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JT ?? LIME will BRINd weal/th to south. The United States department of agriculture is advising the farmers of the country to maintain grain and livestock production, ' as all available information now indicates that there will be continued strong de\ mands for these products." There will also be strong demands ^ for other farm products, including the two staple money crops of the South, cotton and tobacco. Production is not keeping pace with inereasing consumption, and by giving some thought to the present and future needs of this country's growing popu* .lation, we will see. the importance of making our farms yield more of everything that can be raised at a profit. Therefore, the nrodnrine' nower of the soil is the first thing to be considered. If we are to "restore mea i dows and.pastures broken during war emergencies, and re-establish crop ^ rotation to prevent depletion of soils," as the department advises, we must adopt methods of soil building - ttiat will iiisure success. The most economical way is the use of leg, umes to supply organic matters, and . such crops may be grown successfully on most soils that are properly limed. Leading agricultural authorities agree that liming is just as fundamental to agriculture as cultivation of the soil and fertilization of crops, and this is attested by the remarkable increase in the use. of agricultural limestone during the past decade and by actual results obtained by practical farmers in all sections of the coufitry?not only in large yields of clover, alfalfa, and other forage crops, but of corn, wheat, oats, cotton, etc. Among the resolutions adopted at a lime conference held recently by representatives of various experi:7 ment stations of the South we find, "The agreement is uninamous that the soils of the Southeastern States \v ^ are seriously deficient in lime, so that liming is essential to their most profitable develoDment and Dermanent improvement." Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, noted chemist and food expert, as well as a successful farmer, says: "There is scarcely any necessity at the present time for any further com-munications respecting the value of lime in agriculture. Both from a physical and chemical point of view, it is of supreme importance. It tends to firm a sandy soil and loosen a heavy clay. Leguminous crops can y;> A not be grown without an abundance \; of lime. It is also useful in many \k, non-leguminous crops. I believe the potato is the only important crop where lime is considered harmful. My own experience has led me to abandon entirely the use of burned or hydrate lime and to use only the finely ground limestone. I realize that I am paying for the transporta, tion of a lot of carbonic acid, but I ' am not burning the humus out of the 1 . soil. In the case of alfalfa I use two tons of ground limestone per acre." Dr. Wiley answers the question so often asked, "What does lime / do?" Most farmers know that to grow legumes they must use lime in some ^ form, and they are beginning to learn something concerning its value in growing non-leguminous crops. T ft nno nf nnr greatest JJlUJ^CkWUV WUU V - 0 a natural resources, and while the expense of establishing and operating I manufacturing plants, as special in' dustries required to supply large de^ mands, has raised the price to the farmer a little above that f for which pulverized limestone was sold when it was marketed as a by product, it is still* the cheapest material that can he obtained for improving sbils and increasing the yields of nearly all . crops. , The use of lime in crop rotation will bring wealth to the South. It will insure abundant harvests of forage and grain, that are necessary to success in livestock farming and increase the acre yields of such "mon/ ey crops" as cotton and tobacco. I sell Buquo Lime, guaranteed 94 per cent, to 98 per cent. pure. Write me for prices, samples or other information. . J. J. HEARD, ?adv. Bambergr S. C. REFUND IS PAID TO STATE. "Warrants Totalling $28,615 Delivered By Swearingen. Columbia, Oct. 12.?Warrants aggregating $28,615.15 on federal appropriation for vocational training Viddti tiimpfi nvpr to the office of UU ? ^ WVU4* VV?4 V - W. the State Treasurer by John E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education, to reimburse the State for funds expended from the 1919 appropriation for vocational training. Of this reimbursement $16,915.84, was the salaries for teachers of agriculture, $1,297.25 for salaries and home economics and $10,402.06 for training of teachers of these various vocational branches. "Will you tell me something, ma?" "What is it, child?" "Do grass widows wear weeds?" HOW CHEOPS BROKE A STRIKE. Soldiers Ended Walkout of Pyramid Workers With Swords. Labor strikes are not the product of- the last hundred years, as some people think. They were frequent even in the earlier record days. One of the greatest strikes that the world has ever known occurred :ri Eygpt in the rei.^n of Cheops, several thousand years before the Christian i era. Cheops ordered a great pyramid to be built in his honor, and while it was in course of construction it is said that 50,000 workmen downed tools and refused to continue the work. The reason they gave was that the food with which they were furnished was insufficient in quantity and poor in quality. The contractors tried arguing with them, and when that failed soldiers were ordered to drive the strikers back to work. Many thousands of them were cut to pieces, while a certain number escaped and fled the country. The others were compelled to resume their work. Deadly Poison to Eradicate Weevil. Washington, Oct. 3.?A deadly poison to the boll weevil, the insect which has cost southern cotton planters $100,000,000 annually, has been discovered in the form of dry powdered calcium arsenate by the bureau of entomology of the department of agriculuture. Although calcium arsenate has been used at the government experimental stations since 1914 aa an insecticide, the department of agri culture has started only recently the campaign for wide application of the poison. Already cotton planters are showing "keen interest in the experiment and many planters over the entire belt have treated their fields. NEWSPAPER MAN APPOINTED. B. P. Paries, Editor of the Barnvisor for 2nd District. B. P. Davies, editor of the Barnwell People, has been appointed Supervisor of the Census for the Second Congressianl District for South Carolina, which includes the counties of Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Edgefield, Hampton, Jasper and Saluda, with a population in 1910 of 190,307. It will be recalled that David W. Gaston, Jr., of Aiken, received the appointment some time ago but was disqualified because of the fact that he is a member of the legislature. Mr. Davies has been engaged in newspaper work practically all of his life and during the World War served as chief clerk to the local exemption board for Barnwell county, where he gained experience that will prove valuable to him in his new position. His application was accompanied by letters of endorsement from Congressman Byrnes, ex-Governor Manning and numbers of prominent business and professional men in Barnwell and Allendale counties. ^ i?i ? t A Grand Plan. "What's the idea of sitting in the barn here all by yourself?" "Well," answered Farmer Corntossel, "if the summer boarders aren't playin' jazz - on the phonograph they're q,uarrelin' over the League of Nations,* so I'm lingerin' out here with the cattle and rentin' my mind." ?Washington Star. When Insomnia Sets In. "Do the trolley-cars keep you awake?" "Never," said Mr. Crosslots. "It's when there's a threat to stop 'em that I get nervous and can't sleep."? Washington Star. ' Box paper at less than wholesale prices at Herald Book Store. ~TT Young Housewives check off on your list of NECESSARY ARTICLES for your new home the following, which we can supply you at a less cost than you could obtain them elsewhere: Washing machine. Sewing machine. Fireless Cooker. Aluminum, Queens & Granite Ware Silverware, Cut Glass & Cutlery, and many other indispensable things for a MODERN, UP-TO-DATE HOME. G. R. SIMMONS r 1 Storage Battery W lllard SERVICE STATION SERVICE FIRST ADVICE SECOND SALES THIRD THERE'S OUR POLICY IN A NUTSHELL. First?When the customer comes in, find out what HE wants. Give him satisfaction at the lowest charge consistent with a good, thorough job. Second?Tell him how to prevent battery trouble. We're not anxious to repair his battery, except to make it last longer. 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