Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ' ' ' * VVv--''^:' : -*:> : * . : * vc"x * , ? In Animal L?r.d. Blephas?Do yon care for a heavy morning meal? Elephum?No; I prefer the light cou tinenta! style. Breakfast?a half ton of hay and a demi-hogshead of water. ^-Woman's Home Companion. A Libel on the Label. The Short 'Un-What's a libel. Bill? The Long 'Un?Something to stick ob a box of soap.?Black and White. # TH? Ab?entmind?d Gardener Wife?If you don't hurry, my dear, ??-r yoo won't finish watering before the rain comes.?Pele Mele. | TThe Nearer the Bene the Sweeter the pg S , . . Meat." ^ ^ -Sketch. Bad For tho Plate. ! Photographer?Not quite such a innay smile, please, or yoa'll fog the plate. ?Tatler. Hi? Fear. [Tig" Igjj l m M ImjfBkI Colonel Bluegrass (of Kentucky)? Tea, suh, I have a constitution of iron, suh. Major Milkdiet?I suppose that is the reason you never drink water. You are afraid It will rust?Philadelphia Press. V^? * ' * ? - - - ? , * 7'-1a jPPpp = ; ALFALFA SEED. Great Care Should Be Taken In Making Proper Tests. In an address before a Kansas alfalfa club F. D. Coburn said: I can sure ly render the members of your club and alfalfa growers in general no better service in one brief communication than to urge upon them with emphasis the utmost caution and painstaking in securing and sowing none but the highest quality of seed. This quality means not only seed demonstrated as IK) or ' ? ' more per cent geruuuaiue. uui nc* . from the adulterations and impurities | likely to be found present, most fre- l quently from carelessness or shiftlessness, but often from design and sometimes from both. Alfalfa seed is ex- j pensive at best, and doubly or trebly ! so if it will not grow or carries with it trash and quantities of other seeds which stock a held, a farm or a neighborhood with weed pests that interfere with or crowd out the alfalfa, displace expected profit with positive loss aud provoke bitterness of thought and speech. \ Not Germinable. Among samples of alfalfa seed offered for sale Professor Roberts of the Kansas experiment station found one with more than 88 per cent of impurities and thirty-four different kinds of foreign seeds, and these constituted 31,5 per cent of the whole. In this lot were also 3.8 per cent of trash and dirt, and 53 per cent of the seeds true to name were incapable of germination. Another sample was 79.3 per cent impurities and 53.3 of the remainder valueless. Twenty-six lots tested by Professor Roberts contained an average of 44.1 per cent of impurities. Including eight different kinds of foreign seeds amounting to 4.5 per cent trash and dirt 4 per cent, and 35.8 pe? cent of what was really alfalfa seed was not germinable. A Year Is Lost Of course, as a matter of fact where bad seed is sown the actual result is a weak, poor stand of alfalfa and a dense growth of weeds. The land has to be plowed up and reseeded. the use of the land for a year is lost and it has become foul with weeds, many of which will be newly introduced and noxious in character. TheSe findings pointedly suggest that it is safe to buy se4d of only a thoroughly reputable dealer, or grower whose name and guarantee stand for something. Get samples early and test them. Learn positively that it' is al-1 falfa seed and not something else and that it will grow. If more than 10 per cent fails to grow don't buy it for something is wrong. Choice seed, the j only kind worth sowing, always commands a good price and is worth itKansas Farmer. FINE CUCUMBERS. Fall^ Preparation of Land Dincribod by a Gardener. I have been fanning and gardening all my life, writes A. M. Dnnnaron of Sangamon county. 111., in American Agriculturist As soon as one crop is out of the way I begin to prepare for another. The ground for cucumbers is prepared in -the fall. I begin by throwing out and making big * holes, then filling these with barnyard manure. I throw back on the top the earth taken out of the holes. About May 1 ?????? r ? PBJZ2 WDfNEBS. the following year I sow my cucumber seeds in these prepared places. I use different kinds of the large varieties, wMnh urn Rhnwn In the ac companying Illustration. To keep off cucumber beetles I use a small frame covered with thin cloth. This of course can only be utilized while the plants are small. Cement Blocks For Poultry Houses. My experience with cement blocks has proved to my mind that they are unfit for use in poultry houses. The poultrymen wish to avoid as far as possible all dampness, and what few cement blocks I have used on my buildings have'been more or less porous. They would absorb moisture, and in wet weather to a degree which would ! allow it to go through the block, even though the blocks had considerable hollow space for circulation. It is possible that if the blocks were made with a very large proportion of cement and a little sand this might to a certain degree be overcome. But 1 would under no circumstances use them for nAnltrnj h/Mioaa rtl- arivfaA nth<TS tf? dfl |/VUi M J UV UOVU V* MU WV ?- ? ? so.?S. S. in Rural New Yorker. Boll Weevil Problems. All students of the problem of boll weevil control have agreed that in tue prevention of successful hibernation lies the most effectual means of reducing the numbers of the weevil and preventing injury the next season. Two methods are advocated?first, the destruction of the stalks in the fall as early as possible, and, second, rotation of the cotton crop, planting on land not in cotton the previous year and as far from such land as is possible.?E. Dwight Sanderson. Dodder Not Poisonous to Stock. Dodder is not poisonous to stock. Hay carrying dense bunches of it is usually pushed aside by stock, says an authority on this subject ) Farm and osLfdesi OUTDOOR EVAPORATOR. A Handy Arrangement For Drying Fruit In Small Quantities. Portable evaporators are especially convenient when it is desired to dry only a few bushels of fruit at any one time. The usual sizes have a capacity of five to ten bushels a day. and even more in some cases, although the quantity will of course vary with the attention given to them. As they are complete in themselves and are not too heavy to be readily moved they may be placed wherever convenience from time to time dictates. The figure shows an evaporator of this type which is constructed entirely i PORTABLE EVAPORATOR. of wood, except the parts in direct contact with the heater. There is space for ten trays for holding fruit the dimensions of which are 2% by 3 feet Each tray holds about one-half bushel of fruit. Modifications of such an equipment to suit individual needs and I conveniences readily suggest themselves. There are several other styles of this type obtainable from manufacturers which are made of sheet iron, usually galvanized. As no wood enters into their construction danger from fire is eliminated. One of these styles is provided with a heat deflector and so constructed that hot currents of air pass over the fruit as well as up through it, the claim being made that this movement of air induces a more rapid drying of the fruit than in ordi nary methods of construction.?n. r. Gould. Denatured Alcohol. The manufacture of denatured alcohol is engrossing the attention of farmers everywhere in the Unitedj States. However, the development of j the industry since the favorable leg-j islation by congress last year has been hindered by the apparent inability of I farmers to immediately put the busi- J ness on an economical and practical basis, says New' England Homestead.! It will naturally take some little time to work out this problem. A brief reference to conditions in France, where j the industry is a practical success, will prove instructive. ; It is claimed on the continent that alcohol can be made more profitably from sugar beets than from potatoes. At least this has proved so in France: Farmers there, however, say thatthe distillation of beets ceases to be profitable when the price of alcohol falls below 25 cents per gallon. In Germany great quantities of potatoes are distilled, largely by the small farmer, yet in many instances these are fa-1 vored by a premium or bounty of special character which helps make production profitable. In France the farmer aims to do his distilling after crops are harvested, when he has some slack time on his hands. Low Grade Angoras. The main profit in the low grade Angora goat is the amount of land that it will clear. If intellig&itly handled the result in this respect is not only satisfactory but profitable. Do not expect them, however, to destroy all the brush in one year. A Good Crossing Place. On many farms are stone walls that have to be frequently crossed, but which, because . of cattle, must / not have an un^ , covered gap through them. A modification ^ll accompanying WlC; / figure shows the Li -~v./M v device itself, A NEAT STILE. Which Should, Of course, be alike on either side of the wall. The construction is plainly shown by the ctrt. Such a style might easily be constructed in half a day or less.?Farm Journal. Guard the Ventilation. ! " ' ? 1. All - It is necessary to guard tne venui** tion of a sweet potato storage room and permit only dry air to enter, as moist air will deposit its moisture on the cool potatoes, and this will produce the best condition for the potatoes to begin rotting. Cotton 3oed. Cotton seed is now worth as much, pound for pound, as corn. Then why not sell and buy seed by grade, as corn Is bought and aotdf?Texaa Farm and, Ranch. : t. v- .. V,vv \ ROAD PHILOSOPHY. I Observations oy Horatio Earle, Mich* ! igan's H^hway Commissicrtsr. State Highway Commissioner Horatio Earle of Michigan ha" issued the ! following good roads philosophy, say.* the Motor News: ",,fl '?-?** ?.. Irnun f ! rVAU - H 11V UOM I I?11 mxzI rn *-j/ iuim'm cows? Because farrow cows eat a* much as new milk cows and give i?uiy about one-half as much milk. "What are new milk cows? Developed farrow cows. "If farrow cows can be developed into new milk cows, why not go ahead with the development aud do velop new milk cows with udders twice as large as common new milk cows have? Because nothing would be gained if it were possible to do It because the udder is not the producer of the milk, but simply the receptacle in which the milk is deposited, which is produced by the developed cow. "In order to get more milk the whole cow must be developed. "A county with poor roads in the country and poor streets in the villages and cities reminds me of a farrow cow. "A county with good roads in the country and good streets in the villages reminds me of a fully developed new milk cow. "If it is impossible to get the whole country under the county road law, then adopt the good roads district system. which is the county road law on a small scale, permitting certain townships. villages and cities to operate under the county road system without taking in the whole county. "The villages and cities then help to build the leading roads into the market centers, and these roads develop the country districts, which in turn lodge more milk and more regularity in the village and city udders. "Yet there are men that cannot see that this is a benefit to either. I know a supervisor that did all he could to defeat the good roads district system which was combining two cities and four townships into a good roads dis trict, and his township would pay in 82 cents when one of the cities would pay. iu-$11.50, and under the system his township would get back its 82 cents and one-fourth of the $11.50 to build roads in his township, yet e couldn't see that it would be a benefit to Viis township. Such a man wouldn't buy gold dollaro if he were offered 'em for 25 cents apiec% on account of the expense." DUSTY ROAD PREVENTIVE. New Method Adopted In' 8axony on Macadamized Highways. Consul T. H. Norton, writing from Chemnitz, says that a Saxon firm has introduced a new road binding composition which has been tried on the macadamized streets of Leipsic and other places with much success. The material is thus described: It is a mixture of the heavier residual oils obtained in the distillation of coal i tar with high boiling hydrocarbons. ; The method of mixing apparently ln! volyes a certain degree of chemical combination, in which phenol and I similar constituents play a role. The manufactured material is prepared for : use by heating in iron caldrons identi! cal with those used for asphalt to . ?,a nio [ temperatures ranging rrom u> t*o ! degrees F. (100 to 120 degrees C.). It ! is then sprayed evenly over the sur; face of "a roadway with a special form I of apparatus and nnder such high pres| sure that the fluid mass penetrates to ! a certain distance Into the upper layer | of dust or dirt ! The result is the formation of a comi pact lustrous black coating which i meets the demands of heavy traffic and Is not disintegrated Into dust particles. A marked advantage of the new process over the metnods hitherto employed for the same purpose and based upon the use of ordinary tar is the total absence of odor after the application. * 0 Rural Delivery Notes * ? Of the 37,597 ruraJ free delivery routes maintained by the postoffice department of the United States 253 are regularly served by women carriers, and there are four times that many female substitute carriers. Congressman Lloyd of Missouri was advised recently that complete country rural delivery service has been ordered established -in Adair county, Mo., effective Jan. 2, 1908. The total number of routes in the county is twenty-one, of which three routes are new.. Postmaster General Meyer was the principal guest and speaker at the recent annual outing to Marblehead, Mass., of the Essex Republican club. He said that one of his recommendations to the next congress would be a bill to establish a parcels post He also indicated his intention to extend the rural delivery system, which he said was doing more than anything else to relieve the isolation of farmers and others living in remote country districts and thus incidentally was greatly checking insanity in these districts. "The rural free delivery system has caused us no end of extra work," said the publisher of a trade journal that has a large country circulation. "Probably not even the postal authorities realize so clearly as the man who has a heavy country correspondence how rapidly the rural free delivery system has grown in the last two years. The books containing the address of our country correspondents and subscribers have had to be entirely overhauled. 8cores of little postoffices have literally been wiped off the list and John Smith and hundreds of other men who formerly bad their mall addressed to their home village are now on route No. 2, 8 or 4 of the delivery system of a good toed town." * - . . - ? - * '' :fA . . ' * 4 ' '-X-jii* :.'fv "jV f'lll j| Summer Excursion Rates via Southern Railway # t| w Round trip summer excursion tickets to seashore and V @ mountain resort points are now on sale via Southern 0 * Puilwav at orroatlv rorlnrpH TlVlfrfa (TCwvt re- jK >2f turning until October 31st, 1908. Asheville, Waynes^ ville, Hendersonville, in the "LAND OF THE SKY;" A )?[ Lake Toxaway and the "BEAUTIFUL SAPPHIRE 2SC w COUNTRY," now in their glory. SP 0 Apply to Southern Railway Ticket Agents for Rates, Tickets, Etc. S . 1 J. L. MEEK J. C. LUSK % ^ Asst. Gen'l. Passenger Agent Division Passenger Agent A g ATLANTA, QA. CHARLESTON. S. C. X ?| OUR BEST FRIEND 3 In time of need is a fat bank account. It will stand by | Aou when all others fail. The way to acquire this fat account is to begin depositing and keep at it. Promptness, courtesy and careful attention to the wants of its custo- 'CsyS mers are some of the features of the Business Policy of this bank. A Bank Book In Your Nam? , ? Issued by this Banking House, entitles you to every convenience of modern banking. When opening a bank account, you want a safe bank, con- :V veniently located?one whose constant endeavor is to serve you best. On these lines, we invite your account. ^PEOPLES BANK, Bamberg, S. C. :J Sgl t-I;il--I-a--I- I-ci-{liin?! 0?tlnr-tinr?0ig;0i0i$ M ? * _ t i % W ? Lioya s raiace Launary|pg ? J We guarantee our laundry to be the only laundry in the South, which does work II WITHOUT FRICTION, WEAR OR,TEAR wflj ? ? to the garments. Cleaning, Pressing and Shap- ; V ing Panama Hats a specialty. You would not know t * an old suit of clothes after Lloyd's Laundry had *3? cleaned, pressed and shaped it. Be sure to give ? r your Laundry to our collector, Michel Branson, J? and then you will be sure it goes to Lloyd's and V ? will be neatly done. Terms Stricter Cash. || CHA5. D. FELDER, Agent 1 :M i j Bamberg, South Carolina ex? oi tt! ?n en ^ a- a- in a c-n- m m OJ tn cti cd ohh g ,-j ( 1 HARDWARE^^^855^ I have the Gladiator Stalk Cutter, Avery's "Reversible" h Disc Harrow, Chattanooga Chilled (double and single) Plows, The Oaks Cotton and Corn Planter, Caldwell ImIs * ' ' iisi proved Cotton Seed Dropper, Blount's True Blue Cast Steel Plow, Avery Dow Law Cotton Planter, Hoosier Corn Drill, Cole Guano Distributor, E. P. Guano Distributor, Lulu . Seed Planter, The Little Joe Harrow, The Georgia and V ??|9 Farquhar Plow Stocks, the best Heaters and Stoves, Fish and Poultry Wire, Devoe and Hammar Paints, Harness nggHK Oil, Crockeryware and Shelf Goods, Pumps and Piping. |l " iMy prices are ngnt. uome m ana raae a wua. ^ j, A: HUNTER, aaiiffrrflg | ? MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE DISPENSARIES IN BAMBERG COUNTY FOR THE MONTH OF^Sjl MAY, 1908. -f.vi Stock on hand > Dispensary No. 1st of month Receipts Expenditures Breakage Liabilities Bamberg 1 $5 894 10 $2144 40 $ 9607 $18 60 $ 373111^111 Denmark 2 \ 491415 122945 101 72 2060 366410 > Olar 3 ; 3 388 50 634 86 67 25 4 13 50 274016 Ehrhardt 4 3 291 30 794 50 . 79 24 5 90 2^^| Total $17 448 05 $4 803 20 $344 28 . $58 60 $126262*4111 State of South Carolina, ) County of Bamberg. ) . ' . & Personally appeared before me E. C. HAYS, J. A. WALKER and G. B. ^ CLAYTON, members of the Bamberg County Dispensary Board, who being eadr'^S duly and severally sworn, deposes and says that the foregoing monthly state* ment is true and correct. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of June, A. D. 1908; E. L. PRICE, [L. S.1 rfism . Notary Public for S. G. Pimples if Blackheads, acne, tetter, ec- ll!4i Aiiippvil zema and sain ana scaip a is- m a _ _ eases are readily removed and ^ Ml L| f permanently cared by fre- M m / F^,^ quent baths with warm water ? m. WW I | and Tetterine Soap followed j m m Mi Mi r by the application M ap Tetterine 4 I have Just received one of (A the nicest assortment of the fragrant, soothing, heal- X Lowney'sand Necco Sweets r ing ointment. Inaores a 4 J healthy skin and scalp and a 2 boxes and loose, and the ? E> clear complexion and luxan- x sortment is complete, if JT X*'<&* ant growth of hair. Soap 25c, m yon like candy come see us. ointment 50c, at druggist's or a swell line of Toilet: Soap t by mail from T at lowest prices. , ; Shuptrine Company J prices to please yoBu^ I SAVANNAH, GA. Just received a biff line of W* TSSSSSSSmmmSmSSSSSSSmSSSSi W Heinz Pickles, both sour X and sweet. Try them. j H -* Try one of those Mistletoe M r=-> dra^\) 4 H*m""15cpeipo,mdL-ki ? ..TSffiKlI 121 !L 2 t^8 Sweet Potato Slips / Wjjgjg \ LBf RI ?*'$ E 41 v /everovnerepruudiiiiH . MtitthVbestf J | w. P. RILEYJ|g V^L^ONE galkw makesTWO"[ I fire, life i ^If Z ACCIDENT For Sale by X jifii Simmons Hardware Co., | $ f* i 1 Sp BAHBERQ, S. C. f .