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Agricultural Sowing Oats. Progressive Farmer Mr D M. St?nton, proprietor of the Maple Grove True!* Farm, La Grange, N. C.. has ashed some questions about sowing or planting oats in the open turrow. As he is a reader of The Progres-ive farmer, an answer j through its columns may reach many others in need ot inlormation. 1 lind that The Progressive Farmer is carefully read wherever it goes. Next year horse and cow food will be in great demand. Although the growth of grass, pea vines and fo ider have bec-n lux uriant, there has been no weath er favorable tor saving them up to date. Much fodder has been lost in the Caiolinas. Thousands! of bales ol hay are now coming in every week from other Stages. It may tie stated as a certainty that the majority of farmers will be scarce ol forage next spring. They can meet the con ditiou by sowing rich lots in rye at once. There is no better butter grown in tho South. But the main dependence should be on the oat crop. That gives work animals a well-balanced ration. It planted before the 10th of October they will be ready for feed by the 25th of May. Another statement may be helpful to the reader ot The Progressive Farmer. Some of the adveitisemeuts of the wonderful oat crops raised North and West are enough to induce farmers to send for Ilie seed so as to make CO to 00 bushels to the acre. Don't do that. Vou will be wasting your time and money. B. II. Pollard, a probinvum t C I Ui'l. I(U lilt i Wi LUUIll v, bought some very promising oats with a big name, lie tried tliein, and while tliey made a lair crop he will sow no more, lie will stick to the Appier and Red Rust Proof. In buying seed get such as are raised on the South side of the Southern Railway, or only a lew miles North o! it. If you wish grain, with not a great 'abundance of straw, sow the two varieties mentioned above. The writer prelers the Appier. When re-cleared they will weigh 35 to 38 pounds to the bushel, and mules and cat tie will eat all the straw. It you wish forage sow the late tall varieties?such as the Grazing, f )lO Turf anrl Vri iG n Grays. Preparation is half the labor or more in planting oats. Break the ground thoroughly, bursting up two or three incites of the unbroken clay. Harrow well Put it in line condition. Then any time from September 20th to December 20th put the oats in with a drill. At the time planting in the fall do not use too much fertilizer in the drill. We li ave found i hat 1 of) f r> 91)(I lmmulii of 10-4 acid phosphate is enough. It' the land is very thin we add a little cotton seed meal. The reason for sowing in the fall is to get a good stand?so that the plants will he well rooted belore cold weather. The best time to Department. apply ainmoiiiated fertilizers on 1 ill 1 sown oats is March. The following formula will be about right lor broadcasting in March, and harrowing in with a smoothing harrow. That cultivates the oats and smooths the land tor t he reaper : 1,200 pounds 11 per ceni acid. | GOO pounds kainit. 400 pounds nitrate oi soda. It you wish an ordinary crop sow 200 to 250 pounds of the above. It you are working for a large one apply 500 pounds. It a 4 inch plow is used to Open the furrow the rows will he about 12 inches apart. That is better on thin land. We generally use. a small 5-inch shovel. <lu thin land five peeks is enough tor an acre. On belter land, it maybe safe to plant a little more. Any ordinaiy hand will soon get the "hang" ot using the drill. Greatest care should be used to run the rows at the rigid distance so that one fur row will not till the preceding one. There is no instance recorded in this State or Georgia shewing that oats planted tins way have been killed by cold. A few days ago a farmer irom GalTnev, S. C., said he wished to plant oats with the drill between his cotton rows. lie was informed that it could not he done. While one furrow might he made in the middl-, the other would be impossible as they would have to he run close to the cotton stalks. The drill can be used only on well-prep red land. It is the only 6afe way to make an oat crop in this section of the country. Charles Petty. Spartanburg Co., S. U, The Good Things in Senator Tillman's Speech. When the rate bill in the sen< ate was being hotly discussec: many ol tlie senators had theii remarks printed in pliamplet torm, Mr. Tillman being one ol the senators who did Senatoi Spooner had gotten possessior of one of the printed speochet and was sitting in the senate cloakroom scanning it, when Senator Tillman entered. ''Ilelb lien," exolamed ihe Wisconsii; senator. "I wonder you nevei told me that you had your re marks on the rate bill printed in pamphlet. 1 happened tc see one this mornimr and it contained some ot the best things 1 have vet seen in any pamphlet Ion the subject." "I'm very proud you think so," said Mr j Tillman, with a self-satisfied air "And what were the things thai pleased you so much?" %<\Vhy,! i replied Mr. Spooner, 4>as i pa>se< I by a pastry shop this morning of ! my way down, I saw a girl com* out with two cherry pies wrapI ped up in one of your works, An Average of 26 People Killed Daily by Railroads. Washington, Sept. 27.?During j the year ending June 30th, according to the statement by the inter State coniniercelconimissiou an average of 26 people were killed and 2.3s injured a day on the railroads in'the United States. The total jmimber killed during the year is 9,703, injured 20,008. The Trouble in Cuba. Thousands of Marines and Blue Jackets being Sent to Havana. Washington, Sept. 20.?Fifteen hun Ired more American marines were ordered to Cuba today by the Navy Department. Five hundred marines from the Atlantic licet will sail tomorrow on the battleships l'rovi ncetown, Mass., S00 or 900 marines will sail on Thursday from Boston, Norfolk and Philadelphia, and the remainder will probably leave New Orleans for Havana on a Morgan Line steamer scheduled to leave there Saturday . Orders were first issued for 1,000 marines from the various stations along the Atlantic coast to proceed to Cuba, but, following dispatches from Secretary Taft indicating that he has little hope of an amicable settlement of the trouble? in Cuba, 500 additional marines from the North Atlantic Fleet were instructed to prepare for Cuban service. In addition to the marines there will be nearly L'.uuu more blue jackets sent to Cuba. As there are now 1,200 marines in Cuba and over 3,000 blue jackets, when the vessels sailing this week arrive in Havana, the United States will be readv to laud a force of more than 7,000 on Cuban soil. The American warships which will sail on Thursday will be the cruiser Brooklyn, now at League Island navv yard, Phil a delphia; the battleship Texas, which is being repaired hastily at the Norfolk navy vard, and the converted cruiser Prairie, which is at Boston. The Prairie will carry marines from Portsmouth. vr ii t?._, .J XT It i 1> it., DUHiou ituu nawpuri* iv. i. Both naval and army officers seemed "to l?se hope of a peaceful settlement of the Cuban difficulties after the receipt of dispatches today announcing that Secretary Taft is much discouraged o?-er the situation and believes that force must be used to restore peace in Cuba. Negro Preacher-Editor Run out of Augusta. Augusta, (ia., Sept. 26.?After having been mysteriously warned that he must leaveAugusta on ac count of incendiary publications in his paper, a negro journal. The Georgia Baptist, W. J. White, a negro preach, today notilied Mayor Allen that he would get out of Agusta and never return. He left on the midday train and I his paper is not to he published | any more. White has several time# in the I past been the cause of incipient . | disturbances between the races i by expressi ons through his paper, and a few.years ago was sav led from injury and his office from destruction by a mob which had surrounded it with intention j of applyingjthe torch by a pro1 minenr attorney. Four Thousand Lynched in Last Twenty-five Years. t New York, Sept. 27. The World today prints a statistical story, which avers that 4,000 pefsons have been put to death with I out warrant of law in the United States in the last 25 years, j Ninty-live percent of them, it declares, were negroes charge t with assaults on white women. The methods of comprised hanging, shooting, flogging and burn(i?K. J Peoples Supply to. \ ^ As the name implies J J Can furnish your supplies. 1 s g We are going to keep almost every thins:, and what we ^ 1 haven't got will order for you. We want your trade, your ^ M good will, your friendship, and if reasonable prices, cour- M W teous treotment and appreciatio ; <?l your favors will win ^ ^ them we will sure have them. Misses Lula Lindsay and ^ t Maggie Hood are in charge of the Ladies' Dress Goods ^ j and Notion Departments. Messrs- Albert Biakeney and A ^ Bon Welsh of the Clothintr, Shoes, and Gents' Furnishing ^ v ^ J (ionus department ; and Messrs. Si^tare, Hilton and runM derburk in flie grocery and hardware. Our corps of clerks, W m as you readily see. insures kind and courteous treatment. ^ i i | Bargains! Bargains! f J For the next ten days we throw on our middle counters ^ the stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Shoes, Men's ^ Shirts, etc., bought of Carnes Bros., to be sold at a big ^ J sacrifice in order to make room for our nice fall goods g which are daily arriving. ? i _ . _ . _ $ { reoples Supply Co. % ^ J NO. A. COOK, Manager. O > ' 0 :! |:3 :!' 3 a> 1 Look Out I; g Bargains o ! s V) 3* Ciq When the bolls begin to pop |il The people begin to hop? | Don't forget to stop Ij ? At J. C. Edwards's, headquarters for bargains. Best Granulated Sugar 20 lbs. to $1.00. Seed Tick Coffee at W LI l-2clb; all other groceries sold in proportion. Mag- w nolia Flour gets better every day $2.25 per OS lbs. standard weight. Large line of Cooking Stoves on the way that we are going to sell so cheap anyone can buy. We expect to save you 3 or 4 dollars on your purchase. Our Dry Goods, Shoes and Notions are bargains. All summer Dress Goods at first cost; all Low-Cut Shoes at cost. Come to see us and let us show you everything we have. If you don't buy we will still be friends. Always when > you are in town leave your baggage with us. Tell your friends to meet you at the store where goods are very cheap and customers are heartily welcomed ? To spend their time, To spend their influence, To spend their money To the best advantage for themselves and J. C. Edwards in Bennett's Old Stand. Li II i