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Piedmont Section Mills Not Seriously Menaced. .Charlotte, N. C., Aug.30.-While the possibility of an enforced shut down of many textile mills in the Carolinas within the next two or three weeks loom larger daily, most of the mills in the Piedmont section of the two states operate exclusively on hydro electric power and there fore are not menaced by the scarcity of fuel, according to men familiar with the situation. Many of the mills operated by hydro-electric power use some coal, but comparatively little, it is pointed out. Of this class is the Chadwick Hoskins 'company's large chain of mills. E. C. Dwelle, secretary of this company, said tonight that their plants have enough coal on hand to last only two or three weeks .Accord ing to Winston E. D. Adams, secre tary of the 9merican Cotton Manu facturers' Association, this condition is typical of that of the electrically driven mills of this section generally. Curtailment. It was said by the officials that virtually no coal is being ^received by any mills in this section, and un less the situation is relieved some what in the next week or two cur tailment of operation on the part of I many mills will be necessary. Only one mill, the Lancaster cotton mills, of Lancaster, S. C., thus far has been reported closed on account . of the coal shortage. This company employs around 1,500 workers. It closed last Saturday. It was pointed out that of the 1, 000 or more textile plants of all kinds in the two Carolinas, 343, mostly in the Piedmont sections, use hydro-electric power exclusively, while 295 use steam power only, and 262 use both electric and steam pow er, according to the latest available statistics. No general shutdown of electrical ly driven plants is expected, accord ing to local textile workers. Set Some Pecan Trees This Fall Wherever cotton grows, some pa pershell pecans should be planted. A good place to plant them is near the edge of the yard or barnyard. Pe cans thrive in places of this kind, and where one is planting only a f ?w trees for home use, no better place, as a rule can be selected than about the edge of the yard or barnyard where moist conditions are likely to exist. , There are many good varieties of j pecans, the leaders of which are probably Schley, Stuart, Delmas, Success, and Moneymaker. Secure the catalogues of nursery men and seedsmen. Study them care fully because they contain a great deal of worthwhile information, as well as prices on the products offer ed for sale. Don't cultivate the orchard too late. Keep in mind that late cultiva tion means that the wood will be kept growing late, and this may re sult in injuring the wood by cold du ring the winter. All cultivation saould have ceased before this, but if it hasnt already stopped, stop it right away. Orchards, as a rule, should have some cover crop on the ground du ring the winter. This is especially true of young orchards where the ground is not already comparative ly rich. Usually some leguminous crop like bur clover, crimson clover, or vetch is desirable, but if for any reason one is not in position to plant a leguminous cover crop, then use wheat, rye or oats, but one should b e very careful not to allow these grains to mature, or to grow to any height the following \ season. Chop them and turn them ? under. Other wise too much of the moisture will be taken from the ground and in jure the trees. A whole lot has been said about fruit tree agents, both good and bad but mostly bad. This is not fair for literally thousands of fruit trees all over the south that never would have been there, had it not been for the fruit tree agent.There are, however, some fruit tree agents who are noth ing more nor less than "flim-flam artists," and one should be on the lookout for these. It is a pleasure for us to say, however, that we ari fully convinced that the majority of the so-called fruit tree agents are relia ble men. Just be sure of the man you are dealing with and then go ahead. -Progressive Farmer. I "Scrap Iron " I am commencing to buy scrap iron now, but can not pay over 15cts. per 100 cwt. 8-30-2t. M. .A. Taylor. WANTED: A teacher for the Brunson school. Apply to T. P. MORGAN, . 8-15 Cleora, S. C. GOOD HIGHWAYS ONE-MAN ROAD GRADER PAYS Profitable Plan for Farmers In Com* munity to Get Together and Pur chase Implement. Once two teams of horses and at least two men used to be required to ?evel and grade roads. Now we have the one-man machine, which does the job in half the time and never gets tired. Like all modem devices of this nature, it ls, of course, driven by gaso line. The Bingle operator manipulates all the levers that control the cutting blades and also takes care of ,the en gine. All the controls are placed at his elbow. If you live in a community where lt ls the custom for each man to con Gatoline-Oriven Device Saves Time and Labor. tribute his share of labor toward keep ing the roads In condition, It will pay the men of the neighborhood to get together and purchase a one-man road grader and reduce the time and labor ordinarily necessary for this task. Popular Science Monthly. BETTER ROADS HELP BABIES Farm Is Made More Accessible to Doctor and Nurse-Danger In Travel Is Reduced. It may seem a long way from good roads to better babies, and yet the two are closely connected. America has a great rural popula tion, throughout which babies are be ing born every day. These babies and their mothers need care, the visii of the nurse, the sen-ices of the physician, often of the surgeon, and how are they to have it if between lie miles of road impassable alike to automobile or buggy? Of what use ls the little hospital at the county seat if the woman whose life depends upon its care cannot be taken there swiftly and comfortably? What difference does It make that the town physician may be a very wiz ard ot treating diphtheria, If long be fore he can arrive at the farra the lit tle throat has been closed by the deadly film, or the little heart stopped by the depressant poison? Medical and surgical honors are generally claimed for the city-when as a matter of fact the country doctor ls often possessed of a skill as com plete as his heart is big. Make the farm accessible to the doc tor and nurse, make the hospital and the health center accessible to the farm. Nature and skill will do the rest.-Concord Monitor. THIN ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE Ordinary Rock Surface Under Motor Traffic Coming in Next Few Years. MacAdam was years ahead of his age and years behind this one. The builders of the Appian Way knew more about building a road for a mo tortruck than MacAdam, strange as It may appear. It ls the general opinion among road builders-an opinion greatly quickened and altered by the war-that the light stone road, be lt surfaced or oil treated In what way you will. Is not the road to build in the face of an avalanche of motor trucks that ls coming in the next few years. The motorcar brought oil to the road as a necessity. The water bond, which worked so well with iron tires and iron shod hoofs, ls useless against the suction of the pneumatic tire. But the oiled stone road that holds the 3,000-pound car with ease will not carry the five-ton truck-and hist. The railroad builders have found that for heavy traffic lt pays to use the heaviest steel rails, the finest wood for ties and the best broken stone, and plenty of lt, for ballast. Vegetables in Fall Garden. It should be remembered that prac tically all vegetables grown In the spring garden can be grown also In the fall garden, and such vegetables seeds as were left over from spring plantings may be used In the fall. No Doubt of Need. There Isn't any doubt about the need for nore and better roads when automct)r.es and trucks are the only means of bringing food no your city or town. Forgive Us Our Debts Around the world resounds the cry to cancel debts. In tones vary ing from the plaintive to the bellig erent, the nations are demanding that the obligations they owe be end ed. Russia says she can do nothing un til her debts are waived. Germany's industrial future, it is said by Ger mans, is black with clouds of indem nities which the Versailles Treaty imposed upon it. England, speaking through the mouth of Ealr Balfour, demands the cancellation of debts. France is astounded that the United States fails to implore the privilege of marking paid on the bills which that imperial republic owes us. "Forgive us our debts," pray and demand the nations of the world, but they somehow fail .to add, "as we forgive our debtors." The nations are correct in ascrib ing their governmental ills to their debts. Debts impose upon individ uals and countries alike a financial and mental depression, which dulls ambition, discourages enterprise, and halts progress. Interest and us ury are ' self-rising burdens. Each nation desires to have its own debts written off. But it shows no sign of writing off those owed to it. The wise financiers in the United Sates reason that the opportunity for American business in Europe would be immeasurably increased if the debt burden were lifted from the governments of those nations, which in turn could then lift the taxation burden from the struggling peoples. But those same financiers make no suggestion of wiping clean the slate of war profits still owed to them. The United States owes the per sons who hold its war obligations something more than twenty billion dollars. The United States holds ob ligations of foreign governments for something less than half of that a mount. How willing the United States government would be to for give the debts owed it, if by the same token the holders of all the United States bond's should simulta neously send them to the Treasury Department, marked paid! And how wiling, too, would be the majority of individual holders of Liberty bonds and other government obliga tions to cancel them, if in turn their own several private debts were can celed. Public and private debts, the world around, if it were possible to set them off against each other, would cancel with comparatively lit tle inequity. But for the United States to cancel its credits ' arid re tain its debts is so palpably unfair that the wonder is any nation would dare suggest it. For a holder of a government bond to cancel that cred it, and still be obligated for debt he has incurred, brings the chain of in equity right down to the individual. Were cancellation of all debts in the world possible, it would bring a year of jubilee. But for the United States government to cancel the debts of a European power, debts which in the last analysis are owed to each person in the United States, offend all sense of fairness.-Dear born Independent. The Gentle Art of Mak ing Out Bills. In Tiffin, Ohio, says F. P. A. in the New York Tribune, there is a tailor who has had a few garage re pair bills. The other day the garage man had the tailor sew on a button. The next day he got this bill: To sewing on button -L_.15 Thread_.03 Button-. ,_06 Labor 1-4 hour_- __.30 Removing old thread __ - __.07 Labor 1-8 hour_ - ..15 Needle '_02 Beeswax.-_--.01 Knotting thread_.02 Labor 1-6 hour___20 Total-._$1.01 -Youths Companion. Payment of Taxes Deferred. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 31.-Walter E. Duncan, comptroller general, to day postponed payment of taxes un til September 15th. The statute gives the comptroller general au thority to do this when the governor concurs. Governor Harvey today a greed and the order was insued. The last session of the general session deferred payment of taxes last being 8 per cent with Septem ber 1st. the final date for payment. Consequently sheriffs tomorrow would have been called upon to make with a sliding scale of penalties, thc exercutions for all unpaid taxes. FOR SALE: Pure, delicious honey. Machine extracted which is the only way to make it absolutely free from bee bread, smoke cr any other for eign taste. WARREN & CANTELOU. 9 POULTRY CACKLES DISINFECTING DOES NOT KILL Feinting Roosts and Dropping Boards of No Value in Destroying Chicken Parasites. (Prepared by the IJnited States Depart ment of Agriculture.) There have been many advocates of the theory that chicken lice can be killed by painting the roosts and drop ping boards or the whole interior of the poultry house with various oil mix tures, the idea being that the vapors or gases arising from these points penetrate the feathers of the roosting fowls and kill the lice. This method has been given a very extensive, trial by specialists of the United States De partment of Agriculture, and not one of the 42 different preparations tested was found to he of any value. These Dusting ls Most Satisfactory Method of Killing Vermin. the following ingredients: Phenols, tar oils, hydrocarbon oils, creosote oil, carbon dlsulphid, wood-tar distillate, benzol, nitrobenzene, naphthalene, an thracene oil, and pyridine. In these experiments the roosts and dropping boards or the whole interior of the house were thoroughly painted or sprayed just before the fowls went to roost, and all doors, windows, and ventilators were closed during the first night Five badly infested fowls were used in each test, and at the end of one week examination was made for living lice. Although an occasional dead louse was found on the dropping t boards, In no case was the treatment of any practical value. Since many ; of these preparations were found to be effective when used as fumigants in small boxes, it ls apparent that the Ineffectiveness of house treatment is due to the fact that the fumes do not become concentrated enough to kill the lice. Tests were also made with lime sulphur applied in the same way ; this also was found to be of no value. GIVE CHICKENS FREE RANGE Growing Fowls Are Enabled to Obtain Quantities of Bugs, Worms, Green Feed, Etc. When the garden crops have reached . maturity or are far enough developed to suffer little damage from chickens the flock should be given free range. There are times in late summer and j early fall when the benefit received | by the poultry will exceed the slight i Injury some garden products may in- I cur. I Free range enables growing chick- , ens to obtain quantities of green feed, bugs, worms ?nd other things. The j chickens therefore require less grain | and are less liable to sickness or dis- I ease. Exercise and ability to range for even a few hours a day ls bene ficial to a flock that has been kept | in confinement during spring and early j summer. . | CONTROL OF LICE AND MITES ? Dust Bath Will Aid Materially, but | Should Not Be Depended | Upon Entirely. While it Is well to provide a good | dust bath for chickens, it cannot be depended upon for louse and mite I control, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. It ls far better to eradicate the pests completely. The main difficulty about < depending upon dust baths is thal : some fowls seldom dust themselves, and those , which dust freely nevei completely free themselves of Ice. lae dust bath should be kept under cover J and may consist of fine road dust with ] coal ashes added. ] WATCH HATCHING DUCK EGGS ? Care Must Be Taken That Emptv Shells Do Not Telescope Over ' Eggs Just Pipped. 1 When hatching duck eggs under fi 1 hen, watch the eggs while ducklings are 'hatching and remove empty shells from the nest at once. Sometimes < empty shells telescope over eggs Jus! < pipped, causing the* death of the un hatched duckling. If the hen Is at all nervou.". and Inclined to tramp on th? duck'li^j, it is well to remove then as,soon as hitched to a warm lined basket until all are hatched, ^ THE FARMERS BANK OF EDGEFIELD, S. 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