Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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coming of the wrkvxjl T*!k vrm Mhnliitwl PbpUr Of K*peri??ce. . ^i* ?rUvl*, written by John W. Me, ^tb, oho of Uw> bu?.ln*?i men ( >u the southern i?u if of MbpUalppi. ahould be of the k?**uost Interest to every buKlnt^s mau, professional man ? aiul farmer In tbe south. Whlk* it deals largely with boll weevil history, >vt ii is s-> full of souud philosophy Take Your Cotton Around to F. M Wooten and Get Top of Market ' ? ... V- ; i ' '* ' ^ \ ~ ? '? ' .? ? \ ? " . ; / . . f ? ? V ' . ? . ' 0fflc? back of Loan & Savings Bank Saving Develops Manhood and*Strength of Character 6 ; Money saved and banked is an evidence of your stability, thriftiness and foresight. Without money, you cannot accomplish much. It is a handicap that invites mental and physical depression. The First National Bank wants your sav ings account and will help you in your de termination to forge ahead ? to overcome your proneness to wastefulness. Life Insurance Protects mortgaged real estate. A "I. ifu" Policy pays the mortgage if the bor _ J rower dies. It gives him time to discharge obligation if he dies. An "Endowment" Policy pays off the mortgage whether the borrower lives or dies. loutheastern Life Insurance Co., L. A. McDowell, Agent > rvice and Quality ^ e established our business on the principle of K fair with our customers, giving them full value toe money they leave with us. We have continued that policy throughout the we have been serving you, and we are pursuing nore persistently than ever in this era of price in today. Hut we never lower the standard of our this high plane of commercially we solicit Patronage. ice s Pure Food Store PHONE 66 and agricultural advice that It fits erery where. Mr. MoGmth know? what he U talking about- he tie* tn<en through the fire.11 "In order to make thb? article as brluf as |0 that h?* who runs Biyy n'ad, 1 have decided to treat the t ?. ?U w ot ? v 1 1 subject untii?r three he*d?; Tin- Anticipation. The (Vming ami Kf f??cl,-sThe lteniedy. "The Anticipation The first mistake niatlr by OUT farmer* and business men was t l??lr Indifference to 1 1 1 ?? ^iii \ ? t \* ots the situation, lOven when the boH u.M'vii reached th9 Mississippi river wliloh Is 72 utiles west oH Hrook* huyet! "ill later on when It \vas re p. 'it'tl on ibis *hle of tlie river; every-* one was along at the same old mil' : i 1 <- 1 iii i 1 1 ir ami ho*b o n ; raiding Mtr crops. of < *o 1 1 ? ?n and sending tin* greaior portion ?>f the proceed* north hi -pay for provisions ami ura'n. ?'Wipe op os rwbxed tlta greatness ? . r the danger; We thought it woubl treat , us .like all the otier cotton i>ests which wo had mi successfully eonibattod ? re duce our ylehl for two op ibr^e years and then pass on to other fields. 1 had been |n business here for thirty years. I had never seen a complete failure In all Unit time. Forty per cent of a cotton crop was our lowest record, Why then Should BjB dread the boll weevil- any more than its predecessors? We wouM fight It vutt on the old lines. Wo would just trim our sails a Httle and fight our Way through the atornh Alas I how many dollars would have been saved: and how much suffering spared ;- and what u long up-hill struggle would bftve been a voided through the seven H'rtu years that followed, bad we only taken the precaution to visit the devastated regions beyond the river! Had Wc only seen with Our own eyes the ravages of the weevil and then ad opted the proper means of fighting the oncoming evil; Rut we just waited and we paid -the penalty tfnit always fol lows apathy. "The Coining and lCffect? In the year 1008 the compress receipts at Hock haven were 31,000 bales; in .1011 they were reduced to .1,100 bales. .Tust ten per cent of a futf crop was all that we could harvest at the end of three years.. The drop Was rapid after 1{M)}>. That year we made about 17,* (KM) bales of cotton;.. In the year 1010 about 0.500 bales: and then- the most complete failure. The farmers did not begin to get demoralized nor thp merchants alarmed, until the early part of 1010. Then fear' took pos session of all of us. Wo decided to try TTcWTcrops : and selected peanuts.; as, what we call. a. money crop, and made a failure. The merchants distri buted eleven carloads o^ peanut seed and shipped away that fall only thir ty carloads of peanuts. Thank God, wi' got our seed back ! The next year, we tried svrup, sorghum principally, and some ribbon cane. We installed a canning factory and shipped onr pro duct to Wisconsin. Iowa and Illinois, We gained quite a reputation there for the best, grade of sorghum, but be* ing an absolutely pure grade, a quan tity of it fermented and was a total loss. The factory' failed, in consequence and the growing of syrup as a money crop Was a deckled failure. , "In the meantime, the negroes were moving north to the delta : labor war getting scarce: and the supply met chants nnd bankers were getting tired.: The strain on the financial strength] of ?H was Rreat. The farmers were trying to raise a ilttle cotton nil'- this time, but were devoting npost of their acreage to cowpeas, potatoes, hay. the raising of cattle and hogs, and ex perimenting with "money crops." | "Air the time, however, there was one class of demonstrators who were continuously at work ? the dairy divis ions of both the State Agriculture col lege and the U. S. government. A dairy association \yps formed in the year 1013. At the first meeting there were just nine persons ^present ? tit? two demonstrators, seven farmers and myself, But we organized, nnd three years afterwards the meeting of the same association packed the city hall (capacity hall of 450) to its uttermost "We now have two creameries here and the combined output amounts to $7.r>0,000 a year. Permit mo to state here that the great success ? of the dairy business in our section was rfot due to my efforts. I was only a mod j est "booster. During 'the year 1914, Mr. ' F. F. Decker. an ex-banker, took I charge of the creamery. lie spent most I of hi* time the first year of Mm man agement in a huck-4?oard going from farm fo farm explaining the wonder ful possibilities of the industry. He built it up. Success l>egets success! j The second creamery was installed a ( short timp afterwards-. I "We commenced to climb the hill of I prosperity in 1917, when wc received ; about 10,000 bales of cotton ; the erop of 1918 was 14,000 bales and we ex pect to get about an equal amount this yea r. "The Remedy ? If I were living in a country that was about to be invaded by the boll weevil, I would promply I call a meeting of all the bankers, mer ' chants and farmers an I would move the adoption of the following resoKi 1 tlon : i "Whereas; this community will soon b* infested by the dread botf] weevil, and being fully aware of the dftnger with which we are threatened; of the havoc this llttl* insert leaves In Its trull J of the demoralisation" it" spreads it moil* t he business w<*u ; the discour ag*m*nt ?t causes to corn* over the farming element; anil knowing that uule*s (he Issue Is bravely met ami conservatively handled It may cause depression tbat In likely to h* felt for at l?<ast ye von long years. ( ttI3k it, (htr*?faf?' r??rtl*ft ? That economy -and conservation shall Iw. our watchword; thuu bankers anil mer chauts shall be requested t<> >crew down the advancement of credit 'to the lowest possible notch : that, presum ing: the farmers ??f this section are com ptwd of three el* pes first raters, second class, and plug* about evenly divided, one third In etch elass and let them root hog or life; no attention to first class,, ns they will be able to take care of themselves that we will east loose from the third class and let them root hog or die; but that we will do all we can to olevat^ No. 2 and make them better producers. "That we wtfl not run after false soils, such as peanuts, sorghum, etc., hut will diversify and stick to such crops as we are accustomed to culti vating; namely, corn, cow peas, hay velvet beans and cotton, and that we will raise as many cuttle ami hogs as possible and will endealor to eneour nge dairying as much as we can. re questing our farmers to tackle the Industry In a sroaH way at the begin* iilng. '?? would then adjourn the meeting, uvgMg each one to strive with all his mi'-ii! and main to put into exflctxtiep ? he spirit of these resolutions. "S'oimiw here in the Old Testiment -J think in Jeremiah- it Is written, "My people were destroyed for want of knowledge" and the immortal bard, Kh:ikospcar, has said : ".Sweet an' the uses of adversity. ? ? "In our e.vperlouce. both the inspired writer and the great poet were right. We eamc neat* to being destroyed for want of knowledge and lack of belief; and while our adversity has been n groat educator and we are now better fanner* ?ind business men and this section Is more prosperous than ever. We could have accomplished in four years What required eight had we used caution lu the beginning and put the brakes on hard. I "IC.v-Governor Manning, of South Carolina, who visited this section with n large delegation several years ago In serch of Information "on the boll weevil question, remarked ? after hear ing several business men ? 'Weill, Mr. Mcfirath. your advice is to keop our feet warm and our beads cool?' 'Yes, I replied, 'and your purse tight.' "The three classes into which I ili^ Service The ?'Service" of this bank is planned to relieve you of vexatious details and to co-operate with you in th.0 discharging of financial worries. To assist you politely and promptly. To make banking easy for the customer. To spread wide our facilities making them available to all and thus really bringing the bank to you. Docs this kincVof cooperation seem desirable? -Does it appeal to you? Our depositors tell us that they like it. Perhaps you will like it too. ?. ' v> ;7 ... ;< 9'' \ - . - ? ; ???; ? ' . Loan & Saving? Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C. STRONG SAFE CONSERVATIVE WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY By Making Your Old Clothing Serviceable We are doing it for thousands of others? why not for yon? We believe a trial will convince you. FOOTER'S DYE WORKS Cumberland, Md. viile the farmers is 'true of all other trades and -professions, and the ratio about the same. J know it applies to merchants. I a?sked a good lawyer about his follow^ and he saUi, 'Yes/ I then inquired of an eminent preacher and he replied, 'Assuredly so, only I fear we have more than the one-third in the third class.' " It is the custom in Berwickshire* England ami other parts of Great Url tuln, among women workers in the field, when their hacks become tired by bowing tow down wblle singling turnips with short shanked hoiis, to lie down will) their faces to the ground allowing others to step across the lower pa ft of their backs, on the lumbar region until the pain of fatigue is re moved. American troops on duty on (he Mix lean border districts number 28,807. r ?? * . ? --;L- . * - " ? ' , . We take pleasure in announcing that we have secured the agency for Camden for the well known and popular FISK TIRES and will carry in stock at all times a full line of all popular sizes and types. Adjustments Given in Camden We are authorized and will be prepared to give adjustments on alt Fisk Tires from our stock in Camden and if your FISK TIRE fails to give satisfaction, bring it to us and get a new one on a basis of i Fabric Tires J A 6,000 miles. Cord Tires 8,000 miles We quote below a few FISK Prices which we think bears comparison with any c om petition : NEW PRICES 30 X 3 J/2 Pla 32 X 3 1/2 Pla 81X4 Pla 32 X 4 Pla 33 X 4 Pla 34 X 4 Pla n Fabric $14.80 n Fabric 17.85 n Fabric ? 20.60 n Fabric 23.75 n Fabric 25.10 n Fabric 28.50 Other Prices on Application. Carolina FISK INCORPORATED ? GOODYEAR UNITED STATES