Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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How to A De Cn the pla stitutes and make i vottonl but of* ho'tl premium oili your the advalitage of a of a large producti best Seed. If you more than). a m-1r11b becau:-e they prodin Natiois piloneri b g anization of exNpe] the .il( Slates. speciali..tiG'.. ( mld. quaIik. hll(i aid PEDIG DAVID R. C POLICY Of COTTO% FARMER UNS[TTL[ Planting Time Is Near---South Calro lina Authority (ives Advice Re garding 1921 Farm Operations. IHartsville, Feb. 16.---Although cot ton phlnting time is only six or eigh weeks oil many 1 cotton growers all oveO the South have not yet determined or what policy they will purisue as to th< appotinm1e nt of their acreage and a: to the use of' fertil ir. Advice is he ing. showeredIi un t hem nin such vol ume :ad of such diverse teno ras t< he mlost 'onusin g. In two respects howvever, the adv'ice beinig offered h: the wisest far P1 conuomis ts cinicid A ll say red uce cotfton acreage amli raise adettuate fomodstutfs. Anda in the wisdom of this progrlami I moust hearit I have not, how'.eve r, seen ainy for mula prlesented which wvil hdaiow eacl farmer to ti gur e fur him1sel f thle cur reet amount of his acreage which hi should lplant in fuoodsftiffs awl in cot tonl anid I priopose to herec lay doiwi what I conide tlr t he corirec t rieI. Fi rst, however, let us5 dIiscuiss coni d itions which mllust he met. by an' propiosedl program. Statisticimns tel us that we will have a carry-over oi about nine million hales on August I They also tell us that the South pur ECZEMAN MoneT~ hoek without question if iHUNT'S Salve fails in thI. trentrnent of ITCH, ECt'RMA, RINGWORM, TIETTER or other itching akin disease. Try a 75 tent b~ox at our risk./ lCKSON'S D)RUG STOREI MICKIE, THEPRIN') *SOMS 90\<S Mo.Et.t' *AKS M'W J 'tWAS,Wl OME. OF'\W 40S \Pn ,%' Make creased i~ of the ere H'ase'd c'otton acreage mo and inrteae profits. lie practical gi atler redulce his pr1oduiction with othie1 t pz '" 'I he ansi, er is by raising a 11 <liality and more I-r acre. It vc cii o by virtue of a beller grad- aid pireter money return Cr acre mlntius ()I ( per poIIiund. The wise coliusi phl. .1n or-dinaryl- Shoddy variety y C1r0p. Coker's Pedigreed Seed prodeli C hot h quality and quantity. Our s-e Ieeders of petdiigreed cotton. ve hav :iniced seed breeding experts of al) We are .eed breeders, --not muereIy sI les us to serve you by furnishing seed pedigreed hv experts. Ii ri!e jor our new Spring Catalog. IEED SEED COMI )KEf. Prcsident H. J. WfBBER Department 16-E artsville, South Carolina /% I K'o chases hundreds of millions of dollar worth of corn, hay and other fo< products wh ich Cal and should I raised here. It is a notorious fm that most phantations dio not produ a suflicieney of syrup, sweet potatoe - vegetables anid fruits for the consumi tion of landlord and telants and fe are adequately stocked with cows a hogs. There is a market in ever town and factory village for lary ( anltities of the vegetable and anl 111 ma products 'which can be easil r'aised onl teey farmll. We have rigi ait home(, therefoire,0i a makeCt for' vast aimounit of food plroducts now pr< duvedt elsewvhere hut which can at shiould b~e prioducled here. Low Grade Cotton The ine million hate ca rry-ov< ne'xt August wvill consist very largel of low grade (cOttOn) of poor1, wea stapile. F'or several years the car' Over of LIs kind of cotton has her rapoidly increasinlg until now such co to 1(1 s on)ly bringing about 50 per cec oif the valute of tihe coriespond1(1ir l engthls of high gradles. With the e: (elptiofn of the past thiree years ti ma10rgi bi etween the b~are' ('ost of pri dutct iron of ihghl grade cottofn andri setllinfg pore has rarely amoun)0( ter! the rdiffer'ence inl the sethling price b tween high gradc and1 low. gr'ade e'n tonl. ( By harec cost. of produtction har Ii inilg to) the tlborer's.) WVith tl poissilet exsceptiono of one year (1 91 2f never' in my recoillection has 10 glrde cotton r'etuirned to tihe gro(w ts coist of prioductionf. Yet year' a ft year i we set' manyli p~hmittrs all (iv the4 Suith putting ill af cot ton acreal wvhich t hey knowv cannlot b~e gather, in a r'eas5onale pickinlg season1 by hi labor1 on) thieir' phlantationls. Yeari aft year we see' quanltiti('s of cottonl tile fieldis in November, D~ecember al UnderIO bolwevlcnitoso ear'ly varieties shouldl be userd al ~ER'S DEVIL___ r4'?Aweoswxr Me 60% RY S "",C~~ ,TEREM= D Acreag( vcment is to stim zestion is: "low I'eaoI able sub sma ele'lge or A Bit of C< M 'l t'eaild a Sense Ad, sAp!le, you have the disadvantage t h e Tho1 Mn is to plant the Farmer. >u1 canillot expect e the best results I are bred by the C the largest or seed companlyi -ed dealers. Our of the very best ?ANY Gen. Mgr. (LONG ST C'o rs PIuligreed nelItati TI Colkr's Plehgcvd %%vrbbel (SPORT ST Pedigreed Coker-Cleve-lai \ - Coker's Pr digre(I inxei Write lor Quar IMM s' early planting practiced. The bulk of sil (1 the crop, therefore, will be open by eN e the last of September and the entire e 1t crop must be gotten out of the fields pi -e by October 15 or at least by November ac s, , in order to insure a grade of mid- in - ling and better. ht Destructive Policy pi I Under the conditions prevailing dur- to y ing the past thihty years, with the cc e possible exception of one, the farmer bt i- who put in a greater aereage than he' of y had available labor to pick in six or pt zt eight. weeks has pursued a policy not pl a only unprofitable to himself but also m >-- dlestructive to the whole cotton in- ti dI (dustry, for he is the man rtesponsible for long years of low prices and1( for the present enormous carry-over of rlow grade cotton wvhich is nlow keep) y ing the price far belowv cost of piro--~ k( duction.t r- Succintly stated, my formula wvhich da n1 can be dledu('cd fromn the above dlis- u< t- cussion is as followvs: Raise all the ol it foodstuffs adlapted for growth in your p, Ig section which are required for the ti - consumpt ion of the total farm pop)u- al ze lation, both human and animal, with w ri- a reasonable margin for sale to the m t~s nearby towvns. Then raise only asw to) much cotton as the labior on the farm a e-aen gather quickly enough to produce t- nothing below the grade of middlint. , 1 Let the balance of the landl lic out or" ai plant it inl some soil imp)roving crop. t w If the foregoing formula is strictlyl 9- appliedl to every plantation the re w duction in the cotton acreage wvill be ~ er very great. er I have little hope that the cami er paign by agreement will bring ade e qluate results. Most farmers are in- ci td d ividualists and wvill figure out a pro- a te granm which they think wvill best ineet t~ er thle requiremients of the situation. If r< in we can focus the attenition of every 1C d planiter upon the fact that lowv grade E cotton rarely if ever returns the cost C ly of production and the further fact icd that its production has br on respon By Charles 0 Ween Newp \ME GWr 9. Ra ww wAen Ilk, ~Pay 3mmon rice for ughtful APLES) ler bu. lie % weri*i*......6.00 Noi. W -I...... 4.03 No. 49-3 ...... 2.50 No. :2--. . 3.00 alle No. ii. 2.50 rsistat....... 3.00 APLES) d.............. 2.50 Wilt Re.4s iln 2.50 itity Prices. >le for the woeful situation today isting, we have accomplished the istin l,a ie,shrd etao shr etao etaoi imrry thing necessary to effect reige reduction. No farmer is go to deliberately do something which figures in advance will be un ofitable and further no farmer wants be considered an enemy to the tton industry as a whole. So the siness judgment of the great body cotton growers and an aroused iblic sentiment vill, I think, accom ish an adlequate reduction if this atter can be properly presentedl tc e entire South before planting time Would [Use Fertilizer .Just a further wora about the use fertilizers. If anything has beer early demonstrastedl in the agricul re of the Eastern cotton belt it is at cotton can he more cheaply pro. iced (even at low prices) with tht te of a fair and wvell balanced ratior fertilizers than without. Based or 'esent prices for cotton, 1 (10 not ink that the average farmer car Yord to use less than $12 to $1f ort hof fertilizer per acre, the for. uila and amount of course varying ith the type and condition of th( iii. Very little fertilizer Tins yet beer might and~ if the farmers are to plani eir crops oni time no time is to b)( st in securing their supply. A litth urther dlelay will mean late dleliv ies, late planting, and the risk o: e destruction of the crop) by the bol eevil. (Note: Of course the principles dis assed above apply to tobacco ant :her money crop sas wvell as to cot mn. Farum profits are usually too nar >w to allowv for the production o *w grades in any money crop.) avidl R. Coker, in The Newr an< ourier. ---o ADVERTISE IN THiE TrIMES sper Union -~. GREER ATTORNEY 0 FIRES UPON SELF b Bullet Passes Entirely Through Body t, -Wound May Be Fatal-Physi- y clans Entertain Little Hope for s Recovery of A. H. Miller. s Greer, Feb. 20.-A. H1. Miller, promi- v nent attorney of this place, shot him self probably fatally this afternoon at 1 o'clock at his home here. The bullet entered the breast just above the heart, piercing the left lung. The bullet assed clear through the body, I went through the window of the room and lodged in the wall of the house next door to tne Miller horie. Immediately after the shooting, Mr.4 Miller was rushed to the sanatoriani at Chick Springs, but physicians cii tertain .little hope for his recovery. Mr. Miller is 42 years old and has been closely identified with tile busi ness and political activities of this section. For a time he was connect ed with the Planters' bank. In the special election of 1915 he was a candilate for congress from ' the Fourth district, and again in the reg ular election of 1916. He is a brother C.HICHESTER S PILLS TH SeesONDn oBRAND. C C ea r Dwo at'gani III& n nd Gold tnetallloXW Xaen ibt Blaue Ribn. A PIL for 96 earsknown Best, SafestAiwys eliable SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERF 4U: m:mmmmmmmmnuni Come in over wit] this banl the comi FIRST NATIOD W. C. DAVIS J. A. WEINB J. T, STUKE a mmu:mm:mmmmunn~ ow Th Gre BRICK LIMI LUMBER DC If you want to build with everything need Get our prices first. MANNI1N( _Moi f L. G. Miller, treasurer of Spartan urg county, 'Ill health is supposed to have n: he cause of the tragedy, Mr. Mie ias alone in 4%i room at theV rI itting on his bed while Mrs. Mi ras in the adjoining room. He 4-. everal children. A 32 calibre pif tas used. NOTICE OF DISCHARGE We will apply to the Judge of P kate for Clarendon Co'nty on the 14 lay of March, 1921, at 11 o'clockA d. for Letters of Discharge, as utors of the Estde of Viola Laci, leceased. T. P. BROWN, B. F. CULP, .Excctk~ Paxville, S. C., Feb. 9, 6 G. C. COOPEiR LicensedP Optometerist EYES Carefully Examined, glasses Fitted, Broken Lenses Duplicated. I. 3atisfaction Guarantee4. SUMTER, S. C. muuuummmmrmumuuni early and talk ai the officers of i your plans for ig year. JAL BANK. President. ERG, Vice-President. 3, Cashier. 'EN BROS. MARBLE and GRANITE CO. DESIGNERS MANUFACTURERS ERECTORS Dcalers in 'everything for the cemetery. e largest and best equipped mon tal mills in the Carolinas. enwood,---...-----S. C. umunmurnnmumumuumn~ |rs SupyCo. CEMENT >ORS SASH Xe can supply you ed. 3, s,. C. e Truth Than Humor II