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Som x x sNWER,SUHCAOIA RDY UUT2,11 .TC EE,$.0 E EMONSTRATION WORK FOR NEWBERRY FARMERS 'WEDNESDAY'S VISIT FOLLOWED BY COUNTY TOUR LATER. State Commissioner Watson Accom panied by Hon. Bradford Knapp And Other Government Experts. The bringing of the farmers of South Carolina into personal contact, on their own farms, with those who have been detailed by the United Stat les government to bring to them scien tific methods of farm improvement, -with a view to increasing the average yield of corn in South Carolina from 18 bushels to 100 bushels per acre, and the avefage yield of cotton from two fifths of a bale to three bales per -acre; with the view of promoting the -live stock industry and as a direct re -sult increasing the fertility and the rprductiveness of the soil' with a 'view of teaching the great results to 7be achieved from intensified and diver 1sified farming, and the raising at home of 'the necessities of life, all resulting -in making rural life more comfortable d more attractive and building up he rural communities, which are the ack-bone of the country-this is the 'm of the automobile tours of the tate which have been. arranged by 'ssioner of Agriculture E. J. tson, as announced by him and the er speakers at the meeting held in ewberry on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting for Newberry had been cheduled 'for 12.30 o'clock, but the arty was delayed by heavy rains be ween Newberry and Columbia, and d not reach Newberry until later uring the afternoon. The meeting as held in the court house beginning t'about 3.30. o'clock, and while it was ot largely attended, as it probably culd have been had it not been for he rains and the delay, it was of in rest and value to the county, and hen the car returns to Newberry for trips to the individual farms it will eive an eager welcome. Personnel of the Party. In the party in Newberry on Wed sday, in the "Oakland 40" touring r recently purchased by the depart nt, was 'Commissioner E. J. Wat n; Bradford Knapp, special agent in arge of the government demonstra on work In the United States; A. G. mnith, special agent office of farm anagement of the United States bu au of plant industry; Ira W. Wil ams, State agent farm demonstration ork, and accompanying the party on e Newberry trip was J. E. Shealy, f upper Lexington county, county gent of the farm demonstration work. Mr. A. G. Smith's Talk. The address of Mr. A. G. Smith was evoted to winter cover crops and live tock. He said Mr. Welch Wilbur, of' Tewherry county, knew more about etch than any other man in South arolina. It will be recalled that Mr. *ilhair hi s had an ideal field of vetch his year. He said the hay and corn ror.s WEre off, over the country, and here was no chance for the price to o down, and the people wno were de en'ing solely on cotton were going o be in bad shape. He urged the ive stock industry in this section. He elieved the best proposition this cction had now was the live stock in ,but it could not be the success ght to be until more crops were n at home. He took up legumi winter cover crops-burr clover. son clover, red clover and vetch, t saying he believed the best results in this county, as a rule, could be ach ieved with vetch, although there coula be some success with crimson clover On specially adapted land. He said he believed Mr. J'ohnstone had the best 'urr clover in the Stame, &nC he didn't know he had ever seen but one other as good, and that was in Darlington, Ala. He urged the use 'here of hairy vetc'h instead of Oregon vetch, though the seed of the latter was considerably cheaper. September was as good month as could be chosen for sowing hairy vetch, and he said vetch ought not to be sown here without inocula tion of the soil-taking the soil from some field where vetch had been grown and mixing it with the soil On the field where it was to be planted--and the sunlight in transfrring it from c one field to another. When planting t on the same field where it had been ii successfully. grown it would not be p necessary to inoculate. He said the v people here ought to get one to three c tons to the acre-and at thirty dol- b lars a ton, it could readily be seen v how good a proposition it was. He fi gave the methods of fertilizing and v preparing the land. n State Commissioneri E. J. Watson. c State Commissioner of Agriculture E. J. Watson said he believed the cam paign now on, in company of Mr. Knapp, would be of vast benefit to the State in that, in addition to the direct immediate benefit to the farmers, Mr. s Knapp would get at first hand a bet- t ter knowledge of conditions here t which would enable him to direct his I work from Washingte.g so as to be of t ,more benefit to the State in the future. i He referred to a meeting held by his t party at Irmo on Wednesday morning, n saying it was the most significant ag- i ricultural meeting he had attended n this year. A hand primary was taken, h he said, and it was learned that there u was not a single man present buying 3 a pound of Western meat, or a bale of b Western hay, or using meal other than a from corn grown on their own lands e and ground in their own communities, 'I or a sack of the horribly adulterated c bleached flour on the market-but p they were all raising their own wheat c and grinding it at their own commun- t ity mills. Last year, he said, the cot- e ton crop of the State amounted to $98,- D 000,000-the greatest in money value e in the history of the State, and yet t there were brought into the State h mules and horses and flour and meal e -poisoned meal-and milk products, t so-called, and butter and cheese, and tj God only knew what all, and even ( canned -blackberries with a Baltimore t] label on them, taken from this coun ty and this State and brought back', canned, the people paying for the tin I e and the canning and' the wholesalers' C and retallers' commission and profits .n -this stuff which ought to have beea V raised at home and enough of it put c up at home for home supplies-tak ing every dollar of the money re- h ceived for the cotton crop, with the ex- s ception of about $8,000,000,. to be di vided among a million and a quarter a of agricultural population, without b taking into account the business in- I tat ests. All these things which were f [rought from the North and East an~d s West, .he said, could~ be raised hee fa cheaper. A few years ago, he said, a this State had realized conditions, and t] had determined to go ahead and apply n sound business principles and doc- r trines to a scheme for the rehabilitat- p tion of agriculture. The late lamented c Dr. Knapp had just started his gor- t emnent movement in Texas, anid h when Dr. Knapp was in this State, e Mr. Watson said he had begged this a distinguished benefactor to put his t farm demonstration work in South l: Carolina, it having never been tried at h that time on the South Atlantic coast. t He had lived to hear Dr. Knapp say il before his death that he hoped to live o a few years longer, long enough to S make South Carolina an object lesson. b The work had first taken up corn as s5 the point of least resistance, and the a yied of corn had been increased from V seventeen and one-half million dolla!'s to nearly fifty million dollars, and that a was to a large extent, where the pros- il prity of the State was coming fromn. a The whole value of the agricultural products of the State ten years ago, was $51,000,000, and had since then been insreased to over $140,000,000 and I since 1906 over $66,000,000 of that had been added, and last year the maximum progress was shown when 'l South Carolina increased the value of I' her agricultural products by $31,000,- .A 000, or over 23 per cent., and sent I herself climbing up the ladder from I twenty-first position to thirteenth po- C sition in one year's time. He urged n the live stock industry and the raising t at home of the things we eat at home. a Instead of buying $21,000,000 worth of fertilizers a year, and lessening the a native fertility of the soil, we ought to t be -saving the money and increasing S the native productiveness of the soil by legumiinous crops, deep ploughing a and the fostering of the live stock in- r dustry. Commissioner Watson expressed d himself as highly gratified with the 1: aipaign, and said when the car re irned to this county for visits to the idividual farms it would ve accom anied by Local Agent Duncan and -ould stay here as long as Mr. Dun an thought there was ary problem to e solved for any farmer. It would isit only farms from tive to twenty ve miles from a railway, to reach the ast majority of the farmers -who had ot been reached by the various agri ultural trains and other methods rhich had been in vogue, and to carry ae work to the homes and to the par cular soil of the individual farmers. Mr. Bradford Knapp. Mr. Bradford Knapp expressed him elf as greatly pleased with his visit ) South Carolina, and congratulated 2e State upon what he said he be eved was a splendid agricultural fu ire. He referred to the Irmo meet ig and to the interest which had been alken by the people at all the stops iade by the party, as a most healthy idication. Farming, he said, was as iuch a busin'ess proposition as bank ig, the mercantile business, or man facturing.- In South Carolina, as well s in many nther Southern States, it ad long been appreciated that the verage farmer did not find at the nid of the year that he had a balance. 'he troul le that had led to the de rease, or t.e small increase of rural opnlation, in comparison with the in rease,of city population, consisted In :ree things; first, there hasn't been arning capacity enough on the part f the man on the farm; second, what arning capacity he did have was at )o great and too arduous labor; third e didn't have the social, religious and ducational advantages of the man in >wn. In -regard to the first proposi on the census of ten years ago show d the, averag*e earning of a man on le farm was only $127 per annum, nd that man could hardly be blamed he wouldn't dig down and pay tax s to build better roads, or schools or hurches. He gave a history of the lovement in his department for a bet r return for labor, more easily ac amplished, and he described in an iteresting way the methods which ad been pursued. He gave the es ential matters in which his depart lent was trying to Improve conditions nd he put ahead of all- of them the usiness proposition of growing at ome the things necessary for the Emily and for the feed, of the live tock. Diversified and intensified arming, the rais-ing of home supplies nd the building up of the fertility of ae soil were the three great things ecessary in this section, he said. He eferred to the Lact that the average roduction of corn per acre was in reasing more rapidly in the S'outh aan in any other section today, and e expressed himself as greatly pleas d at the prospects of the South along 11 agricultural 'lines. He regretted aat he could not stay in South Caro na as long as he liked, but he said e had 600 demonstration agents in 1e South, only thirty of whom were i this State-which showed how much f his time would be taken up in other tates. He said he expected the num er of demonstrators in the South Don to be increased as a result of dditional appropriations for the 'estern Southern States. The party on its return to Columbia n Wednesday afternoon held a meet ig in Prosperity, along the same lines s the Newberry meeting. S[IGNS WITH THREE PENS. 'aft Satisfies Relic Hunters in Ap proving Statehood BiH. Washington, August 21.-President 'aft today signed the joint resolution ~r the admission of New Mexico and ~rizona into the Union at 3.08 p. m. 'here was but one resolution, so the resident sied three different pens in rder that ome of the relic hunters Tlight be satisfied. When the resolu ion was laid on his desk he looked up t the crowd around him and said: "Has anybody read this?" Nobody nawered and to make certain of it, he president read the resolution him elf. "Well, gentlemen, it's done," he said, s be2put the last stroke on the parch rient. The resolution signed by the presi ent provides that Arizona shall elim aate the judiciary recall clause in its ntitutirm. WHITMIRE'S ACTIVITY BUSINESS AND SOCIAl A DELIGHTFUL AFFAIR AT HOI - OF MISS LENA YOUNG. Handsome New Store Being Built b: Mr. A. J. Holt.-Personal Men - ton of Many People. Whitmire, Aug. 24.-Misses France; Jeter and Myrtle Duckett attended thi picnic at Betheden last week. The: .spent the night following at the pret ty home of Mrs. Fannie Cofield, an enjoyed the party given in their hon or. They returned home next day. Misses Myrtle Suber and Berth, McCarley had a delightful time las week, visiting Misses Sarah and Wil lie Mae uShannon at their handsom country home. Mrs. B. F. Morrow, of La GrangE Ga., was here .last week looking afte her business interests. It is under stood that she leased the Morrow hote to Mr. John M. Finney for five years. Mr. H. V. Taylor, of Clinton, wa in town last week. Mr. S. A. Jete has charge of H. V. Taylor's furnitur store here. Mr. Robert Duckett spent last wee] with relatives at Denmark. Mre Duckett and the little girl returnei home with him. Mr. P. M. Fant, of Newberry, is ii town. He is inspecting the books a the Whitmire Drug store and also act ing as a life insurance agent. Misses Susie Owebs and Ethel Day idson, of Clinton, are visiting M1s Lena Young. Miss Young gave a party in thel honor at her home .in North Mai street Monday ovening. The part; was one of the pleasantest given i Whitmire this season. Each youni person represented a fish' Some o the represntations were fine. Each on-e was furnished a card an pencil and guessed at the fish repre sented. Miss Frances Rice recived th prize, which was a box of sea-foa: candy. Dr. R. G. Plackburn received a priz too, for telling the biggest fish tale. The young men then went fishing They baited their hooks with' all-da suckers and caught the girls from be hind a curtain. Delightful refreshments of ici cream and cake Wvere served. The following young people wer< present: Messrs. Jnor. Miller, Henr: Miller, Win. Scott, Tom Duncan, ToJ Scott, Elmore Suber, J. D. Willing ham, C. H. Rice, J. W. Gary, Dr. P. B Hilton, Sam Young, Broaddus Scott G.. H. Andrews, F. H. Shealy, Orv@ Suber, T. J. Abrams, H. W. Tidmarsb Dr. R. G. Blackburn, George Young Tom Young, P. M. Fant, George Cope land, and Misses Bertha McCarley Frances Rice, Myrtle Suber, Leni Young, Frances Jeter, Kate McClana han, Mattie Duncan, Sarah Scott, Myr te Duckett, Ethel Davidson, Sallie Belle Dillard, Kate Hargrove, Mar: Johnson, Willie Duckett, Susie Ow Miss Frances Rice, after a pleasan vacaton with the home folks at Coro naca and a visit to relatives in Spar tanburg, is again at her post of duty. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Coleman an< children, traveling in their fine tour ing car, left us Saturday. They wil vst different towns of interest .in up per South Carolina and in the mnoun tains of North Carolina. Mr. J. M. Major spent the week-en' at home. Master Ernest Young, who has beel spending the summer with his sistet Mrs. Nunnamaker, near Columbia, ha returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Nunnamaker ar spending some time with hbr parents Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Young. Miss Corrie McCarley has gone t< Atlanta to select and buy the fall miu linery for the C. H. Cooper company. Mrs. Jas. Tidmarsh spent last wee: with relatives in Columbia and a Blairs. Mr. Tidmarsh went over t< Blairs Sabbath morning and they re turned yesterday. Miss Mabel McCarley is visiting he uncle, Mr. Brice McCarley, at Jalapa. Mrs. Elizabeth Douglass and child ren are te.king a rest at the home C her mother at Peak. Mrs. JTno R. Roseboro and childrer Rober+ and Chrisnen, na spending th week with Mr. and 'irs. ~en riauy, near Maybinton. Mr. A. J. Holt is building a hand some new store adjoining his store. He expects to have a real up-to-date shoe store. Miss Reba Nance is visiting relatives at Maybinton. Mr. S. H. Bevill spent his vacation in Asheville, N, C. Mr. D. H. Shannon and family have moved to Chester. Mrs. Irene Owens (who was Miss Irene Hargrove) and four children, of Ridgeville, are visiting her many rel atives in Mollohon. Mr. Duck Ray, of Woodruff, is spending a while with his sister, Mrs. Wm. Duckett. Nita. Maybinton News. Maybinton, Aug. 22.-Mrs. r 'd Moore, of Columbia, Is visiting rela tives. . Miss Trent Keitt, of Pomaria, is the attractive guest of Miss Mary Hardy. Miss Hattie Roebuck, of Gainesville, 5 Fla., is visiting Mrs. Jas. Eison. r Misses Eugenia, Helen and Eliza beth Hentz, of Pomaria, spent a few days last week with the Misses Whit C ney. Mr. Haywood Hardy has returned to I his home in Spartanburg, after a week's visit to his father, Capt. W. D. 1 Hardy. t Mrs. E. H. Frost and little son have - eturned to Columbia, after a few days' visit to relatives and friends. We hear -that wedding bells will soon ring in this section of the county. Miss Reba Nance, of Whitmire, is visiting Mrs. Emma Thomas. r Mr. Joe Keitt, Jr., and sister, Miss Anna Coe Keitt, of Pomaria, visited at the home of Capt. W. D. Hardy a few days ago. A delightful dance was given at the I home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Richards - last Friday evening in honor of Miss Trent Keitt. Those present were: Misses Eugenia, Helen and Elizabeth Hentz, Annie Folk, Trent Keitt; Messrs. Jason and Roland Ringer, of Pomaria; Misses Edith Clayton, Edna Tebeau, Missesrs. Judge Shelton, Will' and Grady Wright, of Shelton; Misses Daisy and Lula Besse Whitney, Har riet Rutherford, Helen and Mary Hardy, Kate and Wininie Henderson, Messrs. Fred. Whitney, Fitzgerald Rutherford, Hugh and William Hen derson, Lyles and Jim Ruff Thomas, Frank Hardy, Arthur Maybin, Charles Henry Richards, all of Maybinton, and Allen Nance, of: Whitmire. Killings by Automobiles. Baltimore, Aug. 22.-In a triplle col lision of automobiles F. Holmes Hack, Jr., a society man, was killed. Six others were injured, including J. V. Hack, of Winchester, Viaginia. -Elgin, 112.. Aug. 22.-Caught beneath Sthe wreck o.f a big racing automobile Son the Elgin speedway, W. H. Ireland, driver of the car, was probably killed and his mechanician was severely cut, Sand bruised. The big racing machine was apparently under perfect control -of 'Driver Ireland when it deviatei from its route to permit another racer' Ito pass. . Elgin, Aug. 21.-Ralp R. Ireland, a well known driver of racing automo -bile, was killed, and his mechanician, Frank O'Brien, was seriously injured Stoday on the Elgin road race course. The acudei4nt occurred during offi Scial practice for the automobile races n ext Friday and Saturday. Ireland Swas pounding oi r the road at a 75 mile an hou.r clip, when near Mc Queen's turn, his machine -burst a ,tire and turned turtle. Ireland and O'Bri'en were taken from >beneath the wreckage of their car by - other drivers and driven to a hospital. Ireland did not regain consciousnes's. : He died three hours after the smash i. up. Physicians say that O'Brien will >recover. Communion Service at Pomaria. The Lutheran church in Pomarla has been completed and furnished. On -the fourth Sunday afternoon in Au fgust will be held the first regular sier vice, at which time crament of ~he l'sP Siinner wil b dinister SAY THE CONGRESSMEN SOUTHERN MEMBERS HELD A CONFERENCE. Committee Which Was Then Appoint ed Reports, Urging Banks to Unite Against the Bears. Washington, Aug. 13.--"Hold cotton for 13 cents" is the advice to be for mailly'given -to farmers' organizations, by a committee consisting of Senators Williams of Mississippi and Owen of Oklahoma and Representative Burle son of Texas, representing a confer ence of senators and representatives from seven cotton-growing States. A committee will urge the State banking associations to cooperate against "the bearish movement of the speculators." What was referred to generally as the "threatening condition of the cot ton market" was discussed at meet ings today and last night. 'Among the participants were Senators Williama and Owens, Representatives Under wood of Alabama, Democratic leader of the house; Heflin of Alabama, Brantley and Hughes of Georgia, Bur-' leson and Bealle of Texas, Garrett of Tennessee, Humphreys of Mississippi and Small of North Carolina. A num ber of them are large cotton plantes. The committee issued a statenent, which reads: "It s.eems to be the opinion Of all that there was a preconcerted effort being made, principally through the instrumentality of the speculative element of the New York cotton ex change to break down the. price of cotton. It was the opinion of all that the present statistical condition of cot ton did- not justify the lowness of present quotations and that the e mate of 15,000,000 bales was unjusti fed by any facts upon which a pre diction could be sanely based. And' moreover, even if, a 15,000,000 bale crop were in sight,. the world's sup plies still probably would fall short of the world's demand for cotton, tQ the extent of more' than 1,000,000. bales, because of the erhaustion of the recent visible supply of carried over spot cotton. In other words, with a 15,000,00)0 American crop the world's crop for 1911 would be~ 25 000,000, with 35,000,000 spindles cre ating a demand for 26,00eC90. This statement is based on latest advices ~ from Egypt, India and other cottou producing countries." The statement refers to the appoint mnt of the committee to write, in the name of those present a letter to the president of the Farmers' union and to other* cotton farmers' organizations, asking them to advise -their local un ions and other subordinate bodies to advise the farmers generallY to hold cotton for 1S'cents, and to continue to demand that pric e, "until by a conven tion or agreement, arrived at in some way, a different one shall be suggest The conference expressed the view that 13 cents was seemingly less than that justified by the existing statisti cal coditionl. "This committee," the tatement reads, "was also requested to communicate in some way with the presidents of the several State bank ing associations in the cotton States, sking them to throw as far as possi ble their moral and financial support ehind the effort to counteract the bearish movement of the speculators, with the view of obtaining a fair price for the farmers' cotton. "Information was given at the in formal conference that assurances would be given to President Barrett or to Southern banks that ample funds from banks outside of the South could be had, through the instrumentality of Southe4n financial institutions, to be lent, at the rate of 6 per cent per an num, to those -who did not wish to dispose of their cotton at a sacrinice, upon cotton ' warehouse certificates. This committee subsequently met in the office of Senator Williams of- Mis sisippi and concluded that the best way to carry out the Ideas suggested and agreed upon was to give this statement to the Associated Priess. (Signed) Robert S. Owen, John Sharp Williamsr A. S. Burleson.'"