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hill method of weevil control MAKES COTTON GROWING P08SWLE Epoch -Making Discovery, of Immeasurable Benefit to trie South and the Entire World, Believed to Have Been Discovered bj Georcria Cotton Planter. (Reprinted from Manufacturer's Rec ord of lUvMr.b'r St, 1989*) (Owlni; to tho highly, enthuniastic report* ranching this newspaper of i tho excellent results obtained in Iturko County, Georgia, from tho poisoning of tin*. boil weevil by tho ! it itt M(|i]no4i an lie 9uni of whith >y >?. carried in our issue of last week, wo i ha\o eauged an independent huimv . to bo made on our account, Wo so n t ' Mr. J. Swintrn Whatcy, of Kdiato Is- i land, South Carolina; to ro personally j ov* r tho urruund and givo us/an un prvjNitxHi report, from tho viewpoint of tho practical grower. Mr, Whaley ' is a recognised cotton export. Ho ' has examined for largo financial in- j teres's tho possibilities of cotton P**o- : duct ion in Sjp?to Homingo and th? Wwt Indies. He has mado a personal study of all mot hods heretofore used for tho control of tho boll' weevil and. in connection with tho Govern' mont, has undor'akoh extensive ox- 1 penmen's on hit own plantations. His report. therefore, has exceptional value as conrng from an independent observer. whoso na'ural inclmalten wou'd bo to viow with suspicion any claims ftvr n p>' 'tvled- wOe\ il control method, unloss the evidence of its success was convincing. His verdict in fovor of the remedy. taken in con junction with the enthusiastic report of President. Wannamakor of 0?e American Cotton Association; ihdi* : cat os that an epoch-making discovery has probably Khvu made. Tin? im- . port a nee to tho South and to? the whole world, which has been threat ened with a cotton fam ne, 1* mani fest. ? Editor Manufacturer's Record.) I have gone over all those parts of -'Burke county where any cotton treated by tho H:!l method. Mr. Hill, tho discoverer, went with me. Th?' stwal d spatrh< s in the Manufac turer's Record of last week and Mr. Wannamakor's article had led me to expect much, but I was not pro pared to find such conclusive evi dence of success as I did find. A boll wee\il remedy that permit* the re manerative production of cotton un der ordfharv condition* ha* unques tionably been found. At this time of the \ear, ol' course. 1 found most of the fields ^sth the' stalks Cut and being plowed up. Nevertheless, :t was etutto e a s> fo*. a practical farmer to sec ? that the crops made las: year \w:e vjuite a. jr^vi as those made be tore the a. 1 ? vent of the wro'l Whir.wr C *. H ill method had Ken employed. \\ . ; h ? out t\cep'. . wivn .! carnage ha hvn reduced ts-? a and prac ?w.\y w ' "? a ' "i^c f* t' ' C V . v, - ? the had 1 a s k ?xi I. ; ^ b^.;: ?? jl> a t i r. ? ^ * v y. ? \ v j : r- \ - t vi * *? -u -i **> * : .**s" -^ur r."^c.r is '. ^.*1 :>. i .j>-~ t h*J rr.i_L cr y : 1" tyv K.vlf j of c-^::*rn or. a x rr 5 of Laa1.. Thit TX4r si-# made - .rr hs. rs <va 10 wttjl Tb#r* arc * kM of . CVisUBU pnwvu it Out sort oi f production. As a mutter of fact, the lady's husband had violently op posed the use of the Hill mixture. She had to *,o to Mr. 1 1 f U and .secure ,i b'ti* of the 'vim iy h? -rself. lh i !wr, burnt oidy b v> t m? :? convert when \ id \v * . ? ,1s o'\Yi< i 1:1 >nt rovert ible t \ . t? :i ?? of tt <' e^' . viu y of the ivm -iy, " ' I eould keep on indefinitely. The ivn.i'r, the sliai e 1 upper, both white and colomi, the planter, the business inan and the banker were all equally ? n:hu-iastic. I found people who Hue the advent of the weevil have hot n disconsolate anil "? depressed now on>o inoro thrilled with hope and the possibility and probability of re t.ur-ni.nj? prosperity. Men who had been planning to abandon cotton pro duction altogether are now making arrangements to buy more mules and plows and plant again on the same scale as before the weevil appeared. They expect Hill'* mixture to put t'.on brick on the map. Indeed, this air of hopefulness on the part of the fat mer is only equalled by the corre sponding attitude of helpfulness on the part of merchants and brokers, who taik of resuming advances on the old scale and financing cotton hereafter with confidence. Credit has returned to Burke county. But the merchants and farmers with one< accord also emphasise one other fact and that m t.he lesson of producing at home which formerly were need lessly imported, at hiph cost, from elsewhere. These Burke county peo ple who us?\i the Hill method have made fine cotton crops this year, but in the hard school of experience they have learned that the "eating" crop is just as important in farfti econom ics as the money crop. The principle of the Hill mixture .s exceedingly simple. * Then* is ?v>thtng complicated about it. The most ignorant farmer m the South van use it successfully It takes but a few words} to describe it. It was reeognited that the K>! ! weevil prob i ni would be solved if something ] v- :iM he found that would attract the \ v d a.- fl.y '-paper attracts the 'fly. That magnet what Mr. Hill appa r, ? } as discevc red. Then* arv e elements to the mixture^-mor . , - as a binder, arsenate as a pois . : . .; i: d a third (secret* elemerv V ? . at* ra .? t s the w et v Th e t e s j .? : ; -y i -vrs r ? _r : . ? c > ?: x r% i ^ . a: : TTii. is ? . r~-* ^ i? ^ lie lit v ? ;^-w *na r?"5 i^ar Km , TOUTHFUL WORK NOT BEST Few Wrltsre Who Hav? Atta-ned In* mortal ity Were at Thfir U cut eat In EaHy Y i.?i ?. ffotna years ago sir William Hubert ?oil Nlcoll tjMi H book < i. I 1''..' Hound of the Clock : ilut Story of Our LtVci from Your to Year." lie divided life into Hi iQlthtiioi tpi is iu mi> periods of fl\ e > ears ami likened 13 lustrums, tk> years to tbo round of tho clock. Sir William oudea vol's to ? describe the characteristics of growth-, draw* Ing on a wry wide knowledge of hi? ogmphy ami h prodigious moinory. .lie brings together a git at number of H? laminating {tuts, sir William does not believe in the comparative useles; ness of men over forty. Ho quotes souio words of l?ord Macaulay in one of Ids speeches, "No great work bf liu agination has ever been produced un? tfer 1 1? ?* age "f thirty or thirty iue yearn, and the Instance* are few in which any have l?een produce*! under the age of forty." Cervautea ?as fifty-two when be pub lished the first part of "l>on Quixote," Bunyan fifty when "Thev Pilgrim's Progress" appeared. I>efoe fifty-el^ht when he wrote "Hoblnsoo CYusoe," Scott forty-three wlu'n the first of all tii* Waverly novels was launched, and Milton fifty -eight, at the date of 'Tar* adjse IiOst." At forty ?one Dumas wrote "The Three Muaketeers," At for ty-two Bacon set to work on his "No vum Organum." At forty-four New ton began to Issue his "1'rlnclpia." and at forty-five Chaucer to write his "t*an terbury Tales." At forty-seven Mod talguo published his essays, and at forty-eight Lnmh his "Essays of Ella." Hnbolals launched his gigantic me dieval masterpiece at forty nine. Ed ward Kluxer aid was fifty when his ?'Omar Khayyam" l>ogan to wait for recognition. Adam Smith published bis epoch-making work, "The Wealth of Nations," at fifty-three, John Locke his "Essay Concerning Human Under standing " at fifty-eight, Jonathan Swift his "Gulliver's Travels" at fifty-nine and lr.aak Walton bis "Com pi eat An gler" at sixty. ? North China Herald. The Woe? of th# Bacheiora. In Belgium the bachelors have h? (un to trembled The provincial coun cil of Halnaut hHS voted for a bill lin posing a surtax of 23 per cent on all the provincial taxes, to be paid by male celibate*. This d?**s not prevent the Ineorrliri ble bachelors t'rotu persisting In celi bacy. They Invoke a legendary exam ple It was in the time when certain men condemned to death were par doned if they consented to wed a maiden desirous to marry ; who tlm? lu her hand brought them to life. Now. oi.e of these. at the hour * hea he was to be hrtneed. wanted to see flrst his future wife. She was of a ran on Ira I age, and hardly a beauty. **Hurg.im>'" he cried, and stepj>ed to the gallows. M:"-\ \\.\- IT ainan t celibates will ;1 < .-v : ' ?*? ;i: r.v ted or n-f.- p;vy the 2o per vt:: ' surtax. Rf.uni to LA^d cf Their Fathfr*. For 107 j. ears tie- Acadian people have ismed \>;th them tl.e memory of the fateful Auirust in 17?V>. nbich wit nessed t he deportation of the Aoad Jar.s f nun the shore* of, Minas l'a< n August lt>. l'.'-TJ, in the n 11 la. go of <Jrnnd Pre. a host of Aoadlaa descendant* gnf'horod on the very site of the trag e<i\ <>f expulsion and tiVc>?; ssion of their heritage? historic cround on which they consecrated to tl.e memory of their fathers the Acadian Memorial chapel Kxiled for nearly 170 y ea rs, Ihei? a ruierl:' cs .n s:rai _-e. fnr \ f! vil lages and cities, the r.\ ce scattered to the four corners ?->f the cor.: ncnt. it .r-Te^l-b-e t h n t the Aoa liars should a^i'.n be res tc red to that f-erri'e ilasperoaa va'.'ey clearest, tilled ar.d enriched by the far.: s^hich they J a J h meste.?. !*?-.? n t! " early M>t tier.ier <->f ACa-l.a Manfcattan S^aM Pries. v The three-bur dr*?.::h anniversary of the founding of N .* TorW w;ll v cele brated i n l *>-.M I- Witter* v<\a Ho^gianl .n in arti cle "H ^I'and a:?d i^er Oologies,"* Just published, rvtehs in an Interesting way the story of Peter Mlnult's purchase of the island of Manhattan. ^4.000 ? "res. for the asssssed rauatloc of wh oh :s Mtnult. who later becioe first governor of Manhat tan. represented the chartered West Ir.da company V Amsterdam I'p to ha.f a dxjo year* ago it was gecersl'.y believed. ar.d Ln many oirries that belief jvrs's-s. that New Amster dam founded. not In ItSCtx hut In lu_v4 Ktfv^ec.t invest ,gat:o? and dlsocrr er-.e-s p .at to the fi.'.a -y of th:a ooo "d s^vy ? Mr Vis UvVgand Batter or Beauty ? A n-;:.: uco.i:i ?.V Petrograd. re late-* * Kuss-ar. .*?iv->eni*y rr e-i frocc ker hr 'her. a farn>er in th-e ?^:bv:rt??? a povnJ of better. Now. in Pecrrrgr-aJ a poend of better at the prv-?*-:. t t.r. <e i royal p-rv-^r. t. ard It t* n."1 ?=? %7. .1 er thtt the ir; <*7 c \mf-+ ? rr>* tv-j, ,.e to :be h ? ipy v.vsie : mil.' nvi<i *nd mi ' o-evs of rcJ- V* Seng thr>^^?T. at ber fr>*-< She d i r -d tier- ? o?t*T?r ; rvfo-r.cg fo \ orp her bt r*er p-:r ?* ? ?T !>-e^ rr-re i Trafa he^* r a a '4;*e-t p< ? ?vc* -t. b^-- a ? .-^--ar? Ir-.T>e>I> tre-T :*? f '* ,v-^ varer de^3 cc. ? ? j ? r ; ?;!: S f.~r U ?'.*>* f*: t ha ? ? * t. tas:?* fiv ?ether ' ^?*rta^l? E -e :t-c Ca?v Aa rie-t r?r fi? Urtt T.^rar* emfmrrj fosr c?e?ia witn*. hsMriMi Md U b?? ea tW mitaL WAN T E D ? ? ' " . " ? ' ' ' ?; > ? \ ? ' v ? ? v: ; . t ? vf> - Pine logs and green pine boards in large or small quantities. We offer the top of the Market at all times. Sumter Planing Mills & Lumber Company Sumter ? - - - - South Carolina Mrs. George C. Cook, of Birming. , ham, Ala., is a successful church architect. NOTICE. This ia to inform the people of Bo thune ami vicinity that* I will be at tin' Lynch wood Pharmacy, Saturday, the 13th, to rentier dental servlco^to t hose in need of same. (I. C. TR A NTH AM, IXD.S. 41 sb NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to the stockholders of Spring.! and Shannon, Incorporated, that a meeting of the subscribers to the said stock will bo hold in th*> office of the storehouse ?>f the firm of Springs and Shannon, Camden, Kershaw County, South Gar > ina, on th?> UUh day of January, H>Jw, at 11' o'clock m., for the pur pose of e'ec in?r directors for said corporation, and performing all the requirements of Chapter XLVJI, Ar ticle 1, of the Civil Code of South Carolina, 11)12, and all amendments thereto, and it is the intention of the subscribers to file a declaration with the Secretary of State showing the proceedings taken for the formation of the said corporation, and praying that a charter be issued to Springs .?nd Shannon. Incorporated, for the nirpose of conducting a general merchandise business, buying and *t*H;ng cotton, buying and selling fer tilizers, conducting farming opera tions, and buying and selling real es aTe, " ' ? : LEROY SPRINGS, C. J. SHANNON, JR., W. S. BURNET. RALPH N. SHANNON. NOTICE Of Sale of $100,000 Street Improve ment Bonds for Camden, S. C. Sealed proposals will be received Sy, the City Council of the City of Csmden, S. C.. at the office of the Clerk, until 8 o'clock p. m., on the 15th day of January, 1923, when they will be publicly opened and read for the purchase of $100,000.00 of j Street improvement Bonds of said j City, in the denomination of $1,000.00 i each, dated January 1st, 4023, and i bearing interest at the rate of 5 per ' cent per annum, payablo acini-annual ly. The bonda will mature forty years from date and the privilege is re served by the City to redeem these bonds twenty years from date. Principal and interest will be pay able at the Hanover National Bank in New York City. The bonds will be coupon bonds, with the privilege of conversion into fully registered bonds. Proposals will be enclosed in a sealed envelope, marked on the out- ' side, "Proposal for Bonds." and ad- j dressed to the City Treasurer of Cam- J den, S. C. Bidders must deposit with the City ; Treasurer before making out bids, or , present with their bids a certified ( check drawn to the Ci*y of Carnden. > S. C., upon an Incorporated Bank qr : Trust Company, or a sum of money | equal to 2 per cent of the face amount j of the bonds, to secure the municipal- ? ity against any loss resulting from the lailure of the bidder to comply with tho terms of hU bid. Said bonds will be sold to thfr highest bidder at or not loss than par and Accrued interest. The purchaser will be furnished with the approving opinion of high class bond attorneys, Caldwell A, Raymond, New York, that the proceedings and bonds are in proper form and are legal obligations on the City of Camden, S. C. The purchaser of the bonds will prepare the form of bond and have these printed and delivered to the City, ready for signature by Feb ruary 15th, 1023. at the purchasor's expense, and Will deposit money iu payment of Said bonds to tho credit of tho City of Camden, S. C., imme diately upon rcceipt of the signed bonds. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. By order of the City Council, of Camden, S.C., this 8th day of Jan uary, 1923. * H. G. GARRISON,. JR., Mayor. Attest : ? ? H. C. SINGLETON, City Clerk. The Discovery of the Decade J There 'has been a great effort made in the past few years to find a real poison for the boll weevil. The real question was to find a combination of ingre dients that would attract the weevil ? make the weevil go to the poison as the poison could not be put on the weevil. This combination has been found and it at tracts the weevils just as molasses attracts flies. Come in and let me explain the whole proposition to you. J. L. MOSELEY Iowa Girls Win Trip Abroad ? i Grand Champion Hereford Weighs 3100 ibs. Living With Her New Daddy Now ?THE KAISER Here is Princess Heortett? ** play on the grounds of her ocw dudvly'i exiled retreat ?t Doom, Hollind. She ts the jroan$e*t daughter of the former kilter's new bride.. tele .Jcbfl? tJbsfo <T w NEW YEAA'J ? OAze" poq cu>/Ae folkt f " "*Nj ?