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I N NT Entered April 23, 1903 at Pickens, S. C. as second class lfatterjander c.07) a arch 317 39th Year. PICKENS. S. C., NOVEMBER ?25O, 1909.,ubr2 Y' 4~4 The poor farm will grow taxes nothing else. Good grade draft horse- are still in demand. Raise a few. With your other planning, figure on iasIng a colt or two this. year. Farm folks need the smile just as much as the crops need: the sun shine. The stock market is the last place in the world where the farmer wants to venture. Comfortable quarters for the toh are essentAli to proper econ y of the food ration. Look through the getable bins and let the stock up all the all d the. half-rotted -ap The prosperity of, th? farmer was honestly earned, whi is more than can be said for the success of some business enterprises. The farmer must plan the work carefully and keep the farm help thor oughly busy if he is to realize a profit on the high wages he is obliged to pay. Too small a field for the pigs will result in their soiling the clover, result ng In their not eating it so fast. 'It pays for the sake of the hogs to have a large field. Why not raise a few mules? .They mature younger, and can be set to hard work any time between two and, three yeard of age, a thing you can't do with the young horse. A good time to begin with. sheep. Get a small flock and start it on pas ture and you will be ready to give them good care next fall. Meanwhile ilan your winter quarters. The seed corn which was selected last fall and \horoughly dried Will prove the wisdom of the farmer In the eyes of his less careful and provident neighbor when the two stands of corn of the coming season are compared. Fruit ti-ees need much potash and phosphorus. Stable manure has these elements in a smaller proportion than some other kinds of fertilizer. Wood ashes are probably the most perfect fertailizer known for fruit trees and -plants. *This sounds well and we believe- it Is true: "Farming is a profession ret quiring more shrewdness than law, fr more technical training than medicine, miore uprightness than theology, more brains- and resourcefulness than peda gogy. It is its own reward." Yes, the cow did kick, but that wras no excuse for you losing your tempe; and lammIng her unmercifully with .thie milking stool. I overheard a farm er say the other day that it had cost him the profits on a cow for-. three days for the beating he had givJen the cow. The first thing to do with the newly born lamb is to get it full of the ewe's first milk. Many a lamb's life can be saved by a little attention at this time. It often occurs that the teal becomes clogged and will not yIeld to the efforts of the lambkin. Lend a helping hand. The fall-dropped colt Is more con .venient on the average farm thant those born in the spring. Some of the horses on nearly every farm are idle all winter anyway and the mares might better be nursing colts and giv ing them a good start than to be eat ing. their heads off and giving nothing in return. Let the boys on the farm have some animal or plot of ground which Is really their own, and then let them realize the profits to be made from them. In this way they will feel a personal interest in farm miatters and *will learn by practical experience the ins and outs of stock raising and farm ing. This will tie them to the farm as nothing else will. In estimating the amount of seed needed for a certain field it is quite essential that you know its dimen slons within reasonable accuracy. But do you? Is it not largely guess work. A good cotton cord, the size of a plow line, should be kept for a measuring Sline. To make one, buy 70 feet of cot ton cord. fasten a ring at each end and make these rings exactly 66 feet apart. This is four rods. Tie a piece of red cloth in the center. One acre of ground will be the length of four of -these cords and 2% cords wide, equal -to 16x10 rods, making 160 square rodz ,to the acre. Weed out the star ,-boarders from ,your cow herd. A good habit to get-cleaning out the hen house twice a week. Ion't be unreasonible. The neg6 lected flock will not remember you. 1 Don't make the mistake of setting [the- hen until she is thoroughly broody. 4t is easier to raise a. good horse han to pick one up when wanted. Itemember that. Whey fed to excess may cause stiff joint in the pigs. Its feeding value is about half that of milk. The best breed of -sheep' for the farmer is the one which combines a long fleece with a large carcass. If you, are keeping sheep plan' on a good generous turnip crop this year. It Is almost a necessity in successful sheep raising. .An. Iowa man at last accounts had the corn husking record of the year, having husked 75 bushels in four hours' ard eight minutes. A course at your state agricultural college vll do more to interest your boy In agriculture and tie him to the farm than any other one thing. - Aldike clover'Ts valuable on heavy soil. It is a lighter growing, finer scrop than the medium red, and is1 s, shorter- lived, but it will pay you to try it. Beglf some kind of crop rotation t1ls year. Don't raise the same crop year ater year on the same piece of ground. Give the ground a variety of work to do. Don't let fine weather over head tempi youout into the field which is stlktoo wet to work. It is bad for the soila, -hard on the horses and disap pointing to you. Damp crib corn willprove a curse to many a farmer this year who deaf to the advice to select and care for his seed corn just let matters. drift alozzg'i the same old way. It has been proved from experi mentsathat unless linseed oilmeal can be puichased at approximately as low a--prideas cofn per pound no profit 'from ItUf.Use with corn and clover hay for fattiUiambs Is to be expected. it is the farmer who learns how to do hiswork with the least number of moves-In other words systematizes his work-rlio makes the best success of fa-min and who always has time to tain the farmers' institutes, fart. Secetary of Agriculture Wilson says:. 'Td ,rther not Impose on a biusy farmer the keeping of an elab orate set efjbooks, but some simple form of accounts will be a great aid ~in successful farming." To which sentimnent w-assent heartily. Tha spiled horse Is generally the ~one~ that ha been Improperly trained. Carefuithorough breaking should soes tablish the gobd& traits of a horse as to make the 'abijoring of bad habits al 'most Impossible save-where the gross lest kind of mnsmanagement was prac ticed. l't is a good practice in planting an orchard to- alternate the varieties, set ting not over two or three rows of one. sort and. .th'en something else. This will -Insure heavier bearing through cross-pollination of the blos soms, some sorts not being able to fertilize themselves. Mowing the field of young alfalfa may check the weeds but it will also check the alfalfa. The ground in tended for alfalfa should be so thor oughly , prepared that weeds have no chance to start until after the alfalfa is well along .and firmly rooted. Al falfa that gets the right start will prove very Inhospitable ground for the weeds. -A man .must.- be friendly to have friends. This was never more true than in the country. Try a little friend liness toward that neighbor whom you have considereld rather cold and dis tant You will perhaps find he will warm up to you and the friendship will work pmutual good. Get his ideas, and if you have anything good in that line share Itlt him. It takesbo ore work or food to feed a 700-ponndsbter-in-a-year cow than It does t:'d the one which produces- but 200'pennds. Why not wded out the poorer -ows and get in those which pay a good ..profit? A cow ought to produceat1850-300 pounds of butter fat a year 'omake It worth while keeping her, bu nany a farmer is keeping cows which 'will not pro duce half that. Get a good bull-pure-bi-ed' If you can afford it-and breed up youri herd. Cornell university, New York, has just shown whatcan'be done in this1 direction. A cow of ordinary grade was kept and the progeny for four generations was tested. The cow was. producing 225 pounds of butter in a year. By the use of a pure-bred sire the next generation produced 275 pound cows and in the fourth genera tion two,. cows, descendants of theI original one and improved sires, mide in average of 450 pounds of butteri . year. This ought to-settle the ques iou-ds to whether pure-bred or grade a mas are preferable for the dairy. 'HILL ROADWAY WORI Suggestions For Making a Quid Drying Road. HOW TO GET RID OF WATER Carry It Directly Across by Slopinc Highway From Bank Side-Pointer on Grading-Change Suggested Ir King Drag For Hill Work. I have always been very interestee and observant in the matter of coun. try roads and have read many valua ble articles on the subject. But I still think there are some points that . have not seen touched upon relative t( roadmaking. especially in the hill country along the Mississippi and Mis souri slopes. The great object of road work should be to get the water away as quickly as possible. We have a good soil for roadmaking, but the hills are of silt formation, and a stream of water crumbles them like so much loal sugar. Many of our experienced roadmak ers will throw up a hill grade and car ry the water down each side for lon, distances. Then comes a heavy rain fall. Forty thousand rivulets fron: the hillside above pour into the drains, and such a volume of water accumu lates as to cut deep gorges. These make the road almost impassable and require several days' labor a number of times each year to repair.i To avoid this trouble the road .may be sloped from the bank side enough to carry the water directly across the road. When a grade' is desired on a side hill roadway plow In three furrows on the lower side, the outside furrow to be about twenty feet from the bank. When grading draw this loose dirt to ward the center of the roadway with a slope of about one Inch to the foot carrying this slope across the entire grade. The ditch thus made should be opened at short intervals to let out the water. After the grading is done headers should be put in to divert any water that might follow the wheel track. To make these headers scrape with the slusher a trench a little diagonally across the grade about two scrapers width and not deep. Deposit this dirt with more from the outside alongside the trench. making the ridge no higher than absolutely necessary to accom plish its purpose and not less than ten feet wide, thus causing as little ob struction as possible. This plan will always provide a quick drying hill road. With the occasional use of a King drag this can be kept like a boulevard. Mr. King is an enthusiast on the merits of his invention and thinks lightly- of any changes that may be made in it, but for the benefit of those not so sanguine I will describe my Improvement, to be used more particu lay in a hill country. We are all familiar with the con struction of Mr. King's drag. Now. In stead of making this drag rigid by tight mortices, tenons, etc., we use two 4 by 6 Inch crosspleces with 3 by 6 inch tenons six Inches long on each end. The shoulders of these tenens are mitered each way from the center. These fit mortices in each end of the plank. The mortices are mitered from the center to each side. The tenons tare secured with one inch hardwood pins outside of the plank, thus allow ing the frame to oscillate. The utility of this may be seen when we want to carry the dirt all one way on side hills, etc. We pull through as far as desired, then change the team, hitch to the opposite side, turn around and continue moving the dirt as before. If properly made this drag will pull In a direct line and do better work. When the highway is cut through a hill it Is desired to keep reducing the grade. To this end work the road against one bank, leaving a ditch on one sIde only. Turn all the water from above and along the hill into this ditch. Plow it in repeatedly each sea son. After this trench has washed too much for safety smooth this side and change the ditch to the opposite side of the road and repeat. You will be surprised at the change in steepness effected In ten or twelve years.--W. S. Wiley in Good Roads Magazine. WORK FOR WOMEN How They Can Help In the Con~ servation Movement. MUST BEGIN WITH CHILDREN. To Have Town and Country Beauty Chief of Forestry Bureau Pleads For Support of Women to Point Out Wickedness of National Waste. Hon. Gifford Pinchot. chief of the United States forest service, pays a high tribute to the' work of women in all branches of civic improvement and problems looking to the public welfare. Speaking particularly of the women of California and the gigantic tasks they undertake and accomplish, he says: "I have known of no case of per sisfet agitation under discouragement finer in good many ways than the fight to shve the great grove of Cala veras big trees. The government is go Ing to/have possession of that and pre s.ve it for all future generations. it perfectly clear what they can do t this work. Now, let me suggest tha obviously the first point of attack i the stopping of waste in our forests Women can bring-and this Is my sug gestion-they can bring, as no othe body of citizens can bring, to the chi] dren in the schools the Idea of th, wickedness of national 'waste and th, value of public saving. The issue Is i moral one and they are the first teaci ers of right and wrong." If we are to realize the town an country beautiful we must begin wit] the children, and upon the women de volves this duty of proper instructior Mr. Pinchot says that "patriotism i the keynote of the success 'of any na tion, and patriotism which does no begin in early years may. though I does not always, fail under the sever est trials-not always. for many me] and many women have proved thei deepest patriotism to this country, a] though they were born elsewhere. Ye as a rule, it must begin with the chi] dren. And almost without exception I is the mother who plants patriotism 11 the mind of the child. It is her duty The growth of patriotism is first of a] in the hands of the women of any na tion. In the last analysis it Is th mothers of a nation who direct tha nation's destiny." While Mr. Pinchot is chiefly Interest ed in the conservation of our forests his remarks regarding woman's work both directly and through the child apply with equal force to all matter of public welfare. Preservation of ou natural resources affects the town a well as the country, And as our chie forester says: "I think it cannot b disputed that the natural resource exist for and belong to the people. an< I believe that the part of the worl which falls to the woen-and it is n< small part-is to see t6 it that the chil dren. who will be the men and womei of the future. have their share of thesi resources, uncontrolled by monopol and unspoiled by waste. "It Is a question of seeing what loy alty to the public welfare demands o us and then of caring enough for th public welfare not to prefer to set i personal advantage first It is a ques tion of having our future citizens In spired as boys and girls with the spir of true patriotism as against the spir of the man who declines to take Inti account any other interest than hi own, whose one aim and ideal is per sonal success. "Women can, both- in public and i home, by letting the men know wha they think and by putting It before the children, make familiar the Idea o: conservation and support it with i convincingness., that nobody else cai approach. "In practically every state legisla ture that held its session during th4 past year conservation measures weri up for consideration. If women wil support these conservation measures if they will put their influence behini them. I have lived long enough Ii semi-political life to know what tha Influence will mean. When I ask foi their Interest in the conservatioi movement and to secure the saving o: waste I ask it with the fullest possible realization of Its value. "One more thing. Let me ask the women to remember that, however im potant it may be for the lumberman the miner, the cabinetmaker, the rail road man, the house builder, for ever; Industry, that conservation should ot tain, when all Is said and done conser ration goes back In its directest appli cation to one body In this country, ani that Is to the children. There is In thit country no other movement, excep possibly the education movement-ani that, after all, Is In a sense only an other aspect of the conservation ques ton, the seeking to make the most o: what we have-so directly aimed t< help the children, conditioned upon thi needs of the children, belonging to thi children, as the conservation move ment, and It is for that reason morn than any other that I ask the suppor of the women of this country."-Los Angeles Times. MADE INITIAL TRII NEW YORKER A PASSENGER O01 FIRST AMERICAN TRAIN. Stephen Smith Dubois Still In Fina Mental and Physical VIgor at Age of 94-Remembers the Ride Well. As an example of mental and phays Ical vigor at the age of 94, Stepher Smith Dubois, who a few days ag< completed the task of cutting an' stacking the product of a five-acre fieli of corn down at Norwood, Long Island Is probably one of the most remarkl Iable old men in the country of whom there is a record. He Is the oni3 living man who rode on the first pas senger train run on a steam railroat In America-the Mohawk and Hudsor -whose rails connected Albany ani Troy. Not only is Dubois the 'on1: living link that connects the railroa' history of the past and present, but he was one of the two passengers wn< rode In the coach, drawn by an engin' called the Yankee. The other pas senger was his uncle. It was the first official trip, ani with a foresight, which has not beei followed In later years, the inhabitants of Troy insisted that the directors o: the road should assume the first risk for there was nobody willing to tak' the chance of a ride behind a' "con traption" that they believed was like ly to blow up at any moment. "I: was horn up in Cayuga county,' Isaid -the old gentleman, as he restet for a, moment from sawing a thici stick 'of timber, "and came to Ne' Vrk in 1847. My wrife died in 1843 I C m t 00ME TO GREEN Railroad Fare Refunded Within Fare One Wal Here is] Buy $25 worth for cash, all Ind part at another, within thr chants named below. Not ne< t iet Rebate Book with first p -orded and when $25 worth is r)ook to Secretary of Retail M( >f Railroad Fare. Buy From A .1 China, Glassware, Etc. t Gilreath-Durham Co. Drugs and Sundries. Bruce & Doster Drug Co. r Dry Goods, Notions, Etc. r J. Thos. Arnold Co. Barr's Dry Goods. R. L. R. Bentz. Hobbs-Henderson Co, Hovey Smith. .C. D. Stradley & Co. Furniture, Etc. L. A. James. Symmes-Browning Co. E. S. Poole. Buggies, Wagons, Etc. Markky Hardware 8 Manufacturing Co. R. N. Tannahill Co. If you don't undersfar Information C Orel Ville Retail ti JOHN WO4 O1c Over Slth & Bristow. l My youngest soi, the baby of the family, Is 63, and a very good boy. That I am the only living man who rode on the first railroad train must be true, because I was only a boy of 16 at the time, and the directors I rrode with were grown men, some of .them old men.F "When I first came to New York the on Twenty-sixth street, near Madison avenue. Beyond that was all green -Have you t fields. Corporai Thompson's cottage others but let was built a few years later, I think, . or If it was built It was not used as a. .half-way house In 1847. Over on the teast side there were only a few shan a clear view of the East river from what Is now Central park. - "When I was a boy up In Cayuga, No. 22. Indians of the Seneca tribe-you cleared, balan tknow Seneca county is close by Sused to come Into Waterloo, where I tomn land, si lived for a time, ),ut we didn't pay but good Valut much attention to' them. They were always peaceable, and never harmed Now, may anybody so far as I know. I was 34 aCres Close to years old when I came to New York in '47, and if I do say it myself, I would- that you were n't give way to any man In any kind Real Estafe lin of a contest. When I was 50 years oldmyls.I I was as good as most men at 25. myls. I "I have lived the greater part of my Yours t life In the open air, eaten and drunk Ieverything that came along, and have or a go( chewed tobacco for about 75 years. I gave up smoking 30 or 40 years ago, and my quids of chewing have become smaller. Here Is what I use now." I pocket a tiny cube of tobacco. ItH could not have contained more- than the sixteenth of a cubic inch.11-k "'Lost all my teeth something like 30 or 35 years ago," he continued, "so I can't chew like I used to. A smanl Box 264. plug of tobacco will last me -about six weeks. I don't sleep well at nights now, but when I-was young I used to take long naps. Sleep is a great thing -better than. food or drink." The most remarkable physical________ achievement of the old man this year. was cutting- the. corn from a five-acre field. He piled this up' in 200 "stonts," and It is standing to-day as a monu- T i k t Sment of his prowess. He cleared the .same field a year ago, and then shelled the corn by hand, taking' each ear - * and scraping over a bar laid across a -- bushel measure. When the measure was full he would empty It and .begin I shelling it again. Early In the shring] of this year he dug up a big cherr j~ ~tree by the roots and cut it into. fir _ .wood. . . jIt is allivery well to attack thena from the seclusion of a New. York - magazine office, but would the writer . of the article, care to meet. the fleet in the middle of the Pacific on a dark ~ A night and attack It there? VILLE To RADE Radius of 40 Miles; f Paid for distance Over 40 Miles. he Plan: at one time, or part at one tie. ,ee months from any of the mer kessary to buy all at one store. urchase, have each purchase re entered in Book take or send )rchants' Association for amount ny of These. Clothing. Hall Brothers. J. 0. Jones & Co. L. Rothschild. Smith & Bristow. Stewart, Anderson & Merritt Jewelry, Etc. Bruns-McGee Co. Lumber, Etc, : Oregon Lumber Co. Office Supplies. Seybt-Lanford Co. Millinery, Coat Suits. TThe Ayers Co. Shoes. Americus Shoe Co. Henderson-Ashmore Co. Pride, Patton & Tillman, d, write the Secretary. heerfully Given. -lo :)D SEC'RY. purchse 13111 farm yetfIlhav a W nube F. 2OALD. O 5o acres, 6 miles northwest of Court House; 54 :e in original forest; about 6 acres of good bog dl 1-room house. Some of this land.is. rollint at $16 per acre. be it was a town lot already improved, or a few :own that you could improve to suit yourself, wanting: Come to see me for anything in the e. I have a riumber of desirable properties On OU WANT TO SELL LIST WITH ME.r o satisfy your demands for investment, ydHome. 1.HESTER. REAL ESTATE MAN.":. Pickens, S. C. For Dainty Women. [Are a aipecial feature at this jaw store. There are sl~ver meshissipj.? j eied hat 1iins, stick pins ofr'may ds, ornaments of all sorts. -I It is not Too Early tobegin chooing gifts fo - "~Stop insanddo some it.can be donein o4 -