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SUMTER WINS OATS OONTEST. SOcond ,Prize Will Probably be 1 Awarded E. 0. Haynes- f worth. The State. It willbe recalled that in the I world's con-test for the best yield of I corn on one acre during the year 1906 a South Carolina farmer was vic.tor- t ious. During the same period the na ifionali cong est for the growing of eats per acre, under the same auspic es as the corn contest, was in pro gress. There was, however, no state contest for oats. Owing to the fire w-hich destroyed the plant and records of Tho Ameri, F can Agriculturist there has been I great delay in announleng final r awards in the oats contest, and the t mabter is not finally settled yet. It c has been determined finally that' the i first prize was won by a Montana i farmer, who made 130 bushels to : the acre. So far as Commissioner 1 Watson is advised the second prize will probably be awarded to Mr. E. C. Haynesworth of Sumter county, who entered the contest with a 16- 1 acre field. Notwit;hstanding Mr. Haynes- 1 worth's crop was damaged by rain and weighed light, his crop netted 108 bushels by weight and 124 by measure. This is unquestionably the second ranking yield. There has been some difficulty about Mr. Hay nesworth getting his official award, however, as the claim was made that his report was received too late. Prof. Thomas Shaw, who had charge of the contest, says in the is sue of The American Agriculturist j of May 18: "The particulars regarding this great crop of oats were 'not forward ed by the grower, Mr.--E. C. Haynes worth of Sumter, S. C., until April 19, after the list of contestants had been made out. The grower of this crop is certainly entitled to at least favorable notice, although it is n fortunate that the details were not forwarded sooner. "This crop of Texas red rust proof oats was grown on a sandy loam soil unederlaid with open clay. The land had originally I)roduced a growth, it is supposed of pine, oak, hickory and dogwood. The soil is gray in color and is naturally well drained. In 1903 cotton was grown on the land, in 1904 cobton, which gave nearly seven-eigths of a bale per aer,e, and in 1905 spring sown oats, which yielded about 50 bushels per acre. O.rnpen~ Tnty --fulil, warlilt same ~sea son, which yielded about two tons per acre. In addition was a large amount of fallen vines w'hich could ,not be cut by the mower, and this was plowed under when preparing the land for the oats. "For this crop of 1905 the land was plowed in October- to the depth of 1.2 inches, and for the crop of 1906 to the depth of S incihes. The former was done by~ four horses, the latter by two. Tihe seed was sowvn late in October. The disking was done with the seed drill while applying the fer tilizer used previous to sowvieng the grain. The fertilizers comprised 100 poulnds cotton seed meal, 100 pounds kainit and 200 p~ouds acid plhosphate. Toward the end of arch 125 pounds nitrate of soda were sown by hand on the growing crop. The cost of the feitlilizer used was $5.14. Two bush-. els of seed were sown with the grain drill crossing at right angles the drill marks made while sowing the ferti lizers. No hnrrowing followed the sowi'ng, as tile ridges between tIhe furrows in which the grain was de posited are considered an advantage in furnishing winter protection. Mr. Haynesworth states tha.t it is tIle common practice sto cultivate with the weed after applying 'the nitra:te but this was not done in t-he present instance, because of unfavorable weather conditions. ['Tile grain was harvested June 1, when fully if not over ripe. On June 2 heavy and repeated showers fell and subsequently, so that to dry tihe crop the sheaves had to be turned three times. Tile rain to some ex tent damaged the crop. The winter was rathler wet for the oats, but ,the temperatuire .was favorable and the growth from the first was vigorous. ~'The total yield' of clean grain was 3,456 pou-nds. Tile measured bushels weighed 28 pounds. Taking the measulred bushel as 32 pouInds, the yield would be 108 bushels from the acre. This, in point of yield, h would make Mr. Hayncsworth se ond among the contestants who have - reported.'' ROW TO KILL THE SPIT BALL. >Chase Up in the Bot and Slap it Be fore it Breaks-Advice to Youth ful Base Ball Player. jNew- Orleans Times-Democrat. '4Dear Son: I see you're at your old gnme of blowing bubbles naain. In very bubble you see a picture paint- ki d in all the colors of the rainbow, ni mut you try' to grab one and you'll TI Ind you've nothing in. your mitts but of i wet spot. I'll have to stick a pin fr n this last bubble of yours. You pass ri ip this Southwestron trip with that much of bone diggers from 'your i .nowledge factory and confine your u cientifle researchos to the study of w; he base ball bug. cc I know you've got the Western y( ever and have painted yourself a st ovely picture of the boundless prai- bt 'ies, the freedom of the West, etc., fi iut I'm also hop to the fact that your re >icture resembles the real article as nuch as a May Howard poster re embles a Whistler. When you've re it the high places for as many years to is I have you'll get wise to the fact fc fhat abdut the mpst widespread dis- p, ase on this little pill is. inflamma- fc ion of the imagination. You'll find a nost guys wanting the things they're el iurthest away from and know the of east about. It's the olt story of dis- it ance lending enchantment to t-he el jew. When you trim your lamps on aI ,onmet.hing away off all the colors TI )lend harmoniously, and the ugliest 4 old wart on the face of the earth is j niglity prefty to look at. But when rou duck in and clinch with it you ol ,et next to the bum spots and put the 10 vhole picture on -the 'blink. So take off your rose-tinted glas es, son; I've got.a line for you that d; nakes this bone-digging jaunt look ir ike la funeral cxeui%io:n. There's )een some guys from the Klondike ,4 [own here trying sign players for the it. lew Klondike League, and when to rou get out of that know edg factory we'll hit the trail 1.1 or the Chilkoot Pass, where you can et some valuable training for the arly season games in the big leagues. t rhe towns on the Klondike League , ,ircuit are Juneau, Skagway, Daw ;on, Fairbanks, Doiglas City and N WThite Horse. About one season on :h.is frapped circuit and you could !omne back here and kick into the ?arly season games with a bunch of ringer that. would make tlia other guy 0 took like the duce of spades in a )obtailed diaiond straight flush. he diamond dads insist on dishilgl qp base ball befcor the kids have quit hrowing snow balls, and then serv ng up frapped championship gaines ror dessert in the fall. And right iere is where you'd stick out from d ,he rest of the bunch like a score fin- t xer on Paderewki's thousaid-dollar- le x-nights. Whil th nthA)' guya aR-O.-Ouddling J up lbehind the base bags and rubbing 'T mow on their frost bites, you'd blow b] in from the Klondike League with a Y palm leaf fan and a basket of iced Irinks, and show ''mid-summer t -orm1'' that would give the sport ing editor a. brain storm. It's a great scheme, son, and it's I rot all o ther press agent d .odges tied loa a post. TPhen you ouight to havej 1 e'Iinen ini that Kiondike League, too,. havni't seen their schedule yet, but [hey say the nights are six monthsI ong uip in that neck of the woods, and unless they play a thunderi.ng lot of clouble-headers you 'll get a long rest b)etweeni the games. Instead of the unain guy telling the players to go to bed by 10 o'clock, he'll give orders for all players to retire by the 10th f Aug'ust and b)e up ready for morn-e ing practice by the 15th of Febru ary. The pitcher who pitches one game every three days in the Klon dike League,will have time to float0 down hier'e and pitch a few seasons in the National or American League be- a tween, games. You'll not get spinal meningitis slamm.ing at spit-ball a shoots up there, either. The guy who 0 slobbers on the ball on the Klondike g circuit will have to get it amputated C from his mitts with an ice pick. C Speaking of the spit-ball, sonny, I've given some study to this pesky pitch with the cuspidore trimmings, and I'll put you next to howv to soak" the spitter. Some guys might tell you to watch it closely and swat it on the dry side, but some p)itchlers are so liberal with their tobacco juice that tile dry side is usually on the g inside of the ball, and you'd have to get a can opener to get at it. If you've ~ ever loked a spit-ball in the face you know that it floats up to you like a a hump of lead, then when you're about Y to slap it suddenly and with malice aforethought (lodges around the cor- e ncr like a guy you'd loaned a five V to last wveek. If you want to kill the t spit-ball chase uIp in the box and slap i it on the mug before it breaks. I watched this youn guny Leib- v ha.rdt, whom Nap Lajole yanked out I of Memphis, and ho's got a spitter t that keeps the batter hustling around S l.ike a onecyed kid at a three-ringed t circus. This slobbery slant of his am-e bles up and spits in the batter's eye, dodges around and wvhispers in the umpire's ear, gives the gleeful gig- I gle in front of the players' bench, ,n and then floats noer the pn .aut kee (high while the swatter is fan ng around up. among the clouds. 10 place to soak this nasty piece 10 impudence is about three feet in ont of the plate, before it starts A finng amuck. Now that you've got going in that Al lowledge factory I want to stick a few danger signs to show you hat machines to shy at. A college urse. is a mighty good thing, but Ti IIu'Ve got to store it away like you . ore apples. You've got to pick the Ad from the good, or the whole out- Ca L will go on the blink before you are ady to use theim: Al You'll get a lot of slop dumped into mir trough by a bunch of ancient fo lies of the institation, but you want m; nose around and pick out the solid od. Those "Healthy Manhood" tic imphlets you sent me are all rigth-t r the guy with a coddled past and mollycoddle future, but you are not W itered to -trot in that class. You ton read about the athlete who never used tobacco or liquor, nev uttered an oath,'' etc., but that's ioutt all you ever do read about him. U iese guys are like a skyrocket; they ioot up and splutter for a while, St en they disappear. They haven't L' it the staying qualities of the greasy A d lantern. Wille Keeler smokes the L' ngest and blackest eigars lie can A id. L, This gymnasium work, calisthenies, A etitng and clean living method of L aiing might turn ou.t a more orna- A ental piece of work, but a pick and A Lovcl in the open. air and the abil- L y to digest sinkers and Black Jack A bacco has it skinned forty ways for A sults. Old Cy Young has pitched A irce or four generations of these ollycoddle athletes into the ceme ry. Jake Beckley has squirted enough W ,bacco juice around first base dur g his twenity-one years on the dia- da tknd to drown the whole Aiiti-To- di teco League, and lie's the only one the old bunch who wasn't chased PO f the St. Louis Nationals this year Ot v youinger players. Old ''Father m mn'' O'Rourke was behind the bat I his 5011h Ibirtihdav with a wad of bmeeo ill his mouoi M.", eOugilhl". to iollier the Iuy who wrote that Implilet you sent me. Some guy might try to shove it Ito you '1at these are the excep ons, but they're not; they're the 1uble rivotted cinch rule. You can D ,ke all the ball players from the big agues down to the Epworth League rid you'll find that it's the guy who st acks around his nerves preserved in fe Ibacco juice who lasts tle longest. g lie reason is as plain as the peach ti loom on a Kentueky Senator's *.0s,'. B our little Sunday-school kid who y ,is tugged a:t his mammy's apron T ring t.hrough a petted childrood with sI r>thing stronger than Tuitti Frutti jt m1111 and milk pap grows a bunch of sl urves which jump .ie governor belt ai 'erv time tihey look roulne irn the le ut'e. f lhe ever alcqui res the coiur- II :e to get. his milts on a hall bat,. mise hIigh st ruing nerves wvill beginh work overimne at the first squint vm the pitcher. He might stiek in ie game for a while through his phy cal ability, b)ut you can take my tip mat lie's hilled for his farewell per imance, as he 'll go to pieces in the irnehes. The k.id who is turned out on thle inder dump wit,hou.t a hmopple, who at -his tee.th on a plug of Natural eaf and was weaned on Five Broth rs, hasn 't got any nerves that are at of pickle and in fit wvorking or-1 er. HeI's the Johinny-on--the-spot in pinch because his over ambitious . erves doesn 't rob him of his natur I st.rengtih. This is why y'ouri knowl clge facitories don''t turn out more nod hitters. The graduate of the t inder- dumps has your college play-. r chased under the bed when it comes swatiting the leather. This gymnasium work is all right, Em, for those who can't get any-- j. 'hug else. Bu-t man has never inven 3d anything as good as that which ine Creator invented-hlard work in g 1nc open air*. Thme guy who builds upi is frame in the gym looks ihty 00(d in a photlograph, but if heohad I >make his living in a stone quarry ( ty money goes on the latter. It's vit lity thlat wins in a bruising battle, nid you don't get, it by swelling up \ our muscles in a gym.c IT you have any physical culture, lasse's in your knowledge factory C 'lio are pining for gymnasium wvork C 311 thenm that I have a gym out here 1 the wheat belt wihichi has got any conglomeration, of swinging rings, aulting horses and dumb bells skin- E ed to a frizzle. We're clearing off; he hickory grove, and they can ab orb more physical culture through he thandle of an axe than ever show- f d its mug in a Y. M. C. A. This is a ip to you as well. Must close now as we've got a anning bee on down at the store to ight. From Your Dad. ESTOWN EXPOSITION. CI R es from Newberry S. C., as fol S son Ticket $19.55. Sold daily Sc )ri 19th to November 30th. QO Day ticket $16.30. Sold daily )ri 19th to November 30th. se 15 day ticket $14.30. Sold daily A. ri 19th to November 30th. C Coach Excursion $8.55. Sold each ca tesday; limit 10 days. Endorsed. 'n qot good in parlor or sleeping fr rs.'P El Through Pullman sleeping cars, via fil lantic Cost Line Railroad company. co Write for a beautiful illustrated gi Ider containing maps, descriptive ta tter, list of Hotel, etc. to For reservations or any informa >n, Address, T. C. Wh#e, T General Passenger Agt. J. Craig, Passenger T1*ffic Man-ager, Wilmington, N. C. 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