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\ 2 Agricultural npnarfmpnt -L^V^^CAl Ll lXSwll L What a Good Cotton Fertilizer Should Contain. The Progressive Farmer. The most important point to be considered is to secure the proper materials for fertilizers at the lowest prices. The ready mixed commercial fertilizers sold throughout the South are generally of good quality and reasonably well adapted for the purpose for which they are offered for sale. There are some farmers, it is true (and it?s a pity), who seem to care but lit tie about the composition of the "guano," or even its price, if not to be paid for until "next fall." The e will continue to buy the ready mixed guanos. Others will also buy these ready made goods, and buy judiciously and wisely, and use them profitably. But, as a rule, farmers would do well to buy the raw materials and do their own mixing. Any intelligent farmer, if he knows what materials to buy, and in what proportions to mix them, can make a good aud a much better balanced fertilizer than the majority of brands on the market. A fertilizer for cotton, according to the results of experiments repeated on our station for eight years past, should contain three and one-third parts of available phosphoric acid to one part potash and one part nitrogen. To state it in a more popular way, for use on average Middle Geoigia soils, cotton being the crop, a fertilizer that contains 10 per cent ot available phosphoric acid should have about 3 per cent ot nitrogen. Or, if it contains only 8 per cent of available phosphoric acid, it should not contain at the same time more than 2.40 per cent each of potash and nitrogen. Su then the ordinary 8-2-2 goods do not contain enough of potash and nitrogen by 00 per cent of each. I have habitually recommended for the old worn uplands of Middle Georgia, the following fertilizer formula for cotton : Acid phosphate (14 per cent 1,000 lbs Muriate of potash 75 lbs. Cotton meal 700 lbs. Total 1,775 lbs. The above wouM analyze about as follows : Available phosphoric acid .Q.S7 Potash 2 70 Nitrogen (equal to ammonia U 2S) 2.70 ! .! iihnva analysis i-! relative ly the same as 10 d-d. Of course kainit in ty be substituted for muriate and dried blood for cotton meal, taking care to use su :h quantities of each ai? will supply the same number of pound oi it valu >ble ingredient. On well improved soils or comparatively new lauds, or dark loamy b t om lands, (lie cotton meal may bo profitably reduced by fr >tn on third to onedialf. \V i only a very light application js determined upon on such soils it may often occur that an appbc ition of simple acid phosph do alone would give a hotter financial 10 urn than a more complete fertiiiz -r. lliE LANCASTER 1 For instance, one dollar's worth Fresh i of standard. o.cid phosphate, or 200 pounds, would probably give a mtter return, or larger Augu increase, 011 a fresh loamy soil tondenc than would one dollar's worth ^ure c ot a fertilizer containing potash a|)(j Clln and nitrogen in addition to the been lar phosphoric acid?II. J. Red- tice that dinK. now rec that the Neighborhood Favorite t0 copre Mrs E. D. Charles, of Harbor, Maine, speaking or Electric Bitter*, srys: "It is a OWI1 ph; neighborhood favorite hero with us " It Hint deserves to bo a favorite everywhere. It gives quick relief in dyspepsia, liver com- ture in plaint, kidney derangement, inalnutri 1 ?n, nervousness, weakness aud general debili- not- try ts. Its action on tbo blood. us a thorough ? 11 , puriiior makes it especially usotul as a 01 spring medicine This grand alternative jjl'O mer tonic is solil uueler gnarantee at J. F. Eackey's aud FunderbtirkPharmacy. directio ? open ait Fertilizer Formulas Recom- the wa mended by a Model Lan- even tin caster County Farmer. analyse with na EJ. of The Lancaster News : her Wor Will you please publish the fol- terferen lowing formulas, for the benefit wjth dr of some of our Lancaster farm- jn jj, ore i w cure is 1. Acid Phosphate 16 f()r pn( per cent 1200 lbs. the Del Cotton seed meal 600 k< monia c Muriate potash 200 " jjj a8 p Now, v< 2,000 lbs. patient 1 would recommend No 1 for- tpe mo mula for fresh land, and tor ^jve pjr worn up-land, formula No. 2. ajr an(j The f 1. Acid phosphate 14 be calle per cent 1000 oxygen 2. Cotton Seed meal 24 js t 7-1 i 700 0f ajff 3. Muriate potash 50 per hospital ce,lf - '5 are carr 4. Or kainit 300 lbs 1.775 tl,l?r? (l child gr Analysis usim: 1,2, 3, Ph. hr(ipat 887, Ni. 270, Po. 270. lai^esi Using 1, 2,4, Ph. 787, Ni. house, ! 215, Po. 245. it is too If you proter co'ton seed i; - ! ?'^er rc stead of meal, lor this formula,]"10 P?1" (seed) use 17 bushels, 1310 lbs., h-'ast or stable manure 7 tons. mi* a For worn out piney waods or S!0'1 ro? i i i i i ? til f II r*u ii sanuy iana wouui recommend: Acid phosphate 10 por and oih cent 1000 lbs. t!*ken ? Cotton seed meal 8.10 lbs ' Muriate potash 150 lbs. S>ns in a very 2000 lbs. ,ias a c! Tins would sjive you 8 3-4 ^l>rs ^r?' goods; or would profer for a side cou^1 application: breath 1 Acid phosphate Id per ^'10 va' cent 1250 lbs. wor^e(' Cotton seed meal 400 44 ! flu'ch p Nitrate soda 200 ' boon th | Muriate potash 150 44 haustioi lessneas 2000 lbs. ium This would give you 10 Ph., D'1"1 3.50 Ni., 4 l'o. I b,ood ifl On well improved land or !11 Pf>11 '' i comparatively fresh land or bot-|'s 'h'stii i torn Ian 1, where a very smal' > ur'! amount is to be u-ed for acid or ftnd tb" any vhere the land makes a good ir_ weed : come a Ae d Phosphate with a small bhefift! j>er out of Potash, may give wheu ti mon profitable results than i sf,Q,n bl complete fert ilizer. v%'" ' C. L. McManus. | more re I/incaster, S. C. Route 2. jump.nj ? i Whon t The Jumping off Place that the "Coiistimi tiuii It i?l mi in i(h ^nsp; and ; 111 til 1 had almost reached ?li?? jumpiiiu,'otf place | 1: v Ik-i I w s a .lvi -. d to try Dr. Hi j'h New ' ' D; < n\. rj*; nri'l I want to snv r /lit n< w, jt avoi i(!(l i veil in,, life. I in i rov.merit hnj/an with tho tirst lottle, a nil after taking one do*. 'tloue ill ell holt if H 1 WIIS a well uDil happy III ill i- | i | "alii,' Iiv-l ' !"or Moor . of (irillu lull.I Dil l N ' A- ii remedy tor nt/hs and colds fop. 'ilfi and healer of weak, sore lim^s an I for previ ii*Iuk pne'iinonla N'ew Discovery is list* ol fl 1 Knuiprenie. "> < and at I. 1\ Mnckey , ,,, , uud Fundorkurk i liuruiaoy. *''* 'in MKWS, FEBRUARY 15. 1908. \ir the Latest Cure lor Pneumonia stA Herald: There is a y everywhere to give iia- : hance in tho treatment > rtt il is'(i!iao? wliipli h?<l I gelv denied in the prac-| t had grown up. It is ognized more and more sellectof nature is always ct a wrong and be its y'fieian, and that the best t be done is to assist naits restorative work and to usurp its place, f the so-called fad cures ely movements in that u. The water cure, the r cur? for consumption, iking in the dew cure, ft e faith cure in their last s are nothing but a truce ture, to allow her to do k without the violent ince of wholesale dosing ugs. ie with this the fresh air now being recommended )umouia. According to ineator, we treat pneu! /** il . d \ il. linarenuy now man mey ittle as ton yeara ago. Bry largely, we let the light his own battle; and st effective weapon we n is fresh air, real fresh 7 / lots of it. act that pneumonia might <1 simply a shutting oil of shows how important o give the patient plen'y In one large New York | sufferers Irom the disease j Sj ied to the roof and k^ptijfij == <y and nigh'. When your S TI ows ill move it to tin* j ^ an ! sunniest room in the ? uid open the windows. 1; | aj cold tor that, ha\?> an- I icm near by into which j) ( I ent may be moved at 53 4 ree times a day, to per- ^ pot lorough vemilition of the m. All unnecessary fur- <\J> ! k ma ail pictures, Hangings! er impediment a should be ut of both rooms. to give ittaek ot pneumonia be- ture, an a manner which suggests der this bad cold. The patient g.ven ai lull and a fever and suf The rati m pains in the side. A ture to i soon appears, and the give su( >eeomes short and quick, iant battle ot the over- Cata heart is indicated by a by local hi ulse and Jluslied cheeks, or c >m;tit ore are signs of groat ex - HuluMS i, with headache, sleep- ?M,t* <t;reci surface*. and (sometimes) dehr quack mo of tho ben years mnt ig all of this period the composed with tho waging a tremendous war rectiy ;>n , * c > oombinilti 10 invading germs. It il pro(ln0l.s led to lo e, tho exhaustion Cl,."rr!.l\. Scinl fo iw more and more mark d patient will die. But if I itined to win there will ti< n. time?it will bo between|_ i and the tenth day? Ng4 th le patient will suddenly fetrucl ightor. I he temper, ture I, the breathing will be Salis! gular, and the violent j Observe [? of tlie pulse will cea-e.; struck 1 hif* happens it is a sign Gold II > battlo is won. (ho cur us turning to nature in } Rockwe the extreme should be I mon no . To depend upon nature!'he tin r>d refuse to assist her is yards al o attempt to displace n.?- bell wei igether, and cure by the who pre rugs idone. The so?call* crossed stian Scientists refuse j the engj / This S{ Reserved underburk Watch for 1 - "The Old Reli IE BANK OF LANCAST CAPITAL SURPLUS ^oans made on Real Estate, al Collections given prompt and 1- Per Cent Interest allowed c anded every three months. four business solicited. The i strongest Bank in Lancaster any aul whatever to na to tl d many persons die uu ered treitmont who by being cleai <1 would li ivo been saved, cauy ional way is to allow na- have lo all -he c ?n, and then to the ' ;n aid as may he given. 1 on t kno< rrh Cannot He Gnred side pplioations as they cannot reach , f the do-ease. Catarrh i? a blood ODly utianal dincase, and in order to the u must take internal remedies. rn arrh Cure is taken internally and tly on the blood and maeous old lluli h Catarrh Care, is not a , an(J lioine. it was prescribed by one j t | h\iieians in this conntry for ' is a regular prescription, it is the be-.t tonics, known, combined j Mil.. 1. . .r.1 <n-l the mucous surface*. The perfect (J on of tho two inarodients is wlint such v. >ud.rfol r.suits in curing ?? l{i 1 testimonials tree. 1-' >1. t h?ncy i\ (Jo. Toledo, O, (111(1 I irugxisU, 7~c. . i aII'h Knnaly t'ltls lor oonstipu- vi t The eov< Carolina Farmer ^ k and Killed by Train. , t> j i he nir^ spe ial in Charlotte c )Vl >r: Yesterday train No. 21 p dr Wiley Earnhardt, of rtJr() .11. It appears when at tji a ye, about h ilt a mile from qUa II station, Engineer Siu- 0f t] ticed a man walking on unan's side ahout 150 5 lead. I'll e whistle and K e sounded and I ho man, ^'Its i >ved to ho Mr. Earnhardt, J"1H H OA 1ft the track and not oil' on foum ineer's side. When close o\ .. Dace For Company 'heir Ad. 4 iable." U EE, Lancaster, S. C. S $50,000.00. U $50,000.00. Jg t reasonable rates. i W careful attention. N >n time deposits, com- ^ oldest, the largest and Dp county. Sff ie man the engineer considhe had plna'y of room to y* " r him, hut just as the train ;ht up Mr. Earnhardt must ) iurched in some wav toward tracks. At any rate the pi)aum of l he engine struck him lie left shoulder and lie was jked soyeral yards to one Mr. Eainheart survived . on .a-- i iiiniuica nibcr arrival at hospital. ho deceased was 71 years and was a highly respected well to do farmer. .illed Wife and Suicided. levelaud, <)., Feb. 13.?Fred ;le, an actor, shot and intly killed his wile, Maud, then com milted suicide at larding house here to-day. double tragedy was not dis red until tiro was found in room they occupied. The ling caught tire as a result of revover being tired near the ire. lie couple married three years in Canada, woresoparated unwoek ago. It is supposed they rreled. Tue immediate cause ic trouble is unknown. r iuffeHng & Dollars Saved S. Loper, of Manila, N. Y , says; "I carpenter and have ha<l many aeviTe tieah I by Hnckh'ii'a Arnica Salve. It iT>' l mo suffering and dollars. It ir the host healing naive I have eves i.' lieals burns, sore and ulcers, fever zoina and piles. 2.r>c at J. F. Muckr : 1 underhurk pharmacy.