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Marketing Com in the South
Because the southern states are
Importing millions of bushels of corn
annually, while certain sections of
the south are producing surpluses,
the United States department of agri
culture recommends the introduction
of more adequate marketing facili
ties in sections of abundance and
standard practices regarding prepara
tion for market. To realize these
ends will require concerted action on
the part of communities concerned.
The department suggests that south
ern dealers and consumers handle and
Use southern grain wherever pos
sible, and that local dealers’ associa
tions and chambers of commerce
which have not done so already pass
resolutions urging members to use
native corn, and also hay, whenever
aval ole.
Nirc« as much of the corn as pos
sible snoula be used in the com
munity where grown, every farmer
should feed as much stock as he can.
Those having a surplus should en
deavor to dispose of it to neighbors.
In this connection the advantage of
some central agency to bring buyers
and sellers together is pointed out.
Utilizing Storage Facilities
. Tn many instances cotton ware
-s—oil mins and similar build
ings can be used as temporary stor
age places, thus permitting growers
to hold their crop until the market
is favorable. However, if they de
sire to store their crop on the farm,
special care should be taken to pro
vide cribs that will prevent damage
by weather, weevils, and other agen
cies. The man selling corn near
home has a larger margin of profit
because there are no freight charges.
There is usually a considerable dif
ference between the price of x old corn
nnd new corn from the north. That
part of the new crop from the south
which can be marketed before the
new corn from the north arrives
should get the advantage of this dif
ference in price. Good prices cannot
be ‘obtained, however, for any crop
unless special care is exercised in
harvesting, grading, and preparing it
for the market. Husking rather than
jerking, proper storage so as to pre
vent heating, and sacking in contain
ers of proper size are all matters of
importance. Corn that is to be shell
ed should usually be husked in the
field when it is gathered. If corn is
jerked it must be husked in the crib,
adding labor and expense, and then
shelled, or it must be shelled with
a ‘‘shuck sheller,” a machine that
Usuallv is not very satisfactory.
Leo.rn About Federal Grades
Practically all sales of shelled corn
tn this country are now made on the
basis of federal grades established by
the secretary of agriculture. The
federal law applies to all interstate
shipments which are made by grade,
and requires that they' be sold ac
cording to the federal grades. Even
though a given transaction does not
come under this law. the buyer nat
urally' is inclined to judge the corn
according to these grades nnd make
his price correspond. Therefore more
widespread knowledge of proper
grading is highly desirable for south
ern corn growers.
The federal standards divided
shelled corn into three classes,
white, yellow, and mixed. The par
ticular demand in the southeast is
Live Stock Decreasing.
So Recent Reports Show
A falling off in the numbers of cat
tle and hogs in the United States
occurred during the first four months
of this year, as \compared with the
like period last year, according to re
ports of special live-stock reporters
of the bureau of crop estimates.
United States department of agricul
ture.
In the case of hogg, the births dur
ing January, February, March and
April were about 10 per cent fewer
than in the same months last
The marketings have fallen off about
15 per cent; the farm slaughter was
about the same in both seasons, but
the deaths on farms this year are
over 40 per cent heavier than last
year to May 1. Taking into consider
ation both the births and the deaths
(from all causes), it appears that
there has been a relative reduction
of about 5 per cent during the first
four months of this year, as com
pared with the trend during the first
four months of last year.
The births of calves from Jan
uary 1 to May 1 were about 22 per
cent fewer this year than last year.
The net disposition of cattle by mar
ketings, farm slaughter, and deaths
was about 9 per cent greater ’than
last year; it appears that there has
been a relative reduction of about 0
per cent in total number’ of cattle,
as compared with last year, during
the four months, January 1 to May 1.
Federal Grain Standards
Prevent Price Inequality
Misunderstandings as to the ap
plication of the Federal grain stand
ards and as to the benefits to be
derived from the sale of grain upon
a grade bats have been the cause
of considerable dissatisfaction among
producers and country elevator op
erators, but with the passing of
these misaprehensions an ever in
creasing sentiment is being mani
fested in favor of the purchase and
sale by grade at country points. •
The old system of basing the price
at which wheat or other grain was
bought from the farmer upon the
average quality of the crop in any
community or section was totally
unfair to the producer of good grain.
Under the “mine-run” basis of pur
chasing grain the producer of good
grain received no more for his clean,
heavy wheat than did the producer
of light weight and otherwise in
ferior grain. Instead of a premium
upon heavy grain, a premium was
paid upon inferior products.
The application of Federal grain
standards is calculated to prevent
such inequality, and as experience
is being had under the grading sys
tem growers are finding that the
purpose sought is being accom
plished.
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for white corn, the various grades of
this class usually commanding from
5 to 20 cents premium over similar
grades of other classes. The federal
grades specify that corn to class as
white must contain 98 ptr cent, by
weight, of whte kernels. Unfortun
ately, a very large percentage of the
corn raised in the southeast con
tains a considerable percentage of
black, blue, red and yellow kernels.
Two things should be done to im
prove the color of corn grown in the
southeast. Farmers should select
and plant more white seed of varie
ties suited to this section; second,
concerted action should be taken
against various pests and bad prac
tices in handling. Corn containing
weevils, or other injurious insects, is
placed in what is known as one of
the “sample grades,” which means
that the only' safe way to trade in it
is by actually examining the corn
or a representative sample. This
necessarily' narrows the market and
places the grower at a disadvantage.
Damaged grains, also, are often
the result of w'eevils, earworms, or
similar pests. Corn should not be
left standing long in the field after
it is ripe, nor stored in poorly con
struqted cribs where it will be ex
posed to the weather. If corn raised
in the cotton belt is not marketed
too soon after harvest, there will be
little trouble from excessive mois
ture—one of the factors in grading
corn—except in that grown in moun
tainous parts of the Carolinas, Geor
gia, Tennessee, and certain places
along the coast.
Avoid Too Much Foreign Matter
Another essential in preparing corn
for the market is to avoid an ex
cess of foreign material and cracked
corn. This can be done by screen
ing with a machyie equipped with
proper fans and screens. If corn is
void for grinding the mills usually
want it in bulk, and some expense
can be saved by shipping in that
manner, although the largest demand
in the south is for corn in bags.
Establish Central Marketing
Agencies
If possible, arrangement should be
made to have some agency in each
locality, where there is a surplus of
corn, to purchase the crop when ; it
is ready for delivery to the local
market. This agency may be either
a co-operative association, a local
grain merchant, general merchant.
Oil mill, compress, cotton mill, or
some responsible individual. The crop
can nearly' alyvays be marketed more
satisfactorily and at better prices by
some such organization than by the
individual growers.
County agents, farmers, or others
desiring information relating to
marketing or grading of corn are
invited to communicate with the bu
reau of markets. United States de
partment -of agriculture, Washington.
D. C. Additional information about
corn grading can also be obtained
from men, in charge of the depart
ment’s exhibits displayed at various
cities, or by visiting any office of
federal grain supervisor!, or an an
spector licensed by the secretary. In
the southeast the offices of federal
grain supervision are located in
Baltimore. Md., Atlanta, Ga., Nash
ville. Tenn., New Orleans, Da., Mem
phis Tenn. Cairo 111., Louisville, Ky ,
and Cincinnati, Ohio.
Virginia Leads Better
Sires Campaign in 1920
With more than 18,000 head of do
mestic animals in addition to poultry
enrolled in the “Better Sires—Better
Stock” movement, Virginia leads all
other states in the nation-wide effort
to rid the country of scrub and other
inferior sires. The stock mentioned
is owned by 670 farmers, of whom
354 are in Puiaski county, Va. All
of these live-stock owners have filed
with the United States department of
agriculture declarations that they
will not only use pure-bred sires,
but will follow methods leading to
further live-stock improvements.
The bureau of animal industry,
which is handling the enrollment rec
ords, received from Virginia recently
seventy-two pledges in one day. Os
this number eighteen contained state
ments that pure-bred sires, including
rams, boars and roosters, would be
purchased. Cases of this kind show
that the movement is not only edu
cational, but is gradually resulting
in the replacement of inferior males
with pure breds.
Improving Corn in Dillon
CLEMSON COLLEGE. —The ex
tract below from a recent report of
S. W. Epps, county agent of Dillon
county, is an illustration of the wav
in which a county agent renders in
estimable service to his country, and
it is at the same time a good boost
for Boys’ Club work. .
“Two years ago w© got about ten
bushels of Pee Dee No. 5 corn, which
we thought to be the best variety of
corn for this section. This ten bush
els of reed was prettv well scattered
over the entire county. The yield
at the end of the session was very
satisfactory, showing an increase
in yield from ten per cent to as high
as fifty per cent.. Here, is where the
work of the Boys’ Corn club played
n very important part. One farmer
says that when his boy joined the
club five years ago he was making
ten bushels of corn per acre. After
watching his boy and following the
instructions given the boy for his
acre he had been able to increase his
yield, in three years, from ten bush
els per acre to twenty bushels.
"Two years ago this same farmer’s
son planted pure seed on his acre,
and his father was so well pleased
with the yield that he planted his
whole crop last ’ year from corn
grown on this acre, and says now
that he made an average of about
fortv bushels per acre on his whole
farm.
“Last year we planted, over the
county, something over a hundred
bushels of this variety of corn, and
this year we bought all the seed we
could get from the Pee Dee Experi
ment station, and besides a large
number of farmers had saved their
own seed.
BETTER WAYS OF MARKETING
COUNTRY HIDES AND SKINS
There is no magis formula for
simplifying distribution. Improve
ment in methods can only come from
careful study of the routes follow
ed by each " kind or class of com
modity' in its “long, long trail” from
producer to consumer.
This fact is recognized by every
student of present economic pro
cesses and likewise has been taken
into account in the studies of mar
keting problems carried on by' the
bureau of markets, United States de
partment of agriculture. One of
these specific problems which the de
partment’s specialists have studied
and regarding which they' offer defi
nite recommendations that involve a
real saving to consumer and pro
duced, has to do with the marketing
of hides, a by-product from which
almost every farmer can derive profit
if he will give it proper attention.
Knowledge of Grades Needed
The first need in the present situa
tion is a familiarity on the part of
the producer of country hides with
the recognized grades and classes of
hides and skins. Such an under
standing yvill enable him to prepare
and dispose of his products more
intelligently and profitably. But
even if he should produce the best
quality of hides and skins, the small
producer is at a disadvantage com
pared with large producers like the
packers, for example, because the
latter handle large quantities of
hides and can sort and grade them
according to the demands of va
rious tanners. The extremely scat
tered sources and the comparatively
small production of country hides
and skins makes it impossible for
country producers to sort and class
ify' their products in marketable
lots.
Nevertheless, many features of the
present methods of marketing coun
try' hides can be improved since
these methods support expensive
non-essential profit-absorbing and
speculating intermediaries which
operate, possibly unintentionally but
inevitably, to suppress this branch
of the industry and to discourage
the quality of workmanship display
ed.
Good and Bad Distribution Systems
Three principal methods of mar
keting domestic hides and skins pre
vail at present, as shown by the
studies made by the bureau of mar
kets. The one in which the farm
er, ranchman, and local butcher
usually' participates is needlessly
complex and costly. The hides
which any' one of these individuals
has to sell are usually disposed of
either to a junk dealer or a local
buyer. These men, in turn, sell to
a traveling buyer. The latter passes
on his goods to a large hide dealer,
and this dealer sells to a broker or
a tanner’s buyer, from whom the col
lected skins are finally disposed of
to a tannery. Thus there Is main
tained a long, circuitous distribution
system that adds needlessly to the
final cost.
Contrast this system with the di
rect methods which the packers are
Actress Fined sls for
Celebration of the Fourth
NEW YORK.—Tearing the pages
out of a telephone book in a restau
rant and throwing a bowl of sugar at
the proprietor when he remonstrat
ed is not quite the proper way to
celebrate Independence Day and the
completion of a successful theatrical
tour, Miss Grace Browne, a pretty
girl with locks matching her name,
discovered in the Morrisania court.
Magistrate Charles E. Simms, aft
er his clerk had taken down the
young woman’s ocupation as theatri
cal performer and her address at
1532 Minford place. The Bronx, fined
her sls for disorderly conduct.
According to Hyman Rapkin, res
taurant proprietor at 1379 Intervale
avenue, the young woman was in
his establishment when she seized
the telephone book and without
caute tore out its pages. He urged
her to desist, he related, whereupon
the sugar bowl, came his way. He
sought assistance from Patrolman
Cahill of the Simpson street station
and the young woman was taken to
the Morrisania station. There the
matron discovered she wore a money
belt with $1,60j in cash and SI,OOO
worth of jewelry.
Miss Browne told the Magistrate
she had just returned from a suc
cessful tour of Panama and was
combining a-celebration of that hap
py event and her country’s birth
day. __
Milwaukee Workers
Quit; Give Reasons
A cook getting $75 a month threw
up her job because the family went
to the country for the summer, and
the cook did not want to go along.
A washerwoman resigned because
the cook served her warmed-up cof
fee, and forgot to provide a proper
luncheon.
“I want you to understand,” she
said in a well-written letter to her
employer, “that I can do other
things besides wash, and you can
look for another woman to do your
washing.” .
-These and other servant soviet
tendencies were related at a gather
ing of matrons, now become almost
panicky over gas-range Bolshevism.
One cook working for sl2 a week
in a family gs two, it also was re
vealed, left to work for sls a week
in a large family. Her excuse was
that she did not have sufficient op
portunity to keep up with her ‘‘art*’
in so small a family. She impress
ed upon them that it was not the
wages which enticed her away.
A general housework girl declared
she never liked to stay at one place
very long, because if she did. her
employer might think she owned her.
“And you know,” she said, "we are
free now and you don’t own us.” She
was working for $6 a week, but de
clared that she would not work for
less than $9; wanted everv night off
and Thursdav and Sunday after
noons, at least.
World to End Aug. 4,
Prophet Tells Harding
MARION, O.—Senator Warren G.
Harding has been warned in a let
ter from an astrologist of Orono,
Me., that both he and Governor Cox
may as well suspend their campaign
efforts now because after August 4
there isn’t going to be any more
world. The letter says:
"August. 4, 1920, the sun and moon,
Venus, ■ Mercury, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn and Neptune will be on one
side of the world, with Uranus in
a continuation of the line on the
other side.
"Isaiah xlll, 13, will be fulfilled
and the nations who participated in
the world war will be submerged by
the Atlantic ocean.”
Regardless of what Governor Cox
may do, the Harding headquarters
will keep open.
Egg Omen for Cox Comes
A Cropper Before Movies
COLUUMBUS, O.—R. R. Cropper,
of Portsmouth, came to town with an
egg regarded as a good omen for
Governor Cox. Its shell had a ridge
which formed the letter “C.” Crop
per brought the egg to Columbus to
present it in person to the gov
ernor, and everything went lovely
until some motion picture operators
wanted Cropper to pose while hold
ing the egg.
Croppr got so excited when the
cameras started to click that he
dropped the egg on the state house
walk.
Living Skeleton killed
PONTIAC, Mich. —Artie Atherton,
the "living skeleton” of circus fame,
known all over the world, is dead
here a s the result of injuries suf
fered when struck by an automobile
several days ago.
Atherton, whose real name was
Moll, was for years with the Bar
num & Bailey and Ringling Broth
ers shows. His wife was Miss
Blanche Buckley, snake charmer.
Mary Adelaide, 7 years old, Moll’s
oldest child, won first prize several
years ago in a national perfect baby
contest.
Rabbit in a Cat’s Litter
PETERSBURG. Ind.—A cat be
longing to Carl Brock, living near
here, went foraging for her litter of
kittens. She caught a young rab
bit and brought it home and released
it for the kittens to play with. Final
ly she adopted the little stranger
and is now mothering it as if it were
her own.
able to employ. Each packer having
a large assortment of hides is able
to grade and classify his output so
that he can dispose of it advanta
geously to a hide broker or a tan
ner's buyer direct. From these men
the hides go direct to the tanner.
Thus various intermediate agencies
and their profits are, eliminated.
So simple a distribution system is,
of course, impossible for the small
producer. However, experience has
shown that the farmer and ranch
man and the local butcher can dis
pense with the junk dealer and the
traveling buyer, and in some cases,
with the local dealers as interme
diaries in the distribution system.
When the producers negotiate direct
ly with the large hide dealer, the lat
ter sorts and classifies the hides sent
in and is in a position to share with
the producer a part of the saving
which this simpler method makes
possible. At the same time a lower
ing of prices for the final product
will be the tendency, since distribu
tion costs will be less. The use of
a local dealer as intermediary be
tween the producer and the large
hide dealer in some t cases is advis
able. since he is in a position to do
needed sorting and classifying.
Either of these simpler methods
suggested for the producer of coun
try hides—selling direct to the large
dealer or through a local dealer —ap-
proaches more nearly' the packer's
method and represents a decided im
provement over methods now pre
vailing.
Obstacles to Overcome
Such consignment marketing, how
ever, presupposes mutual confidence
and fair dealing by both producer
and dealer and, unfortunately, this
does not always exist. Another ob
stacle to the establishment of this
method is the producer's preference
for ready cash. Many producers pre
fer to accept any price obtainable
from local buyers, such as general
stores, produce dealers, junk col
lectors, and traveling hide buyers
rather than consign their products
to distant car-lot dealers in central
markets. The place the traveling
buyers or agents occupy in an im
provers-system of distribution is a
matter on which one can be less
specific, since opinions of the trade
differ as to the practicability of
traveling hide buyers or agents of
large hide dealers.
Already country producers of
hides are coming to see the saving
that results from the simpler sys
tem briefly indicated here and are
making contracts with large dealers
in whom they' have confidence and
■who in turn see that it is the part
of good business to respect and fos
ter this confidence. Farmers and
others interested in putting this im
portant side line on a more profit
able basis are invited to communi
cate with the bureau of markets,
United States department of agri
culture, which will supply them with
full information regarding the best
methods of marketing hides, as well
as instructions for proper skinning
and curing.
$1,250,000 Fortune
Hangs on Title
LONDON.—UnIes s something un
foreseen happens the British treasury
and the Indian treasury ' will, in
course of time, share the fortune of
C. W. Wallace, amounting to sl,-
250.000.
Mr. Wallace, who was a well
known East India merchant, left this
amount to be divided between his
sons providing that before they re
ceived the legacy they should have
obtained a title not less than a
baronetcy, otherwise the amount
should ‘be equally divided between
the British and Indian treasury.
One son already has died without
issue and the other has just been ap
pealing to the courts to hold the will
invalid on the ground that it is con
trary to public policy. He lost his
case, the judges holding that the de
sire for recognition of public service
is neither mean nor unworthy and
that the law permits the utmost ec
centricity to testators.
In giving judgment Lord Justice
Wfirrington remarked that a baronet
cy was a barren title, involving no
duties to the state or the public, ex
cept those cast on every citizen. The
position is, therefore, that Captain
Wallace will have to get that bar
onetcy or the $1,250,000 will go to
the treasury’s funds.
Miners Fired Upon;
One Killed; 3 Hurt
WILLIAMSON. W. Va.—One man
was killed and three are known to
have been wounded in a battle at
Roderfield; details of which began
drifting into Williamson, but which
recently were far from complete.
According to the stories told to the
authorities, the miners at Roderfield
formed a union and were holding a
meeting in the open air when they
were fired upon from the brush on
the mountainside. Many of the
miners, who -were armed, sought
cover, it was aserted, and returned
the fire, the shooting lasting for
some time. It has not yet been made
clear just who made up the attack
ing party.
A company of the state constabul
ary which was on duty here during
the sessions of the special grand
jury which inquired into the Mate
wan shooting, in which ten men lost
their lives and which made its re
port. left here for its home station
at Beckley, and should have been in
the neighborhood of Roderfield soon
after the shooting. It was reported
that this company had taken charge
of the situation at Roderfield.
Surgeon Grafts His
Flesh on Wife’s Leg
CHlCAGO.—Cutting flesh in strips
from his own thigh without using
even a local anaesthetic, other phy
sicians attending, his wounds, Dr.
Orlanda P. Scott, the surgeon, graft
ed it upon the foot and ankle of his
wife to save her from disfigurement
and possible amputation of her right
leg.
Dr. Scott and his wife had left
Mercy hospital in their automobile,
and were speeding to the Jefferson
hospital, where an emergency case
awaited. In passing another car
Mrs. Scott’s leg was crushed between
the moving automobiles, breaking it in
five places and tearing the flesh
from her calf and ankle.
Her husband immediately carried
her to the hospital, where, when she
regained her senses, she pleaded that
no stranger perform the operation.
Contrary to the professional custom
Dr. Scott set her leg and later, dis
covering skin grafting to be neces
sary, performed the operation on
both himself and his wife.
Liner’s Crew Balks
At Taking a Washing
BOSTON.—The White Star liner
Cretic has been held at Quarantine
several days because the crew refus
ed to be washed. The detention in
volves 1,543 steerage passengers and
is costing the company about $20,000
a day. First class passengers were
allowed to land without bathing.
The trouble grew out of the fact
that port authorities at Naples re
cently have refused to allow Ameri
can health officials to examine
immigrants. As a result no clean
bill of health could be given the
Cretic here and it was ordered
that the crew and steerage passeng
ers be washed for disinfection. The
passengers submitted, but the crew
refused, and health officials insist
pthe ship shall not budge until all
those aboard have been washed.
French Taxes Exceed
Budget 277 Million Franks
PARIS, July 12. —Receipts for
taxes in June amounted to 907,000,000
francs, exceeding the budget esti
mates by 277,000,000 francs.
Tax receipts for the first six
months of the year exceeded the es
timates by 1.634,000,000 and exceeded
the same period in 1919 by 1,915,000,-
000 francs.
Negro Postal Clerk, Who
Cut Co 7 Worker, Lynched
ENTERPRISE Miss.—James Spen
cer, a negro postal clerk, who seri
ously stabbed Otho Parker, a white
postal clerk, on the New Orleans and
Northwestern mail car recently, was
taken from the officers, who were
taking him to Quitmen for trial and
lynched.
- Sky Scrap
The profits now being earned by
American and English cotton spin
ners and manufacturers, read like
the fabled romances of the Arabian
Nights. These mills are forced to
publish their dividends for the bene
fit of their stockholders and the
public at large, hence the informa
tion which comes out through the
press in startling distinctness.
From England comes the news
that spinning mills in Oldham, Mid
dleton and other cities in the. Lan
cashire manufacturing district, are
declaring dividends from 500 to 801
per cent per annum on invested cap
ital. These profits are so extraor
dinary that the matter is being taken
up and discussed in the English
pariament. About 88 per cent of the
English spindles and looms operate
on American cotton. In this coun
try' we find published accounts of
American mills now declaring an
nual dividends of from 200 to 400
per cent on invested capital. It
would appear from these figures
that the price of raw cotton is far
too low and that the price of the
manufactured goods are far in ex
cess of their legitimate value. If
the government and the people be
lieve 4 per cent federal bonds is a
legitimate rate’ of interest on capi
tal invested in such securities, what
should the government and the peo
ple think of any industry' which ad
vertises its annual net earnings at
from 200 to 800 per cent on capi
tal invested?
Fair and. Legitimate
The cotton growers are being or
ganized into the American Cotton
association to secure what is termed
a fair and legitimate profit on the
sale of their cotton above the actual
cost of production. This rule as
applied to the price received by the
growers for the 1919 crop Weill not
show' a net profit to them exceeding
5 per cent on white spinnable cot
ton, and on low grades a heavy loss
has been sustained. To double the
present price of raw cotton would
still leave the growers far behind in
the race for profits which are being
.so tremendously earned by' the cot
ton mills.
The American Cotton association
is deeply interested in the success
of the cotton mills, because they are
the legitimate consumers of the cot
ton crop. It is particularly desirous
for the successful and wide extension
of cotton manufacturing in the
New York Aviator Hurled Three Hundred
Feet to His Death in the Ocean
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Hurled
three hundred feet when his ar
plane sideslipped while starting the
upward glide of an Immelman turn
Hug Gordon Campbell, twenty-five,
of New York City, veteran over-*
seas pilot and former star athlete
at Syracuse University, was flung
into the ocean, a half-mile from
the beach, before the eyes of thou
sands of visitors late this afternoon.
His body has not been recovered.
Parker D. Kramer, of Clarion, Pa.,
a former army aviation instructor,
who was seated in the front cockpit
of the two-seater when the machine
started on the fatal slip, remained
strapped in the seat and was carried
down beneath the waves when the
airplane knifed the water and dis
appeared.
Still under the impression that
Campbell was imprisoned in the
wrecked machine, Ives, with Charles
Badger, mechanician for E. Kenneth
Jaquith, who reached the scene
shortly after the Curtiss plane, in
an aero-marine seaplane, attached a
life line to the tail of th© stricken
ship, putting it in tow of the “Sea
Gull” in an effort to drag it up to
the beach. The backward wind drive
Suggestions Made for
Fight on the Hessian Fly
The Hessian fly, one of the oldest
and at times one of the most de
structive enemies of the wheat crop
in the United States, is again on the
increase. Specialists of the United
States department of agriculture
make thje following suggestions for
combating the pest:
Practice crop rotation. Do not
sow wheat on stubble if it is possible
to avoid doing so.
Plow under all infested stubble
and ruined wheat, where practicable,
soon after harvest.
Destroy all volunteer wheat by
harrowing disking, plowing, or some
other method.
Plow all land to be sown to wheat
as early and deeply as existing condi
tions permit, and prepare a thorough
ly pulverized and compacted seed
bed.
Conserve moisture against a period
of drought at seeding time.
Use good seed.
Fertilize.
Sow wheat during the fly-free
period, as advised by your farm ad
visor or state experiment station.
Adhere to the practices every year,
whether the fly is abundant or
scarce. They will help to keep it
scarce.
Size of Back-Yard Flock
Gaged by Space Available
The size of the flock which can
be most efficiently kept will depei®,
first of all, upon the space available,
and, secondly, upon the amount of
table scraps or other waste which
is available for feed. It is a mistake
to overstock the available space.
Better results will be obtained from
a few hens in a small yard than
from a larger number, say poultry
specialists of the United States de
partment of agriculture.
The back yard poultry flock rarely
will consist of over twenty to twen
ty-five hens, in many cases of not
more than eight to ten, and occasion
ally of only three or four. For a
flock of twenty to twenty-five hens
a space of not less than twenty-five
by thirty feet should be available
for a yard. Where less space is
available the size of the flock should
be reduced, allowing on an average
twenty to thirty square feet to each
bird. A few hens are sometimes
kept successfully with a smaller
yard allowance than this, but if the
space is available a yard of the size
indicated should be used.
Feed for Growing Chicks
As soon as chickens will eat whole
wheat, cracked corn, and other
grains,; the small-seized chick feed can
be eliminated. In addition to the
above feeds the chickens’ growth can
be hastened if they are given sour
milk, skim milk, or buttermilk to
drink. ',
Growing chickens kept on a good
range may be given all their feed
in a hopper, mixing two parts by
weight of cracked corn with one part
of wheat and oats in one hopper,
and the dry mash in another. The
beef scrap may be left out of the
dry mash and fed in a separate hop
per, so that the chickens can eat
all of this, feed they desire. If
the beef scrap is to be fed separate
ly it is advisable to wait until the
chicks are ten days old. the poultry
division of the United States depart
ment of agriculture advises, although
many poultrymen put the beef scrap
before the young chickens at the
start without bad results.
Chickens confined to small yards
should always be supplied with green
feed. Fine charcoal, grit and oyster
shell should be kept before the chick
ens at all times, and cracked or
ground bone may be fed where the
chickens are kept in small, bare
yards, but the latter feed is not nec
essary for chickens that have a
good range.
Has to Pay Fine With
Potatoes in Lieu of Cash
OMAHA, Neb., —Emilia Vasquez
of Kansas, City appeared in the
south side police court here charged
with vagrancy.
“Do you plead guilty?” asked
Judge Fitzgerald.
“No patato,” answered Vasquez.
“Did you say something about po
tatoes?” asked Judge Fitzgerald.
"You know we don’t dare to speak
of potatoes these days.”
Vasquez nodded his head en
thusiastically. He didn’t understand
the judge, but liked his smile.
"I’ll fine you fifty potatoes,” said
the court.
“No patato." said Vasquez, Having
no potatoes to pay his fine. Vasquez
was taken to the county jail, where
he will serve out his fine at the rate
of three potatoes a day.
ng Profits
south, believing that the splindle
and the loom should be operated in
the territory where the staple is
produced. But this association is op
posed- to any system of marketing
which 1 provides for a profit of 5 per
cent on the production of cotton to
the growers, and the payment of
from 200 to 800 per cent to the
mills by the growers for their needs
of finished fabric. This is neither
fair or legitimate.
Solution of Problem
There is but one equitable solu
tion of the problem if the prices for
cotton goods are to remain at ex
isting high levels, and that is for
a fairer division of the profits- in
the industry between the growers
and the manufacturers. Forty cents
per pound for cotton the coming
season will not cover the actual
cost of producing the 1920 crop. An
average of 60 cents per pound to
the growers will not more than pay
them a fair and reasonable profit.
It is an utter impossibility for the
farmers to successfully compete
with Hie price now being paid labor
without a very material increase in
the price of the products produced
on the farm.
It is an absurd proposition for the
cotton growers to quietly submit to
present prices for cotton which hard
ly cover the cost of production,
when every other interest which
touches the staple is making enor
mous profits. We notice that a cot
ton compress plant located at Au
gusta, Ga., recently asked authority
to distribute a stock dividend of $40,-
000 on an invested capital of $30.-
000. A dividend of 130 per cent in
less than twelve months’ operation
in another department of the raw
cotton industry, and which meg out
of the pockets of the cotton grow
ers whose cotton was handled in that
particular plant. There are about
250 of these plants in the south,
all feeding out of the same trough.
Even the cotton buyers admit they
have made more money the past
season than ever before in the his
tory- of the business. The cotton
growers alone have not struck “pay
ing dirt,” and this is simply because
they are not organized and market
ing their crop intelligently or scien
tifically.
Yours verv truly,
HARVIE JORDAN,
Secretary, American Cotton Associa
tion.
of the tractor propeller and the dead
weight of the water-filled plane
proved too much and this attempt
was finally given up. ft
Cramer Describes blunge
“We were stunting too low,” said
Cramer, "That’s the answer. I had
been driving the plane up the beach
a few minutes before, while ’Scot
ty,* as we called Campbell, climbed
about the wings, entertaining the
boardwalk crowds. We turned up
around the Inlet, and as we came
down toward Illinois Avenue ‘Scot
ty’ climbed back into the rear cock
pit.
“I handed the control over to him
and was preparing to get out on the
wings myself when he started the
Immelman. We started on the up
turn at an altitude of about 500 feet;
As we approached the utmost reach
of the turn we started in a side slip
to the left.
“ ‘Scotty’ shoved his foot down
hard on the right rudder control, but
she wouldn’t respond and didn’t come
out of t. I made no effort to grab
the controls, because I thought ’Scot
ty’ knew what he was doing. It was
all over in a flash. We hit the wa
ter upside down.
Use Ax When Disease
Breaks Out in Flock
Disease is one of the handicaps to
successful poultry keeping and
should be guarded against at all
times. Unless kept in a healthy con
dition, chicks will not grow properly
and mature fowls will lose their
vigor and vitality and become unpro
ductive and unprofitable.
It is far better to prevent disease
by proper care and attention than to
attempt to cure a bird after it is sick.
Therefor© it is Important to watch
the flock closely at all times for any
signs of disease, so In case an out
break occurs it may be checked at
once. Prevention is always better
than cure, and all those who wish to
succeed with poultry should give
their birds such good care and keep
their houses so well cleaned and dis
infected that both fowls and chicks
will keep hardy and vigorous.
Some diseases may be treated suc
cessfully, while others of a more
serious nature usually prove fatal.
If only one or two birds of a flock
become sick it is usually advisable
to kill them immediately (unless they
are choice specimens) and burn or
bury the carcasses, say poultry spe
cialists in the United States departs
ment of agriculture. If the birds are
kept and an attempt is made to doc
tor or cure them the disease may
prove contagious and spread through
out the entire flock.
Fall-Sown Oats
Fall seeding of oats has numerous
advantages over spring seeding,
where the fall-sown varieties can be
successfully grown, as in the states
of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana;
in Virginia and North Carolina, ex
cept in the Piedmont and mountain
sections; and in southern and eastern
Texas, announce specialists of the
United States department of agricul
ture, in Farmer’s Bulletin 1119, en
tieled “Fall-Sown Oats.”
Under the climatic conditions in
those states, the fall-sown crop usu
ally yields better and matures earlier.
The land can usually be prepared in
better shape in the fall than in the
spring. Fall seeding interferes less
with other work. Poorer land and
less fertilizer can be used. The fall
sown crop furnishes a cover for the
soil during the winter and prevents
washing.
The bulletin sets forth the varie
ties of oats that can best be grown
in the south and details the soils and
fertilizers that should be used. It
is recommended that, wherever pos
sible, oats should follow a cultivated
crop. One of the best rotations for
the cotton-growing section is: First
year, cotton; second year, corn with
cowpeas planted at the last cultiva
tion; third year, fall-sown oats, fol
lowed by cowpeas. Outside the cot
ton-growing section, a good rotation,
including oats, is: First year, corn
with cowpeas in the corn; second
year, oats, with clover or grass
seeded in the oats; third year, mead
ow or pasture. Other arrangements
are also suggested.
The bulletin details the preparation
of the land, the preparation of seed,
the treatment of the seed for smut,
the sowing of the seed, methods of
seeding, treatment of the land after
seeding, methods of harvesting, and
the utilization of the crop.
Farmer’s Bulletin 1119 can be had
upon request of the United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton. D. C.
Husband Ordered Whipped
LONDON, England.—The new prac
tice of magistrates in ordering pub
lic whipping—twenty strokes of the
cat—in addition to prison terms for
all men convicted of robbery or at
tacks upon women or girls, brought
pandemonium in the Leeds assizes.
James Welsher was one of three sen-
I fenced to be whipped before begin
j ning a five-year term for robbing a
| Sheffield postal station, where there
| were only girl clerks on duty. As
sentence was pronounced Welsher’s
wife and children began to scream.
Convicts Try to Escape
JOLIET, Ill.—After binding and
gagging C. B. Robinson, superintend
ent of the prison furniture depart
ment, five convicts made an unsuc
j cessful attempt to escape. One con
vict dressed in Robinson's clothes.
I driving Robinson’s car, with the oth
ier four hidden in the rear of the
| machine, drove to the main gate. Just
las the gates were swinging open
Robinson, who had worked leose his
bonds, sounded the alarm.
The State Board
Os Etomology Says:
ATLANTA, Ga.—ln view of the
prospective serious food shortage,
it is imperative that the ravages of
the army worm, corn stalk borer and
other pests now doing extensive
damage in many sections of the
state, should be promptly checked.
Many complaints from different
sections have come to State Ento
mologist A. C. Leyvis, of the de
structive work of the army' worm in
corn and alfalfa. There are several
generations of this insect each
year, and unless promptly' checked,
it soon destroys an entire
The most effective remedy. Mr.
Lewis states, is dusting the infested
crop with powdered arsenate of lead.
Where the corn is over knee high,
powdered calcium arsenate may be
used. These poisons may be ap
plied with a hand machine, just as
calcium arsenate is applied for con
trol of the boll weevil. The poison
may also be applied by shaking
through a sack. Frequently the
progress of the army yvorm may be
stopped by ployving a wide furrow in
advance of them, and dragging a log
back and forth over it to kill them.
It is advisable to plow infested fields
early in the fall in order to destroy
as many as possible of the hiberat
ing worms.
The corn stalk borer, a white worm
with black spots, that bores into the
corn stalk, is now forming a brood
that will lay eggs at the base of the
corn stalk to be hatched next spring.
The most effective method of con
trolling it is to plow up all of the
infested corn stubble in the fall or
winter and burn It.
The worms, the cotton square
borer and the cotton boll worm, are
now working on cotton to some ex
tent. Dusting with calcium arsen
ate, the same as for boll weevil, is
the remedy recommended by the
state board.
A letter addressed to State Ento
mologist A. C. Lewis, State capitol,
Atlanta, will bring bulletins on the
folloyving: 801 l weevil; Growing
cotton under boll weevil conditions;
spray' calendar; dusting for boll
weevil; peach insects and diseases;
Hessian fly; army worm and dusting
experiments on peaches, State which
you wish.
Refuses to Let Artist
Paint the Death Chair
OSSINING, N. Y.—A painter who
said he wanted to paint a picture of
the electric at Sing Sing “for
the purpose'of art” has been refused
permission to do so by Warden
Lewis E. Lawes. The warden said
he thought art could get along
without a picture of that object, and
he was not moved from this position
by the painter’s plea that he had
to have the picture to hang In an
exhibit.
The warden said hanging would be
too good for it.
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Sow it in your corn and cotton at the Icist working, and
next year you can plant these two crops on the same land and.
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in the increased productiveness and improved mechanical con
dition of the soil.
CRIBASON CLOVER also makes an excellent winter and
spring grazing crop, the best of early green feed and a good
hay crop.
C©w Peas
For Forage and Soil'lmproving Crop
Pound for ppur.d, cow pea hay is as valuable a feed as
clover hay; it is nearly equal in value to alfalfa and wheat
bran. The U. S. Department of Agriculture says u "No one
thing can add more to the agricultural wealth of, the South
than growing of cow peas.”
Writ® for copy of our 1920 Fall Catalog giving prices and;
full Information about fall crops for Farm and Garden. Mailed
FREE on request.
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