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Rye For Soil And Livestock. Rye is one of the crops that has far greater possibilities in the South -west than many of our farmers real ize. The possibilities are not for a "money crop," as the cash raising crops are called, but for the gener al rotation on the farm. Rye will ordinarily yield as much cash per acre as wheat in many localities where the crop is threshed and sold for seed. But its best use, according to the writer, is for a cover crop, for green manuring and for grazing. .Why rye is not planted oftener in the grain regions of the South west is not easy to explain, unless it is the fact that few of our growers realize the importance of more green manuring to improve our worn soils in vegetable matter and in fer tility from decayed vegetation. It -is also unfortunate that many farmers ' do not see the importance of pasture . crops such as rye makes. These two uses of rye make it a very valuable crop and the writer hopes that the practice of growing it will increase. Soils Need Green Manure. The cotton soils of Texas, Okla homa, Arkansas annd Louisiana are burning out the humus under the in fluence of the hot sun, intensified by late and vigorous cultivation, which are necessary for cotton. As a result the cotton yield is getting less and the quality of the staple is by no means .. holding its own. This will mean in the very near future that an enormous expenditure must be made for com mercial fertilizer. It is not by any means easy to plans winter legumes on cotton land without losing anoth er crop of cotton or a corn or grain Borghum crop,for Hie reason that few winter legumes are adapted to the warm cotton lands, annd further more, the difficulties of getting, the cotton picked in time to plant them. The writer believes that rye though not a legume and not as beneficial to soil as a legume, las a place as a winter cover and green manuring crop combined. .Plant Rye Between Cotton Rows Rye is very well adapted to thin soils, at least when the crop is to be grazed or to be turned under for soil improvement. It may be planted be tween the rows of cotton in Augusl or September in the latitude oi North Texas and this will not inter fere with cotton picking in the least after the winter is over, the fertility the plants have used with the need ed vegetable matter goes back tc improve and enliven the soil. The same practice is adapted tc corn land in many localities. Late in the summer or early in the fall the corn grower may go over his corn field while the stalks are still stand ing and sow rye between the rows. The rye crop ordinarily will get started early and afford considerable protection tc the soil and when turn ed go a long way toward building it up. And what is to hinder farmers from grazing their cows, their sheep and their work stock during suitable weather in the winter? Those who plant rye for the grain will usually find that the yield is bet ter than wheat and the prices fully equal to prices paid for wheat. At least the writer has never bought seed any cheaper than the current market for wheat. Prepare Land Early. Where the land is to be prepared for rye it should be done early and pains should be taken to get the seed bed ready when the time comes for sowing. This grain is quite similar to wheat in that it prefers a fine seedbed prepared sometime^previous to planting. Usually about the same rate of seeding as for wheat, an av erage of six pecks per acre, is sown. But the purpose for which the crop is to be used and the kind of soil will control this matter. An experienced dairyman tells me that fall pasturing of rye does not materially injure the crop if pastur ed judiciously and that no other crop is better for the milk-flow in fall, except possibly wheat. My experi ence in this is not sufficient to jus tify an opinion. But for hogs chick ens and horses I am sure that rye is excellent. Every man with beef cat tle is losing, if rye can be grown in fajl and winter, if he does not grow this crop for his cattle. Rye Has Only a Few Enemies. Rye has very few enemies in pests and fungous diseases. Ergot, a fun gus disease that has caused much trouble in Europe, has seldom been injurous in this country. Ergot is a fungus causing a characteristic en largement of the grains that some times produces abortion or gangrene 4n animals when the grain is fed. To prevent ergot, do not plant rye in in fested fields, nor infested seed. Chinchbugs and Hessian flies are not as serious on rye as on wheat. Ry? and hairy vetch make a very fine soiling crop for cattle. Vetch with rye also greatly adds to the crop for soil improvement. Vetch, being a legume, contributes a source for nitrogen gathering organisms and thus helps enrich the soil in that con stituent. One bushel of rye to thirty or forty pounds of vetch makes a good combination. As vetch seed are usually high, less may be planted, though with less benefits to thin soil. -Farm and Ranch. A Culturd Christian Woman. Dr. Ramsey sometimes quotes a saying like this, "Educate a man and you have a cultured individual, educate a woman and you have a cultured family." In a speech some years ago Dr. Sikes spoke of the il literacy of a certain section of our state, and said that back of every one of the illiterate children -was an uneducated mother, that no educated mother ever raised an illiterate child. When he said this there came over the audience the still attention that is always given when a speaker un covers a simple fact, hitherto unrec ognized and yet undeniable. It is a mistake to think that re marks like these, we have quoted from Drs. Ramsey and Sikes, are the products of minds which see things through the magnifying lense of their own speciality. It is not possi ble to discount the fact that all so ciety has a very unique interest in a woman's education. Presidents oi women's colleges are not the onljj ones who have come to see this. Ir truth almost all have come to knov* it. One of the most remarkable facti of today is the general feeling or the part of parents, rich and poor "Well we must send our girls to col lege." And they are living up to it ; The education of their girls cosJ more than the education of theil sons: but the money is found and th< i girls go. The shame of our schoo i situation is that there are so fev I 'endowment funds' from which ou: . girls can get help; yet these poo: ; girls get to college. It would sur : prise almost everyone to know hov . large their numbers are. All of whicl . means that not simply colleere nres " -- .-6iajlulllU4'Ijei" <*;i( r great-grandmother. She is a good il - lustration of what a cultured chris ) tian woman means to society. In 18 83 she lost her husband, and fron i then on had to battle alone. Her pos . sessions .consisted of a mountaii farm on which there were not mor< than a hundred acres of valuable ? producing land, eight children reaching in age from an infant ir arms up to about eighteen or nine teen. Everyone of them was giver a college education, and some wen1 to universities after their college course. Her sons have come to hon orable places in life, one a physician, one a minister and college president, one a professor and historian, one a farmer. Hc-r four daughters follow in the footsteps of their mother and are raising families to serve man kind. This truly great woman has now sixty-three children, grandchil dren, and great- grandchildren, and the services these are rendering to society and to the kingdom of Christ can not be even referred to here. But suffice is to say, in all the many branches of the large family, the i deals of religion, culture and service obtain. Such a service was possible .only to a woman. It was possible only to a Christian woman. And it is also certainly true to say, it was possible only to a cultured woman.-Baptist Courier. Gain since They Drink Milk. Ames, Ia.-Woodbury and Webs ter County children are drinking more milk and less coffee as a result of the "Drink More Milk" campaign conducted by Iowa State college. In the Woodbury County rural schools 25 per cent more children are using milk, 8 per cent less are drinking coffee, 33 per cent are less restless in school, as reported by their teachers, 33 per cent have im proved their school work and 25 per cent have made increased gains in weight. In the city schools 68 per cent more children are now using milk, 12 per cent less coffee, 8 per cent less restless, 20 per cent have improved their work and 16 per cent have gain ed in weight. ELECTRIC Tl 6 Best ToDlc> .9111 ?Ala Family Medicine. Judge William H- Wallace. (By James Henry Rice Jr.) As fall came on in the year 1891, I secured a large airy room in the Pat terson house, then kept by Mrs. Rowe. Everything bespoke planter life and planter folks. The wide hall ways, the inviting basement, the deep windows and the glass doors? leading out on the broad verandas, the high white sealing, the canopy to keep the mosquitoes at a proper distance, the four poster bedstead, the tall trees in the yard and the shrubbery; sure ly a place to invite one's soul. Barn well -had not lost its respect for planter aristocracy; and I hope it never will. As the fall term of court came on a large crowd flocked to the town and accommodations broke down un der the 'strain. A friend who told me that Judge Wallace, who was to pre side, had arrived and was unable to find a room. I went at once to offer him a share in mine. It was an im mense room, with two beds, more than equel to two ordinary rooms. I had known Judge Wallace from the late '70s, and while living in Union county later, now and then saw bim at Union, where he lived. His name was one to conjure with. The pries tige won by his bearing in the dark days of 1876 had been enhanced by his career on the bench. Throughout South Carolina he had hailed as a just, highminded and incorruptible judge. He was glad to see me and much pleased at the prospect of getting quarters, but he said he could accept ? my offer on one condition only, and, : to my amazement, said he would ' take the room, provided he was al 1 lowed to pay board! He said his rule ' was never to accept courtesies like 1 this from friends while on circuit. 1 And he firmly insisted. I had to give ? in and take him on his ownvterms. So, for two or three weeks (it was * a long term of court) Judge Wallace ^ and I roomed together. He did not r go out at night; neither did I; hence i we had much talk, fine talk, fruitful . talk on a wide range of subjects. The 7 twinkle of his keen blue eyes is just r as distinct to me now, as it was then, r more than thirty years ago. He told me the whole story of his v doings in Columbia in 1876 and it k 1 a painful regret that I did not then a -^.?cc jusuce, Judge Mcivor being in line for promotion to the chief justiceship. Judge Wallace told me of the circumstances and said that j certain of his friends were pushing him for the place of chief of justice which he did not want and thought , himself not entitled to; but he did j wish to be associate justice and fear ed this move would defeat him. ? As an instance of how clean-cut was his conception of the fitness of ! things, Judge Wallace, on returning . home to Unionwould not stop in Co , lumbia, but went into the country and spent the night with a friend. Few knew that he had passed through the city. Just as the general assembly con , vened, it so happened that the histor ical society of South Carolina inaug urated a campaign to secure trans cripts of our Colonial record from the master of the Rolls' palace in London and for that purpose called a meeting in Columbia. The histor ical society put out the report that it desired to enlarge its scope and membership and appointed delegates from each county in the state. Gen eral Johnson Hagood and myself were delegates from Barnwell coun ty. We accordingly went to Colum bia and attended the meeting. The. object was accomplished, the gener al assembly provided for the pur chase of transcripts of the records; and this was the last heard of the enlargement of scope and member ship of the South Carolina Histori cal society. When we arrived in Columbia, I met Dr. J. William Stokes, an active Reformer, deep into the workings of politics. Dr. Stokes showed me cor dial friendship, although we were on .different sides in politics. One reason was that I had pulled Dr. Stokes out of a tight place, wben he was editor of The Cotton Plant, by furnishing him information. I asked him what would be the result of the election for judges on the morrow and he replied at once. "Mciver will be elected chief jus tice and Pope associate justice. We have made a deal." He said the deal was made with Judge Mciver and that Impression lay on my mind many years; but later W. D. Evans and Daniel H. Tompkins both assur ed me that Judge Mciver knew no more about the matter than a- baby, but that the deal had been made with ' his .friends, W. D. Evans being an active agent in securing it. Tbe result was as Dr. Stokes pre dicted and the evidence of the deal was overwhelming. As many reform ers voted for Judge Wallace, it nec essarily followed that, some" straight outs voted against him. He could not otherwise have been defeated. I recall another occasion when a man convicted for murder was ac quitted by a partisan jury, politics playing the leading role. Judge Wal lace presided and when the jury re turned its verdict, he threw his head back, his brow widened, and his lips were, tightly shut, his blue eyes blaz ed. Outraged justice never displayed a finer picture. According to custom, dating back tothe dawn of Anglo-Saxon civiliza tion^ the jury held the fate of the murderer in their hands, and they reasoned, as one of hem told me af terward, that they ' the power to turn the man loos1 o iury ever had the right, ?" / arrogate to .themselves th.. *o turn' a murderer loose on soc.vty. There sat? an upright judge, clean living ^d^fearing God and regarding man, doing his duty to the state, according to his conscience and his oath. Fac ing him were 12 vagabonds, human sewer rats, conveyinng plague and pestilence. What a picture for Gods and men! Until the jury is charged with re sponsibility for its acts, reviewed by ?TTiigher jury or court of cassation, as in France, then there will always be a rotten spot in democracy, a canker in the heart of civilization. If every juryman knew that he would be liable to be sent to the pen itentiary for giving a verdict con trary to the evidence, there would be a different tale to tell. A little later came Judge Hudson's -famous decision, declaring the state dispensary law unconstitutional. This was hailed with applause by the press and by the conservative democracy of the state. Judge Wallace, however, in talking over the matter with me privately, pointed out that Judge Hudson's reasoning would hold jn England or in any country where precedent counted, but that, in this country, it was a matter of statute law and he thought Judge Hudson's reasoning and conclusion inapplica ble a? much as he sympathized with : between a hole and a crack. A wit [ ness was somewhat foggy in his no ? tions as to the difference. Judge . Wallace pointed to a faint line in a ' gip, saying: "This is a crack, but when I put my finger through your hat that is a hole." There was noth inghazy in his mind. The year after he was in Barn well, Judge Wallace came to visit my wife and myself in Chester, where I was then superintendent of schools, being in exuberant spirits, brimful of life and in hearty enjoyment of living. During those nights in Barnwell we had grown close together, knew and loved each other. Nothing re mair.? now but his glorious memory, i but that is enough. South Carolina bred no truer son, produced no sounder, finer man; nor did our bench, among its illustrious judges, own one more just and high than William H. Wallace. Votes No More For Blease. To the Editor of The State: I feel like the Democratic voter from Barnwell in reference to Mr. Blease. I have always voted for him, the last time over the protests of my two sons that went to France to help whip the Germans, but I did not believe these reports on him. But he lets Mr. Duncan repeat these charges every day until I am satis fied that they are true, because Mr. Blease would not only deny them but a man of his grit would knock Duncan off of the platform if it was not true. So I am done voting for Mr. Blease as this is a white Demo cratic primary and only pure Dem ocrats should be allowed to run and as so many people all over the state , don't read the daily papers, and don't ' see what Mr. Duncan is accusing Mr. . Blease of I think every county paper ; should copy one of Mr. Duncan's ' speeches. I never would have seen it if a friend pf mine had not showed me his copy of the State. Let every body know just what we are up a gainst. So, Mr. County Editors, for 1 God's sake publish what Duncan is ' saying about Mr. Blea.se. I say this with all fairness to everybody for there has never been a man stronger for Blease than I have been. A '76 Democrat. Aiken. Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When B uying Roofing Metal or Composition Mantels, Tiling, Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Doors, Sash, etc. FROM Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telephone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA _:_I LOW ROUND TRIP EXCURSION FARES -From COLUMBIA, S. C. $24.15 ATI-ANTIC CITY, N. J August 1, 9, 15, 23, 29, September 6, 12 $34.00 NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. August 2, 10, 16, 24, 30, September 7, 13, 21, 27, October 5, ll, 19 Limit 18 Days For particulars communicate with R. S. Brown, Dist. Passenger Agt., 741 Broad St, Augusta, Go. i am, ._ m :e "Marse Davy") said to an old negro "Well, Tony, this is our birthday a gain -seventy-five years we've been together, as man and boy; threequar ter of a century and on one plan tation." "Sho nuff hit is, boss-and 'pears lak dese here years is a trevling a round a heap perter dan dey uster." ter." "That's what's on my mind, Tony, and inn the course of events we can't expect to remain here much longer so I've been thinking seriously ,Tony, ?seriously-bout the grave and the hereafter." "Wa't's dat, boss?" "Well, I want to make a bargain with you, Tony, a solemn bargain, to [this effect. Whichever one goes firs', [he will come back from the spirit world nd tell the other one just what it looks like over there." "Hit's a bargan, suh. Dat suits me adzackly. But" (reflectively) - "but, Marse Davy, if you goes first, won't you come back in de day time?'"-Judge. Gipsy Smith, the noted evangelist, will hold a meeting in Seneca Sep tember 3-24. 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