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Agricultural Ttoughts for Farmers--Sowing Oats. i^tgreasive Farmer. I \V r'l 1 Mill ?; u . lUUvauiVYf v iirtj?ri iini, f. C., wants information about H>ving oats, lie says : '1 saw in my paper. I think fall, where some man sowed iO in rows with either guano Adributor or cotton planter* ^*;-ase find out and let me hear j Itfongh your paper, and it will leathers good as well as me. Ij irUi like to hear soon. I want! ta jcw in .1 uly." ?h? best and only safe method | m> mowing or planting oats in the > i is in open furrow. Director lidding, of tlie Georgia Experi | *joat Station, sent out many init-cries last year to farmers who) Ktxi used that method in the fall and no one reported that %Ii.>ir crops were winter killed. 4>~ie reported that there was a 'Ian stand, but that was no doubt xvning to the careless manner in j -idicb they were putin. The reg-1 *'*r oat drill is the implement to we. This is made with a double -Ajpper, the guano being in one ' ^rt and the oats in the other. '*he slots may be regulated so as ^ pJant three pecks of oats to the ??:e and 100 pounds of guatio ; or ?.:-ee times that amount may be in. Mr:??ARATION OF LAND AND PLANTING i failures to make small grain! Bay be attributed to poor prepar ! fcion of land. First break the I well, and if sub-soiled' so! *isch the better. Then run a cutaway or smoothing harrow over i. If two or three weeks interwoe between the harrowing and| Wanting, harrow again just bebr* planting. That will give a{ ?ttooth. well pulverized seed-bed. # course some of these farmers \11 say that is too much trouble. I. is much cheaper ro prepare that way and make thirty to "ft.:',y bushels to the acre than to at.'fttch them in hurriedly and ix.ke a little oat straw. The oats Could be well cleared and the iano in tine condition. A tivep. di shovel sliould he used to wa the furrows. L'roperlv used, tt.it will leave the rows twelve n tifteen inches apart. Nevt-i tr) the dirt from one furrow run %>.<er and till the preceding one. Atv careful farmer will soon get l. gauges right so to regulate -ha quantity cf oats and guano., nlist farmers run the guano in front fee l. It is deposited s it-r the plow and covered by i)9 dirt falling hack. 1 he oats t nie out on tiiAt and are cover* id by two coverers attached to j tJie lrill. A lively hand puts in ko acres a Jay. The furrows nouM be run on a level, or as uwr so as possible. Some prefer I. run the oats in front anil the iano in the rear. MRIKTY OF OAT? \NP FKRTIt.l/KR. j VIr. McOauley says he desire* o sow his oats in July. He eer-1 einlv desires to harvest them in i >oeeruber, unless h?* sows a very ?{s kind that makes mostly liraw If this land is ready top *;w in July, better harrow occa-| aoi.ally until the middle of Sep<*mb6r and th-?n put in the oats. i instead of planting the late ball i < rinds secure the Apple or Ked i {'isr ^roof. (ret the Southern n Tised seed We prefer the Ap-ji ^ e as it turns out more oats: t ??n the other kinds and theji Department, j Btraw is tine. They may be plant ed September 20th to December 15th. On ordinary land that; would make twenty bushels of, corn or 700 pounds of see 1 cotton to the acre, use one sack of 10? . 1 acid potash to the acre. If the land is thin, add fifty pounds of cottonseed meal to the sack of potash. In March when the oats are appearing above the ridges run a smoothing harrow over them, after scattering fifty to seventy-live pounds of nitrate of soda. The harrow cultivates the oats and levels the land, making the reaping very easy. We use the (Jantt oat drill made at Macon, Cla. 1 believe it has been advertised in The Progressive Farmer. If a farmer wishes to' make forty to sixty bushels to the acre, let him break his land eight to twelve inches deep and apply 400 pounds of this mixture to the acre : 000 pounds 14 per cent acid ; 4(H) pounds kannt ; 300 pounds cottonseed meal. That will analyze 7?4?2. If the oats are not green and luxurant in March, add fifty pounds of nitrate. Always remember, however, that too much ammonia makes straw and not grain, aud it is the latter that is wanted. Charles Petty. Spartanburg, S. C. Rutabaga Turnips. Progressive Farmer. Begin now to prepare a piece of stubble land for turnips. YV a U a ?r n not m a a f u 1 I n ro M C ilrt ? O IU I ili AUC ? il?H UlL with rutabaga turnips in many years?by following this rulo, viz., begin now by turning under all the stubble and growth, then harrow smooth and then roll, or press, the soil down well with a smoothing board. If you are to use stable manure this should have been applied broadcast before turning the land. If you are to use commercial fertilizers we have found the following application about right on lands growing about from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds seed cotton per acre: in I acid phosphate, 0<>0 pounds ; cotton meal, '200 pounds; kainit, 100 pounds. l'his fertiliz r should be workd in the land abwit l'>tli of Au .ust ami cultivators or disc harrow run over the land at least once in every ten days from time of breaking the land until last of August when the land will he in thorough order and in tine tix to receive the ?eed. Work oil" J rows about t\vent\ inches wide, drill the -oe 1 in the open trench <nd cover by running a common wheelbarrow down the trench. J. C. Stribling. Anderson Co., S. C. Carelessness in Handling and Keeping Cotton. Seven bales of cotton received at the cotton platform a few days su'o were damaged to such an extent that about sixty pound" of the lint had to be picked from each of them. 1 he picking" were worth about half price, making the loss, with cotton at eleven "ent a pound, of $3.30 a bale. L'otton Weigher J. S. Withers and inspector, Hubert Simpson say that much of the cotton received *t the platform during therest of this season will be in a damaged condition on account of the careI lessness of the farmers in leaving it in the rain. A reporter learned that the farmers even in Mecklenburg County lose probably several thousand dollars every year in damaged cotton, when, if they wouid put it under shelter, the cotton would remain in firstclass condition. One of the most experienced cotton merchants in the city told an Observer reporter that the farmers throughout North and South Carolina are out of pocket thousands and thousands of dollars every season because of their cotton in the open. The cold rains of the winter do not injure it, but tiie. first warm rams of of the spring and summer rot it as it does all other vegetable matter. The building of warehouses in the cotton centers are reducing the am >unt ot damaged cotton every year, however, and the farmers, too, are learning to | take the same care of their cotton as of other crops.?Charlotte Observer. How Worry Makes Disease, Suppose that 11 man has an uneasy sensation in the locality ol his heart which is due, let us say, to overeating or to gas in the stomach, says Dr. Luther Gu'ick in the World's Work. Hut he begins to think that he has heart disease. Uo reads the advertise ment in the newspaper to learn about the symptoms, and hf learns about them. "A sense of constriction about il I i V a ? . * ? i - ^ me cnesi. 108, mar is Ills C11H1 culty ! "Slight pain on deep breathing, palpitation of the heart after vigorous exercise"? it is evidently a serious case 1 lie begins to worry about it. Worry interferes with his sleep. It inter feres also with his digestion ; he does not cet well nourished. Had sleep and bad digestion makes him worse and worse Kach one aggravates the other And all the time he keeps thinking about his heart. In the enc his thinking actually affects his condition, until he succeeds 11 fastening on himself afunctional difficulty which may be a really serious and permanent trouble ? I and the whole of it can be traced ! back to his crooked thinking about that little pain in his chest This is no parable. It is the j record of hundreds of actual J cases. Kverv physician comes in I to contact with them. A man who keeps worryitip about the sta'e of his liver will ! almost be sure to have trouble with it eventually. Indigestion can he brought on in the panu way, and a long list of other ail meats. An Editor Goes to Church. An lvlitor pays : "We at ended | church some time ago, and its fened to a very good sermon, as sermons go. We enj >yed the (singing, and stood up with the brethren and sisters whfTe they i sang the good old hymn, 'Shall We Know Kach Other There?1 While the livmn was being sung we glanced about us and count el about a dozen members ol the congregration of the churcli w ho do not -peak to each other when they meet on the street, or elsewhere. The thought occurred to us, why should they 'know each other there* when they -ebminglv don't know each other here*" Four persons were killed am] four injured Friday by the explosion of a large gasoline tank in Michigan I)\e works. /d : ' The Old Reliable." Q S THE BANK OF LANCASTER, Lancaster, S.c: 5^ CAPITAL $50,000.00. A jj SURPLUS $50,000.00. X Loans made on Real Estate, at reasonable rates. A ?l Collections given prompt and careful attention. ^ j ^ Interest allowed on time deposits.. ^ ^ Your business solicited. The oldest, the largest and the strongest Bank in Lancaster county. Carolina & North=Western Railway Company AND Caldwell C& Northern Railroad Co. TIME TABLE. SOUTH HOUND. NORTH HOUND. No. No. No. No. No. No No. No. No. No. 57 01 OH 9 7 Kdgeniont 8 10 02 00 50 ' 12 00 Mortimer 11 05 .... 1 oo Collettsville 11 05 .9 .... / 0 00 .... 2 40 8 05 5 15 Lenoir 9 05 2 12 9 00 .... 2 80 0 20 .... 8 45 8 88 5 29 Hudson S 49 1 54 7 45 .... I 45 7 10 . .. 1 05 8 88 5 28 Granite Kails 8 89 1 82 7 00 .... 1 00 S 80 5 40 .... 3 57 0 00 Hickory 7 53 12 57 0 00 8 00 11 50 5 40 .... 3 23 0 25 Newton 7 98 12 28 .... 1 00 .... ' .... 9 (HI .... 4 58 0 58 Linoolnton 6 55 1 i 40 .... 10 45 .... 1 30 .... H 00 8 30 Gastonia 5 50 10 38 .... 7 50 .... ' 3 05 (i 50 9 10 Yorkville 5 10 9 48 5 57 5 10 7 40 9 50 Chester 3 30 S 50 4 30 .... CONNECTIONS > Chester?Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line, and L. ti C. Y orkville?Sunt hern Railway. > Ga-tonia?Southern Railway Linoolnton?Seaboard Air Line . Newton?Southern Railway. Hickory?Southern Railway E. F. RE ID, Gen. Dass. A jfent, Chester, S. O. i . ?' Great Bargains > We have about 200 ladies and mistes Trimmed Hats that we > are almost giving awav ; also a nig lot ot men's ana ooys' suits at . pr ces that will make you buy. Remember we are selling all of , our Low Cut Shoes at actual cost to get rid of them before Fall. , Come at once. Cherry & Company Bridges to Let. !| jypry I ivfifV n I will let. to the lowest responsible V W1 T M-4 * Y VI T O N . bidder, a contract to build a bridge V * over Lynches creek, on the Fork Ilill! w # a road, near the Raskin pla< e on duly I < 11 A<*1 f I I ISt ti. at 10 o'clock a in. Also one on I 1 I y \ j the i.yles road, near the Lyles place. I I " wl 7 on the same day at 3 o'clock p in I . * i Also one 'over Cedar creek, on the ' Though doing U rattling good I road between Crenshaw's and the 1J very business, We are deterKock Ouarry on Ihursday, the 19th,' *i . i i ^ r at 10 o'clock a. in. Specification* to joined to do even better. Our tie made known on the days and at present stocks of Vehicles and the places of letting, reserving the ]-lorses are beinir sunnlemented I right to reject any and all bids. nuijstr: ait ueing suppieineniea J M. (Jardner i by handsome new carriages and ' July 3 iw)6 Count> supervisor, i buggies and stylish ' I Driving and Saddle Horses. % T ? ? 'i Notice 01 Application Our livery establishment is 'going to be second to none in For Discharge as Guardian. (t}ie state, and don't you forget 11 Notice is hereby given 11>ht the uti-i it ! (. ome or send to us when I d:*r?igned w ill. on the nth of A ugust. ! yOU Want the best, Up-tO-date 1?(n; make his tinal *ettlement wth >lthe Judge of I'robate of l.aiiea'ter i UvCIjf . t I \ icc. i'??:i.v,Kv;r;?'vr sassa heath-elliott mule go. ' apply to said court for tinal discharge ! as said guardian ,h,imi, . ^ K. W. NISMKT. 1 ?. iiaril ian of Kvely n K. X is set. w -v -w- "TT T".7: " 7 r n r JL/JLVX INI J^i , University of South Carolina, Scholarship Examination. II * * 11 j. I) J The I inversity of South < HlfC S KOOt KCCf otters scholarships in the Normal l>e'! partment to two young men from ? each >nrit> Kadi xdiolarship is for Y?>Vir health. At all -*-/ ! worth f to in money and *1* inatricu- grocery Stores ' f>e bottle. & lation or "term" fee. ' / Kxannnation will he held at county i s*at KK11 >A Y, 1'I. Y ?>t h. Kxamina-j _ i? SKSSrS j Lancaster Bottling: * ks j \\ rife for information to ItKN.I A M I N SI.OAN. I'res't MnMMnBMHBStRIIMI Columbia. >. f ??????????. University of North Carolina !Catawba ColleSe ? iii inn. . I* <'ixilnoHtioti.il I - >] len.li.lly located * i mi .1 oil.is superior advantages Has an ^ Hal of the State's E.I ueational System llioiont faculty an I tirst <U? aoconimodations in ev-r% rexj ect lias oolleuiale an.l I*EPAltTMLN IS : .I '.ub inio department (lives special atten(' 11' giate, Engineering, (trilnat-- l.uw, tmn to niuxio. art. eloutioii an.l physical M. ilioin.. Pharmacy. culture. Stn I. nt* nr.- under the immediate Library contain* 42.00U vol am* New care of the prenulent and faculty, tteeita- , , waterworks, electric light?, central Inatm,; ti >n. donnit..r\ r "i.>, .?n I n>-w chapel not 1?>steu, N. a i' r:i. it < r:? i..o: 'i n. N ? < r j i?-<< I . :i t lie -Ut Kates fur hoarding M ( A. building. t>*2 students. 74 in i student* rang. Irmu el 1*2 (H) to $138 MO for facnltv 'I lie Kail l?n? *' ...... "... .'H'V. iw, | iur year ilil* lnclmloH KtoiUll liout nn<t 1900. AtMriMii, 1 acetylene liijlit. Full term opens Scptam* FHANCIS V. VEN AHLK, I'reat, M" r lth- Wnto for room. Chapel Hill, N. 6. ' A?hlrem? th? preai.lont, <iEOK(tE ALHF.HT SNYDEK. j Do J OU take I lie News' |o-'J7-Wt. Newton, North Carolina. >