The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 04, 1908, Image 6
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NECESSITY OF DRAINAGE.
Vould Make Our Low Country a Gar
den Spo'.
Editor County Recoud:
At the recent Farmers' Day ad
dress in Georgetown drainage, drainage,
draiuage, seemed to be the cen
e.ml h'pm rporardlpsa nf snpatpr and
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well indeed it should have been.
From the apostle of drainage, Col
Jas Cosgrove, to our worthy commissioner
of agriculture and commerce
came iteration and reiteration
of the merits of thoroughly draining
the land. Uncle Sam was kind
enough to send a drainage engineer
all the way to Georgetown to tell the
farmers of the importance of drainage.
This speaker told how lands
had been advanced within a short
time from a few dollars per acre to
two or three hundred, and solely because
they had been drained. Col
Cosgrove told the same story of enhancement
of laud values around
f
Charleston.
To state that drainage from the
.agricultural standpoint alone is by
far the most important operation involved
in the management of a farm
is but to put the plain truth in simple
language. Though South Carolina
soils and seasons equal those
anywhere, and though her farmers
are using more fertilizers than are
employed elsewhere, the State can
not claim first rank as a producer of
any agricultural crop. Indeed the
corn yield here is but a little better
than that of Florida, which State
.has the lowest average in the country.
The reason lies in the fact that
the soils most productive when
drained are allowed to waste their
bo mtiful store of plant food in the
support of marsh and swamp.
flm- fluf- Inno straw ninp lands and
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""Sivaunas" or "prairies/' as they
;*re called in Florida, underlaid with
olav,are without doubt the real bank
of this section of the State; yet every
one who has tried to farm these lands
has recognized in a certain degree
the necessity of "ditching."
Mr Mclver Williamson has
made himself famous by suggesting
a method of conserving soil moistuie.
His plan has its merits as
well as its demerits, and it is quite
certaiu that it is vastly inferior to
such methods involving thorough
drainage, frequent and shallow tillage
and constaut application ol
humus, such as was the case in th<
production of all really phenomena!
corn crops.
The reaso.is for thorough drainage,
aside from sanitary consideration,
are so numerous and so clear
to the student-farmer that their notation
here is unnecessary, and i
suffices to sav that the world's best
crops are made on noue but the best
artificially drained soils.
Let any farmer in Williamsburg
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dram his land tnorougmy auu i wii
warrant one hundred eager disciples
within five years from the date th<
first tile is laid.
While the drainage problem shoulc
be grappled with at once it shoulc
be remembered that the services of t
competent drainage engineer is no'
only essential to success but is it
reality an important factor of ecouo
my.
Hundreds, yes thousands, of dol
lars have been and are being squan
dered in useless ditches which wer
poorly planned and no belter con
structed. Statistics along this liu
would prove interesting neariy ever
farmer has his tale of the unprofit
able ditch. "Let landlords dran
e Coat t
THE Fir
it would then have
feature, which you
S DRES
their lands and be farmers," should
I be the central idea of our people.
Siucerely,
Rose Hill Garden*.
May 30, 1908. '
WOMEN'S WOES.
Kingstrer Women are Finding Relief
at Last.
it uoes seem tnat women nave
more than a fair share of the aches
I and pains that afflict humanity;
they must "keep up," must attend
to duties in spite of constantly aching
backs,or headaches, dizzy
spells, bearing down pains; they
must stoop over, when to stoop
means torture. They must
walk and beud and work with lacking
pains and many aches from kidney
ills. Kidneys cause more suffering
than any other organ of the
body. Keep the kidneys well and
health is easily maintained. Read
of a remedy for kidneys only that
helps and cures the kidneys and is
endorsed by people you know.
Miss Polite Vause, Logan street
Kingstree, S C, says:"I nsed Doan's
Kidney Pills and they benefited me
more than any thing I ever tried.
My back and kidneys caused me a
great deal of misery for years. Headachfs
and dizzy spells occurred frequently
and I was bothered at all
times by *he irregular action of the
kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills
which I procured at Scott's drug
store helped me at once aud since
then I have been in the best of
health."
Cotton Acreage.
It has always been the custom of
the speculative markets to take
up the discussion of possible cotton
acreage early in the spring and long
before a seed is plauted in the northern
portion of the cotton belt.
Of course, a discussiou of that kind
thus early in the season, is absolutely
devoid of rhyme or reason, and is
indulged in almost exclusively by
the bear gamblers in their efforts
to depress the remnant always in
the South at that season of the year.
It is usually the last card played in
the game of divorcing the planter
from his crop at inadequate price*.
It is absolutely impossible to
approximate the cotton acreage of
1968 at this hour. Let that beuu-|
derstood. The Government does not
i attempt to make its estimate until
' May 25. and even theu 'tis but an
1 approximate guess, upon which but
little dependence can be placed.
It is too early in the season. Cotton
r plan ed may be plowed up and the
i land planted to corn; a wet spell
I may prevail, causing thousands of
acres in each of the States to be
turned out under tne command of
"General Green."
Floods, too, may sweep our hillsides
and cause the great rivers to
t escape their banks, thus sweepimg
; away the richest portion of the
> South's cotton area for the seasou.
Then again the plant is preyed upou
I by many insects and pests, which,
1 to a certain extent, menace the
3 ontire area. Indeed, boll weevil has
- caused a shrinking in the area, which
iu some localities has resulted in the
1 total abandonment of the planting
I i anil wrir?inor nut i?f fhniisands f)f
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t acres planted, so far as gathering a
t crop is concerned,
i The number of acres planted is
- not of so much significance as the
number of acres harvested; in other
- words, the thing that counts is the
numberof acres producing its average
quota of lint cotton. Cotton
- Journal.
P m ^
f j DeWitt's Little Early 11 isere, the
-1 famous little liver pills, are sold by
i \V L Wallace |
:hat Fits
around the neck is not the <
should be 20 made that it si
a greater chance of fitting
could get at S. MARCUS'.
Also 7\ npvs
>S GOODS
SALTERS S1FTINGSEntertainment
in Town Halt?P
sonal.
Sai.ters Dfi>ot, .June 1.?Th.
moving prtuiv show in the town
hall Saturday night for the benefit
of the Confederate monument was a
great success, the views and moving
pictures being very tine. The entire
audience was loud in its praise. It
was well worth the price.
Mr Leroy B Ferrell of Charles- <
tou was noted on our streets Mod- 1
I
day.
Misses Cargile, of The record
office, spent the day here last week.
Mrs B s D Muckenfuss of Charleston
is visiting her sister, Mrs fi
Moseley.
Mrs Jno M Salters has gone to
Rock Hill to spend some time with
her parents.
Mr Jno M Gruber, who has been
very ill for the past week, is slow'
improving.
Mr Kershaw Gruber of Charleston,
spent several days recently with
the family of I>r 1 N Boyd.
Mr J A Scarborough- bought I
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twenty-six Dales at cotton Dere Monday
at 11 cents. There is 7ery little
more of the staple in this section.
The last dance of the season was
given Thursday night in the town
hall. Ice lemonade, ice cream and
cake were served and the dance was
continued until the "wee sma'"
hours of the morning. It was one
of the best dances of the season.
Fishiug has been very popular
here the past few weeks, several
parties of ladies even trying their
hands. A large number of very fine
fish has been eaught.
Salters Depot.
A Grail Family Medicine. I
"It gives me pleasure to speak a
a good word for Electric Bitters,"
writes Mr. Frauk Conlan of No. j
43b Houston St., New York. "It's
a grand family medicine for dyspepsia
and liver complications; while
tor lame DacK ana wean Kiuneys n (
cannot be too highly recommeded."
A Card From Mr. Thrower.
Editor County Record:
I note in your last week's issue a
card from Mr. W. S. Camliu, Jr.,
concerning a meeting held at Harper's
the 12th inst., in which he
makes statements in reference to me;
and I beg that you allow these few
lines to appear in your columns that
I might state my position in the matter
before the public. Mr Camlin
asserts that I charged the entire
town council with dispensing intoxicating
di inks and that 1 also attacked
his character.
In the first place, will say I was
not after Mr Camlin's character or
the character of any oue else. But
it will be borne in mind that the
meeting referred to was held for the
purpose of discussing the situation
at Harper's in view of the fact that
i an application had been made to the
board for the establishment of a disi
pensary at said place. I had 110 inI
fKo nliowonfar nf
ICllUUll U1 aiiativill^ cut Viiuiacici V*.
i Mr Camlin or any one else, and I
; said so at the time before the meetj
iug. I made certain assertions in
i order only that the board might not
be milled and that the true situation
might be learned. My statements
were indispensable to a just and
proper discussion of the business before
the board and I have facts to
snstaiu the position and Mr. Cam
Arounc
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