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FARMING IS Progressive Farmer. As I look over the farming business of our eountry, looking at it from the business tanner's standpoint?many thine-c .innonr thnt oiiusp mo to hnlicve that we have not, us a class, learned properly to study our business. And yet fanning is subject to the same business rules as are other businesses, good management spelling success, the opposite failure. The farmer's plant is his soil and equipment. A long course of reasoning does not seem necessary to convince the thinking farmer that the richer and more dependable his soil is, other conditions being equal, the cheaper he may produce his farm products; tor a rich dependable acre, whl!? It will produce far more than the uude pendable acre, will?because of be ing in better mechanical condition? bo worked at less expense. Therefore, in case our soils are not in the best state of fertility of which they are capable?which in cludes the best drainage?the first move of the would-be business far mer should be the improvement of his soil, by the most rapid and eco nomical means within reach. This may moan for the caret ui ousinesi man tlie borrowing of more or less capital Jo enable him to forward the work in a business way. .Many men of the writer's acquaintance are working under the handicap of an unfertile, undrained soil because of timidity in the matter of securing sufficient capital. A man of real ability in his line need seldom fear to use the other man's dollar to sup plement his capital of dollars and brain power; but lacking ability or nerve, it is probably wisdom to pro ceed more slowly toward the desired goal. Having a dependable soil, other matters demand the earnest thought" of the business farmer. The profits from fertile soils may be reduced from 25 per cent to 50 per cent, by the use of poor tools or insufficient nnw-pr A deeu. well broken soU being in condition to retain a greater supply of moisture, means much in the production of eluap products; for moisture is the contioUing f ictor in the production of crops. This proper breaking of the land requires, first a good plow, second, suffcient power to pull the plow at the max imum speed. It costs no more for the man who handles the plow turn ing three to five acres per day than for him who, because of a poor plow HAVE A 1TKF0SE IX FAKMIMJ Unquestionably, the main reason why many farmers make such a poor showing and accumulate so little is to be found in the fact that they have no definite purpose in their farming. They do not know what they are try ing to do. Their main crop this year may be cotton, next year it may be corn, another year it may be some hting else. They may "go into" hops when prices are high and out again when prices get low. They do not know even now what crops are to go in the different fields next year, ana they have only the vaguest sort of idea as to what they will have to dis pose of next fall or next spring. This sort of farming will never suc ceed. The first thing for the farmer to do in planning his work is to decide what particular line of farming he will follow. If he is going to make cotton, or peanuts, or hogs, or dairy products, or anything else, his main dependence for cash, he must then plan his rotation, lay out his fields, ar range his work with a view to making this specialty as profitable as possi ble. Then he can give attention to the best methods of handling the other crops and other lines of work. Judicious specilization, or at least judicious arrangement of crops and work with a definite end in view, is the only safe plan for the farmer to follow. This is not incompatible with proper rotation and diversification. In fact, it is almost an essential part of it Unnhji7:irri rotations, uncertain aims, constantly changing plans must give way on thousands of our South ern farms to definitely planned prog ress toward a determined end, before Automobile Owi 13UY YOUR TIKES Aj E offer to you the selection fron w w Tubes, Reliutrs and Accesso high grade and standard goods at pri< low standard list which if charged by Shipments on all goods made very en ted it may be returned and money gument. Notice some of our money-si All standard makes of Tires and T United States, Goodrich, Diamond, < Guaranteed Tires, Tubes, Keliners and Size. Tire. Ti 28x3 $7.80 $2 30x3 K li-j '2 3UX34 1 1 ?if 2 :V2s:U 12.40 2 :?x4" 1 <>.(!( i ;5 34x4 IT.lio 3 30x4 1 >. M*5 5 All other siz^s ut proportionally low p of umoii)>t accompanies order. 5 per t Don't let the dealers sting you an us and get your gouls delivered to yoi sent C. O. 1>. allowing examination if der. 5 per cent, cash discount allow ei privilege < f returning goods if not e Commercial Mercantile Agency. Hut country endorse our plau?why not y< CENTRAL MAMjFA< 425 Central 131(1 13 uy C We are overstocked rial and are mak make room for ott in every day CALL TO The Lumi A BUSINESS. I or insufficient power, turns only one acre per day. The same principle applies in the j working of the crop The nihil who drives two or three horses hitched | to a ten or twelve foot harrow, work ! ing 15 to -U acres of young corn or | cotton, will be working 110 harder ; than will the man who, by the use , of the one-horse cultivator, works : two and one-half to four acres per , day. My readers will readily see how, i by the use of plenty of power and good ! cultivating good dependable soil, the farmer has a tremendous advantage 'over the less fortunate man who, for any reason, workb poor land, with in sufficient tools. Then there is much iu the time we do our work. A team breaking land j during the winter, while the weather1 is cool, and the land in the best condi ! tion to work, will accomplish twice j with the same power that a team will : in the heat of summer, when the land is dry and hard. Then the action of j the frost on the roughly broken, win ' ter-plowed land, will do more toward | making a perfect secd-hed than will two harrowings on spring or summer broken land. Then when the crops have been grown Ihe business farmer should j look carefully to the manner of mar ! keting his products, and should keep j in mind at all times, that the fertili ! ty taken from tin.' soil is part of the I cost to him uf growing crops; for, as | 1 said in the beginning, the farmer's | plant is his soil, and reducing the { soil fertility is reducing the farmer's j capital. This is the reason why some i of our most careful business farm ers strive in every way to condense the products before putting them on I the market, thus reducing the ton I nage marketed and increasing the j price per pound. Their aim is to | reduce in such way as to retain i on the farm as much of the plant: 1 food and vegetable matter the raw ! plants carry as is possible to do, and j still secure the highest value for , their crops and supply the ooun- j | try's need in the matter of ioou or ' clothing. One more point should nor he I overlooked by tne wouia-ue ousiness ; farmer, and that is that he siionld i aim to do as much business us his ! brain is capable of handling; in oth 1 er words, work up to his capacity; | as the more business he handles if lia . : maintains the highest standard of : excellence all along the linfi, the \ more he will be paid for his ability. | I any high degree of prosperity is reached.?Progressive Farmer. MAN SEEKS liKOWN EYED WIFE j I Wanted?A wife. She must be a j Southern girl, between the ages of i 17 and 22 years and must have brown j eyes. This was the statement made to a j ; Record representative this morning 1 i when he presented his card, reading i ! \ Invoiwlor I'ninn HlfV I I Indiana, R. F. I). 3(5." i Alexander says he arrived in Co- | lumbia this morning from Virginia, ! where he made unsuccessful efforts to j find a wife that will fill the above | j prescription. He says he will be here j j for several days and requests all who . j are interested to address him in care j I of the general delivery, Columbia, S. j jC. Alexander, according to his state- [ j ment. is the owner of a farm in In diana at Union City and has become ; very lonely during the last two years, ; wants a life partner. He decided to : come South to find one, having been ! told that there are more brown-eyed ; girls in this section of the country. ; "Why do you want a brown-eyed | , girl?" he was asked. "Because brown eyes mean love," j . he stated. He stated that he is twenty-three ! j years old and for that reason he lim- i its the age of his bride to between 17 j I and 22. He does not want a wife ; ; older than himself. Alexander is very much in earnest, j according to his statement, for he I mvo lin Vino rlptorminorl nnt tr> rp- i I turn home until he has securod a | brown-eyed wife.?Columbia Record. ners, Attention! XD SUPPLIES EIGHT 11 a complete line of Automobile Tires,! I ries and Supplies, all absolutely new, jes from 30 per cent, to 75 per cent, be- j the dealers. promptly and if goods are not as repre will be refunded without quibble of ar nviug Cut Prices. ube-> at dealers list price This includes Goodyear and others. We also furniBh Chains at the following prices : ibe. Ileliner. Chains (per set i : 11) $1.75 $2.00 .30 2 10 2 10 !.& ) 2 25 2.15 05 2. Ml 2.10 .70 2.li0 2 SO .IN) 2 70 2.00 .1-5 8 10 2MI0 iIces. Hhipmeuts C. O. D. if 25 p< r cen*. :^nt. discount cash with order. y more for your supplies, but buy from ir door at money-saving prices. Goods 25 percent, of amount accompanies or 1 if cash accompanies order in full and xacily as represented. Inference, any id reds of auto owners in all parts of the >u , ? rue us now. ITllUNG COMPANY, I}?, Dayton, Ohio, heap! d on Building Mate ing good prices to Ler material coming SEE US. t ? 1). ber People,1 WHY DR. WILEY J i IS FOR WILSON He Says Taft and T. R, Are Sol diers of Fraud. ENEMIES OF PURE FOOD LAW Famous Chemist Bollev;# the Health of the Nation Demands Election of the Democratlo Ticket By HARVEY W. WILEY. (Former Chief ChemiBt of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.) My appeal is chiefly to those who, like myself, have been lifelong Repub licans. I believe that no kind of an administration is going to ruin the country. I have a high personal re gard for each one of the candidates for president and vice-presideent on all the tickets. All the political platforms are mainly sound and all promise ef fort in behalf of the whole people. My choice is not based on a platform. It was determined by my impressions of the real attitude of the candidates re Bpecting the public welfare. We are creatures of heredity and environ ment. In our attitude towards great public questions we are almoBt alto gether creatures of environment. What two men are by environment least likely to b? swayed by special Interests and most likely to be guided by devotion to publlo weirarer j-wo of the candidates have already been tried In the presidential chair and we know by experience what may be e* pected If either of them resume his former eeat on March 4, 1913. Mr. Roosevelt by reason of his attitude to wards the food and drug act aban doned the consumers of the country to the rapacity of a few mercenary manufacturers. Under authority of congreBB I had carried on extensive experiments with my so-called poison squad and found that certain sub stances, viz., benzoic compounds, sul phurous compounds and sulphate of copper (bl*e stone), were Injurious to health. The law conferred upon me, as chief of the bureau of chemistry, the duty of acting as a grand Jury and deter mining whether foods and drugs were adulterated or mlsbranded. Instead of appealing from my decisions to the courts as the law requires, the users of these poisons appealed to President Roosevelt. He not only listened to them, but he abrogated the plain pro visions of the law, appointed a board not contemplated by the law, and di rected that these predatory Interests might continue their attacks on the health of the people until this board, unknown to the law, should decide otherwise. ' rati wa Rafoiv trust the campaign for public health to Mr. Roosevelt? I cannot believe that to be the proper course. Mr. Taft Inherited this ex ceedingly bad condition of affairs from his predecessor and has not only continued this Illegal board un der whose patronage adulterators are still poisoning the people, but he did worse. In the matter of the adultera tion of distilled beverages in which Roosevelt upheld the legally consti tuted authorities, Mr. Taft reversed that policy and threw the mighty weight of the executive office to the support of the worst lot of adultera tors that ever disgraced a country. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Marshall by their strenuous efforts In behalf of the food ltws of their respective states, have given a positive promise to end such a threatening Btate of affairs. They will support to the utmost the official under the law who are trying to protect the public health and will hiake short shrift of those who have brought about these present unbearn? ble conditions. Wilson and Marshall by their educa tion and environment are free from bias in favor of predatory interests and are Inspired by true patriotic zeal In behalf of public welfare. I support the Democratic nominees ' In full knowledge that many of the prominent Democrats In congress have been in full sympathy with the paraly sis of the food law in behalf of the unholy dollar. But when the Demo cratlc president and vice-president lend the aid of their powerful sympa thy in behalf of the public health 1 those of their own party not in bjtH' : pathy with them will be robbed of their power for evil. If Roosevelt or . Taft be chosen the soldiers of fraud : and adulteration will be lmpregnably ; entrenched for another four year* and benzoates, sulphites and adulterated alcoholic beveridges will have a new ! lease of life, I believe also that President Wilson will renovate the department of agrl i culture, reeking, as it has been for I the past twelve years, with Bcandals j and favoritism. He will see to It that ! the bureau of animal Industry wilj, : protect the public health Instead of the efforts of the packers to sell dla j eased meats under the deceptive phrase "U. 9. Inspected and Passed." i Under President Wilson no more PI11 chots will he kicked out of the service, no more unspeakable McCabes will ex ' ercise dictatorial powers. There will i ho rtn more rntton lpuks and iunrl? atrocities, no more Everglade swin dles. Buccaneering, boasting and ; buncombe will give place to sane ef forts for the promotion of real agrl : culture and the public health. Under Wilson the department of agriculture will be restored to speak A LOG OX THE TRACK of the fast express means serious trouble ahead if not removed, so does loss of appetite. It means lack of vi tality,loss of strength and nerve weak hops. If appetite falls, take Electric Bitters quickly to overcome the cause by toning up the stomach and curing the Indigestion. Michael Hessheimer or Lincoln, Neb., had been sick over three years, but six bottles of Elect rio Bitters put him right on his feet again. They have helped thousands. They give pure blood, strong nerves, good digestion. Only 50 cents at P. B. I Speed's and The McMurray Drug Co. I (Advertisement). Co A1 A Comp] Reso Big ge Dtia nf t.Vift ( M HIGH CLAS BEST 0 WHAT YOU ( AN LEARN AT AT YOl'R FAIR THIS FALL Progressive Farmer. The fair seasou has opened in the South. Our readers will go to these fairs in large numbers and many of them, we hope, will be greatly bene fitted, but every year we cannot help feeling that our fairs, while avowedly a/1. v;a.idiiu? mami j iui tu uv:ci I luiici 1 |JUi I poses, fall far short of affording the instruction they might. The failure is not entirely the fault of the fairs, how ever, altho it must be admitted they have not been run In a manner to af I ford the most instruction of the best kind. Rut In this article we have in mind chiefly to call the attention of our readers to means by which they may obtain more benefit from their visits to these fairs as they now ex ist. The writer became interested in hog judging some twenty years ago and went to see the great hog show made at the Iowa State Fair. He spent his time around the hog pens and close to the show ring and when a hog won a prize or was judged superior to an other he politely asloxl the reason, if he did not himself see it. He learned more o( hog judging in this way in 2Rin Leie juxpos urces of A r, Bette fig 3-reatest Attra .onopiane m l S RACING. I F MUSIC. ; ' OTHER ATI n't P aammmmmamv* two days than lie tould in a month out o of books or by himself. 0 Other Southern fairs do not provide * the facilities th??y should for making y the livestock judging as instructive as j it might be, 'but any judge is always j willing to give his reasons for his i j awards. In fact, we think this should. I, always be done on every class, wheth- ! er it is asked or not. The writer re- ? cently acted as judge of Jersey cat- I tie at. several fairs. He took pains to- J state to the spectators his reasons for-1 his rewards. In all cases these specta- || tore showed an appreciation of the> i courtesy and in all but one case even.ij the defeated exhibitors expressed en--|j tire satisfaction with the work. At || ^/-V 4'?;m 1 ...UA V. ? .1 ,1 onnti a !l UllV iclll DUVClttl ? HU Iiau DCCll UU?CUO-l| of shows judged before* came forward jj and stated they had learned monyjj about the poiuts of excellence In a,I Jersey cow in the hour or two spo'.itlj at this show than they had ever known before. F'rogressive Farmer boys .'vre ? especially urged to attend the judging or the livestock and politely ask for the reasons for the awards if. they are not gf;ven without such a re Quest Again, Hie average fair visitor goes through a corn exhibit, tor, instance, and agrees or disagrees with the awards without studying the exhibits! 9 24s sition of t i-i :nA l D DB V lilts ir Than facfl ,ctions will be Actual Flight. DOG AND PO CHARIOT F fRACTIONS.e fUidfil) i\- trying to find out the good points if the winning exhibits wiich caused hetn to be placed ahead o! the others. The man who thinks tlie prize should je given to the largest ears of corn, or example, has much of valae yet to earn about corn and he should use His visits to the fairs this fall as a means of Increasing .his stock of knowledge. There is no subject on which Sooth em farmers are anore in need of infor mation than on draft horses. They jm tertain the most intense prejudice against any animal weighting ovy 1,000 or 1,100 pounds. Why not ust' the fairs this fall to increase our stock of knowledge along this line? The South must have heavier work-stock and it can only come through the use of draft blood. The fairs are good for amusement, but if this is all that he visitor is to got from them, they have not justified I their existence, nor lias the visitor j obtained all from them which he | ought to. To the man who is interest-1 ed in his work and has a progressive 1 desire to do better, there ijs no enter tainment more pleasant or refresh ing than that which comes through the Saining of useful knowledge. L fee E 25 he County Ever 'ine a Genuine NY SHOW. RACING. It . RICHARD E. ADAMS , ? } ' 51, Editor Press airf Banner: I am trying to find out what became of one Richard E. Adams, who grad uated at the Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, in 1828. I know nothing more about him except he was from South Carolina. If any body can give me any information concerning him or his family, I will appreciate it very high C. L. Martzolff, "?k., : Alumni Secretary, * Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. FOKITNES IN FACES There's often much truth in the say ing "her face is her fortune," but its never said where pimples, skin erup tions, blotches or other blemishes dis figure It. Impure blood is back of | them all. and shows the need of Dr. King's New Life l'ills. They promote j health and beauty. Try them. 25c at ( P. B. Speed and The McMurray Drug k Co. (Advertisement). Klaiikfts ;?0c ami up to $8.50 pair at PillakofTK. 2