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Farmers' Union Bureau of Information. -Conducted by the South Carolina Farmers' Educa tional and Co-Operation Union. F SWCommunications intended for this department should be addressed to J. C. Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. How Do You Like It? Well, how do you like the idea of our Farmers' union column? If our farmers' column is not as good as you think it should be, sup pose you chip in and make it better. A good, practical farmer is sure to know something which, if told, will benefit his neighbor. Usually the man that knows things has no trouble in telling what he knows, and then he stops talking. Men that really know little, or nothing, talk long, trying to tell something they don't know. Farmers' . institutes are good schools foi--both old and young farm ers, but they'don't come your way but once a year, while our Farmers' union coltmns visit you each week-that is if you subscribe for your home paper. If all your neighbors-for the want of better knowledge of business-sell their cotton erop for what it cost to inake it, or less, then you are compel led to take the same price for yours. You see that, in order to get profitable prices at the beginning, you must go out and bjing in your neighbors with you. Where is the profit or sense of mak ing three bales .of cotton grow where t"o eqvbefore .if that little 2 by 4 eddtij speculator comes in for that e-ra'third-bale 0 Betteir come across, boys, and join the Farmers' union and learn to grow the right size crop and then sell it The Farmers' union is standing up sainst this hot battle against cotton spuilators and' winning some advan tas in every skirmish. If you think you have a better plan t/oiganize farmers and keep them or 'the union, why let's ~ii ia we will join right into it u, o lwe can never maintain pi4fiable prices to the producer with - 'At i-ganization and loyal co-opera you danw all the nitrogen nit1d 'in yur .soil free of cost by ~planig wpes, whl in the thmider dedi~ you do it! A.fter the nitrogen isgIaced in the'ground, then the- pea vine hay stack is a mighty good for tifteation for the mules to stand .be kind- wen rough times and March wjids'eonie along. Mortgage mules ane said to like town hay best, but good Farmers' union men don 't be lieve it. If you think that. you' are a little too good, too smart, too rich or too insignificant to join in with your neighbors in the Farmers' union, do go and join the cotton association or seinie 'other organization taisdoing - ~good fori your southern country. Many of us Farmers' union men be long to the cotton association, and we .enjoy sitting in council with these 'bright business men of the South. We *learn something every time we meet 'with them; and it does the farmer 'ood to hear these big, rich men tell the farmer that every interest of the whole south is dependent upon the prosperity of the farmer. *After rubbing up against these shrewd business men in a cotton as sociation we feel mighty proud and rich for a long time afterwards; but when we are in deep 'trouble about the every day affairs of the farming interest, and are seeking out a fra ternal frieind that is in it with you in -everything, and that should be loyal to his own, we just naturally want'to set right along by the side of the old farmer and whisper the pass word into his ear. The cotton association is no more a farmers' organization than it is a business man's organization. You can jnot build a stone mansion out of wood. A farmers' organization must be. made of farmers. "THE ALDRICH SYSTEM.'' Of Growing Two Rows of Corn and Two Rows of Cotton Ovef the Whole Field. We are indebted to Mr. Aldrich, the originator of the plan, for the fol .lowing letter: Barnwell, S. C., -Jan. 28, 1906. Dear Sir :-R.plying to your letter of the 26th instant, I will say that I am unable to give you the information desired as to "a comparative test'' of my system with that in'vogue-or, perhaps, I should say with that which was in vogue--since so many, all over the south, are now using my system. A test to be of value should be ac curate, and situated as I am, with many irnns in the fire. I cannot de vote the necessary time and close per sonal attention to-such a test. Some state experiment station ought to make it and report results. I have several times planted with a view of making a thorough compara tive test, but when weighing time came other more. imperative matters claimed my attention. But I have al ways seen enough to absolutely con vince me that the cof'bination would far exceed the single method. With my knowledge of the yielding capac ity of my- land I am safe in saying that I make as much corn on the acre as if there were no cotton in the alternate two rows, or .a if peas were there instead of cotton. and by reason of the cotton bearing so much later than where all the land is cot tog. I am equally safe in saying that. I make more than a half crop of cot ton, or more than half as much as [the same. land would make if it were all in cotton. Of course during a pro tracted drought everything seems to suffer. Corn wilts and cotton sheds, but I have never been able to detect that my crop suffers mord than my neighbors' who have their two crops separated; while it is a fact that all have observed the -past winter that my cotton~ bore lbnger than any in this section and I 'made more top crop. Another fact was apparent-that I had no caterpillars while my neigh .bors' fields divided from mine by a hedgerow had plenty of worms. I am. unable to offer any solution of that, but as- the same was 'the case with a field near Williston planted by my system, there would seem to be something more than a coincidence in the phenomena. At one time last summer, in Au gust, my cotton suffered so much from drought that I began to fear that it was being prejudiced unduly by the proximinty of the corn, al though the corn-blades were then too ripe to pull for fodder if I had been going to , strip them, yet when the rain came more fruit' formed and ma tured, and whei the crop was all pick ed the yield showed that the land had produced all. that I had any reason to expect from it. I shall plant some sections with a Niew of making the test this season and.hope to be able to complete it at harvesting. Very truly yours, Alfred Aldrich. Mr. 3. C. Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. Dear. Sir: Complying with your re ques~t eeneriing the results obtained by ihe South Carolina experiment sta tion, iun our 1905 test of the Aldrich system, I will give the following: Two rows each cotton and corn, yield 646.4 pounds seed cotton per acre; 1,280 pounds of ear corn per acre.' Equal area as above all in cot ton, 1,599.2 of seed cotton per ae're~; all corn, 2,520 pounds ear corn. You will see that the half corn and half cotton failed by about 300 pounds per acre of seed cotton to make half as much as the all cotton acre. The Aldrich decre corn yield was 'a little bit more than one-half the acre yield from the all corn plot. But the difference is so slight as to scarcely be worthy of consideration. The variety of corn used in this test wa the Marlborough prolific and the variety of cotton was Toole 's. The fertilizer contained 7.1 per cent of phosphoric acid; 6.4 per cent of pot ash; and 3.3 per cent of nitrogen, 400 pounds being applied to the acre. The cotton and corn were planted at the same time. I am confident that this should not be the case, since the corn will usually in our climate produce better when planted early, and if the corn planting is delayed until the cot ton is planted the corn will go in the ground from three to five w'eeks later than w ould probably be better for se curing the best yield of corn. A small stalk, early corn should be grown, taitmay come off .in time to give' all he oilarea to the cotton~ when the cotton needs nioisture and plant food more than at any otii time. I wish to impress upon you that this is a one year's test and is by no means conclusive. The results. could easily have been reverged by using different varieties of either cotton or corn r by having a different growing season for the production of these crops. It is the intention of the station to continue these tests in duplicate for a number of years and in slight vari ation from the plan herein reported.2 Accom panying this test was an other in which four rows of cotton and four rows of corn were used. But this plan gave inferior results to the two-row system. Where these tests were made ini 1905. in 1906 we will pursue the same plan~ alternating cot ton with corn in one case; in another, cotton will follow c.otton; and in still another, corn will follow corn. We hope to also in the all-corn plots and in one of the duplicates of the Aldrich system plot to have cowpeas take the place of corn when the 'corn ma-rsb antingHo the cowpas in the corn rows at the time of laying up the corn. Very truly yours, C. L. Newman. The Aldrich System of J. C. Strib ling's Farm. Out of eight comparative tests the Aldrich system of planting two rows of corn and two rows of cotton, al I.ternating on this plan with solid crops of each cotton and corn, we made less- crops of each-by actual measurements and weight-under the Aldrich system than where solid crops of each cotton and corn were planted, excepting in one test where we used 400 pounds orashed cotton seed per aere. The gain in this instance was 111 1-2 bushels of corn and 1,050 pounds of stalks per acre in favor of the A)drich system. In consideration of the 'fact tTiat a large number of practical farmers have endorsed the Aldrich system, al though they have done so without putting -the test by actual weights and measurements, we are of the opinion that there must be some ad vantage in the system where early field varieties of corn is qsed along with late maturing varieties of cotton. I Thus by planting the corn as early as possible we may remove the corn off the land in time to give the eotton more sunlight and the use of all the land, which may .be very beneficial to a late maturing variety of cotton that has been left rather thin on the land. In the foregoing test cotton and corn were planted the same day. Isis Worship in Paris. London Globe. In Paris, the natural home of skep ticism. extremes are meeting in a most ama'zing 6ontrast. One of-the most striking features of the intel lectual and moral lift of the French capital is the extraordinary number of mystical faiths which flourish there today. , A book was lately published in Paris as strange in its way as the old Glasgow Prof. Sinclair's "Sa tan's Invisible World Displayed," a title which might with equal proprie ty have served for the French volume. It deals with what the author, Jules Bois calsthe "Petities Religions", of Paris. Of such -eults he enumerates no fewer than twelve sects, the naines .of which may be given without comi nint-the Satanie, the Luciferiang the .Humanitarian, the Essdrie, .the1 Gnostic, the Magic, 'the Illuminate, the 'Thesophical, the Boddhist, the Pagan, the Swedenborgian and that of Isis. From, this strange medley of old and new paganism a writer in the Sctsman selects for detailed descrip tion-the worship of Isis, the great and typienl divinity of ancient Egypt, as1 it is practiced today in modern Paris. The 'first proceeded,from that extraor dinary idealist and poet, August Vil lers de I 'Isle Adam, whose eccentric offer .to undertake the kingdom of Greece was one of the minor membar rassments of the Emepror Napolean~ III. More than thirty years ago this marvellous, gerytleman' declared that Isis, inasmuch as she was the image gf chastity and beauty, deserved 'anI ideal temple. "I should like all .men to adore in her t.he ideal ?of life and death.'' The idea was taken up by his admireis. Chapels of Isis were; built on the slope of Montmarte, wherein the ancient worship of Se rapis, as described, by Apuleius in his "Golden Ass,'' has been reestablished Jsis is now,. it fact, worshipped as a goddess, and her claims to deification have been seriously advocated by so' eminent 'a -personage as Augustus Thierry. In the prayers of her wor shippers Isis is hailed as "Mother divine'' as the angel who announced the approaching birth of Jesnis, and in phrases somewhat blasphemous is! set above the Virgin Mary as "best! and most beautiful.'' There is a se rious. carnestness in the whole affair though we scoffers and outsidei-s may be unable to suppress our smiles, arid the power of the high priests of Isis over her votaries is a real and terri ble as ever was that of her Egyptian prototypes. Sweet-Faced Susan. Sketch. Day was trembling on the edge of night. The sun had dropped behind the hills and splashed t;he sky with red.: For two hours Susan and lien ry had been talking. Gentle reader,! you know what they were talking' about ? No?i Suffice it to say, what ever it was, an amicable conclusion had been reached. Susan was sweet faced and tender, and the amethys tine tints of the evening touched her face softly. and the fading light threw a halo about her head. .Yet she was no spring chicken. But what Henry had passed all the years of his bachelorhoo '- a boarding house, and couldn 't, have told skri ~ thicken from an Old hen to save hlif his sal ary. Hp folded her to his throbbing bosom and then slowly unfolded her. "We shall be so happy." he whis pered. "Yes. Henry,." was the marmured response, "and so harmnious. What ever you say I shall believe. nqw. I henceforth and forever." I can never be such a husband as you deserve, Susan," he almost sigh ed. -No. Henry." she eried. "i sup pose not-, but at my time of life I can 't afford to be .too Particular. Come in and have some supper. And Henry went in. Sprinfield,-'Ohio, in Slave Times. New York Sun. New York. March 1. To the Editor of the Sun:' Sir:-"'Cast thy bread upon. the, waters and Thou shalt. fid it after many days'' is a Serpitural injune hon that works both ways, and I am reminded of it by the - trouble the! white people of Springfield, Ohio. are now having with their colored citi zens. In the old days Spripgfield was a station on the Underground railway leading from Kentucky to the North, and "the poor, suffering slave,'" could bank ori meeting his white brother there and being taken straightway to his bosom. The passenger business on that road was not very great andj Springfield didn't get all the. traffic, but it got enough for a nucleus, and now the bread it cast-in those. days is \coming back in a manner not as pleas ing as it might be. 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