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ftMARD TIME TO MULCH STRAWBERRY Covering Should Be Put on After First Severe Frosts and Left Until Late in Spring. * In our northern latitudes the mulch Should be put on after the first severe frosts and left on until the ground is -well warmed in the spring. Where no form of mulch is used, the fibrous roots are subjected to periods of al ternate freezing and thawing with the result that many are destroyed. The most desirable mulch is one that con tains no weed seed$ and does not bury the plant to the exclusion of air circu lation. WTheat and oat straw, swale lay, coarse, strawy horse manure, brush and seaweed have been used more or less, but the first four named are the most satisfactory. The mulch should be applied care fully, else it may do more harm than good. If too thick, the plants are smothered and if too thin there is lit tle or no protection, so about an inch is sufficient covering for the plant, -with three or four inches applied be 'tween the rows, varying somewhat according to material and chmatieal conditions. In the spring the mulch should be carefully removed from the top of the plants and banked beside them. If entirely removed, the berries are spat tered with dirt during rainy periods .and lose much of their attractiveness and sale value. The muich beside the plants tends to retard the growth of ?weeds as well as to keep the fruit clean.-Maine Department of Agricul ture. TREE WITH CROOKED TRUNK Scheme Outlined for Straightening Up Bose and Other Pear Varieties, Always Deformed. _ Venn cr trees with crooked trunks, either from wind pressure or from distortion in th*? nursery may be Straightened easily, ns follows: Be ?fore the sap starts in the spring make ! about three parallel slits lengthwise of the trunk on the concaved side of the trunk. This will arrest the flow of sap at that point, causing the bark ] to thicken. This in turn will produce (Simple Device for Preventing Splitting of Trees Heavily Laden With Fruit j During Strong Wind Storms. fi gnarled spot in the wood, like a wedge, exerting its force at right an gles to the trunk, straightening out the most obstinate deformities. But this must be done while the tree (is young, or the bark-wedge cannot lexert sufficient force to bend the ?crooked trunk. This scheme Is par ticularly useful In straightening up the ?Bose and other pear trees, which are, jfor some unknown reason, almost al ?ways deformed by nature. (MANY APPLE TREES INJURED i . --- ?Spring Canker Worm Does Great Amount of Damage In Kansas j. Very Easy of Control. The Kansps experiment station Is (of the opinion that the spring canker fworm has killed more apple trees Ia that state ia a single season than the F8au Jose scale hos done since its first {Introduction ; Anything so easy of control as the *cauker worm should not be allowed to M?o serious damage. The canker worm ?la a leaf-eating insect and easily poi |6oned by spraying. I_ ?APPEARANCE HELPS TO SELL [Fruit and Vegetables of Neat, Clean, Uniform and Average-Sized Score High In Contests. f<By LEROY CADY, Horticulturist, Uni versity Farm, St. Paul.) ? Neat, clean, uniform, average-sized Ispecimens of fruit and vegetables make ?a better showing and will score higher Un contests than uneven and unmarket able specimens. Appearance as well as ?quality helps to sell goods. County jialrs and exhibitions should be one ?means of advertising good produce and .help to create a demand for lt. TOP BUDDING IS DESIRABLE practice Is Better Than Grafting for j Working Over Defective Trees j While Young. Top budding is better than grafting ?for working over undesirable trees If they are discovered while young. After the tree has passed Its second year in the orchard it should be head ed back severely In early spring, and ?the new shoots budded in August As a boy John Vanderpoot was never in a hurry. Still he almost Invariahly seemed to be lucky. He was a lurge boy, or rather his face gave the im pression of largeness; just as his waistcoat does now. In those days he bad pendulous cheeks and his legs bulged at the line of his shoe tops, so that the other boys called him "Fatty." When he went on an errand he never hurried himself about lt of course, but his luck had given him indulgent parents, so that instead of giving him the licking most boys would have got they gradually refrained from sending him-unless they were in no hurry themselves. It goes with out saying that he was never In a hurry to get up In the morning. There was one Fourth of July that he did get up at four o'clock, but he was so leisurely ahout his dressing that the other fellows went off to fire their cannon without him. John arrived on the scene just in time to go back and tell his people about the accident. He was the only one of the six who was not hurt. Another time he went out with s crew of young reprobates to loot the orchard of a particularly cross-grained farmer. He was up In the tree when the alarm was given, but he calcu lated that there would be time to se cure a few more apples before the farmer arrived. "Get a move on you. Fatty," suri? out a fellow criminal below. "He's a-startln' to ran." "Aw! What's the hurry?" said John, reaching for an outlying limb. There was no reply to the question, for the boy had tied. ^The farmer saw them stringing out in the direction of the fence, overtook and cornered them. From his perch In the apple tree John witnessed those unfortunates come, one by one, beneath the horny palm of the farmer, and saw them hoisted un ceremoniously over the fence. As their howls died away in the distance, John quietly descended and made off the other way. . ?..... John got through school somehow, but he was no forced plant He was In no hurry about going to work, but eventually took a clerkship In the local ; grocery. His employer dispensed with his services at the end of n month, and suggested to his father that po litical influence should be exerted to secure the young man a position In some claim department In Washington, where bis peculiar dilatorv toion* see Vanderpoot, who had no hralns to speak of. no burning ambition to dis tinguish himself, becoming one of the "solid" element He drawled In his speech and he dawdled through what hn called his work, but all the good tblngs seemed to come*hIs way. He married, of course. He was In no hurry about lt bot he got the pret tiest and brightest young woman In the state. What she saw In him lt Is hard to say. One evening John was loafing In his office when Dave Hinsley broke tn, breathless and hatless and gasping "Fire I" "At your house, judge," he added. "Tour wife told me to hurry down and get you. I don't reckon there'll be a 6tlck saved If somethin' ain't done pretty soon." John took one foot down from bis desk. "Is the hose company there?" "Yes, but there ain't no water." "In tbat case, Dave, I guess the only thing we can do Is to let 'er burn." And he put bis foot up again. Of coarse he was heavily insured. . ?.*... John's title of "judge" was purely honorary, but there is no doubt that he would have attained judiciary honors in course of time-he was in no hurry -if it had not been for his Investment in Guayqull Central stock. That would have been his limit however. Beyond the bench he would have been found out Guayqull was down to a pretty low ebb and a friend of John's who had Inside information, urged hun to buy at once, as it was certain to rise. John said he would, but he deferred his purchase from sheer Inertia until lt went down 8?11 lower. Of course It would go down. As soon as he had bought lt began to rise. That was be cause John, like the Idiot he was, had put every available cent he had in the world into lt One day the friend with Inside Information wired him to sell at once. The stock bad gone up be yond all expectations, and If John had realized then he would have made close on to $100,000, and have been comfortable for the rest of his days. As it was, he put the telegram Into his pocket and went on with the pe rusal of a Judgment transcript That evening hf? said to his wife: "Parkins wires me to sell that South American railroad stock, but I guess there ls no hurry about lt" Well, what John did make on that stock was over $500,000, and he owns most of the town now. He quit gam bling In stocks. It's dlsgusUng the luck some people nave. The St Louis Globe-Democrat says that areas that were once potato fields are now golf links. Oh, if they wei? only sausage links. A woman has sued for divorce be cause her husband did not talk to her for three years. Has a man ever sued for the same reason? Cabbages are now so high that thinking of them in connection with kings, as did the intellectual walrus, involves no great mental effort, The rich girls may soon have to leave ostrich plumes and egret feath ers to the poor and adopt turkey tails us the mlllinerlal insignia of opulence. There is a slight decrease In the Florida grapefruit crop, but approxi mately the same number of innocent by-sitters will be spattored by the Juice. A wife will find her husband prais ing ber for economy until he comes home after a hard day's work and finds the cabbage served minus the corned beef. The report that a German subma rine circled a British ship "but mads no attempt to harm the vessel" in what we would call a priina facie whopper. Yum 3>n ?$s? Siigfots! The Electric Liuhiittg SydfStt ?viii give .von Better Servi ci-?..ist Longer COSI 1*K8 Than any other kind of lighting plnnt on thc market, St is cheaper than acetylene- ?cleaner, paler, less expen sive lo oi irate, and will last a life time. WE HAVE \ VALUABLE BOOK that tell? you all al.out Electric Lights for the Farm. Write for B copy or call and see us. rjh The Dayton Electrical Mig. Co. =?h P| Dsyttm, C hlo. 0. S. A. ?g| ft 0 B fe _ |B__ R. H. Middleton Clark's Hill, S. C., Dealer ?^Light W tllTE OR CALL on the un dersigned for any information you may desire about our plan of insur ance. We insure your property against destruction by FIRE, WINDSTORM or] LIGHT NING, and do so cheaper than any Com pany in existence. Remember, we are prepared to prove to you that ours is the eafest and cheapest plan of insurance known. Our Association is now licensed to write Insurance in the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCor mick, Laurens and Edenfield. The officers are: Gen. J. Fraser Lyon, President, Columbia, S. C. J. R. Biak?, Gea. Agt., Secy, & Treas., Greanwood, S. C. DIRECTORS. A. 0. Graat, Mt. Carmel, S. C. i J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S, C. Jno. H. Childi, Bradley, S. C. A. W. Youagblood, Hodges, S. C. S. P. Monah, Willington, S. C. L.N. Chamberlaia, McCormick, S.C. R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. F.L.Timmerman, Pln't. Lane, S. C. J. C. Martin, Princeton, S. C. W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C. J. R. BLAKE, Gen. Agt. Greenwood, S. C. Jan. 1st, 1917. I FIRE I INSURANCE Licensed Agent for Four Fire Companies. Can Insure Anything Insnrable.Town or Country. J. T. Harling At the Farmers Bank, Edgefield Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC.driyei out Malaria.enriches the blood, build*up the system, A true Tonic For adulta and children. 50c ' niNTcr-TprtTTOT r.arrcirc BAT) SKIN. . i ' I 11 i 11 ? 11 . -kin i? ?ii.. intruit*ii bowel movement i'??r-| i ii is ci .i (1 ii ii II and dear your ; .uni-xi. H "Mi lb Iv i rig's Ni-V: j Ldc I'llls I'his mild laxative la- 1 n ti bed ti mc vi! assure yon ;? hill, free, non-j/ri oping movement II the morning. Drive om the ?lull, -- ?e?-l.-I ?og from iiVrr ? \..A ?.... C.;. -.-.I ?l^ggi?? liv..?- i i1 .. dollie <oda\. At ?ill DrUtf- ! A pleasant but effective emulsion, which rebuilds the tissues, revives the system, adds strength and stimulates the nervous system. It has no alco hol, and is in every sense a tonic. $1.00 PER BOTTLE Ask Your Druggist. Monufactured Solely By THE FEEEOL CO., Columbia, S. C. Treasurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office will be open for the purpose of receiving taxes fi om the 15th dav of October, 1910, to the 15th day of March, 1917. All taxes shall be due and pavable between the 15th day of October, "1916. and December 31st, 1916. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December31st, 1916. the County Auditorshall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent, for January, and if taxes are not paid on or before Feb ruary 1st, 1917, the County Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent from the 1st of March to the 15th ol' March, after which time all unpaid tAxes will be Collected by the Sheriff. The tax levies for.the year 1916 are? as follows: Mills For State purposes 6i " Ordinary County 6i " Constitutional School Tax 3 " Antioch " 1 unilt?'JlJU 1>U. ?U - " Elmwood L. C. 3 " Hibler 3 " Johnston 8 " Meriwether (Gregg) 2 " Moss 3 " Shaw 4 " Talbert 2 " Trenton 5 " Wards 2 " Blocker R. R. (portion) 15 " Elmwood R. R. (portion) 15 " Johnston R. R. 3 " Pickens R. R. 3 ". Wise R. R. 1? " Corporatons and R. R. ll J All the male citizens between the ages of 21 years and 60 years, except those exempt by law, are liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. A capita tion tax of 50 cents each is to be paid on all dogs. The law prescribes that all male citi zens between the ages of 18 and 55 ?ears must pay $2.00 commutation tax. he time expires on the 15th of March for the payment of all taxes. JAMES T. MIMS, Co Treas. E. C. PHOSPHO-MARL AND POINTS THE WAY FOB PRE PAREDNESS IN THE WAR ON THE BOLL WEEVIL. Naturally Phosphated Agricultur al Lime. Each ton contains 97 ots to ?1.10 worth Bone Phosphate of Lime and 68% Lime Carbonate. Sold only by State Department of Agriculture under authority of Gen eral Assembly. Gives farmers an opoortunity to obtain cheap lime carbonate. Shipments in bulk only, carloads not less than 30 nor more than 33 tons, at $1.50 per ton, cash with order. Freight on shipments to agency stations may be paid at destination. Shipments to non agency stations must be fully pre paid. Freight rates on Phospho-Marl to stations in Edgefield county are as follows: Edgefield, Parkshill, Trenton, Johnston, $1,00; Modoo, Clarks Hill, Meriwether, Woodlawn, $1.05 Plum Branch, Parksville, $1.10 per ton. Cut out this ad and save it. It makes ordering easy. For further information, apply to E. J. WATSON, Commissioner, S. C. State Dep't Agriculture, Columbia, S. C. i -^..Wf-. v--1 Cet\four Grocers >, COFFEE - '".cRcilv-T.iVlorC? ,MPCRTERS(/ROAS-?'!5 The Luzignne Guarantee: after using thc contents of a can,you are not satisfied in every respect, your gro cer will refund your money. He knows coffees-has mixed them and sold them for years. He knows Luzianne. Ask him what he thinks of it. Ask him what most of his customers think of it. Luzianne will stand or fall by this test. If the re port is favorable, take home a can and try it yourself. Make up a pot, ac cording to directions. You have nothing to lose, for the guarantee assures your money back if you don't like Luzianne. Buy a can today. Ask for profit-sharing catalog. The ppiK"~Tay!or Company, New Orleans The Thrice-a-Week Edition of the New York World in 1917 Practically a Daily at the Price of a Weekly. No other Newspaper in the world gives so much at so low a price. The value and need of a newspaper in the household waa never greater than at the present time. The great war in Europe is now half-way into its third year, and, whether peace be at hand or yet be far off, it and the events to follow it are sure to be of absorbing interest for many a month to come. These are world-shaking affairs, in which the United States, willing or un willing, is compelled to take a part. No intelligent person can ignore such issues. THE THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD'S regular subscription price is only $1.00 per year, and this pays for 15G papers. We oiTer this unequalled newspaper and EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER, together ~--?.? *?? Half Your Living Without Money Cost A right or wrong start in 1917 will make or break most farmers in the South. We are all'facing a crisis. Thia war in Europe puts things in such uncertainty that no man can foresee the future with any degree of. clearness. .) The sure and certain increase in cotton acreage means lower cotton prices next fall. Cost of all food and grain products is high, so high that no one can afford to buy and expect to pay out with cotton. It's a time above all others to play safe; to produce all possible food, grain and forage supplies on your own acres; to cut down the store bill. A good piece of garden ground, rightly planted, rightly tended and kept planted the year round, can be mads to pay half your living. It will save you more money than you made on the best five acres of cotton you ever grew! Hastings* 1917 Seed Book tells all about the right kind of a money sav ing garden and the vegetables to put in it. It tells about the field crops as well and shows you the clear road to real farm prosperity. It's Free. Send for it todav tn u - TINGS CO., OPTOMETRIST Eyes examined and g.asses fitted only when necessary. Optical work of all kinds. EDGEFIELD, S. C. the Logis i me at my" aturday of ntime they can either write me at Edgefield or Columbia, and all matters will have prompt attention. B. E. NICHOLSON. Feb. 9, 1917. ii ? k' : TP S? ia"' rms UEST roa T '-'T^JL^i^ BILIOUSNESS *W 8 8 T T E RS AND KIDNEYS Farmers of Edgefield County Now is the time to perfect your ar rangements for the year. We are ready to lend money in any amount on approved security. COME IN TO SEE US BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E.Nicholson, vice-President E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Oashier. DIRECTORS : J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. C. Fuller. E. J. Mirna. J. H. Allen. Established Over a Quarter Century Davison & Eargo Cotton Commission Merchants Augusta, Ga. Correspondence Invited Liberal Advances on Cotton Shipments