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* fbr 8tUirtt Ij-rralb .? ; Dillon. S. l\. Match '25, 1930. The meat packers are stiH blaming the c nsumers for the high cost of living. N ? The worst thing about woman suffrage appears to be that it is nearly a fact. Despite prevailing prices, it is 1? i f/>,. L-iftc th<in fires i easier iu uu.? awvcs, 1Ui ...? for automobiles. There were evidences in Dillon Saturday that the Volstead act doesn't prohibit. It would appear that when a modern kid isn't riding around in an automobile is roller skating. One cf the outstanding features of the Newberry trial was the sphinx like silence .of Henry Ford. By divulging secrets t Id him in confidence Admiral Sims shows the type of man he is. He ought to be helped out o? the navy. The more income tax people pay the more firmly they are convinced that the wh le business is unconstitutional. % It is evident that Admiral Sims is mad because they did not turn the whole U. S. Navy over to him and throw in Josephus Daniels to boot. We are glad that Solicitor Warren will advocate the repeal of the Vol stetfd act. It has been si long since the question of prohibition has been before the people of the state that a test vote will do both parties good. x The announcement of the bureau .of statistics that the price of cabbage has increased 15 per cent is not discouraging. The person who can digest cabbage ought t^ be able to pay the price. The New Jersey gamblers who were held up by robbers during a crap game and robbed of $15,000 have no right to kick. The only difference between robbers and gamblers is the method used in taking it. The wets said it was bad enough when a man couldn't take a drink outside of his home without violating the law, but. now the Florence prohibition sleuths have arrested* a man named Bud Weiser. "Speed up, speed up!"-says the government, "we must have greater production." But still the fast trains carrying the idle rich to winter resorts have the right-of-way over trains carrying freight, mail ayd ex press. And now they are afav siting a "four-hour work da>*-" W.e have n0 objection to the four-hour day. I? fact, we prefer the no-work day and will become one of its most ardent advocates, provided the theorists will at the same time work out a plan that#will provide the bread and meat. ? , FARMERS PAYING CASH. F r the first time in the history of the county the farmers are doing business on a cash basis. This does not mean that every farmer in the county will pay cash as he goes, but the great majority of them have enough m ney in the bank to make and harvest this year's crops. There are some few exceptions, of course, but they are very few. The borrowing habit has become so deeply ro ted that it will take some farmers many years to get out of it. Tltey must borrow a little money, even though they have a healthy balance in the bank. But the number'is getting smaller and smaller every year, and if Driees h Id ud for another vear or two the great majority of farmers will become lenders instead of borrowers. Rev. J. A. Wilson Passes. Rev. J. A. Wilson, for many years pastor of the Dillon Presbyterian church, died at a Columbia hospital Tuesday after an illness of several weeks. The announcement of Mr. Wilson's death will be received in Dillon with profound sorrow. For the past eight years Mr. Wilson's health had been failing, but his condition did not become alarming until a fewWeeks ago. Mr. Wilson was a native of York county. He w-as educated at Davidson college and prepared for the ministry at the Columbia Theological Seminarj-. He was Dillon's first Presbyterian pastor and it was largely through his efforts that the present Presbyterian church and manse were built. Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife who was Miss Margaret Carriran nf Snniptv Will and nnp son. Car O"*" V Vwv.vv rigan Wilson. o TURNER-JACKSON. Mr. and Mrs Sidney W. Jackson have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Winnie Davis, to Mr. Samuel Henry Turner. The marriage will be solemnized at the First Baptist church on April 7th at 7 o'clock. The bride-elect was born and reared in Dillon and has many friends who are looking forward to the happy event with much , interest. For the past several years she has held the position of stenographer at Bethea & Moore's insurance agency. The groom is a successful young business man cf North Carolina. I - / WHY MARLB THE WOR The Country Gentlemai "Inside Dope From Hi ww n j Heavy rertmzer I . Gives Record i * N Alfred G Smith, a representative of the Country Gentleman, of Philadelphia, the oldest agricultural journal in the w rid, says the Pee Dee Advocate, recently visited Marlboro county, and the following article from his pen appears in the Country Gentleman of March 12: F?fty years ago the soil < f Marlboro county, South Carolina, was petering out. In spots it had plumb petered already. There were places so sterile that they seemed hopeless. In the piquant parlance of the natives, the soil "was so poor you had to bury a sack . f guano with a man to rqake sure he'd come up on Insurrection Day." That was half a century ago. The other day there was a bena fide sale of farm lands in this sa ne Marlboro county?bare la ?d. ?rii>,d y u, without a vestige of a building ?for $725 an acre. Referring to the 1910 census we find that Marlbor0 county is credited with an average of seven eighths of a bale of cotton to the acre, mats more than can be boasted by any other typical cotton growing county in the South. It's about two and a half trnies the average for the cotton belt as a whole. It makes sales of land at $300 an acr^n every day affaif in Marlboro county, and sales as cited above at $700 odd an acre not unheard of. In fine, the cotton land in this same Marlboro county is perhaps the most expensive in the South. If you long to move among the elite in cotton growing circles, just you move to Marlboro county?if you can stand the price. Now this is not a prospectus. It is merely a sort of text or exordium or exegesis or whatever you may want to call it, designed to call attention to the fact that mote fertilisers are a tplied^iit growing any other staple crop in Marlboro county, acre font re than .'.re applied in gro v.n: an; other staple -crop anywhere in these United States. It is designed to demonstrate beycrnd peradventure that of on niaooQ in the world Marlboro county is pre-eminently the place to go to get the real inside dope on the question of fertilizers for cotton. In the beginning the soils of Marlboro county were by no means rich. When first cultivated they never grew the heavy crops of corn and wheat that were common on the virgin lands of the Middle West. They are sandy and sandy loam soils, usually underlaid with a porous subsoil, although some have sandy subsoils 1 Unless these soils are carefully handled they soon wear out. / Learning by Experience. But a little over a half century ago, long before agricultural experiment stations were established in this country, the farmers there began to use fertilizers, and since then fertilizers have been an outstanding factor in making the county what it te. The farmers didn't know what the soil needed nor what was good for the different crops nor just how to applv the fertilizers to make the best yields. They kept trying different fertilizers ana auiereiu methods, however, frequently experimenting in a crude fashion, until gradually they learned the ^'a>" that paid. * As their knowledge of fertilizers increased and they found out how to make a profit, they kept on using more and nior? fertilizer, until now ?well, in Marlboro cpuntv a farmer is hardly considered up-to-date unless he uses 1000 pounds to the acre. Lots of good farmers use 1500 pounds. Some of the real sports use a ton or more. Of late years thirty dollars an acre has not been an uncommon expenditure for fertilizing in growing cotton. I have known of applications that cost forty dollars an acre. It looks like a risky business, paying out so much money, or going in debt for it, then expecting to make it out of the crop and pay it back in the fall. But farmers have been successful at it or they wouldn't keep on doing it. The yields of cotton have increased enormously. Lands that a few years ago produced only a little better than a hundred pounds of lint to the acre are now making round a bale. I have driven along Marlboro county roads where for mile after I mile every field would make a bale and some as high as two bales to the acre. Ask any of these farmers what makes such high yields and they will tell you at once that it is just fertilizer. As a matter of fact, however, it is not just fertilizer. No haphazard application of fertilizers, however heavy, could yield such satisfactory and uniform results There are oth er factors. These farmers could never afford to use fertilizers so lavishbly if it were not for other things that supplement and make profitable that lavishness. One of these factors is a soil and climate that give assurance of a good crop every year. Crop failure ?that is, failure for the whole community?is unknown. The land is gently rolling, yet not so rolling as j to require terVacing. This gives it .excellent natural drainage, and even I in years of abnormal rainfall good ORO LEADS | LD IN COTTON ' ! i, of Philidelphia, Gives iriboro County, Where and Good Tillage Cotton Yields" ! i ! .crops arG made. The rainfall isI fairly uniform during the season,! however, and the yearly variations ! are not wide. I know of some lands outside of j this county, near the coast, that lie quite level. The natural drainage Is not provided. In extra good years these lands produce magnificent crops and heavy use of fertilizers pays well, but In years when the! rainfall is much above the average' crops are poor and money spent for fertilizers is almost wasted. On such soils as these, therefore, the crops are too uncertain to risk heavy applications of fertilizer and consequently the average application lar-, small. Marlboro county and other sections with sure soils and uniform climate have a great advantage over sections like these, since good returns are obtained from the use of , fertilizers even in adverse seasons. It is noticed that in any part of the , county where fertilizers are used most heavily there are few if any crop failures because of the soil or' the climate. Another factor that goes to justi- ; fy the lavish use of fertilizers is a ( crop that gives a high return an i acre. Crops that require little la- ( bo/\ like oats, are cheap, but crops \ that require frequent tillage and ( much labor in harvesting like cot- ( ton, tobacco or truck crops, must of ; necessity have a high valuation t>r folks will not grow them. Fertilgs- . ers can be used more profitably on j these expensive crops than upon the' cheap ones, for a given percentage', of increase in the yield is worth! more. The following examples will I. illustrate this point: ? 3uppose a certain cotton crop was, ordinarily worth, without fertiliz-' ing eighty dollars an acre, and a corn crop forty dollars an acre. Sup-, pose that an application of ten dollars' worth of fertilizer would increase the yield of each of these crops by thirty-five per cent. The value of the increase in the cotton crop would be twenty-eight dollars an acre, and the profit eighteen dollars. With corn the increase would be worth fourteen dollars, and there would be a profit of four dollars an acre. In this case it would .... 4 U 'pay to fertilize ddid urups, iuvu6u the greatest profit is made with the crop that has the highest value an acre. Now suppose that with an application of twenty-five dollars' worth of fertilizer there would be an increase of sixty per cent in the yields of both crops, which would not be an uncommon result. The value of the increase of the c otton crop Mould be forty-eight dollars an acre and of the corn crop only twenty-four dollars. With the cotton, aside from the extra cost of harvesting and marketing, the profit from the use'of fertilizer would be tM-enty-three dollars an acre, but Mith the corn the increase in yield M'ould be bought at an actual loss of one dollar an acre. Such an application for cotton M'ould be profitable, but f#r corn it M'duld not pay unless the residual effect of the fertilizers was such as to make the application M-orth while in spite of the loss on the corn crop. | The cotton crop, therefore, has been largely responsible for the heavy use of fertilizers in Marlboro Icounty. Without cotton much lessi fertilizer would e u sed and the, Imethod of maintaining the soil ferItility would vary greatly from that !of the present system. Farming 'areas of the United States that grow more extensive crops with a lower value an acre than cotton will never be able to use so much fertilizer and use it s'o profitably as those areas which grow intensive crops. Furthermore, these farmers do not depend on just fertilizer to keep up their soil. A supply of organic matter in the soil, to conserve the moisture and help to make the p lant food more available, is essential. Without humus the fertilizer w ould largely be wasted. Cotton farmers in Marlboro county use different methods of keeping up1 this organic supply. Cowpeas are grown in the corn' and after oats, for hay or soil improvement. Some velvet beans arej used, and the manure produced on the farm is carefully conserved The I principal way of supplying organic I matter, however, is to turn under' the crop residues of cotton and corn, but more particularly of cotton. urUAt.ft cutsit. I*nonr violrla r\P notfnn U I1C1 C OUVfl nvtt? J j Vfc vwvvw as are common in this county are made, the stalks cannot be fed like cornstalks, and they are turned under and left to rot in the land for the benefit of the succeeding crops. Where these heavy growths of stalks are made, and the application of fertilizers is heavy, cotton j can be grown on the same land year] after year and frequently the yields. will gradually increase. There are instances in the county where land has been planted in cotton continuously for forty-five years, yet the yields are better to-' I day than at any other period of J | their history. Thus it will be seen' .that rotation, while often desirable, lis not an important factor in growing cotton in Marlboro county. Heaw vy fertilizing, which supplies plant food, and the heavy crop residues, t which supply the organic matter, c make rotation unnecessary. . t Model llUage Practices. \ Still another reason why* Marl- 1 boro county gets big yields is that I the farmers generally follow good I tillage practices. Fertilizers are 1 directly r esponsible for this. Cot- f ton fanners are usually looked upon as being rather slovenly in tending their crop, but I have never seen anything in the Corn Belt or anywhere else that could surpass/ the thoroughness with which cotton i is tilled in Marlboro county. The < reason is that when a farmer puts ? out twenty-five or thirty dollars' j 1 worth of fertilizer an acre he does]! not want to take any chance on los-j1 inir it. fonseniipntlv thp lahor is i followed up closely and the tillage work is done well and done.on time, ^ to make the best use of fertilizers. I once suggested to a large planter that the heavy applications of fertilizers might t be responsible for much of the general improvement in tillage. "That's the case with nie anyway,'* he agreed. "When I put up thirty or forty dollars an acre for! fertilizers I know good and well I1 am going to see that tlTe crop is tended right " ? His case is like that of many oth er farmers with whom I have talked. They know that to get their money back with a profit added to it they have to give a crop a chance tG grow, and they prepare the laQd and look after the cultivating the very best way they know how. A cardinal point these farmers learned long ago is that it does not pay to give all kinds of plants the same kinds of fertilizers. The soils they deafl with are practically all deficient in phosphorous, nitrogen and potassium, and materials containing one or more of these elements, such as acid phosphate, cottonseed meal, fish scrap, tankage, Kiiiidie ui suuu, puia.su, Kaiuu, uic applied. But it doesn't usually pay to give all the plants the same kind of concoction, nor in the same way. Corn, for example, needs a fertilizer that contains mor^ nitrogen than cotton, for its best development. Early Irish potatoes, whichtsome of the farmers grow, need more potash than corn or cotton, for best results. Furthermore, you * cannot, put 1 down the fertilizer in just any old way and always get the same results. In growing corn, where the i land is well built up. usually no I fertilizer is put down at planting < time, but an application is made when the plants-are about tw0 feeet | high. i\itrs?*e of soda is then applied about the time the corn begins to> tassel. In this way the plant grows off slowly, making a small stalk, apd by applying the fertilizer late the plant food goes to make the ear instead of the stalk. Where the land is poor, some fertilizer is put down when the com is planted to give it a good start. The big idea, however, is to make a comparatively small stalk and a big ear, and tl?e fertilizer is applied accordingly. With cotton, most of the fertilizer is applied before the crop is planted. Cotton, early in thc sea - I ] son is a siuw growing piaui, unu me fertilizer is needed to start it on.- A second application is sometimes made when the cotton is chopped out, and then nitrate of soda is eommonly applied about the time the first blooms appear, so that there will be a good supply of plant food for making the fruit These farmers, therefore, try to give each crop the specific kind of plant food needed, and to feed it at a time when the plants can make the best use of it. They have become especially skilled doing this, and not a little of their success in farming can be attributed to this fact. Most of the Marlboro county far- . mers buy fertilizer on credit, giving | notes that come due the fall to i pay for it. I This credit system enables a poor [ man 011 poor land to get a start. I once asked a successful farmer who [ had started from the bottom, how 1 he would start t0 build up the land, I if he had poor land and no money. I The reply came almost instantly: ' "I would get some fertilizer man I to credit me for fertilizer." To develop this credit system, | however, it h as been necessary to 1 use fertilizers that are readily avail- I able. Tho main benefits had to be | obtained the year in w-mcn me ier-| tilizer was used or the loans would not be safe. Farmers ordinarily expect to make a profit over and above the cost of the fertilizer the first year and pay the bill in the fall. If fertilizers not readily available were used, and the fertilizer company had to wait three or four years for an increase in the growth of the crops that would pay f r it, this credit system would be impossible. Fertilizer companies and banks do not credit the farmers for such a fertilizer as rock phosphate, which is not readily available, unless the fanner is financially strrng enough to meet the obligation even though he were to receive no return from the use of the phosphate. This is why rock phosphate nearly always sells f r cash. I could name many other things . that these practical farmers have | learned in the profitable use of fertilizers, but these are among the i^ost important. They pour in fertilizer and grow cotton while the siren song of crop rotation and diversification falfc unheeded. But mixed with the fertilizers are those other essentials without which, even with fertilizer, the land never could ha\> been brought from a point near exhaustion to its present high state of productivity. These essentials are sure lands, an abundant supply J cf organic matter, an intensive andi valuable crop, good tillage, fert' tion to meet the spe/ific needs or| the specific crop, ana a substantial; credit system % 1 The farmers have combined all hese factors and made Marlbor :ounty famous. They have made nore than two bales of cotton grow vhere nlv one grew before. They lave made poverty-stricken lands iroductive; cheap lands high-priced; )oor farmers rich. And back of it all ies the skilled and intelligent use of ertilizers. Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days 'LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a speciallyprepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days io induce regular action. It Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c per bottle. ,_4 rAKE DINNER AT THE PALMETTO CAFE SUNDAY.-?3 25 It. 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