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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER It. 1929. FOREIGN COTTON YS. SOUTH’S STAPLE CROP <4 One American manufacturer uses 80 per cent Egyptian cotton because he cannot get as fine or as long cotton in this country. There is no blinking the facts as they exist. American cotton supremacy is not only threatened but is slowly being undermined’, writes Arthur Coleman in the current issue of HOLLAND’S, the Magazine of the South. Amazing as it may sound to South ern people who look upon cotton, the bulwark of our very existance, as a matter of course and a never ending source of revenue, much of the cotton now grpwn is absolutely useless in the manufacture of anything made in this country except the shoddiest of mater ial. Nearly fifteen per cent of the 1928 crop was untenderable on con tract because of short staple, and more of this class ife grown each year. Mr. Coleman says, “For many years American short cotton has been ship ped to Japan and Europe where it is used in the manufacture of underwear, Obtain Healthy Seed for Spuds Most Profitable Plan Is to Eradicate All Infec-. . tious Diseases. y (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Sweet-potato growers will find It profitable to eradicate, so far as is possible, the several destructive dis eases which annually cause losses in the growing of the crop. Of these diseases, stem rot is one of the most difficult to control, and control meth ods minimizing damage from stem rot also reduce injury from several other parasitic infections. Breeding Plot. L. L. Harter and J. L. Weimer, sweet-potato specialists in the United States Department .if Agriculture, in a recent publication say they “have learned from experience that the use of what may be called a 'breeding plot’ is of considerable value in erad icating stem rot and other diseases.” Use Separate Field. “While It Is advisable to pull up and destroy all diseased plants,” they Craig B. Hazlewood blankets, cheap rope, twine and other commodities. In those countries it is’ continue, “it is a big task where the forced to compete in price with cotton, acreage Is large. from China and India. Cotton grown with the cheapest of cheap native labor •Coolie’ cotton, it has come to be c*H- ed. In order to compete with this cheap cotton, American cotton must be cheaper. * “Particularly it must be cheaper than Indian cotton, for India raises a abort cotton that is the best for the uses to which it is put to he had. There are mills in America where domestic short cotton could not sup plant Irfltan cotton if the American cotton was given away. India’s cot ton is stronger and better than Amer ican short cotton. China's cotton is better. This is not my opinion. It it a statement of a cottin goods manu facturer who operates pne of the larg est concerns cf its kind in the country and whose product is nationally recog nized as one of the best.’*'* Mr. Coleman points out how and why short staple, untenderable rotton i* becoming more popular with South ern farmers; how this affects the price of ml! cotton; what this mean* to Southern business and many other facts ab?ut cotton which most South erners who have seen cotton all their lives know little about. Is large. Where It is not possible to do that. It js recommended that the farmer'set aside a |»art of Ids Held from w’hlch he will take his seed potatoes for the next crop and rogue out all diseased plants from It during the entire dimmer. Such a practice does not Involve great labor and will greatly improve the crop in a year or two. This method Is es pecially to be recommended If the stems are not split when selecting for seed. ... To prevent diseased plants from producing seed by pull ing them *p and destroying them would eliminate mu* n loss in the suc ceeding crop. This practice should be followed each year.** GREEN SOYBEAN GRAZING CHEAPEST FEEDING RESULTS Oemson Co.lege, Sept. 14.—The decided advantage of using forage in feeding hogs rather than dry-lot/eed- ing is shown in a summary of three yeais* feeJing trials with hog* on soy beans, says E. G. Godbey, associate animal husbandman. South Carolina Experiment Station, who points out that experiments in soybean grazing indicate that farmers will get most economical returns by grazing during the green stage. Pigs weighing from 40 to 50 pounds wer carried on soybeans for about 62 days, at which time they had reached a final weight of 90 to 120 pounds. The averags daily gain of Lot 1 in dry lot was .89 of a pound. Lot 2, receiving a 2*4 percent com and soybean for age ration, averaged .74. Lot 3, re ceiving 2Vz percent corn and tankage and soybean forage, averaged .69. Lot 4, receiving a full feed of com and soybean forage, gained 1.9 pounds, while those receiving a full feed of cim and tankage on forage made an average daily gain of 1.17 pounds., These differences are not sufficient to be of great significance. —— TJhe most interesting results pb- tained in this experiment are those of the feed cost per 100 pounds of gain. Full.feeding in dry lot produced gains at a cost of $8.43 per 100 pounds; limited feeding of corn on soybeans at a cost of $5.84 per 100 pounds; limit ed feeding corn and tankage on soy beans $6.85; full feeding corn and soy beans $6.65 per 100 pounds; full feed ing com and tankage $6.96 per 100 pounds. Ifrom these figures it is readily seen that any of these methods of feeding on .forage are decidedly more desirable than dry-lot feeding. Feeding 2H percent corp produced the chenpest gains and from this standpoint was decidedly the most de sirable method of feeding. If hogs are being carried through the early summer on high-priced corn, thi« will probably be the best method of feed ing. At the close of this green bean f>eriod they can be pushed to a rapid finish on standing corn. ADVERTISE IN Dairy Thermometer Will Be Found Quite Useful It may‘he no fault of your ***pa rut or that there Is a high percentage of fat In the skim milk. Experiments curried on at I lie I’unlue experiment station Indicate that milk aeftnrated at a temperature of lai degrees Fahrett hell showed a fat content In the skint mttk of JW per cent, while n»Uk srpa rate*) under similar conditions except that the tem(»erature had been al lowed to drop to OU degrees Fahrenheit contained JHO per ^rnt of fut In the aklm milk. Sometimes It pays to warm the milk If the separating Is done at a long distance from the stable. Many times the purchase of a dairy thermometer will l»e found to be a profitable invest ment. i — TfOUTB-AND THE NEW LEADERSHIP By CRXlG B. HAZLEWOOD President American Bankere Associa tion L eadership is a picturesque word. With it, one pictures Hannibal fighting his way through the passes of, the Alps— Napoleon in hit cam p^ign s—or Washington hold ing together his half-frozen army by the sheer mag netism of his character at Val ley Forge. But I visualize s o m e- thing that holds & more astound ing spectacle in many r e s p e c ts than any of these. It is the onrush of our business life. Our economic progress plunges ahead at a rate unheard of in the history of ! the nations of the world and every industrial and financial leader is daily | brought face to face with new and perplexing problems requiring the htgbeist courage and Intelligence for their solution. Ninety billions a year, they tell us, this country is now producing in new wealth. The rate of increase Is even more staggering than the amount It is difficult to say where It may lead us in even ten or fifteen years. We are moving exceptionally fast Our economic and industrial structure is placing before ua problems of greater and greater magnitude. Few men can see far ahead. Few are In complete control, for thla la a chang ing world, as even the most inexperi enced business man will readily tes tify. Our methods of adjusting our- •elves rapidly to economic changes and of cooperating are far from per fect. What an opportunity the leadership of five, tenor fifteen years from now presentsy/nYhat an adventure It will be! What responsibilities It will lay upon the broadest shoulders that may be found! This la the challenge to leadership aa 1 see It. In the hands of the young men must rest the reapon- methods of cotton production which are now being put into practice. “The Stateis divided injo three con test districts so that each contestant can compete with other fanners grow ing cotton under like conditions, N ex plains Mr. Hamilton. “Preliminary reports indicate that because of weather and insect conditions, there will not b* a wide variation between the average yields of the three dis tricts this yeay.” - l ♦ ♦ ♦ m Social and Personal News from Williston Cockerels and Pullets Should Be Separated Cockerels should he se|tarnted from pullets when they are from eight to ten weeks of nue. The pullets for next winter's laying flock will develop faster and more evenly If there are no cockerels In the lot to disturb and an noy them, according to William Kohl- meyer. of Purdue university. When pullets are left In the brooder house by themselves they have addi tional room, which In many cases is badly needed. When cockerels are sorted out It is often possible to leave the pullets In the original brooder house until they are ready for the laying mouse. •Williston, Sept. 14.—The School Im provement association of Williston en tertained with a reception in honor of the faculty of the Williston-Elko schools, At the home of Dr. ^and Mrs. Wallace Cone, Friday evening, Sep tember 6th. Mrs. G. E. Crouch and Mrs. W. C. Smith, Jr., served the guests with a salad course a^d mints. In the drawing room a musical pro gram was rendered by Miss Edna Lott and Miss Wilkes. During the entire evening punch was served on the veranda midst cut flowers and ferns by Mrs. M. O. Hewitt and Mrs. G. J. Trotti and Mrs. C. H. Trotti. The members of Martha Watson chapter, D. A. R., gathered Thursday afternoon at the home of Miss Mary Willis for the first fall meeting. Mrs. Bryan Powell gave a paper on “Nat ional Origin Immigration Law.” Mrs. G. W. Whitaker spoke on “D. A. R. Work at Ellis Island.” Mrs. C. L. White was hostess ®t a bridge party Wednesday afternoon. Seven tables were arranged for play ers and one table for tea guests. High score prize was awarded to Mrs. Q. A. Kennedy, Jr. Mrs. Q. A. Kennedy has returned home after several weeks stay at Waynesville and Hendersonville, N C. | John Newsom, of Jacksonville, Tla., is the guest of his brother, J. E. New som. Mrs. F. A. Turner and daughter. Miss Dorothy Davit, of Asheville, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Owens this week. Mmse* Grace Givens and Anna League Merrift college * • Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Smith returned from Saluda, N. Monday, where Ourselves overstock on Wagon* and Mow ers and will offerthem // at attractive prices thirty days. Farmers Union Merc. BARNWELL, S. C. : v ,- ' IW'lf left Monday tor Coker ribllltr for thl, leader,hip. ; thry h , ve , peBt summer. toy. Who R,.<h.d the Pl nn .cl„ | ^ M „ Norm.!, Bennett left Business Is full of the romance of Late Ducklings Have Several Advantages The late hatched ducklings have a number of advantages over their ear lier hatched brothers and sisters. In the first place, the summer and early fall hatched ducklings, If^pushed for rapid and cheap gains, will go on the late fgfli and early winter markets in time for the Jewish and Christian holidays. They are naturally profit able, for at this time the highest prices can be realized and in addition, the weather during the growing season for late hatched ducks is more favorable for rapid growth. Agricultural Notes The lamb’s mother should have all the legume hay she wants, because le gume hay makes milk. • • • Disking or otherwise cultlvatlqg early plowed fields to keep (lown weeds and volunteer wheat will aid materially in controlling Hessian fl; and will increase the yield of wheat a—m Carefully choose varieties of apple trees to be planted next spring. Many of the kinds once considered leaden are now being displaced by higher quality and better selling varieties. r • • S , Produce the best Quality products bring prices high enough shove the market quotation for ordinary prod ucts to me be It profitable and cal to produce them. They a youngsters whose chief characteristic was working hard and keeping it IL There waa a green fanner hoy who de cided he would retber stand behind a counter than follow a plow. He seemed so obviously lacking In sales ability that for a time no merchant would hire him. He failed in his first position, and In his second his salary was reduced. He even agreed that he was a misfit—but he stuck. Out of his first five stores. I believe, three failed. But he persisted and worked hard. And that boy, Frank W. Wool- worth, became the greatest retail merchant in the world with a store In every city of eight thousand or more population in thla country. There was another lad who clerked in a grocery store sixteen hours a day and studied mathematics In his odd moments. He became Interested In the doings of the steel plant whose em ployees traded at thla atore. He be gan to study steel and sought a posi tion in the plant He carried a sur veyor's chain and drove stakes. At night he studied mathematics and en gineering. He did not despair. He could not be diverted. He kept the pressure on for seven years. And that boy, Charles Schwab, mastered the iron industry and became one of the country’s great industrial leaders. There was a lad who sold papers f n a train. When he grew up, several million men and a score of billions of dollars of capital were given profitable employment through his inventions. Even in middle life, Thomas Edison continued to work twenty hours a day, if necessary to achieve his purpose. Leadership is not play. Leadership offers dountless positions of varying opportunity, of which the highest pin nacles will mean almost unbearable responsibility in the new era. There will be men with the fire and iron to qqplify even for these places. Such men must have had the very finest preparation and the most grueling tests. Their reward will be the attain ment of "these highest pinnacles of achievement, and the rendering of an Immeasurable servlcr*to their times. Tuesday for their home in Miami, af ter having visited their parents, Mr and Mrs. €. A. Bennett, for several days. SEND THE PEOPLE-SENTINEL M TO- y YOUR BOY OR GIRL AT COLLEGE Only $1.00 for the School Term Payable in Advanee LONG TERM MONEY to LEND 11 6 per cent, interest on large amounts) Private funds for small loans. = LAWYl BROWN & BUSH BARNWELL. SOUTH STATE COTTON CONTEST IS DRAWING TO CLOSE Clemson College, Sept. 14.—County agents throughout the State are now making, careful checks on the yields of the plots entered in the South Carolina Five-acre Cotton contest, says R. W. Hamilton, extension agro nomist, who has charge of the con test Eleven hundred farmers entered the contest this year and it is indi cated by reposts now com til g in that a higher percentage of completed rec- oid B will be obtained this year than any previous year of the contest Per The anti-knotk quolititt of Esso ora constantly being tested in tbo ^Standard" laboratories on “knock-testing" machines like that shown ir. this picture. This is one of the many precau tions taken to maintain in Esso the lowest qf all knock ratings. PING,PING, PING, spells Lost- E SSO i» much more than ' an "anti-knock" fuel. It it* power fuel such as you have never used before. Esso is made from special stock. To this base is added a special combination of anti knock compounds, includ ing tetra-ethyl lead. If your motor knocks you are wasting power. But you will find you simply cannot get a gas knock from your motor with Esso. It has the lowest of all knock ratings. Try Emo today. Learn why more motorists prefer Esso st a premium than any other brand selling at regular prices! TUB GIANT POWER FUEL