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VOL XXIV- Editot Cotton Plant: As I am housed to-day by a welcome raiu, I will try to fulfill 'a promise made you some time since, that is to gi?e you a part of my experience with Bermuda grass. Several years ago I was appointed to write dn article on the grasses, for our summer meeting of the State Agricultural and Mechan ical Society, wl^ich met at Spartan burg. When my article was read, taking high grounds in faVOr of Ber muda grass'', a gentleman jumped up, and while he did not. call me a fool, he intimated as much, and warned those present against this grass as a danger ous enemy, saying that it would run over a twelve acre fudd iu a week. I had lauded this grass as a blessing not appreciated by our people, as it will grow on almost any kind of land, either dry or moist, so it is not cover ed by water. On good land it will make heavy crops of the best hay, and on poor; worn out land makes the best of pastures. When a good stand is secured, it is so well protected that stock may tramp it without injuring the soil or killing the grass. It has taken entire possession of many fields in this section withoht the aid of the owner of the land. There are hun dreds of acres in Uiis vicinjty, of as fine pastures as you can find any where, and all without a sprig having been planted. This looks as if it had been seeded, blit the theory is that no seed ever matures in this climate, though some think it does mature seed under ^Xavorable conditions, and I am in clined to that ofdmon, as it gets into farms in a way that can't be accounted for unless the seed gels about like crab gra®*- * Be that as it may, it is gaining popu larity and is a blessing to our people, who never think of |»aBtures or their value unless the Bermuda has visited them. The late (»ov. Hagood was the only one that I kuow of who planted ,it for hay, which be did after a fine bottom of river land had been taken by it. He told me that he had forty acres planted by haviug the roots cut into short pieces and sown broad cast and plowed in, which made him '4 1-4 tons UHJie acre the next spring, and I presume It is still kept up. Col. T. J. Moore, of S|iertanburg, has given up his fine river bottom corn land to it. I think, like <>ov. Hagood, a good deal of his was volunteered when he saw its value and enlarged its dominions. The late l>r. Kavenel, of Charleston, told me that he made six tons of fine hay to the acre at the phoephate works near Charleston, and yet I see it stated that some fanners near there say that it don’t grow high enough to cut on their lana. I am inclined to suspect that they have gotten the old wire grass, which somewhat resembles the Bermuda, but differs in many respects. The wire grass has been here for ages, 1 presume. It is never discussed, bnt - the Bermuda has come within my memory. It is said that Drs. Nichols and (iolding look a trip West, and brought back a few sprigs and planted them near their gardens. From this small beginning came what we have, so it is Uiought, but it has' certainly spread rapidly to depend entirely ou i Wasug farnail hg ■Mur iir tttfi feet of cattle. My neighlwr, Dr. Frank Fuller, makes a large lot of tine hay, yet he had about 400 acres well set be fore he realized what a treasure he had. - The wire grass makes aline pasture, all stock aie fond ot it, but it uever grows high enough to cut for hay. It differs frbm the Bermuda iu color, and the seed vessels are but two, coming out at the end of the stem, while the Bermuda has from three to seven, usu al# four, Which comes'* out at the end of the stem, even, like the arms of an umbrella. The cplor of the wire grass is like rye, while the Bermuda is like wheat. I enclose you samples of each. . 1 don’t know whether the wire grass seeds ; also the seed vessels of the crab grass, which comes in pairs down the stem. Nature has been very good to our people in sending us, Bermuda grass and lespedeza striata, which has spread over our pastures without the help of man, for which wo should be very grateful to a merciful God. It is embarrassing for me to describe grasses, as I know nothing of botany though I hope your readers may be able to understand what have writ ten, anil that you may be able to de cipher what I have written with a crippled forefinger. With many good wishes, * ' J. Washington Watts. Near Mountville, Sept. lath. The tea used in the immediate household of the Emperor of China is treated with the utmost care. It ib raised in a garden surrounded by a wall, so that neither man nor beast can get anywhere near the plants. At the time of the harvest those collecting -the leaves must abstain from eating fish, that their breath may not spoil the aroma of the tea ; they must bathe three times a day, and, in addition, must wear gloves. The recent period of extreme heat is blamed'for an epidemic of suicides m Chicago. A physician said that the ' heat irritated weak temperaments and led many, persons so afflicted to at tempt to kHl themselves. There were four successful attempts in one day Spartanburg Free Lance. The mercantile side of farming has been too much overlooked. We have been accustomed to think that others should run that for us. We have been so much engrossed in producing that we have not given as much thought to selling as we should have done. There, are so many sharp traders in every Hue ready to manage lliat for us, that we have quietly submitted to their man agement, and, of course,, they ooked after their own interest. m have The lesultls that all we make is consumed and yet we remain poor. More than this, every class is making more money out of our produce than we make. SELLING COTTON. Take cotton, the most important money-producing crop we grow. We lave given more thought to this than any other, and how does this stand ? Everybody gets better pay than the iroducer. The picker gets goal wages for picking; the^inner gets good pay for ginning; the bagging and tie men get immense profits, furnishing the covering; the warehouse men get good rofits weighing and storing, andtuany of them have accumulated large for tunes in this business; the insurance companies make very large money from every crop; the sampler and street or wagon buyeis make good wages; the railroad and ship companies make arger profits than on any other class of freight^ the compress men get immense- y nch squeezing the badly packed bales; the larger buyers start iu busi ness with little or no money and get to be millionaires; bankers get hanslsomc profits, furnishing the cash and paying the bills; the manufacturers double their capital and pay large dividends; lastly but mostly the speculators—a vast army of sharp traders and schem ers who deal in cotton in sight and out of sight, and gamble in options to the ruin and hurt of thousands of honest men—often roll In wealth, when they should be toiling in chains. Thus we see these fifteen classes of men all making profits, sometimes im mense fortunes, and many others in- ideutally getting a goal living, while we ofteu sell at less than the cost of production. Take manufactured goods and follow them hack to the consumer and the man who grows the cotton is s very liberal consumer, and find almost many profits attached. We sell a pound of cotton for from six to eight cents and sew on wwir buttons with thiead for which we i«y a dollar per pound. None of these |>cop!e are to blame for making what they can and do. They arc only looking out for self-in terest, but we are to blame for selling them our cotton without firstgelliug a profit for ourselves. HOW CAN THIS BK DONE. First we must own the cotton. We can never control the sale of a mort gaged crop, or a crop made upon provis ions tiought on time. We must raise our own supplies and own the cotton. This has been ofteu said, hut we have not yet learned what it really means. Then we must distribute the sale through the twelve months. By doing this we will avoid the numerons go be- tweens aud get nearer to the manu factories. Wc can thus stop the forced sale we have been making. We^can avoid the annual glut of warehouses, railroads and money markets. When we have done this, we can have a voice the price. We haVe a practical Correspondence Cotton Plant. We like,the first naire better. We be came acquainted with this plant iu our earliest years. Our home garden had the borders on either side of the walks marked by rows of lucerne. For a half century those rows held their own against all sorts of abuse. How long it would have coutiuued to grow there, we have no way of telling. The old home, with all its fond memories, was turned over to the negro tenants, and after planting the garden in cotton for several years, they succeeded in get ting rid of the lucerne. Father paid sixty cents per pound for those seed. Those rows of living green are among the precious memories of childhood. From this we are inclined to think that when we have secured a set or stand of lucerne, we have it for a life time, or even for succeeding genera tions. This is one great point in its favor. Of course it can be destroyed by neglect or abuse, but not by culture and use. Value as a Foratje Crop. In point of yield and feeding value, Lucerne stands at the head of the list. Through out the South it is green all winter. It beginft growing early in spring, and with favorable seasons may be Cut four to seven times. It is particularly valuable as a green forage crop. You begin cutting as soon as it is sixteen inches high. If you cut and feed day by day, by the time you have gone over a few acres it is ready to cut again where you first began. Used in this way, you have a perpetual green feed all summer and fall. Cows stiow an increased yield of milk and butter from the first day it is given them. And they decrease as soon as you stop the ratiou of lucerne, This will be true no matter what other food you use. Nothing can take its place in the dairy. Good jar Hay. If desired for hay, you begin cuttiui! as soon as U is in full bloom. It is easily cured and makes a first class hay. You can get from four to six cuttings as the seasons and soil (nay be goal or bad. On good soil two tons per cutting is not an un usual yield. One and a half may be counted a safe average. 8o you get from six to eight tons |>er acre per season. All stock are foud of it Horses and mules keep fat and hogs grow well when fed Lucerne. It is not reoommcnVl for grazing particularly. The caps which furmstf the shoots are generally above grouud and hence liable to be bitten off by cattle or bogs. Where Will it Grom? We might say anywhere. We do not know any p'her forage planCthat has so wide a range of climate and soil adaptation. It grows all over the United Sutea. The bomb seems especially suitdd to its wants. Henty of rain rejoicea it, but owing to its deep rooting it has wondetful power for resisting drou.h. How to I’Umt Lucerne. The roots irrow deeper than any other field crop, often penetrating from seven to twelve inches through the sliffest* clays, fence the soil should be broken very deep, aud harrowed very often. Twelve AN ORGANIZATION SECUfcE in monopoly of growing CTamHaWvop «<w6mai this great mail unit on. and vc A lore all the immense advantage for want of business methods in selling. When we get in this shape many of us, when wc found a cotton crop on hand for which we could not get a satisfac tory price, would hold it aud quit mak ing cotton and give our attention to .something else until the price was satisfactory. Of course this means a great revolution in our methods, but that is just what we need and must have if we are ever to get fair prices for farm products. What I have said about Cotton is equally true of many other crops. The seed of the cotton is another illustration. Most of us sold our seed last season for about fourteen cents per bushel or less. A few who held on got twenty-five to thirty-five cents. AH could just as well have gottou twenty-five cents if they had waited. 'Cotton seed are worth twenty-five cents to us, they are worth over that to the oil mill men, and why should we sell them at fourteen cents. I trust that the farmers will read the above carefully and heed its meaning. U. 4- Wingo. Roebuck, S. C. Growing Bamboo.—The United States Department of Agriculture re cently issued' Farmers’ Bulletin No. 93, frpra which we take the following: “ The day will come when all of our Sotithland will grow the bamboo. Travelers in the far East, and especial ly .Japan, are impressed with the im portance of the bamboo. It is use< for almost everything, and is profitably used too. It can be grown so easily aud iu such profusion that when we begrh to study economy, as wc must some time, we will raise bamboo in al localities where it will grow. It thrives wonderfully well as far north as cen tral Japan, and we are led to believe that it will thrive in the Southern States as far north as Tennessee. It grows to considerable size even as far north as the latitude of Southern Iowa 'But Iowa winters, are too severe for it “ It would flourish in the South, and it is susceptible of so many and such saried uses that it rnunt be seen and utilized to be fully appreciated.” PROVEMENT IN THE PUBLIC ROADS. Chester County has taken the initia tive in organizing societies to awaken and stimulate interest ayiong the peo ple for the improvement of the public high ways. The following is the plan of orgamzatiou : I. The name of the organization shall be, “ The (rood Roads Society of Chester and Chester County.” II. The object of the society shall be to "stimulate general interest iu the improvement of public highways, to determine the best methods of build ing and maintaining good roads, to secure the legislation accessary for their establishment, and to promote all other proper and expeditious means having such results in view. III. Any person who is interested iu the purposes of the society, who lends his influence or who makes a liberal contribution may become a member by signing any one of the re gisters provided by the society. IV. The funds of the society are not to build roads, but are necessary to .advertise the advantages, to procure able lecturers, and to provide such other means to accomplish the much desired object as may be deemed ex pedient. V. The officers of the society shall tie a president, one vice-president, a secretary and treasurer, a director for each township iu the county, and a working - committee of three members for each township. The offleers and board shall be elected by the present convention. The working committees t-hall consist of the township’s respec tive director as chairman and two other members appointed by the board of directors. VI. The -board of directors shall consist of the president, the vice-presi dent, the secretary and treasurer, aud one director for each townshqi. VII. The board of directors shall have control aud direction of the affairs of the society at times when the society is not in session. It shall direct the making of all'contracts, pur chases, and expenditures, but shall not render the society liable for debt be yond the amount of the treasury, and not needed to discharge existing liabi lities. VIII. Five members of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum of the board. • IX. The term of the office of the of ficers and directors of the society shall be one year. X. The annual meeting shall be held on the last Monday of July each year. At this meeting a full report shall be made as to all work done, and tho secretary and treasurer shall make a report of all money received and ex pended. The annual electiou will lake place at this meeting. At the request of a majonty of the directors the president shall call a meeting of the society, giving one week's notice. XL' Vacancies in the offleers of the society shall be tilled by the board of directors. XII: The constitution may be Isr meeting of the inis vote of those the bad roads woul«L soon make per manent good roads if spent with syste matic judgment. First you need a cofapeleQt road engineer in every couuty. Then all convict labor should be used on the public roads. J Nowherq else<can they work without competing with free labor. In no other way can the counties standing the cost of con viction get back the proceeds of the punishmeut. - - , Give every mnn the choice of paying road tax or working out his time under the supervision of the eugineer. Fill out the details for yourself. But go to work aud have good roads.—Southern Cultivator. FARM LABOR IN THE SOUTH. to fifteen pounds of seed should then amended at any regu be sown broadcast per acre and cover i society, by a two-thi ightly. The full sowing is better. It ] present will greatly help to use four hundred minds per V'ie of acid phosphate and kainit mixed in equal proi>ortious. It will he still better it ydu have grown crop of cow peas and cut them for lay. Top dressing once a year with the above or with stable manure or There are some few men in the South who, because of the trouble that the “negro problem” in politics aud crime has given them, are* ready to declare that they wish the negro well out of the" South. Now the fact is that there are good negroes and bad negroes, as there are of all other races,.and so far as farm labor is concerned those who have all their lives worked the negro in the South,and understand him, know Very well that there is no better farm labor when intelligently directed. This fact is strikingly brought out in an ad dress by Mr. F. J. Mernam, of Battle Hill, Georgia, before the Georgia State Agricultural Society, at Dublin, Ga., on the 5th of August. He said: “With us iu the £&uth the question of farm labor is essmlially a question of negro labor. There are some among you, I know, who would like to see the negro cleared out of the country; but if he were, who would lake his place? You would have to depend almost entirely on your own efforts until the foreigners came to take the place of the blacks— a calamity I trust we shall never be called upon to endure. The South is to-day almost the only part of the coun try which is truly American, and I hope we shall learn to keep it ao. I tell you I can take my negroes and do aa much or more work, and do it aa well aa with any lot of white men you can pick up. The negro ia-the natural labor of the South and with’proper management be can be made to pay.” The speaker then went on to detail bis experience in picking up white laborers about Atlanta, and the unsatisfactory result of the experiments. With the negro, “when you want your horse hitched up ou Sunday morning, you call out ‘Hero Mose, catch my horse, will you ?’ aud shortly the horse comes around well groomed and shiny, with Moses holding him, list in hand, and smiling as you come out. You may give him a Dickie or a cigar, or nothing at all—it is all the same to him. liie 'Boss’ wauls his horse and that is enough. Hut if the man is a white man, if you can find him, you say/Mr. Johnson, will you be kind enough to bitch up the bay to the buggy?’ aud Mr. Johnson-goes about the task moodily, muttering that he was not hired to trait on people. Bui when pay day comes he expects all these little extras to be settled for You may ruu off your negroes If you ill; but for me I will keep mine for a while yet, for I consider the negroes on the whole, much superior to the class of white labor you may be com pelled to hire.” Milk will hi-ln ~ cVety farmer siiauui — very fanner sbouW Have a lucerne mtch or field. No farm is comptetir without it. Wherever a cow is kept, ucerne should grow for her. They should go hand and hand. For profit. and for beauty, nothing equals Lucerne.^ Fields of living green beautify aud enrich the farm, aud help to keep the boys and girls happy and content upon the old farm- home. . - It absolutely prevents all washing, and leaves the soil rich. JajIKS B. Hunnilutt. Atlanta, Ga. The brierroot industry, on which the manufacture of the popular brier pipe depends, has had, according to the British vice consul at Leghorn, a somewhat curious history. First be gun in the Pyrenees some fifty years ago, it traveled along the French Riviera aud the Liguriank:oa8t (taking Corsica by the way) td.lhe Tuscan Maremna, aud has now reached Cala bria, which is at present its most Hour-vj ishing center. By the very nature ,of the business, when a certaiu district has been exhausted of all its roots the industry must move on, and it is be lieved that the Italian branch of It can not last more than auotber ten years. Leghorn has been for some time the center for the export of Tuscan brier- root, but as the South Italian root is of admittedly superior quality, a largj quantity of the Calabrian product is also imported‘into Leghorn. The roots, which are sometimes two feet or more in circumference, are cut into variously shaped blocks, aud-boiled soon after they are gathered, and are then ready for the manufacturer. Did you ever notice how ranch bet ter crops would grow on a spot where a dwelling has once stood. The differ ence may be observed for ten years. This is in consequence of the supply of potash from the fire places. Ashes are usually scattered near the house and soon there is an excess of potash. As it will not lench nor evaporate it remains- until taken up by the plants. Then use potash freely on your crops. XIII. The officers and directors shall be elected by a majority vote of those [ireseut st a regular mealing of the society. •* XIV. The board of directors shall meet immediately after each annual meeting of the society aud appoint from among themselves the following '^^gffftorttee on membership and sub scriptions : Committee on agitstion and litera ture : Committee on legislation, and such other committees as may be deemed necessary. In Albuquerqe, N. M., which I an altitude of about 5,000 feet, the re cipes and regulations laid down by the ordinary cookbook are, it seems, worth- ess. Water boils there at 204 degrees ahrenheif, instead of at 414 degrees, as at sea level. Heuce articles of food to be boiled require a much longer nmhtinihais kbs —al nnnhliaik pi scribes. On account of the extreme CAN WE HAVE GOOD ROADS? Winter will soon be upon us. Most of our hauling and traveling are done during the fall, winter and spring. The farmer’s produce must be carried to the markets. Hence it is a matter of very great importance to every farmer to see that he has the best pos sible roads over which this must be done. Rough roads wear out wagons, bug gies, horses, mules, oxen aud drivers. Muddy roads make us carry light loads. So that bad roads make us go ofteuer and cost us more every time we go Good roads enable us to carry heavy loads, travel faster and save ourselves ami teams unnecessary wear ami tear. They cost something to build, but they save more than they cost. They save time, and time is ofteu worth’ more thau money. They save buying new wagons and repair bills for old ones. Thej* save temper and worry. They keep us in good spirits. The encourage us to sell many things whic would not be worth carrying over bad roads. Thus they make our business more profitable, our lands worth more, our homes happier. They help churches and sclioola and social visiting. Can we have good roads? Yes. There is all the needed material in al most every community. All that is needed is concerted action. Get to gether and pull together and soon you can biuld good roads anywhere. 'I: the bicycle uever did any other goa it will deserve the gratitude of man .kind for the help it has given the good roads movement. We urge our farmer friends to go to work and never stop working unti they have good roads to travel. Id most counties the time and money now spent In trying to patch up Manufacturers’ Record. Mr. N. R. Hutchinson, of La Grange, secretary of the Georgia Cotton Grow ers’ Protective Association, explains ttie object of the organization as fol lows. “There is a movement now at work in this State, and being organized in other States of the South, the object of which is to secure to the planters of cotton a profit on their expenditure and investment. We are impressed that under no circumstances ought the pro ducers of cotton be forced to take less for their product than its cost. After the cotton leaves the planters’ hands, a profit is made~b; every other class of business Interested in its haudling. Now, why should the planter, who has the first claim in the matter, often be placed in a position that his principal money crop brings him in not a cent of profit, but, ou the contrary, is often a source of actual loss to the man who raises the stuff ? This is all wroug, and a proper system, which can be es tablished only by organization, will lift the planter out of these difficulties and give to him a share of the profit aris ing from this great staple. The average condition of the men who are engaged in making cotton is lamentable, great many sections of the South the better element of Uie people have left the country ou account of the poor re turns of farming as a business, but handle the staple as wisely aa other lines of business arc handled, and many who are now squeezing a poor living from a small salary will go into the country and help to build up the farm lauds, make money, improve the char acter of the people who reside in the rural districts, and thus strengthen the oundaliou of all busiuess affairs in the krath. We claim that nothing that con- ronts the South at this time posseses So much importance as this movement. As a people, wc are strong only aa ev ery element of our business structure strong; being an agricultural people maiul), we are weak in proportion as this class of our population is weak. “We will thank you to give the effort lift; show the immense amount of capital engaged iu this line of work, nd the gain to the planter* especially and to the basinesa of all other clarsea in our aectiou at the aame time, if well directed energies are enlisted in the cause of the raw cotton of the South. “A profit on the cost of producing cotton is what we are working for in this movement, and we believe that ev ery man aud journal in this section can do nothing that will |>ay so handsome- as to work, and work hard, for this organization.'’ With many others who have at heart the welfare of Uie cotton grqwera as representing a basic element of South ern wealth, and who have carefully and hopeluily studied the many movements in recent years intended for the better ment of raisers of the staple, the Man ufacturers’ Record is inchned to doubt the practicability of organizations ax- lected to induce co-operation of the farmers in the handling of such an im mense crop as cotton. The experiment has been made so many times and with such a lack of success that naturally it is looked upon aa rather a hopeless un-, dertaking. This objection might not y insurmountable did it not have be- und it certain plain explanationa. The crop is raised under varving circum- stances and by widely different clasees of men by no means allied in sym- jiathies, in ten or eleven Stales and two Territories. That situation makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to organize for any purpose cotton -Iff—nmni sonable rates, with their receipts as where cotton may be l stored, while seenrily, the money i ed for imjnediate uses. The he* to Georgia farmers by their during the season just closing sharply indicates the immense advantages to be derived from a closer union of the local financiers and the growers of cot ton in the development ef the ware house system. ^ . Finally, the fanners trill he directly benefited and helped toward Indspeed ence if they disregard absolutely deed issues- in politics and support for poblte office only such men who may be de pended upon to beget the ' and to administer uie laws encourage investments of capital hi developmental and manufacturing en terprises, that will increase railroad facilities, build furnaces, open mines and add to the thrifty, populations of towns and cities, thus widening the market for the cotton-grower and for the man who has been able to let eot- * ton alone while he has turned his at tention to equally profitable crop# aa a trucker, fruit-grower or grain-raiser. WHEAT AND COTTON. ——j — — legislation i. that will dryness of the air, farinaceous foods, such as beans, corn, etc., lose so much of their moisture that they require ong soaking in 'water before cooking. The worst-difficulty, however, is sa(d to be with cake and. bread making Ordinary directions as to the number of eggs and amount of baking powder break down altogether. As the baro metric pressure largely determines the effectiveness of the “ raiser,” this may explain the nnusual action of the bak ing soda and egg batter. The idea of a fruit that bears con tiuuously is something new to most people, since the majority do not know the habits of the orange and some olh er sub-tropical aud tropical fruits, but since men have begun to aid fruits am flowers in their process of cultivation by intelligent crossing and cultivation it is not surprising that they are developing fruits that continue to bear during a whole season. A new straw berry has been introduced in the last year or two, that not only .possesses the merit of bearing along through the whole season, but of producing reall; good fruit. Those who are very font of strawberries will* find this a great comfort, since v they can continue to have fresh home grown berries after the regular supply is gone, without having to resort to those shipped from a distance.—Tri-State Farmer. A new cartridge, claimed by an Ital iau electrician to be an effective substi tute for dynamite and smokeless pow der, for mines an<T heavy ordnance, contains a mixture of carbonate of potash and chloride of ammonia. While the mixture is ordinarily harm less the passage of an electric spark sets up electrolytic action giving a violent explosion. Some idea of the extent of walnut culture in California, may be formed from the fact that a single large as sociation, in Southern California, ad vertised for bids for 79,000 sackf to be used in the shipping'of the coming crop. • , the faitne ship of the clas#, the farmers of the] country, least susceptible of all to the organization idea. This is the great block iu the way, and it cannot be re moved by conventions which, too frequently for the welfare of the agri culturists, have rapidly degenerated in to mere arenas for the display of the peculiar talents of wily politicians or other self seekers, and which have led practical men to become exceedingly chary of the convention idea. The path,of Southern'history of the post generation is strewn with the resolutions of such convention resolu tions which have • had no weight whateve'r with the great mass of cotton growers. Thfe cou/eutions, however, may have had some influence iu arousing interest from time to time in measures and methods which must be adopted, not by convention resolu tions, but by individual resolves stuiik to persistently, if the condition of the growers is to bq improved permanently. At the head ot these suggestions stands the policy of living at home to the utmost ability. Farmers have been urged, and to some effect, to raise their honie supplies first, and go devote only their surplus time, labor and expense to cotton. The accumulation of ills of many years, due to devotion to the one-Crop idea, almost a necessity at the close of the war, may for a time prevent many cotton growers from sparing en ergies for raising food for th^ir families and feed for their stock. But it is possible for many otheis to do so. These must not be guided by what their less fortunate neighbors may do or by the plans of growers—iu regions where more virgin soil diminishes temporarily the cost of raising the staple, and may to a small degree ap pear to justify adherence, to the old policy. In the end the greater number of fanners must be 'brought into the ranks of independence. Such a con dition will be Induced not by organiza tion, but by individual effort alooe. In the meantime another opportunity is being presented to the growers in the establishment of bonded ware houses, its owners may secure at rea- Will there be as much wheat sown in York County this fall as there wai last fall ? That is. a question to which it is difficult to give a definite answer; but we fear that such an answer, to be truthful, would have to be in the nefa-.. live. Conditions are ripe for another ^ epidemic of cotton mania, a weakness to which it must be confessed that a majority of our people are peculiarly susceptible. In view of the short cotton and corn crops harvested last fall, hail it not been for the heavy wheel crops of the summer, the suffering of^ our people would have been distressing. It would be distressing vet. The wheat crop saved them. It helped them to go through without having to buy so much bread as they would bars bed to buy otherwise. It cash that they would not other have had. It gives them the full ad vantage of the high price that they art it|w receiving for cotton, and seres to them many a dollar that they would have otherwise had to pav toward credit profits on various supplies that thee would have had to buy or for which they have been able to pay cash. But the situation now is ou* that calls for cool calculation and foresight. There is immediately ahead a prospect loaded with opportunities to make or break. The present price of cotton in- vile* the planting of the earth Iu the staple. Ixwklng to a price next fall which, if not as good as now, will be much better than last year’s pneaa, nine fanners out of ten will co in for the biggest crop they can poaaibly raMa. They will be disposed to throw i every other consideration, i ouely ignore wheat, corn side crops for cotton. We are reminded of a fa that reads aa follows: “A dog stolen a piece of meat out of a f er'e shop, and was creasing a rtvs hie way home, when he aaw hie shadow reflected in the. stream balow. Thinking that it was another dog with another piece of meat, he reeot?ad to < make himself master of tha in snapping at the supposed he dropped the bit he waa and so lost all.” Many fanners are beginning to only of next fall, and they see ahi them little else than next fall’s crop, and the price they alize for it. It Is profit, of they are after, but not' member-1 the experience of the _ an past, they wU farmers of thte profit to get the promised In our opiniou the section now hare the oppoOauty ef their lives. Often we hays heard youux farmers remark how easily they could have gotten rich had they livud iu the days of 18 and 90 cents cotton. They could notjhave done ao, of count. The days of 18 and 90 cent cotton wave also the days of 18 and SO ceut i and 84XX) flour, etc. Ordinary i ic conditions were not much better than than during many years since. But now the cotton planter has an oppor tunity that is seldom presented to any class of people. The comparatively few post bellum|farmers who managed to get ahead of the world did it by rais ing their own supplies and cotton aa • surplus, and in all the history of the country there has never been better promise for the success of such a pet- icy than now. f we were farming this year WS would immediately begin to prepare a large portion of our best land for whsnt. We would arrange to raise enough corn to run the plantation, and make doe provision for various side crops of ap proved domestic and commercial value. Then we would plant all the cotton we could cultivate on the remaining land and. next fall we would open an account at the bank.— Torkville Enquirer. OCR OREATBST.lMPBOIAIiM. For 20 years Dr. J. Newton Hathawaff has so successfully treated chronic < es that he is acknowledged today to i at the bead of his profession in this line. Hie exclusive method of treatment foe Varicocele and Stricture, without tne aid of knife or cautery curee In 901 all cases. In the treataMntof theMmof Vital Forces. Nervous and Urinary Complaints, —, . . _ Poisoning, Rheumatism, Catarrh, and dlw'i eases peculiar to women, he le successful. Dr. Hathaway’s mors than doable that of ialisL Cases pronounced 1 physicians readily Write him today