Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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iiM\m DEPARTMENT. J. F. NIS BET Editor. Or Interest to Farmers. It takes skill to hold a plow so tiiat it will turn a furrow oi even width ..ml depth . iiK othly and handsomely, aud it requires even more skill to attach the team to the plow properly and to select the righi kiml of a plow lor the undertaking. A plow of poor shape or a mistake infixing the line of dranghi makes po i work. and hard work for both mm and team. lir. Walter li. Evans, of the Department of Agrieuli ire, lias just returned from a three months' visit to Alaska, wher * he mves; r_'.ro mo r.-i-iuiinj n . . a^ricuiiuii'' experii-ilVjKl i>l.i . .... . 'I -J.ij iiO ?. ili t ready to t- ti: report he will make to (Jougress, it is bolieVed ti?Hi Jlewiil H>) V ISO i\ gH i ??st the eBtabiishmon* ot such -1;t* iom. iiic ill tin \> iio Keeps pa co wi!1 liic C w II Oi *iv4k) A * ^ . 1 ^ >? i k.U > k . j matt rs i. the man who :v c'a ; prorc rilvinem- -Mires, an ' vrh > en *i v* 1 coti-f:,, j ion in PVWV (IflV lito ,A n qvpr'I'fO of e\t*:i halt an iioui u clay with his agricultural newspapers would brighten any fanner's mind i?- a Tt*ay ho hardly ?us;>"cts, it ho has never tried it Most farmers can economize in the cost oi seed ami in rod labor. If less land is used, and hotter cultivated, the ei 1 will lie much ? ? "T *?: .! : r> ] rnrv r>.?n Mw* vi< 1?1 will ho as largo ?ti(i the tjuulity of the products superior. It is along the line of extensive farming tii.it His iodi<i*11on of cost can easily he solved. Select pood-sized, woll-lilled oars of corn fur seed rather than tlio very largest. Let the grains till out the cob closely at both ends. Let these ears, too, be taken from stalks of pood size. Then, if perfectly dried, it will much better resist any injury from low temperature to which it may be exposed. The strawberry grower may get a greater prolit from less capital in i?*-s time than : m any other product. It come .nat that season when the farmer has little to turn ofT tor cash. Whatever rewards crown our yearly ell'orts. Si i'awb<-rnOo, honey, ai.d poultry aie sure money getters. Th low pric > f late years led f(: ignsrs to use our corn !>? never beforo. Cargoes even went to Knglish distilleries, which is a n?>v feature in the corn trade. \V:,h ti .? method for reducing oui- ?iirplm, we should before long expect permanent improve!i "nt in pries. I: i- m>t in owning the largest tl i : b pi r fit i- : . It i in keeping as large ;i Ho< k i- run prt K-pn' on th'> place and giving ii !i be*? p : ijJ ca- < >ne h died liens veil cared for will tie mom profitable Mian live bui.dr <i aiiowed to -shift for then c . ili . : ) peculiar1*.'' " ' ? ?d 1" fa 11 *ork v hen t!m m i ipt to t>e ?1 r. It is never the . i~. i i - 111 .i it-. ''' >iiiim*ii mi i v. : I it ? v\. i i witf>rv <in' -iji.r'.ile Atitikrt. ?!i< ground v> miM bo n't i :i p;. ' !1. <! r .!: * ion and w ' !V Hmn if it iitt 1 b^on loft nn'M.t hod. V r? L'' o i~ t< ) oxp"ti<dvo to buy in ?: ? '''.p ??'t roinnvtoi^' ' / i. ) vt nonen ' n fn'-mor !o< For.r ' rfl or M,o air ahot.f u:- is ri*ro?/on. and tlio lotruminon - orops eathor it for us. to ho r>!ow'o<i wndor and pivon to the soil. ' t ? >'?m:i ?n ('< :'r< : iont .1. ('. VVilborn, of tho Staio Farmer'* Alliance, has i nod tbo following important call for a convention of .South Carolina cotton growers up. a stopping stone to a convention of the cotton growers of the South, whose object will be the regulation of cotton acroage: "As president of the Farmer's St'to Alliance organization of this State. I have been request ed by numbers of tho ropresenta tive members of the organizatioi to take the initiative in calling t meeting of the farmers of th? Southern States, with a view ol suggesting some action in the in ture looking to the regulation ol the acreage of cotton ; also to dis cuss the plans and methods ol marketing the cotton crop, so thai the producers of this great staple "hall receive the real market value of the crop, and not l?c forced to sacrifice the crop hy un fair combinations, together wit!: ; the manipulations of the gamb I ling cotton exchanges of th" conn | try, aided by the unjust nucumu : iaiion of all the money of tin country at one centre at the prin cipai time of the year when oui cotton is going into the market 4'\Vi;h these object.' in view ] , d. ;ro to request the cotton grow ers of the various counties thi State to meet on sales Jay i.i No veniber, and select one or mor? I'! dcg;.t> represent lie , meeting to bo held in the vi 1 j. ui , (' jl 11 ::i V.. .i 01 Wi? IiiucImv i.: : | ~ ?Vl " >" ii-vii ioi the puii>v>ot> u? uit? cussing the matters moiitiouec above. "J. C. WU.HORN, "Pros. Farmers Alliance of S. C. j Jloj)/)\f Mm ri fjr. On Wednesday last at * oYlocl i p. m. in Beaver Creek Baptisi ! church, vve witnessed the mar ' riago of Mr. Samuel Cauthen o j Heath Springs to Miss Lula Over cash of N. C. The marriage cor i oniony was performed by tin * popular Faster of the church, Kev j S. N. Watson. The church wai ; beautifully and artistically deco 1 rated, by Miss Julia Bell am land Miss Klla Magill. The bride'i I dress was faultless, and greatly I admired by all present. After tin marriage and congratulations o numerous friends, the bride am groom took their departure fo the residence of the groom's pa rents where a cordial recoptio: I awanou tnem. < >T?8KRVKR. j /frttrif Urortjr Ihml. Henry George, candidate o the .JoiTersunlan Democracy f<> Mayor of Greater New York,die( suddenly in Now York last Fri I day. < >n Thursday and Thursday night h<> attended several politica meetings and made speeches. Referring to his death, an ex change says: I Henry (ieorgi is j-irieken <I? wn .! : Jii very millet of Me- greau ' j > 1 it i a i ennlliet Miat I?:i^ heen willed in a inn i nieipal arena. He was easily the fore lilt -t limil'e ill tile pul/ii. eye. I'r? ; i 01 in i w.i;i.t- iirrailM'i I I IK* ll> I.. ' 11 - i I ?I<?i111 ram! tin powerful niael.iiie In* . liiad 11iin. Van \Vyek , prominent be I eause lii' lands as tin ll^nri licad o tin- tin ?.-i i ui i-n i a ma; < 'a ar>! |>< > I i t ir tan ?.f tin- world. Si 1)1 l.ow l.a- a tr n; I imliviitiiality, tint It 1platform mil hi support ari* not sensational. iI nrj i w.t- yr'-at in his own j o m j a I i 1 \. ureal a> 'In1 expositor of tin I hopi's, i In* aspirations, 'In* \ < r. j/eu m i of in- -i ' It. i. 'lU:- ' , ,i\ ! .i idi'ti that they lia\? been swindled on oi their hirtbright in tin* present or 111 / 11 ioii ol soc oil and industrial on tirprisi's. 11 i> oompai _ n \va~ n ep Hi- r pi'ci'hi's won* dramatic, hi- an ! or. were pi?t uresipi. . Ili- plalloru I was oriK>inil lo i'"? point ot ?< ?oin t iOil. Vltliou^h to his sinjfli tax Mi. ir^ land his eeonoinii writings iifor/i i ow I'd t in* tn*({i 11 tiin>fs of his i^ri-.. pop ularity am.on; tin- workilupi.-n. 'h.d la\or had mine to rest mainly tipot I t lie noW ledge af his honesty.li i - e? oir ! a gr\ his siiprerne devot ion t o t he inter est - of i In- masses. I n t lie pres. . paign his land doctrttie did not heeorm (it11 is-111 ; it "on Id not he niade an issue fori* was wholly apart from the ohvi oils llliriio-e Of tns ea ml idae V. whiel I was municipal reform. \\ 11i 1 ? liy tiit own declaration nn>ri . of a greenhacker than a <iI r man 1 (,1'ort" warmly supported liryan f<< I I lie presidency last year because of t In J meri t s of t he I >emoerat ir plat form out I side of its silver deliverance nod t In character and purpose of f lie carididati who stood upon it?in short, for tin promotion of the grout human inter ests he had at heart. F feel like a new man and life ii worth living since I took a course o I ?r. R.C. West's Nerveand Itrain Treat ment. Sole Agts. J. K. Mackey it Co. and II C. Hough it Co., Lancaster, S. C. i ONLY THE MILKING. i ) All Else on the Farm is Bono ii r Some New Way. f From the Chicago Record. "We who live in the citie i" never know about the country t We imagine that we are the onl; ' ones who got the advantages o t modern inventions, and that tin >: farmer plays around in the mm the same as he did when we wcr i boys. "Why, I learned more duruij . those two days on the farm thai ! 1 ever expected to know abou farming. Now, you helped t< . i thrash when you won1 a bo; . - did, i know. 1 can't date bacl to the time when the men used t [ eradl 1 th 1 gr- in and than beat i . r.nt w i h fr dls, but I happi no* , along in the time of th * reaping . machines. The seif-binde hadn't come in yet. We us ?d t< ft.. *?ith i\. . , ,r ft ,,c f power seperntors that you couli j* bear two n,-''?u iw:'v when it go | I I - | ? c? 4 Ou ittio iitv/ aW A llii 1 1 suppose?live or six teams o horses going around on the power and a man up on the I ig cog wheel platform in the conte cracking a whip over them. Tint kind of a machine was a horse killer and no mistake. It tool , 1 about live minutes of digging t< [ j get started and it. was hard pall -j ing all the time. Then if the feed i er happened to let a wet sheaf ge i in rroosswipo the cylinder wouli J stick and every horse would g ! up in the air. You probably re j member that when the tractioi . engine came in every one s^ii 1 that it was the final improve * ment. It knocked out ho muc] ' I grain that the separator had to b f fe<l from both side#?two ham I cutters, two men to put the grai; r into the wagons and three or fou - men to stack the straw. Did yo II ever work at the "tail end of th machine/' as they used to call it llad to wear goggles, you know Chaff flying so thick that it go f in vour ears, nose ami ??w>ntl r| down your back, sticking to yo i, and tickling wherever you wer . | wet with perspiration, which wn , j everywhere; straw piling u )| around you and threatening t bury you unless you work, d you way out; sun about 08 and n shade! And yet the agriculture ! papers used to wonder why b y | j left the farm! "Well, when I was at K/.ra's , went over him to look h ' an improved thrusher. 1 wouldn -have believed it. They don | need any one at the 'tail end o : the machine'anv moru. Imf.Mi of the old-fashioned -t:aw carriei with it- licit- a n?l slats. tin* iril i?r??v? i "pent >.r is pr >\ i 1 ?1 wit I a 'blower,' shaped just like a l?i smokestack, and all the straft am -1 ohafl is foiced through this l> powerful fans* rhis * t ?Jo\v<-i i carries all the dust and dial 1 awav troni the machine. In tli , old day y u c ml . tlio ma ' chine for a cloud of dust sui rounding it. Hut, ! started t ' tell you, there are no men on th - i strawstaek anymore. That hi 'blower' hwiiikm around and <lis . tributes thestr m , i; akiu^, a ^ro< " i semi-circular stack. There ar i | no men at the other end of th ' i machine, either .The twine hand r are cut by a patent cutter, am the sheaves are carried to th cylinder by an automatic foedoi ' 1 All the men Iuvh to iti> i u i-.i [? " "w - the sheaves tip on the platforr and the machine does the resl After the oata are thrashed on ) they are carried to tho top of th - machine, weighed and rnoasurei ( and dumped into the wagon. A1 that the man at the wagon has t is to keep the gram scooped awa; uThe way that grain comes 01 II is a caution. It takes a very fe minutes to fill a wagon. As matter of fact, about the only 1 bor in thrashing nowadays is tl 8 hauling to and from the machin ' You can probably remember tl v time, Miller, when 1,000 hushe ' was considered a big day's thrasl e ing; but 1 understand nowaday ' they can knock out 3,500 to -1 e 1000 bushels. If they could on! i invent some device to keep grai ^ ! at a good price they'd be all righ III wouldn't they ?" "It's remarkable," said Mille r> j I "i didn't km>w that the machiner ' had been improved to that e: tent. 0 ti "It's the same with most kim 1 of farm work," said Goodwi g "Ezra was showing fn his ha; r stacker. It seems that there isn 0 much pitching any mere. An ' you know how they phu.': cor 1 now, don't you? I don't, but t understand you don't have to pu , I a lO V e V to ilIU coin, i Lcj v I j got everything now except a cor j busker, but Kara says that a ma j wants to pell him one for this fai r so if 1 go back next yen:* Ezr t will probably be sitting in th house reading a paper, while tl; c machine is out husking his eon a Yes, everything's different. Ezra wife did her < ooking on u gns< lino stove. The wind pump drav t the water, and ! believe it worl 1 the churn too. Thoy milk tl 0 cows in the old fashioned wa i- but that was about the only thin n I recognized.*' 1 . i qomin< I LAMCA ' Thursdai it ? / 1 m \ ? / (-#63 \ 3 R! ? *!t 7 \ Mil p Uim^r MENAGi 0 \ >:'v \ /AQUAi i! y r^Fn?rr"-X? I *'' T,*"' ' * I i Sritr-'D'D li Vti.itWvlLh, /&A\ <\ f MAGNmCtNTXv. \V ,! \L<*v A$\ %ifyjgr " i AvA X?P J,j 'A\X^; and E > ; |;r v \ V# n |<* r'i W B!'J ^ ! LAl?" ;1_ ?|lla!' Mi!i* Iiaco Track, l,rt()0 I Clowns, 20 11 urricano Iiac< l funds, M> ('a^'cs, A o | Dons, A I lord <>i e Daily Kxpcn " Our Street Pan Sunburst of Splendor, n Trninij t with Lavish Luxury of Spectnci t Features Conceivable. e EXCURSIONS RUN ON I n<> r II Never Divides, ] ~ X VMM A a From TT.S.Jnumal of 1' | A_ Prof. W.H. Peeke, who CI V *fcimakes a specialty of 11 m Ik ^ Epilepsy, has without 4 H doubt treated and curW 0 RJ ed morecns~s than any N M H living Physician; lifa U I | K y success is astonishing. HLI^^ Wo have heard of cases a- *? yenr*' bottle of Ills absolute cure, freo to any sufferer9 ,'fl?vrhomay send their 1'. O. niul Express address. We advise nnv one wishing ncuro touddress . Prof.W. E. WiSKL, F. D., A CHsu2t., Pew York 1 ?. my new * rCATALOGUES I MU NOW HEADY, and ! have the prettiest and best Ortjiuis Made i.i America Is at pr: . vvithL th?< reach of. u. any tn- *t wf<e tubes qir lity i'l'o con- i The Best J. i? the <' 111LA l'K^T, and while I have the BlvST 1 have put l(' prices mm a very reasonable ?)?*'. .... . .iij cv?.v i?.i jou see I my organs and hear my prices ii sure wi!' yon buy one if vour *r ??so ic tn Iiijv. "IH.EMIiTiT'RE'R.. every oriran ih GUARANTEED for 5 years. All freights a )>ai<i with Stool and lustration ^ ;e book FREE. j K. J. f(i?nnDCN, YorkviUe, 8. C. 's .. ? CASTOR 1A T v? T ie For Infants and Children. 3 I ^ TO STER, O. j, Nod. 11th. :omah^( 5A\y,i' cn^ aaueir* * \?bv -vr^irvV-..-. ;rKl;' >.^ r)?rV-J'^'-- )M#i! 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