The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 16, 1906, Page TWO, Image 2
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.
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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
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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.
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