Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"Time tells what you did yesterday. .1 Make to-morrow better by starting a Bank account to-day." If, for no other reason than the unforeseen demands incident to human It's a duty, because you haven't the power to predict the future but you have power to start a Bank Account and fortify for the future. Besides we want to help worthy young men to succeed. Begin today with $. life, you owe yourself a Bank Account. THE BANK -OF MANNING The Best Drugs AT Reasonable Prices Nothing but the very best materials go into our prescriptions and they are com pounded just the way your physician says. RUBBER GOODS and TOILET ARTICLES and a full and complete line of STATIONERY. We have A MODERN SODA FOUNTAIN We keep a Full Line of CIGARS, TOBACCOS and CANDIES. BROWN'S DRUG STORE, Below Bank of Manning. Manning, S. C. Why Stiffer with the 'Grippe ? Try a dozen of our LaGRIPPE CAPSULES At 50c. a Dozen. If they don't cure you just tell us and we will uladly refund your money. Could anything be fairer ? PHONE 61. MANNING,S.C. SSanitary Dry Cleaning. 4 Quality is the First consideration With Us. 'You've had your clothes come home smelling of gasoline, and you didn't like it. We didn't do that work. ,We don't do that kind. *Your e~lothes leave our house perfectly clean ed, with no odor about them, and sanitary in 'every respect. ,Then, too, our prices are very reasonable. Don't discard that old soiled suit until we have looked it over. A few cents may make it #orth a few dollars. *ofman French Dry Cleaning Co,, E. W. ROWLAND, Prop. IE WISE SOWERS LOOK TO HEIR SEED Don't Take Chances With Bad Product This Year-Homemade Testing De vice Will Tell You the Value of Seeds-Clean Small Grains Before Sowing The seed trade has voluntarily agreed to label all field seeds with the percentage of pure seed that will grow, giving the purchaser exact in formation as to quality. The United States Department or Agriculture urges all farmers to buy their seeds only from dealers who comply with this agreement and not to run the risk of buying high-price.;, unlabeled seed that will not give a stand in the field. Get your seed early and make a germination test of it before sowing. Count out 100 seeds; put them be tween folds of moist paper or cloth between two dinner plates and keep at room temperature for 4 days; then count the sprouted seeds. If 95 seeds sprout the seed is good; if only a small part of the msprout the seed is either poor or the test was not prop erly made. If in doubt as to the value of the seed send a sample to your State agricultural experiment station or to the Seed Laboratory, United States. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., with the request that it be tested for quality, including percentage of purity and germination. Don't take any chances with the quality of the red clover seed you sow this spring. Never before has the price of red clover seed been so high as it is at the present time, and never has the quan tity of seed on hand been so small in proportion to the acreage to be seeded. In years when the demand for any kind of seed exceeds the supply, all available seed is put on the market and much of the seed is of poorer quality than in normal years. There fore, every farmer beforn sowing should know what proportion of the seed he buys cannot be expected to grow. If one lot contains 96 per cent of seed that will grow and another lot contains 64 per cent of seed that will grow it will take three bushels of the 64 per cent seed to sow the same num ber of acres that 2 bushels of the 96 per cent seed will sow. , This is important from the stand point of cost alone when red clover need is selling for $20 or more per bushel. It is much more necessary, however, to know the quality of seed in order that the rate of-seeding may 'be proportional to the quality, so that enough live seed will be sowed to in sure a stand in the field. First know how much of the seed may grow and then sow accordingly. CLEAN SEED BEFORE SOWING Cleaning and grading the small grains for spring sowing should be done before the spring rush in pre paring the land and sowing the seed. Wheat, oats, barley and flax can be improved for seeding by running the seed through the fanning mill at least once. The cleaned grain will run through the drill or other seeding machinery more evenly and thus in sure a more uniform stand than can be obtained from uncleaned grain. Cleaning grain removes most of the weak and diseased kernels, many of which may not grow at all, or if they do grow are likely to produce small, weak plants. Uniformly large, plump kernes germinate more evenly, pro duce stronger plants, and yield more than ungraded grain containing small, shrunken kernels. Thorough cleaning also removes a large part of the weed seeds the grain contains. The preparation of the land for seeding destroys many seeds that are in the ground and thus helps to keep wveedls in check, but the value of this wvork-is largely lost if foul seed is sown. Although the small grain of the 1917 crop, except in North Dakota and Montana, is mostly of excellent quality for seed, yet it is well worth while to run this grain through the fanning mill at least once. No avoid able chances should be taken in sowv img the 1918 crop. Th(, very best seed available should be used. Increases in yield of from 2 to 5 bushels or more to the acre are often obtained from sowing clean, large seed, but a gain of even a bushel to the acre will mean big wages for the days spent in get ting seedl ready for sowing. The screenings have a value for feed and none for seed. ----0 SEED DEALERS TIO FURNISH IN FORMATION WITH PRODUCTr According to a plan agreedl upon by representatives of the seed1 tradle and representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture in confer ences last year, seed (dealers will pro vidIe the followving information with all lots of 10 pounds or over of field crop seed which they sell: 1. Name of seedsman. 2. Kind of seed. 3. Proportion of pure live needl pres ent, wvith month and year of germina tion teat. 4. Country or locality of origin in the case ofthe following imp~ortedl seedis: Beans, soy beans, Tfur kestan alfalfa, and red Clover from southern Europe and Chile. Since the seed trade conferences, practically all the larger secdsmen have indlividlually agreedl to condluct their business in acoerdlance with these suggestions. ----- WHAT THE SOLD1IERS AT HOME CAN DO0 TO WIN THE WAR There are such things as soldiers at home as well as soldiers at the front, and it is \vell for those who are at home to realize what they can (10. There are as many view points of what the "stay-at-homes" can doC to cooperate with the government, but they have been tersely stated by Mr. Clarence Poe, the distinguished edi tor of the Progressive Farmer, who represents the United States Doepart ment of Agriculture. Ho outlined To Cure a ColI4 In One Day. Take LAXATIVYE BROMtO Quinine. It stopse the Cough and fleadache end works off the Oold. Drugglts refnd osoil t fils to cure. That Lingering Cold is a steady drain on your physical stamina. It im poverishes the blood, distresses the digestion, and exhausts your vigor. It affords a fertile field for serious infection and is likely to become chronic. You Needn't Suffer from it if you will take Peruna and use prudence in avoiding exposure. Peruna clears up catarlui uuiditions. Thous ands have proved this to any fair person. Get a box of the tablets today-prove it your self. Man y prefer the liquid form. Both are good. At your drug gists. THE PERUNA COMPANY Columbus. Ohio what the "stay-at-homes" can do to best help the government in an agri. cultural way, in ten things that America asks, and has a right to ask, of the Southern farmer in this crisis. They are as follows: 1. "That he plant a maximum in food crops." 2. "That he strive for maximum productiveness of every acre." 3. "That he equip and inspire every farm worker for maxi mum efficien 4. "That he arrange for a maximum production of meat and dairy prod nets." 5. "That he double garden produc ion." 6. "That all women and children be enlisted in canning and poultry rais ing." 7. "'T'hat every member of the fain ily aid food conservation." 8. "That wise and profitable mar keting of crops be promoted as a stimulus to increased production." 9. "That economy and thrift be practiced and the resultant savings lent to America." 10. "That all schools, all farmers' organizations, all women's organiza tions, and all business men's organ izations cooperate to give 100 per cent efficiency to this program." -0 YANKEE GENIUS GIVES THE WAR FLAMlE BULLETS Washington, March 3.-Modern aerial warfare has brought forth a new kind of ammunition. The war de partment announced tonight the de velopment of special cartridges con taining bullets for armor piercing, tracing and incendiary purposes. Tests have shown that this class of cartridges produced by the United States perform fully equal to and in some cases, surpass those developed abroad, it was stated. Armor "iercing buints became nec essary whon the more vita! parts of airplanes were protected with light armor. A buliet containing an in flammable substance, ignited upon discharge, and carrying the spark or flame into the tank upon piercing it, was found especially desirable in viewv of the fact that gasoline tanks are particularly susceptible to incendIi ary explosion. As an enemy machine wvas within fighting range for only brief mo MONEY TO LEND ON GOOD) SECURITY J. E. KELLEY, Summerton, S. C. FUEl) L.ESESNE, Attorney at Law, Loans Negotiated on Real Estate Security. Office Over lHomie Hank & 'Trust Co. MANNING, S. C. LOANS N EGOTIATEI), On First-Class Real Estate Mortgages PURDY & O'BRYAN, Attorneys at. Law, MANNING, S. C. -J. W. WIDEMAN Attorney at Law Oflices Adjoining "The IHerald" Bldg. DR. J. A. COLE, lientist, MANNING, S. C. Upstairs Over Weiniberg's Corner Store, MANNING, S. C. DuRANT & ELLERBE, Attorneys at Law, MANNING, S. (. J. H. LESESNE, Attorney at Law, MANNING, S. C. R. 0. Purdy. S. Oliver O'Bryan. PURDY & O'BIRYAN, MANNING, 5. C. Attorneya and Coanelors at Law, ments at a time and there were ne means of determining the effect of the firing, as on land, a tracer bul let containing bright burning compo sition, which would indicate the path of the bullet in daylight, as well as in darkness, and thereby allow the aim of the machine gun to be corrected, was introduced. Combinations of armor piercing and tracer and armor piercing and in cendiary bullets have been made. 0 FUEL, QUESTION IN MEX!CO Mexico City, Feb. 28.-(Corres pondence of the Associated Press.) The fuel crisis in Mexico, especially in the Northern States, has caused Al berto Pani, Secretary of Industry and Commerce, to investigate the mineral resources of the country and recom mend to President Carranza exploita tion by the government of what are termed extensive coal fields at Colom bia, Neuvo Leon, on the banks of the Rio Grande, which have been worked in a desultory fashion for twenty five years. Lack of rail transporta tion has been the chief obstacle to the development tof the deposits and Mr. Pani proposes that the government build a branch line to Colombia, con necting with the National Railway System either at Sanchez or La Ja rita, points near Lampazes. - 0 SCREENING SEEI) MAY PREVEN'T NEW DISEASE Screening out the shriveled grains from wheat seel before planting will remove one cause of spreading the new bacterial disease of wheat which MEAT TJ BETTER And tobac better toas You'll kn smoke the cigarette, t It's toaste( in the Bur Trying to instil .I rnind the fact t Hardware and diescriptioni of ity than can b< cured and at a We have long the qreat ba Hardware ani for bench or as We have Tools low prices. 'has been discovered in many States of the Middle West. This has been learned by specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture who, in cooperation with the experi ment stations of Kansas and Wiscon sin, are studying the problem of con trolling this disease. Wheat kernels that are plump do not contain bacter ial cavities, but shriveled ones ofteiu do. FIVE AMERICANS KILLED Washington, Mar. 3.-Five Ameri cans, including Second Lieut. Harold F. Eadie, of Tilton, N. H., were killed, five were severely wounded and four slightly wounded mn the fight with the Germans north of 'I oul March 1, the War Department today announced. Those killed besides the lieutenant were: Anthony Amodle, Baltimore, Md.; Privates Edgar Parsons, Obids, N. C.: Harry J. Henry, Logansport. Ind.: and Matthew Brew, Fayettte, N 1). The department announced the fol lowing killed in action; Sergt. Joseph P. Chaissor, Derby, Me., February 24; Corporal Eph Boggs, Red Jacket, W.. Va., March 2; Private Hugh Wather man, PIearman, Iowa, Idar -h- -., and Cook Thomas IIarde sty, El Paso Tekx-, February 28. Five men wete severyv wounded Marc - 1. inclo i'r Private I-aac How rd. Evnrts, IKs Four siightly wournd ei Mt rch 1, h c luding Cu unoral Jaltuh B. I.a.t*e, Abb,.tt, Ari. Five were lighi hy woun'eI on othe('r dates, in chuu':r g ('orpoo; Sam W. Thames, Butcao na, M STES COOKED co now tastes much ted. ow this when you famous Lucky Strike e real Burley cigarette. It's toast I to develop and seal ley tobacco flavor, Sri -sr /11 I into the pu~blic hat we are sellinq Tools of every naich better quoal elsewhere pro nochi lower price. beeni knov-n as rcuain house for ITools, whether jricualtural work. for all trades at Iw1 o~ay