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Demand Lower Railroad Rates Senators. Believe Thisf Would j Be Aid to Business Washington. Jan. 1.8.?Demands for reduced railroad rates; both freight and passenger, were made , by several senators today when de bare was begun on the bill of Sena- i tor Watson, Republican. Indiana, toj order the railroads fo? issve^inter- j changeable mileage books in 5,-j 0#-mile lots at- 2 l-2c per mile.* * Reduced rates would ? stimulate j .traffic and increase railroad reve-j noc. Senator Cumm'ns. Republican. | Iowa, chairman of the senate inter-j state commerce committee', assert- j ?d. Rate reductions .were hoped .for, he added, as a result of the) present rate mquiry of- fhfc Inter- j state Commerce- Commission. Present^rato levels. Senator Rob inson,, Democrat, Arkansas, ^said. had not only obstructed commerce, but m hundreds of -cases had ac tually stopped business. The inter changeable niileage book plan, he! , added, -would increase passenger j tra*rfiic and fill cars which the rail- j roads; he declared, now carry half j ?^pty- r - Senator Robinson spoke at length j *n support of the interchangeable mileage-book bill, which has, been t itrged by many organizations of ; traveling - men- and commercial bedTcs. ; - "5he bill was opposed by-Senator Cummins, who offered a substitute authorizing the Interstate Com meice Commission to order mile age books at a rate which would be fair and compensatory. Congress could not say. he as sorted, whether the proposed rate ? v/*. r l-2*c a mile would be fair. He a;: o was trespassing on state riprhtsi he argued,? in proposing to' fix a rate for infrastate travel. * Senator Robinson proposed that the "mileage books he issued m 2, 0#0 instead of 5.0^0-mile books. ?;,:> Garden Suggestions English, peas should ? be planted j during January just as soon as the soil will permit. ?Thomas Laxten, ? -Alaska, tlorseford's ?larket Gar .den, and Telephone . are excellent varieties. Laxt?n a?d Alaska are gai-iy varieties, and the Telephone late. The seed should be sown thickly jn the drill in rov?s three feet xvide, and covered 5 to 6 inches deep. . : ?m The hotbed -should be prepared j /now ? for sowing tomatoes, egg>j phrnt. and' pepper Seed. Ir is not ] necessary to sow the seeds before j the last of January, but it is well I t?.? prepare the frame and have; everything ready at planting time, j If the' hotbed is prepared- now cabbage and cauliflower seed may be first "sown 'and when the plants /?arc -reratoved to the cold frame* in late February-, the bed may then \ be u^ed for sorting tender plants ? ?tfcb :&s tomato. poppt?,.--and egg-! plants.' Snowball is one of the best! tarieties of cauliflower. Stone is | ??e of the standard varieties of ] tomatoes, xew York Bu~pie is an ! ? excellent variety of egg plant! Sweet peas may ? be planted { throughout January. Sweet peas i planted in the early spring seldom j give satisfactory results. In t::e South- they may be planted- any time after Xovember 15. it is best to prepare a trench and fertilize Siberatly, and then open a furrow ?ix 'inches deep and sow the seed thickly. ? ? -Raspberries do well in the* Pied* znont region- of- South Carolina, j vrhen planted on rich Soil on a' r.erlhcrn exposure or when planted ! on the north siae of, a fence or ! buildkgsg. - . .? ? ? ? Oxford TnirersHry Has Bolshevist I Student. . -Oxford. Eng:. Dec. -50.?Arthur J E. Reade. a' 20-year-old student of I Worcester College, has ijecn "s^nt ; down." otherwise removed, from j Cocford university" by the vice chan cellor and ? proctors for editing a j revolutionary newpaper. , Young Reade came to Oxford from Eton, the most fashionable public school in England last year' and set forth his advanced views ill ! "Free Oxford, A Communist Jour nal Of You'h." an inter-university paper. Charles IT. Cray, his associate' c?litoF, has been "sent down" for J two terms. A general young giant. Keade ; publicly proclaims his admiration for Lemae <md his fath in the dic tatorship- of the proletariat. He" gloried ''in tin- admission that his j paper- preached sedition. " One Of ! the - offending paragraphs stated that '"the bourgeoisie would be of-j fwed the alternative of surrender! or extermination." and that "the i destruction of a few would terrae? ize the rest into surrender." The Oxford university authorities ; believe that Rorshevisf propa- J ganda among the English youth is j becoming a menace. Leonid frjrassin, the Soviet trade ; e;*voy tried recently to deliver an j address in : connection with the | Russian famine relief in the hall j of the Union, the famous Oxf<frd | debating society, but permission to j use the hall was refused. and ? Krassin delivered his speech in an j assembly room belonging to the Society of Friends, admission to i which was only gained by running the gauntlet of an'uproarous crowd of non-supporters. -? # ? Royal Kxiles in Maderia Well v Treated. Punchel, Maderia. Dec. 25.? j 1'cople'of this city are extremely; cordial t'> the foj-mer Emperor Charles and the former Empress j Zita of Austria Hungary who have been exiled here. They have vied i with one another in offering their residences, lands and motor cars t<4 the formerly royal couple. ' The peasants offer flowers to Zita wherever she goes and she of ten r'-turhs to the villa. Victoria, their home with her arms filled With floral gifts. Charles goes t<r church every morning carrying his Prayer liook j and rosary, s. Picric Aicid For Carolina Farmers First Gar Now Being Distrib uted ' Clemson College. Jan. 14.?The first ear of free government picric acid secured for and distributed to farmers of the state by the Ex tension Service is now being dis tributed from Columbia. The car consists of 17.000 pounds of acid and was ordered for about 30 farm ers at a cost of only $10.75 per hundred pound? plus the - local freight from Columbia to the point of local delivery.? This represents the cost of preparlng.?the bulk acid in cartridge form and the'cost of freight from the supply point in .Wisconsin, the U. S. Government malting no charge for the acid if wanted by farmers for agricultural purposes. Other iiivi?iries are now being received at Extension Service head quarters, and should sufficient re auests lioni farmers be- received through county agents, other cars can be ordered. However, the ship ments would have to. come now from 41 supply point hi Arizona and the freight from that point would make the total cost about' 312.75 per hundred pounds delivered to Columbia. But even at this figure picric acid is much cheaper than .dynamite., and farmers who .need explosives for stump blast ing and other work would do* well to see their county agents and have them write C. M. Hall. Extension Service. ^Clemson College. S. C, about the matter.' ' ? -?>. ? ? ? Stalling the Flower Garden. Sowing of. annual/ should begin this month. Also many of the perennials should be given an early start. Ahnuals to be sown now are alyssyum. phlox, ppppies. pansies, candytuft, sweet peas, pinks, lark spars, lobelias, mignonette and oth ers. Hollyhocks, foxgloves, the dusty miller, cinerarias and centaureas shonld be put into the ground. This will give all these a chance to be | eome well established before the ' warmer weather arrives. Most annuals should be sown where they are to remain and there fore* should be planted thinly and thinned to the required distances. Transplanting directions for northern gardens are not a safe : guide for the warmer portions of the soutl/ which are now getting in their annuals because they do not. stand transplanting in this cli mate as they do hi the colder spring iveather of the north. / The annual offering- cf annuals fn Che seed catalogues grows more alluring each year and this year's ; lists have some unusually attractive j varieties. Improvements in tne ; ?ize and color and1 habit of growth j are ? nothing short of marvelous , and some of the old favorites are hardly recognizable in their mod ern garb: ? The Shirley poppies offer a beau tiful example. A new "series of sal ! mon shades of these ;silky flowers is particularly delicate and^beau ! t'iful. A hewer developmentvis a [ series of mauve shades; although this Section will stand considerable development it is a comparatively new break in color and one usual ly associated with the more stal wart opium poppies. ? Gorgeous colored pinks; daz zling zmnais, wonderful giants in j the petunia race as well as great j improvement in the smaller flow j ered bedding varieties are shown. I In fact, m Vorder to have a gor j geous spring showing- one may [merely look over the catalogues j and select the old favorites with ; trith their gorgeous and delicate j newer colorings. The okl race for novelties has given way to a saner era in th* s&ed trade and novelties now have a thorough American , test before they are offered and are [a much safer investment than when [ we were flooded with untested Eu j rope novelties. . Lime-Sulphur Spray, [ Clemson College. Jan. 17.?Ke i quests have conic to us for assist lance :n constructing lime-sulphur [steam boiling plants, savs Prof. A. IF. Conradi. entomologist, who re [ minds orchardists that Circular 30 ^of the South Carolina Experiment [statiou gives fiHl directions for con ! structmg the boiling plant and also j for boiling the spray. These diree itions are accompanied byi^a cut on j the front of the circular which Jean be followed intelligently by [anyone desiring to build a steam j boilmg outfit. After the boiler has I once been provided for. any intel j Iigent person can easily construct I the steam boiling outfit without lajty personal assistance whatever. 'The circular above referred to also givfs directions for boiling the spray over tire. It may be added that when ever t^.e sulphur is made into a paste and all lumps broken up before adding to the boiling bar rel, the finishing spray will give a higher test. '.Vhere steam is used it is advantageous to*have an ex tra steam lirie to heat the water before adding it to the boiling barrel after the slacking is over. Cifculai 25 of the Extension ser vice gives directions for winter and Summer sprays for insects and diseases, and this circular should be kept h?ndy by ;tll fruit grow ers. .Wiv Cso for '. vger Prints. Patis. De?-. 26. The linger print system has be? n adopted by a leading dressmaker <?f Paris to pre vent h?-r customers from copying her models ntf selling them. Ev ery model jjial she produces will hereafter bear her signature, her finger print and a number that will enable the mode] to !,?. traced to the person who purchased it. -? m> ? Gradually i? .-ill the romance ^<> irig out of country life. We almost shed fears to read the old home paper and find folks who used go ''visitin over Sunday" are spend ing ''week-ends."?Schncctady Ga zette. ? ha\v Enforcement and Moosinning ! Lee County Man Compliments i Officers of Sumter and Richland Counties Sumter Daily Item: It is indeed gratifying to read in the columns of your paper almost ! every week where the officers of The law have captured another whiskey still in Suinter county, j One cannot help hut feel that I the sheriff and his men are doing everything in their power to stamp lout one of the most hellish and damnable machines that was ever manufactured for the use of man j kind. j It either speaks ba3 for Sumter and -Richland counties by being tantilized by such law breakers or it- speaks well for the rural officers, for it seems by all newspaper re ports that these two counties are capturing more' stills than any other counties in the state. If the remaining counties of the state would follow these two that are working to stamp the liqUor out and bring to court the lawbreakers of this nature, there would Soon "come a time when the vfhiskey dealer would have to look to other means of'making a living, and the Consumer would either do without or go to another state for it. Speaking from actual experience. I know that the officers have a time trying to#catch the whiskey dealers? for there arc so many peo ple that will, and arc waiting to give him a tip that the officer is near. ^ On one occasion 1 was with a i raiding party that captured a still fand the ownca\ After placing the man in jail he was soon asking to put up bond which was granted. Not more than two days afterwards I was talking with this same man and he told me that in less than j two hours after he was jailed, there was at least half dozen men of the town that were ready to put up bond^ for him, and even after being out on bond, they went to his j home after night and tried to get I him. to leave, offering to take him away ir*their automobile to a near by town to catchKa train, and to j furnish' him money to get away on. i N-Xow this is why I say that it is hard for the officers to catch these ;' kind of lawbreakers. When the' men of a town (I mean some of the so-called good folks) will of- i fer to assist these law breakers to evade the officers, and if they are \ caught, why just send word to one i of his customers and he is ready to spend his money to save him a 1 chaingang sentence. I trust that the day is near at ! hand when every citizen will awaken to the sense of the' duty j j and help stamp out whiskey. i 1 guess that you are wondering [why I am speaking this particular I way in behalf of Sumter county. LWeH, to enlighten you I will say. tthat it ? is my home county, and' ; naturally tfeel proud of it, and its [ officers in the way they are dis charging their duties as officers of 'the law. j Some day I expect to go back to . j my home in Sumte" v ? ur.ty to live, and I hope and trust mat my chil- . dren will be able to say after they j are grown up that they never saw a ' drop of whiskey that was manu factured in our county. And there is only one way to do this, and that is for every citizen to refuse to buy this stuff and turn j the man up to the law that offers I j it for sale, and for the courts to I impose such a sentence that when I he or they are. free after serving said sentence would be afraid to ever attempt such again. Here is hoping that fate will be indeed kind to the sheriffs and the rural forces in bringing these law breakers to courts, for which crime, if convicted will not get less titan one year on the county chain- i gang, regardless of color or social standing. ?Thanking you for allowing mc this space^in your columns to ex-| press myself about the whiskey i dealers, ami if Ihne arc those that resent my statement they will find be in Bishop ville. or they can send ' me a line by mail, Box Xo. 343. C. W. MELLETTE. Uishopville, Jan. L'o. >Hole 200,400 Francs. Paris. Dec. 28.? Detectives have just dug?ip 360.000 francs, plunder of a clerk of tin- Hank of France who hid it in four preserve jars and ?buried them in different spots! in the Park of Versailles in this city. The detectives say thai Armand (IrenefTa former army aviator and Knight of the Legion of" Honor, admitted that he embezzled 400. 000 francs fuoni the lank, kept 40.000 of them and hid the rest in the jam jars. He fled to Brussels where he was arrested with I4."im? francs in his psosession. He revealed the hid ing'places of th<- jars containing the other 360,0000 francs. British Women Migrating. London. Dec. ?'!".?General Bramwell Booth has just announ ced that i!i<- Salvation Army in tends almosi immediately to put into operation a scheme Cor the early transfer of 10.000 British wo men to the Dominions. Everyone; of them will i>r going to assured employment. -? 4 ? Buenos Aires. Dec. IT. One hun dred Russian Jewish orphans iron; the ITkraine. whose parents were victims of war conditions. have ar rived here. A committee represent ing the J< wish community p?*o p'oses to find them homes in agri cultural districts. All the children are under I '?'< years of age and ?p pear to i-<- healthy, vivacious youngsters, completely recovered from the privations they have un lergone: There isn't an ;ers if do'? uariue. y safetly in hum? ???n*i apply to sub-i A Champ's Champ Family These are the children of Joe Ruddy: once a nationally known all around athlete. He acquired over 1000 prizes in sport competition. All his children are athletic. Left to right. Joe, Jr..?11; Mary. 0; Ray, 8; Don. 5, and Dot. 3. They arc wearing the insignia of the New York 'Athletic Club. Smith's Sister His Trainer Midget Smith says he owes much of his success in the prizefight ring to his sister. Vera. She cooks his meals, supervises his training and sometimes puts on the flaitts with him. Smith recently conquereed Pete Herman, former bantamweight champion.. v This would give most anyone a chili whelh r v-. sid< n: of Chile or the United States. It's the "leap of death" in which Fasward. a Yank ^daredevil, flies through space, hu. path obscured by dense smoke. A*Coasting Aviatrix Bertha Rhinehardt. champion sKd coaster of Switzerland, literally Hies on her litt!? sled?an.I she wears an aviator's helmet. Here she ic Kitting after a k-ng pull up ??:i*:m Ah>j coasting irac-k. Farm Federa tion Program Atlanta Plan to Be Submitted to Convention Washington. .Tan. 17.?Tin- pro : gram which the American farm ' bureau federation will submit to the national agricultural conference when it convenes here next week will call for early enactment by congress of laws "clearly defining the rights of the farmers to mar ket their products co-operatively." In making this announcement to day, the bureau said their economic and legislative proposals would be ; based upon the plan adopted at the recent annual convention in At lanta. (Ja. At the same time, it was i said, information which the de i partment of agriculture is collect ing on farm tenantry and other ] problems will be made available I to the delegates. The farm bureau federation said i it "would urge the conference to ; indorse a recommendation that all I appointments on federal boards ! and committees "be made so that j the interest of agriculture shall be 1 protected and conserved." Relief of the farmers* financial ; situation will be urged through a plan, which it will be suggested that ... congress enact, for long time e^ed ilts, commodity financing based" up j on warehouse receipts. personal: ? rural credits secured by proper in- j j suranee features, and the creation J ; of machinery that will allow co j operative systems to obtain mon- j cy directly. j The transportation policy will j suggest immediate reductions inj i freight rates, all savings in operal- \ \ ing costs to be reflected in further rate reductions until the entire | ? increase of August 29, 1920, is! i wiped out and repeal or amend- i ! ment of the Adamson law so as to nullify the national agreements.; j "The conference will also be asked! i to declare for the repeal or; amendment of the Esch-Cummins ? j law so as to abrogate the guar [ ran tee clause, restore to the states' ' jurisdiction in intrastate rates, vi 1 talize the railroad labor board and coordinate wage-making powers j with the rate-making power of the j interstate commerce commission. The program, it was said, prob- j ' ably would urge development of ?the Muscle Shoals nitrate water power project, "as an essential measure in securing the preserva- J . tion of our soil resources as well as fan essenstial to the full develop . ment of the industrial and trans- ' j portation facilities of the nation." ! The conference will further be j I asked by the federation delegates j ; to indorse a resolution adopted at i j the Atlanta convention which urged I ' congress 10 enact the export grain j ; feature of the so-called "farmers' ! relief bill," providing that the war j j finance corporation be empowered to make advances to foreign pur ! chasers of America's surplus agri- j ; cultural products. Thi, resolution j [contained the provision that ^ho j money so advanced should be ex- .' rponded outside the United States; and that every such advance be I secured by adequate security. Ex- j : tension of the statistical work of | 'the department of agriculture and; J sending of agricultural attaches to foreign countries will also be j urged. ? Among other things the federa- j ' tion will urge, it'was declared, will i j $>'( "the condemnation of the Pitts-j I burgh plus principle which adds a | fictitious freight rate to the- price j j of steel: the necessity for the truth 1 in fabric legislation; the need fpr'aj ! law preventing the sale of filled j : milk: the adoption of uniform and i I standard grades of agricultural products and similar proposals: ; aimed at the immediate relief of! American agriculture." . Color Scheme for Flowers. Study and planning for garden ef- j . fects form the latest and most ad- j j mirable development in the> art of j flower gardening with a Corres-f : ponding increase in beauty in a j majority of our gardens" One chief factor in this development is the i fact that a bed of one variety gives j a much finer, more striking and I beautiful effect than the old style j of mixed planting. A bed of sear- | let or of crimson or yellow snap- j ? dragons, for instance gives more than double the value in beauty ] i than the spotty effect of a mixed j bed. Then, too. the blending or i contrasting of good sized groups; of single colors has added greatly. In snapdragons, foV instance, the j ; introduction of many new and | i beautiful salmon. fawn. orange and flame shades gives opportunity for beautifula effects in grading j , colonies of separate varieties one i j into the other' . v ' The same is true of sweet peas, j larkspurs, and in fact of almost ; all of the plant annuals. A hedge of a scarlet or lavender . sweet pea gives a gorgeous effect while that of a mixed hedge of the i same size is not impressive until one gets close enough to look at \ < the flowers individually, one at tracting the eye from the other. Try a bed of a single variety this j year by way of experiment and j note the difference in decorative! value particularly from a distance I where a mixed planting shows nothing to hold the attention. A row of sweet peas, beginning i with :i scarlet, followed l>y a white or pale shade and then a good lav- j ender or purple shows the possi bilities of good sized quantities of j a single color in combination with one another. A bed of tin- lustrous carmine larkspur by itself gives an > effect thai makes this old-fashioned an-j tiual look almost like a newcomer and the same is true of the vivid hhn-s in t Iii?; sa the plant. Try one-colored beds or groups ; liiis year and your garden will be j greatly enhanced in beauty. Well, if the Shipping Hoard man- , ages to sell .mm. perhaps the public ! Won't have to shell out an\ more. ? Hootch-hounds are barking at ! lie -moonshine. Shall We Plant | Cotton This Year, 1922? j Ves. if we have, and are mak- | ing. proper preparation. No. rT. nothing has been done. We cannol . go on as we have in the pasl and begin plowing about the first oi February and make a-crop of cot ton. The best crop of cotton in Sumter county last year vr?b? mad*- j in and around MayesvHle. and | from the preparation' that is being , made, they are going to make the j best cotton in the county this year. They are making the best prepara- j tion. If you listen to all of the; advice that will be given you on 1 how to grow cotton in spite of the! boll weevil and try to follow up j the advice you 'will not get any where. The nitrate of soda people arc getting out propaganda that you should use two hundred pounds of nitrate of soda to make cotton j under boll weevil conditions. The phosphate people will tell you that ; you must imder all circumstances use an excess of phosphoric acid. The potash handlers will tell you that your soil is badly in need o? potash to keep the plant green until frost so that the weevils will continue <o have forms to eat so he will not turn back and eat your ! mature bolls. There is only one way to grow cotton under boll-weevil conditions and that is (o grow it so that if you do not" make any you still will ! be aide to have plenty to cat for j both man and beast and a small j surplus of all the common crops} that we have been growing in the ; past. Yes. the edges, ditch b?nk?, j hedgerows, and all of the hiber- j nating places of the weevil will Have to be cleaned up. The cotton j land should be thoroughly prepar-j ed by the first of March so that j we may be able to got a rain on | the cotton beds before planting. ' All of the experiment stations say I leave the cotton thick in the drill and lay off the rows /wide apart, ? that is wide enough until you can ! work the cotton late and so the i sun can shine in between the rows. | With all of the rain we had last j year it did not seem to me that thick spacing was best for us in j Sumter county, last year, but there | is such a preponderance of evi- j dence in favor of the thick spacing j that 1 suppose that it is best under normal seasons. What seed will you plant? Here comes in a fellow and tells you that you should plant some costly variety that ho has for sale. All j of the evidence or the vast ma jority of evidence is in favor of the Cleveland Big Boll for short cot ton and the Dixie' Triumph for wiltMrffcsted land. We have plenty ; of these seed in the county and j they should be obtainable at not j more than a dollar and a quarter I a. bushel, considering the price of j seed for oil mill purposes. The; Webber 49 and the Deltatype Web- ' ber are two good staple cottons.! The Lightning Express is claimed j to be an extra early and good j staple cotton, but the seed are very scarce and very high, so that I j think we had better stick to the re- j liable brands that arc reasonable in price. Some farmers tell me that 'they I will grow cotton th1s<year without ! fertilizer. I think that this would be a mistake, for fertilizers hasten the maturity of the cotton and we should not attempt to grow cotton entirely without fertilizers. On the other hand we should not listen to those who are selling fertilizers or wUose salaries are paid by the fertilizer companies; when they ad vise us to use large amounts of costly fertilizer. There is a happy j medium, and about five hundred j pounds of a good variety is ^nough j to risk. 1 believe that five huu- j drde'pounds of fertilizer last year! gave better results than a thousand! pounds and where there is a gootl j chance of losing, I think that it is] time to be conservative. Shall we use poison? Yes, those; who can afford to experiment. I i i am still convinced that the ase of] poison for boll weevils is still in the! experimental stage. Those who sell! the poison teil us that if we have'uj long wet spell just when the cot-} ton is maturing as we hud last year! that we cahnOt get good results from tile use of poison and they tell us that if we have dry weath er we can make cotton in spite of the boll weevils. As a general] proposition I think that we shall! have to depend upon, rapid eulti-j vation after thorough preparation, picking weevils and forms when ? it does not cost too much. The dairy cow has always done her part in pulling the farmers; through in lighting the boll weevil, i The Sumter Creamery offers a good opportunity for the farmers of this counts to begin to convert, their rough feeds and corn into butteriat and to use their skim milk in feeding calves, pigs, and poultry. I hear a great many farmers com-! plaining that they cannot sell their! corn aVid hay at a living price. Since! these feeds are cheap, they should! be fed into cattle and hogs. Thtre ; is already a number of large herds! of hogs in Sumter county. In thei past three weeks I have helped double treat as many as twelve herds of hogs that averaged around i fifty head each and quite a number of smaller herds. There will be hundreds of acres] of truck planted. Some will make ' money and some will lose money. It is a survival of the fittest when reverses come in farming just as' it is with nations when they stake their all in battle. Some farmers who deserve to succeed may fail, while others may succeed as it were by just luck, but as a general rule, almost any business man can, go over the farms of the county and predict very closely those who! will come through with colors] flying and those who will fall by] the wayside. Those who will fail will be complaining about lousy mangy hogs and wanting to change their breed. They will have their! stock out in the weather and farming implements likewise not' housed Their fruit tree.- will be dying from scale and borers. They; i have no winter garden.-a-nd the cow is probabiy not giving:-nrrik. Tho conversation will about some low down banker or man of finan cial affairs who h,a* ..asked them about paying interest on a note during such times as these, et$. The poultry will be, boosting in trees' and no green food will be growing where . chickens can feed upon same. VVe are going to. grow cotton in Sumter county this year and in all tin- years to come.jbuf- to those who depend entirely upon it there are turbulent times aheacjN Let us meet the issue squarely, and five years from now be "erecting a monument to the co*ming of the boll weevil. J. FRANK. WILLIAMS. County A.tjcnt. Lsscutials of .Dairy Farming. Clemson College. Jan. 17.?The important essentials of dairy farm ing are cows. feed_le4uipment, and the man. says I. R. Jones, assistant dairyman of Clentsoiu'College, in discussing the fundamentals of dairy farming, which, is now at tracting increased attention in this state. Cnless these four essentials are given proper attention dairy farming is not likely to prove suc cessful. 1. The cows on a succesful dairy farm must be" producers and not boarders. A dairy ccAr has one purpose, which is to produce, and this the cows of. the recognized dairyb reeds do more profitably. If the cost of feed pasture, and labor of scrub cattle were carefully de termined and compared with the value of the milk and butter-fat produced it would, undoubtedly show a definite loss.'"'It is essential therefore that the dairy farmer se lect one breed and stick to'it, using a purebred sire, and [grading up the-herd by raising the best heifer calves and culling rigidly the poorer animals. f- 1 2. The feeds as. far'as possible should be home-grown. This means growing silage, either corn or sor ghunC and legume hafy.' and pro viding pastures, grain'-and soiling crops. The rations should he prop erly balanced. Plenty of. pure wa ter is also important. ? 3. For economical" ^production the dairy equipment should be up to-date. Barns shOjUWk.be modern so that the animals, can. be well housed. Milk houses, silos, ma chinery, fences, are other essential equipment for successful dairy farming. - ?? 4. The dairyman himself should be a man of untiring energy and not afraid of work;] He must be ac tive in growing feed as well as in feeding it. He should be a good judge of cattle in oriler to buy and sell wisely. Ho should "know the cmomno diseases and ailments, of cattle an<"{ be able ? and willing to treat them. He must, know the value of sanitation around the dairy. He must learn to advertise his cows until streit'^me* as they will advertise themselves. In sh^ri. then, the dairyman..must be a wide awake business man. as well as have knowledge ?f: dairy eattle. feeds and ? feeding,- etc.. and he must always be willing.to. learh. Was Landru a Master German Spy?', # j Paris. Dec. 29.?The ? *dea that t Henri D. Landru may have been a I master spy who employed as his 1 agents the 10 women he is convict led of murdering has* been' advanc J ed by Henri Javal, a' member of the ; Paris bar. -?. ? I This-suggestion is advanced in an* [effort to account for the fact tha? [no direct evidence of fhe murders i was brought out at Landru's trial, i The absence of this evidence has 'caused a feeling of uncertair'- by most Parisiens in regard to this mysterious case and numerous at ! tempts have been made'to solve the ' mystery on some otheir basis than murder. Developing his theory, Maitre J?val sayS: "Eleven persons'. 10 fiancees and the son Gf one of;them, have dis appeared. Landau , alone knows what has become of them, and he says nothing. By his^sflencc he. puts his head at stake. This can only mean that the truth, were it known, would be as, fatal for him. But. the whole affair takes on an other complexion if wfc imagine, for the sake of argument, that his vic tims were his accomplices in crime, and that crime espionage. "Let us suppose,".he continues, "that during the war Landru was a Herman spy-recruiting agent. He prefers to work through women. At once this explains his-mcetiugs. sometimes h\ve in the- same day. wit It hundreds of women, of whom x I he chooses only a few, and those : few without friends' or relatives j who might be surprised af their ? long absence. lie-fences a lonely j villa as far from other habitations j as possible where he oafc receive : them. There he fabricates false identify papers for: them, keeping their own, and semis them forth on their missions of .treason. Ar rested. Landru says .nothing, and his "victims" naturally do not break silence. f ?? i ? - "Can you imagine, by any other hypothesis." Maitre. .Javal con cludes, "why so carefofc calculat ing a criminal as Landru should burn the bodies of his victims with great difficulty and yet neglect to throw into the all-consuming dames such damaging evidence as their identity papers? "And does not this, theory ex plain why he should keep, such an incriminating document as the diary, in which reference to. his victims is made by-initials other than their own? He-.needed Their Identity papers and the entries in his diary to showto those who em ployed him as a reefpiter of spies." Von ?an always estimate the length of time the. wife has been away by cotmring the,empty sar dine cans about the' premises. Japan wants it understood that she isn't a dominion of the Pa cific, she has dominion Of the Pacifh.