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take Dr. M. A. Simmins T,iver Medicine.
Cheerfulness will return and life
aquires new zest.
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M.KAV&A A1VUV/VI
THE l'L'HLIC will take notice that
the Registration Rooks will be
open, at the Courthouse, for the registration
of parties ent itied to reg>?f?*r
under the constitution, on the 1st
Monday in each month, until 30 days
preceding the next general election,
W G. A. PORTER,
Chairman Board Registration, Lancaster
Count)', 8. C., Dec f>, 1898
A Trrpid Liver causes Depression of
Spirits, Indigestion, Constipation,
Headache. Use Dr. M. A. Simmon?
Liver Medicine to stimulate that organ.
f Chas. D. Jones,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
LANCASTER. S. C.
Office In the Courthouse. Will
practice In all the Courts. Prompl
attention will be given all business
entrusted. Collections a specialty,
ly.
Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine
Clears the Complexion, gives Buoyancy
to the Mind, cures Headache, Regulates
Stomach, Bowels and Liver.
OASTOTIIA.
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a duty I owe to my neighbors to tell
about the wonderful cure effected in
toy case by t he timely use of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. I was taken very badly with
Aiix and procured a bottle of this romedy.
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\ manent cure. 1 take pleasure in recoinmemling
it to others suffering from
that dreaeful disease?J. W. Lynch,
Dorr, W. Vft. This remedy is sold by
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S You cannot accomplish any work or
Hf\ business unless you feel well. If you
felt "Tsed lip?Tired Out," take I>r,
I W. M.Simmons I,iter Medicine.
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LANCASTER,
Thousands of Dollars .Mario by
Cultivation. No. 2.
T. H. Terry, in Practical Farmer.
By the time your potatoes and J
corn pet up four inches there are!
I probably roots 18 inches, or more.
in length. These roots for the
! part, will be found near the surface.
They run out almost hori |
zontaily. Very soon they occupy j
all the soil. This is their feeding
ground. The more they can have
undisturbed to feed in the better,
and the larger the crop will be,
ordinarily. But wo must stir the
surface some to keep weeds down
and check evaporation of water.
If we fail to do this the crop will
bo injured. If v?e cultivate very
deep along through the season
j we will tear off roots and injure
the crop that way. So we must
avoid these extremes and try and
do all the good we can and as little
injury as possible. As a rule
1 think you will usually find it
best to cultivate as deeply for a
week or ten days after the < rop
comes up. Work the ground
thoroughly then, even if you do
tear oil some lew roots that are
lllaf e>ar?inn fT.,? ?!.- ? f
j.mu niaiuni;, Um' llltl ^VfeilPr, OI
eourSfc, in connection with the
cultivator, to stir the surface in
the hills or drills where the cultivator
teeth do not go. Then after
about 10 days stop deep work
entirely and not stir the surface
more than two inches deep. This
will not injure the roots much.
They will have nearly all the soil
to work in. If you make the surface
fiue two inches of this pulverized
soil, Iving nearly level,
will make a good mulch. Probably
it will be as good as 4 inches
: would be where the soil was
, broken up coarsely, and somewhat
in ridges, with wide teeth.
We use teeth 14 inches wide, or
narrower. N< .v suppose very
heavy rains should come with potatoes
and corn 10 or 12 inches
high. The ground is settled solidly.
Shall one tear it up again
. deeply? Well, you must decide
for yourselves. 1 should not; have
i not for the past 20 years. Al
though 1 realize that terrible
flooding rains at that time will
pack the ground so to injure the
yield of potatoes still to mellow
the soil,up deeply again would do
i more harm. I take up with what
I believe on the average to be the
lesser of two evils.
Now. about this root pruning
i by deep cultivation, after crop is
well started, it never does ?nv
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good. The amount of harm it may
I do depends on circumstances. In
; moist growing weather it would
1 do less harm (possibly not any)
than in dry hot weather. I have
seen crops of corn and potatoes
. seriously injured by deep cultiva"
tion,|whichwan|followed by weeks
. of drought. The poorer the soil,
the more injury might be expected.
Your father, or grandfather,
plowed corn deeply, you may say
, and Ptill crew lurire ctods. Per
fectly true, but he got them in
1 spite of his method of culture and
not bec&UHo of it. The newly
1 turned prairie, or freshly cleared ,
timber land was full of vegetable
' matter and food for corn. One
i could tear off half the roots with
; hia plow and still get a crop.
There wasn't much need of atuilyl'imples,
Ihrils and other Humors api
pear when the blood gets impure. The
, best remedy is I)r. M. A. Simmons
Liver Medicine.
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SELM I-WEiELKL^Y.
, S, C., SATURDAY,
ing methods then, hs the abundant
fertility of the soil would carry
a crop through most any way.
Now, with this fertility somewhat
exhausted, the old system of j
culture will often reduce the
yield. If you do not quite believe |
this just stop and think a moment.
Isn't the plan given above]
founded on common sense? I
Doesn't it look reasonable? And |
in every section of this country j
where drought troubles you can;
lind men who have succeeded by
following this method in bad rea-j
sons when old way tailed. The
writer has no possible motive in
writing this article only to give
you facts that will be helpful to
you. Many farms have got in such
condition that one must studv
and think in order to manage so
as to get the best returns.
You will gather from the above
that 1 would not hill up potatoes,
or corn, because it could not be
done without tearing oil* roots.
And also one cannot stir the surface
to check evaporation as well
after they are hilled as when they
are left nearly level. On land that
is well drained, naturally or with
tiles, I would plant potatoes in
drills about four inches deep.
These might get hilled up an inch
or two in cultivating. We have
raised a good many thousand
bushels this way with success. If
potatoes are planted in hills they
must be hilled up to prevent their
growingout of ground. Therefore,
we have not planted in hills at
at all. The drill eulture enables
us to so manago as not to injure
the roots and to save unnecessary
evaporation. And with the weeder
we can keep the crop clean
just as well. The eastern farmer
who uses a one-horse cultivator
can regulate the depth that the
teeth go by having a wheel on in
front and holding carefully. The
board attached in the rear for dry
weather, spoken of last week, will
guage the depth nicely, in connection
with the wheel. Take a
board 12 or 15 inches wide, as
long as will work between rows, I
mortise a hole in it and slip on i
rear end of frame and tie or wire I
it SO UDDQr edfiro of hnarrl will in. I
cline forward somewhat. The
lower edge rubs out tooth marks,
pulverizes and guages depth. Use
only in dry weather. Saw oir ends j
of board as crop grows so as not |
to disturb growing tubers. Itisj
well to round the bottom edge!
slightly, so it will be higher at j
the ends and not dig into hills, j
Study this article and the preceding
one carefully, good friends,
for attention to the points
brought out ha? helped many a
farmer to make thousands of dollars
that he wouldn't have got by
careless tillage.
J. T. Keesp, Moiloc, S. C., writes :
Have used l?r M. A. Simmons I.iyer
Medicine 12 years. Cured me of Indigestion
and my wife of Sick Headache.
Think it worth four times as much as
either Zeilien's nr Illnrlr Iirnm?lit i
use d.
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MAY 20, 1899.
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Convicts for tlio Public Konds.
Quoting ttie recent letter of Mr.
(J. \V. Coleman to The State, favoring
the abandonment of the
policy of leasing convicts for agricultural
purposes and their assignment
to work on the public
roads, the Anderson Advocate
say :
This communication sti ikes the
keynote of what should he the
policy of the State in future in
regard to the convicts, and is ex
actlv along the line of what the
Advocate has been preaching,
with this difference, that we want
the State to sell out her farms
and (put the business of farming
and turn her attention to the business
of road building with her
convicts. She has no s??rt of business
to tie raising 1,200 nor (JOG
nor 6 acres of cotton even to be
sold at 5 cents. There are about
1.000 convicts in the penitentiary,
and if one-half of them are ablebodied
these, added to the dill'erent
county chain gangs, would
make a force of about 1,000 men, I
and if they were put to work
building macadamized roads the
counties and State at large would
get some permanent results to
8how for her convicts. Aa it is we
have had a penitentiary for thirty
years, and what have we got to
ol.rv^r (V,- I. ? 1..I? 1
n..w? .w. n.u muni ??u money expended?
Nothing, beyond the
prison itself and the State farms.
During the greater portion of
that time money has been appropriated
out of the public treasury
to pay the running expenses of
the institution, and it is doubtful
if the Stato is not a loser when
the balance is struck. But let, the
counties hire them from the State
at the same rate they are now
hired to work on private farms,
and abolish the system of hiring
them out to private parties and
let them be put to work building
roads, and in ten years there will
be such a difference in the public
highways that men will wonder
that it was not done long before.
We hope to seethe people agitate
this matter and discuss it among
themselves and make it an issue
next year in the election and vote
for candidates who will pledge
themselves to bring about this reform,
for this will be a genuine
reform that will bring practical]
benefits to the people for generations.
We have already expressed our
own views on this subject, in general
accord with those indicated
above. It is in order to keeD the
matter before the public that we
recur to it.
Anyone can figure out for himself
how much profit there would
be for the State in the lease of
convicts to the counties for road
work. If only 500 should be leased
for this purpose?and this estimate
is far too low?the net annual
income from thi* source
would be: At 10 cents a working
day, $15,600; at 20 cents a day,
$31,200; at 30 cents a day, $16,800.
The pay would be sure, for
the State, in case of default by a
county, could reimburse itself
through the tax levy. And of the
remaining convicts, a hundred or
so. workimr on a farm
could feed themselves and the
remaining 100 who might be at
work or in idleness inside the institution.
If-20 counties should
lease the first r>00, an average of
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25 each, the cost to each for one
year's labor so secured wuold be
$780, $1,(500 or $2,040, according
as the rate of hire might be 10, 20
or ?'J0 cents a (lay. The poorest
O.OIint V ill the Mlatu /?.?n oi
to pay the highest rate indicated
and find it profitable.
Looked at from every standpoint?
from that of profit for the
St'te, economy for the counties
and benefit to tlie peoplo from the
improvement of the public roads,
the plan is teen to be most desirable,
better in every way than the
presen vexations, uncertain and
unprofitable system. Let it be
studied and talked about and
made a practical issue in next
year's primary campaign for
members of tlie General Assembly.?The
State.
Weekly Crop liulletin.
Columbia, S. C., May 16,1S99.
The week ending May loth
averaged about 7 degrees per day .
warmer than usual, with the maximum
temperatures ranging from
slightly below to considerably
above 90 degrees each day, and
with the minimums correspondingly
high.
The rainfall for the week was
generally very light, with moderately
heavy rains in the vicinity
of Charleston and over the Pee
Dee region. The need of rain is
general, and the lack of it has
materially injured oats, and to a
lesser extent wheat and gardens.
Rains is also needed to permit
cotton and corn planting to be
completed, and to germinate
recently planted seeds.
Oats are failing rapidly, and
spring oats are already a failure.
This grain is about all headed,
ana over tne most easterly counties
is ripening. Wheat has also
deteriorated, but not to the same
extent as oats, and in places continues
very promising.
Corn continues to maintain a
healthy color, and, with limited
exceptions has a good stand; its
[general condition, for the whole
state, is very satisfactory. In
places it has received its second
working.
Cotton has come up to from
very good to fair stands, except
on red lands, where the ground is
baked and hard and seeds did not
germinate well. Cultivation and
rhnnnino' If* Jo ,.^...^-..1
pi uvuaiuo ao 11X (ll<
Tho young plants are small, but
healthy anil vigorous.
Tobacco is in urgent need of
rain, both to finish transplanting
and to maintain stands which,
although generally good, are in
places very poor.
Melons have improved. 11 ice
is excellent. Truck is making
rapid growth, (wardens are variable,
according to moisture conl'
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unions, iserries need ram. Apples
and cherries are dropping.
Minor crops generally are doing
well.
Over (he greater portion of the
state (he weather was favorable
for cultivating crops, and for genoral
farm work and (he staplo
crops, with the exception of oats,
continue in a very promising condition.?J.
W. liauer, Director,
Columbia, S. C.