk in the county, and the pest should be dealt with immediately after he shows up. These minute insects are found on the under surface of the cotton leaf and also on the leaf of the polk-berry bushes and violets. They do considerable damage to the cotton plant by sucking the leaves, thereby reducing tht ' '*' p - -1?i lntifarinrr r\-rI vitality 01 trie piam auu iunci*u5 ?* ntirely destroying its fruiting capacity. If weather conditions are favorable and the pest is undisturbed, the pest will do serious damage. He does (more damage during dry weather than in wet. The presence of the spider can be readily detected by the teddish brown splotches appearing on the upper surface of the leaves. As the, insects multiply, these splotches grow, larger , the leaf finally withers and falls. The spiders can be easily ob- j served on ^he under surface of the 1 leaf. The colonies are usually found | along the mid-rib of the leaf andj are covered by a thing film or web. In controlling the spider, the following measiure3 are effective: cut away and destroy all polk bushes,' when the spider is found, if in a small area, pull up and burn all in-1 fested stalks, if however, he has covered considerable area, it will bej necessary to spray the plants. Use the self boiled lime sulphur spray.' In applying the spray the essential' thing is to get the solution on the undtr surface of the leaves, other-! wise the operation win prove to oe a loss of time and money. A barrel! ^ pump can be used most effectively, but if this cannot be secured, a bucket pump or knap-sack spray can be used to advantage or any pump that has a rubber hose connection long enough to enable the operator to get the spray on the under surface i of the leaves. I ' In making the spray solution,, slake 8 pounds of quick lime and as . the lime comes to a boil, mix 7 j pounds of .sulphur and stir vigorously. Use sufficient water in slaking to keep the mixture from ' getting dry or burning;. Dilute to 100 gallons and apply. If you find ihe red spider on a small area pull up the infested. stalks and burn. If the infestation | has covered a considerable area, get, in touch with the County Agent. Be sure to clean l.he teraces and ditch banks of all polk bushes as a pre-' v;auuuij. YES! LIFT A CORN OFF WITHOUT PAIN!; Cincinnati Authority Tells How to Dry Up a Corn or Callus so it Lifts Oif With Fingers. You corn-postered men and women need suffor no longer, Wear the shoes that nez.rly killed you before, says tms t^inc nnati autnority, be-; cause a few cirops of freezone applied directly on a tender, aching corn or callus, stops the soreness at . once and soon the corn or hardened callus loosens so it can be lifted out,1 root and all, without pain. A small bo ;tle of freezone costs very little at fcny drug store, but will positively take off every hard or soft r\v /tolliic T^Vna cVimilH Hp friorl as it is inexpensive and is said not to irritate the surrounding skin. If your druggist hasn't any free-! zone tell him to get a small bottle | for you from his wholesale drug ! house. It is fine stuff and acts like a' charm every time.?Adv. 1785 COLLEGE OF C CI *1 1 ? _ J ooum Carolina s < 132d Year Begins Entrance examinations at all the coii 'clock A. M. Four-year courses lead to the B. A. a nedical course is given. A free tuition scholarship is assigned Spacious buildings and athletic grour sxcelled library facilities. \ Expenses moderate. For terms and HARR | It takes a long time to build up BUSINESS and I have made a sj line for twenty years and every ai as well as every repair job must your money gladly refunded. When you are in town make : store before leaving, for my care grade merchandise will be interest do not care to buy. 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