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INTERESTING MEETING IS HELD AT KEITT'S (Continued from page 1.) county last year. Everything in eon neetion with te work was publisied. and where a man made a gireater yieki in the regular method than on a demonst ration ae-re that reSult was ireni to the public.. 100. There was noothintO m coneal. Tlle resuls. the amount of fertilizer u.ed. and every thing- bearing upon the work. was published, in order that the people might see there was no fake. and that tie 1i c ased re -ul' - were not due to fertilizers. He oave instances showing the in erease in yields where there had been rotation of crops instead of a succession of the same erops on the same land. In this connection he stressed .the point that the Southern farmers ought to pay more attention to the growing of other erops than cotton. History of the Work. He gave a history of .the work. The Farmers' Co-operative Demon stration Work, he.said. was under the Bureau of Plant Industry of the De partment of Agriculture. It was in augurated by Act of Congress in January. 1904, on account of t:he Mexican boll weevil in Texas. The appearance of the boll weevil in Tex as had eaused a panic, and -he plant ers and all business men-and all business men were..affected by what ever affected the planters--appealed to the government for aid. The de partment sent Dr. S. A. Knapp to Texas. and the general education oard of New York contributed large unts to aid in the work. Harri n county, Texas, he said, consider that the first year's work was orth fully $100,000 to it, with the aid which the county received, bet -ter crops were grown with the boll weevil than before the boll weevil had made its appearance. N'ew crops were started, bringing about new in dustries. Peanuts and peanut hay were grown, and factories for the manufacture of peanut candy and peanut brittle were established. The work was now divided into two oeneral divisions: the first including he boll weevil section, and the see ond t'he section where thre boll weevil had not yet appeared. T'he work in the second division had commenced in March, f906. The expenses of this 'vision were paid by the general ed cation board. Mr. Jenkins said the nited States government paid him, oinstance, only one dollar per year, 'and that was done in orde! that :he might work under government re striction and use the mails free, etc. Last year South Carolina had receiv ed about $10,000 for the work, and this year was receiving a bout $13,000. If the proper interest was taken and the people showed they wanted it the amount would lbe increased. If there was only indifference, however, the appropriation w~ould be cut off. Preparing For Boll Weevil. The work in the second division asgoing ahead of the boll weevil -d preparing for the boll weevil, so a,t the ,people in those sections' to ich the weevil is approaching will ot be altogether cotton men when he weevil comes. It was estimated, e said. that -the weevil was coming towards South Carolina at the rate of o.ne ;hundred miles a year. There was excellent authority for the conclusion that the weevil would feed only on ,eotton, although Mr. Jenkins said that he personally could not vouch for tha.t. So. that one way of getting rid of the weevil was to cut out cot ton for a while and to plant corn or peas or some other crop. Another emedy was to plant the cotton fur ther apart in the row. Then the weevil could be brushed off into the dirt, where it would die in the sun. If the rows were near together, how ver, giving shade, the weevil would ot be kiiled and would resume op erations on the cotton. Another remedy was in planting earlier va rieties of cotton in order to get the cotton matured~ before the weevil be gins to get ir: its work. Dr. llnapp. said Mr. Jenkins. was now 7.5 years of age and expected to live 75 years longer. He 'had trav-. eled all over the world in the inter est of agriculture, and was :himself an extensive planter in different sec tions of the country, including Louis iana and Texas. Southi Carolina's Corn Production. Mr. Jenkins in passing called at tention to the difference in farmring in Lousisiana and China. In Louis ana, he said, with improved met'hods and improved machinery, a man and is wife had cultivated two hundred cres and had made enough money opay for the farm. on which they ~ere tenants. In China one man and is wife cultivated only an acre a ear. and there was another man on is same acre whfo did the superini ndime. South Carolina, hre said. as not as bad as China, but was not et as good 'as Louisiana. South Car maha oe of the lowes.t averages world s revord for yield per aere. Sonie years a(o the avcrage in Maine was '3 bushels per acre and in South Carolina 12. and this wit hi nine mont.hs of winter in Maine. In the West w.ne main had averaged 75 bushewls per acre on 1.000 acres, but with this high avera.e the West could'iCt equal South Carolina's ban n i(ldS tI 11h1e Zere. The av-erage now i Somb i Carolina wVas abouit 14 bHillels per z(*re. l)Ilt it (ught to be much hiher. Extent of Demonstration Wor!. The work. lie said. was in g,eneral charge of Dr. Knapp. and in the dif fere,it States was in~ eharge of State a'ents, district ag_ents. and county aZents. In the various counties there were -demonstrators and co-operators, as there are in Newberry county. In 1908. he said, there were 59 agents paid by tihe go\-ernment and S4 by the general education board, working in ten States from Texas around to Virginia. There were 12.000 demon strators and 10.000 co-operators. It was estimated that an average of 30 farmers outside of the work visited the demonstration work -during the vear. This w.as not true of South Carolina. but was a low average for Texas and Louissana and in other sections. This would make 360.000 farmers who visited the demonstra tion work. and 392,000 farmers who had been reached by the work during the year. In addition to -this a vast quantity of literature had been dis tributed. The scope of the work was to teach well-established principles and to bring them home to the indi vidual farm. Meetings of this kind were arranz ed in order to disseminate the results of the scientific investigations w:hich had been conducted and the results whieh had been attained, and in order to exchange ideas and get closer to gether. Three Essentials in Farming. There are three essential things in farming, said Mr. Jenkins, and he di vided his address into the three di visions.: 1. Preparation. 2. Rotation of crops. 3. Selection of seed. There were other things of great importance, he said, such as improved implements and good stock;-but these were included under these three gen eral heads.' Cultivation was, of course, very important, he said, but if the pre pration was thorough the cultivation was much easier. Land should be turned deeply, and c.ultivation should go along with and follow preparation so closely as to be almost part of it. Grass ought- to *be killed before it got up. If one waited until the grass got up .the grass would 'be cultiv'ated along with the erop. -~The Preparation of Land. Mr. Jenkins asked hiis audieinee. Why do you prepare your land at all ? He received a number of ans wers, all of them giving reasons. and there was a general discussion of the subject of p)rep)arationI. Land was broken to give the plant more feed ing surface, and to let the air and moisture into the land. Of -course. land was broken primarily to cover the seed. By thoroughly breaking tihe soil the moisture was held. As an illustration. if there was a big lod the water could get only on the outside and would not reach the soil on the inside of the clod. Moisture would be held for the crop in the dry summer months where the land was broken deep and thoroughly. Anoth er important reason for preparing the land was in order to let only the rop grow that was planted. For in stance, if a crop was plan-ted in weds and grass they would grow along with the crop. The land should be prepared before planting in order to allow- it time to -have the air go through it and the heat and the mois ture. The best time to prepare land was in the fall. so as to let the water and moisture get into it during the winter. causing it to freeze and to be thoroughly broken up by the ice. For this reason it was lbetter not to break the land so as to leave it perfectly level, but in ridges so tile ice could take hold and break through. As to how deep it should be broken (depend ed to great extent on the character and conditions of the soil. Winter Cover Crops. In this connection Mr. Jenkins strongly urged the planting of win ter cover crops in order to keep t-he land opened up-not always with the expectation, possibly, of harvesting the cover crop, but the cover crop saved the land and if it was turned in in the spring it would furnish veg etable matter which the land need ed. Rye was a good, sure erop. and clover was better. The great trouble with elover'. he said1. was that a great many p)eople had not learned enough about the elever crop vet. Clover on some lands, he said, would not make a crop until after several y-ears. Alfalfa. Mr. .Jenkins was asked a number his expenenee with alfalfa. He urg Vd the pe(lde it) plant sr-all quanti ties at first in order to see if the land whieb it was desired to plant in al falfa was suited to -the erop. and if not, what the land needed in order to make a ood crop. Alfalfa. he said. was ole of the best hays known to) tie word. though pea-vine hay was alm1ost as good and a elose' second. Alfalfa. he said, contained evei 1in1'1 necessary for food for stock. He cited Mr. H. H1. Abrais' field of :lfalfa as a line specimen of the crop. South Carolina. of course c(o uld raise as fine alfalfa as could he gLron)wn in tihe world. and yt ie e' iI staiees wWere it was eilg brought into the State from Oklahoma in car load lots at. $26.50 per ton. Planting Peas. As soon as a crop of anything was taken off the land, he urged that the land be sowed in peas. and even if - erop was not made if the peas were turned in the land would be in better shape for t:he next crop. Rotation of Crops. Mr. Jenkins next took up the sub ject of rotation of crops, and asked his hearers to give him the reasons why there should be rotation of crops -following one crop with a different erop. It was surgested that it was necessary in order to get vegetable matte,r in the land: to shade the land through the summer, and also to give a winter cover crop. and a number of other excellent reasons., which will be touched on later. Vegetable mat ter, said Mr. Jenkins, had humus which retained about its weight in moisture, or six times as much mois ture as sand. More vegetable mat ter was the thing that was needed, and rotation was the practical way to get it. One crop left food for the next crop; all plants did not take the I same food from the soil, one needing Miore ammonia and one more potash, or other things, and rotation was a great saving in t!his respect. And one of the most important rea sons for <rotation of crops was to give some other crop than cotton one of the South's greatest needs. Another reason suggested for ro tation was that it improved the me chanical condition of the soil; the roots of cow peas, for instance. breaking up the soil and getting it loose. Another was that it kills out the weeds that -are not wanted. Cow peas, he said, would go a long ways towards killing out the things that were, not wanted. One ireason was because if there was a good crop the land was thoroughly shaded. Mr. Jenkins was asked if lhe knew of any way of killing nut grass. He suggested that about the only prac tical way was by rotation of crops which would give a continual shade, and suggested as an experiment oats followed by peas or cane.. Commercial Fertiizers. He was asked a -number of ques tions in rega,rd to the use of nitrate of soda on grain and corn, and he said that it was beneficial if proper ly applied hut that it ought to be ap plied before the ear is formed on the inside so as to swell the whole thing. This brought up the sub.ject of com mercial fertilizers, and Mr. Jenkins said that more money was wasted on the farms in buying commercial fe,r tilizers than in any other one thing. Every man, he said, ought -to do his o)wn mixing. giving the proportions of the various ingredients suitable to the particular land w:hich it wvas dIe sired to put it on. Nitrate of soda was bleing largely given up on cotton. he said; it made fine crops for awhile but exhausted the land too much. Seed Selection. Mr. Jenkins then took up the sub jet of selection of seed, urging thre neessity for a eareful selection of the soundest .and most vigorous and healthy seed. In selecting corn for planting, for instance, the corn should be selected in the field, and the ears taken which were as nearly alike as possible-t:he same size ears, the same number on the stalk, thme same size grains, and about as nearly the same position on the stalk as pos 5ibleI. The object should be, lie saidl, to 'set a standa.rd and to try to im prve that standard. P>y making one's selection in the field. one knew exactly what lhe was getting. In se ecting cotton :he knew- the general outline of the bush he would like to have. aind could get it in that way. In corn if only those ears were taken which were two on the stalk corn could be brought to where there would be only two ears on the stalk. His remarks along this line were very interesting. Mir. Jenkins' talk was pleasant and profitable to those who heard him. He left on the~ early train Satur day morning for Anderson. Village Pride. Kansas City .Journal. "Why are all the women lavishing. flwvers. zo od victuals. aniid mash n ot es on that wifte-beater ? D)o the women of this town admire a wife beater?"' SIlllkvi II(' sPri1. "but wh'll N(, w 'it le iI :llI W' Hl*ll t --inIg to 1lave him n1e--lected. lluu11kville wimmen .have as much public- spirit as those of other conimunities.' AN ORDINANCE ORDERING SPE CIAL ELECTION IN TOWN OF NEWBERRY FOR THE PUR POSE OF ISSUING BONDS TO THE AMOUNT OF FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING AND EXTENDING THE SEWERAGE AND WATERWORKS OF THE TOWN OF NEWBERRY. Wlerca., a petiti hIas, been, pr_ :eited to he Mayor and AdeI'irmei, of the Towxn of Newberry, S. C., in the words following. to wit: "The undersigned freeholders of the Town of Newberry respectfully petition your honorable body to order an election on the question of issuing coupon bonds to the amount of Forty Thousand Dollars, payable forty years after date, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable annually, or semi annually, for the purpose of improv ing and extending the sewerage and waterworks of the Town of Newber rv'': and Whereas it appears by affidavit of Olin L. Buzhardt, clerk and treasurer of the said town, that said petition is sirned by a majority of the freehold ers of the Town of Newberry, S. C., as shown by its tax books; and Whereas, Section 202, Vol. 1, of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1902, declares that it shall be the duty of the municipal officers of any incorporated city or town of this tate, upon a petition of the majority of the freeholders of said city or town, as shown by the tax books, to order a special election in any such city or town for the purpose of is suing bonds for any corporate pur pose set forth in said petition: Now, therefore, Be It Ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Newberry, in .the State of South Carolina, in council .apsembled, and by authority of the same, that a spec ial election be, and the same is here by ordered, held at Council Chambers in said town, the polls to ba opened at 8 o 'clock a. m. and to be closed at 6 o 'clock p. m., on May 18, 1909, for the purpose of submitting to the elee tors of said town who'are duly quali fed for voting under the constitution and laws of the state of South Carolina the question whether said bonds shall be issued (according 'to law) as prayed for in said petition. Those voting at said election who favor the issue of said bonds shall cast a ballot upon which shall be printed or written the words "For the Issue of Bonds,'' and those who oppose the issue of said bonds shall ast a ballot upon which shall be printed or Iwritten the words "Against the Issue of Bonds.'' The following named persons are hereby appointed managers of said eletion: F. M. Lindsay, A. C. Welch and J. H. Gaillard. Provided that any vacancy that may occur in the board of managers may hereafter be filled by appoint ment to be made by the Mayor, or acting Mayor as the case may be. Public notice of said election .to be given by the publication of .this or dinance once a week for three con secutive weeks in the Newberry Her ad and News and the Newberry Ob server, two newspapers published in said town. Done and ratified under the cor porate seal of said town this 20th day of April, 1909. J. J. Langford, Mayor. Attest: Olin L. Buzhardt, C. & T. T.C. N. 1tw. 3w. CHALESTON & WESTERN CAR OLINA RY. Schedule in effect May 31, 1908. Lv. Newberry(C N & L) 12:56 p.m. A\r. Laurens 2:02 p.m. Lv. Lanrens (C & W C) 2:33 p.m A r. Greenville 4:00 p.m. Lv. Laurens , 2:32 p.m. Ar. Spartanburg 4:05 p.m. L. Spartanburg (So. Ry.) 5:00 p.m. Ar. Henderson ville 7:45 p.m. Ar. Asheville 8:50 p.m. Lv. Laurens (C & W' C) 2:32 p.m. Ar. Greenwood 3:32 p.m. Ar. McCormick 4:33 p.m. Ar. Augusta 6:15 p.m. Ti-Weekly Parlar Car line be tween Augusta and Asheville. Trains Nos. 1 and 2, leave Augusta Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, leave Asheville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Note: Th~e above arrivals and de nartures, as well as connections with other companies, are given as infor mation, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, Gen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T. Bryan, t,enviBe. S. C., OUR L x S . . . ai .at ELEGANT CO Is i Crepe effects sha LAVENDER, PINK, w Mercerized Cc Silks and fu Every one whi certainl, Beauti1 as the prices a these beauti COME AN 1.0. .N YOUR B. THlE NEWBERRY apital $50,000 -- No Matter How Smnal, The Newberry vil give it careful att p plie.s to the man and AS. Mc!NTOSH. F resident. NEWBEERY UNION STATION. Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains-Effective 12.01 A. K. Sunday, June 7th, 1908. Southern Railway: No. 15 for Greenville .. .. 8.57a.m. No. 18 for Columbia .. . .1.40 p.m. No. 11 for Greenville .....3.20 p.m. No. 16 for Columbia .... .8.47 p.m. C., N. & L. B No. 22 for Columbia .. . .8.47 a.m. No. 52 for Greenvilles .. 12.56 p.m No. os for Columbia .. .. 3.20 p.m *No. 21 for Laurens .. .. 7.25 p.m *Does not run on Sunday This time table shows; the times al which trains may be expected to de part from this station, but their de parture is not guaranteed and the time shown is subject to change with out notice. G. L. Robinson, Station Master. CLIPPING HORSES.-First class work at reasonable prices. May be found at Phone 71.I Will Ruff. 4-13- '09. BLUE RIDGE SCHEDULES. Eastbound. No. 18, leaves Anderson at 6.30 a. in., for connection at Belton with Southern for Greenville. No 12 frm Waihalla. leaves An INE IN 'TON STUFFS 4ine. in all the new des. BLUE, HITE, &c., &c. )tton as soft as Ily as pretty. o wants it can y have a a1 Dress Lre very low for ful creations. D SEE US. ANK ING! SAVINGS BANK, -'Surplus $30,000 No Matter How Large, Savings Bank ention. This message re women alike. J. E. NORWOOD; derson at 10.15 a. mn., for connection at Belton with Southern Railway for No. 20, leaves Anderson at 2.20 p. in., for connections at Beltori with Southern Railway for Greenville. No. 8, daily except Sunday, from Wahalla arrives Anderson 6.24 p. in., with connections at Seneca with Southern Railway from points south. No. 10, from Walhalla, leaves An derson at 4.57 p. mn., for connections at Belton with Southern Railway for Greenville and Columbia. Westbound. No. 17, arrives at Anderson at 7.5() a. mn., from Belton with connections from Greenville. No. 9, arrives at Anderson at 12.24 p. in., from Belton with connections from Greenville and Columbia. Goes to Walhalla. No. 19, arrives at Anderson at 3.40 p. mn., from Belton with connections from Greenville. No. 11, arrives at Anderson at 6.29 p. mn., from Belton with con nections from Greenville and Colum bia. Goes to Walhalla. No. 7, daily except Sunday, leaves Anderson at 9.20 a. in., for Walhalla, with connections at Seneca for local points south. Nos. 17, 18, 19, and 20 are mixed trains between Anderson and Belton. Nos. 7 and 8 are local freight trains, carrying passengers, between Anderson and Walhialla and between Wihlla anA Anderson