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ISPERSING OUR MONEY AND HEN OYER THE WORLD IS UNSOUND, DAN rE*iOUS POLICY .New Yorit American. Like CoL Roosevelt, we are getting tired of so much oratory. It is about time the heroics were put away in j&toth balls. ^e shall not win this war with pa rades, banquets, after dinner speeches and all that spectacular stuff. The allies are over here after four things?money, food, ships and men all of which can be summed up in word monev. because that buyathe other three. . In spite of silly persons, who think that hysteria, bombast and other child ish manifestations are patriotism, and who -think that common sense and truthfulness are treacherous and trait ?rou&, we utatt vumuiuc w uov ? mac sense and -to tell the truth. . Qttr. part. in this war, for months to come, is to pay the bilP?to finance and to feed hungry and bankrupt Sfcpgland,. hungry an 1 bankrupt France, hungry and bakrupt Italy. ,T&at is precisely what the British, French and Italian commissions say they expect us to do?to provide them with money,,ships and food. And, aa far as we can ao mis wiuium. iuutu>6 tar selves, we should do bo. But m<Mt certainly we must not low sight of our own interests or save others? from bankruptcy by irretriev ably bankrupting ourselves. There is a long future ahead of us. No man can say when we may be call ed upon to meet the cost of another great war. No man can say what co alition we may or ma^ not have Lo 4&ht. It might be.Japan, Mexico and South America. It might be Germany, japan and Russia. It might be Eng io-n/3 Tanan n/n/? \TP5ticO AWUU, W?? , No man who knows the history of aations is deceived by, or gives much credence to, porfessions of national affection. Germany and Austria now so friendly, were at war only three years Vefore the Franco-Prussian war. France and England were on the "very edge of war only a few years ago over the Fashoda incident. We ourselves were on the point of war with England in President Cleve land'* time. - We hare twice prepared for war with France and did actually wage naval warfare with the French re f Halle - less than 15 years after the Revolutionary war ended. (vVe must help the allies, of course, tecause that is a military necessity. Bui we should not allow any senti mental considerations to hurry us into Vsnkrupting our country for a gener ation to come. We must consider our own inter 1 Al? ? V* /\ SaL ?6t8 lirSt?6i?lCliy its CdCU vji. uic uvi Hgerents is doing. We must not forget that Japan is steadily strengthening her wealth, steadily strengthening her armies, steadily strengthening her navy steadily strengthening her mercantile marine, steadily strengthening her il legal and menacing grip upon China K we are so lost to common pru decce as to weaken our own resources we?dtli and commercial marine be yond repair in a generation, our chil iren may suffer at the hands of Asl atics such humiliations and cruel out rages as an invaded and conquerec feopie always suffer. We say plainly that there must b< reasonable caution in extending to th( allies the help they are clamoring foi ?and particularly in handing out oui aoney. All the allies are begging us foi cash. England wants money?in heaps?al ?i-'O nftr while sh*. Days lie: -own people 5 per cent, and demands \ ?er cent, for the money she lends France, Italy, Russia and Carnada anc1 A jstralia. The Italian commission is here witl a request for money. Serbia is begging for money. So ii Rumania. So are Panama and Cuba cuTvnftcA "Wptioo and Argentine anc Brazil and Colombia will soon prefe] their modest requests. All the world seems to be headec toward our national treasury. Ant Mr. McAdoo ardently believes in th< Scripture, which avers that the Lon loveth a cheerful giver. There is ap parently no limit to his generosit; with our money. Congress had hardl; Sniahed giving Mr. McAdoo the powe to spend public money at his own dis cretion when $200,000,000 was hande* rer in one lump to J. P. Morgan i Co., to pay half of the credit tha -c^rn >io/? to "England. W understand that the remaining $200 000.000 will come out of our publi treasury to pay off the Morgan cor cern's claims upon the British treas *ry. ~ t Now, no matter how anxious * should be to bolster up England an the other allies, common sense tells i that there is a limit to this disper s?on of our money which can not 1 passed unless we want to bankru] nnd fatally weaken our own countr "We can not wage our own war ar carry England ana ail xne rest 01 u world upon our baclrs. Nor ought ? to be asked to do it. The German empire went into th war with less than one-half the weall f England and France. Germany he Kianaged to get along without hel France is net begging us for billion We do not understand why Englan wKh much more wealth and in con | than either Germany or Framce, must ; be handed a scoop shovel and be tola i to help herself to our money. It was only last Friday that Lloyd G-eorge and Lord Curaoa told parlia | ment that England would come out 1 of the war with, a nary larger than all the combined navies of the world and with a larger mercantile navy than she had in 1914. it 5ppms to us that there is some thing in that worth thinking abou't. If the result of war is to be that we will be hopelessly outclassed by Eng land as a naval power and hopelessly I beaten by England at the start in the ! competiton for the world's trade, then | it would seem to be prudent to -keep I enough of our own money to bUild up j our own industries. | Spending oillions to beat Germany . is one thing, and spending billions to j build up another nation's nary and mer cantile marine to such a pitch of su ! perioritj that we will have no chance at all to compete for world trade after : the war is quite another thing, j There is very little evidence that four Washington statesmen ever look ahead or plan for the future, but it j might be a good idea to do bo now, ir * for nothing else but the sake of novel ty. The future will come, you know, j whether we prepare for it or not ; We say again that there is no objec j tion anywhere, so far as we know, to ! extending a reasonable amount of 11 j nancial aid to the allies. But there * * * fiHOUia oe reiwua iu cue It Is very easy to gay a billion? Juet &a easy as to say a million. Bat a billion dollars is a huge a am ol money?so huge that the mind can not really conceive it. If the United States treasury had been in existence, when Jesus,- wa3 bom in Beuuenem ana aau vc&uu w pay out a dollar a minute and had paid out a dollar a minute, night and day, ever since, It woul race paid out in this year, 1S17, just a little over one-half of the two-billion-dollar bujx which Mr. McAdoo is asiting the na ) tion to give him tor airy auau-?uuu.vu among the allies. If the United States -?ftsury ha<3 ( begun, when Jesus w; ore, to paj out money at the rate ot a dollar n ' minute, day and night, and kept at it till now, it would hare paid oal only something over one-half the aun: that the new revenue bill proposes tc take from the people of the United A S? TTflQ fl ?>13. leS, 111 lii&Ofi uiw j <.ui. It is plain enough that the bond is sue Is not being eag?rly taken, to sa> the least. The banks hare gone tc thAir limit with commendable aiacritj but the people are not buying the bonds. The government will doubtless eventually dispose of the two billioD issue. But who oan say as much ol the next issue?* Suppose the next issue is a failure and Mr. Mc-Adoo has meantime gont on handing over hundreds of millions ; to banking concerns and foreign gov ernments, unui we are ui uwi three or five billions. What then? Why, then, the huge deficits and running expenses will have to be met by taxation. The revenue bill that has been prepared for tliis year wii< Keeci like a sweet dream of pleasure when tie revenue Dins ior next are made up. If we stuck strictly to our own bus iness and paid our own war cost* and relied upon ourselves, th? cost o: the war would be huge enough to suil ; the most extravagant?but the people could and woB'd pay it willingly. But paying every other nation's ex penses is a horse o? a different oolor With taxation raised-to a heigh upon which the producers and labor ' ers can' not pay and subsist in com ' fort, the masses will be no more con [ tent than they are now in the belliger | ent countries?and, if they told yo\ the truth, you would know that Eng ' land, France, Italy, Germany and Aub tria are all sitting on that same voi ' oano of revolution which exploded ii Russia. Everybody is williug to pay out al he has and all he caa earn, borrow o. beg for America. But huge and burdensome taxatioi incurred by throwing around million) and billions for other governments t< scramble for will sooner or later ex / .Ha unirarosi r^s^ntment. It Is a bad policy?bad for the pres ent and for the future, and if it b< defended on thb plausible ground tha it is a war measure and that we cai afford to finance the allies to fight fo; . us, we reply that It will prove to be a } disastrous as a war measure as it i . unbecoming and mean as a sentiment The nation that hires others to figh for it, instea^ of making ready t< 1 fight?and then fighting?its own war fosters a contemptible sentiment am 5 resorts to a fatal atrategy. From a military standpofit, Our onl; 1 correct strategy is to spend all ou p money and all our labor in preparing : our navy and our armies Here a I their natural base, and so compellin 1 Germany, if she wants to fight, t 3 come to us and see how she likes th i taste of our granite. -} If our general staff lias not ye 7 reached ttie point of military intell] f i gence where it can grasp this elemec r tal and fundamental principle c - strategy, then West Point and Anna i polis must have worked upon som & mighty poor material. t; The prime strategic advantage ( e this country In warfare with a Eurc pean power is not a distant offensiv c against the enemy's base, but it is a i- offensive prepared and launched nes j- and upon our own shores, against a i enemy compelled to leave his base ar assault ours. id That ought to be plain to a rres; is man?or even to one of the gentlem* ? who write military criticisms f< )e newspapers in this and other se Pt ports. y-j To throw away our strategic a l(*; vantage by sending our fleets and a 19 mies away from their home bases, re, bo parts of a European offensi j which has practically broken down, Is j 4 blundering proposal that wou th! make a real strategist gasp, and th is ; will cost us dear if we accede to it P, j And as it i? with military strate^ s.: so it is with financial strategy. Not d. J ing could be more unsound or mo ie, dangerous than imposing huge tax % lion and huge bonded indebtedness upon our people and then throwing the money around among scrambling, foreign competitors, exactly like a ! drunken sailor throwing coppers to a. lot of scrambling urchins. . j / "V11 > mnriflv liVo mir o rm i da 3 All T" I UUJ JLLL\^? i-L WJ f VSKAA UiUiiVa MM\4 w~ fleets, should be concentrated at its' . home bases and not dispersed abroad. I As sure as anything can be sure, the ' financial strategy we have adopted and seem determined to pursue will prore to be unsound strategy, risky 'strategy?we fear disastrous strategy.' The congress should never have re-' signed its authority over the nation's puree. Neither Mr. McAdoo nor any other man is competent to decide, at his own sweet will and pleasure, how seven uiousana nnuions oi me Amcii can people's money shall be spent? throwing a hundred millions to this one and a hundred millions to that one and thousands of millions to the lot. j We have a striking example of the i folly of entrusting such autocratic power to any man in the first pro 1 ivert thrviicQTV? million dollars?more than the who'e year's revenue from this burdensome new taxation?to Russia?to a revo-j lntlonary committee, without stability or real authority?to a phantasm, a,' joke! ' And there is reason to believe that! this huge and almost unthinkable sum | i would have gone that way If events.' which any man of sense could see were bound to come, had delayed their; coming a tew weeks. If this extravagance and waste of our public money is long continued we shall meet with disaster?if not abroad, men at noma. The congress ought never to liare abdicated ita control of expenditures to Mr. McAdoo. Having committed that blunder, it should repeal Its action and take its rightful authority into its own hands again. j There is no necessity for any auto-: cracy in this cofintry. It is sticking ita ugly bead up in too many puduc I offices in Washington. I The congress should take the club' ^ of the constitution and hit that uglj - head every time and 'erywhere it - shows itseflf. t And a spLendid place to begin is in > th? United States treasury. ! 1 ! 'i 9)UUU|UUU ugrns Lifted Right Oft!! l | Tiy 2 Drops of Magic "Gets-It/' There's a wonderful difference be ! tween getting rid of a corn now and the way they used to try to sex nu of It only four or five years ago. I ^Gets-It" has revolutionized .com history, it's the only corn reraedy "; "See? Just 2 Drops of 'Getn-It.* Now Tomorrow I'll Ju*t Peel That Cora t j Kigiit Off ? and It's Gone 1M * -; today that acts on the new prin- i . i ciple, not only of shriveling up th? I j corn, but of loosening- the corn off? ". so loose that you can lift it right j -, off with your Angers. Put t v'rops of , *Gets-If* on that corn or callus to ' night. That's all. The corn is 1 -, doomed sure as sunrise. No pain, -! or trouble, or soreness. You do away once and for all with toe "' bundling bandages, toe-eating salves l. and irreanonsible what-nots. Try it?get surprised and lose a com. "Gets-It" is sold everywhere, 25c a bottle, or sent on receipt of price by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, 111. Sold fax Newberry and recommended the world's best corn cure by P. vi r ^ ? a r. #1 XX7 ilL Ufov^vo 5 tv nay auu ??. vj. .ut*.r*?s>. > 1 TO KILL GCARDSttAA WAS HIS INTE3TI0X a t 3faa Wty> Shot Private Robinson oi i, fioer Hill, Kested His Gan ou p i a Tr*?. i\ s News and Courier. Columbia, May 21.?That the shoot t ine- of Private G. H. Robinson, the Na "> tional Guardsman of the Rock Hill company of the First regiment, near a 1 town in South Carolina, where he was . on patrol duty, some days ago was a y carefully conceived and premeditated r act is indicated by a detailed report ? made to Col. P. K. McCully, Jr., com t mander or* the First reigment. s! According to Col. McCully's infor 0 mation, Robinson was standing on a e trestle just as a freight train ap ! pi cached. He sought refuge on one i of the small safety platforms that | border trestles, an-1 when" the train L": wae immediately on him, was fired on i by a man who rested his gun on a L" tree some 500 yards away. Robinson j so w the man fire and returned the shot Just Derore zaamg cuuw;ivut>uwo He fell to the floor of the small plat . form and his head was hanging ovei e*! the edge when he was picked up bj ,n trainmen. He was promptly broughi lr, to Columbia, where he is resting we! at a local hospital. It is thpugh i amputation of the wounded leg wil i r.ot b6 necessary. No arrest has ye k- been made. I>on*t sell lumber to any one unti you flrst write us for prices on botl long and 9hort leaf pine. We al ways pay highest prices the mar ket affords. Shipments to uuem bargoed points ana advance pay ments when stock is loaded- Altrac tive orders always to place. 01 established business. Phone, wir or write ns. WiU also make goo< contract proposition. LeRoy ? Davidson & Co., Box 236, Cornier GRAND LODliE BUYS LiiiERTl' WAR BONDS Imests $2,500 in (iovernment Securi ties?Tel< graphs President, Se lects Columbia for Next -Meet ing- and Elects Officers. The State. Union, May : The grand lodge, Knights of i'ythias, was called to or der at 10:15 o'clock by the grand r.*!.?>ny?Ql1nr ilro \T TjlimnltiTl. Til 9 Rev. L. VV. Blackwelder, rector of the Church of the Nativity, oiiered the prcyer. L. L. Wagnon, member of the local lodge, delivered the- welcome address stressing the heartiness of Union's hospitality and the preparedness of the citizens, particularly the fair wo rsen, for taking care of the needs of the distinguished visitors. He empha sized the noteworthiness of the fact that although the time of atress owing to the war conditions was greater than the world had ever known, the mem bers of the, grand lodge had assem bled for the purpose of routine busi-' ness and the furtherance of the Ln-! terests of this worthy organization. | Grand Chancellor Lumpkin then called upon Col. O. J. Bond of Chat-, leston to respond to the adiress o'i aelcoxna. TV s Col. Dond did in a; Aplendki brltff addra?s, In wh:o'? he t::.inKed the citizens d! Union lor tiic-!rj cordial welcome. He tbvii that the present great -war evinced the need for juoi tae work iho Kaights of Pythias undertook to do; he said ibis waf a time for the teaching of prin-, ciples of d?*mocracy and brotherhood,! such aa the -world had not heretofore; rapii. Immediately after the address of I Col. Bond the convention went into secret session. Two hundred delegates assembled j at the opening of the convention, oth flrR arrivlne ui>on every train. The; convention assembled In the Ediaonia theatre, Union's beautiful new play fcorise, well located and comfortable with a seating capacity of 1,000. B. 0. K. K. In High Feather. The D. O. K. K. are everywhere' In evidence and the town has been turned over to them. A number of these aforesaid knights drove down; Main street seated upon a large wagon loaded with cord wood drawn by a couple of mules; one or two tremblingj candidates rode In the midst of the; ierce looking knights. It is presumed | that they were making their way to the awful sacrifice where these tremb ling probationers are to be onered up. This was a sort of side issue for the Main street stunts began at noon and costinuod until the street parade at ?:30 p. m. f A feature of the morning session} of the grand lodge. Knights of Pythias, j which met here today, was the act authorizing the treasurer to purchase ?2/?00 Liberty bonds. The grand lodge has funds bearing 5 per cent, interest and it cheerfully sustains the loss of 11-2 per cent. Interest in or der to give public expression of Its lcyalty and devotion to the American cause in the struggle for democracy and universal peace. Chancellor's Report. The annual report of the grand j chancellor, Alva M. Lumpkin, was thoughtful and thoroughly practical and enthused the grand lodge. It v;as on his recommenudation that the grand lodge authorize the treasurer to purchase the Liberty bonds. He! recommended the operatic n of a! home lodge with the grand lodge of-! tr> be the officers. This lodge) would enroll members of defunct i lr ages and keep them in good stand-1 j in? until they could locate perma-i ! nently. Mr. Lumpkin estimated the i j saving in suspensions to be about | 1.000 members each year under the; | plan. The grand lodge adopted un-l i animously the recommendation. Hei ! also nrged the grand lodge to in- j 1 crease the per capita tax from 90 cents to $1, stating that South Caro lina had the lowest tax in the sa-j preme domain. This matter was re ferred to the ways and means com mittee. The grand chancellor recom mended biennial sessions and advo coted tlie organization oi rjiumu sis i ters. He heartily recommended the endowment work. South . Carolina ; Pythianism has 2,400 members, car rying $3,000,000 in insurance. He i congratulated the board of managers j of The South Carolina Pythian, the i official organ, for the excellence of i the paper and its great worth to the during tha nast year. The o * . grand chancellor thought of the many young Pythians who would be called to service and he recommended legis lation remitting dues on all who went to the front. His closing words were forceful and full of meaning. He : eulogized President Wilson and. de clared Americans would dedicate their 1 lives for right and righteousness. There was great applause as tne grand chancellor took his seat. I As a business proposition the ways and means committee recommended that the next session of the grand lodge be held at Columbia and their ' recommendation wa-s unanimously a-dopted. j Assures President of Loyalty. At the afternoon session of tlie con vention the following telegram was .! sent to President Wilson: {"President Wilson, r i "Washington, D. C. t! "Grand lodge, Knights of Pythias 11 of South Carolina, today unanimously t adopted the following: 1 j " 'Whereas, our beloved country u t ? at war and whereas in this time o: I trouble a man must be American oi , anti-American, ' " 'Be It resolved, That the mem I j bers of this body proudly proclain II their Americanism and pledge foi -j themselves and for the i0,000 loya . I kniglits of the State they represen - { unfailing loyalty to the president ant this country until America shall hav< tvon this war.' (Signed) "Alva M. Lumpkin, "D. C. Hey ward, "H. C. Tillman, "Committee." Much disappointment was cause( by the non-attendance oi John .J B*?"* Vat ^ ,vas represented by Supreme Repre sentative O'Neal of Florida, who ad dressed the lodge in a patriotic vein He is a member of the board officon iroi 01 mo emiovvuiem ru.iii\, tu nuitu "he spoke very complimentary and enthusiastically. The grand lodge voted that the grand keeper of records and seal wire the South Carolina congressmen urg ing tliem to support all measures to prohibit the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic liquor during the war. This resolution went through with a rush. >V. E. Derrick Grand Chancellor. The following grand lodge officers for the ensuing year were elected: Grand chancellor, "W. E. Derrick of Orangeburg; grand rice chancellor, 1u. J. LKJYl KJL CIUlI LriCb 9 ^iuuu prelate, Col. 0. J. Bond of Charleston; grand keeper of records and seal, C. D. Brown of Abbeville; master at arms. E. R. Cox of Darlington; mas ter of exchequer, W. G. Harvey of Charleston; inner guard, fWl JC Fewell of, Rock Hill; outside g-uard, W. G. Olant of Beaufort. H. C. Tillman of Greenwood was elected a member of the board of publication. The grand lodge increased the per capita tax from 90 cents to $1. The several or phanages of the State were remem bered with the usual appropriations. The motion for biennial sessions was unanimously rejected. An appropriation of $3 0 was made to endow a bed for one year at the^ State tuberculosis camp for the use of Pythlans and members of their families. To raise the money for this purpose, there was made an addi tional levy of 15 cents per capita to December 31. The reports of the va rious officers w^re satisfactory finan cially and otfcerwis?. A severe hailstorm passed over Union about 4:30 o'clock, caused* elimination from the program of the automobile riae ana aiso greaxxy tam pered the Doky parade, butf later these mahched through Main street with about a score of tyros chained together. Owing to the rain, the con vention did not take recess at 5:30 o'clock, but continued in session until the installation of the new officers. A resolution expressing apprecia tion of Union's hospitality was heart ily adopted. A pieasing incident of the afternoon session was an address Better varmir to use fertilizer: i-enmzers suppjy wne or mor vCrops Will Not I Tlie ambition of every farmer i? to make the larg est crops possible every year, and It it bis duty to make tbem when be can. But bar vests of large crops remove .'arge quantitites of plant food from the soil. This de crease of plant food finally pre J. C. PR1DMORE rents good yields. Agronomist And unless some pruvisiun is maae ior resLoriujj auu then maintaining production, low yields and unprofitable returns wiH continue to be the result. One can not draw money from a bank unless he has friends there. Neither can the plant draw upon the soil and get the necessary food elements if the soil does not contain them. Plan For Good Yields Every Year Every farmer should adopt for his land a system of farming that will give him good yields continually year after year. If this is done, he mu*t feed the plants; for plants, like ani mals, must feed to grow. While plants require some ten or more elements for their git>wth, all, except three. ot-o aunnlia^ in ahnilfian/'o in mn?l i soils. The three elements not supplied | abundantly are nitrogen, phosphorus I and potash. All these are generally J deficient in most southern soils, and, ! therefore, have to be supplied in some j commercial form to get profitatble ! yields. j For a farmer to get the largest acre j returns from his investment in fer j tilizers, it is necessary for him to I knew something of the conditions un I der which fertilizers may be used most affectively. He narurally asks: "Un der what conditions will fertilisers prove most profitable?" Fertilizers are used primarily to sup> ply one or more plant foods without which crop? will not be profitable. But thsre are conditions other than plant foods that may Influence growth. It Is very necessary that good growing I EVERYBO "EMERSi The cheapest and best car yo in palling to its power. The pi at your house. Please see us b WESSINC Phone 321 ^ ? . Ask for Be. by J. C. .p?jy, the blind' T>ytiiia.i of wl 0111 Judge Brown once .said. "He is the greatest example or joy and happiness I have ever seen.' Anociia* inci'ient was when GranO Chancellor Lumpkin f.';ok his seat at the pianM and led the whole convention in sin^ !ng "My Country 'Tis of Thej." SECOND REGIMEST SHORT OYER 0>E THOISASQ Columbia, May 21.?The Second irr.ent of the South Carolina Guard lacks 1,110 men of cruited to full war strength. The adjutant general's office completed a telegraphic census, ing the status of the several nt the close of enlistment ces Sunday afternoon. There are officers and 892 enlisted men enroll A second lieutenant is the only c cer needed to bring the regimen strength in officers up to th6 requir ed number. The shoeing of the coast artillery is better, comparatively, but there is still room for additional men in that branch of the service. The full com plement of 19 officers is on hand, but therr re only 4$9 men. The required num' r: of men to put the artillery m lighting trim is 770. PREPARE TO GROW PLENTY OF BOUGELIG# Clemson College, May 23.?The all cotton farmer must pull fodder buy roughage, both very expensi Fodder pulling has a very strong h on the small farmer and the all c ton farmer. There is not any bett way to break away from this hab than to plant cow peas and sorgh for hay. As long as the farmer ma no effort to grow hay he simply m pn!l foddsr or buy hay. To prod "Voi ri?? rVi i n oithAr Plant II ; ficient acreaage in peas and | to furnish sufficient roughage ' the fodder. Learn to grow more i and soon fodder pulling will lose its 1 charm. Certainly it is a very un I pleasant undertaking during the hot j dayh of August and September. ! THK HERALD AND NEWS ONE j YEAR FOR r~ "o. ig in the South 5 MOST PROFITABLY o Plant Foods Without Which 3o Profitable. conditions be provided for the plant so that the fertilize- used may enable the plant to grow most vigorously, and therefore, bring abou^ the bigge^ yields. ' \ Viooroua Se?d The fundamental, good growing con ditions making possible the most ef ficient use of plant foods, are good seed, a good seed bed and good culti vation. Ail planting seed must have strong vitality to germinate and grow rapidly. Seed should also be of a variety adapt ed to local conditions. Time and rate of plaining must be given attention, far either one of these may very ma terially effect the yield of the crop. Good Seed Bed Conditions required in the soil for best plant growth, and .biggest acre returns from fertilizers used, are a good, well prepared, finely pulverized seed bed. It should be mellow an firm, so as to enable the roots penetrate freely and deeply In s i of food and moisture, and to allow s ficient circulation of air. It shornd be well drained. It should be welli supplied with organic matter, which; aids in absorbing and holding moisture^ and improves the structure and tilth] of the soil. Good cultural methods; must be employed so as to destroy weeds and retain sou moisiure. If the preceding conditions are sat isfactory for plant growth, then, and not till then, are crops able to make the most efficient use of plant foods within their reach. If any one of these unfavorable conditions exist, a plant cannot fully utilize the foods supplied in fertilizers. Under good growing conditions iertmzers are useu very profitably, proof of which is fur nished by thousands of farmers all over the South. Fertilisers contain genuine plant food, and, of course, I have a marked beneficial influence when applied in sufficient quantity, and the plants are otherwiee given a fair chance. The question now te, Are you striving to so improve your soil conditions that you may utilize the value of fertilizer to the fullest | extent? / DY'S CAR r\m mr td>> )ery Man Can Own. u cau own. It can not be equalled rice will suit you. $545 delivered tfore you buy your car. ;ER BROS. snaastratkm Prosperity, S. C.