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AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS <5. si Washington, D. C.f April 1.?Reports from the agents of the Agri- to .cultural Division of Southern Rail- he way Company for the calendar year bi 1915 bear out the government sta- -h tastier, as to agricultural progress in :he South and show the accomplish- ef ment of substantial results in the b< - work being carried on by the rail- el road. a$ By personal visits to farmers and tli by trlks at farmers' meetings the agents of the uompany gave auvite as to farm methods to approximately T 150.000 farmers. As in former years demonstration work was done on a large number of farms all along the Company's lines, the greater part of it with cotton and corn. The reports of production on these farms show an average yield of 1,170 . pounds of cotton per acre, compared P1 with averages ranging from 591 to ^ 7-11 pounds on similar lands in the same localities where the improved ? methods advised by the agents of the Company were not adopted. Re, ports on corn show an average production of 46.7 bushels per acre on . farms where the methods advised F -were adopted as compared with an raverage yield of less than 22 bushels * - on similar lands in the same localities. B Advice was given as to crops of all kinds and especially to the grow- B ing of legumes and the planting of "10' nnvar pron<? Seed selection WiilVWA WVIV* v ?r?. was encouraged and many farmers u were assisted in breeding improved seed?. The importance of drainage 1 tos emphasized and assistance was given in tile drainage, ditching, and 1 terracing. ? With the rapid progress vbeing * t made in the eradication of the cattie tick and the control of hog chol- 1 era in the South, farmers in all the - States are turning their attention to A more and better live stock. The ; agricultural agents report the loca- ^ ; "tion along the lines of the Company ^ during the year of 2,743 pure-bred ? - beef cattty, 3,250 dairy cattle and g tj V Better Groceries ! ? K; . I -Better Service! M I .Better Price ! F V, _ \h. f ? 'We propose to give our customers better service au<l F V better prices during; the year _ II 1916.. ; We have always kept the M J*., best groceries on the market. Give us a trialro? HAMS, th breakfast bacon, ce- fl< >> REALS, CANNED GOODS, > BOTTLED GOODS, SY- uj % RUPS, ETC. fa . cc v We keep the RICHELIEU ai S'i] BRANDjof canned goods and the famous WHITE HOUSE jjt V coffee, b< /' j b\ './ 0( I A. M. HILL & SONS ? Phone 126 ? K ' it, ' i. fc w cc ?.QO franco'Qemaii Rtos ? '-12m cutes bt.ouMATisn. ncubauiia. scm. IFV* T1CA* ano KtNM>Bb ' Honey R?fuod*d If It fallfe re roa lau ?> MMMttn w 1)1 W! r. kirkwood, ci fr New .Jeweler. ra ...... _ m w< dj SOUTHERN RAII.WAY SCHEDULE lie all be Arrival and departure on trains effective January 23, 1916. Sched- m; ule figures published only as infornation. Not Guaranteed. :n ABBEVILLE, S. C. re No. Arrive From: 109 Charleston-Greenville 11:20 a m 113 Charleston-Columbia 5:10 pm 115 Greenville-Belton 8:02 pm m. No. Depart For: r0 "'108 Charleston-Greenville 9:55 am n 112 Belton-Greenville 3:45 pm c0 114 Columbia-Charleston 6:35 pm c^ Trains 109 and 114 ? connect at es Hodges with Pullman sleeping car or ^nd from Columbia and or ^Charleston. js . ? . . .,lcte information call on js Ticket Age-it or address: 0i, W. R. 7ABER, TPA., ? , Greenville, S. C. PBhbhhbhmms flc 1 RUB OUT PAIN to "V . X*0 > with good oil liniment. That's pc the surest way to stop them. w; The best rubbing liniment is MUSTANG: I IHIHCUTs L. IIIIIVI K. II I ' Good for the Ailments of 1 Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Qood for your own A ches, pe Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. ta; ; 25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealers. 038 hogs. When the agricultural L ork of Southern Railway began los were almost unknown in many irts of the South. They are now ? be found in almost every neighbored and approximately 900 were lilt along the lines of the Company iring the year. In all parts of the territory the , ficiency of the work being done has _ ien due in large measure to the j ose co-operation between the : jents of the railroad and those of ] le State and Federal governments. 1 ] Hfc. K1VLK5 ur SOUTH CAROLINA 1 The following verses from an old 1 3ok once popular in the South have sen resurrected from the Clemson i brary by Professor Morrison, and 1 ablished in the "Tiger." Professor 1 iorrison belongs to Winthrop, as he i as been for years a member of the ] iculty of the summer term: < ' i By the rice fields and the sand < hills, run the rivers small and : great, rom the mountains to the oceans in ] the grand "Palmetto State." rom Savannah on the westward to the east-most Waccamaw; y Catawba, where the red man , once untroubled kept his squaw; ] ubbling, hurrying, foaming, splash- 3 ing, gently, smoothly, tben they , flow. ] nee they find her sunny borders , ne'er across them do they go. j acolet, Saluda, Pee Dee, Tyger, , Broad, Bush, Enoree, ] o Savannah, Chauga Little, Seneca, t and Tugaloo, ! eowee, and Toxaway, and the rat- < tling Rocky go o the ocean Coosew-hatchie, lazy ( Lynch and dark Cheehaw, , shley, Cooper, these, in Indian, , Etowan and Washmasaw. astward flowing is the Coosaw, by , the lands of Edisto; 1 y the Salke-Hatchie, and the Poca- < taligo. y the countless fields of cotton, ( ?' "H am/1 mtaof Poo j spreuu me am an on u 6ivu> ? ( Dee; , ere the sea-waves kissing, Sampel, j Broad, May Wrights and Chic- j kasee. ere are Taulee, Bull and Rarbon, ,< and the wayward Wadmelow, ] organ, and the small Kiawah, ] Sleepy Stone and a New, , ombahee and Sluggish Wando and a the narrow Ashepoo. , rom Savannah west and southward, , From the east-most Waccamaw; . o Catawba, where the Indian still j is living with his squaw; rom the rich hills to the barrens, , busy rivers, small and great; , un by factory and plantation in the grand "Palmetto State." 1 i uch Wood Flour Used By Dynamite i and Linoleum Makers. 1 i Washington, March 29.?More j ian twenty thousand tons of wood < >ur, valued at $300,000, are used < inually in the United States in two < idely different industries, the man- ] iacture of dynamite and the manu- ' icture of inlaid Linoleum. Wood flour is also used in making 1 imposition flooring, oatmeal paper, i id in several other industries. It < ;rm? one of the means by which 1 "e huge waste product of our lum- i ir mills is beginning to find some stter means of disposal than the i irner. Since a total of 36,000,- ? )0 cords of such waste is produced i tch year at sawmills in the United i ^tes, of which about one-half goes 1 to the furnaces as fuel while the < ist is burned as refuse to get rid of 1 , there is no lack of raw material s ir Industries which can develop ays of turning this waste to ac?unt. All wood flour-using industries relire a white or very light creamilored flour having good absorptive >wers. The wood species that may j i used are confined to the light, consinous conifers, and the white oadleaved woods like poplar, spruce | e hite pine and poplar are the spe- * es most used. Mill waste, , free J om bark, furnishes much of the . w material for making wood flour. . For use in dynamite, the trade de- ands are said to require a white sod flour, since the freshmenss of j 'namite stock is indicated by a f rht color. Dynamite flour must ' so be very absorptive, so there will j s no leakage of nitroglycerine from e finished product. Wheat flour ill refuse and infusorial earm . ive also been used in dynamite mak- j g. but wood flour has practically * placed them in this country. 1 In the manufacture of linoleum, ? ther wood or cork flour is used. 1 le flour is mixed with a cementing j aterial, spread out on burlap and t lied or pressed to a uniform thick- ? sss. The cement is the expensive 1 nstituent. Cork linoleum is the v eaper because less cement is necsary. The patterns are printed s i, leaving a dark base. For inlaid ? straightline linoleum, wood flour 1 used exclusively. Cork linoleum always dark, and slightly more ? iistic than that produced from wood * 13 ?ur. The wearing qualities are tout the same. * Two methods of producing wood >ur are practiced; one using mill- j ones, the other steel burr rollers pulverize the wood. The latter 6 quires only one-fourth as much ^ iwer to operate as the former and ? as developed on the Pacific Coast handle sawdust as a raw material, le mills of Norway which produce _ uch of the European wood flour e of the stone type. Wood flour mills are scattered 1 er the country from Maine to iliforna wherever the proper comnation of wood and water power available, and the domestic wood s mr competes with the Norwegian r oduct which, before the European f ?r, was delivered at Atlantic rts for $12.50 to $15 per ton. c r Patron?I say, waitah, is this E ach or apple pie? ii Garcon?Can't you tell by the f ;te? t) No. ji Then what difference does it ci tke??Judge. |h SMITH'S NITRATE BILL 3 IS FAVORABLY REPORTED Ij South Carolina Senator Believes it R Will Insure Fairer Prices for *J Fertilizers. |X Washington, March 29.?Special: 3 3y an almost unanimons vote the Sen- 3 ite committee on agriculture to-day U favorably reported to the Senate the 3 mportant bill recently introduced by 3 Senator Smith, of South Corolina, U nrtl-inor tr? thp establishment. of nitrate ff. plants by the Goverment to furnih . materials for munitions of war and I for fertilizers. "I "believe the passage J f this bill, which now seems assured," said Senator Smith, " will guarantee 1 the farmers fertilizers at a fair and J just price. When the Government shall have established it's plants it J will be in a position to determine [ the cost price of nitrate and potash and will then, though it may never J produce a pound of munitions of war | jr fertilizer ingredients, the factories ? established for it will be the means sf holding private corporations to | fair prices." g FEAR DRUG FAMINE I WITHIN 12 MONTHS [ In a bulletin issued by the Penn- | sylvania Pharmaceutical association | it is stated that if the war in Eu- ? rope continues for another year the present high price's of drugs will look |j like bargain counter rates for many 3 drugs and chemicals will not be ob- jj tainable by that time and substitutes u will have to be found, says The Pub- 3 tic Ledger. Many chemical and tex- N tile industries, it was stated, are al- ffj most crippled by the high prices and ] scarcity of materials. Q All of the vegetable and animal n jils have risen in price enormously it 3 was stated, because glycerine can be M made from them and then be con- Q verted into explosives. This is espe- n :ially true of cod liver oil, which is JJ taken by Germany from Norwegian sources of supply. Castor oil comes H from a seed principally grown in In- 3 iia, and Great Britain which con- I trols the trade, has placed an embar- I ?o on the product, it is said, because ? it is one of the few oils suitable for I lubricating aeroplanes. [ The compounds of mercury are al 30 scarce, because it is used in mak- I ing fulminate, which are indispensa- [ ble for the caps used for exploding * cartridges and shells. Potash salts are high and scarce because the [ world's largest available supply is in f Germany. Coal tar dyestuffs are ra- 5 pidly becoming unobtainable, be- I :ause of the blockade which England | has enforced since March 1915, pre renting their importation from Ger- I many. [ Many of the vegetable drugs, con tinues the report, come from Italy, I Serbia, Turkey and Bulgaria. Quin- [ ine is 'expensive on account of the * aigh figures obtained at the recent auction sale of cinchens bark, held at ( Amsterdam, Holland the world's cen- [ ;er for this drug. Paris green and Jj >ther insecticides cost much more because of the scarcity of the crude ^ products from which they are made. ? The prices of licorice root and stick j" icorice have risen to hitherto un leard of figures, and are still going 1 ip, as the Spanish and Italian sourc- f ;s of supply are exhausted and the Russian product is not available, ow- 1 ng to the closing of the Dardenelles. | The report further states that the nembers of the Pharmaceutical As- I iociation will work at their coming j neeting in Reading, Pa., for a re vision of the patent laws and the ;ariff pertaining to medicines and 4 :hemical industries to become estab- j ished without* competition from ibroad when the war ends. ( I THE SOUTH AWAKENED. [ (From The Washington Post.) 2 References to the south as the [ "Teat cotton-producing area of the m lation, have been made so frequently J md for so long a time that the rest [ )f the country has gained the impres- v ;ion that cotton is the basis for all southern activity. As a matter of | 'act, however, the south, according f ? recent figures collected by The ! Manufacturers' Record, produced I >3,600,000,000 of all agricultural V jroducts last year, and of this only ibout $750,000,000 was represented I >y cotton. Cotton, therefore, com- [ >rised but little more than one-fifth >f the total agricultural products. 1 The south has awakened. It is J ilive industrially and agriculturally. t is not merely keeping pace with I ! he rest of the country, but is begin- [ 1 ling to set the pace. In 1915 the | rain in the value of all farm crops I ! n the United States over 1914 was [ 1 1526,070,000. Of this gain, $317,- | !09,000, or a little more tnan i> per ent, was in the south, an amazing J lustration of the increase in the di 'ersification of southern agriculture. I The gain in the entire country out-. J ide of the south was $208,861,000, ir $108,400,000 less than the gain J n the south. J To make the matter plain, the per- * entage of increase in the south in 915 over 1914 was 13.85 per cent, [ vhile the percentage of increase in ? he rest of the country in 1915 over A1 A 1? C O C r yi* was vuiy 0.1*0 jjci bcu?> n The south is growing more corn. Q t is growing more live stock than 5f sver before in its history. It is ad- B ancing industrially. Not only is its A iwn future assured, but the south is 3 idding to the prosperity of the whole IX tation. |? ro CHECK RISE IN GASOLINE 8 'wo Measures Are Offered in Nation- |P al House. 3 Washington, March 29.?Two mea- Uj ures looking to put a check on the |? ise in the price of gasoline were of- ? ered in Congress to-day. Ifi a J +/v 4-V*? T?nrl aro 1 AllieilUCIIICIIt V\J tuc x wgiai bi uuv ommision law was proposed by Repeser.tative Steenerson, of Minnesota. 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