Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CROP REPORTS AID FARMERS IN GETTING BETTER PRICES Also Help Banks and Railway to Plan for Financing and Hauling the Qxroos--Periodic Publication of Estimates Acts as Check on Spec ulation. Now and then the question is ask ed, "What benqflt does the farmer re ceive from the Government crop re ports ?" Also, "Do they not play into the hands of the speculators?" Here are a few facts that may help to clear up doubts as to the immense value of the crop estimating work done by the United States Department of Agri culture. 1 Farmers are benefited directly and indirectly. Because the reports cover crop and live stock conditions, present and prospective supply, for all States, and because they are unbiased, dis interested, and as nearly accurate as it is practicable to make them, farm ers can use the information they con tain as a guide to planting and main keting; that is, by observing whether the indicated supply is or will be re latively large or small as compared with previous years the farmer can decide intelligently whether to in crease or'decrease the acreage in a particular crop, and whether to sell hit harvested crop, immediately or hold for a probable advance in price at a later (late. Hundreds of farm ers have written the department that they have profited from a few hund red to several thousand dollars in a Wanted-= 200 to 500 acres. 5 cultivation. Located ne on public roads. B. C. FLORENCE. We Are Heat 'Nitrate o in quantities frc upwards. We he the past ten da age of this mate prices have adv past week it is s pared with oth Get our prices I MANNING Portable Systems (Pats to question of s out of sight below will take care of * effectivo as a cont The type we re ning water. Usir n fully modern bai The cost is mod~c The Sanisen mot hoalth authoritian. It Nochomicais- no< booklet describig SL roquoz t. lInquirios nt (.M ado by Cemn,t Pr 0thoused wTp MaHQ single season by regulating their plantings.and marketings in this way, and many farmers state they have ob tained top prices year after year by studying the crop reports. Every far mer could and should do the same. Indirect Benefits Many Indirectly the monthly crop reports benefit farmers in many ways. For instance, all banking institutions study the Government estimates "of crqp acreages and prospects and the live-stock estimates as a guide to the amount of funds that will be required, ,and which they will be called upon to advance for financing farmers through the crop season, as well as the move ment of crops after harvest. Rail roads use the crop reports as a guide in arranging to supply cars when and where needed for moving crops and live stock, so far as cars are available for that purpose. Manufacturers, merchants, dealers, and business men are all interested in the crop report because it enables them to plan their operations far enough in advance so that the machinery, farm equipment, and supplies whih farmers 1ill re quire can be supplied vhen and where needed, thereby avoiding' costly and annoying delays; and to the extent that business men avoid losses they can afford to sell at reduced prices, which benefits farmers as well as other customers. Crop reports are of fundamental importance to all marketing and dis tributing agencies, and to the extent that the risk involved in buying farm products and carrying them in stor age until needed is reduced, legitimate *-F ARM!I 0 per cent or more under ar good schools, churches, FISKE, SOUTH CAROLINA. lquarters for f Soda m ten tons and ve sold during ys a large ton rial, and while inced during the till cheap com er ammoniates. >ef ore you buy. OIL MILL. Saisep adds I II~ grud rSanisep ads ewage forever, It is just as ect ion w.ith city towers. :ommend connects with run .g the systemn, you can have hroomn r.nd kitchen drainage. Th n a commofnded by loadting complile with strictest regulations. leaning - takes care of itself. A nisep Systems for homes, schools, dustrial villages will bo sent on o invited. ,ducta, Com iany, Wilmington, NV. C.) nig & Supply CJo., mIrins, S. C. ' M 0 Superior Trucks sell for from 25 to 50 per cent less than :ny o t h e r equally high- grade truck of the same capacity. Made in two sizes, I and 2 tons. Prompt deliveries from stock. Quick factory serv ice on repair parts. )|| buyers can operate on smaller mar- State, th( gins and therefore, in competition have to with each other, they can afford to what is i pay higher prices to farmers. States an Speculation Thrives on Uncertainty can decid Speculation thrives and depends up- woto i )n lack of information, uncertainty, otton, or -tnld contusion on the part of farmers whether t and the public. Crops and live stock now or t are grown in the open and can not be must kno hid. Speculators have their own tive supp means of getting information all the andI coun time, by letter andl by telegraph, svhich th through traveling salesmen, local buy- supply nm ers and (dealers, country merchants I'.al and bankers, through crop experts fat eisth employed by them at high nalaries, farers the and through various private crop re-heptn porting agencies. Were it not for the fitablle. Bureau of Crop Estimates, which is a The mlc 'lisintere.sted Federal agency through lutely un which farmecrs can pool information service, regardling local condlitions and have it possible summnarizedl by the bureau into an ae- mtost dep1 curate report for the whole country, tioni avai ,"rmers and the public would be at pub~lic; a the mercy of speculators who would practical ren to i"-no any sort of misleading reports designed to influence prices~ o tb'ji. own advantage, and~ farmers would have no means of checking them up. The crop reports injure no no but the speculators, who cotuld v'll afford to waiy many tinmes the rn n ntof the b'irnn to hve- th4 r discredited. In fact, the only in iuential roouiest received bv the (Ie "rt'"nt f-om~ any p~'ree in reecnn "'ir- for the ""npression of the cron "'~'' n""me fr' oner of the 1-trevot neenlantive exch'nes in thn eon'at-v.* ntheir own int-rest andl in the in - wq -h ruldl co-operate with the Blure-'n sf rrun Eei-ie h" '"norin" con 'M''' in th'''' noirvhh'ehoo?s, en" -'mrn'l' 'ot eritie:--a or dispnar"- the -, o-' --in''""ur,'n or dectrimu mnuil "' ti-" ite,.e.4 of feirma'rq, be-u V -'"-'oinre to they are likely to O'v into the hands of theo a BpeU~ntorg. IRo',ive Surlv Affects Pricwu-11 r",rhould realize that the or' th-ir 1'rodlucts nre dletermin-~ 'd a"~~lv h yth" relative s'eniv. hej .-~ iu-~ """''s "" mtin'it fairl" cnn 'nmvnnl I 'hich dleterminas or influen-eq '0'-' nrie-s is not limite-I to any nar-. "'ar "~--'' e'r St'to. hit i', * ik PRanarllr't ef what is '~rown In yonr a wn country, or even in your own MMM AKING I N A HAR The toughest hauling jobs cai without the least concern abo pendable daily duty haulers. Hauling furniture tests the power : Note what Cochran Transfer & S "We have been using Sup< have given us splendid Superiors from 15 to 25 per any of our other trucks." The chassis of the Superior Motoi ble strength without a pound of u Motor Truck is the highest know SUPERIOR MOTOR ') Nelson Motor Co., Distributors, Manning, S. C. d-B.Dlsse LUMB ER price you get for what you operate with ell will depend largely upon inforniation roduced by farmers in other and should h d countries; arid before you Government e intelligently whether it practi-al use YOU to grow more or less ADVERT corn, or any other crop, or o sell your crop or live stock COST OF > hold it until later on, you w something about the rela- Washingtor ly produced in other States American wh ;ries. It is this information an average< e Government crop reports $2.15 a bush' ore accurately and more de than any other agency, and - sort of information wvhich nust learn to use, as it will to make their business pro nthly crop repotr is an abso >iased, nonpartisan, business s5 nearly accurate as it is o make it and therefore the endable source of informa lable to farmers and the ud that, to be of greatest - va !ue, farmers should co- th Monoy bn k without question lOGSALI On Bradham's Dur e are going to self a* P d Gilts and 2 Boars on >g Farm. This will be er offered at Auction. ( Bradham. DOOD D JOB i be put up to Superior Motor Trucks Lit the getting-there power of these de nd flexibility of a motor truck to the utniosL orage Co. say of Superior Motor Trucks: rior Trucks for three years and they dIe. We find the cost of operating cent lower than the cost of operating Truck is sinewed for 100 per cent irresist!. nnecessary weight. Every unit in a Superior i standard grade. II RUCK COMPANY, ATLANTA ma1 the bureau in supplying Agriculture announced Lonight in for their neighborhoods, making public its recent cost of pro we full confidence in the duction survey, covering fourteen crop reports and make representative districts of the wheat of them. belt. The survey further revealed, the [SE IN THE TIMES department said, that to permit a O N profit on eight per cent, of the wheat PROIDlJCTION HIGH profit on 80 per cent of the wheat the survey, the price would have to i, June 20.-The 1919 be about $2.60. eat crop was produced atbeaot$.0 ost to the grower of ~- -~ ~ 11, the Department of ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES bdivide and Sell by Our Modern Method 3SuIt S are Quick Our Scientiflc Service, endorsed by retuarn for your ml a n.1 r I arin will re'aly ar'Il now, even 'h r f atdfr 19.'0. T bu Pathird.r f~n f ull rarticularj it may~ vorth hunroflI dohla I(1Ar. to you nd foilr it TODAY. SATLANTIC COAST REALTY CO. rTh Namo Th nt Juaa nt'en Youe C.ont-I lee" 0Ofliccs: P E":', ::.rURG,VA. an~d C RU'ENV1LLIE, N. C, ,a Refere'nc: Any Ink Ina Pe'tersburg va or Gr'eenville, N. C. SJULY 12th! Gc Farm, Manning, S. C. ublic Auction 40 Bredl Sows July 12th, at 1 o'clock, on t ihe be st bunch of Duroc Sows a iet our Catalogue. Duroc Fann, i ning, S. C.