Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Y ~- ? ! SOUTHERN j <?Z3_D' J r0/?/CS OF in TERES T TO THE PL ,1VI K-???? I'or't in the Sonth. It is well known that hogs art healthiest and do hest when given plenty of exercise and kept in sanitary surroundings. The dread of the hogbreeder is cholera, and the ravages of this disease can best he controlled by keeping the aniiuals in sanitary quarters. Tlu? hog in a state of jnature is a clean animal, fettling on grass and herbs and having his Jair in some secluded, well draimd lie also is careful about his domestic habits?a strange contrast to the degraded creatures which are so often found shut uii in tiltby pens by their indifferent owners. Where such conditions prevail it is not surprising to llud hog cholera a dreaded scourge. If these sarue animals were given the run of a large pasture, cholera would soon disappear and they wouhl become healthy, contented animate, paying a handsome profit to the owner. There is ::o section of the country where seme grazing < rops cannot bp had throughout the greater part of the year. Where blue grass or oilier tanc grasses and red or alfalfa clover can be had, they arc excellent for the purpose. though they will probabiy not fatten u nana is s?? rapidly as a good suisx'Sfion )f I'ivu su'-h as ran ^rotvu iu many i> -aUtles. in this respect the South is particularly favored for a succession of crops < an be had for from sever. to nine months of tin year, or Throughout the entire year ii ue includes the winter-growing cereals, sr.d lair. succe:' ;ior. of crops ear he so planned as to not only give e:cerrise ami a healthy, vigorous body to the hogs,'but to provide a large amount ol nourishment cs well. In fa ... if a suecession is prcprrly planned it Is quite possible to put young hogs on grazin; crops in the spring ami with a limited amount of ueal finish them for the market by November or December. Ir ther words, in seven or nine month.' grazing period. This means the pro (taction of extremely cheap pork, and it is Indeed surprising that greater at tenlion has not been given to this sub i#ct. its vital importance to the hoj interests of the South lias made ii seem advisable for this station, writes Professor Soule. of Tennessee, in th< Knoxville Journal, to give a good deal <CT-attention to this subject. Our ex pertinents are of comparatively rocem origin, but it is hoped to study oui every phase of this interesting problem There is r.ot a shadow of reasonable doubt tmt that soiling crops can be titil ized to the greatest advantage in tbc production of pork in the middle South and that a large amount of pork car be secured from an acre of land with r very small consumption of grain. Ii may be profitable to feed a good dea more grain than was used: time alon: can answer this aud many other ques Hons whose determination will he 01 vital interest to the Southern hoj raiser. V" (tnosrs For Overflowed I.ntid. H. J. \Y. writes: I have twentj nrres of creek bottom land that owr Hows every winter and spring am sometimes in summer. i now hive ii planted Jn corn and want to got it In grass for grazing cattle. I trice liundals or English blue grass once i! the spring, hut failed to get a goot stand. The land Is drained very wel with surface drains, hut is always wet until April or May before it car be plowed. Do you think I can get i good stand of red lop and timothy bj sowing in the corn when I plow tin last time? I am to plow late, if tin > corn docs not blow down, or woulc you suggest some other grasses 01 some other plan to secure e. good sod? f _ Answer.?Red top, timothy and al Kike clover will be more likely to sue eeed on your wot land than any othei grasses you could use. as they take kindly to moist situations. lied tor and alsike clover will do better on wei lands than timothy. Do not attempt to seed the grass at the last planting of the corn. You are not likely to se cure a stand then owing to the dense shade produced by the corn and th? drying out of the soil as the crop iua tures. An average crop of corn pumps about 1U00 tons of water from eacl acre of land and unless the sensor should he very wet it h-rrvrs the lani so dry that grass seed will not germ inate well, or if it does it will not find sufficient moisture to produce t vigorous growth. It would be much better to cut the corn and remove 1' from the field, plow the land and worl; up a good seed bed before sowing tip grass. It will take more labor am time, but you are so much more likeh to succeed thai it will pay you well u do this.?Answer by Professor A. M Sonic. In the Knosville Journal ant' Tribune. C:i!ni:an Clover. ^ Of all .he types of clover plant? ; crimson clover is ore of the mast use ful to agriculture, it is well adapted to sandy soil* and flourishes aloni the Atlantic c?fr??n X-u- Jwm News in Notes. Within the past ten years Mr. and Mrs. Chares Pitrowsky, of Cleveland have tried six times to be divorced Only once did they succeed in free ing themselves from the hymeneal bond. Six months later they were re married, but were trying for a divorce again inside of two months. Their latest attempt is now being made, papers having been filed in the Common Pleas Court. In all but one case Mrs. Pitrowsky was complain ant . ... A RM [iOJES. | | D- j, ? r?.f, STOCK VAN ANO TRUCK GROWER. ^ ! | to Florida. but is generally loss val' liable ?ii tin; .Mississippi Valley where ' 1 the hairy vetch seems hotter. The ! groat value of the crop has become ' generally known, ami bright crimson i blossoms, when in season, are quite common throughout the Atlantic ,1 coast section, extending inward for | some hundreds of miles. The chief value of crimson clover, ! beyond the fact that it is a h'gume, , lies in its use as a cover crop?that is. a crop that is designed to protect the bare soils from the leaching rains of 1 fall and spring. Crimson clover is , not only a cover crop, but is also a i gatherer of fertiliser nitrogen from , the exhaustless supplies in the air. We all know that plant .food con sists of three elements -- nitrogen, pot1 ash and phosphoric acid. We also 1 know that plants must have nil three ' of said elements- not any one. nor any [ two alone, but all three. Crimson ! clover enriches the soil in nifrogeu by ' ' j means of nitrogen previously drawn j ' from the air. After a crop has been ; ' turned down it soon decomposes, duri ing which time the nitrogen, gathered < '! as aforesaid, is returned to the soil I for the benefit of the next crop. I The two renutining elements of fer- , * 1 ?/ '?! 1 ! j UJity, pornsn ami i>jm> viji?" ..v.... known as the mineral elements of for- ! tility. must he properly applied: they J ' cannot ho drawn front lite air for the ; reason that they are not titer?. Ilence . the more liberally titcse elements are i ' applied to the soil, tho ranker will be I 1 ihe growth of elyvet. and consequent- I ly the greater will be the quantity | ; of nitrogen drawn from the air. line of ibe mo?t effective uses of j crimson clover is In the orchard. In ' eariy spring the orchard should he I : thoroughly broken up and kept tilled ' so as to secure a three-inch mulch until August, when the soil should be 1 fertilized as above, and the crimson ! clover sown. At maturity the cat Ire crop of clov' er. If intended for linorovemeut pur" poses, should he turned down.?Byron ' Tyson. In the Florida Agriculturist. Velvet Kenn n? Foragr. Attention has been caJkd to tho I fact that velvet bean bay 'contains . n large quantity of nitrogen, for which t It is valuable for restoring Ibis elet ment to the soil, though, as b; fore stated. it is not economical to wira tlie crop under for this purpose. I'hc percentage of nitrogen multiplied by t>.25 gives the percentage of crude protein in the hay. The feeding value of the I j bay then is much greater than its fer * ' - I'Ji-co nor. t tllizing vaiue. upmuw u r~t tion of the fertilizing elements may be I saved as manure, while the hay at the * same time may be converted into meat, . milk and butter. In this way two [ values are utilized, while If the hay r is turned tmdcr only the lesser vaiue is turned to profitable account. In making use of the velvet bean as a food for animals three methods may . be followed?the vine may be fed green . or the Held converted Into a pasture: I the vine may be converted into hay : t and saved for winter feeding: beans t may be gathered and prepared for use j l as a concentrated food. In making ! i use of velvet beans as food care should j be exercised not ro start an animal j on a full feed either of the green vine ; or the bean meal, as the result may , prove injurious and possibly fatal. The t value of a food depends to a great e:; tent on its composition, though it is > not possible to arrive at this value by ? an analysis alone. We must know I not. only the constituents in the food . but must also Know u:e uigesnve w efficients of those constituents. Food !s for {ho purpose of building up waste . tissues, that is. for the production of . flesh, muscle. Mood, nerrr*. ofc.. and for supplying energy and heat. t Teaching tin- C.nlf. I The successful calf feeder will al[ ways use more tact than force in : teaching a calf to drink, and never . allow a foolish calf to betray liiiu > into a passion or display of brutal . force. ]>o not allow tiie calf to such . the whole hand, or a single linger, ; but placing the palm ?>f cither hand i over its nose, give it the tips of two i lingers to tr3* to suck. In this position I you can gently force the nose into the - milk hold in a eonv? nicut-sixed pail t in the other hand, r.y separating the i lingers you hold back ti:c sides of the i tongue, and insure the entrance of t milk when the calf draws. : If the milk is warm there will be ? less trouble, and you will give the J- .. 1^..,, ..( #!,,, ru-,1 tillix.vs i 17111 J1HUC Ul ?>i li.v according to the success in keeping > ils no55? down in the business. When . !'? dot s wi'll yon will hardly he toncliI in it his tongue or lips, hut if it acts hndiv give much more surface and allow ii to touch ilie lingers and get a sup now and then to encourage it. ; Some gilves will drink from the . first to the third trial, while others f | will persist in needing the tinkers lor ; I much longer time.?Texas Stock and ' 'arm Journal. flinor Mention. I The interior of St. Peter's, at Roue, has been invaded by electric lights. Six hundred and twenty-eight )n/>ondocfuni inmns eenerally of 25 I candle power each, are employed for the purpose. The total lighting rep resents 14,000-candle power. The lighting circuits have been laid out ; so as to provide for an increase to s 80,0000-candle power. The main ciri cuits are nearly two miles long, and fifteen miles of copper wire or cables are used in the lamp circuits. y 1 .. . 5 GOOD ? : i ? ROAD S. I : How to l!r;iair lloails. ( harlos Williams, r. eunir.uior i:: I.'ormersville, In;!., jrives :i few points >:i reml repair in a paper before a farmers' institute, v iiuh will ! . of interest: Now. some points on how 1o keep roads in gooit condition ami ik?.v m repair them. A road must liavo const;:ut attention if it is to bo of any use of value. Whenever a rut forms it should be repaired at once. The road should be graded in the spring and graveled in the fall. The road will then lie hard and smooth, and the gravel will be packed down, but not worn out. before bail weather sets in. It depends on wlia shhpe the crown of the road is in what the condition of the road will be for travel through the winter: if the crown is in good shaprt it will shed Ihe water to the side ditches, and if they are in good shape the road will remain dry and solid. Now I will tell a few ways to spoil a good road: The surest way is to use the road grader and pile all the mud. sod and weeds from the sides and dit dms into tile centre of the road. This mak?s the road soft and muddy, and it will be impossible for the ne\t coat of gravel to unite with the old roadbed. The result is the road will be spongy. The best plan is to scrape it up into piles and haul it to some gully, of which all roads have a few. and dump it there. The road grader is a jjood road builder in the hands of a man that knows how to use it. hut otherwise he will do a great deal of damage. Another way to spoil a road is to make the crown so steep that all the travel will take to the centre. The result is the road is worn out in the ..-. -o. <.u,i nn has boon made oi tlie remainder of the road. The centre is cut up by three Lillys, which hold water and cause the road to be soft and muddy when it otherwise would lie in good shape. An Obi Political I?*nr Kevircd. In the early days of our national history whether the General Government shotiM take a hand in making internal improvements became one of the groat IKiIitlcal issues. The matter was fought out in Congress and in political campaigns, and finally settled in the affirmative. 'Among tin? improvements discussed the building of roads was probth., most imnoriant. Plans were made for connecting the different parts of the country 1?y national highways. The National Pike was built from Cumberland. Md.. to the Ohio River, and then on westward. The plan was to build to St. Louis, but before that point was reached the building of steam railroads had begun, and the l>eople lost interest in the road question. fit these days when river and harbor bills are looked upon as a matter of course, and national aid to road improvement is considered a novel proposition. it is interesting to recall that the question of road building by the nation was a great and burning issue long before river and harbor bills were ever heard of. It is also worth noting that Presidents were vetoing river and harbor bills ns unconstitutional long i after national aid to road improvement I had become a settled policy. JI..4 *!.? It does not st;e:n pi'ouniue iu;h im | question of constitutionality \vi 11 ever , l?o seriously raised against sueh legis- , Jut Ion as that proposed in the Brownlow Iiill for national aid in the building j of roads. It ean b defended as strong-! ly as river and harbor legislation under | those clauses of the Constitution whieli authorize the Federal Covcrnmont "to promote the general welfare" and to "regulate (ominercc between the States." Tint in addition to those it finds its strongest warrant in the authority eonforred upon Congress "to establish iiost roads." a provision that j is growing in practical importance I every year with the extension of the rural free delivery system. Itoml 1'epnirliig. The work of repairing the roads is in order. All culverts and gutters should be cleaned out, and all shoulders on the roads should be pared clown so that they shall no neiow me traveled portion of the highway. This will permit of the water running off into the gutter. Gravel roads should have a little gravel placed on the toe marks in the centre of the road and in the ruts. If this is not done at this season no good will result. All loose stones should be removed from macadam roads with a hack of a rake, not the teeth. Loose stones injure the road as much as any one thing, because they arc driven into the surface and break the bond. Where the slone is beginning to show through, little splinters or chips of stone should he applied to form a cushion. This cushion should not he more than three-fourths of an inch thick. No sprinkling or rolling is necessary. A ton of splinters will suffice for from 2-"0 to 300 square feet. An ordinary farm roller weighted down aud run over the road after loose stones are removed will improve it. It is not necessary to use screenings on a stone road, as they only furnish dust in dry weather. If the road is watched a new surface will not be necessary, as it will not have the chance to get in bad condition. He congratulates the selectmen on the faet that the roads have been so well looked after by them in accordance with the means at their disposal, and this fact will greatly aid in securing to the towns the State aid they at present enjoy. Sir Arthur Falrburn. a deaf mute, is the only holder of an hereditary title England so afflicted. - - ^ . V.. / "Ghosts'' in Science. TSpm va time." says Sir Oliver Lodge, "when the investigation o! In:;.steal science was tabooed, and when any one who dabbled in experiments was regarded as a person who sought to unveil forbidden mysteries, and to make himself wiser than men were intended to he. The oldest human legend is cf this nature, and since that time the forbidden topic has taken one torni after another, until now the term 'occult' is applied chiefly to certain psychical phenomena. and the adventurous explorer int? nivittrii.c m.->t either with ridicule or with superstitious aloofness, according to the temperament of the public who are made acquainted with his eccentricities." Prof. Lodge believes in telepathy, and holds that the methods and processes which have proved successful in the physical sciences are equally applicable to the study of spiritual phenomena. Other examples of leading scientific men who have branched out into what the majority of scientists consider pseudo, or, at any rate, super-science, are A. It. Wailaco. the co-discoverer with Darwin of natural selection, and Sir William Crookes, the irreat English chemist, who is a firm believer in spiritualism and ghosts. Frof. William Jame3 01 Harvard an 1 Andrew Lang, the former certainly having seme claim to scientific distinction, both apparently believed in Mrs. Piper, who. if she did not make her living, at a?ny rate made her reputation by converse with disembodied spirits.? New York Commercial Advertiser. Odds and Ends. The Canadian plan of preferential tariffs in favor of Great Britain and the - -? - - ? : ?m..,l untisn CG10I11C8, WI1ICI1 reuin UUV.-IUII u is now being adopttd in the British colonies of South Africa. A. Bernese has had an unpleasant experience. While returning bom; late in the night the worse for drink he fell into the bears' pit at Berne, fortunately he was in the pi't r.-servetM for young bears and he went to sleep rurrounded by the anlmnh. () : dn-'ci v. eirng his plight next morning he shouted for help, and vith the aid of lopes and a ladder he was drawn up into the street apparently none the worse for the adventure. j Colds 1 8 441 bad a terrible cold and could I (I hardly breathe. I then tried Ayer's 8 8 Cherry Pectoral, and it gave me im- I B mediate relief." j| IV. C. Layton, SidetL, 111. How will your cough jj be tonight? Worse, probably. For it's first a cold, then a cough, then bronchitis or pneumonia, and ! at last consumption. Coughs always tend | downward. -Stop this I downward tendency by E taking Ayer's Cherry Pec- S I toral. p ^ Tbrtc sizes: 25c., 59c., JJ. AH dmnlstf. 4 I Consult your d?x-tor. If lie sstj take It, I then do a* lie U he tell* you cot to take It. then don't take It. He knows. I I Loare it with lum. W-are willlnc. h 1 J. C. AY Kit CO.. Lowell. Mass. | CAPUDINE | a nPf It ?cti iramedialelr? |Z Untaioo feel It* effects in 10 w wllfcW minutes. You don't INDIGESTION and APiniTV week to know It* (rood. It cure? AOIUIIT HEADACHES ALSO by I I Caterpillar Causes Bllndnees. E. A. Wood of Bristol, Vt., crushed a caterpillar on his arm about a year ago, causing a sore that has affected his eyes and It is now feared that he will lose his sight. Taking Out the Romance. That back East poet who wishes he "were the belt that clasps my ladye's j waist" might feel somewhat embar- ! rassed to learn that she got It at a i bargain sale for 19 cents.?Denver ! Post HAPPY WOMEN. Mrs. Pare, wife prominent res- . ideut of (Mas- f foring from I ^ ^ tion of kid- | - -7;. | noy troii- yPy sides a V// jU bad haek, 1 wj M had a great deal jf trouble with the secretions, which were exceedingly variable, sometimes ! excessive and at other times scanty. | The color was high, and pass-ages were I accompanied with a scalding sensa- j 'ion. Doan's Kidney Pills soon regit- , late<l the kidney secretions, making ! their color normal, and'banished the! inflammation which caused the scald- j ing sensation. I can rest well, my back is strong and soutid. and I feel much better in every way." Foster-Milburu Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by ail iteulers, price 50 cents per box. y u." .v-, % v ? * - ... . .. - - MARSHALL FIELD*' Cured of Catarrl: F>e=ru HONTJCIIN "TTshea lion. John T. Sheahan, who has been lor Field & Co.'s wholesale warehouse, and is co writes the following letter from 3753 Iudiaaa Peruna Medicine Co., Columbu*, Oh j Gentlemen? haul summer 1 cut i my kidneys an i affrcte I them b idly, largely advertised, but they did not h told me of the great help he harl recelv ; case, and I at once procured a >me. "It tras Indeed ? b easing to me, at day, and trouble sue t as I had uffecte F?~r,,nn rured me entirely and 1 uroul salary."?J'tHN T. SHEA HAX. rMr. Jacob Fleig writes from 44 Sumner avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.: " I am now a netc man at the age I of seventy-five years, thanks to your ironuer/ul remedy Feruna." Jacob Fletg. I - Catarrhal inflammation of the mucous | lining of the kidneys, also called ''Bright'* disease," niav be either acute or chronic. The acute form produces symptoms of fa*** *r ^ ^ v au a I J?L V &X A ^ THE FAMILY PAPER OF NATIONAL CIRCULA CHARACTERS IT HELPS TO MOLD ARE n I Annual Suns ci | ? The New Subscriber who l H of this Paper at once wi B |i^ All the Issues of The Con ^ i i TflC Tlianjtsjrlvlnj, Chrl: ^ The Youth's Companion ! ojrapheJ In twelv ^ Ther. the fifty-two ls?u.4 3 of the best readin !jj rVLl. AXSOUXCEMEXT AXD SAM PI / THE YOUTH'S COMPAN ' ' If You Don't Want CURLS IN YOUR HA1B you DO WANT j Carps liter's OX HARROW POMADE ; fHrWAHK OK IHfTlTIOXS.) j. | Tf |i flic best hair ?tr?i'f!iE<Mi?r *.?M: maSu* I Mi* hair soft and irlostv an t is perfectly harm- | I ie-s. More than worth the price. P?lCE. 25 CENTS. A n>t if vonr dnuariat hasn't ft we will send i: by ' :nal! on receipt of S$ con's In atari. ;>s. AdJreat. CARPENTER 5: CO , | Lo-ilsvllie. Kv. H So 40. ' |S>ON'T asp, i GET WET!'?' : ASK YOU!? DEALED FOP THE ! 5LiCft&P 1 MADE FAMOUS BY A DEPUTATION ^EXTENDING OVED MOPE THAN^ i $ HALF A CENTUDY... % \ s^v TO WER'5 garments and ! '\0\ Yv hatj are made of the beat / kri I \ 4 * materiaJa in black or yellow r( / J j \ 1 ? for all kinda of wet work. ' ' ' SATISFACTION IS GUARANTIED If YOU STKK TO Tffi FHiL ^ I 1 { . ~k : ' t arehouie MANAGER i of Kidneys by i=na. MAX, OF CHICAGO. seventeen years manager of Mare&all rporui "2d Regiment nifantry, L N. ?., l avenue, Fiat Six, Chicago, 1IL: (o. ghl a cold tc'iich teemed to settle in. I tried a couple of kidney remedies .elp me any. One of my joreme%~ el in using Peruna tn a slmiktr II am on my feet a large part / the d me seriously, but four bottled of d not be without it for three months' such prominence that the serious nsterr of the disease is at once suspects^ but tb? chronic variety may come on^so pnflaaBy and insidiously that its presence is not suspected until after it has fastened itself tl >rouahly upon its victims. At the appearanee of the first symptom Peruna should be taken. This remedy | strikes at once at the very root ol the m- , > case. A hook on catarrh sent free by Tbe Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus. O. Companion .TION. THE LIFE IT PICTURES AND THE rPICAL OF OUR TIMES AND COUNTRT. ' uption Offer. h > cuts out and seads this slip or tho our . 2 th $1.75 wHI receive: ipanlon for the remalnlaf weeko of 1905. J itir.as and New Year'* Double Nuiabers. j / "Springtime" Calendar for 1904. litfre colors and sold. ? of The Companion for 1^04 ? a library g for every member of the family. 0302 ,u copies or the paper free. ION. BOSTON. MASS. RipnnsTabuIesare tbe best dyspepsia /^P^a^raBnniediciiie ever made. fjbJKP >?>yA millions of them have been sold in tbe United States in a single year. Every illness .".rising from a disordered stomacb is relieved or cured by their ose. So common is it that diseases originate* from the stomach it may be safely as* jj serted there is no condition of m health that will not be benefited or cured by rlie occasional use of Kipano Tabules. Physicians know them ami speak highly of them. All druggists sell them. The fire-cent package is enough for an ordinary occasion, and the Family Pottle. sixty cents, contains a household supply for a year. 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