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THE COUNTY RECORD
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1921
"A Proclamation."
Whereas, the president of the United
States has by proclamation designated
the period beginning November
11th, and ending November 24th,
for the Annual Membership Roll Call
of the American Red Cross.
And whereas, we have by the Proclamation
of the governor of the State
of South Carolina been enjoyned to
pause from our work, and assemble
in our churches on the 11th day of
November for the purpose of uniting
in sendee of Prayer and Thanksgiving
commemorative of the great Armistice
Day which marked the end of
that bitter struggle in which right
prevailed over might and in which
thousands of our citizens laid their
lives on the alter of our country and
row rest on battle fields of France.
And whereas, we acknowledge with
gratitude and thanksgiving the splendid
achievements of the American Red
Cross, which in that violent contest
drew its protecting arms about our
sick and wounded men of the service,
and now in times of peace extends
its sheltering arms of mercy about
those who suffer from pestilence,
famine, fire and flood and other calamities
and which goes without hesitation,
on its mission of mercy into the
midst of sorrow and suffering and
hunger.
And, whereas, the existence and efficiency
of this great orginization of
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human sympathy which Dina logewer
the hearts of the people of this great
nation cannot be maintained and sustained
without the support of that
united sympathy and without financial
aid and assistance of its membership
and supporters.
Now therefore, I, W. R. Scott, mayor
of the town of Kingstree, do hereby
earnestly urge all citizens of the
community while in their services of
prayer and thanksgiving on this great
day to forget not the American Red
Cross and in acknowledgment of its
unexcelled services and achievements
in the past, and in order that its mission
of mercy might be extended and
carried forward with greater zeal and
efficiency in the future, to enroll
themselves in this splendid organization
and with such further financial
assistance as you might contribute
enable it to more efficiently spread
its atmosphere of human sympathy
throughout the world.
W. R. SCOTT, Mayor,
November 10th, 1921.
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With the acceptance by H. 0. Black
of Columbia of the State Chairmanship
for the 1921 Christmas seal sale,
the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association
has completed a strong organization
for the annual campaign
to make pennies fight tuberculosis.
As usual these stamps will soon be
on sale in Kingstree.
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There are more females in South
Carolina than males, according to figures
recently made public by the census
bureau. Among the white people
of the state, as among whites throughout
the nation, the figures show, males
outnumber females, but among negroes
there are more females than
males. In South Carolina, according
to the census figures, there are 838,293
males and 845,431 females.
There are 104.4 males to every 100
females a^aong white South Carolinians.
But among negroes of the state
the ratio of males to females is 95.4
to 100.
After having been crippled for a
number ot days because 01 low water
in the Congaree river, causing several
of the chain of mills to shut down,
the Pacific group of textile plants,
in Columbia and near-by towns, are
again in full operation, the rains of
the last week having increased the
water supply sufficiently to provide
the power . Some of the mills were
shut down completely in recent weeks,
and others were running half time,
due to the low water. They are all
running at ful tilt now.
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An Appeal to Farmers.
Editor County Record:
My fellow farmer of South Carolina,
do you possibly realize the burdens
of responsibility that we are
face to face with for the next year
and years to come? Shall we face
them as brave men under the leadership
of the great God of nations or
shall we become disgruntled, discouraged,
demoralized and giveup and
surrender to evil forces and influences?
I don't believe a word of it.
Such is not the history of our people.
It seems that in every grave and
disastrous crisis that the farmer is
the under-dog and is the great burden
bearer. He has toiled like a slave,
has had to sting his women and children
almost to starvation point and
in a great many instances his children
have been reared in gross ignorance.
Xo greater sacrifices were ever made
by the Serfs of Russia than by our
farm women and children, and yet as
individuals without organization we
have acheived wonders. After every
disaster we have come back and gone
to heights never dreamed of, but to
say that the agricultural people of
this State are satisfied with their condition
would be stating an untruth;
so my fellow farmer herein lies our
great responsibility. We are face to
face with an economic break-down,
and the eyes of the state are turned
upon the tillers of the soil. The farmer
today is regarded as the bulwark of
the state as has always been the case;
but he is without the sympathy and
appreciation that he should have and
this is because he has failed to organize
and demand his rights. The
scheming politician doesn't want the
farmers organized in the farmers behalf
but if he can get the farmer
torn to pieces to further his cause
he is satisfied. No doubt the farming
class has been frightfully discriminated
against in taxation. There
comes a time when everything the
farmer produces, fails to make him
any profit and there is nothing with
which to pay taxes; yet a great proportion
of the profit producing class
escapes taxes entirely but the farmer
never escapes his. The question that
the farmers have got to ask themselves
is, can and will the old line politician
whether in the General Assembly
or as Governor make any attempt
to change these conditions? I think
not, hence the imperative necessity
of cleaning out old liners and putting
in a farmer for governor and general
assembly of farmers and business
men who would give all the people
a just and fair deal, without strife and
disgraceful contention as has so often
characterized political affairs in South
Carolina before.
Who can measure the responsibility
of the old staid farmer from day
to day as he goes over the hills and
through the valleys communing with
Natures God?
Our minds look over into next year's
campaign and we shudder, we stand
aghast, our blood runs cold; because
we see the vile demagogue politician
with the tongues of a serpent, with
lying slander upon his lips sowing
discord, enmity and hatred all over
South Carolina. A devil incarnate.
We see evidences of a very strong
probability of dragging the prohibition
or liquor question in the next
campaign. My fellow countrymen,
did you know that the bootleggers
and the illicit distillers could and
would raise $100,000 or more if necessary
to elect a liquor governor of
this state? There is no doubt of it
and do you believe there is a man
in South Carolina who would be governor
on such a platform if he could ?
I do. Not in the campaign would he
avow himself a liquor candidate but
after his election he would show you
what he would do. Who is to save
the state from the possibilities of
such a disaster? Can we look to the
towns and cities and politicians to
save us? I fear not; because their
force of resistance is too weak to do
us much good. Who is to suffer most
from tax enforcement of the liquor
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of his labor will suffer most and the
poor women and children living in
the country whose very lives are constantly
in fear and dread of some
frightful calamity overtaking them.
You indifferent and unthinking citizen,
man or woman of South Carolina,
what an appalling condition could be
brought about by allowing ourselves
to be prostrated in the election of men
who are known destructionists and
who would open further the bleeding
wounds of our people.
My fellow farmer and fellow citizen
of South Carolina, of every vocation
and profession, do you realize
that for years to come it is going to
take every ounce of our energy, and
greatest wisdom and all of our constructive
conservatism to save this
state from an economical, moral, social,
political and educational dis.daster?
I call upon the God fearing
men and women to realize that the
fight is on and to save our people
from the slough of despair and the
demon politician who would set this
state on fire for his own sake. We
must get together and fight the politicians
who would go over all this
state next year and harangue our
Suggested Farm Program.
| To the Editor of The County Record:
Some weeks ago a number of business
men of the state realizing that
there is a crying neel for a well
thought out program for agricultural
J procedure under boll weevil conditions
asked Dr. W. W. Long and Hon. R. I.
Manning to form a committee of well
qualified men to formulate such a
| program for the slate.
These gentlemen appointed the fol,
lowing committee which met in Co:
lumbia on September 27th: Dr. W. W.
: Long, Wade Drake, J. Ross Hanahan.
I R. C. Hamer, J. W. Gaston, G. W.
Duvall, Dr. W. C. Brown, R. B. Cunningham,
B. W. Segars, R. I. Manning,
and D. R. Coker. Mr. Coker was selected
as chairman and Mr. Cunning:
V>nm as seeretnrv. All were nresent
except Mr. Hamer.
The opinion of every member as to
the best farming methods for boll
weevil conditions were fully express!
ed and all agreed on the main features
of a program. A subcommittee, consisting
of B. W. Segars, R. B. Cunningham,
J. W. Gaston, Dr. W. W.
Long, and D. R. Coker, was appointed
to draft the program. This committee
met in Columbia on October 5th,
all present except Dr. Long, who was
represented by Mr. Blackwell, and the
accompanying program and recommendations
are the result of their
work. This program in substantially
its present form was submitted to all
the members of the committee. Mr.
Drake's approval of the program has
r.ot been received and Mr. Hamer has
withheld approval as he considers it
conflicts with the Cotton Association's
plan of not more than one-fourth of
any farm being planted to cotton.
The program was submitted to a
meeting of farm demonstration agents
at Clemson College Friday, October
7th, and was discussed and approved.
The program, therefore, goes to the
people with the authority of a strong
and experienced committee and with
the o. k. of the Extension Department.
Copies of the program are being
sent to all of the newspapers in the
state who are requested to make editorial
comment on it and urge every
subscriber to give it the widest possible
publicity. Bankers, merchants
and manufacturers are requested to
have the program printed in convenient
form and to distribute it as widely
as possible to the farmers.
The march of the boll weevil across
the cotton belt has been accompanied
by panic and demoralization. Farmers,
bankers and merchants frightened
by one or two years of heavy losses,
have in many cases, curtailed
operations and credits to the point
where farming was stifled and labor
was forced to leave the country to
prevent starvation. There are signs
that a similar panic may occur in
parts of this state unless means are
taken to reassure the people and point
out a safe course for agricultural
operations under boll weevil conditions.
To this end a group of practical
farmers and business men in
co-operation with the Extension Bureau
have studied the situation in the
light of their own experience and that
of other states and the accumulated
experimental results of governmental
agencies and beg leave to present the
following suggestions and program as
one which will meet the situation,
preventing demoralization and enabling
our farming and business interests
to continue profitable operations.
It is especially important to prevent
our people from stampeding into new
and untried fields of agriculture in
which they will fail for lack of information
and experience. Promising
new crops should of course be tested
and where proved successful should
be increased as rapidly as the people
gain experience but not faster.
The problem is not so much as to
what to do as it is how to reassure
the people and get the information
of how to proceed to every faimer,
renter, and sharecropper in the state.
This must be done if it is done at all
by the larger farmers, merchants,
bankers and professional men who
should make it their business to reach
the isolated farmers and tenants and
discuss with them the program of
operations under boll weevil conditions.
The greatest responsibility
rests upon the landowners. If they
are going to continue to own their
lands they will be obliged to see to
that those who farm with them
have correct information and closest
supervision, for the average fai ni tenant
must have sympathetic and correct
instruction and active supervision
until he thoroughly learns the new
methods of operation.
A few broad principles of operation
for the whole state may be suggested:
First?Destroy immediately all cotton
stalks as soon as the crop is
; gathered. This will prevent the
hatching of millions of new weevils
poverty stricken and demoralized people
into a frenzy. You can never reconstruct
men or communities by first
destroying them.
Brownsville, S. C., Oct 24, 1921.
C. P. Hodgers.
during October. The old weevils do
not hibernate until cold weather and
the destruction of their food supply
will cause them to die before frost.
The carrying out of this suggestion
at once is imperative and every effort
should be made to induce every farnii
er in the state to do this work at once,
for, if only a few do it, it will have
little effect in reducing next year's
, weevil supply.
Second?During the fall and winter
[ destroy all cover in which weevils
may be hiding, burning ditch banks
! and margins of woods and cleaning
; up around stumps. Fodder and hay
stacks should not be allowed to lemain
near cotton fields.
Third?Cotton should be liberally
j fertilized with a quick acting fertilizer
containing about 50 lbs. of available
phosphoric acid per acre, ammonia
and potash to be used according to
; the character and relative fertility of
j the soil. All applications of ammonia
: should be put down before the middle
J of June. Over-doses of potash have
I a tendency to delay maturity. Where
the weed grows tall only a small
amount of ammonia should be used
as it always delays maturity and encourages
overgrowth of stalk.
Fourth?Early planting*if approved
varieties of cotton with plenty of
seed. The farmer should save at least
3 bushels of good seed for each acre
he is going to plant. He should plant
at least two bushels before April 1st
in the lower half of the state and before
April 10th in the upper half of
the state reserving a bushel per acre.
If a stand is not secured by the first
planting he should plant over not
later than April 10th in the lower half
or April 20th in the upper half. If
large quantities of seed are used good
stands are usually secured from extra
early planting and the experience
is that under boll weevil conditions
the greatest crops are always made
from the earliest plantings. If stands
are not secured at a comparatively
early stage the land intended for
cotton should be put into other crops.
Fifth?Cotton should be left thick
in the drill. This distance should vary
with the height of the natural
growth of the plant, 3" or 4" not being
too close as a minimum and 8"
or 10" as a maximum.
Sixth?The question of poisoning
for boll weevil is still in the experimental
state but your committee believes
that poisoning with calcium
arsenate is valuable, especially if done
at the proper time and under favorable
conditions. Heavy damage from
plant lice following dusting with calcium
arsenate early last August
makes us doubtful as to its treatment
when applied at that time. The weevils
should also be picked from the
plant in the early stages and as soon
as punctured squares are noticed they
should be picked up twice a week until
mid-summer. Rapid and thorough
cultivation at all times should be employed
and the crop should be gathered
as fast as open to insure a high
grade. In no case should more cotton
be planted than can be properly handled
at all stager, and promptly pickpH
hv tbp lahnr r.n t.hp farm, for it is
the height of folly to plant a crop
and let the boll weevil eat it up for
lack of attention or allow it to become
blue in the fields f- r lack of picking
force.
The experience of many of our
best fanners and numerous experiments
conducted under the auspices
of the Experiment Stations prove that
it is absolutely essential in almost
all sections to use around 300 pounds
per acre of acid phosphate under cotton.
In most cases if the amounts
applied varied much, either above or
below this standard, the crops were
less profitable.
Everywhere it must be insisted on
that the individual farmer and tenant
raise an abindant supply of food and
feed and that this food and feed be
properly u nserved. The man with
a crib full ?>f corn and hay, a smokehouse
full of meat and molasses, a
hundred bushels of sweet potatoes in
a storage house, and a garden full
of vegetables cannot be put out of
business by the boll weevil or any
other pest.
Storage houses for keeping sweet
potatoes should be everywhere constructed
as this is one of the greatest
crops we have and one which every
farmer can raise.
Special Suggestions
I?For lower Coastal Plain:
Within 50 miles of the coast it is
doubtful whether cotton can be profitoKlu
raicoH under hnll weevil eondi
tions except during very dry summers
following unusually cold winters. If
planted at all the acreage should be
small, planting should be done extra
early with extra early approved varieties
and only the quickest acting fertilizer
used. In this section the main
reliance of the fanners must be livestock
to graze the large cut-over areas
and a large area should be planted
to corn and velvet beans for winter
food. Peanuts, winter and spring
growing truck crops, sweet potatoes
and in some sections melons must, besides
livestock, be the main reliance
of the farmers of the lower coastal
plain. Pork and beef can be as cheaply
raised in this area as in any sec
tion of the country as the hogs and
cattle can be carried on pasture or
| field crop grazing the entire year.
II?For Middle Coastal Plain:
(Approximately 50 to 100 miles inland)?In
this section cotton production
is also hazardous but if the acreage
is limited and due care exercised
the chances are in favor of a fair
yield during most seasons. A rotation
suggested for a 30-acre farm (of
course it must be varied to meet individual
needs) is 10 acres of com
and velvet beans (or peas or soy
beans) to be grazed off by cattle and
hogs after gathering com; 10 acres
of cotton and peanuts (say 6 acres of
cotton and 4 of peanuts); and 10
acres of small grain and truck, sorghum,
sugar-cane, etc. Watermelons
have proved to be a good crop for
this section where satisfactory marketing
arrangements can be made.
III?For Upper Coastal Plain and
Sand Hill Region:
The cotton acreage here may be
regulated according to the available
labor to take care of cultivation, weevil
control and prompt gathering.
In no case, however, should more than
50% be put into cotton and tobacco
together. A liberal acreage should
go into com and velvet beans. Hogs
should be carried on every farm and
cattle where possible. Sorghum, peas,
sweet potatoes and in some cases
peanuts should be planted.
IV?For Piedmont Region:
Cotton production in this section
is safer than in the lower sections
and will continue to be profitable on
average years, provided due care is
exercised in meeting weevil conditions.
The acreage should be strictly limited
to an amount which can be perfectly
handled by the available labor. Ample
food stuffs including corn, peas,
velvet beans, potatoes, sorghum,
wheat., oats, etc., should be grown.
A suggested division of acreage for
a 30-acre farm has been made by
one of the most successful planters
in the Piedmont and may be found
useful, although of course it should
be modified to meet individual needs.
10 acres of cotton; 6 acres of corn
with peas or velvet beans; 8 acres in
wheat and oats, followed by peavines,
beans and Lookout Mountain potatoes;
1 acre of sweet potatoes; 2
acres of alfalfa; 3 acres of sorghum;
total, 30 acres. An ample number of
hogs and a few cattle should be carried
on this farm and for these a
permanent Bermuda pasturage should
be provided. It would be well to increase
the percentage of corn on a
farm of this size unless the land is
very fertile. Thirty acres is usually
an awkward size for a farm as it
is too large for one horse and not
large enough for two. The relative
proportion of different crops, however,
may be observed no matter what the
size of the farm unit.
In every county the farmers should
utilize fully the Government farm experts.
No one can advise intelligently
and correctly just what each individual
farmer should do. The demonstration
agent, however, can tell
you exactly what to do for he knows
your conditions and has available all
the necessary information to advise
' you upon each detail.
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A most important factor for suc,
cess under boll weevil conditions is
! hard intelligent work. The slipshod
I farmer will be out of business in a
.'few years and only those who work
| hard and use intelligent methods will
remain. In all crops only varieties
of proven adaptability to the section
and those which make a product of
I the highest money value as well as 1
of good production per acre should
' be used.
The year 1921 has been more fay^jjfc
orable for the boll weevil than anj^P"
[1 since he entered the belt in 1892. *
j Consequently he has done more dam'
age than ever before. His damage
i next year and succeeding years will
depend on weather conditions and the
i j intelligence and industry used in fight
' mg him.
We urge all our citizens to co-oper:
ate to carry this message to every
farmer and farm tenant in the state.
Unless the main features of the above
program are generally adopted the
! whole state will suffer.
Last but not least call on the Extension
Agents and Clemson College
to help in every problem.
D. R. Coker,
For the Committee.
Hartsville, S. C., October 26, 1921.
WEAK BLOOD IS
A REAL BARRIER
GROWING CHILDREN OFTEN
NEED GUDE'S PEPTOMANGAN.
Some children grow too quickly?it
saps their stength. They lapse into
careless,, desultory habits, or develop
a shrinking attitude. Their faces
look pinched.
The blood becomes overtaxed by ?
too rapid growth; and poisons form
the system take the place of strength
giving red corpuscles in the blood.
Red corpuscles are those little red particles
that swim in blood and give it
its color. Gradually that child loses
interest in its play.
Poor blood needs the building that
the iron in Gude's Pepto-Mangan
gives to w eakened blood. Gude's
Pepto-Mangan enriches the blood by
increasing the number of red corpus'
cles, and restores the blood by driving
out the poisons. When the revived
blood gets to work, the appetite be-"*>?
comes what a growing child's should
be. Your druggist has Gude's PeptoMangan
in liquM or tablet form.
The name "Gude's Pepto-Mangan" is
on every package. Advertisement.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given that all persons
having claims against the estate
of B. F. Patrisk, will please file the
same, duly attested, with the undersigned
at their office in Kingstree, S.
C., and all persons indebted to the
said estate will please make payment
to the undersigned at the place above
mentioned.
KELLEY and HINDS,
Attorneys for Marie F. Patrick, Administratrix
of the Estate of B. F.
Patrick, Deceased
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