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? 2 Agricultural \ Department T onH Tnr\ r 4-o D1m? - -'* JV.A A UV 1>& jr IU JL 1UW. (.'lias, M. Schoror in Progressive Farmer. During the last two weeks wo have hud opportunity to talk to a numbei of our 1'rogressive Farmer readers who desire to plant something tins fall but who say their land is t^o dry tor plowing. In addition to those who have said this to us in conversation, there have been a 1 number who have written the same tiling. Even a number oi iliece persons have stated that they have made 110 tall garden, t?r the reasoD tha' it was too dry 1 to sprout seeds it the garden had been plowed. It can bn said ( with 110 tear of being successfully 1 contradicted, that in ninely-live ' cases out of a hundred these ' lands could have been plowed * with reasonable ease and in two- c thirds ot the cases seeds could * have been sprouted if the land 1 had been well managed earlier 1 in the season, Good cultivation ' frequently done would have let water soak into the soil and f would have prevented it from 1 parsing from the soil oft in'o the ^ air. That would have kept enough water in the soil for the present needs. By the use ot | stable manure?anything to till 1 the soil with vegetable matter? the soil could have been kept i loose aud the vegetable matter j would have held water just as naturally asjblotting paper draws ! up ink from a sheet of writing ] paper. An abundance of vegetable j matter in the soil and fr?quont cultivation theu. would have ' made the breaking ol the soil , i * i. * - - - - 1 i?iiu tut! sprouting OI seeds quite i . practical in a lirge majority oi ^ the cases. Il one is a doubter on this point, let him begin bv j managing some small plot in the '1 manner suggested The home | garden i* a good plot to begin with. Alter it ia seen what reulls j4 will lie got, tho ambition will be aroused to work the same way 1 on a larger acreage. Consider c that good crops are made on mil- ' lions ol acres in this country in districts where tho rainfall dees 1 not exceed fourteen or sixteen 1 inches. Those who hive com c. plained about tbe dry weather | live where the rainfall is titty or sixty inches per year. These 1 sections ot small rainfall have 1 some things in their favor, but * he main reason that goo 1 crops are made under such conditions v is that ttie farmers have learned 9 how to save rain-water alter it H falls on their land. Learning how to save the rains is one ol ^ ine Dig problems ot good farm-11 ing. Most cultivators of the s ?il i 0 think o! the rain only when it is j F too wet or too dry to work ih?ir 11 land. Storing it in the st.il fori8 use when neighboring farmers'c cannot work their land is ill-;1 proper aim; a'd that mean?)1 frequeir s'irnng >t il,o -> >h, also , 1 vegetable ma-tor or humus. We ' have seen cr.pi burned up b\ <3r< uyh when tli c:o o.i .".ad- 1 1 w jornin: held; on .ltd nil' ' \ po > < ' 'and, were grown g r > i) so v moisi ttiatone could dig down 1 wiih ! is fiiuer- o where ti e -oil was so moist it c ul 1 b '! M|u* eze 1 in the h hi 1 i ?to i dnl 1 crumbling lump on win h < v r ;1 vm inkle in the hand w uh: diov 9 Any p- rson wln> has worked the soil with his hands will nnlersli.nl wnat. conni'ion ilus 1 iti I " was in when it could b- -tjue- /.ed it p t'is way and I lie wrinkles of the hand molded on the bah : ot earth. . l? Kodol is a combination of tho natural di- '* gestivo juices and it digests ail classes of [ n lood and tvery kind of food, so you see it f " will do tho work that the stomach itself j " doas. The only difference between it and r< tho stomach is the stomach can get ont of M order and Kodol caunot, but Kodol can rtl put the stomach into good order. Boy Kodol today. It is guaranteed. Sold by ?f. F. Mackey a Co. w-g | g( THE LANCAS Cotton Consumption in the H United States Hi New Yora Commercial and 8a,ioi Financial Chronicle. * ants l lie prelim'niry report of the i??pt census bureau on cot ton consump throi tion in the United States tor 8PHCt the year ending August 31, on ' 1908, recently issued,showed that these during the period covered the >ear{ mills of the South consumed Tl: 9.250,613 bales, against 2,410, ,0 993 ba'es in 1900 07, or a fall- wel1 inn off of only 154,380 bales 8VV?n (6.4 per cent.), whereas in the poiu! same interval Northern establish 8ljn, in nt exhibited a decline of h 255,118 iiftles (9.9 per cent.), thing I'his census bureau roport, so a P?l far as it applies to Southern con Heiv sumption, is in approximate 8^rve Agreement with the result die- '^le a dosed i?? our annual cotton crop we H1 ^eport issued September 4, and J,J!Ver hows, as President. Finley of Ihe I he Southern railway in effect ays, that the cotton mill inlustry of the South suffered less A ,u luring the period of general busness depression than the mills and lm n other sections of the country, ind this notwithstanding the Tar coi ailing off in tiade tor China, up- Fackag >n which many Southern mills ilace large dependence. With R. .F mod reason Mr. Finley looks ipon the report as furnishing additional evidence of the superior ^,n advantages of the South as the ^estei ocation for cotton mills. The strides the South has tak- OMe ' m in cotton manufacturing in re- ^ sent years and the comparative ^h< y moderate decline in the vol- c,rcu irae of consumption last season en,eri s certainly a cau?e lor satisfact- ^ie P1 on and gratification. From an ec* ^ iverage weekly consumption of while ?:8 than 3,000 bale3 per week en> 10 years ago?in 1877-78?there t'.,e ^ vas a steady and quite rapid an Cfl ?ance, until in hie early part of U)07 08 it reached nearly 50,000 aaleH and averaged tor the season (not withstanding I he ynneral ? line in all business in the more 1'0,,'> * ecent months) almost 43,000 Woii. ' Jalee. In the meantnne North- l',w;rn consumption, which in 1877IS78 averaged 2S,500 bales, rose f-Jeat o an average slightly in excess )f 50,(500 bales in 1000-07, and. lecording to our figures, was !'?<>>? ' iliglitly more than 41, 000 bales lo 11 n 1007-08. Or, dealing in totals l'v atlier than average , the South l<" ?l mnsuraed 148,000 bales in 1877- ?'U 1 , . -> > - eratic i (S, a ivanciug to 443,373 bales 0 yoar.i later, 1,227,030 balen 1807-08 and 2,234,305 bales n,.at n 1907-0*, the aggregate in 190G w. s. 7 having been 2,487,088 ba'es. * he ex :eilent showing under a 1- ,/na'y i rerse circumstances made lasi .1. K. v eason led us to remark in our nnual report that "Sou1 hern \\:. t. > o'ton nulls have done relatively w.?.. ?otter than those at ihn N'nrib ''' - -- Mel v ill he decrease in the volume of n. k. \ onsumption having heen com- 1- 1' ' uratively moderate. It thus a" , lappons that, lor the lirst time w. incco'lon manufacturing he- ' J',1,1 uue an established industry of a. run he South, the mills ol that s-'C- A* ion used more raw material "f1,1 (. han was consumed by Northern i? n. < slab i hmeni-," I'll advance w-(15bus far made, furtherm >re .1. i\ >i an bo ia!<en us uidieatiyo ol the i. e. k roejos^ vet to he made when w * I . I>. A y.rutn't 1 h ' in lie'ria! coiuli- \. it. I ions. And it is no* without n In i {nun ' f possibilities that t ie ' :lsl' ioi v( ry tar distant lutuie wili To ul the South wi'h its natural ni:\ i vantage if ('Olltiffllil v to To the ources ol >tipply ou'ranking i;i" 1 a cotton in inoiacturiuK pronn- l,,r ''ry ?m ce m i?t if the w'or Id's cen'res ' om,m ... ing am activuy in the industry. A Jeweler s Experience n \\ (!. It. Klogor, Tin Jeweler. 10H? Vir- U- Mol niiii A\o., Indianapolis, Ind., writes: 'J M. Y. ih so weak from kidney trouble that I <?. I.. ? mid hardly wet* u hundred feet. Four l>. A. < ottles of Foley's Kidney lteniedy cleared l?r. J. ly complexion, cured my backache and r. |? > ie irr? gola. ities disappeared, and I can /.. |.. U ow attend to business every day, and ,\. J. < commend Foley's Kidney lteniedy to all |;, |j. lfterors, as it cured me after the doctors \\\ ud other remedies had failed. h <; |>. | tl?l ? a ' v> non you warn any printing aon^ ( ?nd it to The News, ) Tola TER NEWS, OCTOBI [alley' Comet Coming alley's comet, the must senual brilliaut of the ekv truknown to astronomers, i as id the loop on its whirl ifch 1,000.000,000 miles ol > and is heading this way he visit which it makes to > parts every seventy-five ?. le comet will not bo visible e naked eve, however, until along in 1909, and will p into its perihollion, the I of its course closest the about May 10, 1909 Will Springs to the national Demo-ampaign fund. tjuay l?. Mood, l'rof. .1. A. Stoddard, h Springs. (?et. 1!?. 1008. lilac kmoti s .'-'A loddarcl 1.00 Villiaius I.oo >. 11 ood 1 00 Wallace 1.00 ("lark AO Hrtico I.oo stover AO Taylor AO s. Moore 1.00 i Stover 'JA iVilliains AO 'ole 'JA Sridges ... 1.00 J. Mackoy I.oo Marshall 50 tohertson . .-A ridges AO then 25 Watson 10 .to astoii .. ,55 'ftlltllCll I .on Twiltv. . .20 turnctt 25 lover 25 illg 25 ro.\ ton 50 lohley .25 uncan 25 la< kmon .25 ?;?? tai #17.00 'I'll SI' 111 N < S CoMMITTKK.^ Kditor ol The state: osed I send you check for #5.05, ran and Kern fund, collected l?y iter, other parties are colled* I if not already sent in you will om Heath Springs again. II. W. Mobloy. Mohlev ... . j* l .Oil >l?.y . 1.410 Cant lien >0 rfobley . >n 'Aiithan .60 A. ltutledK? ."><? Hover. ."?o lohertsnn . . . . .25 'Atitlien 2ft Robertson 2ft Hammond. .2ft 'Ilia .2ft (tover .20 I f 5.95 riKe me earui and smash ;s into biU? This has been m'ar fear ever since this enly visitor was first obd, along about 12 B C.; but u'horiits now asser? that *e bound to squeeze by with al million miles to spare ? tfews and Courier. Married Man In Trouble. arried man who permits ail, mouithe family to take anything except Honey and Tar. for conghs, colds ng trouble, is guilty of nt jleet. g else is as good for all pulmonary is The genuine Foley's Honey nnd ltuius no opiates and is in a yellow e. s D. Carrier Drops Dead at Circus. aenville, S. C., SDecial in rday's Charlotte Observer: iddy Bramlett, a carrier on r ?l o T7* i \ 'i ni? iv. r. u. routes oil' reenville, dropped dead in 3 tent of Ringling Bros.' i this afternoon. lie was ing the the tent to witness erfortnance and it issuppostat he became overheated waiting for the ga'es to op He fell just as he enteied mt and died belore medical iuld reach him. Saved His Boy's Lite three year ohl boy was badly con1, had a high fever and was in an condition. 1 gave him two doses of Orino Laxative and the next mornfever was goue and he was entirely Foley's Onuo Laxative saved his A. Wolkush, Casimer, Wis. s h Springs Contributors to the Bryan Fund. 'olumbia State of Wednesday, lie Kditor of The State: iclosed you will please find cheek * eontributod by the citizens of ER 24. 1908 YOU AR H INVIT 'Ill OUR m .' You ca bargaii g|{ Shoes, I Fui'nis] ever n call y( that w li a n d i Goods, going a hti OURK satisfie funded. WILLIAM ::'y, <** > ... ...... ural kcat, Coon a Lot of fine home r Goods of all kinds Yo W. Su BP? = CRESCENT (Up-stairs in Moon I A Nice I Meal is a Nice FISH. Wr furnish I ho lish uiu nice the ftppotitt1 < nn't In l.ar^r airy |"arl<Ts \vi let us s?*r\ ? you. .1. k== fr ===== I BESIDES 111 | GB OF i we direct your atte Coffee, 1 1-2 II) c vey's leading E CORDIALLY ED TO VISIT jjj UP-TO DATE STORE IkWi IF 11 * m find the best is in Clothing, BLatsand Gents hings we have ad. We also Dur attention re have some some Dress Silks. Etc., left ,t and below IAI COST 1 tOTTO: If not d money re iSHUGHES CO.* : im i SP ' =r== i RESTAURANT ? B'ld., Cor. Main and Gay Sts.) t you thf appi-tilo. Tin- fish will ho so *11> hoinn nd.v lor it. th Koadint; Kooni nttn< hod. Com# and IOTT. IVopi-ifttoi-. = JB SAVY AND FANCY iOGEElES ? T T f / T \ T rx /-? L I, L. IV 1 IN I J b, ntion to our Jackson Square :ans for 25c, and all of Harbrands of Tobacco, NatRich and Ripe, Red nd Ripe Peaches. nade Molassess and Canned Also country ground meal. >urs to serve, Hivan (Sb Co.