The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, April 30, 1915, Page 6, Image 6
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/ HOW TO MAKI
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Let us urge the planting of a larg
part of our best lands to corn. That
is, the lands best suited to corn, or
those moist and the best supplied
with humus. We need a large corn
crop in 1315, because it will probably
be high in price, and cotton the only
crop that will be generally grown and
sold to get money with which to buy
corn, is likely to be relatively low in
price. But we do not need corn produced
at the rate of 15 to 20 bushels
per acre, for at that rate it costs too
much. Land that will not grow more
than 20 bushels of corn per acre with
good preparation and cultivation
ohnnl,l I... n,,l in nnwnaac nofiniltu
soy beans, sorghum or sowed to lesoedeza
or other pasture plants and
grazed.
But there is litle cultivated land in
the South that would not produce
more than 20 bushel of corn per acre
if well cultivated. It is now too late
to prepare land for large corn production.
Only years of proper cropping.
with the addition of legumes or
stable manure plowed under in large
quantities, will make a soil that will
produce large corn yields. But thorough
preparation, which means a soil
broken to a good depth and finely
pulverized tree from clods -and
good cultivation might alone increase
our corn yields five to ten bushels
per acre, and it is probable that just
the area now planted to corn would
supply all our needs if each acre produced
even 30 bushels per acre. This
is not a high yield and could be made
the Southern average with little more
than good seed, better preparation
an dsuitable cultivation. Large yields
as already stated, can only come after
years of good farming by which our
soils are filled with decaying vegetable
matter to supply nitrogen and
hold the moisiore needed in such
large quantities by the corn crop.
Tn short wo must this vear denend
Rural And Urb
It is one of the encouraging signof
the times that all sorts and conditions
of men are taking a new inter
est in the possibilities of soil production
,in the growing of beef and
pork, in dairying, horticulture and
the like."
This remark has a singularly
Southern tone; it might have come
from any of the colleges or journals
that are working for the agricultural
development of Georgia and neighbor
States. The fact is, however,
it comes from the Manchester (New
Hampshire) Union and reflects a sentiment
that is now astir throughout
New England. The East, the South
and the West are all concerned more
keenly than ever before with those
questions which lead back to the soil,
there is a national awakening to the
importance of the farm, a national
cognizance of the truth that all practical
interest lean upon agriculture.
And that is a very hopeful augury of
the country's future.
The fact that "all sorts and con
ditions of men," merchants, manufacturers,
bankers and railway officials
as well as farmers, are now in
terested in the possibilities of tlie soil
means a vast deal to economic progress
and security. It means, as tlu
Manchester Union says, "that there is
a greater appreciation than formelj
of the need of intelligent co-opera
'ion in everything that relates to th<
food supply?the increase of the pro
duction per acre, whenever possibile
transportation, marketing and th<
whole problem of distribution in it!
many factors and phases." Tiie Intel
dependence of town and country, th<
vital connection between crops am
commerce, the mutual interest o
city consumer and rural produce
are all receiving belated recognition
The inevitable result will be more efl
cient and more prosperous living.
Times was when rural and urbai
affairs were treated as though the;
were in no sense related; the cit;
and the country were indifferent, i
not antagonistic, each to the other
What a change has come to pass
In Georgia, for Instance, progressiv
farmers and progressive busines
men are now working shoulder b
shoulder through the state C'hambe
of Commerce for the upbuilding o
the commonwealth. Branches o
this organization are being establish
ed in every county among merchants
farmers and bankers. The people ar
awakening to their broad, commoi
interests, are realizing that there ar<
certain problems which they mus
solve together or not at all, and cer
tain opportunities which they mus
develop cooperatively or fail to en
Joy.
This liberal, constructive spirit it
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BIG CORN
IPS THIS YEAR
;e largely on better preparation and
cultivation to All our corn cribs. Com
niercial fertilizers are only profitable
on corn when used in moderate quantities
and with more knowledge than
the average farmer possesses. Nitrogen
is the chief need of the corn ~rop
but on most soils phosphorus is r.eed
ed and on some soils potash is also
required.
We suggest that the best means
left at this late date to increase the
corn crop are good breaking and
thorough pulverizing of the soil.
Let us insist that no corn be planted
this year until the ground is finely
pulverized. Clods can be broken
mnrn oimilv nniflflv nnil pcniinniicnl.
ly before the crop is planted, and a
day or two spent in fining the soil
will not only make a better crop but
it can also be more cheaply cultivated
and will not be later than the
crop planted on land left cloddy to
save time and get it in early. After
the crop is planted, on well prepared
land, the smoothing or section
harrow is the best and most economical
implement for early cultivation j
of the crop. Labor-saving implements
cannot be used in cultivating
it the land has not been well prepared.?The
Progressive Farmer.
More young colts probably die
I from getting too much milk the first
few weeks than front any other cause
| Avoid over feeding the mare the first
two weeks, and if she is a heavy j
milker increase the feed slowly and
gradually. When the colt is two j
months or more old it will take lots
of milk and the mother should be i
fed liberally cn milk-making feeds:
I green grass, legume hays, oats, cottonseed
meal (two pounds per day.)
t Corn is good, but alone is not a suitable
feed. Also start the colt eating
oats and good grass hay as early as
possible.? The Progressive Farmer.
an Co-operation
nanifest in every part of the country
. ! or at least in every region where
men are looking thoughtfully for
ward. In New Kngland there is the
: ''deration for Rural Progress, coinposed
of one hundred and thirty
societies and agencies, representing
six States. Among these constituent
l.rwlioa oro n?i>i/i?l(nra1 nnl.
leges, state departments of agriculture,
farmers' organizations, teachers'
associations, public health oflicials,
railroad agencies and boards
of trade. The thought and energy
of the entire section, urban and
rural alike, have turned unitedly to
those problems that center in the
soil.
To solve or simplify such problems
is to advance ihe welfare of all the
people, for, every phase of our
economic life is related in one way
or another to agricultural conditions.
The high cost of living is largely a
, question of food production and disribution.
Beef is high mainly because
of a decline in cattle raisins.
Other table supplies are high chiefly
because of inadequate facilities for
marketing. These are matters in
which "all sorts and conditions of
1 men" may well bo interested, for
they vitally affect every household.
They affect the purchasing power of
5 most incomes and to a considerable
' degree determine the advantages
which most homes may enjoy.
5 Increase the production of food,
and the problem of food cost will
yield. Increase and perfect facilities
s for the distribution of food and both
9 town and country will profit. It is
r proverbial that in many instances the
l: cost of marketing a farm product is
1 far greater than that of producing It,
1 Of the consumer's dollar, the farmer
r frequently receives only twenty or
thirty cents, while the remainder is
" frittered away through cumbersome
processes of exchange.
There must he closer relationships
y between the city and the country, if
y either is to thrive as it should. It is,
' 'ndeed, one of the encouraging signs
' of the day that these relationships
' are now developing. They betoken a
6 new era of prosperity and contents
ment, an age of richer production,
t> easier living and wider opportunity.
r ?Atlanta Journal.
f Ilea l Off the fly.
The house fiy'sfavorlte breeding
place is in manure piles. Fighting
'* the fly after it is grown is work that
3 involves immense labor in propoi
rtion to the comparatively simple
3 and easy task of killing the maggots
.and prevent the eggs from hatching.
The ?<fiost effective way of
fighting flies is by fighting them in
t their breeding places. Write to the
entomologist of Clemson College for
instructions in the use of powdered
borax for treating manure for fly
J prevention.?Kershaw lira.
THE LANCASTER NEWS.)
LEST WE FORGET. , !
There has been organized In Richmond
Ya., the Thos. J. Jackson Mor.u !
nient corporation, whose object i3 to (
rear in the city of Richmond, Va., j
an appropriate equestrian statue to ;
the memory "of that incomparable j
hero" whose military genius was and I
is the admiration of the whole world.
James Power Smith is the head of
the corporation and E. D. Hotchkisa I
is treasurer. At the general reunion
in that city in May, the corner stone
will be laid with appropriate ceremones.
While we would like to see reared J
in South Carolina suitable mentor
ial to Miach Jenkins and Dunovant
and Abner Perrin and Stephen El
liott and Gist, Barnard E. B^e and
other heroes, all of whom were
wounded to death, yet the call for a
monument to Jackson has a claim upon
the hearts of us all. He typified ;
the south, the covenanter south, Leo j
Beauregard, the Johnstons, these and j
others were the cavaliers, a gracious. ;
kindly race of men, but Jackson was ;
the oriflanime in battle, the lighting ;
bolt, unexpected, resistless. To his j
memory the whole suoth owes some i
thing, for to his death the north owes ;
victory.
Fifty years ago the fair nation of
the south was in lamentation, '"or
Jackson had fallen, the usclessnoss
of the struggle had become np| rent.
Lee had surrendered, and President
Davis was trying to get to the west
to maintain a form of g >vernment
there.
Fifty-four years ago a; Murta^sa.Jackson
was as always, oihlliant ami
fearless in defense and under the
biting test of ? fire no man then or
thereafter found aught nut the clear
sheen of pure metal. It was on this
field that Barnard E. Bee, his knightly
comrade, about to die, called him i
"Stonewall."
This new name represented to
Jackson's comrades, those studry
gentlemen who made up the rank
arid file of the Confederate army, the
synonym of strength and steadiness,
and was peculiarly suitable to his
character, and until his death on the
field of battle, his life stands as a
clear proof, that these gallant I
Southern soldiers, themselves and
their motives unsullied, knew by instinct
the real man from the counterfeit.
Neither cenataph nor words of
genius and impetuous valor of the
intuitive and lightning-like strokes
of his attack and even the very name
Stonewall," but faintly conveys an
idea of Jackson's impenetrable and
unlovable defense against odds un|
heard of in other wars.
His marvelous campaigns are
now used by students of strategy
everywhere, but his fame as a soldier
was exceeded by the love and almost
idolatrous confidence in the man,
which was displayed by his warworn
comrades and it can be said
truly of himself and his cause "that
none died with more honor or more
glory, though many died and there
was both honor and glory."
In all these years, there in the
former capital of the Confederacy,
no equestrian statue of Stonewall
Jackson has been raised but we will
' without fail build one now. We
people of all the south and the happiest
feature of the coming reunion
1 will be the ceremonies incident to
: he laying of the corner stone.
. "-h-.T+r....n
HELP ME
I ffrt K
i To be more true and good from day
today.
i And Just a bit more fair in some
small way.
To think some kindly thing of all the
folks I know,
And in the presence of distress a
helpful spirit show.
' Ta ti,w linr'n hnavv wad In
1 U IVCCp ill J U* UVIIV* o 11VU T / ? W ill
mind,
And hour by hour and day by day be
truly kind.
To share some weary travler's crushing
load,
And lead some wanderer back into
the road.
To be forgiving and from censure
free,
And be to others what I'd have them
be to me.
To know that He is with me every
day.
And be quite sure He hears me when
I pray.
-?Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D.
Cleaning l!p Then ami Now.
Wonder if people and towns really
"clean up" more or better than
they used to do when so much was
not said about it and not so much
flourish and blowing of trumpets.
We can't help doubting It a little as
j to their back yards and other places
jout of sight of the public?Newberry
j Observer.
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lPRIL 30, 3915.
The Pubfic Healt
And Its I
Address before the Civic League
Monday afternoon by Dr. Jas. Kibler.
Pubil8hed by request of the
league.
I have been asked to speak te you
on the health of our community and
its most imperative needs.
A community is a collection of people
in a given territory or in a specified
locality, bound together for the
common interest of nil and the mutual
welfare and protection of each
one.
Self-preservation or self-protection
Is the first law of Nature, and what
is true of an individual is equally true
of a community or a collection of individuals.
in ortter to enjoy tne otesstngs of
self-preservation one cannot wait until
his safety is in peril; out rather in
the time of apparent security is it
wise to prepare against the evils that
may unexpectedly befall him. In the
affirs of state the wise leader will advise
against war by preparing for it
in time of peace. This is equally true
in all social and economic questions;
and is preeminently true in the question
of public health.
No one deliberately chooses to lie
sick any more than he would choose
to receive a personal injury. If there
were danger of bodily harm to an individual
or community threatened by
some enemy, self-protection would be
the first instinct of Nature to assert
itself, and resistance, or at least an
effort at self-preservation and selfprotection,
against a known and visible
foe would be immediately manifest.
Men would be willing to offer
their lives in the defense of their
terial wealth In checking an invasion
homes and spend largely of their material
wealth in checking a ninvasion.
When it can be successfully shown
to the mind of the' average citizen
i that we have such a foe constantly
! jeopardizing our health and general
welfare, we shall be more alert in
preventing his attacks and counteract
in gand repairing the injuries inflict'
ed.
Vital statistics tell us that one-half
of all human suffering is caused by
preventable diseases. These diseases
are caused by their respective germs.
I and scientific medicine has studied
their cause, nature and prevention
and nothing remains to be done but
the public execution of this knowledge.
Pasteur has said: "It is in the power
of man to cause all germ diseasp
to disappear from the world."
Disease is a common foe to man,
and the individuals of every community
are equally susceptible to its influence;
and only the physically
strong can In any way resist; and the
weak readily succumb to it.
Public health and how to protect
and preserve it, should be the watchword
of every one.
Those thlvgs that cause or tend to
produce impaired health in a community
are derived from one or more
of the following sources: Impure
drinking water or ic??- impure milk,
fresh meats or vegetables and fruits:
impure fish; improper and unsanitary
sewerage and plumbing; impioper
surface closets of privies; lack of pre
caution in contagious and infective
diseases; the improper disposition of
the garbage of prem'ssu and of the
puolic streets; the igiorance or in
ri'fterence of the public in preventing
H You Nee<
PW There are times In e\
Lsi needs a tonic to help ]
When that time comes t(
to take?Cardin, the worn
posed of purely vegetal
r-1 gently, yet surely, on the
and helps build them ba<
KM It has benefited thousanc
I rij ailing women in its past
j&sjfl success, and it will do tl
You can't make a mi
1 cat
|S| The Won
Qg Miss Amelia Wilson
says: "I think Cardui is th
for women. Before 1 b
I??? so weak and nervous,
lTI spells and a poor appetiti
as strong as I ever did,
f j Begin taking Cardui tod;
HI Has Helpei
L)wwwww^
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fa of Newberry
mperative needs
the development and multiplication
of (lies, mosquitoes and other insects
that act as common carriers of disease;
the neglect of screen inn homes
markets and green groceries against
such insects; and last, but by no
means least, is the sad .need of a
public playfround for the children
and a park or parks for the out door
recreation and exercise and amusement
of all, and the medical inspection
of school children and buildings.
The sanitary ordinances of our
town should be revised. The commissioner
of health should be u physician
who gives his whole time to
the duties of his ofllce. We should
have a central sanitary abattoir, to
which place all animals intended to
be sold at the markets should be carried
for inspection and slaughter
I and sanitary handling of the meat.
The daries should be regularly inspected,
and the milk sold to the citizens
examined when deemed advisable.
All markets and green groceries
should be screened against flies
and dust.
Xono but a licensed plumber
should be allowed to do plumbing in
j our town.
| Sewerage should be in all thickly
settled sections of the town. All surface
closets should be sanitary and
fly-proof, and cleaned out once a
week by the city authorities.
All horse or cow stables or pens
should be cleaned once a week, or the
manure kept in piles and lime or borax
or a solution of arsenate of lead
applied once a week to kill all flies
that may be present. The hogpen
law should be strictly enforced. The
law against spitting on the streets
should be oboyed by all and enforced
most rigidly. Garbage cans should be
used by all, and the city council carry
out its ordinance as to the removal of
all garbage on the days specified. The
law as to the dumping ground of garbage
should be observed by the cit.v
authorities.
No arguments are needed to show
the necessity of such health regulations,
when we know that more thai
half of our suffering is due to con
tagion and that "contagion is an off
spring of dirt, a relative of disease
and a chum of death." It is due tc
gross neglect and a multitude of ex
cuses. Contagion is not a necessarj
evil- hilt is nrpvontnlilo nn/1 lc or>roo.
by carelessness.
In this connection I would mentioi
the crime of some parents in expos
ing their children to certain eonta
gious diseases, as measles, whoopini
cough, etc, arguing that they mus
have such ailments some time in lift
and it is better to have them whib
young.
Hecause contagion may not leav*
visible marks is no proof that il
health in some future day may not hi
traced directly to its influence. Tin
child's health may be imparied foi
life by the misconduct or ignoranci
of those in charge. Besides, in tliii
way contagion is increased an<
spreads in a community. Many phy
sical and even mental cripples ar<
victims of its destruction.
In this connection the argument
for medical inspection of schools ar<
apparent; and the regular and peri
odic fumigation of all public build
ings, such as courtrooms and publh
offices, moving picture galleries an<
theatres, county jails and municipa
prisons. It seems to me that a cit
MUUULJLffl
d a Tonic E
try woman's life when the PS
her over the hard places.
> you, you know what tonic BM
an's tonic. Cardui is comale
ingredients, which act gQi
weakened womanly organs,
ck to strength and health.
is and thousands of weak. K55
half century of wonderful CT,
he same for you. w|
istake in taking
MHJIg
tan's Tonic p
, R. F. D. No. 4, Alma, Ark., Bfi|
e greatest medicine on earth,
egan to take Cardui, 1 was
and had such awful dizzy BS
5. Now I feel as well and k
and can eat most anything " Bfi
ly. Sold by all dealers. p*
1 Thousands. , m
101 w
izen would have u just ground of suit
against any authority that might im
prison him^in an unsanitary place.
Cleanliness is a civic, social and
health requirement, and its enforcement
is imperative.
Or if we should plead for public
health from a business or monetary
standpoint solely, it could be shown
that it pays. Suppose a community
I has a death rate of ten per thousand
and as statictics show that one half
of these die of preventable diseases,
it is apparent that twenty-five or thirty
people die in Newberry every year
whose lives should not be lost. What
would these lives be worth to the com
munity if annually saved? Another
has said: "Registration is beekkeep|
ing. The entries are lives and health
or death and disease, just as in ordinary
business the entries are credits
and debits of dollars notes bonds
and merchandise. No banker would
loan money to a concern that does
not keep books. No man or woman
should be willing to invest a family
in a community that does not keep
books."
How would the health books of our
community appear if properly audited
or inspected?
We need stricter health dules; wo
need more rigid enforcement of all
I sanitary laws. ? Newberry Observer. 4
1
To Prevent Blood Poisoning s
i ?*.ptv at once the wonderful old reliable I"-R *
| I "OUTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL. n v.irI
iicnl drcsstuK thai relieves pain auu heal* a-.
I 'he seme time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. "l-'-':>,
Whole Family Dependent. /
Mr. H. Williams. Hamilton, Ohio,
! v rites: "Our whole family depend
on Pine-Tar-Honey." Maybe someone
in your family has a severe cold
I ?perhaps it is the baby. The original
Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is an
ever ready household remedy-?it
gives immediate relief. Plne-lar' cnev
pBtiorates tlv? linings of tbe
| throat and lungs, destroys the g?;ms.
and allows nature to act. At your
druggist,
2 Drops of GETS-IT,"
Out Gomes the Corn!
It's the World'o Wonder; Never Fails.
j YouH make roo-roo eyes nt your feet,
after you use "GKT8-IT," and you'll I1IM
the places where those blankoty corns
used to be, Just us smooth as your cheek.
\yj/
' "How Wid? U a GETS-IT SmiU ? Wall.
Good Daal Over 2 Faatl"
e There's no corn or callus anions the
millions of feot In tho world that "GET81T"
will not remove?there's no escape.
1 "GETS-IT" Is the new way. the simple.
1 I common-sense, sure way. It does away
with greasy ointments, salves, pads, cot*
& , ton rings, harnesses, knives, scissors.
e razors, flies, and the limping and tho
painful pigeon-toe walk of so many corn*
r pestered people. All you do Is put 3 drops
B of "GKTS-IT" on?the corn shrivels upend
good bye. Nothing else In the world
* like "GETS-IT." Millions are using It.
] There's no pain, no trouble, no ohanglng
shoes because of corns.
" | "GBTS-IT" Is sold by druggists every*
B I where, 26o a bottle, or sent direct by K.
Lawrence A Co., Chicago.
Sokl in Lancaster and recommends
ed as the world's best Corn Cure by
the Lancaster Pharmacy and J. F.
Mackey Company.
c
IThouse
; BURNS
as easily when times are hard
I as when times are godd. How
would it be with you should
your house burn now, if you
bave 110 insurance. The
Farmers Mutual policies cover
! F'lre, Wind and Lightning.
Addr-.sn
D. E. BONEY,
Yorkville, S. C.
i
Notice of Discharge.
j Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned will, as executor of the
I estate of J. Thomas Faile, deceased,
ion the 21st day of May, 19^6, make
his final return as such executor and ^
apply to the probate court of Lancaser
county for letters ttismissory.
JOHN R. FAILE.
. xecutor Estate of J. Thomas Faile,
Deceased.
April 20, 1915.
Notice of Discharge.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned will, as committee of
the estate of Mary Ida Robertson,
deceased, on the 20th day of May,
1915, make his final return as such
committee and apply to the probate
court of Lancaster county for letters
missory.
JAMES MILTON ROBERTSON.
Committo Estate of Mary Ida Robertson,
Deceased.
April 20th, 1916.
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