The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 14, 1905, Page 7, Image 8
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
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*
^ Give me your business, ;
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gfc Yours to serve.
I J. E
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I TwaJH?* T5i
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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
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I We pride ourseh
medium priced li
ING in the towi
well assorted and
GENTS' FUF
And at prices tha
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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.
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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.
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