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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, June 07, 1922, Section One Pages 1 to 8, Image 3

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ASSOCIATION PAYS
Clemson College, June 6.-The;
0 Iahoma Cotton Growers' Associa-:
tioi now numbers over 85,000 niean
bers, who sold their 1021 cotton crop
cQperatively at an tverage gain
of $6.50 per bale over the street
quotations, thus proving concretely
the value of co-operation for selling.
South Carolina farmers who have
not yet joined the association now
being organized in this state and
who have - any doubt left as to -the
practical benefits of the 'organization
hould read the extracts below from
he report of the recent convention
f the Oklahoma Association and
hen lose no time in joining:
"Oklahoma cotton farmers are a
ead o fthe game nearly 8-4 million
ollars this year as a result of hav
g marketed their crop co-operative
according to figures made public
the Oklahoma Cotton Growers'
ssociation. The association, , which
I a nonprofit, nonstock, 110 per cent
pool, co-operative cotton marketing
organization, has a membership of
thirty-five thousand actual growers,
who have signed legally binding
contracts to market all of their crop
thru the organization for a period of
seven years.
"With approximately 15 per cent
of its 'members' crop yet to sell, the
association shows a gain over the
average street price of $6.50 per
bale. - On the one hundred thou
sand bales handled by the associa
tion this year, this represents a total
gain of $650,000.
"The association is. credited by
those familiar with the Oklahoma
cotton market in past years with
having "discovered" good middling
cotton. This grade was seldom found
y in the state under the old system of
street sales, when grower had no
facjlitiesfor determining the actual
quality and sold on the 'buyers' grade
and staple at the buyer's p'rice.
",The Oklahoma Cotton Growers'
Association," said Eugene Meyer,
managing director of the War Fin
anC\ Corporation, in an address,
"by finding a way to finance its
product over the period in which it
is to be marketed, instead of dump
ing immediately it is picked, has
exerted a decided influence toward
stabilized prices. This organization
was also largely responsible for the
high price which obtained early in
the. season."
"Thru co-operation on the ."Okla
homa plan" the cotton growers of
that state have for the first time
been able to borrow money in suf
ficient quantity to finance their crop
on terms they were able to meet.
"A considerable additional saving
to association memhers has been ef
fected in the elimination of 'country
damage' or weather damage, as all
association cotton is warehoused im
mediately it is deliyered to the as
sociation by the member.
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Yo . the FE
Yothe Farmer, are
ducer of wealth. But b<
money for your crops mar
The crops must be sown,
redped and SOLD!
The Bankg is your F1
carry ycu over the weeki
planting and profiting ses
-purchase seed, fertilizer,
In times of stress it
I" helps you Weather thie,sto
Are YOU getting al
bank offers farmers?
Learn how we can lb
information'from our <
pleased to tell you more a
FI4me Bank
CHARLTON]I
T. M. WE~LLS.
C 'tton firma have fogie tbat
hy can come to the o!!ia l9fi
ofice and find samples of any quan
tity of any quality of cotton they
rpay desire. They have -found fur
ther that they can buy suchcotton at
a fair price on the market' of that
day. This saves them the expense
of sending men into the interior
markets to buy perhaps 300 bales of
cotton from which they can sort out
just the 100 or 200 bales they want
of a particular grade and staple.
The association is .performing a ser
vice for them in offering thcm cot
ton, ready to deliver, in even run
ning lots. Naturally they are will
ing to pay- a premium for this ser
vice, and the association member
benefits."
WHAT IS THE BEST
SOURCE OF NITROGEN
Clemson College, June 0.-It has
generally been the- custom during
the past several years that farmers
have paid considerably higher pric~s
for organic sources of nitrogen than
they have for mineral nitrogen, such
as nitrate of soda- or sulphate of
ammonia. There has often been a
question also about the relative.
value, of nitrogen secured from green
-manure crops, such as cowpeas, vel
vet beans, etc., as compared with
stable manure and mineral sources
of nitrogen.
The New Jersey Experiment Sta
tion has been conducting a series of
experiments along this line and
Prof. A. W. Blair has recently report
ed the results of some of the work
of that station in the Journal of
American Society of Agronomy for
May, 1922. As an average for a
ten-year test slightly better results
were secured with mineral nitrogen
than with organic nitrogen, all or
ganic nitrogen being furnished in
the form of blood, fish scrap, and
tankage. The mineral nitrogen was
supplied- in the form of nitrate of
soda and sulphate of ammonia and
calcium nitrate. There was very
little difference, but the results in
dicate that the organic nitrogen does
not last longer in the soil than the
mineral hitrogen, and that the
mineral nitrogen does not leach out
readily as has generally been suppos
ed.
The copbination of one-half
mineral nitrogen and one-half or
ganic nitrogen gave' slightly better
results than any single source when
taken alone. For 'example, with po
tatoes, nitrate of soda alone gave
251 bushels per acre; fish scrap
gave 244 bushels, and tankage gave
241 bushels; while a combination
of nitrate of soda and fish scrap
gave 257 bushels per acre, in a five
year test.
A comparison was made also be
tween green manure crops when
grown regularly in a rotation, and
stable manure. The result was that
higher yields were secured from the
green manure crops than from the
stable manure, and that the average
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Many persons, otherwise
vigorous and healthy, are
bothered occaeiofally with
Iidigestion. The dffects of a
disordered stomach on the
system are dangerous, and
prompt treatnmeni of indiges
tion Is important. "The only
- medicine 1 have needed has
been something to aid diges
tion and clean. the liver,"
writes Mr. Fred Ashby, a
McKinney, " Texan, farmer.
"My medicine is
Thedford's I
BLACK- DRAUGHT
for Indigestion and stomach
trouble of any kind. I have
never found anything that a
Itouches the spot, like Black.
Draught. I take it in broken
doses after meals. For a long
time I tried pills, which grip.
ed and didn't give the good
results. Black-Draught- liver
medicine is easy to take, easy a
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gain per acre was from $10.00 to
$12.00 in favor of the green manure
crops, making due allowance for
the-phosphoric acid and potash in
the manure and without regard to
the larger yields secured from the
green manure crops. This indicates
the very great importance of the
use of green manure crops for soil
building purposes.
These results indicate, says Prof.
C. P. Blackwell, Agronomist, that
here in the South .we can save a
great deal of money by planting
velvet beans, co'vpeas, and soy beans
as sources of nitrogen instead of
depending entirely on commercial
nitrogen, for which we always have
to pay a very high price.
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THE SWEET POTATO INDUSTRY
Clemson College, June 6.-Few
crops are so well adapted to South
Carolina soil and can be so easily
worked into the present farming
ALL STATES APPROVE
NEW FORD LENS
Passes All Road- Illumination and
Anti-Glire Laws.
A new headlight lens recently per
fected by the Ford Motor Company
Detroit, for use on its cars and trucks
has received formal official approval
in each of the forty-eight states now
having specific regulations and pro
visions for tests.
Ford engineers state that the two
requirements of any headlight are
suffieient road-illumination arnd lack
of glare. To achieve this result, it is
necessary to dlevelop) a lens wvhich
throws a strong light over the road,
but which so weakens the rays on a
level with the eyes of ano appjroaching
motorist, that there is an absence of'
glare.
WVhen testing the new l'ord lens,
even in t hose states whose headlight
~' s are' the most exacting, it was
nd that it produced three times the
.equ ired illutmmatI.ion o f' he roadl and
hat the glare was reduced to one
h~alf' of that allowed.
State oflicials wvere impre~tCssed with
the Ford lens,-many statiny hat it
would set a new and highei .itandard
for automobile headliyhts, and com
mendling the Ford Company for the
progress that had been made.
Although they are included as stan
dard -equipment. on all Ford cars, the
new F'ordl "11" lenses were so dlesign
ed that they would be adaptable to
all head-lamps now in use on lord(
en rs.-A dv.
WHESN MitS WORtbo
PAYS AMERICA WHAT
PeopLUa WHAT 1T
Ows THeM , ONTE
D)AY OP BTeRNry
W1L.1,, AVE~ GONE
Submerihe toa The Tinmp
system as the moist flesh Southern
sweet potato. However, the methods
of growing, harvesting, curing and
marketing as practiced in former
years are not acceptable in com
mercializing and establishing sweet
potato growing as an industry. South
Carolina now produces annually ap
proximately 10,000,000 bushels of
sweet potatoes, or in the neighborhood
of. 10 per cent of the total annual pro
duction of the potato producing states
of the United States, but South Caro
lina puts on the commercial markets
rdther less than 10 per cent of her
production.
The commercial markets, mainly
the northern markets, are accepting
only the. highest quality product
from the storage houses and green
or summer shipments. Therefore the
consuming power of the lasting and
economical market is limited to very
early summer shipments and the
highest quality storage house potatoes
rather than those potatoes kept in
the old-fashioned dirt hills or banks.
Hence, growers and prospective grow
ers of sweet potatoes must realize
the vital importance of quality pro
duction, together with the necessity of
marketing locally and feeding to live
stock the off grades, for just as much
expense is involved in the marketing
of a low grade product'as in market
ing one of the highest quality.
. A profitable market may be had
for off grades by supplying farm
needs and local markets, and by
feeding to livestock. In short, at
present profitable sweet potato grow
ing, might be said to be contingent
upon combining this as an industry
with other diversified branches of
agriculture-small dairy herds, hog
raising, beef cattle and horses and
mules.
Extension Bulletin 52, The Sweet
Potato Industry, has just been pub
lished to give working information
on the growing an handling of the
sweet potato as a commercial crop.
It may be had from the Extension
Service, Clemson College, S. C., or
from the County Agent.
DEATH FROM SNAKE BITES
RARE IN U. S., FIGURES SHOWS
Although the average mortality
from American venomous snakes is a
little more than 10 per cent of the
persons bitten, death from snake
bites is quite rare, according to the
Biological Survey of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
because relatively few persons en
counter or are bitten by the danger
ous species.
. The most venomous of our native
snakes live in lonely, little-settled
districts, often on stony or swampy
land that can not be cultivated. Us
ually they disappear at the approach
of man, and while they may strike if
provoked, the popular belief in res
pect to the distance they can strike
is erroneous. Three-fourths of their
own length is about the greatest dis
tance possible. If the legs are well
protected when one is going into deep
woods or places known to be infest
Just Re
24 pairs Flapp
24 pairs Flapp
18 pairs Brow
18 pairs Whit<
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SUMTER.,
SEE BEETHOVEN, 1
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This remarkable photograph
painting, symbolic of his nasterpic
the lids of your eyes close together,
you will see licethoven. Open the
was in the mind of the musician wh
ed by rattlers or other poisonous
snakes, there is slight chance of be
ing bitten.
As the food of snakes consists of
living prey, they can not be killed by
poisoned baits. The only method
thus far devised to kill them seems to
be clubbing or shooting. This is best
done in early spring, when they are
still sluggish after the winter hiber
nation. Allowing hogs free run of
infested land may reduce the number
of snakes. However, the popular idea
that hogs are immune to snake bite
is probably based on the impenetrab
ility by the venomous fangs of their
skin and fat layer rather than on ac
tual immunity of these animals.
The varieties most commonly found
in this country are the Elapidae, or
Harlequin snakes, and the Crotalidae,
or "pit vipers," which include rattle
snakes, cotton-mouth water mocca
sins, and copper-heads.
ORCHARD NOTES
Weak and diseased limbs should
not be allowed to remain on fruit
trees during the summer. Bark
beetles attack weak and slow grow
ing limbs and finally - destroy the
entire tree. Cut the limbs out and
burn them.
Cultivate the young and bearing
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Page Three
HEN HIS SONATA
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>f the great composer is from a
cc, the Passionate Sonata. ,Draw
glimpse through the eyelasites and
eyes wide and you will see what
en he wrote his delightful harmony.
orchards throughout the summer
months unless they are to be planted
in some leguminous crop in June.
Peas or soy beans should be planted
between the rows of fruit trees and
the vines worked into the soil with
a disk harrow in early fall. Two
tablespoonfuls of nitrate of soda ap
plied around fruit trees one and two
years old will be very beneficial.
Scatter the nitrate of soda in a
circle about 18 inches from the body
of the tree and work it into' the first
few inches of soil by hoeing.
Rub off all suckers or sprouts
which apepar on the trunk of the
trees so as to concentrate the entire
growth into the permanent branches.
Summer pruning of newly set fruit
trees should be done in June. This
consists of removing surplus bran
ches. After the young peach trees
have made a growth of 15 inches, the
tops of the branches that are to be
permanent should be pinched out so
aks to force the limbs to branch. This
will do away with the necessity of
severe pruning next fall, and cause
the trees to form a larger and more
symmetrical head.
Grapes and apples should be spray
ed with Bordeaux mixture every two
or three weeks for the control of
diseases which attack them and cause
the fruit to rot.
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