The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 19, 1916, Page 9, Image 9
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U. S. WASTING WHITE PAPER.
And Thus Making the Article Scarcer
and Higher.
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At a time when there is almost a
famine of white paper in the country,
and when the school children of
Washington and other cities are bev
ing organized to save old newspapers,
periodicals and rags to help the paper
mills contend with the situation,
the abuse of the "leave-to-print" and
^ franking privilege in congress, in
connection with the national campaign,
has been greater than ever before
in the country's history.
The number of documents that
have been coins: out of the folding
t ? - room
of the house of representatives
under the franks of members?which
means that they go through the mails
free?that is at public expense?has
averaged 3,500,000 a month since
the first of January, 1916. There has
^ been a similar, though somewhat
smaller, flood from the senate side
of the Capitol.
No less than a quarter of a million
documents and speeches have
^ been mailed from the house document
rooms under Democratic franks
for the past month or six weeks, and
about the same number under Republican
franks. If the Democrats
jk have the margin in number, it is not
sufficient to affect the principle that
V this abuse is a thoroughly non-partisan
one, in which each side in politics
seems to give the other >carte
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UlHllCllt' gU CIS iai ao j vu >iuv
L don't worry about the expense of this
thing, etc.
The 500,000 documents and
speeches a day which have been pour'
ing under political franks into the
postoffice of the house since the adIk
journment of congress are matched
by a large number on the senate side;
a total estimate of 750,000 for the
, \ whole of congress per diem ought to
\ v be fair. That signifies a cataract of
- * some 20,000,000 of these documents
?some of which are bulky?cluttering
the mails in a month. They have
been printed at public expense, any^
how, including the cost of the white
\paper; and the mailing at public ex'
pense is merely a completion of the
process.
A part?a small part?of the cost
of the franked stuff might be defrayed
if the government would sell the
} ; millions of useless documents now ly>
9 ing/ in the basement of the Capitol,
f At the first session of the present conI
* v gress there was a sale of useless documents,
which brought the govern.
ment $30,000; and as the price of
paper has risen materially since then,
a similar auction should be more
Vj / %
profitable. Old paper is said to be
bringing about ten cents per 100
I pounds.
fr y To get back to the original rei
i mark, however, it seems rather in|
consistent for Uncle Sam to be using
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white paper so recaiessiy m iue uiotribution
of political polemical matter
at the expense of the public, when
Secretary of Commerce Redfield has
* been pleading with the public for
'months, and very laudably, to save
,-s . old newspapers and the like to: help
stave off the threatened paper fa^
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\ Negro Labor Invited.
rT' It is interesting to* note that the
demand of the North for labor is at.
tracting negroes from the South, and
V tha$ this movement promises to be
an important factor in changing the
conditions of industrial and rural life
in some of the States that have not
previously proved attractive 'to large
numbers of the Southern colored men.
1 The assertion is made that half a
million negro laborers have moved
North in the past six months, and it
1 is further stated that at least two
millions could be used now in New
,York and Pennsylvania.
H. To expect this movement to solve
the labor shortage would be perhaps
unreasonable; besides it might easily
be at the expense of the Southern section
of the country, which needs a
large amount of unskilled labor in
the cotton fields; but at all events
there is nothing strange or unusual
J in a rapid shifting of labor from one
section to another in accordance with,
the well known law of supply and demand.
> $ When farm laborers and sheepit
herders think nothing of traveling
jl, from Northern Spain to North Bakers
to and other parts of our Northwest
m every year, it would be much less
r An mrieinor tn oaa nnlnrn/1 man frrnn
OU1 yi luiu-g IU i^CC W1UICU 111^X1 liyui
the South jumping over the Mason
and Dixon line.?Boston Journal.
Joseph Knew.
Joseph's father had given him a
ten-cent piece and a quarter, telling
I him that he might put one or the
[ other in the church contribution
plate. At dinner the father asked
which coin Joe had put on.
"Well, father," responded the lad,
"at first it seemed to me that I ought
to put the quarter in the plate, but
just in time I remembered the text,
'The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,'
and I knew that I could give the tencent
piece with a great deal more
cheerfulness. So I put that in."?
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Wilt and Anthracnose, or Boll Rot. ?
Cotton wilt is also known as
"blight," "trenching," "black heart,"
and "blackroot." Plants attacked
by the disease may suddenly wilt and
die; in other cases, only one side of
the plant may be affected, the rest of
the plant remaining green. Sometimes
plants may partly recover,
though generally plants affected
either die outright or are so severely
injured that very few perfect bolls
are produced.
The cause of the disease is a fungus
that attacks the roots and penetrates
upward into the stem, cutting
off the water supply and causing
death. This fungus grows only on
cotton and okra. Watermelons, cowpeas,
and other crops are also attacked
by wilt fungi, though these
do not cause cotton wilt. The cotton
wilt fungus, while living on no
plants other than cotton and okra, is
very tenacious of life, and is able to
live for a number of years on decaying
vegetable matter in the soil, then
-WA.uiwrt nfttfnn -nrV-ion it ic nlantpfl
CtLta^IWllg VUHWU nubu ?v iu _
on such infected lands. This fact is I
of importance in considering crop ro- I
tations as a method of wilt control. I
While appearing locally in most I
sections of the cotton belt, cotton I
wilt is very destructive only in the 8
coastal plain country extending from B
eastern North Carolina^ southwest- I
ward to south central Alabama. It I
is interesting to note that this belt B
is only 100 to 150 miles wide, and B
that it embraces the very sandy and B
sandy loam soils of the cotton belt. B
Farther inland, on the heavier loams B
and clay lands, wilt has never be- B
come destructively prevalent. Though B
not definitely proved, there is strong I
evidence to indicate that cotton wilt B
finds 'most favorable conditions for B
its development only on light sandy B
soils, and that on the heavier loams B
and clays it will never be very de- B
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Cotton wilt has a very effective I
ally in the eel-worm or nematode, a 9
tiny worm one-twentieth to one-six- 9
tieth of an inch in length, which bores I
into the cotton roots, causing an en- , ^
larged, knotty condition of the roots
known as "root-knot.'' Now, just
as a cut or scratched place on a boy's
foot may become infected with germs
that cause inflammation and even
lockjaw, so the knotted, diseased
roots caused by the nematode are
easily attacked by the cotton wilt
fungus. /
With the above facts in mind, we
are ready to consider the methods of
controlling cotton wilt and of making
cotton in spite of it.
Farmers and State and United
States investigators early noticed
that no matter how bad wilt might
be in a certain field, there were always
a few stalks that survived and
produced good crops. Of course it
was very natural to conclude that
these stalks that lived while those
all around them died possessed especial
resistance to the disease, and
that seed selected from such stalks
would likewise prove resistant. This
theory proved correct, and has resulted
in the development of the
wilt-resistant strains of cotton, one ;
of which every farmer with wilt-infected
land should plant.
Two wilt-resistant varieties devel
oped by the United States department
of Agriculture are Dixie and
Dillon, though they are not early maturing
and thus are at a disadvantage
in boll weevil territory, which at
an early date *will probably include i
a large part of the wilt-infected
areas. The Covington-Toole, a wiltresistant
strain of the Too^ developed
in Alabama, has been very promising
in tests made by the Alabama
experiment station, .and is apparently
early enough to be suited to boll
weevil conditions. The Sam Wood is
a variety that has been popular in
the wilt areas in southeast Alabama,
and we understand that the Georgia
State entomologist, Atlanta, Ga., has
developed a variety that is both wiltresistant
and early enough to be
adapted to boll weevil conditions.
Since the nematodes above referred
to make the roots of the cotton more
subject to "attacks of wilt, it is highly t^le
important that these parasites be kept pre
under control. This is best done by ^ur
planting on the land crops which th.ey wai
do not feed upon, thus starving them. yea
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Among tne legume crops max are um attacked
by ,the nematode and are mei
thus safe to plant on wilt-infected spr'
land are the Iron and Brabham vari- 1
eties of cowpeas, all the varieties of dis<
velvet beans, peanuts and beggar- Pin
weed. Non-legume crops that are onl;
not subject to nematode attack and strc
hence are safe to plant in a rotation the
with cotton on wilt-infected land are eel,
corn, oats, rye and wheat. Practical- ma;
ly all other farm crops, legume and cen
non-legume, are subject to nematode (
attack and hence should not be plant- rati
ed on wilt-infected land that is later tan
to be planted to cotton. sim
Summarizing, then, the two chief tha
means of controlling cotton wilt are: seei
(l j planting oniy win-resistant va- mci
rieties; and (2) rotation only with onl;
such crops as are known to be im- ent:
mune to nematode attack. one
Anthracnose or pink boll rot of ble<
cotton is found nearly everywhere in will
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cotton belt, though it is most Cure Didn't Take. . I 1 1
valent and destructive in the more | 111 1^ 43k |C 1 I \AT fSk
aid sections from east Texas east- A colored man entered the general LI L AA C? M? A Jl Am Ob A A W (ub V
d and during wet seasons. This store of a small Ohio town and com- j PREMIER CARRIER OF THE SOUTH.
r east of the Mississippi river,! plained to the storekeeper that a ham I *
bably because of the wet sum-|that he had purchased there a few] ^ ^ oorMr>rn rTO A IMC Cr'UETlI TI I7Q
r, it has been unusually wide- i days before had proved not to be JTA>30rii^lVjC<I\ 1 11 disyj t j <>j
ead. | good. EFFECEIVE SEPT. 17, 1916.
i'his, too, is a fungus, infectious j The ham is all right, Joe, insist- . Trains Run Daily.,
Base. It first appears as a tiny! ec* the storekeePer- No. Arrive Bamberg From No. Leave Bamberg For
k spot on the boll, this gradually ^ a^n t boss,' insisted the >4 Augnsta and intermedi- 24 Branchville, Charlestoa
axging until the whole boll is de- i ?ther, "Dat ham's sure bad." ate stations 5:05 a. m. and intermediate sta-^
)yed. Sometimes as many as half! How can that be, continued the! 25 Charleston, Branchville tions .. .... 5.0oa. m.
1 - - ' --j cfo_ 2a Auausta and interme
bolls on a stalk are entirely ruin- j storekeeper, "when it was curea on.y, ? ;2- a m - stetioBs" 6:25 a. ml
and the injury in an entire field; moment'18 Au?usta and intermedi- 18 Branchville, Charleston
y run as high as 30 and 40 per Joe reflected solemnly a moment ate stations 8*43 a. m and intermediate stat
and then suggested: _ I 35 charleston and inter. tions 8:43 a. m. .
Control measures are preventive Maybe it s done had a relapse. | mediate stations ....10:57 a.m. Augusta and intermedi
ajuliui medbuieb die pieveiiuve Qfat? Tmirnal . , , . x ? .. ate Stations 10:o7a. m.
tier than curative. Most impor- i | Augusta and intermedi- 22 Branchville, Charleston
t of all these is seed selection.! Michigan stands first among the) ? ate stations ... ... 6:37 p. m. and intermediate sta?
" "? ? **>.*?] ?. <?r ?U. production ot ?tt, ' 17 i.iiiS* '
t the disease is carried in the i ranks second for iron and third for tions 8:17 p.m. ate stations 8:17 p.m.
d. The South Carolina experi- j COpper. i Trains Nos. 17 and 24?Through sleeping car service between Bamberg
it station has, by selecting seed N and Atlanta.
y from healthy stalks and bolls, i stalks free from the disease and \ n. B.?Schedules published as information only. Not guaranteed,
irely eliminated the disease in ! plant them on land not in cotton thej For information, tickets, etc., call on ?
year. If the farmer who is trou- previous year he will have entirely j S. C. HOLLIFIELD. Acent
i with anthracnose or Doi: rot \ soivea nis uon rot yiuuicm.?xiw- ? * ** '
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