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i < J ; i i ••I i* 4 i > « This Depai tment is intended for the use of the members of • . . * the Farmers’ Union in this county and is open to their use. Let your communications be in Saturday to insure appear- ance the following week., KEEP THE ROAD DRAG GOING. Bad roads are an extravagance that no farming community can afford. Just what they cost in un necessary expense it takes but a moment to determine. A team and driver are reasonably worth $3 a day. and by the use of these it is possible to deliver to mar- T T* I e-> "’ * ''‘Vket from your home 100 bushels of the soil for the reception of! tT THINGS I HAVE LEARNED. (By Phil M. Padgett.) * • '-o 1 do not claim to have learned it all, in reference to the growing of fruit, but I have been very success ful and will proceed to give my ex perience: Satisfy yourself that soil and climate are suitable to the kinds of fruit you wish to grew, I pre-1 pare trees long in advance of their arrival 1 Corn by deep plowing and harrowing. I planted cotton in our orchard the first year; it in no way interfer-1 ed with the growth ami proper development of the trees, and at the same time helped defray expense of cultivation. Nothing was planted the second year, as the trees had made such growth as we feared any other crop in addition would injure Hauling over good roads, the ; cost of delivery is 3 cents i>er bushel. But if, in consequence of bad roads but fifty bushels can be delivered, the cost is doubled and the difference Mayesville. is what the impassable roads cost j Whitner you. Continue this calculation, ap*; Columbia S. C. plying it to the hauling of all of your crops, and it quickly becomes ap parent that it amounts to a very burdensome tax. Good roads help in every way? FARMERS’ UNION DIRECTORY- * NATIONAL. * President- Chas S Barrett, Union City, Ga. ^ Vice-President—J E Montgomery, Gleason, Tenn. Secretary-Treasurer—R H McCul loch. 116 1-2 W. Broad street, Texar kana, Tex. STATE A. J. A. Perritl - President, Lamar, S. C. E W Dabbs, Vice-President, Reid Sec-Treas., were kept down this year with har* i them, and our object was fruit, and . ^ ....... , . ... a , ! they promote sociability by making not cotton. All grass and weeds , . , , , friends and relatives accessible and I by means of them it is easier to reach the schools and churches and | to generally do and enjoy the things which make life really worth living. —Farmers Union Sun. row, and many of the trees over-paid for themselves and for cultivation. As yet we have shipped no fruit, selling locally at 2 cents each for peaches. Our orchard so far is free from insects and disease, however, we are molested by borers. This pest destroys more trees here than all other causes combined. Our method of J"combating it is to remove dirt from the tree and re- i place with dry a.*ho*. We make sure, by search, that no borers are left. If our t rees are ever infected by other dis^'eses, we shall certainly WE GROW ACCORDING TO THE EFFORT WE MAKE. The law of a worthy life is a law of struggle. It is only through la bor and persistent effort through energy, resolute courage that we move on to hotter things. This is true in making our character and true in making our crops. ‘‘There spray with such specific as the . .i . i u , . . . , . , is no excellency without labor, and exigencies of the case demand. In . . the matter of pruning we fear giaw COUNTY. L. C. Padgett President, Smoaks. J. O. Jaques, Jr.- Vice-President, Cottageville. G. W. Sweat—Sec-Treas., Hen dersonville. W. C. Brant—Chaplin, Ruffin. J. A. Willis—Conductor, Cottage ville. L. H. Roger—Door-Keeper, Wal- terboro. Robert E. Jones,—B u s i n e s s Agent, Walterboro. ! W. W. Smoak, Jr.—County Or ganizer. Executive Committee -G. A. P.en- jton, W.C. Saunders, J. I. Seigler, T. H. Caldwell, C. F. Roger.^ Meeting 1st Saturday in each month at 10 a. m. at the courthonse. LOCALS. “THE STORE THAT MAKES GOOD.” For Satisfactory Styles, (Qualities, Varieties, and UP-TO-DATE, e> Dependable Values, at % Moderate Prices in ■X Men’s and Boy’s Cloth ing, Shoes, Hats, Etc., h 6 e- Ladies, Misses and - • * «> Childrens’ Cloaks, see ■ l ■ J; errors are committed. We hold that it is better not to frune at all than to do so impropen'y. The sap of a tree corresponds to the blood of *>ur body and nature’s way of preserv ing the life of the tree is to carry the sap into the roots of the tree from the nursery fully one haff of the roots are left in the growd. The equilibrium between the roots and branches Should be restored by the cutting away of fully one4ialf of thetree. Ytaw this, saves the rub bing off of the'sprouts that will ap pear on the body of tree in the spring, and the removal m the same way of the overplus of lunba, is all the'pruning'that will be aacessary. When properly done, this, will give you a low spreading tree, each a tree has many advantages over tie high lose. In the'fint place yoc cannot plow cloae up to the tree and will not be near so apt to injure the roots and body Of tree.! (The fruit is nearer the .ground and <can be gathered more readily, the body of tree is less exposed to the cold and is b&r far less liable to be blown over. And last, it ts* fact that th-s kind of tree can be easily protected from frost. I keep all my fertiliser sacks and make large-sheets and if frost threatens my best trees are placed under cover.—Southern Rursdist. WiKiams, S. C. the better the l.b»r the better the Stukes __ w r Saun , ler! ,, p re8i . results. Remember. Prep.rat.on £. B. Way. secretary-treasurer, is half and the best half of making a, „ . _ . ^ crop.” Do net be discoursed and ' ^ | K Add ‘f’"’ P"* 1 ' do slack work or lose your eaergy on dent - J - F - Se “' ler ' *™tar>-treas- account of the outward cdblrtions or rer ; failures of W09. But for 1910 put! Sniders—W. C. Brant, president; forth the best efforts that are in you,' J. K. Getsinger, secretary-treasurer, and begin now.- Southern Cultiva- j Williams-Dr. C. E. Kinsey, preai- tor * dent; J. F. O'Quin, secretary-treas- THE H. W. COHEN STORE. "* o. a \ REMEMBER, we have a little proposition for mem- 0 ^ A bers of the “Farmers’ Union,” which is very interest- v mg as a money saver. WW UNIONS MHNUED. SSnoe'our last issue we have to re- pMt flic organization of nine new laoal (unions. Deputy Organizer S’F FmaKfPt has ovganiaol New Hope, Bneky county, Na. 709; Hiekoiy Ove,iHorry coaaty.Ho. 710, sad Loowlker. Horry county. No. 715. M A Iftdhaffev hascqpanized Zion SB. Karinn county. No. 711; Carhde, Union county, Ne. 11X3, and Union. Union county. No. 714. Between thaw Messrs Mnhtfffey and Parrott ■argwiized Graya. Hampton county, No. 712, while Hears. Keller and Smoak organised a run ion each, the feet named hawing organized Bedhel, Calhoun county, No 716, and the but named Tabor, (Colleton county, Nc, 717.- Partners-Cnion Sun. UNIONISM’S P^nt winter cover crops. The lien law goes with 1909. FARMERS’ MERCANTILE COM PANY. Ehrhardt is to leave a new mer cantile establishment the first of January, to be known as the Far mers’ Mercantile Company. The 1 company has been chartered by the 1 Secretary State with a capital stock of $10,000.00. H A Hughe* as "president; D P Smith, rice-president, and J E McMillian, secretary and treasurer. The hoard of directors is compos ed of H A Hughes. D P Smith, J E McMHKan, J Wins Carter. G J Hern don, D M Smithy C R Clayton. The eompanyfhaa bought the large ■tore building of Capt. J M Dannely in Ehrhardt. and they will open up a general merchandise business with a bran new stock the first of this Dr you read this pagr* every week? Swv vetch, rye, clover, arts, wheat. Turn your cotton seed into meal and feed it to your cows. Local Unions should see to it that agriculture is taught in their schools. Why do the county officers contri bute so seldom to this department? < * ' Does your community need a local? Communicate with the orga nizer, if it does. Mr. Ayer last week sold here 13,000 worth of hofteeand mules- and Colleton county is as good s place to raise thpm as Missouri. The members of the Farmers’ Un ion in this county who does not at- coming January. The company is ^4 meetings of his local, is now advertising for Bamberg Herald. a manager.— i, We move to amend Lincoln’s fam- New England and for New Ekig- hurting himself and the Union. - .I How many farmers this year have purchased expensive plows and ma- iasry and are allowing them to rust and rot in the field. Where are your plows and implements? islandton—A. E. Rentz, president; C. R. Mean, secretary-treasurer. Dry Branch—T. H. Caldwell, president; Jesse Crosby secretary- treasurer. Weimer—D. M. Yarn, president; J. E. Yarn, secretary-treasurer. Hendersonville—G. E. H. Moore, president; M. H. Carter, secretary- treasurer. Smoaks—L. C. Padgett, president; J. W. Kinsey, secretary-treasurer. Lodge—L. J. Jones, Sr., president; P. M. Johns, secretary-treasurer. Horse Pen—Joe Langdale, presi dent; G. L. Smoak, secretary-treas urer. Cottageville—Ih\ W. A. Kirbye, president; H. W. Ackerman, secre tary-treasurer. Walterboro—W. W. Smoak. Jr., president; E. W. Goodwin, secre tary-treasurer. Bethel—H. W. Breland, president; Allen Padgett, secretary-treasurer ^ Bells - W. W. Bryan, president; F. M. Thomas, secretary-treasurer. Hudson’s Mill—J. D, Hudson, president; Dr. A. Willis Hudson, secretary-treasurer. Adnah- John Kicklighter, presi dent; Paul K. Crosby, secretary- treasurer. ' s r> Meggetts—S. J. Rumph, presi dent; E. L. Cummins, secretary- treasurer. Edisto - A. G. Yarley, president; S. J. Patrick, axretary-treasurer. <r . Under,; president; J. M Strickland, secretary-treasurer. Adams Run—Dr J T Taylor, presi dent; S G Taylor, secretary-treasurer Hall—A. V. Rickenbaker, Presi dent; E. T. Hiers secretary-teas* urer. Omega—H. P. Martin, president; B R Griffin, o Nervous Prostration “I suffered so with Nervous Prostration that I thought there was no use trying to get well. A friend recommended Dr. Miles’ Nervine, and although skeptical at first, I soon found myself re covering, and am to-day well.” MRS. D. I. JONES, 5800 Broadway, Geveland, O. Much sickness is of nervous origin. It’s the nerves that make the heart force the blood through the veins, the lungs take in oxygen, the stomach di gest food, the liver secrete bile and the kidneys filter the blood. 1 If any of these organs are weak, it is the fault of the nerves through which they get their strength. Dr. Miles’Nervine, is a specific for the nerves. It soothes the'irritation and assists in the generation of nerve force. Therefore you can hardly miss it if you take Dr. Miles' Nervine when sick. Get a bottle from your druggist. Take it all ac cording to directions, and if it docs not benefit he will return your money. UNION COTTON SELLING * % DAYS: Walterboro. Tuesdays, Ruffin Wednesdays Deep Creek Thursdays Lodge Stokes Fridays Saturdays KILL™ COUGH •m CURB tm LUNOa ’Dr. Haft INW linCOTMj Why do not the locals send in the newa? It will co«t rou only a 2 cent •tamp, and we will gladly return it to you if you want ft Two acrea of wheat in your best land will taable you next year to map your finger at Patten. See Local Business Agent as to Arrange rnents. BlMriMIAL Wanted the public to know that we have a mosV complete line of all kinds of builders’ material, such as - DOORS, - SASH. BLINDS, SHINGLES, MOULDING, BRICK, ■ LUMBER, ETC. (r At prices to suit Let us know your wants. C. 4 SAVAGE, Imfutarer if Rngk ak Dressed Lrafcr • • BEE S LAXATIVE 00061 SYRUP BEEF, VEAL AES PORE. Customers can be supplied at alt times with‘the freshest. * and best it my Market HlghMt Price* Paid for Beef Cattle. H. a. PRANCES, • WALTERBORO 8. «, ' . \ y • * ' , , • \ • kjtv, . \ \ < ■ - ...A • _ & ■ ■■J ■ V.' IfeU. „ »j,.