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X vvu , f I News for tl BY JNO. C. BARKSDALE, CO LETS PLANT SOME c CLOVER THIS FALL d P * ? ?T We wish every tarmer 01 tne cuau- ? ty would take a day off and study C the system of farming adopted by g Mr. B. H. Hodges, Hodges, S. C. Mr. t? Hodges attributes his suc'cess as a r< farmer to crimson clover. Many of ci us knew the Hodges lands before the V present owner began to build them f< up by the use of crimson clover; we know that it would not grow cowpeas 0 successfully and that it took from 6 ^ to 8 acres to make a bale of cotton. a Today with a decreased application Ir of commercial fertilizers these sameT lands produce a bale of cotton per.a] acre and grow corn equal to bottom :C1 lands. When we stop to hunt* the! reason why we see that by the use of j , crimson clover Mr. Hodges has increased the fertility of his soil to such an extent that his lands withHfcV, : * vrr stand drought and give a larger *??? qcm on'fVi fhp emano used, 7-J. JflCJW c f .enabling him to grow larger crops at a lowered cost of production. This ' * is good business and is a system that V( many of us would do well to adopt. a; It is not an experiment but an estab- g( lished fact. fv' " a A number of our farmers, accompanied by the County Agent, visited J Mr1. Hodges' farm last week. There . are fine crops growing on the Hodges j* lands?cotton that will make a bale per acre and corn on uplands that or S?;.?v-- would do credit to bottom lands. 01 This is not an extra or flush season a on the Hodges farms; we have seen (Mr. Hodges crops before and they always show up to advantage. The so time to see them is in September, when all other crops have stopped growing and putting on fruit, the crops growing on clover sod is still or growing and fruiting. To hear Mr. ar j Hodges describe his method of crop ^ production on clover sod with scarce- pj ly no fertilizer seems like a dream r to us who have been accustomed to J ^ growing crops with a stimulus 'of j commercial fertilizer. We are not > against the use of commercial fer^ tilizers; they are necessary to cropjcc production on our soils but we arejp( against their abuse or rather permitting them to abuse us. We pay outpi annually a large amount of money gj, for commercial fretilizers when we aj could grow a great portion of the 'j nitrogen fertilizer right on our own w lands and effect an annual saving ^ that would soon spell independence'^ on the fertilizer bill. / ^ % CRIMSON CLOVER g; r> , HAS NO EQUAL ^ 01 For building up a run down soil or tc for maintaining the productiveness * ? ' -i-*1 ?. -*il AwtwAfiAM rtlmrnw V?Q a 01 a ieruie sun, umiov/u uv?w **?*.?? no equpU It is especially valuable as a source of humus, an element much m needed in our soils, and as a source f( of nitrogenous fertilizer for corn. ^ It draws down nitrogen from the air ^ valued from $10 to $20 per acre. p] As a source of humus, it is an in- a] surance policy against drought. Soils ^ that are rich in humus are productive because they retain moisture v % longer, they do not set up or bake L, after hard rains, they respond more ja ' readily to cultivation and to the use cj of commercial fertilizers. Humus e( and nitrogen is the crying need of southern soils and this great crop f( supplies both at a low cost per acre and does it while the land is resting. ? ^ ? I Wj Most of our lands lay idle during the sj fall and winter?an easy prey to hte washing and leaching rains. We f, need to protect our soils from the ^ actions of these agencies and to con- q serve the plant food that is lost e. through drainage during this time. jr We need cover crops to absorb this j f, plant food and to store it for the | s< following crop. Our mild winters 0. with alternate freezes and periods of, V i thaw make it necessary to protect ^ the soil. As the land thaws after a!^ freeze, plant food is loosened and j r, unless assimulated by a cover crop ^ the plant food is lost by the next u rain. Crimson clover is a valuable cover crop, ready to plow under in ^ April and is a splendid fertilizer for ' corn. _ h: - ct # GROWING CORN AND COTTON AND CLOVER SOD " By using clover as a fertilizer for > corn, we can "Move the Corn Belt South." We have recently seen corn! ' gorwing on clover sod that was hardi to beat?not a leaf fired and without a particle of fertilizer. Clover ;n can best be utilized as a fertilizer forjP corn though i* can be used eco-jri nomically foi cotton production, j However, we ar? of the opinion that j tl clover sod had b^st be seeded to cornig and some other cover crop be uteliz- c ed for the cotton lands. Abbruzzi p rye when turned at the right stage n V ? (from 6 to 8 inches high) is an ex- d lie Farmer j UNTY DEMONSTRATOR. ellent crop to turn for cotton. It oes not interfere with the early lanting of cotton which under boll reevil conditions will be imperitive. Hover does not make sufficient rowth to enable you to get the cotm in early enough, and for this eason, we recommend clover for orn and abruzzi rye for cotton, fhile we do not recommend clover Dr cotton we cannot recommend it >o highly for corn. A single crop f clover has been Known to aouDie ie yield of corn per acre and on verage lands it will enable you to lcrease your yields per acre from ear to year, and to lower the mount of fertilizer necessary to rop production. RIMSON CLOVER VS. BURR CLOVER We have been asked repeatedly hich do we prefer or which is the ;st for soil improvement, Crimson lover or Burr Clover. Both are jod soil builders, but the Burr Cloir has a slight shade of advantage } a soil builder because of its lar;r growth. However, we maintain, lat Burr clover should be used on permanent pasture, because were e to have a large acreage to hane, it would be impossible to handle successfully and prepare the seed id as it should be; Crimson clover i the other hand, tits better into lr system and is more desirable as cover crop because it can be haned more easily in the preparation r spring planting, and for this rean is a more desirable plant. JELLY MAKING. Jelly making is not an art that can i lly be mastered by long practice id experience, but can be successilly made by anyone if a few sime suggestions are followed. -In making jelly a fruit juice conining pectin and acid in proper | oportion is required. Pectin is a1 immy substance having the ability! i form jelly when extracted and ?oled. It is found chiefly in the ;elings and cores of fruits, and for lis reason this part of the fruit in J eference to the flesh of fruit tould be used. Oranges, lemons id grape fruit are particularly rich . pectin. Pectin has not matured j ell in green fruit, and has begun to( ;compose in overripe fruit. It is i prime or best condition just as le fruit becomes ripe. When fruit is lacking in pectin >mbine with another fruit juice conlining much pectin or add orange r lemon pectin, using 1 cup pectin > 1 quart of fruit juice, pour in ectin. If fruit is lacking in aci<J, imon juice may be added. Sugar is not necessary to the fortation of jelly, but is always added | >r flavor. There is usually some oubt about the quantity of sugar, lat you should use. This should be roportioned according to the mount of pectin the juice contains. pectin test may easily be made by During one teaspoon of grain alco!>1 into one teaspoon of the cooled lice. If the juice congeals into a ^rge lump, pectin is present in suffient quantity to warrant the use of iual portions of sugar and juice, : it shapes in globules, use three jurths as much sugar as juice. If le solid portions are only' in flakes illy one half as much sugar as juice lould be used. For extracting juice, put clean uit in kettle and add a cup of wa?r to every 4 or 5 quarts of fruit, ook slowly until muss is soft and| isily crushed. Turn hot material lto jelly bag, .which has been wrung rom hot water, drain without lueezing until all juice has dripped at. Put the juice in a saucepan and ring rapidly to the boiling point, j dd suerar slowly so as not to lower ~ ' 1 ite of cooking. Do not skin during oiling. Continue boiling rapidly ntil material sheets or flakes from1 poon. Skin and pour immediately; ito clear sterilized glasses. Chop; ieces of parraffin in bottom of glass nd pour in hot jelly. This melted arrafin rises up thru the jelly, takes p air bubbles and forms a covering ver top to exclude air and bacteria. Failures in jelly-making are due 3 lack of pectin and acid in fruit; so much sugar; too long cooking or )0 short cooking. The most desirable fruits for jelly laking are currants, crab apples, aples, quince, grapes, blackberries, asnberries anj plums. If a mint jfclly is desired, remove; le leaves from, mint stems, using six ood sprigs for; 12 glasses of jelly, j rush leaves; ,tie in cheese cloth J lace in kettle with apples to boil. Iflint leaves are not available, add 6j rops of mint extract to each pint of :!. ? 'fruit juice, and six drops of green I vegetable coloring. Orange or Lemon Pectin. M lb. white of orange peel or lemon. Vz cup water, 1 teaspoon leimon juice. Grate or scrape the yellow from the peel of the orange. Put the white portion through a food chopper and weigh, combine ground peel, water and lemon juice, and let it stand 4 or 5 hours. Add 3 cups of water and boil 10 min. Let stand over night; next morning boil 5 min. cool, put in jelly bag and press to remove juice. Drain juice through a clear jelly bag. The pectin may be put into sterilized jars while hot and kept for later use. GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT FOR SOUTH CAROLINA Washington, D. C., August 14.?A summary of the August crop report for the State of South Carolina ,as compiled by the Bureau of Crop Estimates, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is as follows: Corn.?August 1 forecast, 45,800,000 bushels; production last year, December estimate, 32,088,000 bushels. All Wheat.?August 1 forecast, 1,870,000 bushels; production last t-s ?v.?_ o ooe nnn ycai f i/cuciiiuci bushels. Oats.?August 1 forecast, 6,320,000 bushels; production last year, December estimate, 9,000,000 bushels. Tobacco.?August 1 forecast, 55,800,000 pounds; production last year, December estimate, 20,280,000 pounds. Potatoes.?August 1 forecast, 1,071,000 bushels; production last year December estimate, 750,000 bushels. Sweet Potatoes.?August 1 forerast, 7,490,000 bushels; production last year, December estimate, 5,676,000 bushels. All Hay.?August 1 forecase, 329,000 tons; production last year, December estimate, 340,000 tons. Apples (Agricultural Crop)?August 1 forecast, 286,000 barrels of 3 bushels; production last year, December estimate, 196,000 barrels. Peaches.?August 1 forecast, 1,124,000 bushels; production last year December estimate, 545,000 bushels. Cotton.?July 25 forecast, 1,333,000 bales; production last,year, Census, 931,830 bales. Prices.?The first price given below is the average on August 1 this year, and the second, the average on August 1 last year. \ Wheat, 255 and 121 cents per bu. Com, 220 and 104 per bu. Oats, 112 and 69 per bushel. Potatoes, 265 and 115. Hay, $21.50 and $15.90 per ton. Cotton, 24.7 and 12.6 cents per pound. Eggs, 27 and 19 cents per dozen. j ^ Look arid Feel Clean, Sweet and . Fresh Every Day Drink a glass of real hot water before breakfast to wash out poisons. * ? j Life is not merely to live, but to live well, eat well, digest well, work well sleep well, look well. What a glorious condition to attain, and yet how very easy it is if one will only adopt the morning inside bath. Folks who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when they arise, splitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, can, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy by opening the sluices of the system each morning and flushing out the whole of the internal poisonAlio c<fo/vnanf molfov uuo obaguaiiu uiavv^ii Everyone, whether ailing, siick or well, should, each morning, before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the previous days' indigestible waste, Four bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of hot water and limestone phosphate on an empty stomach is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans outall the sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast While you are enjoynig your breakfast the water and phosphate is quietly extracting a large volume of water from the blood and getting ready for a thorough flushing of all the inside organs. The millions of people who are bothered with constipation, bilious spells, stomach trouble; others who have sallow skins, blood disorders and sickly complexions are urged to get a quarter pound of limestone nVinsnVintp fvntn rlnifr cfnrfj TViic VVT..V. V4* -...~ will cost very little, but is su:ificient to make anyone a pronounced crank on the subject of inside-bathing: before breakfast.?Adv. TO DESTROY PESTS Common Pocket Gophers Cause Great Loss to Crops. , i WORK INJURY IN MANY WAYS Rodents Eat Growing Grain, Cause Loss of Hay In Digging Burrows, Ruin Gat-dens and Damage Trees In Orchards. (Prepared by the United States Depart* I ment of Agriculture.) * ! Pouched rats, commonly called pocket gophers, are among the most eerlous of rodent pests l:i most of the states west of the Mississippi river. They occur also In parts of Georgia, Alabama and Florida, in the greater part of Illinois, and In fiouthern Wisconsin. V Pocket gophers do harm In many ways. They eat growing grain and cover much of It with soil. They cause loss of hay In digging burrows, by throwing up mounds which prevent close mowing. These mounds also Injure much machinery. Their furrows admit surface water and aid It to wash out deep gullies on sloping lands. By piercing dams and embankments tne tunnels cause costly breaks. The aninr V i | ro ' I ' ^ I I -U..J I Convenient Probes for Locating PocketGopher Runs. mals ruin gardens anc! Injure field crops. Besides all this l:hey kl}l trees lr. orchards and forest plantings by gnawing off the roots. Two practical methods of killing pocket gophers are always possible? trapping and poisoning. The first method Is slow, but very effective on small areas or where bat few pocket gophers are present; the other Is the better plan on large fields and for cooperative work on adjacent farms. flia nrritnorv atoc-l 'iTflTl TTIfl V bfi IT UUV V^v U4?u* ^ w?vv ? ;w ~ ~ used successfully for pocket gophers, much better resdlts can be obtained with tie special traps for these animals commonly on the market. In irrigated districts, wlbere water is available, flooding the land will drive out the animals, and they may be killed by men and dogs. Fumigation of the barrows with carbon bisulphide or with sulphur smoke, while often recommended as a means of destroying pocket gophers, has been ifotmd extremely uncertain and costly. Poison for Pocket Gophert. To poison pocket gophers, cut sweet potatoes or parsnips into pieces whose largest diameter lis less than an inch. Wash and drain four quarters of cut baits. Place in a metal p:in, and from a pepperbox slowly sift over the dampened baits one-eighth onnce of pow| dered strychnine (alkal oid) and one tenth as much saccharine [well shaken together or ground together in a mortar), stirring is to distribute the poison evenly. j Tunnels of pocket gophers, which are usually from three to eight inches below the surface of the ground, may be readily located by means of a probe. Any blacksmith can make one by affixing a metal point to a shovel or spade handle and attaching an iron foot rest about 15 or ILfl inches above the point. By forcing litis instrument into the soil near the pocket-gopher workings or a foot or two back of fresh mounds, one can ifeed the open tunnel as the point brecks Into it. The * nnlowro/1 nnH Its strips) nine may ue cuuu^iu uut* made Arm by pressing i:he soil laterally with the probe. A bait or two should be dropped Into the tunnel and the probe hole covered. Care should j be taken to place the baits In the main tunnels rather than In die short laterals leading to mounds. Different forms I of probes have been used successfully by the biological survey In its demonj elation work. Two of the better kinds j are illustrated. BEST PRACTICE OF MILKING Where Cows Are Not Stripped Loss of j One-Half Pound or More May Occur at Each Time. Milk each .cow dry at every milking. If the cows are not milked dry It not only dries them up, tut It is found that a loss of milk from such a prac' tlce may amount to or e-half a pound or more at each milking. By stripping a hprd of ten cows after the regular milkers, the owner may often ob| tain five pounds of milk at a single milking. 1785 COLLEGE OF South Carolina 132d Year Begi Entrance examinations at all the o'clock A. M. v ' . Four-year courses lead to the B. medical course is given. A free tuition scholarship is assij Spacious buildings and athletic g excelled library facilities. Expenses moderate. For terms j E. . t , . . ' It takes a long time to build BUSINESS and I have made line for twenty years and evei as well as every repair job \ your money gladly refunded. ' * . "I ' , ' When you are in town ms -j- . i_ . store ueiure leaving, mi mj grade merchandise will be intc do not care to buy. W. E. JOHf ^ Abbe\ I / ' ' MjijlRe m Warra M The reports K show progress H vestment. Strict a M ing laws, careful business and hoc our depositors' i this institution tial and reli Our re fies the ' great i ^9| depos insures Safetv?Honestv The Nati Abbev: P-B For AM r ^ EASY ANO KILLS LICE, TICKS, FLEAS RINGWORM, SCRATCH EASE QERMS AND NON-IRRITATING. EP YOU ca 't afford to le eat your stock alive. Get follow directions. It will and give the stock a char Use It Jn barns, hog pens, nels?any place where the KRESO DIP Is a coal tai water. It does not burn o does not blister or take the Jess and does more than a better Investment than to I tloks, mite* and fleas and * the germs. One gallon rof KRF.SO when mixed with water, by the manufacturers, f.ho GIVE n iSil^SSSSSSSBSSK i .* * . . T 1 1917 1 CHARLESTON i's Oldest College ins September 28. county-seats on Friday, July 18, at 9 w&jfcj. y<'{> A. and B. S. degrees. A two-year ff*? / - : jned to each county of the State. f< yjty rounds, well equipped laboratories, on- ^ and catalogue, address . " .. ?;? A.RRISON RANDOLPH, President. ============ >4 ?HM , ' y. [ up a reputation in the JEWELRY ? i Vc's a special study of this particular ' ^ ry article that goes out of my store :v? must give perfect satisfaction or . i :'V< ike it your business to visit my- - v, fi'j /tavsAilltr saladfad o+r?/?lr nf Vlio+I II VCWV4VVW- O ? (resting for you to see eVen if you . ; '.yy>. ' <SON, Jeweler rille, S. C. . 1 r- .y ! I _J I I I s cortS^f;; nts Faith \ i of this bank M and successful in dherence to the bank-1 transaction of the B ( ' test consideration of nterpsts go to make K a safe, substan- . able depository. Jm , cord justi- ( faith of our umber of itors *and .. ; protection, ?Courtesy?Service onal Bank Livestock 1 SAFE TO U8C. * !f MITES. FOR MANOE, SCAB, IES, ETC. DESTROYS DISDRIVES AWAY FLIES. > FECTIVE. INEXPEN8IVI. ! t lice, ticks, float and mites a supply of KRESO DIP and put an end to the parasltoa - - t ice to thrive ana pux on nesn. chicken houses and dog kaa*? II >re are vermin. II. r product. It mlxea readily with r Irritate llko carbollo aold. It hair off like kerosene. It oosts . ny of these. You can't make a buy some Kreso Dip to kill licet '* prevent disease by destroying > DIP makea 60 to 75 gallons Each lot is STANDARDIZED re'ore always the sams. r A TRIAL. I III ?OOKU?T?, t :/ ' &