The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 16, 1903, Image 3
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^ ^ TOPICS Or INTEREST TO THE PLkXTER
How to Knisr Corn.
T. J. Wear, ef Durham County,
North Carolina, thus tells in the Fro- t<
?rro?siv<? Farmer the way to raise corn: U
As I have been traveling in North
Carolina this year and have watched n
with interest the way in which the o
farmers raise or try to raise corn, I t<
now wish. In your valuable paper, to Sl
make some criticisms; these will, of Sl
course, uot be in harmony with all h
farmers' views. a
Iu the tirst place, the majority of t
farmers do not break tlieir laud deep e:
enough in the spring before*plaining. *1
Next they plant about one-third loo "
much corn to t ht acre. The rows for h
the average land should be at least
four feet apart and the corn three feet 1
* ri.r. ?.,lv nn? stalk ~
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in a place.
The first time it is plowed. should
be done with a loner plow uexi to the
corn.. In some sections this plow is
called a "calf tongue." Let this plow
run deep. The other plow o: plows
should be wider and should run shallower.
The second plowing should be done
with shorter plows an . should uoi run
as close to corn as first plowing. The
third plowing should be. done with
still larger plows, which should be run
shallower still than the second plowJt
ing, and should be run far euough
. away front eorn as not to break any of
the little com roots, which by this time
have spread our six. or eight inches
front the stalk. t
The fourth plowing should be done
with a turning plow of some kind in ~
order that you may run far euough
from the corn as to not < tit the roots,
and still be able to cover up the large 1
roots around the stalk, so that the x
hot suns of July and August will not ;
cook them and turn the corn yellow v
cr burn it up.
if vaii Ji.mvo tiirt?> After this nlowinir. '
before the corn tassel*, take a Ion?
shovel plow and run it through the .
centre of each corn middle as deep as j
one horse can pull it. This plow should
not he over live or six inches wide.
I know that my idea of raising corn
Is different from a great many the- ^
?retlcal farmers, hut it is not theory j
that we want if it does not put corn
in the crib. I was raised on a farm
and know from actual experience that i
this way of cultivating corn is all right. *
no matter what kind of land you may
be cultivating. I have also traveled ,
over several of the Southern States, *
and have observed that farmers who f
cultivate their corn in this way always
have plenty of corn to do them. I p
wish I could impress on the farmer
(1) liow very important it is not to
plant their corn too thickly on poor .
land; (2) that tliey should never run ^
onimch tli? fnrii with a nlow
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to break the small roots of the corn;
t3) that the last plowing should be done ^
with a turning plow in order that the
large roots around the torn could be t
covered up without running close
enough to the stalks to break those fl
roots.
I am satisfied that there has been t
at least oO.OOO bushels of corn de- j
atroyed in North Carolina this year t
by the farmers laying their corn by ^
with that oid-fasbioned double-shovel
plow, ot some similar cultivator.
The above description as to cultivat- s
Ing corn does not apply where the corn j
Is planted on a ridge or bed or in the
water furrow, but only when planted r
on a level, as most farmers plant it.
Farm Implement Tract.
Wheels made of any good sound log. '
maple is host, twelve inches In diani- 0
eter. six-inch tread, frame sills three by 11
three-inch oak, inside cross piece two 1
by three, all mortised together; floor 0
to lay flush with outside frame; plat- *
form four and one-half fee.. wide, seven *
feet long; can he any size to suit 11
builder. Hind axle five feet ten inches
long, one and one-fourth inches in di- (l
aineicr, rouic' iron fastened to body to
rfjin :
jji j ''
' _l. qby
iron cap and three-fourth inch boits, j,
a large loose washer on inside and outside
of wheels; pin hole in end. Front
truck should be made solid and strong;
axle two feet and ten inches Ions:, with I;
three by three inch wood clipped on: t
tongue mortised to cap and braced. Al- $
so Ion? braces from tongue to outer i<
end of axle, coupling of one-half by b
three inches iron double; one piece on b
top of frame and one under firmly n
bolted to end of frame and first inside n
cross piece running over and under axle c
pin. dropping through heavy staple in d
axle cap. It is the handiest thing on o
the farm and can be used in many c
ways, hauling potato crates, sacks of
grain, hog crates and logs.?C. E.
Scroggs. h
Ne^va of the Day. j
The late A. C. Wheeler, In speaking
of women's sense of humor, once said t
that Mme Modjeska was much more
than ordinarily capable in seeing the ?
point of a joke. And then, speaking
of her ready wit, he referred to a pro- d
fessional interview he once had with *
her on theatrical matters, in which a
Mary Anderson," said Modjeska, con- a
vincingly, "Is nothlDg but a Roman &
punch made of holy water." ' t!
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IBM fiOTES. j
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. STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER,
Ancltorinj; a Barn to Cronml.
II. M. S. asks Low to author a barn
) the ground by means of concrete
locks.
It is quickly and cheaply done by
leans of a wooden form, a frost rum
f a pyramid, or a pyraimu wiiii tm>p
cut off. It iimy- be twelve inches
quart' on ton. iweiny-four inches
qua re at the bottom autl thirty-sir
iches high, imbedded in the ground
ccording to the lay of tlie land about
weuty-four inches: holes being dug at
sactly the right places and to the right
epth the form is accurately placed
[his is better done by tbe head carpen?i)
and the block built by ramming in
oncrete. Two bolts are imbedded in
he concrete; thev may well he flat
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trips with the lower ends turned over
nd at the upper ends holes drilled to
eceive three-fourth inch bolts trnnserseiy.
These iron strips must he ae.
urately placed to make easy work, and
rheu the building is raised to place the
tost sets between them and transverse
tolls hold it firmly in place. It would
ake right smart of a tornado to lift
ne of these concrete blocks dove-tailed
cito the earth.?Joseph E. Wing, in
'.ivoders' Gazette.
Keeping Street Potatoes.
I road an article in your paper of Xr>.
ember 15, 0:1 keeping potatoes. And
want to tell you how I keep mine. A
leighbor has borrowed my paper and I
an't quote your words exactly, but
ou said the moon lias no effect upon
oiatoes and that you had never tried
putting potatoes up in the moon."
vow that sounds quite sarcastic. You
an't make an old farmer believe that
he moon has no influence over vegetaion.
The moon, I am told (I've not
een it), causes the ebb and flow of the
>cean tides. If the moon has that
uucli influence over the ocean, why
loes it have 110 influence over the
arth? It is a certain fact that corn
lanted 011 the light of the moon will
xow taller than that planted 011 the
lark of the moon: and so it is with
uauy other things we grow: and I 0011entl
that potatoes dug ou the full
lioou will keep better than when dug
in the new. I do not wait for frost
o kill the vines. I take them up when
he moon is right. The moon was full
ast month (October) on the 10th. I
ook up a portion of my crop on the
nth and intended to take up the balnce
on the next day. but it looked like
re would have rain and I went about
aving what I had taken up and left
he remainder to be taken up next full
noon. I know I was taking a groat
isk, hut rather than take them tip
fter the mcon had fulled. I waited
or the full moon in November and I
ook them up 011 the 14th of November,
ne day before tlie full moon. I put
ay potatoes in Ii.lis about fifty bushels
0 the hill. I round them up and put
orn stalks next to the potatoes. Then
put a covering of pine leaves, or
cheat straw, or hay and cover with
irt eight of ten iuehes or more. I
pave the top of the hill uncovered of
irt for a few days, ana then 1 cover it
;ood all over, making it air-tight. I
lien cover the hill with plank, leaving
1 so the sun can strike it on the south
ide. Now. Ml. Editor. I have followed
this plan for years and it is the
iest way to keep potatoes that I have
ver seen tried. If the potatoes do
ot get frost-bitten, and the proper
are is exercised 111 ventilation while
hey arc going through the sweat,
hey can be kept until June.?A. J.
\1r1ucr, in Southern Cultivator.
Bone* For I'oaltry,
Bones are valuable for poultry larger
for the phosphate of lime which
hey contain. They contain also a
mall quantity of animal maitcr. which
5 useful for food. They are in their
est condition when fresli and uu
timed. Burning consumes the auiinl
matter and makes them just so
inch loss valuable. While the charoal
which burned hones contain aids
igestion, and is purify in?, it can he
btaiued more cheaply in the form of
omuion wood charcoal.
Life is a lizzie to the young man beind
the soda water counter.
Civil Engineer Dead.
New York, Special.?George Shutuck
Morrison, a member of the isthmian
canal commission and one of the
oremost civil engineers in America,
ied in this city Thursday evening.
Ir. Morrison gained his reputation as
, bridge engineer from the Ave bridges
cross the Missippi, ten across the Misouri
and many others whose wnstruclon
he supervised,
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Government Conntrnction ?tf Road*.
"7T" Mil has boon introduced in the
/ \ House of Representatives of
the United States providing
for the establishment of a Bureau
of Tublic Roads to take charge of
the survey, planning and construction
of good roads, outside the limits of
cities and incorporated towns or villages,
which may be petitioned for by
the authorities in any political division
or any Mate, it is propusju iu iiinuuprlate
$75,000 for the maintenance of
the office and $20,000,000 for the construction
of the roads. The limitations
are that the National Government shall
pay one-half the cost of a road and the
locality the other half?this half being
divided between State, political sub-division
(county or township) and property
owners in any manner determined
by them, and that 110 State shall receive
more of the sunt appropriated
than the proportion which its population
bears to the entire population of
the United States.
Twenty-two officials and employes
are provided for, the director to receive
$4500 a year and others from $25(xj to
$720 a year, and "such other officers,
agents and servants as the director
may from time to time require." The
$75,000 appropriated in one section
would scarcely provide for these twenty-two
men and the expenses enumerated,
and would fail completely to provide
for a force sufficient to plan the
1. *V\n rtvnftnftitlirp of
HUUV UUU Sllftl l ur uiv v -.['v .
tho $20.00<).(?00. Fortunately the section
appropriating the latter sum for "co-operation
and actual construction" Includes
"the maintenance of said Bureau
of Public Roads."
The Government lias in the past constructed
public roads, but they were
highways to carry the traffic between
sections of the country without other
means of communication, approaches
to Government reservations or of similar
public use. The excuse for the improvement
of rivers and harbors has
always been the service or the development
of national commerce, however
far the actual practice may have deviated
from this ideal. This bill, however.
goes to the furthest limit and
leaves it to the judgment of the director
of the bureau as to whether the
road fund shall be used in developing
communication by highways between
States or distributed in improving sections
of road entirely local in character,
whether largely traveled or not. There
are many who defend the principle of
the river and harbor improvements
who could not advocate such a bill "for
the relief of the Treasury of the United
States" as this.
Were the principle of the hill to secure
a majority vote the form of and
the lack of safeguard of expenditure in
this bill would scarcely receive favorable
consideration except in a Legislature
composed entirely of "practical"
politicians. The Bureau of Public
Roads, under this bill, could readily be
made the place for pnyiug political
debts and for distributing public patronage
to the hungry. There have been
State Legis'-itures which would pass
this sort of bill, but Congress has never
done so except in the river and harbor
bill in its worst days, which was a
gradual growth from a legitimate beginning.?Municipal
Engineering.
OrnMilnjj riant For Macadam I?oad?.
The cities of New England are wiser
In their day and generation than are
most other municipalities in the eoun f
Ttiox* msto .n dollar ?ro further
than the average city. Economy and
j prudence may have been inherited from
I the Puritans, but whatever their source
the example is a pood one to follow.
Authorities of large and small municipalities
throughout New England for
years have l>een noted for their economical
methods in the construction
and maintenance of streets and highways.
More portable stone crushers
and permanent plants built on a larger
scale wiP. be found within New England
territory than any other equal
area In the United States. In ConneetI
icut and Massachusetts, particularly,
the highways have beta greatly improved.
For instance, the city of Newton
lias its own crushing plant, which
has been in operation for years, and as
a result not only are the streets of the
ritv well macadamized, but the roads
leading front the city are carefully improved.
This is made possible by the
economical use of this plant. Titer? is
an abundance of good trap rock in a
quarry not far front the limits of the
city, at which is installed an up-to-date
plant.
There is no public improvement more
popular to-day than that connected
with the construction and maintenance
of a better highway system. The good
work Is being pushed along by many
national. State and town good roads associations.
All classes of people are
Interested in the work, the rich and the
poor, the farmer and laborer, the bicycle
rider and the one who walks; for all
alike can and do appreciate a well built
and maintained thoroughfare.
* tlm fa ent _
XU1S raovi'iutllt M.iuii:. mot iw. .... ...
or can transport bis produce to market
over a good road at less expense than
over a poor road. Tliis is a fact which i
is being repeatedly demonstrated, and '
a larger number of people are coming I
to recognize it as a good argument why |
the roads should be improved. If it ,
benefits the farmer in this way it can- ;
not fail to benefit every one who uses
the public highways. Therefore, every
municipality should promote the work
by investing in a stone crushing piant
adapted to its needs, to be used both
for the improvement of its streets and
the main highways leading into it. A
better investment could not be made.?
Municipal Journal and Engineer.
If it were not for the trials of life \
the lawyers would starve to death. i
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SUFFERINC
AM..RICA is the land of *
nervous women. ^
The ereat majority of nervous i \
women are so because thev are suf- V
fcring from some form of female disease.
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Mrs. Emma Mitchell, 520 Louisiana f
street. Indianapolis, Ind., writes: |c
"Peruna has certainly been a blessing j c
in disguise to nie, for when I first began 1
taking it for troubles peeuliar to the sex j
and a generally worn out system I had lit- j
tie faith.
"For the past five years I have j
rarely been without pain, but Pentua
has changed all this, and In
a very short time. I think J had
only taken two bottles before J
began to recuperate very quickly, ;
and seven bottles maJe me well. :
I do not have headache or backache
any more, and hate seme Interest
In life. 1 olve all credit where It
is due, and that Is to Peruna."?
Emma Mitchell.
By far the greatest number of female
troubles are caused directly by catarrh.
They are catarrh of the organ which is i
affected. These women despair of recov-11
Natural Flavor
Cottage=
Comed Beef
? Jt rig!
vRccp it in the house for emetsrencies?for si
you want something good and want it quick,
appetizing lunch is teady in an instant.
Libbv. McNeill & Libbv. Chi
tj
blood, wind on the stomach, bloated oowels, fc
pains after eating, liver trouble, sallow shin am
regularly you are sick. Constipation kills mon
starts chronic ailments and lone years of eufferi
CASCARET3 today, for you will never get we
right Take our advice, start with Cascarets
money refunded. The genuine tablet stampec
booklet free. Address Sterling Remedy Compa
J Bromo-I
| Promptly <
| Heads
Bilious? '
Dizzy? Headache? Pain f
virk nf vnur eves? It's your
iver! Use Ayer's Pills. ?
Gently laxative; all vegetable. _
Sold for 60 years. Lowel I, |
i Want your moustache or beard ! j
a beautiful brown or rich black? Use "
BUCKINGHAM'S DYE ,
rrm ctb or dtrogists ok a r rult * co.. itashc a. ?* n.
So. 29. j
| Ml*
l"Mpmmm??mm alntigliln* oil*. Write i
'and ?tate ca*? fully and err mv opinion *nd price I
for a eure. Dr. Scull >la?on,Box 10, Liry Bridge, V*. j '
i WOMEN
Tired, JNervous, Aching
Trembling Sleepless, Bloodless?
Pe-ru-na Renovates,
Reflates, Restores?Many
Prominent Women Endorse
Pe-ru-na.
tv. Female trouble is so common, so
>reva!ent, that they accept it as almost invitable.
The greatest obstacle in the way
if recovery is that they do not understand
hat it is catarrh which is the source of
heir iliness. In female complaint ninetylinc
cases out of one hundred are nothing
>ut catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh wheriver
located.
Chronic invalids who have languished
or years on sick beds with some form *of
emale disease begin td improve at once afer
beginning Dr. Hartman's treatment.
Among the many prominent women who
ecommcnd Peruna are: ? Beiva Lockvood,
of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Col.
Tamilton, of Columbus. Ohio; Mrs. F. E.
iVarren. wife of U. S. Senator Warren, of
iVyoming.
If you do not derive prompt and satisactory
results from the use of Peruna,
vrite at once to Dr. Hart man. giving a full
itatement of your case, and ne will be
leased to give you his valuable advice
jratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The
Tartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0.
ike oar choice corned beef, cook it and season I
I done bv experts? better than is possible at I
. When just right we put it in cans to Keep
ht cntil you want it.
uppers, for sandwiches?for any time when
Simply turn a key and the can is open. An
ifatfn Write foi our free booklet. "How
ll?a>5U. to Make Good Thines to Eat"
i, appendicitis, biliousness, bad breath, bad
>ul mouth, headache, indigestion, pimples,
I dizziness. When your bowel3 don't move
t people than all other diseases together. It
Ir^g. No matter what ails you, start taking
II and stay well until you get your bowels
today under absolute guarantee to cure or
1 C C C. Never sold in bulk. Sample and
:ny, Chicago or New York. 50a
S^]t7.er I
cures all
iches
Jo You Want Your Money
TJ? EARN J
7% INTEREST
PKlt ANNUM <
Wri:o mo for particulars of a safe. secure invest*
irut ravin* seven per cent. 011 amounts of one
undreJ' dollars or more. Hank re/tretxeei.
W. II. IKIHI1'. York, l'rnna.
eS25 Every Day
Can be easily made with oar
Well Augers & Drills
One man and one bone required. W#
arc the only aaktn of the Ti ffl n Well*
Boriog ana Bock-DrUlUc Machine.
Warranted the Beat ea Earth I
Many of oar oaatomara maka from <80 ta #40 a day.
look aad Circular* rUB. Addroas.
L00M1S MACHINE CO., TIFFIN, OHIO.
TflCHRIS WHERE AU USE FAILS. ET
U Beat Couch Byrup. Taatea Good. Dae FH
Ld >o time. Sold by drogytsta. ff|
RipansTa bales are,
^^the best dyspepsia1
/ypj^T^^^Rmedicine ever made,i
A hundred million*
? j^Dyy of them have beea
m sold In the United
States in a single ^
year. Every lllneee
arising from a disordered stomach Js
roilnvfvl nr <>tirprl hv thplr' use. So
common is it that diseases originate
from the stomach it may be safely as*
serted there is no condition of HI.
health that will not be benefited or
cured by the occasional use of Blpans
Tabules. Physicians know them and
speak highly of them. All druggists; ;;
sell them. The five-cent package If
enough for an ordinary occasion, and
the Family Bottle, sixty cents, contains
a household supply for a year. One
generally gives relief within twenty
minutes.
HAIR GROWTH
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Promoted by snampoos
of Cuticura Soap
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And Dressings of Cuticura ths
Great Skin Cure * J
Purest, Sweetest, Most Elective Remedies for
Sklo, Scalp aid Hair.
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This treatment at once stops tolling
hair, removes cmsts, scales and dandruff,
destroys hair parasites, soothes
Irritated, Itching surfaces, stimulates
the hair follicles, loosens the scalp skin, [ . Q
supplies the roots with energy and
nourishment, and mattes toe nair grow w
npon a sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp
when all else fails. .
Millions of women now rely on Coti-?
cura 8oap assisted by Cutlcnra Olnt-1
mcnt, the great skin enre, for preserving, >
purifying and beautifying the skin, for \ \
cl'-".nsiog the scalp of crasts, scales and I
dandruff, and tho stopping of falling; f
hair, for softening, whitening and
soothing red, rough and sore hands, for:
baby rashes, ltchlugs and chaflngs, for '
annoying irritations, or too five or
offensive perspiration, for ulcerallvw. * <8|
weaknesses, and many sanative, antiseptic
purposes which readily soggest 3
themselves, as well as for all the purposes
of the toilet and nursery.
Cutlcura remedies are Che standard
skin cares and humoar remedies of the
world. Bathe the affected parts with hot
water and Cutlcura Soap, to cleanse tho
surface of crusts and scales and soften
the thickened cuticle. Dry, without
hard rubbing, and apply Cutlcura Ointment
freely, to allay itching, Irritation \
and inflammation, and soothe and heal, >
and, lastly, In the severer forms, take
Cutlcura Resolvent, to cool and cleans*
the blood. A single set Is often sufl
clent to cure the moat torturing, flis:
figuring skin, scalp and blood hnmoars,
from pimples to scrofula, from Infancy
to age, when all else fails. . *
Sold thmuchnut the world. Outieore Resolvent. Hfe (la '
form of Chocolate Coated PITle. 2Se. per rial offl&VOta*. i
ment. Me., Soap. 23c. Depot.! London. V CharterUoe*
, "o, I Peril, i Rue de la Piix i Boetoa. 1ST Colombo* Atte
| Potter l>rui a Chem. Corp, Sole ."ropa.
3" Send tor * How to Core Every Honour."
Endowed Colleges
end
Correlated Schoob
Mneates men and women, boys and rirls net together
Oct In Five fecparmt* J axtltutloas undtrone immS. J
tnfnt. The combination enables tu to offer tSbS.
advantages and to
Save Time and Money 1
I For particnlAn, address, sfctlng a^? and *cx c{ itodcct
i Chancellor WM. W. SMITH, A.M., UUO.
Collece Park. Lynchburg, Va.
1 C/\ | TH COl noV A?DRDk00MI
OUJ I U ?B0I R/i^T.'::r?l1Il?S2l,0? ?
I * ? 01 AI.1E .IIVil lHSH ' tfC
Piedmont High Schooli
| One 9t I he be?t Preparatory Schools In North
I Oarol'n*. A'le Faculty. Mountain rcenerY,
I liealthlul Cliin tte. vcisiou opens An;. 10:4.
Write to *V. D. BUBNS, Lawndale.N.G.
CDEE a beautiful
rSxrr souvenir of
i 1 It li louis burg college
I and a Picture of the Green Hill Hooae^v '
where the First Conference of tbf \
AX. E. Church was held In 1785.
tddreu IVEY ALLEN. Sec.. LOCISBL RO. N. C
HEDICAL DEPARTMENT |
Tnlane University of Louisiana.
Ita advantage* for practical in>traction, both in ample ^
Isboratones and abundant hnsptral matarialsara unaquailsd.
Free access ii given to the areas Char IT Hoa- i
pital with 9Uu bads and su. uoo patiunuannoally- Special 'j
' instruction is given dai v at tha bedsida of tba stok,
I The next levstoo begins October Sud. UuS- For cataI
loans and informer ion addrasa P?or. S S- CdlUA "n
| M. D-, Dean. P. O. Drawer 261. NvwO.lauu, La.
Medical college of Virginia.
Bit.bli.bed 1839.
_Dei artments of Medicine, Dentistry .J
and f'barmacy. The .S!xty->ixth Sea- .5
sion wili commence September 39. IfcJO. Tnl? J
tton fees and livinic expenses are moderate.
For announcement nod further Inform*tioii,
address, Christopher Tompkins*
III. I)., Dean, Klclimond, Virginia. -j
C^DronsvlI
n " "M ~ g- ? nencw js
f Removes all swelling in 8 to ao
/ days; effects a permanent cure ' j
jk^?- /\ jn jo to 60 days. Trialtreatinent -9
1 ,4ff!SS\ given free. Kothingcan be fairer "
Write Dr. H. H. Green's Soes, j
j SaecUIJsts. Bo* B, Atlanta. M, i,
aVricKly Heat>||
"ll't Qood for children fee* A
THE TA Hit ANT CO., t0c- "*
SI Jay St., New York. At Druggists or by mail.;
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