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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .50 Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION 11 1 v\ MONDAY,^ JUNE 12, 1922 it P? PRODUCING COTTON. sn f< Elsewhere in this issue we are pub c: lishing an article from the Index w Journal of Greenwood, containing a n letter from a farmer residing at k a wasningiuu, *ja., ill WUIWI wig lauci gives his experience with the boll weevil. It will be noted that this farmer produced one hundred bales of cot ton on 110 acres of land, and that he did not use any kind of poison. It will not do from that statement to conclude that it is not a good thing to poison the boll weevil. We believe that the farmers of Abbeville County can with more safety than otherwise follow the advice of the Department of Agriculture with regard to poi soning. But it will be most unfortunate if the people of this and other counties reach the conclusion that cotton may be produced where otherwise it could not be, simply by applying poison of one kind or another. Work, either with or without poison, is the thing wmcn is going to cuunt iui luvob m the long run. Poisoning the plant, we believe, will be of great assistance, and will help where the plant is properly worked. But cotton cannot be produced by the haphazard meth ods of the past, and in order to grow cotton the farmer had as well lear^ that much less cotton must be planted and that planted must be worked frequently and well. Nothing emphasizes the truth of the above statements more than the letter to Mr. Craig. With fifty-two plows running elsewhere on his farm the Georgia planter made only sixty hales, while on the farm which he worked himself he made, we take it, a normal crop, or nearly so. We can all imagine about how the tenants with the fifty-two plows worked, or failed to work, the crops assigned them. We can imagine that these crops were worked about like the crops in Abbeville County were work ed last. T7Par_ and nhonf. like snmp of them are going to be worked this year. The weather so far has been much against the farmers. A great many of them have not been able to work out their crops as yet. We believe that m^ny of them have made the mistake again of planting too much cotton. If so, it is still time to cor rect the mistake. Some of the cotton which is now in the grass may be plowed up and the land planted in corn, leaving five or six acres of the best cotton which may still be work ed rapidly to maturity. By doing this, unless we are greatly misled, the over-cropped farmer will profit. COTTON LETTER Eventually cotton will sell above eurrent levels, but the crop is now entering the one month when condi tions are most likely to be very fa vorable for the growth of the plant. june is a nara mon^n on price cam paigns. For that reason we cannot suggest the purchase of cotton (ex cept on pronounced reactions) with the confidence w*e recommended that the staple be bought before it crossed 18 cents five or six weeks ago. The market is likely to be very erratic this next few weeks. The June and July condition reports will exert much influence on prices. The reopening of mills in tfte strike dis trict is being watched closely and it is yet too early to determine thejc success of the move. We believe the strike is in its final stags, whether the mills succeed in resuming work at the old scale or find it impossible to carry on and give in to the men. Three weeks ago we suggested the strike would be over in 30 days. This must be remembered: Whether the men win or the mills are victors, the cotton market is concerned with(v he question of consumption and the enewal of activity means increased onsumption. If there is anything in precedent he October contract should prove a rofitable purchase after the issu n/?<* rvr rto TjinA rnnHit.inn renorf or a turn until after the July con ition report is issued. In nine of le last ten years the July report has fiown an increase in condition as ontrasted with the June report. In ix of these nine years, however the larket has been higher after the uly report showed the improvement l condition. The exceptions were 914 when a 5.3 condition increase as accompanied by a loss for the lonth in the October contract of 66 aints; and 1920 and 1921. The an .ver appears to be that the market allowed trade reports rather than rop estimates and that therefore e should pay more attention just ow to the steadily widening out >ok for the cotton trade. In 1920 nd 1921 we were in periods of de lation and uncertainty?1921. hen, the improved condition of the rop had its logical influence on rices. But in other years the out >ok for "consumption improved dur lg the month and more than offset le probability of an increased leld. Our advice would be to go slowly n cotton commitments, buying arefully on recessions and averag ig down if the reactions carry fur ler than first indications suggest, fading profits should be taken and ne:s views may well be moderate, s it is probable that several turns ill be possible before the market jfeumes its upward movement. SPRINGS & CO. Prison Sentences in Abbeville Judge Frank B. Gary, presiding 1 the circuit court of Abbeville, rV A*?A U A 1 {*?AA r<An ^ AM A A J AA*TAM MAW riicxc ne iivcd} aciibciivcu seven pci ons .convicted of violation of the rohibition law to serve terms on he chaingang or in prison at hard ibor. The sentences will have a wholesome effect in Abbeville. iMen rill be more careful about selling fitoxicating liquors in that county. -The State. MR. ESTES PROMOTED. Mr. D. E. Estes, former proprietor f the Hot Hustler Racket, has been ppointed district deputy for the lasonic Mutual Insurance Associa ion with headquarters in Chester.? Chester News. Mr. and Mrs. Estes and family have een in Abbeville recently on a visit j Mrs. Estes' parents, Mr. and Mrs. . F. Edmonds, and this new busi ess connection will be of interest > their friends. WINS SCHOLARSHIP. Miss Birch L. Clinkscales, daugh ir of Mrs. Lamar Clinkscales, has ron the scholarship to the training :hool at Louisville, Ky., offered by le Woman's Missionary union of the apust cnurcn. miss unnKscaies is graduate of Winthrop College, and as been doing welfare work since le graduated. She leaves for Loutis ille early in September. /AY BEING CLEARED FOR REDUCED RATES kll Existing Regulation* in Con flict Withdrawn or Modified By Commission Washington, June 11.?All exist ig regulations and orders of the nterstate commerce commission rhich might interefr with the es ablishment of the 10 per cent re liction in railroad freight rates on uly 1 were withdrawn or modified oday 'by the interstate commerce ommission. The commission's notice signified hat all of the railroads in the Uni ed States had indicated their inten ion to comply witn its decision or lering the general reduction. Owing to the immense amount of fork required to prepare the new nd lower schedules, the commission withdrew entirely the usual puli ation requirements and said that he schedules could ^>e made effec ive after three days' posting and ling with the commission. It also very ether restriction which might ave delayed the preparation of the ew schedules. Soil building and diversification nil take the "evil" out of weevil. KORP. KERR BUYS A FEED At Dote's Re&terranch On S. Main Street?Wants No Regular Diet. Dote Gets Stung. Deer edditoral: i is ritin now to give you sum ekvise which will he of kumfurt to you if you promulgate havin bizness deelins with a furni toor deeler. you know that i had my addertizement in yore paper bout the dinnes what i am servin on s. mane street at my nue resterranch. well, i bin gittin a good trade and things wus moovin long purty well and i wus bout to git reddy to revue the proffits when i runs inter hard luck it wus thi? way. last fridy, Korp. karr, whut you allers ritin bout and who i thunk must be a man of sum prommemits turnt up at the resterranch iur a a ieea ne sea. ne looked in the ha9h pot and then at the kake and sed to mee whut is the price of rashuns. i sed a reglar dTb ner wus fifty sints, but he sed he wus not a reglar eeter and did not want to maik a kontrack fur a reglar dinner, that he perfer red to pay so mutch and eet as his appertite kum to him, sayin that sumtimes he paid and did not as mutch as eet four woffles fur breackfust in butter with baking and skrambled aigs, and sumtimes he wus a purty good eeter, and flang in quite a lot he sed agin three times that he could not tell jist how mutch he wood eet till he got started and or* /I *Vt ft +A V _ OM ?] A. UI 1UC W ilA WiC ^/I JLV^G AIIM UC wood begin, well i went in and talk ed the matter over with lizzie, and while she wus a little skittish bout it and sed that the best way wus to pay as you eet that she wood risk him fur seventy five sints. i wasn't zactly satterfied myself so i goes back and goes over the thing with the Korpal agin, speshully askin if he had et enny breckfust that morning and how he felt long the hungry line and he sed that he had had his usule breckfust and did not feel no moar hungry than common, so i put it at 8ty five and tole him to taik a seet which he did. i noticed tnat ne dm not taik a cool drink of ice water which i gives em fust to keep em frum gittin foundered on hash and kake. he sed that his docktar had sed fur him to drink no ice water at dinner time, well the hash wus brought in and he lit into it and sooner than it taikes to tell you bout it he done et up the whole dish lickt it out and wus callin for moar, well i had the price of wun rlinnpr nrtrf SS An a nutlicr en 1 trncc in and brings in a nuther hash din ner thinking that maybe we wood maike it up on the kake, and he soon eet that up jist like it wus a ripe apple and he wus a boy in the kuntry in december what heddent ^ed a apple fur bout six munts. he sed that he never did eet with sitch a cummin appertite, and that Teely the hash wus the 'best he ever et and sed that he wood taik a little moar. well lizzie begins to kick on that and sed there wood be nun left fur the chillun but i oaver persuade her to let him have the ballents of the V*ocVi o-n/1 cor) +lno+ i waa/? cnm fish fur the chillen and by that time he hed done et up the ballents of the hash and called me in to say that if there were ennything he aid rellish it wus fish, bout that tlmp I sed that i wus willin to be reesunable bout ennything and that as i didn't want to be run out of the resterranch biz ness so soon, not till i had maid er r^S'OVER THE HILL" WILLIAM PO* PRjODL?CTiO* Anrn a i irvi ror urLUA nuuoL Thursday and Friday, June 15 and 16th. nufT to go inter bankrupt in bank ruptcy i wood like to taik up a kom promise leevin out enny further eetin. well, he sed as he had et so little he wood konsiddsr atety five cents ackual dammidges and the saim amount of punertive dam midges and quit, i tride to reesin with him bout the matter that he had oanly promist to pay atey five fur the whoal feed, but he didn't j coom Viqvo mnot t.kan bout ten I per cent of the resson he had apper tite fur hash and fish, so fur feer he wood plais the matter In the hands of a attuney and kollect ten per cint turney's fees and kosts i paid up and rushed out behint the back door and shook hands with myself bout gittin out so lite, but lizzie didnt shaik no hands with me' she shook her fist at mee and sed that i wus the simplist man she ever saw and cood be tuck in by moar peeple on the shortist aquaintents that she ever seed, well i sed to her i aint never goner fool with no moar fur nitoor deelers. they is wurse then I...A xne Wlittil wnut awuncicu juaicx. Yourn fur a reglar dinner hereafter, I Dote. MILLIONS 17-YEAR LOCUSTS ARE MOVING EAST Chicago, June - 10--Commuter towns of the Pox River valley armed today to combat invasion. Millions of 17-year locusts ihave come down upon the valley in a huge swarm moving east toward Chicago sub urbs. At Aurora hundreds of persons took long sticks and concentrated on knocking the insects out of trees in the >benei tnat me jocusuj pmcc eggs at the "base of new twigs and that these twiga die. This led to a fear that fruit trees would be ruin ed. The humming of the army was re ported to have made ordinary con vention difficult and it was said shouts could not be heard across the i street. The van of the swarm was re ported to have reached a point fifty miles east of the place where they were first reported a week ago. It was said that "W" was conspicuous on their wings. He Would Know Then. 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