Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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- j ProtectYourself Against loss by accident, sick ness, fire, storms, and leave your family comfortably “fixed” when you die, by investing Tiresome A NEW METHOD OF AGRICULTURE TO AID THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. m an INSURANCE POLICY. I represent the best companies. D. C. ROSS. Are these long, hot days. They create a thirst for cold drinks that can be satisfied only at Our ‘ ' ‘ ‘ Where the ‘ ‘delicious and refreshing” kind of drinks are served in the most tempting style. Beware! Brannon's Ice Cream Beware of Life Insurance Policies that are full of con ditions, ifs and auds, but buy one in ; : : : : Sold by us, has taken the ice cream eating public by storm, and after you 1 have tried it you’ll read ily understand why. * The Old Mutual Gaffney that protects you from the mountain tops to the mid- die of the sea. : : : : ' Robertson & Gullick Agents. For Rent. Company Prescription Druggists. J. E. Greene, Manager. Opposite Both Hotels. Advantages of a New Implement forj Farming Purposes Designed to Fur ther the Agricultural Interests. St. John's Hotel, Charleston, S. C., June 2G. 1905. Dear Sir:—Please allow me space in your paper to try to aid the State agriculturally. My combined culti vator and harrow has the following I points: 1. Several hundred per cent, more work daily. 2. Adjustable to any depth (in reason) or width, from 4 1-2 feet down. 3. Destroys all weeds and grasses. 4. Maintains the neces sary soil. 5. Adjustable to uneven | ground, like high beds and low mid- ! dies. 0. Adjustable to working two j or more rows of peas and cotton, i 7. Dirts or makes beds to both rows at once. 8. Square resistance less than thirty inch sweep. 9. Less mule power ami less feed. 10. Breaks mid dle of row four or five feet in ad vance of teeth, working close to the plant. 11. Absolute immunity from cutting feeding roots. 12. Lateral cut, against present vertical cut up on lateral growth. Now, let rne tell something about agriculture in South Carolina. Take the statistics of the corn-growing belt —composed chielly of the States of Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, etc., and compare their temperature conditions and average rainfall with that of the State of South Carolina and the com parison will be in favor of our State. Compare a yield of corn per acre and we occupy the position of the man that fell out of the balloon, “we are not in it.” The agricultural department, statis tical branch, Washington, D. C., is considered by all clear thinkers to have in its service competent em ployees. The regretable fact exists that within the last five years South Carolina's average corn production per acre has been the pitiable sum of seven bushels, yet this in the State that holds the record (fast passing in to history) of 251 bushels and 5G pounds of corn to the acre. Permit me to say that if South Car olina wants prosperity she must uti lize the gray matter which every man possesses to a greater or less extent. There being but two ess#.itials to breaks his soil deeply in the early fall and spring prior to planting. Let us see what he gains. 1 do not mean by breaking the soil to put the bottom on top, but a stirring or mellowing of it from fourteen to eighteen inches in depth, the fertile soil still remaining on the top strata. This can easily be accomplished by a disc plow or a narrow sub-soil. This farmer refer red to gets the winter anil spring rains, and in our latitude occasionally falls snow and sleet. He stores for future use vast reservoirs of moisture and should be able, if his seed had germinated, to do without one drop of rain absolutely, making an average 1 of as high as 13»i bushels of corn per 1 acre with use of water estimated as j the equivalent of between 11 1-2 and 13 inches of rain fall, and in our lati tude is 18.13 inches. I wouli state that my machine will be within the means of the poorest, farmer in the State. His product by the use of it j will exceed twenty per cent annually: , but the use of this machine will be j confined to the State of South Caro lina during the life of the patent, namely, seventeen years. This is my contribution to mv State, but, in ad li- tion I ask that every man that, uses this instrument pay to the Slate fifty per cent, of his increased yield, or the value thereof, the first year only, this fund to be devoted to educational purposes and the building and main tenance of good roads. Yours very truly P. H. Loud, Jr. Kidney Troubles Cured Free. If you are a sufferer in any form and will send us the name of your druggist, we will furnish you—through him—free, one dozen bottles of West Baden Bitter Water, which will relieve or entirely cure any case of kidney trouble. This offer is made to a limited number of sufferers for the sole purpose of introducing this wonderful water into your neighbor hood. The only condition being the privelege to refer to you (when cured) m corresponding with prospective customers in your lacality. No Testimonials Solicited. No Names Published. All that is required is your name and address, the nameof your drug gist and full particulars regarding your case, accompanied by this offer. ASSOCIATED DRUG STORES Gaffney Ledger Louisville, Ky. Alfalfa. (Eli C. Bi iioilict, in Kansas Farmer.) There is so much sai.l about alfalfa that I want to have my say and tell what I know about it after twenty years’ experience. First, don’t "monkey” with alfalfa on upland or on rolling land. Its home is in the valley and on gumbo land, the stickier the better. Now. I will say something that will make Eastern people exclaim. If the manure gets too deep around the barn and you live in Southern Kansas or Oklahoma, move the barn rather than haul it out on the land to ruin the farm, for the pigweeds will surely take the crops for you. Our land is so rich it does not need manure—hut follow me and let me tell you what to Jo with it. Plant your alfalfa land in corn. Next May cultivate it four times Jhe first time deep, very deep. List it. don’t plow the ground—cut the corn, also every weed. Disk the ground at. once after cutting the corn: harrow it some and sow with alfalfa (using a disk drill) two and a half inches deep soon after a big rain; don’t wait for it to get dry: seed fourteen pounds to the acre. Now, write to me if you do not get a stand. Here is the greatest discovery I ever made: After the altalta is one year old just draw out your manure successfully work cultivation, first, and scatter it over the alfalfa and the absolute removal of all weeds and! cover it over the poorest land first, grass as far as possible, allowing thej Disk it in and on alkali or white land fertility of the soil to be utilized by r i m Union Central Life ins. Co. Of Oineinna.ti, Ohio. The Greet Policy-llGlhers' Company Lowest Premiums, Biggest Dividends. CHAS. P. LIGON, District Manager. Gaffney, S. C. ELLIOTT ESTES, Gen. Agt. ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr., Cashier, i Spartanburg, S. C. ti-SO-Aug :i'i • One cheap. Doggett’s. fine six-room cottage Next to Mr. A. W.| Fine lawn, shade trees. :: :: :: : If you want anything in real estate come to me. :: :: :: R. L. PARISH, ■Office National Bank Building. Gaffney, S. C. Let The Shoe Store Fit Your Feet The Builders Supply Co. Successors to Baker, Will furnish your Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, Guar anteed Pure White Lead and Zinc, and Pure Linseed Oil. Nothing better to paint your house with and costs less than mixed paints. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you cour teously and make your estimates for nothing. I* it MANAGER. k o r. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Eye, F!ar, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. J* J* MTOffice in Cherokee .Drug Co., B’ldg. One of the very important things in buying Shoes is the fit. This we study as well as value. Bring your feet and let us fit them. We do n’t pride o u r- selves on cheap Shoes but good Shoes at right prices. The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Company WANTED! AH youi clothes that tieod hritrlitenlntt up bring them to us. We will make them hxit fresh and new. AH work done by expert tailors. See us and Join our pr<'sslnir club. W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. Over W. D. Telegraph OtHee. Phone No. 4:t. the product grown in the area planted; second, the maintenance of soil mulch, preventing an evaporation of moisture by sun’s rays and permitting the soil to supply itself like capillary attraction from stored reservoirs of moisture within the ground. Cover these essentials, even imperfectly, and wonderful results are obtainable; but the average farmer of South Carolina not having studied plant growth is in densj ignorance of the relative posi tion of (he feeding roots of plants to the plane of the ground surface, hence he uses interest of so-called value, which, without exception, makes a vertical cut upon the lateral growth. The sap circulation from a plant is similar to the arterial circulation in :i man’s body. Cut your finger and time is required to heal the wound and re- siore circulation to the affected part; likewise, cut t in ’feeding roots and the strength which should he expand (1 in making fruit-is required to restore injury received. How often have you seen corn crop; yellowed and shriv eled by improper cultivation. How our soils vary; we have peat- and mulch-like soils, clay, sand and loam, but for all there D a ’remedy, and wiiile the treatment of every particu lar soil and possible locality may vary, yet beneficial results can be obtained from all. The chemist of Clemson College, in answer to inquiry regarding applica tion of hulk slack lime to bottom and stiff lands, stated some time ago that it had no value, yet on such lands I have found it at a cost of $5.7o per ton to lit' absolutely preventitive of rust in cotton, causing even small in ferior plants to fruit heavily, and this against kainit at $11.in to $13.00 per ton. My greatest yield of corn last year per acre was 17 1-2 bushels, with twenty-four 5on pound bales of cotton on thirty acres, and this on ordinary lands running stiff bottom and with clay sub-soii, with top loam to light land running twenty-six per silica, t My methods were ditching to cut the roots where fields adjoin the timbered lands; terracing where land required the protection; then apply .HI the veg- ; etable matter, leaves, straw, compost, : cotton seeds, litter, ashes, lime, acids, j and standard fertilizers. 1 pay $1.00 I tier acre for bacteria to inoculate my j soil, one application lasting four : years, tints bringing cost down to 25 ! cents annually. The value of this • scientific discovery to the progressive farmer of tin* South can scarcely lie j estimated, the productiveness of sub- sequent croi* of all kinds showing its value, while the turning under if the i pea sand vines with their increased yield makes renovation of sterile soils not only possible, but within short time. Now, the ideal farmer (scien tific, if you please) in other localities vnu will have alfalfa thr‘' n feet h’gh it is wonderful what it does on the surface. If you manure this ground first, then plow and sow. you get nothing but weeds. After the alfalfa is up. my way is to take care of the weeds, but the weeds will take care of it if you manure it first. The rain runs the liquid manure down the tap root and it just, booms, while if the manure is plowed under it just burns the roots off. 1 would give $5fih if i had known this ten years ago. You Can Bee o m e an What Newspapers Do. A newspaper is worth more to a town than all the moneyed men in it. says the Informant. Without expect ing recompense, it is continually ploitlng the advantages of the place, interesting outsiders and promotinf improvements. It does this trom pub lic pride and public spirit, tide of this nature costs money. But the paper something to fill up Army or Navy Officer If you are a persevering, moral young man, between the ages of 17 and Mo years, possessing a good com mon school education and passing the neccessary physical examination. Further particulars for four cents in stamps, by addressing W. H. PHILLIPS, Louisville, Ky. 1 igRQR ■BBBnWWMHMi — —1 t£ Every ar-1 the paper | has to have with, says some body. That is usually the least of the newspaper man's troubles. There is usually more news and matter of interest than enn be put into type by the regular foree. If all the articles that have been published in this pa per during the past year which ad vertised the town, the section, organ izations and societies of a public na ture were paid for at regular adver tising rates, the owner would he one thousand dollars better off than h‘* is. How many of the interested citi zens have given that amount or one- tenth of that amount?. Good for Stomach Trouble and Con stipation. "Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets have done me a great deal of good," says C. Towns, of Rat Portage, Ontario. Canada. "Being a mild phy sic the after effects are not unpleas- anr. and I can recommend them to all Yho suffer from stomach disorder.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Is the time for you to select a 3 | BUGGY and HARNESS | ^ We have a complete line of 3 | Buggies, Harness, Saddles, Whips and Lap Robes, i £ 3 ^ We have a special proposition ^ 1 FOR YOU. I NOTICE Colored Teachers of Cherokee County. The summer school for teachers will begin July 31st, 1905, at 9 o’clock \ M in graded school No. 3, on Last Smith St. Each and every teacher is urged to he present and to attend this school from beginning to the close. Board and lodging mav be had near school building at a small cost. All books rued may be bought at the office of county superintendent. Teachers who attend this school will have their teacher’s certificates renewed. Done by order of the county super Intendent of education, J. L. Walker. Rev. R. C. Campbell, Instructor. |Smith Hardware Co. | §E GAFFNEY, S. C. 3 ^iUiUlUiMiUiUlUlUiUiUlUiUiUiiUUlUlUiUlUiUlUiUiU^ If you want all the news of Cherokee county Subscribe for The Ledger $1.00 Per Year. OUR IDEAS BUSINESS We believe in selling only such goods as give entire satisfaction. We believe that the satisfaction of our customers means our cpntinued success, and that small customers often grow to be large ones, and their welfare should be studied. Therefore, you know it is best to deal at our store where you select the best for the least money. Every department in our store is complete. Cut prices on all summer goods. THE COMPANY STORE.