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Ladjes Specially Invited
Clemson College. May 20.?Dr. F.
H. H. Calhoun, director of the agricultural
department, desires to call
attention to the fact that Iadie.*- are
invited to attend th< dimmer school,
which will be condi -led hv the agricultural
forces at Cicmson College
June .'JO to August 0. Special preparations
are baing made to provide
accommodations for ladies, and cour* j
rv (f instruction in which many !a-j
d.'r are particularly interested. In
iv iler that married ladies may attend
the rummer school with their husbands,
a separate floor of the new
barracks will bo set apart for married
couples. Another separate floor
will be provided' for the accommodation
cf unmarried ladies who wish
to attend. Dr. Calhoun desires it to
be understood that ladies attending
are not required to take any of the
rourst's unless thev so desire, and
that married ladies who wish to attend
with their husbands are very
welcome to come ju.-t as an outing,
i'his is also true of unmarried ladies
who care td come without taking
course.
Courses specially provided for ladies,
or. which may be taken by the
ladies along with the men are as
follows:
!. The .Junior Project Course for
th>* teaching of agriculture in secondary
schools. This course will be
giv< n by the Division of Agricultural
Education to meet the needs of
teachers in the secondary schools,
who find it desirable or necessary
to be able to teach classes in agriculture.
2. Courses in poultry raising,
horticulture, dairying, and in fact
any of the courses offered to men
arc open also to ladies.
The probable cost to ladies will be
$6.00 per week for those who do
not register to take any course of
instruction, or S7.00 Der week for
those who do register. This will include
board, room lights, and all
cost except laundry.
The college is glad to offer this
opportunity to married and unmarried
ladies, and hopes to welcome a
large number at the summer school
this year.
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any other Chill and Fever Tonic
on the market, but no one wants
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Value of Government Crop Report8
B. B. Hare, South Carolina Field
Agent of the Bureau of crop estimate-,
United States department of
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agriculture nas me lununui.; nay
in reference to importance of goverr.rnent
crop reports:
" The one great industry < f South
Carolina is agriculture, its annual
output being larger than that of all
other industries combined. Much
has been accomplished during the
last decade in diversification, increased
production and farm organization.
In fact, the industry is being
organized as never before and is
passing to what may be termed a
business basis, as distinguished from
the traditional, routine, hit or miss
method of the past. In the transition
its problems must be solved in the
main in exactly the same way as arc
the problems of other industries, by
the study of records of past performances
in connection with present
prospects and future possibilities.
Yet it is singular how little the
great majority of us know of the
agricultural resources of the State
from a business or economic standpoint.
It is surprising to learn how
little we know about the production,
or Mipply and demand of any parti- I
cular crop. The object, therefore, of j
this article is to call attention to the j
importance and economic value off
reliable, agricultural statistics and
possibly stimulate an inquiring in- i
terost in government crop reports, i
It might be stated at the outset
that no large industry, business or
enterprise can be long and successfully
conducted without records of
past performances and a knowledge
of existing conditions upon which to
base present activities for future
development. For example, no man
with experience and business ability
would engage in any business enterprise
requiring all of his capital
without first studying the past records
of the industry and acquainting
himself of its relation to other
industries and the demand of the
public- generally. So the great industry
of agriculture cannot be properly
and successfully conducted as
such without records showing this
information. Statistics of acreage
and production in past years, of existing
acreage and condition, of
growing crops, of supplies and prevailing
prices of such crops, past
and present fundamentally essential j
for intelligent and successful handling
of the business end of our agri-'
cultural problem. As a matter of
fact agricultural statistics, consisting
of data pertaining to acreage,
.condition, prospective yields nd total
production at stated intervals, j
are of vital importance not only to 1
the farmer as a class, but men in '
other lines of business, as manufacturers,
dealers, jobbers, bankers and
investors, having a present or prospective
interest in a county or State,
must, for the proper conduct oftheir
business, have knowledge of the
facts that affect the prosperity of
the section in which they are interested.
It is a deplorable fact that some
farmers object to government reports,
saying that if the reports were
not issued speculators and business
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby given, that pursuant
to an order of the County
Board of Education of the County
of Williamsburg, State tf South
Carolina, the undersigned, as Trustees
of Spring Bank School District
Number 43, of said County and
State, will hold and conduct an
election at the Spring Bank building,
in said District, County, and
State, on the 3rd, day of June, '<
1919, for the purpose of submitting
to the qualified voters and electors
of said School District residing
^herein the question of levying and
collecting an annual tax of four
(4) mills on the property in said;
School District, which tax shall be j
used to supplement the taxes now'i
collected in said School District for j
school purposes; that for the pur-1
pose of said election the polls will
be opened at eight o'clock in the
forenoon and closed at four o'clock'
in the afternoon; that at said elec- j
tion only qualified electors who re- j
turn real or personal property for
taxation and who exhibit their tax' I
receipts and registration certificates
as required in general elections
shall be allowed to vote, andj
earh elector favoring the proposed i
levy shall cast a ballot containing
the word "YES" printed or writ- j
ten thereon, and each elector op*- ,
C)sed to said levy shall cast a balt
containing the word "NO" 1
written or printed thereon, and the :
undersigned shall act as managers \
of said election, and the same will 1
be held and conducted in the manner
prescribed by Section 1742 ofl
the Code of Laws of South Caro- i
lina, Volume 1, 1912. 1
a fv WILLIAMSON.
R. C. McELVEEN,
J. W. STEWART,
Trustees Spring Bank School. i
5-22-2t.
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enlarging 35c up. Specialists?we
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men of financial centers would not
know of the upply of any crop and
a high price to the producer could
always be maintained. This is only
one of his business delusions, born
largely of ignorance and indifferance
to business methods, for he
should know that the speculator,
manufacturer or business man is following
a particular line of business
and it is a rare thing to find him
deceived at any time as to the actual
or prospective supply of any crop.
The only other man who objects to
government reports is the interested
speculator, who opposes them because
he believes that the crop reports
are made entirely for the benefit
of the farmer and he realizes
that they contain the most reliable
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production of the speculative crops,
and that the light of truth in regard
to same prevents him from
spreading false reports in order to
bull or bear the market and thereby
make his profits from the unsuspecting
and ignorant. It may be true >
that the speculator does take advntage
of the crop report at times in
his buying or selling of futures but
if he is enabled thereby to buy or
sell at a profit is it an advantage
gained by his wiser use of these
statistics anil not an advantage inherent
in the crop report itself.
A knowledge of agricultural statistics
or familiarity with governthe
public prevents interested speculators
from magnifying or minimizment
crop reports on the part of
ing the actual or prospective supply
of any crop and the relation there"
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are able to successfully raise or lower
prices for their own benefit with
a resulting loss to the producing
and consuming public. This is usually
done by issuing inaccurate, misleading
or unreliable reports as to
supplying condition or prospective
yield of some particular crop. The
farmer, of course, is the greater
sufferer for the reason that he is
not so well organized as men in
other lines of business and cannot,
therefore, take advantage of sudden
fluctuations in market prices. On
the other hand, the farmer may be
materially benefitted by having dependable
and reliable data pertaining
to crop conditions and crop
yields made public, such as are furnished
by the United States Government.
He is benefitted directly by
being kept informed as to the acreage,
condition and prospective yields
as well as prices of various crops
outside of his immediate locality,
enabling him to know when to buy
or sell to the best advantage. He
is indirectly benefitted because the
disinterested reports of the government
prevent the circulation of false
and misleading reports by speculators
who are only interested in manipulating
prices to their advantage
alone. \
Government crop reports are a
further advantage to farmers in
that a knowledge of crop prospects
enables large manufacturing firms
and agricultural implement dealers
to distribute their wares more economically,
sending a larger quantity
of articles to sections where crops
are good and the demand large and
a lesser quantity where crops are
poor and the demand limited. Railroad
companies are enabled to furnish
and distribute cars in a way to
meet the demands for transportation
of crops when a delay or congestion
in transportation facilities
would mean a severe loss to the
producer. It is difficult to estimate
just how much is saved by an even
distribution of manufactured artiaecordinc
to crOD Drospects. for
if manufacturers can avoid heavy
losses from improper distribution
they can afford to sell on better
terms with a resulting benefit to
the farmer.
Large corporations, firms and
speculators procure information as
to crop prospects through their business
associates and private crop reporting
agencies, many of which
are maintained at a heavy expenseOf
course, they study and rely to a
large extent upon government reports
but are not absolutely dependent
upon them. On the other hand,
the farmer has never been sufficiently
well organized to collect such information
and without the government
reports would know little or
nothing of the actual or probable
supply of any crop and could, therefore,
have no idea as to the prices!
that would prevail as determined by
the law of supply and demand and
would be absolutely at the mercy of
interested speculators who could
bear or bull the market to suit
themselves.
It would appear, therefore, to be
the best interest of the farmer, as
well as other classes of business
men, to carefully study government
crop reports and assist whenever an
opportunity affords in making them
as accurate and dependable as possible.
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Beetle Mort Powdeer for sale by
People's Mercantile Co. Kingstree.
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