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VflL CONFERENCE Slimier County Farmers Adopt Ciemson College Program to Meet Conditions The large attendance of farmers. | ? from all -sections of the county and bankers and merchants and business meja. of this city at the 3oll Weevil Conference held in the Court House Ti&rsday was the most convincing evidence of the intelligent and ear nest interest that all classes of busi nessmen ^re^tak ing in the boll weevil problem and their desire and determ ination -to\ maintain the agricultural j prosperity of this section by the j adoption and practice of methods that! have been proven in other States; to . render profitable farming pos sible despite the ravages of the! weevil. v l The meJeting was conducted by Dis- ! trict Demonstration Agent C. A. Mc Fadden, who briefly stated the pur pose -of these and similar meetings'' that are being held in all the coun ties, in which weevils have appeared. Jle stated thai he had with him sev-; eraX-experts from Ciemson College and they would in turn discuss va rious, phases of the problem arid point cut methods that have been found successful in combating the weevil. ..M. S- McConnell, boll weevil expert, was the first speaker on the program, and--close "attention was given to his remarks. It will take three years said 3Sc: McConnell, for the boll weevil to; reach his maximum injury, its first appearance in this county is reo oned' from late last fail. A severe winter -will minimize the injury jyi 1$24, but a mild winter will enable nhn_ to' cause serious damage even th^jy year. As no one can safely gambleion the weather, the only thing to. do, said Mr. McConnell, is to play the-game safe. The first prerequisite, j he'sf.it. vas to live at home. Anoth er suggestion was that cotton stalks fr?hf~this year's crop be turned under before frost in the fall. This, he said, would .kill many of the weevils, and would destroy his source of food. Mr. McConnell .was' very positive in his warnsng against the use of poison. No poison, he stated, has been dis covered up to ihis time that will do the work. The subject was being in vestigated and due notice would be given^the. farmers by the department. H? warned' farmers against buying any ^listing machine until it had been approved1 by the department of agri cultures The speaker said that it was essential to plant an early variety of cotton, and one also that would }>ro du^e'il^uares late in .the fall. The s^nfareVis the favorite food of the wee- { vUL'^he said. Cotton should be forced to "&n -early maturity. E. .E.. Hall extension division cot ton'.-hr^eder. tiFgedV the use of pure pred. seed of an early maturing vari ety. , It had been found from tests that "on wilt free land the Cleveland bigrfcoil would make best, and that on: -wlit'^nfosted lands the Dixie Tri umph-did well. If long staple cotton werey planted, he urged the use ol TFehkejr-49 or 82." This seed, however, is .scarce. Unless they could be ob tained, he advised against planting long staple. This is no time to plant cottpii j?n poor land, he said. Seed is a most important' factor in successful farming under present conditions and too much care could not be used in their, selection. Iii reply to. a question he said that he advised strongly against the plant ing, of King and Simpkins cotton? these varieties produce full crop prac tically at one time and do not furnish forrisr late in the season to supply fQo? for tne.wcevHs, thus-f orem? <-^~ be safe. He advised early planting, to''attack the bolls and destroy the part o? the crop that would otherwise but warned against too early plant ing before danger of frost killing the crop is. past. He advised planting in three and a half footvvto four foot rows adn then, ten to fourteen inches on the row, with two stalks to the hill. In . regard to fertilization he advised putting at least three-fourths of the fertilizer down before planting and the;haiance as a top dressing early in the season?apply nitrate of soda about the time the plats begin putting on fruit. He does not advise picking up; the forms, unless labor is plenti ful and cheap. The subject of sweet potato plant ing was covered by George E. Prince, extension division horticulturist, who declared at the outset that the way to begin sweet potato planting war by building adequate storage houses a'.ong the lines suggested by Ciemson col v - ftps fel Satisfied By Mail GUARANTEED W SATISFY. Our Catalogue shov/s many of tlie latest, most attractive styles and sues that cannot be secured in the average small town. It also' explains our system of insuring a perfect St, absolute satisfaction j at a saving. ^ Write for Catalog B 27 W* f 9 Livingston ? Son* ( V.? hiMvr no ??flipjrt?; or- br&joich \,torv*'. . ?SS&i Without the storage houses tit crop would amount' to nothing in : commercial way. a.-- buyers would no take banked potatoes for shipping He. cited the experience of J. L I Thonras of Carles, who made a pro-i * j on four acres of potatoes last year o: $1,216.17. Mr: Thomas kept accurat? j I accounts of his expenditures and re ; ceipfs and his figures are on record at Olernson collie. C'-mmumty storage Louse should j be located on the railroad but indi- j vidual bouses would be profitable on the farm if made to hold five hundred to a thousand bushels. He stated that curing the potatoes caused a loss of about ten per cent, in weight; but no appreciable loss in bulk, and as they arc sold by the bushel there was no money loss in curing. Experience, had proven that to make potatoes a profitable and readily marketed crop the people of a county should all plant one variety. The Porto Rico is the most prolific and the most pop ular on the market, therefore the va variety to be preferred in this sec tion. The Nancy Hall is a good po tato but not as profitable as the Por to Rico. Mr. Fred L. Harkey, State Market ing Agent, United * States Depart ment of Agriculture, m?de an inter esting and instructive talk on mar keting. He said that marketing has been and is a question which has been difficult of solution, ?nd many farm ers have been heard to exclaim that it would be to no advantage to plant peanuts, potatoes and, the like, if no { way could be found to sell them at a profit. Mr. Harkey assured the farmers present at the meeting today that .a market could be found pro vided the game was played, right. Southern sweet potatoes were growing, in f?vor in the North, and that. if farmers would offer them in car lots, properly graded and cured, and taken from appoved storage warehouses, he guaranteed the market price for them in almost any quantity. He declaed. that the. farmer must look beyond his local market,- which 'was quickly glut ted. After1 discussing the marketing of sweet potatoes he took up the culture ah*d marketing of peanuts. He said that the peanut industry is still in its infancy. This season they have been selling from $200 to. $225ca ton, and all the crop, practically, is being tak en by shellers; the oil mills being al most out of the market as.-they find that they cannot crush peanuts profi tably when the price exceeds $125 a ton. Nevertheless the peanut is a profitable crop for this section and should have a place in the crop rota tion to he practiced. The production of peanuts averages less than a ton to the acre, although the yield is frequently much greater on good land. Pr.of. Lewis made an interesting talk on live stock and stressed the point that all the crops advocated by the previous speakers were classed as soil robbing crops, as they were tak-j en off the land. Consequently to main tain and increase the productivity of our lands it is absolutely necessary to keep live' stock. Live stock, prop erly managed afforded a money crop and .the. cheapest...means, of markei mg several other' crops - produced oh the farm, while at the;, same time in erasing the fertility of the land. To breed live stock profitably the" farms rn?si- b$ under 'fence- and permanent pastures* m?st be established. t Hogs cannot be raised in. a pen at" a profit, nor can cattle be made to pay their way if they are kept in a lot and fed on concentrates. Grazing must be provided-so"that they can make their own living: Rape, rye, velvet beans, corn and peas furnish profitable grazing crops the greater''part of the year. x Mr. L C. Strauss, as the represen tative of the bankers of Sumter, was requested by Mr. McFadden to dis cuss the question of rural credits, a matter in which all are interested. Mr. Strauss said in subtsance that as a result of the two years of unex ampled prosperity that this section had enjoyed the banks as well as the farmers were in better financial con dition than ever before. The major ity of the farmers have money or have had it?most of the?i have had j sufficient money in these two years to | have paid off J practically all their! debts and leave them a surplus. Asi a result of this condition the bank-J ers woxild, when asked for loans not only ask what the money, would be used, for, but the additional question, j '?What have you done with the money! you have had?" If the answer show ed that the money had been used for farm improvements or wise invest- j ment, then there would be no diffi culty in finding the money to supply the needs of customers, but if the money has been wastefully squander ed then the bankers would have to be very careful in extending credits, for they are merely the custodians of the funds entrusted to them by their cus tomers and stockholders. The banks of Sumter felt that there was no'ne-j cessity for a pr c or undue appre hension by the people of this section. The boll weevil problem could be solved by diversification and intelli gent marketing methods through co operation. The banks are prepared I and will take care of all reasonable needs of their customers and would back them up while they were work ing out a system of farming that <ould preserve and enlarge the prosperity of this section. Mr. McFadden read the Ciemson College boll weevil program and then j appointed a committee to take this program under consideration for amendment or amplification with a I view of having the meeting adopt it. I Hie committee as appointed consisted of farmers and business men, Mr. I. C. Strauss acting as chairman. The committee reported the adoption of j the program with only minor changes land the meeting voted unanimously I to adopt the program as recommend ed as follows: Per plow (25 acres): 7-10 acres cotton; in no case to ex ceed 50 per cent of the land culti vated. X acres corn, beans and peas. :j acres oats and peas. 1 acre sweet potatoes. 1 acre sorghum cane for syrup. 2-5 acres peanuts or tobacco. Garden, Orchards, poultry and bees sufficient to supply each family with the products. ??> ^ i ? ????* -? . Li^stofik. . "i. A sow to ' e?cn plow" and lor ev iiy family a cow. 2. Elimination of all scrub sires in livestock, production. V (.a) Organization of a Bull As sociation; expansion of present asso ciation. - (b) Every farmer to join the Na tional "Better Sires, Better Stock" crusade as quickly as he can qualify. 3. Without the growing on the farm of sufficient feds and pasture crops, no livestock production is pro fitable. 4. Feed steers where possible to run them on velvet bean fields. General. 1. The organization of an associa tion of farmers and other business men to look after the standardization., preparation and marketing of the ad ditional ? money crops recommended ahove for this county. (Where this has not already been done.) 2. The expansion of the State, and national cotton warehouse sys-! terns so as to take, care of the ware house needs in this county. 3. Organization of association for cooperation and expansion of ware house system. 4. That all farmers and business meQ form cotton associations. Hon. R. I. Manning who was call ed on expressed his gratification at the large attendance and the earnest and optimistic spirit of the meeting. He said that from observation in the weevil infested sections, which he had visited, the greatest danger was pan ic and loss of the fighting spirit that can and has won out against the wee vil. He told ? the meeting that the bankers of the State were solidly be hind the farmers and to assist them in quickly and successfully adopting, new crops to supplement the greatly reduced cotton crop. An expert in pea nut and tobacco culture would be as signed to Sumter, Florence and Lee counties to advise and instruct those Who wished to take up these new crops. There was also the- probabil ity that a special agent would be em ployed to work in Sumter county. After the meeting adjourned a large number of bulletins were distributed. Fighting the State Tax Commission. Columbia, Jan. 16.?A bill to re peal the present tax commission act and to create l)oth a State tax com mission and county tr\ commissions, has been prepared by Senator Shelor, of Oconee; and is being introduced in the State senate. The aim of the new bill is to "obtain a fair and equitable assessment of the property of the State for taxation." The county 'tax commissions would each have three members, {or each! county, of the State. The State com mission would have seven members. The county commissioners would be appointed by the governor, with the approval of the senate, one of the three members to serve for one year, one for two years and one for three years. The members would be sub ject to removal at the hands of the governor. All the members would be of different callings. After the, county commissions are formed their chairmen would meet in Columbia^ and electthe Slatc^ commis sion, of seven members, one from each congressional district.' The chair men of the counts' commissions would decide the basis on which property would be assessed. Senator Shelor's bill provides that the State tax commission shall have an office in the city of Columbia. The chairman of the commission Wohld be known as the State Tax Commis sioner." His salary would not exceed $2,500. The secretary of the com mission would receive a salary not in excess of $1,700, according to the new bill. The bill provides that the county tax commissions shall meet the first Tuesday of every March. The cotin ty auditor shall be secretary of the county commission. The hew bill provides for the abo lition of the county boards of asses sors and beards of equalization. The county commissions provides that real estate shall be assessed only in those years when the law requires re turns on real estate, except in case of improvements to property. Appeals from the county commissions would be made to the State tax commission. The bill also provides that the coun ty commissions shall each appoint one canvasser for each county, to ascer tain what property is escaping prop er taxation. Original jurisdiction is with the county commission, under this new bill; appel?te jurisdiction with the State commission. Senator Shelor was one of the op ponents of the tax commission last year, voting in favor,of the bill to re peal the commission. His new bill would abolish the present tax com mission and put original jurisdiction in the hands of the county commis sions. It is stated by legislators that this bill will have to originate with the house. Senator Shelor has no defi nite plans as to when he will have the measure introduced, thouogh its draft has been completed. Farm Loan Association. At the meeting of the Concord Farm Loan Association held on Tues day the 13th at the Concord school house it was decided to amend the charier to include all of Sumter coun ty, and the meetings will hereafter be held at the residence of Mr. T. J. Kirven, the secretary-treasurer of the association. Any one desiring to se cure a loan through th?' association should have his app* cation in the hands of the secretary before Tues day. January 27th, at 3 o'clock. There will be a meeting of this association at that time, and there will be no more meetings of the association af ter that until September These louns urn being made to the farmers at the [rt.te of 5 1-2 per cent interest. I The association was organized in [the spring of 1918 with loans totaling I $37.0GA. M now has loans of $150, ! COO. In The R&oordor's Court. Burgess West forfeited a bond of $3 Tor leaving Car on street without lights. TIONS ORGANIZED Ail the Allied Powers Had Place in the Pieture Except United States Paris. Jan. 16.?The representatives of France, Great Britain, Italy, Greece.! Belgium, Spain, Japan. Rortugal and j Brazil, members of the council of the! League of Nations, met in the French ; foreign office at 10- o'clock this morn- i ing for the first meeting of the j league. The council was organized at 10.30 by electing Leon Bourgeois, chairman and confirming the choice of Sir Eric Drummond, of Great Brit- j tain, as secretary. The first official act I of the council was the appointment of j a commission to trace upon the spot; the frontier of the territory of the; Saare Basin. In Favor of Inheritance Tax. Columbia, Jan. 15.?Go v. Cooper i will send to the legislature within the) next few days a message dealing with j the subject of additional State reve-; hue. It is understood he is consid- ! ering some form of inheritance tax j bill, which he will discuss in his mes- ' sage to the solons. It is understood'; the governor is committed to some ! form of inheritance tax. In his annual message to the legis lature the chief executive stated that within a she-* time he would send I a further mi .tge >n this subject of additional icyenues for the State, and j it is now understood that he is be ginning the^ perparation of this mes sage. It is'* understood that a pro posed draft of the inheritance tax bill has been made and that this will probably be-introduced in one of the legislative branches within the m-xt week cr so. An inheritance tax bill would pro vide a tax on inheritances, based probably on a graduated scale, low for small inheritances and increasing in proportion to the amount of money inherited. The State tax. commission in its an nual report suggested such a tax, and it is understood thf-.t a large number of the legislators are also in favor of it. The Fii*st National Bank. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the First National Bank was held on the 13th inst., at which a large percentage of the stock was represented in person The report 5 of the management showed that the year 1919 was the most successful in the history of its experience. The following direet?rs were elected: Neill O'Donnell, H. D. Barnett, Geo. D. Shore, Archie China, H. N. For ester, Geo. F. Epperson. W. B. Upshur, \ John D. Lee and O. L. Yates. Mr.- IL D. Lee on account of his! health asked to be excused from, fur ther services as a ; member of the board; and his son, Mr. John D. Lee was elected to fill the vacancy caused by ' h\s resignation. We regret that the health of Mr. Lee made it neces sary for him to sever his connection with the bank, as he was one of the most active and attentive members of the hoard. ' Mr. O. L. Yates, the cashier, who has been connected with the bank vine? boyhood was elected a member! of the board. I The vacancy caused by the resigna- j tion of Mr. Lee who was vice presi-j dent has not been filled. Mr. Neill j O'Donnell was reelected president. All of the other officers and employees were continued as follows: O. L. j Yates, cashier: .T. 'W. Kinard, assist ant cashier; rd Doar, Jr., teller; J. E. Brooks, book-keeper; T. M. Monaghan,5* book-keeper and Mrs. Florence B. Walling, collector. In the report of bank elections ; printed yesterday it was stated, by ? j mistake made -in this office, that j Messrs. H. D. Barnett and Geo. D. Shore had been elected vice, presi dents. No election was held for vice j president, this matter being deferred. The Columbia Canal Litigation, j j Columbia, Jan. I?.?The long-1 i pending "Columbia canal case" is j to be tried in Columbia during the i spring, according to report of the ca j nal commission made to the general j I assembly and laid on the desks of the j legislators today. After reviewing the work of the commission during tho \ past several months, the report says: I "A survey and repor.: on the canal j property has been made by the engi | neers, and the commission feels that ! it can reasonably assure your honor able body that the disposition of the litigation in the State courts pertain-4 ing to the present case can be madef at such time durmg the spring terms j of the court of common pleas forj Richland county as in the opinion of.! i counsel is most available." The canal commission also reports I that it hopes to soon complete the in-' vestigation. authorized by an act of J I the legislature of IS 18, of the ar-j ! rangement of the Columbia Railway, I Gas & Electric Co., with the Parr j Shoals company and other power; companies. "We have made such j progress in this connection." says thej report, "as the circumstances permit-! ted. It is possible that this investi gat.ion can be completed and a report! upon the result made to your hon-i orable body at an early date." The legislature of 1!>10 appropriat ed ten thousand dollars for the canal j j commission. The report to the leg- : islature shows that of -his amount all! but $1.503.73 has been spent. The largest expenditures of the commis-; sion have been attorneys fees, the re-j port showing that $2,450 has been; paid to J. Fr?ser Lyon and $2.400 to ? V. L. Xhney, assistant counsels, and j engineers fees, the commission hav-! ling paid $2.500 to the Ludlow engi- j i neers for their recent survey of the property. An audit cost $317 and the I other expenses were per diem costs I and office expenditures. Brunswick. Gal, Jan 17.?Mrs. Wil liam "Rockefeller, wife of the New: York financier, died today at JekyI i Island, her winter heme. ? REGINALD 'DE-..... KOVEN DEAD Famous American Composer Stricken With Apo plexy Chicago, Jan. ltJ.? Reginald De-; koven, the American operatic compos- I er and conductor, died here early to- I day of apoplexy. He was born in Middletown, Conn., in 1861. STATE FINANCES j Startling Recommendations Ex ? i pected From .Budget Commission Columbia, Jan. 15.?Startling rec-j ommenclations with regard to State j finances are expected to come with; the report of the budget commission j which will be laid on the desks of i j the South Carolina legislators within j ; the next few days. It is understood j the commission will suggest the cut-j ; ting* oft* of many appropriations that J have been regarded as essential in ; past years and that several state de- j ! partments will be abolished if the re-! j port of the commission is adopted. Governor Cooper gave some prophe- j cy of the budget commission's finan cial program for 1920 when he stated I to the general assembly, in a side re j mark during the delivery of his mes sage, that the budget commission was ! recommending a million dollars for j public school purposes. The governor stated in this connection that thisi million would be used in carrying oUt| j the aaffirs of the department of edu I cation, but without providing any in- I ! crease in teachers* salaries. It is un- j derstood the budget commission will j j urge larger appropriations for teach- \ j ers' salaries. j NO MUTINY AT TOULON j Report of Revolt By French i Troops Denied j Paris, Jan. . l<f.?Reports that French naval forces and troops at Toulon have mutinied has not been confirmed and nothing relative to dis orders is there kno\xn at Marseilles. BOLSHEVIKS CAP TURE ODESSA I - ! Lenine's Army Has Taken Pos j session of Black Sea Port j Basle, Jan. 1C.?Odessa, the chief j port of Russia on' the Black Sea has been occupied by the Bolsheviki, ac cording to newspaper dispatches re- J ceived here. I Washington, Jan. 16.?United States marines and Haitien genderamie yes terday repelled- an attack on Port Prince. Haitien capital, by three hundred bandits, more than half of whom were killed, wounded or cap tured. Two marines were wounded. | Sure. Physicians and Druggists arc advis ing their friends to keep their systems purified and their organs in perfect working order as a protection against . the return of influenza. They know that a clogged up system and a lazy liver favor colds, influenza and serious complications. To cut short a cold overnight and tov prevent serious complications take one Calotab at hedtiuie with a swallow of water?that *s all. No salts, no nausea, no griping, no sickening after effects. Next morning your cold has vanished, your "liver is active, your system is puri ?iec7 and refreshed and you are feeling Sne with a hearty appetite for break fast. Eat what you please?no danger. Ca:orabs are sold only in original ^r-aied packages, price thirty-five cents. Every druggist is authorized, to refund vour iaiohey if yon are not perfectly iieoarhted with Cafotabs ? (Adv.) SINN FEINERS ARE ELECTED Seventy-five Per Cent of Their Candidates Win Dublin, Jan. 17.?Returns from the municipal elections show 'that gener ally, except in northern Ireland,, ap*v proximately seventy-five per cent of the candidates supported by1 the Sinn Fein and labor elements wer succss ful. A SPICY DEATH Three Firemen Are Killed in Cincinnati Cincinnati, Jan. 17.?Three firemen were killed and a score of persons in jured when an explosion blew out the' wall of the Newton Spice Company's building, during a fire this morning causing aUoss of a hundred thousand - dollars. Marriage Licenses. White Georgie Kricece of Bates burg and Sibb Davis, Sumter. Colored: ' Bell Richburg of Hora tio and Essie Ellington, Rembert. Charlie Franklin, Lynchburg and Mary Andrews, of Elliott. Paris, Jan. 16.?So far onTy forty three persons of the four hundred and seventy-fourt on board the steamer Afrique, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay last week are known to have escaped. The National Bank of South Carolina of Sumter, S. C. Resources $2,500,000. Strong and Progressive Tl?e Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU C. G. ROWLAND, President EARLE ROWLAND, Asst. Cashier H. L. M'COY W. Y. YEADON NFJLL G'DONNELL, President ^ . ' ?% ? -r <X Ii. YATES. Oa?otf?r 1002 New Accounts for 1919 This is a record of which we feel very proud. We hope to increase this for 1020. and judging by the way they are coming in so far we will, but we are very reasonable folks and if our friends only do as well by us as they did last year, we will say, '"Thank you." The First National Bank SUMTER, & C.