The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, October 07, 1909, Image 8
Sour Cherries For Profit.
My early plantings of cherries were
of both sweet and sour varieties, but
I would be much better off in money
If I had set out nothiDg but the sour
kinds like the Richmond. Such kinds
bear very young and seldom fail of a
good crop. If starting again. I would
plant nothing but Richmond, Montmorency
and Morrello, which keep up 1
the season from early to late and supply
sure crops of marketable cherries
which net more per tree than other 1
kinds, taking one year with another.
After five years I reckon the income
of an acre would be eight or ten per I
cent, on $500. Cherries require less
Cultivation and pruning than other
tree fruits, producing as well in sod
land of good fertility as elsewhere. 1
The fertilizer most needed seems to
be potash. I plant them on high, dry
land. They do well in poultry yards.
?W. B. W., Bristol County, Mass.
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Economical Pasturage.
It is doubtful whether unlimited
pasture may be considered economical,
except perhaps for brood sows.
The proper amount of land to give
over to pasture must necessarily vary
according to its quality and other local
considerations, and the length of
time the pasture will sustain hogs
likewise is, dependent upon the climate,
quality of the crop, age and
number of the animals and other varying
conditions. For an average it
may be said that an acre of red clover
should support six to ten hogs for
three or four months. Alfalfa, the
leading pasture plant for swine,
should provide, if of vigorous growth,
for twelve to twenty-five animals per
acre, but an alfalfa stand should not
be grazed by so many hogs that mow
ing will not be necessary for keeping
It In the best condition. The practice
with alfalfa should be to pasture fewer
hogs than will be able to keep back
a rank or woody growth.?From Coburn's
"Swine In America."
"
Success With Sheep.
The sire and the dam are the basis
of the flock, but the lamb is the basis
of the sheep.
Without the lamb there would be
no sheep and consequently no profit
In the sheep breeding business.
Thus It Is readily understood how
wery important it !s that every lamb
hftrn In fl ^'? * 4 "
... mo iiuv.il ue Kept anve and
grown into a salable animal, whether
as a mutton lamb or a mature sheep.
This principle of flock management
must be thoroughly impressed on the
mind, and every feature of lamb rais- .
ing be carefully studied so that this ,
period be approached with everything
in readiness to save the lambs. ;
The sheep raiser who does not
count each lamb as it comes into the ,
world worth its price at weaning time
should go into some other business.
With the lamb a constant growth (
Is desirable, so it is quite important j
that it be liberally supplied at the |
outset, and that this be kept up if
one would succeed as a sheep raiser.
?G. W. H., in the Farmery' Home
Journal. ,
Jealousy in Agriculture.
Jealousy, narrow mlndedness and
lack of charity on the part of farmers
toward one another are some of the (
most serious setbacks to agricultural
progress. The farmer, penned In by I
the comparative isolation of farm
life, lives in a little world of his own.
He has to work out his own problems, :
do bis own work and reap the benefits
of his own efforts. Farming is
a one-man business. It is not surprising,
therefore, that a farmer should
get pretty well settled ideas as to
farming methods in general and his
own in particular. It is sometimes
hard for him to see the other fellow's
point of view, or to concede any point
with which he does not agree.
One farmer may have made a great
access at dairying. He sometimes
concludes there is no money in any
other business, and that all other men
should follow hlo ??
? .. - ? *wu)ic(m IU 8UCeess.
Another may have failed at
the dairy business because he did not
sot have the qualifications of careful*
neas that make dairymen. However,
he may be a successful cattle, sheep
mr hog feeder. Consequently "the
milky way" is a snare and a delusion.
Still another may bo a poultry enthusiast,
or he may be successful in
growing seed grain. Every one respects
the farmer who has the pluck,
the energy and "get up and get"
about him which brings success in
hit particular line. But there is
room for all. There is no use Insisting
on a man's du'.ng anything be
doesn't want to do. If wo tend strictly
to our own business, but be sure
to make that business a success, the
other fellow will not be slow iu following
the example If he sees anything
In it.?Practical Farmer.
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Ten Commandments of Agriculture.
Dr. Samuel A. Kuapp, of the United
States Department of Agrlcultare,
has evolved ten rules that he
sails "The Ten Commandments dt
v _ Agriculture," for tho successful cultivation
of the soil.
Rk The agricultural decalogue Is set
md In the following:
pulverized seed bed, well drained;
break in the fall to the depth of eight,;
ten or-twelve inches, according to the,
soil, with implements that will not
bring the subsoil to the surface (the
foregoing depths should be reached
gradually). |
2. Use seed of the best variety, in- (
telligently selected and carefully
stored. |
3. In cultivated crops, give the
rows and the plants In the rows a J
space suited to the plant, the soil and
the climate. |
4. Use intensive tillage during the
growing of the crops. j
5. Secure a high content of humus
in tho soil by the use of legumes,
barnyard manure, farm refuse and
commercial fertilizers.
6. Carry out a systematic crop ro- (
tation with a winter cover crop on
Southern farms. , I
7. Accomplish more work in a day (
by using more horse power and better
implements. j
8. Increase the farm stock to the
extent of utilizing all the waste products
and idle land of the farm. j
9. Produce all the food required ,
for the men and animals on the farm. !
10. Keep an account of each farm ,
product, in order to know from what
the gain or loss arises.?Indianapolis
News.
Nitrogen Capturing Plants.
Nitrogen for agricultural fertilization
is worth from fifteen to twenty
cents a pound, wholesale, so that I '
when it is known that at the Michigan | :
A 1 1 ri 1 ' ' '
nt)iivuiiuiiii rjipenmeni station, on'1
average ground, cowpeas yielded 139 j
pounds of nitrogen per acre and soy ;
beans 113 pounds, all captured from
the air, the money value of the le- .
gume to the farmer may be appre- '
elated. Compilations made at the De- ;
partment of Agriculture from various !
sources show that cured hay of the
various legumes contains from forty
to fifty pounds of nitt-ogen to the ton.
Land which will produce, therefore,
two tons to the acre of cured clover
or other leguminous hay, yields eigh- I
ty to 100 pounds of nitrogen, and the I
best way to realize this $15 or $20 of |
fertilizing wealth is to feed the hay j
right on the farm, converting it into j
manure and at the same time securing j
in addition its full forage value.
Barnyard manure contains from seventy-five
to ninety per cent, of the i
total fertilizing substance in the feeds !
used, depending upon the handling .
of the manure. |
nuuureas 01 exact tests have been '
made by the Department of Agricul- 1
ture and the State Experiment Sta- *
tions to show the value of the legume 1
as a fertilizer. In addition to adding 1
nitrogen to the soil it supplies humus '
and improves the mechanical texture. '
These two features are also accom- (
plished by plowing under or feeding ?
such green crops as rye, buckwheat,
stc., but these crops put nothing back
Into the soil that they have not taken
nut of it. 1
<
Grain Smuts. 1
A dangerous parasite of many of 1
the cereal plants is the fungus that i
produces in the grain or head what is '
known as smut. There are several I
well known kinds of smut. p?(<h nt I <
which Is caused by a distinct species
of the fungus. <
The greatest foes from smuts in
this country is from the stinking
smut of wheat and the loose smut of
oats. A considerable loss Is also due '
to the loose smut of barley and wheat, 1
which are more difficult to control
and prevent. They are widely dis- 1
tributed, and though they occur usually
in small quantities the damage
in the aggregate is large. They often
are entirely unnoticed on account of
their earllness and the absence of
any conspicuous sign of them at harvest
time.
The stinking smut of wheat transforms
only the kernels into smut
balls, which do not break until the
wheat is threshed, and often remain
intact in the threshed grain. The
loose smuts of barley, on the other
hand, early discharge their spores,
which are blown off by the wind as
soon as the smutted head comes out
of the leaf sheath; they infect the
plant in the flowering stage and enter
the embryo inside the ovary before
the latter ripens into seed. An infected
seed develops a smutted plant
the following year.
The most successful method thus
far found for preventing these smuts
is a hot water treatment of the seed.
This treatment is described in Bureau
of Plant Industry Bulletin 152, entitled
"The Loose Smuts of Barley and
Wheat," recently issue by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. The bulletin
is a report of recent researches
into the life histories of these smuts
and the determination of methods for
their prevention, and is Intended for
seed growers and scientific farmers,
?Weekly Witness.
Enigmatic.
"Isn't Jack a good fisherman?"
"No, and he never will be."
"Why not?"
"He has no imagination."
Great Britain has 500,000 horses
available for the purposes of war
Good Roads For south.
The Sun takes a reasonable but
we hope not vainglorious pride in
seeing its arguments and admonitions
of two years ago reproduced with energy
and originality in most of the
Southern newspapers to-day. The
word now is ' good roads," and in
most cases the means to that suddenly
much desired end is convict labor.
Georgia, for example, has revoked
her convict leases to private contractors,
and has become a much more
civilized Commonwealth in consequence.
In Alabama the penitentiary
is still a dominating factor in
politics, and we shall perhaps have
to wait a while for wholesome and
practical results. The eyes of most
cf Alabama's Representatives are
turned upon the National Treasury
is a stimulation of the work of Hercules.
to say nothing of its captivating
illumination of themselves, but
iii a general way the whole South has
naked up to the Importance of good
:ountry roads, and little by Utile tho
leaders of popular thought are coming
around to convict labor as the
only means to the consummation.
Already we see in Southern newspapers
of consequence grave dissertations
on the advantages to prisoners
>f open-air occupations under supervision
by the State; likewise reminislent
regrets over the former dispensation.
It is easy to see that in many
Southern communities they do not
take kindly to boulevards constructed
:hiefly for the benefit of tourists in
lutomobiles. We note in all quarters
in almost affectionate solicitude for
neighborhood roads that will bring
the farmers into close touch with
their natural markets, but when it
:omes to mapping out a straight way
trom New York to Atlanta or Savannah
or Jacksonville, our ohssrvofinn
s to the effect that the communities
ilong the route develop a certain lauguor.
This sentiment expressed itself
n South Carolina two or three years
Ago when the farmers and property
holders refused to tax themselves for
good roads, although they confessed
:hey needed them, on the ground that
Automobiles would be the chief beneficiaries
of the arrangement. The
Authorities were very free to say that
they didn't want to invite automobiles
into their territory. The people
were well acquainted with the
possibilities of the shotgun and the
rifle, but they preferred a quiet if a
boggy life. The road tax may have
been reinstated since, but that was
Lheir feeling at the time, and it is
ronceivable that public opinion may
be considerably influenced by good
will toward a certain local animal
which the automobile has displaced
from a once proud eminence and relegated
to a position of outright uscessness.
Meanwhile the good roads sentiment
spreads and gathers strength
hroughout the Senta *"
w ?? Mvuvu. AII ltruuzu
-he importance of permanent ways of
:ommunication, not only to bring the
'armers and their markets together,
jut to break the isolation of rural
ife and introduce neighbors to each
>ther.?Editorial in the New York
3un.
Mr. Taft Advocates Good Roads.
President Taft has again indicated
lis interest in good roads, the latest
expression being elicited in connection
with a movement for better highways
in Virginia, this taking shape in
in immediate plan for a road from
'.he National Capital to Richmond.
In a letter on the subject the Presilent
says:
"I regard this as part of the general
good roads movement in the
eountry, and I have pleasure in saying
that there is no movement that I
know of that will have a more direct
effect to alleviate the difficulties and
burdens of the farmers' life, will stimulate
the traffic, and add to the general
happiness of the people more
than the establishment of good roads
throughout the country. I do not
nun a mm uecause tnis may have
been stimulated by people using automobiles
It is to be frowned upon,
for while persons using automobiles
are by no means the most Important
In the community, the fact that their
sharp interest has focused the attention
of the public on the movement
entitles them to credit.
"I have no doubt that within the
authority which Is his the Secretary
of Agriculture will be glad to assist
by recommendation and practical advice
the methods to be pursued in
good road building in Virginia."
Weston's Experience.
From the fact that for more than
half of his transcontinental walk of
nearly four thousand miles Edward
Payson Woston had to "pound the
ties" because the roads were so bad,
It would seem that there 1b lots of
room for good roads movements between
here and the Pacific Coast.?
New York Tribune.
Lucky Jumbo.
Life with you must be monotonous,"
remarked the monkey as he
swung by his tall in the park zoo.
"Why so. my friend?" queried the
lazy Jumbo.
"Well, all you have to do Is to sit
here all day and be stufTed with peanuts."
The elephant smiled an elephantine
smile.
"That may be, my friend; but I'd
rather be here being stuffed with peanuts
than over In Africa being stuffed
for a museum exhibit."
Which shows that even an elephant
knows a good thing when h? tits it.
ANYHOW, WE HA>
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jNUKIHULIFFE TELLS
German Preparations of To-da
Confict With France?Brit
ings of Leaders Fail Fn
Chicago. ? In an interview pub
lished here Lord Northcliffe, manag
ing owner of a London newspaper, de
Clares there is great danger of wa
between Germany and Great Britain
"The Americans are so busy," sail
Lord Northcliffe, "with the affairs o
their own gigantic continent that the;
have not the time to devote to th
study of European politics, which ar
more kaleidoscoDic in their change
than are those of the United States.
"There is an impression in thi
country that some hostility exists be
tween the people of Great Britain am
| of united Germany. I know thi
j Germans intimately. From chijdhoot
I I bave traveled extensively through
| out most of the German States.
have many German family connec
j tions, and I "venture to say that out
side the usual body of Anglophobe
i one meets in every country there i
: little hostility to the Eritish on the
I part of the Germans.
"And, on the other hand, there i
in England no dislike of Germany
j Au contraire. our statesmen art
; adapting German legislation to ou
I needs, and if Imitation bo the sin
i cerest form of flattery the German
must be well pleased with our pro
posed reproduction of their working
men's insurance, their labor bureau
and a great many other legislative
improvements that, it appears to me
would be just as vital to the Unitei
States as they seem to be to Grea
Britain.
"Why, then, if so happy a state o
affairs exists between the two na
tions. should there be any section o
people in England to suggest the pos
sibllity of war? Turn back to 1869
Was there any friction betweei
France and Prussia? There was n<
hostility on either side. But an;
reader of Bussche's Bismarck or stan
dard authority on the great Germai
Empire builder will acknowledge
there was immense preparation oi
the part of Germany?a preparatioi
- i- ' ~ -*
mtti was Kepi secret as Iar as possl
ble, and which also, as far as possible
FRENCH JURY JUSTIFIES
In *-nny From Asthma, Sho H
His Lovo by Ending h
Spectators in T?
-"A man whose wife is dyinj
of an agonizing disease is justified ii
killing her to put an end to her suffer
ing if she implores him to do so."
So a jury, perhaps rather emo
tional, decided in the Court of Assize
here, and acquitted Edmond Gaudin
who, at her prayer, shot and killei
his wife on January 31 last.
Mme. Baudin had been affilctei
with asthma for years. It grippet
her throat, it was a weight on he
lungs, it stopped her breath. Sir
begged her husband to aid her b:
killing her quickly to rid her of th<
affection that was slowly throttllni
her.
Baudin, a mechanic, thirty-nln<
years old, a rough and plain spokei
man, sought to justify his act witl
words as straightforward as the;
were made dramatic.
Tears streamed from his eyes whili
he testified. The jurors also wept
and the women in the courtroom wen
semi-hysterical.
The presiding judge, who disap
proved of the jury's verdict, re
marked:
"For the moment the bandage oi
the eyes of justice was a handker
chlef."
"My wife, whom I loved dearly
had suffered fearfully from asthma,
Baudin testified. "She could no
sleep. If she laid her head on th<
pillow she would cry: 'I am choking
In the name of the good God, end m;
misery! Let me die!'
"On the night she?she died shi
waB suffering intensely," Baudin wen
on between sobs. "The medicine shi
was takinar tooo v -j
..wo 1/ cAuauaieu.
" 'I will go and get you some mort
John Davidson's Body Taken Out
Ten Miles From the Cornish Coast
London.?The recently recoveret
body of the poet John Davidson wa:
buried at sea ten miles off the Cornlal
Tillage of Moucehole.
The body was conveyed from shor<
In a ship's lifeboat.
John Davidson, a poet whose worl
though highly esteemed by a few cul
tivated persons failed of general ap
prsclatlon and so of a paying market
disappeared from his home on Marcl
23. and a document that he Vef
Indicated thit he intended sulcidei
?"-w*v;rv"r< !j '.^yvMLT5!
THE POLAR STAR
by Q. Williams, in the Indianapolis News.
WHY HE FEARS WAR
7 Like Those Which Preceded the
ain Not Aroused Yet?Warnlly
to Awaken the People.
a ?? ^
io uv.me xvc^l eecrei Dy uermany today.
i? "As to that which is transpiring in
r the German shipbuilding yards, we
more or less know that by 1912 Ger1
many, in ships of the super-Dreadf
nought class, will be the equal of
y England.
e "If we were in your position, able
e to grow our own food on our own
s acres, it would matter little to us if
we had merely an ornamental navy,
s But how few Americans realize that
i- our food is brought to us from Ausi
tralla. Canada, much of it from the
e city of Chicago, and your Western
1 wheat fields, from the Argentine Re
public?nearly all of it from over the
I sea.
"We have the official figures of the
- German naval program up to 1912,
s which are serious enough, but we
s know that these figures are just as
e inaccurate as were the figures made
public by Germany prior to the Frans
! co-Prussian war of 1871.
"America is a nation of optimists
? I ?England a nation of upwimiafo
r "America should pioduce great art
ists, great musicians, great statesmen
?you have the material.
"Theodore Roosevelt is one of the
few men of this or any age great
enough to say what he thinks. Eue
rope has no one like him.
"John D. Rockefeller could make
1 no better use of his vast wealth than
t the founding of your wonderful university.
You should appreciate your
f rich men?men like J. Pierpont Mor
can?for the wise use of their millf
ions.
"You really are a marvelous peo.
pie," he exclaimed, "marvelous for
i ,nur conservatism. You talk about
>3 the income tax as though it was
p something new and daring. Why, we
- had our discussion of the income tax
a in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
s "The American press is a great
1 educational force.. It exerts untold
1 power for the uplifting of the public.
- It is the function of a paper to edu1.
cate."
KILLING SUFFERING WIFE
ad Baqgod Her Husband to Fr ava
iar Life--Judge, Jury and
tars at tha Recital.
nr m Arllnlrto ' T
a " 'No.' she said, 'buy no mora med
iclne. You know we are poor. I am
gone. Medicine will do me no good.
- I suffer! Oh, how I suffer!
s " 'But pay no more for medicine. 1
i, have cost you too much money al1
ready.
* 'If you love me, put me out of
1 my misery.- Prove your love and let
1 me leave you. Kill me! If you were
r a determined man you would not see
e me suffer as I do.'
y "I was maddened by the sight of
e her agony," Uaudin ended. "I seized
5 a revolver with which I intended to
defend our home; I shot her in tho
8 head; she died instantly.
a " I determined then to kill myself,
a but I thought of my sister, the only
y other bslng who depends on me. I
went to see my sister. She wept, but
e told me I should surrender myself to
the police, which I did at once."
9 When Baudln finished his testimony,
given with unaffected emotion,
- all in the court were in tears.
Following him. Dr. Dupre, a distinguished
alienist, testified that Baui
din is perfectly sane. But, said
- Dupre, he was incited to his fatal act
by the stronger will of his Wife. Pity
, for her. directed by hor will, led him
" to shoot her.
t As Baudin left the courtroom a
8 free man the crowd applauded him
/ The question whether It Is morally
justifiable to end the suffering of
e those who are bound to die of a mort
tal disease has been discussed in this
e country. Of course it was decided
that such an act, whether inspired by
e love or pity, is murder.
Submarines Reach
Depth of 200 Feet.
1 Qulncy, Mass.?With one exceps
tlon, the fleet of six submarine boats
i constructed by the Electric Boat Company
for the Government have comi
pleted all tests and will be turned
over to the naval officials In the
c Charlestown Navy Yard. As a class,
- the submarines broke all records for (
- submergence, reaching a depth of 200
1, feet. The Snapper, at Provtncetown,
It was in the course of her twenty-fourt
hour test, this being the only performance
lacking in the fleet figures.
PRESIDENT TAfT'S TOUR
Enthusiastic Thousands Greet Him ,
On His Western Trip.
During Saturday forenoon at Portland,
Oregon, the President received
from 20,000 school children a tribute
which brought tears to his eyes. The
boys and girls were banked in red.
white nad blue rows in the grandstand
on Multnomah field to form a "living
flag.?'
The President entered the fr*hl
through a gate at tho crest of a hill
and the view of the children bursting
upon him all at once called out an expression
of wonderment and delight.
His pntrnnpn tli? ?
??uo i iiv oi^inu 1UI iUl
outburst of cheering from the fresh
young voices which continued until
Mr. Taft had taken the place arranged
for him on a stand directly facing
the "flag." Then he witnessed a
drill by tin; children which combined
with their cheers inspired hira, he declared,
as had no other sight in all his
travels.
Following the motions of a leader
the children stooped from view, then
sprang to their feet with a cheer which
l'airly pierced the ear and waved red,
white and blue banners in a perfect
storm of fluttering colors.
Then at the command of the loader
to spell "Taft" one set of children
with a loud shout of "T" held up yellow
banners to form that letter. Then
came the."A," "F" and the tianl
"T" followed by a crashing cry of
"Taft" which soomed to echo back
again from the far distant mountains.
During the exhibition the President
stood with eyes fixed upon the children.
He asked that the spelling be
repated and it was then that the
tears came.
The children were a mass of moving
colors, which caused Mr. Taft unconsciously
to nod his head from side
to side in unison with the music and
the flowing picture before him. When
the drill ended and the children had
been called to attention, the President
addressed a few words to them.
The Portland tribute was one of
the most enthusiastic he has |iad. The
ride through the city was made the
occasion of a military display by the
United States forces stationed at
Vancouver barracks, the troops being
reviewed by the President at the conclusion
of their escort duty.
On Sunday he preached another
sermon, this time at the corncstone
laying of the First Universalist
church in East Portland. The President
handled the silver trowel and
worked hard to see that the stone was
properly adjusted. He referred to ,
his various church experiences and in
concluding said: "No church in this
country, however humble it may be,
that preaches the doctrine of true religion
and true morality .will lack my
earnest support to make it more influential
whenevr opportunity offers."
The President's train left at 10:10
p. m. over the Southern Pacific for
Sacramento, Cal.
Mr. Taft attended the morning
services at the First Unitarian church
in Portland and listened to a sermon
by Rev. W. G. Eliot, Jr. Afterwards
he was the guest of honor at a luncheon
tendered by Senator Bourne. In
the early afternoon he visited St.
Mary's Romnn Catholic school and
made a five-minute address to the
snlinnl 1? J ?1 J
.VMVV. V...IH1VII 111 miiiwi in* uecmrea
that loyalty to the Church meant fidelity
to the country.
The line of march followed by the
presidential party to East Portland
was crowded and there was cheering
all along the way.
Later in the day when he was admitted
to membership in the Arctic
Brotherhood, an international organization,
made up of Canadians and
Americans interested in the development
of Alaska, the President announced
that he intended to visit
Alaska next summer and to go as
far into the territory as time would
permit in order that he might come
into contact with the people and see
for himself what might best be done
for their welfare.
The President frankly told the
members of the brotherhood that he
. did not believe Alaska at this time
is ready for entire self-government.
"I am as much in favor of popular
government as anybody," declared
the President, "but I am in favor of
popular government only when the
conditions exist under which popular
government may be a success and
work for the benefit of the people
and the government at large. When
there are limitations growing it'of
various circumstances we must take
I other means until poular government
becomes possible, and then, of course,
U I? 41? i --? * '*
i? ib me ucsi government in tne
world.''
After passing two days in and
about Seattle, President Taft went to
Taeoma Friday night and received
from an audience that thronged the
big armory one of the most cordial
greetings of his trip. He was entertained
at dinner at the Union Club.
Before leaving Seattle the President
paid a last visit to the exposition
grounds to view the live atoek '
exhibition. Apparently he found
great interest in the exhibit, for ho
passed more than twice the length of
time allotted to it. 4
Finally, from the judges' stand he j
made a brief speech amid a chorus of
bleats and grunts and towingf, complimenting
the exhibitors on their fine
showing and the progress that had 3
been made in this country in the last
15 years in the way of scientific farming
and breeding.