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? 4 M?M???? Openini We Announce a SA" Ymi arp invitpd tn cao \ - V BUVI1VU IV VVV I sonable. However, it \ sold out there wiD prob cause we know you wit ]THEF WHAT FARMERS 1 By W. P. S * ' Barren Tree. i "I have a barren fig tree, What i can I do to make it fruitful?" Dig it up and throw it away and 1 plant some of the Celestial and ! Brown Turkey. Your tree is proba- ] bly a seedling from the dried Sinyr- 1 na tigs and will never bear here, as < we have not here the insect that sets < the fruits where the dried figs are .' grown. ? I Soft Scale. t "1 send some ferns -with some kind 1 of insect on them. What shall I do 1 to destroy them?" ' Most ferns do not like to have their fronds sprayed, but in this case it will be necessary. The insects are soft scale or Decani urn. f Make a strong decoction of tobacco | and make soapsuds with it and use ] this for spraying the plants. Keep f the plants from the direct rays of j the sun. i Clover Seed in Hull. s "I have some crim?r?n rlnvor 1 rathered with a stripper, and peo- ' iple want to buy it, and I do not know what it should be worth In that 8 state. What should it be worth?" 1 If the heads were well filled with ' seed I would say that at present * prices for clean seed the seed in the * hulls should be worth about eight s cents a pound. That would be a very fl good price for them. I I Raw Rock Phosphate. ^ "I send herewith the circular of a ' manufacturer of the Tennessee phosphate rock. What do you think of this article?" I think It is an excellent thing for A a good farmer, but a very p'oor thing a for a poor farmer. That is. where n the farmer practices a good rotation i and increases the humus in his soil from the use of the legume crops and y stable manure; he can use the raw a rock profitably. Hut the all-cotton r, farmer who grows crops on thin ? land devoid of humus and depends v on fertilizers to make the crops, will c find it a very slow article to get in p available condition for plants. So it depends almost entirely on how t the farmer farms or whether he is a e Teal farmer or only a planter. I f Tomato la>af Might. t "I had an acre and a quarter of to- y matoes this summer which paid me t $280, and but for the vines taking c the rust or leaf spot I would have r made nearly twice as much. I have 1 turned the vines down and intend to p sow crimson clover, and set in tomatoes agnin in the spring. Do you think this will pay?" Your tomatoes were attacked by p the Cladosporum fungus and you n could have prevented it by regularly 0 spraying them with Hordeaux mixture from the time they were set till n the fruit was half ftrown. It is a good it plan to follow with crimson clover as r a winter cover, but I would not ad- a vis? planting the same land in tomn- l, toes next spring. You will simply be t inviting more disease. Better use the ji clover for some other crop and ma- a nure another plot for tomatoes. t ' r i lteinovlng Stumps. p |r? "What is the quickest, most ef- a fectlve and economical way to re- T move long leaf pine stumps from a which the timber has Just been cut?" c The quickest and most expeditious j w way is to employ a man used to!a handling dynamite and let him blow. a " i 4 I ISIMBiHHHHHi wMf* MUMj [ Displa . Grand Opening Dii rURCM these woolens the nattpmc -m v W.WMVJ ?HV HU * -M vill pay you to be measured i ably be Inferior goods offered I be delighted with every deb suits t; L & B, 1 PT TO KNOW I ; IASSEY up the stumps after getting the dynamite down into the big tap rout. . Years ago when I was connected with the North Carolina iRxperimont ^ station we denied some loty: leaf ' pine land for experimental purpose*. * IVe made a contract with a man to dear the ground by the acre. He lug down alongside the big long leaf ^ dumps and started a tire and the! dumps and roots, being full of tur-|C Y pontine. soon caught tire and burned f hrough so that the stump was easily lauled out. This 1 believe Is tbe ' nost economical way with this kind s if stumps. \ M uking a I.aw it. "My lawn is covered with wild c grasses and white clover. I wish to nake a pretty lawn of it. What havl y I better do? What flower or shrub e dial! I plant on a steep hill slope Jo c irevent washing?" Hotter break the lawn up dc. ply ^ ind put in good order, harrowin- in g icme lime, and then in October sow ji mixture of Kentucky blue grass. ^ ed top and perennial rye grass in F iqual parts at the rate of 50 pounds g in acre and brush in lightly. To a irevent the slope from washing plant ? f in Vinca minor, the dwarf oyer- j rreen periwinkle. This plant can bo ^ lought for $8 per 100, and jvlll t pread all over the hillside and make t i pretty evergreen cover that will f irevent any washing, and it blooms rettv blue flowers in spring, and its c lark green leaves are pretty at all v inies, especially in winter. d P Do Not Do It. , A clek in a city writes that he is iffered a farm of 80 acres for $35 in acre. He has but $600 to pay m it and knows nothing about farmng and wants my advice. ^ I know of no better wav to lose A our $600. Paying it on the farm nd bnving nothing to stock It with ^ lor to get implements and maehin- ^ tv. and totally inexperienced, there ^ rould be no chance for vou to suco eed. My advice is to stick to your t iresent place, put the $600 in a good v nvings bank, and save all you can o add to it till you "have money inough to pay for a farm and stock ^ t. Then hire out to a good fartner or a year or so and rent your land e o a good tenant, and after a while ^ nu may learn enough about irrnUng o go to farming on your o*. n ac- { ount. Farming is a profes .c ? that leeds to be learned Just as 'b t of a awyer or doctor, and learnlr ^ by ex- M .n imir IK rOHliy. j . I11 (JraMN on Poor l.an?l ,! Please tell me the best t ass to! i r nit on poor land to mhke r. >erma- o lent meadow, and also ho to can kra." , , y 1 do not know any grass t.-at willL, nake a permanent meadow n poor and. To xrow Rood grass *T>a mustj* nnke the land good. Sow it n peas.^ nd turn thorn under and I :ne the and and sow crimson clow r after he peas and disk this down s id turn t under and apply 4 00 pounds an ore of acid phosphate and prepare ^ he land well and sow for hay 10 ^ >ounds of tall meadow fescue, lu 1 w ounris of tall meadow oats grass,i nd you can cut It several years . 'hen turn and cultivate In corn and i ow peas In the corn and cut the' orn off and seed down to g"H?s again ;ith winter oats and 400 founds of( eld phosphate again. Thfre Is no ^ uch thing as permanent meadow ' FIE I LANCASTER NEWHTE. i?? ??I??I I I y Woolei play pf Nifty Wool kV, SEf id colors of which are as rich !ar|v/lhis season for your clol I at/higher prices, by the mills lil of the transaction; so come ^LOREP-TO-MEAJ AILOR inless the grass is heavily fertilized < very spiking. Do not keep poor land, >ut make it rich by good farming. h Crimson Clover and Hod Clover. p A county demonstrator writes: t' Here in Western North Carolina our '' armers sow u good deal of clove, and n isually have the land one or two v ears In clover out of four, t>ut they ' iave not appreciated crimson clover. realize the value of a winter cover. ^ Vould It be better to encourage the ^ armers to sow their cornfields in ^ rimson clover? 1 have a rotation f vhtch ,I consider good: Corn, with ( rimson clover sowed at last work- ^ ng, clover turned in spring, and by ( ioy beans planted and followed by ^ vheat; sapling clover sowed on the vlieat and let stand one or two ^ ears, and then broken in fall or win- ) er for corn again. What is your ^ pinion,?" r In your high mountain country j rou can sow with success the crim ion clover at the last working of torn, thtrugh this would be too early ^ iast of the Blue Ridge. Your rota- ^ ion is not bad, but the soy beans ^ hould lie rut for haw and the stuba >le then prepared for wheat with a o lisk and spike harrow and the early , dowing let remain settled while the ^ urfaee is made tine and compacted i t< !S wlieht prefers. Hut I would not ^ ise the sapling clover which is to all . ntents an annual, but would sow the, ^ nedium red clover and sow gome| imothy seed with the wheat and iet ^ he clover and grass run three years, or live stoek should be the leading , nterest in your county. Crimson ^ lover is a very valuable crop as a o rinter cover, but where red clover . i< oes well it should be the main deendence of the stock farmer. a THE SECRET OK SCCCKSS. a n Some years ago I had a stenogra- rr her who came into the office for a tl ew days to do some temporary work, e nd I noticed that across the front n age *of her notebook were written c he words: "All things are possi- ti le to him that believeth." I was in- w erested to hear the meaning to her 1? f these words, for she had already n old us that she had a large work in iew and could only work in our of- a ce a' few days. f< "Has that text anything to do with h our future work?" I asked. 1: "Yes," said the girl. "Strangely S nough, it has all to do with it. I ii lave always wanted to be a court h tenofraphcr, not simply for the pay. ut bruise it represented to me sue- a] ess in my chosen work. One day e s I was working in a downtown of- w ice a Salvation Army lass threw a u saflet into the ottice. and as I picked o I up. the words, 'If thou canst, e aught mv eye, and then I read the rr est of the pasage. It all flashed g ver me instantly. 'That is your rouble?you have been trying to get ou ambition all alone. You haven't eally believed you could reach the oal, because you have lacked condence in yourself. Why not let God A elp you? He has said he would if " ou could believe,' " We asked the girl what belief;1,1 ieant practically, as she took that " romikft. "Why. I just went ahead as though (l was a sure thing." said she. "l 'rote that text on all my notebooks, i nd I had it framed for my room, anil repeated it hundreds of times each J 'eek. Well, tomorrow I am to be- 1 ome a court stenographer. I've ft een a year and a half b-arn ng to eally believe. It has paid.?Chris- r< tin Herald. C E'SDAY. SEPT. 19, 1916. ns Fer F ens For Fall and =>TEME i and attractive as our goods thing, as there is no assuranc >. We want to take your m see the opening display and JURE AT $12.50 A J. HOMER NEAR HO :oi,n minim; in thk hoisk basin, idaho The Boise Basin of western Idaho as always been primarily a gold lacer region, and for a decade ufpr the discovery of gold there, late n 1862, it is credited with an anual placer production of one to five lillion dollars. In later years the ield has fluctuated greatly, but in '. 12, and 1!*14 it still amounted to pproxiniately half a million dollars nnually. Many ot the veins from rhich the placers derived their gold ere located in the early days, and in ecent years they have received inreasing attention. To meet the lany demands for information conerning these lodges, the United tates Geological Survey, Depart-' tent of the Interior, has just pubshed a reconnaissance report on the egion as Bulletin 640-K, which is; btanahle on request from the !>.ector of the Survey, Washington, ?. C. According to this repart the deression known as the Boise Basin as resulted from the sinking of a ault block 15 miles long and 12! tiles wide. The region lies within ana 01 granite that extends ver more than 20,000 square miles,' he surface of a mass known as the daho batholith, which is believed o be of late Cretaceous or early "ertiary ace. Porphyritic dike rocks ti considerable variety were intruded lto the granite and afterward the letalliferous veins were formed, 'he veins occupy zones of closepaced fracturing in granite, and as he maximum depth to which mining as extended is not great most of the; res now mined are somewhat ox-j lized. The principal primary ore minerals! re native gold, pyrlte, galena. I phalerite. chalcopyrUe, stibnite and nd tetrahedrite. The secondary I linerals are cerusite, chalcocite. I lalachite, and native copper. Only he precious metals are now reco\red from these ores, but as the ! lines go deeper the ores become in-1 reasingly base, and in the near fu-1 ure lead, copper, and possibly zinc' ill doubtless he saved. Probably j *ss than 50 per cent of the gold can ow be saved by amalgamation. The geologic history of the region fter the mineral veins had been ormed was eventful. Most of the asin was occupied by a Tertiary ike, formed by the damming of nake River and its tributaries, and lto this lake great sheets of basaltic iva were poured. It is of interest to note the widepread occurrence in the placer gravis of the Poise Basin of monazite. men is extensiiey used in the man faeture of iras mantles. This sourcej f supply, however, is not now ut'li/.[I. An unidentified radium-bearing lineral also occurs sparkingly in the ravels at one locality. XMKItMWN POST I lltKI) OX. l>el Rio, Texas, Sept. 1 ,r>. -An merican outpost at Sycamore, 17 liles east of here, was fired on by lexicans from across the Rio Grande ist night. according to a report caching here today. Details con rning the affair have not been revived, but army officers are investiating. I !^o. Six-Sixty-Six' Thii in a preskriptiop prepared especially >r MALARI A\or C H I L/C S A. FEVER. ive Or six dosekwill h/cak any case, and tfik.n then as a\on'^the Fever will not Murn. It acts oniric liver better than | 'alomel and does iw^gripe or sicken. 25c | 3 MBMBMiMMMMMHHMMiHMHHMHnMMNk 6 * 'all and Winter and Winter Suits and Overcoats 5ER 23rd. have been in the past; and the prices just as rea:e that present stocks can be replaced, and when easure and sell you an R. & B. suit this season, bepick the cloth for your suit. ND UP. BOWLING, Manager. TEL ROYAL, LANCASTER, S. C. lliisrassssifssifsifsfssss | FLOUR GOING UP 1 m m W * >^z< ~ W W ? The price of Flour is steadily advancjt$4 iner, but owitie to the fact that I had con- M. tracted for auarsre shipment of ? |i FLOUR AND SUGAR I CI \ / 5 W Before the price advanced I am in a posi- W| W tion to erive mv customers the benefit of S closer prices on iljese commodities than mv iSt B competitors. Oaii save vou monev. Get W B mv prices befofre vou buv vour next Flour M>j ? or Suear. m{ M OUR STOCK OF FLOUR IS THE BEST IB The mills can make, and vou have a choice of several excellent brands at this store. ffi We sell also a select line of Staple and Mi A. Fancv Groceries. Our business policv. as [tf W vou know is. S W W COURTESY?CLEANLINESS? HONESTY?SERVICE. W m m. M ^^=^==== [ ; I J. W. EVANS | g iWj Phone 301 Brooklvn Mm S 'Si 1 I\ II1 117 - .1 n . t uo! I ou want the Best ! at The Righl Prices? Call On Us We Have It. \ / X FULL STOCK OF BvlCRYTlIING CARRIED IN A FIRST OLA,SS GROCERY. / \ WE ARE PARTICULAR \N SELECTING THE BEST OF | EVERYTHING SUCH AS FLOUR, MEAL, MEATS. CANNED | GOODS AND CEIVEADS. V | WE ARE NOW TURNING OUR ATTENTION TO FIELD | SEEDS SUCH AS CLOVERS, GRASSES. RYE, OATS AND 1 WHEAT. | Don't Forget Us. I I Bennett-Terry Co. I I "Pure Food Store." I 1