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CLEMSON OUTLINES FARMER PROGRAM I Certain Proposition to Meet Condi- ^ tions. Gives Timely Advice Cleanson College, Feb. 26.?The extension service representing Clem son college and the United States de partment of agriculture is advoca ting this year principles in farming that have always proved sound even under the abnormal conditions of the last six years. The priciples in brief are as follows: (1) Soil building through the "usej , of clover crops, legumes, livestock j and crop rotations. Economic pro-| duction is based on large production' per acre and this means fertile soils. Economic production is syno nymous with profitable production. (2) Living at home/ by filling barns, corn cribs, smoke houses, grainaries and pantries with home| raided products sufficient not only, for the families of the landlords,1 but also for all tenants and live-! stock. Many white landlords nowj practically live at home while buy-j ing Western foodstuffs for tenants.! This system should be corrected and' the entire farm made keif support- j ing. The attention of farmers is called to the fact that the increased freight x rates will add greatly to the coat of imported foodstuffs this! year. To Produce Cheaply (3) After the above has been planned, arrangements should be made for the economic production of the surplus or money crops. In conducting farming business this year it is particularly necessary to live and produce crops economi cally. As one county agent has ex pressed it, "This is a year to patch up, fix up and go ahead." Closely associated with economic j production both for the market and' for home use, are two important Hnes of progress which the exten-J ZflUJi lb ?Ji U4ILUMU|?? 1 IJCSC die* First, the skillful selection and use of pure bred seed by communi ties and counties. Second, the improvement of live stock by the use of pure bred sires, and an increase in number so as to insure the necessary improved live stock on each farm to supply the needs for milk, butter, eggs and meat and to utilize the feed crops resulting from a diversified farm ing program. Farmers -who are growing any money crop for the first time are urged tq plant only experimental acreages. In planting crops for home use full acreage should be planted so as to insure adequate production even under poor crop conditions. Cotton The situation now existing in the cotton industry is unlike anything before. During the war central Eu rope was not a customer f6r cotton but production was curtailed so that notwithstanding that fact, prices were maintained in keeping with costs. Cotton growers generally be lieved that following a cessation of hostilities Europe would demand a normal supply of cotton. The fol lowing figures are quoted from the iharket report published by the Uni ted States bureau of markets under date of January 29, 1921. Bales. : ^ World's supply of cotton at close of 1919-20 season (July 31, 1920) 5,846,000 1 World's production season . 1920-21 19,788,000 0 Estimated world's consump- ,' tion fors eason 1920-21 vided consumption con- 1 tinues at the rate so far !( 13,136,250 1 Total world's supply for season 1920-21 25,264,000 * \ Estimated world's supply ;? based on> above provision 1 July 31, 1921 r 12,457,750 c This would be the largest "carry- r over" ever known, being 4,105,750 s bales more than the previous record, which was 8,352,000 bales in the * season 1914-15. t rv : ii .i t * * r inuring uie periou January i to * July 31, 1920, the world's consump- c tion of cotton was 10,366,165 bales. If consumption is as great for the ii corresponding period this year there v will still be left a "carry over" of q 9,866,208 bales on July 31, 1921. c The genera] economic condition f of the country makes a marked re- f duction in the acreage of cotton t] necessary. Under a safe system of b farming vgjy few farmers should b plant more than one-third of their si total cultivated lands in cotton. This t< bolds good for normal conditions, t< VERY SMALL AMOUNT AVAILABLE IN BILL Washington, Feb. 26.?Without the measure as framed by the house the senate tonight passed the annual rivers and harbors appropriation bill, carrying $15,000,000 of new appropriations and authority for the expenditure of, $47,000,000 in un expended balances during the next fiscal year. The bill allows $2,850, 000 more than carried for the pre sent year. Southern senators attacked the appropriation as too small for the J - j r neeaeu impruveiucuta auvx ocuaiui Harrison, Democart, Mississippi, said he 'almost spurned it," but he lost on roll call, 44 to 18, when he attempted to raise the figure to $33,000,000. Chairman Jones of the commerce committee, criticizing the house budget rules said he did not propose to take any more bills into "a conference where the senate has three conferences and the house 435." ' Chairman Jones insisted the mea sure be sent to the president with out alteration, and Senator. Reed, Democrat, Missouri, lost on another 'vote, 16 to 42, trying to make the appropriations $28,000000. Chair man Jones announced however, that he expected another river and har bors bill would be brought out at the special session. The present measure allows the army engineer's discretion in distributing the' funds and specifies no localities for ex penditure. 1 ? YOUR FURS Don't brush wet furs; let them dry naturally and shake out when dry. Water does not harm furs. Whipping furs is the best way to get dirt out. Never cut a fur with scissors; use a knife, and on the wrong side, if you wish to change or mend the garment. not merely for emergencies. Every farmer should study the question of acreage and should work out some; system of ..crop rotation suited to his ' soils and needs. County agents can' be of assistance in recommending systems of rotation for particular farms. The following is a three year system which may be changed in minor ways to suit particular farms: First year: Cotton fallowed by a cover crop such as crimson clover or| abbruzzi rye. ' ' Second year: Corn with cowpeas or velvet beans. Third year: Small grains folowed1 with cowpeas, soy beans, peanuts, etc. j Sweet Potatoes It is the opinion of the extension service that sweet potatoes as a crop for home consumption and in a con-! servative way as a cash crop, should, be included in ' the program for 1921. The South Carolina Sweet Po tato Growers' association now has an efficient system of marketing sweet potatoes in effect in this state, and the demand for 1921 now appears to 'be good. Land left idle on account of de ceased cottpn acreage should be planted largely to corn. It is one of ;he safest crops which can be grown n South Carolina. The new freight ate from the corn 'belt to South Carolina makes the price of import ;d corn in this state higher than in | my other producing section. While the very low price of pea- , luts for the past year has been very liscouraging to the grower it should je remembered that this price is due :o the heavy importation of vege ,able oils from China and Japan, . md that even this decrease in price s not in as great proportion as the . lecljne in the price of cotton. Pea- , luts still deserve conservative con ^deration in the 1921 program. \ j Where farmers have not been able ^ a nnf In a nrnn rvf note -Jf ic cfill ime to plant on good land with a j easonable chance of making a fair rop. ! 2 Tobacco growers in this state have i n the past grown this crop with a $ iew of securing the largest possible j uantity. In view of the surplus of ( heap grades of tobacco not only <j rom the fields of this country but 1 rom other countries, it is essential r hat to plant only such lands in to- t acco as are known to produce to- 1 acco of good quantity and use only uch fertilizers as are known to tend t award the production of high grade g abacco. r A WAMPUS?"SEEN HITS TRACKS" York, Feb. 28.?There's a var mint or a giggoutis or snaligaster or something loose up In this part of the country. It's a fact! The thing has been running at large in York County South Caro lina and Gaston and Mecklenberg "??" !?? in MnrfVi flflrnliriA. for sev era] weeks now. The local papers in the three counties are full of it." No body is able to get sight of it; but tracks are reported almost every day and it makes the most mournful doleful cries and calls. Several score hunters of Provi dence township in Mecklenberg County, N. C., together with many dogs spent a day in the woods and fields after it recently. But they couldn't locate the varmint. Some say it is a coyote, formerly held in captivity by Crown Wilson, a Gastonia, N. C., man and which escaped. Others say that it is a tiger that escaped from a carnival. Oth ers say a bear, a panther, a wild cat, | a puma?everybody is sure it ' is something else. Oscar Allison, rural letter carrier on York, No. 2, heard something af ter his chickens one night recently. He could see the outline of a big body m tne moonngnt. ne cracKea twice with his gat; but the thing grabbed a chicken and made off. The following morning, four poo dle pups and two hounds were found dead at the home of Bob Burriss, ne gro, living nearby. Rather the re mains of the pups were found. The mother of the poddies had fought the strange varmint and she j was so badly bitten in the fight that | she died. All around the place ; tracks described as big as those of j a "mule" were found. The same day there were all j kinds of tracks in tne vicinity of | Crowder's,. creek, a dozen miles away. Word comes away over from in i Monroe, N. C., that the varmint has 1 been over there. They believe it is i they have heard it. A country cor respendent writng^to a Monroe, N. | C., newspaper says that "twenty lit- j. je negroes ana mis correspunucut ( hope that the thjng will keep a-go- 1 ing." - Jas. W. Atkins, managing editor i of the Gastonia, N. C., Gazette, is pretty sure that the marauder is a coyote shipped to that city from Texas i>y Crown Wilson formerly proprietor of the Armington Hotel in that city. Mr. Wflson kept the coyote chained in the back yard of his hostelry for a while; Tjpt it broke its chain and escaped. News of the prowling of the atrange marauder has put a quietus on 'possum hunting throughout the three counties. "I'se lettin' the possums strictly erlone until dat wampus am taken,1" says Allen White, best known color ed possum hunter in the county. "Dat's what it is, boss," says | Allen, "hits er wampus?ah done seen hits' tracks." M'CUMBER ESTIMATES GIVES BIG FIGURES Washington, Mar. 1.?Adjusted compensation for former service men as proposed in the amended house bill formally presented today to the senate will cost between $1, 500,000,000 and $5,250,000,000. Senator MoCumber, Republican, North Dakota, who has charge of the measure estimated in his report to the senate. Senator McCumber said the in terest on war loans to the allies would "more than take care of the obligations created by the bill and without any increase in taxes." He expressed the hope that the bill tnigh be passed at this session but said postponement would not be im portant as the plans of compensa tion proposed would not become ef fective until Januat-y 1, 1923. . Senator Jones of New Mexico, Democratic member of the finance committee, tonight introduced three imendments to the bill and urged ts .immediate passage as an "emer gency measure." His amendment proposed appropriations of $25, )00,000 for vocational training and >100,000,000 for home and farm ands. He also offered an amend nent authorizing service men to ake up stock grazing homesteads of ,280 acres. Senator Jones later gave notice hat he would endeavor tomorrow to ;et the bill before the senate by dis ilacing all other business. KENTUCKY LAWS ON WAREHOUSE L1UQOR ARE HELD INVALID I Washington, Feb. 28.?Kentucky laws levying a special tax on liquors withdrawn from bonded warehouses were held invalid today by the1 i supreme court. Several millions of dollars in taxes already collected by the state were involved. The court sustained lower courts' which had granted an injunction toj 4.u ~ j 1 tuc x\cutuv;^ JL/idLiiici ica aiiu tt ai c house Company and the J. and A. j Fribert Company preventing inter- \ ference by the state authorities to! withdrawals of liquor in which the' special tax had not 'been paid. The supreme court upheld decree? of the federal district court for the! eastern Kentucky district that the law under which the taxes were col- j lected violated both the state and i federal constitutions. The state argued that there was no competition in the liquor business j now and that the tax therefore could not be considered confisca I tory. UNABLE TO SHUT MOUTH; MAN SUES FOR DAMAGES Atlanta, Mar. 1.?In fierce coun ty, according to information re ceived here from Blackshear, a man is pressing a damage suit against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company on the novel ground that he has been so injured by the rail road that he is unable to shut his mouth. The case, which is for $30,000, filed <by R. R. Arnold, ntifcfed Atlantn lawyer chai-ges that while George W. Waters was crossing the railroad tracks in his automobile, he was struck by a passing train, his auto- j mobile completely demolished and Vnc urtc cn nnmnlpfplv I in" by the accident, that his upper! and lower jaws, will never again ] meet, and therefore, he cannot close his mouth so as to bite 'or chew any solid food. He sets up the claim that not only is his iface permanently dis-j figured, but he is completely de prived of any use whatever of his teeth because the jawbones are so: displaced the teeth can not be made bo come together at any point. *i&?m' t mmsa 0 never se people and ser any ma Wi You'll f these sh have mi margin < and lool PARK THE VALUE OF EDUCATION From the Indianapolis News. Figures presented by an Indian-' apolis bank show that of five million' children with no schoolip^, thirty-one attain distinction. Of thirty- three million with elementary schooling the number to gain distinction is 808. Two million, with a high school edu cation, show distinction gained by 1,245. Out of one million who go through college, 5,768 become dis tinguished in some walk of life. Less than 1 per cent of the men in America are college bred, yet this small percentage has furnished 55 per cent of the American presidents, 54! per cent of th$ vice-presidents, 62 per' cent of the secretaries of state, 50 per cent of the secretaries of the treasury1 62 per cent of the attorneys general, 47 per cent of the speakers of the house and 69 per cent of the supreme court justices. With a college education the child has one chance in 173, with a high school education one chance in 1,606 COE-MO / QUALITY Fl For Cotton, C Grain, Peanu QUALITY in plai QUALITY in ava QUALITY in mec QUALITY in big QUALITY in prol Dry and \dril Analysis as J Prompt, cottr THE COE-MOR Subsidiary of The Americai Chariot FOR S/ R. E. COX, Abb. A. D. 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