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i ^ ^ ^ In South Carolina. -------- ?Q . V0L 74. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 1909. GOOD REPORT. , Farm Work Well Advanced Around Meeting Street. Meeting Street, Feb. 13tb, 15)09, Editor Advertiser:-We have had rain enough this week to have made a corn crop, and it is still raining this morning. More rain, more rest, runs the ne gro adage, though that doesn't less en the ration bill nor the burdens of the housewives and their daughters. Well, it is not likely that we will have any fires today-forest fires. Should we compare this section of country with Cincinnatti, St. Louis'or 'Shecargo' yon would think ,the comparison a very odd one, yet at this particular season they are, in one respect, somewhat alike-Smoke, smoke, smoke! The atmosphere is filled with it morning, noon, and night. But for your watch or that peculiar feeling of emptiness in the upper abdominal region a few hours after, breakfast you _would not know the dinner hour. Everything savors of old* fields it tastes like it-it smells like it, even green cheese swaps its fertili zer smell for that of old field. The odor of wild onions is only thing that holds its own. ..- To Gen. Sherman is accredited the saying "War is hell." Perhaps if he was here now he would amend that by saying "fire is hell." We have never seen the like of so much buming off and cleaning up that has been going\on here for the past few weeks in all of our lives. Some verjr necessary and some very unnecessary and destructive. In many instances those who burn are careless, and valuable timbered land and pine thickets are burned off with all undergrowth, and that is -extremely detrimental to the timber. In fact nothing should be burned on the farm. Broom sedge fields should have been ploughed last Au gust and the brush from the clearing should be hauled to some portion of \the farm not in eidtivation and even the briars ought to be deposited in some gully. And t.aey are always >_njearby, ajidax?^rjmjz: lacie- evidence thar our" fathers were BibleTeaders, : especially ofthat portidu which says ''take no thought of tomorrow." It seems, incredible that an intelligent people should have been guilty \of such wantom waste of land as exis ted prior to the war. The scars - are in evidence wherever there are hill lands all over the South. We are digressing,^ our purpose was to tell you that there has been ? inore farm work done in this section up to this time than is usual. Gen erally it is Christinas until about the first of March. This year, how ever, the liquor was non est, or run short, and every body had to go to work for a pastime. ; There has been a great deal of plowing done and but for the recent rains people would luve had land prepared for March corn. The present indications are that every available aero of land is going to be planted and if there should be ?a wet June many acres of it aban doned. The bankers and guano dealers must be doing a good business if pat ronized by all we seagoing to town. And what fun it is going to town. With the average negro tenant it is next tb a burial. Notwithstanding tho scarcity of labor, time is no object to them. We often see two or three able bod ied men sn th one wagon and per haps a one horse wagon, pulled by an ill-fed mule. The time lost in unnecessarily going to town by peo ple in the country at 50c per day would more than pay their taxes. But you can't change it. And what we can't cure-we must endure, the more gracefully the better. The land grabber and the town farmer and the' negro tenant have got the country by the throat, or to use a little slang "got thc coon and gone." \ O. D. W. National Liquor Legislation. The following dispatch from Washington is encouraging to pro hibitionists: Liquor legislation was the subject of consideration in the house late today. When the penal code bill was tak en Representative Humphreys offer ed an amendment agreed upon by house leaders to regulate interstate shipment of intoxicating liquor. The , amendment, which is the Knox bill that passed the senate, for bids the transportation of liquor in interstate commerce unless it is con signed to bona fide consignees and unless the package is labeled plainly with the name of the consignee and the exact character of the contents is shown. The amendment prohibits shipments of liquor C. )0. D. The amendment was adopted, 129 to 40. Speaker Cannon took 1 is place on the floor and voted every time with the "temperance" forces. t_ ADDRESS TO FARMERS. Timely and Very Sensible Advice to the Tillers of the Soil. Air. B. Harris, president of the South Carolina Farmers Union, is sued a very timely .address to the farmers last week. In the outset he stated that now is the time to regu late the price of cotton. September is too late. The keynote of this strong address is "Diversify your crops so as to make home self-sup porting." Concerning diversifica tion Mr. Harris said: Many farmers think diversification means trucking Such farmers have a wrong concep tion of it. Well, what does it mean? It means this kind of farming: First, make ample provision to plant plenty of , wheat. In all parts of the South where it can be grown successfully and profitably,we should supply all home needs and have a few barrels of flour to sell. In the portions of the South where wheat does not do well oats will grow fine. In that section sow oats ?apply home markets for seed and feed. It has been demonstrated recently in all portions of the South on our up lands that there has been grown from. 50 to 100 bushels of corn to the acre. It has also been demon strated that in any section of the South pork can be raised cheaper than in'the western States. We can also raise horses and mules as cheap here. Dairying can be made as pro fitable here in the South as in any. country, so, with these facts before us where does the trouble lie? With the Southern farmer himself. Who is to blame for cotton selling at 9 1-2 cents when it ought to be sell ing for 13? No one is to blame but the man w^ho produces it. On the other hand if the farmers of the South had been diversifying their crops for the last ten years they could have been a very rich peo ple." "With conditions staring us in the face as they dp to-day, what is our first and greatest duty as farm ers? It is to cut the acreage of cotton at. least 30 per cent., \plant in food.?crapsV-arid also cut fertflif zer bills' at least 35 per cent. " So this is the first step to take in setting the price for the 1909 crop and if it is done it will not fail to make a re munerative price fox the grower. How can any farmer prosper when h^ buys corn for ?1 per bushel wh??G-Jie could raise it himself for 35 cents'^ He buys bacon at lOcts per pound \rken he can grow it from 3 to 5 cents per pound. Why should he pay ?225 to ?250 for hors es and mules when bemoan raise just as nice ones for ?100? And why should a farmer buy hay, for ?20 per ton when beean raise it and put it in his barri for ?8 per ton? Now is there any business or com mon sense in the above mentioned? "If your ban ker was to go North and borrow money for 4 per cent, and bring it here and loan it to you We have ii In this lot of Buggies, Open RURAL TELEPHONES. Many Lines Needed in Edge field County. The recent efforts of the Bell Tel phone Company to establish several telephone lines leading from Edge field has caused considerable) agitation of the question of rural telephones. Already the Western and Soutn-western portions of the county have lines that are used with great pleasure and profit by the own ers of telephones. While in coversation with Mr. Tt A. Owdom a few days ago, tba gentleman expressed thc very ear" nest desire to sec a line established^ between Edgefield and Meeting Street. He stated that lines have already been established from Eulo la, Saluda County, to Greenwood, aud from Mr. J. L. Quzts home near Mountain Creek, to Greenwood. A line established to Meeting Street, then connecting with either or both of the above mentioned places, would give almost direct con nection from Edgefield to Green wood. After these two towns were connected, short branch lines would be establised along the route which would bring several separate: com munities and scores of homes into very close touch. The social feature aside from the more important busi ness feature, makes it extremely de sirable that these rural lines be es tablished. Pleasant Lane and Cl eo ra would also soon be ringing up "central." We trust the Bell Company, if their terms are reasonable, will per severe in this undertaking, not strip ping short of success. Apropos rural telephones, a writer in the Augusta Herald had the fol lowing to say: "The Rural Telphone certainly is the farmer's greatest servant. In usiug it to do errands it saves him time. In dry seasons, he may be promptly notified'of the approach of prairie or forest fires, of not infre quet occurrence if his farm adjoins a railroad, or in case of fire in his own. horne he can summon aid with ??t*leaving the farm himself. It is hard to say in what way it helps . him the most of the various things . mentioned above. Wherever he is, .'. ask him if he would be willing to do . without it and his answer is, "No!" ' "In the vast sections of open coun try away from schools, churches and other country life, the Rural , for 3 per cent, how Icing would he be in the banking business? If your 5 merchant bought shoes for S 1.25 and 1 sold them to you for 81, how long 1 would he be in the merchant busi- 1 ness? It would be only a short * time until he would fail.. I want 1 to urge every farmer to educate ,1 himself to be a business man. There is nothing will respond more quickly < than farming if business methods s are applied to it.'' ' i transit a solid forty buggies w i Run-abouts wit "TRUTH AND SHAMS." Fertilizers Being Hauled, Tren ton's Telephone . System, Will Compete ForiPrizes. On Thursday nighi last Hon. Joseph G. Camp, of 'Atlanta, de livered a lecture under^the auspices j of the Trenton lyceum.^ H?6 subject j was "Truth and ?haniBf" His man ner of dealing with hia*subject was to say the least, something grand. His arguments were lojsrical and his rhetoric perfect. We-, wish that! every young man and ?young lady could hear him on this Subject. In his discourse there we|e , gems of thought which if appli?d to a think- ? ing mind would be a Aval nable as-' set. Do our young people value this instruction as they ought? Do our j older people hold up tli,? Truth, as a j motto, to the young onjes? or is it I every older head pointier the youth to the dollar as his ultintate good? Think! The Trenton Telephone, Compa ny is extending its lines)' considera bly now. A line has beertfbuilt down the Aiken road section;,; another to Mr. Ed Lorick's place? and in a short time there will be:j>ther lines running still farther into.|he country. We won't say just now hjpw for they will go. -V The farmers have begun to haul fertilizers. Every farrear that we chance to talk with seems? to be giv ing this very expensive pjtrt of farm work more thoughtv th?n ever be fore. While this community has not cut its guano bill very .;' much, we believe they , are using "lt to more advantage than ever -T^jfore. We don't mean to say that Tinton will take both of the corn pr?tes at the fair next fall but we don|t see why we can't have one of the? Mr. and Mrs. W?liaml: Addison, of Columbia, are spending a few | days with the family of #Mr. B> J. Harrison. Mrs. Addison was, before her marriage recently, jV^ss Emma j Etheredge. Miss .Effie Privette, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs.'^jM?;.Court ne v, returned home last ^< ::. Telephone is fast reaching- out and removing one of the greatest disad vantages of living in the country namely, that one rmist travel a con, siderable distance to reach a market or talk'with a neighbor. "It is estimated that there are abolit 7 million farmers' families in thv inited States today, taking the ?vf farmer in its broadest sense in icluding all families living in th' en country. Of those it is es fcir d that in the few years since th. aral Telephone has been con doid seriously, more than two niiiion?have adopted it and it is rapidly being extended. "The Rural Telephone in sickness | OT emergency enables the farmer to lummon immediate aid. It enables' liim to learn the latest market prices ear of the Ce e have all sty] h rubber tires, PARKSYILLE WOODMEN Woodcraft Flourishing on West ?ide, '-Rambler's" Efforts Rewarded, Miss Nance's Work at Clark's Hill Woodcraft is growing mightily in western Edgefield. Not long ago a splendid camp was organized at [Plum Branch, and last Wednesday a splendid camp was organized in our sister town, Modoc, by organiz er Bell, with the following officers: j C. C., Milton Bussey; P. C. C., A. V. Bussey; A. L., Warren McDan iel; Banker, Humphrey McDaniel; Clerk,, Winchester Robertson; Es cort, Joe Marshall; Watchman, : Press Parkman; Sentinel, E. B. ! Dorn. The woodmen have a good j camp here,, at Liberty Hill, Red I Hill, as well as the places mention ed. So you see Woodmen are up and doing. ' Modoc starts out with 18 mem bers, newj, and with thc 5 or 6 who belong to Parksyille and will join Maple, the name of the camp at Modoc, is launched under favorable auspices. Clark's Hill is not only patriotic, but enterprising as their ?rood roads around their picluresqe hills abiin-1 dantly show, but a new indication of enterprise is found in the e fact that her citizens and trustees t are jroin<r to employ Surveyor J. M. a Bussey, of Parksyille, to lay them c off a school district, so that they can vote an extra, tax to improve their school property and employ]1 assistant teachers. J i This is possibly due to the leaven 11 placed among these ambitious folks and so get more money for his f products. It removes the isolation 1 of country lue; it improves the con ditions surrounding thc farmer's 2 wife. During the,day and evening f it is used a great deal for social in- t tercourse-every body being able.to 1 "get in" on the line at the same time ( jtf-they desire. .1 'Down South it is the -white wo- I ?an'y protection in the country.-dirf- I ? - Inked 'Sl?S^^RrOTp^? S phone lines exist it is customary to I furnish weather burean reports over a them each morning. *, For instance f at p o'clock in the monning the tele phone company in town will give t three lon<r rings over each rural line I entering its exchange and those who v desire may, on taking the receiver I off the hook, hear the operator read s the weather bureau report. - The 1 companies often also give out at the \ same time, the prevailing market p quotations. . i "The Rural Telephone born of ne- h cessity and of vital benefits to the a farmer has as its further recommen- s dation, its accessibility to. the entire s population of farmers, many of e whom cannot be reached hy Rural Free Delivery or good roads for generations to come." lebfated Rock es, incluiding C; at price s to sui COLD SPRING. enjoyable Oyster Feast, Miss Strom Teaching Barr's Chapel School. An enjoyable occasion was par icipated in here Saturday afternoon >y persons from various sections of he country. The ladies are very ouch pleased with the success they nade in their endeavor to raise noney, as they realized twenty-six Lollars clear of all expenses. The ?ysters were fine and the purchasers hereof indeed obeyed the request, eat and be-merry until the oysters rive out." The oysters, sandwiches, offee, etc , were served by a bevy >f pretty Red Hill girls in the up >er room of the school building, yhic'h had been beautifully decora ed for the occasion. Besides the money collected by he Woman's Missionary Society, here was five dollars in cash col ected to purchase books to add to ?ur school library. The money was ollected mostly from the young nen of oxtf community, as -we feel hat the library is for them and all rthers in the community as well as >y the recent visit of Miss Mary T. ??ance. "A little leaven hath leaven .d tile whole lump'' may be true of he visit of Miss Nance, and most issurcdly will be, if the {rood people >f Clark's Hill reach their ideal. Rev. Mr. White preached Sun lay afternoon to the good people of A'hite Town, in fact preaches there .egularly every 3rd Sunday after loon. White Town has one of "the best equipped country schools in Edge ield county, taught bv Mrs. Mamie Ar al lier. Mr. James Parks, fourth son of Hr. W. JR..Parks, has just returned rom a little ?[more than a year's 'isit to South America. Young Mr... Parks graduated a few years ago at Clemson College, since which time ie has been busy as a civil engineer. Ie got big pay5 as a surveyor in brazil, and' of .course. saw a great vt?^^i^^^^young man, ,nd we predict for Mm a bright uture. The plans for the big dam across he Savannah river at Price's sland have been approved by the rar depratment and the Twin City ^wer Company will begin work, o I am informed, in the morning. Phis scribe wrote the first line ever written about this -onderful water lower 17 years ago and you may magine, that although 17 years lave elapsed since he first agitated nd advertised what nature had in tore here for the artesan, his per onal pride in the beginning of op ration looking to its development. More anon, RAMBLER. Hill Buggies, arriages, Top t every purse. MR. KITCHINGS7 FLAJN. Very Successful Farmer Gives His Method of Making Corn. Inasmuch as I have seen and heard so much o' *he Williamson plan of planting ana growing corn. I will give to the public my method of planting which I believe will or can be applied to at least 95 pe ; cent of the uplands of the South. In as much as seasons, climate and con ditions govern the method of culti vation, I will not try to go into the details of that except to state thau as corn advances in age the shallow er the cultivation must be. Now for the preparation and planting: I plow my land as deep as possible, laying off the rows with, a two horse middle burster about four or five feet apart, owing to the grade of the land. After this is done I bed it out if I have time, if not I take a two-horse Oliver chill ed plow and bar off theN middle throwing the middle out'to the lay ing off furrow and leave but very little balk. Then with a two-hbrse middle burster and two good mules, I throw out this middle as deep as it can be pulled dropping my corn about six, eight or ten inches apart one grain at a hill, so that it can be thinned in wet or dry weather with out injuring* the stalk that I wish to leave. I puta small quantity of com mercial fertilizer with the corn in order to stait it off and to help to hold the moisture in eise pf dry weather. I take a double-foot stock with two small plows on it and ad just it to fit the furrow, putting very little dirt on the corn. After this is done I go ahead with my oth er farm work, not paying any atten tion to my corn as it is safe for .this season, which I claim makes it supe-' rior ta Mr. Williamson's plan. Having thrown all the soil ont no grass or weeds are in the drill with the corn, nor will any come as all of the seed have been thrown to the middle. If it becomes1 necessary, I will take a^ultivator, Plant Jr. "being a good one, and goo?>e time-to each, middle .v-^^ weeds^nd twenty-four or thirty-six inches high bef ore I work it at all aud not then, unless I see that it is thoroughly stunted. After once commencing to cultivate I never believe in neglect ing it any more. The easiest, best and surest meth-; od of stunting corn is planting by the above method and letting it stunt itself. I have taken land that would make four or five hundred pounds of seed cotton to the acre with 200 pounds of fertilizer, and planted it in corn by this "method putting seventy-five or one hundred pounds of same grade and made twenty-seven bushels of good corn. Of course I think second and third applications of guano pay. B. D. KITCHINGS, Plum Branch, S. C. for those who attend school. The patrons of our school have raised a considerable sum of mon ey to supplement the public school fund, which seems to be unusually short in Edgefield county this year. As the funds are sjiort and many of the pupils have to stop school to work, the school is now in charge of just one teacher. Miss Weinona Strom has gone to take charge of the Barr's Chapel school, which po sition was left vacant by the resig nation of Miss Fowler^ who has been called away by an unforeseen duty. We regret very much that Miss Weinona could not stay with us but we feel that it is a fortunate co-incidence for trustees and teach ers,that'one school being out, a posi tion was open and some one ready to fill it. Miss Weinona has been remarkabljr successful with her work here, and leaves behind her those who are wishing for her the best success in future. We were delighted to have Mr. John Hughey worship with us Sun day morning and meet again with us in our B. Y. P. U. in the after noon and talk to us in such an en couraging way. We appreciate, the help and encouragement given us by church workers from . other places and hope others will come to see us. ^ Sunday afternoon our pastoral tended the special service held at the Colliers chapel commerorating the memory of Frances Willard and made the address of the occasion. May our little town continue its upward move and be an inspriration to other sections of the county, and also gladden the heart of X. Y. Z. I Large stock of paints, stains, var nish, oil and brushes. Before you do any painting it will pay you to get our prices. B. Timmons.