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I Guarding he Crop Reports v I How the crop reports of the de ' partment of agriculture are kept from K "leaking out," o that they may not ^ | he used for speculative purposes, is M told by Irving Chandler in "The Fore1 cast" (New York). Mr. Chandler . p bells amusingly of the precautions a that are taker: to ensure that the * newspaper mer shall have access to the reports at precisely the same inslant, and tfrat one shall not see them * f a. second before the others. If the . L jpvernment ha- not yet reached the ir i point of prohibiting speculation in ^ I foodstuffs, says Mr. Chandler, it at ' ^ * least provides scrupulously for "a fair field and no favor." The reports re- I p' veal to those buying and selling grain, ^ cotton, tobacco, etc., the probable futore supplies and the consequent Ifrend of prices. Bribes too enormous p' \ %o seem probable surely would be of; fered for 'inside" information at 01 1 times, if there were any laxity in the ^ handling of crop reports. But there pi v is not We read further: "The government carries to the extreme its protection of those figures tc which may seem to the average householder rather dry misteries, but which are written in letters of gold and aad have the magic of guiding voices to the food speculators. ? b: "It locks the Crop Report Board n into a room with guards stationed at n the doors and telephones disconnect- tl ed until the very minute when the re- nr port is issued. Each member of the hoard prepares his own individual si W? and independent estimate for each A crop and State. Then all are com- d< pared, discussed and explained, and aj final figures adopted. Then the fun g regins. al "In an outer room is a group of ti newspaper men each with a telephone ai near by, already connected with bis jT office. Shortly before the mpment u appointed for the release of the crop report, copies of it are placed, face ti downward, on a table, and each man e< gets his hand on one, like a runner jr ret on his mart:. They point for their n: telephones like dogs indicating game. ai A signal is given by a high official of ir the department and the men make for d< the telephones as if their lives de- tl pended upon it?as indeed their live- f( Uhoods may. t> "Then all over the country the news is posted, printed, read almost with b almost with bated breath by some,, tl but passed over for the score of the t< .^test ball game by others whom it n "nevertheless affects most acutely. & "Even before the reporters began thier lively sprint, before the board r ?> * ' i| I E * 1 PLEA! HI SOON HI HAVE |H ON Wi 1 OUTS] h GLES. 1 PERS< . 1 THAT \ :| FORY ii ORDE k 1 I | gles I ? Thou " mmmmmmmno i k: .-& -as locked in their isolated room, of ne department was watching over be re inviolability of its own crop news, re! here are ten crop specialists for the St liferent leading crops, and about qu 75,000 voluntary crop reporters, ne ome of these are farmers or farm Ri bservers, while others are buyers so* nd handlers of grain and livestock, lai he returns for each class of reporter to re tabulated and averaged separate- coi - for a check on the rest. So much wi >r inclusiveness and accuracy: To ini isure secrecy, even the tabulators and be >mputers who make up the totals Gr -A 1 X- L:.L iLA.. ??? ?L 0 not. Know to which otate mc) j;ci- gn tin. And the final telegraphic re- th< Di-ts and comments of the field agent th< re kept locked up in the office of wl le Secretary of Agriculture until oc ley are turned over to the Crop Reorting Board in its guarded room. "Members of the board and all other m< lembers of the department concerned TI ith crop estimating are under heavy enalties not to speculate in any proacts of the soil, not to give out adance information, and not knowingly > compile or issue false information.' THE COMING CIRCUS j Sparks World Famous Shows are ] illed to exhibit at Lake City Wed- ] esday, November 12, and from the " ewspaper reports proceeding them leir exhibition will be worth going lany miles to witness. Of the many features carried by the low this season, some of the Animal j cts are without doubt the most won- j J erful and thrilling ever presented to | / ti American audience. The big it roup of fighting forest-bred lions, II full grown males, give an exhibion that is full of thrills, and the | udience is left with a positive feellg of awe at man's wonderful mas;ry over the brute creature. Another extraordinary feature with le show is Capt. Tiebor's troupe of jucated Seals and Sea Lions. These iteresting sea animals perform the tost seemingly impossible feats; balncing chairs, umbrellas and whirlig brands of fire while climbing laders, walking tight ropes and riding le backs of galloping horses. This mature baffles description and must a <K*?n to be auDreciated. Many other wonderful things are to B e seen with this mammoth show, and B le main performance beneath the big H ;nts will present a number of the n lost marvelous foreign acts of the juntry. 1 The menagerie of wild animals car-; ied with the show is complete in ev-1 If Yoi ?uild 3E GALL ON US FOR P] AT OUR PLAGE ON HA] ! A COMPLETE LINE 01 kY. FRAMING, DRESSED S [DE FINISH LUMBER, 5T0U WILL READILY A r>*T A T T*Tf1T?TirimTA\T T> TT jriAij inorAuiivfl X>jj YOU MAY BE SURE T< OUR NEEDS. YOUR INQUIRIES SOI R, WHETHER LARGE ( [JST ARRIVED | r of Cypress Shin- I Selling at $8.50 Per ! sand. I l i',. . ait ' iiL the people in any areas which may freed from Bolsheviki control as a sgg snlt of current military operations, ag (ores of food estimated to be ade- ggg ate for the relief of Petrograd for g arly one month were delivered to j? tssians by the American Relief As- ! & ciation and are now at Viborg, Fin- |s id, whence they can be transported j || Petrogr&d whenever that city may , g I me under the control of authorities ^ j th whom it is possible to deal. Def- i ite arrangements have, moreover, I en made with the United States |g j ain Corporation to pixivlde further gl I ipments of flour for thfs region, in ; j e event of its noerauon, ana ior i ?*? j e people in the north of Russia, j gjw | lich is under the control of a Dem- ||g j ratic government" Eg ' Lap robes for Buggies and Auto- |?? I )biles at PEOPLE'S MERCAN-!?? j LE COMPANY, Kingstree. , I MISS ) 1 Wui ^>Ss?This is theV ! I Fifth Annual 1 1 Grljmell 1 National I iff . 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