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Newspaper
The Dispatch News
Location
Lexington, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1922
Page
2
By B R Coad and G A Maloney. The article reports a surge in overwintered boll weevils across cotton states, predicting rapid damage with normal weather and urging earlier, more intensive poisoning. It notes early blooms and wider migration, implying higher costs per acre but greater potential profits from effective control.
Washington June 26 One hundred pound rail has been adopted by the Southern Railway System as the standard for its main lines replacing 85 pound rail the heaviest used before. Vice President H W Miller in charge of operation announced the change today The first stretch to be laid with the heavier steel will be on the Washington Atlanta double track line and will zet e
The Southern Railway will install 100-pound rail on the Washington to Manassas 33 mile route with extra heavy tie plates for strength and safety. Lighter 5S-pound rail from the process will be reassigned to branch lines where traffic justifies heavier rail than current use.
The Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association secures a $30 million War Finance Corporation loan and opens cooperative warehouses in South Carolina markets. Hundreds of farmers join weekly as T. C. Watkins leads preparatory work for July openings across Andrews Ayner Bamberg Bladenboro Cerrogordo Conway Darlington Dargan Center Cen ter Brick Prices Dillon Liberty Fair Bluff Georgetown Fairmont Hartsville Johnsonville Kingstree Nelsons Scotts Lake City Lake View Planters and Liberty warehouses with uniform prices and fair grading promised.
A long list of farm and planner warehouses spanning Latta Loris Mullins Sumter and other towns shows extensive grain and produce storage networks. Mentions of Florence and a new warehouse project accompany anecdotal quips about public rights of way and a joke about radios and nitrogen from air.
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