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7CP~|(OROWR6 ASSOCIATION PAYS Clemson College, June 6.-The; 0 Iahoma Cotton Growers' Associa-: tioi now numbers over 85,000 niean bers, who sold their 1021 cotton crop cQperatively at an tverage gain of $6.50 per bale over the street quotations, thus proving concretely the value of co-operation for selling. South Carolina farmers who have not yet joined the association now being organized in this state and who have - any doubt left as to -the practical benefits of the 'organization hould read the extracts below from he report of the recent convention f the Oklahoma Association and hen lose no time in joining: "Oklahoma cotton farmers are a ead o fthe game nearly 8-4 million ollars this year as a result of hav g marketed their crop co-operative according to figures made public the Oklahoma Cotton Growers' ssociation. The association, , which I a nonprofit, nonstock, 110 per cent pool, co-operative cotton marketing organization, has a membership of thirty-five thousand actual growers, who have signed legally binding contracts to market all of their crop thru the organization for a period of seven years. "With approximately 15 per cent of its 'members' crop yet to sell, the association shows a gain over the average street price of $6.50 per bale. - On the one hundred thou sand bales handled by the associa tion this year, this represents a total gain of $650,000. "The association is. credited by those familiar with the Oklahoma cotton market in past years with having "discovered" good middling cotton. This grade was seldom found y in the state under the old system of street sales, when grower had no facjlitiesfor determining the actual quality and sold on the 'buyers' grade and staple at the buyer's p'rice. ",The Oklahoma Cotton Growers' Association," said Eugene Meyer, managing director of the War Fin anC\ Corporation, in an address, "by finding a way to finance its product over the period in which it is to be marketed, instead of dump ing immediately it is picked, has exerted a decided influence toward stabilized prices. This organization was also largely responsible for the high price which obtained early in the. season." "Thru co-operation on the ."Okla homa plan" the cotton growers of that state have for the first time been able to borrow money in suf ficient quantity to finance their crop on terms they were able to meet. "A considerable additional saving to association memhers has been ef fected in the elimination of 'country damage' or weather damage, as all association cotton is warehoused im mediately it is deliyered to the as sociation by the member. iHow the B3 Yo . the FE Yothe Farmer, are ducer of wealth. But b< money for your crops mar The crops must be sown, redped and SOLD! The Bankg is your F1 carry ycu over the weeki planting and profiting ses -purchase seed, fertilizer, In times of stress it I" helps you Weather thie,sto Are YOU getting al bank offers farmers? Learn how we can lb information'from our < pleased to tell you more a FI4me Bank CHARLTON]I T. M. WE~LLS. C 'tton firma have fogie tbat hy can come to the o!!ia l9fi ofice and find samples of any quan tity of any quality of cotton they rpay desire. They have -found fur ther that they can buy suchcotton at a fair price on the market' of that day. This saves them the expense of sending men into the interior markets to buy perhaps 300 bales of cotton from which they can sort out just the 100 or 200 bales they want of a particular grade and staple. The association is .performing a ser vice for them in offering thcm cot ton, ready to deliver, in even run ning lots. Naturally they are will ing to pay- a premium for this ser vice, and the association member benefits." WHAT IS THE BEST SOURCE OF NITROGEN Clemson College, June 0.-It has generally been the- custom during the past several years that farmers have paid considerably higher pric~s for organic sources of nitrogen than they have for mineral nitrogen, such as nitrate of soda- or sulphate of ammonia. There has often been a question also about the relative. value, of nitrogen secured from green -manure crops, such as cowpeas, vel vet beans, etc., as compared with stable manure and mineral sources of nitrogen. The New Jersey Experiment Sta tion has been conducting a series of experiments along this line and Prof. A. W. Blair has recently report ed the results of some of the work of that station in the Journal of American Society of Agronomy for May, 1922. As an average for a ten-year test slightly better results were secured with mineral nitrogen than with organic nitrogen, all or ganic nitrogen being furnished in the form of blood, fish scrap, and tankage. The mineral nitrogen was supplied- in the form of nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia and calcium nitrate. There was very little difference, but the results in dicate that the organic nitrogen does not last longer in the soil than the mineral hitrogen, and that the mineral nitrogen does not leach out readily as has generally been suppos ed. The copbination of one-half mineral nitrogen and one-half or ganic nitrogen gave' slightly better results than any single source when taken alone. For 'example, with po tatoes, nitrate of soda alone gave 251 bushels per acre; fish scrap gave 244 bushels, and tankage gave 241 bushels; while a combination of nitrate of soda and fish scrap gave 257 bushels per acre, in a five year test. A comparison was made also be tween green manure crops when grown regularly in a rotation, and stable manure. The result was that higher yields were secured from the green manure crops than from the stable manure, and that the average ranvk Serves zrmer. America's greatest pro ifore' YOU receive the iy months usually elapse. must be fertilized, tilled, 'lend because it helps to Sand months between LsonlS. It permits you to machinery, on credit. stetnds behind you and rmt the benefits which the elp YOU. Ask for full ' >fficials. They will be bout our -service. & T rust Co. )uRANT, President Cashier Sindigestion * Many persons, otherwise vigorous and healthy, are bothered occaeiofally with Iidigestion. The dffects of a disordered stomach on the system are dangerous, and prompt treatnmeni of indiges tion Is important. "The only - medicine 1 have needed has been something to aid diges tion and clean. the liver," writes Mr. Fred Ashby, a McKinney, " Texan, farmer. "My medicine is Thedford's I BLACK- DRAUGHT for Indigestion and stomach trouble of any kind. I have never found anything that a Itouches the spot, like Black. Draught. I take it in broken doses after meals. For a long time I tried pills, which grip. ed and didn't give the good results. Black-Draught- liver medicine is easy to take, easy a to keep, inexpensive." Get a package from your druggist today-Ask for and U ? Insist upon The4tor4'.-the U U only genuine.. Get it today. gain per acre was from $10.00 to $12.00 in favor of the green manure crops, making due allowance for the-phosphoric acid and potash in the manure and without regard to the larger yields secured from the green manure crops. This indicates the very great importance of the use of green manure crops for soil building purposes. These results indicate, says Prof. C. P. Blackwell, Agronomist, that here in the South .we can save a great deal of money by planting velvet beans, co'vpeas, and soy beans as sources of nitrogen instead of depending entirely on commercial nitrogen, for which we always have to pay a very high price. Subscribe to The Times THE SWEET POTATO INDUSTRY Clemson College, June 6.-Few crops are so well adapted to South Carolina soil and can be so easily worked into the present farming ALL STATES APPROVE NEW FORD LENS Passes All Road- Illumination and Anti-Glire Laws. A new headlight lens recently per fected by the Ford Motor Company Detroit, for use on its cars and trucks has received formal official approval in each of the forty-eight states now having specific regulations and pro visions for tests. Ford engineers state that the two requirements of any headlight are suffieient road-illumination arnd lack of glare. To achieve this result, it is necessary to dlevelop) a lens wvhich throws a strong light over the road, but which so weakens the rays on a level with the eyes of ano appjroaching motorist, that there is an absence of' glare. WVhen testing the new l'ord lens, even in t hose states whose headlight ~' s are' the most exacting, it was nd that it produced three times the .equ ired illutmmatI.ion o f' he roadl and hat the glare was reduced to one h~alf' of that allowed. State oflicials wvere impre~tCssed with the Ford lens,-many statiny hat it would set a new and highei .itandard for automobile headliyhts, and com mendling the Ford Company for the progress that had been made. Although they are included as stan dard -equipment. on all Ford cars, the new F'ordl "11" lenses were so dlesign ed that they would be adaptable to all head-lamps now in use on lord( en rs.-A dv. WHESN MitS WORtbo PAYS AMERICA WHAT PeopLUa WHAT 1T Ows THeM , ONTE D)AY OP BTeRNry W1L.1,, AVE~ GONE Submerihe toa The Tinmp system as the moist flesh Southern sweet potato. However, the methods of growing, harvesting, curing and marketing as practiced in former years are not acceptable in com mercializing and establishing sweet potato growing as an industry. South Carolina now produces annually ap proximately 10,000,000 bushels of sweet potatoes, or in the neighborhood of. 10 per cent of the total annual pro duction of the potato producing states of the United States, but South Caro lina puts on the commercial markets rdther less than 10 per cent of her production. The commercial markets, mainly the northern markets, are accepting only the. highest quality product from the storage houses and green or summer shipments. Therefore the consuming power of the lasting and economical market is limited to very early summer shipments and the highest quality storage house potatoes rather than those potatoes kept in the old-fashioned dirt hills or banks. Hence, growers and prospective grow ers of sweet potatoes must realize the vital importance of quality pro duction, together with the necessity of marketing locally and feeding to live stock the off grades, for just as much expense is involved in the marketing of a low grade product'as in market ing one of the highest quality. . A profitable market may be had for off grades by supplying farm needs and local markets, and by feeding to livestock. In short, at present profitable sweet potato grow ing, might be said to be contingent upon combining this as an industry with other diversified branches of agriculture-small dairy herds, hog raising, beef cattle and horses and mules. Extension Bulletin 52, The Sweet Potato Industry, has just been pub lished to give working information on the growing an handling of the sweet potato as a commercial crop. It may be had from the Extension Service, Clemson College, S. C., or from the County Agent. DEATH FROM SNAKE BITES RARE IN U. S., FIGURES SHOWS Although the average mortality from American venomous snakes is a little more than 10 per cent of the persons bitten, death from snake bites is quite rare, according to the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture, because relatively few persons en counter or are bitten by the danger ous species. . The most venomous of our native snakes live in lonely, little-settled districts, often on stony or swampy land that can not be cultivated. Us ually they disappear at the approach of man, and while they may strike if provoked, the popular belief in res pect to the distance they can strike is erroneous. Three-fourths of their own length is about the greatest dis tance possible. If the legs are well protected when one is going into deep woods or places known to be infest Just Re 24 pairs Flapp 24 pairs Flapp 18 pairs Brow 18 pairs Whit< 18 pairs Brow~ 18 pairs Brow MeCo SUMTER., SEE BEETHOVEN, 1 iV . " d This remarkable photograph painting, symbolic of his nasterpic the lids of your eyes close together, you will see licethoven. Open the was in the mind of the musician wh ed by rattlers or other poisonous snakes, there is slight chance of be ing bitten. As the food of snakes consists of living prey, they can not be killed by poisoned baits. The only method thus far devised to kill them seems to be clubbing or shooting. This is best done in early spring, when they are still sluggish after the winter hiber nation. Allowing hogs free run of infested land may reduce the number of snakes. However, the popular idea that hogs are immune to snake bite is probably based on the impenetrab ility by the venomous fangs of their skin and fat layer rather than on ac tual immunity of these animals. The varieties most commonly found in this country are the Elapidae, or Harlequin snakes, and the Crotalidae, or "pit vipers," which include rattle snakes, cotton-mouth water mocca sins, and copper-heads. ORCHARD NOTES Weak and diseased limbs should not be allowed to remain on fruit trees during the summer. Bark beetles attack weak and slow grow ing limbs and finally - destroy the entire tree. Cut the limbs out and burn them. Cultivate the young and bearing er Pu ceived from the I er Pat. Leather I Special ~er Pat. Leather I Special] n One Strap Pu a Canvs Flapper I !n One Strap Pu n Oxfords .. llum Bro Page Three HEN HIS SONATA "t~ >f the great composer is from a cc, the Passionate Sonata. ,Draw glimpse through the eyelasites and eyes wide and you will see what en he wrote his delightful harmony. orchards throughout the summer months unless they are to be planted in some leguminous crop in June. Peas or soy beans should be planted between the rows of fruit trees and the vines worked into the soil with a disk harrow in early fall. Two tablespoonfuls of nitrate of soda ap plied around fruit trees one and two years old will be very beneficial. Scatter the nitrate of soda in a circle about 18 inches from the body of the tree and work it into' the first few inches of soil by hoeing. Rub off all suckers or sprouts which apepar on the trunk of the trees so as to concentrate the entire growth into the permanent branches. Summer pruning of newly set fruit trees should be done in June. This consists of removing surplus bran ches. After the young peach trees have made a growth of 15 inches, the tops of the branches that are to be permanent should be pinched out so aks to force the limbs to branch. This will do away with the necessity of severe pruning next fall, and cause the trees to form a larger and more symmetrical head. Grapes and apples should be spray ed with Bordeaux mixture every two or three weeks for the control of diseases which attack them and cause the fruit to rot. actory umps Priced $4.00 umps Priced $5.00 mnps . $4.00 umps $3.00 mps . $5.00 . .$5.00 thers outh Carolina