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HOLDEN PLANS CAMPAIGN FOR DIVERSIFIES AGRICULTURE i - TO UNITE PROMINENT INTERESTS IN SOUTH TO ASSIST IN THE WORK Agricultural Extension Department to Aid Any Community Inter? ested in Conducting Campaign to Encourage the Growing of Alfalfa?Live Stock, Silos, More Pastures and a Better Sys? tem of Crop Rotation Will Be Urged. Alfalfa Automobil? Trains Important Feature of the Work?Schedules to Be Arranged end Meecinge to Be Held at Farm Homes? Prominent Speaker? to Accompany Each Alfslfs Train?Organizations Will Be Formed in Each Community to Promote the Work?Field Men Experienced In Alfalfa Growing Will Follow Up Preliminary Work Wherever Posaible and Give Aid in Getting s Start?Prof. P. G. Holden, Director Extension Department, international Harvester Company of New Jersey, Chicago, Will direct the work. - The est .patrn wfll be conducted in co-operation with farmers* Institutes, hankers, business men. farmers, commercial clubs, granges, Uv? stock and dairy associations and other organizations in any community where the peo? ple are anxious to Improve their agricultural conditions and are willing to giro time end money to carry on tho work. County and city superintendents of schools, colleges, institute workers. <hautauqua lecturers, and others Interested in the work will be assisted In obtaining alfalia charts and lantern slides. Literature and booklets will la siren wide distribution throughout the country Special alfalfa articles will be sent to farm Journals and magazines, and plate and matrix pages to new* papers. Special editions of newspapers will be published where campaigns are conducted. Dates will be srranged for "Alfalfa Day'' in the schools. To Begin Campaign Work In Cotton Belt Immediately. Work to be started immediately in the cotton belt states and in the east and west. Thirty to forty meetings will be held in each county, the Numler dependln? on local conditions. To accomplish the roost in agricultural development, wo must begla with the man behind the crop. Upon him depends tho final working out of the principles of agriculture?tho simple and practical things?which our achools. colleges and experiment stations are endeavoring to bring into gen? eral use. Professor Holden proposes to carry these principles further even than lbs very effective work done on the agricultural trains, by using that most modern vehicle?the automobile?going directly to the people on their own farms where the meetings are to be held. Alfslfs Greatest Soil-Enriching Crop. Agricultural development needs In additloo to the work of our public Institutions, the Individual efforts of every merchant, banker, corporation, or laboring man. and ihia plan calls for their heartiest co-operation. This plan for increasing the gl Ids of our crops by the more extensive Itowing of that wonderful soil mprover, ALFALFA, is meeting the approval >f all men who have any knowledge of the beneficial results of its introduction as s general crop. Campaigns are now being conducted in many of the central western state* ar.d T*rofeesor Holden Is daH t* for his assistance in orgai. .* v ? ,k ?. i i , ratios with every com eiuon; inures; cd I, ? lat a request be ? d Lh partmeot tor assistaaeg in carrying on What the local peop'e will provide: i I) Expenses (meals and lodging) for the alfalfa speakers and Btafi upon their arrival and during the campaign. (2) w it to the campaigns lire conducted by automobiles alone, from ten U> twenty automobiles for each day of tho campaign to carry the alfalfa crew and Invited guests; one auto truck to carry literature, baggage, charts, and other equipment (3) Where the campaigns are carried on in co-operation with the rail* roads, automobiles and railroad equipment must be furnished. i 1) \rrange for meeting place? and publish schedule of same. (ft) Local advertising. (6) Photographer, if possible. The Agricultural Extension Department will provide: (1) Advance men to assist in organization work. (1) Lecturers. (I) Literature. (4> Hpeclal educational articles for newspapers und farm journals perti sjent to alfalfa culture, object of campaign, etc (5) Field men to follow up the preliminary work and aid the people la aar coiumuulty where suthcU nt iutiTvbi is shown to warrant it WIU DISTRIBUTE EDUCATIONAL BOOKLETS aWOaesating Literatur? to Be Sent Out 9/ the I. H. C. Extension CeparV -??fit--Books Dealing With Many Phases of Agriculture and Other ?ubjsc's. Affriculture means more to the peo? ple at large than all other thlnga. It Is the most Tltal subject now holding the public mind. Tho work cf agrl enltursj and Industrial education Is a very largo and a very important work Tho Agricultural Kxtension De? partment of the International Harvest? er company of New Jersey was or? ganised to develop the agricultural efficiency of the people, who are till? ing the soli and producing tho crops upon which wo live. The work of the department Is car? ried on la many ways. First, by go log direct to the homes of tho pt?o pi*, and SjSjatatrag them lu their homes with their problems. Another method Is the dtssemlna tlon of educstlonal literature. The department has at present for dis? tribution a number of Interesting booklets covering many phases of ag rlculfure and other ?abjecte, nil of which ar* of special Interest on ac rount i f ih?>ir adnoatlojial value Th< y are not for sale, hut Will be tient any where at tho tost of postage or ex press and may be obtained bv Wftttag the Batewaloii Department, Harvester build gfj Cotfsj No. 1?Th? Story of Bread- An In? teresting story of tho world <dd htrur gle for cheap bread. Single copy. J cents, In ?uianhhes, 2 cents per copy No. 2?Creeds of Great Business Men- A ae-!?-? (,f hk?,4hes of men who have helped \n mak? buslnoui what It Is t-iday ?ln<b> copv, I? cents. n quantities A cents No. i?The Golden Vream \ pfhln. eryday t.xilsx-K aa th.. mauy nhaeee of dairying' Blngle oopy, ? '. in quantities, I cents . . 4?Kor Better Crops | roller valuable articles on farm nub Single copy, <> cents; in quan< cents. ?TN Story of Twine Tl / Uiu u...i.ic.uiu ui twine. Single copy, 3 cents; In quan? tities. 2 cents. No. 6? Engine Operator's Guide? Tells all about how to operate, re? pair and keep In good condition a gasoline engiue. Single copy, 3 cents; ? n quantities, 2 centj. No. 7?The Cattle Tick?Tho best way for getting rid of It. Single copy, 2 cents; in quantities, 1 cent. Mo. 8?For Better Crops In the South?Deals with crops and condi? tions in tho south. Single copy, 4 cents; in quantities, 3 cents. No. 9?The Disk Harrow?Shows the part disking plays in crop pro? duction. Single copy, 4 cents; iu quantities, 2 cents. No. 10?The Binder Twine Industry ?A story of the process used in mak lng binder twine. Single copy, 2" cents, In quantities. 15 cents. No. 11?Harvest Scenes of the World?A i.'j-pugo book, handsomely bound, ana printed In two colors, showing harvesting in many countries. Single copy. 60 cents; in quantities, M cents. No. 12?Alfalfa In the Cotton Belt How to s?.t a stand of Alfalfa in the south. Single copy 2 cents; in quau tlties 1 cent. No. 13?Diversified Farming In the Cotton Belt?A fifty pag? book lot Msjgla copy 4 conts; In quantities 2 t? nts. No. 14?For Better Corn In the Cot? ton Belt?Single copy 2 cents; in quantities 1 cent. No. 15?The Boll Weevil?A thirty six page booklet. Single copy 4 cents; in quantities ? cents. No. 16?3weet Clover?Its agricul tttfaj tmrae Thirty two page book Hingis copy I cents, In quantities 2 cents. No. 17?The I. H. C. Demonstration Farms Giving the results of expert MOntS *itli tarm crops In Uie south. rwenty paget Single copy 2 conts, in quantities 1 cunt Id \ the b<?< 1 loin rained above, front tlgia lo Una tb< ro will bo loaned otht. it* reatlni agricultural booklets pertln< at io crops In ail parts of the t ntted st.ii?.; Future issues will treat Ltbjectg as COWpeas, soy beans, ..!. 1 beans, ric?, sugar ease, 1 and feeding, weeds and ok-wd ?THOR EXPLAINS action C. Dunhar of Dal/ell, Foreman of <*rand Jury. Tells Why Sale for g.Yooo of opera HOvte Property Wo? Not Considered liest for County'* Interest*. Editor Daily Ttom: I have, read Mr. Jennings' article relating to the rity purchasing the opera house property and, I beg as a member of grand jury before which, he went for a recommendation to the Oonty board to sell the property for $5,000 to say something through your columns in explanation of the ac? tion of the grand juy in the prem? ises. First: The County Commissioners being the representatives of the peo? ple and the wardens of the county's interest, as to her internal affairs, as well as men of practical business, knowledge, the grand jury felt that! to recommend anything more than it did might bring some pressure to bear upon the board that was really j beyond the province of the Grand j Jury. Second; The price being offered1 was considered in all of it? phases, was thrashed out thoroughly, and the grand jury could not see a compen ?ation sufficient in the offer from the' City to justify the county in accepting it. In submitting his proposition, Mr. I Jennings did not tell the grand jury1 that the board could find a market for that $5.000 principal for the lot and $105.00 taxes that would in all prob? ability accrue to (.he county annually for 43 years and 5 months, at the respective rates of interest given in his explanation, but merely said that ? the tWO amounts, as given, at these rates will amount to the totals that he gives. That looks mighty good on paper, but in my humble judgment, thi county board, and most assuredly its successors, would find it a very difficult task to place the money at j more thin 4 per cent. Wo all know that 4 per cent is about all we can g4 t for money deposited in the banks j by the year and it would be poor1 business policy for them to pay more t for it, when they can get it at thatj rate. Now, the question arises, must the; county board, with a capital stock of $5,000 supplemented with $105.00 an? nually go into the banking business so as to enable it to get six, seven and eight per cent. It seems to the writer that it would be rather a dim? inutive enterprise. Among other things, we must con? sider that, if there is anything in signs of the times, money will be j cheaper within the next decade than it is now. The conditions by which we are confronted demand it and it is Inevitable, The currency bill just enacated by congress m^ans something in the way of financial relief to the ma.'ies, something that cannot be con? trolled by Wall Street and the mon f> powers, as heretofore. Money will flow in a more even current:, not to be obstructed by the Shylocks and vampires of great wealth, but will legitimately seek its mission and the; business of the country will not suf-J far. Again, we see that Senator FletCh er of Florida has a bill before the; United States senate providing for a rural credit system. Money on easier terms with a lower rate of interest, which means much to the ruralist. This indicates that ho will, before many years, get money to do busi? ness on at a much less rate of in? terest than he now pays and then the county board's banWng business will go defunct. What 1 have to say looks like ?peCliltton In the future and it will undoubetedly be called that by some. He that as it may, we cannot speculate In the present. All our hopes and prospects are looking to the future, j If it were not so, this would be a stagnant world. With money easier j and lower rates of interest, tho ag- ] riculturist of the county is bound to I forgo his way to tho front. There j have already been rapid and telling! Strides In the way of economics and! general improvements made within the last few years and he who can j read tho future, guided by the things j of the past, must see, with the changes of money conditions now tak? ing place, greater opportunities and privileges, which means that ti4S country la coming Into its own. Tho material prosperity of the country district is bound to increase and that signifies more prosperity in our cities' and t?>wns, with a greater increase in population* Judging from the past few years, Sumter with her energy and push, her progressive leaders, not only devising and planning for better things, hut contributing their means, with her high class of cltlsen ?hip, her great rallrosd facilities, the Industrial enterprises already there ami still to come in the near future, and backed up by a productive sur? rounding which is developing rapidly In material wealth. Will before rnuny years be ?? eity <>f fifty thousand In? habitants, Sinc<; Mr. Jennings submitted his proposition to thS grand jury for e recommendation lo the county board, i have taken it upon myself to csl dood as If ajertilizer dealer says this to you, askyourselfwhy Xoysier's is ?ie standard oj* comparison. TRADE MARK ?uimut F. S.Ro\j sier Guano Co, Norfolk, Va. Sold cvfer/wker? culate and compound the interest on! $6,000 for 43 years and 5 months, compounded annually at 4 per cent and find it amounts to approximately j $26,283.08. The interest on $105.00, for forty-three years and five months, which he says the county, if it sells! the opera house property, will in all probability receive in taxes, com? pounded annually at 4 per cent ap? proximates $17,615.81. When we add the two amounts together, we find we have a total of $43,898.89. Now, he tells the grand jury, that the city of Sumter has been offered $70,000 for the lot with enough land added to run it back to the street in the roar of the opera house. It does seem to mo, and the whole grand jury looked at it through the same glasses, that if the city could get $70,000 for the lot with enough added to run back to the street in the rear. $&, 000 for the 90xS0 foot wnich com? poses the lot, as it stands, is not a sufficient compensation to the county1 for it. I am satisfied the $43,898.89 will not pay the county for the en- * hancement in value within the next 43 years. It is not my disposition to hinder or impede the city in its prog? ress, but as a grand juror, I feel that it is my duty while serving as such, j to take care of the interest of the county to the best of my knowledge and ability. I am sure that the other members of the grand jury arc actuated by the yme motive. Should we as a body or as individuals be prompted by any; other impulse, we would not be worthy of the trust imposed in us. In conclusion I wish to say that, if the city has been offered $70,000 for the lot, provided she will secure enough land to extend it back to Har vln street it does seem to me that the lot 58x90 feet, as it now stands fronting Main Street, in the imme? diate business part of the city, is a very valuable investment for the county at $5,000, notwithstanding she does not receive revenue from It for the next forty-three years and five months. Very respectfully, J. C. DUNBAR. Deisel!. S. C. Most Disgraceful. It would seem that South Carolina has enough disgraceful things to stand up under without this dis? gusting squabble over a woman doctor at the insane asylum. It is time to call a halt when politics are Injected Into the Institution where the poor unfortunates of the State are cared for. The fact of the matter is that some politicians ought to be con eigned to the care of Dr. BaOCOCk.? I d??lias/ton Nwus & Press Government Is Clean. Comment on Congress, in Colliers. To an observer at Washington who take? a leisurely look at the past and tries to guess the future the fact that probably is most worth insisting up? on is that congress and the govern? ment are clean. Five years ago, in the lower house, Cannon and his little ring were completely in power. In the senate Aldrich was supreme and was just beginning to make that tariff of which many schedules were written by the employees of the cor? porations which benefited by them. The Lorimer scandal v as just com? mencing. Special interests were in the saddle and the owners of priv leges had the ear of the men in power. The beginning of the end of this 'old regime came with the In? surgent uprising, led by Murdock. The process was completed when Wilson's public reference to the lob? by, last June, resulted in a house cleaning. All the reason has gone for that agitation which made up the bulk of the political comment oT from three to six yearsi ago. At the present time there is practically to criticism to be made of the LmprofK*? alliliations or alliances of puolic men with special interests. Almost r.i criticism can be made of men be? cause of their motives. Such un? favorable criticism as can be directed at public men now must be based for the most port on low efflctency? or the lack of high intelligence, or a too Intense partisanship. The In? tention to do what is right Is practi? cally universal; current discussion arises chiefly out of honest differ? ences of opinion as to what Is beat, it is worth while .or any person to spend an hour reflecting upon the jolitical revolution that he- occurred in the United States. Geo. H. Hurst, INTmYHIaKKR AND EMBi fror? p? attention tc Say of AT Ott? J. X>. CRAJQ 8TAJTO, M fj. Main tome. Day Phon* ?SS. Nig-hl Phua* ta .ff >M I "Get a Receipt" Is the slogan that fells hundreds of Cash Registers. f You don't need one if you pay your hills by check?the modern up-to-tho minute way. The Peoples' Bank jj MMWMWWWBBM inn. ? MMBMBjj ? ?MMMMMMtrMMMM +++++f 4"444 4 ???????????4? f*# Increase Business in 1914. Increase your annual business by apply? ing modern financial methods. 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