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STORAGE WILL SAVE SWEET POTATOES Proper Storage Houses Should bo , Built to Care for the Crop.?Import- ; ant Product Has Been Poorly Harv j died and Big Waste Results?Car j Be Avoided. ______ Columbia.?The proper storage of ! t*reet potatoes Is ooe of the most important food conservation measures that can be put Into effect in South Carolina, and is urged by the Food Administration. No perishable pro- ; duct grown in this State is more im- j portant than the sweet potato, and j none, as a rule, is so poorly handled., j according to United States Depart- : ment of Agriculture experts. To keep this crop in good condition the potatoes must be well matured before dig-1 ging, carefully handled, well dried, or j curea, arter Demg put in tne storage ; house, and kept at uniform tempera-; tare after they are cured. The only ! safe and practical method of storing sweet potatoes is in a well built stor- i age house. ; Suggestions on storing sweet potatoes, and detailed information on how to construct a suitable storage house, ere contained in Farmers' Bulletin j 970, recently published by the United States Department of Agriculture, and j a copy of this bulletin may be had by any interested person who will write ! UIO i/opai ILUCUl tvt ClOUlUgbUU CfrUVl make request for It. Proper storage of sweet potatoes after they have been grown is equal-' ly as Important as making the potatoes. It is good economy to build a substantial place for keeping the product, for then the chances of loss are greatly reduced, and a storage house will soon pay for itself. There la no food to be v.asted these days, and no one should take any chances of loss which can be avoided, says the Food Administration. NEW WHEAT RULES ARE NOW IN EFFECT Columbia.?New rules governing the ale of wheat flour, effective September 1, have been promulgated by the ' Food Administration. Retailers are required to sell at the same time with every four pounds of standard wheat flour one pound of! standard corn flour, corn meal, c<Jra . flour, or barley flour. No dealer may force upon the con-' sumer any other substitute tlren the above with wheat flour. Instead of the above substitutes.! the dealer may, if customer so demands, deliver on Ahe same basis any j of the following Aouts: Kaffir flour, rico flour, bean flour, oat flour, mllo flour, potato flour, buckwheat flour, fotarlta flour, peanut flour, sweet potate flour. Pure rye flour or meal may be sold as a substitute but must be sold in the proportion of at least two pounds j ?f rye with thre6 pounds of wheat flour. i Corn meal for use in making corn bread should be purchased separately irom comDmauon saies. <sCorn meal purchased as a substitute with wheat flour should only be used In making Victory bread mixture. Victory Mixed Flour mary be sold without additional substitutes as it is "wheat flour which has mixed with it the required amount of barley, corn or rye flour substitutes. Victory Mixed Flour Includes Graham, whole wheat or entire wheat flour or meal when it contains 95 per' cent or more of the wheat berry. The necessity for conservation of J wheat flour continues, and all house- j keepers are requested by the Food; Administration to use such wheat j flour as is required carefully and con-; ervatively. WEIGHT OF BAGGING AND TIES j / IS NOT TO BE CHARGED FOR. Columbia.?It has come to the attention of the Food Administration that anmn of tha dinners are rharcrlne on weights whteh include the weight of bagging and ties. The ginning prices : recently announced by the Food Ad-; ministration were for rlet lint cotton. (Sagging and ties weight 25 pounds to the bale. Therefore, ginners must not charge in exce?s Of $2.60 per bale, for sinning, unless the weight of the bale, i ^cludin* bagging and ties, Jb morej than c?? pounds. For the excess over "that woirht. at the rate of 70 cents per 100 pounds of lint cotton 1b the proper charge. TIME TO PREPARE FOR INCREASED WHEAT ACREAGE. Clumbia.?The world cry is for bread. Wheat is as necessary as bul-; lets. The world situation calls for and ; demands an increase in the acreage: planted in wheat for 1919. Now is the time to begin planning for next year's , yi ugi am. Farmers should select tl*3 land to be planted to wheat, and thoroughly prepare the seed bed. The yield per ac.rc ?s as iropv riant as the acreage, Bencs the imporfania of selecting the farm land best a*;.;:'.ed to wheat and; the procuring of good seed free from <Haease and weed seeds. All seed eusprrted of having smut should be j trea'ed to Insure against loss from j this trouble. SELECTION OF ?EED COKN IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME. j Columbia.?Selection and testing of: seed corn is important. Every farmer j should go into his field, select suitable ears, and so mark them that they may 1 t>e readily distinguished. After the | seed corn is harvested it should be j stored eo as to protect it from ex tremes in weather, insects and rats ? - " The labor shortage makes it absolutely necessary fer the farmers to have good seed in order to avoid los? o? time and effort spent in replanting I ?nd to c?2ke every acre produce as j mucii r.:. possible at a time wlieu big j production of food cropa is demanded ] by the world aitaation. * - . * SAiEWAR BREAD FOR ALLIED NATIONS "Fifty-Fifty" Rule is Superseded b> New Food Administration Regulations Which Pennit of Larger Use of Wheat?Victory Mixed Flours May be Purchased Without Buying Substitutes. Columbia.?The 20,000,000 people fighting Germany will eat the sams war bread. That is to say that the war bread of the allied nations will hereafter be mixed in the same proportions of wheat flour and substi tutes. The "flfty-flfty" rule, which ha? been in.operation in America, under which it was required that wheat flour be sold only in equal proportion with substitutes, has been superseded by new regulations just announced by the Food Administration and which became effective on September 1. Instead of "fiftv-flfty." the proportion is "eighty-twenty." Under this International brenrl nolIcy. formulated by the inter-alliec food council held recently in London, the people of the allied countries are permitted to eat bread containing more wheat flour than they have had at any time since the beginning of the wor, and all rationing of bread among the allied peoples will be discontinued at a time when the wheat situation in Germany and Austria 1b anything but promising. At the ssrrift t*r?* the whpat resources of the allied countries will be conserved so as to maintain the necessary reserves against disaster; and for that reason it becomes necessary for the Food Administration to proTmileratft the new 'eiehtv-twenty" rule. The new regulations provide for the manufacturing and marketing of a mixed flour, to be known as Victory Mixed Flour, under certain standards set by the Food Administration. Victory Mixed Flour may be purchased for household use without buying substitutes. * Whpre straight wheat flour is purchased, however, twenty per cent of other cereal flours or substitutes must be purchased. All bakers' bread shall contain 20 per cent of other cereals and the Food Admiirtration relies upon the house-., holders of the country to mix at least ?0 per cent of the substitute cereals into home baked bread. Corn meal, for use of corn bread, should be purchased separately from combination sales. Ability to provide the allies with the new bread and relaxation of the restrictions on wheat In America was made possible by the sacrifices of the American people in their patriotic observance of the conservation program of the Food Administration and the bumper wheat crop which has JuBt been harvested. m SEED Food Administration Advises Gardeners to Save Seed for Next Year's Planting. Columbia.?Save seed for the production of next year's food crop. This is important, and is urgsd by the Pood Administration. While the production of seed will be about normal this year, large orders fcr vegetable seeds h*ve been placed by foreign concerns for export to European countries, which formerly have been exDorters of vegetab!o seeds to the United States. As a j result o? this, the supply will not be great enough to meet the demand. Prices will be high, and the high price and shortage of supply will bring many inferior seed on the mar- j ket. To overcome this difficulty it 13 | yprv necesrnry that every gardener j do his p*r rI-3 Sflve seed for next 1 year's planting. THE SOP P?T!i | MEASURED IN SPOONFUL Columbia.?How many teaspnonfuls are there in one pound of sugar? With the sugar ration at 2 pounds por person per month it is well enough to know this. There are 95 level teaspoonfuls?? for each day. There are 48 rounded teaspoonsfma ?IV2 for each day. There arc 32 aoapuyj leaspoomui-j? almost 1 for each day. It should be remembered that the 2 pounds p?r person "er month ration covers the use of sugar for all purposes?including the sweetening of tea, coffee, dessert and in cooking. f BLAME THE KAISER. If you are inconvenienced by the necessity of using less sugar than you have been r.ccustomed to before the war, don't blame the Food Administration. bwl blame the kaiser. Kc a responsible for it all. SERVICE THAT WINS ! THE SOLDIER HEART i Fred Lockley, Y. M. C. A., Tells of the Gratitude of the Boys , | . , . at the Front. i i i "One of the discoveries men are I i making over here," Fred Lockley, of ; the Y. M. C. A. and of Portland, Orei gon, writes from London, "is that { more pleasure can be had out of giv; log than getting. Many a m8.n who | has spent money freely in the old days | to buy pleasure Is finding that he gets more pleasure over here by the spend. Ing of one's self In the service of other?. ' "A few months ago I went out with a fellow Y. M. C. A secretary to hunt , up out-of-the-way detachments of troops. A stable guard here, a machine gun company there, a platoon 1 somewhere else. We carried our goods in .an automobile. We had plenty of writing paper and envelopes . for free distribution, and chocolate, ! cookies, chewing tobacco and smoking ; tobacco, cigarettes, razor blades, I tooth paste and things of that kind for j sale. American war service workers j were busy everywhere. We found 8al| ration Army lassies making doughnuts ! for the boys and K. of 0. secretaries i giving help. Books furnished by the | American Library Association were to | be seen on all sides. "Hearing firing at a distance, we I drove down the road and foqnd a | score or so of men at machine gun j practice. The officer gave the men j half an hour recess to buy goods. "At another place we came in sight of a lieutenant drilling a platoon. I said to the lieutenant: 'How soon beI fore you dismiss the company? We ! have T. M. C. A. goods for sale.' | "He said: 'Right now. Sergeant, dismiss the company!' | "And ten seconds later the company ! was in line waiting to buy goods from I our traveling 'Y.' Grateful Is no name . for It. The men can't do enough to their gratitude." Why You Should Give Twice What You Did Before The government has fixed the sum needed for the care of the men in the service at $170,500,000. Unless Americans give twice as | , much as ever before our soldiers, j sailors and marines In 1919 may not enjoy their 8,600 recreation buildings 1,000 miles of movie films j 100 stage stars 2,000 athletic directors 2,500 libraries supplying3,000,000 books 85 hostess' houses 15,000 "Big brother'* secretaries arxit _c J?1t? rx4 minimis Ui uunaia w* home comforts Give to maintain the morale that is winning tbe war now | DONT GRUMBLE. j O-olumbia. ? "Some dissatisfaction has been caused by the late orders I concerning the consumption of sugar," 6ay a western paper in a timely edi! torial, "but the discontented must re| member thai the Food Administration ; is not to blame. They should direct | their criticism at the German Junker? : und not at the administration. The | shortage of sugar has been caused ; largely by U-boats. There is plenty of ; j sugar in the world, but the lack of 1 shipping and the sinking of sugar car; goes have caused all the trouble. The sacrifice the people are called upon to make is comparatively small, i In a few months the likelihood is that ! the need of It will pass. "Meanwhile," the writer continues, "let the grumblers think of the boya who are giving all for their country,: who are enduring cheerfully the sum 1 of all hardships and danger, and then look at himself in the mirror when he complains of being deprived of tha I second spoonful of sugar for his cof- i I fee. One look should be enough," | i I DON'T BE A U-BOAT. Use one level teaspoonful of sugar in your coffee. Don't be a U-boat. U-bo<^s sink sugar. Sugar sunk in the bottom of a I coffee cup is wasted the same as sugar sunk by a submarine, i Put in one level teaspoonful, and stir for all you're worth. i > 1 i . u __________ i I i NEW FLOUR REGULATIONS , ARE NOW IN EFFECT: i | "j Columbia. ? Everybody is asking , i about the new flour regulations. Thsso I went into effect on September 1st. j ! The famous "fifty-fifty" regulation i ! has changed its proportions. Ouiy | ' one pound of substitutes is now re- j j guired to each four pounds of wheat ; | Sour. The number of substitutes ! j have been materially reduced. Only ! I corn flour and corn meal and barley i flour are left In the front line. Vic* | tory Bread also retreats to the 20 per cent of substitutes basis. It is emphasized, however, that | wheat conservation as a war duty is J not cancelled. It is necessary to build up wheat reserves against possible disaster. The obligation is upon every one to mix wheat flour with 20 per cent of substitutes. [ NO STATE FAIR. if We publish the following: letter | from D. F. Efird, of Columbia, S. C.J in regard to the State Fair: Columbia, Nov. 6, 1918. ^ | Dear Sir: a It is with many regrets that the c management of the State Fair an- * nounces that no fair can be held (~ this fall. Health conditions through- * out South Carolina, caused the State ^ Board of Health several weeks ago to postpone, indefinitely, the fair1 from the original dates, October i 28?November 1, and it is now! deemed inadvisable to attempt to) hold the fair at this lats date. Also J the present congested conditions of transportation companies is such as! to make the immediate deilvery of exhibits very uncertain. Further :| the general unrest of the people oi '8 account of war conditions and press-!! ing labor shortage, would make at- 1 tendance upon the fair decidedly j problematical. J Because of these reasons, the members of the executive committee have decided to hold no fair for the year 1918, and trusts that this decision will meet with the approval of the exhibitors and the public generally. From present indications the war will soon come to a successful conclusion, and no effort will be; spared to make the 1919 fair the| greatest in the history of the co-! ciety. The subscription rate to The Press and Banner is now $2 per year. I R FIT ART A XkSL&JLm | ?at prices that I with the public | When it comes to hu] II ing now, a man must ifej his quality-demands. I a si I n Nearly all clothes are ing when they are ne\ a idea today is to get c are reliable without exorbitant price. & B N | J Such famous mal I SCHLOSS BROS. & | STYLEPLUS It can be trusted to be ri? respect?the hidden made of good mat their shape holds up. !If you have never be clothing at this store I to yourself in these tii spect our splendid sto< " and young men's clc Fall and Winter. StyleplusCl $25.00 and $ jjjj Each Grade the Same Price the i P ARK ^ The Only Store in ' URLOUGH FOR LIMITED SERVICE MEN Washington, Nov. 8.?Furloughs isting for a period of six months re to be granted to limited service olored men if agreeable for them o work on projects principally at lamp Knox, Bragg, North Carolina, lamp Johnson and at ordinance sup>ly depots under the' supervision of WAN To buy Liberty Bone ^hrift Stamps on th< piano, self player pia able credit on balan ment. Fourteen diffe and five makes of pi: Reference the Bank est and Strongest ! Coi] JOHN A. 1 The Greenwoo E CLOU keep faith ying clothbe strict in good look- J|B|| v. The big :lothes that llMB paying an c?. j|H rht in every erials and you owe it ffig mes to in3k of men's )thing for Models at every age Styleplus ^^asaB2i? ceptional othes styl6, qual ered. >30.00 TW An a ~ ? ? jL x ^ Ull LV Nation Over dressed ar E R & R fown That Sells Stylei I ! the construction division according ! to an announcement by the War ; Department here today. I ii Men will be sent only of their own , free will, and are to receive current vages with suitable living accommodations and hospital facilities pro, vided for them. 'j ?Buy W. S. S.? trn ii i laj :: ??? ??i? ??? mt Is, War Savings, or ; 3 purchase price of a ,no or organ. Reasonce of price of instrument makes of pianos ayers to select from. of Greenwood, OldBank in Greenwood mty. HOLLAND | id Piano Man. ~~?== iES . j Sty I Clothes b'?r?tivp to mpn of and taste. I are America's ex- - , fi clothing value? M ity and price consid- H Stvlpnlns. Rp wpll I >1 K-/ \jj ivy A wk/i van id trifty both. I .EESE I dIus Clothes. 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