Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, March 13, 1918, Image 7
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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
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: 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.
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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.
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isive Move Ities,
ing Displ
smart and up-to-theltzer,
who is in chari
ops in Baltimore anc
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nvitea to join tne dij
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QOHBH SEED FDR PLANTING ^
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rhere Are Several Varieties For ll
i
Infected Lands But Best
Is the Dixie.
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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,
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<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.
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iturday
g our I
15-16 J
; and see them. I
the most up- I I
illinery. You I I
any J