The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 11, 1908, Page 2, Image 2
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Agricultural
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Adding $10 a Year to the
Value of Every Acre.
The Progressive Farmer.
Wouid it be worth while te increase
the value of an acre of
land over $10 a year for a period
of ten years ? It would be
storing up wealth where trusts
and short money markets could
not affect it. The land would
make profitable crops, rent well,
or sell for a high price. It would
be a safer investment than the
buying of the bonds that seemed
to be the best on .earth. This
has been done, and can be done
again, by others, and profitable
crops can be produced every j
year while the land is being in-,
creased in value. The question
for each farmer to decide is.
whether he will make the necessary
changes in his farm work to
accomplish so desirable an end.
diddn't grow a jtalk of cotton.
The experience ol ono man
will be given ; and, while he
lives in JSoutli Carolina, the con
dilions under which he worked
are so similar In l.hnjo fonnri
I
otlier'Southern States, that it is
not difficult for our lariners to
accomplish practically what lie
did.
Eight years ago this man
O ? 11 JE.IV ?? /?/\f f />i\ f ?ii>m
M ? uu-uw II II uu Ui
which would rot produce over
one-fourth bale of Cotton per acre,
even with 250 pounds of iertiii
zer to help it.. Twenty-five
acres were managed as shall be
described ; and, after eight years,
are yielding over $50 an acre
every year, and require les* labor
than it would to work the land
in cotton. The land is also increasing
in fertility. Those who
think they must rare cot ton to
live will ?>o interested in learning,
and may he surprised, that
rot a stall, of cotton is grown.
INCREASED $83.34 an acre under !
onk-uok6k farming.
In 1903 this same man boughti
a few 'acres from an adjoining]
neighbor at $10.66 an acre, the
neighbor offering at that time to
nay $100 an aero for the land
that had bean enriched. The
difference between $100 and
$16.06 is $83.34, the difference
that has come about in ten years
in the value of the land per acre.
That is an increase of $10.4*2 a
year iti the value of an acre, in
addition to the production of a
profitable crop every year. Let
no farmer ben in to excuse him
self for not doing at least bait
as well, by saying he cannot
farm like an Experiment S'ation,
or like, a man with lots of
money, or like a two hor e farmer
; for these repults were got
by a farmer, not much money
was required, and the trick was
accomplished by the use of one
horse. While it was one-horse
farming, better renults would, of
course, have been got by the use
of at least two horses, so that
the one man could have done
more and better work, especially
belter breaking.
TWO CHOI'S A YEAR WHILE IMPROVING
THE SOIL.
Doctor Uamseur is the man
who did th'S land improving
while making good cr )ps yearly,
and his methods c. n he used
with succe&s by any farmer who
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Department. ?
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will go to work on the general
plans he Vised. To the all cotton tfc
farmer, it will look like Doctor a
llamseur gave about all his at la
tention to building up the soil; pi
but it should be remembered
that he got two profitable cropB 1^
yearly, and ho did not use com- qi
mercial fertilizer to improve the w
soil, lie did use soil improving
ciops and animal manure, some fr
thing that any farmer can do n<
more or less right now and can
do better by and by when his tp
farm gets to producing Jmore a:
manure. Six to eight tons of cc
barn.yard manure lias been uned at
yearly per acre, and that will w
-itatrger the all-cotton farmer, bi
who is likely to he almost as p<
hort on b irn-vard mannre as on
ready cash. is
HOW THE IMPROVEMENT WAS MADE.
A start was made with oats in e'
winter, cowpeas in summer for )n
hay, ami enough corn to supply
the needs of the farm. The principal
part of the work ou this ai
tHrm is done by one man and one s'
horse, with additional help dur 111
itig harvest; but the one man aucl
the one horse did enough outside ftl
work to p ty tor the extra harvest
help, so the farming was kept
down to a one man and onehorse
basis.
During tlie winter of 1905 e>
fi
eighteen acres of oats and seven w
of crimson clover were growing ;
then the next spring three acres
of the land that was in crimson
clover were planted in corn, and
the remaining four acres of clo- p,
vt-r land and the eighteen acres
ol out land were sown broadcast] p
to cowpeas. Corn follows a p< r- j
ion ot the clover by a system f)
that gradually rotates corn and v
c'over over the whole farm. It j(
t?ke.; more years for the corn to ^
be planted all over the laud, (|
eince corn occupies less than half n
the land that the clover does.?
Two crops are got por year, the H(
fall sown crops being clover and )?
oats and tho spring-jown crops ^
corn and cowpeas Iti?Bugge?t- ^
od that sowing vetch with the
oats would get still better result", ])
by adding to the quantity and js
quality of tire oat hay and growing
a winter legume at the same
time to improve the soil still fur te
tber. it
The Public Roads--Strong
Resolutions of York Farm- N
ers' Union. si
The loliowing significant re 11
olutioiiH were adopted by the 8<
York Farmers' Union at its meet F
ii?this week: Whereas the n
condition of the public roads of t
this country has been a reproach
to us during generations past, g
and whereat we have continued o
to suffer this reproach year in it
and year out without over mak- .V
iugso much as an honest attempt 11
to relieve ourselves ol it, and
whereas we re i ize and appieciate g
that such an altitude on our 2
part is not only a humi'iation to J
us, but that it will continue such a
to those who come after us, '
therefore to the end that we may t
feel that we are trying to do h<
aomelhing to relieve ourselves c
of this discre dit and humiliation,
land at the same lime secure s
greater comfort and convenience C
tor oursolves and our children
lSTEK NEWS, JANUARY 11,
ter us, belt resolved, by the X
irmers' Union of York coun1.
That the Dublic roads of
iia country are not worthy of
free, progressive people who ,
y claim to the possession of (
jblic spirit. (
2. That, however submissive
we may have appeared to ac- f
niesce in our so-called road 1
orking system, we hare always
icognized it as a shame and a 1
aud and we so recognize it
) w. t
3. That we fully appreciate t
laf first class serviceable roads i
e not to be obtained in this 1
uintry except at very consider>le
expense, and that the onl}f i
ay of meeting that expense is f
rT going down into our own 1
ickets. <
4. That provided the money r
judiciously expended, .and c
3ue is misappropiated or wast- I
I. good roads are worth to the i
dividual and to the public, all t
icy cost. I '
5. That the most practicable i
id equita1 lo method of conructina
public r >ads is by i
leans of property taxation.
6. That we are willing and i
lxious to submit to such tuxa- |
on. 1
7. That we believe York coun- l
' can well afford to issue bonds I
i the amount of $500,000 or <
ren $1,000,000 and use the en- <
re proceeds in constructing goo:!, :
?rmanei t r 'ads.
Cedar Creek Dots.
Air. Editor: The holidays \
based off quietly in this section
otliing prevailed but peace and
arniony, and pleasure to all.
Miss Ai.?ggie Walker, one ot 1
nr most cultured and refined
cun? ladies, who spent the hollay
with her parents. Air. and
Irs. F. 1'. M. Walkor, has reirned
to Alcolu, whore she will
?sume her atenographic work.
Mr. J. Luthur Cautheu, who
3ine time ago went to Southerind,
Fin., visited his consul,
Ira. T. S. Walker, during the
olidays.
Misa Sal 1 ie Beckham, of the
>ry Creek section, is visiting reitives
and friends near Stonesorough.
Mr. Newton C&skey and ais>r,
Miss May, of Douglass, vised
their sister, Mrs. F. P. M.
/alker, during Christmas
Wo regret to note that Mrs
. Li. Lynn is improving but
owly.
Mr. C. M. Blackmon is expecttg
to move his family to this
?ciion in the near luture. Mr.
dackmon is a wide-awake far
ler, and wo extend our right
of welcome, Charlio.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Walker
ave a musical at their residence
it the evening of the 28tli in
onor of their sisters, Misses
(aggie Walker and Minnie
ioskham.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Oauthen
ave a sumptuous dinner, the
5th, in honor of their son, Mr.
. Luthur Cauthen, who is on
visit from Soutlierland, Fla.
Misses Maggie and Nannie
tlackham, of the Heaver Creek
action visited friends in this loality
not long since.
Mr. G. W. Perry and family
pent Saturday last in the Dry
!reek section.
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*Jl MWIIKCI,
1908.
Jncle Sam forbids Mail Carriers
to Carry Liquor.
Washington.?Postmaster Gen.
jral Hej er has issued an order
which has a direct bearing upon
;he prohibition movement The
>rder is ae follows :
uIt is hereby ordered that it
(hall be a parr, of any contract
lereafier entered intoTor carryug
the mails upon star t>creen
wagon, mail m*sse< ger < r special
:ervice route thai tlie contractor
ir carrier shall ,?ot transport inoxicating
liquor frotu one point
o another upon such route whilo
11 the performance of mad t3er/ice."
The hid-> lor star route service
11 what is known as the second
lection, comprising Noith Oaroina.
South 0*roHnay Florida,
ieorgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Tennessee ami Kentucky, were
pened on Wednesday, \Jauuary
3, and as a confluence beguiling
on Ju'y 1 next every contractor
in tli" States mentioned
ft ill be prohibited from carrying
intoxicating liquors on his route.
The order will become effective
at once, however, in many sections
of the country where it is
11 c.'Sfiary 11 install n w and sup
p-emeutury service. It is be
lieve 1 that thu order will have a
far-reaching effoct and will meet
Lho approval of a large number
if people judging bv the number
if complaints that have been
:nnf [ a { jig {tg jigrt tvjggf
Whenever von fowl that your fRtomaeh 1ms
<nno a little wiouk, or wheu you feel that
it is not in good order us fsevinced by
mean headaches nervousness, bad breath,
and l>oleliintr. take souinthin^at times, and
especially alter your meals until vour
in afforded Toe re is nothing bettor offered
the public today tor stomach troubles
ilyspnapsiu. indigestion, etcthan Koilol
This !? a scientific preparation of
u.ifnrol fliivawKi nta mtiitKinatl ???? !* it 1 >1
? *r> ? w -*1" ? ' " '
acids Mid it contains the same jnicos found
in every healthy stomach. KODOL is gnuranteed
to give relief It is pleasant to take,
it will make you feel tiue by digesting what
yon eat. .Sol i by all druggists.
It depends upon the pill you take.
PeWitt'g Li:tie Early Riaer* are the
best pill* known for constipation and
sick lic-adacbe. Sold by Crawford
Bros.
Cotton Yic
WrjSmfr The value of cr
been demonstrated
both government f
tests. We stand 1
jtc& y?ua*anyt'mc ^
j|\ \?{// create your yields 1
Ip Viiginij
Hon. R. J. Rcddin ;
MSf giaExp. Station,is nui
"experiments made at
balanced commercial 1
of land, and well eulti
a7e3">wXt. pected to produce at
g/.^^NV cotton. At the presei
f * '// mean a large extra pr
ft after deducting the pri
/ \pr?Ji.A You'll find reports
tt tfsts, together with mu
"cern'n8 land culture ir
Vw'Ttyiir^' Year Book or Ahnana
r dealer for a co
*- ^.11 free, if you writi
Virginia-Ca
//' Richmond, Va.
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Carnes Case Compromised.
Yorkville Eaauirer : The case
of Carne*. vs. the Southern railroad
wa* compromised at the recent
term ol the court of common
plena tor this county, the
defendant agreeing to pay the
plaintiff the sum of $500 The
Huii was instituted because of
killing of plaiotift's wife by au
engine on tlie Southern railroad
n -ar Manchester mil', Rock Hill,
about three years a^o. the case
wont before a jury which made a
mistrial. The pi tintiff having
re-married in the meantime, it
wa< deemed advisable to compromise.
The Knock-ont Blow.
Tho blow which knocked out Corbet!
wns a revelation to tho prize tighten.
From tho earliest days of tho ring the
knock-ont blow was aimed for the jaw,
the temple or tho jugular vein. Stomach
punches were thrown In to worry and
weary tho lighter, but if a scientific man
had told one of tho old fighters that the
most vulnerable spot was tho region of
tho stomach, he'd have laughed at him
for an ignoramus. Dr. Plerco is bringing
home to the public a parallel fact; that
thq tfeomatmjs the most vulnerable organ
out of\he prKo ring as well as in it. - We
protect our haatis, throats, fcot and lungs,
hut thtNfcJltr.iVNwc are utterly IndllTerI
cnt to, until dist-VXflnds tho solar plexus
j and knocks us out. Make your stomach
i sound and strong hv the use of finrtrir
j Pierce's (roiaog.'^ydil-al jiiscovWyTan}
J yon protect. yourself in vonrmo^ vviuiei^
a FTP7 -;.(>t. ^"Golden Medical Discovery " "i
! cures "weak stomach," indigestion, or
| dyspopsia, torpid liver, bad, thin and 1m|
pure blood and other diseases of the organs
of digestion and nutrition.
The "Golden Medical Discovery " has a
specific curative effect upon all mucous
surfacos and hence cures catarrh, no
matter where located or what stage it
may havo reuched. In Nasal Catarrh It
is well to cleanse the passages tflth Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Rowody tluid whilo using
the "Discovery * as a constitutional rem- ?
edy. Why the "C.oldon Modical Discovery"
cures catarrhal diseases, as of the
otoinach, bowels, Lladdor and other pelvic
organs will 1st plain to you if you will
read a ixx>klct of extracts from tho writings
of eminent modical authorities, endorsing
its ingredients and explaining
their curative properties. It Is mailed
free on request. Address Dr. R.V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y. This booklet gives all the
Ingredients entering Into Dr. Pierce's
medicines from which it will bo seen that
they contain not a diop of alcohol, pure,
triple-refined gltcerine being used instead.
Dr. Pierce's iv.it thousand-page lljusti'aUd
Common i ii.-xi 'i'o'iCu! Adviser
will l>o sent free. paper-bound, for 21 onecent
stamps, or cloth-bound for 31 stump*.
Address Dr. Pierce us above.
Trial Catarrh treatments ^are being mail
od out free, on request, by Dr. Shoop, Racine,
Wis These tests nre proving to the
people?without a penny's cost?the grout
value of this scientific prescription known
to druggists everywhere as Dr. Khoop's
Catarrh Kenuvly. Sold by Fundorburk
Pharmacy.
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igger %yj
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;lds Per A ere P*
)rrmevcial f trtilizers hr.3 .y'y
over r.ncl over of'-iy by
mrl private cr-v.iparntive A ;a
cridy to demonstrate to >1
at the surest v ay to "in- $
icr acre" is to use ' .1
l-Caiollna i
tilizero 4;
, former Director rf the CootLhority
for the statement that A
this station show that v.ell
fertilizer applied to one acre ('M
vated,may he reasonably ex1
Increase of yield of seed < *' \
r%t .triro t\( rntfon thb ? .....l.l
ofit (lor i>oth iint and seed), 3
ice for fertilizer."
of many other comparative
ich valuable information con- i]3
i the new Virginia-Carolina
c. Ask. you local fertilizer ^
py?or we'll send you one
5 our nearest sales office. yjj
irolina Chemical Co.
Durham, N. C.
Charleston, S. C. jD
S. C. Italtimorc, Mil. *1
i, Columbus, Ga. .TO
f.?. Montgomery, Ala. tUB
M rmphlt, Tenn. ^ ^ Jz&Jr
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