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?LUIKER OF COMMERCE NOTES Secretary Keardon Discusses Market bag Farm Prod ace and Cooperative Association. *Fbe necessity for organized busi aes* methods and a cooperative ma> fc?1ing association to dispose o Iriiih potatoes, corn, peas, beans, ant1 other produce was so clearly empha? sised in Sumter yesterday that th* managing secretary of the Chamber o: Commerce felt it worth while handing out for publication. While some what "voluminous" as they say o necessarily long articles, yet it 1? worth while reading by those who are interested in crop diversification anf marketing?farmers particularly. A Sumter county farmer phone.l the president of the Chamber o Commerce that he had fifty bushels o Irish potatoes to sell and wanted t> know what he could get for them or: he Sumter market The presiden called up the secretary and that offi clal after phoning Wholesale and re tall establishments found that th< Sumter market was "glutted" as all Of them said, with Irish potatoes be ing offered at 50 cents per peck o: two dollars a bushel, and more beinp offered dally. The farmer who phon? ed the Chamber said he would take not loss than seventy-five centsaper peck and would let the potatoes ro before selling for less. The secretary phoned the farmer advising that the Chamber was trylnf* ito get the South Carolina Produce As Hociation to handle the fifty bushels hsit the farmer said he had no bai i"cls and did., i know where to ge any Just then, erven if he was offered anything by the Produce Association This farmer also said that unless th business men of South Carolina, an that included the Sumter busines men also, made some arrangement . for disposing of surplus produce o the farms that the farmers wouh probably become discouraged and g back to planting practically all cot ton*and importing corn, bacon, vege tables, potatoes, and other food an?' feed stuffs simply because there is n* market or practically no market foi surplus produce of many kinds. "Now, right here." said the secre? tary, "is where the understands ought to fit In, but where the misun? derstanding puts business on the blin' about this diversification and market ing of surpl-j* products. To begin with in the natural pre cess of producing and marketing al commercial commodities there mus be some business at bot' tds of th line, with the producer wno produce and offers for sale, as well as with the middle man or business man wh buys and resells produce. To begin with the producer, scllin; to dealers in bulk, meaning the farm er, must make up his mind to sell a' producer's prices and not at retai prices, because if a wholesale house o a" retailer has to pay a farmer fe produce as much or more than it en be resold for by the middlemen ther Is no business in buying from a hon farmer under such terms when th middlemen can have produce shipped In here and pay freight on same ah resell at a living profit. Every producer must sell at mar ket prices according to standard mar ket quotations and not according ? what every farmer thinks he ought t get for his produce. They sell theb cotton according to prices fixed i Liverpool and New York and all se' for practically the same price, a cording to grade. Not at what th ' cotton producer thinks it worth elt er, as a rule. Then again the farmers should sys tematically organize an associatio with a selling agent in Sumter. if th farmers are going to^pioduce surplu for market in bulk. One or tw crates of peas and'a bushel or two o potatoes offered on Sumter market d no'i Interest a produce dealer in Char? leston, Baltimore or New York. Th volume of business or rather to amount of produce offered on a ce. tain day fixes the prices and guaran tecs a demand for same, among deal ers. Is it reasonable to expect a numb of Sumter business men to form stock company of thousands of dc lars and employ a professional age' to buy produce for reselling at prlc? above what the market quotatio are? Can a bunch of business no afford to capitalize a company, bai" or rent a warehouse and employ mi to buy and resell produce without at reasonable guarantee that there w be sufficient produce offered at stau? ard market prices to do enough bus neas to ev a pay expenses. Can these business men handle tl produce, with profit?if the produce not put up in merchantable shape. ; boxes, barrels, crates, or sacks, ai graded according to standard mark requirements? That Is where organization comr In among the fanners. The: ore e. ucated about putting up their :tu.T merchantable shape. Tin y are tnu"' by cooperation and busin ess-like ms agement how to avoid "gluttim:" tl market. A cooperative marketing n logiatioa* wiUi a s&lUug agent typ standard price for any local market on all produce offered on that' market. It shows farmers how to prepare to market their surplus stuff. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce bus never guaranteed that the people of Sumter city would buy and eat all of the food stuffs produced in Sumter county. That would be a foolish guarantee because Sumter city people are "living at home" largely by pro? ducing pretty nef?r enough vegetables to supply their own needs, and if a Sumter family has more vegetables, eggs, chickens, milk or butter than this family can dispose of by eating or drinking the surplus, this Sumter family sells the surplus for anything it will bring, feeling that by produc? ing sufficient to feed the family it has saved a lot of money, and that surplu. produce sold at any old price is like rinding money in a horse shoe track. The Chamber of Commerce has re? quested Dr. W. W. Long, of Clemson College, to visit Sumter and talk with Lhe farmers and Sumter business men about how to form a cooperative mar? keting association like the one started in Orangeburg county where thev produce sufficient surplus produce to warrant a cooperative marketing as ?joclation, both for livestock and for ?ra.in and vegetables. Dr. Long writes that he will fix a date in a few days and do the best he can for Sumter county farmers. The farmers will take no steps towards or? ganizing themselves. They put it all up to the business men and then re? fuse to cooperate with the business men or organize themselves, and doubtless when Dr. Long comes to Sumter to talk to the farmers and business men, he will find that there ire not more than a couple of dozen farmers present to listen to him, and his audience will be composed largely of city of'Sumter "agriculturists"? bank presidents, lawyers, doctors merchants, real estate men and other Sumter men who farm as a side line. Cooperation at both ends of the line is necessary to cooperate. If there is produce of any kind fo1" sale anywhere in the world, whether hogs, beef cattle, corn, wheat, po? tatoes, peas, or anything else, in suf? ficient quantities to make it profltabl for produce dealers to send represen? tatives to buy the farm products, the markets will be furnished and there will be buyers too. But business-like marketing and putting up stuff in merchantable shape must be prac ticed by farmers. And selling at retail prices or above, direct from the farm to the retaf dealer or produce deale in other places does not interest the middle men who wish to buy for re? selling produce of any kind. And there should be considerable farmer's cash in any marketing estab? lishment, whether for livestock, grata or produce Just to create interest among the producers in the success and management of the marketing fa? cilities. Why does the Union Brokerage Co of Sumter continue to exist and pros? per while doing business esclusivel imong farmers? Simply because this company is owned by farmers who aie interested in patronizing a farmer'.s cooperative organization to keep down he prices of the things farmers have tp buy. Cooperation and business management keep this enterprise go? ing. The same proportional ownership o the capital stock of a selling assoeia ion in which what farmers have t? :ell, will bring about an equitable ad ustment of selling prices, and a more usiness-likc method of marketing arm products. The farmer who produces things to ?eil Is naturally more interested hi | vhat the market prices are than s j umtcr merchant or hanker who do s ?ot sell farm produce. The banker md merchant are interested in wha' hey have to sell and while Indlrectl) interested In the farmer's prosperity ;et it is unreasonable to expect busl ness men in Sumter to get out an i regulate prices of farm products when the farmers who produce the s un are not interested enough to organ i/. themselves or do anything to assist ir methodical marketing or price fixing. Efforts have been made by Sumter business men to organize the farmers i for selling direet to consumers on th curb market, and for selling in bul to middlemen for resale of produc'i in excess of local demand. Will th farmers kimPy sav how much inti i i they have taken in either effort' Th amount of products and where to i ; them, availahiity of volume of pro . ducts, marketing prices by standard market quotations are what make : market that Interests produce deal, i (nd middleman. Investing money I? mterprises to accommodate you* 'riend is a thing of the past In Sumte ind is not fashionable anywhere ?is i it this time. Farmers must si < hat they have something to sell m lellver the goods in sufficient voliim ind merchantable shape if they ?vis! >uyers to come here to buy their sui J >lii8 product*. This has never ho< i ' ceesnplished successfully anywhere ? xcept by organization and cooperat n I ?etween the voodueers and the I us' r ess men. Almost every farmer t >ro?cJieil about joining a murketini v ? - ? - ? ?-?-r---z? r ? ;???I - . association replies?I do not produce sufficient surplus to pay me to belong to such an association. nrturf .H IC KS FOB JELLY. Agricultural Department Tells How ' to Keep Them Without Sugar. i Washington, June 11.?Fruit juices for use later in jelly making can tie steril zed and bottled without sugar and made into jellies at the house? wife's convenience. This enables her to do with fewei jelly glasses and to distribute her purchases of sugar for ! jelly :naking through the year. More - over, with the bottled jYice she can ' make a greater variety of jellies, as juices which will not jell can be put up when the fruit is ripe and com? bined later with fruits that will jell, or fruits ripening at different seasons can DC combined. For example, the juices of strawberries, cherries, or pineapple can be k?pt without sugar and later, when apples are plentiful, can 1 e made into combination jelly. From the unsugared sterilized juices of currants, apples, crabapples and grapes, kept from nine to eighteen months, the Bureau of Chemistry United States Department of Agricul? ture, -ecently made jellies of excellent textuie, flavor and color. To put up unsugared fruit juices for jelly making, proceed exactly as it jelly were to be made at the time. Cook .he fruits until they are soft and strain out the juice through a flannel bag. Heat and pour while hot into bottles previously scalded. Fill the bottles full, leaving no air space be? tween juice and cork or seal. Place the tilled sealed bottles on their sides in water near the boiling point, and keep them In the bath for about thirty minutes. Make sure that the corked or sealed end is under the hot water. As soon as the bottles are cool, cover the co*k with a parafin seal. Thorough sterili2ation and sealing are absolute? ly essential to success. To make jelly from the sterilized juices, test its jelling quality, add the proper amount of sugar, and proceed as in making jelly from freshly ex I prcs ed juice. How to Double the Hot urns From Kaeh Acre in Corn. During the past ten years the aver? age acre of corn in the South has yielded, on an average, ir> bushels. We propose hero to show that it is possible this year to exactly double the returns from each acre in corn. To do this, three things must be done. 1. Cultivate shallow and often. Drouth at a critical period often is re? sponsible for heavy decreases in coin yields. Drouths of course are beyond our power to prevent, hut cultivation of the right kind may largely offset their evil effects. When we destroy grass and weeds by cultivation the moisture and plant food they would have taken of course go to the corn crop. Let us, then, see to it that these robbers ere never allowed t> grow ir our corn Heids. Good culti vition also save* moisture for the con crop by preventing loss through evap? oration. Every farmer should aim to have a dust blanket or dust mulch maintained in every corn field. This I i:- step So. 1, and should, if generally i practiced, raise the average yield no ? lc: s than li\e bushels per acre. J 2. Top-dress with nitrate of sod i or sulphate of ammonia. We think I there is no possible doubt that th" greatest plant food need of corn, a! least in the South, is nitrogen. Of course the best way to get this nitro gen is from the air through legume crops, but right now we have many millions of acres that are /Sorely In need of nitrogen, and there is n 1 time to wait for the legumes. The corn crop needs it and needs it Im? mediate y. To supply this Immedlati need, nitrate of soda or sulphate o: immon at the rate of go, 80 or, ioc pounds >or acre should be used. This Is step i\'o. 2 and shouldj on million* of acres of our thin lands, raise the corn yield another live bushels pel acre. Z. Plant peas, beans or peanuti with all corn. Just as nowadays tin farmer who fails to get a second < ro alter his small grain is doing poo Work, so the farmer who lulls to grow n legume crop with his corn Is falling shorl of ins opportunities for Increas ing the feed and plant food supply Using any one of the three crop* named will certainly result in an in creased return from the land that will be worth at leas: live bushels of corn, and probably ten or fifteen. This . step No. 3. Are you going to do those things that will double the return from your land, or ire you going to he content with the usual 15 bushels??The pro gressiVS Fanner. (Joy. Manning Buys Bonds. Before leaving Columbia yesterday im- Plttshurg, Pa., to attend tin National Conference on Charities ami 'orrectlons, Gov. Manning telegraph ?d tin National Bank of Huniter to niter his subscription for $5,000 Lib ?rty Ijoan Bonds. This makes his t<> al subscription fO.OOO, having pre iously subscribed for $1,000, RED CROSS WORK. Committees are Making an Active Canvass of City for Mem ben and l'umls. President Wilson, who is also ox officio president of the American Red Cross, has issued a proclamation des? ignating the week beginning June IS as Red Cross week. During this time committees will canvas-: the country for new members and solicit subscrip? tions for the organization. There Is now an imperative need of $100,000, 000 for our troops who will leave shortly for France, and it is the de? sire of the Red Cross to raise this .amount in the near future. For the collection of Sumter's share of this fund, committees have been appointed which have been doing good work during the past week. When you are .-sked by a member of one of these committees for a donation, he is liberal as you ie-l that you can and any amount given wib be gladly re? ceived. The lied Cross of Sumter will stablish, within the next few days, headquarters at which any information pertaining to the Red Cross work an be obtained. All members of the local organization are asked to re port to headquarters as soon as they ire established and be assigned their portion of the work for the cause. Wach member that will report to Mr. It. L. Edmunds, at the Sumter Trust Company, within the next few days will be presented with a Red Cros: badge and it is hoped that each mem her will get busy and obtain one of these badges immediately. The local organization wishes to thank the following committees which have been making a house to house canvass for funds during the past week: No. 1.?Mcsdames C. II. Bar num. F. C. Tucker. J. C. Cluck. No. 2.?Mcsdames C. s. Kingsmore, Wray, Dwyer, Joe Guthrie, Walter Cheyne, J. C. McNeal. Willie Burns No. 1.?Mcsdames W. L. Boyle, J. K. Bradford, Hinnant, Robt. Brown. A. S. Harby, L?. I. Parrott, J. P Booth, Francis Moisc, W. C. Boyle. E B. Boyle. No. t.? Mcsdames H. M. Stuckcy, A. M. Broughton. No. 5.?Mrs. W. W. McKagcn, no re? port. No. f>.-- Meylames Ahe. Weinberg. Perry Moses, Loins Williamson, Man? ning Brown, Horace Bmerson, P. ?I. Bowman. II. N. Forrester, Henry McLaurin. No. 7.?Mcsdames H. C. Hayns rortb, J. C. Huger. No. 8.?Mcsdames Ferd Lcvi, Sid Dey Btubbs, Archil) Chin.i, John Clif? ton. Tracy McCollum, R. J. Bland, Graham Moses. No. 9?Miss Eileen Hurst, M<s damca Bd Hurst, w. Sibcrt, Trueadale. No. 10?Mcsthums Ji. L. Scarbor? ough, Alive Lowry, Beaumont, B. C Baker, Geo. Reardon, Blanche Cox, Ceo. Hurst. No. 11?Mesdames Eugene Moses, Iff. Levt, Utile Dorn, R. K. Wilder. T. E. White. No. 12?Misses Lucile Phelpa, Aline Harby, Dorothy Phclps, Mabel Dow man. Ethel Green, Me: dames Edwin Boyle, Francis Mo'se, Misses Hen rletta Boykin, Edmonla Barrett, Mrs Alfred Scarborough, Miss Mary Pitts. Mrs. Young ShackU ford, Mrs. Rena Chahdler, Misses Theo Gregg, Mildred Hurst, \zile Hunt, Marie Hurst, Beu lah Wilson, Roberta Williamson, Adele PlttB, Marie Rotholz. The committees report the following memberships secured: No. 1?13. No. 2?IS. No. 3?11, No. 1?2. No. I?IS. No. 7?35. Na. 8?37. No. 9 ? 24. No. in?ig. No. 11--7 2. No. 12?179. WAR BUDGET PASSED. Senate Finally Agreed to House Com? promise. Washington, June 13.?After ac? cepting tho pouse compromise for tho [acquisition of the Jamestown expo? sition site for a naval base the senate finally enac ted the three billion, two hundred eighty-one million dollar war budget bill and sent it to the White House. Early Morning Fire. Tuesday about 3 o'clock a. m., when the whole city was asleep, the lire boys had an early call to a tire out on Manning avenue, across th" railroad. Despite the curly hour, the firemen were on their job ami did good work in getting to the lire and putting out the conflagration. When the truck reached the scene, the building was almost half destroy? ed but a connection was soon made and a couple of streams were playing on the blaze. The building, which was a store owned by Mrs. Ligon, but occupied by a negro, was too far gone to he saved but good work was done in saving the adjoining building which caught several times. MATEHVIIXE RED CROSS, Auxiliary of Hunter Cuisaly Chapter Organised Monday Afternoon. Members of the local Red Cross or? ganization journed Monday after noon by automobiles to Mayesvillo, where an auxiliary to the Sumter chapter was organized. A mass meeting of the citizens of Mayesvillo was held in the high school ai ditbrium, presided over by Mr. Xeill ODonnell, president of the Sumter chapter. Bnthus astlc addresses were deliv? ered by Messrs. O'Donnell, A. C. Phelps, Dr. Walter Cheyne, Dr. S. C. Baker an 1 .Mrs. C. It, Stuhbs of this city, and Mr. J. P. Bland and Mrs. ('. B. King of Mayesvillc. Instrumental and vocal talent from Sumter supplied the music, patriotic airs and national hymns being ren dered during the meeting. Mr. W?I liam B. Daughtrey sang the French natu nal air "The Marseillaise.' After organizing those present who ilesired to become members of the Mayesvillc Red Cross auxiliary, Mr. J. p. Bland was elected president, with Mrs. C. B. King as vice president and a committee of five members was ap? pointed to perfect the organization, when other officers will be elected and a house to house canvas made throughout the Mayesvillo district. The members of the newf auxiliary seem to he alive to the necessity of Red Cross organizations on account of the anticipated war conditions of our country and many expressed a desire to bike the course of lectures which will be delivered in this city. Tuesday morning rural policeman Hamilton Uoykin was called to Man? ning to identify a negro, held at. that place, as the person who bSOkc into Mr. Charles Galllard's store in Dal >;ell a few nights ago. The day after the burgiary occured, bloodhounds were brought from Columbia, but were 'unable to follow the trail, as the burglar a'so stole a mu>e and made his escape on it. Since that time, however, a negro suspect has been captured In Manning and it is thought by the authorities that this negro is the one wanted for the rob I ei y at Dalsell. Monday while on the look-out near Hagood, Mr. Boykln, who is always on the job, had the good fortune to cap? ture a negro who is wanted in Rich land county. Tli is negro will be sent back to Columbia as soon as the prop? er papers and an escort arrive to car? ry him hack. ?? "Solenne in Quest' Ora" from La Forza Del Destino by Mr. Karl J?rn and Mr. Authur Middleton of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York City Messrs. J?rn and Middleton have given a wonderful performance of this surperb duet, which, as every? one knows, is one of Verdi's masterpieces. Their p rfo/mance is literally Re-Created by <Ihe NEW EDISON "The Phonograph with a Soul" That ih ir voices cannot be told from the New Edison's Re-Creation r.f them in th s wonderful duet has been niovcd by direel comparison. Messrs. .lorn and Middleton stood beside the New Edi9on and sansr this beautiful duet" Suddenly, witlioul warning, thev iiuit singing, and the New Edison took up the duet alone. So perfectly are their voices Re-Created that it was necessary to look at their lips to tell when Meters. Ion and Middleton had ceased to Bing. Wo want you to hear the New Edison's Rc-Creation of .lorn and Middleton in this wonderful duet. We also want you to hear the Re-Creation of other great voices; for example, Matzcuauer, Rgppotd, Case, Destino, Kenatello, L'rlus, (ioiitz and Fontana. Lot \is give you an hour of Ite-Created music. Vou will not he embarrassed by solicitations to buy. Bring youi friends. W e wanl every music lover to hear the Nee Edison. NOTICEPlease don't ask us to sell you TMisoo i|uality of Kdison lie-Creation*. Furthermore, in Kc-I reations if you intend toaltempl to play them jury to the records is likely to result if you attemi ft on any other instrument than th Nc.\ Edison. No to play them on an ordinary phonograph or talking other instrument can bring Olli the tru" musical machine. J. E. KING h COMPANY 39 SOUTH MAIN STREET SUMTER, S. C.