The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, March 02, 1910, Image 3
Farmers’ Union Department.
This Deparment is inten(lt31 for the usg of the members of
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the Farmers’ L nion in liis county and is open to their use
Let your communications be in Saturday to insure appear-
ance the following week
SOUTHERN FARMERS’ OPPOR
TUNITY- *
From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
The stock of money in this country
is today approximately $3,130,000,.
000. Ten years ago it was $2,340,-
000,000. This is a gain of $790,000,-
000, or approximately 30 per cent.
Authoritative statistics show that
the 1909 wheat crop was 8.3 bushels
per capita against 8.t>3 bushels per
capita ten years ago; the com crop
dropped from 34.9 to 30.9 bushels
per capita; the oats crop from 12.4
to 11.1 bushels per capita; the hay
crop from 1 ton to jf of a ton per
capita, and the number of food ani
mals, swine, cattle and sheep, fell
from 2.5 to 1.9 per capita.
In the matter of meats the govern
ment returns issued on the 25th of
January show, under the head of
swine (hogs), that the total supplies
in 1900 of 54,000,000 fell to 47,000,000
in 1910, a decrease of nearly 15 per
cent. Other cattle, in 1909 40,000,-
000, fell to 47,000,000 in 1910.
The number of cattle killed under
the inspection law in the United
States in 1907 was 7,621,717, in 1909
it had fallen to 7,325,337; during the
same period there was an increase in
the number of calves killed from 1,
763,574 to 2,046,713. The receipts
of hogs at the markets fell 13.8 per
cent from 1908 to 1909^ When the
panic of 1907 came on many of the
farmers in the west sold their hogs
because food was too high to feed
them and these brooding herds have
not been replaced. *
In the matter of the production of
fruits, the leader and standard (be
cause it keeps longer) apples, in the
United States, have fallen from 68-.
000,000 barrels in 1866 to 21,000,000
barrels in 19091
Here is money, per dollar, decreas
ing in its purchasing power because
of a 30 per cent increase in volume.
Here is an increasing deficit in the (
field food crops ptr capita. Here is ,
a marked decrease in hogs and cattle
supply. Here is a decrease in the 1
leader among all the fruits (apples)
of approximately 70 per cent.
On the top of all this is an average
tariff of 60 per cent, on aH foreign
food stuffs.
As a result of all these things—the
increased supply of money, the de
creased supply of all food stuffs, and'
the tariff—the prices of beef, pork
and its by-products, mutcon, chick
ens, eggs, butter and milk and all
other food products—taken on an
average—have never been as high as
now, barring of course the war
prices of the 60’s. Is not this the
Southern farmer’s golden oppor
tunity?
The Telegraph has shown in pre
vious articles that in 1860, when the
population in Georgia was 1,057,286,
there were in this State 2,036,116
hogs. In 1907, with a population of
2,700,000, thfere were only 1,500,000
hogs. With the population more
than doubled, the number of hogs
has been reduced nearly one-half!
The Telegraph has shown that, in
1860, there were 299,688 milch cows.
In 1907, 308,000-an increase only of
8,312. That in 1860, there were oxen
and other cattle, 706,194. In 1907,
680,000—decrease of 26,194! That in
1860, there were 512,618 sheep., In
1907, 269,000—a decrease of 243,618!
These figures are surprising, and
yet they are based on actual statisti
cal returns.
The Telegraph has shown that in
1890, when Georgia’s population was
1,837,353, Georgia farmers owned 1,-
627,008 swine. In 1907, when the
population had increased to 2.700,(X 0
the swine owned by Georgia farmers
decreased to 1,590,000—a loss of 28,-
006. That in 1890 the sheep owned
by Georgia farmers numbered 411,-
846. In 1907 they had decreased to
269,000—a loss of approximately one-
half! That in 1890 Georgia owned
354,618 milch cowi In 1907 the
number fell to 308,000—a loss of 46,-
618. c ^
All of these figures are amazing—
but they are collected from the most
reliable sources. They call to the
farmer with irresistible eloquence
and force. They cry aloud to them
to plant less cotton and more grain;
to raise more cattle and hogs - not
as a patriotic thing, but as a profit
making business. It is the farmer’s
opportunity. His day has come if
he is wise enough to read the signs
of the times and take advantage of
it.
Food is the first and the last of the
natural man. All men must eat.
Everything else is secondary. We
can go naked and live in the woods
as the heathens do, but we must eat.
It takes a pound of cotton to buy a
pound of meat. A pound of meat
can be raised cherper than a pound
of cotton. A farmer can eat his
meat but he cannot eat his cotton.
The money supply has grown fas
ter than the food supply. The farm
production for the last four years
have been low in comparison with
the increase in other forms of value.
Manufacturing enterprises, manu
factured materials, stock and bond
corporations have more than tripled
jn value in ten years. The farmers
have not kept pace
State ok Ohio, City of Toledo, )
Lucas County. (
Prank J Chenay make* oath that he
ia senior partner cf the firm of P. J.
Cheney & Co., doing busineaa- in the
City or To!e<lo, County and State afore-
•aid, and that Mid Arm wilt pay the
sow of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every caae of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by t e u*e of Hull's Ca
tarrh Cure FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this bib day of December,
A. D 1H86.
IMkam A - W GLEASON.
A ’ Notaky Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cnre ia taken iuternal-
ly, an ' acts directly on the blood and
mneons surface* of the sya'eni. Send
for testimonisls tree
F. .1 CHENEY * CO . Toledo, O.
Sold by all DrogL'iiUB. T-'ic.
Take Hall's Family Fills for constipa-^,
tion.
WALTERBORO LOCAL MEETS.
The Walterboro local met Saturday j
afternoon at 3 o’clock with a large
attendance. Several applications
were teceived and six initiated.
After routine matters were dis
cussed, it was decided to appoint a
program committee to arrange a
program for each meeting, in order
that the “educational” feature may
not be neglected. This committee! treasurer,
consists of President W.W.Smoak,) Hudson’s Mill-J. D. Hudson,
Jr., Jas. E. Peurifoy and Geo. A. president; H. A. Crosby, secretary-
■ treasurer.
FARMERS’ LNION DIRECTORY*
NATIONAL.
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President—Chas S Parrett, Union
City, Ga. ’
V ice-President- J E Montgomery,
Gleason, Tenn.
Secretary-Treasurer—R H McCul
loch, 116 1-2 W. Broad street, Texar
kana, Tex.'
STATE
A. J. A. Perritt — President,
Lamar. S. C.
E W Dibbs, Vice-President,
Mayesville.
J. ^hitner Reid—Sec-Treas.,
Columbia, S. C.
' COUNTY.
L. C. Padgett—President. Smoaks,
J.D. Risher — Vice-president,
Round, S. C.
W. W. Smoak, Jr.—Sec-Treas.,
Walterboro, S. C.
W. B. Easterlin—County Business
Agent, Round.
W. W. Smoak, Jr.—County Or
ganizer.
G. W. Sweat. Conductor.
Jos. Langdale, Chaplain, Weeks.
Executive Committee—Jno. O.
Jaques, Jr., Paul K. Crosby, S. J.
Patrick, C. F. Koger, A. C. Breland.
S. P. Goodwin, J. A. Willis, door
keepers.
Meeting 1st Saturday in each
month at 10 a. m. at the courthonse.
LOCALS.
Ashton—J. T. Polk, president; T.
J. Simmons, secretary-treasurer.
Adnah-J
dent; Paul
treasurer.
Bells—W. W. Bryan, president;
H V\ Hudson Jr secretary-treasurer.
Buck Head—J. A. Jones, presi
dent; A. D. Preveaux, secretary-
treasurer.
Bethel?-C. H. Breland, president;
Allen Padgett, secretary-treasurer.
Fuller—C. C. Crosby, president;
B. J. Crosby, secretary-treasurer.
Islandton—W. M. E. Campbell,
president; C. R. Mears, secretary-
“The StoreThat Makes Good” I
ANNOUNCES THE ARRIVAL OF
spinrc oxfoiis
FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
B DuBois, presi-
K. Crosby, secretary-
Benton.
The following delegates to the
nex" county meeting were elected:
John Avant, Jacob Bishop, Jas. E.
Peurifoy, E. W. Goodwin, G. A. Ben
ton and J. O. Griffin.
Pres. B. G. Weeks of Hall local
wm a welcome visitor at this meet
ing of the local.
‘If too want the bast pilla, ass DeWitt’s
Littla Early Riasra, the safe, an re, gentle,
eeay, little liver pilla. ▲ toothing,
oteanstag. healing good eehre Is DsWitt's
Car boll sed Witch Basel fialve. It It
the original. The aanae. DeWltt, ia
■tamped plainly on each box that you
buy. Retnee sahetitntaa. It ie for eats,
burnt, broiaes. end it is es pec toll y good
for piles. Sold by J. M. Klein.
THE PELIUM
HARDWIRE CO.
WALTERBORO, S. C.
Has opened a HARDWARE,
and FARM IMPLEMENT
Store on Walter Street, where
they will be glad to welcome
their friends from over the
county when in need of any
thing in their line.
Is Prut of Express Office
la nay ca«n of etomach trot hie. due to
promptly. This to what Kodal to for.
It digemo the food yon eet aad doea It
oomptotely- It to eoU hy J. M. KM*.
ML Carmel—E. B. Way, president;
G. M. Bennett, secretary-treasurer.
Maple Cane—J. F. Addison, presi
dent, J. F. Seigler, secretary-treaa-
rer.
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Snidera—W. C. Brant, president;
J. K. Getsinger, secretary-treasurer.
Horae Pen—Joe. Langdale, presi
dent; G. L. Smoak, Sec-Treas.
Williama—Dr. C. E. Kinsey, presi
dent; J. F. O’Quin, secretary-treas
urer.
Tabor—C. B. Crosby, president;
W. H. Breland, secretary-treasurer.
Hendersonville—G. E. H. Moore,
president; O. A. Speights, secretary-
treasurer.
Stokes—W. F. Copeland, president;
J. B. Saunders, secretary-treasurer.
Dry Branch—J. J. Miley, presi
dent; J. L. Crosby, secretary-treas
urer.
Peniel—J. L. Hickman, president;
G. A. Blocker, secretarjtrtreasurer.
Smoaks—L. C. Pkdgett, president;
S P Smith, secretary-treasurer.
Lodge—L. J. Jones, Sr., president;
P. M. Johns, secretary-treasurer.
Walterboro—W.* W. Smoak, Jr.,
president E. W. Goodwin, secre
tary-treasurer.
Edisto—A. G. Yarley, president;
S. J. Patrick, ■’cretary-treasfrer.
Berea—D T Strickland, president;
James M Strickland, Jr, secretary-
treasurer.
Omega—H. P. Martin, president;
B R Griffin, secretary-treasurer.
Hall—B G Weeks, prssident; I B
Weeks, secretary-treasurer.
ChamberUle'e *Btomaoh and lArtr
Tablets are mfe, sere eed reliable, aid
have been nwtoed by thoneende of
wemss who have hate i
ihroegh their geetto ai
properties. Bold by all dealers
aid and curative
The Shoe Depart ment is full of interest these
days. We have gotten in for this Spring the
largest, choicest and best selected stock of : i
Men’s, Women’s and
Children’s Oxfords
that this store has ever contained. And we are
most anxious that every shrewd shoe buyer in
this section should come and see what splen-
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did styles, what large assortments and what fine
values we are offering.
The H. W. COHEN STORE
“THE STORE THAT MAKES GOOD
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REMEMBER! That our proposition to the members
of the “Farmers’ Union" is still open to them.
r SAV(jy GREEN GROCERY COMPANY"*
EOR PROMPT DELIVERY.
Choice Beef, Pickle Beef, Fresh
Pork, Pickle Pork, Pork Sausage,
and Liver Pudding, Head Cheese,
Frankfurt Sausage, Sliced Skin
Ham, Sliced Bacon, Best Brick
Butter, Chickens and Eggs, Best
Canned Com, Peas, Tomatoes,
Vegetables, Soups, Sweet, Sour
and Chow Chow Pickles, Choice
Fruits and Vegetables.
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Lprc/sMicnaZ Jfotim.
DENTAL SURGEON
1 have reopened my dental
office, and have amociated
with me DR. JOHN H.
BAKER. All work given
prompt attention.
Office over Finn’s Jewelry R
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’Phone
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1 Bargains! Bargains!! Bargains!!!
We are still offering unheard of bar
gains in our line, a few of which fol
lows:
Iron beds from $3.to $10.00
18 lbs granulated sugar for 1.00
Four boxes Starlye for 25c.
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Also fertilizers for sale. Any ladies
hat in stock at COST.
A. Q. LYONS
ISLANDTON,
MAinmiioT. maa.i
FEDBIFOT BROTHERS.
ittorneye and
Counsellor* at Law.
All Bvslaem glvea fiemyt’Atteattoa.
ovte thi recss and stanom|.
WALTERBORO.
OFFICE OF
Df. A. J. Anderson
DENTAL SURGEON
Office Hours: J *• * p-
S p. m., 6 p. m.
OPPOSITE. Farmers and March&ais
Bank.
’Phone 100a.
WALTERBORO. 8. O
jni d. imi .
Real Estate* Brokerage •and
Insurance.
LOANS NEGOTIATED
House* to Rsnt*
Opposite the Market,
WALTERBORO. B. Cl
DURANT
I will be in rtty office on Sat
urdays and all other days when
not at work in field.
Office between Klien’i an4
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank
Phone 27B, Walterboro, S. G
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