The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-13
TOWN And COUNTY news !
Chamber Of
Commerce Notes
Campaign to. Increase Tobacco
Growing in Sumter County

It appearing very doubtful
that the money will ever be forth
hccao,mning ca,n to employ tobacco demon
Estrator or to buy seed for free
IIsdistribution in time to help out any
lon the 1928 tobacco crop, and the
time TO plant tobacco beds having
about arrived, the Sumter County
cha naber Of. Commerce has secured
some seed for free distribution to
ithose farmers who have decided
Eto |;tx produce tobacco for the 1928
Eseiiing season and who not having
l|planted tobacco, in 1922. conse-
auenflY did not have opportunity
Eto save seed from this years crop.
But the Chamber Of Commerce can
Eoniy supply free seed to those who
|win guarantee to sell their tobacco
on the Sumter tobacco market in
Ifs23 to either the Cooperative To-
Ebaeco Growers Marketing Asso-
citation OF the independent ware
houses. Just as long as the Cham
per of Commerce can manage to
secure seed it will distribute same
las above naentioned to those who
Gcall in person for the seed Nc
seed will be mailed TO any one and
no attention will be paid to postal
card or letter applieations
{ "a drive to asesthe acreage
of tobacco in Sumter county IS be-
ing made by the Chamber Of Com
[1nerce witch has been Wnrkins
along, this line for years and es-
pecially Mithin fhe! past thirty, days
among the farmers Of this county.
i One especial feature of this
|p1oEenaent has been the effort to
disabus the minds Of our wes-
tern Sumter county farmers of the
Idea that the lands west of Sumter
are not suited TO tobacco culture.
Experience has time and again
proven by the production of as
good tobacco ast was ever produced
In the. lands west of Sumter
Eand numbers of tobacco buyers and
every tobacco Reimbursement that
has ever done business here state
that western Sumter county lands
are splendid for first class tobacco
production.
The mercantile, banking and
Eother business and professional
concerns OF Sumter and the coun-
try merchants and large land own
Eers can greatly assist the Sumter
Chamber of Commerce in this
|novenent by trying to get tebac-
co planted all over Sumter coun-
Ity.S: .s.e:...,
Should. a tobacco demonstrator
he. employed he should be; put to
werk now so that those who are
new at the tobacco planting busi-
ness viii have some one who can
instruct them regarding prepara-
ton of tobacco beds, and if this
demonstration is put on in time to
do this it is reasonably certain
that the Chamber OF Commerce
can supply this deEonstrator with
seed for free distribution under
certain conditions. OF course a
tobacco demonstrator who has had
actual experience himself in the
production, harvesting, and curing
of tobacco and especially in the
grading and tieing Of tobacco to
increase the quality and marketing
value viii be worth thousands of
dollars to the county in 192S-but
the preparation and care Of the
tobacco beds is the primary effort
in successful cultivation OF first
class tobacco.
The Sumter Chamber of Gem
merce is getting ready for mon
.ster celebration early in January
or as soon as the approaches to
the Wateree River bridge are
thrown open. The object OF this
celebration is two fold in purpose.
First to advertise to the world
that this famous cross country
and interstate highway from the
north to the south is open and that
Sumter is the hub of trans cont
mental automobile transportation,
via the Wateree River bridge and
Sumter hard surfaced
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