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FACH5 TWO VELVET BEAN THAT !. BOES NOT VINE Here is a Variety We Think Will Suit Farmers !J i Better THIS KIND USED IN GEORGIA SECTION m 11 I i Bears Beans However Very Near the Ground According* To Article Disadvantages of the ordinary varieties of velvet beans, in that their vlning, twining nature makes it practically impossible to harvest the resultant forage as hay, are rectified in a new variety known as the "bush" or "bunch" velvet bean. It is of erect, upright growth and arises from a selection of the Alabama variety, first developed on the farm of a Goorgia planter. This farmer carefully saved the seed from the crop raised during the 1915 season, which harvested GO bushels, and he distributed it in his vicinity, so that at present the variety has been established on a large scale in that sec, tion of Georgia. It is noteworthy that wherever the bush variety has boon grown it ultimately has replaced all other varicites of velvet beans. The United States Department of Agriculture is promoting its popularization. The individual plants average about 3 feet in height, growing approximately as high as the ears on corn plants. The bean plants branch near the ground, most of the branches being short. Occasionally some are from 6 to 7 feet long, but show no inclination to twine over cornstalks. The pods are all produced near the base of the plant, but the stem is stiff enough to support the clusters so that few of the pods and seeds are exactly like the Alabama and Georgia varieties, the pods having the same ability to resist decay when they lie on the ground. The bush velvet bean matures in about the same period as the Alabama variety. but tho violfl is JI littlo IftU'Pr Nontwining Advantage. An outstanding feature which particularly appeals to farmers is that the plant deos not twine on coi n, and, therefore, does not tend to pull down the stalks. Hence, where it is grown in combination with corn for ensilage purposes, it is much easier to handle the two crops than has been possible where the ordinary twining varieties of velvet beans have been grown in combination with ct rn. In addition, the bunch velvet beans is especially valuable for planting in orange and other tree groves where any variety of forage crop which climbs trees is decidedly ' objectionable, particularly while the trees arc young. This new bean may bo used as a rest crop after the manner of cow peas, as the absence of twining stems eliminates the common difficulty in mowing ordinary velvet beans. Indications are that where the crop is used principally for soil improvement the Alabama and Georgia varieties are preferable, as they yield a large amount of green growth. Furthermore, where the entire crop of matured beans is to be gathered the bush velvet bean is perhaps "Hot so desirable as the twining varieties, as the pods are all produced very near the ground and Are Yon Awaiting The Great Crisis? If So, Do Not Allow tho Tlma to Past With Nature Unaided. Women wlio give nature a helping hand during th? period of expect )noy find that when tho tlino arrives for baby's coining it Is approached and passed vdth inQuitcly less pain and danger. Thousandj of women for over half a con tury have learned tliat in tho time-honored preparation, Mother's Friend, they have a grateful, relaxing, penetrating remedy, tho use of which makes It possible for them to go through childbirth without the usual imusea, nervousness, bcarlng-down and stretching pains, and that through its use the hours at tho ciir.is aro fewer and of much less pain and danger. Mother's Friend penetrates the muscles, rendering them pliant and easily governed by the demands of nature. They relax gently and bring happy days and calm, restful nights. As tho result the crisis in parsed with greater ease and in less time, tho breasts arc kept in good condition and tho akin is made and kept soft and frco from blemishes. Wrltotothe Bmdfleld Regulator Company, Dept. P. Lamar Undoing, Atiaiun, (lenrgia, for their Motherhood Iiook, and obtain a bottio of Mother's Friend from your druggist today and thoroughly fortify yourself for tho coming event. t thus the labor involved in gathering them is increased. Suggestion on Planting. The bush velvet bean should not bo planted too early in localities to which it has been acclimated, but at about the same time as cotton, as the beans do not make a thrifty growth until the sod lias become thoroughly warm. As a rule, 1 bushel of seed will plant 2 to 3 acres, the seeds dropped 2 to 3 feet apart and covered the same as corn in rows which arc 36 to 42 inches in width. The beans may be planted either alone >r in the same rows with corn. It is customary after planting to cultivate the bush-bean crop the same as cow peas. In the opinion of specialists of the United States Department of AgriI culture, bush velvet beans arc worthy of extensive testing. The wide popularity achieved in the limited area where they are known indicates I that they may become highly useful nad particularly valuable for the special purposes mentioned. As this variety is a new one, the Department recommends that all farmers who give it a trial make provis:on to save their own seed, as for two or three years the seed will probably be scarce and high in price. PLANS FOR FEEDING < HUNS AND NEUTRALS Paris.?The supreme economic council at its meeting Monday passed upon measures for feeding Germany and tho Northern neutral countries and Switzerland. It was announced that the naval armistice authorities have removed restrictions on German fishing in parts of the North sea. The official statement on the meeting, issued, reads: The United States and the Allies will simultaneously extend recognition to the Omsk Government of Russia in the near future. German Fishing. "Concerning German fishing in the Skagerrak and Cattegatt the council was advised that after its action at the last meeting upon the German request for permission to fish in these waters, the naval armistice authorities have removed restrictions as to the Cattegatt and have extended the North sea limits so as to permit the German fishermen to make use of a passage free of mines to and from the several fishing areas. Rationing Regulations. "It was reported to the council that the blockade section has taken appropriate steps to give effect to the decision of the council that the rationing regulations established during the war with respect to the importation of commodities into the Northern and neutral countries and Switzerland be suspended.0 In consequence, hereafter all commodities other than a specified list of war materials may be imported into those countries without restriction on quantity. It has also been decided that shipments of foodstuffs from the countries in question to Germany may be made without the requirement previously existing that each shipment received the approval of the inter-Allied trade comfcnittee in the respective countries. Forwardnc of Sunnlies. "To facilitate commerce and the fo: warding of relief supplies, the council agreed to the recommendation of the blockade section that hereafter shipments may be made | through Germany of all commodities | except unfinished munitions of war provided the shipments are covere( by a license of an inter-Allied trade committee or, where no such com mittee exists by a license from th( relief administration. "The council considered the im portant question of facilitating com mercial and relief traffic on the Dan 1 ube river, but deferred final actioi in order to permit the further stud: of the several methods of regulatioi which were proposed. To Meet Coal Deficit. "In pursuance of its plans of im proving coal production and distri but ion to meet the present genera deficit in the European coal supply the council decided that the directo general of relief should for the pres out be charged with all matters in ai tion in the former Empire of Aus tria-IIungary and Poland. The di rector general of relief is to worl through the mission of the communi cations section of the council whicl is charged with the operation o through railroad services for the (lis tribution of food supplies in the tor ritories in question." o The Unito<l States is inextricabl; tied to the policy of internationalism The war put us in, our tremendou credits to the other nations of th< world during the war bound us in and the peace will hold us in for a h ast two decades, whether wo joit j the Lea ;uc of Nations or not. THE HORRY HERALD, CON ROOM FOR FARMS TO BE DEVELOPED Great Broad Areas Wow Unused May be Put Into Service IRRIGATION AND MUCH CLEARING NEEDED Tc Make Waste Land Useful When Economic Conditions Will Warrant These. The United States has approximately 850.000,000 acres of land? 45 per cent of the country's land i area?in crops or available for crop : production, according to recent esti- | mates of United States Department' A 1*-.. :_i: -i? >M MI'UI tui u specialists. Of this amount approximately | 480,000.000 acres were improved land in 1910; the remainder consisting of 200,000,000 acres of potentially arable forest and cut-over land, i CO 000 acres of swamps and other wet lands needing drainage, 30,000,000 acres of potentially irrigable lard, and about 80,000.000 acre-s of i i uirmproved land other than woodland. Over 1,000,000,000 acres of land in th? United States are not adapted to cultivation, of which at least 300,000,000 acres may be used for forests and about 000,000,000 acres for glazing. Most of the grazing land is located in the Western States. In addition there are about 40,000,000 acres of deseert land, and 40,000,000 acres of land in cities, rural highways, and railroad rights of way, an amount which will gradually increase with increasing population. Why Land Lies Idle. Much of the nonarable land within the domain of Uncle Sam consists of land once farmed and now abandon ed. as well as areas which no one has thought it worth while trying to make into farms. Topographic and climatic conditions are of primary importance in explaining why so laige an area remains unimproved. Nearly one-fifth of the United Stat- | es is too hilly or rough for the successful production of crops. This! mountainous or stony land, where! j rainfall is sufficient, is adapted to I forests, and where the rainfall is j light, is grazed by roving flocks of ] sheep or by cattle. Lack of sufficient rainfall is responsible for the' 1 aba: nee of crops in nearly one-third i ! oT the United States. During oc-! jcasiona! years of heavier rainfall,! k.rge profits may be made growing ,ci,ps in these semi arid regions, but in the long lun, it pays better in most localities to use such land for grazing and grow in swales and seep age basins only a few acres of crops for supploracntary feed. Another factor restricting the i cultivated area is tnc lengin or tne j growing season. Over a large ex-1 tent of elevated land in the West, and also in the Adirondacks and a part of northern Maine, the average I growing season is less than 00 days, while frosts may occur during the summer. There is also much land where the soil is too sandy or infer, tile for the profitable production of 1 crops. Such soils are better adapted } to forests, and when cleared for ag ricultural use are generally soon al3 lowed to grow up again in brush and trees. May Clear Forest Land. About one-fifth of a billion acres of - the cut-over land and woodland in i the United States might be cleared y up and the stumps remover! so that i the land would be available for productive farming. However, this work would involve heavy expenditures, - and on this account clearing is slow, - as farmers usually prefer to locate 1 on land which does not involve so , much pioneering. If all this agr riculturally suitable forest and cut over land could be made into farms i averaging 160 acres, it would pro vide 1,250,000, an increase of about - 20 per cent over the present number. < It is believed unlikely that mure - than 50,000,000 acres, or enough for i perhaps 300,000 farms, will be clearC ? I 1 . 1- _ L L' I _ . i i?i uy nit; prcsrni, gene ruin on unio.s.s - the Government assumes responsi bility. Another undeveloped agricultural resource consists of swamps and y overflow lands that may he drained. . It is estimated that there are some s | (id,000,000 acres of such land suits'able for the production of crops af,! tor reclamation, or enough to make t 1,000,000 farms of CO acre . Mo t i f this land, located largely in the jMissssippi Kiver bottoms and other * WAY, S. 0., MAY 8, 1919 river bottoms of the southern Coastal Plain an<l in the peat bogs and muck lands of the lake States and northeastern States, is potentially fertile, but as drainage is expensive ii will probably be at least another half century before all or even much of this area is reclaimed. Opportunity in Irrigation. The irrigated sections of the We. tern States have approximately 30 000.000 acres of land still available for farming purposes if complete utilization is made of the potential water supply. This is double the present area of the irrigated land and would provide 340,000 farms averaging 87 acres, which is the average farm acreage of irrigated land shown by the 1910 census. However, construction of irrigation dams and canals is so expensive that it will be many years before much of this land is put in crops. In the Eastern States and in the Great Plains region much waste land is classified in the census report as "uniniproveed land other than woodland." It consists of stony upland pastures in hilly regions and other parcels of waste land in eastern faims and of grazing land in western ranches, aggregating in all about ">0,000,000 acres. Some of this land in the East at one time was cropped and now constitutes in part the so-called abandoned farms. If prices of farm products continue high and farm labor again becomes comparatively cheap, a portion of this land will undoubtedly be reclaimed for crop production. The further development of dry farming may also make room for a few more farmers in the West. Under the (>40 acre grazing homestead act passed in 191G more than 45,000 applications had been made and approved (> ivKrtv i 1 oi n v/vvvwv/i X , X 1/ i w. lit tuv, upm IV'II of department specialists, however, most of the grazing homesteads offering promise of supporting a family have been applied for. EATING OAK LEAVES SPRING DANGER SEASON Relief among many stockmen in the grazing regions of the West that cattle were poisoned by oak leaves caused specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture to undertake exeperiments in 1915, the results of which have just been published in Bulletin 767, "Oak Leaf Poisoning of Domestic Animals." It has been found that the continuous feeding of oak leaves produces sickness of cattle, which frequently proves fatal. In order to cause sickness, however, oak leaves must make lij> a large percentage of the ration. K eaten with other feed, the animals are not injured. It was found experimentally that as small a quantity of alfalfa hay as 3 pounds daily, fed in connection with oak leaves, prevented poisoning. Much poisoning cases occur in the spring, because at that time there is a scarcity of other forage on the range. Refuse Food but Want Water. A symptom of the disease, although not always the first one to be noticed by the stockmen, is pronounced constipation. The affected [animals appear gaunt, its coat is rough, and its nose becomes dry and cracked. The attitude, both standing and walking, is peculiar; the head is extended forward and the animal shows depression, discomfort, and sometimes evidence of pain. The animal grows rapidly weaker and may die at any time from a few days to a few weeks or more. As a iulc, affected animals lose their appetites at an early stage of the disease. They refuse food but have a craving for water. Observations on the range and ex perimental feeding both show thai some cattle may eat oak leaves foi a long time with no definite bat effects, and some will even eat therr exclusively with no harm. General ly speaking, those that are injuret show the results only after eating f considerable quantity tnrougn i rather prolonged period. Observa tions on the shinnery oak show tha symptoms resulted after the animali had been feeding from 10 to 35 daysJudging from investigations thu far made, the specialists beiieve tha oak-brush ranges can be used fo i grazing during ti\e summer, not on; i with no harm to cattle but with pos | itive benefit. To make certain tha there is no loss from oak poisoninj (in early spring, when other forag j is not available, it is important tha an examination of the condition o the range be made before the cattl are turned upon it. There is n fixed date when cattle may be turn led on range with safety, but if gras | has gotten a good start there i little danger of oak poisoning. c I.. M. Stanley, of Loris, was ii . f/\i. ?, Cntir Viniivsi fin biivinon I the middle of last week. BUYING LIVES, ONE PURPOSE OF LOAN Your Victory Liberty Bond Subscriptions Will Help Pay for Saving of Hundreds of Thousands of *4 Doughboys1 One of the features of the coming Victory Liberty Loan is that it will, in part# pay the cost of saving the lives of more than 500,000 Yanks and thousands of our allies, according to Lewis II. Franklin, Director of the U. S. War Loan Organization. "The speed and bravery of the ! American doughboy affected the Ger* j j mans on the front line more than it | ifQIAv xjp / g LEWIS B. FRANKLIN War Loan Director. did the men at German general headquarters," states Mr. Franklin, "but the fact that America was preparing for a drive on Berlin struck terror to the general stafT. "And those millions and billions of dollars spent were far from being wasted in an unnecessary preparation. I feel that the fact that money was spent and that an enormous output of munitions was ready was the controb ling factor in the weakening of the German general stafT, and that it caused their message to the kaiser that they were beaten and that he must sue for peace. And the way I see it is that this money, instead of being wasted, can be written down as having saved the lives of hundred of thousands of American men who would have been sacrificed had the war continued another year. "That is the money we are going to ask the American people for in the Liberty Loan. We are going to ask them for the money to bring our boys j home safe and sound, instead of leaving thorn buried in France. And when the po*le of America realize ..'.at this mooey did. we are not go !ng to find that they are lacking in patriotism to 'c&mf aeross.' " 1 FURRIERS' SUPPORT URGED All the farmers in the United Statee are urged to support, the Victory Lib or' tv Ix>an by Oliver Wilson, master of 1 National Grange, who characterizes Lhe loan as "our great national responi sibility." Mr. Wilson's appeal fob i lows: "For the fifth time the government is appealing to the people for financial aid. On the four previous occasions money was needed to win the war and people of all classes liberally respond. Now comes the call f - a Victory Liberty I joaii, a loan which, now that the fight is won, is necessary to aid in finishing the great task otf assuring to all peoples liberty and democracy, that our struggles and sacrifices of the last L few years may not bare been made la vain. "] desire te appeal to our entire t grange membership and farmers gea* * rally to maintain the proud record we | have made hi the preetoue toons. Not ? , only subscribe wbaa yen can but give i the matter prominence at your grange i 1 aeetinrs and encourage neighbor* and ' . . - ? a. -a ? M?u mW fulfill. irlmia* IQ ww k"" k , 11 ltv* this our ?ro?t natfaoal retpoMfr 1 Milt j.H t o s Cheap Living Again. He?"How about getting mar? ried?" t She-?"Getting married?if it's the r right girl?should double the life ol S your tires and cut your gasoline bil - in two."?From the St. Louis Globe t Democrat. < t? Samuel M. Wolfe, attorney gen t eral, will file within the next fe\s f days his answer to the suit brought c by the Southern Express Companj o against the State of South Caroline _ for the recovery of a large volurrn s of the taxes paid into the 45 eount\ .j treasuries last fall. ntmmmttntmimnznxnxnxitnxuu; Rub-My-Tism is a great pain killer [i It relieves pain and soreness eause< * by Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains etc.?adv. 4-24-19 20t. CALOMEL DYNAMITES A SLUGGISH LIVER Crashes into sour bile, making you sick and you lose ? day's work. Calomel salivates! It's marcuryi Calomel acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver. When calomel comes into contact with sour bile it crashes into it, causing cramping and nausea. If you feel bilious, headachy, constipated and all knocked out, just go to your druggist and get a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone for a few cents which is a harmless vegetable substi-^ tute for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful and if it doesn t staij^your liver and straighten you up xktter ? and quicker than nasty calomel andA without making you sick, you just^ go back and get your money. If you take calomel today you'll be sick and nauseated tomorrow; besides, it may salivate you, while V you take Dodson's Liver Tone will wake up feeling great, full of\ ambition and ready for work and piay, it's harmless, pleasant and safe to give to children; they like it. ?adv. PORTA RICANS PREPARE TO ASK INDEPENDENCE Washington ? Congressman Fred H Dominiek of the Third district of South Carolina with eighteen other members of the lower house of congress has just returned to Washington from a trip to Porto Rico. The congressional party of which he was a member made this visit in response to an urgent invitation extended t,o them by the Porto Rican general assembly. The purpose in having mem ibers of concross vi?it fVmi nrmnfiM# was to appraise the congress of the United States through the visitors I of the condition of internal affairs J in the little dependency and to lay i the foundation for the claim for independence. K "We spent a whole week on the island, attended sessions of the gener-,^ al assembly and looked as carefully^ as we could in so short a time into | the internal affairs of the country," 'said Mr. Dominick, "but I do not I care to make a premature statement as to our conclusions. The information we gathered should in justice to oui.selves and to the people of that country be well digested before specific announcement as to the claims and needs of the country are made." It was learned from members of the congressional party that it is obvious that the Porto Ricans are endeavoring to take advantage of the peace settlement to secure a change in their government to the end that they may have their independence. VBayer Tablets of Aspirin." American Owned, Entirely!! USES OF' 4 /T\ Buyonfr. Cross' 10 AY Eft A "Bayer" set ASPIRIN , Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monuaceticacidestcr of SalicylicaciJ ? Passports from Misery! Out of Pain to Comf^U For Headache Colds 9 Neuralgia Grippe Earache Influenzal Colds ' Toothache Neuritis i Gum Pain Lame Back ? Lumbago Joint-Pains 1 Rheumatism Pain! Pain! y Adults?Take one or two 7 rrDnwor 'a?? i-jnjr1 i (iun;ii ui Aspirin"1 anytime, with water. 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