Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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3*^ ~ x In our first w< tion we were to lack of stations equipment, but v ly gotten in nece and are now * handle all busine tier the head of l ing. We ask f< trinity to serve y v it both checking accounts. IT IS THE f I BANK TO GIVE 4 J VICE. I the Burrouf Trusi GENUINE Ft For genuine Ford parts see cars carried in stock. finnniol f AY" 1 O ?1nirn nnlir 1 ft#v viua i vi jl v/ uajr o ) U' 27th: 4 Champion X i 3 Blowout shoe 3 Boxes auto p We do a general repair bust tery water, gas, grease, oi * We try to se BOLIVIA I W. Leonard t TABOR, In Old Tabor I 3125120?4t FORMER KAISER TOJIE ASSIGNED The Haeruc.?A roval flavor* rlnt_ ?d March 16 says the place to be piloted to Former Emperor Wilbaw ( ot Germany as his residence will ^ form part of the province of 1 Utrecht, and that it will be fixed la- 1 ter by the. government. The decree 1 was in connection with an announce- i ment to the allied premiers regard- 1 ing their recent note concerning the \ <me time monarch. ] The premier stated that the gov- 1 eminent is considering an official < allotment of land at Weirengen as a < place of residence for Formsr ] Crown Prince Frederick William, i He said that up to the present the i gop^jrnment had no indication that 1 J. I. C Transp SAVE TIME, LABOR AN if ER PLA ALSO LINE OF HAND TEA! ! ETERS AND LANTRNS. \ FOR SA | Horry Hart CONWAY, / ? ????? seks of operaindicapped by ry and office i/e have finalssary supplies prepared to ss coming unSeneral Bank>r an opporou. We solicand Savings kIM OF THIS GOOD SER !h$ Bank & tCo. IRD PARTS us, also parts for other Eiginning Saturday, March spark plugs $3 s, any size $1 atches $1 ness, have distilled batil. rve you right. UITO CO. I, Manager. , N. C. Bank Building. the former emperor or his son had Liken part in any political activities whatever. DORMANT SPRAY NOW. Clemson College, March 19.?Presort indications are that we shall lave a good crop of fruit this year, jut unsprayed fruit trees will give little returns. If for no other reason than that of the advance of more than 300 per cent in the price of fruit trees, every orchard owner or gardener having fruit trees should i>rune and spray. Results obtained from this work will many times louble the production, and the life [>f the tree will be prolonged. The pruning and spraying for preserving and prolonging the life of the tree should be finished before the buds begin to open. EASE 1 lanters i ID GIVE YOU STRONGiNTS NSPLANTERS, THERMOMLE BY Iware Co. s. c. I THE HOBBY HERALD, OOW1 PEANUT IS C0MIN6 i FORWARD RAPIDLY I i i Used to Be Circus Plaything, i Now Recognized as One of 1 Great Food Crops. \ Washington.?Grading and stand- i ardization of peanuts is one of the ' newest lines of work of the United 1 States Department of Agriculture, i with a view to improving condi. < tions of handling, distributing and ] marketing the crop and opening up i [wider and new avenues for its di.>- J posal. 1 Grading and standardizing is b> < ing worked out on the basis of a i shelling test, it is understood. Ex- J perts of the department have found ?] that the measure or weight of a i nnnnfifir nf FVia mifn ? ? j wjr va. vnv UlIOl iVI 1V;\1 I1U W) 10 4IW ? a satisfactory guide for determining i tho proportion of edible kernels con- < tainod in them, owing to the dirt, t shells and undeveloped kernels pre- j i sent in a lot of the nuts. 11 The Bureau of Plant Industry and ' the Bureau of Markets of the Agri- < cultural Department, which are en- i gaged on this work of establishing grades and standards for peanuts,' hope to "be able to announce def-:l inite results before long, but the t task is difficult and complicated, j The official grades and standards (1 when established will not be com- i pulsory, but are expected by the dc- 5 partment to be so satisfactory that c they will be generally adopted by'< the producers, buyers, dealers and ' < users, all of whom will be benefited, j it (is predicted. i Growth of . Peanut Industry. I The peanut industry is great and s growing rapidly. The cradle of the j 1 American peanut industry is in 1 southeastern Virginia and eastern i North Carolina. The cultivation of the "goobers" has spread through- I out the South, especially since tho i advent of the cotton boll weevil, t Farmers, in search of another mon- 1 ey crop when their cotton was ruin- > ed, turned to the peanut, until last I year 1,251,000 acres in twelve Sou- i thern States were planted in pea- i nuts and the production of the nuts i vas estimated at 33,263,000 bushels 1 by Department of Agriculture. Ala- g bama is now the leading State in t peanut production with 6,840,000 g bushels to her credit in 1919, while < five other States produced from 3,- ? 400,000 to 5,550,000 bushels each, i The total farm value of the crop | r was estimated at nearly $80,000,000 1 But the end is not yet, for gov I eminent scientists and other expert i e familiar with the situation predict' r a big increase in the production of \ peanuts, as realization grows and t spreads of the value of this crop as f a soil improver, as feed for hogs and hay for cattle, as the material from which edible oils and fats, peanut butter and meal, and the basis of many candies, confections and other delectable dainties. Increased consumption is bound to follow standardization of peanuts and their products, it is declared, especially as the growers and manufacturers of the nut take advantage of their opportunities for exploiting their products by proper methods of specialization and advertising. Something has already been done along the lines, but much remains to be done, in the opinion of Dr. L. C. Corbett, specialist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who has been cooperating with the Bureau of Markets in the peanut work. Peanut oil for cooking and table purposes, Dr. Corbett points out, was almost unknown before the war. That g e't cataclysm, which upset whole world, opened the eyes of the makers of salad oils, oleomargarine, soap and other products to the pO tentialities of the peanut, During the war also, owing to scarcity of their customary materials, the manufacturers turned to two other . Southern sources of oil, cottonseed j and cocoanuts. Rising Demand and Price", The results of increased consumption of peanuts and peanut products is apparent in the big demand for peanuts and the .high prices that ( they bring. This winter the aver- , age price was $2.40 per bushel, or j about double what it was a few . years ago; this in spite of the fact < that the production ha* doubled or , trebled within the last several years. As illustrating the increased use of c peanuts, it is stated that a single 1 Western concern, which began to t use n carload or two ten years or r less since, is now using 200 to 3?.0 t carloads annually. j The Department of Agriculture Is t doing experimental and inve^tig',- g tory work with peanuts relating to methods of planting, selection o' f seed, improvement of field, cultiva- T WAY. 8. 0 , MARCH 25, 1920 ;ion and handling of crop. Se'ec ed strains of some of the varieties are ' >eing made by the department wit i view to producing thoi e more paricularly adaptable for definite purposes, such as the making of high 1 grade table and cooking oils, or an >il that may be used in the manu Picture of oleomargarine arvd suap. Dther purposes for which se'ecti r.s ire being made are those adapted for human food in the form of meal, >utter, etc., and high yielding strains for stock and dairy feeds. There are only about six distinct varieties of the pearut grown in the United States, the department here las determined. The Sparish white i. the variety ordinarily met wit l in jandy and cakes and at the come: icanut stands. lnrcr#?r vnrirtioc ng used chiefly for manufacturing ind other purposes, it is stated pormerly a means of diversion for circus crowds and small boys viTtng the zoo, the peanut has bee:me m important article of world trade, lapan is exporting this year nearly 24,000,000 pounds of peanuts, and :ome of these are being imported nto the United States in competition with the Southern crop. It is he view of experts that this constitutes a notice to American pcalut producers that they should not 'overlook any bets,'" but should pro ceed to specialize, grade, standardze and advertise. Better Stock Feed Than Corn? The value of peanuts as a stock Teed can hardly be exaggerated, according to government scient's s. The Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture is on record as saying that peanuts make x better stock feed than com because the former have a larger percentage of vitamines. This is the dement that is most necessary to the jrowtli of animals, and man, too, 'or that matter. Peanuts have not men used to any great extent for stock feed in the North, it is stated, occause they are not sufficiently mown there and because there has riot been enough of them. This year the peanut crop in the Southeast has been marketed rcadly, according to official information. State officials are operating ,vith the Federal Government an 1 ,vith development associations in the South promoting system, better nethods, specialization and standard zation in the peanut industry. Va'lablc work in connection with peanuts is being done by agricultura1 ichools and experiment stations in he Southern States. One of these >tations has been established on the :oastal plain largely through the efforts of the Georgia Landowners Association, of the Southern Settlenent and Development Organization. The South Carolina Development >oard, of the same organization, has mcouraged the organization of pca\ut mills at strategic points, with a dew to providing a cash market for he crops of the farmers suffe.ing rom the boll weevil invasion. R BO ? r-t.v'm WWOTP? ?mr ? i II III - ? mi Th ?a ms nil Tested Seeds For Field and Garden Get our free Catalog- which tell about the best varieties of Gardci , Seeds?for home U3e, canning ant shipping?what field seeds to plant fo: heavy yields of grain or hay?which t< sow for abundant pasturage. WOODS aiucjLW ire choice strains of the best varieties 1 re-cleaned and tested for germinalioi 1 and purity. Write for Catalog and "Wood's Croi , Special," giving thooly Information 9-m , current prices, Mailed froo, T.W.WOOD & SONS SEEDSMEN, RICHMOND, - - - - VI3G2NI* V DUALITY OF SEED IMPORTANT POINT The quantity and quality of the iorn you wll harvest next f<dl do: 10X paos jo pupj oqj uo 'puodji >lant this spring. Perfect culture ] md the best weather in the world ? an not remedy the initial e*. i if . *ou plant poor seed. ( A good seed corn, say specialists 1 >f the United States Department of . ] \griculture, is ore that is adsp e i < ;o the locality, is grown on the < oost productive plants of a pr due- < ivc variety, is well matured, an 1 \ )reserved from ripening to planting < imn in cnnVi o > >? in ruvn c? iY?,y iiiiai Hit* Illll v.- I for of the seed will be retained. |j It should have been selected in the i all from the stalk, but if that wan t LORlected, all that can be done now ? is to obtain a uniform type of see 1 luc to varietal characteristics a:i<i that will grow. The more fact that the kernel * will sprout in a germinator is n >t the whole story. Recent experiments have shown that weak sprculs may be indications of disease, that similar see l when planted is likelv oK to fprout and, if it does, will g:cw crly a few inches or, at best, produce a barren stalk. Corn that will come up but that will produce an unprofitable crop is worse than seed which won't grow at all, because it fools a farmer into wasting labor and land on it. Know what your seed will do by selecting it yourself. Cheap seed corn may prove very dear; the seed com that prcduces the best crop usually is the cheap est. If you must buy seed, pay your neighbobr a reasonable price for selected well preserved seed of a va nety that has made good in a neigh boring field; but don't pay a Strang er a fancy price for seed claimed to give miraculous yields. Points on Preparing for Planting Seed. Seed ears should first be nubbed. and the kernels from tip and b ,t should be discarded from the see l supply. The small kernels from tips are less productive than the other kernels on the ear; the thick > rounded kernels from the butts are just as productive as any of the rest, but because of their shop.* ml size they do not plant uniformly when used in a corn planter with other kerne's. Shelling by hand takes more t:me and labor, but is profitable. The mechanical corn sheller will injure some of the kernels, and thus do stroy or reduce their power t> grow and yield. No matter how largo the required supply, says the department, it will still pay to shell it painstakingly by hand, because of the greater the acreage to be planted the greater the ultimate profit. Each ear should be shelled separately into a shallow pan or box, and any blemished, poorly developed, moldy, or worm-eUten kernel should be rejected. As *the seed from each ear is found satisfactory and sound, and free from poor kernels, it is poured into the general supply, and another _ 1. . 11 i cux is sneneci in tne same way. It is much easier to pick out defective kernels from a thin layer in a smail sieve than from a large mingled quantity in a bushel measure or a bag. t Habitual Constipation Cured in to 21 Days "LAX-^OS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially, prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly but should bo taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c -jr bottle. turki?capital~ i OCCUPIED BY ALLIES: Constantinople.?The allied high j commissioner here has issued a state . ment declaring that the Allies have no intention of destroying the authority of the Sultan, but wish to strengthen his power. It also says the Allies will adhere to their intention not to deprive the Turks of Con stantinople. but that thev mnv bo ? compelled to modify their decision if massacres and disorders continue. The Allies have occupied the ministries of war and navy and assumed control of the posts, telegraphs and telephones, which have b^en tern porarily suspended. Shipping also has been suspended. An exchange of shots resulted, in which several punjabi of tho British Child Indian forcets and a few of the Turks were killed. The excitement caused by the occupation quieted down before darkness, which brought abbsolute calm. Under Brit'sh Guns. The landing of the forces of occupation was carried out under the guns of the Allied fleet anchored in the Bosphorus . The British dreadnaught Benbow was moored at the Galata quay, her guns trained upon Stamboul. Another man of war faced the arsenal in the Golden Horn while all the other warships in the Bosphorus were standing by with Ilicir decks cleared for action. Except in the instance stated, how ever, there was no resistance to the Allifwl f"rnv?r?c oc lUrtir - X. . V,. w... i?n Ultjl V?I I K'll Will Ulll' mders for tho occupation of tho Irs brie capital of tho Ottoman Empire. Tho population, in fact, show-, m\ little alarm, nor was there anv 1 i sign of panic except in one section, Df Stamboui, as the commanders of the Allied troops brought their fore-' \s ashore. These forces included 4,000 bluejackets and marines from the Britsh warships, and contingents from he forces of all the Allies represented here. FAQS THREE MAiNREQIIISlTES FOR LOWER PRICES Secretary Goodwin, of U. S. Chamber, Voices Business Opinion MUKt kkuductiqn THRIFT; LESS DEBT Expected to Result in Gradual Decline of High. Cost." More production, mere savings, and lessening of the prevailing inflation of credit., and currency, are the three main requisites for general redu?t.ionn in prices, is the opinion of Elliott Goodwin, general secretary of the Chamber of Comnier '?. of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin were in Charleston for a (few days as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. Goodwyn Rhett, while on their way from Florida to Washington, Mr. Goodwin having gone to "Florida to recuperate from an attack of pneumonia. Mr. Goodwin is no stranger to Charleston, having been there before and he was warmly greeted by several of bis freinils. As general secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Mr. Goodwin holds a very responsible executive position, and in an interview he reflected the views of business men in general, as gleaned from observation and from various referendums which the U. S. chamber of commerce has ta1.. * ' tvi-ii to ascertain ine views of its associate members. Mr. Goodwin states that the Chamber of Commerce of the United States endeavors simply to support such as its members indicate they favor. The organization consists of local commercial bodies, and of individuals, but only commercial bodies have the power to vote. By means of referendums, the national organization obtains the views of the associate bodies, and directs its energies accordingly. In recent years, states Mr. Goodwin, the national body has grown in foreign countries as well as here. The Charleston Chamber of Commerce Is a member of the national chamber, and for two years R. Goodwyn Rhett, of this city was President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. He made a splendid president," Mr. Goodwin stated. American business men are overwhelmingly opposed, Mr. Goodwin states, to government ownership of railroads and of the merchant marine, and believes that these two mighty industries and the country in general will prosper more if they are treated from a business standpoint, with proper government regulation. Business men hope that in the future government regulation will be of a constructive naturerathcr than of a restrictive nature. It is held that the American government was never devised for the purpose of making money, and American business men believe that the railroads can be run more efficiently, economically and satisfactorily under private ownership. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce is exerting1 its energies to reconstruction work for American business. No sudden drop in priccw is lookI... i?? * cm lur uy ironing DUSines? mwi or America, Mis Goodwin points out the general belief be'ng that th?" reduction will be gradual, and be ex presses the opinion that several c?r-r cumstanees are responsible for the very high prices now prevailing, chief of which is the lack of production, which began to fall off when the recent war first started. Increased production, more saving, and deflation of the currency and of credit Nvill help bring about a lower cost of living, in Mr. Goodwill's opii ion. American business men are anxious to have peace finally established. They differ, of course, on what form the peace treaty should take, but they realize generally that peace of some sort is highly desirable. American business men ore also hoping that there will be a<tvisable adjustments in the present system of federal taxes, such as in the excess profits tax. In the end, it is pointed out, the public pays for the excess profits as well as other taxes. and as this tax tends to handicap business, it is believed that it should be changed. T. W. Livingston wa9 in Conway j one day last week on business.