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1 Three Bales Per Acre; How to Raise Them. (Southern Cultivator.) 9Editor Southern Cultivator : H In an editorial on the first page lof your July number on "Southlern Georgia," you state a Mr. , Somebody raised 24 bales ot cotlou on eight acres. What I ask |or is the details. 1. What kind f land did he use ? 2. llow did e prepare it? 3. When did he dant and what kind of seed did ie use? 4. llow much fertilizer ras used ? Please give the forr aula. 5. Give us the mode of ' ultivation, and how olten and tate about the seasons. It you will give the informalon asked for and such other acts as may be had it will make nighty good reading in the Uul ivator tor your patrons. 1 could lardly be called a novice in mat ers of this kind, for the reason hat lor several years I have >een a reader of the Cultivator, ind am reading several good farm aapers with most all the bulletins >f the state and United States. This is not doubted, but a more engthy report will be very help ul to your many readers in my ipinion. We use some fertilizer lere. I sell it myself, but we ire beginners. We have some rouble in putting out our fert ili:ers on deep,sandy land. In seems o sink with the heavy rains. What is your advice in the mat.VJ /er ? We are rained out over aere in Arkansas. It raius incessantly, and is raining now. \i w i?i - Itt o iiii??ii t 11iiii more i iih.ii l wo or three days to the week to plow (his whole season. We were kept out two weeks at one (time, commencing .June 21st aiul running up into July. We have mud and grass to spare. Yours respectfully, B. F. S. I'resoott, Ark. Comment by the Editor : In response to the above letter, we will describe the condi (ions under which this large yield ?? -i * HO Iimuo 111 1W1I UWIWreill JMclCHh, and endeavor to make the steps plain enough so any oiih who desires can do likewise. We took the (rouble to go and see both parties and in the latter instance to put our toot upon the soil that so far as we know holds the ree ord in 'cotton production. The facts in the case relerred to in south Georgia are these : The cotton was raised on the laud of Mr. D. P. Cugle of Oglethrope, Ga.; it was cultivated by Mr. It. v Allen, and we have the 1 , I the tacts from him. The piece \ contained nine acres instead of ! \eight as we were informed. Mr. 'uglc has a good many cattle, p penned them on this land at < Iht, and their droppings confuted the principal manure i t), only 150 pounds of guano i g put in the drill when the < fton was planted. The land < t / broken deeply and the cotton I iited, in four-foot rows, and i y ? chopped and oultiv 1 i with i ftoter and scrape in the ordinary t ^4iy. It was plowed rapidly and I jAon grew up to where it did not ' Jleed any more work. The nine < Acres yielded twenty one bales, 1 feveraging 512 pounds each. i I Within the city limits of GrifI fin, Ga., in Spalding county, Mr. it 11. 4l. Burr has six acres that yielded eighteen bales in 19 04 It was cultivated on 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. Tno stalks were fine, six feet high, but the top . i t?? i-.. J ? into icei iiuu uu irun upon 11. This land is fresh, the top soil is sandy, pebble soil, with still", red clay subsoil, the ideal land for cotton. This land was broadcasted with stable manure in the tall and broken deep with a two horse plow. In the spring the ro ns were laid off four feet apart, and six hundred pounds ot "Day Break," a highly atninonialed guano, was used in the drill. The cotton was planted about the mid die of April, ot the "Big Boll" variety. When the cotton came up it was hided and chopped in the ordinary way. It was plow ed every ten days with scooter and scrape. The cotton was lelt one stalk to about eighteen or twenty inches. We are convinced that to get the maximum yield you must have it thick ; the land 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 cottou. Now three things stand out very clear to our minds in iIiojo *?? stances ; aud they stand at the very foundation of all successful farming. First, the lands were broken deep ; second, they were well manured and largely with cow and horse manure. We can never do the best farming without more cattle to make more manure. Thirdly, they cultivate ^,1 .... .11.. i> - c? mpiuiv, i\apiu, snanow 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 yourself lor you will never he quite so contented with a low one ; and second, to your pocket, which will feel the dit lerence in the tail ; 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 aiTifs more leruie man you lound 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 jidy contemplated tor new public school buildings has just been iecided by Assistant Attorney Gtenoral Youraans. He thinks ime stale board has a perfect right to provi.ie that the State's money should only go into a jchool building where the title to the property is in tee simple. The point was raised in Claren1on county and the Assistant Attorney General renders this opinion on the interesting question : October 10,1905. Lion. O. B. Martin, State Sup erintendent of education, Colum bia, S C.?Dear Sir: Yours < f October 8 received, calling my attention to the Act. to Encourage the Erection of Adequate Public School Buildings." February 22, 1905, 24, Stats, 905, and asking whether it was within the com petency of the State board of education on April 27, 1005, to pass this resolution: lkResolved, That county boards of education shall require all public school buildings to he con | siructed rnly upon land deeded to the trustees in lee simple ; that no school building schall be aided by funds under tho School Improvement Act, unless constructed according to plans ap proved by the S ate board of ed ucalion, and furthermore, unless the building is tound to be of first class material and workman ship upon inspection by t he county superintendent of education?" 1 am of the opinion that it is within the competency of the State board of education to pass this regulation. Yours respectfully, LeRoy F. You mans, Assistant. Attorney General. A Tarheel in Trouble?Charg. ed With Having too Many Wives Sticking to Him. Oakland, Cal*, Oct 11.?Frank C. Norton, a painter of Charlotte and Raleigh, N. 0., was today accused of bigamy by one ol his wives, formerly Miss Josephine n.lilllan tJU v^iiihkiii, Vf? X W1CU17 j V 'ii Ml. OH? claims that, while looking through his papers, she found that he was married to three others besides herself, not having had a divorce from either. The papers state that Norton made an almost fatal attempt to kill his second, Miss KTizabeth K. Milton, of Butte, Mont., and a third is Anna French of Los Angeles, Cal. The couple is in court because iviln ntlamnluil tn L- i I I \T ton. 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 selt defense. Bob Barrett Said to be in Trouble Again. Special to The State. Fort Mill, Oct. 9.?Iiobt. Barrett, a while man, who has lived here tor the past year without any visible means of support, i was arrested hv the \\>rih flu . linn authorities near the State line Sunday with 17 gallons of corn whiskey in Ids wagon. Barrett was accompanied by his son, who unfortunately for himselt had a pistol in his pocket. The father, it is understood, was taken to jail in default of a $500 bond and the son of a $450 >ond Barrett had to leave the State (it North Carolina several years ago, having been convicted of re t tiling whiskey, a fine of $500 b^ing suspended on condition that he stay out. of fhe State for a certain length of time. It is said that this fine will now have to be paid. % I For results, advertise in the Lancastor News. Our Army?German Paper Says It's "Rotten" Berlin, Oct. 11 ?The leading conservative newspaper, Breus sische Kreur Zeitung, prints what it, calls an expose ot the claim ot the United Slates to he a great military and naval power. It characterizes the American army as "rotten,*' and says it is madel iip of "iniseraple material," and declares the Russian army super, to it. It say8 Americans are patriotic only with their mouths Morton's Philosophy of Life. Paul Morton, when asked t?'r his rule ot philosophy in lite re. CHEC $1.00 overywhoro or samplo bottlo free. C - W S3 J ' NOW FOl | FANCY GI 2 Nuts, Cheese, M \ Crackers, Pre; ^ And Fruits of Every Kin ^ Give me your business, ^ and Quality. ? Don't forget I keep a fu ^ China, Crockery Yours to serve. i J. jWAN The Trading P We have the Bi< Cheapest Stock ol ever hail. We 001 cotton was chen I higher prices, a such being the c more goods than i Our stock of dress / S NEW AND I Wo nride oursnb medium priced li IN (J in the towi well assorted and GENTS' FUF And at prices tin tion?quality con: When you think of SHc Think of us. We carry the I styles and quality. We hi Shoe for men, and Ivippendo pair guaranteed. (Jive us a call ; we welc or not. Yours, with Honest Goo Funde plied: ''Did you ever hear I he Western advice, fc*S ? live your lite each day that you can at any time look any damn man in i lie eyes and loll him lo go lo h'dl'f That's my philosophy of lite" Mr. Morton ought lo he not only president of the Equitable, but of the New York Lile and the Mutual . s well.? 'harleston Post, Notice. Notice is hereby given that ihe fax books of the town ot Lancaster, S < will he open for the collet tion of faxes on the 1st day of November, 1905, at the ollice ot the town Treasurer, and all taxes remaining unpaid on the 1st day of Hecember, 1905, pursuant to.Section 1 oftiie Supply Hill of 1905, will be subject to a penalty of 15 per cent for the non-payment of the same when, together wit it cost. K K. Wyi.IK. Oct. 10; 1905. Mayor. KERS hockors Moilicino Co., Winston-Salem, X. O. R. YOUR J IOCER1ES I lacaroni, Cakes, a serves, Pickle, | d. Celery Every Week. W and F will give you Prices J 11 line of S 7 & Glassware. J Mackorel. t "t"e p j ublic to Know licst nlid i we 11 ?ive light goods \vlien ip, anticipating tnd, of course, jise, we bought usual. GOODS J COMPLETE. ves 011 the best no of f'T A'Pir 1 ft w V/l v/ 1 J \-J 111" ii. Wo carry a up to date line {NISHINGS. I it defy competisldered. )ES I m in an endless variety of * tndle the Forbush Cushion rf Shoe for women. Every I oine you whether you buy I J? at Fair Prices. irburk Co. J (