The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, May 05, 1891, Image 1
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Will practice in the State and
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Will practice in the Counties of
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AIKEN, S. C.
Andrew T. Woodward,
Attorney-at-Law,
Bara well Court House, S. 0.
Will practice in the Courts of Aiken
and Barnwell Counties.
[alter Ashley, ;
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ildrich & Ashley.)
The Growers Meet in Convention in
Albany.
From The Atlanta Constitution.
The meeting of the Georgia Melon
Growers’ Association, held at Albany
on the 29th of April, was one of the
largest ever held. Delegates were on
hand from all parts of the melon belt,
from Macon to Quitman. The crop is
so much larger tbac ever before, that
the growers are anxious to perfect
meats for its distribution. The ques
tion of rates is already settled on last
year’s basis of 8 mills per ton mile to
Ohio river points, and all that remains
to be done is to grow the crop and
market it.
As to the distribution of the crop it
was suggested that all shipments from
Georgia and Florida go through the
hands of a melon exchange. This
suggestion was amended by the one
that the growers ship through the
Macou produce exchange all melons
they could not sell on the track at
home. The exchange had made ar
rangements with the commission men
in 200 towns and cities to sell water
melons. and it was suggested that
such cars as could not be sold at home
be shipped to oue of these 200 houses,
the melon grower to select his own
market, but to advise the exchange
of the shipment and destination, and
then turn over the further manage
ment of the melons en route to the
Macon exchange, giving it the right
to change the destination of the mel
ons when it might be known that the
markets shipped to were glutted. ,
It was claimed this plan would not
work, as it would be impossible to get
melon growers to surrender control of
their melons to anybody until the
fruit was sold.
It was replied that it would be im
possible for the Macon produce ex
change to distribute the crop well un
less it had control of the shipments.
It would be glad to have consignments
from the growers of this section, but
as the plan had been adopted with
reference to the future of the ex
change, and for the purpose of secu
ring melon shipments from the neigh
borhood of Macon, and as melons had
already been secured from that dis
trict, the plan could not now be
changed. >
.On motion a committee was ap
pointed to
houses to which
should confine tt
It was statec
commission
ie melon-growers
shipments.
ed to make it fire and water proof.
Fire colors the covering, but has no
other effect. This covering is put ou
the bale iu either of two ways—with
ties, or without ties, using instead a
steel wire net. A prospectus says:
“This covering will entirely protect
it against damage from any ordinary
exposure to fire or water, and agaiust
dirt or mud while being handled in
shipping. It will prevent accidental
loss or waste from the bale, but can
be conveniently sampled. By the use
of this covering there will be no dan
ger of cotton fires, as has been the
case heretofore, caused from sparks
from engines, cigars, pipes, matches,
etc.
“This is a combined covering and
bale tie. The inside can be made
from the cotton stalk and hulls of the
seed, or from any other fibrous sub
stance, made into a thick, tough pa
per, treated with asbestos, or any
chemical that will prevent fire. The
outside part, or tie, is made of web
wire, which takes the place of the
ties. Ordinary web wire is used—
using the widths suited to the size of
the press, the selvage edge of the wire
being united together while it is in
the press with wire hooks, which are
specially made to the selvage edges,
and can be as readily hooked while
the bale is in the press, as the buckle
can be fastened on ties.
“This covering can be conveniently
worked on any of the three different
size presses in use without any
changes having to be made.”
The exact nature of the chemical
treatment to make the covering fire
and water proof is known only to Mr.
H. O. King, the inventor. The bag
ging weighs twenty-four pounds to
the bale—equal to or exceeding the
weight of the jute bagging, and it is
stated that the cost will not exceed
sixty cents per bale.
Mr. King, the inventor, has con
tracted for covering 25,000 bales,
which will be enough to test the cov
ering thoroughly. This covering, as
soon as it is ready, will be distributed
about evenly amongst the Southern
alliance exchanges.
A Fatal Shooting lu Lexington.
A fatal shooting affray occurred in
Lexington County on the 30th ult.
Mr. Tom Stark, a son of Capt. W. H.
Stark, of Columbia, did the shooting,
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THE CAPERS OF CATERPILLARS.
Trains on the Carolina Central Rail
road Blocked.
By United Press to The State
The Carolina Central trainmen
have been having a peculiar expert
ence with caterpillars for four or five
days past. Just east of Lumberton is
what is known as “Big Swamp” and
the railroad goes through it on tres
tle work broken here and there in
more solid portions of the swamp by
solid embankments of earth. Last
Tuesday an army of caterpillars be
gan moving out of the swamp, and
when they reached the streams over
which the trestle carries the rails they
massed on the railroad and preceeded
to cross ou the trestles. L'he rails and
ties were covered inches deep with the
moving mass, and the first train that
encountered them w’as brought to a
dead standstill, the driving wheels of
the engine slipping around as if the
rails had been thoroughly oiled. The
engineer exhausted the contents of
his sand box before he got through
the swamp and reached a clear stretch
of track.
It was thought that trip would be
the end of the caterpillar trouble, but
the very next day a train encountered
another army of caterpillars crossing
the trestle and had the same difficul
ty.
The Charlotte bound passenger had
a similar experience, and a passenger
says the scene, was something truly
wonderful. The rail and crossties of
the trestle were actually obscured
from sight by the masses of caterpil
lars, and the ground and swamp on
each side of the track were littered
with the mashed fragments of mil
lions of the caterpillars from the
wheels of preceding trains, and from
thl«L mass an unendurable st«
Southern Farmers on Top.
Atlanta Constitution.
For some years past the New Eng
land farmers have found it difficult to
hire as many hands as they need for
their work.
The scarcity of farm labor iu the
six northeastern states, and in some
of the middle states, is a serious
drawback this spring. In oue Con
necticut county 200 farm hands are
advertised for at $25 per month and
board. All ovtr New England far
mers are making a tremendous effort
to obtain hands at this remuneration,
which is certainly enough. Twenty-
five dollars and board may be counted
as the equivalent of $40 up north, and
out in the country it will go much
further than in the city.
Still, the inducement of food is not
enough to tempt unemployed men
away from the large cities. All over
the north there are manufacturing
centers, and for some years they have
been steadily absorbing the labor of
the country districts. Matters have
come to such a pass that northern
farmers are in despair. They are able
and willing to pay splendid wages,
but they cannot get men to work for
them at any reasonable price.
It is very different in the south.
Here we have all the farm labor that
is needed, and it can be readily em
ployed at from $8 to $10 per month and
board Moreover, it is a labor exact 5
ly suited to our climats and condi
tions. And yet our soutbern farmers
complain that they are not prosper
ous, and wonder how their northern
competitors can afford to pay high
wages, and put money in bank, and
loan it out on western farm mortgages.
This brief statement of the case at
once maketj it apparent that there !r %
something wrong in our