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MEAT PRODUCTION SMASHES RECORD Twenty Billion Pounds Is Total for United States In 1918. FARMER WAS -IG FACTOR Output Ncver Approached in Magni tude in rhis or Any Other Country -Striking Increases in Ex ports Are Shown. Washington. - Amerlean dressed imeat pro(lttiu onl, inciliiling lard, amiounfted in 1918 to 20,121,800,000 pouids--n Ottanililily never before ap prached in magnilitde by the live stock industry of 'Ils or any other country. The corresponding figure for 1917 was 10,317,300,0() pounds. Three-fourths of the enorttous in crease was in pork and one-fourth was in heef. The ient surplus in 1918 was so great that extra export demands made little imtlpression oil it, although 1918 ex port shipients of uieat and lard nearly doubled the 1917 figure--rising from slightly less than 1,750,000,000 pounds to slightly more thian 8,000,000,000 pounds--and these figures do not in clude shipments to American military forces abroad. The aggregate 1917 consumption of dressed meatf ail lard in the United States was approximately 14,500,(K), 000 pounds. This means, after allow ing for Increase in population an addl tion of 23 pounds for( every man, wom tin and child in the country-despite the food-conservation campaign which in 1917 caused consutiption to decline considerably. Farmer Was Big Factor. "While the people, as a whole, through their abstinence averted the immediate crisis, it was the farner who was the really big factor in the itltialite sittuation," says the Iureau of animal industry, United States depart ment of agriculture. "The producer, of course, was expicted to do his part, but he did it with such powerful effect that in a singlo yeara- the meat shortage was tu raned ito ait proniouncied surplus. Thus in 1918 there wit naot only aieat enaough to suipply iall fo-eignl dematids comlttible w'it Iho restirit-ted shipping favelities, hut it greally ianlatrged qialn tity was ivilale fori. ite homite coa s.iinnptiont. "To be sur, it cost the farmiaer- maor-e, miuch nor-, to feed his naimias m id gut. tlieiii toi m arkel. Likew'ise, aili othier steps u prlusicer to coaasiaanner, be came more costly, binee the high prices. itit hlie uni alraeedanted prosper Ity (if the ieodpe, as it whole, eabled tlt-Im to alfoiird tho inaereased cost. In fact, -inh inilg people11 prob1e11y RIG~ Lo Sealed have That na tection lmitati sealed The Gn4 in Good SThe Flavor~ Lasts sunica more meat during the last year than in prewar tines. "Tie total number of cattle slaugh. tered In 1918 Is estimated at 15,750,400, as against 13,723,900 In 1917. Their average weights were prae ,Ically the same for both years, and the beef pro duced from them was 0,080,000,000 pounds In* 1917 and 7,041,000,000 pounds In 1918. This was a remarkable achievement, as it hardly would have been credited that beef growers could increase their production a million pounds in one year. Results Called Stupendous. "The hog inatures quickly, therefore a much more rapid Increase would be looked for than was the ease with cat tie. Even so, the results for 1918 can be described only as stupendous. The hogs marketed In 1918 numbered 609, 851,700, as against 57,483,800 In 1917. Furtherniore, the average weight was nine and a half pounds inore per hog in 1918. Thus when the animals are turned into pork and lard we have a total production of 11,225,03-1,000 pounds In 1918, as agaInst 8,478,281, 000 pounds In 1917, an increase of 2, 7417,355,000 pounds, or 32.4 per cent, nearly one-third." Striking Increases in exports also are shown by the bureau. Beef sipinent-i abrond in 1918 were 94 per cent more than In 1917-the chluf 1918 Items be Ing 5141,000,000 pounds of fresh beef and 141,000,000 pountds of canned beef. Exports of pork and lard In 1918 amounted to 2,279,287,030-whIch was 71.7 per cent more than the quanti y sent abroad In 1917. The bureau shows that In the aggre gate more meat by far Is enten In the United States than in any other coun try In the world-although some sparsely settled countries raising much mcat have a larger per capita consump tion. It also says that there is roon in the United States for a great expan. bion in the use of mutton and lamb. ARMY TRUCKS TO BUILD ROAD War Department Turns Over to Agri. cultural Department 20,000 for Use of States. Washington.-More than $45,000,000 worth of motor trucks have been turned over to the department of agri culture by the war department and are realy to be distributed to the varione state highway departments through the bureai of public roalds. The trucks, numbering abiout twenty thioiusn1d, and a nnm1jority of themi new, are the surplus left on tihe hands of the wnar departmoent wheni the war und. edl. They are to he distriinted to tih statoi t.eoer a provision of the post. oli1' ppropriation hill und uost be used oin road construction work. Care of Steel. Steel knue) and otlir steel rimcles which Ire inot in gen 1r use omy he kept fromna run in.' if tihey- arne lipped in a tr'ong sution oft sda1. one part vater to four of sfmla, then wiped dry With ihm.o1n1l and kept. in a dry piaee. Kfor the Package. but dr 9k ename I LEYS me is voor pro aainst Inferior is. Just as the package Is pro ~aInst ImpurIty. atest Name v-.Land - .. Seated Tight Kept Right 101 TOBACCO RESISTANT TO ROOT-ROT FOUND Trouble Is Caused By a Fungus Which Lives as Parasite. Most Characteristic Symptom of DiS. case Is Decay of Root System Re sulting in Stunting of Plants -Tests Being Made. (Prepared by the United States Depart maient of Agriculture.) If two ''arietles of tobacco, Conl necticit liaviat a mid White Biurley, for lustance, are planted side by shle onl gronild which lis Just gronii two or tirete crol s of iiirh'y, tlt iai~vaina sved In muost insinneves wvill produtce froin) two times to onle huired timles ats 1inuch1 as the Iii'ley. If, however, these two varieties are plnted where tobacco Iits not beeii growi forw sev eral years and onl soil whlehti is not "tobacco slek," the iurley will produce as large a crop, nere for' nere, as the Coinnectict Iha111. Tho enu111se of the low%, yield ll tille first caSo is root rot, a disense the Cormtti et('lit lia'atna Is able to resist, but to viich t li Bur ley Is susceptible. For seve'ril Years speclallsts of the Un1ited Staltes De partment of Agriculturoe have beet working to develop by select1on tylie of JBurhley ais resistan t issom (if the cigar varieties, but which will still possess the yield and quality of Bur ley. During tlie past three years these strailns have been tested ii Kentucky. Ii these tests the resistant strains haive made aIveraige anormi1al gr'owth catch year, while ordinary llurley pro duced practically notithig. The Importance of this disease Is shiowti by the fact that recent eitreful observations over i consideralei part ."' .) . .... of tihe! tobacco-growing se clitio (if tile United Stattes haiive showi iti a titil (ttiaige of millions of d1oilars. 'file loss it Keniz;ky alone is believed to exceed easily nn average of $2,U00,000 annually. Root-rot Is Caused by a fungus vlleh li ve's its at )ut Ite (It the i)roots of t:to jilantt. This funtguts cann groiw ito the roots and feed oni teir tissutes wh'li(h resualts int dlenay. It can Iiv on! 1)h-nd11 or'giil mia tter ini thle soil, lbut Int tihe absenice' of'1, 41i ton j platitts it gn'idlualily dlieS (out, thloutgh thtis ma~ty requlta'ir fro five Vt' ten1Ill5i yers or maore. TheI dIi sease~ sprends iniuchl in thle samue w~ay as (othler dIlseatses of' latts antd animal1 s. '11114 most5 charinet tri'st Ie symtptomi of roaot-r'ot is a de'(aty ofi the r'oot sy's temi resulting i a stunitting ot' thel plantts. Cutritously enioughi, root-r'ot ranre'ly kills the lhiant in the fiel, AsIde fromi becomtin g stun ted and1( ye'llow the dilseaised lanits maiy shaow wilting even in very moist soils on (days whent to bacco in healthy soil, mid othe1r crops, show no willting. 'lThe dielletedi root systemi is not alel( to take Up) wiater as fast as the leave's use It. WATERSIPHONED TO GARDEN Ample Supply Obtained DurIng Dry Summer Spell by UsIng Reserve Stock in Cistern. During the dry months last summer we assuared a ichl returan fromt our home giarden b~y lrrigaiting ourI vege talies from the hiouste cistern which was on land higher Itan the gard'(en. A hose was ('Iployed to 5iphlon the water to a main11 dItch, froim whichl ex tended lateral di t(ches btweenll lie rows or growinug plaints, liy ('are'flly conserving ouar supply we hiiii wn'ter MtAIN DiTCH LATERAL CHEC Siphoning Water WIth a Hose From a Cistern to a Garden Occupying Near. By Low Land. enough to lnst till summaer. fly cork ing the hiose at the dowilnard e'nd, and filling It with water blefore pln('lng thel other' endi in the cistern, tihe slphlon is started by the flow of wate'r e!nused 'by remevilng the eork.--K. M. Kog geshall, Webster Grove, Mo., ini I'opu Iar Mechanicn Mngzine, An Unusual Recital by an Artist of National Reputation A rich opportunity is offered to hear an artist of high standing on the concert platform---Vernon Dal hart, popular lyric tenor, who will appear in recital at Graded School Auditorium This Afternoon and Tonight, June 4th. Afternoon 4:30 Evening 8:45 The program is of unu'sual merit, including se lections which will appeal to a wide range of tastes. Vernon Dalhart is a lyric tenor whose beautiful voice has cre ated a distinct sensation in the nation's musical centers. Mr. Dalhart Will be Assist ed by "The Phonograph With a Soul" Cards of admission rmay e secured without charge upon application to Fleming Brothers i.aufenS, S. C. OPE.RA HOUSE Thursday, This Week WM. S. HART "The Silent Man" A Picture of The Silent Places of A Good Bad Man Children 10Oc. Adults 1 5c.