Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A ' 1 ? ' Postal Brings This Book \ It is free ? it tells how you can have local and long distance telephone ser vice in your home at very small cost. Send for it today. Write nearest Bell Tele phone Manager, or FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 2 4 OS. PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, OA. ATTENTION We have a specially equipped Feather Department with a large force of trained workers for the manufacture of the highest grades of New Feather Work of all kinds from the best selected South African fea ther stock, which we import direct. Wo will be pleased to mail you a descriptive folder upon request. FOOTER'S DYE WORKS CUMBERLAND, Md. TO THE PUBLIC I am still in the Drayage business and solicit your work. All orders for Coal and Wood you will kindly give to The Camden Fuel Co., as I have sold that part of my business. J. B. ZEMP Health Insurance Is a Necessity For You LOOK INTO THE ll oL,!iRa,es y?u ?n no way to inquire nor MATTER NOW ! win you be subjected to annoyance ? we simply lay the matter before you, showing the liberal terms of policy, soundness o f the company, lowness of rates. 1 hink of a certain steady income when you're ill ? arrange for it Now. WILLIAMS INSURANCE & REALTY COMPANY { Incorporated. ) 1012 Broad Street Camden, South Carolina HOLDEN PLANS CAMPAIGN FOR DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE umtZ TO UNITE PROMINENT INTERESTS IN SOUTH TO ASSIST IN THE WORK ^ ' ? .Ml' , ? Agricultural Extension Department to AM Any Community Inter ested in Conducting Campaign to Encourage the Growing\pf Alfalfa ? Live Stock, Silos, More Pastures and a Better Sys tem of Crop Rotation Will Be Urged. r ' ? Alfalfa Automobile Train? Important Feature of the WorlfC ? Schedules to Be Arranged and Meetings to Be Held at Farm Homea ? Prominent 8peakera to Accompany Each Alfalfa Train? Organizations Will Be Formed In Each Community to Promote the Work ? Field Men Experienced In Alfalfa Qrowlng Will Follow Up Preliminary Work Wherever Possible and Qive Aid In Getting a 8tart ? Prof. P. G. Holden, Director Extenalon Department, International Harveater Company of New Jersey, Chicago, Will direct the work. ? The campaign will be conducted In co-operation with farmers' Institutes, bankers, business men, farmers, commercial clubs, granges, live stock aud dairy associations and other organizations in any community where the peo ple are anxious to improve their agricultural conditions and aro willing to give time and money to carry on the work. County and city superintendents of schools, colleges, institute workers, Chautauqua lecturers, and otfrgre in the work will be assisted In obtaining ulfalfa charts and lantern slides. Literature and booklets will be ' given wide distribution throughout the country. Special alfalfa articles will ] bo sent to farm journals and magazines, and plate and matrix pages to news papers. Special editions of newspapers will be published where campaigns are conducted. Dates will be arranged for "Alfalfa Day" in the schools. To Begin Campaign Work In Cotton Belt Immediately. Work to bo started immediately In the cotton belt states and in the east and west. Thirty to forty meetings will be held In each <Jounty, the* Number depending on local conditions. To accomplish the most In agricultural development, we must begin with the man behind the crop. Upon him depends the final working out of the principles of agriculture ? the simple and practical things ? which our schools, colleges and experiment stations are endeavoring to bring Into gen eral U86. Profossor Ilolden proposes to carry these principles further even than the very effective work done on the agricultural trains, by using that most modern vehicle ? the automobile ? going directly to the people on their own farms where the meetings are, to be held. Alfalfa Greatest Soll-Enrichlng Crop. Agricultural development needs in addition to the work of our public Institutions, the Individual efforts of joirery merchant, banker, corporation, or laboring man, and this plan call^&Kthelr heartiest co-operation. This plan for increasing the yields of our crops by the more extensive growing of that wonderful soil Improver, ALFALFA, is meeting the approval of all men who have any knowledge of the beneficial results of its introduction as a 'general crop. Campaigns are now being conducted in many of the central western statos, and Professor Ilolden is daily answering requests for his assistance in organizing other localities, and invites cordial co-operation with every com munity Interested. Where campaigns are contemplated it 1b required, first, that a request be ' made to the Agricultural Extension Department for assistance in carrying on the campaign. ' ? What the local people will (j^oyids: (1) Expenses (meals and lodging) for the alfalfa speakers and stall upon their arrival and during thtf-rampaign. ? ? (2) Whore tho campaigns are conducted by .automobiles alone, from ten to twepty. autQmobil^s f<}r each, dt^y %ot,the campaign to carry the alfalfa crew and invited guests; one auto tru^k,to carry literature, baggage, charts, and other equipment. ? ?;< , ... (3) Where the campaigns are carried on in co-operation with the rail roads, automobiles and railroad equipment must be furnished. (4) Arrange for meeting places and publish schedule of same. (5) Local advertising. (G) Photographer, if possible. The Agricultural Extension bepartment will provide: (1) Advance men to assist in orgahlzatlon work. * (2) Lecturers. . i 1 (3) Literature. ^ . y ... \ (4) Special educational articles for newspapers and farm Journals pertl Snent to alfalfa culture, object of campaign, etc. ? (5) field men to follow up the preliminary work and aid tho people in ,any community where sufficient interest is shown to warrant it. ? WILL DISTRIBUTE EDUCATIONAL BOOKLETS Interesting Literature to Be 8ent Out By the I. H. C. Extension Depart ment ? Books Dealing With Many Phases of Agriculture and Other I Subjects. i ' Agriculture means more to the peo { pie at large than- all other things. -It Is the most vital subject now holding the public mind. Tho work of agri cultirral and industrial education Is ] a Very largo and a very important i work. Tho Agricultural Extension De j payment of tho International Harvest ! er company of Now Jersey was or j ganized to develop the agricultural efficiency of tho people, who aro till j ing the soil and producing the crops upon which we live. The work of tho department is car ried on In many ways. First, by go ing direct to tho homes of tho peo i pie, "and assisting them in their homes with their problems. Another method is tho dissemina tion of educational literature. Tho department has at present for dis tribution a number of Interesting booklets covering many phases of ag riculture and other subjects, all of! * which are of special interest on ac- ' i count of their educational value. They are not for sale, but will be sent any 1 where at tho cost ot^ppstago or ex- j I press and may be obtalnedHiy writing tho Extension Department, Harvester building, Chicago. No. 1 ? The 8tory of Bread ? An In teresting story of tho world-old Btrug gle for cheap bread. Single copy. 3 cents; In quantities, 2 cents per copy. No. 2 ? Creeds of Great Business Men ? A series of sketches of men who have helped to make business what It Is today. Single copy, 5 cents; in quantities, 3 cents. No. 3 ? The Golden Stream ? A plain, everyday textbook on tho many phases of dairying. Single copy, 5 cents; in quantities, 2 cents. No. 4 ? For Better Crops ? A collec tion of valuable articles on farm sub ject*. Single copy, 6 cents; in quan tities. 3 cents. No. 5 ? The Story of Twine ? Thli i traces briefly tho manufacture a 1 t>vine. Single copy, 3 cents; in quan tities, 2 cents. No. 6 ? Engino Operator's Guide ? i- Tells all about how to operate, re pair and keep in good condition a gasoline engine. Single copy, 3 cents; in quantities, 2 cents. No. 7? The Cattle Tick? The best way for getting rid of it. Single copy, 2 cents; in quantities, 1 cent. No. 8 ? for Better Crops In the South ? Deals with crops and condi tions in the 6outh. Single copy, 4 cents; in quantities, 3 cents. No. 9 ? The Disk Harrow ? Shows the part disking plays in crop pro duction. Single copy, 4 cents; in quantities, 2 cents. No. 10 ? The Binder Twine Industry ? A story of the process used in mak- [ ing binder twine. Single copy, 20 i cent3; in quantities, 15 cents. No. 11 ? Harvest Scenes of the World ? A 150-page book, handsomely j bound, and printed In two colors, i .showing harvesting in many countries. I Singlo copy, 50 cents; In quantities, j 35 cents. No. 12 ? Alfalfa in the Cotton Belt?! ?How to get a stand of Alfalfa in the south. Singlo copy 2 cents; in quan- ! titles 1 cent. No. 13 ? Diversified Farming In the' Cotton Belt? A fifty page booklet.: Single copy 4 cents; ^liuouantlties 2> cents. No. 14 ? For Better Corn in the Cot ton Belt ? Single copy 2 cer^ts; In quantities 1 cent. ? / i No. 1&? The Boll Weevil? A thirty- { six page booklet. Single copy 4 cents; ; In quantities 2 cents. No. 16 ? Sweet Clover ? Its agrlcul- j tural value. Thirty-two page book. , . Single copy 4 cents; in quantities 2] : cjnts. | No. 17? The I. H. C. Demonstration : i Farms ? living tho results of *$xperl , ments with farm crops in the south. I Twenty pages. Singlo copy 2 cents; ! in quantities 1 cent. Besides the booklets named above, j from time to time tluro will be Issue''! ' other Interesting agricultural booklets! pertinent to Crops In all parts of tho j United States. Future Issues will treat such subjects as cowpeaa, soy beans, j peanuts, velvet beans, rico, sugarcane, silos, feeds and feeding, weedc and , insects, etc. J SIMPKINS' PROLIFIC COTTON Puts the farmer at an advantage because he U first in the market with his crop. THE EARLEST COTTON IN THE WORLD. \ Ninety Day* From Planting t? Boll. a Grows More Cotton to tb? Acre. SUPPLY IS LIMITED? ORDER QUICK The Only Ceuui^e SoM in This State. W. H. Mixson Seed Co., Charleston, S. C. Sole Distributer^ for South Carolina f Alio All Other Seeds vft, . Write for Catalogue a**? YOUR CHANCE to make a safe and profit . . i ,w; s . , able investment is at hand 111 1 11 !" 1 ,i.j juiiu'v j 1 1 1 . 11 . j "? ? ? ? tifririr "/it 't-i'i: Ih Wateree Building & Loan Assn. Will issue its fourth, serj^s ;*honth. The t^ne la getting close at hand. Share# ,$lKOQt,each (j)er month. Put aside a few dollars TO GET A HOME w4iile< the chance 1b up to you*., This is no "'hit or miss". gurnet. you play, at: ? It makes a hit every time. Ask any ^ tj^ l^hdt'eds of people who have tak en stock in the Building ^d jMjan' AesoclationB if they have ever had reasons to regret <tt. osbbia ,, ' _ ; ' 1 *tk 0 is Your Time to 1 Subscribe d 'V jr, ^ ^ for as many shares of St y oil? wish. One .(J, 000) shares will be sold. Six hundred an^ .sifcty-six (666) of thes#. have al ready been taken, and the U?ub8?r\ption list 1b less than a week old. Call at Thfcr^ '?? ftd <V1 ho<>? ' -it/ The First National Bank t ? S.J ?V - v>- i-?' '? M'<: . . / ?? . . . and subscribe for the stbck, Mr. John T. Mackey, Secretary and Treasurer, or subscribe to, the list Mr. W. R. Hough has when lie calls upon you. '.)< ' . Gamden Steam Bakery . . * ? r;v . <v. ? ? ; " MANUFACTURER OF V I t ; BETTER BREAD New Every Morning^ *'"tCl Jresh Every Evening ^?E__3S ??. .. .. Hvss Ask; Your Grocer..(tf!rmBicil8 for Better Bread ^v?r *5J2tr^""-~ . <i"V -V:. I ? ? ? ~~ itrTt y;. ? . V. ? CaMDEN^TEAM RaKERY A. X "BEA l I lE, Proprietor TELEPHONE 49 . CAMDEN, S. C. S C. Butt Orpingtons r.F|NE YOUNG STOCK 1 Jon- FOR SALE And Eg gs For Hatching ALSO FEW BARRED ROClC V PULLETS FOR SALE BELLSHAW DAIRY FARM MRS. A. S. WHITE, proprietor Pay Your Subscription - MT. . ?