Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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10 AaV 4^4 A A 4^ VT ^ ^ I I B( YY YY L ii v YY YY 11 t ? ft Tf ft TV ft || TELEPt I? 19 if I 4^A A^A A^A A^V 4^4 4^4 a^A A^A A^A A^A A^A J^. GOOD ADVICE To the Editor of The News: I I wish to thank the editor and I staff of The Lancaster News for its 1 splendid news columns and for pub- i lishing my little articles. i It has been so hot and dry that all my young clover has died and I , have been very blue over losing the , clover, but since the rains have come I have plenty of clover. That is the | beauty about burr clover. Its seed , never all come at once, but every ( shower of rain fall in warm weather | it Till keep coming up and keep coming because it has so many seed to the burr, and it once souueu uu a ; piece of land it takes time to get , rid of it. If you will let the seed i mature, which will be by the middle ( of May, then you have time to make , u crop on the land and when you lay , by the crops it will come again and . If it in dry and it dies, when it rains , it will come again and continue to , come. I have experienced all these , things this year by destroying 10 or | 15 stands in working the crops on , the clover sod and having the j drought to kill it and now since the . rains have come, I still have plenty ( clover and more coming, so you see ] there is no way to get rid of it if the , seed is allowed to mature. I am told , that in the town of Winnsboro it has i almost taken the streets and gardens , and has almost become a pest, bet , on tb eother band I am told there are) j more fat milch rows stake ! on around that town then any other, , town of its si/e In the South. i Mr. Lambert of Alabama started with one Jersey cow and 4 0 acr> * 01' land nut many years auo. and to- 5 day he Is Immensely wealthy and f has made his fortune from Jersey I rattle and burr clover. One of mv r neighbors told me today that he had sowed 90 bushels and after this yea* expected to bow no other kinds, b\i' i the barr, because it is ho much easiei handled and will mature 10 days earlier than the crimson. I myself 1 Relieve in burr clover and expect to and my farm in it just as soon as ' yoaaible. 1 We have another clover here that aar people seem to disregard, and c tlrat is the Japan. It makes the < nest kind of pasture and seems to * fca nature's clover because It will i ' a* JOST "WE W r iONE: ?9 A^4 A^A A^A 4^4 ^ ^ ^ T^y ^jr ^ TO FARMERS urow anywhere. You may cut the limber off the land and in three years it will be sodded in Japan clover and 110 one seems to know how it gets Lhere, but it will be there. Lancaster is a great county, her mils will grow almost any and every crop successfully that we know of. Hut at the present time 1 think her best money crops are corn, clover, cattle and hogs. I mean the dairy type of cattle. We are not ready for the big beef cattle, because we haven't the permanent grasses that I have tried to get our people to sow nd it will probably be years before iiur people will give up the cotton for the permanent grasses and beef cattle. But young men, there is one that you can do and that is to lease ?ome of these old cotton farms, get i few Jersey cows, start a dairy farm Sell cream and raise hogs on the skim milk. This all takes work and attention, but to make a puccess in life we have to stay on the job. The man who has the cotton will aeon have the corn and clover. I was in \ corn field today that will make 70 or 75 bushels of corn per acre. It has been in corn and clover for t! roe years. ! know of a man who bus seven acres of the poorest, rockiest land I ever saw and raises enough ?orn and clover on that piece of land to run his two horse farm. He said ne used to think lie couldn't raise (, '] un 1 ess he ha(i bottom land n. ro\y the com oil. it in bottoms are iow growing up in agli and willows ?nd lie is raisins cattle. I know of another man who five rears ago commenced manuring and lowing clover 011 an old worn-out lottom that was above high water nark and the other day walking hrough the corn he pulled out a heck hook and said "I will write you l check for six hundred dclla*n for he six acres of land." I said, "No" 'Well, then," he said, "I w'U writ* i'x hundred for the corn and clover rop that la on it now." I aald, "No, hat is all the corn and clover that [ kniro > Just across the ditch there Is an >ther p'at of corn tnat the father lid to the son five years a*o, "If yon vlll p"t all the manure that jon nake on your one horse farm. I will THE LANCASTER NEWS row /ANT TC CARNE! DEAU Heavy and Fancy Hardware Wp MaU flip Pamnnc 'THPl IV V IIIHIIV UIV JL UU1VUU VWl i "Make Our Headquart< .1 p? . the tiiitirc A^A J.^A *VA A^A * ATA Jl^A A^t A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A jK f^f ^~ <|> 1^' 1^1 give you all you make on it. Last, year it mid-? 126 bushels p-r acie. 't is thought i 'vi'i go j r? i this year. So you see what clover, manure and work will do. Mr. Lazenby, go ahead with your creamery in Lancaster, '.nn.'t fail to trganize. I believe it will no worth more w tne people in * his t u-.tv than your oi< mill, your guano factory i r the best paying bank ;n Lancaster. Never let a good thing go down. One of my neighb . >, Mr. Cumiingham, milks six cows and ships creant twice a week to the Monroe cream .-i>. i sum. ? ik'.i was your CI19CK last month?" he said "$42.81." Mr. Howie also milks two o?" the best tows you ever saw. His creamery check averages $21 per month. Mr. Kerr milks 15 cows, his check ranges front $105 to $115 per month. These men all raise hogs. Mr. Cunningham said his 13 hogs would average 3 00 pounds each and hadn't eaten anything except the milk and some sorghunt cane. He said it took him two hours in the morning and two in the evening to feed, milk turn out the cows and litter the stall* The remainder of the day he looked after his farm or carried cream to the express office. fcet Lancaster organize the cream:;-.K+-: +:-+ * $ JOY IN + There is lots of joy in livintr if Hf? If you always cm iij> smiling ii 4. If you're keeping step and whlf ^ You'll ho living gay and happy a Keep a level head, don't worry, Lot the sunshine *?1" good humor + Speak a cheerful word at all time And you'll surelj be rewarded? ^ There is lots of joy in living if ; Lots of sunshine and of roses, ke S Look behind the clouds of trout J And you'll find it if you're only I i Scatter good cheer like the thist X And the petty woes and troubles T He a "booater" every minute, hel X A n/f v Att'll anwolw W? "?^ J ^ ii omri; UT7 I r w?| umj, H < > 5, OC TOBER 19, 1915. ?x ?* ! ?? ? flOA )UR BUSi ; BROS. :rs in Groceries; Fertilizers and Stoves. FRIGHT" Flour a Specialty Store Your srs During > Fair" A^A a4A AJ f* t0t % ^^*5 A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A eriea and the industrious, working young men of the county raise the clover, cattle, pork, cream and dairy attle. T. W. 8ECEE8T. Osceola. S. C. FOR MOTHERS AND FATHERS. Mothers, fathers, teach your children stability, the value of sticking tn it Prnm their narlv venrs instil int othem how important it is that they should learn patience and thoroughness. Teach them to be thorough at their games, at their home lessons and above all let them learn that to succeed in anything they must first plod patiently through drugery. Those who want to skip drugery and leap at once into doing checked in early life. The worker in real life who has won a good position has generally done so by first, passing through a lot of irksome tasks. Teach your children when they are young, the importance of doing little things well, and tell them that in time this will lead them to accomplish big things. Children, as a rule, are impatient and do not like drugery. But if they are taught that insignificant things well done may lead to much bigger things later on. they will be learning a lesson which will one day be of great value to them.?Ex. ** i?. ?;i.i ri i 11.11 i.i t LIVING | you strike the proper gait; 11 the fare of every fate, itling some lively little tune, T s a summer (lay in June, help your brothers on the way. jA shine upon you ev'ry day; s, never "knock" your fellowman T -Just keep doing all you can. you live your life aright, >ep your eyes turned to the light, ? ?le; there's s silver lining there. T living life upon the square. T le scatters seed before the wlsd, X soon will be left far behind. + Ip along your fellow man % just keep doing e'l von can. ? ?Exchange. * f . ,',4 . F- ^ ie cn virnnntt WliLZSr I ) MAIN ST Lancaste $? *> K+K* K(MDS 4M) i Spartanburg Herald. Dr. David M. Steele, a prominent Philadelphia clergyman, who contributes feature stories to The Evening Ledger, of that city, has recently been telling, in his peculiarly delightful way, some of his observations on a trip to the Pacific coast, where he visited the two expositions that have attracted thousands from the east during the past summer. Referring to the remarkable development of the motion picture industry at Universal Cty?a community whoso buildings and streets can he readily made to represent the various interesting cities of the world by a sort of presto change arrangement?Dr. Steele makes the following pertinent observations upon the roads of the Pacific coast and those which connect that wonderful section with the inland and the Fast: "I visited one day the busy offices of the National Automobile Tourists' Association at San Francisco. There I learned that, over tho main three transcontinental routes, the National Park highway, the Lincoln highway and the Santa Fe trail, there has been ar. average of one party arriving every five minutes in the day this summer at tho coast. Of these three modern roadways m/ny portions are beginning to rival in skilful engineering the French highways and In I scenic grandeur the mountnin r*??aa?o of Switzerland. Added to these is the Pacific highway, which is a complete system of roadways north and south, connecting llritish Columbia with the southern limit or Callforina, a total distance of 2,000 miles. Along this ('amino Real, the motorist 1 guides h'.B car over a road as perfect In its way as is the gently tempered climate, which makes the trip a possible one at any time of the twelvemonth. Who hoe built these roads, i and why? "Many a Western city's Chamber of Commerce has Joined In memorializing the national government for the bn'.lding of better roads from ocean to ocean, and from Canada to Menlco, fa'rly grldironfng the country. Their reasoning Is something I like this: Cows make cowpsths from the pasture to the yard, and docks and geese from the pond to their % % aA FT t I ?T XX *!*?> H ?x TT XX TT TT XX TT XT TT Xt TT TT TT TT TT REET || r, S.C. || :p: ^ w . ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA^ ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA > ^TT^T^T + T^f ^ ^ If CIVILIZATION 3helter at night. A savage is simply one who dwells in the woods; no roads are known to savage bar barlsm. Even early civilization was content with a sufficient trail along i which the horseman rode. But with the invention of the first crudewheeled vehicle came the necessity for something more. It was observed in ancient times that all roads led to Home. That city was the centre of the civilization of its day; hence roads were the concomitant and the insignia of the civilization of the Eternal City in its pristine glory. With the further development of clvIzation came the railway with its ! steel tracks for freight and passenger cars, so that, to write a history of roads from the cowpath and the trail of the trunk line railroad, would be to write a history of civilization; the two would go hand in , hand, with equal steps, on every I page of the history of the race. "Now something else has como. I The automobile has brought into ex- * I istance the no?a - * nil syHlODlB or smooth, hard highways. Nor is this I reasoning only national; it has international illustrations." Dr. Steele's statement that the ; history of reads ts a history of civl' lization is a striking one and at once a true one. In this connection it | cannot escape notice that Russia, the great empire that we sometimes call ' barbarous, and whose civilization is certainly far from abreast of othe. Kuropean nations, is woefully lacking in roads and railroads. In the highly civilized nations of Europe the roads are among the most important developments. This situation is but another evidence of the correctness of I)r. Steele's observa| lion that civilization and road-building go hand in hand. Let us have better roads. Oar I Eastern mountains must hare sack highways as thoas that cross the Hockies. And it u ?? ? .? ?M %u?? uirooiiOV we are working. Romance to Reality. Olrts ere such pentlmental creatures that It gives romance a rude Jolt when the honeymoon Is over and they aee Algernon In hie shirt sleeves, cho* pins up kindling wood out In the bask yard.?Florida Tlaaea-Uataa.