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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9.
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ircnton Farmers With Corn-Cribs and Smoke-
Houses Well Filled and Cotton a Surplus
t Money Crop, Set a Splendid Example
The Pinch of War Depressed Cotton Prices Not Felt As
Among Farmers Who Have Not liaised Foodstuffs and
Jeedstuffs-'-Big Money Has Been Made in Truck---Rep
resentative Planter Sees in the Existing Situation a
Bright Hope for the Future of the South---Will Solve
Problem of Farm Labor and Teach the Cotton Planter the
Value of Raising Home Supplies
WALTER E. DUNCAN,
Staff Correspondent,
The Augusta Herald.
Trenton, S. C. —Favored with every
thing except a fair price for cotton,
not, however, by any means entirely
dependent upon their cotton crops, but
enabled to live while holding for the
better price they know must come,
farmers around Trenton are in posi
tion, should it became necessary, to
withstand a siege.
„ There is no more fertile land in
South Carolina than the fields em
braced in the magnificent farms and
plantations throughout this section,
as level as the floor of a room. These
farms have been developed to a high
state of productivity. In sight of the
station there are half a dozen Tine
country homes. One may stand on
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Low Cost of Living Menu
By MRS. RAY
THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST
Sliced Peaches
Crisp Bacon Rice Griddles
Coffee
LUNCHEON
Devilled Tomatoes
Graham Bread Cake
Cocoa
DINNER
Sliced Brisket
Hindu Potatoes Boiled Onions
Orange Salad Lulu Paste
Toasted Crackers Coffee
BREAKFAST
Rice Griddle*—Mix one cup of cold
cooked rice with one cup of milk, one
,‘KK, half a cup of flour and two tea
spoons of baking powder. Heat well
end took In small cakes on a griddle.
LUNCHEON
Devilled Tomatoes— Cse one pint to
matoes one hard boiled egg, the yolk
only two tablespoonfuls melted butter,
onu 'one-half taldespoonfuls vinegar, one
raw egg whipped light, one teaspoonful
powdered sugar, salt, mustard and pep
per; pound the boiled yoke, rub In but
ter and seasoning, beat light, add vine
gar heat almost to a boll, stir In the
beaten egg until mixture thickens, set
In hot water while you cut the tomatoes
In thick slices broil over a clear fire,
lay on a hot dish and pour hot sauce
over them. O|NNER
Hindu Potatoes—Cut two large pota
toes In cube* about an Inch square, place
it, saucepan with one tablespoon melted
butler. Season with salt cayenne pep
r»r and one teaspoon curry powder. Stir
thoroughly, then add one pint hot water,
let cook till potatoes are done.
Oranne Salad—Cut In thin slices arid
frve on el ute with the following
Boll together five minutes one
p <,r water and half n cup of sugar,
st before taking from the fire squeeze
In the Juice of a whole lemon. Chill
nnd pour over the salad.
Lulu Paste —cream half a cup of com
r or cheese wtth a quarter of a cup of
f. v minced onion. Add a teaspoon
, Wop .'Storehpe and a little paprika.
£- ; i e with toasted cracker*.
the station platform or ride along a
country road and view on all sides
one of the most splendid sights—field
after field of ripening crops, to feed
and to clothe man, to fatten cattle
j and stock. Trenton is a garden spot.
Around Trenton every farmer plants
cotton as a matter of course, but
hardly a farmer who does not produce
his food supply, his meat, his meal,
his flour, his feedstuffs, and in addi
tion enough to market —to help supply
those farmers elsewhere who grow all
cotton and must needs buy. Truck
constitutes a ready money crop in ad
dition to the surplus money crop
cotton.
Flour for Home Use.
Three miles from Trenton a mill
owned by Messrs. Irwin and Wal
ter Smith, cousins and big Edge
field planters, grinds each year
about 3,000 bushels of wheat
grown by the farmers in this sec
tion for their own consumption.
Here is also operated a large grist
mill. Not far away is another
good sized mill owned and operat
ed by Mr. T. P. Salter.
Only enough wheat is grown in this
section for the actual needs of the
growers and none for market, but
other grain crops are raised in abun
dance. It is nothing uncommon for
farmers around Trenton to carry over
from season’s end to season’s end
from 200 to 800 bushels of corn after
selling heavily of their corn crops;
and the present condition of affairs
find many of these farmers with their
corn cribs so well supplied from last
year that they are grinding up their
surplus new corn to feed to the pigs.
Fine Cattle Raised.
Senator Ben Tillman is not the only
Trenton farmer who raises cattle and
live stock, though the senator prob
ably does so on a larger scale than
any one else in this section. Tren
ton farmers have for many years been
making the most of their opportuni
ties. Cotton has not been the one
consideration, and for that reason the
condition of affairs suddenly thrust
upon the Southern country by the war
development in Europe, which has
crippled the financial system and de
pressed the price of cotton, does not
pinch them and present the problem
confronting tho average co'ton
grower. If it is the same problem it
is easier of solution.
For Instance, the farmers in this
section instead of facing the nec
essity of buying meat, have meat
to sell. A man living in the town
of Trenton told me that all the
meat that he has bought for sev
eral years past he has bought out
of the smokehouses of farmers,
and at a price corresponding with
those asked by the stores of ship
ped meat.
With fine pasture lands, and rais
ing profitable alfalfa and pea-vine
hay crop, farmers can produce beef
at something like 5 cents a pound and
pork from 3 to 4 cents, 1 am told. It
not only can be done here as else
where, but here it is done; and that
is what makes the difference.
Money in Asparagus.
Diversity is the word throughout
this favored section. Ready money
crops are raised before cotton fields
hardly need chopping out. Truck»rs
reap their harvest and find ready
markets for their produce.
There is a great deal of asparagus
grown around here. This past season
Mr. T. P. Salter shipped from SIOO to
$l5O worth of asparagus a day. Mr.
Salter is a farmer who grows cotton,
but raises enough of everything else
to supply his home and his farm. He
can grind up this year’s corn crop if
he likes and feed it to his hogs and
still have enough from last year to
ran him until another crop is made.
He has meat to supply his neighbors.
Mr. T. P. Bauknight, living two
miles from Trenton, one of the most
extensive planters of this section, can
—because he has grown everything
else he needs—hold every bale of his
cotton crop and get for it the better
price that is hound to come with the
return of normal times.
On Mr. Irvin Smith’s place he re
cently picked out sixteen Dales In two
days—only a small portion ot ms
crop—and like Mr. Bauknight, he is
in position to hold because he has not
depended entirely upon cotton. Mr.
Walter Smith is a farmer who farms
along the same broad, business-like
lines.
An Optimistic Farmer.
I talked with Mr. P. B. Day, one of
the most successful farmers of this
section. It Is encouraging, in view of
the existing conditions, to get the
viewpoint of a man who sees the light
ahead as does Mr. Day.
“In my opinion," said Mr. Day,
“while it is unfortunate and pre
sents a problem, the situation
brought about by the war is bound
to help the Southern farmer to
solve a broader problem, and one
which confronts us every year—
the problem with which we have
been wrestling so long—and that
Is, how to Induce the farmer to
depend less entirely on cotton and
diversify his crop so that he may
live at home. Educational cam
paigns have rooted the idea of di
versity in the farmers’ minds.
They are, I think, eager to take
advantage of their opportunities:
but the labor situation has made
It impossible for many of them
to do so. Now, labor conditions
are going to be straightened out.
It is Inevitable.
"Here as elsewhere,” continued Mr.
Day, “we have had the greatest dif
ficulty in getting farm hands except
negroes to work as share-croppers—
and they don’t want to raise anything
but the cotton that can be turned
Into ready money as soon as It is
gathered. It has been practically Im
possible to get wages hands. The
negroes have grown too independent.
“Conditions which are bound to ob
tain next year will serve to relieve
the situation so far as labor is con
cerned. It is going to be impossible
for everybody to get advances from
the banks with which to raise cotton.
The farmers will be able to get any
kind of help they want, and profiting
by this year's experience, they are
going to be compelled to turn their
attention to raising foodstuffs and
fed stuffs.
"And another thing. Farmers spend
too much money. They have grad
ually. as a class, grown Into extrava
gance, with high cotton prices. This
will call a halt. But I see no reason
why any one should get discouraged
or excited. Cotton warehouse receipts
are as good as money, and the coun
try has not gone to the dogs. Experi
ence is the best teacher and some les
sons—the lessons that teach us the
most—are those that cause us to suf
fer so that we will not soon forget
them. Yes, I believe this is a God
send. It had to be to bring home
some truths to the farmer that he
needed to have impressed upon him—
particularly that growing cotton is
not farming.”
Needless to say, Mr. Day will hold
every bale of his cotton. lie has not
begun ginning yet.
A Big Help.
Mr. Day is another farmer who has
made money out of truck growing.
This year he had 30 acres in aspara
gus. He told me that he has in the
past cleared as much ns $125 an acre
on asparagus, although the cost of
growing and preparing it far ship
ment is high, since it required heavy
fertilization—about SSO to the acre.
I have passed through Trenton at
this season of the year when the de
pot platform would be loaded with
cotton hales. 1 counted only six there
today. With conditions as they are
throughout this section—the farmers
with cribs and smokehouses filled
with hog and hominy—there is no
question but that everybody will hold
cotton until they can market it to ad
vantage.
The War in America
Atlanta, Ga. —The telegraph wires
brought in three queer little stories of
“The War in America” today which
were lost in them as of cable reports.
At Fargo, S. D., Fritz Laemmle, a line
man, is a German. He was working at
the top of a telephone pole with Jan
Ruskyn, a Russian. They began a war
argument and Laemmle broke It up by
hurling the Russ into a ditch. Then
the whole crew joined in a fight which
called out the county officers.
At Indianapolis, Henri Gambe, a
French chef In a leading hotel, resigned
because the boss insisted on his filing a
guest’s order for German fried potatoes.
He swore that no German dishes should
leave his kitchen while he was on the
job.
♦ A Chicago, in a big State street move
theater, tile picture was a skirmish of
the war in Europe. When the pictures
of the Belgian king appeared a German
visitor or two raised a hoot, and a riot
was precipitated. It required a squad
of police to restore order.
BUY A BALE
OF
COTTON
BUY A BALE OF COTTON—we
have bought a bale. Have you bought
yours yet?
M. Rich & Bro. Co., of Atlanta, has
bought 50 bales Thirty-one employes
of this firm have each bought a bale
of cotton.
Hotels throughout the South are
buying a bale or two tof cotton and
storing It prominently In the lobbies,
tagged 10 cents or better.
Labor unions, led by the action of
the Atlanta Typographical Union, are
pledging themselves to buy and store
a bale or two of cotton.
Turner Brice Co., wholesale grocers
at Douglas, Ga., have bought 50 bales.
Merchants throughout the 3outh are
buying a bale of cotton and storing
same in their windows and show
rooms.
The Buick Co., In Atlanta, has
bought 11 bales and is storing It in
their show rooms.
Memphis is preparing to Join Atlan
ta, Augusta, Athens, Rome, Winder,
Waynesboro, Covington, Columbia and
other cities in the South in the Buy
a Bale Movement.
President Woodrow Wilson has
bought a bale and Joined the Southern
movement to save the cotton crop.
Dallas, Texas, Is also organizing a
Buy a Bale movement.
Southern houses are asking all the
Northern and Western houses with
whom they do business to Join the
movement.
Commercial travelers all over the
South have endorsed the movement
and will push the slogan. Buy a Bale
of Cotton.
Have you bought yours yet?
The National I.oan and Exchange
Bank of Columbia, S. through Its
officers and employes, bought 27 bales
In Columbia yesterday.
Trade bodies, Boards of Trade, Mer
chants and Manufacturers Associa
tions, Civic Clubs, banks, merchants
and professional men, all over the
South, have endorsed the movement
and are mots heartily co-operating.
Augusta, as the second largest. In
land cotton center in the South, s
thoroughly aroused to the importance
of this movement.
Augusta’s Manufacturers and Mer
chants Association are considering
plans to launch this movement in the
trade territory of Augusta In Georgia
and South Carolina.
The Atlanta plan calls upon the cot
ton concentration centers. Augusta,
Macon, Athens, Rome, Columbus, Sa
vannah and other cities, to help In the
Buy a Bale Movement.
The plan as suggested by the At
lanta committee Is as follows:
"First, that, the following form of
subscription blanks be used:
"Enclosed please find check amount
ing to $ for which you are au
thorized to buy for my or our account
bales of distressed cotton at
the rate of 10 cents per pound at point
of shipment—basts good middling.
Please send warehouse receipt to
cover.
"If the cotton exceeds 500 pound*
per bale I or we agree to pay for the
excess at the rate of 10 cents per
pound; If the cotton weigh* less than
600 pounds per bale you are to refund
me or us the difference at the rate of
10 cents per pound.
”1 or we agree to hold this cotton
for a period of one year, or until the
market price exceeds 10 cents per
pound.
FHE AUGUSTA HERA' aUGUSTA, GA*
THURSDAY SPECIALS
GROCERIES SS” SURETY COUPONS SSi
Flour, Golden Harvest, 24
t p r. ndbae 97c
Flour, Self Rising no
24 pound bag .. . *JO C
Hams,Dove Brand, oi
pound AIC
Lemons, Fancy, I *7
dozen 1 I C
Potatoes, New, or
peck ODC
Butter, Creamery, Ol
pure and sweet . . 04C
Cheese, full OO
cream, lb LdC
Breakfast Bacon, on
strips, lb iIUC
Rice, fancy
head, 10 lbs DOC
Cottolene, No. OQ
10 cans 1 •£*/
Mackerel, 8 lb. OQ>«
kit afOC
DOUBLE SURETY
COUPONS
Before Noon mean 5c
Saved on Every
Dollar.
"Second, that the state of Georgia
be divided into the following concen
tration points: Albany, Amorims, Ath
ens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Ma
con, Rome, Savannah and any other
cities that can duplicate the work in
their respective trade terirtories. The
papers in the foregoing cities are re
quested to publish names of farmers
having distressed cotton for sale at
least two days before the purchase of
cotton by the committee.
“Third, that the Atlanta zone in
clude the following counties: Fulton,
Cobb, Bartow, Forsyth, Habersham,
Stephens, Gwinnet, Walton, Morgan,
Newton Rockdale, DeKalb, Greene,
Clayton, Henry, Butts, Fayette, Camp
bell, Coweta, Troup, Douglas Heard,
Ppaldlng, Meriwether, Pike Haralson
and Paulding.
“Fourth, that the following appli
cation forms be filled in by farmers
having distressed cotton and be pub
lished in the daily newspapers and he
mailed direct to this committee. Upon
approval orders will be placed with
buyers to be selected by this commit
tee for confirmation:
“Application to the buy-a-bale-of
cotton committee:
“I own or lease acres In
county near city, state of Geor
gia. My crop this year is bales.
I desire to sell bales. Refer
ences
“In consideration of this sale I agree
to reduce my acreage in cotton by 25
per cent for the season of 1916. (Sig
natured.)”
Livestock dealers and fertilizer com
panies in many sections are allowing
cotton producers 10 cents for their
cotton on their accounts.
Here is what a Macon firm is doing;
Macon, Ga. —Waterman & Co., one
of the oldest livestock establishments
in this community, has adopted a plan
which this firm believes will prove a
great help to farmer customers, who
bought mules and horses on time to
make the present crop.
Although the present market for
good cotton is little better than seven
emts, during the present month the
producer who owes for his mules or
horses at Waterman’s can pay the debt
with cotton at ten cents per pound.
This is an offer intended only for the
bona fide producer.
“It is our expression of faith in the
future value of cotton," said Henry
Waterman, Jr., "and also a determina
tion on our part to step in and help
the farmer to resist the starvation
prlci which the open market is offer
ing him.”
This is a plan which It Is now be
lieved will be largely followed by fer
tilizer dealers and other supply mer
chants who realize that It Is a dutv
incumbent upon them to help their
farmer customers to get more nearly
what would be a normal market value
of the cotton.
UREAMIC COMA
BRIGHTS DISEASE
A young man called and asked If
we knew him. He looked to weigh
200 pounds and was the picture of
health. He proved to be George W.
Newton, with the H. P. R. R. Company,
Sacramento, Cal.
Hl* previous visit was nearly 10
years ago. He came with his father.
He was drowsy with uresmlc poison
ing due to Bright's Disease and was
In the edge of coma. Ills physician
had told .itn father he could live but
a short time.
Fulton's Renal Compound wag ad
ministered with eliminative* to help
restrain the pending erlsl*. In three
month* he was able to go home. The
above I* the sequel.
The ability of Fulton's Remit Com
pound to oppose Renal degeneration
and reduce albumen In many case* of
Hright's Disease Is not a matter of
opinion but a FACT IN PHVHICR
\\p will mall formula for albumen test
that will show the percentage from
week to week. A* the albumen de
clines Improvement commonly follows,
recoveries having been reported In
thousands of cases. Formula and lit
erature mailed on request. John J.
Fulton Co., Han Francisco. Green At
1 Horsey are agent. Ask toPf, •nph!«L
CANNED MEATS
Herring, 1 lb., OQ
3 cans L«/C
Herring Roe, OO
3 cans mi C
Shad Roe, or
2 cans JJC
Shad, 1 lb,, 97/»
3 cans C
Salmon, Pink, 1 lb. QA
3 cans DUC
Salmon, 1 lb. Columbia
River, 2 cans or
for OvC
Salmon, Vg lb. OP
Flats, 3 cans .. .. CaO C
Tripe, large can, OO
2 cans JOC
Brains, large can, or
2 cans Oi/C
Sardines, French, or
2 cans LaO C
Sausage Meat, o*7
3 cans t* I C
Chip Beef, O O
2 cans £OC
Diarrhoea Quickly Cured.
“My attention was first called to
Chamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy as much as twelve
years ago. At that time I was se
riously 111 with summer complaint.
One dose of this remedy checked tho
trouble," writes Mrs. C. W. Florence,
Hoekfleld, Ind. For sale by alt
dealers.
BEARCH AMERICAN MAIL
Washington. —The German embassy
announced Tuesday receipt of the fol
lowing wireless message from Its for
eign office:
“The English seize or search nil
KIDNEY OR
BLADDER WEAK?
Just Mix Juniper and Buchu.
Old Folks’ Recipe.
The symptoms of diseased kldneyß
and bladder; Scalding, dribbling,
straining or to frequent passage of
urine; forehead and the back-of-tho
head aches; stitches and pains In the
back; growing muscle weakness;
spots before the eyes; yellow skin;
sluggish bowels; swollen eyelids or
ankles; leg cramps; unnatural short
breath; sleeplessness and the despond
ency; Diabetes, Bright’s Disease. The
moment you have any of the above
symptoms or a dull backache and
rheumatic twinges, get from any re
liable druggist a bottle of Stuart's
Buchu and Juniper. Take a table
spoonful after meals. Drink plenty
of pure, fresh water and abstain from
eating sugar, sweets or highly season
ed foods. Your kidneys and bladder
will then act fine and natural. Stu
art’s Buchu and Juniper has been used
for generations to flush clogged kid
neys, also to neutralize the acids in
urine so It no longer hurts you to pass
water. Stuart’s Ruchu and Junipei
Cornopund is old folks' recipe for kid
ney trouble.
Richmond Terrace
Lot, 50x150 foot, price SIOO per lot.
Titles allright. Location fine. Terms easy.
On southern slope of The Ilill.
Six eents a day buys one.
Only 30 left at this price and on these terms.
See me, or phone before they are sold.
J.Hardwick Jackson
Phone 3446. 409 Dyer Bldg.
SNOWDRIFT
COMPOUND
No. 4 48c
No. 10 SI.OB
No. 20 $2.15
PURE LARD
No. 5.. 82c
No. 10 $1.60
No. 20 $3.05
COFFEE
Rio, pound 19c
E. C. D., pound .. . .29c
Surety, pound 33c
FOR ICED TEA USE
J. B. White Special 40
Blend, 60c for . . 40C
Jelly, pure apple, or
3 glasses mDC
Ketchup, Bull Head, 3
bottles *l r
for .. .... .. . ZDC
Jam, any kind, on 1
3 glasses C* I C
Olives, plain or or
stuffed, 3 bottles . mJC
American mail destined for Germany
found in Dutch steamers. The Amer
icans and relatives of Americans stay
ing hero aro very uneasy on account
of the Impossibility of getting news
from the other side."
BOYS’
SCHOOL SUITS
-at-
One-Third Off
Made by the Best
Tailors.
Stylish, Serviceable,
Satisfactory.
McCreary's
1 —.l
“Home of Good Clothes”
CANNED
VEGETABLES
Peas, Early June, rr
6 cans DDC
Tomatoes, No. 3, ra
6 cans 040
Corn, Sugar, AQ~
6 cans 40C
String Beans, MQ
6 cans 40C
Sweet Potatoes, OQ
No. 3, 3 cans.. .. Z«/C
Beets, Baby, 2 OQ
Asparagus Tips, 4 0
3 cans 40C
Tomatoes and Green Pep
per, 2 cans or
for 00C
Lima Beans, 3 o*7
cans OfC
Lye Hominy, No. 3, or
3 cans £OC
Tomatoes, No. 2, if
6 cans 40C
Pumpkin, No. 3, OQ
3 cans LaO C
We carry a Full Lina
of
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
Stationery Department
Ist floor.
FOR APPENDICITIS.
Aberdeen, Scotland, (via London,
1:15 p. m.) Prince Albert, second non j
•it King (leorge, has been operated on i
for appendicitis. Ills condition Is re
ported today satisfactory.
Prince Albert was taken from tha
Hrltlsh cruiser Colllngwood the early
part of the month and brought hero
for the operation. He Is an officer In 4
the .British navy.
1 «»« ■ i ,
Chamberlain’s Liniment.
If you are ever troubled with aches,
pains or soreness of the muscles, you
will appreciate the good qualities of
Chamberlain's Liniment. Many suf
ferers from rheumatism and sciatica
have used It with the best results. It
Is especially valuable for lumbago and .
lama back. For sale by all dealers, *
Bailie-
Edelblut
Furniture
Company
Special
Thursday
Sale
Now te the time buy
your Rugs,before prices
advance.
Seamlofcs Wilton Rugs,
all sizes,
Seamed Wilton Rugs,
all sizes,
Axminster Rugs, all
sizes,
Burmu Wool Rugs, all
sizes,
Crex Rugs, all sizes,
Matting Rugs, all sizes.
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