TOBACCO MARKETING Open Forum for Expres sions for or Against Co operative Marketing. NORTH CAROLINA TOWNS SIGNS UP WITH ASSOCIATION Kinston, Rocky Mount, Farmville and Vancoboro, among the last to bar doors against co-operative marketing signed up warehouses with the To bacco Growers Co-operative Associa tion in last weeks campaign which was the most remarkable series of meetings ever attended by tobacco farmers in Eastern North Carolina. The enthusiasm of 25,000 farmers who attended over 30 crowded meet ings in a dozen Eastern counties of the State, turned the campaign into a crusade. The crusade is rapidly de veloping into a landslide on which thousands of new growers and a num ber of warehouses have already come into the Tobacco Growers Co-opera tive Association. "You will be able to raise more on your advance payment and the as signment of your tobacco than you have ever dreamed you could get out of tobacco." Aaron- Sapiro told the thousands of farmers in Eastern Caro lina who hailed him as the prophet of co-operative marketing in the five macmoth mass meetings which broke all records for attendance and filled theatres, warehouses and courthouses to over flowing in Washington, New Bern, Farmville, Kinston and Golds boro last week. The California leader of Co-opera tive Marketing Associations who rep resents 500,000 organized farmers and 60 associations with annual business of four hundred million dollars, made the prophecy that tobacco farmers of North Carolina would be able to raise more from their advance payment and the loan value of their partici pation receipt than they got on their entire crop last year. "Neither the outsider nor the in sider would have gotten any decent prices for burley tobacco in Kentucky if the Association had not been or ganized this last year," said Sapiro: I want to tell you that the growers in Kentucky the year preceding got an average of 8 to 11 cents a pound for burley tobacco. The growers in the association (in Kentucky) this year will average 25 cents a pound net" declared the little Californian who called those speculators cowards, who circulated signed and unsigned pam phlets against co-operative marketing but feared to meet him face to face with arguments against this move ment of the farmers. Speculators and warehousemen who were hostile to co-operative mar |Sale on United Iour friends have retire 32x3%/ Plain Tread 33x4 Plain Tread 32x3% Chain Trend 32x4 Chain Tread . 32N4 -Chain Tread 34x4 Chain Tread . 34x4% Chain Tread USCO, Chain, and Nobby teed by U. S. 'I J.H. Mc 202 South Main Street EAGLE "MIKADO"A IiFor Sale at your Dealer fi ASK FOR THE YELLOW P Jj EAGLE I EAGLE PENCIL CO -s' fIT 'I keting, sat silent in meeting after meeting while Sapiro told-the grow ors that no system could -be worse than the auction sale of tobacco under which tobacco farmers have averaged only $340. a year income as com pared to the 'income of $1560. a year which our government states as necessary to maintain a decent stan dard of living for the average Ameri can family. More than ten thousand farmers heard Sapiro during his five days tour of Eastern North Carolina. At least 15,000 other tobacco growers were present at meetings held in 28 other towns of the Eastern belt last week where five Kentucky leaders of the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-op erative Association pnvinced the far mers beyond a doubt of the success of the Kentucky Biurley Pool. "The minute the first payment of eight cents a pound was made to our Kentucky Growers upon delivery of their tobacco the bankers came and begged to hold. the participation re ceipts and paid eight cents more on them" said C. E. Marvin prominent stock raiser and tobacco grower of Lexington. Mr. Marvin told the North Carolina Growers that the Kentueky members of the marketing association really got an average of 16 cents a pound immediately after their first deliveries because the banks were eager to advance them money on the security of their ware house receipts which the Kentuckians call participation certificates. W. H. Shanks President of the Lin coln County National Bank told North Carolina farmers in five coun ties that the participation receipts are considered the best security in Kentucky. "Why one galussed fellow to whom we wouldn't lend a nickel before, can come into our bank now and borrow hundreds of dollars on their partici pation receipts," said Mr. Shanks. Virgil Chapman attorney for the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-operative Association, Jno. O. Craddock a prominent warehouseman and John Blanks of Kentucky roused other thousands fo Eastern Carolina grow ers to the need of increasing the pre sent sign-up in the old North State frod 60 to 90 per cent of all tobacco farmers and tobacco. An intensive campaign is now being conducted in which growers, mer chants and warehousemen are urged to aid in gaining new members, for the Association. ASKS PREACHERS TO HELP ORGANIZE ASSOCIATION Goldsboro, N. C., May 20th, 1922 Dear Sir: 1 would suggest that you go over your territory and appoint some negro preachers and school teachers to help you get the negroes to sign these contracts. I believe if you will get the infuential ones and get them States Tires! I from the hard labor of Price Price Price ~24.60 - $ 9.00 :35.35 18.00 26.75 $ 19.15 12.77 37.40 25.40 16.94 39.25 26.75 17.94 40.10 27.35 18.13 53.25 36.30 24.20 Tread, all fully guaran 'ire Company. COLLUM SUMTER, S. C. Pencil No.174 Mad. In fiv, grad.. 7.NCJL WITH THE RED BAND) MIKADO M1PANY, NEW YORK terested, they will d youa lots of good among the colored people. .In contracting with them agree to pay them a dollar for each contract they get signed. I am sue by doing this you will find that it .'ill increase your contracts, among the negroes more than anything you can do. This has been tried out in several instances and has proven very suc cessful. Yours very truly, A. V. BOBJ3IT. AVB/C The above is an exact copy of let ter sent out by Mi. A. V. Bobbit, who is Warehouse Supervisor for Eastern North Carolina, an official of the Co Operative Tobacco Assoliation. We do not believe that the tobacco farm ers, either white or colored, will en dorse such methods, involving even the sacred pulpit, in order to get the farmers to sign the five years pool. The original-copy of the above letter, with Mr. Bobbit's signature can be seen by anyone interested. Greenville Tobacco Market. Signed: Smith and Sugg, Brinkley and Spain, Forbes and Morton Moye, Gentry and Co., Foxhall, McGowan and Cannon. WHERE DOES THE FARMER COME IN? Letter From Ex-Chairman Pitt Coun ty Board of. County Commission ers. After carefully studying for over a year the co-operative marketing plan, I fail to see where the farmer can be benefitted by the untried and over estimated tobacco pooling prop osition. First he is supposed to meekly consent to give over all of his crops and rights of his honest toil five years. To whom are you in trusting your only means of support? Are they people who have earned their support by the sweat of their brow or are they the kid gglove fel fees and your taxes? Reflect and I will accept your answer. Do you think that they are satisfied with what they have received of you and now intend forming an imaginary plan by which, with. their kindness will make it easy for you to repay yourself? Are they striving so hard for the farmers' interest? Examine your own wisdom and see where you and your family come in. Remem ber we have had a war and people are looking for jobs. The world could no more control the aftermath of that great war than a fly could hold back a tornado. The govern ment warns you to watch your step and hold your hat for there are lots of fakers. For generations it has been said that eighty per cent of the people jumped for allusions, spent and wasted fortunes, while all tanks and tubs were only twenty per cent hoops and yet they held the water. So with the progress of the world, only a small per cent is endowed with care and wisdom to stand their ground and see that the masses of God's cre Atio:n is furnished bread and raiment. But I am porud to know that a large majority of the best thinking people in this country are not going to de liver their past and future earnings ista tho hndsr of nr en'. and de torty-fourth mn education. in irim we took fourth place in agriculture, then in 1920 we experienced a calam ity and we jumped a cog and caught seventh place, but the following year we took up the slack and bravely again held our position as fourth which we propose not to'surrender. No wonder we have aroused jealousy in California and caused them to send a lawyer even thru the rich western states where it is nicer to use corn for fuel than to smut their hands with coal and all for a pur pose, what? to retard us in our progress. In education we have for the past few years made greater strides and progress than any other state. Who paidl more debts andl ex ceed al elther states In paying to the War Finance Corporation last year? N~orth Carolina holds the record. What. system of marketing caused this achievement? Why should we worry, keep away your poison (lope adwe will again- soon be a satis tied and happy People. I have from -a boy tried various vocations, clerk, merchant, farmier, 'warohouseman, horde ti'ading,.'saw i liig 1oth ity. and 'counte somnnislso6i aidtoday Own and am interested'in orey nine hiindred arres. ofe land that is in liul tivation. something over ono. hun dred' and. fifty of. it is iftobacco and I have always been pleased with our method of selling tobacco, for I could' plainly see that it is sold on it's merits and today I do not own an interest in any warehouse. In niy day I have seen several organi storis tiat'were boosted ip -to help th'l fapmerj but in every case they were failures. Some offcers in charge made money, and thb farmer paid the bill. Who can force prices beyond supply and Aeniand? How can ex penses be reduced in marketing if we have to pay such high prices as to capture , the men of influence and ability? Also are we going to pay the big prices for the warehouses in towns that have failed to stand the test as tobacco markets? It is bet ter to be safe than sorry. I will be the governor of my household and I will not leave it to any one td take charge of - my affairs. I shall not sign. A farmer, IVcD. HORTON. SHUN LIQUID SPRAYS FOR POISONING BOLL WEEVIL A warning against liquid sprayer attachments to cotton poisoning ra chinery is issued by B. R. Coad, direc tor of the boll weevil. laboratory of the United States Departuent of Ag riculture. Calcium arsenate applied as a dust, he points out, is the only certain means yet found for controll ing the boll weevil and any effort at control by means of liquid sprays is useless. Sprayer attachments are, therefore, not only unnecessary but are an added burden. They increase the cost of the machinery and make it lore complicated and difficult to operate. The liquid spray, even if it were as effective. as the dust method would be decidedly more expensive. It mould necessitate the use of water carts,- to feed the machines, would demand an ample and constant water supply which is not available on most farms, and in various ways would in crease the cost of poisoning opera tions. Orchardists and others who have to conduct poisoning operations regularly are constantly searching for poisons that can be dusted instead of sprayed. Cotton growers are very fortunate in that the one really effec tive method of controlling the boll weevil is the dust method and they should not waste time and money, Mr. Coad points out, in experimenting with the expensive spray methods that farmers in other lines are so con stantly trying to get away from. In addition to the foregoing spray ing equipment we also find on the market many curious devises for ap plying some liquid preparations, us ually containing calcium arsenate, for the control o fthe boll weevil. Some of these are to be attached to plows, others to cultivators, while still others run independently. They are usually provided with some exceedingly simple form of tank with a gravity flow of liquid, which either drips on the plants or is wiped on them by some fore of brushes or rags. Many such ihplenients are absolutely comi cal, and the only sad feature is the fact that some farmers are foolish enough to purchase them. The litera ture advertising these implements promises wonderful results and the directions given often call for only a small fraction of a pound of poison per acre, which is distributed over the plantis in a very irregulpr manner. To expect boll weevil control from such methods is absolutely absurd. The Department specialists have been at tempting boll weevil control with liquid applications for many years. In these tests they use the finest available high pressure spraying machinery, distributing the liquid poi son over the plants in a mist form, thus reaching absolutely every part of the plant. Furthermore, these ap plications are usually made at the iate of 100 gallons of solution per acre. In spite of this these spray applications do not control the boll weevil, and how can anyone expect to secure benefit from the absurd.re commendations issued with some of the maeciines now offered the farm ers? Farmers who deosire more detailed information on this subject may se cure it free of charge by writing the Delta Laboratory, Tallulah, Louisiana. . CULLING POULTRY In Knod county, Indl., half the number of flocks of hens culled under the supervision of the county agetn, employedi co-operativery by the Unit ed States Department of Agriculture, the State Agricultural College, and the county, were standard bred Jind the other half mixed breeds, so their comiparative merits could be consider ed th rough culling. The 9 standard bred flocks number ed 1,087, while the 9 of mixed flocks numbered 1,103 or 16 more hens-. The week before culling, the standard bred hens laid 2,906 eggs and the mixed breeds 2,647, or 352 less. In culling 314 standard bred and 355 mongref hens were removed from the flocks, leaving 773 standard bred and 738 mongrols, or 35 more standard breds. MARRMO YOU WERE 'TH. Se~bT~lor- -m 'wo ownors of the t idard fHooks,- being beder, Culled; m closed than t, 6WIs of the mi, flocks. The we a ter culling* tle' standard bred heis laid. 2,724 and ti , mongrels 2,483 eggs.. The figures shw - that among the 1,087 standard bred hens there were 41 less culls than among the 1,108 of the mixed flocks, and that they laid 359 more eggs the week before culli' q and 291 more the reek, after. FALL CABBAGE Clemson College, June 4.-Making shade with one crop while another is taking. hold is like one fellow working while another sleeps; beans and cabbage or cowpeas and cabbage work well together and result in a good crop of cabbage says Geo. P. Hoffman, Extension Horticulturist, in suggesting how to overcome the difficulty of getting the fall cabbage crop well started. For the fall crop the Succession, Charleston Wakefield, or Early Jersey Wakefield, and for very late fall and winter use the Late Flat Dutch 'br Danish Ballhead, should be planted in a well prepared seed bed the last week in May or the first week in June. The great trouble with growing cabbage successfully for fall and early winter use is to find some theans of keeping the .hot sun from hurting them until the plants are well under way. A common method is to plant double rows of string beans, twelve inches apart with a space of three feet between these double rows, and to set the cabbage near the double rows so that the bean vines will shade the cabbage plants. After the beans reach ma turity the vines may be pulled out and the entire space given to the cabbage, which at that time should be well under way. NOTICE TO CREDITORS United States District Court Eastern District of South Carolina. In Bankruptcy. In the matter of J. C. Dennis and Sons, Bankrupts. To the Creditors of the said Bank WRIE 10 for 5c Sugar Jacket just "melts in your mouth," then you get the delec table gum center. And with Wrigley's three standbyis also affording fie aid to teeth, throat, breath, petite and digestion. Soothing, thirst-quenching. Making the next cigar taste better. sa senfour' PoP. onJce? had teeo before aid Court be 26t da~y, fdn RD. 1922iai1 a el I to e n i i - and ce all creditors and other, sons 1xeet1dmy,. appejlr. aid e 1w~ cause. if any they have why the' x er of the said petitioners. should not ; be grantd - Richard W. Hutson, 21-4t-c. ClerC. DISC AR JNOTICE I will ap Iy to the Judge of Pro bate for Clatendh o '1 h . for 'ters 'of charge as gutar. dian 'for Beulah Hicks, now Beulah Hardy,' formerly a minor. .Charlton DuRant, Guardian. Manning, May 16, 1922. pd. NOTICE OF DISCHARGE I will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon County on the 19th day of June 1922, at 1.1 o'clock A. M. for Letters of Discharge as Administrator qf the Estate of J. Bunyan Harvin, deheased. Percy B. Harvin, pd. Administrator. Silver, S. C., Mday 16th, 1922. NOTICE I will apply to the Judge of Pro-. bate for Clarendon County -South Carolina, on Saturday, July 1st, 1922 at eleven o'clock in the forenoon for a final Discharge as Executor of the last will and testament of David A. Johnsc ., deceased. J. Columbus Johnson. Manning, S. C., May 31, 1922--chg. G. C. COOPER, Licensed Optometerist EYES Carefully Examined, Glasses Fitted, Broken Lenses Duplicated. Satisfaction Guaranteed. SU MTER, S. C. LEYS It's a .DOUBLE treat -Peppermint Jacket over Pep permint gum old udly ap- ' C0