The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, June 11, 1902, Image 4
THOUGHTS FOR FARMERS.
The Culture of Silk--T;ie Celery Crop
--How to Work Against the fleat
Trust--Other Hints.
Between 1830 and 1840 the
people of the South became much
interested in the culture of silk.
Visitors to Limestone Springs
about 1845 might have seen the
ragged remnant of a mulberry
orchard, which good, honest
visionary Reuben Perry planted
out. Where he secured his plants
we never learned. The trees
flourished, or would have done
so if they had received proper
attention. Cocoons were impor
ted, but no silk was ever produced.
It was then supposed to be work
adapted to women, and they could
do that in connection with their
household work. Again interest
is revived in the silk culture. It
would be well if men and women
of means and leisure would un
dertake it. It can never be made
profitable in this State on account
of the price of our cheapest
labor.
Twenty-five years ago celery
was unknown by the average
housekeeper. It was used in a
small way as a flavoring for soups.
It is now getting to be a desira
ble table luxury. The greater
portion used in this State is im
ported from the Northwest in the
fall and from Florida in the
spring. The Kalamazoo celery
is tolerably good when fresh.
The Florida article is poor. Celery
may be raised in this State and
the quality is much better than
even the besc that is shipped
from the West. It requires a
little care and patience to s'art
the plants. When about three
inches high transplant them to a
new bed, giving cach plant 4 to
6 inches square of space. When
well rootAd and stocky transplant
to the rows. Thcse should be 3
to 4 feet wide and the plants 6
to 8 inches apart. With a shovel
or plow throw up a ridge and
manure and subsoil the trench
betweeh ridges. Keep weeds and
grass down. The blanching pro
cess should begin three or four
weeks before you wish to use it.
The better and quicker way is to
pull the dirt in from the ridges,
taking care not to. bruise the
plants.
The beef trust has the right of
way. Injunctions, legislation,
political harangues and con
demnatory resolutions are not
goingto break The--pe
ca ra iLl This can be done
by raising cattle, and hogs and
selling to the trust. They can
also live on much less meat than
they u,se. A fine milch cow is
worth a thousand pounds of beef
a year to a family. ~The vegeta
ble garden should be made larger.
The sorghum syrup will take the
place of meat. The family that
has a barrel or two of this syrup
on band is not going to suffer
much if meat is scarce. Let more
attention be given to raising of
fowls. If the people would re
duce their meat consumption
half the trust would fall to pieces.
We would emphasize the state
ment that sorghum syrup is the
best and cheapest syrup for the
upper part of the State. In the
lower counties they can make the
ribbon cane syrup, which is bet
ter. But sorghum is far superior
to the glucose compounds and
white drips on the market.
At this season of the year
when farm work is pushing every
one and the grass looks as if it
would be boss before the middle
of June, it becomes every farmer
to consider his present methods
and th3 too's he is using. The
veterans returning from D).dla
report that farmers rile whibi
they prepare their laud an'd cul
tivate their crops, and that o:n
man with a strong acrt ve t.ai
can cultiv ate 50 to 75 ace Te
swveep out a row at er - re
No one of these men is wi ij. i
- ~ purchase the samne eu!ti vate
and use them on the hi ly a.
rolling land of the coun'ry lin
much improvem en cani bI ma
here. The two anid ih~ I eb
disc plows can b). nss. i on m
farms. There are~ o ,e b r -
walking cu'tivators thet cani b.
used to advantage. Whi'.e the
ordinary plow stock, with slhov
els, scooters andl heel sweeps are
here to stav labor can be muchl
* lightened b>y using some of the
best harrows and cultivators.
Some farmers are afraid of
straining their land. After cut
ting wheat they do not like to
plant corn on the same ground
for a late crop. But if they will
run off their land in five foot
rows and plant an early variety
4of corn with four to six peas be
tween each bill they will make a1
fair corn crop andl the pea vines
if left on the land will be worth
liv time as much to the land as
if it had b n allowed to gro- up
in r;iss and wee,.ds.
We would Eliminate crab grass
from the fields if possible. It
makes a very fair hay, if cut just
as it beginning to head. But stub
ble land allowcd to grow up in this
grass and then mowed is in poor
shape for the next crop. If it is
not mowed it is a poor soil reno
vator. If not turned under in
thu fall it is always in the way
when spring plowing begins. By
clean cultivation and sowing
peans, get rid of cra'b grass and
you will never regret it.-Caro
lina Spartan.
Of what does a b1ad taste in your
mou'tith remind vou? It inIlicates that
your stonich is in ba<d condition and
will remind you that there is nothing
so good for such a disor<der as Chamber
lain's Stomach & Liver Tablets after
having once used thei. Tht cleanse
and invigorate the stomach and regu
late the bowels. For sale at :5 cents
per box by MeMaster Co.
A Court Scene.
Greenwood is an unique city in
some respects. Her citizens take
more interest in the trial of cases
in court than those of any other
city or town with a court house.
Everybody knows all about the
law and facts in each case and
the verdict of a jury is discussed
and fixed in their minds before
court meets, cven. This state of
affairs possibly is due to the fact
that the county is in its childhood
and the Common Peas a novelty.
The officials and attachees of the
court, however, have become ac
customed to the dry details of
cases that possess no personal
interest to them, as a scene in the
court room last week evinces.
During the progress of a long
ease against a railway company,
while one of the attorneys, with
very grave face, was earnestly
arguing the dry points of his
case, the clerk, deputy clerk,
deputy sheriff, two jurymen not
engaged, two bailiffs, the jury
boy and the porter were sound
asleep-resting in the arms of
morpheus - forgetful of t h e
struggles of the litigants and
their attorneys for the mastery,
they capitulated to the god of
sleep. Court crier McKinney's
stentorian voice, calling an ab
sent witness, released the prison
ers from sleep's embrace, and
each sat erect and glanced around
s if to say, "Who, me? No, I
wasn't 'sleep."-Greenwood Jour
nal.
~irulent Cancer Cured.
Startling proof of a wonderful
advance in medicine is gi -,en by
Druggist G. W. Roberts, of E liza
beth, W. Va. An old man there
had long suffered with what good
doctors pronounced incurable can
er. They believed his case hope
less till he used Electric Bitters
and applied Bucklen's Aruica
Salve, which treatment completely
ured him. When Electric Bit
ters are ut e 1 to expel bilious,
kidney .and microbe poisons at
the same time this salve exerts
ts matchless healing power,blood
iseases, skin eruptions, ulcers
and soras vanish. Bitters 50c,
Salve 25c at McMaster Co 's.
A Neglected Industry.
On January 1, I901, there wvere
07,261 farms in the United
States keeping bees. These farms
eported 4,100,625 swarms or
olonies, vatlued at 810,186,5 13.
During the year 1899 theie were
roduced 61,196,160 pounds of1
,ax, of an aggregate value of
$,64,904. Of this value 35 per
ent. is from the North Central,4
R pe cent, from the Siuth At
lntie, 2:3 per cent. from the
.outhi Central, 14 per cent, from
ha Wstern States and 1 per
ent from liawaii.
Of the Stales reporting honey, I
Fe us reports tI e largest quan
ia reports the secCond laLrgest I
la nt i ty, :, 6,73pounds; Ne w
~om.ds.1
Filthy Te n;-les in India.
Eci cows~(y~ often deli'e Indian
eps, but worse yet is a body5
hiut 4 pollute,l 1 y constipation.
Don't permLit it. C'eanse your
vsysem wvithi Dr. King's New Life
l!s anid avoid untold misery.
l'ey give lively livers, active
bwels, good digestion, tine appe
it~e. Only 25e at McMastor Co.'s
rug stoi e.
Previous to appointing Gen.
Joe" Wheeler to a command in
the war with Spain, President
McKinley consulted the late
Senator Davis, of Minnesota,
bout the matter. "I think it
would be a splendid appoint
ment," said Senator Davis. "I am
a iving witness of Joe Wheeler's
grit and persistenc(e. During the
civil war he chased me like the
Poultry Raising.
City housekeepers are giving it
to Mr. Kennedy for putting up
the price of poultry; but the
farmers look upon him as a pub
lic benefactor.
Farmers ought to raise more
poultry than they do raise, and
ought to have eggs to sell in
large quantities. Perhaps they
will now that prices are so much
better. Mr. Kennedy says the
southern people don't know how
fortunate they are in this respect.
They can r ise poultry "out of
doors"-that is they do not re
quire much housing; while in the
north they have to be housed in
buildings much warmer and closer
than many that people live con
fortably in down here. He says.i
the soil here suits pultry better
than the northern soil. Here we
have the natural gravel every
where; up there poultry-raisers
have to buy gravel and have it
shipped and scattered over their
p!aecs for the poultry.
With the increase of cotton
mills and the rapid growth of
city population the business of
poultry raising promises to be a
profitable one in the south and
opens the way to diversifying our
industries.-Newberry Observer.
Read It in His Newspaper.
George Schaub, a well known Ger
manl citizen of New Lebanon, Ohio, is
a constant reader of the Dayton Volks
zeitung. He knows that this paper
aims to advertise only the best in its
olunns, and when he saw Chamber
lain's Pain Balm advertised therein for
laime back, he did not hesitate in buy
in,, a bottle of it for his wife, who for
eight weeks had suffered with the noEt
terrible pains in her back and could
get no relief. He says: "After using
the Pain Balm for a few days my wife
said to me, 'I feel as though born
anew,' and before using the entire con
tents of the bottle the unbearable pains
had entirely vanished and she could
again take up her household duti?s."
He is very thankful and hopes that all
suffering likewise will hear of her won
derful recovery. This valuable liniment
is for sale by McMaster Co.
Why They Ring Two Bells.
1From the Boston Hlerald.
An elevated conducter recently,
during his luncheon hour. ex
plainedl the practice of ringing
two bells to star.t a street-car,
which is now universal in this
country, and, if not entirely
trustworthy, it is ingenious. He
declared that when horse cars
were fist used one bell was used
to start the car and one to stop
soon brke down. They beceme
sprung in the knees or tI eir
shoulders gave way. Every de
vice that could be thought of to
ease the strain of starting was
tried. Spiral springs were put
nn the traces but no good re
suted.
Finally a countryman who had
only been employed a week as a
:lriver suggested that two bells
be used to start the car, and he
iverred that when the horses got
ased to it ther would set them-'
selves at the 'first ring, and be
ready to pull at the second. The
plan was tried, and was so suc
:essful that it has been in use
aver since.
Saved from an Awful Fate.
"Everybody said I had conC
;uption," writes Mrs. A. M.
shields, of Chambersburg, Pa.,
'I was so low after six months of
;evere sickness, caused by Hay
'ever and Asthma, that few
hought I could get wpell, but I
earned of the marvelous merit of
r. King's New Discovery for
Jonsumption, used it, and was
~ompletely cured." For desper
Lte Tl,roat and Lung Diseases it
s the safest cure in the world,
nd is infallible for Coughs, Colds
nd Bronchial Affections. Guar
nteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial
>ottles free at McMaster Co.'s.
The mine owners have turned
heir mules out to pasture. The
nule is about the only thing that'
ill profit by the strike.-Wash
ngton Post.
F'or b)ilioJsne(5s USe Chamiberlai's '
stomach(~ & Liver Tablets. They cleanse
he stomiach and regulate the liver and
owels, effecting a quick and permia
it cure. For sale by McMaster Co.
A week-old New Year's resolu
:on ceases to be an ailment that
vil <ure itself; it is a disease
hat must be got rid of.
IN CUBA
whe~'re it is hot all the ye- round
Scott's Emulsion
sell1s better than any where else
in the worl.d. So don't stop taking
it in summer, or you will lose
v:'hat you havc .gained.
send for afree sam ple.
SCoTTi & DOwNE, Chemists,
409-4, iPe r1 street New York.
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wtars tw:i
aslong 1 by th .~ -
us.e of Iureka -
Sold
every-u here
in CaL
all sizcs.
Made by
Standard OIl
Company
Reduced 1(ats via -a r AL r .JAl
Ikailway.
Low excursion rates wi l i
given by the Sea1lmr.rl A' iil:i.
Railway to the folh>wing .int
on the dates nanl:
San Francisco. (':d. erb:1
Council-Nobles of M ihrti:
Biennial Meetin.: K. of P., M.v
26 Ju:le 7th, August 1-7.
M;iCon, Ca.--. EilH ti efii:i
Farmer's Nation:l Co:gres.,
October 6-7.
Mountain Lake Park, Md.
Y. M. C. A. Secretarit-s of North.
Anerica Bie:iuial Conference,
June 11-15.
Call on nearest ageint for in
formation as to rates, dates of
sale and schedules or address
J. J. Puller, Trav. Pass. Agt.,
Columbia, S. C.
Leads Them All.
"One Minute Cough Cur, Iheats all
other iedicines I Iver t ft.; ('tg hA1
colds, eroup :mdl( thlr":t :u,:l 1U!;"- troun
bles," says 1) Sco t ('urr:, of Sott
tonl, Pa. On Minut c(" ("tr't" is th(
only abs,.oltt :"1 t':: remedy
wvhichl netsi immt: l; i: \'. _r E the(r:
ever ywher t..ir'y to ? t. it iI
(lone th;eir itl on.. -. ('rnl, i S , -
den in its att.i.!: that ti . a oft(.n
arrives too l:t(. I t l- a. nce it,
One- Minlutt (Co,l-h (',re. Iin ntto
take. (hi!biren li it. for
grip,b ,
Dyspepsi Cre
Digests what yo~ cat.
.Thi..pepaira.'s contaIin 2.1l of the
digestants and digts n!! kmds of
food. Itgives inst ant. ecian d never
fails to cure. It allmvs you to eat all
the food yoiuwant. Thela,1ta senisitive
stomachs can take it. fly it use many
thousands of dyspeptics have been
cured after everything else failed. It
prevents formation of gas on ihe stom
ach, relieving all dist:essahfter eat ing,
Dieting unnecessary. Picasa ut to take.
It can)t helpj
Prepared only by E. C. DF:". fm. (0 Co, (icano
The $1. bott,fe contains 2 timeshe 50.s.&
Goodecnough~
for anybody!
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