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Agricultural Fitness for the Farm. The American Farmer. Farming was once an almcs universal occupation, but it, i now a specialized calling, lik any other, and a certain fitnes For it is an necessary as it is to business, law or medicine. I'eo pie, Farms and the modes of fit ting the poo| lo for the farm myy so widely that one rinds i difficult to adjust matters proper itThere are some people win eould not be lilted for any farm *nd tliere are some farms foi which no one could be fitted ; am there is a certain kind of fittin that would ruin any person fo any farm. If a person is properly litte for farm life the fitting of th farm to himself will follow. Th improvement of the farm follow if the farmer has been educate* for his work. The farm can nc be attractive unless one has bee educated for it; one can not be come attacted to any pursuit uti less be feels th?t he understand it and can make of it a succesi To make a success of farming on must know it as a trade; h should be as good a business ma *s a merchant; he should b practical in his methods of think ing and roasoning. If one has fitted himself fo farm life, he will understand th methods of making the farm at tractive and productive. It wil be his place of business and hi home. He will study its weak am strong point*, its capacities am its peculiarities, and he will com so know by experience and goo< judgment how to manage tin different parts of it to the bes advantage, each will keep a de tailed account each year, as an) other business man will do. 11 will study probabilities, the mar kets, the demands and sources o supply, and he will keep hit mind open for all new ideas. One properly fitted for tin farm will lead in ell that tend to the improvement social, po litical and educational, thm helping to develop a rural life ol wholesome and satisfying sur foundings. About the Cotton Crop. Southern Cultivator. I notice in your welcome visi tor, the Cultivator, that m< s every farmer wants to kinw how to increase the yield of cotton pe acre. Now, I think that most far niers are makinc a blonder ii trying to make so much cotton Let us compare tigureH a little and see if it pays togrow a twelve million-bale crop. Under sue! crop we could only get about ' cents per pound ; then the mat that made twelve bales would ge 1>420 for his cotton less the ex penso. Again, take the year 1JKK for a sample; on the other hanc we averaged a little over lOcenti per pound for cotton, und to com pare figures the man that makei twelve bales in a twelve million bale crop would get ten bales ii .1 ton-million bale crop and w< ran generally get from 10 to 12j >;ents per pound for such siz< crop, out in the event he shook get only 9 cents per pound h( would get thirty dollars more foi the ten bales than he would foi twelve bales, besides saving tlx expense of gathering those othei two bales. When we grow such large Department.1 ? ( crops of cotton we work against our own interest, injuring oursell or selves. Now, if it injuries A, t it injuries B, and if it is an ac s tual injury to A and B, it is equally as bad on all other farmers to produce a large crop of cotton. Let lis remember that . r when we are helping ourselves ( | we are helping others also ; so let 'us stand together; in unity there , K I ( is strength; together we stand, | divided we fall. ' Now, I wish to say that so far as lam individually concerned, a the cotton market would never be overdone, four bales being the j largest crop I ever made in one year, and will say that I live on . mv own land and plow my own horse and there is no mortgage or anything of the kind against either. e e I think it would be better for ^ un i (u uici n iu p?y in un l in nur j attention to the hog and hominy . buisness; there is pleasure and it ' r ^ profit in it. Now, 1 will ask a question and will be glad for j ^ anybody to answer that is disposed to do so. Can we make the la world or anv individual believe 6. that we are curtailing our cotton e . crop when we are trying to in^ crease our yield per acre and in tend to plant the same acres that we did, or if no change we want I to plant more acres and bigger j and better acres? J. Z P. e bycamore, (Ja., I p Thunder-Storms and Sour l| Milk. II p ] A subscriber wants to know, i says the Missouri Agriculture] t College Farmer, why milk often i , sours more quickly just after a! r thunder storm than during ordi p nary weather. The primary cause of sour milk is tlie growth of cer I tain bacteria that are always very a numerous in the air and cannot be kept out of the milk. These P are most abundant during damp, i h heavy weather which usually ac. companies thunder-storms, as ^ such weather is particularly fav-l f orable to their development.! - Hence, the popular notion that, thunder storms make milk sour. Dairy Notes. By Shepherd. Select, a dairy cow for dairy t1 work. v Separate the milk as soon as r strained. Find ont how much butter fat ' 1 j there is in each cow's milk. Keep the all year milkers and \ . raise their heifer calves. i Keep the cream at a uniform! ) temperature all through ripening.; i i A good point in a dairy cow is| i to have the milking habit well 1 t established. i Always handle butter with a I i ladle and in a way that will prel serve the texture. % Cows differ in their capacity to consume feed and in their power 1 * to elaborate milk.?Live Stock 1 Journal. I s ?A New York burglar has 1 ^ decided to reform and become a 1 J Inmi./.. I? ?.. _ 11 l;? . I k?t>di. ii s itii rigm ior 111m to 1 become a lawyer, but where does ho Ret I be idea that, he is reforming??Atlanta Journal. Tho Wnwo 1)oeH Job Printing | I lltf IlCnO for others. Why \ > can't we do yours? ? ?|? ? ? ? i i Hog Raising in the South, f Some Valuable Data from the X Department of Agriculture 1 which is of Interest to all J South Carolina Farmers. ^ The News and Courier has re- W ceived from Mr II. Benton, the ? assistant agriculturist ot the ? IJ ni ted States department of agri- j culture, the following interesting paper relating o ttin raising ot V hogs in this section of tho conn- > a During the past few months I ?fl have had the pleasure of viaiting several Southern farmers who 0 are making hog raising profit {! able. This valuable adjunct to M the farm lias been too much neg- J looted The hog should be one of a the farmer's most profitable prod 1 nets, since lie is capable of con A verting the waste from the dair\ ^ and stock pen and waste products ^ n F u 11 1/ i n /1 a i n f si rw\**lr hano ?> / ? I v/? Mil miiuo llivu jmu r\^ I/IWUII I A I lard. The practice of raising hogs on 4X c< rn alone cannot result in much Jf profit, certainly not until the 9 yield per acre is greatly increae- 2 ed. It is known that Bermuda A and Dallas grasses, (Paspalum J dalitum.) Japan clover, and on 1 good land alfalfa, furnish excel- 1 lent pasturage for hogs over a J large portion of the South from May 1 to December 1, and will T last for years. Rye, rape, crimson and bur clovers and turnips will 1 furniRh temporary gracing during 1 the remainde r of the season, ll I the hogs are changed from one 1 pasture to another every few d days. Over the greater portion ol d the South sorghum is the best J plant to grow for supplementing j any shortage that might oc ^ cur in summer pasturage ? The cow pea, peanut, man ^ gold, citron, pumpkin, sweet po m tato4 chufa, and JeruRalem arti a choke will furnish food from ^ Auguflt 1 to May 1. Mr. B. O. Harris, Pendleton, S 2 <)., states that it cost him only jy 3? rents per pound, charging lib eral rent for grazing land, to pro duce pork. His hogs are grazed on a pasture of Bermuda and Dallis grasses and Japan clover ( from May 1 to December 1. The hogs are fed on mangolds, tur , nips,citrons and skim milk to sup plement insufficient pasturage _ during summer. The food is coo! - , ( ed in winter. Mr. Harris never s v feeds corn to hogs because it is f too expensive. Mr. J. I). B Harmon, Lexing ^ ton, S. C . raises hogs successful- jJ( ly on chufas, enwpeas, sweet po u tatoes, rye and sorghum, lie practices the following rotation: First year, chufas; second vear, ? J to cowpeas, followed by rye; third year, either sweet potatoes or sorghum. Chufas are planted in ^ May ; hogs are turned in on them October 1, and if the supply of chufas is sufficient the hogs are " allowed to remain until May 1 of P' the following year. The hogs in ?' rooting for the chufas during wet rn weather in winter render the soil unsuitable for cultivated crops the next season. On land occu C. pied by chufas, cowpeas are sown p< in June. The cowpeas are allow ar ed to ripen, then hogs are turned co [>u the field, and they eat the re peas from the vines. The land is ar Down to rye in September and fi? grazed during winter and early N spring. When stalks begin to th form the hogfl are removed to ar 5?ve the rye a chance to ripen bo re that it will not ?our the land pc when ploughed under. The rye bi b then turned under and the pi \ mo\ky sums] ; - FOR - % Money Spenders | Our entire line of Shoes at old prices. We J L can sell you shoes at the same price they will 1 now cost us, and make money. Don't miss 1 * this opportunity. just received $250 worth # I new Laces and Embroidery to match at 212 ^ [ to 50c the yard. Beautiful line white goods, 1 ( Lawns. Piques, etc., from 5c to 35c the yard. 1 r Yard-wide Taffeta Silk, wear guaranteed, at ? nSir nmrtli C I or l/^f C U ^ t- ^ ^ yuv.) VIUI VII I - J- IUI A-v'Itrsa Ollll IS IU ^ ^ close at 50c on the dollar. Full line white J * v and colored soft Shirts at 23c to 98c. ; Just Received f ! a solid case of men's and boys' Sample Hats. J . Your choice of boys' at 98c; men's $1.25? J . worth double the money. Our stock of Neck- J ! wear and Underwear is new and complete and m I as cheap as the cheapest. We have a few m \ winter-weight suits to close at your price in ^ 9 oraer to make room lor spring goods. We ^ ) want 500 men to get a pair of our 75c Over- ^ !alls at 50c. No charges for showing goods. \ Yours respectfully, ? > Funderburk Comp'y.| | THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LANCASTER. | j DIRECTORS : ? m k T S Carter e s?hclt the accounts of m ' J.' D. Funderburk, Corporations, Firms and | 1 n D u i-u Individuals- and app A Chas. IX Jones, Pared l? extend eve!>''ac" f 4 i ir r? ionp<, commodation consistent m ; R. C. McManus, with sound banking Cor- f t g Wylie respondence solicited. s ! CHAS. D. JONES, Pres't. E. M. CROXTON, Cashier. I mi planted in S 'lg'nini or , after year. He states (luit this veet potatoes. Mr. Harmon method enables him to secure a eds green sorghum from July good stand of chokes and chufaa ? to about December 1. Dot a every year. es nre used in the Hold for hi? J. M. Moss, St Matthew's S. (\f >gs from August to December 1. grows sorghum, cow peas, peanuts 0 digs all that the hogs cannot and potatoes for hog* and has an it bv Decmber 1. after the first orchard of Hicks's ever bearing ost, banks them and uses them mulberry trees. He considers r feed in winter. that all these are profitable plants It will be noticed that Mr. ^or hogs. armor, practices a good rota. A Loutaiana farmer aold pork on and has ample food for lira tire value of jSSgSfrom Ian aud ,gs from August 1 to May l._ o.re quarter acres of alfalfa. , 'III. a good Bermuda pasture, It .s hoped that the above auglanterl to bur clover, and a field supplemented by facta alfalfa. Ilia hoga could have the demonatrated by five practical ,nge of a good pasture the en- mB"' wl" ?ncourage hog raising re year. in the South. Dr. E C. .Smith, Williston, S. ,, raises hogs largely on cowpeas, ?A bill has been introduced <anutH, chufas and Jerusalem into congress "to purify water." tichokes. Hogs are turned on Ob, sliaw ! Let's puiify eonieiwpeas August 1 and allowed to t)llng th?t we drink.?Atlanta main until September i. They journal e then turned into the peanut * 1.1 and allowed to remain until ovember 1 to 15, at which time ,e'90 Kt"?9' * saw ,ni11 ha"d ' ey are turned into the chufa '10 'IH<* been w?rking at a mill id artichoke field, where they }lt CJros86t Station, on the Sea ^ main until April 1. The cow- board, was lodged in jail in Cam >a and peanut fields are rotated, den Friday, charged with at it the "chokes" and chufas are tempting to wreck a passenger anted on the same land year train. 4*