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I Farm and Fireside, j Williamson Plan Pays, In this county there are hundreds of acres of land that will not make eight bushels of corn to the acre. In many fields the stalks are largo enough but the oars are scarce. No one even raised a fine crop of corn when the stalks were 12 to 14 feet high. Corn will never wait on you when you begin to work it. You must keep it up till laying by time. Let us take a two horse farmer as an example. In the first place bo should have three horses. Then lie should raise 120 bushels of corn for Iiis horses, 50 for broad and fowls and 100 for pigs. That gives 270 bush els, which wo will call 300. Thatshould be supplemented by loo bushels of oats. Then bad dreams will not visit him be cause his horses arc gnawing stable logs and his hogs living on memory and growing fat on wind. The way corn is raised this year it would require 25 acres to give him 800 bushels of corn. That is 12 t/' !.? !s lo the acre. In tne two-horse farm only 2a acres would be left for cotton, potatoes, sorghum and other crops that a thrifty farmer ought to raise. t)n that 25 acres of corn he would put at least $2.00 worth of for- i tilizer to the acre, which would be $50.00. Now let him take five acres of his best land and prepare it in the w inter and early spring by deep plowing and bar rowing. All this preparation is done when the weather is cool and his work animals vigorous. Let. him plant his corn down in a very deep water furrow tho first ten days of April. Tut. enough seed for a good stand and some to pull out. That corn will stand there until the tirst week of June. We do not pro pose to give tin- whole plan hon?. Hut il may be stated as a fact that when properly cultivated with the application of <;(>r> pounds of fertilizer and 7") to ion pounds of nitrate of soda the live acres will make as much as tho 25 in the old way. A home mixed fertilizer that would analyze 8.50, 5.00, 2.50 would cost about $22.00 a ton. Applying that lo three acres the cost per acre would be $7.33. Add $2.25 for 75 pounds of nitrate and the total cost per acre will bo $9.58. The live acres would cost $17.90. Thus the two-horse farmer would get Iiis ,'WO bushels of corn on five acres instead of 25. He could plant 5ii per cent, more land in cotton or other crops. He would improve his land and feel that ho was master of the situation and not a slave bound down by untoward circumstances. If ho wanted lo make more corn than the ? ai l bushels let him add one acre for every 50 bushels desired. In Cherokee county many farmers have made this year lit) to 00 bushels. Some claim that they will pass the hundred mark. Near 1.aureus is the Dial farm. My recollec tion is that it is rather thin level land with sandy top soil. Last winter a farmer rented it. promising lo pay Si.200. He bought $2,000 worth of fer tilizer. Willi hired hands be prepared the land, planted it in corn, and culti vated the crop. He proposes to cut it with a corn harvester and run it through ? a shredder. There arc 200 to 210acres, the exact amount not known. Many visitors went to see it in August. The lowest estimate was 8,000 bushels and i the highest 11,000. He says thai the1 stover will pay for the labor and 4,000 bushels will pay the rent and fertilizer bill. We ask the farmers who read The Spartan to consider this plan. If any have not tried il. they should do so next year. We urge them to follow the plan to the letter. Any deviation from it will lead to partial failure. Never apply nil ounce of fertilizer at planting time. Do not get disheartened if the corn is small and yellow the tirst of June. Carolina Spartan, Parins Damaged by Flood. Tho State Department of Agriculture is endeavoring to got the most com plete reports possible as to the damage resulting to growing crops and to the soils by erosion dm; to the recent severe j flood. The reports are beginning to come in and indicate severe losses along the several rivor courses. The reports that have been received and they do] not. yet touch the area below Columbia, being' naturally slow to come in show over a million dollars' actual destruction of growing crops and upwards of half a million dollars' damage to farm lands. One farm alone reports an actual de struction of crops and property of $0,050, of which $5,850 was corn, bay and cotton. Farmers' Union Sun. Sheep Raising in South Carolina. Speaking- of the efforts of the De partment of Agriculture to stimulate mi crest in live stock raising in South Carolina, Hon. F. W. Dabbs, of Good will, Sumtorcoitnty, said yesterday that right years ago Iiis little boy had been made a present of a pair of sheep. Since that time the increase from those two sheop bad been over 25 head ami thoyhad sold $20O worth of wool and six had been killed for million. In addition to this many wool blankets had been made. The value of cattle raising upon Iho farm was touched upon by Mr. Dabbs, too. In addition to the receipts for beef mid hide Mr. Dahhfl asserts that from every $26 Worth of cotton seed meal or hulls fed the cows $20 is re turned in manures for the farm. Then again there is the good value of butter, cheese and milk. Tho State, Septem ber 5th. Cost of Cotton Oil Compared With But ter, etc. Dr. Barrow, the Soulh's noted chem ist, says: "Many of us are often compelled to consider the question of food f rom an other standpoint. Y> - must consider tho size of our pockctbooks, and again doos cotton seed oil stand out trium phant over all competing materials. With butter at .'50 cents a pound, lard at 10 cents a pound, and olive oil at $2.00 per gallon, and cotton seed oil at 60 cent s per gallon, or Kg cents a pound, we lind that (he prico of one pound of cotton seed oil will only pay for but two-thirds of a pound of lard, about one-fifth of a pound of butter, and only about one-fifth of a pound or one-for tieth part of a gallon of pure olive oil, | and frequently the pure olive oil may be nothing more or less than a high grade of cotton seed oil bearing a ficti tious label. "It follow-, then, that wo have in cotton seed oil nol only tho purest, most nutritious, nourishing, pi iatable and strengthening fat wo can obtain, but also far the cheapest of any simi lar material. Win ( olds are Bun jew i Nocausc you have contracted ordi nary colds and recovered from thou Without treatment o: any I ml ; - not for a moment imagine tl !s ui'i not dangerous. Kv< r; i< .nowi that pneumonia and ein' <? i> 'aril, have their origin in a co moil cold. Consumption is nol can. hy <i cold but the cold prepares Iho system for the reception and development of (h< germs that would not otherwise linvi found lodgei lout. Ii ; Hie same with all Infectious dis asos. Dlplh orla, scat h t fevc ?. mi aslCS ami whooping cough ate mud) more like ly to he contracted when a child lue a cold. You will se.> from Iltis thai more real danger lurks in a cold than in any other of the common ailments. The easiest and quickest way to cure a eold is to take Chnmherlulu'sCough lleuiedy. The many remarkable cures effected hy this preparation have made it a staple nrtich of trad* over a largo purl of tho world. Vor sale by I.aureus Drug Comp ny. School I'ri/cs lor I90S. The South Carolina School Improve ment, association offers thirty-five prize; to the schools of the State for the most decided material improvement made during a given length of time. Five of the prizes are to be .slno each and thirty are to he $50 each. Regulations con cerning tho thirty-five prizes that are to be awarded by this association areas follows: 1. Improvements must be made be tween Nov. 1st, 1907, ami Dec. 10th, I'.toS. 2. Prizes will if awarded to school.-, where the most decided material im provements have been made during the time mentioned. :t. Under material improvements' are included local taxation, consolidation, new buildings, repairing- and painting old ones, libraries, reading rooms or ta bles, interior decorations, beautifying yards and better general equipment. 4. No school can compete for any of these prizes unless it is a rural school. No town with more than 500 population shall be eligible to the contest. 5, All who wish to enter this contest must sind names and descriptions of schools, before improvements are made, to the president not later than October loth. 1908. t>. All descriptions, photographs and other evidences showing improvements must he son! to the president before Dec. 15th, 1008. The chairman of tho Hoard of Trustees of any school thai is competing for a prize must tq prove all description; before and aller improve ments are made. 7. Prizes will be awarded in checks at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Improvement association, Dec. 31, 1908. The prizes are to be used for further improvements in the Schools receiving them. MARY T. NANCti. Pres., Columbia, S. \ MOOD STOMACH Menus (Jooil Health. I hocrfillness, Iniliitiou, Persistency* Success. Mi-o-na will euro your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble i?. building i? i> the llabhy walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest food without pepsin oi oilier artificial aid. In other words. \\\-<i mi euros dys pepsia hy |'< nan lug ?;. ? lUjO. The l,aureiis Drug Commrfij is (he agent for \ll-o-nn in lyrurens and they say toyoVcr.v rondejroi' The \d verllser who has Indlgesij Mi o mi is money backJ The pried Is y/iiy 'etus for large hox. find /<>,,? box Is all yoit need to pifnvorthnl you are on II ? rigid road (u/lieallh ami ItapplUOSS. "I can't say enough for Mi 0 nn tablets; (hey hnv< done more for me in one week (hall till I he doctors hnve for the iwo yoni i I have been uiidi r lllOlr care, and I u ill do all I Call 10 recommend It to my friends, Volt can also use my name in your ml. if you like, lor Mio na Is heiler than gold io me. I am like i \ > \\ man. and am aide to work once IhOi'o lor the llrsl time in over a year." w. A. Munis. "28 Green St.. Syracuse, NVY. "Strongest in tin' South for the world, strongest in the world for tho South." .1. L. M. IRDY C I V I I. K ?< 0 I N K K K OffiCO OVCf l.iinrcm Drug Co. Scene From "The Clansman." An interesting story as told by Harry A. Glastet, a promi nent Fireman of Maiden, Mass: " Last winter I bad a severe cold and it settled on my kidneys, causing the most excruciat ing pain almost every time I attempted t'> move; I b.i<l tried everything imaginable to get relief, with no success, until I was advised to try " Moodlne,''which to my gte.it Burpiise, g.n? mo relief almost from the first dose, and bet?re I bad taken one bottle I was completely cured." " llloodine" is a wonder* ful vitalizing tonic. If the blood is impure, complexion bad, appetite lost, strength gone and the whole system is upset by an accumulation of humors, it is time to try" Ploodinc today. Uloodine, large bottles 50c. Uloodine Tills cure Liver II|s;2dc a box. Sold on a positive guarantee by POS Fi Y Laurens, S. C. Notice of Election. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF LAUKENS. Office of County Supervisor. By II. B. Humbert, County Supervisor of Laurens County. Whereas, on the 2Sth day of April, A. 1). 1908, there was filed with nie in my office a petition in writing signed 1>> more than one-fourth of the qualified electors of Laurens County, S. C, praying for an election upon the ques tion of Dispensary or No Dispensary That is to say whether alcoholic liquors and beverages may be sold in said county under and according to the pro visions of an Act of the General As sembly of the Stale of South Carolina, approved the K!ih day of February, A. I). 1007, entitled "An Act to Declare the Law in Reference to and to Regu late the Manufacture, Sale, Use, Con sumption, Possession. Transportation and Disposition of Alcoholic Liquors and Beverage8 within the State and to Police the Same," and under and ac cording to the provisions of all Acts of the Genera) Assembly of South Caro lina amendatory thereof; and Whereas, upon a canvass of tin.' said petition 1 have found that it does con tain the signatures of more than one-' fourth of the qualified electors of said county. Now, therefore, 1, Ii. B. Humbert, Supervisor of Laurens County, South Carolina, under and by virtue of the authority in me vested by the provi sions of the Act of the General Assem bly and the Acts amendatory thereof hereinbefore cited, do order a Special Election to bo held in said County of Laurens, State of South Carolina, ac cording to law, upon the question of Dispensary or No Dispensary on the first Tuesday following the first Mon day in November next, it being the third day of November, A. I), loos. And at the said election there shall also bo submitted the quo ition whether one third of the license fees and dispensary profits as provided for in said Act shall bo paid to the County Treasurer, to he applied to the county school fund or to roads and bridges. And the said elec tion shall be held and conducted by the same officers and under the rules and regulations provided by law for general elections. Any person who is a qualified elector of said county may vote in said elec tion. Kvory voter who may be in favor of the sale of alcoholic liquors and bev erages in said county shall cast a ballot in the box provided therefor on which shall bo printed the words "For Sale," and every voter against the sale of liquors and beverages shall cast a bal lot upon which shall be printed the words "Against Sale." Every voter who may bo in favor of the application of one-third of the Dispensary profits to the County School fund shall cast a ballot in the box provided therefor upon which shall be printed the words "For Scheid Fund," and every voter opposed tin rido, but in favor of its application to roads and bridges, shall cast a ballot on which shall lie printed the words "For Monds and MrtugCS." Done and ordered at Laurens Court House, in County of Laurens, in the State of South Carolina, on the 29th day of September, A. D. 1908. II. Ii. UUMBKRT, (Jounty Supervisor of Laurens (!ounl v. Attest: MI0SSF.lt BABB, Clerk. ]SBAL. | 9-It Teacher's Examinations. The next regular exnnmation for teacher's certificates will lie held in the Court House, a', Laurens, S. ('., on Fri day. October IOlli, 1908. Sept. 12, 1908. K. W.N'ASII. 7-.">L Co. Supt. of Education. \ Card of TIiiiiiKhi Pleas allow us space to express our thanks to the people of our < omuiunii> for tlu ir Inestituable service in our recent nilllctloii, Wo reel grateful in out" lo ans for ii all Wo wish to 0.V press heart fell gratitude to each one who in any way comforted our be reaved family with service, word or otherwise, We thank you nud pray Cods hie.,sill)', upon you. (rllglicdl Uobt. 10. Sharp. Anderson Blakeiy BROKERS Real Estate Renting Stocks Bonds 100 Town Lots and 75 Farms for sale on ! short notice. We have several city lots to ex change for farm property, see u.s about these. Anderson & Blakely Brokers West Main St. I.AUItKNS, S. C Diamond Prices Will not be Lower Tho public baa boon lt d In believe through newspaper reports th I the ? price i>f Diamonds will be lower. 1)7 pet* cent of the Diamonds mini d I are In the hands of two corporations the Dec Heers ami the Premier Mining i companies. 'Iliti products of those \" ?> companies are sold through the I .ond< n I Rough Diamond Syndicate, The linan I cial standing of thissyndicnlc i ; beyond question. It stands pledged to maintain l the price of Diamonds a. it did during' the panic of ISO') and ISO I, also during I r> tho depression ?f 10051 ami 1001, so Iho price of I Hnmomls Will not be Lower Fleming Bros. JEWELERS, l)H< ('.UPTON ?ION KS iK'llti* ! Orl-'KK IN SIMMONS m il.di.\<; Phone: Ollice No. sii; Residence 210. jDr.KBncj's ftUwUSoPIW I Tho bout m tho worlila BOOKS! BOOKS! School Books, Blank Books, Tablets, Slaves, School Bags. A | full and complete line We carry Ledgers from i50 pages to 1000 pages. Day Books in same sizes. See our stock and prices before you buy. I Palmetto Drug Co. . & V3 S No new Hands at the | Bellows. $ We have on hand fresh from the long-leaf piney woods the bt^sl line of isiding, Ceil ing and Flooring ever brought to Laurens Tor the money?from $1 to $2.50. Call and soo us on this subject and see the ma t-rial and we can size you up in both qual ity and prices. For Lime, Hard Plaster, Cement, Laths, Shingles, Paryoid Roof ing, Sash, Doors and Blinds, call to see us and we can Ratify you also. We thank our friends of every race and color Cor their patronage in the past, and hope to merit your continued favors. Respectfully, E* Gray & Son| ? i. ' C.^m OLD FOi n<! 1 lion; it will kflop cntiiiot lako I.-LI. imrvhiuia t?< Ico rofon 3 ^MA'^SCKtS ml Lot " NATURE'S R?Wir?Y ?as u tniil? 1 1 ij }'J coikHMoii 1 il ill * ."tSS ?lvo sittUfncUon, < 1] Bette^Tha?) Pills Fo ?Sil <?? ..V Tju UMim., Tor Sale by Palmetto I)rn^- Co. A Mutual Affair It i-> imt .1 selfish cud \s< urge by continually pointing you to the advantages <>i saving- -it is a mutual advantage. You med us. nid wc need you. Wc reudcl .1 service that nothing eist- can give and pa\ you | per cent, interest to hoot. (>n open account or savings you will he equally welcomed and cottrleouslv treated. Enterprise Bank Laurens, S. C