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CONTROL SAN JOSE SCALf Do Not Let Winter Paas Without Making Effort to Get Rid of Thla Fruit Post by Spraying. The time to apray San Jose scale ifl In wlntUP vhftn tVl a traaa * ra 1 aa f less and dormant, because the mate rials that have to be used are ao severe that they would destroy the foil age if applied when the leaves are on The most satisfactory spray is lime sulfur wash. When purchased fron: a reputable house it is more uniform ly effective than when boiled accord lng to the old method. Directions for preparing the homo-made wash, how ever, will be furnished on request. To prepare the spray from commer clal wash, dilute one gallon of th< wash with eight and one-half gallon* of cold water. Ordinarily, one Bpra> is enough. In bad cases, sprav as soot as the leaves are off and repeat in February. We do not recommend spraying with thin material after thf 'Ife buds have started. ' Lime-sulfur wash will not success fully control the gloomy and cotton> maple scaler* no common to rnapb trees, nor will it successfully contro! oyster shell scale of the orchard. For these we recommend heavy oil emul slons at the rate of one part of th< oil to twenty parts of water. Owlnp and you And little bote* in the hark that make you think Homebody had shot into the trees with a shotgun loaded with No. 8 shot, those trees are infested with shot hole borers. If with your knife blade you peel ofT the bark you will find not sap wood, but a mass of sawdifst Instead. Shot hole borers usually attack a tree that has been weakened. The principal causes of weakening in trees are scale and borarB A badly infested tree should be cut out and burned during winter. Hadly infested branches should be cut from a tree and the tree stimulated Insects stay over winter in bark as little white grubs and pupae. By carefully watching the tree one may determine the time when the last brood ot beetles has come out. which Is about the middle of September. At that f imn tVif* fnllnwinff ttoaK aKiuilrl Kaa ?* plied to the tree: Quick lime 20 lbs. Soup (not coal tar or naphtha) 2 lbs Sulfur 6 lbs. Salt 5 lbs. Water 2S (all. M Dissolve the soap in 2 gallons of hot eater. With water batter the sulphur into a paste. While the lime is slaking in a barrel, add the soap and the sulfur and slowly dilute until the whole mass makes 26 gallons. The salt has no advantage except to make the wash stick faster to the trees. This wash can be applied with a tmnll paint or whitewash brush. The trunk and large- branches should b? thoroughly covered. A. t>\ CON KADI, Profeasor of Kntoraology, ctamaon Agricultural Coll<K>. iu me v?neiy ui mm now dchir irier out, any one wishing definite informa tion about oils Tor these pests should write us. Oils bought from standard houses are generally well emulsified but it is always well to make a separa tion test as follows: After making ui the spray ,8et one-half tumbler of thf mixture in a quiet plare for an hour If no separation shows in the form o' light oils coming to the top. the oil is safe to spray according to direc tions. When a separation takes place the manufacturers are always willing to adjust the matter. A. F. CONRADI. Professor of Entomology, Clenison Agricultural College. PERMANENT PASTURES Bermuda and Bur Clover Make Moat Desirable AII-the-Year Pasture For South Carolina. Bermuda grass and bur clover make the most desirable permanent pasture for South Carolina and Bermuda espe daily is recommended by Clemsoi. College as a pasture grass to all farm era in thin state who are raisins cat tie and hogs or who expect to ralsi them. One of the most essential stop In any live-stock development Is thf establishment of n Rood permanen pasture. Experience has shown that Bermud; is the best pasture Rrass for th# South One of Its valuable qualitle' . is that it piay be planted in practical ly any month, the only precaution nec essary in winter being to cover the roots deeply enough. In sowing Bermuda grass, it is bast to use the roots. Run turn plow fur rows two feet apart, drop a small root every two feet in these furrows and throw ono furrow ou each planted row. Allow to grow for one summer with only light grazing, and turn under or otherwise break in fal. just at or soon nfter frost. The long runnerthus covered will furnish a new plant the following season from each cover ed Joint and you will have an excel lent sod. If done in this way a goon sod can be obtained within two years at small expense. If Bermuda grass is put in this winter, bur clover can be added next Aug ust. EXTENSION DIVISION, CIcmson Agricultural Collega. TREES LOOK AS IF SHOT Effect of Shot Hole Borer on Fruit Trees and What to Do to Control This Inaect Pest. Whenever your fruit trees die back 1 SIXTY AEROPLANES IN FLOCK French Attack on Gorman Position in Forest Must Havo Boon Spectacular in the Extreme. A thrilling acconnt is given in the i French paper, Lihefte, of a recent 11 l.rl ,ai/1 i.i I fL *jv4n A..nt>tnnnP a i uttva xai'i rv 1111 y ariupiuuc^ upon the forest of Houlthulst, which is situated about half way between j Dixmude and Tpres. The forest is.practically sheltered from the effects of allied artillery, , and it has been converted into a reg ular garrison district with barracks , full of troops and munitions depots j and the whole camp illuminated with electric light. Through air photographs the situation of the main military buildings was located exactly, and at 1ft p. m. the Gft French, Belgian and British aeroplanes started out in clear moonlight. Immediately the aeroplanes appeared there was great excitement in the camp. All lights were extinguished and anti-aircraft guns cnm? into action, but the airmen, greatly I assisted by the moonlight, dropped four tons of high explosives and incendiary lK>mhs upon the camps and depots. Some of the nircrnft. returned to refill with shells no fewer than threr; times in the course of the night. By the light of the fires started j the airmen asserted they sow groups of soldiers fleeing in great disorder in the panic caused by the continual explosions in the ammunition depots Bv 11 :30 p. m. the entire forest and the buildings it contained were in fiames. THE GAME BEGINS JD (C "And what do you know about Homer?" "Ix>t8. Didn't Duckey Dunn and Patsy Sanks make three homers in de very last game on de lot down df street ?" GOING THE GAITS. "Too bad about Wopsley. He's involved in a terrible scandal and 1 thought all the time that he won the 'white tlower of a blameless life.'" ' til VAI1 IriiAur olmn Wa*vh. - .. j '" -? ?" 'iVjmley. As a matter of fact, he's beeii wearing the red carnation of a cabaret rounder." DISCOURAGING SUBJECT. "Dubson has my sympathy." "Why so?" "He never thinks of anybody hut himself." ; "He should be censured for that.' j ; "No. lie must suffer. Imagine spending a lifetime thinking about a i j>erson of Dubson's caliber." 1 HAPPENING OF UNEXPECTED. | Mrs. Homer?What! Your husband ill? J Mrs Peckein?Yes; he had an aw! fnl shook this morning. Mrs. Homer?You don't say! Mrs. Peckein?Yes; he and I had a quarrel and mamma sided with jhim. , NEARER HOME. i ' "What do you think of this erun tion of Mount Vesuvius?" "Why, it's nothing to the one out i l?ahy had." THE MAIN ISSUE. "Sir, when I marry your daughter I propose to work." "All right, young man, as long ai you don't try to work me." JOURNALISTIC TERROR. Rhymer?The typewriter is a wonj derful invention, isn't it ? Spacer?Yes; hut it isn't a markj er to an editor's blue pencil. STRAIGHT TIR. Young Green?What is the best way to frvt ahead in the worl I ? i Old Brown?The best way to gat 1 a head is to ba boia with oaa. 1 ' ' '* r't THE FOBT MILL TIMES, F01 LANDS ARE ROBBED' BY WINTER RAINS V - * H ? Uncovered Hillside Soils Lose Tons of Fertility Annually That Could Be Saved. TERRACING WILL SAVE IT Laying Off Terraces on the Slopes and Growing Winter Cover Crops Will Save Millions to South Carolina Farmers?Hillside Erosion Especially Cor.tly In Piedmont Section of 8tate. South Carolina farmers, and espe: clallv those In the hilly Piedmont section, need to terrace their lands to keep the noil from being washed away I by erosion, which is a wearing away caused by wind and rain. The erosion caused by rain water washes thousands of tons of soil annually from the lands of this state, with a consequent loss of fertility. Nature's method of preventing erosion is to keep the soil covered with trees, leaven, and grass. Man's method is j to terrace and grow winter cover cropH. A terrace Is a ridge of soil thrown up in such a manner as to prevent water from (lowing rapidly down a hillside or slope. Only steep or rolling lands need terracing. Use a leveling instrument In running lines for terraces. One can be had for from $12 to $25 and can be used for many other kinds of work on the farm. It is necessary also to have a "hillside" plow, so that the dirt can be thrown always down hill. After determining on the line of the terrace, by the use of the leveling Instrument, begin on that line and throw the first furrow up hill. Going above it. using a hillside plow, throw the next furrow down hill. Throw each succeeding furrow down hill until the proper distance has been covered to get an elevation of about three feet. This system, having the terraces about throe feet high and vertical, will give what is known as the level bench terrace, the land between any two terraces becoming a level bench with no fall in any direction after a few years' cultivation. The level bench terrace Is best suited to most of the farms in Piedmont South Carolina. The strongest and highest terraces should be located, as a rule, near the upper edge of the hillside field, because if the top terrace breaks It Is well nigh impossible to prevent the IClim rr? uniwn n wiu away. Run a terrace or ditch at the upper edge of the field to rare for the surplus water which may come from an adjoining field, pasture or woodland. Such surplus water often proves too much for any system of terraces to control. Crossing terraces with teams, plows or wagons will form depressions that will allow water to break over and start gullies, which weaken and de- i troy a terrace. Avoid Jhls by leaving at the end of the field a sodded slope to be used as a road to get from terrace bench to another. THE REASON. Publisher?Why did you put ir. a mad-dog scene in this storv for children ? Author?Didn't you tell me it needed snap? WATCHFUL WAITING. Knicker?Was it the witching hour of three when you got in? Outlate?Worse; it was the watching hour of three. PISCATRIX. Stella?Can you fish? Bella?Well, if someone else bait* it and catches it and takes it off the hook I can tell the lies. CALOMEL DYNAMIT MAKES YOU SjCl "Dodsw's Urn Tim" Sbrfe Yoir Lhrtr Bettor Thai CaloratJ aid Yn Doi't Lost a Day's Wort Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel fine and cheerful; make your work a pleasure; 1* vigorous and full of ambition. Hut take 110 mutty, dangerous calomel Iterance it makes you nick anil you may lose a day's work. Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes r.ecrotds of tne hones. Calomel crashes into sour bile like dynamite, breaking it up. That's when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. Listen to ine! If you want to enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced just take a spoonful* of harmless .Hudson's Liver EtT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA BEAR HOLOS UP AUTOIS1 Black Bruin Refuses to Make Way, In Spite of Frequent Frightened "Honke." The story of a holdup of a lone autoist from this city by a lone black Iwar is the first hunting tale that ftnmoc frnm PI itlfrvn vvuiM iiviu viiuivn V.UHUIJ this year. R. A. Quigley and party of hunter? left here at night in an automobile driven by Henry Lee of North .Tones street, for their hunting lodge in the Hyner district, near the pumping station of the Standard Oil company. They reached camp safely and Chauffeur Lee was on his way to Hyner station to meet other members of the party \Aen he saw the black object ahead that proved to be a large bear, which refused to move from the road. I^ee repeatedly blew his horn, but the toot fell apparently upon deaf ears. It was a clean holdup in a dense forest, and the cold shivers began to trace themselves up and down the spinal column of the man at the wheel. Finally the bear moved off into the woods, and the frightened motorist put on full power, breaking the speed limit on his way to Hyner station.? Lock ITaven (Pa.) Dispatch to Philadelphia Record. 1 SHE FORCES TRAMP TO EAT "Too Much la Plenty," Pleads Man Who Had Been Made to Qerfle at Pistol Point. Returning home at Second and Pennell streets at noon, Mrs. William Kirkwell found a tramp helping himself to food in the kitchen, ne started to run, but she called him back. "Finish your dinner/' she commanded, and the tramp, picking up courage, resumed his meal. His hunger satisfied, he thanked his hostess and started toward the door. "Xo, you don't," said Mrs. Kirk wen ; "vou haven't had half enough yet. Finish that apple pie; then have another piece of that cake." Mrs. Kirkwell showed a revolver as she continued to urge the tramp to eat. Realizing he must try to please, he crammed himself until he could hold no more, and still he was urged to help himself to more pie and cake. When he finally was allowed to go, he remarked that "too much is plenty," and waddled out.? Chester (Pa.) Dispatch Philadelphia North American. THE ONLY CHANCE LEFT. "Why is Miss Oldgirl marrying that awful rounder? He's sure to lead a double life." "Evidently she's tired of a single one."?Ilohart Herald; r--??-it Rubbing Eases Pain Rubbing sends the liniment tingling through the flesh and quickly 4tops pain. Demand a liniment that you can rub with. The beit rubbing liniment is i MUSTANG LINIMENT Good for the A ilmrnts of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. j Qood for your own Aches. Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. 25c. 50c. $1. At *11 OnUx. I I r I ??I?immww ES YOUR LIVER! ( AND SALIVATES! ? | Tone tonight. Yonr druggist or dealer ' < 118 you a 50 ornt Itottlc of Dodson's I.irer Tone under my personal money* hack guarantee that .?-tch spoonful will clean your sluggish liver better than a done of nasty calomel ami that it won't make you sick. Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You'll know it next morning J l?*raunc you will wake up feeling tine, tour liver will be working; headache nnd dizziness gone; stomach will be 1 sweet and bovrcln regular. TValson'a Liver Tone is entirely vegetable, therefore harmless and can not salivate. flive it to your children. Millions of people are using DoJson's Liver Tone instead of dangerous calomel now. Your druggist will tell you that the sale of Calomel U aim oat stopped . entirely bora. t , ^' ' -%. * " 0^'" '?r '* ' % V # 1 ^ * Let Us Wri Fire Ins We represe of the strong panies in th Rates too loi to take the i Bailes District Ag BUILD While the buil and the savin If you contemplate the erection barn, or outhouse, or the remode present buildings, DO IT NOW. if you act at once, for you can d now than you can possibly do it j 30 or 60 days, we verily believe t have passed. Labor will becom Building Material market is aires know say that prices will be back We will supply you at close figuri nish vou estimat.ps on what vmir Take advantage of conditions a Build 1 Fort Mill L Phone ?. . " I ? m II Great l|| Serials U The year 1916 (| will be crowded with n !| the very best reading in IMiuiM 9 Great Serials 2E SH ????? 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