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BrcSf ' I CORN CLUB BOYS ' & 10 GROW BERRIES New Work Undertaken by! Some of State's Alert Young Farmers. SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS Clsmson College Haa Sent Boys Directions For 8trawberry Culture That Will Be Useful to Adult Farmers and Surburban Dwellers as Well.? Advloe on All Steps, From Preparing Soli to Packing Crates. Eilghty South Carolina corn club boys, eighty of the best in the State, are adding strawberry culture to their work. These are the boys who by their corn club work last year, won scholarships to Clemaon College for the summor course. During the course they were promised that inatructions for growing strawberries would be sent to them in the fall and the boys expressed themselves as eager to try small natchea of ?n? luscious fruit an part of their club work. JP. J. Crider, associate professor of horticulture at Cletnson College, has prepared and sent the boys a set ot instructions for strawberry culture. These Instructions are simple and brief, but cover the subject in all im portant branches. They will be use ful to any who desire to grow straw berries and this should include a largo number of suburban dwellers as well as farmers. Prof. Crider's directions are as follows: Soil for Strawberries. Any kind except bottom land and stiff clay. Preparation of Land. Break deep !7? smooth the surface well, and lay off rows as for cotton. When ready to plant, knock the bed down to a level. Fertilizing. Fertilize heavily with stable manure, either broadcast or in the furrow, before planting. Each fall, just before mulching, apply broadcast a mixture of about 250 pounds cottonseed meal, 400 pounds kalnit, and 250 pounds acid phosphate, these being the amounts per acre. Setting Plants. Set plants in straight linn, 18 inches apart in row Place plants in rather large holes with roots spread apart and pack soli tlrmlv about them ........ iuwio \jl iilautH iuoIhI until planting. Place name of variety on a Htake at end ol row. Mulching- Ah noon an plants arc set, cover ground all about plants with heavy coating of pine needled or oat straw. This holds moisture and keeps berries clean in spring. Apply this mulch each year thereafter in September. Cultivating. Begin cultivation just after berries are gathered. Cultivate as for cotton, keeping a loose layer of soil on top and all weeds and grass removed. Treatment of Runners First Summer. I.et runners take root along rows so as to get plants for a new patch. Setting a New Patch. In September use new plunts in setting out a new patch, following same method as be fore. Treatment for Second Summer. Give same treatment as first summer, except that all runners must be cut off (unless more new plants are wanted). Repeat thin the third sum. raer. Treatment for Third Fall. Plow up your old strawberry patch. Strawberry plants will not produce desl:*-1 able berries after the third crop. Gathering Fruit. Pinch berries from stalks without bruising, leaving mtama mi ?... ww .urn (irtu n ovnry mnet day, sometime** every day. Pick ber ries when they are red. while yet 1 firm. Gather In standard uuart straw berry bankets. The basket is sold with the berries. Sorting While picking, place the . larger berries in one basket, the second size in another, and the smallest size (which should not be marketed) ! in a third. This in very important. J Naming the Qrades. Name the first grade "Kxtra Fancy" and the second i . grado "Fancy." Write name of grade, j varioty, and your own name on each basket. Use quart size strawberry baskets. 32 to the crate, and sen to it that tgicy are neat and clean, net pri(f<htvon crates and baskets from manufacturers and have supplies reach you in ample time. Arrangement of Berries in Basket. Have every basket well filled and arrange the berries on top in rows. Carry baskets to market in neatly packed crates. They will command attention and bring the highest prices. DRAGGING WITH AUTO A Western farm paper suggests that farmers keep up their roads by hitching a drag to their automobiles. The idea is to take the drag along behind the auto for a mile or two when on a trip to town, then to leave tke drag by the roadside, to pick it up on the return *. ip. and to drag the other aide of the road. It has kwa tried With mocmi. t 9 INTO A STRANGE COUNTRY >: Traveler In Other Lands Must Be Prepared With Open Mind to Abaorb Impressions. In the Woman's Home Companion Laura Spencer Portor continues her series of interpretations of various countries. Concerning a nation's personality, Miss Portor says in part: "He who would travel in other lands must leave his own behind. He | who would judge of a country and a people must leave his own fireside ' opinions, turn the key on his own prejudices, cross whatever seas of difficulty may lie between his and another's land, and with eager step, whether upon roads good or difficult, whether upon h'dden by-paths or highways known to all, he must travel into the very heart of the stranger country. Thus he may come any day upon that country's great ' cities in the dawn, or chance upon her noble events spread solemn beneath the stars; so shall he come to 1 - r, 1m. U. 1- -ill Hi. I nuwn a&l\l lute IIUI fllllljJlt' VUlil^C lilt' and humble pleasures, her fertile plains or rugged mountains, her attainments and her difficulties. So. living among this people and sharing the intimate life of their homes, they j shall come to have for him a particular meaning, shall stand to him for certain things not elsewhere to be found in this exact kind of measure, i So shall an entire nation reveal to him a distinct personality, even as an individual with whom we have lived intimately and understanding^ becomes to us dear through the unfolding of that individuality and those characteristics so wholly his own, the 1 like of which wc shall not look upon elsewhere or again." IS CREDITED TO CHURCHMAN Lines That Have Been Highly Praised Declared to Have Been Produced in Time of Peace. Robert Service, the Canadian writer, who is at present engaged in Red Cross work in France, ha9 cent to the Paris correspondent of an English paper what he describes a? j "the best war poem I have seen.' The verses, which, Mr. Service says.) were found by a French priest on thf body of an English soldier killed at the Marne, run as follows: They say that war Is hell, the great accurst; The sin impossible to be forgiven; Vet I can look upon It at its worst. And still see blue in heaven. For when I note how nobly natures form Under the war's red rain, 1 deem it true That he who made the earthquake and the storm 1?**? * - - viuuBubo uiaur UMIIIUII, KM). As a matter of fact, the lines were written in a time of profound peace. ( like most good war poems, and by a : man who was an ecclesiastic, not a soldier. Their author was Doctor, Alexander, the late lord primate oi Ireland, and they were first pul>lished in the Times some seven oi eight years ago.?Manchester Guar- 1 dian. 1 LEFT IN THE DARK. Green?There goes a woman whom T once considered the light of my life. Brown?Why, didn't you marry her? Green?A chap with more money than I could show camo along, and the light went out. QUITE 80. "Did you see how red those foui young women got when you detected them trying to get in on a bogus "Yes; it was a regular case of foui flushing." THE LIMIT. "Is that orator speaking for peace at any price?" "Oh, no; he's fixed substantial minimum rates." THE UNIVERSAL THEORY. "Why do you suppose .links is sc continually looking at his watch?" "1 have a suspicion. There ma> l>e a woman in the ease." SOME HOPE LEFT. "Is your father's illness serious?*' "I think not. lie's been in bed foi three days now and so far the doctoi hasn't suggested an operation." HUMAN UNANIMITY. "Men are alike in all times. I dan say whm Adam first met Eve hej thought she wAo good enough to eat." j "Will, wiat aha * spare rib ?** k . *? . ^. THE FOET MILL TIMES, FOR1 | Z=Zl\ 1 =i I The F Takes this occasioi ceived during the ] friends a Happy ai The people of tl confidence in The years ago and our Our officers and i / i - duct ot the bank s ty First. Aside from the holders are concer accumulated a sati has been of real se supervision of the secure depository Interest at 4 per Th< W. B. ARDREY, Pres. L = t /v v- ir r r> nUIYIt MIAtU rCKIIU?tK ll Farmtn Can Save From Three to a Five Dollars Per Ton by Mix- c Ing Materials at Home ? Farmers can save from three to ? five dollars a ton by mixing their fer- ? tlllizers at home. Three other advan- 1 tages of home-mixed fertilizers are 1( stated as follows by Clomson College authorities: " 1. It is possible to know deiinitely 1 from what sources the ammonia In r your fertilllzer is derived. * 2. It is possible to prepare for each ? crop the special grade of fertilizer n best suited to it. k 3. There is a saving in freight, hauling, and distributing, by not having to handle a lot of "filler" that is put in ready-mixed fertilizer. Farmers can get Circular 10, "Home Mixing of Fertilizers", by writ % ' -s r MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA i ?i ijt irst Na n to thank the public 1 past year, and to wish nd Prosperous New \ lis community have s First National Bank bank has grown stead directors deeply appi business and its custo fact that our bank has ned in that it has paid sfactory surplus, our c irvice to the communil U. S. government. Th Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Qood for your ou)n Aches, Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. 25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealer*. S YOUR LIVER! AND SALIVATES one tonight. Your druggist or dealer ' ells you si .50 cent little of Dodson's ,irer Tone under my personal moneyack guarantee that each spoonful will lenn your sluggish liver better than a oae of nasty calomel and that it won't rake you sick. Dodson's T.iver Tone is real liver tcdicine. You'll know it next morning crause you will wake up feeling tine, our liver will be working; headache nd dizziness gone; stomach will bo weet and howcla regular. Hudson's T.iver Tone la entirely vegeable, therefore harmless and can not a li\ ate. Give it to your child reft, if ill ions of people are using Dodson's .iver Tone instead,of dangerous calomel low. Your druggist will Ml you thai he sale of Galomel is almost stopped ntirely hero. t i Ing to the Extension Division, Clemson College. PAW GUE8SED IT. Little Lemuel?Say, paw, what is I ft meaty discourse? I Paw?Tt is a aerrnon, son, that ' J gives us much food for thought. RESTRICTED PERMISSION. "Miss Gladys, may 1 have your \ ' hand for this dance?" "Yes, if you promise to keep off inv feet." PREFERS THE OTHER. "Can you do vour own cooking on an ?niprcvnov ?" ^ "Well. I could trv. hut I always d?? i' no i ?n>* ?tovo." i CALOMEL DYNAMITI MAKES YOU SICK "DofeM's Urn Tent" SUrfs Your Liver ] Better Thu Calomel ari You Don't J Lose i Day's Wort ? * <i Liven ?p yoiit sluggish liver! Fool fine and cheerful; make your work a pleasure; lie vigorous and "full of anihi- !' tion. lint take no nasty, dangerous '' calomel because it makes you aiefc ami v you may lose a ?lay'? work. Calomel is mercury or quickailver s which causes necrosis of the hones. Calomel crashes into ionr bile like t dynamite, breaking it up. That'* when a you feel that awful nausea and crumping. > Listen to me! If you want to enjoy I the nicest, gentlest liver ar.d Itowel r cleansing vou ever experienced iuet take t a apoMutu* of baxmlea Dodsoo'u Liver c , ft for the savings of our cent compounded ev s First Na OSMOND BARBER, Vice Pres. i? l[jH^= USE WILT RESISTANT SEED. Somebody estimates that the South osea about ten million dollars annuity as the result of the ravages of otton wilt and root-knot. South Carline h$ars a large part of this loss, t is not difficult, however, to protect nes cotton crop from wilt. The use f wilt-resistant varieties of cotton is he course urged by the uotany divls* on of Glemson College and this dlvis >n is co-operating with a nurabor of armers in the state who are produong carefully grown seed of these wlltesistant varieties to sell to farmers rhu need them. The botany division f Clf'lMSon College will be glad to newer questions about wilt and rootnot. Rubbing Eases Pain Rubbing sends the liniment tingling through the flesh and quickly gtops pain. Demand a liniment that you can rub with. The besft rubbing liniment is mustang linimentL Good for the Ailments of ?I 1? tional :or the generous pat for each one of il 'ear. hown in a very pr ever since its organ: lily every year, 'eciate this confident rf - i uiers arrairs always been a success, so 1 regular dividends e officers believe that ty. Operated as it i e First National Ba people. ery three months on tional Ba: T. B. SPRATT, Cashier. i- -i Let Us V\ Fire Ira We repre of the stroi panies in % Rates too 1 to take th< Bailes I District | 9 1 ij Great I, |i Serials | I The year 1916 will be crowded with the very best reading in Mirth's 9 Great Serials i CUT THIS OUT and send it (or the name of this paper) with $2.00 for The COMPANION for 1916, and we will send P0rr All the liMiei of THE COMPANION for the remaining week* of 1915. ppcr THF. COMPANION HOME r IVCC CALENDAR for 1915. THFN ** Weekly I?ue? of 1 THECOMPANION far HI*. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEi -I ? 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