The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 18, 1910, Page 2, Image 2
NO REST FOR THE FARMER.
A Characteristic and Interesting Let
ter from "Old Timer."
Wanderer's Rest, August 10.?
No rest for the old farmer this year
for as soon as the ploughs could b<
spared from the cotton here is fodde
to save and the red hulled. speckle<
pea is ripe and ready to be picket
and the scattering weeds in the cori
along the roads, fences and ditche
need cutting, for they will scatte
millions of seed to trouble next year
then they look bad and show ;
slovenly if not a lazy farmer; thei
litter should be placed in the stall:
and lot to make manure for nex
year's crop, fences to look after ant
as the poor old fellow thinks and see:
with his own two eyes, how thes<
details will pay, he squints his eye
mops the sweat from his brow ant
looks out on the sunbeams he almos
. moans, then brings a deep sigh ant
exclaims: "Ain't it hot?" and h<
sits in his easy chair or hunts a coo
spot and finds it not, his arder cool:
and the weeds are left to grow, ant
as his conscience graws away at hi:
indolence, he hums, "There is res
for the weary," and the green field:
of Eden, come to his vision in thest
long dog-days of earth.
They bring on physical inertia
otiH ho lnnfR fr?r rnnl weather, anc
when it comes how he longs for it t(
be hot, never satisfied, and before h(
is half prepared here king or rathei
tyrant cotton is open, and so it goos
from year to year, and the man whc
works and keeps at it will never lack
anything that is good for him.
Crops have improved and fail
yields will be made where propei
cultivation was used, but many fields
were too wet to cultivate and th?s
crops will be poor on them. Wher
will we learn to drain the low lands?
Then crops will be a certainty, no1
before. Many fields of good corn ar?
in the land and the farmer who does
not intensify on corn is not in it, sc
also with cotton. High farming
alone will pay?fewer acres, more
manure, fast cultivation but shallow
will succeed any year. To trj
it is to be convinced, for crops or
low broad flat beds will do much better
dry years, also wet ones.
A gentleman from near Augusta
Ga., made inquires a few days ago as
*v v / to the mode of applying fire to fruit
am J +A Trill Con T AC C
II CC5 dUU uuncio iv nui vuu v vuv
scale. Perhaps there are others who
have it in their orchards and for
their benefit will give it: Get some
rich pitch pine splinters 3 or 4 feet
long, split them so as to make a
bundle easy to handle, tie them so as
to keep them from falling apart;
when well lighted begin at the
ground and go upward until the
limbs are reached, then on the other
side until the flames reach every
particle of the surface. Then the
limbs, begin next to trunk and go
to end or as far or a little beyond
where the scale extends, then the
next one, until the whole tree is
singed or brought in contact with the
flames. Care suould be used not to
let flame rest too long but keep torch
going at a steady but moderate gait
and the tree nor foilage will be injured
in the Jeast save a few tenaer
leaves be crispled at the ends. All
tender house plants and roses can
be treated, only have a small smudge
or torch to treat them and no harm
will result unless flame is kept still
too long, but it is death to scale and
all insects. This is not a pretended
process, as the writer discovered it
by accident and found it effective on
all trees and plants atter loosing
nearlv all his orchard treated with
lime sulphur wash. Trees treated
in spring, summer and fall with the
fire or torch treatment will be entireV
ly free from scale and other pests as
well. Trees treated near here in the
St* v.>.
orchard of Mr. R. C. Johns last spring
bore a fine crop of fruit this year and
trees are in healthy condition. These
trees were badly infected and would
have died last spring had they not
been treated. Save the orchards
and plant out more trees and use
two or three pounds of kainit scattered
around them each spring with
good care of trees will give plenty of
nice fruit and the good old days will
return when every home nearly had
a jug of fine cool sweet cider suspended
in the well by a rope. How
refreshing in a hot summer day!
Only last week neighbor J. passed by
with a large demijohn in the foot of
his bugrev. Cherrily he called out:
"Come, Old Timer, and take a drink.
;
It will do you good." With thanks
it was declined, the old man explain*
ing that he drank nothing stronger
than coffee or iced tea. Then was
stated it was cider?nice fresh apple
cider. How the old man's face
lighted up, a broad smile lighted his
face, and that demijohn raised to
his lips and as he gazed at the sky
that delicious draught brought back
the happy days of long ago.
OLD TIMER.
Now is the time to buy real estate.
It is going at a price that will not
grow less. We have some attractive
bargains. C. H. MILHOUS, Manager
Denmark Realty Co.
Watch the date on label of your
paper and renew promptly.
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FISH COME ASHORE.
- Strange Occurrence Puzzles Myrtle
Beach Residents.
Conway, August 13.?One morning
this week the residents of Myrtle
a Beach, Horry's summer resort, were
r very much upset by an incident eni
tirely unheard of by even the veteran
1 fishermen of the point. Some of the
2 more superstitious persons were wont
s to see an unlucky sign in the fact that ;
r all day fish were constantly coming
; ashore, some stunned to such an exi
tent that they died, and others al
i ready dead. i
? About three of four hundred floun- i
t ders were picked up on the shore.
1 Several specimens of fish never be- ,
3 fore seen at Myrtle Beach were wash- 3
? ed ashore?several coa nsn uaviug
, been found in the collection. What
i caused this remarkable occurrence is .
t the question now in the minds of the <
i Mrvtle Beach folks. .
? Some of the Myrtle Beach resi1
dents were wont to attribute the con- (
5 duct of the fish to lightning, but Mr. ]
1 S. T. Leonard, a veteran fisherman j
s of that point, breaks down this theo- ]
t ry in that he states he was fishing \
1 ?Hnrintr tVld timP
a several nines uui vm i vuv ,
? that the fish were coming in, and
that he had splendid luck, catching
, something over 200 pounds of fish
1 the same day the above occurrence
) was noted.
: Cowpea Hay.
5
) The general opinion seems to be
: that the cowpeas are especially hard
to cure into hay. All around me I
see farmers mowing peas and letting
them lie in the sun till dry and then
> raking up a pile of naked stems, the
? leaves being all lost, though they are
t the best part of the hay. Treated in
' this way, the peas make a rough hay
: far inferior to what they would make
> if properly cured. Instead of-being
J difficult to cure, I have always found
> cowpeas as easy to cure as any other
; forage plant. I have cured the hay
> in fine shape for many years, and
never used a stake, a bush, or a scaf'
fold, but have simply made the hay
i just as I would make clover hay by
keeping it from the sun as much as
possible while curing. Curing part.
ly in the cock and windrow, and let>
ting it finish in the barn, I have al'
ways had clean, sweet hay with the 3
leaves on and green in color.
1 Cowpeas will cure if you will sim
' ply let them cure and do not monkey
' with all sorts of contrivances to spoil
the hay. My plan has been to start ^
- the mowers in the morning and cut
> till noon. Start a tedder right after .
G
the mowers and keep it going to toss
! the hay up loosely to facilitate the ^
! wilting.
Rake in to windrows that afternon. .
Next morning turn the windrows and f
' that afternoon cock the hay into as
L
1 tall and narrow cocks as will stand
well. As soon as you can take a
bunch in both hands and give it a .
twist and can see to sap run to the ^
twist, haul it into the barn while the
leaves are still limp, and when in the g
barn let it strictly alone, and it will
cure bright and sweet.
How long it should stay in the
cocks will depend on the condition
of the crop and the weather. I have
stored it the third day after cutting
when the crop and the weather were
both favorable, and I have had to let
a ranker growth stay out a week.
Caps of cotton cloth are useful for n
protecting the cocks, but rain does P
not do the damage that it does with n
red clover hay. t
Some cure by setting stakes over
the field and shocking the green pea- v
vines vines as fast as cut around the t
stakes, after the manner of curing o
peanuts. It will cure in this way, o
hut there will be a great loss of the ^
leaves after they get crisp, and as I b
have always made the best of hay r
in my method, I cannot see the ad- 0
vantage of the labor and expense of e
setting stakes. e
The first point to observe it to let s
the peas mature to the yellowing of r
the pods, but not to let them get so
mature that they will begin to cast
their leaves, which they do very soon g
after the ripening of the pods.
I have seen this summmer a numof
fields of peas with corn sown
among the peas. There will be a
smaller growth of the peas by rea- v
son of the presence of the corn, and b
the hay will be harder to cure, and 1
worth less, than without the corn, h
for the great value of peavine hay a
lies in its high protein character, and o
half corn will diminish this. s
If anything is mixed with the peas, S
I would prefer the all-yellow soy h
bean, for this by its upright growth
will help to hold up the peas and t
make the mowing easier, and the P
soys will increase instead of dimin- P
ish the protein content of the hay? u
Progressive Farmer. P
The final time for the payment of a
business licenses expired last Wed- t
nesday, but as the clerk and treasurer v
was unavoidably out of the city on c
that date, the time will be extended d
1 without penalty until the 19th, which t
is Friday of this week. After this
date no license will be issued with- t
. out the penalty of $2 per day at- v
tached.
FOR MALTREATING WHITE GIRL.
Reward for Arrest of Sprunt Ellis.
May Recall Reward.
Columbia. August 13.?There may
be sensational developments following
the offering of a reward of $75
by Governor Ansel this morning for
the arrest of Sprunt Ellis, a young
white man from Mullins. section of
Marion county, who is charged with
maltreating a young white girl,
rhere is the possibility that Governor
Ansel may recall the offer of reward,
although nothing was done this evening
until the matter can be placed
before the Governor in toto.
The matter came up when a petition
signed by a number of promi
aent citizens and forwarded here
with a letter from E. D. Smith, of
Mullins, explaining the circumstances
is alleged in the petition that the
Governor offer a reward to have Ellis
ipprehended.
Late this afternoon the Govenor's
Dffice received a letter from B. S.
Ellis, who is presumably related to
the young man charged with the alleged
crime. This letter says that
the charges against young Ellis are
untrue, that the girl was not under
fourteen, but is sixteen according to
tier own statement, that the young
man offered to marry the girl, but that
tier folks asked for $2,000, leaving
iff the marriage contract. Believing
:hat there may be something behind
:he whole matter, the Governor's of5
??i11 ww/vkrtklv rvt o It a fnrfViAi* i?troo_
iUC Will yi KJ uauiv uia<\^ muu^i iut^oligation.
Secretary Bethea reported
;he facts with regard to the letter
eceived this afternoon to Governor
^.nsel, at Greenville. The governor
las the authority to hold up the revard,
although the proclamation was
'ordwarded this morning to the
sheriff of Marion. This matter is
?iven to the public as it was received
lere officially at the governor's ofice.
There is the strong intimation,
f the letter received here this afterloon
be correct, that there may be
i "hold up" proposition involved. If
t is found that there is foundation
'or the charge against young Ellis,
he reward will stand. If not it may
)e recalled. Ellis is said in the last
etter to be very young. It is stated
lere that the family involved is
srominent in Marion county. i
It was stated in the first letter that
'oung Ellis had left the community.
Takes Bullet from Pistol of Sou.
Hampton, August 12.?W. H.
Jooding and John Altman were seiously
shot by Jake Gooding yesterlay
afternoon at the Crocketville
>icnic as the result of a quarrel beween
Jake Gooding and his brothern-law,
John Altman. W. H. Goodng,
the father of Jake Gooding,
ushed in between his son and Altuan
to prevent trouble and received
he discharge from Jake Gooding's
?istol just below the left nipple and
n the right side, the other two loads
litting Altman in the abdomen and
;roin.
Both men are probably fatally
rounded.
RELIGION AND PANDEMONIUM.
oloded Converts Break Up Recorder's
Court in Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., August 13.?Seventy
tegroes broke up recorder's court
iroceedings late to-day by giving a
oanifestation of their "religion" in
he court room.
The leaders of the colored sect
fere on trial charged with disturbing
he peace, when it occurred to some
f the laity to give a demonstration
f their "shouting." Instantly there
fas a roar which could be heard a
lock, and dozens of negroes began
oiling on the floor, while a squad
f police rushed into the room. Sevral
patrolmen were painfully bruis
d by flying legs and arms of the
houters, and it took ten minutes to
e-establish peace.
KILLED BY A SPLINTER.
plint Jabbed Into Sawyer's Eye Goes
Through His Head.
A negro sawyer, Joe Singleton,
,-as killed in an unusual and horrile
manner at the plant of the Penn
.umber Company on Monday mornag.
He was running what is known
s a "rip saw" and while in the act
f sawing off the edge of a board, the
trip was thrown back, striking
lingleton in the eye, penetrating into
is head and coming out on the side.
Singleton was hurried to the Sumer
hospital where an operation was
performed in the hopes of saving his
ife, but he died within a few minites
after the operation was completed.
No inquest was held over the body
s relatives of the dead negro stated
hat they were satisfied that his death
as caused purely by accident. Ac
ording to the doctor's statement, I
ieath was caused by the wound in I
he head. I
Singleton was known as an indus- I
rious and hard-working negro and I
ras well thought of by his employers. I
?Sumter Herald. I
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Is what everybody says who has HN
looked at that fine pound paper
which we are offering at 15c the ? j
pound and envelopes to match at qq 1
5c the package. We sold the first oj
shipment at once and have just re- gg
ceired a new lot. This paper is E3 .
easily worth 25c the pound but . Ill
we are making a special of it as Q I ?
long as it lasts at 15c the pound, |
Lenox ? I
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is the brand of this paper, ask to .if
look at it when you come in, it is a li
pleasure to show it to you. T |
Hand Painted China 3
fen
We received last week some I |
of the handsomest Hand Painted . 1 If
had I
China ever shown in this city. 9 J I ?|
We now have this China on dis- nJ i I
play in our large show window. NJ
Remember when you have to S # -11
give a present you can find just ^
what you are looking for here.
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