The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 29, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
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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
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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
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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
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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
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r|FROM A LOVER OF BOOKS <
Advice and Instruction as to Their <
( Proper Usage Which Is Well
Worth Consideration.
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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.
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KNOWN AS FRIEND OF BIRDS
IS
William Dutcher Remembered for His
Unceasing Fight Against
Their Enemies.
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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."
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