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Tax I The Tax Books will be open 15th October until 31st day of M Ta>c levy for State Ordinary County Constitutional school County Roads Total levy Special Cheraw Graded School Marburg Orange Hill Pat's Branch Pee Dee Stafford Cheraw (Outside) Bethel Center Point Chesterfield Parker Pine Grove Shiloh Snow Hill Ruby Vaughan Womble Hill White Oak Black Creek Cross Roads Center i\ f* ?i 1*1 I. v^iuguuu New Hope Wexford Winzo Zion Mt. Croghanf(Outside) Buffalo Dudley Five Forks Mangum Pageland Plains Center Grove Friendship Jefferson Long Branch Jefferson (Outside) Green Hill Middendorf McBee Sandy Run Union Aligator (Outside) Bay Springs Bear Creek Bethesda J uniper Patrick Cat Pond Lewis Ousley Palmetto Wallac Steer Pen For Back Indebtedness and School: Chesterfield SchooLD mills, and Rubj% 5 mills. Cheraw I'ownship, speci tor, 7 mills for Road Bonds. All unpaid taxes will be subj lanuary, two per cent lor Febu; After March 31st executions wi Sept. 15.1915. KING ( is on his thron is circulating The time to a I uic nine to money is in use to get it u: it. No better than to depos the bank* The experie proved the i bank account, condition of tl bank account to hold their c own pnnilitfAi www mm ^VBBVtZtlVI Begin now. posits to the Bs as hundreds done already, THE BANK I < > Votice. for the collection of taxes from [arch 1916. 7 mills 7 1-2 mills 3 mills 1-2 mills 18 mills I Local Bonds 3 mills 4 mills 3 8 4 3 4 M 2 1-2 2 4 4 4 3 4 3 3 5 4 5 4 1-2 3 u 2 4 4 5 6 4 3 4 7 4 M 5 2 2 2 2 M i 2 3 6 44 5 4 5 \ 3 5 - 4 4 44 2 4 3 44 5 8 4 12 4 8 . 44 2 4 2 2 3 3 44 4 2 3 7 3 3 5 Extending School Terms, Special islrict, 2 1-2 mills; Mt. Croghan, 5 al levy of 2 mills for Roads; Aliga ect]to a penaltv of one per cent for ary and seven per cent for March. 11 be written for all unpaid taxes. W. A. DOUGLASS County Treasurer. 1 :otton te again. Money [ freely, get money and save is when circulation. No nless you save way to save it regularly in nee of last fall idvantage of a , Compare the lose who had a and were able otton with your n. Bring your deink of Pageland of others have ? OF PAGELAND Uses and Abuse By Prof. R. J. H. De Loach, Directoi 1. THE USE OF COMMERCIAI The First of a Serie We would not be disposed to try to g commercial fertilizers, but only to show grew in the Southern United Suites. Gei generation inherited the habit of applyi been taught the underlying principles of The use of some kind of manures on s creasing the yields goes back to ancient people applied animal manures to their centuries ago, applied manures of various with phenomenal results. In Von Tsliu early as the middle of the last century i value of Guano by the Peruvians. Bousingault speaks of seeing fields h year for two centuries, and the yield s The practice of using mineral fertilii ru 10 the United States in the year IS as we find above. It had already been way into the United States, hut Peru s? application of minerals to soils as p know this is true, but all evidence poit to us therefore that we know about th The First Use of I The first man in the Southern States t Dickson, of Sparta, Ga., who saw an ai can Farmer published in Baltimore. 1 more successful farmer than David E dollars farming, and who was a pionee the use of mineral fertilizers. In the yi duced into the United States, he bought lng that it paid him, bought it in inci and 1866, when he "went into it fully.' doubt the first instance of the use of cotton in the United States. The universal success with which Mr ruvian guano led many other promin< and in every reported case, success fo to believe that the application c cotton and other crops in the South cc dent. Its success was unquestionably b A quickly available manure was what once applied results were evident. After a time it was found that the P( clpally nitrogen, produced too much s yield of fruit, aDd hence its use was s< The First Use of About this time the war between 1 time the discovery of the potash beds < market of various kinds of mineral f ings of Von Liebig of Germany, who \ pion in the world of agriculture and it ularity of Peruvian guano subsided ant eral question of the use of mineral m and the students of agriculture. Two great contributing factors to th South are first the abolition of slavei tural education. Before the war the growing farm crops in the South "wore slaves to "take in more land " It was for any artificial manure. In 1862. creating agricultural colleges in the v gan a campaign for improving metho public expense were begun on a small make greater use of plant foods of all 1 of tillage. This, of course, caused an i eral plant foods, and out of which gr fertilizers. From this great demand tl all parts of the country. All kinds of good, and some was not, but much of no restrictions and many of them pain would smell strong and that could be count of state laws did not last long, t resume of the part taken in the rise c Uses ana By Prof, R. J. H. Dc Loach* Dtrecte " INTELLIGENT USE OF Ft The Second of a Seri All state institutions have fostered In the early fifties. State organization part in the building up of the trade, and it for granted that the trade is profita and have therefore framed laws to re every state where fertilizer is sold in a passed exacting certain requirements ( grades, etc. Besides the trade, over-am the consumer and offer for sale inferi tilizers. We nxay say without fear c states themselves are largely responsi fertilizer trade. It has long been recognized that lines of science. This is perhaps true early years. Germany discovered tha crops increased the yields immensely, a lying causes, and has suggested to the able lessons on her findings. Von L tures on modern agriculture, has nxade in the early history of the use of com Kuhlman, a German agricultural scienti in the years 184f> and 1846, and found t ered 8,140 pounds of hay more than on did not use the salanimoniac. He sec pounds of salammoniac to the acre. In commenting upon this Von Lie quite certain, that in the action of the highest after the Chili saltpeter, an u ammonia contained in it. On the oil with carbonate and nitrate of amtnoni; or nitrogen, equivalent to that in L'O p the same conditions, was almost withou Fertilizer Evperime A little further along he says: "1 comportment of the soil towards the f? knowledge we possess of their mode ol the soil, by its physical condition, ph salts of ammonia, of chloride of sodi the earthly phosphates in the soil, i some light on their action, or one of th This statement was made because it v salt was added to certain mineral m and Von Liebig came to the conclusion this added material to the liberation of Only a short time after the war ash beds were discovered and by rapid in favor with planters as w. 11 as ex ing a combination to liberate the po ana inorougn sat israction was round n the potash salts, and here the industry claim, however, that Trihasic phosphat was found efficient. This fact is very covered by a const.ant study of the u Baits. I.iebig thought that these two of dissolving phosphoric acid in the ft iu turn addetl greatly to the yield of fa Germany's Crop Yields Gre We have here many hints of whs facts?namely that the three great el applied to the soil for good crop yieli potash. For majiy years these thref elements of plant food In a fertilizer f Today Germany applies more mini any other nation. In the world, and | yields of farm crops than any other two facts are so closely related, hut i has learned the lesson of good tillaj vegetable matter in the soil, and tl cropping with any single crop. It is s on which the mosit money can hi clo are the lands that will give great< it pi - * s of f ertilizers1 r of Georgia Experiment Station. L FERTILIZERS?HISTORY, s of Six Articles. ive a commute history of the use of how this great industry began and lerally speaking, the farmers of this ng fertilizers to soils, but have not ' the industry. rsilc with rrftiia for tho nnrnosp of in times. We know that many ancient soils for this purpose. The Chinese, ? kinds to their soils and gardens and di's Travels in Peru we And that as totes were being taken on the actual a Peru on which wheat grew every till high and the growers prosperous, sers was introduced direct from Pe>46, aitd was based on such reports used in England before it found its ;ems to be the country in which the lant food originated. We do not its to this. It is of greater interest e customs in Peru. Peruvian Guano. o use this Peruvian guano was David ivertisement of it in the old Ameri'he South has perhaps never had a )ixon, who made many millions of r in many other lines as well as in ear 1846, the year after it was introthree sacks and used it, and on findreasing quantities till the year 1855 " As is suggested above this is no a concentrated mineral fertilizer on . Dickson met in the use of this Peent farmers to follow his example, Uowed its use. We are constrained >f this mineral fertiliser to the tuld not possibly have been an acciased on the actual needs of the soil, the crop needed, and when this waa eruvian guano, which contained printalk und not much increase in the imewhat discouraged for a season. German Potash. :he States began, and at the same )t Germany, also, the offering on the 'ertilizers resulting from the teach vas at that time the greatest chams possibilities. As a result the pop1 more study was given to the genanures, both by farmers themselves e rise of the fertilizer trade in the y, and second, the rise of agriculquestion of land was secondary. If the land out," there were plenty of cheaper to take in land than to pay the Morrill Bill passed Congress, arious states, after which there beds in agriculture. Experiments at scale, and the public was induced to tinds, as well as to improve methods mmediate increase in the use of minew demands for great quantities of here sprang up fertilizer factories in materials were tried out, some was both kinds used. The factories had ted off on the farmers anything that put in sacks. This condition on aciVe begin the next article by giving a >f the trade by the states themselves. >s of Fertilizers I fr of Georgia Experiment Station. RTILIZERS IN GERMANY, ies of Six Articles. the fertilizer trade since its origin is of all kinds have taken a lively I in later years the states have taken ble to farmers and merchants alike. gulate its manufacture and sale. In .ppreciable quantities laws have been if the manufacturer, as to analyses, bitious, might forget its obligation to or material under the name of ferif successful contradiction that the ble for (he rise aud volume of the Germany leads the world in many in regard to the use of fertilizers in t mineral salts applied to growing nd gave time and study to the underother parts of the world many vaiu.iebig, through his studies and leoknown much of the work of Germany tnercial fertilizers. I,iebig says that st, applied salammoniac to a meadow hat on a hectare <2Vfe acres) he gaththe same kind of meadow where he ured this result by using about 200 big has the following to say: "It is guano, which produced the crop next nmistakahle part was played by the ter hand, however, the experiments a show that a quantity of ammonia, /ill .1/1 o /if ?../in/v ?.wl /ininl/i./i/l ..M/l/v. wuiiua ui ^uauu ituu ou uuuci t effect." ints !n Germany. 'lie most recent observations on the >od of plants show how slight is the r nourishment, and of the part which ivs in it. The comportment of the mil. and of nitrate of soda, towards may perhaps assist us in throwing eir actions, on the growth of plants." ins always found that when common lanures, greater yield was obtained, that this was due to the relation of potash in the soils, between the states the German potleaps and bounds this material gained perimenters. The necessity for flndtash in the soils was now removed a the use of the nitrate of soda and r stood for a long time. I.iebig does e of lime crept into the formula and significant and happened to be disse of the nitrate of soda and potash plant food materials had the power mil of earthly phosphates, and these nn crops. ater Than Other Nations. it afterwards really developed to be ements of plant food that should be is are phosphoric acid, amm^iia and elements have been the essential ormula. aral salts per acre to her crops than partly as a consequence gets higher nation. It is significant that these 1 must ho remembered thut Oermnnw ;e?-deep plowing, the proper uae of 10 dangerous practice of continuous* iIho to be remembered that the tanda ared without any kinds of fertilisers oflts with fertilizers. T ' ' '" A line of Furniture has been Guess and it is now your privileg Kock-bottom prices. This Furni separate from our general store. FURN your home with better bed tables, etc. at a low figure. Don't buy furniture until ] C. L. Gill GUESS, - Home-Mad Kraut an< In addition to the above v nicest line of groceries. In a prompt and courteous attentic eat, call to see or 'phone. D.E. ( I MARC! has come again. By tl accounts should have been p is your time. The next few UP TIME at this store. "A word to" snffidei Iw V? M M A VS Jk V/J Mungo r~r"~ Uur ! I is still on, and the B aiv still to he had. Don COME NOW. II you leel grouchy, coi our goods and prices, anc j arms lull ol bundles ar your lace. II T. L ( | THE LOW PR1 MBMBBmnHMnswam . Furniture 1 FAD I * vt\ I THE |HOME i added to our business at s to buy right new stuft at ture is housed in a building ISH steads, chairs, bureaus, you have seen lledge - - - S.C. le Hams, d Flour /e have the fres.hest and iddition to these we give >n to all oiders. If it's to lark ? V 915th us time all of last year s aid. If yours hasn't, now r days are to be a PAY the wise is ?r Bros. J Sale argains we are giving t be the last to come. me and take a look at 1 go away with your 1 i i iu a nroaci grin on ;ato ICED MAN