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Agricultural ! Marketing Cotton. 1 ( Mark Ramsay, Wellington, Ala., in Atlanta Constitution.) h s 1 am certainly dumbfounded ^ Ht the cottou market the last t thirty days. In the face of the t fact that the acreage is only a i little above what it was last year, t thus producing a 10,500,000-bale j crop, and now we see the tprice y drop, drop, drop ! There is some- * thing rotten about this somewhere, as we are not going to have a 15,000.000-bale crop or anything ol the kind. I take ' ton or twelve papers, all of which ( pay much attention to cotton, ? and i have see.n five to six bad 1 reports where 1 have seen one i good one. The^e reports cover 1 the entire cotton belt, so where j is all these bumper crop reports | coming from to send the price to ( i h o on f for KofrkVd f Ko oat ton io gathered? I am persuadedjto be iieve the big weed cotton cames t his year has misled the reporting world, This, ot course,i is caused bv the over supply of rain, which has fallen ^gincessantly since July 1st. For thi9 reason there has been no plowing done of account since June. Every cotton farmer knows it is impossible to hold the Augustjljand 'September fruit on fcotton^wrth out July plowing. To mv certain knowledge these have been fhe conditions over a large territory and from Georgia, NorthQfCarolina. South Carolina and Mississippi comes the report Jof rai. just as it has here. . Grass and weeds have, as a natural consequence, taken possession of a vast areft in cotton. It was in 1903 this bit* weed fooled ^the people and had them thinking a mighty crop was being made, and the following winter cotton went to 17c. Onlyadayor so ago I reati a market report,' from New York stating that as an enormous crop was a certainty, cotton was seeing the 9c level which would leave at that price a handsome profit to the grower, Tl.?? l 1--*. -I oi-u. iiienc uuuiiei suup experts who write such letters have raised j no cotton and don't have nmc1 idea what it does cost. At 10 we do, of course, get a reasonable profit, but we don't get what we should have at any lower price. J t now comes the tune for the farmer to step right up and dofei.d his own interests and put a Rtop to cotton going on the market at less than 10c. for judging by the way it has tumbhd the past four weeks, we won't get Gc a pound for it. Surely the fanners and bankers of the sou'h can carry one-half the cotton crop, and if they will , only do m;, we will get a living j price iOi i*, and if they don't we will get Gc or even iess. I know I h?ve observed closely, and I can't to save me see any justification f.: cotton dropping as itjt o?>a. v'here is our Southernjf Cotton Association ? liod knows ) if tney over expect to be of bone- 1 *it to tho over-abuaed cotton t planter, now is the time to lend a p helping hand. (Jet every state ;i and county thoroughly organized I and Mimplv keep enough cotton 1 off the market to save'the peo- n pl8 from another destructi vo pe- n ?riod of low cotton. 1< , , M b ti l)o vou take The News? r< Department j roo Much Vine and No Potatoes. liill Moore, Newman, Ga.?1 lave a patch of potatoes that wan et in a rich garden spot which ias been kept cultivated and hey grew nicely ; have covered I he ground with vines 16 inches n depth. I have examined in he hill and there is no forma lor jotatoes. Please tell rae what -ou think is the trouble with hem. Answer?It is probable that he soil on which you have your potatoes has had too much stable >r lot manure or too much cotton iesd or cotton meal. In other vords too much nitrogen. There s nothing that can be done now hat will avail anything. Possibly t was simply too much rain and hat the roots will yet form potatoes.? Atlanta Constitution. Fall Rertilisnntr nf Strawber. ries. (By TO. F. Massev.) A correspondent in southern Alabama writes that last October he applied to his strawberry tield 800 pounds of acid phosphate, 400 pounds of cotton seed meal and 300 pounds of sulphate of potash per acre. The past spring he applied a ready mixed fertilizer claimed to have 3 per cent of nitrogen, 19 per cent phosphoric acid from bones and 7 5 per ceut ot potash. lla wishes to know if it will pay him to use more nitrogen and potash on the field this fall. While one full crop is about all that we would usually take i rum ? sirawoerry plantation and our friend does not say how old his plantation is, 1 can only say that if the plants are still in good shape and the land is not weedy, he may get another crop from these plants by good treat meut. The time at winch the greater part of the fertilization of a strawberry plantation should be made is during the late summer and fall, so that the young runners that have started this season will be enabled to make strong crowns for the next season's fruiting. 1 would make the same application this fall, and would make it at as early a date as possible. Then in the spring 1 do not think *hat a heavy application of a mixed fertilizer is needed. The best |>I<in will be to use iu the spring only an appli cation of nitrate of soda at rate :>f 100 to 150 pouuds per acre a lougside the rows just as the plants begin to start in growth, Hut take care that it is not applied on the rows of plants, as it nay scorch the leaves. This will lave a stimulating effect on the jlants that have already made he matured growth from the all fertilizing. Then, too, in the ate fall prepare a new piece of \ and and on it use the same mix ure of fertilizer at rate of 1,500 lounde per acre, and harrow it n well, and set a new plantation, n your climatp, November or ' )ecember will bp found the best lonths to set the plants. This ew plantation nil xild not be al ( >wed to fruit the next Rpring, . ut should have a fresh applies- j on of the late nprinp, or in Jiiue 1 3 thai thore will be a strong i growth of young plants and fruiting crowns for the next ; season. Then every fall set a new plantation, and take but two crops i from the old one. As soon as the fruit is off, you can turn the whole under, and can make a heavy crop of cotton on the same land, as is often done in North Carolina. It is far more profitable to set a new plantation annually, and another in its second crop, and to be plowed under after fruiting, than it is to try to get a crop from older beds Using fertilizers heavily, one should always take to have the strawberry plantation of land that is naturally moist and well mippl led with humus, so that the fertilizer applied will be dissolved so that the plants can use it. On land of this character you can use fertilizers more liberally than on dry land deficient in humus. Comment?The editor is curious to learn where the correspondent in southern Alabama got a fertilizer carrying *'3 per cent of nitrogen, 10 per cem phosphoric acid from hones and 7.5 per cent of potash." It must have been a mixture of raw bone meal (or bone flour) along with nitrate of soda and murate of potash ?Southern Cultivator. Farmers Have a Right to Criticise Clemson Dollege. | Greenville News; if the farmers j of South Carolina have not a | right to criticiseClemson College, then pray tell us who has? When we cousider the amount of money the farmers of the State are pay ing for the support of that inati tution it is not unnatural for them to call attention to fau'twhenever they see them. The farmers are the friends of Clem son College and it is only natural that they should take deep interest in it to prompt criticism, when they see an opportunity to bring about a change of conditions for the better by doing so. Clemson College is yet young, and taking all things into consideration, has done wonders for its age. It is not perfect?no one is?but it is the common duty < f all to strive for perfection. To have our errors pointed out to u? is oftentimes necessary for our upbuilding. We are not requir ing too much of Clemson, but wh do expect for the management 01 that institution to irivo a re-neet ful and attentive ear (o legitimate criticism, such as has been made this summer by farmers and others. Few people ever arrive at a point where they are above eriti I cistn We are unite satisfied that Glemson College is not above it. The institution belongs to the I State and by reason of its public ownership tbe.peopleof the State, especially the farmers, have a right to call attention to its faults whenever and wherever ihev find them. Fatal Duel on Car Platform. Macon, Ga , Sept. 12.?Lee VV. Hicks, until recently a prominent. stock man in this city, was shot and killed tins afternoon about 2 o'clock at or near Brook . Ville, Florida. He was a conductor on a train that runs between Brooksville ana Hudson, 1'la. Later particulars of the tr.ige ! jy at Brooksville, state that Lee! Hicks and J M. Iliugin^bot ham, jon'racfor of Brooksville, fought i (fuel with pistols on the plat* orm of a car an the train was eavitifi, the station. Both men < vere killed. I fd ===== -The Old Reliable." ===== U < THE BANK OF LANCASTER, Lancaster, S.C. g CAPITAL $50,000.00. ? j| SURPLUS $50,000.00. X ij Loans made on Real Estate, at reasonable rates. A Collections given prompt and careful attention. Interest allowed on time deposits.. ^ ? Your business solicited. The oldest, the largest and |1 pi the strongest Bank in Lancaster county. jg A Word to the Public: We now have our GROCERIES in the Riddle Block, three doors south of the Bank of Lancaster, where you will find a complete line of Fancy Groceries always fresh ; also a full line of Clothing that will astonish you when you get our prices. We are now better prepared than ever to ^ give bargains, and solicit your trade in the different lines *1 we carry. Thanking you for past favors, we remain yours to serve, Cherry & Company. 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