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Uses and Abus By Prof. R. J. H. De Loach, Direc S. R0THAM8TED EXPERIMEN" Th? Third of a Sf Tile Rothameted Experiment Sta the great work it haa done along a gone into the laws of aoil fertility, b thoBo laws, and has in all its history out a plan of farm management by w at minimum oost to the farmers. The RothamBted experiments bei Bennett Lawes began experiments 01 who loved the soil and to experlmer. fertilizer manufacturer in a certain s for transforming bone into superpho took out a patent for this In 1842, a he managed for about thirty years. Gilbert, and these two men for more agricultural investigations in regard feeding of domestic animals. In 1889 which had now grown ao Important, parin of the civilized world, to a bo half a million dollars. Twenty Years Expen Among many other things that w with fertilizers, mineral salts, and tc animal manures, to determine just win For this work plots of ground were measured, and then planted to the cr* to work. Small plots would be used 1 animal manures, and In each series throughout the entire experiments, wi different combinations of fertilizers, i each end of these plots, and with inte wore continued for twenty years and Many experiments wore conduct? the following results: The plots that In twenty years, 2,383 pounds of hay alone, 3,598 pounds; the plots with n monia salts, 5,711 pounds of bay; thos of ammonia salts, 6,726 pounds of hay manure and nitrate of soda G.407 pou cost of the fertilizers In comparison t( their use, one could not fall to see the Larger Yields Wer The Rotbamsted station was inter land aud the part played in this by th many experiments carried out, there applying plant food to the BOII. i,m-f things being equal, and the fertllizatic her possessions recommended, lt w. fertilizers on corn. Seven plots were Plot 1. Unmanured. Plot 2. Mixed mineral manure, 30! sui ph uto soda, 100 pounds sulphate lime. Plot 3. Ammonia salts, compris! 200 pounds muriate of ammonia. l'W)t 4. Ammonia salts and mixed Plot 6. Five hundrod and forty p Flot 6. Two thousand pounds ra] Plot 7. 'Fourteen tons farmyard i The results of six years of expel in yields was obtained with fertilizei salts, the guano and rape cake gave four or live bushels Increase of dree mineral manures wer? used, the lncrei was greater, and In 4 greatest. It se the effect of the ammonia salts in orde was in every case a substantial lncrea plots that remained unmanured. The great object in giving the abo tlon of farmers and business men that .gd /arm crops is a subject as old aa i Iiothamated did much fundamental v that aw'imonla salts and other mineral not valuable. Farmyard manure was more so when ammonia salts were ap WOMAN KILLS OKLA; SHERIFF. Shoot? in Order to Hot Husband Free from Ohieer. Muskogee, Okla., March 24.-Paul V. Hadley and his wife, who are al leged to have killed Sheriff Jake Hiles, of Beaumont, Texas, to-day on a Missouri, Kansas and Texas passen ger train at Ohetocah, were captured in tho country near there to-night. After killing the sheriff Hadley ?and his wife fled. The couple got breakfast at the home of ? farmer named Lawrence, six miles south east of Checotah. this morning. Thc farmer let the two have horses to ride and sent his son along to guide Hiern. The news of the murder had not then spread to the countryside. As soon as the news spread posses were organized 'and the couple chased and captured, The version of the officers in the ease is that it was the woman who killed the sheriff, using ber own re volver which she had concealed from the officer all the way from Kansas Olly. Then she secured the sheriff's gun, passed it to her husband and told him they would light their way out. Sheriff Giles left Kansas City late yesterday for Beaumont with Hadley In custody. The sheriff knew the prisoner well and did not h'andeuff him. Mrs. Hadley 'insisted on ac companying the party. . As the lim ited neared Checotah station passen gers heard a shot and lt was stated Mrs. Hadley was heard to ?ay to her husband a? she handed him the offi cer's pistol: "Now use this and ucl Stomach Ti S_ ? _ _ ^J? Most stomach t \? JL\%3 U eaaes- Th<> ?tor Tired out. Th "tonio ls what is needed. A few r will furnish natural strength. That do for you. It will start the stomach tho stomach will take care of itself. PE-RU Good the Year Alway g Raady-to-Tako Th?T - * .nm i? H a nov. time a remedy is needed for a wen whatever. The old, well-tried remoi peso for such cases, aro a great dea hand prescription. Peruna ls the have relied upon , for a great many j take, composed of pure drugs, of u Not an experiment. Peruna ls a su forty years of splendid history behh no risk. You know what you aro # es of Fertilizers ?tor of Georgia Experiment Station. r STATION AND FERTILIZERS, irles of Six Articles tipn is in England, and ls noted for ,11 linea of agricultural work, lt has HS been the first to discover many of been especially Interested In working -hieb soil fertility could be maintained San In the year 1837, when Sir John i his private catato. He was a man it with lt. Strange to say, he was a ouse, as he early discovered a process sphate by Uie use of sulphuric acid, ind built an extensive business which In 1843 he associated with him J. H. i than fifty years eonducted extensive td s ol IP and fertilizers, and feeds and Sir John turned over his large estate, and had Jecome so well known in all ard of dit actors, and endowed lt with Iments on Sum? Plots. ere done, experiments were conducted lany forma of ammoniates, also with at soils needed to grow the most crops, i set asido, marked off and carefully op with which the investigator wished 'or the different kinds of mineral and i one plot would be left unfertilized lillo the others would have applied the etc. Careful reports were taken from resting results. The same experiments more. sd with hay, and some of these with had no manure of any kind averaged ; the plots which had mineral manure ilneral manure and 400 pounds of am e with mineral manure and 800 pounds ; the plots which received the mineral nds of hay. Considering the very low > tho) increased yields brought about by value of the manure salts, e Always Obtained. estod in the permanent improvement of e use of fertilizing materials. From the was never a doubt of the wisdom ot rer yields were always obtained, other >n of the soils throughout England and as decided to ascertain the effects of treated as follows: 5 pounds sulphate of potash, 200 pounds magnesia, 360 pounds superphosphate ng 200 pounds sulphate ammonia and [ mineral manures, as Plot 2. ounds Peruvian guano, pe cake, manure. iments follow; Th? greatest increase 's richest In ammonia. The ammonia the largest increase, which was about sed corn. In Plot 2, where only the mo was least, while In Plots 3 and 5 it ems that the mineral manures needed >r to help them become available. There se whore fertilizers were used over the ve information is to bring to the atten the question of fertilizers for the aver? fin y farm of agricultural education, and fork on lt In no oase was lt found manures, when applied together, were i somewhat valuable by Itself, but far ?plied with it. CONDITIONS IN MEXICO BAD. American Woman Says Mexicans Made Mintier Pledge nt Tampico. Galveston, Texas, March 2 4.-Mrs. .lessie Barbour, one of the American refugees who arrived here to-day from the oil fields west of Tampico, brought the story of an anti-Ameri can murder plot. She reported 'thai several hundred Mexicans who attended a banquet at Tampico last week passed a resolu tion calling for tho murder of every American in the city and adjoining country, and were only prevented from carrying out their murderous designs by the prompt action of the Carranza soldiers then in possession of tho district. Many prominent Mexicans of Tampico and the State of Tamaulipas attended the banquet, she said. Mrs. Barbour declared, and so did others of the Tapllo's pas senger's, that Americans were openly insulted in Tampico, and that life in Gie oil fields of Pamuco ls not worth living. Mrs. Barbour states that 2?*?0 Americans now In Taiwpico land vi cinity are literally begging for con veyance 'to Dbe United States, and .that murder, robbery and starvation pervade tho smaller towns in the Tampico district. clear of the crowd." The two then hurried from tho car. Mrs. Hadley, trainmen say, took the sheriff's pistol from the holster ay me leaned toward him to hoar a ste ry he wfts telling. rouble roubles are not dls nach Is simply weak, o right kind of a neals, well digested, ls what a tonio will h going right. Then NA 'Round is no use of writing r prescription every k stomach. No use Iles, put up on pur 1 better than an of? remedy that people rears. It ls ready to nlform strength and composition, bstanttal, household remedy, with id lt. In buying Peruna you take utting. DISTRICT S. S. CONVENTION seneca and Wagoner Townships to Re Held at Richland, April 5tli. Following is the program ot the District Sunday School Convention (Interdenominational) to be held with Richland Presbyterian church April 5th: .Morning Session. 10 o'clock-Devotional services, led by Dr. J, L. Stokes. 10.15- Address by the president of the district. Rev. N. Q. Ballenger. 10.46-The Banner Sunday School. R. D. Webb, State Secretary. 11.16- Cradle roll demonstration. Mrs. J. E. Wallace. 11.46-How to organize a Home Department. Bev. J, E. Wallace. 12.1 fi-Announcements. Adjourn for dinner. Afternoon Session. 2 o'clock-Devotional exercises. Rev. J. E. Wallace. 2.15-Oconee County's Sunday School Standard. C. P. Hetrlck, President Oconee S. S. Association. 2.'15-Organized Sunday School Class at Work. Bev. T. L. Smith. 3.15-Grading the Sunday School and Training the Teachers. It. D. Webb. 3.45-On to Charleston. Prof. W. S. Morrison. 4.00-Reports and pledges. Ad journment. Night Session. 3 o'clock--Devotional exercises. Rev. T. M. Galphin. 8.15-Tho Sunday School and Soul Winning. R. D. Webb. 8.15-The Boy Problem lui the Sunday School. Rev. J. W. Streak, pastor St. John's M. E. church, An derson. All Sunday schools of t'hese two townships are urged to send dele gates to this meeting. All who come will be entertained by the people of the Richland community, 'whose 'hos pitality knows no bounds. Committee. Cures Old Sores, Other Rem?dier Won't Cure. The worst cases, no matter of how Ion? standing, ere cured by thc wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves ewin and Heals nt thc same time. 25c, 50c, $1.00 NEGRO CRUSHED RY II. R. TRAIN Tried to Swing Train-Body Fell Be neath Wheels-Horribly Crushed. (Anderson Mail, 2 1th.) Earle Anderson, colored, about 35 years of age, was run over and In stantly killed by the Blue Ridge shifting train near the plant of the Anderson Phosphate and Oil Com pany, west of the city, abouit 7 o'clock last night. According to reports made to Su perintendent J. R. Anderson the ne gro and another negro attempted to swing the train as it was coming t down the grade near thc fertilizer mill. The other negro succeeded in swinging the train, but Anderson I failed to do so, Ivis body falling on I the tracks beneath the 'wheels. The j wheels passed over hts stomach, al most cutting his body in ftwo. A leg was also crushed. The body was hor ribly mangled. The shifting engine 'and 18 or 20 cars were on the grade, and train No. 1.1, passenger, bound for Walhalla, took the siding at the fertilizer mill to allow the shifting train to pass, coming to the city. The crew of the shifting train did not know of the killing tmtil they got to the city, when the other nogro told them of Earle Anderson's attempt to swing the train. In the ?meantime the crew of No. ll advised Superintend ent Anderson of the fact that a dead negro was on ?be track. The coroner's jury brought in a verdict that the negro man was killed by a train, and by his own negligence. To Have Beahtiful Blumer. (Farm and Factory, 2 3d.) The banner 'to bo used in the pa rade of the Seneca school pupils at the Heid day exercises at Walhalla will be a thing of beauty and Seneca citizens will have every reason to feel proud of it. Tho banner is nov being manufactured In New York 'and will reach Seneca Shortly. C. H. Ellison raised by subscription In a few 'min utes last week the purchase price, $7 2.50. Other schools in the county aro preparing beautiful banners to be used In tho parado. Plot to Kill Royal Family. Rome, March 20.-It ia reported hero that ?a plot to kill the Bulgarian royal family has been discovered. Bombs have been found under the royal palace at Sofia. Many have been arrested as a result of the dis covery. A military revolt is feared 1n Bul garian official circles, it is said, be cause the army and the people have become weary of the war. It is not known whether there is any connec tion between the unrest in the army and the plot to assassinate the royal family. NEWS FROM OONEROS9 SECTION Gain New iMU/cus, Others Lost, linnell and School Matters. Coneross. March 20. - Special:' Our pastor Rev. R. (?. Lee, Ulled his appointment here Saturday and Sun day, delivering, as always an Inter esting sermon on each occasion. He was accompanied here by his wife, visiting Mrs. S. M. Hunslnger and iain Hy. Mr. Payne and family, of Wilming ton, N. C., moved last week to his farm, recently purchased in this com munity, known ns the Pennell farm. We welcome them to our community and will be glad to have them in our school and Sunday school. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. P, Dean and son Ben and Miss Flora Dean, of Avalon, Ha., were welcome guests in our com munity recently. The Y. W. A. will hold their regu lar meeting at Coneross Thursday at 3 p. m. The W. M. U. is invited to meet with them for the purpose of assisting tho divisional president, Miss Katie Abbott, who ls also a Y. W. A., In arranging tho program for the quarterly meeting of the W. M. S., which will meet with Coneross so cieties on the third Saturday in April. Mr. mid Mrs. W. I. DuBose, of Bounty Land, were recent visitors in our com m un Ry. Mr. Spencer, an invalid, who ls un able to walk or do any kind of man ual work, and has been since bia childhood (besides being raised an orphan,) entertained at Blue Bidge Saturday niglft. He spoke of the importance of education. Part of the program was humorous. This being the only way bc has of making a liv ing, a small admission fee. was charged, this raising a small sum about $r>.50. The talk was quite a helpful one. Mr. Garner and family have moved from Walhalla to this section. air, and Mrs. J. B. Holder and family moved to Anderson last Wed nesday from near here. We regrot very much to have them leave. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Boyd, parents of Mrs. Hoi 1er, moved to Richland Friday. A. H. Bagnall, of Anderson, and Major W. J. Strlbling are going to si>eak at Bhie Ridge school house next Friday night, March 24, at 8 o'clock. Their subject will be "Edu cation." Every one Interested In ed ucation In any way is invited to at tend, especially the patrons of this school, who are earnestly urged to be present. Bich?n tul News Notes. Richland, March 2 0.-Special: The social set had an informal dance at the home of Dean1 Davis Saturday night, complimentary to Hie home coming boys. Cadets S. C. and B. II. Strlbling and David McMaihan wore at home from Friday afternoon until Sunday Miss Cora Wy ly was with home folks for the week-end. Miss Paulino Anderson was with Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Hughs for tho close of the week. At the preliminary contest in dec lamation last Wednesday afternoon in the academy hore, to select a speaker to represent Richland school in the county and Piedmont oratori cal contests, Jefferson Mc M ah an wen first place and will hold up tho colors and reputation of Richland school In the contests. Jack Davis will be his alternate. Born, unto Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Blackwell, on the 13th, a girl. 'Miss Lynn Vernor has been unwell for several days with neuralgia and WcmeiCCnce ?A Now in Good Health Through Use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Say it is Household Necessity. Doctor Called it a Miracle. All women ought to know the wonderful effects of taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound even on those who seem hopelessly ill. Here are three actual cases: Harrisburg, Penn.-" When T was singlo I suf fered a groat (leal from female weakness because my work compelled mo to stand all day. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for that and was made strongor by its uso. After I was married I took the Compound again for a female trouble and after three months 1 passed what tho doctor called a growth. Ho said it was a miracle that it carno away as ono generally goes under the knife to have thom removed. I never want to be without your Compound in tho house." - Mrs. FRANK KNOBL, 1042 Fulton St., Harrisburg, Penn. Hardly Able to Move. Albert Lea, Minn.-" For about a year I had sharp pains across my back and hips and was hardly able to move around t1 3 house. My head would ache and I wns dizzy and had no appetite. After taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills, I am feeling stronger than for years. I have a little boy eight months old and am doing my work all alone. I would not bo without your remedies in tho house as there are none like thom."-Mrs. F. E. YOST, 611 Water St., Albert Lea, Minn. Three Doctors Gave Her Up. Pittsburg, Penn.-" Your medicine has helped me wonderfully. When I was a girl 18 years old I was always sickly and delicate and suffered from irregularities. Three doctors gave mo up and said I would go into consumption. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and with tho third bottle bogan to feel better. I soon became regular and I got stiong and shortly after I was married. Now I nave two nice stout healthy children and am able to work hard every day."-Mrs. OLE M KN TI NA DUBRRINO,84 Gardner St.,Troy Hill, Pittsburg, Penn. All women are In vi ted to write to the Lydia B*Plnkham Medi cine Co.. Lynn, Ma-o., for special advice?-it will DO confidential. grip, but is improving and about able to be out again. Miss Beth Coe has been away for two weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. G. M. Wilcox, and little niece, Miss Wilcox, who is only a week old, at Bennet'tsville. Robert Davis was at home Sunday from his school at Norton. J. J. Norton, of Seneca, visited some of the 'home-coming folks at Richland yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan Bruce and Mis? Rosebud Carmichael, of Avalon, Ga., visited 'Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Strib ling Sunday. Tihe District (Seneca and Wagner Townships) interdenominational Sunday School Convention will meet with Richland Presbyterian Sunday school on tho 5th of April, morning and afternoon sessions, with dinner on. tho ground?.. Public cordially in vited to attend. Mrs. J. P. Stabling continuos to Improve with her oyo troubles. Harry Young, of Avalon, and Ca dets John Bruce and Haltiwanger, from Clemson, wore with SUlen and Bruce Strlbling Sunday. Women Dirive- Mull Wagoi.K. Berlin, March 24.-Three hundred wemen are now driving horse-drawn mail wagons tn Berlin, according to an announcement by tho post oiflco awt/ho fifties. ?CS 5 ? * Try it yourself if you want personal and positive infor mation as to how delightful Prince Albert really is, smoked in a jimmy pipe or rolled into the best makin's cigarette you ever set-fire-to ! 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