The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 27, 1911, Image 6
Farm and
Garden
GROSBEAK IS OUR FRIEND.
Much Maligned Little Bird Is Active
Enemy of Destructive Insects.
Thf? crashesk Is a very much malign
ed bird and instead of being destructive
to crops he is, on the contrary, of
great benefit, according to farmers'
bulletin 45G, just issued by Secretary
Wilson. The bulletin states that seven
kinds of finches, commonly known as
the grosbeak, summer within our
boundaries. A majority of these are
good friends of the farmer and deserve
to be widely known in order
that their services may bo appreciated.
The grossbeaks are easilj' distinguished
from other finches by their stout
form, bright pluifiage, massive bills
and melodious voices. They live
largely in agricultural regions and secure
most of their food about cultivated
lands. Tliey perform invaluable
service in destroying many of our
worst insect pests.
The rose breasted species is a great
destroyer of the potato bug. lie
breeds over Kansas and the mountains
of Tennessee. The investigations of
the department show that the bird is
^ fond of green peas, but invariably consumes
enough injurious insects to
more than offset the damage. lie has
become famous for his preying on the
Colorado potato beetle, and no less
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than one-tentn or me toiai iuuu it v.unsumes
has been proved to be the potato
beetle. It attacks the cucumber beetle.
it has proved an active enemy of
the Rocky mountain locust during that
insect's ruinous Invasions, and among
the other pest it consumes are the
spring and fall cankerworms, orchard
and forest tent caterpillars, tussock,
gypsy and brown tail moths, plum curculio,
army worm and cinch bug. In
fact, it attacks the worst enemies of
agriculture.
The cardinal or red bird species
ranges from soot hern Mexico, Lower
California and Arizona north to Iowa
and Ontario and east to the Atlantic
coast. They are permanent residents,
spending the summer and winter in
the same locality. It has been claimed
that they pull sprouting grain, but
no evidence of damage to either grain
or other crops is shown from over r>00
examinations. On the contrary, they
do much good. They feed on locusts,
periodical cicada, the Colorado potato
beetle, the rose chafer, cotton worm,
[; V insect
destroyers guaranteed by
uncle Sam.
pipm or cherry scnlo, the zebra caterpillar
of^tho cabbage, the cucumber
beetles, hi 11 hups, locust flea beetle,
corn ear worm, cotton cutworm, south*
ern lip eater, codling moth and boll
weevil and. in addition, are great consumers
of injurious weed seeds.
The black headed grosbeak hails
from southern Mexico and invades
North Dakota and Nebraska. It tills
the same place in the west that the
grosbeak does in the east. It,is n foe
to the worst pests of horticulture, the
scale insect composing a fourth of its
food.
The blue grosbeak breeds over the
southern two-thirds of t ho United
States and is greatly destructive to
weevils, grasshoppers, locusts, caterpillars
and worms.
The. gray grosbeak inhabits Texas.
Arizona and Now Mexico. It Is n consistent
enemy of the boll weevil and
cotton worm. It also consumes groat
quantities ofTfcirraful wood seeds.
The bulletin in its plea for the protection
of the grosbeak says: "Present
investigations prove that the services
of the grosbeak in destroying insect
pests are Invaluable. Bnoli kind pays
especial attention to certain pests
which If unchecked would cause enormous
loss. Few of our birds are to
/ rnrlitod wti h more trond and with
fewer evils than the grosbeak, and
none more clearly deserves protection
by the practical farmer."
Grain Speculator Is a Curse.
It's the business of the farmer to
raise the grata; It's the business of the
grain dealer to receive, clean and
market the grain: it's the business of
the miller to grind the grain, and it's
the function of the speculator to buy
the surplusage of the 5.000,000.000
bushels of grain produced In this
country as a speculation, and any
farmer, grain dealer, miller, artisan or
professional who attempts to reap a
livelihood from tluctuatlng grain prices
Is a quack speculator, n counterfeit
k and a curse.?J. Italph Plckejl, Secrejj
tsry Council of North American Urois
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f?/ ? ) PREAMBLE.
Touching the prosperity of the
South very closely indeed, the address
of the Hou. W. S. Coleman, editor of
The Cedarlown (Oa.) Standard before
the recent Southern Commercial Con*
grass at Atlanta, was one of the most
attentively received speeches of the
important meeting. Mr. Coleinau drew
his conclusions briefly and olearly,
and showed how closely the prosperity
ef the thirty-three Southern Are companies
is interwoven with the fluan- (
cial and industrial progress and development
of the section in general.
Mr. Coleman's address follows In
full: i
Speech of W. 8. Coleman, Treasurer
the Georgia Fire insurance Company
and National Home Insurance
Company, Delivered et Taft Hall,
Atlanta, Ga., March 10, 1911, Repra?
eentlng the Association of 8outhsrn
Fire Insurance Cempanlea. ,
Mr. Chairman: 4
I come before you as a representative
of thirty-three Southern Are insurance
companies, whose combined
assets aggregate over $15,000,000, and,
as their ambassador In this high court
of public affairs, to speak for the interest
of Southern insurance companies.
At the special request of this Association
of Southern Fire Companies,
I have the honor of addressing briefly
a few remarks to this important subject,
which should conoora every citlien
of our section. |
The question of insurance in all its
branches in the South is one of vital
and far-reaohing Interest to all our
people, and no branch of Southern Industry
deserves greater concern than
this one feature of this great Congress.
It Is a question that affects not
only the manufacturer, banker, capi*.
talist, business man and laborer, but
every Inhabitant is directly interested
in a business way, whether or not we
have recognised the fact. i
At the close of the civil war the
South was left without money, without
insurance companies and without
means for protection along all lines
involved in insurance liability, and as
a result we naturally looked to North- J
ern and Kastcru and foreign cornpan- I
ies for such protection. Tear in and !
out the various branches'of insurance ,
have permeated our whole Southland,
and levied vast tribute from our people.
The huge volume of premiums
written in the South for Are, life, cas- |
ualt?\ liability and all other branches
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of Insurance, has frown to such stu- |
peudous proportions as to stagger out
people, and this vast stream of gold
has been gathered in many centers of
the East and abroad, thus enabling
captains of industry to finance all railway
construction and the great Industrial
enterprises affecting the people
of this country. I
We have contributed annually a
large amount of our subetance to this
one branch of business, drawing on
our vitality and resources and taking
from the channels of trade suoh a
large percentage of our money that if
I we were not a most remarkable people
and possessed the most marvelous resources,
we could not stand the drain.
Few realize the fact that annually
Georgians send out of the 8tate to
Northern and foreign insurance companies
doing business hi this terrlj
tory, a volums of premiums in money
equal to one-fourth the entire operat
lug banking capital of the State. This
is also true of all our Southern States.
In 1S80-1890, In the fourteen States,
, there wore written In fire insurance
premiums alone over $128,000,000, and
j this fund has so rapidly increased durI
ing the past thirty years that It has
' reached the tremendous total of over
$707,000,000. During this span of
thirty years the Southern fire companies
alone in these fourteen States
wrote the pitiful sum of a little over
$68,000,000, leaving a net balance of
over $640,000,000 In money that foreign
companies, operating in thin territory,
have taken away from these
States to the great money centers.
This volume of money has made the
Nortk gnd East the richest and most
powerful section of this republic, and
& largo share of this fund has oven
crossed the waters and helpod to onrich
the coffers of for e*gn countries
This money Is annually withdrawn
; from our hanks and repositories, thus
reducing the cash assets of our AiiaucJmI
institutions, limiting our trade, restricting
our manufacturing and retarding
our material development.
I livery new enterprise has been forced
to go East for funds to finance the
, undertaking, and thus our people,
after tending away from their own
! land their own good money, are forced
to the humiliating spectacle of borrowing
hack that same money and
paying a handsome tribute therefor.
This ruinous method, but for eur won!
derful energies and natural resources,
| would bankrupt our people and dlsspirit
their aspirations.
But a nsw light has been seen. Our
people are oonilng to themselves. We
are gradually realizing the neoesslty
for a radical change in the ancient belief
that only by and threugh Northern
enterprise and Northern capital and
Northern bratns can industries of any
kind?in ami el undertakings of whatever
proportions and developments of
whatever character?be successfully
conducted. New insurance companies
in the Southern Held covering every
branch are being organised all over
the South by our own people, and a
wholesome revival of patriotic sentl*
mont in favor of home enterprises Is
rapidly gaining ground everywhere.
Our thoughtful people are beginning
to keop our money at homo, oaring for
our own institutions by patronising
home industries and building up here
. a safe and sound development of our
. own resources,
x la North Carolina some ten
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HORRY HERALD:
ago there wil not a tingle insurance
company chartered by the "Tar Heel
State/' and every dollar in premiums
was written by foreign companies and
taken away from that commojiwehltb
to enrich the enterprising citizens whe
invaded our Southern territory to
their own enhancement and to our
consequent detriment. A feeling ol
shame brought our sister State to a
realization of her folly, and, as a result,
there are now sixteen North Carolina
Insurance companies chartered
by that Slate, with North Carolina
money constituting their capital and
doing business on their native heath,
writing 60 per cent, of the total volume
of premiums produced by that
commonwealth.
Georgia wrote In tire insurance
premiums alone in 1910 over $5,000,000,
an*! only a bagatelle of 10 per
cent, of this sum was written by home
companies. In all the various branches
of insurance, we wrote last year in
Georgia over $15,000,000, and the same
story is only sadly too true as to the
total volume of business done by all
the home companies of this State, and
It serves to emphasize the utter lack
of business prudence and judgment in
our people in allowing this vast sum
to be written ,,by foreign companies
and the mdaiey taken from our State.
If these annual tributes to other sections
and foreign companies were disrnnHmm/1
n nH the mnnov 1/ont ol
wMviiiuvu ????m t??v mv/uv/ ?% %
home?a sum equal to one-fourth the
money Invested Ijn all our banking in
stitutions?and deposited in our own
banks, we would never feel the shock
and paralysis of a financial panic. This
money which now courses their channels
of commerce would stimulate our
trade and industry in every line, seek
investment in our own resources and
find its way in the march of our Industrial
advancement. The struggling
South would lift up her burdened
shoulders and shake off the lethargy
and weight of misfortune, and our sec
tion would become a recognized lead
er in national enterprise and commercial
progress. More banks and trust
companies would be established, more
railroads constructed, more factories
built, more mines developed, and
everywhere the sinews of industry
would proclaim the presence of this
money power so essential to the life
and prosperity of every country.
The mission of this great Commer
clal Congress in the very heart of the
rehabilitated South can accomplish nc
greater result than pointing to the pre
vailing condition in our section and
call the attention not only of the
shrewd capitalist, but the unthinking
citizen, the ordinary business man, the
laborer everywhere, to the fact thai
in order to become wealthy and pros
perous we must do as others have
done. Every man who has a home CM
place of business, who stands at ihl
door of enterprise, who manufactures
our raw material Into the finished
produsi?all must learn at last the
lesson of self-preservation in business,
and patronizing home enterprises ii
the primary rule by which we inaj
hope to accomplish the desired re
suits. Our people who place their in
siirance in good Southern companies
safely and soundly managed, are the
first to realize that we must keep al
home this volume of currency .now go
ing to other sections, and let it serve
the highest and best purposes tc
which all wealth should be legitimate
ly and honestly applied. We owe it tc
ourselves; we owe it to our section
Do not misunderstand this plea as be
ing in any sense sectional, for we car
not hope for other sections to intcresl
themselves in our welfare more than
we manifest for ourselves. We must
first help ourselves if we would see*
the aid of others. Every dollar saved
at home adds to our wealth and taxa
ble values, and every dollar invested
at home in our own securities keeps
Ln local circulation that much cur
rency and assures the interest incom<
therefrom as a direct cumulative assel
of our growing prosperity.
| This business policy lies at the verj
basis of our commercial existence, anc
makes possible our industrial develop
ment. Every patriotic Southernei
should spread this doctrine of patron
izing home companies first and keep
. ing our money at home, and ther
whatever surplus of business could g<
to the alien competitors. Only on thii
bedrock of self-interest first can w<
hope as a section to keep pace witl
our national progress. It has been oui
stay and anchor in the past, and it ii
our only hope for the future. It hai
helped to bring us to our splcndh
present, and, followed to its logica
finality, it will bring us /to a greatei
destiny. The camp-fires of a burning
patriotism have produced in us i
glorious people, and have made thii
laud a conspicuous part of the imper
ishable history of our common" coun
try.
i I could not close tho??e remarki
| without giving expression to that sen
timent of him who writ?
I
'Dear old Southland, stern and wild
, Meet nurse of a poetic child;
Land of brown heath and shagg]
j wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood,
Land of my sires, what mortal ham
| can e'er untie
The filial band that knits me to th;
rugged strand?"
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Entries for Speed Races.
Secretary C. F. Hopkins, Jr., of thi
St. Augustine Power Boat club, is re
ceiving new entries daily for the spee<
race which will be held In St. Angus
tine the first week ln April. Evefr In
dication points to a very large numbei
of the fastest boats in the country en
terlng. It Is expeoted that the mee
will hold a large number of the tour
lets over. ?
* give us a cnance, wo uuw u?vu
some excellent bargains in town and uto-Pian<
Country p.-ope.ty. Kty> Qtien', 6? n,
uto-Pianc
,! Conway Realty ?8? w
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r Ct nway, - - S. C ^
t v|?j| One Foi
^ Both tobacco wnrpl ojses are do
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THURSDAY JOLY W, 1911
Farmers Tobai
FOR THE SALE Of
Conway,
Now Ready to Han
I take this opportunity to inform the tobacco
growers of Horry that the Farmers' Tobacco Wwrehouse
will be opened for (he sale of leaf tobacco on
Tuesday, July 25th and to lay the claims of this
warehouse before the growers.
In the first place, 1 am in a position to get the
highest market prices obtainable in this and any
o ner market in the Mate f^r your tobacco, having
a full corps of experienced buyers representing
some of the largest manufacturers in the country
with imperative orders to buy regardless of price.
Try me w
J. N. FULLERTON,
j LIST
The time is drawing near for all spring
j past, and we have decided to make hay
1 prices will speak for themselves. If yoi
and let your neighbor eat the pie, that'
> Ladies beautiful white embroidered skirls reduced
from $5.50 to only $1.69. Another lot of white
j skirts, assorted to close at 98c each.
\ Ladies beautiful gingham dresses made in the
. j latest styles $5.50 value while they last for only
[ ; $3.98.
I Ladies fancy lawn dresses made in the latest
styles $3 value for $1.89.
Ladies linen finish dusters $3 kind only $1.89.
Ladies wash coat suits at and below cost.
; i 50 pair of sample shoes, worth from $1.50 to
) $3.50 pair, while they last you can get your pick
for only $1.19 pair.
[ '? 23 ladies hats left out of more than 500. Your
| ?! choice at wholesale cost, no freight added. Men
' $ and boys straw hats will be slaughtered theshme
* 1 ^ way.
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IWe don't have to holler out fvery v
ing that for 10 or 12 years and life is to
See us for buggies, wagons and harnes:
profit at the store and a h
I and Live^H^k Company hustling.
'A. C. THOMTSON, Pre
I DON'T THINK OF * |
I NSURAN C TC. I i|f M
After you are crippled, fj i | |
sick or dead or after your I j _ ??
house is robbed or burn- B |
ed, it ^ ill be too late I gj
then. Better sec me to . W wj|||
' 3 R Wire or wr]
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11 ACCII) NT, ?
J J BURGLARY, . >
?. LIABILITY. | *J| Checkering
91 Best Companies. i ^Sjjt ^ lu t'lot-k ^
Most Liberal Policies. j >Osw
N. .lENRETTE. ( sjjj|
M CONWAY, S. U i 5$2. ticfr, Mali
f OMi tieff, Oak
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i. Real Estate. ?gf| ftlfcSK:
I Kingsbury,
f sSSs King5bury
Bought, Optioned, Listed, )C5lfi3
1 SOLD.
I We are hore to please YOU Ju&tj)f3p?}
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3 LEAF TOBACCO ' ,J
South Carolina M
die Your Tobacco, f
I feci safe in guaranteeing: this. ?
in the second place 1 will look after your every in- ^
forest with the same care and fdility thut I would
if they were my own. This insa e.i fair and square fl
dealings in every tiansaction,
In the third place the warchoufc is so arranged as i*||
to give plenty of light which will show the tobacco ( ||
to the best advantage. ' 31
And in the fourth place all things being eq in 1 it is ,
mi obligation eu< umbent upon every c.tizen to build ^
op his own home market which ben< fits h.'m not ^fl
alone but the neighbors and the county at l.ir^e. a I
1th a Load 8
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, - Manager. |
and summer gfoods to be a thing: of the Vjl
while the sun is shining:. The following:
l don't believe us and want to stand off
s your business.
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We have the largest stock of laces, embroideries
and ribbons ever shown in your county and we
are going to sell at our'price, your price or any ^
old price, so if you don't intend to buy, you had >
better say nothing, as we mean business and
cost will not be considered. w "'V
B VJJfci
231 suits of clothes now left. If you want one U |
please say so and just indicate how bad, and B d
'?? ? *l: | ImSi
mere win oe suinciiiiiiK uumg. I
50c silk mnll going now at 12 l-2c the yard and H
a bunch of dress goods to close at less than -fs
manufacturers cost. <
Listen! 10c can Star lye 5c.; nutmegs 5c dozen; I / j 'Jf
morphine 55c bottle; whole rice only $.'1.2'? bag; < t
best plate meat only 8 l-2c pound; best patent I _ W
flour only $5 barrel; and if the above prices | f r j
makes your head swim we will gi e you a $2 -j f
bottle of Warburs Tincture for $1. it will get U
your liver and head right and give you a dandy H
appitite. H
reek we arc leaders, you have been know- A
?o short for us to ever be trailers.
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s and everything else you want. A half
alfat the stables keeps the t
UGAIN HOUSE .
Save your time and money by seeing 3
sident Both Corporations. I >1
ni Annikil 0<i!n nf IS I
iirniiiiudi oaic ui ??
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o for everybody at a price to siyt everybody's purse. fijjQC .
ite us today regarding these bargains; for tomorrow Jw&SS f
'ate* > ?|J
McFOLLY'THE FOLLOWING LIST OF || i !
BARGAINS: It I ;
GRANDS ggg
&Fon $250.00 3fSS
360.00 QSX
leveral Stiefl's at greatly reducted figures,
UPR 1G11T8 6?2? V?\
lOganyCase $3 0.00 QgS . .ji
\ut Case 376.00 Wfi ' ^}W%
260.00 i,'
, Mahogany Case 326.00 k ;'fj
, Kbonized Case 100.00 WD VM
Oak Case 200.00 222 f3
150.00 ?gC f pi
[any others will be added during the week. JjJvrJ
PLAj H
nd 83 note $725.00 ?0(
>, 88 note 385.00 ?RS ^ <
All Mahogany Cases iron Y
?te 550.00 ^gSg \i
cri oRi\ iin PJrZFiwt i .3
ty uj iiuik iwu.vv rjan , ^i|
tary square pianos and organs very cheap. uEFjJ ^
:has M. Stleff SjjF
LEON C. STEELE, Mgr.
irtecn Gran by St. Norfolk, Va.