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1a ? ? ?? t FARMERS' UNION BUREAU, t ? : All communications for this Department should be address I ed to T L Clinkscales, Honea I Path, J B Dojithit or J C Strib ? ling, Pendleton, SC. Clubbing Cotton Bears with RutaPaga and Yellow Aberdeen Tvn.'inp X L A.MTO. There is not an animal on the farm but that is fond of turnips during winter and spring: just at the time When there is a scarcity of other succulent food. From North Carolina south these winter turnips will keep ' well left in the field all winter. Op, account of th? dry fall three years ago our turnips did not come up until October and did their best grow-; ing in the following January. In fact,the crop was the smallest I have 1 ever seen until pood rains began to [ fall about the last of November. To j keep well the late plantinps are usually the best and sweetest. A pood plan is to plant some rt intervals from first of Aupust until first of* September. Sometimes middle of July plantinps succeed we'l but are generally hollow-crown am pithy. Safest plan is to house pr bank part of the crop and feed out of the field during good weather and have the stored crop for convenience during bad weather. Boiled with corn.turnips and tops make pood food for hops; in the spring hogs will eat them raw; so will poultry. I usually throw out a few whole turnips in poultry yards and hop lots all along the winter.and spring months, but for cows and horses cut them with a square bill shovel. Fixing the Ground for Turnips. About nine-tenths of failures In growing turnip crops come from im' proper preparation before planting. To begin with, if the land for turnips is not already rich and deep soil, it is absolutely necessary to make it ^ - - * - rich with a heavy dressing 01 siock i manure and turned under as deep as possible. This deep turning, harrowing and rolling or smoothing down with heavy smoother is of first importance in stubble land or where coarse manure has been spread over the land before ploughing. If the lanintended for turnips is already riband alluvial, from four to eight hundred pounds of high-grade cotton seed meal and acid fertilizer should be disked broadcast after land has been prepared as described above. It also pays to disk in from four to six hundred pounds to acre of highgrade acid phosphate 011 lands where stock manure has been used. This acid phosphate should contain a high per cent of potash or wood ashes. This preparation and manuring the land should be done at least two or thfdd *eeks before planting the seed and the lfliid and rolled or smoothed at least otioe every week. This frequent cultivation kills the weed and grass seed and Stores moisture. Planting the Seed and Cultiva TION. Like most crops the best cultivation of the turnip crop can be done before the seed goes into the ground. (With proper preparation and frequent harrowing and rolling or smoothing the land before planting,' with the use of good seed, a good .stand i? assured. Most any plan of putting in the ' seed will get a good stand in rainy weather, but to insure a go. d stand ; in dry weather, mark off rows 20 to j finches from l'- to 2 inches deep, drill in l.oeral amount of seed but j not too thick, cover seed by running a wheelbarrow or other wheel over them just far enough on one side of bottom of furrow to crush in sutfic ^31 i . ient dirt on the seed. The object for p^ting s^ed down in open furrow is toyjteach the moistures - ? ?or first cultivation there is noth* * - ir^ that equals the common one-horse spring-tooth harrow run astride the roifr, with double fenders on^ After plants get on the ruff leaf, thin out toone or two- plants .with hoe and uae common heel sweep between rows so soon as the plants get tall enough. Keep at it,brushing through the rows lightly until frost, at which time half a bushel of winter oats .seed sown broadcast to the acre Jbe fore the plow usually makes a fine crop of oats. Fighting cotton bears with your tongue is about on a par with trying to drown a duck by pouring water upon his back. Scattered all over the South at every little hamlet is to be found a small or smaller henchman of the New York Cotton exchange, singing the sweet swan songs of the cotton bears. When the leader in New York sounds the kev-note by wire, every little swan, goose or buzzard along the line repeats the note or he loses his job?and how cheap they do sell their tongues. Cotton growers must club cotton bears on the nose v.ith ears of corn, bags of oats and wheat and bales of hay. Answer every growl of the cotton bear with the bellow of a real bull or the grunt of a four-legged hog on the farm. Every time you hear of a cotton mill merger just merge a few more acres in grain and put in a few more acres in mules to kick the starch out of these mill mergers if they should get too stiff. Cotton farmers have already learned that the mouths of cotton buyers are not Bibles, and that there is no use trying to control the market by bullish reports,for the reason that it would take about all the farmers in two of the best townships in'the Smith to lie against one of these ift tie cotton bear swan singers* The only practical way to maintain profitable prices for cottoji is to weight down the other end of the scale beam by piling on more homegrown supplies. A CARD FROM MR. E. W. DABBS. Will Meet Appointments In This County?Urges Farmers to Attend Editor County Record:? I am in receipt of a copy of your interesting paper with list of appointments for Farmers' Union meetings July 17 to 26. Brother Frierson says these arc my suggestions and he trusts I will meet them. Providence permitting, I will. May I ask you to call upon the farmers of your county to be prompt in attendance at the meetings provided for each neighborhood and te have proper arrangements made for quick transportation to the meeting place? Only by their cordial co-operation can I expect to meet these appointments. I am expecting great things of your county, which shows up so well agriculturally in the last U S cen- j sus, and because of its historical position as the mother of this Black river country of Clarendon, Sumter and Lee counties, it is with a great deal of pleasure that I have accepted the invitation to canvass "old Williamsburg". In my humble judgment the farmers were nevej in better shape to organize, nor was the need ever greater,not even when cotton was Ave or six cents per pound. For with the prospects for a fiFood crop that now prevail over most of the cotton belt.and Southern cotton mill mergers joining hands with New England and old England to dictate prices, we shall be at their mercy unless the next sixty days sees a great awakening among our farmers all over the South. Those of us whose remember '93 to 1900 know that they, the mills, have no mercy. And why should they? They are in business for the money ihev can make. Unless we " * \ meet organization by organization, and meet it now,the next six months will see millions of values wiped out here in our midst, and farmers will not be the only ones whose values will be cut off, but every profession will suffe^ with us. Yours foy the cause. ' E W Dabbs, ~ Vice Pres S C Farmers' Union. Mayesville, July 5V < , { , ^ BoxBtniper at todlantown. : O >5 ^society lof vtnfifafcown. church will give a box supper and sell ice cream, cake and candy at Mr R D Gamble's on Friday night, July 14. Everybody come. Annie L Ervin, 7-6-2t Corresponding Secretary. When you want us to change the address of your paper it will save lots of trouble to name the old as well as the new postoffice. Please bear tliis in mind. tf i VACANT SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE CITADEL | The Military College of South Carolina , Charleston. S C One (1) vacancy in the berefieiary, scholarships in The Citadel from Williamsburg county will be lilted by competitive examination on August 11, 1911. For full informat on concerning these scholarships address The Superintendent, at The Citadel, Charleston, SC. Next session begins September 20, 1911. The Citadel offers courses in Civil Engineering, English, Chemistry and Physics. Degrees of B S J.nd C E conferred. It is designated by the War Department as one of the distinguished military institutions, one of whose1 graduates receives a commission in j the U S army. 7-6-4t Happiest Girl in Lincoln A Lincoln, Neb, girls writes, "I 1 had been ailing for some time with chronic constipation and stomach}' trouble. I began taking Chamber-! Iain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and in three days I was able to be I up and got better right along. I am the proudest girl in Lincoln to find such a good medicine." For sale.by all dealers. Sprains require careful treatment. Keep quiet and apply Chamberlain.s Liniment freely. It will remove the i soreness and quickly restore the ' parts to a healthy condition. For i sale by all dealers. (i EDITOR COUNTY REC Too much praise ca Continental Fire Insure represented by the K Real Estate Co., for the of the claims I had aga struction of my dental If brary by fire, on June It II Um A avnirarl u/han f hp. Iiau WApil vu rv iivu tuvj check for full amount # slightest demurrage. Hurrah for the < Kingstree Insurance & Respectfi Kingstree, S. C., 7-4-'ll ow^^Sw^ I Loss ar ^ IrplliB mart who spc ^ Income, no mat ^ er than he who > matter how small. Tl ^ sense. ^ ^ This advice is just as so ^ dollars, as ofte i as you ^ the strong box of the 5 WEE NEE BANK, ^ Officers > HUGH McCUTCHEN, ^ Presdent. > W. V. STRONG, ^ Vice-President. > L. C. DOVE, ^ Cashier. ?:?:?:?:?.?:?:?:?:?:k<I 1L. J. S1A @ The Coffins and |j . .< . offers his |-Day am jfk.j O *n ^ ?. FIRST OFFICE OVER STAG! ? Yours to fe l. j: sft ? Tobacco Growers, Attention! To the Tobacco Growers of Williamsburg and Surrounding Counties:? We take this method of notifying you that the Banner Warehouse will be open to the public in due time this season. We are coming to you as strangers, but not strangers in the warehouse business, having had practically a life-time experience on the warehouse floor, and we hope with a fair trial, to which we feel sure we are due, to show the entire pub lie that we can and will serve your best interests. Last, but not least, we leave nothing undone on our part to secure you the top of the mar- , ket for every pile of your to- 9 bacco. With best wishes and hoping to see you soon, we beg to remain, Yours to serve, Glenn & Price, 5-i5-tf Stoneville, N C. For summer diarrhoea in children always give Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil, and a speedy cure is certain. For sale by all dealers. ft ;ORD:? I! Ua a/1 i U A II id Gain ? | ;nds every cerit d( HIS < , ter how large, Is poor- ^ ' saves a part of his, no ^ | hat is sound common ^ . und: Put few or many ^ can spare them, into ^ J Kiiigstr.ee, S. (C? J; " Directors ^ W. V. Strong ^ Hugh McCutchen ^ T. K. Smith ^ J. K. Smith ^ W. R. Scott ^ H. E. Montgomery , ^ W. B. Cooper ^ WWMMAAAAAAAAAMMO' ??:@:@:?:?:?:?:?:?:@ cCKLEY, | @ I Gaskets Man ? services ? d Nighit I V*vi 1 J. A . -Ai 1 { (LEY'S DRY GOODS CO.'S. gf ?Serve, ? VCKLEY. | b:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:? * ' V . L1IIIUL Ut auuiuvu kll* mce Co., of New York, ingstree Insurance & ir prompt adjustment inst them for the de? office fixtures and 11i -ln?t fourteen davs r turned over to me a of loss without the Continental and the Real Estate Co! ully yours, A. M. SNIDER. ?* wyyyyyyyyyYyvywyywyy^ i REDM T X 7E HOLD up Red Meat?the VV chew for men. Always good?better now than ever. No spice to make your tongue sore?no excessive sweetening to make you spit yourself away and ruir your stomach. Just high-grade Non Carolina tobacco, properly sweetened a perfect process. Sure s you 're I it's the real thing in good che Get busy today and find out for 3 Cut out this ad. and mail to us w name and addtess for our FREE of Name Address Made only by Liipfert Scales Co.,\ toba MB MBBBMKBaaaBBMMgfflvZSJi;Z?3EL2 ' New for Hamburger and bone for Poultry outf\t,and respectfully invite all patroi work. THE PEOPLE'S t_I A 1AIT V CD DDI j n. A. ITllLiLblX, riv NOT! We have boughl l linery Business of and earnestly des ronage. V We will keep th . its former standar spect. Mrs. Kennedy w Itii oSnaci icai 11 me uu<?iuwo; have a first class 1 the North. Kennedy > Compc NOTI The millir ness heretofor ed under the Gale & Gale hi sold to Mrs. V nedy, all parti ed to said firrr ? flaieLkte here! neim? hiake hi the undersigi before July 15 GALE i fer to chewers only^B* j j f Vinston-Salem, N. C. ' r cco SETT 2SS3 3Zt sf, Ground Beef for I rger Steak, Game, | try in Season.. | t Installed Engine for grinding meat Feed. We have a complete ns to see our .'machinery at ! 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