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m h 11 i .i. I ', "i - ******** *v * * * ?j* * .f. THERE 18 A GOKD MINE ON ?$? * YOUR 'FARM-CASH 'g^i * IN ON, IT. 4 ?I?. * * * * ******** (John B. Adger Mullally, In the Pro v gre88ivo Farmer.) I wish Uiat I could borrow Ga briel's trumpot to make the Southern farmer listen to and loarn/thls mes sage. If any farmer will read it and fellow its advice he will succeed. That's strong talk. It's so. 'Listen! It means more money for him than it' he struck oil on bis land. ' y I bought this , little old farm of mine of 40 acres for a mere song. I wanted a home, near the mountains, hoping to regain my hoalth. There aro 25 acres cleared and In cultivation and 16 acres In virgin for est. For three years I*kept tho ?tails of the horse, the mule, the cows, the pigpen, the chicken house, "belly deep" In loaves from the 16 acres of woodland-all the time. There, wore two acres In a patch behjnd the houso so washed and worn that you couldn't raise an umbrella cn it. I put all these leaves from tho 'stalls on that two acres. Last year that two acres, less a garden, a Bweet potato patch and a corn patch, made three 500-pound bales of good mid dling cotton. ^ That's what I did on two cares. My tenant and his family-with two plows-made less than three bales of cotton on 22 acres. His land was bet ter, fresher land than tho two acres. My tenant used all tho commercial fertilizer his 22 acres would stand. Ho didn't make "enough cotton to pay for tho fertilizer. He worked his 22 acres better than I could mine, cul tivated by hired labor. Besides, his land-his 22 acros-washed. Mine the two acres-did not loso a grain of sand or an ounce of, soil a year,by erosion or washing. The terraces on the 22 acros noed unceasing caro. On the two a< res the soil between the torrace3 &\ sorbs the rain and they need little or no caro. \ Try it, anybody on two acres. It the leaves do not got wet or do not get impregnated with the manure of - the animals, put thom on anyhow, and turn thom in. You won't know your two acres lu ono year. You needn't havo yolir soil tested ns'to whether it lacks potash Jpr lime or soda or nitrogen or phosphorus or hydrogen or acid or salt or brum magem or kanoodloum. Just slap on tons and tons of leaves, preferably from tho stalls, and they will do tho ( trick. You can laugh at tho drouth that frizzles up your neighbor's crops. Your soil will hold moisture. You can't put on too much. . And it doesn't cost a cont! That's why, I reckon, we don't value leaves. They're too cheap. When you cut down a virgin forest and have "neV ground"-fresh land -what made lt so rich? Nothing in the world hut leaves! John B. Adgor Mullally. Editorial Commont.-There ls no doubt about lt, that not ono farmer / in twenty appreciates the value of fresh leaves. Ask tho average man if fresh leaves aro worth as much per ton as horse manure, 'and bo will laugh at you. Road our editorial, "Fertilizer Freo If You Will Haul lt," and filo away these figures for future refer ence. Fertilizer Fl'CO if You Will Haul II. Maliy a farmer who complains about the high prlco of fertilizer makes no offort to save two of tho chief homo sources of soil fertility. leaves and ashos. Xou is this all. Many of thoso com plaining farmers not only fall to haul up forest leavos for bedding their animals, but actually burn tho leaves that fall around the houso, and "burn CALOMEL SALIVATES EVEN WHEN CAREFUL. Tho Treacherous Drug Cannot Ho Trusted, ?ind Noxt Dose May Start Trouble. Calomel ls dangerous. It may sal ivate you and make yottysuffor fear fully from soreness of gums, tender ness of Jaws and tooth, swollen tongue, nnd oxcosslvo saliva "drib bling from tho mouth. Don't trust calomel. It ls mercury; quicksilver. If you fool bilious, boadachy, con stipated and all knocked out, Just go to your druggist and got a bottle ot Dodson's Liver'Tone for a fow cents, which ls a harmless vegetable sub stituto for clangorous calomel. Take a spoonful, and If lt doesn't start your liver and straighten you up bettor and Quicker than nasty calo mel, and without making you sick, you Just go back and got your monoy. If you tako calomel to-day you'il bo sick and nausoatod to-morrow; besides, it may salivate you, while if you take 'Dodson's Livor Tone you viii wake un feeling great. No salis necessary. Givo it to the children because it ls perfectly harmless and cannot salivate,-adVj jj ?. \ \ . , off" fields with no ino?ght ot the con sequent soil-impoverishment. Now, let us see what are the facts as to the worth of these leaves that are so often neglected-r^-or still worse -burned. A ton of forest leaves contains as much potash as two sacks bf 8-2-2 fertilizer, about as much phosphoric acid as 75 pounds of 8-2-2, and as much nitrogen as a half sack of ni trate of soda. In addition, there ir? limo' in tho leaves. Loaves also do land much additional good bocause of their humus-making properties. To'burn forest leaves ls an eco nomic crime. To neglect to haul leaves is to neglect one of the chlof agencies for farm prosperity. A -lon Of loaves contains the materials of which a ton of crops 1B made. Leaves oro a cheap soil-building material" containing more commercial plant food per ton than a ton of horse or cow manure. Here aro tho oxact fig ures showing what a ton of leaves .contains as compared with a ton of horse or cow manure or 8-2-2 fer tilizer, (and we are1 adding broom-, straw, {since lt Is often burned.) Pounds of Fertilizer Material in Each Ton. \ 'Phos. Nitro- Pot Acid, geh. ash. Total Cow manure. . 5.8 8.6 8.8 23.2 Horse manure. 5.2 9.8 9.G 24.C Forest leaves . 5.2 15.2 8.4 28.S Pine straw ... .8 CO 2.0, 8.8 Broom straw . 4.2 15.G 13.t? 33.4 8-2-2 fertz. ..160.0 40.0 40.0 210.0 Bead the article, "There ls a Gold Mino on Your Farm," elsewhere in this issue. This correspondent ls right. Every farmer every winter should make the hauling of leavos and pino straw,,tho "unfinished busi ness" on tho farm. That is to say, whenever there Is nothing else press ing, haul leaves. Whoa tho ground is too wet for other work, haul leaves. Or haul pine straw. 'Pine straw, ton for ton, ls not nearly so valuable as leavos, but it is several times easier to rake And haul pine straw than leaves. .? At any rate, let's remember these two' big facts: 1. When you burn a ton of forest leaves or a ton of broomstraw, you have done just as much harm as if you had burned or destroyed a ton of horse manure. 2. If yoii have 100 to:>.s of forest leaves in some piece of woods non* you, and negloct lo put it on your land, lt ls tho same'tts if you had 100 tons of cow manure or horse manure or 12 tons of S-2-2 fertilizer out there and neglected tb haul lt up and uso lt' '' . Why not resolve now that you will #ut In every spare day between now and spring hauling loaves-not only enough for' present needs, but enough to bo<l tho stock and litter tito stock yard all summer? And of course no progressive farmer, knowing those facts, can ever permit the burning ot loaves or broomsedge. What would you think of a farmer who would burn up his stable ma nure In order that ho might get lt out bf the way with little labor? Yet a ton of cow manure contains only 23.0s pounds of phsopborlc acid, ni trogen and potash*, while a ton of forost leaves contains 28.8 pounds of these clements, or about 20 per cent moro than pow manure And a ton of broom straw, which so many people burn with recklessness, has 33 pounds of those fertilizing elements against only 24 In horse manure. , Soil Building Paramount Question. .'And tho leaves of tho trees wero for tlw healing of tho nations." Mr. Poe, stock brooding, poultry raising, gardening, seed selection, methods of cultivation, fruit "Culture, fertilizers, all palo Into Insignifi cance beside tho paramount question of soil building and soll.conservntlon. Tho vory oxistonco of tho farmer de pends upon tho solution of this prob lem; and 'ho problem ls as simplo as A, B, C. Drought or rain, good or bad seed, first or second class culti vation, deep or shallow plowing, .seed bed or no seedbed, fortlllzo much or fertilize little, given soil 100 per cent perfoct-built up to concert pitch so tuned by tho capodastra of do cayod vcgotablo mat tor In sufficient quantity ns to bo In harmony with tho Maostro Nature's grand sym phony, lt will make agricultural pro ducts beyond bellof In quality and quantity. All othor considerations ere accessories after tho fact-and most efficient. Put tho soil, built ur to tho nth power-to Its .productiv ity thoro ls scarce a measure. To work lt. ls a pleasure Tho crop will kill tho grass. One working will dc for two. Mr. Andorson, tho president of "thc Bank of Andorson, tho largost bank In Anderson county, rend my jw'tlclc about leaves and set thirty mon tc work hauling loaves. Hon. Bonnonu Harris, Commissioner pf Agriculture of South Carolina, who was for all his really activo lifo ono of our over soors on our "Woodburn" plantador. '.;>' <? ". 'l - N ??fr? I near Vendleton, read my nrtiolo and Immediately covered his alreadyfine fields v Uh leaves. William David Cox, our most pro gressive farmer In the Font's Grove soctlon, read my article, and on 15 acres of cotton used no other fertil izer than leaves, and has the finest cotton in this neighborhood by 3 to 1 of any oUlbr farmer save mine, and mine has had the loavosV treatment for several years past. I havo acres and acres ot cotton" six feet high, well fruited, on land you couldn't raise an umbrella.on six yeats ago. All leaves! You "'could buy this land for' a song six yeaiB ago. I can borrow $100 an aero on it to-day. If any one doubts, come ancV look. I mako on two acres what farmers about hero do not m?ko on 20 acres.. Come ni\d lo'ok and soo for yourself. Send mo some more Progressive Farmers with'my last ar ticles in thom. You doubtless will be at the Wade Drake meeting. His methods ?* soll building are doubt less bettor, being quicker than mine. Combine the two, and-oh, mamma! Then you tan raise stock and make manure and so on and so on, an ond loss chain. Meat to make brain and blood and bono and brawn and finer and better girls ead boys-and ani mals ns well as humans. Grain ad libitum. Straw to go back reinforced by tile animal manure, liquid and solid, to make and remake soil. Hore is a sum in arithmetic that any 10 year-old girl, or boy can solve, and not one mau in tho South out of a thousand seems capable of solving it. Take out of one acre of land 1100 pounds of goodness, fatness, fruit, oil, lard, lint, concentrated matter, per annum. Put back 300 pounds-. and that not so strong. How many pounda are gone each year, besides what-aro lost by erosion, wash, and fired out by the hot sun? Nine hun dred and ninety-nine out of a thou sand say by their actions that 300 from 1100 leaves 1100. The 10-year old school boy says 300 from 1*00 leaves 800 pounds of goodness g?ne forever "each year. Oh! when will tho South borrow the stub of a, load pen cil, pick up a used envelopo, figuro throe seconds, and asrake to wealth beyond the dreams of avarice-wake Lo a future of music and Howers and home comforts and longer life and poa'co and prosperity and plonty-of education, cultured leisure, ribbons for the girls' hair, roses for their checks, and a spring in her stop, tho droop out of ber shouldors, and a bettor race? Leaves will do all this. .Mother Eve's nakedness was clothed with leaves. Leaves will clotho the nakedness of the Southland hido her shame from tho oyes of the world. Lenvos will'ranko o>?ery red'hill to burgeon and to bud and bloom and blossom-a veritable great green em erald in the Southland's diadem of PROcious gems. Leaves will in Flora's mystic transmutation make the wool to make the broadcloth that every good man may bo royally clad; tho Pilks and satins to adorn and beautify and please and charm our maids and matrons. Leaves will clothe the na tions of tho globo, translated by ag ricultural alchemy from tho foVest to the fleecy staple, thence to the fac tory, to the marts of trade across continents by trnln, over boundless oceans by white-winged ships, and so to the bodies of tho people of Mio wholo wide world. Clothe your orch ards and your vineyards Avith leaves and their golden, ruby, amber fruits will clotho you with the mantle of health and lino your pockets with, cloth of gold. Leaves will make tho lean fat, the poor rich, the sad smile, the tired rested, the worried peace ful, tho mottga god freo and clear, the bond free, the farmer a man, his wife moro than a queen, and his children tho superiors of princes and prin cesses. Wado Drake takes worn-out land and feeds lt a short term of months and makes 13 bales of fine cotton on four acres. "Yes," you say, "he had money to sow peas, etc., and turn them under." Now liston! When ho turnod under pens or clover' or rye, he turnod Into tho soil nothing but leaves and stems. You hnve enough Tomorrow Ai Hg ht NR Tablets ?top slek hoadaohos. roliovo bilious attack*, tono and regulato tho eliminative organs, (make you fool fl no. "Batter Than Pills For Liver Ills" ' NORMAN DRUG CO., Walhalla, 8. Ot Piedmont ? loaves and stems on my ten-acre woodlot to make any four acres on any farm ti\ the cotton bolt make 13 bales of cotton on^our acres. Your leaves and stems aiV richer In plant food by far than horso manure or cow manure. If you don't haul them to the Hind (better via tho stalls of y OU r's tock) 1 don't see how you can ask God's blessing on your labors. If you put thom In tho horso and cow stalls and pig stalls and chicken houses,?, never let the suii or rain de scend upon tho product; scatter a land or a wagon-load and cover It] you will have rich land. If you do not so cover it at once, tako your nose and put,it over it, and you will de tect hundred-dollar yellowbacks floating away in the shape of ammo nia and nitrogen and phosphorus and all the things that make plants fat and black and lush and heavy with fruit. If you don't believe lt, como here to Eagle's Nest any day during tho growing season and you will be .convinced. South's Gr.ont Friend Rejected. Editor Keowee Courier: When I see our Southern goulus ?nd talent leaving the State they love as home for purely material rea sons, in some casos from well-nigh dire necessity, to seek more remu nerative opportunities in the North and Wost; when I seo them acquit themselves^ so brilliantly on overy field of noblo effort and of high en deavor, far from Dixie, tho mother who needs them; when I soo tho Pal motto State, for instance, and I cito hut a name from each class, and that name, mayhap, equalled by many more; when I seo South Carolina produce tho most profound scholar and tho most learned theologian, In Slr William Hamilton's calm judg ment of all tho ages-a James Hen ley Thor/nvell; a Lanier, a Yates Snowden, an Ellison Adger Smyth, a William Adger Law, a- Calhoun, a I layne, a bravo Hampton, a Trescot, a .Manning Simons, a Kinloch, a Ma rlon Sims-a [Statue erected to him alone of all tho physicians ovor in tho heart of New York, at 12d streot and .*)'h avenpo, beside tho_Tlldon library, proclaiming bim nor great est medico; a ?Plncknoy, a Wanna maker, a Petigru, a Preston, a lowndes, a Cboves, an Augustine T. Smythe, a Rawlins, a Marlon, a Glrar denu, a Sumter, a Plckens, a Clarke, a Sparks, an Andrew Johnson, a Per rin, a Rico, a Wigington, a Bonham, an Orr, a McGowan, a Nancy Ranks, the mother of Lincoln; a Horse-Shoo Robinson, a J. Adgor Smyth, a Man ning, a John Balloy Adgor, a Colonel Keith, a Colonel Thompson, a Poteat, n McLcndon-ayo, and that "Mom mer's Boy," that Christian, soldier, that ilowor of modest valor, Sorgt. Yorke, now of Pall Mall; an Earlo of Anderson, out-shooting tho crack shots of tho globe; tho soldiers qf South Carolina tho best In tho World War, and so officially declared; a'J. Wado Drake; the Mooro ladf with hla Beyond contrad?ctioi place in every consi automobile construct smoother running rROIT service, more readily under control than a ypes of price or claims. : These outstanding t are the result of gr< racy ever realized in 4otor Co., Wal unrivalled acre of. corn; and not lertst and npt last, but space forbids IG cite more names, Lucile Godbold, of Estlll, S. C., who natos Bonabar, and Bonabar bates tbo world-tbe tall lass who can toss a chunk of Irish confcai, to-wit, tho half of nf brick, farther, with 'either hand, ido yo moind, than any daughter of Eve that e'er wore loaves or an old Winthrop Coll6go "gym" suit since tho dawn of time. When I seo Carolina, this garden spot of the globo, at tho foot of the roll, tho most illiterate State amongst all 'ho sisterhood of States; when I seo-sallow-faced, anaemic, pregnant mothers, clad in ono gar ment, bare-footed, performing tho heaviest labor of the field 'neath a blazing sky; when I soo the clny oators; when I soe tho tender chil dren tolling and moiling, their hands like birds' claws, wielding tho axe or tho hoo, picking tho cotton, working from dkwn to dusk, strangers to play time; when I seo the lack of schools; when I seo, on my travels through the North and Northwest, children on full nine-months' school time, playgrounds galoro, woll-roundod forms and cheoks; when I see the farmer of New Jersey, of Maine, even cf California, living moro comforta bly than our professional classes; when, in a sentence, I seo tho South's transcendent advantages, her Infe rior material position and her pov erty, I mako tho matter tho subject of profound study, and at last I ar rlyo at thc conclusion that tho whole diflteulty, tho solo ailment, io Worn out Boll. Having thus diagnosed the disease, I seek tho romedy. Tho Chi nese know lt, Nippon knows it Franco, Holland, England, Ireland, Canada, and thc farmers of the North and Wost know it; Bonnoau Hnrris knows it, Wade. Drake knows it. Won't Tho Keoweo Courier and every nowspnper in Dixieland help to toll It lo tho people? It must be told and rotold-lino upon Une, pro cbpt upon precept. It ls hard to chango tho customs of a whole peo ple. Hookworm, pellagra, indiges tion, tobacco eating, nervousness, lack of self-control, quick crimes, tho craving for stimulants, anaomia, ema PUT STOMACH IN ORDER AT ONCE ?'Papc's Diapepsin", for Gas, Indigestion or Sour Stomach Instantly! Stomach contacted!-You never feel tho sUghtost distress from indigestion or sour, acid, gassy stom ach after you eat a tablet of "Pepe's Dlapepsin." Tho momont it roaches the stomach nil sourness, flatulence, hoar'burn, gases, palpitation and pain disappear. Druggists guarantee each packngo to correct dlgostion at once. End your stomach trouble for few. cents.-adv. i, Lincoln occupies first [deration of quality in ion. It is easier riding, , sturdier under, hard r handled, more flexible ny other car, regardless Cements of superiority >atest mechanical accu' motor car construction. halla, S. C. elation-if tho Rockefeller Instituto will devoto one-tenth of a million to dlssemlnato tho lesson of Leaves on tho Lund, or In tho Land, it* will kill every ono of tho foregoing evils, and il will work a change in the social aspect, tho material and mental and moral condition of tho South that will placo her novor second in-any comparison that may ho made be tween her and all othor competitors in any Hold, whether agricultural, cofnmorclal, mechanical, educational, professional, scioiitiflcal ; of tho arts higher and the arts lower; of bellos lottros, and o!f culture physical, cul ture ethical, culture spiritual John Bailey Adgcr Mullally. Eaglo'B Nest, Pondleton,' S. C. Mother-To-Be, Read This^ TToro ls n wonderful mcasngo to nil ex pectant mothers. Whoa tho Llttlo Ono ar rives, you cnn hnvo thut moment moro fro? from Buffering thnn you bavo perhaps Imagined. An eminent physician, export In this Bclouco, bus Bhown tLo wny. It WUK bo who first pro duced tho jgrcnt remedy, "Mother's Friend." MrB. C. J. Knrtinnn, Scran ton, Pa., Bays: "Witto my first two children I lind a doetor and n nurse and then they had to UBO Inst ru-, monts, hut with my lOBt two children I unod Mother's Friend nml had only a nu mo j wc lind no timo to get a doctor because I wasn't very sick-only about ten or fifteen minutes. Hole: Wrlto for viOuaMo frc? tlluitrntcct book, "Molhi'ihoo'.l oixl Om Hauy," containing iinji.niant KUttiurllRtlve Infouuullun wlilrh every ex[>octanfe motlier should have, nnd all etiont "Mnihor'a Friend," to llraiinoltl Itegulator Company, ltA-23, Atlanta, (la. "Motkut's Friend" la sold by druggies erorytvbtkro. CHANGES IN THE B?8LEY BANK. Sydney Knien to bo Active Vico Prcsi" dont of Commercial Bank. ' Easloy, Oct. 5.-At a call meeting of tho board of directors of the Com mercial Bank of Easloy, hold in thoir offices Tuesday afternoon? tho resig nation of H. C. Hagood as president of the bank was tendorod and accept ed by '.ho board of directors. At the samo mooting W. M. Hagood, Sr., was elected prosldent of tho bank and Sydney Bruce, of Soneca, was olectcd active vice president. Mr. Bruce will assume his duties at once. Sydney Bruce, who will now be come activo vice prosldent of tho lank, ls a Pickens county product, and is tho second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. McD. Bruco, of 'Pickons. He was educated nt Davidson College, and for^s?vornl years was assistant State Bank Examiner. For tho past flvo or six yoars ho has been cashier of tho Citizens' Bank of Sonoca, whoro ho hos made an enviable rocord as a bankor. Tho Commercial Bank is for tunato in socuring bis sorvicos, and his many Pickons friends aro glad to wclcomo him homo. No Worm* Iri a Healthy Child All children troubled with Worms havo an un healthy color, which Indicates poor blood, and m a rulo, there ia moro or 1 ess stomach disturbance. GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC given regu larly for two or three weeks will enrich the blood. Improve tho digestion, and act as a general Strength ening Tonic to tho whola system. Nature will then throw off or dispel tho worms, and tho Child wlllba lo perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c por botUo*