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t\i4;FS ers lJnIon Rureau of Infor ation. - -VondI4ted by the., South Carolina, -Farmers' Educa tonal and Co-Operation Union. ' SWCommuncations intended for this dePartment should be addressed to J. C. Stibling, 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 beneflt his neighbor. isuilly the mian that knows things has 'no trouble in telling what lie 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 I schools foi' both old and young farm ers, but they aon't come your way but ohdo a, year, while our Farmers' union columns 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 crop for what it cost to fiako 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 bring in your neighbors with you. Where is the profit or sense of mak itig three bales of cotton grow where t6ro grew bqfore if that little 2 by 4 cotton speculator comes in for that eitra third bale? -Better come across, boys, and join the Farmers' union and learn to grow the right size crop and then sell it iight. The Farmers' union is standing up *'ainst this hot battle against cotton speculators and winning some advan tages in every skirmish. If you think you have a better plan to"organize farmers and keep them or ghtf than the union, why let's -iap it, aa ye will join right into it *f o i6li, for we can never maintain profitable prices to the producer with out organization and loyal co-opera tion. If you. en, grow all the nitrogen ned6dd in yiur soil free of cost by plantihg cowpeas, why in the thunder dovi't ydu do it? 'After the nitrogen iA,laced in the ground, then the pen vine hay stack is a mighty good for tifieation for the mules to stand be kind when rough times and March w,inds come along. Mortgage mules are 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 some other organization that is doing good for your southern country. Many of us Farmers' union men be. long to the cotton association, and we .enjoy sittinig in council with these bright business nmen of the South. We learn something every time we meet with then; and it does the farmer good to hear these lug, rien men tell the farmer that e'very inlerest of the whole south is dlependlent upon the prosperity of the farmer. -After rnbbing up against these shrewd business meni in ni cotton as sociation we feel mighty p)roud and rich for a long time afterwards; but when we arIe in deep t roub)le about the every (lay afYairs of the farming mt.erest, and( a re seeking out a fra ternal friend that is in it with you in 'everything, and that should lbe loyal to his own, we .just naturally want to .set right, along by the side of thle old farmer and whisper the pass word into his ear. Thle cotton association is no more a farmeirs' organization than it is a business iman 's organization. You can niot b)uild a stone mansion out of wood. A farmers' organization must 9 e, made of farmers. "THE ALDRI9JH SYSTEM." Of Growing Two ROWS of Corn and Two Rows of Cotton Ovef' the Whole Field. "VWe are indebted to Mr. Aldrich, orj gntrof the p)lan, for thle fol ngletter' Sfainwell,,S. C., Jan. 28, 106. -Rpyn to your letter ~ jti~2t1fnatant, I will say that, i '~ t give you theo information *~ to" "a comparative test' i&wth that in 'vogue-or,' s with that which ~*~EWe'so mnAi all 'ov vo'te the ne per. sonal attontibn I Some state exO WTIought to make it, d 4*r have: ~ to with vieW. of g incompara t00 084t b: ;h timf gaeothir,. ei' '- era y. nmatters claimed m at n Thave al. ways seen eno to tly con. vince me thatt, cobi na woukU far ekeeed the single method. Witi my knowledge.of the yielding capAe ity of my land I am safe in saying that I make as much corn on the acr< as if there were no .cbtton ir the alternate two rows, or s,if peat were there instead of ctton, and bj reason of the cotton bearing so muet later than where all the land is cot. top. I am equally safe in saying tha I make more than a half erop of cot ton, or more than half as much ,a, the saeland >vould make if it wer( ill in cotton, Of course during a pro. tracted drought..everything seems tc suffer... Corn wilts and cotton sheds, but I have never been able to detect that my crop suffers more than my neighbors' who have their two cropE separated, while it is a fact that all have observed the past wint<- 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' flelds divided from mine by a hedgerow had plenty of worms. I am unable to offer any solution o.f that, but as the same was the case with a fileld 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 toe 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 when 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 iew of making the test this season and hope to be able to complete it at. harvesting. Very truly yours, Alfred Aldrich. Mr. J. C. Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. Dear Sir: Complying with your re quesl concer'ning the results obtained by 'he South Carolina experiment sta tion, ii our 1905 test of the Aldrich system, I will give the following: Two rows each cotton and corn, yield 46.A pounds seed cotton' per acre; 1,280 pounds of car corn per acre.' 'qual area as above all in cot ton, 1,599.2 of seed cotton per acre; 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 hal!f as much as the all cotton acrec. The Aldricb decre corn yield was a little bit more than one-half the acre yield from the all corn p)lot. But1 the difference is so slight as to scar-cely be worthy of consideration. The vaieity of corn used in this test was the Marlborough prolific and t,he variety of' cotton was Toole 's. The fertilizer' contained 7.1 per cent of phosp)horie acidl; 6.4 pcer cent of pot ash; and 31.3 per cent of nitrogen, 400 poumnds being applied to the acre. Thme cot ton and corn werec planted at the same time. I am confident that this should niot be the ease, sin.ce the corn will usually in our' climate produce hltlet' wh'len p)lanted early, and if the corn planting is delayed until th6 cot ton is planted the corn wvill go in the gr-ound from three to five wve'eks later than would probably be better fok so cenring the best yield of corn. A small stalk, early corn should be grownt that it. may come off ,iin time to give all the soil ,area t' the. cottout whomi thme cotton neceds nioistur and plani food more than at any otl6tt.ime'. I wish to impress upoityoft that thim is a one year's test and is bj no meant conclusive. Tl1e rbstnits. could ensiln have been rever#ed by usifig .Jiffor-en) varieties of either cotton oi 'corn 01 by, havi'ng a different giheiing sensot for the prtoduction' of these Hp It is thme intention ot the statiomr4 continue these tests ini duplicate fo: a number of years qnd 'ii slight yaid ation fromi the p}an hmeroit reportkl Accompanying this :test:\ was an other in which four rows'. of .cottor and four rows of -corn werie'used. *}ui thi$ plan gave inferiot rattlts to ,the two-row system. Where 't@s tt ~vere made in '10> in 1 &"69fl1 pursue the same plai afterx14tihj 't ton with corn in one case;' liahtlxer, catton will follow epiton)t <ai4 inteill ani.ther, corn will follow co 'We hiope to also in' the'al~p andi- one f the corn row)i the e uptho.corn. Very truly yoit 0,. Newiol d cSysen f J, ng' F*rza Out of eijht comiaratiHr. te1 Aldridh systern of planting ti'ro of eorn and two rows of cottone iternating on this plan . with..'i crops of each cotton. and .'corn" made less\crops of eacl-by dol measurements and weight_-und9r. Aldrich system than wiere solid'ri Of each cotton and corn were lki excepting in one test wh'ere we.,ii 400 pounds drushed cotton seed are. The gain in this instance II'1-2 bushels of corn and 1( pounds of stalks per aere in f0vor the A)drich system. In consideration of the Tact tf'ia large munber of practical farmi have endo'sed the Aldrich sy tem, though they have done so ' ivith< putting ,the test by actual.w6ig] and measurements, we are ok opinion that there must be soinio' vantage in the system .where ea fleld varieties of corn is ited alo with late maturing varieties'of cott( Thus by planting the corn as early possible we may remove the 'corn the land in time to give the not( more sunlight and the use of -all I land, which may .be very benefleial a late maturing variety of cott that. has hleen left. rather thin on t land. In the foregoing test cotton a corn vere planted the same day. Isis Worship in Paris. London Globc. In Paris, the natural home of sk4 ticism, extremes are meeting in most aina'zing 4ontrast. One of:1 most st.riking features of the iuit lectual and moral lift of tha Frer capital is the extraordinary numi of mystical faiths which flourish tu today. A book wAs lately publisli in Paris as strange in its way as I old Glasgow Prof. Sinclair's "f tan's Invisible World Displayed,' title wihich might with equal propr ty have served for the French voln I't' deals with what'the author, In Bois, ealis 'the "'Petities Religion of Paris. Of such cults he enumerai no fewer than twelve sects, the nai of which may be given without c6 nin-t the Satanie, the Luciferil the -Humanitarian, the Essdne, Gnostic, the Magic, :the Illumina the *Thesophical, the Middhist, t Pagan, the Swedenborgian and tf of Isis. - From this st.'aigei medley of and new paganism a Writer in t Scotsman selects for detailed desri tion-the worship of Isis, the great a typicn divinity of anvient. Egypt, it is practiced today in modern Par The lfirst proceeded,from that extrat dinary idealist and poet, August V liers do I'[sle Adam, 'whose eeenti offer to undertake the kingdom Greece wvas one of' the minor embi rassments of the Emepror Naplole III. More than thirty years ago ti marvellous, ge:ytlemAn' declared tI: Isis, inasmuch als she was the ima 9f chastity and h.eauty, deser--ed ideal temple. "' I should like on to adore in~ her the idoal''of hi ,. . death.'' The idea was taken up his admirems. Chapels of Isis we built on the s1lpe of Mimtmar wherein 'the ancient woralhip of rapis, as describeA* by Apitleins in ''Golden Ass,'' has been reestabl ish ,Isis is now,. iW fact, worshipped as godde.as, and her claims to deifieati have been seridusly advocated by3 empinent 's-- persqnage 'as Augnst Thirry: .In the -prayers' of l er w shippers Isis is. hailed as ' Motha divine'' as the, angel who. annonne tile approaching'birth of Jesits, a in phrased somewhat, blasphemen~ns set Above tl'io Virgin Mary as "bh anid most' beautiful."' 'Theie is a rious, earnestness in the,. vhole aff - thougl ie e-sofford an4,kutsidei's a be unable to suppress 'our~ smiles, ai the yone.r, of the high'n priests of I over' her t,oies is a real and ter ble as ever was that of h'er Egypti 'prototyp)es Sketch.'Ss. Day was. trqmbling on the edge :night. The sun had dropped hem the 301s and splashedl he sky wv rb4: For two--hours -Susan and III y hadu been talking. GOene read you 'knoW whtat they Svere talki aboubt 259Q ~ ufflce it to say,.wh ovu I. du g naniteAble~ nelusi Ia bei n taph4d., Suyardas swe ttucd!and" tetider,lr1 atbte nineth1 ttnq i~ t ' e te o6ing t4d#ohed I ary. He fQ1ded 'h4 ,U" k boso&h. Il( I "Wb -In *f~pered. "Yes, yI response,' and Ao A over. you say I shal henceforth and ore 'I canri ovija be such a b4lai1 As you 4eserve. dri, he alrmost 8ih ed. - "No, Henry,'' sh9 cii' up el poso not; but 'at. ay 'time of ' fe led can't afford' to be' to,. parti '4lar ) Come in a4have someS OppOr, I ?as...# And Henry welit in. alo of . Sprinfeld/Ohio, in SIAVe Times.'.. Na w Yotk Sun. . . 3rs rigi al- New. York, March,11 g it To the Editor of tl) Situ itA Sir:-''Cast th$ :, pd ;upon- t1 :)eo waters and hou saha lt 4bid it after ad i- many day0" is'a Serpial injime 9' ely lion that works both vays, and I a nI ng reminded of it by the-troubl6 the' >n. white people of Springfield,. hio, are now lving with 'the. coloTed citi off zens. In the old days S rip.fi9ld-was oi a station on the UndergrouiQ4ail%Vky he leading from Kentucky to tl e North, to and "'the poor, suffering slave,I' co#ld on bank oit meeting his white brotjer he thre and being taken strpightivay to. nd his bosomn. The passenger business on that road was not' very great p1ind Springfield did'n 't get all the trafib, but' it got enough for a nucleus,' and. now the broad it cast-in thosel days is coming back in a manner not aw pleas. p- ing as it might be. My father owned a "likely saddle-colored boy,'' worth hC about. $1,200, who resided for a short. or- time after leaving Kentucky surrep oh titiously one night in that fibertf-lov er ing town, and I hope I ani no''t betray ,re ing any confidence at'tbis'late Jay by ed saying that' the "boy" wNidd haVe he been returned to his owne'r if-a small 30- graft of $250 and expeises had bniii a forthcoming. Some othem 6vr theio e- loved liberty, but \hyoved some Ile. thing else more. I ajin not wasting los any sympathy on Sp'ingfleld. in her 3' race troubles-I 'm "'gtting part of es that runaway $1,200 back. MIS -Kentucky. t Brick! Ca ho ..:Brick! su at For Sale;y D ld C. . CANNON. p- - Madd of ~Y ~iK~ ell Man r- - Rn .fM.. JA ant eeoduceste.bdie go Rn 4R . ItL en nas Ls via b*Im eahod 1 i&Q*ower,EaiIt Memor*f uigDJ4I~I rid 11effecta of . abuseo i~ataaidjo, gI) chO unftofoetdy, t,omarrage. X y7 BOOfIjur.btartIKti def dimease, but re gtjuhefr on oto r o b ielit te, a on mtion. Inlst on 1a4Iz yRVVo eC- ote.It ca be carried in YOa 1*t. By ali is 1.00 tage,or sil ter A@wIthy es Oi dILDPR & W/ ~ AVE YOURWATCH ::R pa!r8d Ri ht ie -aisi~ r1V1e~ ndbrt~ n't pay n more 4t b swche a o Moey.an&.uy from us. ur irptense st6k.pfbpring goods arr "0 cgods and 'sta ple, our Mrs 8-~ in millinea'y. (COme and see ng ip prices, stye, uaity, &c. e,d6n'oi beat es,'e don't make a cul uPhn balance, . peqple .getting edi looking out more fe 6 .v. Come :y years. -perience counts somethin tyo . rget it, ROSPERITY Presriptip P Which we use are without exce; We believe In PURITY. We conitantly preach PURIT' We .always practice PURITY c1ies. PURITY counts, and cpunts fc Ask'your doctor. MAYE5' DRUG "Newberry, pital stock paid in rp;ns .. posits Ve do business on busin AteA. extend' every consic th'safe and sound banij ur per cent. paId on, c Da'rtmAnt- Fir'e Burglar Proof President. the' lext WE OFFE r $.Q&PEF pN AA I off.b argument, come riqht vIng mbraciug all the nove Moseley in the North select Mu,,we are preparedto do-the ror a ndall roind bill you aim 'pricp on,'oe thing ano- burn icated ond opening their'eyetV nd .ee us and be convinced. 9, we will treat you right and r >ton the ytract ErEce Nhen preparing medi r iu%ch, inhmedicines. ST'.OR E S1. c. -. $450006dO .26,000.00 .2355000.00 6ss pr4nc6ipies. leration consistent leposits in Savi .ngs J.S.TORE. ,: LVINS ANK S.C