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IE HOT O 10 an MLES the cold frame should AL. WAYS ACCOMPANY THE HOTBED. t t lOW TO CONSTRUCT ONE , Plants Should First Be Started in Transalanted to the nvkucu , Cold Frame. For forcing early vegetables such as tomatoes, egg plants, peppers, etc., the hotbed is indispensable. To construct a hotbed an eastern or southern ex* posure should be selected. The frame should be 6 feet wide and any desired length. As a rule for the family garden, a hotbed 6 by S feet will he sufficient for rearing all young plants for the garden. It would be much better, however, to have a frame 6 by 12 feet. This will afford ample space for transplanting the plants and give them more room in order that they may properly develop. The soil Is excavated to a depth of 18 inches and the frame built 6 feet wide and * * % " * * * ? vie aesirea iengtn ana nuea over u*? trench. The frame should slope towards the east in order to admit sunlight The bottom of the frame is filled with fermenting stable manure. This should be mixed thoroughly before being placed in the frame and packed flrmlj and watered freely immediately afterwards. In the south 12 inches of manure will furnish sufficient heat for hotbeds; while in the north, where the weather is more severe, two feet of manure is usually t used. On top of the manure is placed six inches of garden soil which has been well gifted and is free^from all roots and trash. This should be slightly packed in order to make it perfectly level. The sash of the ' frame are always three feet wide and ?ix feet long. The frame, therefore, should either be constructed three, six, nine, or 12 feet wide. After the garden soil has been placed in the frame, it is well to cover this with one inch of finely sifted woods eartL "Woods earth is used because it is always free from grass and weed seeds which are frequently yery troublesome when the garden soil is used. After the bed has been completed the j cash are put in place and the frame allowed to stand for 3 or 4 days befora j planting the seed. This is done. in order to allow the bed to become thoroughly warm before planting. The needs may then be planted, watered slightly, and the sash replaced. As soon as the plants come up the bed should be ventilated if the weather conditions are favorable. Even when the temperature is? near freezing in the early morning, it will be warm enough before mid-day to ventilate j the bed for a few hours. If the : frames are not properly ventilated, tthe plants will grow too tall and become tender and will not withstand the transplating without being injured. When a frame is properly constructed it will last for a number of years. Each year, however, fresh manure will have to be placed in the frame. The same hotbed may be used for various kinds of vegetables. For instance one may first grow cabbage and cauliflower. After these are removed or transplanted in the cold frame, tomatoes, egg plants and pepper seed may be sown in the same frame. These will be ample size for transplanting by the time the weather conditions are favorable. Great care should be exercised in watering the plants. If they are watered too freely during warm weather they wi:l grow too rapidly, and if watered too freely during excessively cold weath1IM?MWiW 1 ! Fn Ha IExcli Open: I Our hats are g Miss E. Mer to-date hat sh are cordially i: ? H III , mk . : er, they are liabel to be injured. It , ! Is. therefore. recommended that the j : plants be watered just enough to keep 1 them in a good growing condition and ; not allow them to suffer. i Prame.?The cold frame uuiu should always accompany the hotbed, j i the plants first being started in the | hotbed and then transplanted to the I cold frame, and from there to the open !. | ground whenever the weather condi- 1 ; tionB will permit. The cold frame | differs from the hotbed in only one respect, it does not have the manure ai i the bottom of the bed to produce heat, '1 otherwise the frame is constructed in j exactly the same way as the hotbed. Cold frames are sometimes covered \ 3 with heavy canvas instead of glass. 3 This is much cheaper than the glass and the frames are more easily har/ j died when covered by canvas than when covered with glass. The plants. I however, win not grow on as rapimy ( ! but this, as a rule is an advantage , ! in faver of the canvas-covered frames. : The chief trouble with the amateur ( gardener is that he forces his plants j too rapidly. ( , The education of the farmer upon \ hie farm by working out problems in the field and receiving the answer in ^ the crib or granary is, like all education a personal matter, and each man ( must acquire it for himself. This ( points to the small farm, personally ' worked, ta beet for the man, for the , laud, for society, and for the State."- . iw lotmu A tCnane. .... ] SHOULD TREAT SWEET POTATO; j I 1 Mitfoet by Immersing In a Solu- i tlon of Corroaivo Sublimate. ' f Some of the most destructive potato . ! diseases are carried from the field ; | into storage In the fall, where these ' | diseases not only live but thrive duri ing the winter, producing serious I losses. If seed potatoes for bedding ^ j are not carefully selected and bedded j J in disease free soil these diseases are | carried bac'i o the field on the roots j i of the slips or sprouts. In the spring carefully select me-; dium size potatoes, that shew no signs | of rots, and disinfect by immersing j , from five to ten minutes in a solution j 1 l of corrosive sublimate prepared by i dissolving one ounce of the crystals in eight gallons of water. The above solution should be prepared only in a wooden container, which should be thoroughly cleaned after being used,: as corrosive sublimate is a deadly i poison, and should be used only with ! the greatest care. Seed, after being ; disinfected, should be rinsed in pure j1 water and dried or bedded at once, j Probably the best container for the above solution is a barrel, and enough! of the solution should be put in it to j cover the quantity of potatoes to be treated each time. One solution i should not be used more than three or j i four times as ft loses its strength and j 1 effectiveness upon repeated use. j? As potato diseases often live ove~ i < winter in the soil, it Is essential that t! only fresh soil should be used in pre- j paring the beds. Woods earth, free , from undecayed leaves and twigs, j. makes an exceptionally good bedding . soil. Sand is often used and is just I i1 as good provided it is clean and free ; from the potato disease organisms. In case you have a permanent bed. never bed your potatoes In the old j soil. Disinfect the framework by I spraying with a solution prepared by i ' adding one pint of formalin to thirty ! gallons of water. In case you have on hand some winter strength lime-sulphur solution it can be used, with j even better results; and some use a i white-wash to good advantage. i Select for your potato patch a field ! ' that has not had potatoes on it, for at! least three years, and you may expect j to harvest a crop free from disease. I ' J AW MRMzMtt IV isive Move Ities, ing Displ smart and up-to-theltzer, who is in chari ops in Baltimore anc . -i . j i i __ nvitea to join tne dij ^ L QOHBH SEED FDR PLANTING ^ ?? j C rhere Are Several Varieties For ll i Infected Lands But Best Is the Dixie. IP - -- I T) Our cotton crop can be materially j r ncreased during the present emer- !r jency by preventing the enormous j ? osses caused each year by diseases. I [)ur two most common cotton diseases i s ire wilt and anthracnose; these two v liseases cause a loss of from $2,000,- j( 100 to $ ,000,000 a year in South Caroina. This lost can be in a large neasura prevented by the use of the right kind of seed. There are several varieties of eot- r ton that are resistant to cotton wilt t md will produce excellent yields when planted on land infected with this dis- g 3ase The best of these is the Dixie, j which has been grown and bred for a ^ lumber of years in co-operation with a Slemson College and the United States ^ n* a trrimiltnra This seed I L/Cpai ILUUUt U? tvvtAVM. W. can be had from the breeders and growers In the counties where wilt is s causing serious loss. The Botany Di- t rision of Clemson College will be glad c to put any one who needs seed in c touch with these growers. t Cotton anthracnose?(boll rot)? ^ causes probably a greater loss in j. South Carolina every year than cotton wilt does. Anthracnose can be controlled by securing seed which are * free from disease and planting these * on land that has not been in cotton c for one year. The best way to secure seed free from disease Is to get them t from fields where there was no an- s thracnose. We have found that the j fungus which causes this disease will , not remain alive in the seed for more than two or three years, so that old s seed are much better for planting pur- r poses than seed of previous season. t In order to help in reducing the loss \ irom cotton anthracnose, the Botany Division of the South Carolina Experi- r ment Station is making preparation to rj test any seed that the farmers of the state will send in, in order to dedter- s mine whether or not the seed is in- a fected with this disease. We desire ^ especially to test seed that are two i and thrpe years old. Any one, who r has old seed, or any one who is buying seed that he is not sure is free ^ from disease, can send samples of . these seed to the Experiment Station . at Clemson College and have them 1 tested. It will take from two to three wopVs to make a complete test. A f2 pint of seed is neeesf rj Hr tlMce i tests. s t It is impossible to impress upon anyone that there is dignity fn residing ^ upon a farm with impoverished soil, dilapidated buildings, and am ?ziTiroi? ^ ment of ignorance. WITH THE COLORS ^ AT CAMP SEVIER c Dear Editor: * Will you allow me space in the v dear old Lexington Dispatch-News. x A few lines, I am always glad to get S it although I haven't been getting it v long but as long as I get the paper it gives me an idea of what is going on * down in my dear old county and v Dutch Fork. v Well I will tell you all about my Company we have the best officer a in the 118th Regiment a Captain and g three first and two second Lieuts. Their company is from Cheraw all the officers are from there but one It has two hundred and twenty-seven men in it. We are the best Company in the Regiment, they all pull together, except a few men who will never do anything at all in military 3 life. It isn't but four of drafted boys in Co I, from Lexington county | s Smith, from Batesburg, Conner'> from Lexington, Meetze and myself ;s from the Dutch Fork. | z Conner hasn't drilled any since If the first of January. He went home! r on a furlough and took pneumonia j 1 HIBggTTTfBMgTilfTTIWfTOWl ili ilfcMBkllil**"" larch 1? Pattern and Tail lay, Friday? minute, have indivic of this departmen 1 is prepared to desi| ? crowd of ladies wh n-Kan exington, So /hile he was at home and was taken ! o the Baptist Hospital in Columbia j ame back to the Comapny last week; nd now he is quarantined for rumps. We have one hundred and i en men quarantined and in Hos-i ital and the Company is torn all to j lieces. We haven't but one hund-1 ed and seventeen men in company itreet. Wp havp thp best. nnn-Commis-! ioned ofifcers in the thirteenth Diision they are all the time jolly and ove the privates. We have three nen in the jug (that is the guard louse) for going home without leave. Jp until Christmas we didn't have a nan on the list marked A. W. 0. L. .'that means absent without leave). We are drilling eight hours a day getting ready to go to France and 'ou all can see and know how ired I am every evening but am up tgain every morning on the Drill ield. I tell you if I ever do get >ack home and hear a bugle blow I im going to beat the fellow or get >eat, I don't like to hear but three :alls, that is mess, recall and paylay. Pay day is the best one of hem all I think we will have a pay lay about Saturday. Nearly all the >oys from Lexington county are in he Hospital. One of them went to France in February. I suppose that le is now in France. He was a me. ^ ? ?' ? of flia\7 TX7SJ71 f IlCUUC CtllU tliai/ iO TT 11C* 1/ V4*VJ n v**?w> The General said the other day hat we would leave here inside of ixty days. When we leave here don't know where they will take us. >ut hope that it will be to guard ome sea port or on the border. They lave been talking of sending us to hte border, to guard it. Hope they vill take us down there. They sent about four thousand nen away from here Wednesday. [Tiey were the 102nd Engineers and ome avaitors. It is one hundred md twenty pullman cars over at ^ris now that isn't Paris in France t is a little town up here by that lame. Say Editor what do you think the, .irls will do down there in Lexington j f they take all the boys to the camps! t will be more old maids than you :ver saw if they take all the boys iway, but I hope that it will be one or me when I get back, for I am ure coming back. I dont believe that here is any German ever born that :an kill me and if I do have to go to rrance I am going like a man and vith the intention of coming back. I think that this big Spring drive j nil bring this awful struggle to a! lose for Germany is getting tired of I his w-ar. She now sees where she is m>ng and has her hands full, and vhen these millions of "Sammies" ret over there and start on them we nil go on to Berlin and plant the >tars and Stripes there. We will show he old Kaiser Bill that we are in this i*ar to win and will fight until we do vin this w*ar. Well I will close for this time give ill the Leinxgton people my best rerards. I am as ever a true American. Holmes A. Sheajy, ^ T # <J0. 1. notn mi. Can#> Sevier, S. .C. A COUNTRY EDITOR. Gilford (Pa.) Citizen. Ever sit at a typewriter and try to ,ee what matter of public interest rou could write about, how you could >ay something: nice about this one, tnd something: nice about that one, rive some ideas on a popular topic nake some suggestions which might )e carried out by some one in the A > and 1 lored Hats, will md Saturday luality and are moc1 it this year, has rec "? T Jl in and maKe up in< o will visit our stor liner >uth Carolin No. 8133. REPORT OF TEE THE PALMETTO > AT C0LU In the State oi South Caroline March 4 RES0U3 Loans and discounts Customers' liability account of acceptanc< purchased or discounted by it Total loans Notes and bills rediscounted (other than ances sold) Customers' liability account of acceptan and now outstanding U. S. Bonds [other than liberty bonds of US.bonds deposited to secure circulation U.S. bonds and certificates of indebtedne secure U. S. deposus (par value) Premius on U. S. bonds Liberty loan bonds: Liberty loan bonds, unpledged, 31-2 per ce Liberty loan bonds, 3 1-2 per ct. and 4 pe to secure U. S. deposits Liberty loan bonds, 3 1-2 per ct. and 4 pe to secure State or other deposits or bill r*k i it ii tt n i i l . j i tsonas otner man u. a. ponas pieagea 10 savings deposits Securities other than U. S. bonds (notincl owned unpledged Torai bonos, securities etc Stock of federal reserve bank (50 per ct Equity in banking house Furniture and fixtures Real estate owned other than banking he Lawful reserve with federal reserve ban Cash in vault and net amounts due from NetAmt. due from banks and bankers, ai er than included above Exchanges for clearing house Total of items above Checks on banks located outside of the c bank and other cash items Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer ar U. S. treasurer War savings certificates and thrift stam] Total LIABIL1 Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits Less current expenses, interest and taxe Circulating notes outstanding Amount due to federal reserve bank Net amounts due to national banks Net amount due to banks, bankers and t: (other than included above) Demand deposits (other than bank depos (deposits payable within thirty days): Individual deposits subject to cneck Certificates of deposit due in less [othfrthan for money borrowed] . Certified checks [ Cashier's checks outstanding Dividends unpaid Time deposits subject to reser* e, payal days, or subject to 30 cay a or more 1 postal savings: Certificates of deposit [other thai borrowed] Postal savings deposits Other time deposits United States deposits [other than pos;a War loan deposit account Other United States deposits, includi: of U. S. disbursing officers Total deposits Bills pay abb, with federal reserve bank Libertv bonds) Acceptances executed for customers Less acceptance of this bank purchased o Total Liab lities for rediscounts, including thos bank [as shown above] State of South Carolina?County of Richl I, Wm. M. Gibbes, Jr., Cashier of i swear that the above statement is true to Subscribed and sworn to before me this Correct?Attest: E. W. PARKER, G. T. PRESSLEY, WILIE JONES. Directors. community who had the time and : money to do so, smooth over some j one's, mistakes which had reached ; the public ear, try and explain why such and such things ar not so make a hero or heroine out of some one i who had done something a little unusual, give the proper space to the i < life of a departed citizen, laud the beauty and grace of abride, see that every organization that hase met its : 6 ^ be shown durin . March / erate in price. Come ently returned from 3 latest styles in m e on these dates. Lump a BMnHHBHi'-v" Reserve District No. 5 CONDITION OF NATIONAL BANK MBIA, i, at the Close of Business l; 1918. ? HCES. $4,982,155 02 2 of this bank 50,000.00 V 'J $5,032,155 02 bank accept 140,000,00 4,892,155 02 ces executed by this bank 250,000 00 1917: (par value).$ 420,000.00 ss pledged to 250,000.00 670,000.00 nt and 4 per ct, $332,788.00 r ct., pledged 50,000,00 ir ct. pledged Is payable 275,000.00 657,788.00 secure postal ? 8,000.00 luding stocks) 160,928.77 168,928.77 . of subscription) 21,000.00 385,000 GO 66,59228 mse 41,596.98 k 288,678,03 * national banks 691,849.74 nd trust companies oth 734,510.23 107,936.00 $1,534,295,97 ity or town of reporting 296,750.04 id dnp frnm '7 ?~ 21,006.00 3S actually owned 364.13 $9,297,154.20 :ties. : $ 500,060.00 200,000.00 $ 153,529.95 s paid 46,024,63 107,505.32 413,500! 00 $ 53,100.87 929,013.50 rust companies .. 2,370.514.06 ;its) subject to reserve ...2,511,100.77 than 30 days 24,331.04 8,975.52 ? 79,674 40 80.00 )le after 30 loticH. and i for mom y 47,550.00 5,605.72 1,295,069.92 1 savings]: 100,000.00 ng deposits 126,133.08 7,551,148.83 (to purchase 275,00#. 00 300,000,00 r discounted 50,000.00 250,004.00 $ 9,297,154,20 e with federal reserve 140,004.00 and (ss):' the above-named bank, do solemnly ' the best of my knowledge and belief. WM. M, GIBBES, JR. ; 11th day of March, 1918. W, T. LOVE, Notary Public for South Carolima. name metioned, give the name of all the new officials of any order, announce the events which are planned, write up the program of entertainments, omit everything that should be omitted from publicity. write everything which everybody wants you to write about, and withal make no enemies? Then yeu're partly fitted to be an editor of a small town newspaper. il iturday g our I 15-16 J ; and see them. I the most up- I I illinery. You I I any J