Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, December 30, 1915, Image 4
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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
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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 ?**
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confidence in The
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accumulated a sati
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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
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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.
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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 ?
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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.
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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
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tional
:or the generous pat
for each one of il
'ear.
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lily every year,
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