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Valuable I ?n 1 I conduc I South ( able ai Properl City. FREE PRIZES FARMERS MUST KNOW AROUT THE MARKETS Have Something to Exchange' For the Foreign Products He Needs COTTON AND TOBACCO GRAIN AND APPLES Are the Things That Should Flow to Foreign "Markets in Steady Stream. A knowledge of tlx* market is essential if the farmer is to organize and operate his business to best advantage. Something like one-fouith of his produce goes to foreign countries. Hence to know his market con ditions it is essential that he know something of the foreign as well as of the domestic market. A study of foreign markets for our farm products will bring home to him that it the ioreign outlet were blocked, there would be left in this country, frequently a surplus that would exert a disastrous effect on prices to farmers. The export business in Agricultural products is very large. In 1919, it constituted approximately 5f> per cent of all oxports. Agricultural products export ed were worth about $4,250,000,000, while all other products exported were worth $3,500,000,000. The farmer ought to ho interested in knowing how and why his prosperity depends, in large measure, upon foreign markets. The farmer is in a position to do more toward promoting foreign trade than may appear at first glance. Practically every farm commodity is now represented by some large organization and all of them are keenly interested in export trade in farm products. Yet the growers who compose the organizations have given too little thought to what a foreign outlet means to them. The cotton growers, about ,60 per cent of whose product goes to foreign markets knows a great deal about it. Si do the growers of some t\ poo of tobacco that go almost exclusively to specific foreign markets. So do some apple grower* and sonic c'tnis fruit growers. The rank and file of farmers, however, give the mailer practically no thslight. I \ . All Real Estate *m m m a m riday, August dUth t an AUCTION Sak Carolina of the Mo: id Only Available ty in that Prospero WATCH ALI Should Know Foreign Markets. i It iv lii(rlilv tlmt fill* ' farmers and their organizations avail themselves of all possible; sources of information on foreign j marketing. The Department cf! Agriculture is in a position to give them assistance. The Bureau of Markets, through its foreign market-i ug service, is furnishing informa- i tion on foreign supplies assisting in establishing standard grades not on-1 ly to improve the quality of American products but to facilitate trading, and is making investigations of shipping and storage problems to aid in placing the products on foreign markets in good condition. A representative is stationed in London, devoting his time to putting American producers in touch with British markets. It has been planned to place six such representatives at strategic points over the world. Trade commissioners are sent to foreign countries when the pportunity to open up a new market appears] promising. Two live-stock commissioners were sent t<? South A rr. eric a i last ye.ar and two others will leave in a few days to spend the greater part of the coming summer in the same field. Several shipments of purebred live stock to Brazil and Uruguay have already resulted and prospects are good for a broad field ror future trade. Plans are now under way for sending two grain men to Europe to demonstrate the grades on which trading in grain is now done in this country. It is proposed also, when the apple shipping season begins, to put men on the ships carrying them to foreign markets to find out the causes of losses in apples shipped overseas and to devise means for reducing them. ci : 4,1? | oumniitnt'h u.i lurci^u uauv nuvimation .are published weekly in The Market Reporter. The department j would like to have farmers' and proI ducers' associations make as free ! use of this material as possible, and i to call for any other information that our specialists can furnish. To Pay for .Foreign Products. Every farmer must have foreign products?such, for instance, as i coffee, tea, sugar, cloth, and manuj factum! articles. To secure these ! foreign products, we must have some thing to give in exchange for them. It is a matter both of personal and i of nat ional importance, therefore, ^u\t the American farmer have I something to sell abroad. The falling off in the export demand for American condensed milk that had j been built up during the war has rc! suited in the closing of many eondensaries during the past three 1 ^ ^ " T 4- onncco vxr 4-*\ illi/fitlio* it i ^ uvvircoai ,v i/?' vuii v? i '? into butter and cheese the milk that has hern going to Europe in con; donsod form?and milk for buttor and cheese is worth only about two-thirds as much as Europe paid for the condensed milk. Tlut there should be another outlet for condensed milk. The tropic#! regions that have been taking a profit on sugar from th s and other countries need condensed m lk and this market THE HORRY HERALD, CO ??? ??i crio to be sold i we will : in Loris st ValuBusiness ; us Little ! I UNUSUALLY THIS SPi LEN BROS., Raleigh, Nox might have been developed move speedily if our people generally had known more about it. The losses that dairy farmers arc sustaining because of the surplus of fluid milk is typical of what is likely to happen when any foreign outlet is closed. It is essential to the prosperity of farmers that a fairly st-Yidy stream of farm products is kept flowing to foreign markets. The outstanding articles will probably continue to be cotton, tobacco grain, and apples. It is therefore of prime importance that producers of these products be kept informed on foreign market conditions. IN LOVING MEMORY. ; Of my darling mother, Mrs. S. 0. Richardson, who died at her home in Conway. June 27. 1920. She was i ill for several months before she ! died, but she seemed to bear it all with patience. She never murmured or complained. She leaves, besides her husband, one brother,! six children, and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn their loss, but we mourn not as those who have no hope, for she truly was a good wife and mother. Conway community will miss her, but we must bow in humble submission to the One who doeth all things well. His will be done. Her body was laid to rest in the lakeside cemetery with the masonic honors, to await the ressurection morn. Dearest mother, thou hast left us, And our loss we deeply feel; But 'tis God who hath bereft us. He can all our sorrows heal. We loved you, yes we loved you, But Jesus loved you more; And he has sweetly called you To yonder shining shore. The Golden Gates were open. A gentle voice said, come; And with farewells unspoken, You calmly entered home. Her pilgrimage here was ended, And her crown of glory won. Her life well spent in happy deeds. Her work on earth was done. i Oh mother, darling mother, Though sad we now may be; I Because you will no more bo with us Nor your loving face we see. i Sloop on, darling mother And tako thy rest, God o-alled you home, Ho though it best. i You Are gone, but not forgott(tn, ; Never will your memory fade; Sweetest thoughts will ever linger j 'Round the grave where you avo laid. Her lovim- daiir' tor, ?Mrs. Viola Cannon. Messrs. T. P. I.ewis and Ed. L. Smith spent several days at Little River last week. NWAY, S. 0., JULY 15, 1920. mmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmam iTsa absolutely On Sai sell in Co sirable r? fast gro^ would yo new Nati leave Ma i EASY TERMS mr nfyt 1 V k II k 11 I Selling Agei ^th Carolina. J. F. Garrell of Loris was in Conway last week on business. MENACEOF MONEY . BEFORE NATION Now York.?William G. McAdoo. speaking1 at the dinner of the National League of Masonic Clubs here declared "there is no menace so great to our nation as the corrupt use of money for campaign, pu rposes." " I w,as secretary of the treasury for six years and know the harm that is done by the misuse of money For mo gallon o and for th< "To be th the square H. LE for the High :urday August 31st v inwav S. r fi-.^ mr -- > > j y mm* m W y ?> A ft JkAAV esidentia! property c /ving County Seat, u like to o wn a lot ional Highway just . .in St., Conway, S. C WEEK. FREE BA lk in this way," he said. "I am not talking about Republicans alone, but Democrats as well, for they all look alike to me when they are guilty of spending money in the manner indicated." Mr. McAd oo declared campaign contributors would seek their rewards in various ways, one of which the reduction on imports. He point| ed out that a fraction of a cent reduction would run into big figures. Mr. McAdoo said that "as an American citizen seeking nothing" there were some things about the coming election he would like to refer to. The appointment of the senate committee to investigate cam-1 paign expenditures he declared, was "Xi+Z-P V-'.Sj. ' ... ire tire mileage, mor >f gasoline, greater ric 5 best possible tire in' Next Time?BUY FISK These tires are built to this Id e best concern in the world to i ?st concern in existence to do bu For Sale by G. GUSHMAN, CONWAY,! i Dollar. ve will >st de >f this I How I on the | as you U ND CONCERT I H one of the "few intelligent thin J the senate ever did." ' "I "Tlieiv1 is ?>ne thing1 American! can never stand for." ho continue? "and that is the purchase of th! presidency of the United States? In my opinion the election laW should be changed," he said. Tl? expense for running the nation? election should be paid out of th! national treasury and if this werl clone the cost would be infinite}! less. It would reduce one-fifth. Tli! money should be taken from the ffl oral treasury and the law shoul prescribe specifically how the mofl oy should be spent. If such a stW were takei it would to a great ell tent purify bur laws. ^ till "* N II I e miles to a || | ling comfort I vestment J vork for and I tiness with." I