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Mrs. Enn?tt Writes Interesting Letters From Marseilles and Nice. (Continued from first page.) seilles to Nice the train goes along the Medit?ranean coast for miles, and always the mountains form the background. There are wide fields of grapevines and olive trees planted in all the valleys with a few orange groves, but I do not think the citrus fruit can be compared to that of Flor ida. It looks very inferior and grape fruit is unknown. I see no hopes of prohibition ever gaining a footing here, for wine making seems to be "the staff of life" in Southern France. You would be amazed to see how severely the grape vines are pruned, and in fact all the trees are cut back until I wonder how they survive, but I suppose it is the .correct way to grow fine fruit. Nice is the fashionable winter re port for Southern Europe, and I im agine all these crowds of visitors we .see represent more money than brains. The place with its mountain "background and board walk on the water front, might be a combination of Atlantic City and Palm Beach. There are villas built along the sea front surrounded by exquisite gar dens, where flower beds in full bloom are scattered here and there in wide grass lawns while palms and other evergreens provide the shade. I sup pose they are owned by the weahti est people in the world, as I learned that many American millionaires ..come here for the winter season It seems where nature left off, man came along and added all that money and the labor of years could accomplish. It must have been the original "Garden of Eden" for I can conceive of nothing more beautiful ? Today we rode out to Monte Carlo, which is about twenty miles away, .with vistas of the same scenery and ^exquisite villas. Of course we simply "had to see the famous "Casino" which is known the world over. There is no trouble about gaining an entrance, and we explored thoroughly this ex pensive gambling palace with its ta bles provided with every sort of gambling device. There were more women playing than men, and one look at their faces was enough to make you sorry that life could come down to this. Thousands were at the tables and had we ever been crazy enough to think of joining them, it would have been an impossibility. Some of the ladies (?) sought more privacy than could be had in the large gambling saloons, so small private rooms were provided for the mod est (?) few, where the public could not enter. This place bears the unenviable distinction of being the only licensed gambling palace in the world. This little country Monaco is a principali ty so small that its ruler can stand in the center and get an entire view of all his possessions. I was told that it was so wealthy that not a citizen was ever taxed, nor was a single piece of property within its borders. With . such a revenue from gambling why should taxes be necessary? We walked up to the Prince's chateau and viewed the artistic en trance to his grounds. One of his reti nue of soldiers came up and present ed me with a card giving me the price of admittance to his chateau. How contemptible! We might as well charge for admittance to the White House. I asked him if the price in eluded a good look at the Prince also, but after that, as my French was too poor to prolong the conversation, we turned our backs on this hospitable offer and left him none the richer. If this is royalty, Woodrow Wilson was wise when he wanted to make the world safe for democracy. You will doubtless wonder how this country compares with the U. S. A. In some respects it is far ahead. I know noth ing in America to compare with the aspect of the combination of moun tains and the deep blue of the waves below and skies overhead. Second, it has the advantage of time behind it, for money was lavished on up-build ing this country before Columbus ever launched his little fleet. Third, this is an artistic people and Ameri cans are more material. We might build such a resort, but only after the artistic eyes of another race had planned it. They see things and we do them. The big essentials of life the useful things-are ours, but the average American would not consider giving over his life simply to a crea tion of the beautiful. We are a sound er race with a higher developed moral sense, for the low ebb to which these people have sunk would suggest the decadence of Greece and Rome. While Scotland was very beautiful, we went at the wrong season of the year. Here it is different, for we could not have struck Nice at a bet ter time had we. planned a year ahead. It is the Carnival season, just before Lent, and it means the same thing here that the Mardi Gras does in New Orleans. One of the parades comes off tomorrow which is Sundey, but you know Sunday is the fete day in Catholic Europe. Even now the streets are profusely decorated and I got a glimpse of a few of the floats today. They are the largest I ever saw and well designed. I will write you all about the Car nival tomorrow night. Devotedly, GRACE. The Fertilizer Situation. - 'Stocks of both raw material and mixed fertilizer are liberal. A recent report of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture indicates that there are large quantities of potash, nitrate of soda, and sulphate of am monia in the hands of the fertilizer manufacturers, and states that on ac count of the large stocks accumulat ed during 1920 some of the acid phos phate plants have closed because their storage capacity has been reach ed and the small sales have not been sufficient to move the goods. This circular, which reviews the fertilizet conditions of 1920, points out that the government has recommended price consessions in order to stimu late buying on the part of the far mers and that largely because these concessions were not made, the fer tilizer season is at least three months late. There is apparently no stability about the fertilizer market. We hear of distress fertilizers being bought for lessthan half the regular quoted price of materials. The government circular points out that in the Flori da phosphate rock districts the large fertilizer manufacturers have secured on contracts at not to exceed $6 a ton, making the cost of the material in bulk acid phosphate $12 or $13 a ton, while the manufacturers not holding contracts have had to pay from $11 to $12 a ton for the same rock, forcing them to charge from $20 to $22 a ton for bulk acid phos phate. Southern farmers are certainly not satisfied with fertilizer prices; and the many letters coming to The Pro gressive Farmer indicates that unless prices come down at a very early date too many farmers will forego the use of fertilizers on their crops. It has been pointed out to them repeatedly that this is not the best policy. That it is better to reduce acreage and use fertilizer for good| yields rather than to cut out the fertilizer and take small yields after having gone to the other expenses of making a crop. The actual condition is, however, that a large percentage of farmers who normally would use fertilizer are go ing to get along without it whether it is to their detriment or not. It seems to be an open secret in fertilizer circles that the sales by 1;he manufacturers and dealers are dis appointing and that they are facing a very heavy carry-over of goods. There seems to be no doubt also that at least some of these manufacturers and dealers need to liquidate to sat isfy their creditors. In the face of this- condition, just what course the fertilizer prices will take is not difficult to forecast, and it looks as though price concessions will have to be made whether or not the manufacturers feel they can af ford to make them. It would not be surprising to see a decided drop in fertilizer prices within the next thir ty days. There is even a possibility of a big break, as the scramble starts, to unload before the season is entire ly gone.-Progressive Farmer. Notice of Final Settlement and Discharge. Notice is hereby given that on the 29th day of March, A. D., 1921, at 10 o'clock a. m., I will make a final accounting and settlement on the es tate of the late Mrs. Amina F. Ouzts, deceased and at the same time will apply to the Judge of Probate for Edgefield county, South Carolina, for a final discharge as Executor of said estate. All persons having claims against said estate will present the same to the undersigned on or before said date or be barred, and all persons in debted to said estate will make pay ment to me. . A. G. OUZTS. Executor of the last will of Mrs. Amina F. Ouzts, deceased. * Edgefield, S. C., February 16th, 1921. 2-23-5t EGGS FOR HATCHING: Silver laced Wyandotte Eggs absolutely pure breed, one dollar and fifty cents for fifteen. Mrs. J. D. QUARLES, Modoc, S. C. 3-2-4tpd. 9r King's New Disown '{ILLS THE COUGH. CITES THE LUNGS* Making the Old Machine Last Another Season. The manufacturers of farm ma chinery declare they cannot lower th price of their goods under present production costs, and the farmers with equal positiveness declare they will not buy new machinery until, there is a reduction in the price of these articles corresponding to the reduction in the price they have to take for their products. It is a ques tion of whether the farmer can go longer without buying machinery than the manufacturer can live with out selling machinery. But aside from the general interest in this endurance test between the machinery manufac turer and the farmer, the contest gives the repair of farm machinery this year unusual significance. While the farmer is very economi cal in most matters, he has been neg ligent and wasteful in the purchase and care of his machinery. He fell into this habit largely in the period when farm machinery was being im proved so rapidly thjlt it was out of date before it was' worn out. Each season saw new improvements that the farmer really needed and it came to be his custom to speed the p?rting machine and welcome the new one so as to take advantage of improve ments just made. When he bought a new implement he did so with the ex pectation that it would need to be discarded long before it was worn out. As a result of this habit and state of mind only such repairs were made as were necessary to keep the ma chine going until a better one was in vented. Care, shelter and better ments that extended the life of the machine were neglected as matters of no economic importance. But the day of rapid and radical changes in farm equipment is gone. Most of the machinery the farmer owns now is a sstandard in type and equipment as a sewing machine or a bicycle. A binder, mower or silage cutter that was bought five years ago is as up-to-date as one that was pur chased last season. The farmer now is interested in getting machinery. He is concerned in methods of handling, sheltering and repairing that will prolong its life and usefulness. We have records of binders that have done full service each harvest and lasted for a quarter of a century. The life of a binder under the care it gets on the average farm is less than one-holf dozen years. The mow fir is usually ready for the junk pile in about the same time, although un der proper care it may be made to last three times as long as it does. So the contest now goes on^be, tween the users and the makers of farm machinery as to which can hold out the longest will have beneficial results lasting long after the contro versy over the price of machines is ended. The farmer like every other pro ducer will have to exercise every economy possible to make a profit in his business. On the average farm in the care and management of his ma chinery there is a chance to make a very substantial saving.-Kansas City Star. Save Much Money By Co operation. .Clemson College, March 10.-Co operative business dealings among South Carolina farmers is beginning to assume important proportions. Re ports from county agents for 1920 show a total of over $5,000,000 worth of farm supplies and product brought and sold, and there was probably considerably more which did not come under the eyes of the agents. The progress made so far is only a step, though an important, one, in the right direction. The agents' reports show a total of 25 farmers' organizations buying and selling cooperatively. Besides these organizations there were of course, groups of farmers unorganized who bought or sold material through the aid of agents or specialists. The to tal value of stuff bought or sold co operatively was $5,553,367.56, and the total saved' thereby, partial re port only, was $162,373.04. Farm sup plies bought cooperatively included fencing, fence posts, farm machin ery, bagging and ties, seeds, plants, crates, barrels, fruit trees, fertiliz ers, lime, livestock, etc. Farm pro ducts sold included grain, sweet po tatoes, beans and peas, fruit, cotton, cotton seed, truck crops, tobacco, hogs, cattle, etc. In facilitating the work of co operative buying and selling 15 of the county agents kept bulletin boards and 25 used the market news service of the bureau of markets. An Ideal Remedy for Constipation. It would be hard to find a better remedy for constipation than Cham berlain's Tablets. For the beat effect they should be taken immediately af ter supper. They are easy to toke and mild and gentle in effect. (Suellen's ?rnica Suive Che Bese Salve In The World i Look about your office and see what you need in office stationery. We are better equipped than ever to supply your printing needs. 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