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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
PUT IMPLEMENTS IN REPAIR
Troublesome and Costly Delays May
Be Avoided by Getting Tools In
Working Order Early.

ePrepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture.)
All users Of farm implements should
anticipate, so far as practicable, the
necessity for repairs and replacements
sufficiently in advance Of the working
season to make it possible to put their
supplements in good working condition
before the spring operations begin.
This is the gist Of telegram from the
secretary of agriculture to E. w. Nc
Cullough of Chicago, secretary of the
National Implement and Vehicle asso-
citation. Secretary Houston's telegram
was in response to one from Mr.. Nc.
Cullough advising him that manufac.
turers of and dealers in all lines Of
farm operating equipment have agreed,
in the interest Of economy and conser-
vation, to join in urging farmers to in.
spect their equipment and to order
necessary parts in advance Of the time
they are needed.
Manufacturers and dealers declare
that If they can know sufficiently In
advance the needs Of the farmers for
repair parts, these parts can be sup
piled when they are needed. If the
needs are not known to the manufac-
turers and dealers until the actual
time for use, troublesome and costly
delays are likely to be caused-delays
that may be felt in decreased produc-
ton at harvest.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
PARSLEY POINTED A MORAL
Youngster Quick to See the Point
Which His Father Was Endeav-
oring to Make.

In an Indiana town where crooked
ness in city affairs has been reigning
for years, lucrative position was Of
fered to lawyer. 1t was not because
the salary itself was so large, but the
possibilities the position offered were
many. But still a string was attached
and the lawyer knew it. So he turned
down the job.
His high-school son was provoked be-
cause his father had not accepted. lie
grumbled about it in subtle little ways
for several days and then one day his
father came to school after the boy to
accompany him to friends farm.
Once there he showed the delighted
youngster all over the farm. last visit
ing the pen in which the hogs were be-
ing fed for the market.
The boy eyed them few minutes
and then asked, "What Is that they're
eating so ravenously?"
The farmer answered: "Why, that's
parsley. It's the best hog fattener l
know of. We just turn them into a
patch of parsley and they do the rest
themselves. It's too good picking for
them to resist. When 1 decide that q
pig is almost ready for the market !
just turn him into the parsley patch,
and soon he's just in the right condi-
tion to so to the slaughtering house"
"It's too bad they don't know what's
coming to them 80 that they stay away
from the parsley patch," laughed the
boy. "I'm sure I would i: were to
turn hog"
His father merely looked at him for
a minute and then he said: Parsley
always has looked like graft to me-
very inviting, easy to get, and plenty
of it while it lasts, and then at the
end inevitably the slaughtering pen.'
This time the boy understood.-1ndi-
annapolis News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
The War Cost of Cotton.

The following summary of report
made by H. F. Bachmann & Com
pany of New York will be interesting
to cotton farmers:
For the four years prior to the war
the cotton farmer received an aver
age price of IL cents per pound for
his cotton, against an average of 1874
Icents for the four-year war period,
representing an increase of 36.6 per
cent. The wheat farmer received an
average of 85.2 cents per bushel for
the four years prior to the war,
against 149.5 per bushel for the four
war years, an increase of 1855 per
cent. For the four crops prior to the
war the cotton farmers received to-
tai Of $3,284,157 ,OO8, and although
there was a reduction of 41,081,
600 pounds in cotton production du-
ring the four war years as compared
with the four anti-war years, he only
received total of S3,908,720,133
for these four crop failures, total
increase of only s624,563,125, or 19
per cent. The wheat farmer produced
453,85S,0O0 bushels more wheat du-
ring the four war years than he pro-
duced during the four anti-war years,
but he received for these four crops
4,513,12O,955, an increase of ST.
|1S4,373,344, or 93.3 per cent. In
other words, the wheat increase in
value during the war was $1,557, ITO,
218, or 249 per cent greater than the
cotton increase in value.
According to this estimate wheat
has increased in value during the
war 249 per cent more than cotton.
This shows the handicap under which
cotton growers have labored. Not on
ly have they had drouth causing short
crops, but during the war they were
forced to sacrifice their help, pay war
prices for everything used, and since
the armistice, have the embargo con-
tinued while the spectators beat the
market down.
The estimates and comparisons
made above have. been taken from
reports and bulletins published by the
United States department Of agricul-
ture. This does not include the ex-
pense cotton growers have incurred
in holding cotton, nor the loss to the
business men largely interested in
and dependent on cotton.
Will the growers Of cotton and the
business men of the South and South
west continue such a marketing sys-
tenn for cotton? Will they be willing
to let spectators take advantage Of
war, peace or any industrial distur-
bance to the detriment Of cotton
growers and their friends who are f.
|nancially interested in the staple?-
Farm and Ranch
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
cuItivating a Field of Soy Beans.

'viability quite readily, and unless the
seed is of the 1918 crop or has been
properly cured and stored tests should
lbe made to learn If the seed Is Of high
termination.
The variety to be grown is Of prime
importance, and the grower should
lselect one suited to his locality. The
flate varieties for forage or seed are
best suited to southern conditions, al
sthough the Virginia and Haberlandt,
both medium late varieties, have given
most excellent results under southern
conditions for seed, forage and pas
turage. The best late varieties are
Biloxi, Mammoth Yellow and Tokyo.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
SOILS READY FOR FLOWING
overzealous Gardeners Waste Time
and Do Harm by Getting on
Them Too Early.

A simple test to find out when gar
den soil Is ready for plowing or work
ing is to pick up handful and close
the hand tightly on it. If the earth
falls apart when the hand is opened
it is dry enough for cultivation. This
test applies largely to fairly heavy
soils, but these are the soils that are
most liable to injury from working
them when too wet. Overzealous gar
deners waste time and actually do
harm on heavy soils by getting on
them too early.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
siIyerite a New Metal.

A new development In the alloyins
of aluminium with other metals has
just been accomplished by the produc,
ton of "silverte." This metal is some
thing entirely new and is composed OF
a mixture of aluminium and copper
zinc and steel in varying proportions
according to requirements. The alloy
ing of steel with aluminium is some
what s.drtling and at first thought
seems to be impossible, yet it is sue
cesSfuI.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
SUMMONS
State of South Carolina,
County of Edgefield,

In Court of Common Pleas.
]. W. Stewart and L. S. Kernaghan,
partners in trade under the style
of Stewart and Kernaghan-Plain-
tiffs-against A. C. Mayson-De-
fendant.
(To the Defendant Above Named.)
You are hereby summoned and re-
quired to answer the Complaint in
this action, of which copy is here
with served upon you and to serve a
copy of your answer to the said COM
plant on the subscriber at his office,
Edgefeld, S. C. within twenty days af
ter the service hereof exclusive of the
day Of service, and if you fail to ans
wer the complaint within the time a.
foresaid, the Plaintiffs in this action
will apply to the court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
N. G. EVANS,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
March 26, 1919.
To A. c. Mayson, nonresident De-
fendant:
You Will Please Take Notice That
the Summons and Complaint in this
action was filed in the office of Clerk
of Court of Edgefeld County, S. c.,
on the 9th day of March, 1919.
N. G. EVANS,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
April %, 1919.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
uneonvineina camoufaae.

"Germany's camouflage republican
ism," said Rear Admiral Taylor. IRE
minds me Of beggar."
''This beggar had been blind, but
one Cay he hustled up to a patron
looked him In the eye, and demanded
aims.
"Why,' said the patron. have yor
recovered your sight?'
1.-The beggar nodded.
"'You see,' he explained, my dog
died, and not having time to train an
other l had to become deaf ant
dumL.'"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
SOY BEAN SEED AND
VARIETIES TO GROW
=,
Supply From 1918 Crop Reported
Less Than That of 1917.
Well for Buyer to Make termination
Tests as Seed Loses It's Vitality
Quite ReadiIy-variety Is
of Importance.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.)
AS the supply Of the 1918 crop Of soy
beans for seed is reported less than the
1917 crop, it Is advisable at this time
to look forward to supplies Of seed of
desirable varieties and prices. 1t Is not
likely that the prices will be much low
er than at the present time. Undoubt-
edly much of the 1917 crop Of seed will
be sold this season. 1t is well for the
buyer as we'll as the grower who has
his ov-u supply Of seed to make germi-
nation tests. Soy bean seed loses its
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-04-30
MARKETING LETTUCE IN LOTS
When Sold in Barrels to Small Grocer
There Is Always Remnant or
Two WiIted.

Lettuce should be marketed If pos
sible in small packages. When sold in
barrels to small grocers there is near
ly always remnant after day or
two which is wilted and hard to sell.
Small packages are much better for
retailers with a limited trade because
they can sell a basket or two every
day and buy a fresh lot the next day.
This plan is better for producer, re-
taller ed consumer. 1t counts for
larger sales, larger prices and smaller
losses.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-11
MISS RYAN TELLS
OF FASHION SHOW
Most Elaborate Display of De
signs Conducted For
Many Years
THE BAN ON FASHION Is OFF

Miss Katherine M. Ryan of th,
Golden Rule Mercantile company O
this city and her sister Miss Theresa
OF the Salida Golden Rule store, who
are on their annual purchasing ex
pedition in New York, advise tina,
they arrived in time to attend the
grand fashion show at New York last
week, as special guests of the man.
agement.
The New York fashion in Gotham
carried the greatest display of artis-
tic designs ever shown in that city,
This fashion show was under more
or less of ban during the war, but
with the signing of the armistice the
designers of Paris, London and New
York set to work to surprise one an
other and to startle the world. The
show was attended by the followers
OF fashion from all parts of the
United States as we'll as Europe
Ladies wraps were displayed val
ued as high as $4,000. These were
worn by the most striking models
the world artists could gather to-
gether. Evening dresses and ball
gowns valued at $4,000 were num-
erous. The display included a show
of ladies', misses and children
spring dresses, suits, wraps and
lingerie, making dazzling array of
style, style, style.
Miss Ryan advises that the styles
this year are strikingly different
from anything heretofore shown and
were the fruits of the genius of the
world designers, who had had leisure
time to plan while the war was rag
ing.
Miss Ryan will return in about
SIX week time, after having made
suitable selections of stock for the
local store.
Mr.. Ryan left the first of the week
and arrived in New York Thursday
% assist with the buying.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-11
BINGHAM COUNTY
WAS NOT DIVIDED
Facts Furnished From Records by
Local Officials Defeated the
Bill for Division
FINAL VOTE WAS 20 TO a8

The Bingham county division bill
has been killed by vote Of 29 to 26
and It is not expected that any fur
ther effort will be made at this ses-
sion.
After the case of the Bonneville
men had been stated, the committee
wanted information from Bingham to
see if their claims were correct, and
information was promptly compiled
by Commissioner James Christensen,
County Clerk F. M. Fisher, former
County Clerk J. T. Carruth, now reg
lister of the land office, and when it
was resented by our representatives
Robbins and Yorgesen, it clinched
the matter with twenty-nine mem
bers of the house who defeated the
measure.
The Bonneville men made the old
mistake of making statements that
could not be sustained by the record
GNU thCy WOAJ uoWu III urlthJ DIS
they deserved to. Bingham county
is building road thru the range to
connect those settlemerT8 with
Blackfoot, and when that IN finished
the contention will probably cease.
Senator Lee communicated with
the Republican office and asked us
to extend the thanks of the delega-
tion to Christensen, Fisher and Car
ruth for the timely aid they gave in
furnishing facts from the records
that defeated the bill.
We think we voice the sentiments
Of the people Of this county when we
thank them for their service and
include Lee, Yorgesen and Robbins,
all of whom were equally active in |
the task.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-11

SCREWS TO TIGHTEN
ON ARMISTICE LAWS
German Compliance to
Will of Victorious AL
lies to be Forced
CHANGES TO BE
MADE in PLANS

PARIS, Feb. S.-The supreme wal
council Is reported to have reached
decision at yesterdays meeting that
1t was necessary to impose more
severe conditions upon Germany for
the renewal Of the armistice, because
OF Germany's attitude toward the
fulf1llment Of her obligations. De-
cisions are also said to have been
reached for the control of German
demobilization and of the produc-
tion OF plants formerly engaged In
producing war material.
1t is expected that the means for
securing the execution of the condi-
tions laid down will be reached ut
Mondays session of the council.
Clamenceau, the French premier
asserted Sunday, Feb. 8 that it would
have been more accurate IL he had
said that there is lull in the storm
rather than to have declared that
the war has been won, he added.
"At least, 1t is as we'll to face
squarely all the possibilities
Altho Germany had been beaten
militarily and had been largely dis
armed, there still remained, the pre-
mier pointed out, a chaotic, but
fruitful Russia from which the
Teutons may draw great help" 4
The premier made 1t plain hat
II the society Of nations is to be as
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-11
DUBOIS PROJECT
LOOMING LARGE
Congressional Delega-
ton Soidly Behind
Dubois Project
is INCLUDED
THE OMNIBUS BILL

Judge Andersen wires from Wash.
ington that our congressional dele
cation is solidly behind the Dubois
project, and 1t is included in the ON
nibull bill for all reclamation pro-
iects. The appropriation bill to
provide funds for them, Is now in the
hands of the committee and we win
or lose along with the whole lineup
of reclamation and drainage projects.
The association here is sending
more men and money to Washington
to sustain the work by personal ef-
forts to convince the opposition that
it is the proper thing to loan money
in this way to create new wealth
while furnishing employment to
stave of Bolshevism and labor PAN
les. The Dubois project is gaining
friends every day, and the newspap-
ers Of three states are giving a great
amount Of publicity to the resources
of the upper Snake river valley.
Charles e. Harris and Senator L..
r. Thomas have engaged to speak
before the Commercial club and the
Rotary club at Pocatello on Tuesday
and Thursday nights, explaining the
plan Of the big undertaking, to more
than double the irrigated area of the
empire tributary to Pocatello as q
wholesale center. II the present
measure should fail of enactment in
this session the association will start
right in again to get another meas
ure up to the new congress after the
fourth Of March, and plans are al
ready being mapped out in the Re-
publican office to launch a nation
wide campaign thru large list of
commercial and manufacturing in
stitutions to bring pressure upon the
members of congress who manifest
or opposition. and to Sc
cure a rather extended mention of
it in q vast number Of newspapers
scattered from coast to coast. II the
present measure succeeds, then the
publicity work will be pushed on
slightly different lines, with a view
of interesting the home-seekers so
far as they can be reached in all the
states. For this If for no other pur-
pose, the membership campaign will
have to be pushed vigorously to pro-
vide funds for the enormous postage
iblls to carry the communications to
the right men.
The measures now before congress
are house bills numbers 1861 and
1850.
The county commissioners have
turned in $500 and II It seem needed
later on, they will appropriate some
more.
Senator F. F. Dubois is busyins
on the Dubois project in
Washington and is a big leader.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-11
CATTLEMEN TO
MEET IN BOISE
State Control of Grazing
and Forest Fees to
be Considered
CONVENTION WILL
BE HELD FEB. 1920

The fourth annual convention o
the Idaho Cattle & Horse Growers
association of which Clay Vance il
president and L. E. Dillingham; sec
retary, is set for February 19 and q
at Boise, Idaho.
This association is composed
largely of cattle and horse growers o.
the state who run their live STOCK
upon the public domain and the ma
tiOnal forests and has a membership
of around $4,000.
The association was organized al
Pocatello in 1914 and has held con.
ventions in Pocatello, Boise and
Idaho Falls.
Owing to the fact that very ma
terial increase in grazing fees on the
forests is likely, and also owing to
the fact that legislative matters af-
fecting the industry are up for con-
sideration, there is an indication that
the attendance at the fourth annual
convention in Boise will be the larg-
est one in the history of the associa-
tion.
During the existence of this asso-
citation it has been instrumental in
keeping down grazing fees on the
forests and in bringing about i'm
proved conditions and securing a
five-year term permit for grazing
stock on the forests instead of one
as heretofore. 1t has advocated and
has brought about rule attaching
the right to Craze live stock on for
ests to the ownership of ranch prop
erty instead of to the ownership OF
livestock.
The association has also been in
strumental, cooperating with the
American Live Stock association, in
bringing about an investigation of
the packers-the big question of
which we see so much now in the
press.
Better breeding, increased market
facilities, distribution of cars, eradi-
cation of poisonous plants, and dis
ease among cattle and horses, etc,
are matters to which the association
give strict attention and obtain re-
suits. This association represents
the men engaged in the industry
owning nearly a million head of cat
tie and horses in the state-one Of
the most important industries within
our borders.
The fourth annual convention will
have q program O. great interest to
every man engaged in the industry.
Federal, district and state officials
are scheduled to appear upon the
program, and discuss topics Of lively
interest. A. stock men, who can
possibly attend are urged to do 80. |
A meeting of the executive COM
mittee and the county chairman Of
the organization is called for 10
O'Clock on the morning Of February
8, at which time it is expected full |
will be had.
Delegates attending the conven-
tion may ascertain from any hotel |
in Boise the place Of meeting.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-11

statements were made in the face O
facts showing that if we had in
stalled our municipal electric plan
with view of heating houses, W,
should have bankrupted the city ant
gone back to coal as quick as it wa
possible to get it.
Bubble Burst in a Month
Idaho Falls with one of the he's
and most inexpensive electric plants
In the state, tried heating one of the
most favorably situated buildings II
the city and abandoned the plan in
thirty days, quitting with great
loss for both service and installation
OF the heating apparatus.
Tried Heating Houses
l'win Falls, with its celebrated
electric plant, tried heating 105
houses by electricity and 105 SINH
lar houses with coal, and found that
1t cost from seven to ten times as
much to heat with electricity, and
even then the people in the electric
ally heated houses suffered during
al. the cold snaps.
Government Cant Do It
Minidoka, with an ideal electric
plant erected to do pumping for ir-
rigation in summer, contracted to
sell their power for heating during
the winter, and have been trying for
years to find way to quit the heat
Ing service. At first they were bound
by their contracts ,and at the expira-
tion OF contracts, the public utilities
commission forbid them to withdraw
the service from people who had ex-
pended their money for electric
heaters, saying that the power COM
pany had made an offer to furnish
the service at a low rate when not
used for pumping, and the customers
had responded and accepted the SER
vice, built houses without stoves and
without chimneys, installed electric
heaters at great expense, and that
It was not right to cut of the service
and make it necessary for them to
rebuild their homes and tear out one
kind OF equipment and put in another
kind just because the power company
made a mistake or foolish offer.
II 1t were a private company, the
matter might adjust itself by the
company going broke, but it is gov
srnment project and the govern
nent has to pocket the loss. It is
significant that the new houses are
being built With chimneys and there
8 a good market for oil heaters In
he houses and Offices where electric
heaters are in use, for they are re-
luired during the cold snaps.
Blackfoot Had Marrow Escape
When Blackfoot was considering
ne matter Of building its municipal
lighting and heating plant, generat-
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Would Bankrupt the City

A leader Of this element stated
recently in all seriousness that II we
had gone on and installed our NUM-
cipal electric plant, we should have
been albe to do without coal and
ignore the coal famine. These
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Blackfoot Had Marrow Escape
When Blackfoot was considering
he matter Of building it's municipal
lighting and heating plant, generat-