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H I i I I to i , i II THIS Y\V have ahout 5C0 pair* y y.: >es l'? r you ( > p!f:. i's* r;> barefooted v km }'( I Rood pair of shoes a 1 i\ ; pair of hose. I LOOK Ol'T HI Glen's O.ercoats, S10.G') Laiance of 1! ii ) mi it uxmiuii mm i ?w"Wm STARTS A BH1 Foreiiii en 1 1 MEETINGS LIKE THE ONK AT SUMTER LAST WEEK U CO -:> EX \MIM.E. puht more era : Col. Watson's Party Made f irst Trip < of .Series to Impress 1 armors Importance. of Curtailing Cotton. A person who has not boon keeping ( j up' with the situation would bo sur- | prised to know how many farmers of Horry and surrounding counties intend to have wheat as a part of their j' food crops next year, thus saving the i money that they might spend fori1 flour. It. can be readily seen that three barrels of flour from an acre of ' land will mean, perhaps, as much as * fifteen.dollars savgd to the farmer ' and he can use the money thus saved ' in paying other expenses for necessaries that he cannot make at home, j | Before long a flour mill will noj doubt be located in this county as well j as in others to take care of the wheat crops. This new movement, to get the farmers to plant grain has been fostered by leading. men of almost every 1 community in the South. It is interesting to.follow thje. reports of the meetings held at different points and tlie encouraging spirit shown. Last week there'Was .published in the daily press a report of a meeting at Sumter which stated in part as follows: The ?(lame Gock City .has witnessed the inauguration of numerous campaigns/ ?&>ome have resulted in 1he selections of citizens.to the United Slates Senate, and some have caused the .governor's chair to, be filled. Hut it' was.a new, kind of campaign that was launched .in -Sumter today,- and its results may be propitious for the whole 1 State, This campaign is to get the people* to,plank more grain and other- ' , ..wise to .divmf&ify their crops in order i to end. tlie. slavery under which the ' (Highest Pirc . , U *: ?? rBTTHMflTlft'l fuiimi mm? t T tmIjict i | Oftt* M<31\ ? ?? _ _' a 8 Si r?fvbir?i; n i mriwTn't?mmin iVMMORwnnra ? of poo.:] nc*.v ;m vot. Don't I _ One '511 )ii can get. a noiv j?c u? price of a 1 ,, .\J en s your oi :wk. kind noiv the Mens ! * $1.03. mmtmmm m wmmmmmmmmmmmugmmammma ?us m imwmumm j 1 rink fnr 1 ftfta ^ W S i I J va^'MtirarsiMA i^niMuiitiiiiKnMKinwMvraanvMnanvnii r.grioilltural classes of the State are suffer Lie on account of the reign of King Cotton. Tii'.- movement to go among the gv />le and talk with them was hi-; .ugaarted in response to many letters f ir.qiary from earliest citizens who v\i hed to plant grahi, but <lid not 'o.v how to start at it. W. VV. Long, Lector f the I :itfcd State government's wot)\ in llvs State, and K. J? \.tsosi, State commissioner of agri- j J ..no, h:.ye undertaken the handling; ;>f K. proposition, an < have sccuiv : f. vi the government the services of V A. (L Smith, vim is doinir kto<-! O - I ' ?iul work in the South for the gov-I cfnmeut. Prof. Eor.g was unable to leave Clemson college today and his place was taken by Prof. W. Ft. Rar-1 ton, the man who has been, doing so much to tell the people about soi1 building. The parly left Columbia early Tues-; lay morning by automobile and trav- ' pled the frosty road to Cilmden, and 1 thence to Remberts, in Sumter county, j where they were met by E. I. Rear- j Ion, secretary of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce. The visitors here addressed a gathering of farmers, who | showed deep interest. The meeting was held in the school house and the , children also were instructed in the i kind of farming they should do when they get grown. The broad fields o.. Sumter county j lie untouched since the last cultiva- ; tion given the cotton crop, which is! now causing so much talk and < I is- j cussion. and the prospect for grain on these splendid farm lands is encouraging if the farmers could be'nduced j to take bold as they have in Anderson! county, whence comes the report that ( on the main highway from Pendleton . to Anderson there will hardly he an i uvi e (H < ouon next year. Sumter county could produce as much grain per acre as any other county in the State * I and could harvest it much more easily than is done in the Piedmont, because i j Sumter's lands are level, and in order, to get the most profit out of grain it! is advisable and necessary to use less of human , labor and more of ma- j chinery. ' The mectihg' at Sumter was held in the" court houfce and occupied the roe'esk' hour of cdurt. The attendance ( was godd, hbhbfrlerihg the fact that a > v !t i < * "" . es Paid fo .. i r* i S'. . \% " .. -1 * """ _ ? t?- U> IJ $^40^ ^ LA 1)1 ICS SWEATERS i* lot of Ladie's $2.50 Sweaters >ing at iLSc. Dress Suits and Odd Coats at \ n price. MENS SWEATERS KL50 Sweaters now going at in^ ^2 ^IP lire alarm was rung in just as the j^srty was entering Sumter, and also considering the fact that jurors and witnesses, some of them, missed tlieii cf inner to stay and be taught. Mr. Sti.itton of Chicago, the grain lev.-!' "V expert, told the farmers that rt cf the programme was merely ?. : explain the machinery of grain olc.ator. He advised Sumter -o nave a cc ; .vh.aching machine an ! a grain ' :e. jk r in ex actio;: with 1:. y kind .1' e!e a tor that might bo built hero. A. Smith made a very plain, client tail:, giving the farmers a great ie: 1 c ' solid information in. a few moments and in an impressive way. lie said that Air. Stratton and ho had not mot until this morning and he had learned with pleasure that Mr. St ratton's firm is building an elevator in Mr. Smith's old home town in Illinois. Mr. Smith was reared in the corn belt of Illinois and ho told the Sumtei farmers that the Illinois farmers would consider themselves foolish il they trusted their entire fortunes to any one crop. They produce three 01 four crops each year, and if there is ill luck with one, another money crop is at hand. In answer to the question whethei corn in great quantity could find s market in this State, he replied thai it would ho very easy. The native corr should sell for the market price ol Illinois corn plus about 22 cents, the amount af freight from Illinois here The people of the South need to fortifv themselve? en'i"* <,,fn ? ' IIV" w? stork business, he said. In Illinois it is considered that when they have a surplus of corn, one bushel of cori will make ton pounds of hog meat and the farmers there give their surplus into making meat as a mono) crop. There is no occasion for the farmers to fear the lack of a wheat market he pointed out. The average farmei consumes on his place enough foreigi made flour to make wheat profitable merely if he makes enough to save buying flour, five bushels will make a barrel of flour and pay for milling. One acre of wheat will grow twe barrels of flour and one acre will grou 20 bushels e>f oats te> supply the farm e rV. own needs. "'Is this not cheapen than paying for the grain that musl bo hauled hundreds of miles?," he r Furs at MWKWr?IflilB 1 .m?ff?? AVHIMMflKlMIWUMnMMMMHBmi p 1# 1 o pOT S SJII1 h Uf $ /SSi m W ? """ j pic I ? Will III ill ? i IJM mmmw rrrrf?iibiim ?tiiwim inniiii n DKMCSS GOODS One 'oi c lot of 2">c and .">0c drt now going at 10c. HE!) COMFOKTS 14 One big lot of Ceil Comforts ing at 93c. n on front c snui AMKnuMMnvmc74ruK\tM.T ?' wia wwniwi ?w mm - ! ^ ? I I I I I I . | | | l,| asked'. Me? deplored the lack of market fa' ciiities and said that is one thing that must be accomplished at once. Three] years ago he got an urgent appeal ' from a Sumt r county farmer to assist him to sell 100 head of hogs. Two ars ago a Sumter farmer told him* he could not got rid of 8,000 bushoh-S 4* i . \ ui tx'j ii and tnrt vcr> (Jay a Samteri commission man a.id -.c!d in Sumter j seven earloads of coin an-1 h: y. Eac;. one waited vdat the other had, and : , neither knew it. M! . Smith wa.. followed by Cel.! Watson, who made some statements that were notable fin* their earnestness and for the big facts which they carried". lie declared among other things that the farmers will need no] fertilizer for next year, for what they 1 have ''wasted" there in years gone by] in making cotton has left enough resi' due of mineral matter and of organicj matter to produce a fair grain crop without additional fertilizers. Col. _! Watson commented' in the outset that ! he had been present when the campaign was begun in Sumter which had I plavcd Richard I. Manning in the gov; enior's chair and while he wished to acknowledge his sense of obligation to i i others who were candidates for that , office yet he had especial cause to be II pj'oud that Mr. Manning had been elected, for the new governor had ecme this day all the way from Rock . Hill just to he at home for a few - hours and to give his approval to this * movement and that Mr. Manning had * I declared that his whole soul is wrap- I v pod up in this movement which he > trusts will produce a wonderful har, vest. Col. Watson set out that the law as to the acreage to he planted in cotton I | is mandatory and ho believes the peo- j 4 p!e of South Carolina will not break; , the law. TTe denounced the "ferti- j lizer faker" who, ho said, had caused: 1 the cost of 'producing cotton to he in-! v, creased to about 11 cents per pound., 4 The expenditure per acre for ferti 4 lizer has been about $4 in this State* | The sick soil has been "tonicked" to > gel the money to send away and the r farmers have thrown away $80,000, j 000 on things, that ought to be pro* (luced at homo. A farmer can raise t a hog cheaper in this State than it can 4 be done in the West and yet this State Everybodys it ml pflCfi IT iMIIi iiibimwii ! 111 III i i i i /iw M\i#uvflnrMiav>*m.wiuwwmui.ivi liiic'ir's and ( jl and X 10.00 U j fail to come i coat 3. umriM't rntMWMCDwn X I now gO' f)iu? bij; lot o Ruins at Gc. 10c kind row ? mmrurrwmmi mwuw n Bf,w>r?Mci if Cbra n uiuic namnvmvRnuivAmori imii iw iaa i . mrTrvrtMrnataannn i < o (I II Wiien "AM \i\ 'VN ''rsi,,IU?? *- ' . ? *r \ r corrt: famous, I - ' * an-4 Pt .. i'A ; U) oi-.t'iy nojar , /hi !t)S<v 'vor*. < V \J ^ ' \' Nn * . -- .y,'" 1 oflm (llk<> 01 dins ' ^ to W. ft. ' ? SOT'TTIKRN S \ W & Write for Catalogue H. Tell us what yo i K (pn F^Of? A,'J* l'Ars:'n LA rill '-vbv v;n:v.; AND BAD CGVDS TTTT~" spends $1.T,0()0,000 a year for bacon..! Ho told ol" the work of the inspectors I of the department in trying to protect j the people from impure corn and Hour. The people of this State { can raise corn and wheat that would suit them better but they will go 15 ^ miles to- buy some old cheap stuff, he i said. i Mr. Watson then read some statis- ' tics showing to what a startling extent the city of Columbia is involved ! in buying food products from abroad when South Carolina farmers could supply South Carolina cities. This was one of the most effective parts of lifs address. Among other things he said, Columbia buys $8,000,000 a ' year of meat products from foreign j packing houses; 625,000 bushels of corn; five carloads of turnips have re- . cenfcty come to Columbia from Canada and New York State furnishes the people of this State with cabbage; the ] Irish potatoes bought by Columbia j ^ from abroad amount to 20,000 barrels a year and the cabbage bill is amaz- ( ing. } The hour for resuming, court had . arrived and the audience was denied _ the plea.1 ire of hearing Prof. Barton,}! who made a capital talk on soil build- j ing to the people of Mayesville. The party concluded the day's work at Bishopville in the evening. , c in * ? '" - ? warms Champion Ilcat. ^ Freddie Welsh, the world's champ- 1 ion light weight, fought a ten round i bout with Jimmy Duffy, of Lockport, c at'Buffalo, N. 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