Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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* This Department is intended for the u^e of the members of • * * tter arniers’Uniou in this? county and is open to their use. «» / * . Let your communications be in Saturday to insure appear* ance the following week. / MONEY SIX PER CENT mm MINGS WAREHOUSE COMPANY GOOD NEWS TO FAR MERS. Of importance of the highest order to the cotton growers of South Carolina and nt ighboring States i% the announcement of the Farmt'rs’ Loan and Trust company ot Columbia that it is prepared t«» advance money on receipts for cor ton stored with the Standard Warehouse com- pany, bavin;: warehouses in (safe. Lands that only r few years ago could have been bought for $125 per acre are now held at $bt> to $190. And just now seems the time for investors, as some men are offering a part of their holdings to raise means to plant rice in the portiqp they retain. As to the method of rice plant* ing here, it is in some respects crude, for these people are new in the bnsiness. But a farmer takes any (art of his land, which may have been the year before planted in corn, oats peas or potatoes, plows up a siiihII dam around it, then plows and har rows his land as do other lolks, bur sows his seed broadcast, and does not cultivate except to r< - move the large weeds by band. 1 am doing just what many farmers did the hrst year they went into rice planting—leaving the water supply for the last but I’ll get that in, which many rice plajiaters did not do in time the lirst year and lost out. A ten inch well about 165 fettdeep Orangeburg. (*r<?euwood, New berry, Anderson. Greenville and Columbia, at 6 per cent interest. The significance of this state ment to the cotton producers i* measured by the fact that last season and heretofore the rate of interest on loans secured by bonded warehouse receipts has been 8 per cent. Meanwhile the Standaid Warehouse company, with which the Farmers* Loan and Trust company is ... close alliance, put down am , a thilty or 10rty principal business of the latter', being to advance money on the cotton receipts issued by the warehouse company, is prepared to receive and store cotton at lower rates than are to be ob tained from any other warehous ing system in this country. RICE PLANTING IN ARKANSAS. On the way out here, and at the suggestion and kind invita tion of Mr W ni. Ktdican, l got off the cars m Hasten to investi gate rice growing on the prairies , a |i have to be pumped of Arkansas. Ihiriy-seven yeais ’ Harvesting is done with J)ind- prairie, which it is said will greatly reduce the cost of water, and so add stimulant to the rice industry. These good people think, they grow the fthest quality of rice in the world. Col. A F Yopp, ban ker, large land owner and State senator of Prairie county told .ne that it would be a waste of time to try to convince them that to South Carolina belonged thst distinction. 1 had only one argument to offer: The world does not accept the view of the Arkansas rice planter, because travellers tell us that at the hotels of the grebt cities of Europe and of America, the menu cards have on them only “Carolina Kice. ” The roads on the prairies are fine, good school houses eveiy three miles, and rural mail routes everywhere. I venture the bold statement that more hay and milk are marketed in either Prairie or Lonoke counties in one day than in Colleton county in live years. S. A. Marvin. Hot Springs, Ark. FARMERS’ UNION DIRECTORY- NATIONAL. President—Chas S Barrett, Union City, Ga. Vice-President J E Montgomery, horse power engine is put up. The rice is expected to come up and to grow to a height of foui inches before water is put on, and the pumps have tp* be kept going till the grain is near ripe. 1 Some, however, I am told are Gleason, Tenn. uow civin^ a short dry growth.! Secretary-Treasurer R H McCul 1 was always m si^ht ot i fields and could see at all times eight , or ten ' water plants— smoke and steam going skyward. I should have stated that these Wf*ll« cannot be exhausted, and of rice plaouiiii in my owii state, gave kern z?st tor this unexpect ed experience. 1 found Mr Padican to be a large land owner and very kind gentleman. He furnished a buggy and good pair of horses and spent a por tion of two days driving ml over the... counties of Prairei and Lonoke, showing roe the rice crops and explaining the method of its cu.tivation here, which , is radically different from that of my home state* 1 boarded the cars the next day at Carbish, Lonoke Co. At this latter place a large rice milling plant is be ing erected, and will be reftdy for the business of this season. Its daily capacity is said to be eighLhundred barrels. 1 went through the mill. It is some thing that gives one the impres sion that these people mean busi ness. Oxe like it is now in sne cessfu' operation at Studgart, Arkansas county. The history of rice planting in Arkansas may be qnickly told. About seven years ago a farmer secured a small quantity of seed rice, planted it near his lot well and watered It with his well backet. A good yield and a fine quality of rice was made. This same farmer then said that he coaid, he thought, the next year, prodoe on a seventy acre yield which be had, thirty-five bushels per acre. The neighbors agreed that if be neoeeded in this ven ture the? would give him a purse of one thousand dollars. The seventy acres were planted and a yield of more than five thous and bnehels of good quality rice was made. Thiejdid just what it would have done anywhere— 4< 8et the town and eoontry on ire.’* May put their all into the venture, and not a few met disaatroue failure. But the in dustry hae tinea put oo healthy Eiowlh, and ite future appears ing machines and llie rice stacked as we do oafs. When it is dry the farmer employs a man who has a thresher to take ins machine into the field, and there it is threshed and sacked in the open, except for canvas sheets, and afterwards stored in the barns or put at once on board cars. Bat many have their mills now and their crops can be mill ed in tight of many of the rice fields. 1 will mention specially only one “farm” as they are called here—that of F E Downs. He has two hnndred acres planted to rice, and has three ten-inch wells, half mile apajt. He operates the three from one power plant, using air oompres- sion, with pipes, connecting of coarse, with each well at a dis tance of a mile or two 1 could see these wells sponting water to the height of ten or fifteen feet, shining in the sunlight gave the appearance of large white col umns. Mr Downs expects ten thousand bushels froir. 200 acres, and 1 think he will get it. Here this is not a big yield. They tdl me 75 or 80 bushels is not at all nnosual, and that some make 100 and even more bushels per acre. Labor is scarce and very high, and Mr Downs and his two sons do most of the work on his farm. This sounds strange to a Sooth Carolina rice planter. Mr Downs raises fine corn, oats, peas, potatoes and vegetables, which shows that these lands are adapted to moet any crop. He has a pretty home and very large urer. bens, and everything around' shows that be is a hostler. 1 enjoyed the pleesure of a long talk with this intelligent gentle man. He is enthusiastic over rice planting and owns 1400 acres pf fins lands around his hems. A great canal it being project ed from White river across tbs i loch. 1H’» 1-2 W. Broad street. Toxar rice kana. Tex. STATE A. J. A. Perriu - nt, Lamar, S. C. E W Dibbs. Vice-President, Mayesville. J. Whitner Keid—Sec-Treas., Columbia, S. C. COUNTY. L. C. Padgett President, Smoaks. J. 0. Jaques, Jr.—Vice-President, Cottageville. G. W. Sweat Sec-Treas., Hen dersonville. W. C. Brant—Chaplin, Ruffin. J. A. Willis—Conductor. Cottago- ville. L. H. Roger—Door-Keeper, W’al- terboro. Robert E. Jones,—B u s i n e s s Agent, Walterboro. W. W. Smoak, Jr.—County Or ganizer. Executive Committee—G. A. Ben ton, W. C. Saunders, J. I. Seigler, T. H. Caldwell, C. F. Roger. Meeting 1st Saturday »in each month at 10 a. m. at the courthonse. LOCALS. Stokes—W. C. Saunders, Presi dent, E. B. Way, secretary-treasurer. Maple Cane—J. F. Addison, presi dent, J. F. Seigler, secretary-treas- rer. Sniders—W. C. Brant, president; J. K. Getsinger, secretary-treasurer. Williams—Dr. C. E. Kinsey, presi dent; J. F. O’Quin, secretary-treas urer. Islandton—A. E. Rentz, president; C. R. Mears, secretary-treasurer. Dry Branch—T. H. Caldwell, president; J. W. Avant, secretary- treasurer. Weimer—D. M. Yarn, president; J. E. Yarn, secretary-treasurer. Hendersonville—G. E. H. Moore, president; M. H. Carter, secretary- treasurer. Smoaks—L. C. Padgett, president; j. W. Kinsey, secretary-treasurer. Lodge—L. J. Jones, Sr., _ P. M. Johns, secretary-treasurer. Horse Pen—Jos Langdale, presi dent; G. L. Smoak, seeretary-treae- i TERRY & SHAFFER. i JIT LAST WE ARE ABEE TO OFFER THE ! UNDINE FLOUR AT $7.00 PER BL We have claimed for the past ten yean that celebrated and well known brand of flour'is worth at least fiOe. per bL more than any other brand. If you think fins is hot air and “just newspaper talk” ask your neighbor who uses Undine Flour what he thudttwfit. undine flour once used always used. „ UNDINE FLOUR IN QUALITY ALWAYS THE SAME We now have in our fall stock of our exclusive Kne of shoes, Craddick-Terry. When you see a shoe box with the picture of a BIG RED BELL on it you can know that the shoe inside is all solid, all leather and all right. Remember, look for the picture of the Bell. We have this line in mens, women, children and in- fan .s shoes and we respectfully invite your attention (j to our stock before you buy another pair of shoes. Picture coupons given with Every Cash Purchase Why is there a crowd at our Store all the time? Our Cotton Buyer is right He is buying this year for two of the largest cotton houses, one in Savannah, and one in Charleston. So he gets the benefit of both these markets. When you have cotton to sell see him. When your friend has cotton to sell tell him to call. / I1IS MOTTO IS: “HONEST WEIGHTS AND A GOOD BIG PRICE.’’ TERRY & SHAFFER. Hudson’s Mill J. D. Hudson, president; Dr. A. wilhs Hudson, secretary-treasurer. Adnah - John Kicklighter. presi dent; Paul K. Crosby, secretary- treasurer. Meggetts—S. J. Humph, presi dent; E. L. Cummins, secretary- treasurer. Edisto—A. G. Yarley. president; S. J. Patrick, secretary-treasurer. Berea—L. B. Linder.! president; J. M Strickland, secretary-treasurer. Adams Run- Dr J T Taylor, presi dent; S G Taylor, secretary-treasurer Cottageville—Dr. W. A. Kirbye, president; H. W. Ackerman, Walterboro—W. W. Smoak, Jr., president; E. W. Goodwin, secre tary-treasurer. Bethel—H. W. Breland, president; Allen Padgett, secretary-treasurer Bells—W. W. Bryan, president; F. M. Thomas, A * HOW TO STRENGTHEN THE WEAK KNEED. The question is asked as to The best was to strengthen weak- kneed members. We don’t know bat one way to strengthen weak-kneed fellows and that is to educate them up to an under standing of what the Farmers Union means. You might s'rengthen the knees of a mem ber who is too lazy to inform himself and get a right concep tion of the work of organization, and his knees would’t stay stregthened. A good lecture can “stir np’’ and revive the most ignorant member, but he immediately cools off after the speaking and refuses to stay revived* The only way to make strong Union men is to educate them in the'prioripie* of Union ism . Pot them to reading Union tliterature. In the quietude of the home is the place to study |gnd get information. With our rural delivery of maile and with loor modern means for the trane- mieeiou of intelligence there le no reason why^oue should remain in ignorance. It isn’t ranch trouble to organise intelligence and keep it organised. Ignor ance can also be organsied but to heap it organised is another problem. If yon want to strengthen the week-kneed, then; I rovide meant to educate him— I Carolina Union Farmer. > “CO-OPERATION” The success of all big undertakings mainly depends upon “Co-operation.” Hence, our reason for wishing to eo- operate with the ‘•Collet , 'n Couuty Farmers’ Union.” Their success means ours * V Any member of that organization will hear something fb his advantage, if he comes around to us just before he is ready to do his Fall buying. is n i. cm Sion. “The Store That Always Makes Good.” 3l ■ i- - . I BEEF, VEAL A2TD PORE. Customers can be supplied at all times with the freshest and best at my Market Highest Prices Paid for Beef Battle. H. A. FRANCES, • WALTERBORO, S. 6. UNIONISM’S The fames onion matt for good roods. stand la your boy in school, Mr Far mer? Don’t rob him of his in tellectual growth, and make a pygmy of what shonld be a giant. We want the farmors’ onion, over the ooonty to dieenss the question of good roods in their loeals, and try to work np a good road’s sentimont. Let the delegates to the eounty Saturday be proppt in their attendance. The time for meeting is ten o’clock, and if yon are a delegate, yonr doty is to be there on time. We need a live correspondent Cor this department from every local in the ooonty. Let na know what yonr unicn it doing? This is tho place to do good work for unionism. DRY BRANCH LOCAL The Dry Branch local meets at 8 JO o’clock Saturday morn ing Sopt. 11. A foil attendance is urged. T. H. Oaldwetl Pros. 1 \ » i.' -v ■ wv ■L. «. ,k.. f