University of South Carolina Libraries
Broom Corn For Profit. In urging the growing of broom com as A crop of great pro lil, Dr. C. W. Bynham, a physician who has retired to a l,00U-acre farm about 90 miles north of Little Rock, Ark., said to the Board of Trade of that city that he had proved that Arkansas can beat Illinois and In diana in broom corn growing. He added: "This year I have grown eight acres of perfect new dwarf broom corn and sold it at the highest prie This winier I shall erect a broom factory on my farm unless I change the plan and erect it in Little Rock, shipping the raw product here. I am anxious to demonstrate that we can do better with broom corn on laud that is right for it th?n we can with cotton. I figure it (hat cotton sells for 825 per acre, with $5.50 added for seed, a total of ?30.5U. The cost of raising the cotton is ?17.25 per acre with 86.15 added for ginning, a total of 823.40. This shows a profit of only 87.10 per acre, while the profit on broom corn is $67.90 per acre."-Manufactur ers Record. Dr. Wiley Says Select Diet for Beauty's Sake. Dr. Wiley gives the following advice to the women about eating: "Women should be especially careful to choose the right diet. For the sake of her beauty, if noth ing else, a woman should choose the right amount of nutritive foods, and avoid temptations of overeat ing. Coarser bread, more fruit, less meat, and especially modera tion, or total abstinence, in the use of tea and coffee will secure relief from the all too retarded action of the digestive organs which is the curse of so many women who lead sedentary lives. No woman who eats properly and gets plenty of fresh air and exercise will have a poor complexion nor get too fat; neither will she suffer from nerves and hysterics. "The woman who lives right, thinks right, and works right may he more beautiful at forty or sixty than at twenty, and the preservation of the divine gift of beauly is a duty that no woman should neglect for her own sake and for the sake of the world about her." More Oats Needed. What farmers want are crops that make the greatest profit and those that help build up land. This I find in the oat crop. I can make more clear money from any of the stand ard crops such as corn, cotton, wheat, etc., and must say that it is the best and healthiest feed you can give a horse. When I was a boy I went to a circus and had a curiosity to know what they led those fat, sleek horses on. I went to the tent Vhere the man was feeding aud he was giving but shelled oats. Now, for my way of making this crop: If a farmer sows five acres in oats and gets 100 bushels he thinks that is doing very well, and it is, the old, rough way. This is my plan: Take one acre, prepare and fertilize as you would if you expected to get two bales of xotton or 100 bushels of corn, and get as much oats or more than from .the five acres. If I sow in the fall, I prepare the land well to get a good seed bed. Get the Texas rust-proof or Hastings 100-Bushel oats. If I sow in open furrow, I use a small shovel plow and open rows about J4 inches wide, take Carmi?al's combined seed and fertilizer dh tributorand put in one and a hali bushels and 300 to 400 pounds of J 10-2-4 fertilizer io the acre. In the ?pring, about March, I sow, broad cast, about 100 pounds of nitrate x>t soda, then use small plow to run -out middles which rolls the soil and what soda that is on the middle around the oats and is a good work ing. The open furrow system is all right to prevent being killed out by severe cold but I have had fine suc cess sowing broadcast by plowing in a little deeper and sowing earlier, so thej will get well rooted before cold weather. After preparing land well I plow in with cutaway hairow, then run a drag over to level and pack the land; this way I put- about GU0 pounds of fertilizer and the sod i in the spring. Now. let me also say thatl hate had fine success sowing the Burt oat in the spring from the ^middle to the last of February, two to two and a half bushels per acre. I get seed from Hastings, Atlan ita, Ga. I prepare land, fertilize and plow in as I do the fall broadcast sown. 3y sowing in the spring you have time to get your corn or cotton crop $rathered and your land turned and subsoiled. I try, if possible to keep oats dry -when harvested, and as soon as thor oughly dry have them threshed and put in bins to keep them clean and free from rats and mice. Have a Jiay press and bale the straw while it is bright and dry. then yon can handle it so easy and can readily seil it. I hnvf> don^ away with the old way of doing things as ray fath er did, and your father did, and a irreat many farmers still do.-J. R. Harwell in the Southern Ruralist. Should Excel in Something. He is a poor sort of a farmer, as we have said before, who does not aim to have something just a little better than ?>any of his neighbors a horse, a cow, a hog, a Hock of chickens, an acre of corn, an apple orchard, or what not. It does not sc .nuch matter what the thing is. The important thing is the striving for the mastery. And having striv en, you want to pit yourself against your neighbors to make sure .that you really have excelled. For this reason, we hops every farmer who can yet do so will make an exhibit of some kind at his couDty or State Fair this fall. Look over your farm and decide what you will send. Progressive Farmer. KNOW PAINT. There's a paint education in this advertisement. But by tue job, not gallons. Buy by the paint put-on; that's the job. The price of paint is so much a gallon; that can't be helped, but amounts to nothing. Put them together. How can you do it? You've got to or lose per haps half of your money. Devoe 10 gallons enough for the average job; an average paint, 15. Now reckon your costs. Count la bor a day for a gallon. Devoe 10 days; the other 15. Devoe about 850; the average paint about $70 or $S0; the dearer the labor the bigger the difference, always that way. But that's for the job. How long is it going to last? One twice as the other. The Edgefield Mercantile Com pany sells it. Throw Out The Life Line. Give the Kidneys Help and Many People Will be Hap pier. "Th'ow out the life line." Weak kidneys need help, v. They're often overworked-don't] g?t the poison filtered out of the j blood. ; > Will you help them? Doan's kidney pills have brought benefit to thousands of kidney sufferers. Read this case: F F Mosley, farmer, Jeter street, Edgefield, S. C., says: "I was troub led for some time with a swelling in my feet and ankles, which the doctor said was caused from my kidneys. I began taking Doan's kidney pills and soon the swelling disappeared. I have received great j relief through the use of this reme dy and would not know what value to put on it if I had to name it in dollars." Formale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mil bu rn Co.. Buffalo, New Vork, soie agents for the United States. Remember the name-Doan's and take no other. THE ONE GREAT EVENT. \ _ I The State Fair Which Everyone AtJ tends-The Dates, October 28 to November 1, Inclusive There is one gala occasion on! which ail the people of South Caro-1 lina unite. Ona time when they all; join in having a good time. It is ati the State fair. Thousands and thous-? ands of South Carolinians agree from year to year to meet in Colum bia during the State fair. This year they will be in Columbia between October 2S and November 1, inclu sive. Besides meeting their relatives, friends, acquaintances and sweet hearts, if they have any, they will find a better and greater State falrj South Carolina is progressing by| leaps and bounds, her farmers wanti the best, and it is t' be shown at? the fair. Never before have there- been so many entries at this time nor such a demand for exhibit space. President J. Arthur Banks, Sec-| retary J. M. Cantey and Superin tendent Y/atts are already in con stant touch with the .situation ar ranging for the details. Tho dates of the lair-October28! to November 1, Inclusive-are not inl conflict *vith any other events in thej otate. J Cheap railroad rates have already* been secured and special trains will] be operated for the convenience ofi the ihounsands attending (fee. Stat?) fair. (J Why She Suspected. A young wife was in tears, a few mornings ago, when her mother called. When asked what was thp matter she replied that her husband was out late the night before, and had been to a drinking party, "What makes you think he had been to a drinking party?" asked the mother. "He came home," sob bed the j'oung wife, "wearing a phonograph horn for a hat." Buy a Good Farm or a Timber Tract in South Georgia. Write to-day for my booklet of "one hundred Farms and Timber Tracts for sale" in the banner coun ties of Thomas, Brooks, Grady, Decatur and Mitchell. Large tracts, small tracts, improved or unimprov ed, tine level sandy loam and red pebbly land with red clay subsoil, labor abundant, best roads in Geor gia, best cotton lands in the South, good neighborhoods, schools and churches, pure free stone and arte rian water, plenty hog and hominy, saw mill timber, turpentine loca tions, cut over lands, colonization lands, fine stock raising section, city property paying 10 per cent, and over. Write me what you want and I will answer by early mail describ ing the property which you want. v You re to serve, W. E. CRA?GB?ILES, Thomasville, Ga. Notice to Contractors. The county board of commission ers of Edgeiield county, South Car olina, will receive bids for the erec tion of a steel span o. er Turkey creek, at Reynolds fore' in Edge field county, South Carolina, on Tuesday, October 15, 1912, at twelve (l2) o'clock noon at their office at Edgefield, S. C. The said span to be one hundred and twenty (l20) feet long, and to have roadway twelve (12) feet wide, in the clear, and supported by steel cylinder piers filled with concrete on one end, and the other enu to rest on a concrete abutment nine feet thick according to the plans and specifi cations on file in tho office of the Clerk of Court of Edgeiield county, South Caroliua. The approaches to said bridge are to be built by the county. All of the steel, material and cement, and material for said span and abutment are to be furnished by the contractor. All steel and material to be of first class quality. The county commissioners re serve the right to reject any ami all bids. W. G. Wells, J. O. Herin, * N. L. Broadwater; '. ^ Co. Bd. Com, E. C., S. C. October 2, 1912. Make the Old Suit Look Nev/ We are better prepared than ever to do first-class work in cleaning and press ing of all kinds. Make your old pants or suit new by let ing us clean and press them. Ladies skirts and suits al so cleaned and pressed. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Edgefield Pressing Club WALLACE HARRIS PROP. BEWARE OF M?MKI?. C Malaria-Chills and Fevers-common tomplaiuts among people living in tho Southeastern States, can be effectively rf Reved in the shortest possible time l{ lt. L. T.-Richardson's Laxative Toi>* This prescription has been used thirty five, years by Dr. Richardson, of Anderson, S. C., in his daily practice as a family physician, and has behind it thousands of testimonials from many prominent South Can.lillians and citizens of other neighbor ing states. R. L. T. is a wonderful cor rector of liver troubles and the greatest touic on the market today. You can abso lutely rely on it in any case of chills and fever or malarial poison, constipation 0: biliousness. If any member of your family need a tonic that strengthens and builds, go to your druggist today and get a fifty-cent or a dollar bottle of R. L. T., and watch the quick, steady improvement. If your drug gist can't supply you write R. L. T. Co., Anderson, S. C. ^ O The Best liver Medicine THE MOST PERFECT TONIC 50c & $1.00 per Bottle. All Drag Stores. 8 No. 666. This is a prescription prepared espe cially for Chills and Fever. Five or six doses will break any case of Chills Wd Fever, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c. Government Cost More Than T Doubled Under Roosevelt. DEMOCRATS' GREAT RECORD Startling Figures Which Show That the Cost of Our National Existence and the High Cost of Living Must Be Reduced. Under a proper downward revision of the Republican tariff schedules the people of the United States would save $2,000,000,000 each year, or over $100 per family on manufactured goods alone. President Taft's vetoes of the wool tariff bill and the steel tariff measure passed by a Democratic house COST THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ABOUT $650,000,000 PER ANNUM. The cost of conducting the federal government MORE THAN DOUBLED between the close of President Cleve land's second administration (Demo cratic) and the beginning of President ggjoseyelt^s second administration (Re publican). As the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH REPUBLICAN TARIFF SCHED ULES the people of the United States pay a tax FROM NINE TO SEVEN TY-EIGHT PER CENT on food and ordinary household articles used in the home hy every family, rich and poor. >The total cost of running the federal government in 1S60 was $55,000,000. The amount appropriated at a single session of the Sixty-first congress for the fiscal year 1911- $1.027,133.440.44 was more than double the amount $954,495,055.13-appropriated for the fiscal years 1S97 and 1898 at both ses sions of the Fifty-fourth congress, the last congress of the second Cleveland administration. Only eight years elapsed between the close of the second administration of President Cle\'eland and the beginning o." the second administration of Presi dent Roosevelt and yet the amount ap propriated during the four years of the latter - $3,812,203,577.15-was more than double that appropriated in the four years Mr. Cleveland was at the helm-viz, $1,871,53,S57.47. For 1910, the last fiscal year provid ed for in congress under President Roosevelt, the highwater mark in ap propriations- $1,044,401,857.12 - was [reached. jHkjesiderit Taft's estimate to the last ^pfRpn. of congress for government support for the fiscal year was $1,040, 648,026.55. In other words, governmental ex penses for the FOUR YEARS of Presi dent Cleveland's administration (Dem ocratic) were o*W $830,861,551.92 more than President Taft's (Republican) es timate of the amount necessary to cov er the expenses of ONE YEAR of President Taft's administration. Congressman John J. Fitzgerald o? Nev/ York, a Democrat and chairman of the committee on appropriations, In addressing the house Aug. 2i3, 1912. on the subject of appropriations said, ?"Thoughtful, men have watched with alarm the rapid increase in the cost of government in the United States." He further said that two causes BPPHI re sponsible for many present evils: ""One, the UNFAIR AND UNJUST SYSTEM OF TAXATION by which an undue share of income by these whose circumstances in life are not considered more than reasonably com fortable is taken through our customs laws for the support of our govern ment; the other, the difficulty or inabil ity to readjust our system of taxation and to remove many taxes from the necessaries of life, so long as the GOV ERNMENT IS EXTRAVAGANTLY j CONDUCTED, or the instrumentali j ties provided for the conduct of the : public service are either Inefficient or ! are not utilized so as to render the ! most effective and comprehensive re I Bults." Mr. Fitzgerald then called attention j to the fact that the Democratic party ; pledged itself if intrusted with power to do two things-REDUCE TARIFF j DUTIES AND RETRENCH P?B j LIC L-ZPENDITURES by eliminating I waste in administration and the aboli ' tien of useless, inexcusable offices. j The Republicans talk about tariff revision, and yet when a Democratic 1 house in fulfilling Democratic promises to the people reduced the tariff, a Re publican president vetoed the measure. : "By their works shall ye know them." I Democrats in every state of the ; Union should organize and prepare for polling a recojd breaking vote Nov. 5. Be it remembered that no matter how certain victory seems, overconfi dence is always dangerous. Is there any reason why the Demo cratic party should go out of existence simply because Mr. Roosevelt has tak en up the Progressive measures adopt ed by the Democrats eighteen years ago?-W. J. Bryan, Mr. Roosevelt stood aa a guarantor . for Mr. Taft Mr. Bryan says, "NowJ ! when Roosevelt has failed so utterly' j in his judgement of men, I ask csu ie1 pass correct judgment on himssU?^ j As Bread is the Staff of Life the better the bread the stronger the staff. To obtain the best bread you must use the best flour and that is undoubtedly the Town Ta'.k brand. ?sk any one who has tried it or better yet order a sack and try it for yourself. Where there is so much beauty it is difficult to make a choice. We realize that fact and do not hurry you at all when you come to look at our rugs. Take your time in se lecting the one that is to be a part of your household for years to come. For our rugs are the long wearing as well as the beautiful kind. UNDERTAKER'S SUPPLIES w e carry fi large stock of coffins and caskets from the cheapest to the highest grade. Our hearse responds prompt ly to all calls. Edgefield Mercantile Co. IKE FARMERS BANK of Edgefield, S. C. STATE, COUNTY AND TOWN DEPOSITORY Capital and Surplus Earnings $110,000.00 Total Resources over 350,000.00 When you sell cotton the first thing you ned is a safe de pository for your money-be ihe amount large or small. That sase depository is the Farmers Bank, and don't stop until you. get there. The average man or woman is not in position to invest a liu tle surplus money so as to get this money just when it might he needed. You can invest in our interest hearing certificates for 0 or l'J months and be sure to get your money just when you need it, and too, your money is safe. We act as adminis trators, guardians and trustees. All business handled with promptness and liberality. Loans made on approve! security. DIRECTORS-Thoa. H. Rainsfori, Dr. C. P DeVore, W. B. Penn, E. H. Folk, S. B. Mays, C. A. Wells, J. Wm. Thurmond, W. H. Hading, A. E. Pa dgett. MMAM^ftjeaaiiu^ JUIIJJAIU JWH-jMHoiiwdm mmnmiwn SLUSKY'S OLD STYLE 'THE TIN OF QUALITY" The old Time Quality, Made of the Best Material. It Stands the Test of Time. 1009 BROAD STREET DAVID SLUSKY, AUGUSTA. GA. WHOLESALE !AND RETAIL TINPLATE. GALVANIZED ROOFING. RUEBLR ROOFING. TIN AND GALVANIZED SHINGLES MANI ELS. TILES. GRATES. ETC. j fl? ABE COHEN, Proprietor. %g The up-to-date millinery and dry goods house, with a full and complete line of hat feath ers and all trimmings necessary for a tine hut. Hals ranging $2 to $15 each. Children's and misses hats latest styles and all colors. Dry goods in everything in a riist-class Dry Goods store. i CiofBiSrcg 5 Clothing for men, bo\ s and children. Shoes and furnishing goods at the lowest prices. Remember the place. justa Bee ; [916-918 Broadway, ? Augusta, - - - Georgia Bath Room Outfit IWe' can install a complete bath room outfit at a small cost. Let us quote you prices. We carry a full line of pumps, rams, tanks, emerald bath tubs, wash basins, sinks of all kinds, water closet fixtures, terra cotta pipe, piping and fixtures. Plumb ing of all kinds done. Barrett and Dobson, 584 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia \