The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 02, 1908, Page 2, Image 2
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Agricultural
^ Departmer
How to Get Rid of Stumi
\\ a ProirroQuitra Pur mof
JL IIU X A UCO? ? ^ X ??
lew years ago our larm ha(
great many stumps on i',
every field were thousaud*
them, and never having seei
6tump-puller that we thoug
auccesstul, we were in a dilemi
to know what was best to <
We could not use improved fa
machinery to get our crops
and when in we could not t
machinery to harvest it, while
pet labor to cultivate the fie
without breaking tools was (
of the question.
CHEAPER TO PULL STUMPS Tli
URKAK TOOLS.
One day when we were hoei
with a force of hands an age
for improved tools came alo
who said he had been in N
York where tanners considet
it cheaper to take up th
stumps than to work arou
them and break up their toe
This put me to thinking a
figuring. We had over one hi
dred acres ot land that had 1
been cleared long. We be*:
to figure first as to cost of br<
?> A /-v a1 n t hrt -w i * Ir ? > iv n
r II liUVMQ, I IIO JCI rv 111^, auuub
our mules, the dread of labor
plowing iu those fields, li
much more it cost to work stui
fields than those that had no
how much nicer it was to w<
them with stumps out, how me
tools it would save, and h
much better our help would 1
to cultivate them, and how mi
more grain we could make t
save by having the stumps o
We figured it out that the s
ing of our tools and stock,
cheapness ot cultivation by i
proved tools, and the lar
crops we could make and gat
would soon make up tor the c
ol taking out our stumps lie
we made up our mind to f
the task of taking up the stur
from one hundred acres of fie
that had only a tew years
stood in heavy timber.
some expensive expekimk:
i determined that all sho
come. Not one was to be 1<
no matter if as little as a ma
leg or a blue white oak tour 1
across the stump. As 1 h
said, I had never seen a s'ur
puller that 1 had faith in, s
was up to me as to how 1 wa>
get the work done. 1 hired sc
good hands, giving them twen
five cents on an average lor
stumps they would raise ai
we went over with a sixte
pound hammer and knocl
down all we could. We foi
this unsatisfactory, as tiie hai
would lake out the easv ou
leaving the worst, saying M
woolrt L'O hark altar tham t
would pet their pay for wi
they had done, and then
Hence we Abandoned that me
od of litiinp them. We then
several pood mattocks and *h
els, and began with hired ha
by the day to lift them. T
we found expensive Imm
. .,c< that the work was t>urdi
some and dirty. Too much h
work too long at one place, i
not makinp a show, was the
,.om them.
I'RI/KS ANI> DYNA.MITK.
Finally we made a play .
out of it, and we lifted stun
to beat the hand, and never v
we repret what we have d<
from the fact that not a stu
can now be seen in our fie]
Our last and best method '
to po over the fields with a j
teen or eighteen-pound hamt
with an honest strong man, w
instructions to go to every sin
in the fields and knock out
that he could Following 1
wsh a force of three good ha
with a white oak pr?ze pole i
teen teet. long and a fJx8 two-!
block for a heel. In fron!
those men I sent one with a n
THE LAf
tock and shovel to make an opening
for prize pole. The bovt
yf would follow him and one noi
knowing anything about the business
would be surprised to see
3S. how many stumps can be lit tec
A in this way. To do this success
\ a fully 'he ground should be wet
in 'he wetter the better, just so i
df is not 'oo wet to go over. Fol
, a lowing these men we had a mai
* * 1 i nd 1 nrif U or* innK QI\H ?
f||T in ? nit au iuvii uuu ?
nia quarter auger. In every fitum|
jo. that had not been lifted he se
rm lecte 1 the boundest place am
in, bored a hole, sloping it, down
j8e ward as much as possible towan
to 'he tap-root. Following him wa
l(j8 a man with dynamite loadini
)Ut the holes and shooting them
Right here I want to say is when
1 made my luck in getting ou
big stumps, it made no different
how large or tough they were
up they came. Of course, w<
u could not at all times get th<
entire stump out, but we woul<
j have from half to three-quarter
of it out, and sometimes no trac*
01 r
. of a stumn could bo soon excen
a hole in the ground. Some o
' the very large ones we wouh
lu have to load two or three times
,n~ but they came. I consider dyna
? miting them the quickest ani
,an cheapest way to get them out
3 " The only objection I find to th
? method is that some roots ar
ers left in the ground; but 1 don
o w
mind them as much as I do th
entire stump, as we can cult:
"*k vate ()VRr them just as i
thev were not there.
my
ow A PROFITABLE JOB.
ike A poodly part of those stump
jch we hauled to our wood pile. Th
u,d balance we used to burn up th
lUt. fragments left from blasting
av- They make good wood; a dr
the stump or two in an old-lim
im_ country fire-place makes an ej
ger eel lent fire.
her Hence it is that we have a
oat our stumps out of our fields, an
nee we can farm much more easil
are and make much more than b<
nps fore. It was the agent's tellin
dds me that the New York farmei
ago took up their stumps that pi
me to thinking on the subjec
Ts and making one of the best ii
vestments we ever made on ou
uld farm; maybe my writing tlieg
3ft, lines will encourage some or
m's else to go anil do likewise,
eot Kobt. L. Abernethy.
hVe Gaston Co., N. C.
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'Y' .Medicine That Is Medicine
"I have a offered a good deal with ni
lliie loino and jtAn.n/.l, L..1 II. .
tuna nuu huukk u umi |Jiui 11 in, uui l UHl
jy_ now found a remedy that koeps me wel
., and that remedy is Electric Bitters:
'he n,e(iicine that ih medicine for stomach ar
ftei liver troubles, and for rundown contl
tions,'' says W. (J. Kiestler, of Hallida
" Ark. Electric Hitters purify and enri<
L6<1 the blood, tone up th?* nerves, and impn
liul y'kor ,,n<' oner^y to the weak. Your moi
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HQs ")(? ut ). T. Mackey * <-'<?. and Funderhui
? Pharmacy,
,,e'v The Deep-Breathing Curt
I'all-Mall (Jizeite* A bov wti
f/o. . f
" wis con- uinp'ive and was rapi<
lv coing alom: (lie row! to i ti
irQ - n
trrave was taken in hand b\ on
, who uiidnrsioi d deep breaihtn
lids , '
and ilie importance ot propt
j p mastication of i?>? d. etc. He w;
p made to understand precise!
whv deep breathiut: was of sac
"?i(j vital importance and he look
lively interest in his own enr<
cry W.J. . .
lie way fourteen years old. I
I a very few weeks the chance wj
I remarkable. He bejran to
job fiim flesh on his poor lift!
tpH limbs, his chest developed we
vi" and a healthy color came ml
>ne his cheeks. Hi* eyes, whic
n,P were always covered with stie<
l('8 became perfectly tree from then
lVaH,ani in three monthsor less thei
ti*- was no sijm of consumption i
ner him. I may say lie was tr?'att
ytlijonce a week tor half an hour,
mpl ^
A Dangerous Operation.
ltD j js Ujo lemoval of the Appendix by a si;
rids ! g?'on. No one who tnkes I>r. Kind's N<
j Life rills is ever subjected to this tri
" I lul oadeal. They work so <|nietly y<
fOOt | don't feel them. They cure onstipatio
[ 0| headache, biiionsness and malaria 2
i at J. T. Maekey * <o and Fnnrierbn
l*t- | rharmaoy.
4CASTER NEWS, DECEMBER
Breathe More Fresh Air.
' Chester Lantern : Ar one ot
( our parting words, we wish to
beg all the readers of The Lanj
tern to breathe more fresh air.
Throw the windows ot vour bed
room wide open. If jou imagine
1 that it is necessary, put on a lit1
tie more cover, but you will find
that the additional heat-produc1
ing oxygen that you will get
* from the pure air will almost if Yo
not quite make up tor the heat
" of a close room with its impoverished
air. Don't be alraid of
~ "that draft", it is the very thing
many of you are dying for. Don't
8 fear the night air. Don't be
2 careful to shut out the damp air.
Any kind of outside air is better
B than any kind of inside air. Do
' you see those swarthy, delicate
9 children? They are dying for
'* that, draft which their parents
9 are so much afraid will give
3 them theirdeath ot cold. It is
^ better to sleep in the open air at
8 home and thus ward oft consump3
tion than to take the dreadlul
I disease and go to the Adiron
' dicks or Arizona lobe put npon
^ the same treatment that would
? have been a preven'ive at
home. Let the pure hle-giving
air sweep through the house.
e ' " ' " 911
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6 my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed to help '
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lose helped me and improvement kept on
until I had gained 68 ponnds in weight
and my health was fully restored.This - \
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10 Boys Whipped by Night |
Riders.
Wayerly, Tenn., Nov. 28.? '
(* Two hoys by the name of Bik< r, -fj't-i
y living in the soul hern pari of the
:>" county, were laken to the woods
8 last night and civen a severe
1-8 whipping by masked night rid llfll
II ors The reason given by the riders
was ihat the boys would not
v work. John Walker was also
Ir visited by a band of riders who
lirhl ff>r\a/l Kim n t? d < - ' *.v
VT ?ii|/pvu 1111*4 411^1 lui um mill I LI ;
ie run up and down a half mile lane
until he was exhausted. He was
told he had been talking too
much
Coughs tha' are tight, or distressing tick 1
ft. ing coughs, get ?iiii?-k and certain help
t.e troni I)r. Shoop's Cough Iteuifldy. On
1 this account druggists everywhere are
^ favoring I>r. Shoop's tough Remedy.
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v rhe tender haves of a baruilean lung^
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