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I FARMER COMING INTO OWN. South's Agricultural Progress Amazing?Value of Farm Products in the South. Reviewing America's amazing agricultural advance of late years, the Manufacturers' Record, of Haitimore, in last week's issue says: Probably nothing more forcibly illustrates this marvellous change than the fact that the value of the agricultural products of the South alone, which will this year be between $2,250,000,000 and $2,500,000,000, will be more than the total for the United Slates in 1880, and about the same as for the entire country as late as 1800. In 1890 who could have dared to predict that the value of the South's farm products of 1008 would equal the total for the United States m in 1890? That the South, with 26,K 000,000 population, is producing as E much value in agricultural outturn as V the United States with G2,000,000 people did in 1890 is one of tho A amazing facts of our history. In 1890 the value of all agricultural proM ducts outside of tho South was $1,|H 696,000,000, or at. least $000,000,000 j^Hlcss than what the South alone will this year produce. Tho increase in the value of farm H property of $8,000,000,000 between 1900 and 1907 is nearly nine times |B as great as the aggregate national banking capital of the United States. H It is more than one-half as large as the total capitalization, bonds and H stocks included, of all the railroads in the United States. It is nearly B' three times as large as the aggregate V savings bank deposits of the whole A country. - 'Pliink for a moment- of W the increase, simply seven years' inL crenient, in the value of farm proper ty being nine times ns great as the I total national banking capital of the H. United States, three times as great ra as all the savings bank deposits accu mulated during nil the past and half as large as the entire capitalization I of all the railroads in the united Sta tes, into which the surplus money of the land has been pouring for over three-quarters of a century. B In 1C90 the 8,565,000 people engagI ed in agriculture in this country prof duced a total of $2,460,000,000, or an L averafe of $2.87 per capita. In 1007 I the 11,091,000 engaged in agriculture I produced a total of $7,412,000,000, or H an average of $6.18 per capita. DurB ing that period the number of people I engaged in agriculture increased by V 40 per cent, while the value of farm B products increased by 200 per cent, and the value of all farm property m increased by 90 per cent. P Tn the brief period between 1000 | Und 1907 the value of farm property I advanced in value from $20,4.'l0,000,^ OOOlu . 28.077,(100.000. a gain ??f' near-j H ly $8,000,000,000. or .*>7 per eeiil.j HP though the nuntl)er of people engage*/ | h in agricultural pursuits increased ..n- j ly 1per cent. B A study i>t' facts bearing upon ag vicullural conditions since 1870 shows F that in that year the value of all agricultural porducts per capital to those engaged in farm pursuits was $:52fi. while from that figure there was a rapid decline t?? $28(5 in 1880, and during the next ten > ,?ars the per capita was practically stationary, as the average in 1800 was only $287. Tf reliable figures were available, ] they would show a marked decline between 1800 and 180(5, because it was ( during that period that the agricultural interests reached their most 1 acute stage of poverty. In those i years farm products, not only in tlie South, but throughout the country, were greatly depressed, selling in many cases below the cost of raising. Farm lands likewise steadily depreieiaited in value. By 1900, however, there had come a great change, due to (ho advance between 1807 aiul 1900, and in the latter year the value of farm products per capita was $451, a gain of $1(54 per capita, or about 57 per cent, compared with 1800. Since 1000 this gain has continued uninterruptedly, rising in 1005 to $558 per capita, in 1906 to $579 and in 1907 to $018. Secretary of Agri.eullure Wilson estimates the total rvalue of ihis year's farm products at ?8,000,000,000. or a gain of about j IjjGOO,000,000 over 1007. Accepting pfr. Wilson's figures as correct, Lhough we believe that they will prove to be loo small, the per capita production will show another rapid advance this year. 1890 to 1896 I lie increasing poverty of the farmers of all sections, due to low prices, was the subject of j lalrtfost universal discussion. Con-1 burners of farm products were then j iuyjng at ai lower cost than they had j Bver known before. Rut the pro-, icers, the farmers of the land, wore I i dire poverty. Wills the increase Wi manufacturing during tho last ton Seal's, and with the development of i mil roads and the large increase in ' t!ii' number of their employees, mak- dc ing a great gain in I ho number of is, consumers of farm products, and the b?i gradual elimination of the cheap ad lands of the West l>v settlements and th (lie flood of gold pouring into the pr world's channels of trade, we have sit had a combination of citcumstances ri< which have united to bring about a vii much higher range of values. The ex consumer of farm products is no Ion- gi" ger rejoicing in the low prices which ex prevailed twelve or fifteen years ago. sil The farmer is row having his innings, th and though this condition works a th hardship upon many consumers, it is tr; a great blessing to the country at re: large. It should be a mailer of gen- fu oral rejoicing that the farmers are in mi rising ground financially. ee Much, however, as the farmers of ''' this country have accomplished in the marvellous advance shown by thesu figures they are only at the beginning P'" of their progress. Within the last five or ten years there has been a rapid growth in scientific, farming. Under these conditions there is an increased average yield per acre. We are preparing for an increased yield much greater than the iticreaso in ,? ,, . . . te: acreage. At the same time millions of acres of hitherto waste lands are being made available for the most profitable of agricultural pursuits. Irrigation in the semi-arid regions of the West in turning a desert into fruitful orchards and vinevards yielding immensely profitable crops. What irrigation is doing for dry land reclamation is beginning to do on a still more profitable scale for wet ex land. The country has learned that all it is a simpler proposition to take the m< surplus water off of overflowed lands than if is to bring a supply of water to the dry land of the West. Tlious- s*: amis of acres reclaimed within the last few years, yielding today great profits where nothing was produced a few years ago, have shown the al- fr most illimitable possibilities in saving m< to man's uses the millions of acres ^ of reclaimable wet lands which have heretofore been without value. It S< J is estimated that the aggregate of wet or overflowed lands which can be reclaimed and of dry lands which can be irrigated is greater in extent and J. will be greater in value, per acre, when reclaimed than the acreage now Annual M Charleston and Famous S an> * H"' I'nfiitrwm i ii in n im?i i mil jib mi in nm nnw 11. Friday, / 11 3 =3 *** D1CSTIX AT10 XS : ? 8 ? I r-T <3 ~ I E -3 1 <u ^ ' O T3 lc 3 I ? "* Abbeville VS. C.l $5.10! < Anderson " "5.75 Aslieville X. C.l 7.25 Brevard " ; 7.50! Flat Rock " I 6.40I Glenn Springs S. C.j 5.50' Greenv'lle " 1 5.50! Hendersonville X. C. 6.50 Hot Springs " j 8.O0 Lake To x a way " 8.50 Lincolnton " ' 7.75 Lenoir " 7.50 Marion " 7.2^ Rntlierfordton ' 7.2 s Saluda " 6.30 Shelby " 7.25 Spartanburg S. C. 5.50 Tate Springs Tenn Tryon N. C. 6.30' Waterloo (HarrisSpgs.) S. C. 5 00 Waynesville X. C. S.50 Waihalla S. C. 575' White Stone Springs. . . " 5.501 Children over Five an DAT From Augusta, tickets sold only for T and Waihalla, tickets will be sold fr< From Fort Royal, Beaufort, tickets vui ^ for Train No 43, A'jgnst 14th, 190? From Yeniasse, Allendale and Fairfaj Via other routes for train No 41, A ALL TICKETS WILL BKAR FIN A Let everybody take advai Sum me The Charleston & Weste Rout* For Schedules and any fu: Iv \\ . MATII L\\ S, Commercial Agei 8( ; To the Democratic Voters of New- | berry County: .T. am a candidate for the house of j representatives. I would say to tho I voters and citizens of Newberry I town and county that I am in favor ot local option, and especially a coun' ty distillery, located in some convenj ient place, and with a capacity of not less a hundred gallons per day. I jam in favor of a distillery because ! the manufacture and sale of liquor I brings in more revenue than any otli er commodity. The distillery to use : only sound fruit and grain in the manufacture of the liquor; no chemicals to be used to enlarge the yield. , For example, we will make a mathematical calculation lo see what it will eost to run a distillery full time for twelve months: Corn, 18.250 bushels at (50c. per bushel, will be $10, 050 for one year. Labor, ten men at $!{().00 per month, $15,(500 per year. ; Wood. $2,100 per year, three cord-s, j per day at $2.00 per cord, rfoverni menl tax. $3(5,500 per year. Yield, 3(5,500 gallons, which will sell at $1.00 j per gallon, makig $14(5,000, the total expense being $53,2-10, leaving n yroi fit of $02,700. This profit can be applied to tho j building of permanent roads and i other county expenses, which will do j away with levying a special tax on | real estate for that purpose, i Respect fully. ' Os. Wells. Adv. SUMMER EXCURSION RATES Via Southern Railway. Hound trip summer excursion [tickets to seashore and mountain resort points are now on sale via Southern Railway at greatly reduced rates. Tickets good returning uni til October 31st, 1008. Asheville, Waynesville, Ilrndersonville, in the "Land of tho Sky": Lake Toxaway and the "Beautiful Sapphire Coun, try," now in their glory. Apply to Southern Railway agents for rates, tickets, etc. J. C. Lusk, Division Passenger Agent. J. !>. Meek, Charleston, S. C. Asst. Gen '1 Passenger Agt., * Atlanta, Ga. Excursion Diina Railway to 5 in North a, j 14, 1908. ;i)ULK FROM AUGUSTA * t la a (n. wood p. m. loo (HarrisSprings).... 1.28 j>, fn. 2:00 " ville 4:00 " Springs 6:30 " 6:30 " 1 ?:io " ock-- 7:35 " irsonville 7:45 " I'd 10:2s a. 111. Toxaway 11:40 " ille 8:50 p. 111. j prints, 3:12 a. in., or.. . 8:00a. 111. esvilie 9:50 " tn 6.30 " rso 11 11:00 " '11a 2:10 p. in.1 s of Age Half Rates. it. ~! August 14th, except to Anderson ing Augusia 6:30a. 111., August 14th. August 13th. \'ia other routes 1 Id for Train No. 41, of August 13th. 908. nity to visit the Famous )linas. s the Quickest and Best! rts. | ress any ticket agent or JJ A MS, General Passenger Ayent. I i 'voloil to wheat ami col ion. Tills indeed, a veritable empire oil lumlli'ss potentialities, which will Id immeasurably to the wealth of e South, where great reclamation ogress is already under way. Conlering tlie progress in scientific ag ulture, the steady increase in the i'ld per acre now going on, the vast pansion in trucking and fruitowing for the needs of an ever paniling population, the great pos>i 1 ities in irrigation and reclama?n work, we can readily see that e agricultural interests of the coutiv are only at the beginning of their nl broad development, and that the lure holds in store a prosperity U'h greater even than tlie maguifiiit advance since 1000 has brought em. These facts furnish a fouiulam for unbounded optimism as to e magnitude of our material proess in the future. TEACHER WANTED. The undersigned trustees of Long me school will receive applications r teacher of said school for next rm. M. A. Renwick, T. II. Brock, S. A. Rikard, Trustees. PECIAL SUMMER EXCURSIONS Via Southern Railway. Extremely low round trip week-end eursion tickets are now on sale for I trains Saturdays and for Sunday :>rniug trains only, to Isle of Palms, . bee; also to many attractive inounin resort points, from principal at ions in South Carolina. Tickets od to return until Tuesday followg date of sale. Also special Sunday excursion rates om Columbia, Augusta and interudiate stations to Isle of Palms and ybee. For details, rates, etc., apply to >uthern Railway agents, or J. C. Lusk, Division Passmger Agent, Charleston, S. C. L. Meek, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Atlanta, Ga. lotmtain I -VIAWestern Cart ummer Resorts d South Carolin ? "-mmBiTnnniiiiiMiiM 11 \ugust : m ^^ffn'TTTiiinTBTTirinni rwri ii ? ??wbb muaurmm ^ ATES ? ? | S | schj.; S ! S ii 5 i S 3 Sis s ? ? o Mh I IX, u, >4.00: .... .. . .; 4.00' j Leave Angus 6.50 $4.20 $3.35 " Green* 6 50: 4.25 3.40: Arrive Watei 5 4?; 3*4? 2.55! ' Laurc 4-5?, 3-oo 2.00; ,, 4.00 | (''cc" 5.50 3.50 2.65 " Glenn 7-25 5-45, 4-^oj " Tryon 7-50 4 9 51 4 10! " Saludr 7.50 4 35| 3-5?! << Flat R 6-75 5-95' 5.10! ,, 7.00, 5.25I 4.45 <4 Icm,c 6-5? 4* 35 3-55 Brevai 5.30 3.10 2.25 " Lake 6-5?] 3 3o| 2.50 " Ashev 4.00 .... .... << HtS 8.50 .... 5,00 2.85! 2.00 W aj n 300 .. .... Leave Angus 7.25 5.10J *1.25 Arrive Atidei 5 r>o _ . .. << Wallir 4.00 .... .... id under Twelve Year E OF SALE AND LI M rain Xo. 1, leaving 10:10 a in , nn Augusta for Train No. 7, leavi 1 Augusta, sold only for Train 4i. <, tickets via Augusta, will Le sol llglist 14th 190S. L LIMIT, SKPTKMBKR 2nd, 1 ntage of this opportui r Resorts of the Care rn Carolina Railway ii 5 to all Carolina Reso ether information, call 011, or add u. KRXl-ST \vn 37 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. ' _ .vf srcial Bank, 1 IRY, S. C. eport to State Bank \| 3e of business June IRCES: ts $37 1.21 7.20 6,521.92 J res 3,1 16.93 30,599.38 $41 1,455.43 -1T1ES: $ 50,000.00 et 55.887.90 1,112.00 12.00 1,063.32 303,380.21 None $4 I 1,455.43 MAYKR, J. V. McKAU,, -Pres. Cashier. ist Paid in Our Savf Col. lege Arts . and Mathematics ctives i Science and Electrical ng with A. B. English ndards ATION :onomy ifluences '. 23. atalogue Newberry, S. C, COLLEGE, LLE, S. C. us of tin* S\ in ii I ?,f Si hi t)i Carolina. irislion IniiiH' .school. ?vs, Music, Ail, Kxptv.ssimi, Gymnastics Mills, elegant 1 >ni)?1 iiij?s, modern convoMeiimonl section, ami in citv of 2<j,ooo. in-: KNTIKK YKAR. fiSj.oo 1 tiition in Music, Ail or 1\\pri'ssioii #?<>3.oo in ?213 00 r catalogue ami information ail.lnss BYRD, D. 1)., President. ONDITION OF iNGE BANK rry, S. C., of State Bank Exam: 1-th, 1908. rcks: $'99,738 76 2,115.92 3,696.62 26.5-1 ? 3-1 $232,099 6.} 1 r 11::<: $ 50,000.09 s.-I39-7? '2-5' 1,162.80 65,000.00 ? '.'192.7-1 ' 05,99' tS2 ? 107,4 84.5 7 $232,099.64 pay 4 per ant on time-deposits. M. J, Sl'KARMAN, Cashier. W. Ii. \V A 1,1, A Civ, Assistant Cashier. ICR, Attorney. i The Comm( NEWBEF Condensed from r Examiner at the clo* 4th, 1 908: RESOL Loans and Discoun Overdrafts Furniture and Fixti Cash LIABIL Capital Undivided Profits n< Dividends Unpaid Cashiers Checks Due to Banks Individual Deposits Borrowed Money J NO. M. KINARD, O. B. President. Vice 14 Per Cent. Intere ings Department. Newberry E Two Courses: W 1 Bachelor of B Languages E with Ele R 2 Bachelor ol R Mechanical Y Engineerii c high sta O GOOD SAN1T. L UNUSUAL EC L Positive Moral Ii E OPENS SEPT G For Illustrated C E J. A. B. Scherer, chicora GREENVI ( Hvir-iI ami controlled l>\ tin* I'resbvtcr A lii.nh j^rade college for women. A CI C.raduate courses in the Arts an<l Scion ami Business. *> l.arjie ami able faculty, beautiful ^roi niences, healthful climate. J,:>cation in 1 kxi>knsi<:s i-'or t A. Tuition, Board, Room and Fees 15. All included in proposition (A) and Next session opens September 17th Fo s. c. REPORT OF C THE EXCH/ of Newbe condensed from report iner June z K KSOl* Loans and discontits Overdrafts Furniture and fixtures Cash on hand and in Banks 1.1 .\ it 1 I.J Capital stock Surplus, net Unpaid Divided^1 Cashiers Cheeks Bills Payable T. .. . ( Banks eposi s, ^ jndividual Reliable and .absolutely safe. Wc J. I). DAYKNPORT, President. F.DW. 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