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2 Agricultural I Utilizing Every Acre upon T. the Farm Instead of At- bo S pi tempting to Cultivate Every jj . Acre. pe mc Southern Cultivator. las Our Southern farmers have ^r0 several important questions pressing for solution, but hardly ^ any of them exeeed in importance *n this one of utilizing our farm *iai lands in contra-distinctioo to 'ro cultivating every acre. The only aM reason we attempt to cultivate so much area, is the idea that we we win make more money by so /II doing. But with high labor and poor yields the profits in such cultivation are naught. As our acl I * country and cities increase in 111 population, there is not only a Ph greater demand for food crops, ' but also a wider range of articles sn included in this demand. Every- II1* tiling that can be produced upon *Wl the farm?wood,grass,hay,cattle, hogs, chickens, fruit, and dairy products, all command as good 1 prices as corn and cotton. It now behooves every intelligent far mer to look over his land, take WH carefully into consideration the lay of his farm as to woodland UP U!.,l p .-1-1- ,,-,1-,. A ? J eel HLiU ClCttlCU liviuo^ U uiiiu bottom, rough land and smooth, then liis location as to market ?^11 and his taste as to lines of indus- 0,1 try he would like best to devel- aD( op, and then plan, not so much utl how to cultivate all his place, ^)rl but how best to develop its re- %al sources so as to give the greatest net return for the eneigy expend ed. If grass will give as much Panet return from a given field as ^ e cultivating it in cotton, why 001 bother with so much work as the ? cultivation in cotton would re- ^:U1 1 quire? It cattle can gather as 10 much net return from a ten-acre 001 field as can a negro working it in l^e cotton and corn, why not let the ral cows work a little' If timber grown upon a hillside will bring ' ?'* hid nnniD hoi revenue as ill? **v'* cultivation it is receiving, why cor not allow the timber to grow? To wa our minds it is clearly time to e'si change our viewpoint. Think more about utilization and uoi i)'{1 so much of cultivation. Cultiva- me tion is well, but only when it can be well done. When you be- ^ 01 gin seriously to consider this cat utilizing plan and begin to put lov 4 ;nto execution, many will tie at "ised at tlie resulis. l)e, INSTANCKS THAT IIAVK COME me nilN OUR KNOWLEDGE. (jrf ~,7e a neighbor, Col. Reu- mi . who has eiuht hunhere near Atlanta, /ing about four hunto grow up in trees. Ill I. n ? * J j>ihc,k roresi." and Tx , . .. i)e trees he has. lie 9a\'8 , . dai it this way: 4,bach j h at least fiftv cents, ' mo . negro savs I have i ? mo trees : tins will make .. ' ol 000. This beats raising . >n't it?" and the Colo- ? . _?9l\ js a good laugh. Now, & _ . gra ' truly these trees are valuable .. . and some day will bring in a son snug sum; and we have no doubt C38 will yield a greater net return , I 00 than if the land was cultivated ^ according to the average method we now have in use. Up atRockmart, (ieorgia, Mr. Do mHHI THE LANCJASTKE \ i i Company Department, and a* - and Lai J. Jenkins went out and ught a mountain, one of those Oolumbii jrs common in North Georgia. Lee, a mini u friends thought he would alogi9t, fori rish, but Mr. Jenkins set this land, and m ilintain nut in fruit Imao on/1 *? .. ?..v v. muu IJVMIIII v?i v it year he sold (he peaches yesterday i m four acres for $2,226,00, company tc ich gave him clear profit of gold, tin at ,000.00 for his time and labor, shaw and I the meantime Mr. Jenkins a graduate 3 been making a good living Edinboroui m the sales of vegetables and came to thi d strawberries grown between or three ye ?se peach trees. Those trees mended. I re only three years old. nothing fo Mr. I. A. Christain [down in pany itsct tvyton County, Georgia, sold give him i 2.00 worth of peavine hay per his love fo re, from his land, after cut- and that 1 g good crop of wheat from the formation c ice. lett entirely Over at Pendleton, S. C., we italists afte v Bermuda that was furnish- expert's re| : all the grass on an acre that ires, o cows and a horse could eat. ''South fact there was more grass on mineral we 5 acre they could not eat than "far richer > average produces. citizen sup Wo l.nnr^ f - 1-1 * tv v< ii^ui u wi c* iiitiii w nu 11HC1 millions A I 3 acres of land and three acres the recent 1 s in a swamp which he con- State geolo ered useless. He cleared it There is no , ditched it out and put in ore and a cl ery and cleared $800.On on it for white le ) first year, which was more fully equal in he had ever made clear Pennsylvai the 117. Look around you and va9t be 1 see if you haven't some un- ed." lized opportunities that will The gold ng you money besides culti fers pays al ting more cotton. quartz and We have seen thousands of the vicinit lsides in cultivation that would Seaboard A v better in Burmuda grass, through t< ry few of our people have an\ branches uj iception of a pasture. To ter countie m a pasture merely means specimens id enclosed by a fence. Grass him for ex them seems not to come into left with loi isideration. When our peo come nitere ) think more about grass, of a mining si^g cattle will take on new i and profit. Ha< We have seen thousands of .Un^ero es of bottom land planted in ^VnV^Vmy' 'll where the nnm ia unn.ioll.. uimuon.) ;V' rV llucklen s Arm shed away or drowne.1 out, ,?f Miletiw, W, . .Solve coaiplet >ecially in stripe or a portion ];arn*andinp the bottom. Now all such ,rilWf?rtl ,5ro* aroggiHiH. ices should be sown down in adow, you would have three vnces at crop and also improve I t\J 11 r land, since the grass would *-41 ? VI cli all deposit instead of al ? t zing tlie soil to wash. Look your bottoms and plan to get ler returns. A strip of green' Though < adow will look better than a Mjvery busi >wiied out strip of corn and he mined to d icIi more remunerative. ! present st( ,, M , I Horses are , r r , by handsor Death of a Little Lxirl. buggies an n_:. M1. i/nving a \Ir. Ktlitor: On the night of cember 5th, 190G, Nannie Mae, g0jn^r t<)V<l jghter of John F. and the State, la Magill, died. She was 17 it! Come nths old and was one of the VOU want st beloved and charmful girln livery serv her age on Russell Place. We HEATH-E mourn the loss of this dear Id. She was buried in the i<i tynr iveyaril, at Reaver Creek Bap , church. The Rev. S. N. Wat- Sup i conducted the funeral servi- for f,ie H??m< prices and oi . He preached one of the most HOLIDAY ling eermons the audience ever JiVm?atfa\pe ird at a burial. Write at ono< James K. Magi 11. Malone ?- co, you take The News? forcafalo bm? T. v : . v? " - ^\v~" i., % I NEWS, DECEMBER 12, 1906. to Mine Gold, Tin iimnoid in Kershaw # ncaster Counties. S % State : Dr. Geo. F. m ng expert and miner- f tnerly of Dublin, Ire J y owJofKershaw county, m m litia, was in the city W 0 jW in the interest of a ? ^ ^ > be formed to mine f id alumnoid in Ker- s<ancaster. Dr. Lee is 0 W > of Heidleberg and ? L :h universities and W s country about two w ars ago welljjrecom- w le says that he cares f r the proposed com- a i. ^ f except that it will M | i chance to develop W r mining engineering > ' le is willing for the ^ B if the concern to be f ' y with Columbia cap ^ r they have had an ^ I v I iort on the possibilCarolina is rich iu m alth," said Dr. Lee, A ti- ciA than the ordinary B Ol? SLOC poses and some exam- ^ DdlSS till tave made bear out ^ re ports made by your V 8/1W 8?yS gist, Mr. Earle Sloan. t only gold but iron ay that is a substitute f ad. 1 find this clay (0 to that now mined in A tia and iu Germany B dsofit are untouch B _ _ . __ I Willie ore to which he re ^ II IIIIG )out $70 to the ton of the vein extends froni Ja v of Lucoff. on the j _ _ ,ir Line Railroad, on :> Lancaster, with =: ) into York and Chos?. He had several flflTTn^'l of the quarts with 1.11 I j I j la hibition which were VVI Vll cal men who may bested in the formatiou ; company. ? 1 a Close Call. Jl | us surgical operation, in oval of a malignant ulcer, hand, from uiy daughter', tiled hv the application of oa Salve," says A C. Stick lea Va "Persistent use of th *T*i-k L-ppr-\ i ely cured it." Cures Cuts, ^ I trios '2f>c at J F Mackey.Co. 1 T ,, and Funderburk Parmacy, US CtdSli, 1 figures for y, Livery, M: ivery! i by tes, , ' dard weight doing a rattling good Cookintr St ness, we are deter-1 \OOKing lo even better.* Our cheapest. x*ks of Vehicles and them too c'n being supplemented astonishing ne new carriages and i >f J? d stylish lon 1 nun<1 ! - ? -buy notions >nd Saddle Horses- ably surpris >ry establishment' is be second to none in . and don't you forget ( or send to us when the best, up-to-date ice. If you wa LLIOTT MULE CO. j^et and ? will amaze ] Id's Best Pianos, uom'S.o?o\ .rior Organs, Come at , ?s or the Churches at low n easy term?. A QOOD I'RKHKNT can be had a ano or an ornn on cany _ I fl c i a I price al M A I,ON E'S % \ i to 's Music House, in iUMBIA, H. 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