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cultural Fertilizers Give _mer the Most for His Money. ?he annual report of the Con w tieui Experiment Station at J? 9 Haven gives some interesta, facts about fertilizers sold in >k " State. There are at present Q"-. illy sold more than 2d7 brands 0 ertilizers, costing from $25 to per ton, for which farmers annually not far from a i3> l.on dollars. The question of h " ? value is therefore a live inv. The report gives one or more u>.t-.<7aes of every brand in marM., with some discussion of the wlative value of these brands. >iof them agree well in coni pution with the manufacturers1 guarantees. Occasionally, howev *,au article is coudemned as '4f7 inferior, it net fruaudulent, V it;s chemical analysis or the resr/SVr of microscopicexami nation. prices charged for low-grade adds of goods are shown to he wt of all proportion to the aet **1 quantities of plant ..food in and as is usually the case, 4.1 high priced goods are more tvoftomical to buy than the lowj^toed "cheap" goods. Forjin*i\nc9, on tli.i average, there; can sir bought for a given amouut of usteey nearlv twice as.^much ?al plant foodj,in fertilizers *?? ung $34 a ton as'can he bought >: the same amount of motley in >.'tiliz*rs costing $7 per ton less. amazing tnar any one xcan M* ! anybody to buy ".fertilizers ft.?ing for composition'sucb as is ran teed for s >ms 'of1, those wtose analyses are here given." vKvs the reports. "There is no f.Mid in the matter. The compoa-don of the low-pra ie fertilizers x<rresponds fairly well with .the y. trainees, and if purchasers can h> found who will pay for a ton x plant food as much as would oiice to purchase three or four rtvis, the seller is not breaking il* law in taking a Wantage 4 their obtu^eness."?Albany > intry Gentleman. jfhy Turned-Under Vegetajce Matter Did not Decay. jjuthern Cultivator. j have just plowed rnv oat H< uiid, and find that weeds, grass, & $. other vegetation turned un t>r last. October when the oais iv-.-e sown, hnve failed to rot.? '-H.'W why ie this, and what con jitnent is lacking in the soil ?? >l\ -st of the stufF turned under was ? a dry state or dead, and now 1 ?n tell the differert plants apart ji>st as well as if they had remain Ki f ii top of the ground that toagth of time. A neighbor says k' ttunks I must have turned the jliiff under wh n the ground was **rv dry ; as to that I do not rejoilent. I'lea^e let me have your Mninion through columns of the Cultivator, and oblige, x ours rriily. Buluh, Fia. Arthur IS. ii niment by the E litor. If. requires heat and moisture x> cnnse vegetable matter to unqpryo decay. Evidently you must &'. /e plowed under when dry, and 1>wi did not have rains to wet it KjSficiently. Your soil, too, is Iff lit and porous, we suppose, and lues not hasten decay. You can increase the rapidity of this de javiiig by putting acid phosphate *p your stubble lands or by us Department log lime. Continue to turn under a'l the weeds Hnd grass you can; they will certainly rot in time and greatly benefit your land. Wasting Feeding Stuff. In North Carolina ovet$0,000,000 of commercial fertilizers are annually purchased. Fully half of this immense amount is exponded for cottonseed meal. We are taking a feeding stulf and using it as a fertilizer, writes a North Carolinian who has been thinking the matter over and doj ing a little figuring, it should be j used first as a food? for farm anij -rials and then when it becomes I manure let it go to the soil. A ton of cottonseed tnoal is I vorfh $20 for either feeding or i.or fertilizer. If that ton is applied to the soil it is worth but $21 to the user. If it is lirsr fed to animals tiie user gets $22 returns as food. But the animal has used only one fourth of the] elements in the ton, or $5 50 worth. There ;s left through feeding $10.50 worth of manure. The user then has a double profit in first using as a feeding stuff and saving the voidiugs as manure as).follows: Value as a feeding stulF, $22; value as a fertilizer, $10.50 ; total, pH 50. Had this cottonseed meal simply been used as a fertilizer there would have been a loss of $10.50 <er ton. Every feeding stuff contains tlaiu. food ; some are very valuade as fertilizers, others relatively poor. If an animal is fed rich f.iod. rich manure will he made; if p.thru poo*- manure will be made.?N at ion a I l'rovisioiur High-Priced Mules. The price of mules has gone up rind up until they are almost out of reach of the average farmer in this section. The rise is due to various cans ?m. I'tie foreign d-jinand during he past four or tive years lias been unusual. England bought . nany Western mil! -s luring ihe var in South Alrica, they heing ised to transport artillery, food " nd feed stull. W - think .Japan .1 l * ... 1 . .. i_. . K ..I iir mules. W also used s una ot . itoin in the I'.nlippincs. . One remedy is to raise mu'es. ; Almost every farmer ran r.nse .'one or more ear!1 year at a c ?m Jaratively small cost. In a short . time this will begin to relieve lithe situation. Other.vise the prices will soar still higher and mules an I diamonds w .11 i>" on a uarity.?Kaleigh Enterprise. } A Thought for the Week. had health hates a man who is friendly with its enemies?hard work, plain food, and pure air.? More men die from worry than from over-work ; more men stuff themselves to death than die tit starvation ; more break their necks falling down the cellar stairH than climbing mountains, if the human animal reposed less confidence in his stomach and more in bin leirs, the streets w..ulu he full of iiealthv men walking down to business. Remember that a man always rides to his grave; lie,never walks there.?Old Gor UO ) Graham. Head?The News. Give the Horse his Head. Teamsters in the oitieB generally give their horses a free head, as they find they pull together better without the cheek rein to hinder their work, and this move meat is gaining popularity among the farmers in all eiviuz ed countries. They will work bet ter in plow or road with a free head. An English farmer writes London Farm and Home: 4,Wil) you kindly give publicity in your columns to a movement that is now being instituted to induce farmers to work their horses without hauie reins and blinkers if It is suggested that at plowing matches the committee should ot fer a pair of open cart bridles a.a prize for the best team plowing this year without hame reins (check reiiiR), and that next year competitors' teams, in addition to plowing without hame-reins, should wear open bridles. Carters can practice their teams in ruling bridles. Tills plan has been a great success in several places, and only requires to becomes better known to be more gener ally adopted. It is hoped that land owners will set the exam pie on their home farms and en courage tenants to follow it, and also that breeders of heavy draft horses will have their young stock broken to open bridles for it is best. '?Live Stock Journal. Cabbages Dying. A North Carolina reader lias % had Home disease among her cab nages the past two years. The leaves begin to turn yellow, and soon the entire plant dies down. It seems to spread from one to he other. She asks whether this i- Uclub root."' The disease known is club mot is not so very common as to make us very much afraid of it. Nor is it likely to pread from one plant to the oth or in the patch. The infection may tie in the soil, and when the conditions lor its development ipe favorable may aU'ect the roots of cabbages, kale and other plants ot that family. Usually it is troublesome only where c.b bages and similar crops are crown repently in succession on r lie s nil" land, and even then the conditions are more favorable t<? nngous growth than to the prop cr development of the crop. Win n tie cabbages h?ve plenty ot pot ..1. 1 <1 iii'. i r ii (miu rinn j i llt'l r | will not likely be any <*i 11 i> root, i'his disease, however, 1h easily! r? cognized by the while wart\ xercresence? four. 1 on the roots.) In the inquirer's ease, the Iron j bie is more likely caused by the] cibhage maggot than t>v cIn' root, and the be<t remedy for that pest that I know ol isatarr d lelt collar, carefully adjusted. SVe sometimes lose some of our cabbages by the always fatal soft) (heart, or black) rot. for which l! know no remedy.?Exchange. Tho un vise man is always in . liurry. He eats in a hurry and gels apoj'lex)'. lie talks in aj hurry and says too much. Hel <lo< s business in a liurry and goes I bioke. Ho reads in a hurry and i.-> superficial, lie votes in a hurry ami produces corruption : lie marries in a hurry and gels a divorce. He trains his children ' in a hurry and hurries them into evil wav*. He sots religion in a. hurry and forgot* it in a hurrv j He make* Ins will in a hurry and leaves a legal content. He dies in a hurry and koos to the devil and his tribe increases.?Ex. I SK9'4 /! ===== "The Old Reliable." : U < THE BANK OF LANCASTER, Lancaster, S. C. ^ x capital $50,000.00. a y surplus $50,000.00. ? Loans made on Real Estate, at reasonable rates. A If Collections given prompt and careful attention. ^ A Interest allowed on time deposits.. ^ ^ Your business solicited. The oldest, the largest and 11 the strongest Bank in Lancaster county. Jj jfeggsggggggy Carolina & North=VVesteni Railway Company AND Caldwell C& Northern Railroad Co. TIME TABLE. SOUTH HOUND. NORTH IJOUNb. No. No, No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. " ?* u "> ?! ? ?:n r.o" ft 7 i?i u.t i r.unMiii'iiii >- " ?- "" 12 00 Mortimer .... 0r.. 11 05 1 00 Collettsville 11 05 0 00 . ... 2 40 8 05 5 15 Lenoir tO>5 2 12 0 00 .... 2 80 i 0 20 .... 3 -15 8 33 5 20 Hudson 1 54 7 45 .... 1 45 7 10 .... 4 05 3 33 5 23 Cranite Kalis BR' 1 32 7 (K) .... 1 00 S 30 5 40 3 57 0 00 Hickory 7ft3 12 57 6 IX) 3 00 11 50 5 40 3 23 0 25 Newton 7 J.S J2 23 I CHI .... 0 (K) .... 4 58 (i 58 Lincolnton <0 TV5 11 40 .... 10 45 .... .... 1 80 .... 0 00 S 30 Gastonia 5 50 10 38 K ... 7 50 .... ... 8 05 ... 0 50 i? 10 Ynrkville r* 10 i) 48# 5 57 5 10 7 40 ? 50 Chester 3 30^8 50 4 30 CONNECTIONS ^ f Chester?Southern Hail way, Seaboard Air Line, and !',.*& C. Ynrkville?southern Railway . Gastonia?Southern Railway Lincolnton?Seaboard Air Line. Newton?Southern Railway. Hickory?Southern Railway K. K. RK1I?. Ceo. l'ass Chester, 8.C. , jr _ Great Bargains We hay*1 about 2()o ladies *n<l mi^p- I rimmed Hats I bat we re almo-t giving iiwir ; als*? a lug !ol of men's and boys' suits at pr ces i hat will make > oil buy. K mender we are' selling all of our Low Cut Shoes at a tual cost to get rid of Iheni helore Fall. 1 Jonie at once. Cherry & Company Livery, Livery, v Livery! I Though doing a rattling good [ H livery business, we are deter- fit? mined to do even better. Our [[ J^HL present stocks of Vehicles and Horses are being supplemented RH by handsome new carriages and L By* buggies and stylish driving and Saddle Horses. . ^ ^ ^ Our livery establishment is M-Oniimcrit \A/ork.S going to be second to none in Equipped with modern mai he State, and don't you forget hinery and electric power. In it! Come or send to us when position to furnish anything in you want uk* uesi, up-io-uau >ure Vermont Marble or (iranite livery service. .VlonuYnents from the cheapest iifA-Li rj , ,nTT nzyi r rr hib to the most elegant, design. HEAlH-^LLIOl f MULt Gu. Writ6 for catalogue and intor I?Illi iiiiwih iiTTiT~Tr~iTm TTI ~ ^ | Yorkville, S. C. 1 DRINK | Notice ol Discharge. B I NOT It K is hereby given that the y Hirn'c IrOni laPPI* I a-* mlminiMtrator of the I 1111 V d aUUl 1/Vvl I est Hit* ill .InliHH < "amea, deceased, will I I on the 'JOth day ot inly. I!mm>, make ^ his II mi I return ami settlement and I for VO'ir health. At all I make application tot ha Probate Court I orocorv stores * 5c bottle $ !"r '-anea^ter Cmiiity for s.,eh tinal " ' I diacbarge a> aitmiiiist rator of the es- / late of I tie said Jonas < antes, ileo'd. fa W F. CAKNKS, Lancaster Bottling Wks I Winthrop College ScholarUDiversity of South Carolina, ship and Entrance ExScholarshlp Examination. amination. TIip University of South Carolina ,Ml { lt. ... , _ i, *1^ V(?e..i? i it.. ' h< i'Xiiii it tion for I lie ttward of vacant oftfTH Scholarship* in rinal e- si iiolur^hr. in Winltirop Coll?g? u <i for Hit? v pari fii?Mi! lo two viniiiir moii iron. ? ... ? lignum III in-n MUU<-niM Will lie li?|<| itl | lit* * each county Knch Schnlarahip i* < ounty > ouri ii..uhc on I-'rMav. July am. at* till Mii.hnv Hiiil IN mulririu ' ApnlidaiUa muni not be less than Itfteen worth *?n in money ami tin niairicti- v irs ?r u ,ct,?iar*hip-, .,< vat?u?i iHtiuti or *'terIII fee. after Ju v rt, ih?? will lm awarded to Hume Kxrtiiiinat ion will tie held at county " ?i< n>? He' hwli mi average at thi? exaii.inali ? | |. i v | f t * y I't i. K vin,in- """ l?r??vi??etl they met the con'Mtlinia tfov flpftt HKIDA I, .11 til Oin. h.x.tiniiia- . , ,,, Applicant* fo *rhuiar?Mp tiotl for ailiillMHIon to t lie I iiiveraify *h?uld write iii I're-ldent JnhiiHiin In-fore iho will be held at the name tin.e. examination h,r application blank* (,.r n for in at i mi t.i SctiolirMliipx a, e w 01 11) I MHi ami f r- e t ill I ion . " ri,e ,or mrorinaiion to >1(. |(( X( *?) septembe in. i**v ItKMJ A M IN S I,0 A N. ''rea't . 1 "r further Information and catalogue, add re** Columbia, H. C. IMIK& D II. JOHNSON. Mock HIlT. H. CI Do on take Tlie News? Subscribe to The News. V 4