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The NEW EDISON, "Tht Phonograph With a Soul * What Edison did during the War Til K official announcement is out. Ask us lor your copy of "What Edbcm Did During the War." Writ* for it, if you can't, call. It tells how Edison left his home and business and wertt to sea, how Edison's "Yankee magic** foiled the (.German submarines. The bulletin tells many other things Edison did while Chairman of the Naval Consulting Hoard. It explains how Edison kept the price of his phonograph at bed rock during an era of high costs and soaring prices. Since 1914 the New Edison has advanced in price less than 15%? : and part of t his is war tax. This bulletin also describes the Bud get Plan, which makes it possible for every home to enjoy the benefits of good music without feeling the financial outlay. < \>tl>KN I I KNITI KK COMPANY IMioitr |.?li Camden, S. C. /Vr /i? MMfUMMMf JVr, Edi**? 'a Nmm Rntmrtki DOUBLE YOUR DOLLARS WITH DUROCS Two crops a year and always a market. Ham and bacon arc the world's greatest meats. K&ise your own and some to sell. I'ure-breds j*i v*i quick return* for feed. Let us help you start. No charge. All information free, a postal j4tiLs it. AMERICAN DUROC-JERSEY ASSOCIATION Exchange and Dexter Park Avenue :: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS PLUMBING Have your Plumbing and Steam f itting looked over and put in fir?t class shape before the cold weather sets in. All work will be promptly attended to. Estimates cheerfully given on all work. JOSEPH E. BERKMAN LICENSED PLUMBER 535 DeKiilb St. Phone 362 Camden, S. C. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY By Making Your Old Clothing Serviceable We ar?- (loins: it for thousands of others- -why no! for you? We believe ;i trial will convince you FOOTER'S DYE WORKS Cumberland, Md. Story of Calcmm Arsenate (Hy l*aul II. Mttiujvni; In Southern Humll^Tr From the* standpoint of sutuultrlng to poison, the bojl weevil Is an ex tremely elusive an ami. Ordinary math* Q(ii of insect pontrol ijtioQQt to i>ut II! tie In his young II f??. lb-longing. as lie i Iocs, to a branch of the beetle family, IiIk long beak protect* liiia froip tho onilna ry inetlnsls of control. l<V)r a hfiig time he talked all attempts at! 'ntornal poison lieeauHe of tfhe fact that In' Mpeiids tin* early iwrlod i?f h's ||ft> inside tho square or young boll and uses Ills homo ax a hi mm* of food, and during the latter |M?rlod lie sticks Ills l.cnk Iii th?' stpmre, young boll. < ?r tender sliool , and foods from the In s'de. Figuratively. if not literally, ho laughed at nil efforts of man to do him Injury. Away hack in 189ft, when the serious? ness of the boll weevil Invasion wfl h flrbt becoming apparent, Who Itureau of Kntomology, United States j>cpartmout of Agriculture, established a station for Invivptlgatloual work In South Tex an; this wns later moved to Victoria, Texas. After two more rTiunges all work was centered at the Delta Labor atory liK'it'tOiI at Tallnlah, Louisiana, In the heart of the holl weevil territory. The body of entomologists assembled there under Mr. H, Tt, Coaid, the best the t'nltod States Department of Ag riculture possessed, studied the boll weevil as probably no other Inseot. has been studied In the history of the world The highest type of mentality, the most exacting labor, nil the laws of scientific Investigation all were brought to bear that -Southern fanners might he freed from this overburdening problem. Cultural methods were tried, with results that were at host only, pn rtiallv satisfactory.. F/Vcry known poison was used In every known way, and failure resulted in every instance. One day, about 'D1 I. while chemically Mending certain poisonous substances, a white powder was precipitated. In vest I gat 'on proved tfliat it was highly poisonous. (Inii it could lie made in unlimited quantities, and at n reasonable cost. The new chemical poison was cabMum a rsena te. \ III f I ? ? T ?? r ?*r. ? ? t ? i ^ ? study of tin* life habits of the boll weevil developed tin* l>eculiur fact t lint it is necessary for the I nsecf to drink water quite fro q 1 1 ? * 1 1 1 1 >' ? al most (bitty. In fact. Reason i i j t? Mini a process of climina I ion (level oped that tin* only daily source of itioiviure was the dew lliat collects on the lavi-s of the plant. This discovery brought out tlhe only vulnerable point in the wcifvil'H defense ? poison t-lm dew and you poison the weevil. Thou there followed a process of Ptlinlnatlnc those poisons 'hat would not serve the desir ed <'nils until flnallv caleluui arsenate it b Me rema i tied I fa \ iiir '..'"lie tlds far. next step was to it a i 1 1 ih?? hest manner in which ? ? anplv the poison to the plants, and mother proeess of elimination left only I" a t of d il" t i ii u it "M Tin' started the difficult job ?>f >lo ve'npinc this scientific theory, tested i i.ly oil iiiTI plats. Into a Cl'cal blii workable plan that mieht be of value i ? the millions of farmers who are ?'f VV III-,' ? ?! ?? foil t ab'ium arsenate it-df. easy to mako ii n d i ? i- laboritor.x eondi t ions, was very difficult to ioa nnfaetno in bulk Ii must be of I'vai-ily ilit' rl _rl 1 1 deusitv, : ml eround to an impalpable powder or ii sill worm* Ma nufaot nrers 1 1 1 : i K i 1 1 the poison f??r the first time u i i'i* itoi a K|?* t ? comply with these ? ? \ :i ? 1 1 1 1 t ri ins, ;i iii | i nof f i ? ? i ? ? 1 1 1 pois.>n ippeared < ii flu- market. To relievo ?'lis situation, the Station was foreeil '? broaden iis sc.. j M - in include analyti cal invesfic 1 1 ions. w1!:ieh were made free for all farmers who desired their: poisons tested. It was necessary in many instances (?> test the poison under growing conditions, to determine if those samples too high in Water Solu ble Arsenic IVntoxidc. the direet poison ing f) coney, would burn the entton p'atits to an injurious decree: and to derermine if those samples too fr.w in the pois??nin.: aeein v were stiff iciei. ! lv sf rone to kill the weevils. More than L' .".on samples of ? a'., iuai arsenate have thus been tested, and It micht not be amiss ??> *tif, here that, more t? nn twiMitv fiv?- pc r .'nit of that nniii'ie w . r. i e .t m|> fn I be standard \s a n sii!t. uia:.\ foi.s ,>f p. .is. n were oonfis. ? M'e.1, titid penalties. . \,t . d i > such a decree t ha ' it is fdt that n.sirly All poiviinv sold for the ltVjl s.?a?i..n will ? omply with the c i v ?? n standards The .ante the problem of developing du-'inc ni.'i' h nes that would adequate ly handle the job Such a rnnrhine had many requirements if inns', first of a'l -atisfa1 -torlly perform the f in. don of ! low h.c :!.? in pr-.p r qnHittl ?i- s ,.|| the cotton dusted; ' t must ? over the .-round with eti..uch dls;ateft make the lab..r c s? j..w ; j: musf ' , Inrvpeiisi ve : !r must simple: it a of sf urd\ sfr )? ti .i> I' must so iirr.iiu'i'"! so that ]?>wor f r draw ire 'he ma hine and ;? ratine tli* fan t>e f irnished bv n team No ?s'.i. h m.iii.ine ..ii t h?> marker The or. bird diwters e.?ifid not b'ow the pr.w-b r and were li*. fragile Tlie old makeshift i*de and -bay method Income Tax In a NoMmII. * Who? H1iik!? persons who h ut not laconic Of f 1.000 or mors for the yea? i it ;i i i i?-d coiiplt'.s VN l??? had not income of JjtlMHNt. NVIifii March jfS, 1ULM. is flu- final I :latc for filing returns u;id limkll^T firHt payment*. Where? Collector of Internal Hove nuc for illst rlcrt In which the per won resides. l I??\n V Full (llri't'Coiis 'qf Form 10 lo.\ mid Form KMO; hJso the l?\v and re gulations. WhaiV Four percent normal tax on taxable Income >M> to $1000 In excels of exemption. FitcM per cent normiH tax on ha la fiee of taxable income. Sur tax from 1 per cent to (15 per cent on net incomes over $5,000. Ool.Uni'H M Ihat roln-? Ojwi'* Houho Sniiinliiv , Jit nun jfy LMI. tn\ successfully used In controlling tho ariiiy worm.', would not work. At a la- 1 resort, ft machine tfhop was erected at the Station, a eoiUiie-Krttduate ma rhanlst whk placed In charge, and the Joh of developing" a machine to ade quately serve the particular purpose w >h parted. Suffice It to nay that such a machine was developed, and has imw attained a high degree of efficien cy. Also, government patents were secured on tho five basic principles In volved In the construction of a dust'ng machine, and the former who pureflias o* is not forced to pay high Inventor's royal tied. Coincident with the development of the poison and of the machine for ap plying It. was the development of tobe utilization of calcium arsenate from the practical standpoint. The first step w.N test plat work, In which, on plats of approximately one acre in sl/.c, tests were conducted to determine the efficiency of calcium arsenate In comparison with oMier ijoisons, the nrhou'it neeessiry to use at each appll cation, and the desirable number of application*. Following .success with the few small plots, a gradual develop ment started. Small areas were rent ed from farmers In the vicinity of Tallulah. and more extensive fests were^nade. The news spread, and the farmers farther out got In t'oudh with the Tallultih Station and had tests made on their farms. Development along these lines con tinued until 101(1, when we had that rainy season so well remembered by farmers throughout the South. Dur ing that vear *01110 really startling results were secured. <>uite a number 01 tests were made, and practically alt were successful on one plantation. be?'ti os,> of the evcertslw rains It had been Imp ssible to work the^ cotton and cocoa grass was actually hirfier than the vouni: plants, while weevils wen- pre*. ail in the greatest abundance the owner, thoroughly disgusted, gave the Station the cotton on condition that jf would pay for the working ? and almost a half bale per acre was ?wide as the result of poisoning. In \ not it'-r state, a negro tenant got so discouraged by the rain and grass and weevils that he Van off and left his crop : If w as returned, his crop pojson ? ?d. and not counting the cotton turned under In the spring, he gathered more Ih.in :i title per acre. I'll. ii only did the Tallulah Station make ils first announcement. and that a nmninceinent was to the effect that all appearances were favorable to a pos-Ple ???oliition to the l>oll weevil problem. Starting with that <lite. enormous strides have heen made ill the devcl epuieut of i ! ; ? ? scientific theories Into n?nbb? inf- rmati??n for every day farm ?-rs. Tie W"'k wn- extended. More men were cM-d to the Station striff until it i iic| nded more than fifty. I.eadin:: farmers In other sections and other states entered into co-opcra'tlve arrangements with the Station whereby whole firms could l>e poisoned. State Agricultural F-xperlment Stations be came interested, and the experimenta tion carried to an extent that the Tal lulah station could not hope to do As a culm Irintlon of thl~ work, in livjn. pn.itahly a hundred thousand acres of cotton poisoned T'.ius. thr.m^h accidental discoveries scientific investigations, dotcrmliia tlon tli.it surmounted obstacles, rind unlimited |.iti<n<f has been d<^eloppd n system . f in-ect Control that Is now readv f"P ? iu'i"ii> n-c werevcr the boll weevil d "Cs damage I o wli ? ti>n < .ad Method wherein ? i Mum arsenate, a w bite pour ! k" powder, is dinted on cotton with machines constructed for I he purpose and which at a cost (if tnn dol'a r* per irTc, will reduce the infestation <<f boll weevils to the r-\tenf . that cotton nun he profitably produced i 1} i _ no longer a <w|enMf:e tlu'ory, j tin* i lirin^' :i etna lit y I*c? a use t!.e land is so badly torn tin 1 1\ -hell fire many villages in the Vcr- i Inn region of J'rnnce will never he re const ructed Mi?s Sarah P ("lark has hi en <r wanist for < u ; >.?irs 111 an K up land. churrh. Lenle von M. Zeseh, of San Fran- | clsco is the first woman to practice i dentistry in Alaska. Important to Gardeners Start your early tpring cardan now and bo *ura that you plant good seed. Don't watte your work by uiing ?eed that may germinate when you can get teed grown and guaranteed by Robt. Buist, the mpst reliable seed grower and distributor in the eastern states. We can supply most anything in season. Onions and Potatoes will be here for Feburary planting. W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store, TELEPHONE 30 PROMPT ATTENTION "A hundred or two is all I need." How often have you heard that said by the man who always spent more than he earned. Thrift counts when opportunity knocks. The safety of your Savings here and 'the assurance that they will be returned with 4 per cent interest when you ask for them, is the first essential of any sound in vestment. This bank urges you to save and deposit here where as high a rate of interest is paid as we con sider consistent with the safety of the money banked. Loan & Savings Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C. STRONG SAFE CONSERVATIVE Double - Barreled Service you buy I H C machines, you * * also buy the Service that goes with them? the co-operation that exists between us and the International Harvester Com pany, and which we intend to continue with you. We expect to hold your con fidence in the I H C line by furnishing the best implements, machines and farm operating equipment on the market. We render to you a double-barreled Service in not only supplying you with first-class goods, but in seeing that these goods are kept in perfect running order long after the original sale is for gotten. Genuine Repairs Our moral obligation does not stop with the original sale, but you can hardly expect us to assume any responsibility for the successful operation of I H C machines if you buy imita tion repairs of inferior quality instead of buying genuine 1 H C Repairs. We sell only genuine I H C Repairs made by the Harvester Company, and which are made of the same materials as used for the original machines. No imitation equals the genuine. Play safe! ? SPRINGS & SHANNON Camden, 5. C. MONEY TO LOAN The lntorost rate on <-\orj cIhsx of loan at this time is bigh. -Mortgage mon^y Is particularly Reared The B<ju?t*ble instructs u? t<> off^r liberal loans on d^flratM rotddcnce property in the city of ('nmd<*n at six p^r <*nt aimplo intercut No commt?u'on. Kxpens?* i.ominal. Talk to um about it. W. R. HOUGH, Special Agent. Crocker IHdg. Phone 441