Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Capital St4 JOS. SPROTT, DII FARMER'S SALVATION IN PEANUT RAISING South Carolina Produced Over 600,000 Bushels of Peanuts With Culture on Increase-Peanut Bank, Sim ilar to Virginia Institution, Reco mmended by Harris. Registered Iogs Play Stellar Role in Weevil Fight. The way of salvation for the South Carolina farmer during the eraof the boll weevil lies in the substitution of some other crop for cotton, says B. Harris, state commissioner of agricul ture, commerce and indlustries, in his annual report of the dlepartmlent's work. Chief among the crops recomn mended by Mr. Harris is peanuts which, Commisisoner Harris thinks, will satisfactorily replace cotton seed in manufacture of oil. The South Carolina mills, it is estimatedl, will needl 500.,000 tons to maintain full time operation. Live stock raising aInd varied grain "ulture are also re commendled as anti-wveev ii measures. South Caroliun, the cominmissioner says can produce any Cr01) of temperate climate andl has already made remark able records in corn production. Commissioner Harris' report fol lows in full: Jt is estimated that South Carolina this year produced 698,000 bushels of peanuts. That is quite an increase over former years and wvill still be further increased in 1920. The cotton seed oil mills, realizing that the crush of next season will be greatly reduced on account of the boll weevil cutting To abort a cold and prevent com plications, take alotabs The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain.. ed and improved. Sold onlty in sealed packages. *Price 35c Clarendon ( HE, BAI )ck, $40,000. Resour a offer tothe peopi for: Jnexcelle President WECTORS: JOS. SPROTT FRED LESESNE :own the crop, see the necessity of of $71.26 it having a substitute for cotton seed, tons of mai Three years ago the oi Imills advo- mended as :-ated very widely the planting of soy age in finis beans. This departmbnt warmly in- N1 Jorsed the idea. It is stated that the Not a sin planting of soy beans was greatly in- peanut men Lerferred with because of the lack of of our Soi proper harvesting machinery. The produced w :lepartment deplores that fact, there worth for I is no doubt but that the soy bean Yet at pre: would be better for the farmer. For supply is i while it might not produce as much oil portion of and therefore would not immediately Vest as cc become as desirable as cash getter, yet the ocean i the soy bean puts back into the soil. meal an d< while the peanut constantly takes the afford to soil and must be followed with comn- include the mercial fertilizer. It is obvious, there and commi: rore, that it is easier to get oil mnills our Southc and fertilizer makers to'interest them- it? Live selves in peanuts. Trhe soy bean is sumec here not only a remarkable soil enricher, and make but it is a great forage crop. our lands Added Millions Hushels, leads to pr The South addedl a million bushels 'mos . to the peanut crop in 1919. Alabama nut as asi leadls as a prodlucer, but her crop is nmav he in reportedl to showv a decrease of 1,- ready the 700,000 bushels this year. But the pentsi states wvest of the Mississippi, Arkan- givnut c as, Oklahoma, and Texas, .show great Jpeanumts alt mncrease, Texas alone has an increase leave's the >f 5,000,000 bushels. - .The estimated it will be s< p~rodluction by states is -.3 follows: the South Virginia, 4,795,000 busl els; Nor'th facb, it got Caolina, 5,493,000; South Carolina, tor -rn B29,000; Georgia, 9,979,000; Florida, CHEA I1 5,336,000; T1ennessee, 100,000; Ala bama, 14,708,000; Mississippi, 1 17,000, Louisiana, 81,000; Texas, 18,478,000; Dklahoma, 556,000; Arkansas, .936,: London, 300. wardls the The commissioner while in Texas cars on a sttendling thec national good roadIs COn .1hsjs vention, gathered quite a lot of infor- hsjs nation about peanuts which he intend- tion of a ad to give to the people of the state, made up n the way of talks at county fairs and companies. much gatherings, but he was prevented Ization syst :rom doing so by the severe and pro onged illness, which practically m. so successf rapacitatedl him for more than two combine ex) noths. 100,000 car: The oil mills in South Carolina need( The plni i00,000 tons of them to keel) running menufantus ill the year and are willing to pay nnfcu rood prices for tlhem at all times. TVhe quantity 1)i average price (luring the last three that of the ears for farmers' stock was overt It is stat p100 per ton, and todlay they are worth cs fcr The0 cormmisioner observes that the 30 to 40 pea armers of the tate must organize f'or ent prices. mlf protection in marketing peangts lust as they would have to do0 in magr eting cotton, tobacco or cotton senl. While, no doubt, there is great am d * mniversal interest in the welfare of t. e rarmeri, yet it is the nature of any i i lividual or enterprise, no matter ht~v sltruistic, to look out for his own i, Lrests when the farmer is being givn a little frieamdly turn. Penit mal has provedl to be a a isfactory and pronltable feed for finis, ing hoef cattle. The North Carolir~ experiment station at Edgecombe d - jA& teramined this in 1917. Since peanu enn be grown as easily in South Car lia, the value of peanut meal, the b aroduct, is very evidlent. A North Ca 'a lina farmer fed 24 cattle, made pros.t founty's Oldest and & 1K OF I Surpli -ces Over $1 .e of this County, nore than thirty d Bankix OFFICERS: T. M. MOUZON, Cashier T. M. MOUZON J. M. SPROTT t 120 (lays and gathered 75 nure. Peanut meal is recom a complement to corn sil ;hing beef cattle. gne Out of State gle pound of cotton seed or I will be shipped out of any thern states in which it is hen our farmers realize its eeding animals and plants. ;ent only a fraction of the ted here. By far the lirger it goes to the North and tton seed meal, or across n the form of cotton seed -ake. If those feeders can ay the high prices, wvhich extra freight, handling isiongi, howv much more can rn farmers afford to use tock and dairy should con all our cotton -byproducts to full yields. This way osperity. to are conlsidering the pea ibstitute inl part for cotton teresqted to know that al 3,000,000 acreage given to nearly one-tenth of that tton. Tlhe return from the ine is $60,000,000 andl this iay crop as surplus. Thus ent that peanut growing ini is no new industry. In its real start in the terri I Suffolk, Va. )TrOR CARS MAD)E IN ENGLAND) )ec. 26.--T1he first stepI to production of cheap motor arge scale ,in this country een takenl in the forma $30,000,000 amalgaimation f several manufacturing By means of the standardl em, which has been used ully in America, tile new >ects ultimatel yto turn out a year "for tile multitude. to place thle British motor ing industry on a scale ofF oduction comiparable with U~nitedl States. edl thlat tile redluctionl in) to the publit wvill be from c ent, comlpared wvith pres- W a SW AiL.M i.S ONLY COFFr- e Phone 176 mjmmm~ey a-La~a.ae- - trongest Bank ANNI is and Profits ; whom we have years, ig Servi J. M. SI ADVISORY B er Cent learance Ivory Toilet Go Cut Glass Bow: Cut Glass Suga Cut Glass Wate 50-Year Guarai leware. Solid Gold Bro< pins, Rings, Cufi save you money on Our expense is s YOUNG &~ welers and Wai Manning, S. C. t er $100,000. served Ce. 'ROTT, Asst. Cashier DARD: DAVID LEVI C. R. SPROTT Per Cent SSale! ods ts .r and Creams ! tr Sets ateed Silver >ches, Scarf Links, Etc. anything in our line. mall. Co., behmnakers, Next Door to Theatre