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Th s! ji/I ^ ^. ifiartu """"" NECESSITY OF DRAINAGE. Vould Make Our Low Country a Gar den Spo'. Editor County Recoud: At the recent Farmers' Day ad dress in Georgetown drainage, drainage, draiuage, seemed to be the cen e.ml h'pm rporardlpsa nf snpatpr and - ~0 ~l > well indeed it should have been. From the apostle of drainage, Col Jas Cosgrove, to our worthy commissioner of agriculture and commerce came iteration and reiteration of the merits of thoroughly draining the land. Uncle Sam was kind enough to send a drainage engineer all the way to Georgetown to tell the farmers of the importance of drainage. This speaker told how lands had been advanced within a short time from a few dollars per acre to two or three hundred, and solely because they had been drained. Col Cosgrove told the same story of enhancement of laud values around f Charleston. To state that drainage from the .agricultural standpoint alone is by far the most important operation involved in the management of a farm is but to put the plain truth in simple language. Though South Carolina soils and seasons equal those anywhere, and though her farmers are using more fertilizers than are employed elsewhere, the State can not claim first rank as a producer of any agricultural crop. Indeed the corn yield here is but a little better than that of Florida, which State .has the lowest average in the country. The reason lies in the fact that the soils most productive when drained are allowed to waste their bo mtiful store of plant food in the support of marsh and swamp. flm- fluf- Inno straw ninp lands and VMi ^ ""Sivaunas" or "prairies/' as they ;*re called in Florida, underlaid with olav,are without doubt the real bank of this section of the State; yet every one who has tried to farm these lands has recognized in a certain degree the necessity of "ditching." Mr Mclver Williamson has made himself famous by suggesting a method of conserving soil moistuie. His plan has its merits as well as its demerits, and it is quite certaiu that it is vastly inferior to such methods involving thorough drainage, frequent and shallow tillage and constaut application ol humus, such as was the case in th< production of all really phenomena! corn crops. The reaso.is for thorough drainage, aside from sanitary consideration, are so numerous and so clear to the student-farmer that their notation here is unnecessary, and i suffices to sav that the world's best crops are made on noue but the best artificially drained soils. Let any farmer in Williamsburg * 1 * LI J T M dram his land tnorougmy auu i wii warrant one hundred eager disciples within five years from the date th< first tile is laid. While the drainage problem shoulc be grappled with at once it shoulc be remembered that the services of t competent drainage engineer is no' only essential to success but is it reality an important factor of ecouo my. Hundreds, yes thousands, of dol lars have been and are being squan dered in useless ditches which wer poorly planned and no belter con structed. Statistics along this liu would prove interesting neariy ever farmer has his tale of the unprofit able ditch. "Let landlords dran e Coat t THE Fir it would then have feature, which you S DRES their lands and be farmers," should I be the central idea of our people. Siucerely, Rose Hill Garden*. May 30, 1908. ' WOMEN'S WOES. Kingstrer Women are Finding Relief at Last. it uoes seem tnat women nave more than a fair share of the aches I and pains that afflict humanity; they must "keep up," must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs,or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. They must walk and beud and work with lacking pains and many aches from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Miss Polite Vause, Logan street Kingstree, S C, says:"I nsed Doan's Kidney Pills and they benefited me more than any thing I ever tried. My back and kidneys caused me a great deal of misery for years. Headachfs and dizzy spells occurred frequently and I was bothered at all times by *he irregular action of the kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills which I procured at Scott's drug store helped me at once aud since then I have been in the best of health." Cotton Acreage. It has always been the custom of the speculative markets to take up the discussion of possible cotton acreage early in the spring and long before a seed is plauted in the northern portion of the cotton belt. Of course, a discussiou of that kind thus early in the season, is absolutely devoid of rhyme or reason, and is indulged in almost exclusively by the bear gamblers in their efforts to depress the remnant always in the South at that season of the year. It is usually the last card played in the game of divorcing the planter from his crop at inadequate price*. It is absolutely impossible to approximate the cotton acreage of 1968 at this hour. Let that beuu-| derstood. The Government does not i attempt to make its estimate until ' May 25. and even theu 'tis but an 1 approximate guess, upon which but little dependence can be placed. It is too early in the season. Cotton r plan ed may be plowed up and the i land planted to corn; a wet spell I may prevail, causing thousands of acres in each of the States to be turned out under tne command of "General Green." Floods, too, may sweep our hillsides and cause the great rivers to t escape their banks, thus sweepimg ; away the richest portion of the > South's cotton area for the seasou. Then again the plant is preyed upou I by many insects and pests, which, 1 to a certain extent, menace the 3 ontire area. Indeed, boll weevil has - caused a shrinking in the area, which iu some localities has resulted in the 1 total abandonment of the planting I i anil wrir?inor nut i?f fhniisands f)f M11U HIV *? vu v t acres planted, so far as gathering a t crop is concerned, i The number of acres planted is - not of so much significance as the number of acres harvested; in other - words, the thing that counts is the numberof acres producing its average quota of lint cotton. Cotton - Journal. P m ^ f j DeWitt's Little Early 11 isere, the -1 famous little liver pills, are sold by i \V L Wallace | :hat Fits around the neck is not the < should be 20 made that it si a greater chance of fitting could get at S. MARCUS'. Also 7\ npvs >S GOODS SALTERS S1FTINGSEntertainment in Town Halt?P sonal. Sai.ters Dfi>ot, .June 1.?Th. moving prtuiv show in the town hall Saturday night for the benefit of the Confederate monument was a great success, the views and moving pictures being very tine. The entire audience was loud in its praise. It was well worth the price. Mr Leroy B Ferrell of Charles- < tou was noted on our streets Mod- 1 I day. Misses Cargile, of The record office, spent the day here last week. Mrs B s D Muckenfuss of Charleston is visiting her sister, Mrs fi Moseley. Mrs Jno M Salters has gone to Rock Hill to spend some time with her parents. Mr Jno M Gruber, who has been very ill for the past week, is slow' improving. Mr Kershaw Gruber of Charleston, spent several days recently with the family of I>r 1 N Boyd. Mr J A Scarborough- bought I * * . ? ** i twenty-six Dales at cotton Dere Monday at 11 cents. There is 7ery little more of the staple in this section. The last dance of the season was given Thursday night in the town hall. Ice lemonade, ice cream and cake were served and the dance was continued until the "wee sma'" hours of the morning. It was one of the best dances of the season. Fishiug has been very popular here the past few weeks, several parties of ladies even trying their hands. A large number of very fine fish has been eaught. Salters Depot. A Grail Family Medicine. I "It gives me pleasure to speak a a good word for Electric Bitters," writes Mr. Frauk Conlan of No. j 43b Houston St., New York. "It's a grand family medicine for dyspepsia and liver complications; while tor lame DacK ana wean Kiuneys n ( cannot be too highly recommeded." A Card From Mr. Thrower. Editor County Record: I note in your last week's issue a card from Mr. W. S. Camliu, Jr., concerning a meeting held at Harper's the 12th inst., in which he makes statements in reference to me; and I beg that you allow these few lines to appear in your columns that I might state my position in the matter before the public. Mr Camlin asserts that I charged the entire town council with dispensing intoxicating di inks and that 1 also attacked his character. In the first place, will say I was not after Mr Camlin's character or the character of any oue else. But it will be borne in mind that the meeting referred to was held for the purpose of discussing the situation at Harper's in view of the fact that i an application had been made to the board for the establishment of a disi pensary at said place. I had 110 inI fKo nliowonfar nf ICllUUll U1 aiiativill^ cut Viiuiacici V*. i Mr Camlin or any one else, and I ; said so at the time before the meetj iug. I made certain assertions in i order only that the board might not be milled and that the true situation might be learned. My statements were indispensable to a just and proper discussion of the business before the board and I have facts to snstaiu the position and Mr. Cam Arounc m onl) consideration in buyin its s uglv and sn/*^Wy an ill thort / . thlt ail wl 111a\i v. uiai i oly . 1ILLII * tt support, remarks f ard to Mr uncil as he HROWER. 27, 190S ?ro lpt aDd '* Shoop> ..ning, lieai ii. , Stories, with fnl 1 . . ...-ii a?K tii ??rnr'tipil ftiv> I Ull IlliUI II V ?? ? V/ ^llfVWVI Mi V interesting ;r d of in my book "No 4 For U'o ien." The book and strictly confidet v"i* medical advice is entirely free. Simply write l)r Shoop, Racine, Wis,for my book No 4. Sold bv P "-cott. I PROCURED AND DEFENDED irMftsff orpAotaroreapOTttearcbAodfMrvpovlH Free aorta, bow to obtain paUnta, trmdrt marta,H topyrtghta. etc. |N AU. COUNTRIES. I fifiness direct witk Washington ir.U lime, ? 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