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Agricultural Are You Testing Your Com? A Few Hours Work Here May Be Worth a Week's Field Cultivation. Corn has be* n high-priced for the last two or three years, and ban been profitable to the grower. Land is also high-prised, and ?:)) doubtless continue to be so for some time to come, perhaps always. The tanner who has high priced land stands in need of a large corn crop, lie cannot afford to grow thirty bushels of corn to the acre on seventy-five d' liar land. He must have at least fiftv or sixty bushels in order to make a good dividend or interest on the investment. HAVE A FULL STAND. One of the prime requisites to a paying crop of corn in a full stand. Writing, as we do, for far aners over a large section of territory, we do not care to say what is a full stand, for the reason that it varies with the longitude and latitude, and with the purpose for which the corn is grown. Kvery farmer must determine for himself what is a full stand ander his conditions. Speaking generally, we would consider ten thousand stalks to the acre a full stand in the heart of the corn bolt, and too much of a stand in <be extreme South or extreme , West. Whatever that stand may be, the farmer should by all means determine to secure that fall stand. There is no certainty that he ?ill secure a stand unless he knows the germinating power of the seed corn he is planting. It ? i.1 i.? ? 1.. mn _ asjuuju uc nn urtiiij IVV pet LOIH as possible. Even then with h planter gauged to plant three talks to the hill, when it comes to layiug by his corn he will hii"e lees than three stalks to the hill, wr 9,700 stalks to the acre, 011 a three foot eight inch planter, and considerably less than three ears t? the hill after he throws out the barren stalks which will grow from every thing except the Terv best bred seed corn, and more or less even from this. A RIMI'LK MATTKR, BUT INVALl'AHLK it is so simple a matter to test corn that one wonders why f t?. " luriu v i n i ui \r in | m m ill Wiiiiiiiil testing. We have the same dilli colty with our farmers -that preachers have with their con gregatious. If t lie preachers could get the people to do asv\eii as tney know how, there would b- a big revival of religion alt ?>vtr the United States; and if we could get our readers to test their seed corn as well as they know how, the stand of corn among our readers would he 10 to 20 per cent better this year than it has ever been. The diffi cnlty is to get folks to do at the right time and in the right way so simple a thing as to tuaf <wii*n Si/?non ^ ? vix vwm, uwiiio unjoin;! 11 uruttli^r they think they know their .seed corn that will grow without tee ting it. It is a sort of conceit that eoir.e farmers have, particularly old farmers. We can safely tell them that th. y don't know, as they will discover when they he pin to test. They will find out that really they did not know.No matter how carefully a man goes through and examines each par ticular ear by sight, when he comes to the actual testing he Department. will find that he lias made mistakes. It he will mark the e?>rs and test, as we have before bur Rested, and then throw out the grains that don't grow, and then go back and examine the ear* from which these grains worttaken, he will find out by very close examination why they did not grow. There are some signs of deficiency that lie did not notice. It requires a very skillful expert to toll bv mere physical examination whether an ear of corn will germinate on all sidts. Therefore the best way is to test it. With most farmers, however, the reason why they don't test their corn is simplv dilatoriness, apathy, inertia, what the Spanish call l'mnniiiui," or the disposition to put off things until tomorrow. HOW TO DO TUB WORK. Ah to the methods, wo can only repeat what we have said before: Make the most careful physical examination you can of your corn ; throw out everything that you think won't grow. Provide yourself with a box or boxes, depending on the amount you want to test. Put some sand or sawdust in the bottom and wet it. Then take a piece of stiff paper the size of the box and mark it off in squares, numbering them 1, 2, 3, and so on, much as you would the sections on a townphip map. Put your ears of corn in a row on a board or bench. Beginning at one end, number or counting to correspond with the numbers on the pquares. Take two grains from each aide of ear No. 1, and ho on till you fill them up. Then take a piece of cloth the same size an the paper and lay it over the grains; Put on Rome more sand or dirt, and moisten it. Set the box in a moderately warm room. Tuck the cloth around under the edges so that there will be no deficiency of moiBttire around the edges. After your corn haH had suilicient time to Hprout, which will be determined I by the temperature of the room, but usually three or four days, lift up the corner of the cloth and examine each square. Throw out every ear some of the grains of i which did not grow. No matter j how good it looks, throw it out. ( Throw out the ears that grow I feeblv. It will dimmish your pi le of seed corn, but von had better [stand a small 1 c?r? now than an inevitably large los-1 later on. ?Wallace's Farmer. Cost of Plowing. Difference Between OneHorse Plow and FiveHorse Gang Plow?"Patch" System Wasteful and Inexcusable. The Progressive Farmer. Farming must he extremely profitable or else ninet.v-fivo per cent of farmers; would go broke on account of the obsolete moth ods we employ in the conduct of our business*. In almost every other business we might name, economy of production is given the very closest attention. A great many of the consolidations we hear so much of to-day are brought about for the avowed purpose of making possible the production of one thing or another at a smaller cost for labor. Hut I the average farmer goes along using the same old methods employed by his father, and even in some cases by his grandfather, in the couduct of his business. Tins thing must be changed if we expect to keep up in this twen tieth century race. We must DO AWAY WITH TIIK ON K 1IOK8K TOOLS. And we must also do away with the method of patch farming, so much practiced by our Southern farmers. Our fields must be cleaned up, stumps and other obstructions removed. Then the fields themselves, as tar as possible must be laid off in long narrow strips, so we may do our work of plowing, planting culti vaunt: unci narvesunc, wiui na* less waste of time, and bv this meaiiR be enabled to perform twice the amount of work in the same Bpace ot time. We thus make our crops at one half their present cost, as far as the labor item is concerned. STOI? TUB 8I1KIFTLK6S "PATCH ' SYSTKM. Take your pencil and figure the extra time consumed in plow ing one hundred acres of land in little patches of irregular shape over the time necessary to do the work with the same teams, the land having been laid off in rectangular fields, say eighty rods in length. In plowing this amount of land in sections eighty rods long vour teams will make about 6,600 turns at the ends of the lands. This means about one hundred and ten hours or eleven days' time consumed in turning while plowing the one hundred acres with a two-horse plow. This time ought to be worth twentyeight dollars. Now if the work had been done with a four horse gang plow, turning two furrows at ouce, about twelve dollars of this could have been saved. THK WASTE OF SHORT ROWS. On the other hand, if your fields are only twenty rods long your turning will cost you four times as much or one hundred and twelve dollars, supposing you are using two horse plows and can get a man who will turn i his horse and get started back ( across tho field in one minute. When we come to the use of the one horse plow and the furrow only six or eight inches in width, in connection with the short fields, the problem is 100 complex forus. We would besafe to guess, however, that the time consumed in useie?s turning j would co t a round two hundred < ,i..11..-o r.,i..i | 11 <' i i b n ^ ti rs n^nuiPi i ? ?u I I t~ i 11 uui i lars' worth of lost ti me I?y the use I of the four horse gang j>low and ' the long fields. ( NK II HSKTOOLS AUK TO iK.XPKNSI VK Now consider 11>i-t matter a little further: This one hundred acres, if planted in corn or cotI ton, will have to ho gone over I seven or eight times at least during the season, .lust think of the j extra expense incurred by the us. of the one horse tools. A man | with a one horse plow working I short, irregular shaped fields will . be doing good work if lie culti vates one and a half to two acres r>"r dav. while "the mime man I I witti a two-home cultivator an j j another horse (at an extrB ex I pe.nse of 75 cents per day) will i work nine to ten acres of the I Ionic fields. The expense of the j cultivating in the one case being fully four times that of the other. The writer of this visited the i eastern part of North Carolina some time ago, where he saw fields of the finest black sandy jaoil heing plowed with the one f B ARC W 35 Men's Overcoats at 200 Mt-u'n Odd ( oats at m 32 Men's ('oats and Vests at S 10 Men's Odd Vests at 101 Hoys' odd ('oats at. 5r 150 Hoys'San.pie Knee Pants at. M 100 Hoys'Sample Knee Pants at S 7 Ladies' ('oats at M 4 Ladies'Skirts at 3 11 Ladies'Jackets at M Will la.-t until April 15th only ? Mackey'c I w SHOES Second Door f ZZSk-j- /^Ci^ ? fd ===== "The Old <: THE BANK OF LANC ^ CAPITAL SJ SURPLUS Loans made on Real Est; II Collections given prompt ^ Interest allowed on time Your business solicited. Jij the strongest Bank in Lan( OSTEOPATHY. I could arrange to treat in Lancaster, if any desire to try the new science of treating diseases. Write me. Literature and information pertaining to Osteopathy sent on request. All 11 J! All curaoie diseases sucsuccessfully treated. I)R. T. L. DAVIS, Osteopathic Physician, Rock Hill, S. C. 4-7-06-lm. Claims Against The Count) Important Notice by the Supervisor. Hereafter the Hoard of Commissioner will lie in session two days in each month namely, 011 the first and third Mondays All parties having ehiims against the eo in ty are requested to |>res> nt them in tinn t<i be cousideivd hy the full board on on< of these regular luee inn dajH. Notice is also hereby given that ? oclaim: for public work will be pai I for utiles work is done under contract made with i member of the lioaid. M (J Gardner County Supervisor. Lancaster, .S C., March 'it , 19uC horse plow nt a cast of not lost t hurt $2.00 at a tp,w her'4 the satin .1 ,i. ... . i l a.. rutin wkii (in* piu\> Mini iiv< horses could have performed tin name work, only in hotter shape at 7"> ci nt - per acre. I'lle name rule applies to all our farmicgoperations. One mat will cut hay with n throe am onto hall or four foot runner while another with the saim team will work :? six or seven foot muchine doing a halt mop work at the nemo expense. \VK MUST KKIXJCK IIANl? \V"HK. I he hand working of our crop is becoming too expensive witl the labor at our command to-day Wo must prepare our fields belle before planting, use accurate machines to do our planting thai will drop correct number of seedi at the right place, then depend '?n the smoothing harrow, tin weeder and some small to?th on! tivators to keep our crops free o weeds, keeping acres of lane: clean, while the man with tin in e is working rods. A. 1j. French. II F. I). 2, li.vrdville, Va. Thfl Nau/e 1)ot's Jol) 111C ilOlilj for others. WI13 can't we do yours? ? ? ? ? ? 1 y * s Notice in hereby mven that the tlrni of I). S. Wilaon it. <'o., ?>f Osceola, S. (, J was t hid day dissolved by mutual con- ' ,* sent. 'I he business will be closed Ollt by I). 8. Wilson. All debts due the tlrin of I> 8. Wilson A Co. must be < aid to 1> 8. Wilson, and all claims against said llrin must tie presented r to hi in. I I?. 8. Wilson, ' .las. Wilson. ? 8-27-06-4*. / % s 1 r ^ IAIN8 _ _51 Corner. CHERRY & CO'S. f Vom First National Bank J XSSrJXSSSBSfKSBm Reliable." M ASTER, Lancaster, S. C. N ^ $50,000.00. / $50,000.00. Yi ite, at reasonable rates. A ; and careful attention. deposits.. * The oldest, the largest and |1 master county. Jjj I REPRESENT THE COLUMBIA LIQUOR CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign and Domestic WIS AND LIQUORS. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. All nrrlprs lpft with mp will receive prompt and careful attention. No charge for forwarding orders. S John W. Elliott, j At Crescent Restaurant. l JfWBrctlUH |v' ' *1 ?LI)LK CU. '! Yorkville ' Monument Works Equipped with modern ma* chinery and electric power. In ' position to furnish anything in I pure Vermont Marble or Granite i : Monuments from the cheapest i slab to the most elegant design. 1 Write for catalogue and information. Yorkville, S. C. NoticePursuant to it commission issuoil l?y the . x i SocrcUrv <>l Stat , ttifl ItooltH <1 kiiI scrip- ^ I tion of tho Lam-astir Cotton Warehouse Association will li open until noon ot May tin- 15tli. lit i>, at tlieoftico of W. C, r Hon^li. in tlio 't own ol Lancaster, S. C. , W. O Hoiitfh. lolm K. Porter, ' W P CaHk.y. r \V T, VAnlanilinghnni, .1 F. Wit lianiH, 1 T. \V. MoMttrray, 5 Corporators. Dato'l Apri! It', lOffi. ! | Notice of Dissolution i