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s is nQ iufptal scene' t the (culture buildn in Washingtott. group of boy and girl farm chap for producing best in calf, por clubs was a tri to Washingto sent from Mary and. Secretary lace is addressing them. MR. LWHIDEN WRITES Of SOUTH'S. ADVANTAGES New Orleans, U. S. A. August 19th, 1922. editor Manning Times, Manning, S. C. Dear Sir: I have read with a great deal of interest the letter addressed to you by Mr. A. L. Luce, published in your paper of the 16th instant, on the sub ject of finding ways and means to up lift Clarendon County in the agricul tural industry. Your plan to do something in order to get out of the hole before your far mers and business men sink so deep 'into the quagmire of financial destruc tion that later it would be more diffi cult for you and them to do so, is a worthy undertaking; and deserves the hearty endorsement of each individual and Institution interested in the wel fare of Clarendon County agriculture and the people of your community. Your ideas are sound and concrete facts founded upon good judgment and should be seriously considered in the paramount thoughts of all busi ness men and farmers of Clarendon. Otherwise, you are playing the game like the base bal lpitcher with only a "straight ball and a prayer." Relatives of mine are keenly inter ested in the uplifting of Clarendon County and the future of her indus tries, and it is high time that every body should put forth their utmost energy to see the wheels of progress resume action in your section. It is no time to throw up your hands in surrender for anybody can do that, but. it's the fellow withthe punch, the grit and courage that counts, and he is the one who wins, whether the field of action be religion, politics, business or love. No man ever got far, will get far, or can get far, who cannot grasp a situation such as your's and shape his ideas to meet it, and then bends every effort to see it through, despite any obstacle - thrown in his path. It behooves me to state that you are no less qualified than others in other Southeastern sections who have re constructed their ideas and revolution ized themselves in new forms of pro cedures on the farms ,and saved them selves. When your good people have come to realize in conclusion that the one crop system will ultimately ruin you if they, adhere entirely to it, instead. of= saving you, then, your salvation may be at hand. They should diversi fy. Some points for the farmer to con sider arc: The farmer who raises hogs and keeps dairy cows has something to sell for cash wvhen fruit, truck, or cotton crops are destroyed by cold weather, by drought, by wvet seasons, by irisct pests, or when markets are glutted. Nearby markets generally absorb all meat and dairy products produced Pinmpies lIeep r Young Men Down! Thae~ Makce Women, Too, a Puzzlet How S. S. S. Stop. Skin Eruptions Poaitively. Pimples and skira eruptions have al Vrice,.-you pay for every pustuip, 1blaek-head and~ pimple on your face. Pimples produce prej ud ice and prevent prosperity. Your heart may be gold, fe, 5. 8. will Rid You of the Crushing Pim.. but, who wants to kiss eruptions? Pimply men don't look like the owners of anything. limply worres, to, puzzles, with no Drospct and power. Young meh a women, here's the positive way out. Physics and purgatives will fal- What you need I.s a scientific bloeoansor. S. IL 11. $s one of the most powerful dlestroyers of blood impurities, You can prove this in a short time. S5. S. H. has bepra 1)assed on by a jury f mli otns of poo :yle just like yours4f Iti corniered one of the meet .viowerful vegetalile 1)lood-purifieors afid 1 i4sh-builders ~is Axistence. That's why you hear of so snany underweight people putting on lost flesh in a hnrry, wh po Jear of so~ mnany rheumatica being fedfrom this scourge, with S. S. S, Start today with 8, 8, 8. and see your face clear aryd yomr skin get ruddier, your flesh firmer. .It will give you a hoont in your career. H. S. H. is sold at all Crug stores. in two sizs. T~he lar-go Ia the more ocontomient. Deportment ofgi, Hete are. sh6n A ions whose reward c, garden and field n. This group was 4 of Agricultpre Wa!. on Southeastern farins, eliminating the necessity for shipping to far dis tant markets with transportation costs oftentimes exceeding the selling price of the shipment. There is no case on record where a farmer shipped hogs to market and to have a considerable sum left after paying the freight. The brood sow is the most proli Alc of farm animals. She will enrich any farmer who will give her a chance. A good dairy cow will produce all of the milk, cream, butter, and cheese consumed by the farmer's family and if she is an exceptionally good cow she will produce a considerable sur plus to sell for cash. One good cow or about five good brood sows will produce sufficient manure fertilizers in a year to pro perly fertilize the average acre of land. It isn't necessary to buy fertility for the farm that carries it's full quota of dairy cows and hogs. Some points for the Banker to con sider, are: The development of any section of the Southeast with hog sand dairy cattle means ahore steady volume of bank deposits because the farmer who has hogs and dairy cattle on his farm has something to sell everyday of the year instead of only at certain sea sons as is the case with the truck farmer, fruit grower, and cotton planter. In fruit, truck and cotton growing sections of the Southeast the bankers are often called upon to carry the fisrners from the time they put in their crops until after harvest. During this same period merchants in the town are also obliged to carry the farmers on their books, selling. them merchandise on credit. The mer chants are accordingly obliged to look to the bankers to carry them also and this makes a considerable burden up on the bankers. If the fruit, truck and cotton growers of the Southeast had a few brood sows an da few dairy cows along with a flock of poul try they would never be obliged to ask their merchants to give them credit during the crop growing season and their loan at the bank would be considerably reduced also, thus per mitting tho bank to, adopt a more liberal policy in'loaning money for building and other improvements, in vesting more heavily in local public improvement bonds, 6tc., and elimin ate their bills' payable accounts. No swine grower in the Southeast ever shipped a load of hogs to mar ket and failed to receive enough for them to pay the freight plus a very satisfactory cash surplus. This state ment should appeal very strongly to the bankers in your section in behalf of hog raising on every farm in your territory. Southeastern bankers should rem ember that there is no case on record where the large hog markets of the country have ever been glutted. The boll weevil does no harm to livestock and poultry. Shipments of hogs to marke do not freeze in winter nor do they perish from heat in summer. Hog markets are available .to the farmer six days out a weoek. .They pay cash and they ate located at con venient points throughout the South est, making long shipments with' co? responding high transportation charges unnecessary, such as is the case with fruit and vegetables. Hogs multiply faster than any other farm animal and therefore en rich the farmer within a reasonably short time. In the hog raising industry produc tion, demand and markets are srbl. ized, which means that the intelligent farmer can always count on a profit from his hogs, which will enable him to pay his notes at the batik, meet his bills with the toWn merchant and gen erally carry a cash balance with his banker. There is no case on record where Southeastern dairy farmers have brought milk to town and poured It out on the ground because there was no dlemand for it, as has been the crise with watermelons, eabbage, and other citrus fruits. Bankers should knew that South eastern soils for the moost part are light hand that the fertilizers produced by livestock is the best kind to build them up to where they will give good yields. The dlairy cow will feed the family and fertilize the farm.. She is called "the foster mother of the world," and no more befitting title could be he stowed upon her. Without nailk chil dren languish, adults decline, the vitality of the human race runs low. I enclose you a bulletin on Duroce Hogs Which proves the outcome in your Sister State, eGorgia. The con tents of thtat bulletin is not the music of any Calliope Organ but real facts which prove what can be done. Pleaso find enclosed another bulletin on the subject of, "Raise Pork to Raise Money." Your climate andl the conditions throughout Clarendon, to my knowledge, offer the farmer the same advantages mentioned i buille tin No. 16, Janual'y 14th, 1922, herein mentioned. You will perhaps find some interest in readilng a third bulletin, herewi.&h enclosed, bulletin MN 20, entitled They GOD! "Sell Your Corn to a Pig." . It may: yet prove thabthe bermuda grass your farmers have been trying to kill for yean will . eventu be their salvation in growingand en.. ing different classes' of liv'e stock. The grass if alolwed- to grow in the fur rows of the old cotton fields may ulti mately bring to -the farmer more revenue. in fattening cattle than ever realized from the toils of the cotton planter. Now s the time to buy cattle and hogs for stocking purposes. They have never before been so cheap. Your people can find'a market for all the choice meat hogs they produce regard less of the' breed, for ' the country throughout is noting an alarming shortage in porkers. I represent in Cuba who are-impbrting at Havana consistent large quantities of choice meat hogs from .Teies m, Alab ma and Georgia, through Jacksonville, Fla., and the daily feiries from Key West to Havana. We also ship weekly from Mobile, Alabama, large shipments of Tennessee, West - Ala bama, and Mississippi hogs; and froi New Orleans, West Tennessee, Ar kanas, Louisiana, and East - Texas hogs; and from Beaumont, Texas, hogs from that State. There is no reason why Clarendon County, South Carolina farmers, cannot grow hogs and livestock in equal proportions, because your cli mate and conditions are favorable, You have the rail service to all mar kets, and certainly you could sell hogs in car lots in competition Avith Ten nessee hog growers, who are obliged to sell cheap enough to stand the rail rate through Jacksonville to Havana; whereas your's would move to Savan nah, Ga., thence Jacksonvilel-Havana, If you had them of right qualities and weights from 130 to 250 pounds ] would be willing to offer Clarendor County farmers a'fair price, based on competitive markets, for three to four hundred choice meat hogs, weekly payment cash against bill .lading ant certified weights f. o. b. cars Mann ing. This would insurq you an out let for nearly 15,000 hogs a year from one source. Farmers growing and finishing just a few hogs could work in conjunction with friends and pool shipments, for I. would propose a co tract with on individual toldeliver m the hogs f. o. b. cars, 1Manning, and pay for them when ears are loaded the bill of lading and certified weights deposited with our bankers at Mann ing or Summerton. I wish you every succes sin your efforts in the matter you have under discussion; on behalf of relatives \vhc own interests in your County. No one of us would like to see the agricultur al interests of your good County sink into a state of Inocuous Desuetude. Any five men on whom you ballot, would also be my Choice, so. please accept enclosed cheek for five dollars, ($5.00), .representing my corttributior as described under the -terms and covenants of your article on the sub ject in said paper- of IThe Manning Times of 16th instant. ,Very truly yours, 0. R. Whilden. SELL YOUR CORN TO A PIG. Feeder Hogs to Supply The Corn Belt. The possibility-of economically pro. ducing, feeder hogs in the South foi supplyingthe corn belt with the extra hogs needed, for consuming the corn crop will be. inivestigated -by the-Unit ed States Departme~nt of Agriculture in co-operatiori with some of' e Southern States, This Spring, workL on the problem was begun at Mc Neill, Miss.- 65 miles north of -New~ Orleans. The Mississippi Experim ent ,Station will assist 'ini the work. Th4 idea is to test out the growing and marketing of hogs at a weight of .about 100 pound., using both the lard pind bacon types. .The growing of feeder hogs is all industiry which should be deoveloped, as the Corn Belt is in need of more shoats than are usually produced there. Similar experiments to thosa being made in the.South will be tried later in the Northwest and the South west. Hogs on Louisiana Farms .No matter what line of farming is followed ,there is a place and need for at least 'one good brood sow oi every farm. Some nmay be surprisei to know that there are approxbnateil 135,000 farms in the State of 'Youisi iana, and statistics show that 'onl3 109,000 faans have a brood sow. This meand that there are approximatl) 26i,000i' ams in -Louisiana withou a brood sow4 to supply the pork. Wher< G. C. COOPER, Licensed Optometerist EYES Carefully Exquained, Glasses Fittedt Birokee Lenses Duplicate4l. ISUMTER, S. iC. Igeylee i'axo x . s :an r~ Some of the feed W e ,L pig *liI he i gro'#lng t, - pig y should "r nQt;: , veer ',;fat : ut: inn' ndiui flesh12' Agt tli6ef act d' hoe - .Cnaiey:e:e thate fb a 'oItaf la boir and three acres on Avery fertile land will produce 0ufileient to take care of mood ep'~p r lir i1'" r 'i-cordin ou 24 CO. dd wast. Vti i novor a derpmiae to g ow more feed than the' ho e qui : It is' bettet"'to IfVay fdt f sale than to be in the nmarket for feed: " 1 ,' Unl sS sie CldOin ?r. .6 unold able accident :which Causes a heavy .lose pase~es irk. a~herd.of. diogs; that, 'aiv well ,ared ,or tl 4re will a be a frargin hoe pr oa are not -given- ro o attentionl ,there lre . mae. o lois.' This statement i made. wih rerence to mthe min b is 'r dooms for the mai'kets' and entirl for 'breed ing. Like all farm crops, the ho must receiyo, a certain amount of at, tention. Very few men have made money raising high nlass breeding hogs, while many. have made, money ro ducing porkers foi the;market. When a man goes into the hog business' he should not lose sight of the fact that all hogs are=considered frdir the point of vie,)r'of'pork production. A good, pure-bred hog meais that the appear ance of this hog indicates- quality, good cuts of meat, physical ability to move about in 'getting feed and mak ing quick growth. The .ability, to se lect hogs that will give the quickest returns comes to a man by practice, which 'brings out the fact that a man should grow into the business and not try to buy into' it, with the idea ,of making a success. Three and .qne-. half- percent of the hogs in the United' States are registered purebreds. There is place for- many- more. It should be- the aim of every man raising hogs or going into the hog business to have the best boar he can get for the use he is to be put to and the money the man can safely spend for this purpose. Good sows are necessary and must be used but more ,care must be exercised in selecting the boar. When going into the hog business, decide upon the acreage you wiqh to devote to this phase and be careful not to overstock. The State of Louisiana finds. itself unable to supply most of its pork for bout three or four months. It "is logical to conclude there is no over: production but just to the contrary, During the months of. Mac, June, Jull, August and September and 'a part of 'Ot~ber, .hogs. for butchering are scarse. ' The' 'months of November, December, and January finds 'more hogs on the'local market than- the butchers can use. We can supply the butchers the year round and have hogs for .shipping to central markets or' for export. . Think This Over A Doctor stood admiring a large, fat hog, at -a Chicago Live Stock Show; when a small boy standing by piped up. " at's my father's hog. e got the firs prize." "Wonderful," said the doctor. "Cer tainly' a very fine -hog." Theii he looked at the boy. "How old are you, son?" he asked. "I'm twelve past," said the boy. "Why,"' said the doctor, "you are small fort a nine-year-old. What do CYPR~ESS ~ SASH DOORS BLINDS MOULDINGS AND MILL WORK Capital Sur plus a T. M. MOUZON, Casi - r noWn 1t~ you eat and drhk? ' "Just what thee rest of the folka do, bread, meat, $iec, potatoes, cof fee; cakeMatid' ea." "But' qred the doctor, "don't you drink mil ?" "Naw," said the boy in a tone of disgust, "we feed milk to the-hogs." Give lie Boy A Heifer' dive the Joy a heifer, Start him on his way, Make him feel he's starting in, To be a man today. Let him knoh the value Of a cow or two, See him take a keener pride In the farm for you. Give the boy a heifer, Tell him-"Take, it, Son, May you have a dozen cows, Soon, instead' of one." Let him knoh'he's canted On the old farm, too, And he'll stay-and work his way Side by side with you. If your community hasn't awaken. ed to the possibilities of diversifie,' farming, and of poultry, - hogs, anu dairying, make it your busineda to see that your people become inter. ested in The Cow, the Sow, and the Hen. Sows Are Profitable How would you kie to share sleep ing with an old Sow or "Ten Nights in a pig Pen?" That is what a cer tam ten' year old -boy,' with anothor samt age, did with twenty' fiv9 sows and as a .result they: have over 200 nice' red pigs, all up: and * doing 'fine: Thoy did not' lose five per" cent oft them. So you dee the pigs can be saved if you -are- willing to keep company with trem at' the critical time. If the farmer would "adhere to' cots ton, he should .with it, 'also diversify. and let him, Be Not a Mule The advance of the boll weevil .haa .been steadily constant since it cross ed the Mexican, border urtil 'at the present time it has penetrated to near ly every cotton growing section. Its approach has- ever' caused 'great -eon kern to the cotton grower, and the.ef fects of its work, upon reaching aiy As You'So, the H arvest & The man whi regularly is on ti It is not so what we save tha This Bank w FIRST NATI( "W. C. DAVIS,] A. C. BRADHA ink of M nd Profits . '14 )SEPH SPROTT, Presider alier. JAME$ M. SI gi1 sectio h r suta t tid Seals. ' Diversification of agrieult helped' to sf' the lbssb cve the. boll weevil, and so far as di versifcation .has been practical been a lasting bengfit to the But, the South is the cotton count~; and alcotton cotuntry; an~d 'cottoti duction will fit into any intelliget' system of crop production. But it: beaones-necessary to:i gde the application of bol ilweevil 'd 1rol umethods if cotton production is tobe made profitable. We can well consider 'that biblical.njntofudinhe igh'ad'" ninth verses of the - thirtyseconid. Psalm,.which redds: "Be ye not as the horse, or as'the mule, which have. no understanding; whose .mout' muse t be held in'with bit and bridle. I will iistruct thee and 'teach thee ins th way whi h thou shalt o. a Through the mouth eceof the coto - " vestigators employed y; the - United States Department of Agriclture we hqve been taught the wa - hevil control Let us "not be as'. the mule" but 'let us have ful under-' standing, and 'be guided by. the in. istructions and teachings which these missionaries have given us.' -After years o fexperimentation, we v now. know that it Is possible to con trol, in large measure at least the depressions of the boll weevil b the proper appliation of calcium. ars ate. Work! Sure it is work, andi.hard, work,,to properly dust .a large :ce age of cotton with this material , But, what branch of farming offers any worthwhile. returns except of' ' . work. Risk! There is some risk involv ed- too, but no more than the risk -h. volved, too, but-no more than .thei' rsk" ivolved in gambling with weather, conditions with aiy crop Heavy rains, right after application, may require "an extra outlay of+timne and material'for another' app cation, but this-is the .usul'risk' of farming. Knowledge! Ye ,it re some. cn knowledge,. but tha ir ea obtained, eitherthrough the b free blletins is (Continued on page l sevan) ate. But atd branch of fi aringofs anyh worhwhie raeu exathf isk hl Theeu sa o mers.i i raiserih afe apicjomy aRr1xtaotay14tie n maer0,00 aote a0,ct0n0bt knowlege bu tat i a siyobanh,