Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MOTOR CAlR The knowledge of what the buyer expects has the effect of inspiring Dodge Brothers to a constant personal oversight of all manufacturing operations. Their own life-long zeal for good workmanship is sharp ened and stimulated by a realization of what the public expects from them. The entire institution is honestly permeated with the idea that quality and performance are paramount and all important. It will pay you to visit us and examine this car. The gasoline consumption is unusually low. The Mtire mileage is unusually high. Touring Car or Roadster, $835; Winter Touring Car or Roadster, $1000; Sedan or Coupe, $1265 (All prices f. o. b. Detroit) SUMTER MOTOR CO., SUMTER. S. C. For the Farmer! FAULTY SWEET POTATO STORAGE-HOUSE PLANS The Department of Agriculture Learns Southern Sweet Potato Growers Are Paying Exhorbitant Prices for Right to Use Patented Systems. Washington, D. C., July 16.-There is no mystery about building a satis factory storage house for sweet pota toes. Southern farmers who are pay ing large prices for patehted plans and equipment alleged to provide the only successful way of storing sweet potatoes, are being defrauded. Spec ialists of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture whose attention recently has been called to instances ini which farmers have paid as high as $750 for sets of plans, do not hesi tate to brand such activities as plain humbuggery. Plans of houses that inecrporate the simple principles of stor age and common sense methods of construction, and which have proved succ essful by years of careful trial, are furnished free by the Department of Agriculture to any farmner who will ask for them. .rcau.se re)orts have been made and circ 'ated in the South that stor a;e houf recommended by the De partment of Agriculture are not sat isfa.-tory, it is believed necessary, now that the time to provide adequate stor age for the coming harvest is at hatn ', to correct such statements. One man with plans to sell has said that the shrinkage of sweet potatoes stor ed in houses designed by the Govern ment specialists is from 1 to 20 oer The Beauty Secret. Ladies desire that irre sidlible charm---a good complexion. Of course they do not wish others to know a beautifier has been used so they buy a bottle of Magnolia Balm LIQUID FACE POWDER and use according to simple diredtions. Improve. ment is noticed at once. Soothin , cooling and refreshing. Heals Sunburn, stops Tan. Pin. While, Rose-Red. 75c. a' Duglss or 4y mal dlted. Sample (either color) for 2c. Stamp. Lyon Mfg. Co., 40 South Fifth St., Brooklyn. N.Y. cent, while in houses of his design there is practically no, shrinkage. The fallacy of such a c4igni, Department specialists point ou4t,lies in the fact that shrinkage is essential to good keeping of the potatoes. Sweet pota toes stored in the type of house rec ommended by the Department shrink from 8-10 per cent-in ,weight, not bulk-by reason of e'viiporation of surplus moisture. Propej curing of sweet potatoes means getting rid of surplus moisture, and the type of house which the specialists suggest accomplishes this by combining the ordinary. principles of good ventilation with common sense methods of con struction. Storage houses built ccording to plans suggested by the Department of Agriculture have been in use in every State of the South for five or six years. The Department has no knowledge of failure in any house 'built and operated strictly according to recommendations. Four years of investigation with one hundred houses under observation showed that the average loss by decay, after an av erage storage period of 124 lays, was less than 2 1-2 per cent. In deter mining this loss representatives of the Department personally graded the po tatoes in each house---a total of 228, 000 bushels. Every potato that had a decayed spot was thrown out and classed as decayed. In each case the potatoes were harvested, stored anel cared for by farmers. In the Depart ment's own storage house at Arling ton, Virginia, sweet potatoes stored in October last year and removed the latter part of June showed a loss of less than 1 per cent. Farmers intending to build storage houses should write to the Depart ment of Agriculture for Farmers' Bulletin 548, "Storing and Marketing Sweet Potatoes." This bulletin gives plans and lists of materials needed and also tells how to convert build ings such as abandoned tenant houses into storage quarters. o PLANT STOCK BEETS FOR WINTER DAIRY FEED Clemson College, S. C., July 16. During July those farmers not ex pecting to use a silo next winter should put in sufficient stock beets to feed their cows at least four months. This will require two and one-half tons per cow. A yield of ten to fifteen tons per acre may be expected on rich soil, with proper cultivation and fair seasons. Beets, like turnips, if planted on poor soils will be dis appointing from the standpoint of yield per acre. The Mammoth Long Red and the Globe are two good varieties of beets TheMammoth Long Red does not keep as well as the Globe, and should be planted for early use. Six pound. of beet seed will plant an acre. Too much cannot be said in praise of such feeds as beets, turnips, po. tatoes and silage as adjustments t( the dry feeds which are generally used in South Carolina (luring the winter. These succulent feeds not only balance the ration but increases the milk flow, and keeps the anima in a healthy condition. 0 Why not paint the farm house? Nothing looks prettier than a white house in green surroundings. Paint isn't altogether out of sight eithor. 0 STUBBLE LAND SHOULD BE HARROWE. As soon as grain is removed fron the fields, they should be harrowed to make a dust mulch to prevent undue loss of moisture, and to keel the land from baking, or crusting over. If it bakes, which it will d in hot dry weather, it will break up into clods when ployed, and be very hard to put in good shape for plant ing. Unless it is to be plowed right away, while there is a good sensor in the land, it should be harrowed with a disc harrow so that it wil break up good if it gets dry befor all can be plowed. GROWING ONION SETS. Clemson College, S. C., July 16. Onion Sets are grown from see< planted thickly on comparativel' poor land in the early spring. The: are not thinned at all no rare the fertilized, and on account of being planted so thick they produce enl, onions of very small size. These ar gathered as soon as the necks begi to wither and bind and are stored il the same way as described for matur onions. An onion set should not b more than 3-4 of an inch in diamete If large sets are planted they wi frequently run to seed the followin spring without increasing the siz of the bulb. Therefore it is ver necessary to select small sized orio sets rather than large ones for plant ing. Varieties.--The best ;arieties c onions to grow in the south for con mercial purposes are White Peai and Prize-taker. These are onion of large size, attractive appearanc 'onione may be grown in sonad sec. tions of tie South profitaly he Crystal Wax is probably' the -uost satisfaQtory variety of this tye. Write the- Extension Division, Clem son Col ege,. S. 0.' I CANNING .IN GLASS JARS. Clemson Colke e, S. C., July 16. The fact that tin cans are now quite expensive is causing man yto con sider the use of glass jars for can ning, and the question is frequently asked "Can-glass jars be usel in the' same manner as tin cans?" In an-i swer to this query, we have found that by the exercise of certain simple precautions, they can - be !used with satisfaction in all the methods of home canning. Before being used, glass jars should be toughened" that is placed in a kettle of cold water, then boiled for thirty minutes. Also, jars should always be of prac tically the same temperature as the water in' which th'y are placed. For instance, never place cold jars in hot water, or jars that have been heated, or that contain hot liquid, in cold water. Then again, glass jars should' not be exposed to cold drafts of air while hot. PREPARE FOR FALL POTATOES It is nearing time to get ready for planting fall potatoes. The farmer should therefore, begin early to get the land broken and ready so that there will be no delay when the time comes for planting. Waiting too long to break the land might cause one to miss a good season. Keep the land harrowed, and frece from weeds, and when the time comes to plant there will be no undue loss of time. By waiting too late to plow the land, it might bake, and be too hard to get in ' the proper condition. Break the land as soon as possible, and keep down the weeds and grass by using the harrow often enough to preserve a (lust mulch over the field. Growing "Frost Proof" Plants for Setting the Spring Crop. In the South, plants for setting the spring crop may be grown from seed sown in the open ground during late September and early October. Seed planted at this time should be sown in comparatively rich soil and Y4 should be sown in shallow furrows on the level, which enables soil pro tection of the plants from severe freezes by drawing sod around themn on approach of severe weather; other wise the stems may be injured. Seed lings grown under these conditions w become well established before cold weather, developing in what is so commonly called "frost-proof" plants, and may be transplanted as soon as the weather and soil conditions permit. -0 There is still time enough to uild a silo for this year's corn crop if the farmer will act quickly. If you are going to build a wooden one don't look away off for material to biuld it with. Our own longleaf pine is as good as anything you can buy reasonably, and is much cheaper than having lumber shipped two or three hundred miles. - 0 Many hogs (lie from the Ofects of heat during the summer months. If there is no natural shade in the pasture, places should be provided wvhere the hogs may get relief from the heat. A cheap and1( practical plan is to build sheds with roofs of Poles and straw, supported lby posts. Trhis wvill allowv the free circulation of air, and if the water sup~ply is near, wvill enable the hogs to pass the hot weather safely. WOOD)MEN CIRCLE FIGHT Mlre. Manchester Loses in the Pre liminary Round. Atlanta, .July 1G.-Mrs. Emma B. Manchester, supreme guard ian of the Woodmen Circle, lost the preliminary" round in the fight to curtail her 1pow e'rs being mlade in the convention here todlay, when a resolution seek ing to have counsel representing both sidles of the controversy each make fot-mnt speeches on the issues, - was (defeated by a vote of 40 to 28. 1 Mrs. Manchester's friends voted for r the resolution while the opposiition p votedl against it on the ground that p it involvedl too much expense. Te e actual fight is expectedl to come to p morrow on the adoption of the recomn a dlatioln of the law committee. The a Woodmen of the World dlelegates are -' also revising the laws of the order a section by section. It is expected provision will be made in the by-laws .for a war fund to pay the premiums I of members who arc dIrafted in the army. c There is a fight on among four y cities for the next convention, Clove a land, Atlantic City, New York, and - Richmond, which probably will be de cidled at Tuesday's session. f United States Senator Morris - Shepherd, of Texas, supreme banker -I gof the order, wired the convention a jtoday that he will be unable to be C l nresent. AT Reasonable Prices! Nothing but the very best materials go.} into our prescriptions and they are con pounded jeist. the way your physician says. RUBBER GOODS and TOILET ARTICLES and a full and complete line of STATIONERY. We have A MODERN ODA FOUNTAIN We keep aFull Line of CIGARS, TOBACCOS and 'CANDIES. BROWN'S DRUG STORE, Below Bank of Manning. Manning, S. C. you dY d yet d'ay. ,. uMake to-morrow better' by starting a Bank' account to-day." If, for no other reason than the unforeseen demands incident to human It's a duty, because you haven't the power to predict the future bi )u have power to start a Bank Account and fortify for the future esides we wanit to help worthy young men to succeed. Begin today with fe, you owe yourself a Bank Account. rhe. Bank of Manning, The Best Grades of Paints and Oils at Lowest Prices Get Our Estimates First No rnatter what you are going to paint whether it's a big Job or a srnall one-we believe we can save you rnoney. Or possibly you have a floor to wax-or wall paper to clean-or woodwori to varnish. If so, just call and see what we can do for you. We have an unusually large and fresh stocli of paints for all purposes-floor wax-floor oil furniture polish- l5alsonine-enarnel-bruehes. and supplies of all l'inds. )ICKSON's DRUG STORE Sanitary Dry Cleaning." Quality is the First consideration With Us. You've had your clothes come home smelling of gasoline, and you didn't like it. We didn't do that work. We don't do that kind. Your clothes leave our house perfectly clean ed, with no odor about them, and sanitary in every respect. Then, to.o, our prices are very reasonable. Don't discard that old soiled suit until we have looked it over. A few cents may make it worth a few dollars. Hoffman French Dry Cleaning Co,, E. W. IdOWLAD Prp.