The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-11-08
HARVIN.

Eighty-tive per cent. of the cotton
crop in this section Of Clarendon has
been picked and ginned. That which
has not been picked at all this sea.
son and much OF it is on the ground
from the recent winds and heavy
rains. It goes without saying that
cotton that has been opened IN the
fields since the first OF September
and none of it picked from these
ereas yet is very much damaged.
The bales weights this season are
the lightest in years. Experienced
cotton buyers in the Manning mar
ket are my authority for this state
ment. There is little or no crop OF
cotton worth naming and that which
is coming on will never mature, az
frost will come too early for complete
maturity of some. The average in
bales weights is about II per cent.
under the past season, so deduct
this differential from the crop glnned
averaging 500 pounds to the bale for
the standard weight, and when the
whCle is complete, at the best, there
will not be over 12,900,000 bales gin
ned of an average of 500 pounds to
the bale. Put these figures down
and watch the final final ginners'
report. A prominent gentleman
whose business carries him over the
entire county, told this correspond.
ent some days ago that there would
be at least 1900 bales of cotton that
would never be harvested in iClaren-
don county, that it would either rot
in the pods or fall to the ground and
never be picked. This is apparently
g. conservative estimate. it is prac-
tical to assume that what Is true Of
this county where there is all aver
age amount Of labor for harvesting.
as compared with most any other
section of the South, is true of the
remainder OF the cotton producing
erea.
The corn crop is good through
here. 1t has been a profitable crop
this season. This is true OF the hay
crop. Ehe pea crop is poor.
A movement to make the old Plow-
den Mill Road extending from the
Manning-Sumter public road to a
point near Plowden's Mill and which
has been /. travelled road for more
than a hundred years, q public road,
Strengthening out same and extend
ing same so as to connect it with
each road as q public road. This
road has grown gradually in import
ance, and especially so since Mr.. J.
B. Brogdon has established first
class ginnery and grist mill It Har
win, and since it is now used as a
portion of rural free delivery route.
Mrs. J. B. Brogdon is quite i'll with
typhoid fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Arthur Hodge
who were married some weeks ago
in Sumter and went to New York on
their wedding tour, are still in 10th
am seeing the sights and enjoying
themselves.
Mr.. Paul S. Haryin is confined to
his home with the grip.
Mr.. J. J. Nettles is the proud pos
SCISSOR of a brand new 40 horse power,
fore door flanders automobile, which
he bought of that live and progress
i've firm, the Shaw Moter Co., Of
Sumter.
Prof. and Mrs. Jake Harvin have
charge of the Perry, S. C. graded
schools for this scholaristic year.
makes the fourth year of their teach
ing.
Miss Eunice McFaddin and Mr..
Walter Mcleod Hodge attended the
State f,lir last week.
Mrs. Six Harvin is quite i'll. having
recently suffered stroke of paraly-
sis.
Mr.. A. N. Keels has completed and
move into his new residence.
n. n. B.