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i,~ h Pickeris 801111110 -UNE 19, 1918: GARY HIoTT MANAGER Fi t 'red t t Ptce a usof ieC se StCond Clas Malt Matter The Sentinel is not responsible for the views of its corres pondents. I have seen gleams in the face3 of men that let me look into a higher country.-Carlyle. A Serious Problem. Now that the schools are all closing, or have already closed, a good many of outr children have graduated from the high schools. Many of them expect to to to college, and the (lues tion w i t h parents is this: Where shall 1 senidl my boy or my girl to college? It is a ser ious thing to send o ' children a way - from home o school. Maym things arc to be consider ed. We want them to have the best training and wo want them to have the very best moral and religious influence thrown around them. Many a pure boy has gone away from homie to college where the in fluence was not good and the boy has come homo a wreck. Our denominational s c h o o I s ought to be so guarded that parents who may desire to send their chilretn to one of these could fee1 perfectly satisfied -h at their children would b perfec tlI safe from all in fluence, bit t he right. kind. Flo wetrs oim a grave don't, heli: the corpse; tears don't help a dead manl; words of sorrow (c not help a soul in hell. Speak at kilid word and try to help the mtan while he is living.-Evang olist (Glenntu. Rev. W. M. Duncan. l'rofouitl sorrow was felt in tluhis (ommlttlunity over the newt of the death of Rev. W\. M I)uncantu which occutred las wee ck. Previous to his appointnet as presidiug (lder of the (' Itlmbia district, Mr. WaS presiding elder o f Gr~eenvillo district, and1( - 'dourI t'years of uti ring Iabho. the up)buildinlg of this dlistri, which, owing to his wor'k, rant. second to none in the Souti Car'olina Confer'ence. No mat was ev'er more beloved wh< c'amte withint the b)orders of ou c'omunf)tity. E~ndow'ed with ptower's of oratot'y, his miagnifi cent sermttonls never failed tc leave their itmpression. Thal heo shuoutld give his best at each: ser'vice, to matter the siz~e o1 his con gregation or the situatior of the church-w~hether in th< crowned city or the mountair fastnesses--was his motto, an< his works wiljl follow him. T1he Pickens Methodist c:hurcl mourns the loss of its bes8 * ~ friend, and the sympIathy o the commuinity goes out to Mrs D~nucan and her daughters. " 'H at is intenise."'-H endline It is also in Pickens. * in time perhaps Mr. Bryat wvill ho known as the father o1 'I', rape juice. -rThe Atlanta Journal salys A)' 'Don't howl too loudly for jus tice. You might get it." Our idlea of over'doing a thing is the Atlanta papers' reports of * - the Phagan murder case. Thbe lobbly investigation it ~ giving the people a little insighi 6 on how some things are done hi Washington. 4 All those who received notices f rom us several weeks ago and have paid no attention, to them ~ ~ *will not receive The Sentinel *~ , 1. next wee and stIll owe us a I~ ~{( ~ dollar each. Our Inqu; ~, * "When should a man rebire?'t asks,.The Columbia State, He should at least wait until he gets his shoes off. ' "Keep them in," the caption of an editorial in the Piedmont a cold day last week, evidently should have been, "Keep them on." President Wilson uses the White House mint for sauce. He evidently thinks he will not need Kentucky's vote next elec tion. W're pulling for Josephus Jackson of Greenville to beat out 'l'yrus Cobb of Royston for the batting championship this year. Three months ago Pickens county boasted of four news papers. Today there are two and these two are likely to be here for some time. The Charleston Post says: "Homle tie are the best, as the Chtu leston baseball players know." Oi ht to get acquaint ed with soie home runs. We hope the action of the Easley council in putting the sneedlimit of that place down was not forced by the anxiety of the people to get out of town. 't'hat, affair in Pickens county leads us to the conclusion that it is just as dangerous to be sus pect.ed of reporting a still as to report one.-Greenville Pied nont. The Spinning Industry and The New Agriculture (An addiress delivered by 1). R. Coker of Hartsville at the session of the National Associ ation of Cotton Manufacturers at Boston, Mass. The title was '"'The New Agriculture in the South and its Relation to the Cotton Spinning industry.") Continued from last week. Miy own plant breeding work at Hlartsvillo dates from my ac quaintance with Dr. Webber and my observation of his work L Beginnir z in a small way abo'.i ten '.go I have rapidly ex t ulant breeding work until now it re I trained expert; creS in 1)reding on the work ats, rve, Peas, - md1 mielons are( oy the plant tc .and any variety ve put out can be traced b~ackc through our records to the original plant wvhich . producci it and often through as many as n inc generation of individuals Such work is known as pedligree breeding and it is (just as i ian imal breeding) the only sur method of producing varietie of desired characters and keep ing themn true to type. WV hen I began breeding cot I ton I observed that the cottor Plant presented a great diversita of character and my selectiom~ were made wvith a view of com. E bining the greatest number of .those which were dlosirale andl propagating them in a singli uniform variety. The most im. portant of these characters art 'yielding capacity, I e n g t h strength and uniformity of lint and size o1. boll. It is no troubl( to find plenty of one and one eighth inches to one and1 three sixteenths inches plants in al -most any field of short staph cotton and we quickly discover ed that the longest linted ani largest bolled of these were as apt as not to be the heaviesi yielders. After about seven years o1 breeding I began to distribut( the seed of my first staple va. riety around Hartsville. Om farmers were ignorant as to the proper methods, of raising andl handling this crop. A cam paign of education was, there fore, begun at that time and has been continued ever since. The writer several times every year mails out thousands of circulars on some sub1ject of Interest to the staple planter. He also delivers frequent lec sitive Pup IM SoRR~Y tures at farmers' instituti and before agkicultural bobieties in which the salient points for suc cess in the staple cotton hidus try are pointed out. The distribdtion of seed of pedigreed varieties of staple cot ton which are uniform in char acter and higher in roduction than most of the short staple varieties, and the campaign which has at the same time been carried on to instruct the farmers how to handle those cottons, has resulted in the pro duction in the territory contigu, ous to Hartsville of a character of cotton which for uniformity and strength of staple is not surpassed, if equalled, by that produced in any other quarter of the United States. This is attested by the eminent satis faction which well graded ship ments from our territory have given over since the cotton was introduced. Many mills now iecognize our new cottons as distii. from and much superior to the old weak tvasty staples which were formerly the only kind in the Carolina uplands. It required several year; of per. sistent effort, however, to in duce many of the staple mills in the Carolinas to give the new varieties a trial, and if it had not been for the kind coopera tion of Lewis W. Parker and a few others, the task of intro ducing these now cottons would have been almost insuperable. The mills and the farmeis have not yet fully realized the significance of the fact that the Columbia and Keenan and my Hartsville and Webbor cottons actually make in our section greater average yields of lint cotton per acre than short cot ton. (This f a c t, repeatedly proved in my own variety tests, will not be disputed by any one who is familiar with the results of recent experiments at the Raliegh -an(i Clemson experi ment stations or who has talked to any of the farmers in our section that have had several years' experience with these varieties). It means that the planting of these varieties and other long staples bred in the same way from short cotton, will expand as rapidly. as the demand, for them develops and the knowledge of the essentials of success in this industry reach es the farmers. I have thought it well to re peatedly warn the farners that the staple cottons raised in our section could not be expected to retain their superior qualit'es unless proper care can be taken to maintain the pu11rity and uni formity of these varietie's and to handle themi with intelligent care at every point until the cotton is actually sold. The newv upland staple cotton industry of Sonth Carolina is distinctl y the product of plant breedling, and I do not expect it to succeed1 permanently in zones wvhere the influence of the plant breeder is not felt. 1 have no ticedl, in fact, that much of the cotton producedi from seed of the excellent varieties bred by Dr. Webbor and dlistributed by the government six or seven years ago has already lost some of its excellent character and (loes not compare wvith that pro duced from seed of later pedli gree strains. This is, of course, because most of the farmers wvho receive these seed have done nothing to keep them froni reverting to the original typ)e. Weare attempting in South Carolina to do for the State at large through our recent organ ized1 Plant Breeders' association, of which this speaker is presi dent, the same sort of educa tional work wvhich has already been (lone in the vicinity of Hartsville, and it is hoped 'that within a few years our farmers generally may be brought to understand the .essentials prin ciples of this new industry. Meanwhile, however, we are going to have a considerable amount of very poor staple cot ton from the easterni part of the belt and buyers and mills can very materially aidl our Plant Bireeders' association in the pro paganda for better staples if they will dliscriminate rigidly against cotton of poor character or that which has been careless ly or roughly handled I want, in fact, to pointedly wvarn those mills w ho have receivedl satis factory shipments of the new staple not to presume that they can now get from any and everybody I n t hi e Carolinas staple cottons of the same ex cellence, for if they buy this In discrimninately they will certa in ly be0 grievously (Ilsappointed. One of the most surprising discoveries made by me in buy ing cotton of varieties of my own breeding and introductin was the tremendous fluctua tions in length and strength ckused by different conditions of moisture, soil and culture. I have occasionally observed dif ferences of one-eighth of an inch in length In the staple from different field of the ame kind of cotton on the Bante farm. In 1911 and 1912 the maximum variation of my owO pedigreed varieties was about one.eighth of an inch, I find that invariably the shortest stapled bales of a given variety are the weakest and poorest .in character and were raised under the worst conditions. If those wh,) are earnestly endeavoring to make a perma nent success of this industry re ceive the proper encouragement from the mills, there is no ques tion that it will, within a few Years, be placed on a permanent foundation to the great benefit of both the planter and 'the mill. A thorough understand ing of its problems and difficul ties, as vell as of its merits and advantages, w i1 1, however, make its success more prompt rt n d certain. T h e hundred thousand or more balen of taples afforded by a small area in South Carolina during the past two years has undoubtedly been largely instrumental in aiverting an absolute famine of 1 1-8 to 1 5-16 inch cotton which would have resulted from the curtailment of the staple crop in boll weevil territories if this new supply had not been available. I believe that we shall see during the next decade a not able increase in the yield per acre, the length of staple and the spinning quality of the American cottoi crop due to the general adoption of the im proved type of farming which I have spoken of as "the new ag riculture," and I ought to have a share in this great movement to advance Southern agricnlture by cooperating with it : leaders in every possible way. Let The Sentinel do your Printing Folger, Thorney 0&<C CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS AND GENTS FURNISHING GOODS The weather is getting entirely too.warm for you to hang on to that winter suit, heavy shoes, and winter hat. Come in and let us fit you out in a Strouse & Brothers High Art Summer suit, a nice pair of Walk-Over, or Boyden Oxfords, and one of the new blocks in a straw hat. 1 Our clothing line is the largest and most mplete to be found in county. Suits for men rangeing in price from $5.00 to $25.o-,odd pants from. $50P . . A large and complete line of boys clothing from to $7.6suit. For the past fourteen years we have made a specialty of Clothing, Shb-i: its and Gents Furnishing goods, and we are honest when wesay that for the money we can show you the largestI most complete and best selected line in Pickens county. All we ask is a look and we appreciate your business. Yours truly, Folger, Thornley & Co. Clothing, Shoes. Hats and Gents' Furnishing Goods a Specialty. 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