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Of Inte W. R. G Cotton Stalk Destruction Campaign The campaign which we have had on in the county for the past wveek 0i more is bringing results, and during last week many acres of these bol weevil hotels were put away. During the week meetings were held at Home Branch, Paxville, Enterprise and Hick's Schoolhouse. Farmers attend ing these meetings in many cas.a pledged themselves to destroy their own stalks at once, and to do what .they could to get their neighbors tc do likewise. Mr. E. E. Hall and the County Agent made talks at Home Bjanch and Paxville and Mr. A. H. Ward of Darlington County spoke at Enter prise and Hick's Schoolhouse. Our cotton has taken on a second growth, and any one need only make an ex amination to see the weevils are feed ing and breeding on these new squares by the thousand. 'They also feed on 'the t er shoots. IL is these strong, ivell Ied young weevils that will sur vive th6 winter in the greate.it pum bers. A weevil going into winte, sunrters on an empty stomach is un - v to survive. If you can not turn under your stalk ow then .rip them up with a middle urto'. If you can do this for all your stq^.1 A oiicd, you will drive them off your farm. Farmers in the bounty report less than one-half the old weevils picked this spring on land where stalks were turned before frost that there was where the stalks were allowed to stand until 't the winter . aprmg. 'Use of Formalin to J'event Smut. hi. Oats n'nd Whot , Smut ' the most widespread and destructive disease of small grain and it occurs wherever oats -and wheat are grown. When proper con trol measures are not practiced, it frequently causes serious loss. l'or tunately, it is not hard to prevent this disease. Before sowing oats or wheat, farmers should treat the seed with a formalin solution to prevent smut. Smut is caused by a parasitic growth that lives in the tissues of the plant. The disease spreads by spores (very small, seed like bodies) which cling to the hulls or lodge in the creases of individual oats or wheat grains and are thus carried into a field with the seed. The spores germinates at about the same time that the plants come up and the disease grows directly into the tis sues of the young plant. Smult lives in plants apparently without doing serious damage until the plants begin to head out. Then the disease concentrates its efforts in the heals and black, sooty masses of spores fill the places where grains should form. As these masses break up, the spores are scattered over the field by wind. Many lodge in grains 0 CYPRESS SASH DOORS SBLINDS MOULDINGS AND MILL WORK Moi We represent i Bank of Columbi Loan Act, and hia companies lendir control nearly a 1b If the security any size. rest to I Edited by ?AY, County Demonstrati Office Phone 247-Residence Phone i on healthy heads of ats or wheat and remain alive there until the seed are planted again. Some remain in the diseased heads and are carried to the thresher. In threshing, the smut spores are scattered everywhere and may find resting places in healthy grains. Oat or wheat smut can be controll ed by soaking the- planting seed in a solution made as follows: Make up the formalin solution by mixing one pint formalin (40 per cent. solution of farmaldehide) with 40 gallons of water. Sack the grain to be treated, about a bushel to a sack. Dip each sack of grain into the barrel of solution and let it re main there from five to ten minutes, moving the sack up and down sever al times to make sure that all the grains are thoroughly wet. Finally, lift the sack and let the solution drain out, after which either pile the bags of treated grain together and cover with, bagging or canvass, or pour the treated grain into a pile on ti 9leal floor pnl cover with bagging Qr canvass. Leave the grain cover ed thus for 12 hot.r: As a last step, spreadl the grain t, .ly over a clean floor to diry, The gldi'l should be dried as rap idly as possible to prevent sprouting. Naturally, grain thus treated should be put in clean bins or sacks so as not to be again exposed to the dis ease. Sacks and bins t v '- on Winod dilseased g;raln mttay be MAW, rocted by washi ig With\ ii Xnitlia volution hind e of oii int formalin to. 10 datlns Water. Your county agent will be glad to Assist any farmer in treating his seed. Call on him. Prevention of Rabies in Dogs The mad dog scare is constantly be fore us and many valuable (logs are lost from being bitten by rabid ani mals. Also quite frequently people are bitten and must undergo treat ment with even then an occasional case of hydrophobia among persons. For the above reasons I have writ ten the state veterinarian regarding a serum which is prepared for the prevention of rabies among clogs. He advises me that they keep this scrum in stock and will furnish it at $1.60 per close. The animal to be treated is given one injection of the serum. This according to the state veterinar ian renders him immune to bites from mad dogs for approximately one year. There is also a treatment consist ing of several closes which is given clogs after being bitten to prevent the development of the disease. This treatment, however is much more ex pensive. The state veterinarian does not furnish this treatment. Seed Fall Oats Early Experiments have shown that best results are always secured where fall oats are planted early, and now that we have a good season in the grou'rd, it is especially important that we should get the oat crop seeded at t' , e rliest possible (late It is also important that we need a large ocre =1ge of oats beca"se the oats not only serves as a winter over crop during the winter months but also gives us a good early crop) which may be fol lowed next summer by soy beans, cowvpeas, peanuts or other crops. The best-yielding variety to plant is the Red Appler, advises Prof. C. P. Blackwvell, Agronomist, but where an early crop is desired, the best variety is the Fulghum. Trhe fertilizer requirements for the fall oat crop are not high. If the crlop) is pilanted .following cotton, and if the cotton was highly fertilized, very little fertilizer is necessary for the oats crop. On good fertile land 150 to 200 pounds of acid phos phate at planting time fo~llowved by a top dressing of 75 to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda in the early spring will make a good crop of oats. On thin land 25 to 50 p~ounds of nitrato of soda, or its equivalence in some form of ammonia, should be used at planting time anid followed in the spring with nitrate of soda as a top dressing. Orchard Notes The orchard should be plowed and sown to a cover crop. If grain is riey to L :he First Carolinas .1 a, organized under ti wve connection with g money in the coun aif million dollars of'1 is right we can arrai DuRant 2 -* MANF armilers on Agent 18 sown as a cover crop, it should bo turned under next.April and the land then sown to pease. Crimson clover may be used as a cover crop and turned under during May and fol lowed with peas. All dead limbs should be removed from fruit trees, and all necessary pruning completed . by late Decem ber. Fruit trees may be pruned any time between the first of November and the middle of March, but it is best to prune in late fall in order that the winter spray may be applied in December, and, if necessary, a se cond application in late February. Scuppernong vines must be prun ed not later than the last of Novem ber or the first week in December. The scuppernong will be more pro ductive if grown on a trellis than if grown on an arbor. Thin out the vines so as to admit ample sunlight. It is not desirable to spur back the young canes, but simply to thin out the older wood. Bea' in mind that all fruit is produced from buds Torm ed on the previous season's growth. Bunch grapes, such as Concord, Delaware, etc., can be pruned during November and December. Cutting Of 5ies6 grapes may be made and planted immediately after pruning. These cuttings should be 8 to 12 inches, long, and should have from 2 to 3 buds. Place the cuttings the full length in the ground in rows 3 feet wide, 8 to 12 inches apart in Thw ow, Order fruit trees for the home or chard this fall and plant in Novem ber and Decembe'. For a list of fruits recommended ed for the home orchard in South Carolina write to the County Agent. Suggestions for Home Garden Now that good rains have broken the long drought, home gard mers should get in certain garden crops without delay, say the horticulturists. Kale and spinach may be planted as late as the first of November However, it is better to get the seed in the ground just as early now as possible. Siberian Curled is an ex ceptionally hardy variety of kale. Spinach planted at this season will be ready for use in the very early spring. Plant spinach seed thickly in the row (6 to 8 seed to the inch), as it usually difficult to secure a stand. Onion seed and onion sets should be planted in October or early No vember. Australian Brown, Prize taker, and Yellow Globe Danvers are good varieties to use when seed are to be planted. It sets are to be planted use Yelloly Danvers and White Pearl. The Yellow and White Multipliers are very desirable for home use,-one set planted now will divide and make at least a dozen onions by early spring. Lettuce seed may be planted now in cold frames and if protected with either canvas or glass will supply cutting lettuce during December, January, and February. Lettuce se.td seed planted in the open ground now will usually stand the winter and be ready for transplanting in the very early spring. Big Boston and Han son arc two exceptionally fine varie ties. Asparagus roots may be planted (luring October and November. It is not too late to plant straw berry plants. If these are at by the first of November they wvill become wvell established before very cold wveather and produce a few berries next spring. Cabbage seeds may be planted in cold frames, protected lightly during the very severe weather, and trans planted to the field in early March, Charleston Wakefield and Succession are good varieties for home use. A DUTY FORl DEMOCRATS The nomination of a Republican candlidate for Congress in the First District against the nominee 6,f the Democratic primary is a challengt that must be met and presents situation that must be disposed of decisively~y the white political party of this district. There is nc ~nd ! oint Stock Lan~d ie Federal Farm several insurance ty. In addition we private loan funds. ige farm loans of a Ellerbe, IING South Caroninn. room for 'OHM o nor 'e14u d their be any paltering with the isee. On August 29, the Denidcrats o the district nominated W. Turne Logan as the candi4ate of their party: for Congress, over two con testants. The lists were wide opel for the entrance of any white mai or woman qualified as a Democrr by the simple act of enrolling ai a member of a club and engaging to- abidet he results of the vote a tho party polls. $ver-y one of .the nineteen thousand voters who par ticipated in the primary electioi took a solemn oath to abide suel result and to support the nominee Each and every one of them is obligated to support Mr. Logan Those who enrolled but did not vote are in principle, bound to a like obligation. The candidacy of Rev. S. L Blomgren presents no new pros pect in the murky Republican poli tics of this State. That the can didate is a man of education and culture and the pastor of one of the most prominent white churches of this city and that his nomination- is announced by a group of white men holding office under the Republi can administration does not and cannot obscure the fact that it (rests upon an almost solid body of Jegro voters. It is not possible to gloss that. The Evenning Post has been urging Democrats to register for the general election as a measure of preparedness against untoward de velopments. This unexpected can didacy of a Republican for Congress in the First District against the regu lar Somomertic nominee shows how liecessary it is that Democrats should be prepared. Of their duty there can be .and will be no serious question. It is only to be regretted that all of those who participated in the primtry are not qualified to support and make effective the plain result of that contest which was free to practically every white voter in the district. Every Democrat who is qualified to vote should, as a supreme duty,. up on which the integrity of our whole political system-instituted as the best, however imperfect, device for the maintenance of white supremacy in a community where the most rigid rule is, in the nature of things, es sential- depends for its preservation, vote for Representative Logan as the choice of the white people of the district and the Democratic nomi nee in a regular party primary. Bs U Excei practi The e seat, frame move< The fi a gro throuj In tii in the for low Whet place, tive Ir appar Busin touris times, will r this c HARVIN MO' have tI One *Ciga -a firm i superiwr 15for 10 V Not only is it necessary that he should receive a majority of the votes cast, of which there can be lit tle doubt, but he should have such an overwhelming vote as will make his election proof against partisan at tempts .on the part of the Republi licans to overturn it, and, above all, to demonstrate the determination of the white people of this district to settle their political differences finally at their own polls and to stand to gether afterwards without regard to personalities or preferences against open or insidious attempts to under 1E BROTHI SINESS SE] tional titerest has been aroused :al arrangement of the iinterior. ntire rear compartment furnish seat cushions, back cushione foot rest, carpet and all-can I from the car in a few moment ont seat is then tilted forward, ss clearance of twenty-twoi h the rears doors. s way, a space of sixty-four cul rear compartment is made av ~ding. the rear seat fixtures are bi the interior is complete and appearance. Its convertibility snt to the eye. ass men, farmers, salesmen, cai ~s and everyone who has occas to carry bulky articles or lug eadily appreciate the great uti anstruction. roR CO., Dealers,, rned to 1even rettes werdict for quality. cigarettes mine the structure they have erected. -Charleston Evening Post. FIGHT ON HARDING g' Washington Oct. 17.--Protest of the Kansas farm bureau federation! against reappointment of W. P. G. Harding to the federal reserve board, either as governor or as a member, was laid before President Harding to day by Senator Curtis (Republican) of that state. The farmers of his state, the senator said, feel that the. present board under the administra tion of former Governor Harding did not operate entirely in sympathy with: their interests. AN by the ngs , seat be re s. giVing nches ic feet ailable ick in attrac is not. nperm, lon, at ~gage, lty of M4anning, S. C