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FOR SOUTHERN FARMERS. Ax Effort to Help the Farmers of the Country Especially Those of the South. Washington. February 20-Repre sentative Lever is receiving valuable assistance from the farmers of South Carolina and contiguous States in his' effort to promote the interests of dairy farming in the South. The committee on agriculture, of which Mr. Lever is a valuable and aetive member, is daily at work fram ing the agricultural appropriation bill for the approaching fiscal year. It is Mr. Lever's hope and expectation to obiain legislation during the present: session, which will enable the Govern nent to lend a helping hand to the 1airymen of the South and those anx-, ious to engage in that business. Mr. Lever asked for but a small appropria tion for the -establishment of a station it which the latest improvements in dairy farming and the diversification i farming may be practically demon 9trated. Commissioner Waston, of Soutb Carolina, has added his endorsement to Mr. Lever's bill in the following -letters: .Columbia, S. C., February 12, 1906. Hon. A. F. Lever, House of Repre sentatives, Washington, D. C.-Deari Sir: I have just read a copy of your bill "to furth,er promote the dairy in-, dustry of the United States,' and I hist6n not only to inform you of the department's most earnest endor-' sement' of this mdasure, but to ex-! press the sincere hope that it will be inmediately enacted. When I con-: sider the vast opportunities that the farmers not alone in this State, ivhich, as you know, is ideal for the fullest development ,of dairying in all its kranches, but throughout the Union, save in a few sections, are letting slip by them simply for- lack of a little intelligent direction, I feel' that the measure is one of supreme importance to the-nation. Certainly it looks to providing information - that the ,South and particularly' South Carolinia is most sadly needing. This depart'ment has, been doing all in its power to: promote this industry and has 'met with considerable success in the last: year, many new dhiries and some ele yen small cheese facti>ries having been started, but in each and all of theni is wanting intelligent direction and in-. struction. Frequently the small ehee *se manufacturer becomes dishearten ed and wishes to abandon his experi ment simply l6ecause of some slight defect that could be remedied in five minutes by an expert. When the val ue of this industry in, dollars and .eents, not only in itself, but in the matter of bringing up agricultural lands, is taken into consideration, it aannot but be seen that the appro priation carried in your bill will be; worth many thou;sands of dllars to! the agricultural wealth of our com mon country. -I would take the liberty of urging you to push your bill with all of your. vigor and, I sincerelv trust that it will be passed without opposition as it cer tainly should be. If I can be of any ,.service- in appearing before the com mittee and giving light upon the con-; ditions and needs in this State, I" trust that you will not hesitate ,to Scall upon me, for I feel such a deep interest in the development of the *dairy industry in the South that I am most willing to do anything .within my' power to further the cause. Very 'truly yours, , E. J. Watson, Commissioner.: Columbia, S. C., February 12, 1906.: Hon. A. F. Lever, House of Repre sentatives, Washington, D). C.-Dear Sir. Noting your reqnest through Mr. Herbert, I am sending you the letter of ,endorsement which I had iritended to send you voluntarily as soon as I heard of your bill. I regret that we have no statistics as to the amount of butter brought into tlie State annually, and it will be impossible to get these figures, for the "importations'' come from many: sources and through many channels. I can tell you, however, that the Colum 'bia distributing plant of the Armours sells in Columbia annually 23,000 pounds of butter at from 25 to 30 eents a pound anid about 5,000 pounds! of cheese. Thi; concern has another .plard -.a Chadkson:a d seve:.l at bordar p):nts. ThN is accurate and will give you a fair basis upon whichi to calculate the sales of Swift, Cud aby and others. -The eleven cheese factories we now have make an ex sellent duet, but every now and ~they have serious troubles that would be trifles to experts. These experiences of the pioneers deter oth ers from going into cheese manufact urmg. On January 1, 1905, South Carolina had only 109,704 milch cows on her: farms, these cows being worth $2,-~ 703,107. On June 1, 1900, on 154, 913 +arsthere were 122,857 cows! and 81,041 reported dairy cows upon them. At the same time we had in all South Carolina only 422 dairy farms owning 3,827 dairy cows. OC coarse, there are more now, but the increase has not been a noteworthy one, and the showing is a pitiful one. In 1889 the total value of all the dairy products in South Carolina (on all farms) was $3,232,725, of which $2,890,342 was consumed on farms. The butter production was only S,150, 437 pounds, of which only 1,103,637 pounds were sold; out of the 44,031, 52 gallons of milk only 1,186,045, gallons were sold; 1,081 pounds of cheese were produced and only 800 pounds sQld. You will thus see that we have prac tically no dairy industry unless you term the, raising of milk and butter on farms for farm consumption an in dustry, and I certainly do not con sider it such. There are not half a dozen real dairies and dairy farms in the State-I mean modern, up-to-date establishmen.ts. The people know scarcely anything of the dairy indus try as such, and are letting run to wasu what is a fine opportunity to benefit the country at large, in the light of the splendid conditions ex-. isting here for the development of the industry. Very truly yours, E. J. Watson, Commissioner. LAUGHING AT THE OBSERVER. Mrs. Virginia D. Young Pokes Fun at the Newberry Editor. , Over the Shoulders of an Alleged "Young Reporter." Fairfax Enterprise. Newberry Qbserver-One of Col. Wallace's young reporters slipped in while our friend was out in the coun try attending somebody's golden wed ding and got in a mighty funny edito rial on the great woman leader, "Su san B. Anthony.'" It was all the fun nier because he took up the sacred space devoted to the serious and in-. stiuctive fulminitions of the great ed itor himself in the Observer. 'Thie young reporter was not well p on his general reading, so he flip-. pantly declared that all that had been accomlished in the fifty years since Miss Anthony was young "had been the extension of suffrage to women in two States and in few other States they can vote for a school trustee. 'The fact- is women have the sarae political rights possessed by men in the four great States of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, and some form of suffrage in twenty-two States: of the Union. So he was "fussXX' with his figures-2 where he should have writ.ten 4 and 'few' for 22. And the young man's assumption that the "women don't want the bal lot because they haven't 'got it,"'is as puerile as to suppose that they take a second place, or better say a tentif rate place, in any function because they want to. No, Mr. Reporter, women are not any more wanting to be "subordi nate,"' and "'ruled'' and "'treated like servents." They hate and resent the tyranny of unequal rights, exer cised by husbands, sons or brothers (whether they say so or nbt.) Bit this poor young man pokes fun~ at Miss Anthony about -not b)emg married! If he would run away from the Observer office and travel he would find that the greatest women in the world to-day are not married,. and even in South Carolina they are not "setting caps" at men any more, just working out their own salvation~ without a tremor. What a pity this young man and Mr. Zach McGhee mightn't both have been at the' Franklin Square Baptist Church, in Baltimore, on last Thursday night when there was a great crowd of men and women, presidents from such col-' leges as Johns Hopkins, Wellesley, Vassar, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr and others, who had traveled from theirs various instititions to voice what has been accomplished for the higher: education of women by Miss ISusan B. Anthony and other suffragists. It is an interesting fact that as a young teacher, Miss Anthony encoun tered as much persecution in her ef forts to open the doors of colleges to women as in her efforts to secure them ballots. Then the young Observer gentle-' man winds up by intimating that all' women who want to vote have "short hair," and all men who want them to vote have "long hair." Now, nature is not a fool in her: discriminations, and women who have brains are just as apt to have good heads of hair as anybody. It is no ticable, however, that men who burn! hair on the tops of their heads, and this falling out of the hair is often caused by the heat of the lamps they ead by, or else by the strong flow of blood to those brain cells which are active in the making of thought. But thseare t.he men who champion the suffrage reform, and they abound most in the West, but there are many in the East, and I believe we have a good-sized army of them in South Carolina. V. ). Y. Mr. Richards and the Morgan Bill. Having published the former re port of the free conference on the Morgan bill, it is proper to print the additional explanation from the Co lumbia correspondent of the News and Courier: In some way a slip got into the re Port of the statements regarding the free conference on the now famous M>rtfan l)Il. Mr. Sanders stated that Mr. J. G. Richards, Jr., who was a member of the free conference com mittee, on the part of the house, was not present at the meeting of the cora mittee at the time mention was made I)y Mr. Efird regarding a license sys ten for Charleston. He went on to av that Mr. Richards was not in the room at the time, but that he was at ending a meeting of the committee of ree conference on the general appro priation bill. Mr. Sanders plainly ind unequivocally explained that Mr. Richards knew nothing whatever: bout the talk or the suggested over tures, and that the whole incident was >pened and closed without- knowledge' >f Mr. Richards. Mr. Richards plainly stated that.he knew nothing about the- matter and rould never have consented to such advances -had he been present. Mr. Richard's position has always been pAain, and it is altogether out of the -uestion for anyone to suggest that ie would have consented to any com )romise on the lines indicated. The fiction list of the Woman's [ome Companion for March contains a delightful old Irish legend by Sea mas MacManus, "Donal O'Donnell's Standing Army," together with such livelv modern tales as "Affairs of State., by Burton E. Stevenson; 'Alcibiades." by E. Nesbit; "The Mountains of Peace." by Julia Truitt Bishop; "Mr. McCoggin-Coluntry Tourist,"' by Laura L. Hinkley, and anotheiw of Elliott Flower's "'Barney an Norahi" .series. The magazine contains three timely articles-on gar dening, four fashion articles by Gracer Margaret Gould: Amna S. Richardson writes o5 "'Iudergartening;"' Fan nie Meritt Farmer of '"All Kinds of n Breads and How to Make Them," and Helen Marvin of " Crocheting." lien rv Harrison Lewis tells of Alie is Ioosevelt' Scoulrtshlip and. marri'ge. sU Samuel Howe tells how to build "'Aa Cement Rough-Cast House,'' and 8 Martha Coob Sanford how to cele- i brate "St. Patrick's Day in the Even- 14 ing." Published by the Crowell Pub lishing Company, Springfield, Ohio; one dollar a year' ten cents a copy. - Joining the Hunt. Woman 's Home' Companion for March. Mrs. Impecunious--" Here 's a man suing for divorce because his wife goes through his pockets. What would you do, Jolln, dear, if you woke up to night and'"found me at your pock ets?"' Mr. Imnpecunious-"Get up) and help you look." His Apology. Woman's Home Companion for March. "I'd like to take you home to din ner, old chap," said Mr. Yon.ighus band, "but this is one of the de'ys my wife and the, hired girl go to cooking: school." Johnny (after first day at school) A Little Learning. Woman 's H~ome Companion for March. -"I learned something today, mamn- is Mamma (much interested)-'"What was it'?" SJohnny-" I learned to say 'Yes, ma'am' and 'No ma am Mamma-'"You did?". Johnny-" Yep." A Definition. Woman's' Home Companion for March. Tom-'"What do you understand to - be meant by the word 'ennui?'" A Ethel-" It means that one does nothing and is too tired to stop." Reflections of a Bachlor. C< Its pretty nice the way a girl's lips C< ean look so red and warm and feel so cool and fresh. g A man can be hated and awful popu- p ar with his relatives at the, same time C if he has money enough. 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