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6 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. AFRAID OF •ne losing or- H SAVED I"I am satisfied” write, WOOD SHINOLESI If ■ $20.0Q |??' M. Carl We, Sr.. of Cleola. Ga. f , ™ nd . but 1 of .“.Li..H ' T ■ My barn it 80x40. Which xnaH® a can’’ wri •• Mr. W. R AUord. Pru .CMMlen Cettoo ■ alee barn. Fad no trouble In putting Roofing co. 1 saved Oil Co., Camdeo, Ala. BS STANDS ■ FVERWItt ROOFING price SS.6&tWE PAY Freight I ' DIRECT TO YOU FIREPROOF EASY TO PUT OH Guaranteed For 20 Years FIREPROOF- | "Everwear” Roofing <• OUR 30 DAT OFFER I Get your roof. ■ CAN’T FUST I Fireproof. Can’t rust. SAVES YOU MONEY | )nq . n ■ Easy to Bail on. Can be used on new build- pricee are low. We aell direct to you-Pay ■ Inga Dr nailed right over old wood ahinglM— the freight and ship quick. Be your own ■ quick and easy. Cornea in . big wide piece.; merchant and keep in your own pocket the ■ Galvanized''Nails. Roofing Sammer and profit the dealer would get. WRITE—TO- H M.i.l Cuttlog She.n IFOR tVEfeY DAY. Your name and -address on a postal ■ ,l1 OTde ’ 8 I BUILDING brine. BigFrnSam-l■ £S k “ 4B ’ ofiDß iTonsT 8 ! —/ .A Savannah Vance & Roofing Co, K VY* / JIL Dept. J, Savannah, Ga. can be nailed over S 3 IllL OLD WOOD SHINGLES il IlMl Plain Style or W J HI 111 I Shingle Pattern I EVERWEAR .dps *4| I | U| | lis made In shin- E* gj ij ■ , •j - I Sics, as shown on house, or plain aS jAagBB n El-.Mj las shown on barn. 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. | =: f| Rat/ Weevil, Fire, [ " 7 = i » Water and Thief Proof. < > Weevil, exposure, etc., may now be saved 4 ’ K by using a Dixie Com Crib con- .4 £ ?Irucl< 'il of genuine American Ingot Iron < ? scientific principles---and installed at f ■* . very little cost. Lasts a life-time. % < ► Corrugated construction—tight*strong and rigid. Perfect ventilating ► I ► system and can be made air-tight for fumigating purposes. Made in four J > sizes and we pay the freight. * Easily erected in a few hours. Will pay 4 ► for itself in a single season. most perfect and satisfactory Corn < b < ► Crib ever invented. *‘Cy ;s r " v 4 * 4> JFrite for Bulletin * No. 103 I > Giving Full Details and Prices < ► i; Dixie Culvert & Metal Co., z 5 ► Jacksonville ATLANTA Little Rock > Side dress your Cotton with GERMAN POTASH KAINIT 20 per cent MANURE SALT and NITRATE OF SODA 100 pounds of Manure Salt go as far as 160 pounds of Kainit and have the same effect as a plant food and plant disease preventive— Neither one will injure your crop. For prices write nearest Office of Nitrate Agencies Company Now York Norfolk Savannah Jacksonville New Orleans Houston, Tex. Stocks at other leading Atlantic and Gulf Ports Wo©m SEEDS IBSSial Crimson Clover The Wonderful Soil Improver 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. make bigger crops. It is considered worth S2O to §3O per acre 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. fTwTwOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, Richmond, - - - Virginia. tatttitar Just send coupon stating size and width—that's all. the shoes by mail. We want you to see these ; shoes at our risk. Examine them, try them on—and then decide aa to whether or not you to keep them. 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