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M FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL AN CO-OPERATIVE UNION - OF AMERICA - Pickens County Union Column J. T. BOGGS, REV. W. C. SEABORN and JOEL MILLER, Committee In Charge. FARMING IN THE SOUTHJ FERTILIZING STRAWBERRIES. Grewing Strawberries for Marketing Purposes. I Correct fertilizing is far more Im. *pmortant than the selection of the soil, f1or almost any soil will make fine marries if properly fertilized. No soil eaa make them for any length of time without judicious and liberal manur fg. Some of the reasons why it pays to fertilize strawberries are: (1) It vastly Increases the yield, (2) gives larger berries, (3) a better -tolor and flavor, and (4) firmer fruit. 'Ebe last named quality-firmness enables berries to be shipped long dis lances to a market and arrive fresh. Several of the best known varieties were at first considered worthless, owing to a lack of firmness to carry them to the market, and freshness to sell them after they got there. The -remedy for all this has been found in the liberal use of the mineral fertiliz era. A strawberry crop on one acre needs for Its development during three years on an average, 223 pounds of nitrogen, 375 pounds of potash, and 83 pounds of phosphoric acid. If iberal crops are expected, the soil must supply the proper amounts of plant food. The objection to farm. yard manure Is that it contains too much nitrogen as compared with the potash and phosphoric acid. A strawberry fertilizer should con ain the three principal plant food lagredients in abodt the following pro. portions: Ammonia..............3 per cent Potash................5 per cent Phosphoric acid........6 per cent That is, every 100 poundslof fer tilizer should contain three pounds of ammonia, five pounds of potash and six pounds of available phosphoric acid. The phosphoric acid is placed far above the actual needs of the plant as shown by the analysis, be. cause this fertilizer is likely to take bpsoluble forms in the soil; the am m=onla is placed low as top dressings are made in the spring. A fertilizer containing, three, five and six per cent respectively of am monia, potash and phosphoric acid will be a good strawberry manure. ft should be applied at the rate of 600O pounds per acre drilled in before Dlanting, and thoroughly mixed with the soil by running a cultivator or light plow along the furrow before the land is listed, or bedded. In the spring an application of 250 pounds per acre should be drilled in to the aide of the plants, as soon as the first signs of growth appear. F'or fruiting beds the full application of 500 pounds per acre is made broadcast in the summer or fall andi worked in with a cultivator if the ground is not frozen. A great deal of such fertilizer can lbe profitably used on the atrawberry If applied at proper Intervals, as fol lows: In the spring before planting, again' late In the bummer ,or early fail around the plants, and again in the winter -or very early sprng di reetly over them--~in all from 900 to 1500 pounds may be used with profit. This mode of fertilising Will- nearly al ., Ways be .found more profitable thana apylying all the fertiliset In one an nual application. One point must always. be relnetn beved, and that is, n*('Q #f(l~&Ig. 'er4 directly on thyp tn tarmn weather while th th eei growing state, ito them even in~~ h leaYes 1are dry. I ti& where the -ilaa keep * 'Wnter, the fern, tiiser ma i skui~buted around the plast eoe an ~As Onhar4i ~ UrVtb1tg~s~ $0poUs of nitro ri~pm 1R t~O pbO seid and - -' wu o ~ oa Therefors ~-'~ tk ~ insuthave these quantities. T tE these different -~ *Ze~t~ fr a the 4101- without put tn hem back sobnle or later ex A-4te hesoi. C01'T7t PL.ANTINQ T HOUGHf 8 14'Tow ERto think aboutt 0pt~o ~ 'I$ 41L. Bydiw ritin frighltenl ze farmers WIMh 'two bug bears; first, that the inills had sup. plies to last for two years; second, the. mills would elope down. Well, an idle nill is a dead loss to the owner, it can not be turned to anything else; whereas the farmer can change his cotton factory to. a corn, oats, wheat, cabbage and. potato factory, and still manage to get returns for his invest ment and his labor. Hence, it. the farmer will but intelligently regulate his prices by the law of supply and demand, there can be no reason, out side of his own lack of cohesiveness, why he should not win the day.-. Belton (Texas) Journal. In planning to plant ornamental trees and shubs plant in groups, al ways leaving an open space for grass. The cold and wet spring days that will soon be here are harder on the cattle than any other season of the year, because the winter has largely sapped their vitality, and they have not the store of good bodily strength to draw upon that they had in the fall. See that the cattle are well. housed and well-fed in the early spring if you expect to live up to lhs measure of a Union man. FOR THE ROUND BALE. Some More Reasons for QulInq Anti quated, Method. W. B. leWalt, in a letter to the Ce. Operator (Dallas) takes up the cudgel In favor of improved packing and gives the following good account of himself: To The Co-Operator: I see you have some good advice to the Union in the saving to the farmer by the adoption Of the gin compressed bale of cotton. I wish ,to give some more facts as to why we should quit the old-style way. First, it is not the proper way that cotton should be put up, for it gives the parties through whose hands it passes the chance to steal some frori each bale, namely, the weigher at eur cotton yards who gets one bale fot the weighing of every six hundred bales which equals - twenty-thousand in a 12,000,000 bale crop. And then It goes on to the compress where they can steal enough to pay all expenses and that amounts to one hundred thousand or more bales and the old-Lime street buyer took equally as much in samples, which Is called the city crop all of which the farmer has sold to the buyer at a reduction in peints to cover the loss to the buyer. If we will compress our cotton at the gins we will use of our low grade cotton, six thousand bales, that will be off the market and besides we will save $7,000,000 (seven million dol lars) and our cotton will be in shape the South will have saved $13,300,000, to build 'warehoues with, wlich will give ample room to store - all of the cotton raised - by the South. That is what we need; not mills nor spindles, for when' we go into such things as that. we will have to get some expert to run it for us and if history re peats itself the expert would get the benefits and the farmer the experi ence. We, as .Union men don't want any thing but to cut out the leaks wher ever they may be that are wasting so much of' our life blood and it we will attend to the thinga of that nature that are here among us, we will soon have won what we are clamoring for. I see' that Polk County Union is talking. of putting in a compress. I am sohry any of our brethren would do anything to uphold the bagging and tie. trust. I say to you, Polk County men, weigh well 'your actiots before you go too far, .for there are some of you that know me. Hoping that all Unions will consid er this and it-it should meet with their favor it is time that they were getting to workr so as to be prepared for this year's crop. When yot have thought out all the things tiat have puszled .all the world, and have absolutely nothing delse to so'lve, go to work on the land Vtoblemi Land is. en absolutely 'free gift to man. At no time has anybody had the original right to sell er barter it Away, but, by some .means, 'raw land, have advanced. along the orm. mercial lines till ihymany caseb it is "hold" at several -hundred ddllare pee aot, and by those whin 1Av* as use f~or it, and who could not to save their .ivis toll how it oqm that sQ~mebody at somnetime Wose owners fiAnt. y ery foo$ pE this old. footstool belong0 jo the 4fatures plate4 on it, and'all the' man-nad. 1w ftder the aopj of heaven can e ths. Mab Rs 'en. titled to all that hi~done to smake it better and tiv but nol to the land. This is e 16e sa 7ai' but all the ~oting In tiegb~~ycnnot do any #paft of .~*Iraising a crop. ' #~tl~ ' ~ an et up your mA~ mck Ib f#the duty of every hathe Issue p his% #' eky cad wh rgv~uts tbt "#4e him YoU# *6't AUd cue , En in 4 thou. sand who Is doing the thing he would prefer to do if left entirely unfettefed. If he is worth a tinker's dami he Is, making the best of it, and Is content, ed to rest the matter with his own codbotenco, and Is comparatively hap. py. so,. If you candot be or do just what you want, make up your mind that you are in a average good condi tion if you are able to do something honest and profitable. - Things look very much like 1908 is going to ,be one of those fine crop years that we read about. Diversify so that you will have the cinch on some money had a good living at the same time. A system of bank deposits is a mighty goo-d thing If It is worked out right, but the farmer who cannot maki nore by using his money in Im. proving his place than he cau by put ting It Into a bank is a mighty poor sort of material to make a model far. t of. Keep your money at work. The 'way to -make a man stay in a place Is to make the place agreeable. A sen Is only a large boy, and the t(m In a good place when it Is ran that way. Herein lies the searet e keeping the boys on the farm. Opened Up! A first class line of jewelry in the Thornley Building, next to Craig Bros. store.. Will -haend!e a nice line of Watches 01 mks, Jewelry. Silverware and Optical Goods. Our repsir department Is under a ca pable and competent workman, and all work entrusted to us will receive our prompt and careful attention. Your patronage will be appreciated. J. 0. Brock Will also handle good line of musical instruments, such as - violins, guitars, mandolins and banjos. and strings for same. Wofford College. HENRY NELSON SNYDER, A, M., Litt. D., LL.D., President Nine Departments; Library and Libra rian; Gymnpsium under competent dr rector; Athletic Grounds. Next Session begins Sept 16. For catalogue address J. A. GAMEWELL, Secy. Spartanburg, S. 0. Registration Notice. The undersigned hereby give notice that they will be at the following places on the days named, for the purpose of regis tering all qualified voters not heretofore registered: Easley, Tuesday, Sept. 1. Liberty, Wednesday, Sept. 2. Central, Thursday, Sept. 3. Mile Creek, Friday, Sept. 4. Antioch, Satiwrday, Sept. 5. Pickens, Monday, Sept. 7. Pumpkintown, Tuesday, 8. Hogsed's store, Wednesday 9. J. E.'FOSTER, 2w - A. CANNON, Bd. of Registration Pigkens Co. If Yo Rav Her Trouble Ie, You wiHanve Heaorby t It the quatity of our jewe~lry was as low as the price it would be pretty peoo stuff. But it isn't. So you can fix upi that hears trouble by spending a little mopey here for jew- fry that any one would be glad to receive and proud to wear. l44tWoumn SAr ion for 5 e r rn elltllbe cha ged for 12rt~~ or l -Ae 4an ey c y n d 'For helebr eob nouee in [%r aan didate for re *tion Of he voters in the Do r leolion.J. 03. JRNN NUS. I hereby annonemsl an a olfndidate .tjyr be offlo. of PherickensContabe. o the action of the Demoorioprima R. R.a ARX. For County Conamiisloner her b announce f a candidate fdr the OmanOf tunty00 fuuasoner, anti eet to the Lotion of the voters in ,he primar eletion. A JEFF WELBORN. The many friends of NOA H 1. MOORE here. )y announce him a candidate for re-election to ,he omee of County Comnmissioner, sub ect to he action of the voters In the Democratic pri. nary election. He ba frved the dan for ,we yeais to the host of his ability and wilil do ven better in the future. The. New Table Rock Hotel Osn Table Rock, outh Carolina's own mountain. Beautiful Scenery. Fishing and Hunting. New Hotel. New Furniture. Table Up-to-date. 'erms: One Dollar a Day; Six Dollars a Week; Special Arrangements by the fnonth and for families. Racks from Pickens (railroad) Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. E. F. KEITH, Proprietor, Pickens, S. C., R. F. D. No. 4. Wofford College Fitting School Spartanburg, S. C. High Grade Preparatory School Well equlpped plant. Two large dor mitories and one recitation buiding, alt brick. Limited school: small classes; Dharges reasonable. Session begins Sept. 16. For catalogue address -A. M. DuPRE, Headmaster, Spartanburg, S. C. SCHEDULE C. & W. C. RY. Between Greenville and Charleston. East West _o. 58 BTATION5 No. 52 Daily Daily PM p |12 20 Lv.... .Greenville....Ar 4 00 1 45 Ar .....Laurens... Lv 282 12 Lv.....Laurens.... Ar 2 12 82 "......Clinton....." 1 50 8 20 ".....Newberry...." 12 06 8 84 ".Prosperity...." 12 40 4 55 Ar.Columbia... .Lv 11 15 5 05 Lv.... Columbia.. ..Ar 11 05 6 80 1r..Sumter.Lv 9 88 9 52 " ...Charleston...." 6 10 PM __ _ _ _ _ AM No. 86-Daily, except Sunday, leaves 3reenville 4:80 p m. ana arrives at Lau rene 6:25 p m. Stops at all stations. No. 87-Daily, except Sunday, leaves Laurens 8:10 a m and arrives at Green ville 10 20 a m. Stops at all stations. ERNEST WILLIAbid, Gen. Pass. Agt. It. A. BRAND, Traffic Manager, Augusta, Ga. TIME IS PIONEY T'his is just as true in regardt to Sewing Machines as anything else. By using Long Shuttle Machines, no matter how well made, yon are actually throwing away three hours out of every seven. T'HE STANDlARD ROTARY SUUTTI.B SEWINGI MAIHNE Wili mnake 880 stitches in the saietie Long Shuttle Machines make only $ The Standard-BRosaay Pt6ple is seientifically corret, wh f* been proven by 25 yeersc ~i5. use in all parts of the wotld-*~bb oompetitoru continuouliji It without suoT & IJRAND O BEST SE~XG AALJ. W machin fu on ~ ~ i iSt -Ball, 0-O Read anid Keep Polsted We will sell you 20 yards of good Chambree for $r.oo. 20 yards of a good quality of Apron and Bonnett Ging. hams for $i.oo. A nice Dress Shoe for a lady, worth $1.50, for $1.25. We will, sell the remainder of our low cut shoes at a dis count of 25 per cent. We will sell you a nice fig ured Lawn worth i oc, at 8c Y5. Good Pants for 'men and boys, goiog at a sacrifice. Pants worth $-i.5o, goin at $1.25, and ,boys pants as low as 25c a pair. Come and see our goods before you buy. Don't forget to bring us your chickens and eggs. Bring us your remnant of cotton seed, we wilf pay 75c per hundred pounds for them and want 5oo,ooo pounds at once if we can get them. Yours for business, J. H. Brown & Son LIBERTY, S. C. Small Farm for Sale, Do you Need Such a Place? I sold the other one, but here Is a better one:A 63 acres, 3 miles from Liberty, 4* miles from Pickens -85 acres in high state of cultivation, bal ance in heavy oak timber; two small houses, necessary out. buildings; on rural routb and has fine water and good pasture. Am offered $2,290 for this, but must have $2,500. I refused $225 standing rent for the place this year, preferring part of the crop. Are you going to let the other- fellow get ahead of you on this? H. M. HESTER, Pickens, S. C. J J McSWAIN L AWYER. Greenvijle, S. C. M. C. LONG0, Attorney-at-aw.. Over Postoffce, Anderson, S. C. Practice ia all Courts In Sonuth Carolina > J. P. OCA REY, JR Attorney-at-Law Pickens, S. C. Practice in all Courts. I. L VALLEY, Physicia ad Burooi 001connar 10 to 12.4. to4 r e orthe stock ofrds SOkconsists of a mulko This stock b w time at ie E uto *