Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cjjc (?jlatcjjmaii aiti ^ouljtou. r^ihllrbcO Wednesday and Satnrdat ?BY ? OOTKKN Pt Ill.lsHING COMPANY bl Mil II, s. C. Terms ? I 50 per annum?in advance. Ad\crti>emcnt*. On* Square first inanition .. ..$1.0?. Every suoaenuont Insertion.6c Contract* for three months, on longer will be made at reduced rules Ail communications which sub ssirve private Interests will be churned for as advertisement*. Obituaries and tributes of respect anil be charged for. The Bumter Watchman was found ?a ISAtf and the True Houthron m The Watchinun and Houthroi ?ow baa the comMned circulation an i influence or botii of the old papers, and IO tiianlfeHtly the best adverlia :>. medium in bumter. t'AKMIIts' n ot k si rri.v. I ?m ,| X'lmlniNtratloii Issues Ouh r iVruiitilng <.rinding of Year's Sup fJf. Columbia. July 10.?The food ad Istratlon regulations governing the nding of wheat have POOS modiiled to the extent that farmers arc now permitted to grind a full year's sup? ply. A bulletin Just hsiuod b> the food admlniatration authorises millers in South Carolina to grind, from wheat raised by farmers, enough Hour to supply their families and their tenants for It months. In arriving at the amount of flour required for such sup ply. calculation must be made upon th* basis of I] pounds per person per month Farmers are expected, however, to use flour MulntituJes pound for pound With the flour th \ have ground from their wheat. The fact that they have produced their own wheat does not release them from this obligation .? v are also < d to see to h that their tenants, furnished by them 'see flour substitutes on ihe 60-50 ba ?la When farmers sell flour to individ? uals they will he required, under the tulea of the food administration, to soil an equal amount of flour substi? tutes or take miller's certificates from the purchaser showing that they (the buyers) have had flour substitutes ?round to cover rlw flour they huv pound for pound. This applies in rase? where farmers who rae- wheat sell gour to neighbors who pei Ii ips h i\ no wheat to ?..? ground. Farmers can sell flour, from their wheat, to morchaats, but whea th< merchant* reaidl this flour it must he sold, pound for pound, with flour sub? stitutiv s to the persons who buy It. Tbeae regulations apply to thresh ermen as well as to farmers. rKKI'll s I nit sHN ATI'. Attorney (Venera I I .cave* (iovernor's Hnoe. Columbia, July 10?Thomas H Preplea. attorney geneial. last night withdrew from the race for govern? or and entered the race for the short term for the Inlted States senate. The short term is that portion of the unexplred term of the late Sena? tor Ttllman which extends beyond tin tenure of Senator Christie llenet, th appointee of Governor Manning. Kight months of the term are to be served *nd tie appointment by the governm cm i.ot extend hfvoi.d n\ month! 3d>. Peeplea has been making th - r%?* for governor. th" St ??? oflh - purty having canvimwd 1 *? counttOI air. Peeples will Join the senatorial party In Dillon next Tuesdu.. He has been attorney general six years and when elected the first time was ih< youngest man ever to hold the oflic in South Carolina. \ \mr.it AiiitKN/rs ^>\. Turns) Voting Man Over to Authorities mm iM-scrtor. Hlrmlngham. July !? Starlinu Hicks of near Jasper brought his son brarling Hicks, Jr . to Itirminghuin Monday night and almost overcome with emotion, turned the young MM ever to federal offlcluls as a desertei from the Tnlted States iirmv. "It nearly breaks my hear! lo hav< tu arrest my own son and turn him over to the authorities on so ?Sjftejsjl ? cbarge." mild Mr. Hicks, "hut ever If he Is mv aon I can not harbor hin n?? a deserter. or even countenance hi act " Young Hicks Is said to have desert ed from OggBMJ Wheeler. Maeon. Qt> elout two months ago and has sine. )t is reported. been hiding In the woods neu- Jasper Mr. Kleba spoil several nights In UM woods In an ef fort to locate bis son i ?\s< Hii-TH>\ i OM Hl Md \ Tnlik) s., |{n?ela is on I've nl General Mditai \ < -u^ riplhoi Paria, July I" Speaking at th? opening todav of the great egg green of the Russian Soviets DoMhOVil minister of wnr Trotr.kv ac cording to a dlsputrh from Hasel, Swltxerland. this moinlng s.ld. "Busala Is on tin of general military service con g| i i?\ton BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL. iM i'urmi.N r or aokici i/n r.c Wokkixi; ox PRUBLKftl, Ideal Is to Mgfljj the Wnlcr That th<* D? >uueli\e Ins ct Drinks. Washington. July 7. -Control of th cotton holl weevil seems to ho in ? fair way of accomplishment by the work of an cm omoiogist of the ?h ? purtmcnt of ar.ru uituie. When that insidious pest, which has bOOH taking heavy toll of tin- cot' . I ??>:. and annually extending his fe e< Ini' grounds, stops ids work of punc? turing I otton snuarcs and bolls, and an.I.les for th to QUOIM h his thirst fro . I dewdrop or raindrop on the OOttC 1 t, he i < likely in tin- future to en? counter a poisoned draught which will be as effective ns a knock-out drop. 1 What this means to the cotton grov eis of the South and the industry SI a Who!* can hardly he estimated in do! hum sod coots but the curtailment of the weevil's activities, even in small part, is so important us to make the Ahl s/erj of the United states de? pertinent of agriculture of the fool that arsenieals may be used as a powder spray in controlling this pest ine of its most striking ami valual . contributions to the agricultural ?r. dustr/, Mr, lb lb Cond, of tho bureau of I n11 moiovJ , While working on some biological ir.vi -thrations of the hull Weevil, found that although the wee? vils are not hard drinkers they drink icgul uly from the rain or dew col? lected in droplets on the leaves of the cotton plante, Having been on the trail of the cotton holl wet Vll for some time, ins lacteal Inquiry waa, "Whj not poison the water Whloh the wee? vil drink?" Bines IMS, Mr. Coad, with a corps of entomologists with hoadejuartora at ^Pailulah, La., hat a e perlmentlnf with various pois? ons applied in different ways, all with abo purpose of ad ministering a dona which would he fatal to these insect.: which have invaded such a larg part oi the eutton"producing territory of the South These entomologists have not gushed their work, but they have proved by a series of experi nts that boll Weevlle can be polson ?d nnder Bold conditions and that the I>?<1 zoning Is a practical method of 000* trolling Hi- pests. The usual oheok [.i ts have b.en used in these expert mints, and the results have shown that yields of from HI to 1,000 pOUndl more of SSOd OOttOTJ per acre can bt raised on sprayed arc s than on th unsprayed plats. The experiment have been conducted under many con? ditions ami for several years, so us to give the method a complete trial be fOre making the results known to the growers. The details nr? now being published in a department bulletin entitled "lb-cent K>tpoi imentnl Work of Poisoning Cotton Holl Weevils." when the experiments aroft started again last year it was recognized thai the former work ha.d merely demon? strated the possibility of poisonIng weevils successfully and that many phases of th economical use of th" nolson still remained to be worked out. A very elaborate series lor thai unison was planned ; nd about sov ?itty-iivc tesbs w? re started in th" neighborhood of Talluiah, each one ?ntended to determine some particula point of Importance, The oarl'ot tudleS had shown that under 001 t un conditions poisoning was proti labfl . but It was known that nn\ ?'hange in. these conditions might easily result In a much lower gain, i not an actual lOOS, and It was is-icn ia! to determine thoroughly the poa .ibilitioH and limitations of boll weevl ? i i nlng before the informaton WOUld be of value to the public. A peeulii r combination of seasonal con dltlona however, resulted In an al moat complete absence of weevil dam .1 e m all oi the cotton in which test hoi I., en planned. The experiments therefore, oould not be conducted un der the desired conditions of heav weevil infestation. Nevertheless, th results confirmed those of the preced oj-.g two years, but stiii left many gupi In th*' information essential to OU1 lining a general procedure for weevl poisoning, ?ui one of the heavily in fested areas a gain was made pf (ft per cent in the sprayed cotton OVC thai grown 0g the unsprayed area A number of experiments were con? ducted ahm in the north delta in rh cot county, mar l*ake Villain-. Ail; unl in Washington county, mar gcot1 Miss. At both Of these polnls a heav Infestation, due to different sc.son conditions, was encountered, and pro nonneed resulli wars obtained fron tin- poison, in every case the experl meats ere re conducted on com porn tlvely small are.is. subject to a con t i nut I influx of Weevils from sir pesjndtng nnln ated cotton, but in spite of tins a very definite w. evil con? trol rooutted from poisoning, Th< open eotton in even ease showed a definite gnln lo the last row of treat ment. The gains per acre r?nget i em IM pounds to l.uaT pound- Ol need cotton It Is dtfhCUH, Of OOUmt o snttmnte how much largei the; I gains would have been II the entire cuts or entire plantations had been treated, and thus the migration o! weevil* from the unpolsonod cotton prevented, it Ii clear, however, that the Rains secured <ui tin- small areas wert exceedingly conservative. A large scale treatment was made iii August last year on a section Of an t Arkansas plantation. The cotton grow on land of lair quality and was at ; planted until late May. Weather conditions had retarded the plants ? reatly and they did not statt setting the orop until tiie latter part o. July. AhOtlt the middle of August a fair ? >p of bolls had developed, but th plants were I; ige and leafy, and the WCevllS had multiplied HO rapid;;/ that a vary heavy infestation or weevils was pucatnt. Dloomlng had practi? cally ceased and the weevils had cleaned up the squares so thoroughly that tiny s/ere attacking the bolls in groat numbers, and the i>oiis, even to the largest presont, wa r? being riddled by punctures, it seemed probable that on one section oo bolls would be left to open, it was. ol course, tool hite to attempt to set a new crop by j poisoning, hut an effort was made to save tiie bolls thon present on the! plants. Treatments were given from August II to about Cepb mber 1 on Bevoral hundred acres. Upon count? ing the squares it was found that about M per cent or the squares in| the cotton t?? he poisoned had be< a1 weevil punctured, 'iiiis cotton was given a single poisoning, and about (en days later It was round that th weevil Infestation in these same cuts! or areas had been reduced so that only K pej- cent of the squares were punc ured. During the same period the In <? tatlon In the adjoining unpolsonod' lotton had I een Increasing steadily. Practically all of the poisoned cuts! started blooming again at this time nid a number of them reached what '.* o.dinarii.v termed Ihe "flower gar len" stage of hloominff, live to seven dooms per plant on a single day be? ing not at all rare. In Starting the treatment . f this I large area it had been anticipated th; t teveral applications would b<> neces? ?my to produce the deaired result, but ihe effoct of a single application wo ?o pronounced that it seemed unnec s iry to repeat it. The weevils had been so reduced that only 36 per cent ?I* the squares were punctured, ami ; tlthough thousands of weevils wer I being bred out from the squarei o the ground or were coming In iron: other plantations every day, it wa ? Still obvious that the weevils WOUl I I eatly reduce their attacks on th bolls until they had caught up With the squares then present, and that .his period wculd be long- enough t. allow the bolls to become su.Helen-Ij h irdened to avoid weevil damage. Owing to the necessity for polsonins considerable areas in this case and t" the in:.biiity to leave unpolsoned plat, is ohecks, it was. of course, Impoa | slblc to determine the exact benol U rived from the treatment. Rough I lomparisons, however based on yields >f surrounding cuts made it obvlom ? but a considerable g nu had been at incd and that i olsonlnc had beon ,ery prof;table oiieratlon, in the early experiments the tri plumbic form of bad arscnate wn used, but was not sufficiently effect I v? ml the di-hy h ogen form of load. rsonntc proved to be u Letter poison or the work, Later additional tests demonstrated that a high grade o ?alcium arscnate was still more effec? tive and hau the gl eat advantage o being cheaper than lead arsenate. /? number of tests wa re made with v i rious mixtures and dilutions Of arse:. teals, This work, however, is still i i the experimental stage and, accordln io Mr. Coad, it la difficult to prophes' just what the results will be. It is obvious, however, according to tin scientist, that either a tli-hydrogen h ad arsenate powder containing noi IMS than SI per cent of arsenic p? toxi?! or a calcium arsenate containing at least 1 li per oent of arsenic pen I toxid will produce an effective con trol if handled properly, it also i expected thai it will be possible to dl lute these considerably with some cheap carrier such as lime, thougl this has not la en definitely determln 'od, The experiment^ have rhow that a very line powder |8 taken U| more readily by tin- dew and held \: suspension for the weevils tha conrselj powdered chemicals. Th physical condition Is especially Im I portanl since the potoo.i Is applied Ir I the form of a dust spray. The time of applying the poison Of course, varies under dlfferenl con dltlons, it has proved most effectlv when applied just as the cotton oh vlously slackens In blooming, bui fur ther work along this line Is still t > be done, it seems probable thai the effective Interval between application i I is about one week. II >s well know I that much more effective polsonln u ith dry dust c n i s done wb le lb dew is on the plant, as the poison not only clings to the plant better, but has mm h less tendency to drift from the OOtton The most effective UttlO for application, therefore, usually i j bet w een I p. In ami '.? a In. BeVCI II 1 machine: are on the market for dust ?praying;. In the early experiment* u hand <iiisi hum was used, with which j it was possible to cover four to live I acres a day. In order in cover larger areaSi however, a special power ma Ichine was developed, which will cover nearly 200 ucrei per day. Tin- depart? ment now expects to develop an inter? mediate type which can l e sold cheap? ly and which will cover twenty to thirty acres per day. I I The amount of poison required i'm' application so far has depended more upon the requirements of the machin? ery used than on the amount neces? sary for thoroughly dusting the cotton. In general about live pounds per acre have been applied, hut this is excess* live, and with further Improvement in the machinery and the use of the poi? son with mixtures, such as lime, smaller amounts will he effective, in most of the experiments from three to five applications were made, hut the effectiveness of these was consldernl ly reduced by the fact that they were on such small plats. In the large s-eale experiment the effect of a single application was .is great as was secur? ed from about three applications < a a smaller plat. This more efficient work on the large held was due. of course to the fact tint there wan practically no migration of Weevils fiom adjoining areas. The cost of treatment .averaged about $1 per a re for each appli cation* This, howt ver, may be re? duced considerably when l uge area* ire sprayed ami when Improved ma? chinery, requiring less poison, is em? ployed. Tin cost may be still further reduced when it is possible to mix th ? poison with other powders, such W lime, which will act as curriers. Fur? ther, it Avil! rarely be necessary to poison an entire plantation to control 'he wee v.l. since on emerging in the spring they always concentrate near tin area in \ 1 lei: th / passed the win .er. The wi evh- remain rather closo ly to these points until they have mul? tiplied sufficiently to threaten r. short IgO in the local food supply. I<"or this reason a great part of the cotton i ; not seriously infested with weevils un iii some time after mldseason, and ihen not until well along in Aumist. The control measures adopted must depend upon conditions in each plantation, but by concentrating on the more heavily Infested cuts Just r of ore the weevils become sufficient y abundant to migrate to the re nainder of the cotton it will bo pos? sible not only directly to benefit the tti tton treat hut to protect the re? mainder of tin- plantation by pre- [ routing the weevil migration, in this' way the coet of the treatment tor a , souipaiativoly fow acres will be boric; by the benefit derived by the entire pin ntatlon. i IM I) COTT, \ P1U< K CKor. s: ?> ; u.b Cu rol I niiu.s Tell of Meeting in N'ew Orlenn ir.c cotton biatei official marketing bureau, compos* d < : the cotumfcs'.on r oi" agriculture, tin- chief Of the marketing bureau and the president ol tin- farmers' union of each cotton growing state, met in New Orleans, July i ami Proposals for govern? ment price Axing on cotton ami acre? age reduction were rejected, .1. J. Drown, commissioner of agriculture of Georgia, presided at the meeting which was held in the Orundwi 11 Ho? tel. The meet,ng recommended that a j propaganda be conducted in each state by the secretary of agriculture, assisted by county chairman and three workers in each school district, to promote a plan whereby cotton growers will hold one-third of this, year's crop until tho war Is over and1 .viii s.(i! the remaining two-thirds as slowly as possible, a committee was] ppolnted t<? go to Washington to eon ' fer v.rlth oilieials of the regional banks, asking that ample funds be j provided to carry out the proposed j policy. The South Carolina delegation to the meeting was composed Of A. C. , bummers, commissioner of agricul? ture; \v. Smith, state warehouse commissioner; B. W. l abbs, of Mayes \ille, I* I?. Jennings and B. K Friar oi Sumior, Senator George K. Lane) of Chesterfield and Dr. Wade stack-! house of Dillon. E. W. Dabbs and W. Bmith re? mained after adjournment of the meeting to attend the conference of] outh Carolina bankers and firmer.-; whii h was held in New Orleans, July for a further consideration of waya nd means whereby a fair price for cotton could be assured the farmers. Nine of "the ten cotton growing Sates, North Carolina being the ex ? option, v.? re repr< tented by a banker and farmer at this meeting. W. W. tVoodson, a Texas banker, presided at the meeting. Establishment by the government rf n corporation to be known as the Cnib i i i \'.< b Ct I ton ? Joi poratlon, with he power to buy for the account of the United States government such cotton as may be offered for sal? without other available buyers at a III ?! IIIBIII ?H.IW IW II I ? I HITI? !!? II I II price to he fixed by Prcsld ut Wilson, will be recommended bo congresi by a special committee consisting of oiu banker and one cotton producer n at each of the States In the cotton belt io the provision of a resolution so* cepted by ill" con?*< ren o. M- tubers of the committee v i r.- uppoln cd '. ?? mediately. Following Is the Use 0 tip resolution: "Fie ii resolved, That this mo< in; petition the president and the con gross of the United States to ei te n corporation to be known ss the Cnlt ed states Cotton Corporation with power to buy for account of th<- I nit* ed states government such cotton so may be offere 1 for sale without oth? er available buyers at R price to be a< v ?" cd by the pn nt of the L'nlted states. ??That concurn atly therewith ats r.'ingenu nt be made whereby there rhall be Insured to the consumer of cotton fabrics o price consistent with the price of th? raw material, allow? ing" to ihe manufacturer a safe an 1 reasonable return upon bis operationa "That a committee iron; this tectio.t composed of one producer from c cotton growing Stat?- l?e sent to Wash? ington to present this petition urrl take such other steps as ssay be nec* ossary t-> secure ib? consummation oi this plan." Tv/o officials of the federal reaervo bnnk addressed the meeting and na mred the bankers and farmers that the government was In sympathy with their movement and that tho haul< would lend its assistance in ths proposed betterment of marketing conditions. Rpceches and comment during the meeting developed thit there will lively be a crop of 15,099, 000 hnles this year and a surplus of 1,000,000 hr.lcs. Transportation prob? lems that an- likely to bp encoubt r ? d In moving such o large crop were also discussed. The Southern cotton Rtatee* Asso? ciation of Bankers and Farmers arts organised to look after the ecttosj situation In the South In the future. a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution and by-la we. The committee that will go to Washing? ton were instructed to meet at the Will: rd Hotel, .July 17. South Caro Una representatives on the commit? tee were not appointed at the con? ference hut will be designated with ha a few days. TWKI.VK BILM? SS ion ARMY. Washington, July President Wils n fodry tlgred the twolvs bn iion army appropriation bill. ?MMRMamaWnjHMMIMMHMMWNi We Merchandise Copyright Hart Schaffner & Mar? Will You Take our adyice, and let us make you Comfortable? k** ' '/h ,V Try one of our Mohair or Palm Beach S'tits?they are nice and cool. An extra nice assor ment of Negligee Shirts. Underwear that is so thin and comfortable that it makes you forget the hot weather. Ail other accessories iu keeping with the season. - 15he idler C I h s Tome of Hark Schaffner & Marx ( lotlies