Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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VUllVkJV*V*J ? - THE NORTH AND WEST DEPENDENT UPON THE SOUTH FOR FOOD The total shipment of potatoes for one day, Thursday, July 12, from all parts of the United States, ac* cording to official reports, amounted to 838 carloads, of which 783 carloads went sent out by the South, almost wholly to the North and West, against a total shipment in the entire North and West of 57 carloads of locally-produced potatoes, and of this beggarly amount of 57 * carloads, 20 were produced in Cali-; fornia and 3 in Washington. Starting with the early potatoes of Florida sevei*al months ago, ship-, ped to the extent of some thousands of carloads, on up through the potato-growing region of the Carolinas, the Charleston section alone having produced $4,000,000 of potatoes * sent North and West, and then on through the potato-growing regions of the far South to Texas, this secV* o o fynwonrlnnclv V1V/U 11C40 VVUUUVUVVU MViiiViiuvww^ to the food supply of the nation. Without this production of potatoes the North and West would have faced a potato and fruit famine during the last two months which would have startled the country. On July 12?and these or the official figures of the United States Department of Agriculture ?Virginia alone shipped 686 carloads of po-| tatoes, mainly to the North and West. The total shipments of Virginia potatoes this year to other sections will amount to about 4,000,000 barrels, worth to the growers about $20,000,000, and yet a few months! ago we were told by the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture that the South would be permitted to stare unless it raised its entire food supply, because cars would not be fur-( nished for the shipment of food supplies into the South! With a view to a complete study of the shipment of early vegetables and fruits from the South to other sections, we have secured from the leading railroad systems of the South statements showing the number of carloads of fruits and vegetables shipped dui'ing twelve months from this section to Northern and Western markets, each road reporting the amount of stuff that had originated on its own line only. The total amount of freight of * ? ' 1 * 1 A i_l_ _ J 1 I , looastuns 01 tnis Kina iurmsnea Dy the South to the North and West is1 probably over 3,000,000 tons,, the actual figures received from the transportation lines which reported being 140,000 carloads, to which should be added over 10,000 carloads annually handled by express from the central South alone and the shipments for non-reporting roads partly estimated. The aggregate is easily 200,000 carloads, with a ton-| nage, as stated, of over 3,000,000 tons of food, estimated on the low basis of.15 tons to a carload on the average. The magnitude of the shipment by express alone is indicated in a state-1 * ment from the Southern Express Co.,; of Atlanta, which shows that during the five months from January to May of this year that company handled 4 from Florida 1,5.3,041 boxes and crates of citrus and other fruits and vegetables. During the shipping season ending with April this spring the express company handled from Marshallville, Ga., 15,629 crates of asparagus for eastern and western points, and from South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia sections that company has so far this season handled 383,839 crates of vegetables and fruits, and the season is hardly well under: way. All of this has been done within five months by the Southern Express Co. from the limited area of the Central South, including Florida. i Of the total of 200,000 carloads of fruits and vegetables, one road alone hauled stuff originating on its line to the extent of 34,500 carloads. The value of this produce has run; from $150 up to $2000 a car, and if we put an average of $700 per car, we would have a total of overl $140,000,000 worth of early fruits and vegetables furnished by the South to the North and West. This fact is not generally taken into consideration when the South is officially criticized for not raising its own foodstuffs. Whenever the exact figures can be obtained, as they should be secured at the next Census, we believe the total for vegetables and fruits alone will run ' very far above the $140,000,000 which we estimate, and be nearer to $.00,000,000. The value of this traffic to the railroads is more fully appreciated by the roalroad peoplpe than the general public. Hauling out of the ' South 200,000 carloads of fruits and vegetables, the roads secure on this traffic the highest rate of freight because of its perishable character. Several yertrs ago the Manuafcturers Record was informed by one of the leading railroad officials of the South that his road had received as much as $1500 freight from one acre of celerv. which would include the icing and the hauling of the entire shipment, and that $800 to $900 freight from an acre of celery would be a J fair average. I Considering the amount of freight J that is received from the twenty-five, to thirty bushels of wheat per acre raised on the best wheat land in the J country with this enormous freight on the perishable products of truckers we can get some idea as to what this traffic means to the railroads of the South and to their cnnecting! lines in the North and West. | Every year sees a rapid increase j in this market garden work of the' South in supplying the North and West with foodstuffs. Upon this section the North and West are wholly dependent through the winter ana early spring for fresh foodstuffs, and were it not for the South's activity | in producing vegetables there would be a famine in the eastern and western markets for cabbage, potatoes, onions, berries, beans, peas and many other things which are supplied: to them by the South in such abundance. One can scarcely pick up a South-!/ ern paper from any of the truck of j | food-growing regions of that section! without being struck with the amount of freight traffic in these food products. The Charleston district of South Carolina reports having sent North this year over $4,000,000 worth of white potatoes, while the Hastings district of Florida, which has become one of the most noted potatogrowing regions of the country, sent out about an equal amount this year, or perhaps more, and Virginia sent out $20,000,000 worth. All the way down to Texas and Arkansas these centers of food-prodcing activities have been steadily developing during the last ten to fifteen years, and the nation is annually becoming more and more dependent upon the South for foodstuffs. To these shipments of fruits and} vegetables there should be added! many millions of dollars of canned' fruits and vegetables and other mil-j lions for the oysters and fish shipped} from the South to the North and West. In 1914 the value of the SouthV canned fruits and vegetables amounted to over $22,000,000, of which Maryland's share was $17,500,000. | A large proportion of this great out-J put in Maryland and some of that; in other Southern States went North and West. The shipment of canned oysters from the South amounted in the Census year 1914 to $1,305,000. To this should be added canned crab meat and shrimp. Millions of dollars' worth or raw oysters are ship- . ped West and North, and also fish, I especially to the West, from all lead- | ing points along the South Atlantic Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Texas. Full trainloads of oysters go out from Baltimore daily during the rush season, and from many South- i ern ports from Norfolk to New Orleans vast quantities of oysters and fish are daily shipped. There are also ^hipped ot of the South, especially from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas, some millions { of dollars' worth of turkeys and J chickens., There are points in the| South where the handling of thisj business has become an industry of! great extent, furnishing food to J people throughout the country. Indeed, when we begin to figure' on the various foodstuffs which the1 South provides for the rest of the>| country we are amazed at the mag- | nitude of the industry, and neces-|| sarily are inclined to wonder what S the West and the North would do for | fruits and vegetables, for oysters * and fish and other food products if ' it were not for the abundant sup- F plies sent out by the South. Count- 1 ing the Value of vegetables, fruits, a fish and oysters shipped by the South ito the North and West, it is!e entirely safe to estimate the total at largely over $200,000,000. j MAJOR FRANK W. COCHRAN NEW LIEUTENANT COLONEL 1 I'J Elected By the Officers of the Fifth ^ to Succeed R. McC. Beck, Transferred. r Lieut. Colonel Cochran has a num- ^ ber of relatives in Abbeville county who will be interested in the follow-!e ing taken from The Atlanta Journal:'1 ! I* Camp Harris, Macon, Ga., July;r 2G.?Major Frank M. Cochran, of,a Atlanta, this afternoon was elected j lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Geor-jr gia infantry to succeed Lieutenant^ Colonel R. McC. Bee, recently trans- % jferred to the regular army. |a The election was held in the.tent of 1 'Colonel Orville II. Hall, the result ^ being announced shortly after 6 o'clock. Major Asa W. Candler was rnnliMn'c noovoct nnnnnpnt.. xuajux vv/vtu uu itvMt vw Major Cochran has been assistant f to the adjutant general since Novem- s ber, 1913. For two years prior to i that time he had been adjutant of the ? Fifth, rank of captain. j He has been a member of the c guard for more than seventeen years s He enlisttd as private in the Atlanta s Rifles, June 26, 1900. After serv- * ling as corporal and sergeant he was r j elected second lieutenant of the com- i l^^ALWAYS A r~ Good pri business. do~printi your bus you whei Printing thai any more ^ J A I Now is the til Printing. 1 THE PRE Printing Tli I* ""'"3 - iany four years later. January 16, Give , 906, he was made first lieutenant j nd a few years before he became j djutant of the regiment he was lected captain. ANDERJ He was born in Abbeville, S. C., H1C anuary 6, 1882, but has lived in Georgia since he was a boy. Most of he time he lived in Atlanta. "Tank through his long service in the guard , have eve ? * 1 *Mi1Unw?T I fol'OTl O it: is one 01 uie ueso puaucu lumunj , v?nvw men in the south. I J. C. W; It is understood Major Cochran'Andersoi eceived thirty vbtes and Major May 23r handler eighteen. ihelp me It is expected Major Cochran, a genera ilected lieutenant colonel of the Fifth I always egiment and Major W. B. Beck, lieu- never dii enant colonel of the Second Wed- complete lesday, will receive their new com- ings I fe nission in a few days. to bed, i Major Cochran is expected to ar- had no i ive at Camp Harris the last of the I strength veek. He is in Atlanta where he is:work, issistant to the adjutant general, a| "But t i position he has held for several than any rears. Major Beck is with the Second taken, lere. strong, well and PREE OF CHARGE. Tanlac c ? ~~~ 7 ,. , strength Why suffer with indigestion, ays- Tanlac >epsia, torpid liver, constipation, ,, , our stomach, coming-up-of-food- Seville ifter-eating, etc., when you can get R1_.i. 'A i sample bottle of Green's August ' n, "lower free at P. B. Speed's drug TiOW^Hm tore. This medicine has remarkable p'"~ :urative properties, and has demon- {X trated its efficiency by fifty years of Jiuccess. Her.dachcs are ofteri camsed _fv11, >y a disordered stomach. Aclv* August Flower is put up in 25 and '5 cent bottles. For sale in all civil- lhe zed countries. $1.50 pe lT your serv inting is That is ng that ? u . mess st rever yoi 1: "stands up than the * rHMMMn MMW.?. ne to place YouW need lo :ss AND E iat Stands SSraHEHBmBBMIH More Help C0NS" Than Any Other Washjng, While cottc SON WOMAN MAKES Southi the 1HLV INTERESTING pute or t0 STATEMENT. some sectii ic is the best medicine I anced farn r taken and I certainly have of Texas, lot of medicine,' said Mrs. 600,000 aci alker, of 30 Hendsr.c;on St., doubling th i, in a statement shs gave according 1 d. "Tanlac certainly did the United wonderfully. I took it for Agriculture illy run down condition, for|on the sam felt tired and weak and I 70 million i feel well. I certainly felt South, Tex; ly broken down in the morn- acreage in It as badly as when I went stood sixth, 'or I did not sleep well. I tic and Gu appetite and I sacrcely had Georgia jui enough to do my house- last year .t* in Texas hi he Tanlac did me more good increase th: other medicine I ever have though the It soon had me feeling, elsewhere h and I got so I could sleep the South I began to feel fine. The js remarkal lid a lot to build up and increased f ;n my entire system." and a quai :, the master medicine, is two million usively by P. B. Speed, Ab- pear A.. S. Cade, Bordeaux; J. T. . .. , , alhoun Falls; * J. H. Bell & "> hEht es< le West; Cooley & Speer, Decause uj. ville; R. M. Fuller & Co., rus and clc ick; J. W. Morrah & Son, pression "] armel; Covin & LeRoy, Wil- i-.j a Price, $1 per bottle straight. ^ Jp ant in Norl mi-Weekly Press and Banner Georgia, wi r year. Subscribe now! headquartei ICE IN THIS ? .1 1 the dr< the kin will M and up li send " don't C lay-do we your order ts of it this IA.NNER Up. Ph )ER THE PEANUT. the j exter ion, D. C., July 21.? count >n is still king in the peani peanut promises to dis- cotto: share its dominion in sns as part of well-bal- F] ling practice. The State for example, has planted If -es to peanuts, more than produ ie acreage of last year, libera to figures just issued by ^ c States Department of !. The prospective crop, to r< e authority, is more than the p bushels for the whole ^eave as already had the largest i compi 1916, though in 1909 it on th , with most of the Atlan- plants ilf Coast States ahead. the n nped from 190,000 acres The J -> 420.000. The increase! helpir as been an index of the an^ ? roghout the lower South, proportionate increase tas not been so great. For ^ . as a whole, however, it tivati( jle that the acreage has, d rom less than a million ter acres to more thanijowg acres- u'the p lut may have been held; tjlfc r( ,eem in the popular mind [you t( its association with cit- an(j r iwn, or because the ex- SySten peanut politics" has de- jj. wjj low form of partnership. C( op has long been import- eariy> ;ft Uaroiina, Virginia, anuj ith Suffolk, Va., as the The s of the industry. Here $1.50 \ p 11 I I 1 < I ' '1 i UNE I m I 1 5SS of j id we I &? IAKE I I KB AA J* 1 for. if it...... ri ost you I i" kind I J i i j 1?. fnr Fall I X V/l M. V*AJ. . :M year ^ V : M .? CO. | one 10 i trice of peanuts is to a large it established for the whole ;ry, and at prevailing prices its are in competition with i \ n. ERTLIZE THE ALFALFA. your alfalfa isn't growing or icing as it should, give it a ,1 supply of compost and run utta-way harrow over it so as ;ak thesod. If you do not need resent crop of hay, mow it and it on the ground, apply the jst and harrow. Put a weight e harrow, you will not do the s any appreciable damage and ext crop will pay you better. harrowing win oe Denenciai in lg to rid the 'alfalfa of weeds jasses. N'T LAY-BY TOO EARLY. is a good plan to continue culon as long as you have weeds ;rass and as long as the crop >wing. At this season, the should be run very shallow and j. ? J. lowing nmiieci i-o one sme ui >w. This method will enable ) get the soil stirred mort often educe the injury to the root n to a minimum. You will find 1 pay to cultivate as long as >tton grows, don't lay-by too Semi-Weekly Press and Banner per year. Subscribe now! t ' .