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Government Trop Report. Wlashington, P. C., April 7. 1917.? A summary of the April crop and live #oc*k report for the State of Soutn Carolina and for the United States, as compiled by the Bureau of Crop Estimates, (and transmitted througn the Weather Bureau), l\ S. Depart ment of Agriculture, is as iouo\%s. Wheat. State.?Condition April 1 of this year, 76 per cent of normal; ten year average condition figures for April 1, SS per cent. Jl'nited States?Condition April l kyear, 63.4 per cent: ten-year ;e April 1 condition, 82.2 pei Rye. |ondition April 1 this year, ,1; len-lWU1 89 per cent, es?Condition April j per cent; ten-year av condition. 89.6 per ceni. Hogs. s from disease paai cent; ten-year average, s.?Losses from disease jipr rent- ten-vo?r QV jer cent. Cattle. )sses from disease pa3t 5er cent; ten-year average, ?ent. Losses from exposure tr, 1.5 per cent; ten-year a.\ 1.9 per cent. Jnited States.?Losses from disease past year, 1. 94 per cent; ten-year av erage, 2.00 per cent. Losses from ex posure past year, 1.45 per cent; ten year average, 1.44 per cent. Sheep. Stafte.?(Losses from disease pasi year, 2.0 per cent; ten- year average, 2.4 per cent. Losses from exposur? past year, 2.3 per cent; ten-year av erage, 2.2 per cei^t. United States.?Losses from disease pasi year, 2.17 per cent; ten-year av erage, 2.45 per cent. Losses from ex posure past year, 3.28 per cent; teu year average, 3.06 per cent. Herses and Moles. State?Losses from disease past1 year, 2.5 per cent; ten-year average, .2.3 per cent. , United States.?Losses from disease I past year, 1.69 per cent; ten-year av erage, 1.94 per cent.* Prices. The first price given below is the average on April 1 this year, and the second, the average on Apri' 1 last; year. | State?Wheat 186 and 13^ cents per, bushel. Corn, 140 and 99 per bushel. ! Oats, 87 and 67 per bushel. Potatoes,' 994 am* 144. Hay, $19.60 an.1 $17.00 per ton. Cotton, 18.8 and 11.6 cents per pound. Eggs, 22 and 18 cents per dozen. United States.?Wheat, 180.0 ana 98.6 cerfis per bushel. Corn, 113.0 ana 70.3 cents per bushel. Oats, C2.0 and 42.0 cents per bushel. Potatoes, 235.0 and 97.6 cents. Hay, $13.05 and 11.7s per ton. Cotton, 1810 and 11.5 cents per pound. Eggs, 26.0 and 17.9 cent3 per dozen. By Way of Comment Columbia Record. | The tentative organization of a: State Board of Trade is a wise move. { The virile young business man wno! has been asked to take the head or | the organization, Z. F. Wright of New-! berry, is in the full flower of his effa-1 ciency, and there is no man in tne; State who is oeuer suueu tu matter in hand and make a success of it. "We have seen recently a nuni-l ber of undertakings of State-wide! importance which needed the sustain-i ing effort of just such a working boay | of business men. Mr. Wright is to day handling large affairs in a way that is attracting attention, and no man in the State has more of public spirit : Z'. -xr -7^ Chautauc I I G ,S FOOD COMMISSION TO MEKT GRAVE CRISIS Americair Agricultural Society (alls for Immedis^e Steps for Solution of Problem?President Stresses Important of .Nation's Commis sary. Washington, April 10.?Immediate creation of a federal food commission with power to fix prices and to supei irJc-rt Tv.orL-otin'r a 11 ri fl i ?5f V i hll t i Oil Ot ??c juai iw-uij,, uov. ? food in the United States during the war was proposed formally today by the National Agricultural society. At an "agricultural mobilization* convention held here the society adopted resolutions recommending this and other measures to meet a v.?hnrtasre. including CHI uaLtiiV/u awwu _, increased food crop acreage, an amendment of the wheat milling laws and a liberal encouragement of sheep raising. The convention was called to aid the administration in solving one 01 the most serious problems with which it is faced in the conduct of the war. Thp nrosDect of short crops is giving great concern to officials, not only charged with the responsibility of seeing that America is fed, but keen ly aware too of the fact that this country in a large measure must sup ply the other countries fighting Ger many. In a letter read to the convention President Wilson appealed to the farmer to swell his production as a patriotic war time duty. The letter read before the conven tions follows: "At the present moment it is our plain duty to take adequate steps thai not only our own people be fed out that we may if possible answer tne call for food of other nations now at war. "In this greatest of human needs I feel that the American farmer will do his part to the utmost. "By planting and increasing his nreduction in every way nossible. every farmer will perform a labor or patriotism for which he will be recog nized as a soldier of the commissary, adding his share to the food supply of our people.'* The recommendation of the agricul tural society comes close on a move by the. council of national defense forecasting appointment of a nation al food committee headed by Herbert C. Hoover, who has had charge ot ir, Rololiirri American renci v>\zin. iiA ? The convention's resolutions pro posed that a food commission, If named, handle also the production and distribution of clothing. They also recommended that agricultural colleges graduate their senior classes earlier this year than usual. A dozen speakers urged mobiliza tion of the country's food resources. James Wilson, former secretary or agriculture and president ot me Agri cultural society, spoke for soil con servation. Herbert Quick of the farm loan board said operation of the farm loan act would improve the agricultural situation. A wheat shortage, he said, would force the country to turn to corn as a substitute. The position or | the farmer, he declared, was critical despite high prices because of a la bor shortage and because of higjn prices charged for machinery and seed. Mrs. G. fWl Mathis of Alabama said the South was in a critical condition " v - A Vflo r?nt onnn?h ana mat Av&uama. ~ c._ i food on hand to feed its people 30 I days. THE HERALD AND NEWS. 0NB YEAR FOR 3i.5t>. ~~A~GOP6EOLIS PRO I Il jua Week in Ne AlSTRA-HrxaKY (ilVKS I PASSPORTS TO PENFIELI* I I London, April 7.?Passports have been placed at the disposal of the ( American embassy in Vienna, accord- I ing to a (lispatcli to the h-xcnaiifet t Telegraph company from The Hague, t quoting telegrams received there from t tlio coriirnl Tho rlisnfltPfi 5 says that Bulgaria and Turkey "have | also decided to break off relations J with the United States and that Hoi- j land will probably look after Austrian ! interests in Washington and Amen-! can interests in Vienna. No News in Washington. \Vfls]iin<rton Anril 7.?Word thai i the Austra-ttungarian foreign office ! had placed passports at the disposal of the American embassy at Yienm. had not reached the Austrian embass> here early today, according to Prince i Hohenlohe-Sc-hillingshorst, one of the | embassy attaches. Minister Panaretoff of Bulgaria said today he had received no instruction ( from his government to break rela-i, tions with the United States and de mand his passports. "I have no information that wouia lead me to believe that Bulgaria de-1 sires a break with the I'nited States,'* j j he said. "I sincerely hope that Euro- i pean reports are untrue." j i Abdul Hak Hussein Bey, charge of j j the Turkish legation, said he had ab- | i solutely no information regarding the, intentions of his government beyond; that contained in press dispatches j from abroad. It was made clear at; 1 the legation, however, that officials of j the legation would not be surprised should instructions to ask for paso-1 ports be received. IJ For Stiff Neck Apply Sloan's Liniment without rubbing io the sore leaders and the pain will soon be relieved. For rheumatic aches, neuralgia, gout, lumbago, bruises, strains, sprains and muscle stiffness, have a bottle handy. Quickly penetrates and soothes, cleaner than mussy plasters or ointments, does not stain the skin. At all druggists, 25c. 50c, and $1.00. Farmers Looking Up. Many progressive steps have been taken in South Carolina during the last $ew years to improve agriculture. W. W. Long, state demonstration j i agent, and head of the Clemson coi- j' lege extension division, said that ; 250,000 acres of land had been plant-, 1 ed to velvet beans in the lower sec- j ( tion of the State. In Barnwell coun-1 ty tne iarmers nave pmnieu uuu, 20,000 to 25,000 acres. In Orange- J burg county about 60,000 acres have been planted. This is getting away 1 from cotton in magnificent style. < DUCTION of , i GILBERT (S'SULLIVANS "h \n 1' -it jwberry M**r 8th {AIDKUS SIGHTED OFF >EtV ENGLAND Washington, April 7.?Reports of German commerce raiders off Atlantic jorts were flashed along the seaboard oday and all shipping practically was ied up. while naval patrols went out o establish the identity of mysterious ships reported near the lanes. It was the first breath of war at :he doors of -America, and it sent a hrill through the country. The first report came from the Nan ucket light vessel, which saw a strange ship passing west at 7:30 /clock this morning and promptly re )orted it to the Boston navy yard and ;ne navy department, i^esciuvci m :illas are at sea in the vicinity ana jresumablv they heard the wireless earning which swept the coast line, md set out to locale the mysterious >raft. Meanwhile shipping was warn ed not to venture ou:. One on Virginia. Soon afterward a report of a raider >f the Virginia capes came from rlamptcn Roads, where shipping also ;vas held in port while armed craft ;vent to sea to investigate. Navy officials expect many reports )f raiders while tlie seacoast is at ligh tension, and many such probably frill turn out to be unoffending ramps. Xo precautions are being )verlooked, however, .and the navai jatrol is on the alert to examine all strange ships. DETHRONE KAISER, RUSSIA'S ADVICE Petrograd. April 7 (via London).? H. Kerenskv, minister of justice, said n an interview today that if the Ger nan people would follow the Russian ^ Vi o f Vi oir omnPTOT" JAclUU JJIC dllu u^tuiuuv (.uvu v^r ? 7 'we offer the possibility of prelimi lary negotiations." This statement was embodied in an innouncement by the official news igency, which reads: 4'0n Thursday, according to news :rom Copenhagen, Dr. Edward Davlti, speaking on behalf of the majority party of the Social Democrats in the German reichstag, declared that For eign Minister Milukoff and his sup porters were Germanopholes and that consequently the Social Democrats based their hopes on M. Kerensky (Russian minister of justice) and M. TcheiJser (a Socialist leader in th*> luma). On this subject M. Kerensky made the following declaration to a party of journalists: " 'From the incomplete information supplied by the press, it is difficult to form a sound opinion. It all de p nds on knowing what are the hopes that Deputy David founds on me ana M. Tcheidse. " 'If he supposes we 'are going to oceict ir> mnidnor a seDarate Deace he would be rudely disappointed. If, on the other hand, he hopes that Ger man people are about to follow our example and dethrone their emperor, we can do no other than warmly ap plaud, for that would greatly free our hands and offer the possibility of en tering on preliminary negotiations. " 'I am convinced that the peoples who are engaged in this unexampled war will more easily come to an un derstanding and more quickly obtain satisfactory results than the monarcn who was primarily responsible for h"hi?5 ^rnpl carTiaze." Some Pacifists. A good many people have beea criticising William Jennings Bryan because of his pronounced stand as a pacifist, but all men of' intelligence know that if actual hostilities come Mr. Bryan will do his full duty, and that he will not have to be conscript ed. He will be among the first or tne volunteers. 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