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Improved Roads IMMENSE SUM FOR HIGHWAYS During Year 1919 Over $400,000,000 Was Expended for Rural High ways and Bridges. During the calendar year 1919, 46 states of the Union expended over '$400,000,000 on their rural roads and bridges, the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agri culture recently announced. This to tal is made up of the actual cash ex penditures for such items ,as labor, materials, supervision and administra tion, amotmting to $389,455,931, and convict labor and statute labor, the value of which, not definitely known, is estimated at about $132,000,000. So far. as possible, all expenditures on City streets within incorporated towns Building an Up-4o-Date Highway. and cities and all items of sinking-fund payments or the redemption and inter est payments on road and bridge bonds have been excluded. The "road and bridge expenditures for 1919 show an increase of approxi mately 33 1-3 per cent over those of 1918 and 70 per cent over those of 1914. More striking, however, is the increase in the proportion of the total funds supervised by the several state highway departments. In 1918 the ex penditures by or under the supervision of the state highway departments amounted to $117,285,268, while the local road funds, over which they exer cised no control whatever, amounted to $168,812.925. In 1919, however, the state highway departments supervised the expenditure of $200,292,694 as against the total of $1S9,163,237 ex pended by the local road and bridge authorities. REMOVING SNOW FROM ROADS Becoming Increasingly ! m po-tant Be cause of Large Amount of Travel During Winter. Snow removal from highways is be coming increasingly important be cause of the large amount of travel by motortrucks and automobiles. Sev eral states have made appropriations for removal of snow from the main highways but in other states there has been no appropriation of funds for .this purpose. Vast quantities of com modities must be hauled over the high ways next winter because of the lack of sufficient railway cars to move them, and state money, rather than local funds ought to be used to keep truck highways open. IMPROVED ROADS WOULD AID | Many Counties Rich in Agricultural Possibilities Are Burdened With Poor Roads. Fluctuations In market prices^may have several explanations. They fre quently take place in regions where the local production does not equal the annual consumption. There are counties rich in agricultural possibil ities, burdened with bad roads, where the annual incoming shipments of foodstuffs exceed the outgoing ship ments in the ratio of four to one. Many such counties with improved roads could not only become self-sup porting, but could ship products to other markets. TREES DO NOT INJURE ROADS Instead of Taking All Out lt Would Be Better to Thin Out to 50 or 75 Feet. Why cut down all trees along the highway being graded? We recently saw two or three dozen large maples along a road taken out entirely. It would look much better and be as usable if the row had been thinned to 50 or even 75 feet. If the road were well made the treesx would not Injure it at all. Let's have some shade on eur new roads.-LeRoy Cady, as sociate horticulturist, University Farm, St. Paul. Plant Some Trees. If you live on the south side of the road, plant some shade trees to shel ter the hot traveler. In a few years pei^le will say: "He lives on the farm where those big elms shade the road." Determine Profits. Farmers' profits are determined by the difference between production and transportation costs and the selling prices. Production must cease when the transportation costs wipe out th? difference. Wade Drake Pioneer in An son in Resorting to Covt Crops to Improve Leach ed Lands. Anderson,. July 7.-Wade D who lives near Anderson, has U? greater variety of legumes and < cover crops and has accompli more in the way of soil building any other man in that part of country. Mr. Drake is now being lowed by many other good far who are adopting his method some modified ?brm; but Mr. D bears the distinction of beginning work and proving its worth. In 1909 Mr. Drake bought acres of poor land, gullied and ? red with abuse. He began to plo a little deeper and prepare the better for his crops, thereby get better yields than his neighbors. 1 he turned under a few crops of peas, sowed quite a good- dea small grain and followed this . peas. In a few more years his '. was producing- more . than do what it was when he bought it 1914, 225 acres more were adde* the original tract. This was ham much as the other tract but Drake was not-satisfied with the ; gress he was making in bringing t this soil so he began to assemble of the information and the best m ods of growing crops. He reaso that cow peas were good, but if could just add some winter crop his summer soil building crops could build up his soil much fas He knew that the leaching of pl food from his fields during the v ter was very great so in addition putting in a good system of terra he planted rye and-other grains s ply as a protection to the soil d ing the winter. A little later he he; of the soil building qualities of ha vetch. So he tried that. He inocula the soil where he was planting ve and followed other instructions wh he had obtained from differ sources carefully and to his surpr and gratification he produced a gc crop of vetch. First Allowed to Seed. The first crop of vetch was allow to seed on the land and then v harvested for seed. There wt enough seed left on the land to sure a perfect stand of voluntt vetch the following fall and with t seed saved from this land many mc acres were seeded that fall. The f lowing spring, which was 1916, ma acres of vetch which would have pi duced more than a ton per acre we turned under for fertilizer. Many his neighbors called him foolish ai even proposed'to cut and haul t feed away if he would give it to the for. they could not bear to see much feed "wasted." During the fe lowing year Mr. Drake has addi crimson clover, velvet beans, bu clover, abruzzi rye and other ero; to his system of soil building. Evei acre of his land produces a covi crop each year which is turnsd undi for enriching the soil. In speaking of his work recent in reply to the question: "Why d: you fall upon this soil building pra< tice?" Mr. Drake replied, "My lan was so poor I could not produce good crop to get satisfactory returr for my labor. I knew something ha to be done so I started out to se what I could do. I thought if pea were so good as a summer cove crop that if I could a crop on th land for the winter that would be a good as cow peas are for summer, would enrich my soil twice as fas1 I have found that crimson clover an vetch will do this. They are addin; nitrogen and humus to my soil dui ing the winter instead of the lam washing away." In the beginning Mr. Drake wa using about 300 pounds of fertilize per acre and his yields were abou a half a bale of cotton, 15 bushels o: corn or 15 bushels of oats. By thi methods outlined above this aa mi land'has been brought up to a higl state of cultivation. During the pas few years this same land has aver aged more than two tons of hay pei acre, 50 bushels of oats, 25 bushels of wheat, 50 bushels of corn or z bale and a half of cotton per acre Larger Yields Grown. For the year 1920 he produced an average of 70 bushels of corn pei acre, 50 bushels of oats, 25 bushels of wheat per acre and a total of 197 bales of cotton on 100 acre. For the 1920 crop ah average of 600 pounds of acid phosphate and cotton seed meal were used per acre and 50 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre for cotton applied just after the cot ton was chopped out. As a test on corn nitrate of soda was applied at the rate of 600 pounds per acre. So full of nitrogen is that soil ,that no results were obtained by the use of even this heavy application of soda. In connection with these crops Mr. Drake has used two tons of ground limestone per acre on all of his cul How sixty-four Diamonds behaved for a well-known Virginia Utility Company "We have used the Diamond Tires and, after a thorough test, we believe that this tire is the- best for our ser vice. Our trucks cover more territory than any other trucks on the peninsula. For your information, I might advise that these trucks, sixteen in number, take, care of the territory from Fox Hill to Camp Morrison. They are operated in all kinds and conditions of weather and, all in all, I believe the Diamond tire is the best for our service." Frank B. Lawton, Newport News and Hampton Ry., Gas & Electric Co., Newport News, Va. Buy Diamonds for economy. They are the v>^v real thrift tires, and have been standard ^oruFE> for twenty-five years. THE DIAMOND RUBBER COMPANY, INC. Akron, Ohio DIAMOND RED AMD GREY TUBES tivated land. He is a strong belie' in the use of limestone. Mr. Drake has used both steam . gas tractors successfully. He has found that because of 1 gullied condition of his farm at 1 beginning terraces on the level w< .not satisfactory so he is reterraci his farm with a slight fall to terraces. Urges Inoculation. Mr. Drake is a firm believer" .rr [inoculation for all legumes that e not commonly grown, or for whi he is not certain the soil carries t bacteria. He has used the soil trar fer methods and several kinds of pu cultures. All have been more or le satisfactory. The soil transfer metb is now used exclusively. Mi'. Drake method of inoculating vetch is to s cure soil from a field that has pr viously grown vetch successful! moisten the seed with water to whii has been added enough molasses make them sticky and roll the se< in the soil until each seed is cover? with soil, sow the seed and covi them lightly before the bacteria killed by the sun. A half bushel < soil is sufficient to furnish inoculatic for enough seed to sow an acr About 30 pounds of seed are used p< acre. Planting is done September 1 November. Vetch never freezes oi when once it gets well establishei The same method is employed wit crimson clover as for vetch. Soil : secured from a field that has pre viously grown crimson clover, c other clovers that carry the sam bacteria as crimson clover, the see treated the same way as for vetc sown and covered lightly with hai row or heel sweep. Twenty-five pounds of cleaned seed or 25 to 3 pounds of uncleaned seed are use' per acre. Uncleaned seed, that is s?ei that have not been threshed, just a they are stripped from the plants.^ ar often sown without being covered, OJ land that is already inoculated, am given perfect satisfaction. Vetch seed are saved by simply raking the vetch off the land with i heavy rake after the seed have ma tured. Sometimes abruzzi rye ii planted with vetch and this with the vetch is raked off the land ane: threshed together with the vetch. Mr Drake has made as much as 60C pounds of vetch seed per*acre. Crimson clover seed are saved bj stripping the seed from the plants when thoroughly ripe. This is done with a clover stripper modeled after the plans shown in farmers' bulletin No. 646. The yield of crimson clover seed per acre is from 500 to 800 pounds. , Come and inspect our beautiful line of voiles and organdies, which we are selling at very reasonable prices. L MUKASHY. 1 A Generous Deed. While Miss Faith Snuggs was in Edgefield, she and her parents went into the store of Mr. B. B. Jones and were considering the purchase of a gramaphone to take back to China, not dreaming for an instant that .there was any way of securing it ex cept by its purchase, and being mis sionaries they did not have any pre ponderance of this world's goods. They did not want the instrument for themselves, but for the good it might do in attracting the Chinese and especially the children of the kindergarten. When Mr. Jones found that Miss Faith wanted the gramophone, he told -her later how great a pleasure it would be to him to present it to her, realizing her great worth and the value of her decision to become a foreign missionary. Mr. Snuggs said that none of them could say anything but could only shed tears of appre ciation. There is no telling how far the in fluence of this gift will go. They will take it to Ridge Crest where Mr. and Mrs. Snuggs and the family are rest ing together and it will add cheer to their home life before the parents take their far away journey back to China where this gracious gift will accompany them. Notice of Election of Public Cotton Weigher. Notice is hereby given that an election for public cotton weighers for the towns of Johnston, Trenton and Edgefield for a term of two yevars, commencing September 1, 1921, will be held at the respective towns on Saturday, August 6, 1921. The polls will be open at eight o'clock a. m., and close at four o'clock p. m. All qualified electors who market cotton at the respective uowns will be allowed to vote, but no person can vote at more than one place. There will be two cotton weighers 'elected for the town of Johnston and one for each of the other two places. The following managers are appointed to hold said election: Edgefield-W. J. Duncan, W. L. Dunovant, Jr., and Wallace Holston. Johnston-Wilbur Yonce, Tom Milford and W. H. Dobey. Trenton-Wallace Wise, L. C. Eidson and Roper Moss. The managers at each place are au thorized to appoint persons to take the place of the managers who are absent. As soon as the polls close the man agers are directed to count the votes and report the result to the board by the Monday following the election. A. A. EDMUNDS, T. L. TALBERT, J. W. DeVORE. Board County Commissioners. July ll, 1921. OU MAKE ?TWHAT OU S?V1 CoDjrrlcht 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co. -No. 66 EVERY DOLLAR that you spend foolishly, every proportion ate amount of money that you earn that it would be possible to save and do not, is only money that you have to work for again. On the other hand every dollar you put in the bank is money that is going to constantly work for you. Which is the best; money always working for you, or you always working for your money. Come in and start that bank account. Don't put it off another day. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, President; A. S. Tompkins, vice-President; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John RainsfordV M. C. Parker, A. S. Tompkins, J. G. Holland, E. J. Mims, J. H. Allen. 1837 1921 ERSKINE COLLEGE Due West, S. C. Eighty-Four Years of Continuous Service Unwavering adherence to Christian character and thorough schol arship. ' Courses: A. B., B. S., Pre-Medical, special. Literary societies emphasized. Intercollegiate contests in debates, oratory and athletics worthy of comparison. Adequate equipment and endowment. Board in college home at cost. Price in private homes moderate. For catalogue and application blank write to ERSKINE COLLEGE DUE WEST, S. C. TT