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CARD FROM REV. F. A. WEAVER. ?* Mr. Editor: Please let me have a few words again to say to the public. Many of us have made pledges to the govern ment and have, carried out our obli gation, and many have made a pledge to God and have failed to carry out their obligation to Him. We paid for Liberty Bonds, we bought War Savings Stamps, we prayed for the return of our boys and many of them came back to us, and , yet, and yet there is unrest. God is not satisfied with the nations. We can look for peace but there will be no peace until man will sign a treaty with God. We may look for the Son of God on earth again but He will not come until every nation shall reap what they have sown. Some of them have already reaped in part but God is not satisfied yet. Every knee must bow and every tongue shall confess that God is God. - Seemingly, the world is gone after vain glory. God is not satisfied. You remember when Haman had erected a gallows to hang Mordecai on ?.nd when he saw he was about to reap what he had sown, with all of his ad vancement in life, he said "All this availeth me nothing so long as I see Mordecai sitting at the king's gate." So they hanged Haman on the gal lows he had prepared for Mordecai. ^Every man must reap what -he sows or it will fall upon his children or his generation. Sow the seed of love with thy fel . lowman-and through this channel we will be able to sign peace with God and we will not be ashamed to reap in the day of harvest. . God is not satisfied so long as sin rages on earth. Do unto all men as you would them do unto you. You may expect calamity on thir, earth un til man shall turn his face towards God. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be ni the days of the com ing of the Son of Man. Draw nigh un to God and he will draw nigh unto you. Yours for the cause, REV. F. A. WEAVER. FARMING WORTHY OF MEN. It may be true that more uneduca ted men with very few opportunities for training in youth succeed in farm ing than in other occupations. But that does not argue that farming is not an occupation worthy of an edu cated man. In fact there are many ex amples of men who have shown that modern farming in its various branch es is worthy of education, talent and skilled labor. Every young man of clean habits and pure motives is worthy of a prac tical education. And he is entitled to an opportunity to serve in society with refined, intelligent and progress ive people where his efforts will re ceive due recognition. Farming under present day condi tions is worthy of the most highly educated and the most capable young men. Like other business, it is large ly what those who follow it make the occupation. Success in farming de pends upon the efforts of the men who farm. As viewed by some men who esti mate gross receipts only, farming may not compare favorably with sal aried positions or wage earners now on short working days and higher wage scales. But if comfortable liv ing; quiet, contented home life; health, vigor and high ideals; honor, purity and good will are estimated with net jncome from the farm, fann ers may well be proud of ther occu pation. The future is bright for young men who have knowledge and experience in farming. Thc demand for cr ? and livestock products are likely to give better compensation for those . who farm.-Farm and Ranch. "SEE AMERICA FIRST." The resumption of American tour its travel in Europe is fixed for Jan uary, 1920. ? The fact that foreign travel has not been permitted has had the excel lent result of making Americans bet ter acquainted with their own coun try. People who would naturally un der ordinary conditions have taken European trips have learned the beauty and possibilities of Florida and the "Land of the Sky" and our great West. Before the war American tourists spent annually $300,000,000.00 in It aly and France. Since then a great part of this money has gone into Uncle Sam's coffers, or. into different branches of patriotic work. And the remainder has helped to increase the circulation of money in our own country. if you afford a trip abroad next year, well and good. But make sure that you are not neglecting your own country to do it. "See America First."-Gaffney Ledger. To Prevent B?ood Poisoning ipply at once the wonderful old reliab!? 1)1 PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL. a sur gical dressing fiat relieves pain and heals c toe same tizae. Not a l?i?aent. 25c .aV>^U? BROWN ROT IN FRUIT. Save Your Peaches and Plums From . This Destructive Disease. Clemson College.-Brown rot of peach and plum is one of the most widespread and destructive diseases of fruit that we have to contend with In many cases the entire crop is de stroyed just as the fruit begins to ripen. Practically every orchard in South Carolina is infected with it and while it is widespread and very de structive, it is at the same time easy to control, according to Director H. W. Barre, of the South Carolina Ex periment Station, by spraying with lime-sulfur. There are numerous commercial brands of lime-sulfur 0U the market and some of these have been tested by careful experimenters and found to be very satisfactory. The ordinary commercial lime-sulfur solution has been used at the rate of one part to eighty parts of water with fair success. This mixture will control broun rot. Some times, however, and under certain conditions of temperature and humid ity, it destroys a certain percentage of the foliage. The safest and best mixture to use is the home-made self boiled lime-sulfur mixture, made as follows: Use S lbs. of fresh quick lime and 8 lbs. of sulfur (flour )to 50 gals, of water. Make this up by plac ing the eight pounds of fresh lime in a tub or barrel and add just enough water to slake it. An excess cf water seems to drown the lime and retards the slaking process. As .soon as the lime begins to crumble apart -and a violent boiling is set up, add eight pounds of sulfur and stir in thorough ly, adding .enough water to keep any part of the mixture from becoming dry or burning. Keep this well stirred and allow the boiling to continue for 5 to 10 minutes. Special care should be exercised at this time to keep any part. of the mixtur? from becoming dry. Enough water should be added, in fact, so that the paste is thin enough to be easily stirred. After the boiling has continued 5 to 10 minutes enough water sholud be added to cool the mixture. The trees should be sprayed two to three weeks after the shucks drop, and again at intervals of from two to four weeks until the fruit begins to ripen. OAT SMUT. Easy Control Measures Prevent Great Loss. Clemson College.-Oat Smut is the most widespread and destructive dis ease of small grain. It frequently oc curs as a serious disease wherever oats are grown if proper control meas ures are not practiced. This disease alone reduces the production of oats in this State by at least 10 per cent, and in some fields there are losses as high as 50 per cent, which can easily be prevented by inexpensive seed treatment, says J. L. Seal, Extension Service plant pathologist. * This disease is caused by a fungus which grows within the the tissues of the plant. The spores germinate about the same time that the young oat plants come up. and the filaments of the fungus remain alive in the oat plants without apparently causing any serious damage until the plants begin to head in the spring. It then con centrates its efforts in the oat heads and fills up the places where the grains should form with- the black, sooty masses of its spores. As these masses of spores break up." they are scattered by the wind to all parts of the field. Many of them lodge on healthy heads of oats in the field, while others are infested in the thresh ing operation; hut in both cases the spores remain alive on the grain until planted in the fall. SeedN for planting should not be saved from fields that show over 2 to "> per cent of smutted heads, and in that case the seed should be treated. Even if a field is practically free of smuts and there are smutty fields near it, the seed should he treated. In fact, the .material for seed treat ment is so inexpensive that there is no reason why all grain seed to he planted should not be treated before hand. If there \$ a neighbor in your com munity who treated his oat seed last fall, compare your field with his and see if there is not money saved by such a practice. STEM-EN,., AOT OF WATER MELON. Clemson College.-This* disease is comparatively new, but it causes a serious loss of melons in transit. There was a loss of 2.500 carloads of melons shipped from the southeast ern stales last summer, due entirely to this disease. It is seldom found, in the field and the shipper is often as tonished that 40 to 60 per cent of his melons rotted in transit, when at the time of shipping they are apparently in good condition. The stem-end rot fun eus is common on ripe or dying vegetati in and around melon fields, esp. ially on cotton and corn stalks and old melon vines. These become covered with black fruiting bodies of the fungus in which countless snores are borne and from which they are scattered by tho wind. When a melon is cut from the vine, a drop of sap exudes from thp cut stem and provides ideal conditions for infection. The knives and hand; of workmen are often carriers of ir fection. and thus perfectly healthy melons may become diseased. A good stockman must he a sur cessful producer of ieeds. CONFIRMED TESTIMONY The Kind Edgefield Readers Cannot Doubt. Doan's Kidney Pills have stood the test. The test of time-the hardest test of all. Thousands gratefully testify. To quick relief-to lasting results. Edgefield readers can no longer doubt the evidence. It's convincing testimony-twice told and well confirmed. Edgefield readers should profit by these experiences. W. D. Dorn, Cedar Row, Edgefield, says: "I can endorse Doan's Kidney Pills for one box did me a great deal of good when I was bothered with my kidneys and bladder. The troublevhas never returned so I can confirm all I have previously said in favor of Doan's." 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