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K Three Bales Per Acre; How I to Raise Them. (Southern Cultivator.) Editor Southern Cultivator : In an editorial on the first page g|of your July number on "South; em Georgia," you state a Mr. 1||Somebody raised 24 bales ot cot?ton on eight acres. What I ask * Vfror is the details. I. What kind glf land did he use ? 2 How did .^Je prepare it? 3. When did he tlani and what kind of seed did e use? 4. llow much fertilizer ras used ? IMease give the lorlula. 5. Give us the mode ot wuiLivauon, and how otten and r'tate about the seasons. i! you will give the information asked for and such other i jgacis as may be had it will make Dnighty good reading in the (Jul yjivator tor your patrons. 1 could ] lardly be called a novice in matters of this kind, for the reason hat lor several years 1 have r!|>een a reader of the Cultivator, I ,- uid am reading several good farm Reapers with most all the bulletins J/JI the state and United Sfntoo I This is not doubted, but a more engthy report will be very helpul to your many readers in my opinion. We use some fertilizer iere. 1 sell it myself, but we ire beginners. We have some rouble in putting out. our fertilisers on deep,sandy land. In seems to sink with the heavy rains. What is your advice in the matf*?r ? We are rained out over jhere in Arkansas. It rains incessantly, and is raining now. We haven't had more than two i or three days to the week to plow this whole season. We *were Kept out two weeks at one time, commencing June 21st and running up into July. We have < mud and grass to spare. Yours respectfully, PreRCott, Ark. j .-Comment by the Editor : In response to the above let/ ter, we will describe the condi B tions under which this large yield |i was made in two different places, ? Hlllt rtllltoaodi- I" " > !' - ,L U..UVU<U1 IU IIIIIIVC I IIO Hlt'ps plain enough so any one who desires can do likewise. We look the trouble to go and see both parties and in (he latter instance to put our foot upon the soil that so far as we know holds the record in 'cotton production. The facts in the case relerred to in south Georgia are these : The cotton was raised on the land of Mr. D. P. Cugle of Oglethrope, Ua.; it was cultivated by Mr. R. Allen, and we have the the tacts from him. The piece contained nine acres instead of ! weight as we wero informed. Mr. Ingle hag a good many cattle, H penned them on this land at i r^ht, and their dri ppings confuted the principal manure i ? U, only 150 pounds of guano i J '^ut in the drill when the < was planted. The land ? i n deeply and the cotton I v / \four-foot rows, and i ) and cultivated with i -ape in the ordinary i 1\pwed rapidly and l Vhere it did not ' The niue < fl"\y one bales, I \ Slecieach. i DeecXa of Grifsafe auVty, Mr. I to steel & H. Burr has six acres that yielded eighteen bales in 19 04 It was cultivated ou halves by Mr. H. C. Rodgers. We went out to view this land, which is in cotton this year, but owing to the hot wave which simply cooked the forms upon it, and the squares and young bolls still hang upon the stalks by hundreds, the yield will not be more than a hall to the acre. The stalks wee fine, six feet high, but (he top three teet. hud no fruit upon it. This land is fresh, the top soil is sandy, pebble soil, with stiff, red clay subsoil, tho ideal land for cotton. This land was broadcasted with stable manure in the fall and broken deep with a two horse plow. In the spring the ro vs were laid off four teet apart, and six hundred pounds of "Day Break," a highly ainmouiated guano, was used in the drill. The cotton was planted about the mid die of April, of the "Big Boll" variety. When the cotton came up it. was sided and chopped in me ordinary way. JLl was plow ed every ten days witli scooter and scrape. The cotton was left one stalk to about eighteen or twenty inches. We are convinced that to get the maximum yield you must have it thick ; the laud must be wholly occupied with cotton. We have seen several parties this year trying seven or eight-toot rows. This is too wide. We are confident four feet is best, both for corn and cotton. Now three things stand out very clear to our minds in these two instances ; aud they stand at the very foundation ot all successful farming. First t ho lunrta ^ J - UOI C broken deep ; second, they were well manured and largely with cow and horse manure. We can never do the best fanning without more cattle to make more manure. Tnirdly, they cultivated rapidly. Rapid, shallow cultivation alone can give us the maximum yield. This is the only way to make money raising cot ton ; and whenever you bring one or more acres up to this yield you have done a genuine service ? first to yoursel! lor you will nrvci lit? cjune 90 contented with a low one ; and second, to your pocket, which will feel the dit terence in the tall ; third, to your family and community in setting them a good example ever to fol low, and fourth, to posterity, for to them you will leave some acres more fertile than you found them, and upon which they, in turn, can receive a just return for all their labor expended upon such lands. School Fund and School Buildings. Columbia cor. News and Courier. The question regarding the sub sidy contemplated tor new public school buildings has just been decided by Assistant. Attorney Genoral Youmans. He thinks the State board has a perfect right to provide that the State's money should only go into a school building where the title to the property is in tee simple. The point was raised in Clarendon county and the Assistant Attorney General renders this opinion on the interesting question : October 10,1905. Lion. O. B. Martin, State Sup I erintendent of education, Coium i bia, S C.?Dear Sir : Yours i f October 8 received, calling my attention to the Act to Encourage the Erection ot Adequate Public School Buildings." February 22, 1905, 24, Stats, 905, and asking whether it was within the com potency ot the State board of education on April 27, 1005, to pass this resolution: "Resolved, That county boards of education shall reouire all Jl public school buildings to be con slructed rnly upon land deeded to the trustees in tee simple ; that no school building echall be aided by funds under the School Improvement Act, unless constructed according to plans ap proved by the S ato board of ed ucation, and furthermore, unless the building is found to be of first class material and workman ship upon inspection by the county superintendent of education?" I am of the opinion that, it is within the competency of the State board of education to pass tliis regulation. Yours respectfully, LeRoy F. You mans, Assistant Attorney General. A Tarheel in Trouble?Charg ed With Having too Many J Wives Sticking to Him. I Oakland, Cal*, Oct 11.?Frank C. Norton, a painter of Charlotte and Raleigh, N. U., was today accused of bigamy by one ol his wives, formerly Miss Josephine Quinlan, of Toledo, Ohio. She claims thai, while looking tkrough his papers, she found that he was married to three others besides hersel!, not having had a divorce from either. The papers state that Norton made an almost fatal attempt to kill his second, Miss Elizabeth K. Milton, of Butte, Mont., and a third is Anna French of Los Angeles, Cal. The couple is in court because the wile attempted to kill Norton. She claims that he was going to kill her to keep secret that which in some way he found out she knew. She shot in sell defense. Bob Barrett Said to be in Trouble Again. Special to The Slate. Kort Mill, Oct. 9.?Robt. Barrett, a white man, who has lived here tor the pas* year without any visible means of support, was arrested by the North Carolina authorities near the State line Sunday with 17 gallons ot corn whiskey in his wagon. Barrett was accompanied by his son, who unfortunately for himself had a pistol in his pocket. The father, it is understood, was taken to jail in default of a ifcfiOO hnillt onrt tlm ...... ? 1 pn ?uu HID rn?n Ul U ifiOU ootid Barrett had to leave the State ol North Carolina several years ago, having been convicted of ret tiling whiskey, a line of $500 bdng suspended on condition that he stay out ot the State for a certain length of time. It is said that this tine will) now have to bo paid. For results, advertise in the Lancaster News. Our Army?German Paper 11 Says It's "Rotten" Berlin, Oct. 11.?The leading conservative newspaper, Brens , sise,he Kreur Zeitung, prints what it calls an expose ot the claim of the United States to be a great military and naval power. It characterizes the American army as "rotten/' and says it is made up of "miseraple material," and declares the Russian army superto it. 11 say8 Americans are patriotic only with their mouth*. Morton's Philosophy of Life. | P.tul Morton, when asked fori iiis rule of philosophy in lite re-1 CHEC $1.00 everywhere or sample bottle froo. CI f NOW FOl 2 ! ANCY GF ? Nuts, Cheese, M J Crackers, Pres r And Fruits of Every Kin< * ^ Give me your business, ; ^ and Quality. ^ Don't forget I keep a fu ? China, Crockerj gfc Yours to serve. I J. E [WAN I TwaJH?* T5i Iiiiy uaumg f We have the Hi^ Cheapest Stock of ever had. We (>oi cotton was ciiea higher prices, a such being the c<* more goods than i Our stock of DRESS / S NEW AND I We pride ourseh medium priced li ING in the towi well assorted and GENTS' FUF And at prices tha tion?quality con* When you think of SHC Think of us. We carry tlier styles ami quality. We ha Shoe for men, and Ivippeiuloi pair guaranteed. Give us a call ; we welc? or not. Yours, with Honest Goo. L_ 7 plied: ' Did you ever hear the Western advice, k,S'? live your life each day that you can at any lime look any damn man in the ?yes and tell him to no to h'dTf That's my philosophy of lite" Mr. Morton ought to he not only president of the Equitable, hut of the New York Lite and the Mutu ?l . s well.? "harleslon Post. Notice Notice is hereby given tint the tax books of the town of Lancaster, S t will be open for the collection of taxes on the 1st day of November, 1905, a< the ntlice of the town Treasurer, ami all taxes remaining unpaid on the 1st day ef December, 1905, pursuant to .Section 1 of t he Supply Itill of 1U05, will be subject to a penalty of 15 per cent for the non-payment of the same when, together with cost. It K. \V YI.I K, Oct. 10, 1905. Mayor. KERS lockora Mojiiciuo Co., Winston-Salem,N. C. ^ YOUR J IOCER1ES acaroni, Cakes, ? serves, Pickle, J i. Celery Every Week. W md I will give you Prices ^ 11 line of ^ r & Glassware. * ^ & Mackorel. 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