Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Jackson .M1 Brick, Iron, C BOX 291, Manning, S. C. WORLD IS FACING COTON FAMINE B. Harris Says Carryover is 2,850,343 Bales. SHOULD BRING 70 CENTS 4 ommisisoner Belives There Is No Competitive Buying-Sixth Short (Crop Coming. "When are you going to tell us to sell cotton?" is the question put to Commissioner M. Harris by one of the extensive cotton planters of the mid dle section of the state. "Not until you are able to get for it what it is worth" was Mr. Harris' reply. The fa-mer then stated that he had sold a few bales at 43 ents because the bank was pushing him to take up loans. Mr. Harris suspects that this is being done by a number of banks over the country. This farmer did not sell any more of his cotton than he was forced to do, because he agrees with Commissioner Harris' philosophy that cotton has not attained anything like its real value. "The South has had a world monop oly in cotton since the staple was first planted, and what has this monopoly profited them ?" asks Mr. Harris. "The fault has not been in the cotton. The South has proilueed the fiber that has clothed the world and has grown up a citizenshi pin poverty and illiteracy all because that staple has not been marketed with .any degree of intel ligence and business judgment. If the New England states had had this world's monopoly for the last 50 years we would be unable to buy the lowest grades of spinnable cotton from for less than 50 cents a pound, aye 60 or 75, cents per pound. We know they would do this, for any crowd of men smart enough to sharpen "the other TheVM of THROUGH the rough br ' * Overland Se< truck train tablishedi an all roads in ideal economn * 'ouuing, $ Pi Construe LOlTRA fain Offce Columbig,.S. 4 S. E. PENTZ, Prop. .ment and Frame end" of a surplus stock of shoe pegs And send them to South America and sell therm for seed onts, as was done just after the Confederate war, would get all there was in the cotton plant. Facing Cotton Famine. "It is a recognized fact the w'ld over what I have been telling the people for two years, the w ,rld is facing a cotton famine. We are now confronted with the prospect of an other shtort crop, the sixth in succes sion. This means that some one will have to shut down their mills. And w.-h the enormous profits the manu facturers are now making, they will never shut (Iown their mills as long as they can get cotton to go through their machinery. "We know it to be a fact that dry goods can be reduced 25 per cent, and more and the mills can pay 40 cents for the lowest grades of spin nable cotton and then have a net profit of $100 on each bale. As I have said several times in my articles there is not enough spinnable cotton in the world to keep the nills running full time for over five months. That the public may appreciate that I was not "talking through my hat," but know I was talking about, I quote from The Manufactu*rers Record of Baltimore, which paper sent a special representa tive to Washington to dig Up the fig ures from the bureau of markets, and with the assistance of D. S. MIUrph of South Carolina, now specialists il cot ton marketing, it was learned that the carry over of cotton on July 1 was only 2,850,343 bales, not enough to run the mills of the world five months--and another short crop 'om ing! Tell me cotton is worth less than 70 cents a pound today ? I doli't be lievo it. "The carry over of cotton one year ago was 4,154,855 bales ,and] there are more spindles in operation today than there were then. Europen manufac ronderfu1 the Seda: Extraordinary St aminia amnd Comfort Result From Triplex Springs DESERT HEAT, mountain oken waste Of tihe western dry Ian piloted the trans--contine: all tihe way with a perfect sco extraordinary reputation for c all weather. The Overland Sc ical all year car to buy now. )85; Roadster, $985; Coupe, $1525: Sedan,| ces f. o. b. Toledo, aubject to change without notice ARVIN MOTOP ( tion Co. OTORS Construction . B. McCAHILL, Local Manager turers are getting upon their feet and will require more cotton in 1920. The shortage will be felt keenly in the next manufacturing year. iNo Uompetitive Buying. "Some spots holders do not under stand why cotton has not been ad vancing more rapidly. I will try to show them just how the cotton mar ket is manipulated. There is no com. I. petitive buying in spots cotton-only ne faction, and that this is the bear speculator. There has been for the last 20 months the most deteripined and long continued bear raid ever known in the history of cotton. It ins been necessary to do this to save Lhe bears who were cauglht short when | the war ended suddenly. "I, know a farmer who has some 300 . bales of cotton, mostly 1 1-0 and full mne inch staple. He offered this to a h !otton factor in North Chrolina and got the surprising answer that the factor did not want any cotton at all. Of course he did not want that lot, for it was out of his territory to o buy it ,no matter how badly he wanted f it. le was under contract not to u buy, only in his territory. In fact, the i eotton market is virtually coitrolled 0 by one firi. e "If there were any competitive buy mng in spots cotton, it would soon reach a price well above 50 cents. I want the spots holders to under stand that the cotton mills are not. a buying cotton from the farmers. They have contracted for their cotton fronml0 NOTICE OP DISCHA RGE e C We will app1ly to the Judge of Pro ate for Clarendon Coiuty, on the 12th lay of July, 1920, at 11 o'clock A. M. a for letters of discharge as ad minis- P trator of the Estate of inma. L. p I'h(omas. deceased. h'le Sumter Trust. Cmpanv, Administrator. Sumter, S. C. June 12, 1920-c. tI lE cold, and plains, an Ital army re. It es rnmfort on dan is the p1575 'Iy mta but on Le us of furt to owy le cotton bears, and they have to ave spots cotton to fill their con -acts with. Government's Estimate High. "I see that the government report r July 2 is 70.7. From the best in >rmation that I can gather, the fig res are rather high. I get my news 'om the commissioners of agriculture r other states and from correspond ice with a large number of farmers the belt. From them I gather that I condition does not exceed 68.2 per nt. "Now, to suill it up; we are facing cro) tf 11,000,000 bales, and it may all short of that. We start off 2,000, :0 short of last year's carry over. ith good business judgment, and 'ith good m1arketing, the new crop in be made to be worth many mil ois of additional good hIard moley I our people. 'Tle American Cotton ssociation is being looked to by the jople of* the South to use the great" Ower whih it has and to use the iachi nery which has been committed ) it, to save the distress cotton of w' farmer who really nee(ds the help. h1 is 'n it of* distress cotton is the main amc tor in the whole season's ........---( 1A0SSES IN Y'O'NG; I'Ol'l.TS' Imoproper feeding. combilined with use confiinemen~t , has be'en thel cause ' nmn .ilures ini turkeyrain: 'hen (4 'ri rangeP' t he pioults are isy m(4 of thle dlay searchine- for 1 . I Iere there is no overfeedlin I' in 4(f exeri: , such~ as5 th' pwI(44t -41 oten subljected to by thos' i',n r ii o (thleir wants. If the rani1-e is ent ifully supplied with greeun food. a wppers, and ther insec'ts, an411 ~rofessional Cards JNO. G. )INIKINS Attorney-at-ilaw AANNIN(. S. C. 1)uRlA NTI & ElIER BE Aitorneys at Law 0. I'urdy. S. Oliver O'Blryn I'UJRDY & O'BR~YAN AtItorneys and1( (ounise*lors at Jaw. MdANNING. S. C. Attorney at V.aw M1ANNING;. .,. C. [oa ns Negotiuated oni Real Estate MONEY TO' LOAN n Real Estate--Smnall and Large J- W. WID)E1A N MANNING.. S. O ' I. C. CU~iRTIS, Attorney-at- Law M A~ MM :M S. . the right kind c ire and you nee ce in a lifetime show you the iture you'll be j Ile Van Mei "Lifetime Furnitu COLUMBIA, S. C if the weather is favorable, the best a plan is to allow the poults to feed m themselves. It is usually advisable, i. however, to have them come home at p niOht, and if driven up and fed at a d eerf ain place every night they will g will soon learn to come up themselves. si When, on account of rainy weather i1 or unfavorable range conditions, it t, is advisable to raise the poults by the a coop method, more care must be given G to their feeding. c Successful turkey raisers use many different kinds of feed. Some sug gested by the United States Depart Iment of Agriculture poultry special- S ists follow: Hlard-boiled egg chopped fine andl cornbread crumbs for the first week, amid %then whole wheat and hulled oats.; stale bread, soaked in milk and sque((ezed ( dry', for tie first few da, and then common chick feed; elab bered milk seasoned with a little salt and pepper, cor-)-bread nths; equapl p parts "pilihlead" oats, whole wI-at, b ai cracke(I con; eractked wheat; e( 5 meal and wheat bran mixd in the t proportion (of 3 to I antd baked into, brevad; and brani or middlings one-half n erneed n~ypiancorn oeqatr whIt and lulled oats ole-<murter. II ad dit ion to th above, ski m ilk / t hem Tte /$fc * e * C * * 0 ?e asy f fur d buy kind roud re's re" n(d buttermilk are quite often fed, 'ith excellent results. A good plan to kee) the milk in front of the 3ults during the morning and water Uring the afternoon. If grit and reen feed can not be picked up out de the coop, they must be provided i some other wiay. Chopped onion ips, lettuce leaves, dandelion leaves, nId alfalfa make excellent green feed. rit can be furnished in the for'm of mrse sand. CITATI ON NOTICE TATI 01.' SOUTH CAROLINA. County Of Clarendon y .1. M. Windham PIrobate 'Judge: Whereas, Hester lturt1gess ilade suit me to grant her Lette"rs of Admill tration of the IstLate and effects of are. the(reore, to cite av.d ad-. louish al laud sinum-,-lar tIe Ki d red 141 Creditors ol the saild ~Ibert E. rge~sM dleieased. that Ihey be and :1p).. r before mi. inl the C(ourt of Pro ite, to bw hIed at. MaIuniun oil the h1 d;i' of .1u\ ext, afte pulien n lereuf, at I i 'clotk inl the ftoe iln. to sIow cmals. it an1y1N they have, hv the said Ad inistration shouhi bv at h ie'\granted.o G;ivenl un1der mly han11d this- 160b lay JyA o ) i,20.v y (1 f h!udg of Probay Xc'EYc wa fUlne, the etIi ~ g1 0:7(pavenes >n , I'm 0u1sv m to io youe Ison MotoCrd Tir . dvor lbet uait at.....hroughout. U/H haeC IPo