Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

THE FARMERS j HON BUREAU. Conducted by S. C. Farmers' Union, j Addrcas all communications intended for this ' column to J. ('. Striblinjt, Pendleton .S. c. Raising Cotton the intensive Plan. It is estimated that New York j Cotton exchanges ha^ been selling, more cotton to the square inch off of j their Wall street cotton plantations j than Southern cotton growers have j sold from an average square lod of their cotton farms. When you have determined to go into the long staple cotton growing business, do it right or you will sure get left. Enough men in each vicinity should grow long cotton sufficient to justify putting in a roller giu or a needle gin, then you can make all things work right through your organizations in ginuing and selling, too. Good authorities state that South Carolina used last year over five million dollars' worth of fertilizers and that at le?.st two million dollars of that amount was lost?washed out? by applying the more soluable nitrate goods before their crops had roots ' in the soil to take it up. s This washing out of this costly ammouiated goods by heavy rains before plant roots are in the soil to take up this costly plant food is deserving of more 6erious thought than some people give it. Try side application and tell us about it. Have you ever gone over a field, where there were many terrance banks, and made a thorough calculation about how much of the best land was lost thereby growing nothing but weeds? If not, do it, then ?nn m*v h<? in the nroDtr state of I j j ? ? j r - mind to make a change by sowing down your lands every other year; plow deeper and plow down every - terrace bank on your farm just as soon as you can get enough root or ofher vegetable in the soil it together. YTe have put the thing to the test ana the terrace banks are going down as fast as we can get to them. Our terrace banks and niggers are growing beautifully less and less profitable every year. You admit that oyer half the laud iu the country is running down. If you don't know what went with it go look down the streams and low places where you will find the saud, but the richness of the original ^ood soil has goue down the streams where Ward's ducks went. , What a power for good of the whole of tl^e South these supply merchants could wield if they would only compel their improvident allcotton farmers to grow their own food crops. This would enforce diversified farming and at the same reduce the acreage in cotton, which would iu turn improve the land, increase the yield per acre and reduce the risk and loss to the supply merchant to a minimum, by eausing better prices for their customers products. Our better class of more busiuess like farmers could afford to stand their cotton off the market and vvatch this dog eat dog riot that comes that comes off at the winding up of every crop if it was not for tie fact that cotton bears take advantage of this ''pull Dick, pull Devil melee" between the mortgaged crops and the lender, and swoop down upon the whole cottou crop with their .own set prices which I .give epincers enough cotton to go j upou while cotton bears either force the better class of farmers to either sell at a loss or store their cotton and incur the expense of storage and ' insurance. Now these statements of facts in regard to the cotton growing business iu the South should make it plain to every thinking business cotton grower and all supply merchants and bankers organizations, Farmers' Union and Cotton Association meu in the whole South that we must have a better understanding with each other and come together before we can must make the whole situation of both growing and marketing l of our money crop?cotton. Grow-' ing the crop well and selling it badly will hurt every one in the South excepting those in the speculating i business and those that are in league with tlnin. No matter how well we are organized at the selling end of our cotton business we can no more force an over production of cotton down the consumers' throat without causing a revolt than you cculd force a whole po' of chicken pie: down a man's throat that was not | already very hungry, without protest. Of course a large warehouse system under the direct control of the producers of cotton could stay or temporarily stave off a calamity of one or two bumper crops, but repetition of over production in any crop means suicide or inevitable desti action. We do not advocate or contend j that every tradesman of the South j should sacrifice his independent1, and distinct organization in order that we may all come together in one general concert of action in behalf of a better and more stable price for cotton. This is not neces- , sary. We want to see the bankers' ( associations strong enough to control : me suppiy niercuum iu a woj w force diversified farming iu the cotton belt. We want to see the supply merchants organized and controlled by men of their own body that can show these merchants that diversified farming means better profits to the farmer and that when farmers have more money there is more money for the merchants and every oue else. We want to see the Cotton Association men say to the Farmers' Union-You are right; make your organizations strong and as distinctly a farmers' organization as the bankers' associations is made of bankers. We want stronger and better organizations of all interests of the South. If we are to nrosDer we must not - t 4 j raise up one organization of a legiti- < mate business for the purpose of s fighting another organization that ( does not obstruct the way of our 1 coming together for'profitable prices } for cotton. i Our Farmers' Union must never ] admit its inability to meet with any and all other organizations of trades- j men in the South for vfear that our ( delegations might be tainted by the j contact, or not afraid to put up'< against the best orators and business ^ men in any other calling on any con-j ' ventioual proposition for a general conference for the betterment of the ] conditions of the whole people of | 1 the South, who are dependent direct-! 1 ly or indirectly upon profitable prices for the South's cotton. We as or- i , I * ganizations must cease to fight each < other and combine our strength as a t solid South for solid good business J * -V I. iL. L.K principle ox me wnoie luiwu fuming and cotton marketing industry. We must act like statesmen, not like; fools who quarrel over pennies and small poor chickens, while our dol-1 lars and great hig fat turkeys arej trotted out of the South to feed and i enrich other countries. Let us have l peace among ouiselve3 and enjoy the i fat of our own land. I Dissolution NoticeNotice is hereby given that the firm of .1. F. Rickenbaker & Co.. composed of J. F. Rickenbaker and S. W. Gowdy, heretofore doing business at Lake City, in the county of Williamsburg and State of South Carolina, was dissolved by mutual consent on the twenty-third * ?i ^i? ?:j n xrr 1 day January, iuu<, anu me saiu o. vy. i Gowdy, is no longer connected with j ] bu-iness. J. F. Rickenbaker shall assume all; ( indebtedness of the company, and all i parties owing the company shall pay | ] same to the said J. F. Rickenbaker. i , J. F. Rickenbaker i 3?7-3t. S. W, Gowdy. Spring wpds chap, tan and cause j freckles to appear. PINESALVE . CARBOLIZED applied at night j will reiieve that burning sensation, j \ Nature's own remedy. Acts like a J 1 poultice pnd draws out inflamation : ?Sold by \Yr L Wallace. Notice. Pursuant to commission issued to the undersigned, on February 22nd, books | of subscription will be opened to the capital stock of the Lane Hotel Compa-1 ny, on Saturday, March 2,1907, at the ! office of Hlakeley & McCollough, Lane, S ('.at 12 o'clock,; the capital stock of said corporation to be $:>,000. divided into fifty shares of the par value of $100 ' per share; the nature of the corpora- [ tion being to do a hotel business. J C Graham .r A McCollough, H P Brown. T A^Glakkley. 2-28-^t Corporators. f *********** A Boston sc weak and sickly. His arms wei He didn't have a sti entire body. The physician the family for thirty Scott's Emulsic NOW: iTo feel thai ^ would think he was ) blacksmith. ALL DRUQOISTS: ( A WATER WITCHER. The Way an Expert With a Witch Hazel Bough Worked. j 1 It may be that his errand was in < the nature of a cheerful gamble after other resources failed, but the < tact remains that Mr. Eastman was ' on the ground equipped for busi- < aess and that the train waited npon i < his investigations. ! s His outfit was simple. A friend, j | acting as assistant "witcher," car- 1 \ ried a bundle of freshly cut witch 1 hazel boughs, trimmed in V shaped I 1 branches, the leaves and buds still ! \ on them. The two men disem- j barked. i Mr. Eastman, stout, conventional i is to dress and looking as essential- \ ly practical as a veteran railroad ( man ought to appear, took one of j the V shaped witch hazel boughs < md tightly grasped the pliant ends < in his two fists, holding the point or i crotch upright. Thus equipped he ? moved sedately across the prairie, j The witch hazel remained upright 1 for perhaps fifty feet. The crowd trailed in behind, vastly curious. Presently the bough began to turn jr waver. The inverted V twisted slowly until it was parallel with the ?arth or pointing straight out from the bearer. He slackened his gait and moved ihead, while the telltale bough noved slowly down until it was jointing toward the soil. Now the 'water witcher" had it so grasped that it was twisting in his fists, and the tender bark along the pliant ?nds was beginning to break, showng that some force other than muscular effort was pulling the bough toward the earth. When it pointed straight down, he stopped and heeled a mark in the grass. Then iie moved on, and very slowiy the branch began to rise until at ength it had returned to the perpendicular in its original position. voiri nf \ra + r>r had hpon lUISSPll. I r ' v w* I y ind the witch hazel was no longer ] lttracted.?From "A Water Witch- \ ?r of Prairies," in Outing Maga- j fine. s Not the Right Kind. Professed politicians who have re- ^ luced public ollice to an exact sci- , ?nce find the independent voter a { ad stumbling block, a fact which ^ s amusingly disclosed by a story found in tiie recent life of the late ^ deorge Monro Grant, the eminent j Canadian educator and clergyman, j Foward the end of Sir John Mac- j lonald's life he and Principal Grant, ^ dien the head of Queen's college, \ net at dinner at the house of the j premier's brother-in-law, Professor ( iVilliamson. "How I wish," the premier said :o the principal, "that you would je a steady friend of mine!" "My dear Sjj Johnf' the princi ial replied, "i have always supported you when you were right." The premier's eyes twinkled, and le laid his hand upon the shoulder )f the principal. "My dear man," said he, "I have 10 use for that species of friendship!" Mr. McKinley's Flower. Mr. McKinley was interested for nany years in a girls' school in Dhio. When he was congressman md governor of Ohio political meetngs often took him near the school, md he visited it when he could. On me of his visits he was made an lonorary member of the class of 94. He was a loyal member and ivore the class flower, a red earna:ion. The message of his nomina- j ;ion for president reached the class luring a reunion. The girls rang !he college bell and sent a telegram )f congratulation and a box of car- j nations. Another box of the class i lowers was sent on the day of Mr.; McKinlcy's inauguration. It may :>e that this association accounts for Mr. McKinley's fondness for the -ed carnation, which has come to be :he "McKinley flower." ? Youth's Companion. ihoolboy was tall, e soft and flabby. X ong muscle in his X i who had attended X r years prescribed 9 >n. t boy's arm you g apprenuccu 10 a 2 50C. AND $1.00. O WAYS OF A MOLE. T"h? Manner of Eating and Burrowing of This Peculiar Animal. "While fishing I noticed a very small mole hill," says a writer. 'After a short time a quantity of ?arth was shoveled out, and so I juickly scraped away the loose earth md found the hole. I traced the ;unnel until I noticed, movements in :he soil and caught sight of some slack fur, which immediately began :o disappear in a downward direction. I had some difficulty to dig t out, and when I at last caught it t gave me a series of scratches with ts powerful fore paws, causing me ;o release it. when it ran along the ground, prodding the soil as it went n its endeavors to find a soft nough place 1:0 begin burrowing. I soon caught it again and imprisoned t in my bait can. It seemed to resent being handled and uttered a Deculiar hissing noise. I carried it ioni(! and nlaced a lanre box half I tv full of earth at its disposal. The r.ole had a ravenous appetite. IVhen ^ven a piece of raw meat it vould place its large fore paws on he flesh and tear off huge pieces vith its teeth. In eating worms it vould place one fore paw on each ?nd of the worm, beginning to eat Tom the middle. "Its semes seemed very acute, for vhen a dog came near to its box vhen it was on the top it would imncdiately burrow underneath at a rrcat rate, and when I placed it in i tin and put my hand anywhere lear it it usually came and smclled t directly, never attempting to bite. Sven when handled it only tried to 'orce away my hand with its, fore >aws. When the earth in its box vas loose, it burrowed at a tremendous pace, forcing back the oose earth with its hind legs. When ! packed the earth tigktlv down, it * * i il. i .? vouiu run udoui me uua, jiuMug n,o ong snout into the ground as it vent until it fovwad a soft enough dace, when it would immediately tart burrowing. "Its eyes were very small, and it eemed only able to distinguish beween light and dark. It disliked mnshine and never cared to conic lp of its own accord when the sun vas out. Its front paws were posesscd of tremendous strength, vhile its hind legs were comparaively weak. It seemed to be quite lealthy as long as I had it, some hree weeks or so, and it took a jreat deal of exercise, honevcombng the earth in its box with tunlels. I eventually let it go."? Chicago News. GET THE BEST Recently Enlarged WITH 25,000 New Words New Gazetteer of the World with more than 26,000 titles, based on the latest census returns. New Biographical Dictionary containing the names of over 10,000 noted persons, date of birth, death, etc. Edited by W. T. HARRIS, Ph.D.. LL.D., U ui ted States Commissioner of Education. 2380 Quarto Pages New Platci. 6000 IilutnUcru. Rich Bindings deeded in Every Home Alio Webater's Callsgiate Dictionary 111S r?(?. U00 llliutntloai. Regular Edition 7xl0xSJ4 bches. 3 binding*. De Luxa Edition 6Kx?H*i M '= Printed from am. pUtM, on bibl. paper. t Watlful bind lain. FREE, "DletioaairWriaUaa." Illustrated pamphlet*. G. 8 C. MERRIAM CO.. Publishers. Springfield, Mess. ad I ( "Y f* ' ' \ .. I BUZZARD HARDWARE CO. IS THE HOUSE, f # w IIIE are headquarters for all .M< -ii 11j I W kinds of Hardware, Guns 3^t-^ }- Cutlery, Pumps, Piping", Steam ' ' ' |" Fittings, Belting, Pittsburg Per~ ~ ~ ^ ? " feet Fence, Baib Wire, Cwa^K- i ilEEEEEzrEErEEiEiEEiff: ery and Glassware, Cooking | '' 1 Stoves, Builders Material of all kinds, X. C. Pine Shingles, Paroid Hoofing, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Lime, Cement, Paint. Farming Implements, Stalk Cutters Cole Corn and Cotton Planters. Guano Distributors: : : : : SEE US BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDERS. Yours very truly, BLIZZARD HARDWARE CO. LAKE CITY, S C. TO OTTIES Frltils ii Cisiik . ' * j We have just closed our third year's business, and take this opportunity to thank our triends for their generous patronage. Our stock is larger and more varied, and we teel sure we can save you money. Don't forgot we have a nice assortment of reliable "FAVORITE" Ranges and 4<0 K" stoves. When in need of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Turned Work, etc., we would appreciate the privilege of giving you prices; from our in- , creased sales of this material our prices Must be Right. Remember where you buy "Anchor" Lime you get the best. If it is good paint you want, buy "Benj. Moore & Co. 's"?pure house colors. i Yours for Business, Lake City Hardware Co., LAKE CITY, 8. C j \ / LOOKOUT! A I am at the same old Stand with J the - | and PRICES.: I I Yours for business, i . 4 ? r w -w r nr* ii r?n v,i w i wiiKins .! f F\ P. F?. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root aad Potesslaa.} * MAKFjfe POSITIVE CURES Or ALL FORMS AND STAGES OF-:?. V Phytlciant tndorta P. P. P. at a apian- I J o a will rtfala lath tad itni|U. I d combinatioa, tad praaeribe It with I BMn Watta of entrfj tad all diaaaaaa ratultia* pri-at tatitfaetion for tht curat of all I from overtaxing tha ayatam art earad by forma and tMgaa of Primary, Saaondary I tha oaa of P. P. P. nj Ttrtiary Syphilla, SyphUitia Ft". I Ladlct whoaa tytUmt art poltoaad aad raatlrm, Scrofuloat CI cart and Swat ' whcta blood la la aa Impart aaadltiaa dwa Glandular Swelling*, Rhtamatlam, i id- tj to aiaaatraal irrtgalaritla* art ptralltrlj ney Complaint*, Old Chroale Uleart U a* I benafltad by tha woadtrfol toaie and SYPHH^jg SCROFULA hire rMlttod til traatn* ,, Catarrh, 8kin ObwiM, Beam*. Chronic VialN blood alaaaainf proportion of P. V. Rd* Complaint*, Morcarial PoUcn, Tottar, Prickly A*i, Poke Boot nod r?UoalUL Scaldheid, otc., etc. Sold by all Dnnim P. P. P. la powtrfnl tonic and an exoolloat appitlaor, building ap tk* ^ V. LlPPMAN, Proprldtdf. .litem rapidly. U you are waak and S?*?nn?h, G?. feobla, and faal badly try P. P. P., aid RHEUMATISM, I T I The Record wants correspond- i mrr Knowing what it was to suffer, '* ents at the following postcffices: rUp f I will give FREE of CHARGE, j- I ill?L to any afflicted a positive cure Cades, Greelyrille, ino, Gourdin, for Eczema. Salt Rheuni, Ersypelas, T ? cj . i Piles and Skin Diseases. Instant reLeo, Benson, Scranton and any Don't suffer longer. Write F other offtee where we aie not now W WILLIAMS, 400Manhattan Avenue, New York. Enclose stamp. represented. Write for terms, tf. -616-1 yr. . \ - ,... \. i