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Established 1835. . L. MIMS,.Editor Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year in aovance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at ? advertising rates. The Largest Circulation in Edgefield County. WEDWESEAY, JAW. 24, 1912 pl He who has no opinion of his own, but depends npon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.-KLAPSTOCE. Committee Takes Up Work. To the farmers of Edgefield county: The undersigned having been appointed a committee for this county to promote and encourage what is familiarly known to every farmer in the state as the Rock Hill Plan, have studied the same very carefully and recommends its adoption to every farmer in the county, lanre or small, white and colored, as the most practical means of reducing the cotton acreage and thereby obtaining a living profit as a result of their labor. The crop of 1910 in round num bers was 12,000,000 bales, which was sold for a billion dollars. The crop of 1911, conceded now to be at least 15,000,000 bales, will not yield more than $650,000,000 to $700,000,000. We are producing 3>000,000 more bales of cotton and selling it for ?300.000,000' less. Statistics show that the smallest crops of cotton bring the most mon ey. Another big crop and it means in our opinion, 5 cent cottote. Not only do we recommend\i re duction in acreage, as pro video, for under the Rock Hill plan, bkt a corresponding reduction in fertili zers. It is useless for a farmer to - reduce his acreage, if he is ?oingto increase MB fertilizer and thereiy ~^ produce the same amount of cotton What is needed i3 a reduction ir. --?to71 Tt? fhtf matter of fertilizer we would recommend to every farmer to use his seed, as they are] worth mor*? to bim. ?3.- f&rtfrf?er than he can obtain for them on the market. From what we can learn majoDr^cturers are quoting amnion iated fertilizers at about last year's prices and by mixing kainit and acid with your cotton seed .you can get a good fertilizer for much less than you can buy the manufactured goods. A cheap crop must be made if satisfactory results are to be expected. Canvassers will call on you a lit tle later with pledges for your sig nature, and when they do, meet them cheerfully, and do not de tain them. Sign the pledg.? cheer fully, and let them go on their way rejoicing, as the time is short aad there is not a moment to spare. A list of those signing the pledges will be published from time to time in the county papers as they are reported. 'The same acreage as J ?11 means five cent cotton! A 25 p?r cent reduction for 1912 means jiving: prices. (Signed) P. N. Lott, B. R. Smith, L. R. Brunson. f t 1 e Instruction to Canvassers For Rock Hill, Plan. 1 " U 1. Cover the territory allowed | \ to you quickly as possible, but cover it thoroughly. Every farm- c er should be seen for his pledge, if t possible.. t 2. Report daily to the County 1 Chairman, {riving names of those t signing, with number of acres each will reduce from last year. These names will then be published in the county papers, and this will help yon to secure other pledges. 3. Catch all the farmers you can i around stores, but go after those ? you can't find this way. j 4. Get all the big farmers you can and get them to sign up for as I e much reduction as possible. If a 11 100-acre farmer will agree to plant 50 acres less this year than last, so much the better for the cause. Re-11 member that the pledge is for re-H duction of not lets than 25 per cent. So all who will reduce more than this will do the cause that much i more service. i 5. In the case *of those who i won't sign, ask their neighbors to 1'labor with" them. The list will be published, but can be added to from time to time. G. Don't stop to argue with peo ple about other plans and schemes. It's our business to put this work through. Get signatures-as many as you can, as last as you can and for as much reduction as possible. 7. Where the question is brought np, explain that it is claimed for the "Rock Hill Plan" that it only pro vides a temporary means of better ing conditions. Suggest to farmers that they join the Farmers' Union and use their influence to make that body strong and effective. But don't rgue with anybody about anythi: g. Get pledges and let everybody keep his own notion about everything else. 8. Tell the cotton growers not to let the bears fool them with re cent advances in cotton prices. Cot ton has gone $4 a bale ?ince the "Rock Hill Plan" was started, but the bears will have the joke on us with low prices for the remainder of 1911 as well as 1912 cotton if acreage is not cut, and cut deep. DEER HUNT IN TEXAS. (Continued from last week.) Wednesday morning all left camp going in different directions. I went back to near the point of my past good luck and on a divide about 200 yards, I saw the head of a large buck and again Castlrberry sang out and another buck hit the ground but rose and went from me passing in about 400 yards of Gil bert. He shot wild and found blood where he first fell, so, Ranger was put on his track and oveitook him in about 700 yards. He had lain down but was able to get up, so Ranger had him bayed. When we came up Gilbert shot him down, got Johnnie and carried in my sec ond buck. Thursday nothing do ing-Friday we moved camp about 6 miles and before night Gilbert found 5 deer in a deep canyon and killed one. Shot out of cartridges and the three came up under bluff in 30 steps of him, tuen he threw rocks at them. I came in sight and a buck started off. I got a standing about 225 yards, but shot wild again. Elmore went east and says he had more fun than any of us. Said an old buck looked him square in the eyes at 40 paces. His gun was hard on trigger and the buck is still alive. Near sundown he had target practice at another buck 225 yards rounding a canyon. He rang 6 shots on the clear winter air, but again fate was in favor of the buck. As 'twas then twilight, the account is all we haye to remember of the avent. Saturday morning we went out ?>nt returned at noon with reporta of deer still..in the range, but no game in hand. Afternoon told a different story. The veteran hunter Df our party who up to this time bad been out of luck came in with I bonors. As he crept stealthily ( through the soto and cedar, he spied i buck about 50 yards go behind a ?lump of brush so he could partial ly see him, but experience told him ?rhere the body waa, so his trusty -ifle gave good account and a 3 wint buck fell to run |no more. Near sunset Elmore began anoth ?r performance, which he accounts ;o us as very interesting. On a dis ant side of a canyon a large buck eisurely trotted along at a range of too yards. So, he began the bom- a ).irdment. After 7 shots the deer o nade a forward movement. Elmore o ?hanged position and again came h lear meeting his foe face to face, ^ o near that he saw the buck wink s )is eye. Forest instinct came to the t lid of the buck and in some m\steri- o ms way he passed from view to be c cen no more. With ear strained 1 or sounds of game, a noise of move h han usual notice came near where v ie stood. With nerves at high tenr f ion, he waits, when all at once at \ ? ihort distance he beheld a sigh? a lot of.ten witnessed, two foxes we*v \ laving a battle royal. So intent \ vere they that they were only a v ihort distance from him, they i Taahed, one being in the lead in re- I reat. Elmore not wishing to be c hus passed unnoticed belched forth r lis 25, 35 as a parting salute, came t o camp and reported. ] Sunday found our camp in a so- t >er mood. The day passed slowly f iway until nearly sundown. Water *\ or camp purposes had run low, c Murray and I went off 200 yards y n a canyon to see about 1 lome water and being near camp no T ;uns were necessary. Mr. Loftin 1 ind Elmore remembered having i jeen water in a canyon about ? 1 nile from camp, so, the distance y ind danger from panthers and other ] foes impelled them to take some 1 means of defense. At | about sun- 1 iown danger seemed lurking near ] md Elmore was in greatest danger t 3f attack. His 25 35 sang 3 clear t notes on the evening breeze. On in-? ?pection it was found that he need i aot have been alarmed; for it was j 3nly three deer he had killed. Mr. E Loftin being near and seeing his i jon's narrow escape ra ust have had 1 risions; for in a few moments a i much larger form showed up, so he i pulled old trusty to his shoulder, s and his deadly foe met his Water loo. We were in camp and had heard the shooting, so . when they came in and told of their narrow escapes we could but sympathize with them. Night spread her peace ful blanket over our camp and we were soon in the arras of Mor pheus. Monday found us all able to eat and to take our different routes. Mr. Loftin and Elmore scouted around the dangerous grounds of the day previous while Murra^ and I went west,Gilbert going east. As the sun began to send her rays into the heart of the canyon I heard a noise that wes familiar. It was Murray's SO belching its regu lar note. I ' thought ho was ata greater distance than was actually true. As the sound of his ri?e hushed I saw at a distance of seven hun dred yards a very large buck sneak ing up the canyon in ray direction. He came on until within six hun-; dred yards when he changed his course, I immediately put Sheriff,! Ca8tleberry into operation. The.; echoes played on its thousand hills) but the lead, oh, where was it! Se-J renely the big denison of the forest^ took shelter in a clump of underS brush. My heart was lonely, iuyf hopes were fast failing when a lo\? whistling sound reached m}T earsj( Again I heard the sound. It watt Murray, we had been shooting aP the same deer. Gilbert finding n? game east now came on the seen? and a plot was formed against oap! wily buck. We placed a man <ftB three different points, Gilbert reach ing his last. I saw the buck leave bis hiding place and start directly around the point under where Gil bert was. By a loud signal call he knew the buck was on his beat and soon the notes played from his 303. Here he did his best shooting, land ing twice when he claimed his buck, i fine fellow with four points to ?ach horn. Murray felt inclined lomeward, so, he hit the pike for Dzona 35 miles distance, covering .he distance from 10 a. m. to 9 p. n. That left only four to finish the rant. We spent the remainder of he day dressing the rive. Tuesday norning found us on our beats, but ill things change with time, so we 'ound that'abont 2,000 sheep were low herded on our hunting ground, o, we met at. 10 a. m. and pulled ip camp and drove to twin wells 'or dinner. We held a council as to whether to remain longer. The con iensus of opinion was to go home ward. Gilbert was out of tobacco, f.'hile he said hi was not absolut* y langerons when in that state, still fe wasn't at himself. He was faj.r tod said Le did not want us to Dove, on his account as tobacco valking was O. K. for him. ''?''We pent the night 12 miles southwest if Ozona. Wednesday we looked nth longings towards home sweet lome. At ll a. m. we stopped at 'rocket's capital to see if we could raw Murray's bounty on the pan her but found there was so much wearing in it we decided to bring he scalp to Murray and let him do he necessary thing. As we bade he picturesque little city of pure )zone farewell we were leisurely rending our way when a noise as f rushing wind came upon us. 'urning we beheld a sight that is omraon in this section from No ember 1st to January 1st. 'Twas n auto with two occupants, their ' nee beaming countenances now vergrown with a grizzly growth of leard. Their habitat is in offices. Ve know them well. Their hand hake is cordial, but a movement of heir index finger to the rear seat f the auto where a slicker lay rumpled meant much to them. 'Missourians want to see." No lorns to testify, no hide to speak a rord of favor. The -machine sped irst in intermediate then to high, io, passed our most worthy friends ,nd neighbors, D. E. Huges and W. W. Carson. You know them p-ell. We drove late night, as our eteran hunter stated that Mertzon oust be reached on Thursday near lighlonesome at the O. 9. we struck amp. As the night advanced the lorth pole seemed to get nearer un il at dawn we decided that both 5eary and Cooke were mistaken as o the discovery of the north pole; br it must be near Highlonesome. rhe wind blew, but "Old Noah" ?overed the 30 miles by 11:15 and ve drove up to the city of de ight," a home for the homeless. I vish the story might end here but ?ate has ever had her innings. I nounted the doorsteps with heart ight and steps bounding to find vhat'r a home without its queeu. !io welcome, no cares, no one to isten to the thrilling account of a rant where I killed my first deer. Kind friends consoled me and to hem the exploits of the chase were ;old. The companion of my life had 'ound that the days passed slowly ifter the hunting party had gone, io she had gone to spend the re naming time with her sisters and fiends in the central part of Texas n Limestone county. We are now it home together feasting on veni lon. My story she listens to with pjH ML?orarades of the hunt, we maj ne>) ali be at another chase togetheij'it may good wishes go .t?rer. To Mr. Loftin I tip my j hat. His generosity, mdew?h miei f(?t of ow owi ?"!? morn ?V Sold 3y Reliabh J.S.ROYSTE Sales C NcfolkVa. Tarboi Baymore Md. Montgon Macon &a. I On The 3C - I will offer at public o wagons, buries, cut-a"V rake and ail other plows hay, 1,000 bundles fodde els good seed oats, 3 fine Berkshire pigs and hogs, sene tank as good as ne\ scales and general merci all my personal belongil! Remernbe Full of available F Lots of Organ They sm Positi Combahee F NORMAN H." BUTCH, President thoughtfulness and planning made the hunt an oasis in the lives of five at least D. J. Morgan. ft FEM rr evERi zs simplerfheyu "eatest cure an it lias io pass On laboratories i liss?houi?qysti ! Dealers Everywhere :n GUANO co, )fficea r o M C. C olumbia S. C. aery Mu. 5partanbur?5G. Columbus 6a. S. Cheatham's ?lion S Uh Day of Jan utcry all my household and kit vay harrows, mower, corn an( and farm tools, 300 bushels ir, 300 bushels cotton seed, 25 ! oxen, 3 fine milk cows, 1 Di } some fine brood sows, shop ti rt; a fine pair computing scales ?andise. In fact I will sell Ou igs, except my horses and mul r the Date Jan laut Food tic Matter to form Hui ell bad, but they're vely no filler used Fish and Blood used h fertilizer Comp? m r ' For Sale: One car of fresh Cot ton Seed Meal arrived. Will sell for cash or make attractive exchange price for seed. C. E. Qnarles. UIZE? late uary 1912 chen furniture, also my i cotton planters horse coin in shuck, 200 bales bushels peas, 50 bush ;von bull, 20 head fine ools; a 70-dollar kero ?, wagon scales, platform t to the highest bidder es. uary 30th ?ombahee are Real nus Good irgely in our goods CHARLESTON fl ny SOUTH CAROLINA WILLIAM MOLLOY, Central Manager