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V*. r ~ZS ~ ' -r ' ' f : ' * - -v THE PAGELAND JOURNAL # Vol.6 NO. 24 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1916 $1.00 per year Makinff Pork at Four font* ?I r.???o?i? * * ' Pound In a recent issue of the Roanoke-Chowan Times Mr. D. H. Brown tells how Messrs. F. P. and C. J. Shields made pork at less than four cents a pound on the Halifax county farm: "It may seem hard for some people, who are inclined to be skeptical anyway, to believe that these men are able, every year, to grow hundreds of hogs without feeding them any, or very t*A4t - nine corn, mis is just what they are doing, however. Below is more of a detailed ac count of how they are able to do this. "During the winter the pigs are allowed to run on bur clover and rye, in the spring they are pastured on crimson clover and rye; and during the early summer on rape and soy beans, late in the summer and early fall they pasture on soy beans and sweet potatoes and during the late fall soy beans and peanuts make UD th<? ratir?r?. Rv ?V.Jo MM J I&1IO time they are ready to kill. *'Last year they had a special field fenced off as follows: The field contained 75 acres. In very early spring 10 acres were sowed in rape. By the time the pigs were done running on clov er the rape was ready ior them. Right next to the rape was a 20 acre field of soy beans, planted about the middle of April. A little later 20 more acres were planted in soy beans. The next 10 acres were planted in sweet potatoes. To finish out the 75 ttr>roa IK ?/>.?? * avicd wcic |iui in peanuts. In order to get the most ?^ ^outjpf soy beans, they begin to pasture them about "~the"" middle of July, by the time tlie blooms appear. But they fence off a small portion of them to put the hogs on at first. They do not, as a rule allow their hogs to run on more than ten acres at a time. By the time they have cleaned up all the other beans, they put them back on the first 10 acre plot. In the meantime, they have put out new sprouts and U ? * * ? nave iorraea nam beans. Except when the hogs run on peanuts, they all have rings in their noses. uThe day I was on the farm, they were fencing off plots of crimson clover. On this they were going to put a fine lot of Digs Which loolfPH Ko aKrwit# W ? %w W HUVUI two months old. They were indeed a nice looking bunch ot pigs. I told Mr. Shields so. He said, 'You just wait 60 days and see those pigs and you will not know them. There is hardly anything which starts off a pig as well as clover.* Later he thinks there is nothing quite equal to soy beans for hogs. Every pig, every stock hog and every brood sow on the Shields farm is vaccinated against i cholera. Thev used to be troubled with cholera, but since they have heen treating them lliotr Kntm * * * * uwr wove nui ueuu irOUDiea with it at all." Appealing to a lady for aid, an old negro told her that through the Dayton flood he had lost everything he had in the | world, including his wife and i six children, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer. "Why," said the lady, "I have seen you before, and I have helped vou. Were you not the 1 colored mun who told me you had lost your wife and six chil- ; dren by the sinking of the Titanic?" "Yeth. ma'am, dat wuz me. Mos' unfort'nit man dat eber wuz. Kain't k^ep a lam'ly no- ( how" ! >.v*u<au/ m i\c|iiy to inquiry Concerning Lusitania Assurances. Washington, Feb. 27.?Germany has instructed Count von Bernstorff to inform the United .States Government that the assurances regarding the future conduct of submarine warfare, given in the Lusitania and Arabic cases, still are binding, but that they apply only to merchantmen of a peaceful character. The German Government is I lindprstrkTtri in r>nn?onH ed merchantmen have without regard to the nature of their armament shown themselves not to be peaceful and therefore are subject to destruction without warning. The instructions direct the German Ambassador particularly to tell Secretary Lansing that British merchantmen armed ostensibly only for defense have not assumed the character of peaceful traders, but that on the contrary they carry guns for the special purpose of attacking German submarines. To support this claim the Berlin Foreign Office has sent the Ambassador for presentation to the State Department a list of at least 20 incidents where it is claimed British merchant ships have attacked submarines. Confidential advices received from Berlin state that German and Austrian submarine commanders already have been given their new orders and that fron) midnight Tuesday they will be authorized to sink without warning all armed merchant ships of the enemies of Ger- 1 many. It was said also that 1 many of the submarine comman- ! ders probably had left their bkses ' nf vnvanac on/1 ' w? t vj aiiM U1C1I C VCU should the United States request 1 the postponing of the opening 1 of the campaign, it would be ' impossible to get word to many 1 of the submarines. It was stat- ' ed, however, that so far neither ! the United States nor any other ' Nation had asked a postponement. Uncle Sam's Islands. The American Boy. It will probably surprise you * to learn that the United States i flag flies over 8,000 islands. Ac- j cording to a report received hv ? ~J I the National Geopraphic Society, i their population totals ten mil- < lion. Four hundred million of 1 dollars of America.i capital is { invested in these islands, and < each year they send to the Unit- '< ed States products to the value of one hundred million. ' Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Alaskan islands have shown { startling development since corn- < ing under the Stars and Stripes. < P!/a -? rmeen years ago tnere was but one school house in Porto Rico. To day nearly 200,000 boys and girls are attending school there. Three hundred and sixtv-five thousand ions of sugar 65,000 under the Spanish tegime. Hawaii has shown a similar prosperity. He Knew Boy*. The story is told in The Indianapolis News that there was a bad accident in the street of a big city. A surgeon happened to be^at the spot and was soon rendering first aid. He did not have his medicine kit with him. He needed something and need i ed it uuicklv. "Boy," he saul to a youngster in the crowd, "hand me that 4 string out of your pocket." And 4 the string was forthcoming. ( ' How did you know that boy 4 had a string in his pocket?" ask- ^ ed a spectator later. "Why, every real boy carries * strings in his pocket," said the 4 surgeon. I \ Laying Submarine Mines. Popular Science Monthly. The mines which have been chiefly used in the present war are automatic and mechanical, and are fired when the ship strikes against them. Mines of this type are easily 1 laid. When stowed away on the deck of a mine laying ship the mine rests on the anchor which at the same time forms a little carriage which can be run along the deck and simply dropped over the stern of the ship. Whether mines have actually been laid by submarines is, of ; course known only to the naval i authorities. Patents have, however, been taken out within the i last few years for specially de- , signed mines to be laid by submarine boats with a series of chambers on each side for hold ing and launching mines. These 1 chambers are disposed between i double walls of the submarine i and are made to form a smooth outline with the hull of the boat. 1 A mine is maintained at the desired depth in the water bv 1 - -- I means of an anchor in which 1 the cable, one end of which is connected to the mine, is unwound from a drum suitably braked and mounted in the anchor casing. The rotation of the drum is controlled by a plumb weight attached to a short sounding line. When the plumb weight reaches the bottom of the sea the rotation of the drum is stopped and the mine is pulled down to the required depth. It is only necessary tp determine at wfcat depth 1 PeloW the sulfate il is desired l<*|| anchor the mine and to throw \ into the water the complete ap f paratus, namely the mine and \ anchor, whereupon the whole f apparatus will take up its proper ? position, the depth of subnier < >ion being: determined by the t length of toe sounding line. 1 s Potash in Ashes 1 "Is there potash in oak wood s ashes?" The percentage of potash in ashes will depend on the way a h^y have been kept. If they c aairo Knorv ?? % ? -11 *1 iutv utcu uuut'i cover an me :ime and have not been exposed v o rain good oak wood ashes nay contain 100 to 150 pounds >f potash in a ton and about 700 pounds of lime, with a small imount of phosphoric acid. If s he ashes have been lying exposed to rain there will be little potish left, as it leaches out easily. ?W. F. Massey in Progressive farmer. d | F eelinj # Syrup Pepsin is an arm* ? ing, such as you generally f spring. Why not come in ? sell the 50c size for 45c. i * the amount of quinine you v When you need Croup a f yourself and family remei ? 3 kinds which we do not P lully. ? Our line of Cough Syrup ^ cigaretts and smoking tab< j Mangum ] { Treats You ! r Verdun Battle's Fury Shows No Signs Let-up Dispatch of Monday. The great battle raging around Verdun in which a half-million men are engaged is still being fought at some points with the same fury as characterized it several days ago. Champneuville. to the west, and fortified works of Bardaumont, to the east of Fort Douaumont, have been captured by the Germans. Berlin also claims to have captured the Cotede Talou, to the west of Douaumont, but according to the French official statement, the artillery fire coming from both sides has rendered this position untenable for either French or Germans. The French are hurling attack after attack upon the Douaumont positions held by the Germans, who are declared to be maintaining themselves there with difficulty, but in the Woevre region, to the east of Verdun, [he French advanced posts have been withdrawn. Large reinforcements are being brought up probably bv both forces, and it is reported that the i: " - - di 111511 nues are Deing extended in Belgium and Fiance in order that French troops may be reeased for the Verdun battle. In the Vosges mountains the Germans also started a heavy offensive Southeast of Celles, >ut it was completely checked ay the French. On the other sxtreme end of the line around ( fores a British attack was reBMLtheGernvans. jm^HH^^sond and Rheims i vigorous bombardment has >een. carried out asrainst the Gerrian nnsifinns. Marino ?ti<sactoro 1 * " *""" *"v ? , ire again a feature of the news, several steamers have been >lovvn up by mines and it is be ieved that the recent great ] itorm along the coast of Eng- < and and in the North Sea has j et many powerful mines adrift. ] i Teacher: "Johnnie, give me 1 i sentence to illustrate the use ] >f the word 'notwithstanding." j Johnnie (promptly): "The boy i vore out the seat of his pants i lot with standing." 1 I "I want a man who doesn't ( moke or drink." s "What are the wages?" ( "Six dollars a week." i "Guess you want a man who < loern't eat either." s g Bad j :>r plate against bab feel- ? experience during the J and get a bottle? We ^ Vnd for 25c we sell you J 've been paying 45c for. ? nd Pneumonia salve for K mber we always keep ^ hesitate to guarantee J is complete, also cigorp, J icco. i Drug Co. I Squarely. \! *VWVW*WV*?j| / Quit Using Fire Wise and good old Dr. Knapp used to say that fools and fire are two of the most serious obstacles to better farming in the South, and a trip through the Cotton Belt at this time of the year will convince any clear thinking man that he was right;. Everywhere blue smoke curling upward from burning corn and cotton stalks, grass, weeds and trash tells a story of soil de pletion and exhaustion. We have seen grass and stalks so light and scattering that a hay rake was necessary to gather them in piles or windrows, where they were burnt. This often happens, too, ou our thin, gullied hillsides that need vegetable matter if any land in the world needs it. There's one thing we might all as well get right now: We are never going to have rich lands and profitable yields as long as such practices are kept up. It's a pitiful thing to see a farmer burning this material and then buying high-priced commercial fertilizers to make his crop. It has been found that on land that made 300 pounds of ; lint cotton, the stalks, leaves and burs contain at least 20 pounds of nitrogen, worth at present prices about $5. Where corn stalks and grass are burned the loss is little less. Nor is this the only loss, for the humus value nf this matorial Jo n : ?Mtvitai 10 a VC1 y lllipurtant item. If you ever expect to become a rich-land farmer, keep fire out of the fields. Burn absolutely nothing that can be plowed un der or used to Aton ?J your Innd will soon respond with bigger and better crops.? Exchange. What Stevenson Thinks about Roads The last statement made by Mr. W. F. Slevenson as to what Congress should do for a farm ing district like this was that it bad spent $475,000,000.00 on rivers and nothing on roads. It has also spent $100,000,000 ou ir ngauon projecis, 10 water lands for less than 1,000,000 people in the West. Why not do some thing to take the water out of the roads in the South? In South Carolina the State and bounties and Towns and Town ships spent in 1914 about $1,000, )00.00 on roads, and still of the 15,549 miles of roads in the State only 4,888 miles are surfaced and really improved?and that is the work of years. 40,661 miles are yet to be fixed, and all must be maintained. The Government carries mail over most ;>f them; why is it not right for it to help fix them? (Advertisement) Wood's Productive Seed Corns. Our Virginia-grown Seed Corns have an established reputation tor superiority in productiveness and germinating qualities. Wood's Descriptive Catalog tells about the best of prize-winning and profit-making varieties in both White and Yallow Corns. Cotton Seed. We offer the best and most improved varieties, grown in sections absolutely free from boll weevil. Our Catalog gives prices and information, and tells about the best of Southern Seeds, 100-DAY VELVET BEANS. Soja Lean., SUDAN GRASS. Dalit. Grass and all Sorfhum. and Millets. Catalog mailed free on request. T.W.WOOD ?SONS, ccvnciini dul j au.v0raui, - nunmonu, va. | Germans Attack With Unprecedented Violence Dispatch published Saturday. Along the front in tne region of Verdun the Germans and the French continue the great struggle which began several days ago with the Germans on the I offensive and thoir aim . _ ? >U?.>1 IU1U tViUClit* Iv the great French fortress of Verdun. Notwithstanding a heavy fall of snow the Germans to the north of Verdun have attacked with what Paris terms unprecedented violence and with large forces, French positions at several points but according to the French official communication the attacks were without success. Especially has this been true at La Cote du Poivre, about four and a half miles north of the fortress, the attainment of which would give the Germans a good vantage point from which to operate against Verdun. The artillery on both sides along the entire battle front is keeping up fn incessant bombardment of opposing positions. So intense are the detonations of the big guns that the sound of them has penetrated eastward to the left bank of the Rhine in Rhenish Prussia. Heavy casualties are being inflicted by both sides and the Germans claim that they have taken many prisoners?the aggregate at last reports to talling more than 10,000. P 1 !" r ? ~ * v*roppea nars tor false Swearing?The Ancient Law Statcsville Landmark. Reading in The Landmark about the record in Pasquotank county showing that a boy's ear Had been omen ott by ? noise, the record being made because it was a custom to brand criminals by cutting otf their ears_3Ir. R. p. Henry sends The Landmark a copy of the laws of North Carolina, passed by the General Assemhlv -it Fdontnn ;? 1738 and 1739, and signed by Gabriel Johnson, Governor. In these acts there is the following: "And to the End such Negro, Mulatto, or Indians, bond or free, not being Christians, as shall hereaftei be produced as Evidence on the Trial of any Slave or Slaves for capital or other crimes, mav be under the greater Obligation to declare the Truth; Be it further enacted, That where any such Negro, Mulatto, or Indian, bond or free, shall, upon due Proof made, or pregnant circumstances, appearing before any County Court within this Government, be found to have given false Testi- monv, every Offender shall, without further Ttial, be ordered, by the said Court, to have one Ear nailed to the Pillory and there stand for the Space of one Hour and the said Ear to be cut off and thereafter the other Ear nailed in like Manner, and cut off, at the Expiration of one other Hour; and moreover, to order every such Offender thirtynine Lashes, well laid on, on his bare back, at the common Whipping post." That was going some, as the Knvc cov If tl\n# ln?> " u UKJ II 111II I lint IYtl3 lil full force and effect in this good day there would be less false swearing or many folks would have their ears cropped. "Uncle Zeb," said a young man who had recently come to live in the village, "they tell me that you remember seeing c?eorge wasnington. is that right?" "No, it ain" returned Uncle Zeb. "I uster 'member seein' him, but that wtiz before I jined the church."