Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SOY BEAN SEED AND VARIETIES TO GROW Supply From 1918 Crop Reported Less Than That of 1917. Well for Buyer to Make Germination Tests as Seed Loses Its Vitality j * Quite Readily-Variety la of Importance. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) As the supply of the 1918 crop of soy beans for seed ls reported less than the 1917 crop, it Is advisable at this time to look forward to supplies of seed of desirable varieties and prices. It Is not likely that the prices will be much low er than at the present time. Undoubt edly much of the 1917 crop of seed will be sold this season. It is well 'or the buyer as well as the grower who has his own supply of seed to make germi nation tests. Soy bean seed loses Its Cultivating a Field of Soy Beans. viability quite readily, and unless 1lie seed ls of the 1918 crop or has been properly cured and stored tests should ?be made to learn If the seed ls of h igh .germination. The variety to be grown ls of prime .Importance, and the grower should [select one suited to his locality. The flate varieties for forage or seed are ;best suited to southern conditions, al though the Virginia and Haberlandt, both medium late varieties, have given most excellent results under southern 'conditions for seed, forage and pas turage. The best late varieties are ?Blloxi, Mammoth Yellow and Tokyo. ?PUT IMPLEMENTS IN REPAIR .Troublesome and Costly Delays May Be Avoided by Getting Tools In Working Order Early. {Prepared by the United States Depart-! ment of Agriculture.) All users of farm implements should -anticipate, so far as practicable, the necessity for repairs and replacements sufficiently in advance of the working season to make lt possible to put their implements In good working condition before the spring operations begin. This ls the gist of a telegram from the secretary of agriculture to E. W. Mc -Cullough of Chicago, secretary of the ?National Implement and Vehicle asso ciation. Secretary Houston's telegram was in response to one from Mr. Mc? Cullough advising him that manufac turers of and dealers in all lines of farm operating equipment have agreed, te the interest of economy and conser- j ration, to join In urging, farmers to in ?peet their equipment and to order necessary parts in advance of the time they are needed. .Manufacturers and dealers declare that If they can know sufficiently in advance the needs of the farmers for repair parts, these parts can be sup plied when they are needed. If the needs are not known to the manufac turers and dealers until the actual time for use, troublesome and costly delays are likely to be caused-delays . hat may be felt in decreased produc tion at harvest. SOILS READY FOR PLOWING Overzealous Gardener? Waste Time and Do Harm by Getting on Them Too Early. A simple test to find out when gar den soil Is ready for plowing or work ing ls to pick up a handful and close the hand tightly on it. If the earth falls apart when the hand is opened It ls dry enough for cultivation. Thia test applies largely to fairly heavy soils, but these are the soils that are most liable to injury from working) them when too wet. Overzealous gar deners waste time and actually do harm on heavy soils by getting on them too early. MARKETING LETTUCE IN LOTS When Sold in Barrels to Small Grocer There ls Always Remnant OP Two Wilted. Lettuce should be marketed If pos sible in small packages. When sold in barrels to small grocers there is near ly always a remnant after a day or two which is wilted and hard tg sell. Small packages are much better for retailers with a limited trade because they can sell a basket or two every day and buy a fresh lot the next day. This plan ls better for producer, re tailer r.'.id consumer. It COUD?S for larger sales, larger prices and smaller losses. PARSLEY POINTED A MORAL Youngster Quick to See the Point Which His Father Was Endeav oring to Make. In nn Indiana town where crooked ness in city affairs has been reigning for years, a lucrative position was of fered to a lawyer. It was not because the salary itself was so large, but the possibilities the position offered were many. But still a string was attached and the lawyer knew lt. So he turned down the job. His high-school son was provoked be cause his father had not accepted. He grumbled about lt In subtle little ways for several days and then one day his father came to school after the boy to accompany him to a friend's farm. Once there he showed the delighted youngster all over the farm, last visit ing the pen in which the hogs were be ing fed for the market. The boy eyed them a few minutes and then asked, "What ls that they're eating so ravenously?" The farmer answered: "Why, that's parsley. ? It's the best hog fattener I know of. We just turn them Into a patch of parsley and they do the rest themselves. It's too good picking for them to resist. When I decide that a pig is almost ready for the market I just turn him Into the parsley patch, and soon he's just In the right condi tion to go to the slaughtering house." "It's too bad they don't know what's coming to them so that they stay away from the parsley patch," laughed the boy. "I'm sure I would if I were to turn hog." His father merely looked at him for a minute and then he said: "Parsley always hns looked like graft to me very inviting, easy to get, and plenty of lt while it lasts, and then at the end Inevitably the slaughtering pen." This time the boy understood.-Indi anapolis News. NEVER WASTEFUL IN SPEECH One Thing at Least in Which the American People Are Econom ical to a Degree. The country as a whole has lost the "hang" of speaking English. Some people proudly state that America is no longer a British colony, that she is creating a language of her own, and, to prove their Independence they make a practice of incorporating into our speech sounds without definite edges, sounds trailing clouds of mut tered murmurs, sousds of such ele mental simplicity that they resemble grunts, taken over from the speech of persons who have come to us from all non-English-speaking countries of the world. And, In their love of equality and fraternity, these people refuse to exceed the speech of those whose simple needs are satisfied with a fru gal vocabulary; In this way they have succeeded In cutting down their own vocabulistlc rations to the famine point. Luvlsh, generous, wasteful in other matters, the country has learned to economize in sentence and syllable, till it has reached a genuinely demo cratic simplicity of speech.-Henry Dwight Sedgwick, In Tale Review. Canadian Fisheries. The total value of the produce of Canadian fisheries during 1917 was $52312.044, compared with $39,208,378 in 1916 and $26,860,780 in 1915. These totals represent the marketed product and have just been given out by the Dominion fisheries department in its annual report. "Canada possesses the most exten sive fisheries In the world," says the report. "Those of Norway and the British isles alone dispute Canada's supremacy. The fertility of Canadian waters is Indicated by the fact that the entire catch of salmon, lobster, herring, mackerel and sardines, nearly all the haddock, and much of the cod, hake and pollack, are taken within 10 or 12 miles of shore." Legerdemain. "Them city sharpers are a heap too ?mart for us country jakes," admitted the gent from Jlmpson Junction, upon his return from the Big Burg. "To be on the safe side, before I started from home I had a pocket made on the in side of my shirt, and put two $10 bills in lt and sealed lt up with court plaster. And I'll be Johnbrowned If somewhere along the line somebody didn't steal my $20, slick and clean ! And what fumigates rae is how In tunkett they got my shirt off and put lt back on ?gain without removing my coat and evest or even giving me a hint of it !"-Kansas City Star. Unconvincing Camouflage. "Germany's camouflage republican ism," said Rear Admiral Taylor, "re minds me of a beggar." "This beggar had been blind, but one day he hustled up to a patron, looked him in the eye, and demanded alms. "'Why,' said the patron, 'have you recovered your sight?' "The beggar nodded. " 'You see,' he explained, 'my dog died, and not having time to train an other I had to become deaf and dumb.* " Silverite a New Metal. A new development In the alloying of aluminum with other metals has just been accomplished by the produc tion of "sllvertte." This metal is some thing entirely new and Is composed of a mixture of aluminum and copper, zinc and steel in varying proportions, according to requirements. The alloy ing of strel with aluminum is some what startling and nt first thought Keems to be Impossible, yet It ls sue The War Cost of Cotton. The following summary of a report made by H. F. Bachmann & Com pany of New York will be interesting to cotton farmers: For the four years prior to the war the cotton farmer received an aver age price of 12 cents per pound for his cotton, against an average of 16.4 cents for the four-year war period, representing an increase of 36.6 per cent. The wheat farmer received an average of 85.2 cents per bushel for the four years prior to the war, against 149.5 per bushel for the four war years, an increase of 75.5 per cent. For the four crops prior to the war the cotton farmers received a to tal of $3,284,157,008, and although there was a reduction of 2,541,081, OOO pounds in cotton production du ring the four war years as compared with the four anti-war years, he only received a total of $3,908,720,133 for these four crop failures, a total increase of only $624,563,125, or 19 per cent. The wheat farmer produced 453,858,000 bushels more wheat du ring the four war years than he pro duced during the four anti-war years, but he received for these four crops $4,513,120,955, an increase of $2, 184,373,344, or 93.3 per cent. In other words, the wheat increase in value during the war was $1,557,1.10, 218, or 249 per cent greater than the cotton increase in value. According to this estimate wheat has increased in value during ihe war 249 per cent more than cotton. This shows the handicap under which cotton growers have labored. Not on ly have they had drouth causing short crops, but during the war they were forced to sacrifice their help, pay war prices for everything used, and since the armistice, have the embargo con tinued while the speculators beat the market down. The estimates and comparisons made above have, been taken from reports and bulletins published by the United States department of agricul ture. This does not include the ex pense cotton growers have incurred in holding cotton, nor the loss to the business men largely interested in and dependent on cotton. Will the growers of cotton and the business men of the South and South west continue such a marketing sys tem for cotton? Will they be willing to let speculators take advantage of war, peaee or any industrial distur bance to the detriment of cotton growers and their friends who are fi nancially interested in the staple? Farm and Ranch Farmers Saved Millions on Fertilizer. Washington, April 18.-More than $1,500,000 will be saved by the farm ers this year as a result of the aetion of the government in making avail able at reduced prices large quanti ties of nitrate for fertilizer. After the armistice was signed the war depart ment released to the department of agriculture 111,000 tonB of nitrate produced during the war for use in explosives. To this quantity is added 40,000 tons received from Chile by the agricultural department too late for distribution last year. Under au thority of the food control act', the nitrate is to be sold at cost and al ready, says a statement to.-day by the department, farmers have taken up the full 151,000 tons in orders rang ing from 200 pounds to 300 tons. SUMMONS State of South Carolina, County of Edgefield, In Court of Common Pleas. J. W. Stewart and L. S. Kernaghan, partners in trade under the style of Stewart and Kernaghan-Plain tiffs-against A. C. Mayson-De fendant. (To the Defendant Above Named.) You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is here with served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to the said com plaint on the subscriber at his office, Edgefield, S. C. within twenty days af ter the service hereof exclusive of the day of service, and if you fail to ans wer the complaint within the time a foresaid, the Plaintiffs in this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint. N. G. EVANS, Plaintiffs' Attorney. March 26, 1919. To A. C. Mayson, non-resident De fendant: You Will Please Take Notice That the Summons and Complaint in this action was filed in the office of Clerk of Court of Edgefield County, S. C., on the 27th day of March, 1919. N. G. EVANS, Plaintiffs' Attorney. April 23, 1919. es.ftiNG's pyEVfr z^sSC?Vffi&n ??ai SureLy Sloy Toa*. COUQ?L 'C?tain * Usco' You have doubtless noticed the growing preponderance of United States Tires. Every one is asking for tires of known value and proved dependability. And that is precisely what United States Tires represent in the minds of motorists here and everywhere. The idea back of United States Tires -to build tires-the best tires that can be built, is appealing to rapidly growing numbers. We can provide you with United States Tires to meet and meet exactly-your indi vidual needs. United States Tires ? are Good Tires STEWART & KERNAGHAN, Local Dealers Oxfords! Oxfords!! Now is the time to discard the heavy, wornout winter shoes and buy a stylish pair of Oxfords. We have a large stock to select from in Crossett and Selz-Schwab Oxfords Big line of Straw Hats, warm-weather Underwear Clothing, etc. ("OME IN TO SEE US Dorn & Mams NOTICE TO Stock Raisers My Stallion and Jacks will make the 9eason at my farm, and on accou..t of so much trading among mare owners I have decided to reduce fee to ten dol lars-strictly cash at time of service. .Not responsible for accidents. Return privileges. J. H. GARRETT. Clark's Hill, S. C. 4 f\ HOUR KODAK FINISHING I / All Rolls developed 10c; packs 1 ?C. 20c. up; prints 2*c.-4c.-5c. ; enlarging 35c. up. Specialists-we do nothing but kodak finishing. All work guaranteed to please. Eastman Ko daks, Films, Supplies. Columbia Photo Finishing Co., lill Taylor Street, Columbia, S. C. ARRINGTON BROS. & CO. Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Kinds of Seeds Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks Augusta, Ga. Distributors of Marathon Tires and Tubes. None better, but our price ?9 less . YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED See our representative, C. E. May.