Texas Won'i Help Reduce Threatens I'hat if the Older Stales Do Not Stop Planting So Much Thoy Will Scatter thoWcovil Among Them. ? Other Notes on Texas Farming. Cor. of 1 ho Charlotte Observer. Waco, iV.X'i-, April 20.? In central Texas there i> more talk about cotton than any thing else, and the boll Weevil and the boll worm are centres of attraction. As has already been stated in a previous letter, the weevil has appeared, and is proving on the young cotton The writer has hten shown weevils which wero taken April 18th and which the experts here, in this centre of the cotton belt, pronounce full-grown 'birds." It is astonishing what harborage these insects lind. Jf tho bark he cut from a cotton stalk a row of boles will bo seen, Into which eggs have been deposited. Tho weevils go into tho late bolls and deposit eggs in such numbers that Ike bolls do not open. They come out in the spring and grow wonderfullv. An experiment was made hero at Waco to test tho vitality of tho weevil. Many dozen were put in a bottle and the hitter was frozen in the centre of u. block of ice at one of the factories and allowed to remain thero throe da vs. Then the block was broken and the bottle removed and opened. As Bonn as they were warmed the weevils were active. The time has boon, and that within a few months, or even veeks, when some farmers in Texas, in fact quite a number in tho black ' elt, expressed the opinion that the weevil was a blessing in diguise. ~ o Some of these used a good argument, from their standpoint, this being that the weevil would force a diversification of crops. As a matter of fact, diversification is now beginning, and more meat supplies are being raised all through this section. In the course of a talk with many farm* era right froir their farm', it is learned that fifty per cent, more hogs were raised last year than in previous years. TIIRF.ATF.5I TO SCATTER WEEVIL. Mention has been made of the fact that it was reported here, on seemingly good authority, that colonies of the boll weevil had been taken by a certain man to the other cotton growing States and thrown out of the car windows, in order to spread the terrible pest ns widely as possible. I had a talk with the oldest cotton buyer here, who is also a large farmer, and he assured no of his bolicf as to this matter. He said some very interesting things in this connection, and declared very positively Unit if cotton foil to f) cents a pound, people hero in Texas would scatter colonies of the weevil nil through the other cotton growing States, although this is in violation of the laws of dome States and in violation of the federal Inw, and added that some weevi s had already heen sent, largely uh a test, to see whether they would thrive and he hoard from. He declared thai the Texas farmers as a rule resent the planting of such a large ncreago of cotton in the older Statos, as they think the planting in the oioor mates, wirn i ? x?s having the weevil, takes this State at n disadvantage; the farmers say that they wish the other States had the weevil and that Texap could ntund the insect if the cotton growers knew that the other States had the j.est also, hut that if Texas has them and the other States do no4,it isa hardship upon Texas. All the cotton men hero say that if the wcavih do get into \> F/'lirij I, * i \*, where there I i-. m? iiiiicb "inoi>h;re, ?hov ivill multiply v 'r> la*t. Mv informant, already referred to, says it is very untitle to make n state incut ilint Texas can mi so as much cotton wtih the weevil nh without it. I!o cites his own case, that lust year he planted 200 acre* and his crop lust fall was 70 IihIcp, where he ought to have had 300. Ho expressed the confident l>elief that the In>11 weevil is in Texas to stay forovo I ; that it is in the ground, the timber, the cotton stalks and even the corn stalk-*, and that its rate of advrnce into new territory has never slackened. NOT UKIH'CINO AORKAOK. 1 I w?nf on the nmrkct square here, where there woro scores of farmers and talked with them j ahout cotton and other crops ( Wagon loads of cotton were com- j ing into the eitv, tho custom ? among the fanners being to bring a corsidi rablo part of their crop in at one time. Tho impression j gained l?v the talk was that there () would he hut little reduction of ^ acreage. Tlio growers appear to ^ think that in the other States there will he hot little reduction, and they will plant as much as before. I was told of one farmer who was ^ holding his crop of 1,1)00 bales, j in a few miles of here, having ^ built a shed over it who said f yesterday that he would plant as j much this year as last your, and <. that two other farmers, brothers, , who have a very large farm in common an.l who raise 1,800 . bales, have sold none and say j they, too, will plant just as much. ^ From talks with growers, and with buyers also, it was gather d that the reduction in the Texas crop will ho from 8 to 10 per cent as compared to last year. One prominent citizen, a buyer, ^ declared that it seemed up to a | few days ago that the reduction ' i might bo as much as 15 per cent., jl but it now scorned it would bo 1 less. lie said it would take an- j oilier big crop, which would mean 5-cent cotton and would bring the farmers to their senses, to lead to a positive and sweeping reduction of the crop There will he a lot of now acreage in cotton this year, both in Texas and in the Indian Territory, winch is always spoken of as simply the Territory this heing in an ellort to get alioad of the boll weevil. The farmers do not really realize their power. When asked about what tho yield was in this rich black wax land section hist year, they said they thought it was about one half a halo to the acre, on an average. They say thoy could mako n lino crop if it were not f )i" the boll worm, which hurts the early cotton, and the weevil, which injures the late. The weevil is at its worst in the low lands, and dues not cut so much of a figure on the high rolling land, the farmers say. HF.01N TO USE FERTILIZERS. 1 was struck by the comment of fanners upon the question of the use of fertilizers and also of hotter fat ming. They <-ay that i the land owners force upon rent crs the necessity of taking too > rr.uch land for cultivation. When a renter says ho wants 35 or 40 ; acres the owner ridicules him and he must take 75 at least, and more if he has any mnro workers i in his family, and thus he undertakes to do more than ho can do. . Renters | ay one-third of corn and other grain crops grown and onei fourth of the cotton, or if in money, $3 to $4 per acre. Farmers sav the*o black lands are from 4 to (> feet in depth, but, rich as they tiro, they are not so rich as they used to be, and the judicious c-?e of fertilizer has a wonderful elfect, not only in forcing crops, but In increasing them. Their if hiit: 1 iit ;f w !?: ?; iri, :??? ? tlno u vc i v stn . 11 vvuy. I < ihi) hi mi gra*p> is h post wtlich iiip? taken posse** ion of much valinble I mil. In some caves such and is abandoned to it, and ir is ut for foiago half a dozen turns i year. When a-k(d as to the crop aisod it was stated that oats nwrige sixty bushels to the acr.-, and ast year went as high ?is eight vive; wheat eight in sixteen hush ls; hurley thirty to tint t\ five; orn twenty bushels, running as ugh as thirty live to fortx for he past few years There are no imall farms, nearly everything >eing done on what in the Hast vonid be thought to ho nn innnenso scale, no one here thinking v three thousand acre cotton ilantation at all uniiMiul. Cotton s well up in this section and is jrowing very rapidly. Th? rain'all at times is imntoaso, live nclics having fallen last Sunday light. I his is me country ot great 'arms. Fur example, in one not i gr?*at way from here ih-rc arc [20,000 acres all under one fence, lince tlu> law requires nil lards in hp in Texas to lie fenced. In nndlier rnnch, there are 440,000 icres, and in still a greater one here are 3,000,000 acres, the atter land having been given by he State of Texas to a Chicago irm as payment tor the constructon complete, of the $5,000,000 state cnpitol, at Austin, the iua? erial of which is red gt unite, piarried nearby. A farmer in Ins State has what he calls a lorse lot in which there are 12,* >00 acres, in which his hoi>os nn. Fred A Olds. Notice to Road Overseers All overseers of the public oads of Lancaster County who lave not worked their section of oud will please warn out their lands and work same at once, as he roads have now dried oil' so Ihev can be properly worked. If there is any section that has not nn overseer, plenso report same to meat once and I will appoint one. M C Gardner, 4t. Co Supervisor. -Clubbing Payal >l.o S tv i c t THE LEDGER (twice a < JOURNAL (twice a week) THE LEDGER (twice a u TON NEWS and COUR year for THE LEDGER and The TOR one year for TIHC LEDGER, The AT SOUTHERN CULTIVA' THE LEDGER (twice a v CONSTITUTION (three I tiik t rnr.i.'i? (* . .. " V " ' " WORLD (throe times a \v< THE LEDGER, ATLAN and FARM, one year for Positively Cannc t / Bold Malik Kd?hM*v in N'?w York Mite. Outi.na, N V , M'iy '2 A hand of in:i?-k< d robbers rt do into the vi)!??oo nf (iiM?? rlsvillc, about IS miles from horn, a* 3 o'clock this morning, blew open the modern and supposedly t?urolur prod safe in < h>-pi ivat" bank of K. (\ I'rower, i'in! numu ^o?id their OM-.-ip with booty estimated at between $.">.000 and $10,000 \N 'icii t lie st.-u 11 I villagers were awakened h\ tho uiiitlled loir of tho explosion and had been halted h\ pistol tiro of Ihe retreat* inn bandits, they foui d that tho robticrs had oouipletely isolated (iilhet tsvillo from tne outside world by cutting all the telegraph and teVphotw wiies KlTorts to communicate with i eighu< ring town * wero ful iit) - ? o svon.i.0.. P airs the /I lh0 ^,n(l You Hav0 Alwa)-0 BOfUtt i I w \ I'i w ? / V w < / KIDNEYS .*1 tn'i is \' liuehu (Jin am) .lit.i i{> i t | > il.fl iiml < iidol*-< 11 liv i ill. > ol i,!'.V-d? ines. It I'll res when n I els. 'JiiN 1'iev* ills l\i \ di.> 11 si'S Iin>|isj .Inifjliis ?()?'h?o* i*t tt all ilrugitis s jjt! OO A HOITLK < >r l>ireet From Murray Drug Co, ('o'umlda, .w <' Application for Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that at II o'clock ii m. on Hulurdny, Mav 13th, 190S, I will llle my liual report ?.n Adminislia t Send oil Credit. T. 5. CARTKR, Pub. Ledger. ' '' ' ' " "i: |i isagp mm; MWiul.:.. . K,^...! .aTHTniniur^..-". T u . .... ) -.' 1 EV^^FtK ' - "? "1 j AVfcgetable Preparation Tor As - g slmilating ihcFootlnndRegula- " tin^ llic Stomachs and Bov.-els of S mBjBjjMaH Promotes Digcslion .Cheerful- S ness and Rest.Contains neillter ? Opium,Morphine norNlincral. 7 Not Narcotic. /<*vr or ou JO-SAMUEL MTCHEn Seed' v sitx.Senna * 1 AWA?//V SJll - I sini*e Serti * ? / Tfdnft Se*d. ?i mmy ? toiwi p Apcrfect Remedy forConslipn- l (ion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea . Worms .(Convulsions .Fcverishness and Loss OF SLEEP. facsimile Signature oF 11 XEW YORK, 6 EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. 1 j VM.Wts-^ , T>i* K (x KUiot t , I j- n -'stcr, S. C. i Itesbh nee phone No !S7. OlTl< Davis Building. corner Main mi I Duntap street*; phono No 12. Will practleo in both town ni c.ninty of' Lancaster. AIIcaII". eitli day or nigh . will r> reive prompt n tantion Jan. Id, 190V?if. 1 mm mi. ? PROFESSION Ali I'AHD. Di; M P Ckawkohp I)k It (i Bkov ril \ WFOItl) .t P.UOWN, Physicians aid Surgeon*. 1 II i O.c.tel , S. ( i . ' i Treatment of I lie eye, nose n tiro i a .peeialf v. 1 Calls promptly answered day i night OlHoe over Crawford I< i Drug H'.ore. i j Phones: Ofll N > 170; It i.leiir Nos 11 ami MO. J A '.iwa a.< l 11 i u si r? csjSter now ami prep' j tor :t lucrative -si ; n. Onrvrndut ! arc in denned Let in ih-i-i \oii I have assisted hundiv's ? ill v are ! p'- ilions. Wo oiler special rat j Ma.tfoit's S. (J. It i -.incss ( \ille Columbia, S C. j Aul'. 29. 1904 ? lf 'iIjoii Flop I I 1 !ivr npob" II11gi :iii*llt W j lenders of money in New Y >ra (N with whom I am ah'eto nogo? i delm second by Hist. mmtguge on itnp.oi eotiou Firms, at 7 j er < nt inter's 5 repayable in nnmi'il installments live years No broke-age or ronur alon eharg'-d * i-ur- It'o-x) ami ri ? in mni lire 1 leeiiug. .* t mIi ?1 - ii'jc more* r,()c A nOTTLK Or l>ii *?*! From 'I'llMcrr.iy Drug Co, Colu-iiiiln, H C I For Infanta ard Children. | The Kind You Have I Always Bought Bears tlie / . % 3 /' y/ ?\Sl | SignatureZ^p lA J* Use lU^ For Ivor | Thirty tsars th? oentaur* MMMWfa nm vonn err*. i1 wiwiift 'vi TTWWW maa J. E. RUTLEDGE, Dentist, Lancaster. S. C. id |Hj Working on credit doesn't j?:iy, er and inv terms from this ti.no it- henceforth are stt ictly cash. Soahonable Prices, ** Gold Killing $1.5'* Amalgam Filling 75 ets. rs Cement K'lling 75 ct ltCHllF.lt CL.VTK, Knil upper set of teeth $12.00 , Upper nr.d lower s -t ?25 50 tul , , 2^^* rhene prices are strictly or for cash. No work done except >>-. for cash or good security. J. E. RUTLEDGE, Dentist. r*r j tiv. wo X'tvir.w '.v^rxvu-.v. m J. U. lRK )' FOSTER. n Attnrupy at Lair, ! LANCASTKU, S. t\ *' 3?aY~ (' ?!'? tl.in.:i sp * ut. n-;. Go to the Z LANCASTER MARBLE WO . 'v IX 5 J> :: GRANITE WORKS, For Good Work and Low Price > i na . ? ? - & g ^jr?Ninrh 5> Jt 5 !< * 3 % V 0 I ? Ifl R fi S LA NO A ST Ell, S. C u, Notice. i>\ in* My regular olli e days will !>< Hal "' ' iird: ya and llrst Mondaya. aM other ,y I !)>. J!| L i: 4 A: > i IS"- A N I) CJIES i Eft J""? ' . AJ 5WV A ^ US" ov.u?Tim so 0' Jan ft. Iv\. ' (Daily oxeei t Hun li )) tVKM'I'Hl lUJ11?. 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