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Cattle bringing Only About Half What They Did in 1918. Chicago.-The debt laden Amer ican farmer is between the devil and the deep blue sea. On one hand be is being warned from the market centers of the coun try: "Don't ship!" His markets are /demoralized. On the other, the country bankers and merchants are urging him to sell and "pay up." Not since the disastrous crisis of a year ago has the situation confront ing the agriculturist and stock grow ers been so menacing to his peace - -of mind and pockketbook as it- is to day. Cattle values have dropped $1 . per hundred weight in the last week and are now at the lowest mark ?ince 1916. Hogs and sheep are on the tobog gan. Wheat features are at the lowest level of the season. Corn is the lowest since 1908. Oats is the lowest since 1906 for September. The average traders at the market " ?enters do not know what to make of such markets. A certain amount of stagnation had been anticipated, due to business depression and un employment with its resultant re trenchment on the part of the bay ing public, but nothing like what is happening had been expected. There is, in their opinion, only one imme diate remedy, and that is to slow up supplies coming to the markets. Thus the buck has been passed to the farmer. * ASK FARMERS NOT TO SHIP. The effect of ?rn unprecedented appeal sent broadcast by the Chica go livestock exchange, asking raisers ty restrict the shipment of cattle to ?the packing centers, will be. felt this week. The result, however, is not ex pected to help the farmer beyond the the point of preventing, if possible, further price declines, as the ware-, houses of the east are loaded with dressed beef and very little will be ?needed for some time to come. An idea of how the cattle situa tion is hitting the farmer can be gleaned from the following figures: Average price -of cattle today $8.75 One year ago-today_14.85 Corresponding time 1919_15.85 (Corresponding time 1918_15.60 WHO GETS THE DIFFERENCE. A surprising feature of the situa tion is that although farmers are be ing forced to'accept sharp drops in prices, the cost to the consumer for meat remains virtually the same. The big packers say that the small retail butchers are holding up prices to the public. The butchers in turn have their alibi. Increased cost of operation, according to John A. Ko tal, secretary of the United Master -Butchers of America, is one reason. He. says overhead expenses have quadrupled in the last fi"e years. The stock growers and farmers, generally, speaking, are not in a po sition to hold up their products. They have been slowly recovering from last year's attack of economic sickness and need money to pay off the doctor. Theirs is a dilemma. They can't afford to run up a new .hill.-Kansas City Star. Folded Bills prove Money Scarcity. An observer of men and things seated on the iron rail in front of the Postal Telegraph station late yesterday afternoon dreamily watch ed an old negro Carefully fold a one dollar bill and still more carefully fasten the pocket worn leather p'urse which contained it. "Have you noti ced the number of bills being handed across counters with crease in them?" he asked a friend standing .near by. "When you see dollar bills with creases in 'em, times are hard and money is scarce. People don't keep money till it wears itself out when its plentiful and easy to get. PU bet you a dollar myself that half the bills being handed, across that ten cent store, "have creases in them hke they had been ironed." From the way paper money is showing its creases, you would think the country had turned tight wad. The speaker's ?companion grunted a comment at 2?S friend's philosophy and hasten ed to remark at the brevity of a pas sing skirt.-Index-Journal. flow To tflve Quinine To Children. PEBRH.INE ts the trade-mark ?une giren to an improved Quinine. It la a Tasteless Syrup, pleas, am to take and does not disturb the stomach. Children take it and never kr ow it ls Quinine. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot ?alee ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate not canse nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try St the nat time you need Quinine for. any pur TN. Ask for 2-0ance original package. The .?USCTEtBSJjJMB is blown in bottle. 25 eenie To Preveut Blood Poisoning, Apply at once the wonderful old reliarle DI PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING Oil,, a sut ?kal dressing; that relieves pain and heals at ?V sun? time. Not a liniment 25c.50c.Ji.ec. Greece is finding out that Turkey can talk turkey. Germany's marks might be regarded aa concealed targets. . About all a city man has In a gar den is a growing suspicion. A lawn owner fights lt out on that dandelion If it takes all summer. Communism Is hard pressed when nobody has anything to. divide up. The prince of Wales has achieved a boyish ambition in becoming a jockey. Flume must be getting back to nor malcy. It ls reported to be having riots. Old "strict economy" has been get ting a workout during the last few weeks. The fellows who sell the stills haven't complained that business ii quiet. Japan may have a dual nature, but she has a single mind when it comes to Yap. Nearly every one knows somebody he considers eligible for the feeble-minded home. _ Just as normalcy seems near along comes this Einstein theory to upset things. There ls a lot of grafting that doesn't have any part at all in hor ticulture. Butter and eggs are down, but you can't prove it by the price of an egg sandwich. . Twice as many brunettes as blondes are marrying in France. That war ls still on. Europe's deposed kings are trying te don the purple again, and all they get is the sack. / ? Restaurant pie proceeds on the hypothesis that man wants but little here below. A league to repress grandmothers is a crying need, according to the moth ers' congress. The money we lose by American girls marrying foreign baronets ls oui worst sir-tax. Judge Landis does well In reminding applicants of the obligations of Amerl. can citizenship. Short dresses are now explained. A statistician discovers that women are growing taller. Immigration is not to be shut ott, "but the charge In the melting pot ls to be diminished. Germany is suffering from counter feiters. She's always getting bad marks, these days. "Americans are lazy talkers," says an Englishman, thereby proving' him? selfra lazy thinker. Thirteen combines fix prices,T lt Is said. Another unlucky number-for the ultimate consumer. Philadelphia reports four thieves stealing a tombstone. Possibly to prove they were not "dead ones." The chief objection to winning the world's chess championship Is the fail? ure to obtain a paying vaudeville con tract The proposed 2% cent piece would permit of a little profiteering by the consumer who has to feel now like 2 cents. Plans are under way ln% Washington to stabilize the dollar but the minute lt finds Itself in a meat market it will go all to pieces. An Illinois minister propounds the formula that "A kiss a day keeps di vorce away." Doesn't it all depend on who gets them? After wrestling with those income tax returns so recently the American public should find Einstein's theory merely a diversion. Cancer is pronounced curable, but no progress is reported in the case of the next door neighbor who practices on a flute. Soap has dropped 20 per cent in price. Now who will offer us some financial relief for the other six nights of the week? Five hundred or more American sol diers on the Rhine have married na tive girls. What effect will that have on the, peace resolution? It might discourage the dandelion to read the t Hst copied by a professor in the University of Kansas of all the good uses to which the dandelion may be put. Many Russian Reds are asking the re-establishment of savings banks. That would be awkward. It would re quire a good-sized bank to hold 94 worth of paper rubles. Wholesale prices have taken another drop of three per cent, according.to the aU-cwnmoditles index in, Washington. When it comes to beefsteak, it moat bs that that page ls torn out. * Co-operative Creameries ai Dairies. Clemson College, Aug. 27, "V the low price on cotton and the g damage done by the boll we< many people are turning their at tion to dairying as a. substitute the income formerly received thro cotton. Some of these people also realizing that the greatest come can be derived only thro organized dairying; and as a re quite a few efforts are made to tablish cooperative creameries i dairy plants, by people either dir ly or indirectly interested. This wen, because there is no doubt i cooperation is the only way to ins the best results. However, th seems to be ?n opinion preval that it is an easy matter to star co-operative plant of this kind. 1 fortunately, this is not so; on contrary, to organize properly a operative organization of any k and^carry it to ultimate success i not be done by every "Tom, Di and Harry," but requires the best forts of the best people directly terested. The following are so of the main points.to observe in ganizing a co-operative cr?ame Past- experiences prove that they ; fundamental, says M. R. Tolstr associate professor of dairying. Fundamental Requirements. 1. The purpose of a co-operat creamery or dairy plant is to prov the most profitable outlet for 1 dairy farmer's product, whether it whole milk or cream. 2. The product from 600 to 8 cows is necessary in order to redt the overhead expenses to a reas< able figure. Ordin?rily the Tarj the plant, the cheaper it can be < erated per unit of products mar factured. 3. Local conditions may be sn that a. smaller number of cows c profitably support a local co-ope: tive creamery, especially in mot tainous sections where it is hard find any outlet for individua same is true where the goods can sold at retail and an extra incoi thus derived. 4. Where cheese can be made, minimum of from 4000 to 50 pounds of whole milk a day enough for profitable operation. 5. A co-operative creamery shou never be started unless the peoj. really want it. Order of Organization. 1 Make a preliminary survey \ the neighborhood wher^q. creamery, to be started and learn: ,v (a) Number, of cows av-ftilal Do not bank too strongly on co\ which people say they will buy lat on. (b) Number of shares each mi will take. It is best to have eai man take a share for each cow ] has. Shares may be $5.00, or $10.0 or higher. Banks generally take*" tl farmers' notes for this money. (c) Amount of money requir< for starting a creamery; anywhe: from $8,000.00 up will be requin where a building is to be erected (d) Banking facilities. A goc bank is indispensable for a goc creamery. (e) Attitude of the* people t< wards a crean.-cry. (f) Availibility of a suitable sit? A creamery well located saves ope; ating expenses, and makes succ?s more easily attained. (g) A town where much rur? business is transacted is always bes for a creamery, because people lik .to bring their milk and cream to th town where they trade. (h) Railroad facilities. This itel is important especially where mill cream, butter, and ice cream are t be shipped to the trade. Remember that there are som places .which within q year or tw< may be excellent for ? creamerV, bu where failure may result if it is s,tart ed now. People must be ready. 2. Let the farmers do the work If the farmers are not willing to d< the work of starting the creamery the chances are they will not be will ing to run it after it is started. 3. " Remember that the producers are the backbone of the creamery The non-producers may be a stock holder to help along, but it is bettei to have all producers. .4. Elect capable officers. Don't elect a man because he is a "good fellow"-business ability is what you want. 5. Give the officers undivided sup port. Remember they are working for your interest. 6. Get suitable constitution and by-laws and live up to them. 7. Give one man one vote, and one only in all matters pertaining to the business. 8. See to it that the creamery and its surroundings are clean and j attractive. 1.9. Deliver only the best products Your taste will tell you that! For Camels: have the flavor and fragrance of choicest?tobaccos, perfectly blended. They're smooth and mellow mild. And there's NO CIGARETTY. AFTER!-* TASTE. We put the utmost quality, into this one brand. Camels are as good as it's possible for skill, money and remember that you are a part owner of the concern. 10. Be sure to get a. competent ^manager. - Cheap management is ex pensive-in the long-'run. . Seasonable Suggestions. To remove paint spots from win dows rub with steel wool. When you feel cross, go rest a few minutes and you will usually find your good nature restored. Do not talk about a child in his presence, he hears you even though he may not seem to. It is perfectly safe to order goods direct from the dealers advertising in the Progressive Farmer or other reliable papers.. A few drops of cologne or toilet vinegar in the bath water is most refreshing on hot days. Are you tired of that pale colored sweater? Then why not dye it with one of the soap dyes you see adver tised. It will look like new. To keep the oil stove looking clean and bright, wipe it off with a soft cloth moistened with a few drops of sewing machine oil: if there is rust remove it with kerosene. With soap so cheap it is strange there are homes with squeaking doors and sticking bureau drawers. Just rub it on the edge. We are always glad to receive the experience letters from farm wives, but doubly glad to receive those that give definite, practical help to other women. Plant some kale, New Zealand spin ach, mustard, and radishes for fresh greens in the autumn months. They will not only taste well but will save the canned foods for use later in the season. Select the handsomest cockerels now and give them special care so that you will have one worthy hf showing at the fair. A bird with white plumage should be kept in a shady run for some weeks before ex hibition time so he will not be sun burned. The United States Public Health Service calls attention to the fact that only 23 states have efficient birth regisratio*> laws, 18 have im perfect ones, ana 5 have none at all. Inability to prove age may cause all sorts of legal troubles later in life in proving citizenship, in voting, and in inheriting, for instance. Do not for get to make sure that the new arri val in your home has been registered .Progressive Farmer. tm g * J j /?? nrn^nsST FOB l^' ^?TjL-l$iL BILIOUSNESS Zm. ?/?TTERS AND tIDN?l?S Notice to Builders .--?<-.?... 4 ? ??- j .u. ? . v. :. ? ;. ?? (fei We have Doors, Sash, Blinds, Ceiling, Siding, Flooring, Mantels, * Store Fixtures, and can do all.kinds of high-class work. Designing and estimates furnished on application. J We make a specialty of furnishing High-Class Flooring and Ceiling. ' Get pur prices on Porch and Lawn Sets. Yours for Prompt Service Wright Sash, Door and Lumber Co. JOHNSTON, *. C. 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