Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fiii iSS] i * M ' m ninor Events of the Week In a 4 * Brief Form. # Si s "The militia is in better shape than ever," said Adjt. Gen. John D. Frost on his return to his olSee from his tour of inspection over the State. "We know exactly who is enlisted now and upon whom we may rely. The sum loiai or C'oi. Morns report to tne war department will constitute the militia of South Carolina, and upon that report the government will issue to this State its quota of arms and equipments." The recent inspection of the military companies was very satisfactory to the adjutant general and to Col. Morris who complimented the militia at a number of places. Col. Morris and Gen. Frost wound up at Florence, and Lieut. Foster and Col. Patrick concluded their itinerary with the inspection of the regiment at Charleston. Col. Morris was to have inspected the Charleston militia but the war department was hurrying him for a report and as the other inspecting nflS/ Kn/4 AnioVirvrJ t V?ov moro VUIIUO uau U1HOUV.U, tuv; nuv v* wviv.i to Charleston. A special from Spartanburg on Friday says: Shug Calhoun, colored, a bricklayer, employed at the Appalachian Mills, six miles from Greers, was shot and instantly killed by a negro woman named Mary Dent. The Dent woman and another female engaged in a difficulty in a store and a few minutcWater Calhoun came in. The woman with whom Mary Dent had the difficulty seems to have been on intimate terras with Calhoun and the latter took the part of this one. pursuing the Dcr.t woman, and tiring repeatedly at her. The freeing woman, unexpectedly, was armed and turned and fired at Calhoun, the shot taking effect, and producing instant death. Colonel Foster went to the ecene to hold an inquest. The woman was brought here and is in jail. A special from Chester says: Bill Washington, a negro farm hand on Mr. C. C. McAliiey's plantation, was killed Tuesday evening by being dragged, by a. runaway mule for a quarter of a mile. The negro, after his day's work, was riding home in a careless manner, thp mnlp Rhipd thrnwinz the lie .gro to the ground. In some way he was caught in the traces. This terrified the already frightened animal, which ran, dragging the negro fully a quarter of a mile. At a creek the body caught in some bushes, which slopped the mule. When aid reached the place the mule had turned on its victim and was pawing the mangled body of the negro. The doors of tne Charleston Hotel were closed Monday afternoon by the present managers, who decided that in the face of the outstanding debt against the hotel and the determination of the hotel's creditors to place it in the hands of a receiver, it would be best to close the hotel for the present. Monday morning Manager Palmer notified his guests that the hotel would be closed to the public at 4 o'clock ahfl asked them to make ar ? ? ? ol CP. : aJl&t'LUtruus tui an.uuiujuu?wvu where. The guests gathered their baggage and moved to the other houses in the city. This is the fir3t time in over half a century the doors of the CharlesMaw have ever been shut. On Saturday between 11 and 12 o'clock, as an extra freight train was en route to Charleston, two little negro boys threw a rock at the engine and struck the engineer iflicting a paniful wound upon the face that caused the unfortunate man to fall into a state of unconsciousness. The fireman seeing the engineer fall b3ck with blood flowing grasped the throttle and applied the brakes and brought the train to a standstill. The crew chased the rascals for a long distance but they escaped. Ezekiel Jones, a negro man of Columbia. was fined $10 Tuesday morning for cruelty to animals the day before at the> Seaboard depot site. Jones and another negro named Speaman were beating a horse hitched to a heavy scoop and captain Starling, the president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals interfered. Spearman got away but the police taught JoDes and he was locked up. J. D. Williams, the man who was cut by J. B. Ward at Pheonix on Friday night. is doing very nicely. Mr. Ward was at home on the day after the cutting and not away from it as stated at first. Ccpt. Legare J. Walker, one of the bravest of the citizen soldiers that Charleston furnished to the Confederacy; for many years a cotton factor, and sometime railroad commissioner of South Carolina, died Sunday at his Lome in Summerville. Hundreds of hands and scores of wagons from the country have been on Broad River assisting in getting out and hauling cotton and cloth. Some people went on the river at first and carried away cloth and other small things, thinking or claiming to believe they had a right to do so. and, no doubt, many of them have goods enough laid away to last them for many a day. The News and Courier reports that there are now in South Carolina representatives of about 1,000 French Canadians, who want to make their homes in the South and who are rep* ? ?-U^v a?>A olrilloH in resented to oe mtu v? uu ai v o?w..~v. ... *-the art of agriculture, and are thrifty, economical and progressive. The representatives are in this State for the third time. They want 30,000 acres of land. John Osborne a well known printer of Columbia suffered a painful accident Sunday. He was kicked on the leg by his horse and the limb was fractured midway between the thigh and the knee. Dr. knowlton said that the injured man would be laid up several weeks. The county commissioners of Spartanburg are busy discussing with the members of the Spartanburg delegation in the Legislature the question of securing money for replacing the bridges of the county that were washed away by the recent Moods. SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS Department Report to the End of the Past Week. The week ending 8 a. m., Monday, June 15th. had a mean temperature of 7 degrees, that is nearly 7 degrees below normal. The latter part was unseasonably cool, with minimum temperatures below 50 degrees, over the western counties, on the 13th a light irosi was reporieu irucu ijuussuuic, Newberry county. The week was cloudy until near its close, with frequent showers and some excessive rains, especially in the central and northeastern counties, including Richland, Orangeburg, Sumter, Lee, Kershaw, Chesterfield and Marlboro counties. There were local heavy rains in other parts of the State, and an average precipitation of 2.00 inches. These heavy rains caused floods that destroyed crops on bottom lands, washed and gullied uplands and destroyed terraces. The rainfall was comparatively light in Williamburg. Horry and Georgetown counties where it pioved beneficial. The ground was generally too wet for cultivation during the last two weeks, and fields are becoming very grassy. This condition is general, and places threatens the cotton crop. Bottom land crops along the principal water courses of the western counties were practically all destroyed. The oats totally, while corn can be rer?1 n ri cwl The condition of cotton has Improved, with better stands and color general over the weutern counties where seme is just coming up. Chopping is not finished. The cool weather checked growth, which has been slow, and the plants are smaller than usual for the season. Squares have been noted in only a few locations. Lice infest fields in the central counties. The crop is everywhere in urgent need of cultivation and warmer weather, to save it from weeds and to promote growth. SeaIsland cotton is healthy but unusually small. ~ Corn that was not destroyed by the floods, improved in stand and color, and may be said to be doing well. Bottoms will be largely replanted. Early corn has been laid by in the southeastern counties. Like cotton, the corn crop is from two to three weeks late. The rains improved tobacco, and topping is in progress. Rice is doing well; June planting is being rushed in the P,fnr?rtn?'n district Wheat and nat.3 harvest is finished, and thrcashing has begun. The rains damaged both crops extensively in the shock, and oats that was not cut on bottom lands, is a total loss. Some wheat is sprouting in th<! sbock. Melons are variable, but need warmer weather. Pastures and gardens improved. Large acreage of peas hat been sown on stubble lands, for foiage. Weather favorable for transplanting sweet potato slips. The rains caused peaches to rot extensively as thty ripen. The present outlook for staple crops is reported to be discouraging, but most of the minor ones are promising. The Markets, COTTON MARKET. These figures represent prices paid to wagons: Sirictgood middling 12.00 Good middling 11% Strict middling 11% Stains and t'nges 11.15 PRODUCE MARKET. Onions $ 70 Chickens?spring 12 % Hens?per head 30 Esps 12% Dees wax 20 Turkeys , 12 % Corn 60 Ducks 22% Wheat .. ......... GO " Wheat?seed 1 00 Oats 45 Rye 1 00 Sides 3 N^eds More Money. The State of South Carolina has been spending more money than she has been making. The inevitable result of this kind of procedure would be a hopeless state of indebtedness. The financiers of the State are endeavoring to find some way to bring the revenues up to the amount of expenditures provided in the appropriate acts. The estimated revenue for this year will bo about $1,000,000 and the expenses provided for in the appropriation act win ho npqrlv S100.000 in excess of that amount. Floods in France. St. Ienne. Franre, By Cable.?Vio'ent rain storms have flooded many mines ;>i this region, compelling a suspension cf work. Washouts have interrupted railroad traffic. The rivers Coise. Marea and Glen. are in flood, white the Ix?ire is ten feet above its usual level at Balbigny. The damage caused by inundations is already estimated at millions of francs. Atlanta Mills Close Down. Atlanta. Special.?The Atlanta Cotton Mills have closed down and no time for resuming operations has been decided upon. The reason assigned is the high price of cotton and the scarcity of the staple. Three hundred operatives are thrown out of employment. rtinor Mention. Thomas Marcum, brother of J. B. Marcum. for whose murder Curtis Jett and Thomas White are being tried at Jackson, Ky., made a dramatic address for the prosecution. The one hundred and twenty-sixth anniversary of the American flag was observed at the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia. The Equitable Assurance company has refused to pay $55,000 insurance on the life of Arthur R. Penell, who figured in the noted Hurdick case in Buffalo, on the ground that Penell was a suicide. The hotel employes' strike has caused rtch women to help do the hotel cooking, the guests to wait upon each other and to eat under police protection. Nine financial institutions in Pittaburg are to be merged with a capita: of $7,000,000 and total resources ol about $78,000,000. LOWELL STRIKE ENDS Long Fight of Mill Operatives Conies tc a Close TEXflLE COUNCIL DECLARES IT OFF The Strike tiegan Oil March 30th, Involved 17,000 Workers and Cost flany nillions of Dollars. Lowell, Mcs3., Special.?The textile council Sunday declared the great strike at the Lowell mills at an end. Every union affiliated with tht council was represented and the vote was unanimous. Mule spinners and loom fixers were included in this vote. The meeting lasted an hour. There was no dissension. The sitcation was discussed carefully and wiih no suggestion of excitement. The vote showed every delegation favorable to a return tc work at once. When asked for a statement, President Conroy said smilingly: "We now worship at the altar of defeat, but later we shall rise again and conquer." Agent William Southwork, secretary of the agents, said: "It will be impossible to start the balance of the machinery so as to employ at once all who will come back. Running with an incompltte force for threo weeks lias disturbed the balance that usually exists between stock and prices in the various departments. A mill may havo depleted stock in certain kinds of yarn and for that reason be unable to start all of its looms, even if the fall completement of help is available. It is for the selling agents and the treasurers to decide, in view of the market, whether we shall attempt to run in full." The strike began on March 30th, and involved about 17,000 operatives. The mills were shut down until June 1. when the agtnts opened the gates and the majority of the operatives went back to work. The strike has cost in wages about 31,300,000. ' It is understood that the agents will take back all the old help they have room for and will make no. discrimination against the loaders of the strike movement. The high price of cotton precluded any hope of the success of the strikers' demand for a 10 per cent, increase. War Against Mad !Mullah. Simla, India, By Cable.?Major General Charles Comyn Egerton, who has been la command of the Punjaub frontier forces since 1899, has been appointed to the command of the Somali J JJi!? ..kiAk liiuu tApCUlllUliiir) lUit'V wuit'll IB upcrating against the Mad Mullah, superseding Brigadier General W. H. Manning. General Manning who took command of the British exuedition in Somaliland last November, after a reverse suffered by Colonel Swayne, has not proved successful in hi3 campaign. Columns detached from the force have been badly mauled by the Mullah's followers, the most serious British defeat being the ambushing of Col. Plunkett's flying detachment of 208 men. with two maxims, on April 17, when Col. Plunkett. all his officers and practically the entire force were wiped out The last advices received in London, June 16, were to the effect that Jeneral Manning himself was surounded and unable to assist Colonel Cabb, whose column was in a serious position at Callaby, and on half rations. One of ihr\ Miisf: nf tiir> non-success of the expedition has b?pn the cowardice of the native Somaliland regiment, of v hich so much was hoped when it was formed recently. Only a few days ago news came that the native camel corps had mutinied. The operations against the Mullah, who first raised the tribes against the British in 1899, have already cost $2,000,000. A desire has been manifested to abandon the campaign. but in view of the predicament of General Manning's forces, it has been found necessary to order British troops in India, and when they arrive the British expedition in Somaliland consist of 800 British, 1,200 Indian, and native troops. Resignation Accepted. Rome. By Cable.?The King has accepted the resignations of Interior Minister Gielitti and Marine Minister vi.xA.l, n?Coonir/lrlli TL*l11 t r ESeiieiSf. rituil.-; bcauaiuvm ..... . the interior portfolio et ad interim, and Vice Admiral Merin will be Marine Minister. The ether ministers have been confirmed in their present positions. A royal degree was issued today convening Parliament for June 25. Safe Blower Blown Up. Noblesvilte, Ind.. Special.?George Marvin, said to be from Chicago, is ir the county jail here in a dying condition. as a result of an alleged attempt to blow the safe in a general store at .Tolietville. Citizens of the village who were awakened by a terrible explosion found Marvin lying unconscious near the store, with one arm blown away from his body, otherwise so terrible mangled that he connot live. When the citizens approached another man ran away, making his escape. The accidental dropping of a can of nitroglycerine was the cause of the explosion. Guilty of riurder. Omaha, Special.?The jury in the case of Line Linnler, Company I, Twenty-fifth Infantry, charged with the murder of Sergeant Robert Yours, of the same company, has brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree, but eliminating the sentence of capital punishment. The verdict under United Statea laws carries with It imprisonment for life. The killing occurred at Fort Niebara, Neb., April 17, 1903. / / / LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS Many Matters of General Interest 1 Short Paragraphs. Down in Dixie. Judge Emory Speer instructed tt Federal grand jury at Macon, Ga. 1 investigate charges that a peonag system prevails in Georgia. The jury in the Marcum murde trial, at Jackson, Ky., reported its ii ability to agree, but was sent back 1 deliberate. A Rflten K M Hicnatph bsvs- "Piv inon were killed by an explosion whic wrecked mine No. 2 of the Raten Co< and . Coke Company, at Blessburi N. M." A Lexington. Va.. dispatch says "The commencement exercises of th Virginia Military Institute began Sue day. The battalion inspection was tb feature of the day. The board of vis itors approved the reports of the head of departments." * Christopher Davis, living near Hen lock. Ashe county, N. C., in a suppose fit of insanity is reported to hav killed Levi Barker with an axe an badly wounded Alfred Barker and th wife of Davis. At The National Capital. It i*3 said the President has urge the District Attorney to expedite th preparation of indictments in th Postoffice Department ingestigation. The Attorney General has advise Secretary Moody that, if necessarj he can use force for the removal c the Galveston from the Triggs' shii yard, Richmond. Booker T. Washington asked th President's advice on Lord Gray's ir vitation that the negro investlgat racial conditions in South Africa. At The North. Arbitrators have settled the diffi culty between the Webster Coal Coir pany and its employes, of Altoona Pa. The suit of Isidor Worm-ser to breal the Metropolitan Interurban Railwa; deal in New York elicited some test: mony relating to alleged blackmail. The funeral of Miss Helen Bishop victim of a criminal assault, was hel in Wilmington, Del. The third floor of a building in Ne\ York occupied as a box factory cave in, burying about 30 persons in tlv debris. A Glasgow, Mont., dispatch says "News has reached this city that Jas McKinney ,the last of the Glasgow fugitives, was shot to death after h had made an ineffectual attempt t kill Miss Darnell, who had discovers the outlaw hiding in her father*; house." The gold output of Alaska, $40,000, 000 per year, will be greatly increase* by the early building of a new rail road from the. southern coast a Resurrection Bay, northward to th Tana river, definite announcemcn of which was made here today. Ten thousand textile strikers ii Philadelphia held a street parade am mass meeting. At a celebration of Bunker Hill da: in Boston the Liberty Bell and "johi Brown's Bell" were carried in i parade. From Across The Sea. Servia's new King is expected ti reach Belgrade on June 24. In Russia's note of congratulate to King Peter I of Servia he was strongly urged to punish the assassin: of King Alexander and Queen Draga An explosion of lyddite wreckec the Woolwich arsenal in England ant killed 14 persons. Brazil and Bolivia have arranged i | modus vivendi in the Acre dispute un til October 1. The Socialists, according to com [ plcte returns of the German elections elected 54 members of the Reichstag Dr. Lapponl, the physician at th< Vatican, says the Pope is "wonder fully well," considering his age. United States Ambassador Towei will give a dinner to the German Em pcror during the coming naval maneuvers at Kiel, toward which por Rear Admiral Cotton's squadroi sailed. A Berlin dispatch says: "The Unite( States European Sqaudron arrived a Nyberg, Island of Fuen, Denmark, Sat urday, and will remain there unti Tuesday. The warships will anchoi off Kiel Tuesday afternoon." jVHscellaneous Hatters. Lick Observatory observers hav< found that the variable star Omicroi Ceti is undergoing extraordinary fluctuations. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sage, of Nev York, planned a mausoleum at 1 roy N. Y., to cost $30,000. President Vreeland, of the Metro politan system, and J. H. Schiff test! fled in New York in the suit of Isi.lo: Wormser to break the Metropolitan Interurban Railway deal. The one hundred and forty-seventl commencement of the University o Pennsylvania was held in Philadel phia. Senator Hoar addressed the stu dents at the University of Iowa com mencement. David M. Parry, president of th? National Manufacturers' Association reports that a company is to b< formed to insure employers agains labor strikes. President Roosevelt regards th settlement of the differences betweei the coal miners and the operators ii i Pennsylvania as a vindication of hit policy in intervening last year. The President has appointed Ccl George F. Elliott commandant of th< Marine Corps, to succeed Maj. Gen Charles Heywood. Postmaster General Payne dismissei from the service of the Governmen James T. Metcalf, superintendent o the money-order division cf the Post office Department. \ >' . y % SOUTHERN / fl - ->* < TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANT V te -\ i to ;e The Pfilloiophy of Deep PlowinKThe great body of farmers plow only ir deep enough to supply a good rnouthq. ful for the first heavy rain that falls, o which sweeps away, to some lower place where it is not needed, the very cream of the hillsides. A permanent v sterility is thus produced aud a hideous deformity fastened upon the landscape. 5, What is the philosophy of deep plowing? It is very simple. By it crops ,. are enabled to resist droughts, for a e place is prepared by deep plowing for i- the retention of moisture. Deep plowe Ing gives greater room for the roots t- of the plants to travel in the search '3 of nutriment. Deep plowing supplies drainage, for it increases the capacity i- of the soil for retaining and utilizing d fertilizers. It is too often the case that e a farmer will cultivate his land as ^ though he owned only four inches of e surface. A farm may be doubled in its productive capacity by claiming and making use of twelve inches by the owner. The inauguration of deep d plowing in England has doubled the e yield of wheat and other crops. Ofteug times a depth of twenty Inches is reached by the plow. An instance is d given where a piece of land near LonT> don could, with difficulty on account * of its sterility, be rented for $3 per acre, but after it had been plowed to a depth of twelve or fifteen inches by e steam it commanded a rental of $18 q an acre. Professor Mapes, who gave much atI nntinn tn ofTeets of deer) Plowing. demonstrated that droughts could be made comparatively harmless by pre[. paring a deep bed in which the plants i- should grow. In this way the roots are increased in number and size and their capacity for the sustenance of It the plant is multiplied many fold. If y one has a soil so compact or so filled with water as to exclude the air and it is broken up and pulverized deeply, ' so as to invite the roots of the plant downward below the usual access of air. the penetrating roots sometimes j absorb some of the mineral compounds of the earth and the structure of the plant is injured. On such a soil deep . plowing should be done gradually. The ' plow should go * one or two inches v deeper every year, so that the chemical e changes of the atmosphere may de0 stroy the poisonous mineral salts. J Where there is no danger, however, in 3 turning up* poisonous mineral compounds deep plowing attracts the roots * of the plant downward to a plane * where they will find a supply of inoist| ure during the dry season. Professor e Mopes thinks the true theory Is to prot vide a deep, thorough drainage for all soils, not naturally dry. to a considerQ able depth of the surface, and then, by j degrees, break up the subsoil until a deep bed of dry, warm air-exposed soil r is secured. 1 Continuous shallow culture means a poverty for the farmer." sterility for the land and destitution for the people. Every place where shallow plowing is done will show a smaller yield 3 in the products of the farm, and the I" ihn nronfl na Q ro mrms ?ucn; iia i?j?j Fiuv?<.e ...^ 3 becoming scarified with gullies. along 3 which the very life-blood of the soil 3 trickles away. Sterility of the soil .. means Ignorance, poverty, wretched1 ness and ultimate degradation among 3 the tillers gf the earth. All the social virtues and blessings of an advanced i civilization are more or less dependent upon the manner in which the soil is> cultivated. Deep plowing Is deep sense, - a sure guaranty of sficcess in the pres. ent and the only means of asking the highest development and well-being of s our race in the future.?Southern Farm Magazine. r Setting Ont Sweet Potato Plant*. Some persons go to a great deal of unnecessary trouble In setting out 1 sweet potato plants. I also used to 1 think it was necessary to be very careful to set out sweet potato plants the sumo as the most of other plants, but 1 I learned that they grow very readily, j even parts of the vines cut off and r covered up with ground, leaving one end stick out a little, without being watered unless ground was pretty dry, would grow quite readily. I was informed a few years ago that some - of my neighbors who raise hundreds ] of bushels of sweet potatoes each year ' set their plants with a notched stick pushing them in the ground as fast as two could lay the plants on the ridges the right distance apart. So last season I concluded I would try the same method to set out 3000 r plants; the ground was rather dry; it. had not rained since ridges had been made and was fretting late in the season and looked if It would rain within 1 twenty-four hours, and so set the 1 plants with the notched stick. It did not rain for two weeks after plants were set except a little shower to merely lay the dust. Yet I think I did not lose fifteen plants out of the 3000. They really grow better than set by c- hand and so much easier and faster. Take a stick like a broom handle, j flatten the one end and cut a round, smooth notch in the flattened end. I POINTED PARAGRAPHS. i (Chicago Daily News.) { A shady character doesn't always keep a man cool. Only a pretty girl can be saucy with impunity. It takes two banana skins to make a pair of slippers. i A man's crookedness often gets him J into financial straits. ' Man likes to believe In eternal pun- 1 Ishment?for the other fellow. * TARM flOTES. ?o* ' ER, S TOOK MAM AMD TRUCK GROWER. f ' /? Have the sweet potato plants laid on the middle of the ridge the right distance apart, and place the notched end of the stick about one-half inch from root end of the plant and push in the ground until only the top end stick* out a little; pull out the stick tod give a little tap with stick to close up the hole, or close it with your toe, and the plant Is set. A person that is active with the stick can set the plants as fast as t\vo can lay them down. Try it, friends, and you will be surprised at the quick and good work so easily done.?A. J. Umbboltz. : Cantaloupe Cultivation. Any good corn or sweet potato land will produce good melons. The ground should be deeply plowed and thorough* ly prepared before planting. The soff should be loose and well rolled?that is, the seed bed, just before or immediately after planting. Lay off shallow drills and sow tbe seed thinly along in the drill. Cover with Just enongls dirt to cover them and roll so as t? compact the soil. The rows should be five feet apart, and one vine left to every two or two and a half feet in the raw, which will give from 3SOO to 4500 vines to the acre. This is don* planting, but is not too close wber* [ the ground haq been thoroughly prepared. The cultivation must keep nhead so that there will be no need for , disturbing the vines after they are ? fifteen fo twenty inches long. By thtm keeping ahead of the vines with the \ plow and the hoe, there should be ne f weeds or grass to kill after the vinee have commenced running. Give tbeni < a clean bed as they begin to bloom, and the melons will take care of tbemselves. Should weeds appear a little later close to the bill, they should be pulled up. There Is no crop that requires more regard for nice preparation of the soil, and prompt working of the crop immediately it comes up, than melons. When in the third half, then to a stand. Do not use fresh stable manure, but rather any good complete fertiliser broadcasted along the bed just before * or after planting. With good seeds on suitable soil and the preparation and cultivation such as suggested above, a crop of 15,000 melons to the acre could be reasonably ; expected. Much of the blight and mold In vine plants Is owing to defective seeds. f Tl,. V.lnt Kmii. Mr. Boyett, Sedalia, Kentucky, plant* ed last season five acres In velvet A beans with a most satisfactory result. He used one bushel seed and planted May 1, after breaking the land nine inches deep and harrovflng three times. Rows five feet apart and twa beans every thirty Inches. Bunch cow peas were planted between every row at rate of one peck to the acre. Cultl- , "l vated three times with a spring tooth cultivator and laid crop by the first of June, leaving the land perfectly level. The beans soon took full possession of all the land, peas not ex- i cepted. They ran round and round the "VJ peas until they smothered them out. It was almost impossible, to walk through the patch. Notwithstanding the crop was caught by an early frost, and the hay laid on the ground for five weeks after being cut. on account of continuous ralna. which destroj'ed all the pea vine bay. fivp tons "of hav were saved which stock consumed with a relish. While the beans do not mature in thin latitude, the yield of forage is immense* .7 producing an excellent quality of hay which will stand more wet weather than any other forage crop. Try am acre, and you can determine what to do about It next year. Ltrre Profit in Growing Hnjr. The hay crop is becoming more important in the South every year, and it deserves a great deal more attention than it has yet received. We can. grow the best and the cheapest of hay, and yet we are buying millions of bales, of Northern hay every year. This should be stopped at once. The Sonthi should be an exporter, not an importer, of hay,or rather, weshould export the beeves that have consumed the bay. . * We need to have the hay first that: we may grow the beeves next. There is a large profit in growing the* hay for sale, but there is a double profit in selling it in the form of flesh. instead of grass.?Dixie Farmer. Foot* For Dairy Cow*. Roots should be fed to dairy cows more often than they are. By having a good effect on the digestive organs, they keep the cows in good health, and nftturally are products of more milk. They bring about a better appetite, and the flow of milk usually keeps pace with the appetite- of the \ i cow. Carrots are somewhat better than turnips for the use, and they cost little more to raise. It Is claimed by those who have had experience witfc feeding them, that yellow carrots maks a rich yellow cream. Jets and Flashes. Don't cry over spilled milk; there*# .. enough water wasted as it is. Wise is the man who can recall ? previous engagement when he receives a disagreeable invitation. There wouldn't be much room at the top If those who reach it were half a# big as they think they are. If a man or a machine la unable to accomplish a task It should be turned ' over to a woman with a hairpin,