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Williamson Con Groviag. P&WjftV V . . .k A 4 ; -/T Below we give the Williamson P ' method tor planting corn:; This is the system which has revolutionized corn growing in the South and brought ; jwonderfut possibilities before the f armere The directions have been rej.**peatodly published thioughout the South, but there are yet hundreds and thousands of farmers who do not know p about It- In the directions given the use of fertilizer is on*a very liberal ipplan, but the gr^at Increase in yield makes it easily profitable and conse quently there is no reason why it ?,-V should not be followed. In these days of labor scarcity there is no use in working six or ten acres &, of land to secure what can be groyn n on one acre. Especially is this true V _ when the same amount of fertilizer > P that is used on one acre will be applied to the six .acres. Because a p v fanner has idle land there is no reason llpjpfcy he, should cultivate it at a loss just to say he has so many acres ntder cultivation. This will soon be ^ tiul1 aa AfK/m aM ^ vwv v*\t | : ttingf have passed away. Break your land deep and if clay ^aad harrow it welL Lay off your rows five feet wide and phut in the water farrow. Do not use any fertiliser at time of planting. Plant yoor corn thick?from 4 to 12 inches according to the s trehgth of year toil and according to the amount of fertilizer you propose to use around yoar eorna^A tide application. To . make a large yield yon most have the masher of stkQ? per acre to give you the required number of ears. ^ Ton can ooltivate this corn as suits I yon, with weeded, harrow cultivator : or with scooter and scrape. We would Jpjpiow it twice and thin and hoe once. Ton can be guided by the condition of the corn and your supply of labor. fhird plowing, from June 12th to July 12th, when your com shoWs signs of preparing to t&sel and to make its shoot take 200 pounds cotton seed meal. 200 pounds acid phosphate and 400 pounds German KaZnit, mix and pot 100 pounds on each aide of this corn, following with your plow to / mix it in the soii and to cover it. If , . you preferuse 800 pounds of ready ' mixed fertilizer, i ^ Toucan vary this amount to suit ' yiour wishes. Bat to get anything like a fair yield, plant thick, we would sever usp less than 600 pounds, put your corn farther apart in drill say 16 to 24 inches. For last worlflbg put in 100 pounds |g| nitrate of soda on one side. Sow your peas, and cnltivate very shallow so as hot to break y^ur corn roots. Many a crop is damaged by deep plowing '/V ? > ^ | when corn is at this stage but never *- by stirring the soil shallow. By folt lowing this method you can make from 40 to 100 bushels per acre, just , according to your proficiency in carlying the details. The value of the plan lies in three things: 1, in breaking your land deep and in planting in the water furrow so as to\ resist ' drOuth; 2, in having the corn thick aOd thus Having line reqmrea numoer of ears, and 3, in putting the fertilizer In alnmdancie at the time the stalks begin their effort to produce the ear? L^ihns the full force of the plant food Is put intq the ears and is not wasted In growing stalk, nor has it been loached away. In other words, yon feed the' stalk at earing time, and yon get the greatest possible amonnt of corn by so doing. The higher the grade of fertilizer the more soluble it is?the better your results. Kodol is today the best known and most reliable remedy for all disorders of the stomach, such as dyspepsia, heart burn, soar stomach and belching of gas. Kodol contains the same juices found in a healthy stomach. Kodol is pleasant to take. It is guaranteed to give relief and ia sold here by The Kaufmann \ Unclaimed Vail. List of letters remaining uncalled for in this office for the week ending March 16, 1908: \ Females: Jeppers, Miss Sprinker. v , Males: Walton, Mr. G. L. 4 These letters will be sent to the dead letter office March 30, 1908, if not delivered before. In calling for the above please say "advertised," giving date of list S. J. Leaphart, Postmaster. The 2. Jones Company. W? want, everv reader of The Dis " ? patch to carefully look over the advertisement of the E. Jones company of Batesburg. They style themselves ?and rightly so?'IThe Everything Merchants." They carry every thing known to the human mind, and their prices are always the lowest and their terms the easiest. Read what they have to say and call at their mammoth establishment for a verification of their statements. . Cloth all Wool and Paint all Paint Is cheaper than shoddy paint. The L. & M. is Zinc Metal mand into Oxide of Zinc combined with White Lead, and then made into paint with pure Linseed Oil in thousand gallon grindings and mixings. Wears long; actual cost only $1.20 per gallon. E. P. Derrick, Lexington, S. C. t .. . \ # Limekiln Club's President Announces a New Stock of Them. HAVING A BULL CHASE YOU. Sign That Things Have Dwindled Along Until They Have Finally Reached a Climax and Can't Be Put Off Any Longer. [Copyright, 1907.] "My frens," said Brothel Gardner of the Limekiln club after the routine business at the last regular meeting had been disposed of, "we has been dreamin' old dreams and seein' old signs fur a long time past I think de time has come fur sunthin' new. If de cull'd race am gwine to keep up wid de pursession, den old things must be dun away wid. What cull'd folks . * "TO HATS A. BULL TAKE ABTEB YOU." dreamed of a hundred years ago don't count now. Darfore after a good deal of thought and figgerin' I desire to present you de follerin\ which/will stand until further notice as de only schedule issued and authorized by dis club: * "To dream dat you am walkin' along de seashore and find a diamond breastpin signerfies dat dar am gwine to be sickness in your family. If you hain't got no family, den your aunt or your uncle am gwine to be tooken down. If you hain't got a relative on airth. you'll be tooken yourself, and saltpeter wont save you. "To dream dat you am a codfish sailin' along dev briny deep is one of a - ^ ? T ! *? /vtrr Ff clorr>Ar_ UW LHSl X XiXUTT VI# lb | fies dat when de fandlord comes to collect de next months rent he am gwine to drop a ten dollar bill on de floh and not notice it "To dreandf dat yon am a lobster and dat in attackin' a schoolma'am walkin* along de s^ore you have one of your claws knocked off am a dream dat soon brings results. De police am gwine to be watchin' in de alley fur you. "To dream dat you api a whale and am swimmin' around and takin' up most of de Atlantic ocean signerfies dat when you go tq your job In de mawnin' de boss am gwine to gib you de bounce. He's found a dago who will work 50 cents a day cheaper. "To dream dat you am a giraffe sig-, nerfles dat you will be higher in de air very soon. It may mean dat you am gwine to climb a persimmon tree, and it may mean dat you am gwine to be 'lected to some office. While you am waitin' to see which don't work too hard. "On three different occasions widin a year my old woman has dreamed dat she was a bunch of bananas and dat I was steppin' for'ds to pick one off. On each and ebery occashun she has found a nickel on de sidewalk next ilor UUJ I "To dream dat you wandered out in de kentry and found a great big waterinillyon and took it home and dat when you cut it de core was as red as blood and when you tasted it it seemed fit food fur de angels, don't signerfy good luck onless you furder dream dat .you got rid of de rinds befor' de police come around. "To dream dat you am a pullet sittin' on de roost and dat de hand of a cull'd man am reachin' up to grab your leg and make you his signerfies dat you am gwine to win on de next hoss race. If you am in lub it signerfies marriage. A Clothesline Dream. "One night two months ago I dreamed dat I was a clothesline and dat de old woman was hangin' out de Monday ?t VIA T *r?/vlrA nn m a WUSJIIU UU ill} uauo.. x ?uac uy m a. sweat. I jest felt dat I was in fur bad luck, but de werry next day de grocer weighed me out three pounds of butter fur two, and Sir Isaac Walpole, who had owed me a dollar fur six months, come along and paid it -'If any of you have got de idea dat to dream of countin' money signerfies good luck you'd better drap it at once. De man next doah to me dreamed dat dream one night last month, and when he woke up in de mawnin' he found dat de hawgs had got in and rooted up all his taters. "To dream dat you see a white hoss, a black cat- a yaller calf and a spotted cow chasin' each odder around a lot signerfies danger. You may fall off de roof of de house or de ole woman may go fur you wid de rollin' pin. "To dream dat you am a wheelbarrer and dat a fat man am wheelin' you along de street signerfies dat you will visit a hospital very soon. You may go dar to see your brudder-in law . or you may go dar wid a broken biad. "Waydown Bebee tells me dat a few . nights ago he dreamed dat he was a load of hay and was bein' drawn to market to be sold. He wanted to appeal to de farmer drivin' not to part him from his old associashuns, but befo' he could do so he woke up. He lay dar on his back wonderin' what sich a dream signerfied when his wife got up and would have gone through his pockets and taken ebery dollar he had but fur seein' dat his eyes was open. "It am only ten nights since Samuel Shin Hroamorl dot ho tens fln flfrth quake. He was travelin' aroun# shakin* down buildin's and scarin' folks to death when his landlord pounded on de doah and warned him to hustle up dat back rent or vacate. It was only about two minits between de dreamin' and de poundin'. It was only ten hours after de poundin' dat Samuel was sot out on de sidewalk. "To dream dat you am a one horned cow looks on de face of It to be a bad thing, but It am jest de contrary. If you eber dream dat dream you am shore to find a wallet wid as much as $10 In It, and dar won't be a soul around when you pick it up. "I knowed a man who went to bed arter fam'ly prayers and dreamed dat he was a smoked ham hangin' out in front of a butcher shop and dat a tall, slim cull'd man was lookin' at him wid eyes of love and affecshun. He tried to call out to de butcher to take notice or he would lose his ham. and in doin' so be woke himself up. He couldn't sty what sich a dream signerfled, but he soon found out His tracks was foilered from a wood pile, and he got sixty days on de island. "I once dreamed dat I was a windmill and goin' round and round, and when I woke up and told de old woman she begun to w$ep. She said it meant sudden death widin a week, but she got left I had an old mewl worth about $10. A preacher, who didn't know nuffin 'bout mewls, come along and offered me $30. Dream dat dream jest as often as you kin. "If you see de moon ober a red hoss barn take care. Dat means blood and plenty of it. To Hear a Crow Cawin'. "If you hear a crow cawin' at midnight git right up and light de candle and look under de bed and see if your five dawgs am all dere. De sign means a loss of property. "If de fust pusson you see on gettin' up in de mawnin' am a cross eyed milkman go back into de house and put butter on your butes. Dar*s trouble eomin', and you want to slip out of it if you kin. "If you am passin' a house and a black hen runs out and begins to crow at you bless her heart. Dat's a sign dat a legacy am comin' to you and dat widin a year you'll pass dat same house ridin' in your kerridge. , "If you am a young man and am gwine along de road to see your gal and a star falls "and a dawg barks at an me time, turn rieht around and go home. Dat gal am deceivin' you. She has tooken your gumdrops and lubbed anodder at de same time. "If de sun sets fiery red and you see It ober your left shoulder and at de sfime moment a widder woman leanin' oh a crutch passes you by be on your guard fur de next few days. It may signify dat de butcher am on your trail Wid an old bill or dat a cyclone am gettin' ready to break loose. "If you am walkin' in d& alley at night to git de fresh air and ruminate fur awhile and ,you suddenly think you smell chicken potpie, git right out of dat on de gallop. It's a sign dat at least two white men am watchin' dat coop. "To have a bull take arter you when you are makin' a short cut across a field is a sign dat things have dawdled along until dey have finally reached a climax and can't be put off any longer. If you reach de fence ahead of de bull it am a sign of industry on your part and mighty pore plannin' on his. If you fail to, den no furder sign wfil be of interest to you in dis world." M. OTTAD. ) / Speaking of His Relations. Judge?What are your relations to the defendant? Witness?I hope my relations are nothing to him. If they were, I'd disown all of theml^-Yonkers Statesman. To Solve the Servant Problem. The combination pianola stove.? Punch. Her Power. Sha couldn't drive a nail in straight, Not even on a stunt. She couldn't throw a stone a rod . And hit an elephant. She couldn't saw a board across And make the angle right. She wouldn't kill a mouse, although It bothered her all night. She wouldn't miss a gossip feast For anything you'd pay. She couldn't hear a secret but She'd give it all away. She couldn't hold her tongue an hour Unless she were asleep. She couldn't skip a bargain sale Where everything was cheap. She couldn't do a lot of things That men can do with ease. She couldn't knock a three base hit Or shin up lofty trees. But she can take a great big man. Enslave him with a thrill And twist him round her finger and Remold him to her will. ?Somerville Journal. T A PERSIAN SERVANT. " ." Ho Was Poetical Even if Useless and Dishonest. In one way Persia reminds one dimly of England, for there are such things as difficulties with servants even in Teheran. The author dismissed one of his servants, who, as he had been a tailor, was incompetent to do anything but sew on buttons. The man protested, "What will become of me now ihat I have been eating your salt for such a long time and am driven out into the streets?" He was reminded that he had only been employed for a fortnight He answered that he felt it had been for years. He was told that he was no good, but his volubility only increased. "How can I be no good after having stayed with you? Can you forget what Sa'di said: 'A piece of #?i?v havinsr fallen into the Hammam | from my beloved's hand into mine, I said to it, Art thou musk or ambergris that I am drunk with thy perfume, i which catches at the heart?* It answered: 'I was but a worthless piece of clay, but I was in company with a rose for a moment This companionship transformed me or else I should still be the same piece of clay that I. was.'" One can pity the state of an English mistress confronted with such an argument. The author kept his servant another week, and he remarks disconsolately that in that time he discoveri ed that if the tailor was-a poet he was also a thief.?London Globe. | ADVERTISING. The Mightiest Faster In the Modern Business World. "Advertising is today the mightiest factor in the business world," writes Truman A. De Weese in System, the Magazine of Business. "It is an evolution of modern industrial competition. It is a business builder, with a potency that goes beyond human desire. It is something more than a 'drummer' knocking at the door of thje consumer, something more than mere salesmanship on paper. "Advertising is a positive creative force in business. It builds factories, oWcnmnor? nr>d rnllrnnrlfl. Tt makes DiXJ kJV?A. M?*V? w ? ? two blades of grass grew in the business world where only one grew before. It multiplies human wants and intensifies desires. The result is that it forces man to greater consumption, hence stimulates his production to keep up with his buying desires. "Before advertising was developed into a fine art and before it became a factor in the Commercial world the business of the manufacturer and merchant was to supply the normal needs and desires of the human family; merchandising was bounded by man's necessities and by his meager knowledge of the luxuries which he deemed within his reach." Hint of Untidiness. "If you want to study human nature just try being a salesman in a department store for even a short time," said the cletk over his evening meal. "There isn't a day but I have a quiet laugh over the remarks of customers or, more frequently, would be customers. Today, for instance, I was approached by 'a well dressed elderly woman witfc the request to show her some cups and saucers. She did not want china ones?something in porcelain, for 'common everyday use,' she said. I brought out samples, and finally her choice simmered down to a plain white and the other a white with a dull eravish green figure. As if to ac count for her decision she said to me in a most confidential tone: 'I guess I'll take the gray ones. They won't show the dirt so soon.' "?New York Press. A Pugnacious Super. When F. R. Benson, the actor, was training two armies of "supers" for a battle, he had some difficulty in persuading the weaker side to submit to be conquered. Even at the first performance the vanquished force, which included a somewhat pugnacious Irishman, who may be called X., upset traditional usages by severely mauling its victors, and the play must have suffered if the hint of one of the warriors had not been taken. "Look ^-here, Mr. Benson," he said, "if you want us to be beaten, you must put X. in the other army. That's the only way."?London Standard. \ . .Margaret's Alphabet. Little Margaret was having difficulty with the alphabet, which was being taught her in the good old way. The letter H was a desperate pitfall. H she could not remember, so her mother said. "See, Margaret, it looks like a gate." That was an inspiration. Now Margaret i? in clover. She never forgets, but this is what she says: a h o d p t. sr. eate. i. etc. Her mother sees still harder work ahead in making the little maid forget.?Washington Star. Proved. De Million?I must say I am very much disappointed in you. You told me that when you were married you would prove that you had business ability. Du Porely?Well, my dear sir, I did prove that when I married your daughter. Doesn't Agree. "You should never take anything that doesn't agree with you," the physician told Mr. Marks. "If I had always followed that rule, Maria," he remarked to his wife, "where would you be?" Carved His Name. Naybor?That boy of yours seems to be a bright one. He'll cut out a name for himself some day. Popley (angrily) ?He's done it already?on our new piano! ifSnP^i^ rt ft hi4"?| ^^^^^55^3= Big Sa&!fe ^ ^ . Hy Cotton Yiel i^g? The value of com raigpF been demonstrated 01 # both government anc tests. We stand rea you at any time that W V&' crease your yields per lp Vuginiam, Ferti Hon. R. J. Redding, fo: I|2? gia Exp. Station, is autho: m/A "experiments made at th W/; balanced commercial fert W&tsUff of land, and well cultivate SbrTt pected to produce an ii oicotton. 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All overseers of the public roads of jexington county are hereby notified o put their roads in good condition at nice. Unless this public duty is prompty attended to I shall be compelled to nvestigate the reasons for such neglect. GEO. H. KOON, Supervisor Lexington County. March 9, 1908. 4w22 FOLEYSHONET??TAR ' tor chll&rent safe, sure* Ho opiate*