Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Beef and M Cattle are kept for two purposes; 1 duction and for milk production. To d< they must be healthy. There is noth keep them in continued good health, them well quickly when sick, than a fe Bee Dee M|i Stirs up the liver?Drive disease poisons away. SMALLPOX LPIBICS RAPIDLY DECREASING SAYS REPORT OF SOUTH CAROLINA HEALTH OFFICER. " s ? ? REPORTS RRE INCOMPLETE Authorities of Schools Advised to Enforce Vaccination Statute.?Health Officer Talks of Vaccination. The burden of the annual report of the State board of health on smallpox is vaccination. The report shows clearly that the epidemics have been stopped by means or vigorous campaigns for vaccinations that have been carried on in several counties of the State. The report contains a record of only 598 cases of smallpox appearing throughout the Stale during the first ten months of the year. "It is needless to say," writes James A. Hayne, M. I)., State health officer, in the report, "that this does not represent all the cases occurring, as som< of the counties reported no cases. This is due to negligence on the part of the physicians, who are, however, reporting much better than they did last year. The trustees of schools could y render great assistance to their commuitics by enforcing the statutory | law requiring vaccination of school children." Epidemic Months, "January, February and March." continues Dr. Hayne, "are the months in which the greatest amount f vac. mating .is done, fcr then the epidemic is at its height and the- people are aroused to the necessity for vaccination. In fighting this disease, as in the campaign against all other diseases, the State hoard of health ir greatly handicapped by the fact that ^ the legislature last year did not appropriate any money for the printing of the bulletins which the board had been in the habit of distributing. These bulletins on common diseases, written in plain English, telling what these diseases are, how they are con-' i Iracted, how they are prevented, do i more in helping the people to understand how to tube rare of thcmscl or and tl.u? 1 iV3 wore healthful lives than any other expenditure of the State board of health." Dr. TIayne pays tribute to the rfb- i cicnt work of physicians in several of (he counties in which epidemics occurred. lie expressed the belief that in consequence of the vigorous campaign of vaccination carried on all over the State there will be a decided decrease in the number of cases of smallpox during the ensuing year. For the ten months of the year that r- the report covers Newberry leads in cases reported with 85, of which number 75 were reported in January. Greenville county is next with 78. Orangeburg has 74, Clarendon 73 and Richland 52. Vaccine Distribution. An interesting feature of the annual report on smallpox of the State board of health is the table showing the number of vaccine points, totaling 90,241, sent out during the ten months of this year, and the cose, which was $5,865.67. The table follows: Points Cost. January .. .. ..29,330 $1,906.45 j February 28,160 1,830.40 March 10,480 681.20] April 6,120 397.80 May 4,410 286.65 June 2,166 140.79 Tulir " rvr.n oo ??i.v I 00.40 August 1,862 121.03 September 4,510 293.15 r October 2,150 139.75 Total 90,241 $5,865.67 Airships Sent. Models of 30 battleships, cruisers, destroyers and other types of American fighting machines were removed A from the navy department building last Thursday for shipment to San Francisco, where they will form a part of the navy's exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition. Aviators Attack a Zeppelin Shed. |A. London, Nov. 21.?An Exchange telegram from Copenhagen says a dispatch from Berlin reports that two French Aeroplanes attacked the Zeppelin shed at Frederickshavcn and dropped six bombs without damage. One of the French machines was shot down. ilk A-plenty for beef pro- ?? 0 either right Any time any of my catling better to tie get anything wrong or to make With them 1 give them a W doses of? lew doses of B e e D e c STOCK MEDICINE. OC1C They soon get well. ^T/irim Johfi S. Carroll. IICINE Moorhcad. Miss. ? 25c. 50c and $1. per can. At your dealer's. ^ Let I s Make This a Good Looking Town. If every man who reads this?and every woman, too?would make it his or her business, the next hour he or she has, to look around the home premises and see how they could be fivn/l 1 1 flnrvl.- i'i tunnhl ,, iii\v\? vi p w; l v/wiv i/v nui XV >vv/L I\l U u li great thing for this town. It might iiot induce people to do any more than rake up the sticks that are lying r.round. That would be a great help alone. But maybe while raking up the loose leaves you would find there is a loose board in the sidewalk, a broken picket in the fence, that the corner of the porch lias sagged or that the front steps need a new plank in them. And, as you would want to make a complete job of it, you would see that these repairs are made. Maybe the house has needed a new coat of paint for a long time. Perhaps new curtains arc needed at the front windows. And the inside of the house is quite as important as the outside?is more important, for it is on the inside you live and where visitors get their real impression of you and of the town. Maybe before you get through if you will really look about you, there will be several things that can be made to look vastly better with the aid of a few boards or nails or a little varnish or a small expenditure of money. Collectively the effect on this town will he great. There is no economy in letting things run down and putting repairs off. A house that needs repairs is going down hill; and a house that is going down hill is losing value?value both in money and err.fort. Let's make this a be tie?, looking town; and let's begin, lib* charity, at homo. OIL) 'CITS OF NEWS W. fi. Noble, dessert teamster, of Sodaville, Nov., shot at a rattler recently. The bullet passed through ! the snake's head and struck a rock, i splitting it. The rock assayed $150 a ' 'on gold and 000 ounces of silver. At present there are 2,500 tons of ore in sight. Fishing for rattle snakes is the lat est sport around San Bernardino, Cal: Fish hook are fastened to bamboo poles and held near the snakes. The ! snake strikes at the end of the pole I 11 i ? i ami uecumes nooKGd. Dr. Wright, the eminent sociologist of New York, has created a sensation by showing the increasing* quantities of opium that are being consumed in the United States. He declares that the annual requirement for legitimate nodical and other purposes is 00.000 pounds, but that last year more thaa 470,000 pounds were brought into this country. "The use of cocaine, opium and other drugs is, I regret to say, largely on the increase in the United States," said Dr. Wright. "Especially is this true of localities whore the sale of liquor has been prohibited." "Fritz," a trained rat and the mascot of the local paper in Crawfordville Ga., died recently. Fritz knew his name and was a terror to other rats and mice. He had been a pet in the newspaper oflice for three years. WATER RESOURCES OF SOUTHERN RIVERS. Stream-Flow Records Published by United States Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 327, recently issued by the United States Geological Survey, contains records of the flow of rivers in the Arkansas, Yazoo, and Red river basins, tributary to the lower Mississippi, during 1912. Forty one stations were maintained in the basins of these rivers during the year. The Arkansas River records cover the principal upland tributaries in Colarado, together with Canadian River in Arkansas and Missouri. The records in the Yazoo River drainage basin were produced in cooperation with the Tallahatchie Drainage Commission and are of fundamental import ill. 1 * * mi*.*: in cuiiucciiuii wnn ciramage work in this fertile delta region. A copy of this report may be obtained free on application to the Director of the Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. W. W. Long, State agent of demonstration and director of extension at Clemson College, advises South Carolina farmers not to sell or dispose of a bushel of their cow peas this fall, ! but instead to buy all the cowpcas they are able to byy> ir? order to have the peas to sow after small grain next season. South Carolina lands will be incalculably improved by such a practice, according to Mr. Long. WINTER WHEAT IN THE COTTON BELT GEN ER A L IN FORM ATI ON A S SENT OUT BY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRI CULTURE. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS Hits Article Was Prepared for Benefit of farmers in Cotton Belt Who Desire to Diversify on Account of Cotton Situation. (By Clyde E. Leighty, Agronomist in charge of Eastern Wheat Investigation, Bureau of Plant Industry.) General Considerations. Under present conditions in the cot ton belt the wheat crop will prove advantageous in many sections. Whether wheat should be grown at this time may depend on other factors than the suitability of the soil or climate for growing wheat. In some places suitable machinery is not at hand for properly sowing, harvesting and thrashing the crop. If oats or U.. ~ r- .. r- * u? <ii i*.:;. in i- j^iiiviii at, jnc*si:iic, me i- ?ichinery used for those crops can read ily used for wheat; but if no su. h cereals are grown, the necessary machinery will have to be provided for properly handling* the crop. The disposition of the grain after it is produc ed must also have consideration. Wlvat may ho used for feed, but corn or barley is likely to be better suited for this purpose, except perhaps for chickens. The chief use of wheat is for bread, and unless it can be ground into flour in a mill near at hand or can bo shipped to a market, some other crop should be grown. An isolated whoa grower, unless he can produce a carload or more, will find it difficult or unprofitable to ship the grain produced. A few persons in each c.-n. nnb'ty, however, may profitably grow .cheat with the object of supplying seed to their neighbors, should the general sowing of wheat the following year appear probable. Wheat is a good crop for winter j pasture, but probably not so good for this purpose a.s rye, except, perhaps on the heavier clay soils. Rye is much better on the sandy soils. Wheat can be pastured more closely without apparent injury than can oats or bar'ey. If wheat is to be cut for grain, however, it should not be pastured 'ate in the spring or when the land is muddy. As a grain crop, wheat is gen erally superior to rye in the value of the crop produced, except on lighter soils. As a hay crop, wheat is inferior to oats. According to data obtained by the United States Department of Agriculture for 1909 the average cost per acre of producing wheat in the cotton belt is $1.13 less than the cost of corn but #1.09 more than the cost for oats. The excess of value of the grain produced over the cost of producing the crop is greatest for corn and least for wheat when these three crops are com pared. An enhanced price of wheat, however, will result in greater returns from the crop. More attention to wheat production on the part of farmers in general may also result in making the wheat crop as valuable in certain sections of the South as in any part of the country. Soils Adapted to Wheat. Much of the well-drained loam, siltloam, clay-loam and some of the clay soils can doubtless be used profitably for wheat growing. Sandy soils and heavy, poorly drained clay soils are not so suitable. The costal plains of the Gulf and of the Atlantic are not likely to return profitable wheat crops and in at least all of the penisular portion of Florida wheat growing should not be attempted. The Piedmont Plateau, however, contains much good wheat land. Wheat should not be sown on land the drainage of which is poor. If the land is subject to overflow, or if water stands on it after rains, wheat should not be sown for the plants will not live and thrive on such land. Low places in fields can often be drained sufficiently to prevent injury from standing water by opening furrows in the direction of the natural slope. A soil to be good for wheat should con tain pienty 01 vegetable matter and plant food and should not be acid. Preparation for the Seed lied and Sow ing the Seed. When wheat follows a cultivated crop, such as corn or cotton, the soil can usually be prepared by going over it one or more times with a disk harrow and then harrowing thoroughly with an ordinary harrow. If weeds are plentiful, plowing .1 or 4 inches deep may be necessary, but will take more time. Harrowing with an ordinary harrow should follow the plowing. After a good seed bed is thus prepared, the seed should be sown about 1 inches deep with a grain drill if such an implement is available. The same drill that is used for seeding oats or barley can be used for wheat. A disk drill is preferable where weeds and trash cover the land since clogging the drill by such material is less likely than in case a hoe or shoe drill is used. On clean land, however, any kind of a drill may be used. By the use of a drill the seed is more uniformly covered and is more likely to be placed in contact with moist soil where it will germinate readily. If for any reason the farmer can not prepare the soil in good time for sowing wheat or does not have the implements named above, fairly good results will often ho obtained by more simple methods. The land which has grown a cultivated crop the previous summer may be harrowed with a heavy harrow, going over it as many times as necessary to secure a fine, mellow seed bed. The wheat may be sown broadcast over the field from a 2-bushel bag slung over the shoulder and under one arm, at the rate of 6 or 7 pecks per acre. The sown seed should then be covered by harrowing with an ordinary harrow. The use of broadcast seeders would lighten the labor, but such implements are almost unknown in the South. The man sowing Iho grain saves much labor and can sow more evenly and rapidly if he scatters the seed while standing or sitting in the rear end of a wagon being drawn slowly back and forth across the field. When wheat follows other than a cultivated crop, the plowing of the land is necessary. The land should be plowed to a depth of about 7 inches several weeks before seeding. It should then be harrowed at once and worked down with harrow, disk, drag roller in such a manner as to kill all weeds that start to grow and to settle the subsoil and prepare a line, mellow seed bed 2 or ."> inches deep. When it is necessary to plow just before seeding, as when a catch crop of cow peas is plowed under, the soil should be compacted by rolling and harrowing several times before seeding, after which seeding should be carried on af; outlined above. Time for Sowing Wheat. Wheat can be sown in the States bordering on the Gulf over a rather long period, extending from about the middle of October to the latter pari of January. The best time for seeding is about November 1st in the northern part of these States, and November 15 in the central part. A good growtn ot tno plain is necessary before cold weather begins, yet if the plant becomes jointed injury from freezing may result. If seeding is delayed until very late in the winter sufficient winter growth is not secured, and hot weather may cut short the growth and yields be reduced or entirely suppressed. Varieties. A variety that has been grown locality for several years and that has become adapted to the locality is generally best. The soft red winter wheat are best adapted. Beardless, smooth chaffed varieties, such as Fritz, Purple Straw, Bluestem (not Spring Bluestem), Georgia Tied, Golden ChalV and Currell, or bearded, smooth chaffed varieties, such as Fulcaster, Dietz and Red Wonder, may be grown with the greatest charge for sucr\s* The hard red winter wheats, such as Tur key and Kharkof, should not be sown in the South. Preparation and Sources of Seed Broken, immature, and shriveled grains, weed seeds, and all foreign ma terial should be removed by fanning and grading the seed before it is sown. The fanning mill will also remove smut balls and many grains affected by scab, as these are lighter than the sound grain. Where stinking smut is present and time allows, seed wheat should be treated with a solution of commercial formalin in water. Commercial formalin may be bought by the pint or in bulk from a druggist at a cost of 50 cents to $1 per pound, and 1 pound will treat 25 to 50 bushels of grain. This formalin is mixed with water at the rate of 1 pound of formalin to 45 gallons of water. All smut balls should first be removed from the wheat by fanning or otherwise. The seed should then be placed on a clean floor or canvas, in a pile or layers several inches thick. It is then sprinkled with the formalin solution by means of an ordinary sprinkling can and is shoveled over and over until every kernel is thoroughly wet. The grain is then placed in a pile and covered with sacks or other coverirtg for two hours or over night. It is then dried sufficiently to run through the drills, after which it may be sown. If sown immediately,. . considerably. . more should usuallly be sown to the acre, as the water absorbed has caused the grain to swell. After treating the seed with formalin, reinfection should be avoided by the use of bags, bins, and implements that are free from the disase germs, treating these also with formalin if necessary. This formalin treatment will also very materially check the disease known as anthracnose, which attacks the lower portion ox tne stems and causes the leaf sheaths to become blackened. Reliable seed dealers can generally furnish good wheat seed, or, better . still, good seed can often bo obtained | of a local grower. In many cases the sources of good seed can be furnished by the officers of the State experiment stations. Rate of Seeding. The quantity of seed that should be sown under ordinary conditions in the cotton bolt is (> pecks per acre. This may be varied according to the size of the kernel of the variety used, the condition of the seed bed, the fertility and character of the soil and the date of seeding. When a drill is used for [sowing and the grains are small, the J seed bed in good condition, the soil rich, warm and well drained, and the seeding early, 5 or even 4 pecks per acre are often sufficient. When the seed is sown broadcast and opposite conditions exist, 7 or 8 pecks may give more profitable results. It is advisable to adhere to these rules with all varieties, regardless of any claims of exceptional tillering ability that may be made. Pasturing and Mowing. It frequently happens in the Southern States that an overabundance cl foliage is produced in the fall, and the danger of winter injury is increased thereby. It is often advisable under these conditions to mow off the plants in. the fall or pasture moderately. As growing wheat is an excellent feed, it is more profitable to dispose of the excess growth in the late fall or early spring by pasturing. However, excessive pasturing at any time, pastur- ! ing when the soil is wet, and late spring pasturing are very injurious and should be entirely avoided. This I amount of lodging- is probably reduced by judicious mowing or pasturing". Wheat as a Nurse and Cover Crop Winter wheat as a nurse crop in the South is inferior to winter barley, but superior to winter oats. A good stand of wheat is also a valuable cover crop, preventing the washing of soil and the leaching out and loss of plant food and fertilizers.. Fertilizers. If the soil is acid, it should be limed with from 1,000 to 1,500 pounds of slaked lime per acre before it is used for whca.t Lime is easily applied | through the grain drills several weeks ' before the s,xcd is sown. It may also be scattered over the surface with a shovel and harrowed in. Most oi the older agricultural soils arc benefitted by an application of lime. There are, however, some limestone soils in central Alabama, northeastern Mississippi, and Texas which without lime are , suitable for wheat if suflicient vegetable matter is incorporated in the soil. Nitrogen should generality be added by growing legumes, such as cowpeas or soy beans or the clovers. Phosphorus is generally deficient in southern soils. For soils that arc not known to bo | in a good state of fertility for wheat the following application of fertilizer per acre should be generally profitable Lime, 1,000 to 1,500 pounds, applied two or throe weeks before sowing. Acid phosphate, 200 pounds; potash salts, 25 to 50 pounds; nitrate of soda, 25 pounds, applied when the seed is sown. Nitrate of soda, 50 to 75 pounds, ap plied after growth starts in the spring generally early in March. Rust. The disease most injurious to wheat and the factor that will probably limit yields in the Southern States is rust. This affects both stems and leaves, reddish and black spots forming on these parts. Its development is favored by dampness and heat. It is most destructive on low, damp land. Early ripening varieties will generally be less affected than are late varieties. There are no rust-proof varieties, but some are more resistant than others. Sowing on fertile, welldrained uplands and the use of early varieties are the most successful meth ods of combating the disease. May End "War. Public interest last week was centered in the battle of the Russians and Germans between Vistula and Warthe rivers in Poland, for it is believed the outcome there will have a marked effect on the operations elsewhere and on the duration of the war. Burial of Soldier, i The b?dv of Field Marshall T.nr<l ' " [ Roberts, borne on a gun carriage ! moved slowly through tbe streets of London last Thursday to its last rest' ing place in St. Paul's Cathedral. The streets were lined with troops, while thousands of civilians stood with bared heads in a cold rain as the funeral cortege passed. Frank James is Critically 111. Frank James, famous as a member of the hand known as "the James gang," which terrorized the southwest during a period immediately fnllmying the civil war, was stricken with heart disease and is in a critical condition at the James homestead, nine miles from Kxcelsior Springs, Mo. James is 73 years old. 1 i Rats ahd Mice I V v Rat Corn, i!ir nei! nnd Tif v ft tlu? KTfntvHt nit riUttroyvr*'? 41? 1 n w".r,j': 11 niummltlen nils tuid mle* I 8 Quickly uiui wit liout l>u<l, dunvtfWM 1 | JJr ulsuifrp-jil?|?? roiut?siiM?nrm, 1 nrnipi 1 Vf\ All* <llMlll>r*4. IIP KlWlt Kv mall I Hotnnnical MTg Co., *11It A S(., r'tihuleluUl^ W. E. McCORD, Dental Surgeon, CONWAY, S. C. ^ , H. H. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWAY, S. C. R. B. SCARBOROUGH, Attorney at Law, CONWAY, S. C. HAL L. BUCK, * * Fire Insurance * Office Conway National Bank Conway, - - - S. C. New Store. We have bought out the stock of S. F Gas que Co, en the corner opposite the Horry Tobacco Warehouse We carry up-to date Staple and Fancv Groceries, Beef, Pork, Sausage, Etc. Give us a call and be convinced that our goods are fresh. Yours for business, J. T. Proctor Jr. & Co. GEO. LUM LAUNDRY, CONWAY, S. C, Beginning July 1st. 1913 A11 persons must take tickets!for work left here Possitively no work delivered until ticket is presented. Laundry not called for in 30 days will be sold for charges. 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Complete Waterworks, Steam, Hotwt. ter and Hot Air Heating Phinte INSTALLED ANYWHERE M Only Plumbing and Heating Roods and material of highest quality Used. Full line of Tub, Toilet, Lavatory Sink nnH otbor Hnthronm AccMMriit and repairs on hand at all times* Plumbing and Heating PUT WATER AND HEAT IN YOUR HOUSED