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SOME TIMELY ' ^GARDEN NOTES Hints For Late July and Early August Garden , Work | WINTER ONLY VACATION j ! Tomato Worm Works Hard j f / Also Eats The Sweet 1 Oorn ' f The only vacation time for the garden is midwinter. Keep the garden i j busy now producing fall vegetables. < Supply moisture and bring the seed i Jj up by making a firm seed bed, firming 1 >, the seed in the soil, keeping up culti J; vatio?n and maintaining a dust mulch. !jj Mniember that the following vege- : & table* require under normal conditions i jj the number of days indicated before J ready for use: Snap beans 42 to 56 1 days; sugar corn, 56 to 70 days; cab | bage, 119 to 140 days; tomatoes, 105 i J. to 12G days; beets, 49 to 63 days; ,< { sweet potatoes, 133 to 140 days. Plan to make successive plantings as long as possible. The tomato worm is bad and is the same insect that eats sweet corn. Good results might be had by planting corn in the tomato patch as a trap crop or< bait for the tomato worm, as he prefers corn to tomatoes. Plant the corn j at such times that it will just be com} ing into silk when the first fruit is ( forming on the tomato. Remember that the strawberry beds will not produce first quality berries I after the third year. Plow up the old \ and plant a new bed. On newly plant- , ed beds keep the plants growing so [ they will store up energy for the crop ! next season. If beans, tomatoes, fall squash, col/ lards, and cabbage have to come from neighbor's garden or the distant i- trucker, this will be his gain and your ! lossy because fall vegetables are all vaw scarce and high. Radishes, peas, squash, early cabbage, onions, and corn planted in the , spring gardens have about done their ? bit by this time. Do not allow these to stand as summer hotels for diseases and insects. Clean-up, plow-up, and follow with other crops. T.... n f Al 1 ii y tx ic*v ut me icbk cudiuiuil ve^e- I tables, such as Chinese cabbage, caul-| Siflower, carrot and celery.. Cut out and burn the old raspberry t' Canes as soon as they are through fruit' g. Cultivate the young shoots bo I vo get good growth for the next crop. The blooming and bearing period of flowers and vegetables can be lengthened by picking rather than allowing Jtes to mature and dry up on the >. .giants. Make plantings of Irish potatoes, bush beans, corn, cucumbers, squash, ] turnips. Transplant collards, cabbage, celery, tomatoes, sweet potato vine cuttings. : BUSINESS OF FEEDING HOGS Clemson College.?Some South Carolinian's still maintain that "there is t no nK?ney in reeaing nog's in spite of the Wjpuess of a majority of our low country farmers since the weevil has driven them to this business. It would be interesting to know how many businesses can show as high a percentage of years in which a profit has been made as does this business of hog feeding. A recent survey showed that feeding good hogs was profitable in 18 out of the last 22 years, that it was an even break in two years, and .that money was lost in the other two. Probably the explanation of the failures on South Carolina farms lies in the feeding methods followed, thinks D. T. Herrman, Extension Swine Specialist. The University of Wisconsin recently finished experiments to determine the value of milk products in hog feeding and Mr. Herrman quotes from them: / Previous estimates of the value of skim milk have been worked out by ' comparing the results from feeding grains alone with the results from feeding grain and skimmilk. This is obviously not a fair basis for compavi' son. for no common sense farmer now feeds his pigs such a poor and inefficient ration as grain alone when they are not on pasture." A survey to determine how many farn^rs in South Carolina would class as '/common sense" accordinng to this stAndard might bring out some startling information. o???? FARM GOSSIP Don't let your soil leak water through weeds. Whitewash on the farm premises is worth a lot more than it costs. The wise farmer thinks 26 years ahead in handling his farm woodlands. Now that the weevil days have fallen upon us, more than ever the farmA TONIC drove's Tasteless chill Tonic restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how k brings color to the cheeks and how A ^ it improves the appetite, ybu will then ' J appreciate its true tonic value. ' Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So pleasant even children like it. The blood needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to Enrich it. ? Destroys Malarial germs and Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigor* Mrs %Ung Effec* \ FARMERTAKES TO AUTOMOBILES The southern farmer is taking rapidly to the automobile, according to figures given out by the state highway department. The greatest gain in the last year in automobile registration has been in the agricultural states and largely in the south. The Increase in automobile purchasing in i in the cotton belt seems to go hand in j hand with the information that the j greatest business improvement in the nation in the past year has been in the south. And there is prospect of increasing < speed in the rate of automobile purchasing in the south, for as yet the southern states havp fewer cars to the number of people tnan any other sections of the country. The six states which trail the list, as regards population per vehicle are Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas, South Car olina, Louisana and Tennessee. It is considered probable that the large colored population in these states brings about this situation. The highest rate of population per motor vehicle in the south is in Florida, with one automobile for every 7.6 persons. Alabama has the lowest rate, with 24.5 persons per vehicle. There are 16.8 persons for every motor v vehicle in South* Carolina. There are today in South Carolina according to the highway department officials, as of July 1, a total of 103,049 motor vehicles in South Carolina. Of these 94,272 are automobiles, 8,777 trucks, 445 motorcycles, and the total fees paid to the state highway department during the first 6 months, for licenses, were $811,220. The number of motor vehicles in .South Carolina increased from July 1, 1923, according to the highway department figures by 18,600, an increase of 22 per cent. For the first half of this year the number of registered motor vehicles increased over J,he number at the end of 1922 by a percentage of 7.3 or 7,071 vehicles. The rapid increase in the number of' cars and trucks, as related to population, according to highway officials, is shown clearly by the fact that on January 1, 1921, there were nine states which had more than twenty persons to the motor vehicle, while today only three states are in that class. At that time, two and a half years ago, three states hod less than sir persons pei vehicle, as against eigne scares as ar present. The greatest pain in percentage of registration during the year which ended July 1 was in West Virginia with 40.6 per cent. Kentucky came next with a pain of 35.5 per ctnt. Then came Mississippi. 35.1; Utah, 32.fi: Ijouisana, 31.5: Arkansas. 30.6: Florida, 29.4; California. 28.6. NortVi Carolina's gain was 28.5. Georgia's was 17 percent. On Julv 1 thore were in the United States 13.048.128 reprictered motor vr hides. This w?r an increase in the .year of 2,440.001. an averare pain of 23 per cent over the registration of r year before. Sin^e December 31 thp number of vehicles increased 685.751. Comparison of t^ese figures would indicate that tb<* rountrv may expect b*.* the end of 1023 another train of mo * than a million motor vehicles. The 1sf hnlf of 1023 is ahead of the first half of 1022 by 683,751. 1 er that succeeds is he who gets up and "dusts." "Scrubs can multiply just as fast as purebreds, but they never get the rifrht answer," says a wise man from Ohio. v x_11 1 1 il>? i uu can uen ?. itjui {fHiucnei uy tnc fact that his garden enthusiasm has n second blooming period in autumn. These are the times when soils without humus hum plaintively: "Nobody knows how dry we are." Permanent prosperity rests upon the right relation between the prices of things the farmer sells and those he buys. It does not take a magician to change forage crops into milk and cream. Any South Carolina dairy farmer can do it. The best way to treat the non-producing hen is to fricassee her "without benefit of clergy." A heartening thought for Southern /dairymen: We can get more grazing, per acre from our pastures than isj possible in the highly developed sections in the Northwest. If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture '? undoubtedly the first and noblest science.?Dr. Johnson. * * ? Drinking cups at the Herald office. Just the thing for the Summer vacation. o STRAIGHTEN THAT BENT BACK No need to suffer from that tired /Iao/1 nolin in Kn/?lr ll,,, 4 ai.nu in ^VMI uaci\) mat iaiiiciiuony those distressing urinary disorders. Conway people have found how to get relief. Follow this Conway resident's example. S. C Richardson, mgr. meat market, Main St., says: "I have been in the store game several years and the constant standing so many hours a day caused my back to become lame and weak. I was troubled with a dull, throbbing ache in my back which was so had at times my back felt as though it were being torn in shreds. I was all out of sorts and was nervous and irritable. My kidneys acted so sluggish I knew they were in bad condition. I knew many people whom Doan's Kidney Pills had helped and I began taking them. One box of Doan's cured me in fine shape." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mr. Richardson had. Foster-Milburn jpa *-v \ l ' . in ^ ,v THB HORRY HERALD, PC WRITES LETTER ~ ON HIGH POINT Man Now There Gives Information About Conditions G. W. Watts who is now working at High Point, N. C., writes a letter to the Horry Herald and states the facts regarding conditions for the benefit of those who might contemplate moving there. High Point is a factory town. Its factories are making furniture and selling it throughout large sections of the South. The climate of the town is cool and pleasant, Mr. Watts says. Most of the people are enjoying good health, Horryites especially. Answering a number of letters written to him by those who have asked him as to opportunities there, he says, that chances are* rather bad at this time. He would not advise any person to make a sacrifice of their homes or property in order to be able to move to High Point at this seaspn of the year; and he would not advise any Jlorryite, who is doing fairly well, to quit Horry and move there at any time. High Point as a manufacturing town offers fair opportunities for men and women in the professions, as also for those who have mastered] irnnH trnHfls Hp sjivc tlisit flip cliiinoPfi I for the laborer by the day are not so good. Waft*e? l'un from $2.50 per day upward to not more than $5.00. As in other instances Mr. Watts' experience no doubt bears out the statement that home is a good place for people to stay, when that home is in Horry County. Those who sell out and move are often found coming back. There is a tendency to think that there are better places for men and women, and boys and girls, but going to such places usually turn out no better success for those who pay their money and lose, their time in making the move. Our homes in Horry County are what we make them. Success does not depend so much upon place or time, but more upon the capacity and ability and the willingness to work, rnd the self denial of those who are living their lives. Colds Cause Grip and Influenza I LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remov* I the cause. There Is only one "Bromo Quinine." * E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c. %ukn of mote Bala IF all you nee< were always out in broad c produce a gasol But in driving accelerating, ru] ! or passing some been one of the lem for the oil i "Standard", th< motor fuel shoi molr/k fV? n % n aiiuivv man t\ uil no more* You red pumps with L STAI STi cIhe " """"" ' ? ' ' i ?. WAY, S. C, AUGUST 2, 1923 Pr.*8-SHOES % M A R L O W ' S WILL GIVE AWAY A PAIR OF $8.00 SHOES TO THE FARMER WHO GETS THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR TOBACCO AT THE CONWAY WAREHOUSES. Sell your tobacco on the Conway market. Ccn 1 C 1 _ 1 - 1 ? way nas rour warenouses,? l cooperative and ^ auction,?all of which are under supervision of the very best trained warehousemen who have studied the game all their life and are going to exercise every effort in a way to get more for your tobacco. Make MARLOW'S your headquarters while in town. Get our prices on STYLEPLUS CLOTHES, and PETER'S SHOES. To make a long story short, we have everything for everybody in the way of DRY GOODS and we have a special price on everything in our store during the next sixty days. Don't fail to see our wonderful bargains. M A RLOW'S "The Underselling Store" ? mnp wnen you. use ^ a Of r J [starting! /tjl^ ncea Uasoline ? ied in a gasoline was quick starting?or if you \ just accelerating?or always on a hill or always ?il/TIL >pen country, it would not be so difficult to Ijr^ / ine that would exactly meet your needs* ^ you are frequently changing pace?starting, lining idle, starting again, taking a hill, coastinc ** i _ - O V>?v. ^body. This need for easily changing pace has motor designer's great problems?and a prob5 Balanced Gasoline, does everything that a aid do?naturally and easily. It is harder to te-sided, unbalanced gasoline, yet it costs you can get it conveniently anywhere from those Will t the S. O. sign* Made riffht here in the {$ Carolina??, at Charles . ton. Sold at pumps WARD OIL COMPANY ? that cany thismark. ' VNDARD H 'Balanced Gasoline . KsiJ