The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-06-28

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FROM LAKE CITY,
CROP PROSPECTS GOOD---TRUCK
BRINGING FINE PRICES--SPLEN-
DID OUTLOOK FOR TOBACCO.
Lake City, June 26:-Tobacco is
probably the best conditioned crop IN
this section at present. Some few
fields were damaged by hail a month
ago, and now and then struggling,
stunted patch is seen. but taking the
country generally this crop is good.
and is 80 nearly matured that it may
be regarded probably safe. Some
lugs have been sold, and several barns
are being filled this week.
The best Of the cottonis knee high
and a little more. while most of it is
small for the season. OF course the
cool weather that prevailed upto the
middle of June was very unfavorable
to the proper growth of this staple.
Recent hot sunshine and warm nights
are now developing it rapidly, and
there will probably be a fairly good
crop, but hardly an average crop:
The acreage in corn considerably
greater than usual, but it is small.
On the other hand it islooking thrift
ty and recent rains will probably
send it much further up to its place
in the sun.
The truckers have Jared we'll this
spring and fortune abideswith them
yet. Of>course the peas, strawber-
ries, beans and squashesh have all been
marketed. The returns from these
crops we're good, and very satisfac-
tory. For the first time in history
Irish potatoes have been grown here
for maaket. andgrown 30 extensively
that they were shipped by the car
load. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that they brought fine prices, for
everybody knows how exceedingly
high potatoes are selling now.
The leading vegetables moving
now are cucumbers and sweet corn.
One may seea car load ofcucumbers
here almost any time now. and these
things are bringing real money too.
It is almost a case of selling water
for money, as ascucumbersare nothing
more than water crystalized by sun.
shine. When a fellow strikes it
right" there is no crop that pays bet.
ter for this section than "cukes" and
some of our erocers struck it just
right" this year. After the crop is
marketed, we will give some figures
on the returns from few acres.
The Lake City tobacco market will,
we understand, open officially on July
12, It is announced that the New
Star warehouse" will be completed
by that date, and will be ready to
open its doors along with the other
warehouses. The combined floor
space of this market will then be in
the neighborhood of one hundred
thousand square feet-probably suf-
ficient space to handle in three mon
tbs every pound of tobacco grown in
the State. Last summer it was an
nounced that the Imperial Tobacco
Co would handle at its Lake City
factory all the tobacco purchased by
this company in this State and ad-
joining markets of North Carolina:
If this announcement holds good. and
there is every reason to believe that
it will, the plant will be run from
the middle of July to some time in
1918. and this means that there will
be six or eight hundred hands draw.
ing good wages for some time. All
things indicate that the coming sea-
son will be the greatest for Lake
CITY in the history of tobacco grow
ing and that hereafter no other mar
ket will even aspire higher than Sec
ond place.
So far Lake City has twenty.nine
Young men in the service of your
Uncle Samuel. Some are in the navy,
and are probably in European waters
now: others are in the army, some
NAV be on their way to France. and
others are in training to do their bit.
Messrs W A McClam and B A Cook