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The pageL/^d journal 1 Vol. 5 NO. 48 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNEpjsBjbRNING, AO GUST 18, 191S $1.00 per year J AI! Together For A Big Ott Crop. The south's grain acreage and total yield this year is the greatest in our history, but there is every reason why the grain crop next year should be even bigger still. We have made a good start toward living at home and true diversification, and now let's keep the good work going. One of the surest means we know of doing this is to begin planning now for a big acreage of fall-sown grain, particularly oats. And not only should we plan for the biggest acreage ever sown, but we should plan as well to see that every acre planted gives us a profitable yield. What can we do now to insure this? Here are some of the things: A 1. Seed in the early fall and thus double the yield of spring seeding^ Experiment station resiirfme South over have clearly shown the great super iority of fall seeding over spring seeding, and the farmer who v n waits until spring to sow is simply, on an everage, cutting his yield in half. , 2. Seed with a grain drill. This is anothe^pbint on which experimen^rttation evidence is veryjpositive, results showing a very^dCcided gain in favor of seeing with a grain drill over %- hdnd seeding. 3. Treat your seed oats to prevent smut Every spring, aner 11 is top late to apply any remedy, we are deluged with requests for information on how to ptevealjgp^^^tf^TlMj elsewhere In this issue of The Progressive Farmer. This treatment is inexpensive and it may save you many dollars. 4. Sow on a well compacted seed bed. Breaking land for oats should be done through in advance for the seed bed to become well firmed before planting. Do not plant on clod dy, freshly plowed land. Where the land has heen well cultivated drilling: oats in the cotton middles after the first picking: is often advisable. 5. Sow on a fair grade of land. Do not put vour oats on the poorest land on the place and expect a good crop. Fallsown oats, under anything like favorable conditions, are a very certain crop* but, like everything else, they do best when you treat them best. 6. Plan in advance to have the use of a binder and thresher. Of course when raised entirely for home use, the necessity for up-to-date harvesting machinery is not so great; but where oats are to be marketed, they should always be threshed and nicely sacked. Now is a good time to talk this matter over with your neighbors and local business men, with a view to getting what machinery may de needed 7. Plant a legume crop after your oats. Failure to plant the stubble land to peas or some other soil-improving crop means failure to realize on one of our best opportunities for getting cheap feed. Save an abundance of pea seed this fall and prepare to let not a single acre of stubble land lie idle next year. Looking after these few essentials will be neither difficult nor expensive, but whether you do look after them now will largely determine the success or failure of yopr oat crop next - spring. So (pf's begin work now not only |q plant this biggest acreage qf oats ever sown in the South, hut fefs plan as well to make the biggest yield pe? acre. ?Progressiva Farmer. How To Treat Seed Oats A To Prevent Smut To each three gallons of water add one ounce, about two table- Pi spoons, of formalin of the usual cs or standard strength a 40 per in cent solution of formaldehyde sti gas. In this solution soak the g< seed oats 10 or 15 minutes, pi stirring them so that every grain m may become thoroughly wet. to Then drain off the surplus Li water, cover the pile of seed oats with cloth that has been 1 m dipped in a stronger solution of y formalin. Leave the s&4f^d or M bulked oats covered for Jroeurpii eight to ten hours to permit the G formalin vapors to penetrate the ai man of^seed more thoroughly; te but do not let tfte oats remain i damp long enough for sprout- th ing to begin Next spread the fri oats in a thin layer on a floor in perviously made clean bv wash- th ing with a strong solution of n\ formalin, and dry them rapidly to by frequent stiring with clean jn Implements. Instead of soaking the seed, as m suggested above, the grain may re be poure out on a wagon sheet of or burlap cloth and sprinkled *> with the solution of formalin. i? Sprinkling and stiring the seed re must be continued untill every 8tj seed becomes thoroughly wet. ^ Then the corners of the sheet Wl may be drawn up to cover the pile of treated oats and to pre- ex vent the rapid escape of the for th malm vapor. After the oats have go remained covered eight to ten ?*. At ?- -? ? - soon afterthey become dry, a(j though they may be kept for th: weeks before sowing, if they tb? are stored in thoroughly fumi- w< gated bins or boxes. A very good way is to prepare the seed one day and sow them the next day. In sowing damp seed a, R larger amount of oats than * otherwise necessary should be ' sown to allow tor the swollen ?n condition of grain. " Formalin may be obtained from . any wholesale druggist and .u from most retail druggist or u ordered through the latter. The . usual price in New-York, when 0 several bottles are ordered, is less ~ than 50 cents per pound bottle, containing 14 ounces.?T. F. Due gar in Progressive Farmer. ^ H Another Jefferson Youth for the Navy _ _ na Jeffersooian c0 Mr. Marion Ellis left on Wed- q nesday of this week for Charlotte N. C. where he went to enlist in fov the United States navy. Mr. Ellis said that he was not real fn sure that he would pass the exanimation for the navy, but in case he should not he said that aj he would goon to Virginia where he has been offered a position in m the DuPont Powder factory. It r, will be seen from this that Mr. Ellis is not to be backed down from helping our Uncle Sam in case he should need help?if he f] can't help burn the powder be is going to help make some for the $3 others to burn. gv Ct Kills Another Negro Lancaster, S. G, Aug, 13? pr Special. Arthur Harper, negro, th shot and instantly killed Alex S. Mackey, also a negro, near Pleasant Hill this county last night, se jealousy is said to be the cause pr of the killing. Sheriff Hunter, su leaving for the scene immediately W in an automobile, after an investigation located Harper at Rich Hill, several miles away, landing him in JtU today, ppeal to Msnfriii for WH| ment of Trouble. Washington, Aug. an American appeal to ins to cease fighting and M m a movement to restore iflniiH itutional government beaKHH > forward from the N irtment today. FirsMhe4BflN| ent was dispatched in E?MH| i Mexico City "to the jBsBll atin-American legations,^ 3 taches Jfrill translate 8BH ptoMMbd deliver it ilitary leaders in that vidjaflJlM ^pCorrow the appeal in ostfetM n Spanish will be TorwHjfi&s rectly to Gen. Villa and arranza, governors of S^BjM id many other chiefs. xt will be made public ithin a few days. With the appeal dispaWfHpTj e United States will instirijBHR* iendly and persistent effort t^S; duce Mexican leaders whofiil us far have shown a dispoT$U ion to oppose the movement^ | sacrifice their personal viewiHr the common Mexican interests? That Gen. Carranza will ain defiant is expected but it ifft?j garded as possible that manvfjjfl his adherents can be induced!* join in a peace conventioigSfl this connection it has been ^ ported that Gen. Scott, chief of 4 iff of the army, is expected to "a :rform important missionary ll ork on the border. 4 No resistance. to die plan is J pec ted from any source other I an from Gen. Carranza and in I me quarters here the feeling is I owing that even CarranHjH purpose. Gen. Villa and his E herents have made it clear X at they are ready to eliminate Jo emselves for the common Program Baptist Union. fl Program of The Chesterfield rip iptist Union to be held with fcn e Cedar Creek church, Friday d Saturday before the 5th. mday in August: 10 to 10:30?Devotional, con- tn< icted by Rev. J. Frank Funder a^ irn. ?|1 10:50 to 11?Enrollment of ntfe legates and organization. cji 11 to 12?Sermon by Rev. J. W Purvis, appointment of com- y& ittees. tt ( 1:30 to 2?How may I know b i at 1 am a christian? bv Bro. J. , White. 2 to 3?Are we under Covemt and Biblical obligations to y \ ntribute to Missions? by Bro. larles H. Rivers. I to 3:30?Some of our needs, ai I r J. M. Sullivan. ri i 3:30 to 4?What is drunkeness fa I >m a Biblical standpoint? by o. Kirby Rivers. bi i Saturday morning, Devotion by Rev. B. S. Fuuderburk. at i 10:30 to 11?The church's if ission in the community, bv lai bv. Leon Funderburk. II tO 12?What Hru?? it rnnnn I ,? ? ? . - ?? MWW 11 ux^au it'. "religiously educate our lildren?" by Rev. B. D. on hames. w i 12 to 12:30?Our "Financial n<i 'Stem" Is it Scriptual? If not ve us a better, Rev. R. W. {' ito be 12:30 to 1?Do we as pastors I c each Baptist doctrines from lei e pulpit as we ought? Rev. B. foi Funderburg. ed All churches are requested to ab nd full delegation and come bo epared to speak on all the 11 bjects. We are expecting Dr. thi ]. Lanes ton with us. bp I. R. Moree, cn ' R. W. Cato, no J. M. Sullivan, wl Committer, mi J Eand Lead Mule and Bicycle. tuirer. Jackson, colored, who Mr. Sam Phifer's place les north of Monroe, preaching services at a louse near Bakers last night. He drove his lb a buggy. When the s were over and HeDry home he afound thai le had taken the harness mule and had taken the . In the road on vhict er had fallen the mule*! were seen, and Henrj 1 a bicycle and put out uj arlotte road, the way th< vept He rode on and 01 any a weary mile an< ?ut four o'clock Tuesda; ?rning ae spied the mule an* rider n the road in front c c. I ienry increased his spee d when he was very near th jects of his search the ride fancAinted hurriedly and ra m*. Henry went prepare pulled out his "shootin'arc blazed away at the fleein but the bullets went wil j^kd not reach their marl ^^kef is a colored individut ^Kiamc and address?wel ^Vywould like very much t that. When Henrv caug HLlp Vio fniinH that bp mil ^9^^ the animal and car Hse and he could not ri< STm^ChanoneTio^i^w! Mrthere that he came up wil ief and mule. Henry made mpromise by leading the bic; b and the mule. It was a lor d walk, leading the anim id the wheel down the dusi ad, but Henry made it, a ring at home before lal eakfast. Only Wanted $500. "What I'm lookin' fur," sai e old man as he got off a trai the union depot, "is a lawy? tio'll make a certain youn an in my town come up to th alk line or go to jail." hat's a certain young man i ?ur town been up to?" aske b special policeman who ha en addressed. "Courtin, my daughter." "But that's no crime." "Engaged to her fur tw ars." "That's perfectly legal." "But the weddin' day was so d they should hev bin ma id last week," persisted tb ther. "Oh, I see? then he's gon ck on the girl?" "Gone dead back on her, si d it's a breach of promise cat I know anything about tb w." "Unless he had good and su :ient reasons you know." "He couldn't hev had. Milly le of the best girls in th srld. No; she didn't give hit > reason to flipflop." "And you didn't?" "Not a reason' sir. On the da fore they was to be marrie lent fur Sam and asked him t 1A ma ? * * aiA^ fjvv uuu inrvc my uui r three years. He sort of chol up over it and said he'd se out it, and that's the last an] dy has seen of him. No, si lever gave him no reason ft powin' my gal over, and yo t he'll either come up to th ick or play checkers with hi se as a warnin to other fellei to don't know their ow nds." Cheraw't Biff Day. Cheraw, Aug. 13.?This was Cheraw's big day and though it not quite as well attended as in g former years it was quite satis- h factory. The programme began h last night with an informal a reception in the rooms of the f< Chiquola club, given by the t< citizens to Congressmen Finley ? and Lever, who, were the 1! 1 speakers at the farmers* rally at r ' 10 o'clock this morning. In *' their speeches they touched up- } 1 on the changed conditions 1 5 brought about by the war, and ? 7 the lack of marketing facilities * 5 for the farmer, due to the want J 2 of organization and cooperation, , 1 and matters of equal importance , I in tho farmpr's 1if?? At 121, v o'clock the Woodmen took d charge. They had as speal&i^ Tom Hamer of Bennettsville, , clerk of court of Marlboro county and an enthusiastic e Woodman, who pictured the x bomity ot woodcraft as lying n not so much in the fraternal d element as in the protection to the family through its insurance features. lg During the morning hours a ball game was played in the k. park between Cheraw and a il, picked team from Chesterfield [\% county, Cheraw losing by a to score of 5 to 2. The principal event of the afternoon was the ball gante r between North and South Carode lina, the latter winning by a score^^^t^. A streetcarnim to the JDj warehouse tonight ended the a day's festivities. yTen-Cent Cotton al (From The Raleigh Times.) ty The Charlotte Observer says r- that Southern cotton planters will te be able to get ten cents for their product "for the asking"?by which the Charlotte paper means by keeping 9 stiff upper lip and id not rushing the staple to market, in Even several months ago there J! - a zi wcic luuicauuus iuai nine orien g cents might be expected, but le since that time the crop has been estimated, the demands of the n world have been canvassed. :d Cotton is being used for more id purposes than ever before and, although the English and French mills are not as active as formerly and although Germany will not o be able to buy any cotton, there is no indication that the short crop will be a drug on the marit, ket. Southern farmers will not r- become excited this Fall, and te they will not allow the speculators to stampede them. We can e make the present crop a success by pulling together, and that is r, what the country ought to do. ie ie A Tough Lot. There are probably few humor f- ists in England who can tell more funny stories than IW.Pett is Ridge, says Tit Bits. Some time e ago at a public meeting he told n of a man who one day entered a London police court. The magistrate happened recognize y him as a fellow club man, and d genially invited him to take a o seat on the bench. The visitor le was delighted at the honor done c- him and as he sat down beside e the magistrate he looked won/ deringlv round the crowded r; court. ir MI see you have a remarkably u touch lot of customers to deal e with this morning,** he said in is surprise to the magistrate, rs "Hu*h" replied the magistrate n shaking his head to impose, oilonna "iviivia a*a >1?a uwhum " I iivuvvi IUW.1C nic tUOHTT/W*) t i ? -i C Shifting Quotations J Some years ago a hard-work- 1 ig tobacco planter of Mont- I omery County, Tennessee, paid ' is first visit to the East. With im as traveling companion came buyer of tobacco for one of the oreign governments. The planer had already shipped his ' eason's crop to York, tending to sell it after his arival be being dissatisfied with xniittions in his home market. ft so chanced that the ferry vhich brought them across the > Hudson to Manhattan landed Vi ilongside a pier where two big freighters were loading with tobacco for Liverpool. Catching the familiar whiff of the weed, J the Tennesseean followed his ' nose until it led him into a great freight shed were countless hogs- _ heads of tobacco?more than he had ever seen at any one time in j his life?were awaiting transpor- A tation. He took one look and 1 turned to his companion, the T foreign buyer. i "Old man," he pleaded, "if you J kin sell my tobacco here, sell it I right away. It don't make no I difference what price you git for I it?sell it! There's more tobacco I here already than ever'body in I the world kin use up in a hun- .J dred years." He spent a day on Broadway and Fifth Avenue and then in 1 haste he sought for his friend. V "Don't you sell my tobacco at I any price," he ordered. "I've flj done seen enough people in this here town to chaw up tobacco there is in less*^^^^^H FJfiWMiaig&toSgSaturdaJl Sho 'Nuff Married Now. Monroe Enquirer A young couple in this county have been living together for several months thinking they were legally married, but they were mistaken about it. It was this way: License to wed was taken out by the young man and one who was supposed to be a magistrate was called on to officiate at the wedding, but it turns out that the one who was called on to perform the service was not a magistrate, as his term of office had expired and he was no longer a "squire.** The weddingi the real, legal wedding has taken place. Who are the parties? Well, now that might be of some interest, but what's the use to be giving names when neither one of the parties most interested are not to blame at all? Got Satisfaction All Right. A motorist was stopped by a policeman for speeding, where upon he became angry and called the policeman an ass. After he had paid his fine, the judge reproved him for what he had said to the officer. "Then I mustn't call a policeman an ass?" he said. "Certainly not," said the judge. "You must not insult the police." "But you wouldn't mind if I called an ass a policeman, would you?" "Why, no if it gives you any a* -i a* a sausiacuon, answered nis honor with a smile. The motorist turned to the man who had arrested him. "Good day, policeman,'* he said, and immediately left the court room.?Boston Transcript. ".Some men," said Uncle Eben, "put in deir lives kickin' at nothr in'. Dar's dis much to be said foh de mule. If he's interested enough to kick he's willin* to go to de trouble of taking aim."? Washington Star. ... . ? 7???