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w &.ot ueia;tuui.m M ,5?outbron >n*Oei?SDAY. fcEPTtslBER 4, 1907. til -. l'sm Stwtfer h ?'./???,,t? wm founded in ttoO Um IVu# SoufaroM in 1866. The WaAr*?*?* mi ! >t'w''t. I.n uo? h?A the ooui fctfjtl eiroalstioD m.il influence of both of %? ol A paper a, und is manifestly the best adieilUimf medium iu 8u inter. IM ID KT A N T NOTICE. Subscriber*! are requested to ex tjusmlae tbe label on their papers, Which show the date to which the subscription has been paid. Those Who Dad that they are in arrears are resjaseted to call and aettle or remit at tu? earliest convenient date. The int that each subscriber owes Is but la the aggregate the >unt due us for subscription Is large?and we need the money. *Th? article on seed selection re-pub started In thla paper from the Haits Vtfle Messenger la. In our opinion, one of the most valuable and important 0Oa> trtbutloas of recent years to the farm? ing literature of South Carollmt. While the theories advanced und the ?practica! application of these theories gjivocsjted in this article are neither haw nor original, the subject Is pre nested la such a clear and common sashae manner that It should appeal With Impelling force to every progres aad Intelligent farmer In the k The Williamson method of 0 culture la revolutionising the groTlna of that grain In South Caro? lina and thla year will probably add neversl million bushels to the corn tjroducMon of the State, but this method of culture* sinks Into insignl asaance when compared with the Im? portance of seed selection and syste naatic Improvements, of both cotton corn as respects both quality and tlty. In a few years the Improve t in corn brought about by Intel? ligent selection oP seed added $12, f>en,00o to the value of the corn crop %f Iowa, and a like Increase In the Value of the South Carolina crop can an accomplished by* following the name methods, which are so clearly outlined in the Hartsvllle article. The Williamson plan waa first published In -the Hartsvllle afeesenger and we "tank the seed selection article of even Kdjtnater Importance to the farmers of ' the State than the Williamson article, atr. D. R. Coker. the editor of the Hartsvllle Messenger, has by Induc? ing? air. Williamson to make public hue) plan of growing corn and by pre? paring tbe article on seed selection * teas more for th" farmers of the 'Mat* than any doaen politicians and 1 *lsnub*r*a movement office seekers who nave achieved notoriety In the past lwentyx yea.**. sSARI.Y CITING AGITATION. Merchant* should iivt Ti?gethcr ami Settle the Matter ThcniHcl-jcs. There has been much discussion during the past few dsys of the mat tar of closing the stores and other places of business >n state 1 holiday* Said Hpeclal ? -O '-M Hllil the' h 'III' dar cloning ut night. There are tuft aides In thin question, an of nil ques Uuir. A ?troeuT caee can be made out Ina fa "er of suspend'ng buslncs*~osi all eefjaf holiday* and on special occasion* VjtMin the best Interests of the com saunlty would be subserved by a hoi Iday. likewise there Is much to be aald la faror f closing all -t ?res at *S p m.. Saturdays eaoepted, ?!! the 7 year round. Bat on the other hand. H entails a serious inconvenlelnce up em many business men t<> close theli Stores at certain *?e*ont? of the year, to some of them to suspend busl for a day means a considerable loan. As a rule, the business men of ehamter huv been exceptionally llb %rai to sn?t* eon-d derate of their em Jployea In the .u ?tter of ho||da\s. when Sjampared with those of other towns tn the State, and criticism of th< r< UkasJ of some >f them to close on I^a w*oe Day 1? not in order, especially "erben re was to be bo celebration sat the d?y her- It Is n fact th it i-an? saht be dtwpute(| that several oc? casions When buone-i* t>-> h< u su> fsaskled in Sumter In order that our Ig-eople might attend celebration-* of nne sort or nothi I In neighboring r, und the stores In those towns wld.. open and business srolng on an aal al. which was rathOT * shock to Sumter merchants who tftnaed their stores. The prop..- ii .n thitt all -tor1 s at ? p. m. has much to recommend it Und it Would be Wei for the |!ef vhaxkts t" i i conference to dis Wnss the matter. To n tain Bass it u . i! I be an adv. n to, rather than a dlsadvaal gf le ? S1 a sj coick. whiii it would be i hard ahlp w^tn to the merchants and tht : cnstomeVs t? c|os, ?t nVh.ck ta the fall and winter month'* When so many conflicting ni n win d^re Involved onlv th?? merchants th. m eerve* can arrive at a ti-t.o t t> ami fair settlement of the gUSStldsT an I b Is to be hoped that tiny will lak the matter un.b-r (???n-i-linH-.i, 'i n. Stern11 merit In favor of shorter rcur* ?jsae cl*rks Is growing in Steml r %s??'Vn h, r.- mid a r- a-onnbh ami - .tl tfaartnry adjustment van Ssj'sUOl ^ty arrived at now thsn later st) when Wne sgltstlon has come to n head TILU I- \UMl.lls' ANNUAL PICNIC. Tin? shakers ami What Tlioy Sah!? Prof, giiinn Talked (?i iccaj ialto? lion ami Hog H?lsing?A Keniedv Tor Cotton Might. The Furniers* Picnic was In 1*1 a: the farm of Mr. K. C. HayVSWOrth on Uotky Muff swamp, In this county, on August 31st. and was attended by forty or fifty representative farmers. They had trail tilled baskets and u do lrghtful dinner was spread out hi the grow of this place, on tables which had been left there from previous pic Rita? ArUsian wills furnished an abundance of cool water; and Iced lemomtd?1 and coffee were served without cost. A. B. Stuekey, Esq.. was requested to preside over the meeting and to Introduce the speak? ers. The first speaker was Mr. F. H. Hyatt, of Columbia, the treasurer of the State organization of the South .111 Cotton Association. He entertain txl BM 1. MPgfi for about one hour with interesting and Instructive re maks In reference to the cotton situa? tion of the present day. Mr. Hyatt la full of practical Jokes and Is very apt In his illustrations. Mr. Hyatt said, In part: After' complimenting Sumler Coun? ty on her progressive men, as well as high class farmers, he proceeded to show the advantage In the selection of seeds, and showed where by hy? bridising the wheat, oats, rye, etc., by so doing had increased the yield from three to four hundred per cent. He spoke of the Importance of selecting not only the best seeds of grain, but cotton as well, and showed by this method, with high state of cultiva? tion and fertilisation, they had run the yield of cotton from one-half to three bales per acre. He then took up the origin of the Southern Cotton Association and showed beyond a doubt, that it had proven to be one of the strongest or? ganisations, and had done more to cause the farmer to stop and think, than any previous organisation in the history of th? country. Through this concert of action had taken cotton from six cents per pound and carried It to fifteen, and had taught t*r..e civilized world that when Ood made this country, ho only made one cotton patch, and that che South produced about seventy-five per cent of the clothing of the world. He showed that there are about fif? teen hundred million people in the world, and statistics show about one third are clothed, r.bout one-third half cloth ri, and one-third nuke l. ?howlng there was' but little danger if over-productlo". He urged the farmers to raise their lupplies at home, and in his judg? ment, it was the only way they would ever become free men and free clti tens. Ho stated that South Carolina led all other States In the Union on the amount of corn produced on one *cre. amounting to two hundred and llfty bushels. That South Carolina led lino In the number of bushels of oats per acre, about one hundred and L'lghty, only second to Massachusetts In number of spindles in the United State/. He spoke of emigration, of iti ad sdvantagcM und disadvantages, and emphasized the importance of look? ing after the children and raising our r?wn emigrants, to use Improved ma ihlnery, etc. , He spoke of the wonderful progress the country Is making?of wireless telegraphy, the wireless tele? phone, the flying machine, he ilrew upon his imagination that it would se only u short while when he would step in hlM frying rnachir.e fioni his office, spend the night in tho mountains and return the next morn? ing, with a slight effort on his pirt. He urged the importance of good roads, of keeping the boys and girls In the country, of making home at? tractive, building better school hous s und churches, und the general devel q?nv< nt of of the country and stressed Lhe importance of home lifo and claimed that was the basis of our L'lvlll/.atloii. Prof. (Jiiiuii Speaks. The next speaker introduced was Prof. c. E. Quinn, the agent of the United States agricultural department, whose business it Is to meet the farm? ers and instruct them especially in reference to hogs, oora and hay. His b et ni e w as very .instructiv e and en tulnlng. and wheji he finished the first brunch of his IsCtOTCi Jirt adjournment was tak? ii for dinner. Immediately aft'-r dinn? r. Prof. QuJltfl ggalll spoke (Specially Ofl the breed of bogs and ??i d eom. selection of seed corn, etc, Prof, Qolnn? among several other things, very plainly showed to the fanners that COttOH SSI too l"nn been the main crop of tin- southern farmer, what is accessary t<>r the south now is the diversification of crops and pi h-iiciMiig a definite rotation of oropa He sttOWOd that H very SUCCCI ful rotntlon for tbi^ section was -i three year rotntlon of oo rn, with cowpeas the lli^t year; the second year, oats nil oowpeae. lhe third war, cotton, in thi rotation! iwo legomlnom ? ?r<q.s are ral>ed in three sea s, which will Improve the soil fertility. Me ahm showed thai the south must ? '\\ Us mui; im n nm) hay. \mong Othef things, the tj?PttlOll Ol -? -I????p? u*ing the coin plant, Instead of hay, was discussed. He showed that it did not pay t<> pull the fodder nor to v at and ihred the fodder, but that it the farmers desire to use the corn plant for forage, u Is much better t<> cut tin- Whole plant and put it in tin silo. And showed that ti?e eow pea hay is a very valuable hay crop and Using it and rye cut in the dough stage and ?ats cut for hay, this com? bination will supply all the forage! necessary for tin- farmers. By following Improved method of grow? ing corn, which .Mr. Williamson, ?f| Darlington county, has orlgnated, that the yield Of corn Is going to be greatly Increased. As it is Increased, live stock will be grown more in the south, and the live-stock and diversi? fied farming, will be the salvation ol the southern farmer. Corn Breeding. Prof. Qulnn very conclusively show? ed that the yield of corn Is not al? ways from Improved methods of cul? ture, but it can be largely increased by the selection and breeding of the seed. He gave instances of where the yield had been increased from five to twenty-five bushels per acre by this one operation. He showed how the corn kernel is fertilized and cross breeding takes place, and he also showed how the most successful corn breeders were conducting their work. In his remarks he showed that it did not pay to send to other localities for seed corn unless the seed at home was of a very poor quality, and that it would pay much better to take the home grown seed and breed it up to better quality and better yield. This can easily be done on a small plat of ground by taking the very best ears of corn and planting one ear to the row. Then to keep this corn from | in-breedlng that every other row may be detassled, then in the selection of Seed corn in the fall, picking ears | only from the .detassled. rows. All of j this requires some labor and care, but is abundantly repaid by the increase in the yield. Tlfc' liaising of Hogs. . Mr. Qulnn then took up for discus? sion the growing and handling of hogs on the farm. He .stated that the! breed best adapted for the south was the Berkshire or the Poland China. That these breeds were more hardy and adapted to southern conditions. He stated that there was,, still no . cure for hog cholera, but that it could largely be prevented by giving the hogs more sanitary quarters in which to sleep and feed, and giving them a range of plenty of pasture, and feeding very little corn. This will keep the hogs in a healthy con? dition. He showed how hogs van be av n and put on the market with very lit? tle corn, thus making mor< profit to the farmer. In reply tc the question as to pas? ture crops for hogs he named the fol? lowing crops that could be grown to furnish pasture most of the year: oats and rape. bOWn in the last of February Will furnish pasture during April and May, and they may also be sown a little later to furnish spring pasture, then sorghum may be sown ' to furnish pasture during the months of June, July and August. In the Spring there may also bo planted sweet potatoes and peanuts which furnish feed for the hogs In the fall ; after the sorghum Is exhausted. About (the last of August and the first or j September, rye may be sown and rape ! may be sown again to furnish fall and I winter pasture. These will be ready I for pasture by October and will fur? nish pasture then the rest of the fall j and most of the winter, and the rye will furnish early spring pasture. By this means, grien pasture can be fur? bished most of the year for the hogs. I j In conclusion, Mr. Qulnn stated how ready and willing the Department of Agriculture was to help the farmers , In any way possible, and told of the (amount of literature that could bej had for the asking on any phase of agricultural work, and that speakers 'could be had occasionally on different j subjects to address gatherings of J farmers. j Mr. L. I. Parrot was Introduced as the representative of the Agricultu.ai Society of Sumter County, who said that the books of subscription to the society were still open and he solicit-! ed the membership of farmers resid? ing in both Sumter and adjoining I counties. Mr. E. W. Dabbs was called for, and made some interesting remarks on his experience in the use of ferti? lizers, showing that t^e lands that had been regarded as very poor in his section had been greatly improved by I the use of potash and kainit. j Mr. George F. Epperson was intro? duced, and spoke in favor of the more extended use of potash as a fertilizer on our worn out soils. In closing the meeting Mr. iA. B. Stuckey spoke of the cotton blight, and said that some time last spring an article appeared in the Southern Cultivator from some farmer in Tex? as, who said that he had found from fifty to seventy-five pounds of sulphur mixed w ith the cotton s? <-d i?r placed "in the drill with the cotton seed In planting cotton was a preventatlve of blight. That acpordlngly. he had or? dered 100 pound* of sulphur and had this used on his farm where cotton had been blighted. Mr. lt. II. Jen- P kins and Mr. John Jenkins also pur? chased one or two barrels of sulphur 1 and had used it. After planting, Mr. Stuckey discovered that ids sulphur had been put down by mistake with the sulphur beneath the bed on which the cotton was planted, and he was informed that Messrs. Jenkins had made the same mistake. Whereupon he asked Mr. Willie DuBose, of prov? idence section, to purchase just a small quantity of sulphur from th? (drug store and try it on his la? 1 upon which cotton blight had appeared for [several years past. Mr. Stuckey re ' quested Mr. Du Pose to be sure to mix the sulphur with the seed in planting. ' Mr. DuBose purchased the sulphur at ' once, and although his cotton was growing, he ploughed up a small I portion and planted more cott ?n of the same kind in its stead, mixing the seed with sulphur. Mr. DuBose left two rows on which he used no sul? phur. All the cotton on these two rows has died except two stalks, one j stalk on one row and two stalks on the other. Where he mixed the see*l i with the sulphur, not a stalk has died and the cotton has done well. Ad joining this he ploughed close around th i young cotton and applied sulphur. Boms of the cotton died, but was some- j what benefltted by the application of! t' e sulphur, j In his remarks Mr. Stuckey also. I suggested to the farmers present that they address a card to the agrlcultu i ral department at Washington and I ask for the ISalletin lately issued on ' the selection of cotton seed from any . kind of cotton. This bulletin shows that at the instance of the govern? ment, an experiment was made by a farmer at Lamar, S. C, and another at Hartsvllle, S. C. The heavy seed had been selected by blowing the cot-. ton seed through a pipe, the lighter, seed going out of the pipe, and the heavier seed falling through the fun? nel. The cotton while growing could not be distinguished from the other COtton of unselected seed, but upon j weighing the cotton carefully the result j showed that there- was a net gain of i i between three and four dollars per acre for the cotton. Mr. Stuckey be- ! lleves that the farmers of this coun try or the majority of them are wast? ing precious years In the failure to se? lect good seed for planting. la the Soiilli doing "Dry?" Georgia'! adoption of state pr-'hl bition by legtalattva enactment direota national attention to the marveloos pro grew of this Idea In the tojuthein States in 'Ii'- north, except in lu liana, Ohio and southern Illinois, the pro? hibition sentiment i- moribund, if not dead; but in tin- south it Ii sweeping onward with relentless and Irresisti? ble force, gaining naw converts and increasing in power every > "**t Beven-etghti ?f the territory of the southern Stab I i> today "dry. ' and it is believed that a majority of the pop* illation favors national prohibition* The Anti-Saloon league is well or* ganlsed in moft of the Btnl ?, and 's pursuing a quiet, determined, relent* less opposition to the liquor busi? ness. Today there are fewer eelooni in the thirteen southern State* than in Greater New York, and only a few more than In the city of Chtoago. In New York there are 30,000 plates where liquor is sold in Chicago 28,000, and in the entie south only 29.000. In New York State the estimated popu? lation in ItOB was 8,160,00m and the government issued in the state that year 34,o*<0 "special tax sta.-nps" to persons desiring to engag? in the manufacture and said >f liquor. The thirteen south-rn States with 23, 500,000 people, secured In 100? |ctg than 30,000 stamps. President Marion E. TiVlor, of the National Liquor Dealers* Convention, held in June at Atlantic City in call? ing attention to the assaults made by prohibitionists on the liquor business, especially in the south, said: "Our only recourse now is to save our bus? iness. Unless we worl: with energy and determination to stop ihi< lidal wave, every State in the south will be closed against us." Measures designed to restrict or ab? solutely prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages have been introduced since the first of the year in the legislatures of half a dozen southern States, and in almost every instance have resulted in new victo? ries for the prohibition cause.?Re? view of Reviews for September. The cotton gins are getting busy. The ginnery at the oil mill has ginned 25 pales within the past three days. The concrete foundations for the new High School building are being laid and the brick work will be under way In a few days. Sibert's Drug Store, No. 8 South Main Street, Sumter, South Carolina.. Telephone Number 283. Drugs and Patent Medicines. Cut Glass. Our line is larger than it has ever been and we would be glad to make you prices on anything in this line. Toilet Soaps. We have a large line of Toilet Soaps, and the praces are very low for class of goods. We make Jobber's Prices in quantity. Seed and Onion Sets. , We are large dealers in Garden Seeds and Onion Sets. We have new crop Turnip Seed and On? ion sets on hand now. Soda Water. We have our Soda Fountain in charge of an ex? pert Soda Water man and everything used is guaranteed to be pure. Have just received a shipment of Cut Glass and the prices are very low. We have a 7-inch ber? ry bowl at $3.00. Pitcher and six Tumblers at $12.00. Come and see it. Fine Perfumery. We are receiving daily Fancy Cut Glass Bottles filled with the most delicate odors. These make handsome gifts at all times. # All the fine lines are hjre. Cigars and Tobaccos. The best line of Cigars, Tobaccos, Etc., to be found anywhere. Fine Pipes, both Meerschaum and Freneh Briar. All prices. Fine Candies. 1 Pound Chocolate Almonds. 1 Pound Choco? late Cherries, and fine box Candies from 1-2 to 5 pound boxes. Every box guaranteed. If you should need anything in the way of Gifts come and see us. We have lots of Nice Things that will make handsome gifts. Telephone 283 or order from us; we guarantee everything we send you or refund your money. Sibert's Drug Store, W. W. SIBER.T, Proprietor. NIGHT PHONE?Room 25, Jackson Hotel.