.V"" *ll K ' ' .V? THE PAGELANI) JOURNAL i Vol.4 NO. 39 PAGELAND. S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 10,1914 $1.00 per year ? ; . / ? Lessons Of The Dry Spell. By C. L. Newman, N. C. A. & M. College The disastrous drouth prevail ins: over so large a portion oi The Progressive Farmer's terri tory as this is written calls foi the keenest intelligence that its effects may as far as possible be averted and compensated for The yields of some crops hav already been so reduced as tc cause alarm. Two things should now b< done: (1) Every effort should be made to select substitute crop; and have everything: in readines; to GAur fKorrt rto * - 'lhese crops should be carefuli considered now and such o them planted to appropriate areas as will supply the needs o the farm due consideration beinj given their adaptability to th? locality. Corn, of course, is one of i not the most important crop tha may be planted in June. Con will mature and under norma conditions produce a fair croj when planted by July 1 in Nortl Carolina and Tennessee ant southward. Where cotton i abandoned, corn may be plantet without additional pulverization Corn planted this late should no be planted on a bed or rid^e?i water furrow would be bette though it is probable that leve planting will, if proper cultiva tion is given, give best result oftener than nine out of tei times. Cowpeas, soy beans, peanuts sweet potatoes, and the sor gums may be planted any tim< in June. Corn and these crop just named are both human am animal foods, and may be profit ably for the hays and grassc that consume so much of the hard-earned cotton money. Dif ferent ones of these classes, wit! their numerous varieties, afforc I . ? 4- ?? - * on mi lib uuupieu 10 an conaiuon: throughout the cotton section Other crops that may be growr are turnips, chufas, the several millets, and a large number oj truck crops for fall market. . The one thing that stands . more in the way of the farmers [ doing the best by themselves is . the poor equipment in the way of improved tillage implements ; and good work stock. The ; farmer who has followed the . advice of The Progressive . Farmer and has possessed him> self of disk harrows, weeders, spike-tooth harrows, two-horse ? cultivators, etc., has a great ad; vantage, not only in getting his 5 land ready for crops to be plant5 ed, but in taking care of the { crops that must be cultivated T regularly now when cultivation f means more than at any other ? time. 5 j Death of Mrs. J. f. Crow , Monroe Enquirer i Mrs. Alice Crow, wife of Mr. s John J. Crow, died this morning - at her home west of Monroe ? i ~ i :ii j miici u 1U11& lllimSS. > Mrs. Crow was the only child y of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Shute, - of Monroe. Her mother died > about four years ago. Mrs. Crow . was born in Monroe on March y 23, 1867, and was therefore a t little over 47 years old. She e married Mr. Crow on November e 9, 1887. To this union one son, i, Mr. W. H. Crow, and two daughters, Misses Mary and Adeline L Crow, were born and all of them g survive. [. For many months Mrs. Crow e was greatly afflicted and she suf e fered much, but she possessed a t brave spirit and made a strong, e hard fight for life. 3 She was from girlhood a mems ber of the Methodist church and . was a great church worker, i devoted to Sunday school, mis oilier "c\r?nclf vttJrkT*"1" Mrs. Crow will be greatl" r missed in Monroe for she was e one who was most popular in v every circle in which she moved i and she was loved by all classes. ? The poor and the needy have e lost a friend. Funeral will be held tomorrow i at 11:30 o'clock from Central r Methodist church. r ' 1 An old negro went into a drug store in Richmond and said, . ur> ' a doss, win you piease, sun, call y de colonel on de telephone?" . This was done, says the Argoy naut, and the old negro said: f Colonel, dat ar mule done stall j right in ue main street, right out f here in front of de store. Yaas, y suh; I done tied strings round his e ears, but he didn't budge. What's dat? What's dat? Yaas, suh, I f built a fire under him, but it t didn't do nothin' but scorch de a harness. Yaas, suh; yaas suh; I ,1 took de things out but he wouldn't p budge. Yaas, suh; yaas, suh. ti What's dat? No, suh; no, suh, colA onel, I didn't twis' his tail. Yaas, s suh; yaas, suh, another gemman i twis' nis tail; he look like a i. Northen gemman. What's dat, ii colonel? Yaas. sub <1pv tnlr him a to de hospital." r :] Negro Is Killed Lancaster, June 5.?During a s thunderstorm here this afternoon a about 5 o'clock Alex Boykin, a negro man, was killed by a stroke of lightning. Boykin was in his house at the time and was * instantly killed. He was an b industrious negro. s i Pictures of The Wild Man We have three excellent views s of the wild man captured near 1 Pegeland Sunday June 7th, just as he appeared in the woods. 1 . # -- - - - c^an iurnish in finest finish and mounted on 8x10 cards, at 25c * each. Also on post cards for 15c. Postage paid. | WHITMORE'S STUDIO Pageland, S. C. [ (Advertisement) ) Crazy Man Caught Near Page- } land A small long haired, scantily t dressed man of middle age was captured Sunday morning about 1 11 o'clock, near the homt of 1 Rev. R. W. Cato, of the Union 4 Hill section, after he had been h tracked by several citizens fromthe barn on Mr. T. A. Gulledge's < farm just southwest of town, 1 where he spent Saturday night. < For about a month he had been I s seen from time to time in the < woods and fields in this section 1 appearing at one time as far as 1 Esq. B. F. Parker's in Lanes < Creek township. His hair was i long and unkept, his beard shag- i gy and his head and feet bare. No clothing was on his body ' except a ragged suit of underwear, and his appearance was indeed enough to frighten women and children, as it did on several occasions. He did not appear on public 1 highways much but skirted the woods and swamps and occasionally appeared at farm houses for water or food. He frightened two prominent ladies of Pageland at a plumb orchard about three miles west of town Saturday by appearing and gazing at them. Reports of a wild man in the community spread like wild fire and soon a number of citizens were on his trail. They were close on him when night overtook them, and the chase was abandoned until Sunday morning, when it was taken up afresh from his resting place in Mr. Gulledge's bart.* He was tracked on and on bt the posse, but he aooeared nelr the home of Mr. Cato befcwk! they overtook him and hefi^jjM| ' cohtwiiiwiy ro* and warm and put on mol clothes. Mr. Lem Usher took ' him in hand and kept him until parties from Pageland arrived and took him to bring him here. He knew Mr, S. L. Stokes, of Pageland, and his indenity was soon make known. His name is James English and he is a native of Kershaw county. He is about 37 years old, and has one brother living. His wife was burned to death 8 or 9 years ago, and his child died soon after. The family of 7 or 8 brothers all seemed to have weak minds, and this trouble made him insane and he spent two or three years in the state asylum. He says he had a crop started on Mr. James > Stokes farm near Sandy Grove church 5 or ft milp?? frrktn RotVi une, and that he could not get along with Stokes. He savs ' further that he started out to go to Bennettsville to see Duncan Marshall but got lost and could 1 not find his way. He talks with sense about the people of his section but it is evident that his mind is unbalanced. His , brother's name is William and 1 he clerks for Ixiwis &. Christmas at Camden. A long distance call to Camden brings the report that William is in about the , same mental condition and that i he will probably have to be car; ried to the asvlum at onro i English is a small man, sihd has been a hard worker, according to the reports, making on honest living bv the sweat of bis brow He seems perfectly harpriless, and when dressed woiild not he noticed more than a ay other man. Sheriff D. P. Douglass came up Monday and carried English away to turn him over to the authorities of Kershaw county, who will probably carry h im back to the asylum. i ^hat Shall We Plant On The c Stubble Lands? )r. Tail Butler in Progressive Farmer. The Sudject announced for 11 his article is, "What Shall We ^ Plant"; but with most of us it is 81 'Shall we plant the stubble fields t< it all?" v Too much stress cannot be laid P :>n the need for keeping our c ands busy. Our climatic coniitions are such that if our lands ire not growing a crop they are ^ certain to lose plant foods, by e washing away of the soil or by 8 leachin of these plants foods out r of the soil in the drainage water t after the heavy rains that come * at all seasons of the year. I There are those, especially in I Ihe northern part of our territory ( who do not believe that good c farming demands that the stubble * lands be sowed to some legume, > forage or soil improvement crop; but beyond any measure of s doubt they are wrong. Just as I certain as loafing half the time is > poor business, is this leaving of ( lands idle poor farming. In the * case of capital it is merely a loss 1 of its use, but in the case of the 1 land we not only lose the use of 1 it but it also becomes less valuable. At least we can use these i stubble lands in a way that will ^ give us a crop and improve their 1 productiveness for other crops. 5 We have no hesitation in stat- 1 ing that in any section or in any * case where there is a period of 1 three and a half or four months 5 between the removal of one crop and the seeding of another that ( something ought to be sowed on * the land if the season is suitable 1 for growing crops. We can see no reason for allowing the land Iplie idle from June to Septem- J bad -cropping- ' fttem, or a bad arrangement of 1 Wfe work makes it difficult to put in^iese catch crops. In such ( cal:the farmer is working too miTh land and will make more nuiiey with less land and better 1 management. Tn slinrt. r?nr r?n1v oHvontaao in an agricultural line being our ability to grow two or more crops in a year, while other sections can giow but one, we regard this growing of as many crops on the land as possible, or the keeping of the land busy all the time, as the most important single point in good farm management. What shall we, sow on the stubble lands? The choice lies among a large variety of crops; soy beans, cowpeas, peanuts, corn, millet, sorghum, etc. The first three are nitrogen gathering crops and in nearly all cases should have the preference. On average lands there is no question about the need for the legumes and it is as important that we keep the rich lands rich as that we improve the average lands. The soy bean, considering the fact that it is a much larger vielder of grain than cowpeas and is probably aqapted to a wider range of soil conditions than the peanut, has the preference. It has its one great weakness, which is increased by the soil r?r?nHitir?nQ 1ilr r>rncnn< in lauvaj ivf I/V piVOVUl III stubble lands. This weakness in the difficulty or uncertainty of getting a stand. This difficulty comes from the tendency of the seed to deteriorate and to the lack of vigor in the young plants or the germinating of good seed. The difficulty of poor seed can easily be overcome. There is no earthly excuse for anyone planting seed of low germination without knowing it when he can so easily test any seed. On the ether hand, a good seed bed and the soy beans planted at the depth overcame the other diffiI ulty to a large extent. The cowpea has the advantage 1 being able to grow if put in inder unfavorable conditions ^nv sort of preparation and any ort of planting will seldom fail 3 get a stand, althought they vill probably respond to good 'reparation just as well as other rops. For hay, the cowpea is propaby the better if sowed broadcasted. The soy bean does better blant:d in rows and cultivated. For grazing crops for hogs the pealuts and the soy bean have disinctly an advantage. The soy >eans are more easily aud cheapy grown, but the peanut will >robably furnish the most feed. )q the acreage of these two :rops will largely depend the iconomy with which the hogs vill be fattenpd this fall Every acre of stubble lands hould go into soy beans, cow>eas or peanuts, except that vhich was seeded to lespedeze >r some clover this spring or last all. We realize the difficulties, out the advantages are sufficient o justify all the efforts necessary 0 overcome these difficulties. If the stubble lands are disked ust as soon as the oats and wheat are cut?once, or twice if accessary?and thebreakingdone 1 few days later and immediately :he same day followed by another disking, there will not be nuch trouble about getting a seed-bed. It will pay to go to a great deal of trouble to overcome all difficulties in the way of sowing the stubble lands to some legume. The following farmers' bulletins dealing with these crops have been issued by the United States, Pepactmentof_ Ag^culflirp Wfl?hinortnii H C Peanuts?Bulletins?Nos. 356 and 227. Cowpeas?Bulletins Nos. 318, 309, 325. Soy Beans?Bulletins Nos. 372 and 309. Many of the State Experimen Stations have also issued valuable bulletins on these crops. Write to your station for wha they have. Verdict For County. Magistrate Caskey tried a case against the county before hiir yesterday. It was (hat of W. E Thompson vs. Lancaster countj The suit was for $99 damage to ? horse injured on one of tn? county bridges The jury founc a verdict in favor of the county Messrs. D. Reece Williams anc R. S. Stewart represented the plaintiff and C. N. Sapp th< defendant.?Lancaster News. Racon?Now I see there is i dog in New York who wants t vote. Egbert?Weil, why not There is a dog tax, isn't there? STATEMENT OF TH1 OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912. of The Pageland Journal put lished weekly at Pageland, S. C for April 1, 1914. Editor and Publisher, C. N Tucker. Owner, C. M Tucker. Known bondholders, mor gagees, and other security hold ers, holding 1 per cent or mor of total amount of bonds, morl gages, or other securities: Ban of Pageland. (Signed) C. M. Tucker. Sworn to and subscribed b< fore me this 29th day of Ma 1914. H. N. Askins, Notary Public. (My commission expires t I pleasure of Governor) Two Deaths. Mr. Jettie F. Rodgers, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Rodgers, died at his home about a mile north of Pageland Saturday morning about 9 o'clock. He was nearly 29 years old, was a member of Mt. Pisgah Baptist church and a good honest, straight-forward young man. He had been suffering with consumption for a long time, and his death was not entirely unexpected. He is survived by his wife and 3 children. Mrs. Lula Presson, wife of Mr. Mark Presson, of Lanes Creek township, died last Friday afternoon, after an illness of several months with consumption. She was 24 years old, a member of Beulah Presbyterian church and a good wife and mother. She was a daughter of Mr. James A. Terry. Her husband and 2 children survive. ine iunerai was neid over both bodies at Zion Methodist church Saturday about noon. The bodies were carried into the church at the same time, to the grave at the same time and lowered into the graves at the same moment. Rev. J. A. McGraw conducted the double funeral, and a large crowd was in attendance. The Summer Traveler. The papers have been talking a good deal about the hog who fills one seat in the train with his luggage and the other with his feet, and is blind to the comfort and convenience of his fellow travelers. There is another specimen and he is the man who will not surrender his seat to the |tired enters with whom he is acquam^HHP ed and whose favor he is anxious to secure, he is ready to t break his neck for her comfort. He thinks he is polite but he is . mistaken. Politeness is a strant ger to a thing like that. He subscribes to the theory that it pays to be polite. It may or may not pav, but the gentleman does not ( stop to consider that. Real gen{ tility grows only in the soil of unselfshness and the man who \ is courteous to a pretty woman l and rude to one who looks plain ? and poor, is as lar from being a [ gentleman as the east is from the west. On a crowded train is a j good place to test the breeding ^ of a traveler; and the harder it is to get a seat the more does genB uine courtesy shine. It is so easy to be considerate and thoughtful when it costs one nothing; the 1 test of the matter comes when 0 a surrender of selfish pleasure must be made. From r>o\y on ' through the summer season the young and strong will he traveling along with the feeble and 1 the weak. We admonish our young men who read these lines to think on these things, and remember the golden rule. A bent and wrinkled old woman with a fly bonnet may not be ( much to you, but she is to some; body. A crowd of strong young fellows who will allow a woman I- like that to stand in the aisles will never be worth a row of bone t collar buttons in this world.? l_ Charity & Children, e One Consolation. k "The rich young: men are getting: tired of automobiles." "Yes, thev seem to be." "They want airships now." y "Well, thank goodness, when they are seized with the speed mania up in the boundless blue they won't run over anything it more important than a buzzard or a crow." ? it *