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GRASS DEMONSTRATIONS f Special Agent Duncan Submits Suggestions for Conducting Them. The accompanying suggestions, for ' - ^ grass demonstrations, are onereu iu help the farmer to establish better "hay, and pasture meadows. It is beu ing recognized, that one of the prime j needs of the South is a general intprpst in live stock, and to successful ly bring this about more and better feedstuffs must be provided. Sufficient tests have been made, to esl tablish the fact that many cultivated H grasses, and clovers, will succeed in fthe Southern States when properly V treated. Qnii forfiiitv is thp most imnortant ft question to all farmers. To solve it satisfactorily, crop rotation, grow Wp ing of the legumes, and raising of ^ live stock must be practiced. T nxroTw foT?m?ir V>ocrin immpdiat.fi UC U C * J ittl HA V/ i } Ai-i. ^ V* -?-. ? ? ly to ascertain what is best along this line for his own condition, and if I "can aid you, don't hesitate to call on me. iSee me if you need ground limestone for your legumes, as I have . very satisfactory prices. L S. M. Duncan. Special Agent. Newberry. S. C., September 1, 1913. r ? ' Suggestions for Conducting Grass Demonstrations. The grass demonstration conducted under the supervision of the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration agents in certain counties in the Piedmont section of North and South Carolina have proven successful be yona expectations. Since it has been ^ demonstrated on numerous farms rthat grasses and clovers can be grown for meadows and pastures with L ease and profit, we wish to extend ? and encourage the work to the exW tent that it will become a part of the r cropping system of every farm. To aid in further promoting interest along this line, the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration agents will furnish all information as to the selection of land, its preparation, seeding and handling the crop on +Vi damnnctratiAnc TTlPV Will bilUO^ U^/UXVUtJbi MV1VUW* * supervise the operations throughout b and will see that artificial inoculatB ing material is furnished where soil r from an inoculated field cannot he f obtained. The demonstrator) is to furnish suitable land ia a place easy of access to the public view. He is to furnish at least one ton of good agricultural lime, and from 300 to 500 pounds of acid phosphate per acre. The dedemonstrator will be required to keep an accurate account of the cost of preparation, seeding, fertilizer, lime, and the handling of the hay crop. The hay is to belong to the demonstrator and 'he will furnish the local with the weights of the cured --W nay, or in case the crop cannot be weighed, give as accurate an estih mate as possible. v The selection of the land is most ' important. A loam soil full of humus and a good clay subsoil is always I. best. * The thorough preparation of the land is a prime necessity. It should be plowed not less than 8 inches deep a month before planting time. The plowing should be followed by harrow, roller or drag to put in perfect condition for planting. The ideal condition will be found where a good rain has folowed the preparation and r settled the soil. The harrow can be run after the rain to procure a suit able seed bed upon which the seed r should be sown broadcast and covered with a light harrow or weeder. In case there is not an abundance of moisture, a light roller may follow the seeding to firm the seed been and insure germination. uf The seed mixture recommended ft and which gave splendid results in the section mentioned, was as fol | lows: Red clover, ten pounds. . Orchard grass, one-half bushel. Tall meadow oat grass, one-half bushel. Italian rye grass, one-half bushel. Timothy, ten pounds. The time for seeding is from September 10th to October 10th. With P favorable conditions the earlier date I is preferable. ^ 'vf Kwrt -i ? o Kenliif aIv qc?. 1 I1C U?C Ul liiiiC is auouiui-tij sential to success. A ton of burnt k lime or two tons of finely ground limestone should be used. If burnt lime is used it is necessary that it L "be slaked, either by the addition of V water or thrown out in small piles and allowed to thoroughly air slake before spreading. W The clover seed must be inoculat M ed either by the use of cultures which * are furnished free by the department, B or better by securing from 200 to 500 W pounds of inoculated soil from a field li#1 where crimson, red or white clovers l have been grown. Apply lime, phos' phatf and dirt with the inoculation af'^r oreaking so that in the harrowing and the preparation of the seed bed these materials will become thoroughly incorporated with the soil. The inoculating materials must not be exposed to the hot sun. It is best to sow on a cloudy day or late in the afternoon and cover at once. A top dressing of five or six tons of finely pulverized barnyard manure applied in the late fall or early wintpr will insure raDid growth and af ford protection. The following suggestions for grass demonstrations for other Southern States ma)* be beneficial. On land intended for grass in the fall, peas may be sown early in the spring and the crop turned under in August. Apply 2000 pounds of lime per acre and thoroughly prepare the seed bed two or three weeks before " ?i 4. time for seeding. Just Deiore plaining apply from 200 to 300 pounds of bone meal per acre. When it is not possible to seed on land following cowpeas an application of five or six tons of barnyard manure, a ton of lime and 300 pounds of bone meal should give good results. The following mixture may be used per acre: ^ 1 J n f\ir\ O 1 f Vill C Vl ol uruileli U glass, uut-uan uuuui... Tall meadow oat grass, one-half bushels. Italian rye grass, one-half bushel. Red clover, ten pounds Other Grass Mixtures. T. 0. Sandy's grass mixture for Virginia, per acre: Timothy, ten pounds. Red top, ten pounds. iSapling clover, five pounds. He recommends 500 pounds of bone meal per acre as a fertilizer This, as will be observed, is a heavyseeding. W. W. Long's grass mixture for Virginia, per acre: Timothy, seven pounds. Red top, seven pounds. Sapling clover, five pounds. 300 pounds of bone meal as a fertilizer. J. T. Waifs grass mixture for Alabama. for thin land, per acre: Tall meadow oat grass, threej fourth bushel. Red top (clean seed), six pounds. Alsike clover, five pounds. For good land, per acre: Orchard grass, three-fourth bushel. Tall meadow oat grass, threefourth bushel. Red top, (clean seed), four pounds. Alsike clover, four pounds. Red clover, four pounds. Advertising the Agricultural and Horticultural Resources of the XJVU The Atlantic Coast Line's especially equipped exhibit car left Wilmington Monday night, the 18th, with one of the very best Southern exhibits that has ever been sent out, with a view to attract settlers to the Atlantic Coast Line territory, viz: Virginia, Xorth Carolina, South Carolina,, Georgia. Florida and Alabama. The first stop will be the Canadian National exposition, which will De held at Toronto, August 3rd to September 8th. Then the car will double back and the exhibit will be displayed at various fairs in New York State, and the New England States, until November 1st. The exhibit consists of sixty-three glass jars of fruits and vegetables; seventeen glass jar? of grain, peanuts peas, rice, etc.; fifteen glass jars of pecan nuts; Georgia and Florida Imnp svnm: three large cases of grain In straw, forage grasses, tobacco corn; peanuts and miscellaneous products; grape fruit, pineapples, watermelons, sugar cane; twentysmall bales of different kinds of hay grown in the South; cocoanuts; a small bale of cotton; cotton on the stalk; sweet potatoes; corn on the stalk; shotwing the prolific varieties with four to six ears to the stalk. A great deal of time was consumed in getting the very best products grown in the South, and much time was consumed in preparing and put ting up this exhibit in an attractive manner. A fact which the Southern farmer should be proud of is that this exceptional exhibit was secured from regular farms and not a single item from an experimental farm. In addition to their regular "Nation's Garden Spot" booklet, they prepared a very handsome booklet containing twenty-five Deauniui agricultural and horticultural views along the Atlantic Coast Line, especially for distribution on this trip. The exhibit is in charge of two experienced men who will take special pains to explain the exhibit and the conditions in the South to all visitors. We think this kind of advertising should certainly attract settlers to this unexcelled country if they can be attracted. PROGRESSING RAPIDLY Work on Panama?Pacific Exposition Reins Prosecuted Rapidly?27 Nations accepted Invitation. At this time, one and one-half years before its formal opening day, February 20, 191", the Panama-Pacific International exposition is more than two-thirds completed. This estimate J is based upon the total amount of work necessary in the complete preparation of the exposition. Every department of the exposition is pronounced by executives familiar with the organization of universal expositions to be further advanced than were those of any of the greatest ex nrvcitirmc Violrl in Amorion ot o cimilsr pvci UiiO HV^IU iil U preexposition period. Twenty-seven of the world's nations liave accepted the invitation conveyed through the department of State; this record is unprecedented at a time one year and one-half before the opening. Thirty-five States have selected sites for State pavilions. Almost seven thousand applications for concession privileges have been received. The applications for exhibit space would, f _ n * J ~ ^ ~ 4- 4- It /> I li an were graiueu, e-\ua.usi uie eu- |, tire exhibit area. Construction is far advanced. The most difficult part in exposition building is past. An immense amount preparatory work has been accomplished. Ten of the fourteen huge exhibit palaces are now under construction. One building, the service buildling, is completed. Contracts for ! three additional buildings will be let j within a short period. Ail Duiiaings are Deing duiii unaer time contracts with definite limits for their completion. A number of the most noted sculptors in America have advanced far in the preparation of the* sculptural models to be reproduced upon the exposition grounds. Under the direction of Mr. A. Stirling Calder some of the most important models are being enlarged in the sculptural warehouses. ;A phase of the exposition in which I it will stand alone among all great I expositions of America and Europe will be fcund in its representation of the South and Central American republics. These nations will participate upon a great scale. More than 140 great congresses and conventions, many of them of international interest and importance, have voted to meet in San Francisco in 1915. -This number will undoubtedly be greatly augmented. Many con ventions will not take final action until 1914 owing to a usual custom to choose the annual meeting place "but one year in advance of the time of meeting. To accomodate these great bodies, which' will bring together many of the world's most brilliant minds ,the exposition company voted $1,000,000 fDr an auditorium at the civic center. First work upon this building has started. About 3,500 men are now employed + V?/\ flvnncitinn PTniinHs. Thfi UjJUIi tile CA^UOJWW" o ' V, ? esplanade, to lie before the main exhibit palaces has been sown to grass, the freight ferry slip at the eastern end of the esplanade is competed and work on the passenger ferry slip is under way; the yatch harbor at the opposite end of the esplanade is practically $aished; a considerable portion of the grounds is under railway track and within a short period narsoes may be unloaded at the freight ferry slips and transported by | rail to any part of the exposition grounds. The exposition company operates its own railway. Meteorological Record for August. Temperature: Mean maximum 89.8; Mean minimum 67.7; mean 78.7; maximum 97; date 13; minimum 59; <Iate 17; greatest daily range 30. Precipitations: Total 5.29 inches; greatest in 24 hours 1.90 inches; date 23. (Number of days with .01 or more precipitation 14; clear 3; fair 20; cloudy 8. Thunderstorms: 1, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 213, 30. Hail 5. Rainfall 8 months 31.97 inches. W. G. Peterson, C. 0. CHAPPELLS' SCHOOL. Opens Sept. 15th, at 9 o'clock?Large Enrollment Desired at Begin nine. , C The Chappells' Graded school will begin its 1913-1914 session on Sept. 15. The hour of opening will be 9 o'clock. It is the earnest hope of the principal that as many as possible of the trustees and patrons and friends of the school will be present for the opening exercises on that day. Together with this announcement the principal desires to make a few suggestions to the patrons of the First of all, he wants to see a full enrollment, if possible, of every child who expects to attend this school during this scholastic year. This is tremendously important; and no one but one who is, or has been, a teacher fully realizes. Another thing that is needed in every good, regulated school is co ? ?: ? rr'u^ ^ic q iinif mnrJp , Opei'ci liuii. i nt; io c*. uu*v up of trustees, teachers, parents and c-iiildron. Ir order to have a successful school all four of these component parts must work together in harmony. Low Round-Trip Rates Open to the Public Will be Made for the Following Special Occasions: VIA THE ATLANTIC COASTLINE Standard R. R. of the South St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minn. Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., September 15-20. Dates of sale, Sep tember 11, 12, 13. Final limit, September 30, 1913. Fares apply from all stations. Philadelphia, Pa. Emancipation Proclamation exposition (colored), September 1-30. Dates of sale, August 30 and September 15. Final limit, ten days after date of sale. Fares apply from all stations. >'asliYille, Tenn. National Baptist convention (col* ored), September 17-23. Dates of sale September 14, 15, 16. Final limit, September 26, 1913. Fares apply from all stations. Cliattunooga, Tenn. Annual -encampment, Grand Army of the Republic and Allied Organizations, September 15-20. Dates of sale, September 12 to 19, inclusiove. Final limit, September 27, 1913, except that by deposit of ticket and payment of 50 cents an extension until October 17 may be obtained. Fares * -11 o. appiy irum au siauuma. >ew Orleans, La. Grand Dealers National association, October 14-16. Dates of sale, October 14-16. Dates of sale, October 11, 12, 13. Final limit, October 18, 1913, except by deposit of ticket and payment of $1.00 an extension until November 8 may be obtained. Fares apply from all stations. Tulsa, Okla. International Dry-Farming Congress and International Soil Products exposition, October 22-iNovemoer i. Dates of sale October 18, 19, 20, 21. Final limit, November 6, 1913. Fares apply from all stations. Nashyille, Tenn. Southern Educational convention, October 30-Novebmer 1. Dates of sale, October 28, 29. Final limit, November 5, 1913. Fares apply from all stations. Knoxvillc, Tenn. National Conversation exposition, September 1-November 1. Dates of sale, August 30 to November 1. inclusive. Final limit: To reach original starting point ten days after date of sale, except that by deposit of ticket and payment of $1.00 a 30-day extension may be obtained, but in no case beyond November 3, 1913. Fares apply from all stations. New Orleans, La. United Daughters of the Confederacy, November 11-15. Dates of sale, November 8, 9, 10. 11. Final limit, November 19, 1913, except that by deposit of ticket and payment of $1.00 an extension until December 6 may be obtained.. Fares apply from all stations. Augusta, Ga. Georgia-Carolina Fair, November 1-15. Dates of sale, November 5 to 14. inclusive, and for trains schedul ed to arrive Augusca before noon November 15. Final limit November 17, 1913. Fares apply from points in South Carolina. Augusta, Ga. Negro Fair association, November 18-21. Dates of sale, November 17 to 20, inclusive, and for trains scheduled to arrive Augusta before noon November 21. Final limit November 23, 1913. Fares apply from points in Qrui+h Pornlina VJUU l(U V/MA WA?uv?? For rates, schedules, reservations and any further information apply to Ticket Agents of the ATLANTIC rn.tcT inn: tUAJl LilllLi Standard R. R. of the South or write the undersigned, W. J. CRAG, Passenger Traffic Manager T. C. WHITE, General Passenger Agent, WILMINGTON. N. C. Realizing that this school belongs to its patrons your teachers will ever try to please you and work for your best interest. Therefore do not hesitate to offer your teachers any suggestion that may be for the good of the school. And above all, we want you to visit the school and see for yourself exactly what is being done. J. Wendell Barber. I WHENEVER YOU HEEI i wwii hk The Old Standard Grove's Tastelc Valuable as a General Tonic becai Drives Out Malaria, Enriches Xh the Whole System, For Grown ? ? ? i-i-: ?v. ? YOU Know wnai you arc taking wjulcu yuu ta as the formula is printed on every label showi: tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. 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No. 15, daily from Coumbia u> oreeiiviil^ ^uiimaa ieeping car between Charleston j a. m.?No. 18, dail, from Greenllle to Columbia Arrirei Columbia 1:45 p. m., Augusta 8:15 p. m Hiarleston 3:15 p. m. p. m.?'INO. H, aauy, Arum | )ls to Greenville. p. m.?No. 16, daily, from GreenlUe to Columbia. Pullman sleepag car Greenville to Charlettoa. urlves Charleston 8:15 & m. Arlve Savannah 4:15 a. sn. Jackon ville 8:80 a. m. or further Information call oaj t agents, or E. H. Coapman, V. P.f M., Washington, D. C.; W. E.j se, A. S. P. A., Columbia or S.f cLeain, D. P. A., Columbia. f Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Care. orst cases, no matter of how long standing, ired by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. 's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves nd Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c, $1.00 Kittuvti iJbJur-rnunii rvsia telephone posts must be moved the public roads and from the 2S by the side of the roads. We a clear and open way for the scrapes to do their work well, poles in the roadway or in the ss by the side of the road interseriously with the work. Please them at once. J. H. CHAPPELL, County Supervisor. 9-3t. uisville, Ky., lias established an air school.