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WHEAT CU Interesting 3Paper by < ofG? Editor Intelligencer: We take pleas are in banding you* a copy of letter of HOD. 0. B. Stevens, commissioner of r?culture of Georgia, on the subject of wheat culture. We think your md el8Will find a catefnl reading of it ?ill pay them, as w> consider the ex cellent advice given to the planters of Georgia applies w|th equal force to our people. What! the planters of Anderson County need, perhaps as much as those of any par?i of the country, is to diversify their orops. Raise your own supplies of every cl jractcr possible and thus become independent and able to buy what you cannot produce, on a cash basis, and you will prosper. Yours truly, ]). C. BROWN ? BRO., Agent for Va. Car. Chem. Co. _ . -. j The wheat crop for this year, owing to several adverse causes well known to all of the wheat grower H of Georgia, did not come up to the average. But this partial failure should no moro cause a diminution in the area devoted to this valuable grain than an unfa vorable season for corn or cotton should cause a falling off in the acre age of those crops. The same reasons which led to the great revival of wheat growing in Georgia in 1899 and 1900 still prevail. One of the ohief arguments in favor of wheat growing, so persistently urged at the time, wa? that the negro farmer by reason of his manner of Jife ean make a living for his family at far less expense than is required by the white man, and hence can afford to sell his cotton at a lower prioe. Therefore the competition between thc white and blaok planter would prove disastrous to the former unless he could be self-supporting and have cotton for his surplus money crop. A farmer's life should be one of financial independence; but, unless he can live in the main at home on the fruits of his own industry and supply the market with those produots that are ever in demand, he is in danger of becoming a hewer of wood and drawer of water to his more enterprising neighbors. If he raises enough to live apon, he con hold his eotton for ?good prices. AD attractive looking home, a well (lied storehouse and ready oash for im self and family are necessary, if | e would bind the affections of Mg |rife and children to their count ome. Diversity of crops io an at ute necessity for successful iarminf.,, tid DO crop that can be raised adda ore to the comfort of a home than heat, which in its flour gives that read whioh by most people ia p?e~ erred to every other kind, and ia il? j giran supplies one of the most whole lome feeds for stock. No good farmer in North or Middle eorgia should fail to s?t apart a por on of his land for wheat. What if lhere is an occasional shortorop? Gan & raise anything that is not liable to |he same misfortune? Those States of our Union and ?hose gouutries of the world are tho riohest hose farmers raise ebuudanoe of heat and oat9, and grass for pastur e and for hay. Raise abundanee of Ieee things for man and beast aud i to them plenty of corn. Then u have the best of poultry, hogs, eep.beef and dairy cattle, and all ur cotton will be a money crop, with ich to purchase the comforts that ould be found in every home, and to ovide a support for deolining years. THE VARIETY OP WHEAT TO USE. Knowing well the many conditions 'coting the yield of wheat, we would ?in advise that you select" a variety st capable of withstanding tho uy drawbacks attendant upon the libation of this grain. A kind tinga strong, stiff stem and pos ing the greatest power of with tiding extreme cold weather is the *t. All other things being equal, *t which has a thin skin or bran is ?e preferred. SOIL FOB WHEAT. A soil, whose predominating ohar teristica are loam and day, and that T'ug also an abundant supply of 'rogenous matter with sufficient osphoric aoid, potash and lime, is 1 adapted to the growing of wheat, these elements are laoking, use nty of barnyard manure, if avails ,HP, and conc?ntrate it. Ten tons to (?ere will not be too muoh. Also ly plenty of wood ashes, for these Wo phosphoric aoid, potash, lime soluble silioia, all essential ole J?8 for the growth of the wheat for most land some high grade toercial manure is the best. The "?Dst be dry, under-drained, if na ry* for wheat cannot be made on which has an excess of water. ?Sellent eui! foi wheat is a gray J top aol!, with an under soil of redclay. LTIVATION. Commissioner Stevens .orgia. PBOPEB DEPTH TO COVI?'. WHEAT. We have from time tu time given to the readers of these talks tbs results of experiments made to determine the proper depth to cover wheat) The re sults of these experiments caused us in one of our letters to advise that it is better to harrow the wheat and fer tilizer in from one to three inohes deep, according to the character of the soil, remembering that a thinner cov ering is required in close, heavy land than in that which is light or sandy. A better plan, when practicable, is to use the wheat drill after having first thoroughly plowed, fertilized, harrow ed, raked, pulverized and rolled the land. This process leaves the land in exoellont condition for the propa gation of the growth of the wheat plant, and gives, moreover, a smooth surface, so important for future har vest. I Mr. W. J. Bridges, one of our most I successful Georgia farmers, in telling how he raised 65 bushels of wheat to the acre, said that he put it in with a drill, using about400 pounds of a spe cif I high grade potash fertilizer at the same time. In planting the wheat he put in 105 pounds, or oae bushel and three pecks, to the acre. The blue stem Variety is considered by many the best. It is claimed by those who have tried it that the soaking of the wheat in bluestone will prevent smut, a disease more to be breaded than rust. The bluestone should be dis solved i boiling water, and about a gallon of this water should be used for every two bushels of wheat, about one pound of the bluestone being re- ' quired for each galllon. BEST TIME TO PLANT WHEAT. The experience ot our best farmers is, that the wheat should be put in as late in the season as will allow it to throw ont a system of roots and leaves large enough to oover the entire sur face of ground before the coming of the cold blizzards. Our best Georgia farmers plant from October 1st to No vember 1st, aeeording to latitude, soil and climatic conditions. Some of onr most successful Middle Georgia farm ers think that wheat should never be sown until after the first big frost in November, as it will then withstand more successfully the ravages of the Hessian fly or small grub. Of course, the farmers of North Georgia plant earlier; KOW TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE TH* FERTILITY OP THE COIL. After the wheat has been harvested,: it in on excellent plan to plant the entire acreage in cow-peas; for.there' is no crop, as far as we know, that will produce such permanent good effect upon, t?e soi). By this method the laud is put ic good condition for tho next crop of wheat. Much of our land in Georgia has been run down by unwise cultivation in the past? These exhausted lands need nitrogen and available phosphoric aoid and potash, and, especially, lime. To restore these elements to our wast ed lands, sow cow-peas after grain and turn them under in the fall after hav ing first broade?"ted barnyard ma nure, ashes and lime. The repetition of this process from year to year will steadily increase the fertility of the soil and the wealth of the farmer. BEST FERTILIZERS FOR WHEAT. Some soils are naturally so rich that no fertilisation is required; but these are the exoeption, and even the most of these will, after a few years, require some sort of fertilizers in the form of plant food. These should be in a form for immediate use. Barnyard manure, if pulverized very fine and then applied, is very valuable. The planting of elover on wheat lands in some seotions, but of cow peas io most parts of Georgia, and plowing these under several weeks be fore sowi?g the wheat, as has been said, will prepare tho -land well for this crop. In England, and in our Western States, the droppings of the sheep and cattle have added muoh to the productiveness of wheat lands. But the majority of onr farmers are not stook raisers, and need a fertilizer that is immediately available. There i fore artificial fertilizers, or oommer I oial manures, must be used, for the I reason that farm manures cannot always be had in sufficient quantity and are rarely applied in a mechanical condition to be readily, assimilated by the wheat plant. But the commercial manures have been scientifically pre pared with speoial reference to the needs of different kinds of soils and orpps, and, though they involve some outlay of money, the increase of th? orop will well repay the expenditure. Experiments have frequently proved that a judioious application of $10 worth of tba proper fertilizers will often bring a return of from $20 to $30 worth of grain. In tho mansgerrsct of the Depart ment of Agriculture, it has eyer been my aim to subserve the best interests of the farmers of Georgia. After ma ture reflection, I still advise: Do not diminish your wheat acreage. Perse vere sod cultivate your wheat landa after tho most approved method. Tuvo not bask, bot go forward in this good work, feeling assured that the final outcome will bs isor?ased prosperity for yourselves sad for ah the interests of our beloved Georgia. O. B. 8T1VB11B, Commissioner of Agriculture. Silk Coltan?. The recent address by Mr. Louis Borris Magid, in which he advooated the introduction of silk culture on a large soale in the Southern States, and more particularly in Geargia, has drawn general attention to an indus try which was well established in thia country during its cclcaial period and once gave prominence of becoming an important source of American wealth. Various causes, among the chief of whioh was tho introduction of negro slave labor in the regions of the South best adapted to the culture, brought about the praotioal destruction of the industry. Mr. Magid is convinced that the time bas come when the culture of silk oau be revived and made an ex ceedingly valuable addition to Ameri* can resources. He is proving his faith by his works, or, in other words, he is backing his opinion with his money. He is a German by birth, who has familiarized himself with the conditions favorable to silk oulture in the countries of the world where it is most largely and successfully pursued, and ss a consequence of his studies haa fixed on the State of Georgia aB the place where the experiment of its American introduction can best be made. Going from New York, he ac quired in the neighborhood of Tallu lah Falls, in Georgia, a tract of land 1,500 aerea in extent, and there he plana to develop the industry on a 'large scale. In that climate the mul berry tree thrives so greatly that it has come to he looked on by the farmers as a nuisanoe; and generally in all that region of tho South, including besides Georgia, the Carolinas, Ala bama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana aili Texas, he desoribes the conditions as particularly favorable to the growth of the mulberry tree and consequently to the production of silk. Mr. Magid's project is interesting also because it involves the attraction to the Sonth of an immigration whioh would be peculiarly adapted to its cli mate conditions. Mr. Magid proposes to divide bia Tallulah land into small farms and to invite thither farmers from Piedmont and Lombardy, so cel ebrated f or itt silk; growing. The greatest volume of immigration to thio country from op y single European Sute it now from Italy, bot it is chief ly, almost wholly, from the Boothera provinces of the peninsula. Whether Mr. Magid can induce tho emigration from'Northern Italy whioh he needa, will depend, of course, on his making his experiment sosceaefnl, bot ho seems to have no fears on that seora. Mr. Gerald McCarthy, the biologist j of the department of agriculture of North Carolina, it seems, will be making simultaneously an experiment of silk oulture in that State. He will have the assistance of sn appropria tion by the Federal Government of 110,000 for suoh experimenta. Mr. McCarthy has gone BO far aB to im port silkworms from Italy, and to dis tribute them among farmers' wiveB in North Carolina. The silk manufacturing interest, now so great in thia country, doea not seem to look on these experiments hopefully; but both Mr. Magid and Mr. McCarthy are full of confidence that they are the beginning of a oul ture whioh rall rapidly develop into prosperous aotivity. This > ia tho gre i test silk oonsuming country in the world, and these gentlemen oontend that nothing except intelligent utilisa tion of onr olimate advantages for the oulture i? needed to enable the United States to beoome also the greatest silk producing conutry. This slgnMure is on every box of the genuino Laxative ?romo-Quinioe T*bi?ta the remedy that*enras st eoM i?_e?es) sUu - One of the most ourious docks in the world perhaps is that which tells the time io the inhabitants of a little backwoods tc J, and whioh was constructed some *ime ago. Tho ma chinery, Which is nothing bnt a face, hands and lever, is connected with a geyser, whioh shoots ont au immense oolumn of hot water every thirty e:ght seconds. This spouting never variea to the tenth of a second. Every time the water spouts up it strikes the lever and moves the hands forward thirty-eight seconds. - Put your stomaoh, liver and blood in healthy condition and you oan defy disoase. Prickly Ash Bitters isa suc cessful system regulator. Evana Phar macy. - When a married man ia caught red-handed in a flirtation it ia up to his wife to snatch him bald-headed. - Some men are born with black eyes and soma acquire them. Mysterious Disappearances. The n umber of people who go out A eight and never return, leaving ( their families and friends in anguish j * and dismay, i acre ose s every year. It U augmenting, like the suicide mania. Suoh an ocout renee was extremo! y i rare in ante bellum times, but ?oca- < sionally it happened. ; Before the war a splendid New York lady was sojourning in our < house for several months. She was 1 in redn^cd oirenmstanoes and came | South to tetioh. She was an elegant, cultured wongan-a perfeot lady. j She told me of the shadow that lay . on her own lifo, caused by one of these - mysterious disappearances. 1 She said : "Our childhood's home was in Philadelphia. Onr family consisted of father, mother, one brother sad three girls. Our ^parents decided to move to New York city, if a suitable looation could be found for our i'ath er's business, and father prepared to 1 buy. Father concluded to take broth- (, er, a boy of 12 years with him, and as railroad fare was high in those days, they were to stay a week and let the boy see the sights. "Never was there a more enjoyable plan proposed for the dear boy, and we bade them good-bye without a thought of any trouble, unless it might possibly come as a railroad aeoi dent. Our father told us of the little hotel near the river where they would stop and we kissed them farewell with smiles and no tears. "They reaohed New York one mora ing, took a room, aa proposed, at the hotel and by night the little boy was tired of tramping and sightseeing. "Father woke him when he arose the next morning, and said : "Soo, you are eo tired, I wa^t you to sleep longer. I will dresB and walk around until breakfast time, and you oan get up then. If you aro dressed before I get back, como down stairs to the of fice and wait for me, and we will go to breakfast together.' "Oh, Mrs. Felton!" cried tho dear woman; "Father walked out of our life that morning forevermore. We never heard of him again. He was seen to go outside the hotel door, and if the earth had opened and swallowed him up, he could not have disappeared more certainly. It was an awful time. The poor little boy never got over the shook and strain; we girls, with poor mother, had to take up the hard life of orphanage and widowhood unaided. We always supposed father was knock ed down, robbed and thrown in the river, as he had considerable money, and that was, of course, ?one forever. "Poor mother! She never gave up looking for father to return. . Not a day passed that we did not see ber ! look for a letter or listen aa footsteps came up the walk and generally as ? twilight approached she would watch at the door looking up and down the itfrcet. Noba ly knows what sueh anxiety means until they have it. We could not prove bis death, so it inter rupted all settlements is business. ! And our whole lives have been shad ! owed by the dark cloud of uncertain ty. It costa great deal to prosecute a search, ?od we had the river dragged. ' "My ! my I ! how pitiful was the home-coming of poo. little brother! j The ohild had been so tortured by j grief and anxiety that he did not look i like himself. He sat in that hotel of j fice on that dreadful day until near I dinner time, looking and waiting, afraid to go outside, lest father might come in and think he was lost. And ours was one of the happiest cf fami lies. Mother always said she never had an hour's trouble in her married life before. We girls lived with mother until she passed away, and then we had to scatter for earning a living. My home is anywhere I can get employment now." These mysterious disappearances are things against whioh no solution may ever be expected or conclusion arrived at. They must remain ever so until eternity and the hidden things then stand revealed. Ever since I witnessed the heart agony of this dear New York teacher my sympathies have been keenly ex cited when I read of such a disappear ance. Before the war, one of our nearest neighbors had a man servant to dis appear. Advertising did n_ good search was unavailing. Months, may boa year or more, passed, and there came a big freshet in the river. Afterwards 'possum hunters saw something strange looking fastened to a great heap that was composed of tree limbs and rails washed down and lodged out on a sand bank. Hanging on this debris was a human skeleton, bare of flesh, but the bones were en circled with a pair of home-knit wool en suspenders with blue and red knit into the length of them, The dead negro's old mistress identified the suspender? as? pair she had knitted for him, and the wool had stood the strain while the cotton clothes had rotted oil. But for that oiroumstance no one would ever have known where that poor soul perished until after the ce ere ta of life and death are revealed. -Mrs. W. H. Felton, in Atlanta Journal. WHEAT GROWERS. Anderson, S. C., Aug. 1, 1902. To the contestants for the prizes offered by the Anderson Fertilizer Company for orop of 1901-1902 : We find that T. M. Welboro, of Pen Ile ton, 8. C., has won the first prise 'or the yield of 108.937 bushel? from lix aoretf, and the first prize for yield >f ?4.266 bushels from three acres, md the first prize for the yield of 18ft jushels from one aore. Thia crop waa grown on land previ? rasly planted in cotton ; waa prepared )y turning with a two-horse plow, fol owed by a two-horse subsoil plow. Ono bushel of Blue Stem wheat was town per aore with a wheat drill, ap plying at the same lime 800 pounds of Anderson Phosphate and Oil Company 10-2 aoid and 200 lbs. ootton teed meal per aore. This test ia duly signed by the three judges, and dated July 1st, 1902. The seoond prize for ?he best yield ?n six acres is won by Mr. Allen J. Sullivan, of Sullivan, S. C., for tho pield of 10S? bushels. This crop was grown on land previ ously planted in cotton ; was turned by a two-horse Oliver Chilled Plow to ?n average depth of eight to ten inch es, then harrowed with Tarrant's har row, then sown with Farmer's Favorite seed drill, applying one bushel Ken tucky lied Wbeat per acre, at tho same time applying 340 pounds of Standard Fertilizer per acre, manufactured by tho Anderson Phosphate and Oil Co. Mr. Sullivan says that he used acid on another piece of ground, but got better results where he used Ammoni ated Fertilizers. This ie dated July 9,1902, and prop erly bigned by the judges. The seoond prize for the best yield on one aore is won by Mr. M. B. Rich ardson, of Pendleton, S. C., being 161 bushels. Mr. Biohardson grew tbis orop where he previously had cotton. He plowed up tbe stalks, and ran over the land with a cutaway harrow ; then turned deer with a two-horse plow, applied 600 pounds of Anderson Phos phate and Oil Co's. 16 per cent acid to an acre, and ran the smoothing har row over it ; then sowed three-quarter bushel of Blue Straw Wheat to the aore, applied 200 pounds of meal to the aore, and plowed in with side har row, followed with smoothing harrow. This communication is dated July 7tb, 1902, and properly eigned by the judges. Mr, L. O. Dean, of Beau, S. C., is the winner of tbe third prize for the best yield on one acre, havicg thresh ed 15} bushels from one acre. He is also tbe winner of tbe second prize for the three acre contest, having raised 48 bushels. Mr. Dean is also tbe winner of the third prize for the best yield on six acres, having threshed 9GA bushels Mr. Dean raised this crop where ho had oats and peas sown the year before The land was turned with a two-horse turn plow five or six inches deep, then harrowed with a 20-inch solid diso har row. This was followed with an Acme harrow, whioh was followed by a plank drag. He then applied 200 pounds of Anderson Phosphate & Oil Company's 16 per cent. Aoid Phosphate and 150 pounds of ootton seed meal and 15 lbs of Muriate of Potash through a Farm ers' Favorite Grain Drill on Nov. 5th; the aame application was made on Nov. 6th. and then on Nov. 12th he sowed li bushels of Blue Straw Wheat to the aore through a Farmers' Favorite Grain Drill. Thia communication ia dated July 1, 1902,and properly signed by the judges. Yours truly, ANDERSON PHOSPHATE & OIL CO. U IGA: akes short roads. Pood for everything that runs on wheels. Sold Everywhere). try STANDARD OU* OOv EDUCATE YOUR DAUGHTERS! AND, before deciding where, send for a Catalogue of WILLIAMSTON FE MALE COLLEGE. After examining it carefully, ask yourself why any citizen of Anderson County should send bis daughter away for a thorough education in a pure moral atmosphere in an unusually well equipped Female College. Patronize home institutions in preference to others not as good. Address KEV. 8. LANDER, Pres., Williamston. S. C. July 30, 1902 <S PARKER'S HAIR BAL *5AWI Clean*? and beantlficj Uia bib. Promet-? . luxuriant gruwth. Merer yali? to Bettor? Ormy Hair to it? Youthful Color. Cuica icaJp tl i ????<?. & hair falling. fOc;and ?LOO at DrnprUU gttm\Or. Woolf's SSS ?aayn nami eoe opium, laudanum, Pl Pi^?"l-2r- elixir of opium, co j Ol? \l \ mrge book ot por IBSW ? ? H nra tlculars on homo or ? U I WI sanatorium treat H BaaB B VB? ??? ment. Address, B. I w ? J AMD H. WOOLLEY. CO., WT Whiskey Oura aap"? Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned. Administratrix of Estate of Jae. H. Ellison, deceased, hare by gives notice that she will on Monday, 2??day of September, 1009, apply to the Judge of Prooate for Anderdon County, ti. G., for a Final Settlement of ?aid Es tate, and a discbarge from her office aa Administratrix. MART JANE ELlilflON, Adm'x. August 20, 1902 9 5 EETHIIMA ?ki ?*i\\VA<+ d?V'i ^? woise?ctt^oiHreErum^" W?wnlwboww3li?T?r?U?acliU4Ma without it. Th. o?iw (Uy kU3y In oart?utmaa pac ta??uilllcu?.?. newt opportun? Um?- - .rbaba va* la a Mrtoua ooediMoerhUbeWatefl *ea la 1*4 eoadltloa fo?d?TO. and B?thiB? tb at ?tim diu--7 soo*', ih. MOOBO^ioYaol^Bm?^|SSS kittelr.Usl aad ho has h*4 BO icrtis* taroaW*. Othtr trvmUn ot the Umiiw urM lt and 4T??V dos?tes i-a ? pattact Miocm. WE have prepared for Hard Times by buying the LARGEST Stock of FURNITURE Ever in Anderson, and have bought at Hard Times Prices. There will be no Hard Times for you when 5 ou buy from us, for we have the prices lower tuan you have ever heard of them be fore, and you can now buy two dol lars worth of Furniture for one. Come to see us and wo will convince you of the fact that you eau SAVE money by buying any price of Furni ture from us. LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS. C. P. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street. UNDERTAKING and EMBALMING. Bed Room Suites, Side Boards, Lounges, Wardrobes, Baby Carriages, Go Carts, Hookers, Chairs, Safes, Mugs, Mattings, Etc., Etc,, Can be found at a Cheaper Price at the PEOPLES FURNITURE CO. Than anywhere else. COFFINS and CASKETS. Why Not Give Your House a Coat of You can put it on yourself-it is already mixed-and to paint your house would not cost you more than - - . Five or ?ix Dollars! SOLD BY Orr-Gray & Co. HOME SEEKER EXCURSION RATES VIA. 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