Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I w ; Three VIRGINIA! Friendly BURLEY Gentlemen TURKISH t; The perfect blend of the three ; perfect cigarette tobacco* in one perfect cigarette one-eleven cigarettes OOforI5* 1 ^ *jl| FIFTH AVE. Ill "**?*? * CITV ( Possibilities in Peanuts. Commenting editionally on a recen letter in The Manning Times, th News and Courier says: "The Manning Times prints a ver interesting letter which has been writ ten by Mr. C. R. Sprott, of Manning to Mr. C. C. Fishburnc, president o me ?>outn Carolina e/rusners assucib tion, at whose request Mr. Sprot spent several days investigating th peanut industry in South Georgk Mr. Sprott is a highly intelligent an thoroughly practical man. He talke to farmers, oil mill managers an superintendents, bankers and othe business men, traveling salesmer county demonstration agents and ex periment station workers, in Cris county, Tifts county and to a limite extent in Brooks county and his lette to Mr. Fishburne summarizes the im pressions which these conversation made upon him. He declares that in stead of having decided on a definit farming program, as he and most oth ers belie\e to be the case, the Geoi gia farmers in the section he visite "are just about as unscttl^S in re gard to their future operations a the farmers in Eastern South Caro Iina." They are still hoping tha some method will be devised for th control of the weevil and most o them are still planting cotton, not a much cotton as they planted befor the weevil came, but an average o something like twelve to fifteen acre to the plow. The cotton yield in Cris] county has been cut under boll vreevi conditions from 28,000 bales to 8,SO1 bales last year, with the present cro] estimated at 6,000 bales. Mr. Sprott thinks that at $65 e. toi the price at which peanuts were sell ing when he was in Georgia, the farm ers make more on peanuts than oi 20 ceats cotton with the present yields Nevertheless one farmer, who plant some 400 acres of cotton and 150 acre of peanuts, told him that he preferra cottoa because it was so much les trouble. "When I tell one of nr hands to put on a sixteen-ir.ch scrap* and plow a certain field two furrow: to the row, he knows exactly what mean for him to do, but I have to g< in the field and show him how t< cultivate my peanuts and when gath I Viavp to stav ii the field all the time to get the worl done properly," Mr. Sprott report this large planter as saying. Mr Sprott was advised that the smallei farmers in spite of everything an planting more than twice as large ai acreage of cotton as of peanuts, th< average acreage in peanuts beinj about five acres to the plow. The conclusion of Mr. Sprott wai that the Georgia farmers in the coun ties he visited have not made an ef fort to familiarize themselves witi the best methods of peanut growing and that the yield could be very great ly increased, probably doubled. A present the peanuts are planted with out any lime or fertilizer whaterei and yields are low, in Crisp count] the average yield being a ton to thre< acres, and in Tifts and Brooks coun ties about a ton to two acres, the soi of Tifts county being better than tha of the others. Mr. Sprott heard o: J-?- J--~l l-wrtiivc WKA marlA oicrhtl illiUY 1UU<&! iaiiucio ?liv v.0..% bushels of Spanish peanuts per acri and he saw a field near Cordele whicl made three-quarters of a bale of cot ten per acre in 1919 and 65 bushel! or approximately a ton,of peanuts ii 1920 without any fertilizer of anj kind. The bankers and business mei of Georgia, not sharing the hope oi the farmers that cotton may com< hack, belive, Mr. Sprott says, tha the peanut will eventually prove t< be the salvation of the country. I is i>ointed out very significantly tha not withstanding the drop in the pric< I of peanuts from $200 a ton in 1920 to . $40 a ton in the spring of 1921 the j acreage this year was not reduced | more than 10 to 15 per cent. Mr. Sprott was not able to get very definite or satisfactory information on the cost of making peanuts, as is not to be wondered at since it is not easy to get such information regardig any crop. One farmer told him that he considered cotton at 20 cents a pound and peanuts at $80 a ton about on a par as to profit, while another farmer told him he would rather raise cotton under present conditions at 20 cents a pound than peanuts at $100 a ton. Mr. Sprott adds, however, that the man last quoted "planted 150 acres of peanuts last spring when cotton was around 15 cents a pound and peanuts were $40 a ton." The agronomist at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station at Tifton gave it as his opin ion tnat it cost iuuy twice as mucn to e fcaW^vlnHw^^lB^BflWi ?|^g|HFflHH| fc^^sfevB^HKi^HHHR j s 11^,^ffawB?S fcj^^HwKjKagq^SMBIBHK fl Kingstrei 1 Hampton Avenue j ; ^ "f : "I e f a 5 I 0 P i? 1 i. a mui( ? r a wilt [ X ?ve * fore ov< > direct c ! the Ne artists. The } r nograph ! direct cc Its ; Mood M usic [ It soothes y t Cheers you way of usin r classified acc r out the couj 1 1 Mood Music f the effects o: ; of Dr. W. ' i Institute of discoveries, 1 s in booklet fc raise cotton as it does to raise pe nuts while the county agent of Biool county named $50 a ton as ample cover the cost of growing peanuts that county; this estimate includir land rent and omitting the value the hay crop which, Mr. Sprott say will average 1,000 pounds per aci Mr. Sprott's conclusion is that "tl peanut is a crop that does not hold o' much promise for large profits, b' it is a safe crop and a cheap crop He considers that "under present b< weevil conditions it is a much mo profitable crop than cotton and w prove still more profitable if proper fertilized and if more care and atte tion were given to its cultivation He says that the shellers and oil m managers with whom he talked thir that the price of peanuts is going i this season and that the outlook for still better prices in the next fe years. ly Dear, h? ieal Music a TJe NI is the only in the full beauti 5 fact has been es r two thousand t er four million p< :omparison tests w Edison and tl 'Jew Edison is the o i that dares this ac )mparison. oothes, i helps you control your ment ou when you are nervous, when s&d. In a 32 page b< g music is fully described a ording to the effects they pre >on and get your copy of the 1 About Mood J\ j is the result of a two-year r f Music. The psychological w rv *> 1 T"V* a _ _ /? A v. rnngnam, uirecior 01 Ap Technology, and other psyc tvhich they made, through cou >rm for your practical u^e. e Furniture a-j The peanut got the black eye i Its , South Carolina because it was plante to | most generally the very season thi in , the bottom dropped out of the prid lg Farm labor, too, was still high, scare of j and unsettled. The conditions hav rs, changed very much since then. Th e. boll weevil has put cotton almo: ie wholly out of commission, the prie ut of peanuts, if still low as compare ut with two years ago, is improving, an farm labor, instead of being scare >11 is the very reverse, the problem b< re ing to find%vork for the thousanc ill of negroes in the coastal country wh ly now have nothing to do because c n- the collapse of the cotton industr i." 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