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BY CLINKSCALE8 & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNET 1906. "^VOLUME XLI-NO. 51~
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FARMERS UH BUREAU.
Conducted by S. 0. Farmers' Union
J2&~ Address ell corn munica ti ou a in
tended for this column to J. C. Strlbllng,
Pendleton, S. C.
Stunting Corn.
We are pleased to re?oive the follow
ing letter from Mr. Williamson on IiiB
stunting corn plan, and trnst tbat some
of oar Farmers' Union men will put
hisp?an through a comparative t*at,
which will remove all doubts either
way about the plan. We have six
acres under comparative test after Mr.
Williamson'^ stunting process, and
and will weigh the products and
measure the area byan expert from
the South Carolina Experiment Sta
tion :
Mr. J. C.Stribling, Pendleton, S. C.
Dear Sir : The exhaustive and con
tinuous teeta that you ask about in
?our letter of 12th inst., to Dovesville,
have nat made; nor is it possible in
agriculture to tell positively which of
the many attentions given to a crop
has contributed most to the result.
This method 1 have advised tried on
only a few aerea the first year, or until
one is familiar with its ways.
I feel that tho results that 1 and my
neighbors who have adopted it have
obtained are sufficient to justify me in
recommending that it be given a trial;
if it is not a a tief ac torc it need not be
followed again. Af ow acres will not
only be sufficient brit best 'for giving
thia trial.
This "stunting" ts no new thing in
corn growing; sud if I had expressed
it : "To so check and retard the stalk
growth; th? thora shall be neither
suis into or pleut food wasted in its
production.1- Then numbers of farm
ers would have recognised it as just
what they have been trying to do for
years. Many of them have planted
both early and low all of their lives to
reduce the size of the stalk- and they
will tell you that when young corn
(not jointed) ia bitten by frost, the
stalk will not grow large, but that it
ts uni y makes bettor ears. v
This plan is not so new to the farm
ers as the newspapers seem to think
certainly not to the fermera abpnt here.
It will need to be altered and modified
to suit dUTerent soils and special condi
tions, yet the general principles are
correct and will work great benefit
whenever the tendency is to make stalk
growth at thc expense of ear.
Experience and judgment are re
quired to give best r?sultai and all who
try it may not succeed-certainly not
the first year. I trust that none will
do worse than by the old method, and
I sincerely hope that it may give to all
who try it the benefit that it has given
tome. Youra truly,
E. M, Williamson.
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Why Be Alarmed?
Some of onr farmers seem to be a
little worried ever this i??k o? the
English cotton spinners buying np
some of our . Southland on which to
raise cheap cotton with tho hope of
>l?ivl'"z r.r, wi^k IM uu.rvuuen prices.
And now? aa The National Co Operator
says, this movement; on tho. part of
the spinners would be funny if it were
not BO ridiculous. Yeo, it is too ab
surd to even give it notice. Hasn't
rino cotton scare-crow been hoisted by
those English Spinners in Egypt,
fouth Africa and almost every other
country where there isn't snow on tho
ground 305 days iu the year?
And what was tho result? A feat
failure-just what will be over hero
after they have tried it.
We will give tue Englishmen tho
credit of knowing how to spin cottou
after wo of tho South have grown it
for them, but when it cornea to either
them or those WelBh or Bolginus rais
ing the fleecy staple, they know noth
ing more about it than a hog knows
about politics. In fact, if thoBe Welsh
and Belgians are as lazy aa some of
the emigrants who came here, they
will be too infernal lazy to koop off
tho mosquitos down there in Missis
sippi and Louisiana much less trying
to noe and plow cotton. No, those
English spinners are sharp and they
well know that with crop-diversittca
tion the Southern cotton farmer ia
just going to raise cotton to supply the
demand, and with organisation, they
are coing to stand Bhoulder to shoul
der like men and demand a profitable
price for that cotton, and seeing that
their scare-crow failed to frighten,
when so far from us, they are now go
ing to move it up a lit.1 o nearer. Bo.
brother farmer, don't be afraid. It's
the same old bunch of rage tied on a
little bit taller pole, and it moved up
to where they hope we will notice it.
Stay in the buggy and just keep
cool. There's no danger in their cot
ton mule.
W. C. Casey,
Secretary Five Forks Union.
- Every governor in the United
States will soon reeoive an invitation
from Governor Curara inn, of Iowa, re
questing them, in compliance with a
resolution passed by the general as
sembly of Iowa, to name five dele
gates eaoh to attend a convention to
be held at DOB Moines for the purpose
of devising some means of bringing
about the election of United States
oeoators by direct vote. Although
the governor has not yet definid!/ ?e
termin?d the date for this convention,
it is known that it will be called for a
day in September.
-- Miss F. E. Heid, former secre
tary of Gen. Gordon, has been arrest
ed at the instance of Mrs. E. L. Hum
phrey, in Atlanta, for stealing her
towels. Miss Reid then had Mrs.
Humphrey indicted for stealing blank
ets from her, a search having discov
ered the missing articles in their
trunks. Mrs. Humphrey kept a board
ing house, and Miss Reid was ons of
her boarders. Lawyers have been
employed, and both oases will be
pressed.
- Henry TV an, as Atlanta negro,
received 22,000 volts of eleotricity in
his hands, and whioh failed to kill
him. Taroo became maniacal frc m
to? shook, and it took twelve men to
hold him. Taroo had carelessly
placed his hsr.d cn the live part of a
snitch hs waa cleaning.
- Santo Domingo ia reported to be
on the verge of another revolution.
RECENT SLUMP IN COTTON.
Columbia, June H.-President E. D.
Smith, of tho Cotton Growers' Associa
tion, waa \a tho city yesterday, and last
night gave out Ulis interesting state
ment with regard to the recent "slump"
in tho price ot* cotton :
The recent drop in tho price of cot
ton emphasizes tbe absolute necessity
for thorough organization on the part
of tho South for the protection of tbis,
her main article of commerce and from
which abe derives tho capital upon
which her entire commercial structure
depends. It is a matter of surprise
that business nicnof tho south look upon
this movement to control the prion of
cotton os beiugoneln which their sym
pathies, perhups, are enlisted, but in
which they have no personal interest.
I write this article in the hope thut
it may pot a new light upon it and will
show to some at least how the price of
cotton in of vital interest to every one
engaged in business in the Sooth, and
how it ia absolutely impossible for the
farmer alone to control the price. No
one will deny that cotton ia the essen
tial, the currency of the South. The
amount of business in the South is de
pendent upon the volume of money ehe
receives from her cotton crop. Now,
what aro the factors under the present
system of things whioh determine tho
amount of money we are to receive
from a given crop? The banker, the
merchant, the teacher, the preacher,
all seem to look upon this ilgbt as be
ing one in which the farmer alone is
vitally interested.
Now, to illustrate the actual condi
tion of affairs, there is enacted on tho
streets every day during the cotton
season a scene which brings out accu
rately the explanation of the South's
condition, and the forces'which deter
mine the price. The farmer driveB up
on the street with a bale of cotton on
his wagon; that bale of cotton repre
sents a part of the currency of the
South, part of that which is to deter
mine the amount of money that shall
be put into osculation. Who samples,
crudes, weighs and Axes the price of
this cotton? The representative of the
organized brain and capital of the
world.
The European spinner is thoroughly
organized, the Northern spinner is or
fcanized, the Southern spinner is organ
zed, therefore, the one who samples,
weighs and prices the cotton is the
representative of v one of these organi
zations, one who knows the Intrinsio
value of the cotton, and from the very
nature of the oase it is to his interest
to get it as low as possible ; because
the difference between what he buys it
at and the prise at which he sello the
manufactured artioles is the margin of
bia profits. As said before, he is a repre
sentative of organized brain and capi
tal, he bas an unlimited credit, he rep
resents that element'which seeks to get
the cotton as cheaply as possible, and
which really, nnder the present system
of things, fixes the price of it.
New, who ison tue Sou t ho side, the
side which is to determine how much
money shall be put into circulation
through the Southern cotton crop?
The representative of Southern pov
erty and disorganization, the producer
wno has neither oapitat nor credit sud
without any organization to baok bimi
Cn tue one aide a representative of the
organized brain and capital of the
world, and on the other eldo the repre
sentativo of the South's poverty and
ilieorgauization. and between tho two
is tho destiny ot' tho South.
Tho banker, tho raerehaut and tho
business mon ol' tho South from diflor
en t places of business seo this uuenual
struggle goiiiK on from day to day,
seeing the price of cotton put down,
say four per cent per nonud, twenty
dollare on tile bah?, $20 loss to bo de
posited in our banks, 820 less to move
tho goode from the shelves of our
stores,$301essto beputintotbe brain and
character of tho children o? tho South,
$200,000,000 less than a ten million balo
orou, to develop tho resources of tho
.South; because poverty aud disorgani
zation cannot copo with wealth and or
ganization. Is it not manifestly tho
duty of the morcbant and banker and
financier of the South tojoiu with tho
f?reducers of this, tba South's mouopo
y, to so fix the price of the cotton crop
that they shall give to the world what
the world needs at a price fixed by
those who produce itt
It is idle to speak of the farmer alone
beingable to solve the economic prob
lem of tho South. Let the Southern
merchant, banker and finanoier pro
vide the ware houses in co-operation
with the farmer, help him to borrow
sufficient money to meet his present
obligations, put the cotton in this
ware house, organize this ware house
into holding companies throughout
tho South, have the farmers to give to
this holding company the power of
attorney to sell this cotton, let the
Erice be fixed below which it is not to
e sold. Let samples be taken and
placed where the buyera of the world
can have access to them, and where
these buyera may be able to place
their orders, and thus be able to dic
tate prices at which we will supply the
world. Should there be a surplus,
from every business standpoint the
South should own and carry this sur
plus, because the moment that if. pass
es into tho hands of tho consumer it
becomes a means by which he can
withdraw from the market, and be
enabled to bear the prices of the next
crop. Hence we carrying the surplue
can at all timea have a uniform price
on all that we dossil.
The Southern Cotton Association if
bending every effort now to have ware
houses built, and then to have these
ware houses merged into one genera'
company, and this general company,
with the State company to bo charter
ed under, the Haws of the different
States, and thereby become the me
dium through which all the cotter
owned by the members of the Southon.
Cotton Association shall be sold.
There ia no other plan by which th?
Booth can possible hope to convert hoi
cotton crop into a inst and adequate
return of money. We make 85 pe]
cent of all the cotton produced in tin
world. And, if the business men o
the South will but join forces with th?
producers of cotton and organise t
ware house committee and financier
and through a selling committee ii
every State market her cotton crop
then in the future we can calcul?t*
anon **aeb. and every cotton cro?
bringing to the South an adequate re
turn for this, her great monopoly
Besides this, every American shouli
feel it his duty to see that the highes
possible price for the American ra\
cotton should be obtained.
The American mills consume oui;
?imnf. one-third cf tbs American cot
ton crop; two-thirds of it is marketa
abroad. Soy thero is D 12,000,000-bal
crop made, and tho price ia 12 oenl
per pound, the amount of foreign cai
ital brought into America would bo
$ 180,000,Ov.'* At 10 cents per pound it
\ would bo $<i0d.000,000, or a loss of $80,
000,000, equivalent to Si per capita
for every man, woman aud child in
America. Should it bring 8 cents por
Eound the amount brought in would
o only $;120,000.000, or a IOBS to Amer
ica of $100,000,000. per capita for
ovory man, worman and child in Amer
ica, which would mean a lons in Amer
ican trade of from $80,000,003 to $100,
000,000 a year on export cotton alone,
while it would not in anywise injure
the manufacturing interests of Ameri
ca.
From every economic standpoint in
view of tue fact that America has a
practical monopoly of the cotton pro
duction of the world, it should anpeal
to tho business men, not of the South
alone, but of the entire country, to see
to ?K: hat means should be devised by
which the cotton might be financed
and marketed so SB to insure to the
South and to America the maximum '
price possible. Mr. Dale, of Boatos,
Mass., took thia ground before the
meeting of the epinnors and growers
of Washington and read a moat ex- A
collent article along the carno lino W
Sorely the businessmen of the South
feeling and enjoying tho last two years
of prosperity, the result of high price
cotton, will join with us now and aid
us in reduofng this proposition to a
simple praotical business basis where
we can set the price and determine the
fluctuations in values. Let no man be
discouraged on account of this slump
in the speculative world. We ean not
afford to give np the light. We are
learning our weak points and aro do
ing all within our power to strengthen
them. We must nave ware houses
that are chartered organizations in
each State. We must have a means by
which tho cotton can be concentrated,
financed and sold only at the price
fixed. This is tho problem bolero uo,
and it is one in which every Southern
mau is .interested. We must solve it.
E. D. Smith.
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Gored to Death by a Bull.
Pickens, S. C., May 31.-A gloom of
sadness was cast over the town of Pick
on B when it heard the news that their
beloved citizen, John Ferguson, who
lived near town, wau gored by a Guern
sey bull. He had just finished feeding
when the bull attacked bim and knock
ed him down and gored him io death.
His wife, Mrs, Hattie Ferguson,
hef .rd bim cry out. She was sick in
beil. but she jumped np and ran to the
piazza and by that time John Simpson,
a colored man who was working for
Mr. Ferguson, heard him scream also.
He saw the bull goring Mr. Ferguson
and he scoured a pitchfork and fought
the animal away. Earl Stephenson,
another ono of.Mr. Ferguson's hands,
who was near by, ran up and pulled
Mr. Ferguson's head from under the
barn. The animal had crushed his
skull and pushed his head under the
I barn. He was carried into the house
! and died in a few minutes. He never
spoke after he waa hurt. I
Mr. Ferguson was for many yearn a
prominent merchant of Greenville.
- The Cumberland Presbyterian
Church so longer exists as a ?ep?tate
organization. There has boen a renn*
ion with the Northern Presbyterian
Church. Such a move has been ad
vocated for some years.
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XJlSTTTIj SATURDAY, JUNK ?th. ''
1^ WW Within 13 Days.
. A'TBBBXFI? BLATTCrH-XBB ! Outfit your family Sa Wearing Apparel %t drifting Coat? To Close Out the Business the entire Stock to bo sold out rapidly-all to gc at LESS THAN1 ACTUAL COSTforrair
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Men's Boita, worth J8.50 and 09.00, Administration Salo........*., 14 85
ito's ......... ?........ 6 40
l{e&^ 6nih?t wbr^ ...........? T 95
?:;fl?^# ...IQ 40
MenVSnifeiwo^
.&&f??&*;:worth22.60^ Admii^s^ ..............v.\.?.,i$$?
Hon's Snits, WArth 25.00, Adiaimiatrfit?on 8??ok... , .v<..17 ?5
' Hen's Fine??sa Panis (worth 2.00 ox money rafurided) ^J. Salo..'. : 85
Afton's....1 39
Bring this list, a? every article will fee as advertised.
Boys' Suits^All Sizes*
?uith worth 88.50, Administration Sale........................... .$3 98
finita worth 10.00, Administration Sale .................-...... 4 89
Suits worth 25 00? Administration Sale.............. . 9 89
Boys' Extra Good, worth 3.00 up,for....................... 1 49
Boya' All Wool, latest shades and stylet, worth 4.75, for.. 2 98
Boys, our Finest Snits ia thia Sacrifice Sale all go for. 3 48
BOYS' KNEE PANTS.
^iVortb 75*c to 1.00 go for..... .?............. ... .v........... 89c
Extra Good, worth 25c and 50c, for. ? ; :. 19c
Furnishings, Shirts, Shoes,&c.
Men's best quality hoavy Working Shirts.. 39c
Men's Dress Shirts, worth 1.00. 39o
Men's Hats, the latest shapes, worth 2.00, none less than 1.50.V/ 89c
Men's Fino 35c and 50o Suspenders to go nt. I9o
Socks, worth 10c, at Administration Sale. ? 6c
Over 1,000 Keck Ties, all shades, worth from 50o to 75c, at. 19c
Men's Handkerchief*, worth 10c, go at.. 3c
400 pairs Men's Shoes, 3.00 and 3.60 values, Sale price,..1 19
A few hundred pair Men's Extra Fine Shoes to be sold at. 1 48
A few hundred pairs Men'e Extra Fine Shoes will be offered at.1 98
11 A REGULAR BARGAIN FEAST FOR THE PUBLIC j
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