Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Hair& V Extenc A CORDIAL TO Sprio a SMilisein TIiESDAi HAIR: *THE RIGHT FERTI We have a l Cerealite aqd which we purci direct from the WRIE60MA1ENIA ~As a top dres? Crops making a yield. Call to si make your spuri a positiori to sa all grades of fei Mail Orders and careful att4 Summi CABBAG E .Havir.d VE I to You INVITATION OUR nd SumMer opeplqgU , ArRIL 3. HAV RD, PRICE STORE. LIZERS. trge quantity of Ntrateof Soda ased in large lots Manufacturers. 'tHESE FERTILIZERS ~ing for all Grain large increase in the e ^us before you :hase. We are in ye you money on tilizers. receive prompt ntion. er Bros. ANTS FOR SALE. g*own Cabg *lnsfr h rd n o IDEAS AS TO PLANTING CORN. Some Valuable Suggestions to Plan ters. Florence Times. Editor Daily Times: Corn plant ing time is near and I promised to give your readers some directions as to Mr. Williamson's methods of rais ing corn as a noney crop as well as for home consumption. First. Prepare soil by bedding out the land deep with one of two-horse plow, split the middle with shovel plonugh deep, then throw back two furrows with point of Dixie if you are going to use corn planter. If going to plant by hand throw back with wing of Dixie and open and drop corn in and cover. Second. Distance to plant. You should suit this to your land and amount of guano you expect to -use, say ten to eighteen inches in six foot rows. Third. Fertilizing, 300 pounds cot ton seed meal, 200 pounds kainit or 100 pounds acid, and 100 pounds ni trate of soda, where you expect to make fifty bushels of corn per acre. Fourth. How to cultivate and when and how to put down guano, and plant. Plant about last of March and let the corn stay there until it turns yellow and then go around it with point of Dixie with bar side to corn; leave alone until it gets, say, ten inches - high and looking sick, then take same plow and turn wing side to corn, uing only the ..point again; this will, put you well up in May, and the month of June, when the corn will stand dirt from wing, of Dixie. Put your guano in side futrows on each side of corn, znd plough out mid dle atr ole, d'epy-ana leave alone un til corn is little above knee high, and then put down your nitrate of. soda by the corn and broadcast .in peas, say, half bushel per acre and plough out with Dixie or sweep any other plow you use. Plough shallow this time, and let the seasons do the rest, and you will make corn and not stalks, and at the. same time leave your land in $10 to $13 per acre better than when your started. I trust our planters will take some of their cotton land and plant in this way, and raise more hog and hominy at home, and while I am on this 'sub ject, MVr. Editor, I made a statement that I had $550 and had used less than 1 00 bushels of corn instead of 1,000 as your paper showed ii.. Now let us plant but a- big cotton crop. Plant peanuts, chuf as, pota tes, tobacco and all the-peas that you can haryest and stock for hay and let's stop this shipment of hay and grain in to our bounds when half the price is paid in freight. We grow poor, the railroads grow- rich. We can raise as good fooal crops here as any other state, and better mules and horses than any of them. Read, ponder and act, and the victory is ours for 12 1-2 or 15 cents cotton. It will be as any other set of men outsde of thie cotton fields may say. We will be master of the situation and not slaves. Yours truly, R. C. Commander. GOOD ROADS. Purely~ a Business Propsition. Collier's Weekly. National aid- to highway construe tion propositionlis, in my- opinion para mount to any question that now pre sents or that can possibly be suggest ed, because good roads wouldfdo more for the country than any other one thing that can be named, or any doz en or more things combined, writes W. P. Brownlow. The question is outside of the cotton fields may say. i's entire constitutionality is' now al most universally admitted, and the necessity for it is present in every household in the land. It is import ant to every calling and condition; to every trade and profession; to every toiler in whatever field of human' en deavor; to every manufacturing in terest and industrial concern; to every church and school, and to the stability of the Government itself. I am aware that many people in ities and towns regard the road ques tion as one affecting the farming in terests alone. If this were true, it would yet be simple justice and only a recognition .of the existence of re ciprocal obligation between* the Gov ernment and the people for the gener glGovernment to extend its aid, for the reason that all wealth and all prsperity depend upon agrieulture. The farmers are the only reyid pro ducers; all others are consumers. The farmers preserve the balance of trade in American favor year by year. Strike down agriculture, and chaos would quickly follow; cripple agri culture and every interest in the land would suffer. But it is not true that the farmers alone are interested in thi great question. It is pregnant wit intrest to the consuming noPu lation of towns and cities, and to railroads. manufaeturers and trades men as well. Furthermwre. cliurel and schlol(m interest must inim%Itably be retarded whilei() road conditi"IoN re mnain as they are to-day. The rural sclsml are the schools of the masses in which are laid the deep and lasting foundations for coming lives of usefulness and for the better ment of mankind. The rural church house is the birthplace of good char-1 acter, of high ideas of life, and of patriotic purpose. Neither rnral church nor school can flourish where impassable roads abound, and if these can not prosper the American home can not long survive. because the American home can only be perpetua ted in its present glory through1i -he uninterrupted progress of civilization and the wholesome growth of christ ianity and the speed of education in the land. There is a feature of this question which persons accustomed to thoroughness in every other line of thought seem to entirely overlook, especially dwellers in towns and cities. It is the universal interest in volved, and upon this I desire to speak with special emphasis. Aside from church, school and social econ omy, there is meat in the question for every man to digest. If the com mon roads- of the country were brought to' a condition that would- en able farmers to market their products at all seasons of the yeat, the cost of living in town'and city would be greatly lessened, and discontent among laboring people and the op eratives of industrial concerns would laigely derease, if it did iot entire ly disappear. Collier's Weekly. Paper As Road Material. The impetus recently given to high way improvement has been accompa nied by many interesting experiments conducted with a view to ascertain ing the most desirable material to em ploy in road making. A great deal of useful knowledge has been attain ed in this way, and ultimately the public in general and the taxpayer in particular will be, the gainer, as the result must tend toward economy and efficiency. In the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., the road builders have been testing the virtues of gravel, used in a manner differing from old methods and suggested by engineers who have carefully studied the matter. Formerly gravel was found unsatisfactory as a roadmaking material, and its use has been largely condemned. The engineers in ques tion say it has not been fairly treat ed, and they are attempting to dem onstrate the truth of their statement. But the engineers go still farther, states the Troy Times, and assert that good roads can be made by proper use of any of the materials found in the vicinity.of highways, thus obvia ting the procure,ment of the riglyt substances at a distance. For' n stance, they produce a mixture the basis of which is the sand, clay or loam found at any roadside,. and by mixing it in a certain way produce what they affirm to be satisfactory re suts. But,, while sand, clay or loam may be the base, in reality a far more novel substance is brought into pla3 -nothing more nor less, in short, than paper pulp. The account says the other materials are ''mixed with the cheapest, kind of wood pulp taken from the mills, just as it was ready to go to the paper machines.'' The earthy substances" thus amalgamated make a dressing for roads which, the engineers say, is incomparable for smoothness and durability, and which can be supplied at moderate cost. Wonderful things have .been done with papersof late, but even with this experience in mind the making of pa per roads comes as a rather startling innovation. I CAN INSURB. Your Farm Property, agiinst loss by ire, on Dwellings and Furniture, Barns and Contents, Mules & Horses, in a~company with more than eighteen millon dollars of assets, at a low rate of premium. S>:P. BOOZER, Insurance Agent. NOTICE. Motice is hereby given that on Apil 30, 1956, the undersigned will aply to the National Bank of New bery, Newberry, S. C., for the issue of a new ecertificate for 16 shares of the capital stock of: said Bank in lieu and stead of e~ertificate No. 724 for 16 shares of said capital stock hereto fore issued to I. C. Thomas on Janu ary 22, 1906, the original certificate having been lost or destroyed in the United States mail. National Loan and Exchange Bank of Columbia, ~l~bia, S. C. eK ThI Dru ForGade Food'arden All Papers GEO. D, Di Still in the market, and headqua New crop Florida Cabbage, Seed Irish Potatoes, Hams, Evaporated Peaches, Appk~ Plum Pudding, Postum, * Grape Nuts, Shreaded Cream of Wheat, Hi * Loose Buckwheat, .Fresh line of Cho< Olives and Pici. Coffee from Ground fre High gn Garde Afi We are making a-special run Harness. . Call and see me befc CBTTSN. To Increase Y4 AndsrssR More Lil A Labor Saver, A Money Mya] with 'Fish, Blood, and-othei FOR INFORMATION, call on c road stat AIBRSON rIOSIA - Y UndRs U I1AU Right Store Seeds ta Seedseeds. dated 1906. WENPORT1 ters for good things to eat s and Apricots, Wheat,Oas ~cker's Buck Whea't and unkey Tablets, olate Candies, Jellies, es, ~Oc. to 35c. per lb., and of charge by Electric Mill, de Teas,1 nSeeds of all kinds, 1ll line of Fancy Toilet Soaps. n Buggies and Wagons and e buyh-g elsewhere. IS KING! >ur Yield Use Fertilizers erally. er, Beats All. Ammonlated High-Grade Ingredients. r agent at your nearest rail n, or ?i COIIM S.1C