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-V ? - 'TTVTWf r ' ^ 6 Don't Let Any Muddy Water Leave Your Farm. The farmer who let's muddy water run off his farm is a poor farmer. Muddy water means water freighted with the cream of sour soils, with expensive plant foods; muddy water pouring down our creeks and river means that somewhere soils are gullying, washing and wasting, and farmers are becoming poorer and poorer year after year. Let's stop this waste. Let's henceforth see to it that all wa ters leaving our farms are clear and e'ean, and not carrying w h hem plant foods that have cost us hard work and hard cash. Of course the excess rainfall must be gotten rid of, but let's make it go through the soil* rather than nover it: instead ot letting it rob us, let's make it work for us. Don't ever think this matter | of muddy water is not important for, in truth, it is so very important that the farmer who neglects it is on the road to faslure. Soil maintenance and soil building lie at the very foundation of successful farming, and the man who fails to look to them, as his first, biggest and everpresent job, had better seek another calling. Muddy water and land washing away really mean the same thing, and the longer we study the problem the greater faith have we in winter cover crops of crimson clover, vetch, rye, or oats as a means of solving it. Since the December rains began all cotton fields unprotected by a carpet of green have been wasting their very best plant food elements. Tons and tons of nitrogen, at $500 a ton. have gone, lost to our fi? ds forever. On the other hand, the fields protected by cover crops have not only held their fertility for the summer crops, but where covered with the clovers or vetches, have been enriched with great quantities of nitrogen from the air. 'Let's make the South a land of painted farm houses" has long been a Progressive Farmer slogan ; now we propose another; "A carpet of winter green for every Southern farm." Our choice above all is crimson clover. because it is not only a legume. a nitrogen-gatherer, but it is also well adapted to a wide range of soil and climatic conditions. Next comes vetch, which is a legume and also does well nearly all over the South. But if neither vetch nor clover are grown, rye, preferably Abruzzi, is an excellent winter and spring growth. If none of the above can be planted, ordinary oats, planted in September or October, will, even if plowed under in March, be worth several dollars an acre in keeping the land covered and protected from the winter rains. So really there is a wide list from which a choice mav be made?so wide, indeed, that there is simply no excuse for our leaving our fields in their shameful nakedness. If you can't plant clover or vetch, plant rye; if you can't plant rye, plant oats. And don't just plant patches; plant acres, fields, your whole farm. Paint the winter landscape green; change it from an ugly brown to a bright emerald that will be the talk of the coun-fcy. Progressive farmers every, where are doing this, and finding it the road to wealth, and you, too, can do as well. "A carpet of green in winter for every Southern farm"? won't you help us make this ideal come true by seeing to it that there is one on your fields hereafter? Progressive Farmer. What One Hoy Does Another Can Do. Boys, what Burt Linker has done, is doing, many of you can do. But it takes grit. It takes moral force and determination. It takes will power. It is no easy, slip-shod sort of a comealong, by any means. Energy Anrl Hptpvmintif i<?n qto noa/lnfl ? V.-MWW. V?v/I I 1*1 V, nvtuuvi. You can bet on that, but its worth the effort, for the chances are that ten years from now this boy who is winning his way against odds and succeeding every day, will be far ahead of the boys in Salisbury who were wasting their time while he was "digging"?to make his way and to <*et. his le sons. WW many boys were wa^t. ing their time loafing on the streets of Salisbury this boy was "torofkjng to cet somewhere. While those who had as good a Vrend and fir better oororhini. ties were lo?r'ng through their day, and perhaps missing their sp; . " ' . - ?9H' H We have the E Rights for this ST\NDARr grades at tty? school, Linke was doing his best with a detei [mination to win. Re was workin; and planning for the future. H worked his lessons out in th ! evenings and through the spar moments of the day worked on the difficulties that stood be tween him and college. A bov that can take care o himself thus will take car of himself as a man. Nc only so, but he will tak care of many interests th? need caring for. He wi make money for himself an will serve his state and loc: community with good citizer ship. Boys in Salisbury who ar loafing on the job. wasting thei time, should take a lesson froi th s boy who has brain sufficier and grit sufficient to challenp opposition, overcome difficultic and win every battle in which h engages. Burt Linker is just startinj His whole life is in the futur* He may not succeed, but th chances are that he will succee and in a big way, too. He wi bear watching and trusting. H has a dozen chances to the on of the boy who is loafing his wa through life. His reach grow >nger every day, while the loaJ er's opportunities grow less. Burt Linker has no specif gift that is out of the reach c other lads of today. He has bright mind, but thousands c others have too. Add to his abov the average brain grit and detei mination, untiring energy an strong moral courage and yo Vi o iro oon rot r\ * Kio unlon/li i nn vci VIIV OV/V.I ct vi IIIO ^piuuui beginning. There are man others as well endowed in mental way, but they lack th moral force and determinatioi Those who have the brain an the opportunity find the varioi temptations to loaf away tirr too strong and waste their da> in listless living, hoping for good job to overtake them an force itself upon them. They ai i missing the golden opportunit; iThey should realize it before I is too late. They need the gr (and moral force that is carry in J Burt Linker to the head of h class?to the leadership of a ui iversity with its more than thousand men and boys. Whi he is doing ought to inspsii (other boys to do the same thin ?but emember, boys it takes courage to test out every bit < manhood you have. It is no eaf task. It takes grit and energ given to but few, but it is worl i the trial. The reward is practica ly assured. You can follow this boy if yc will?but you must have a w I good and strong. You car make good and loaf at the san time. The two cannot go t gether. If you would folio Linker you must work and stu( and sacrifice as this boy of mo al courage iis doing.?Salisbui | Evening Post. To Drive Out Mciarla Am* Uulld Up The Syste Take tlie Old Standard OROVE fASTKLKSiS chill 'I ONIC. You kn< ' That you are taking, as the formula tinted on every .'.el, showing it ' luinine and Iron in a toateiena /on '' The Quinine drive* out malaria, t ron builds up *ht ryateui. 50 cer . ' .a../ * - I ll i : LAi- < A.S1 KK NhWS h??n I i|r? "! ^dually ?ln r?;? Exclusive Sellinpr < Great Laxative , tPmjG CO. |; r|FROM A LOVER OF BOOKS < Advice and Instruction as to Their < ( Proper Usage Which Is Well Worth Consideration. e | e | We are . . . exorcising an office of , it | . . . piety when wc treat books cure> fully, and again when we restore them to their proper places and commend ' ,1* them to inviolable custody. . . . We'< ,e deem it expedient to warn our stu . dents of various negligences, which might always he easily avoided and 0 do wonderful harm to bookB. And in the first place as to the opening and 11 closing of books, let there be due mod d "ration, that they be not unclasped In d -cipitate haste, nor when we have j_ hod our inspection to be put away f' out being duly closed. For it beves us to guard a book much more , v.irefully than a boot. . . . Dut the 11 handling of books is specially to be forbidden to those shameless youths, it who as soon as they have learned to j "e form the shapes of letters, straight >3 way, if they have the opportunity, bep | come unhappy commentators, and i wherever they find an extra margin about the text, furnish it with mon? strous alphabets, or if any other friv3. olity strikes their fancy, at once their [(, pen begins to write it. There the Latinist and sophister and every un.. learned writer tries the fitness of his pen, a practice that we have frequentc ly seen injuring the usefulness and IP value of the most beautiful books ... y moreover, the laity, who look at a book s turned upside down just as if it were T open in the right way, are utterly unworthy of any communion with books, i Let the clerk take care also that the . scullion . . . docs not touch the lily leaves of books, all unwashed, but he a who walketh without blemish shall >t minister to the precious volumes. . . . 'e Whenever defects are noticed In r_ books, they should be promptly re(] paired, since nothing spreads more quickly than a tear, aud a rent which j is neglected at the time will have to be repaired with usury.? From the y Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, King's ' Classics Edition. ie KNOWN AS FRIEND OF BIRDS IS William Dutcher Remembered for His Unceasing Fight Against Their Enemies. IT id In the American Magazine appeared *0 an article about William Dutcher, who ^ did more than any other American to it awaken people to the cruelty and stu:i pldlty of slaughtering beautiful and useful birds. He and others Anally succeeded in having laws passed so is far-reaching that they changed the 1 - whole aspect of millinery. In the hard a struggle Mr. Dutcher sacrlAced his it health. Following is an extract from -c the article about him: "Nothing ever tired or discouraged him. Hnriing a day's work in his off Ace, he would Jump on a train to go and do another hardor day's work before midnight among the legislators at T Albany. Politicians lived in terror of -h this 'bird crank.' The aigrette trade, il- which he fought from the first, spiked his guns when it could with a paid )U lobby. He got hard knocks and many iU dofeats, but in 1910 his efforts were .. crowned with success when the Em1 plre state passed the plumage law for14' bidding the sale of 'the white badge of ?* cruelty.' W "Ho never wearied of preaching the ly great value of insectivorous birds to r- agriculture; yet the farmers and fruit ,-y growers of the United States probably never will realize how much his labors __ beneAtod them. lie cared not a feather's wnight who got tbe glory for any of hid wnrW so Innir. >.a It was acconi plifthed. Even the millinery (lenient ? and the 'game hog,' while tbey fought >v' his reforms, admitted his unselttsn]' nesB. There was nothing ho would not do for anyone who showed the i. slightest interest in his hobby." it* "V ' ? r?. - . *" T?"ffBKUARY 29, 1916 A 4^4 A^l 1^4 A1^! 4^A A^A 4-^A. J T"^r"^"'5|ir" 1^ 1|~ AJ^kJ l^kA^kA^A A1^ ^ V A^A A^. A^A ^ WVVf ^ ^ ^rV ? rVVVVV> fY ?Y fY ?t ?v >Ms ? fl p i..j. ^ FY If And Adve | ' THE IN * t*> ?f Y Y |I THIS PAPE H LANCASTEF and is the O > .'*?* that does. Il *** Yf lates in adioini ? Lancaster is M of a Big Trade TX || the people wai || what our mer I to sell. :f :I Some Lice Wi I V ? ^ _ XX ready Advertu || DON' YOU? if XX Our Job Depi || "On Th< | TJ || Lanes || Ne^ < < X < v *t?4X? O 4 ! *X* I Ahmrm JL & ft I JER | rtise in H IEWS If 8 . I == I! YY R COVERS || t COUNTY || NLY Paper If XX t also circu- XX ng counties. H t the center || District and || nt to know If, tt 'chants have ?| !I Y ill II |' j| ill X | t ie g sister 4 ft X Y WS ? 1 ? if M4>>vv ^K^KK?4HK^H?<m>