The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 27, 1909, Image 4
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"S?T??OAY, FCtllUARY 27. I9S9.
The Sumter Watchman was found
ad in Hat and the True Southron In
life. The Watchman and Southron
bow haa the combined circulation and
tnHaenee of both of the old papera.
aad la manlfeatly the best advertialng
medium In Sumter.
The man who can forecast accurate?
ly what the legislature will do with
the prohibition question would be
a au re-enough prophet.
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Cm It be true that Carnegie la
final e ng President Rooeevelt* hunt
law trip to Africa? Tbia would be an
undignified proceeding tor an ex
president but it would be lean of?
fensive than for the cost of his plea?
sure trip to be taxed up against the
8mithaonlan Institute.
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If Senator Otbi faila to get hi*
tftate-wtde bill through the Senate he
taay aa well reconcile himself to the
aad fart that John Richards la the
big i tolas In prohibition circles.
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In Mr. Dlckson. of Tennessee. Mr.
Taft haa secured u Democrat for his
cabinet whose democracy will not be
aggbarreasing. A Democrat who does
not vote with bis party Is pretty good
timber for a Republican cabinet.
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Wore it not for the persistence of
the i.,nor men who are still trying
to collect what the old State dispen?
sary owes them we could almost for?
got that there had ever been a great
moral InstltuUon and that a ce'tafn
candidate forfAttorney General pled?
ged himself to put atrlpea on the dis?
pensary grafter.
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Hunter needs cement aide walks far
mor< than It does an imposing and
coat I*.- office building for city offlrlala.
possessing as it does a fifty thousand
dollar city hall; and Just as soon as
the city can get the money It is pled?
ged o psy one half the cost of ce?
ment pavements that property own?
ers <n the principal afreets have al
*?ady put down or will pit down
v ien ther* Is some prospect of the
y paying Its pro rata of the cost.
Dl MOCRATIC HOUSE IN 1910.
Mryski rorocaata Victory for Ills
Party la Next House of Represent
aU.es,
I New York. Feb. 23.?Widespread
II -.erost among politicians haa been
.)rooted b/ an article by William Jen?
nings Bryan in the March number of
Niamey's Magaslne. entitled "The Fu
i re of the Democratic party." Mr.
yan in bta paper carefully analyxea
y e political conditions of the present
d\jr, discussing the policies of his
rty at length
It la more than possible?It is
svsn probable." he declare*, "th-.t the
? ue?> of representatives to he elected
1910 will be Democratic
Hojnding a word of warn in; to
t re*!dent-elect Taft, he continues:
"The president-elect canr ot possi?
bly natlsfy the expectation of both ele?
ment* of tne Republican party. With
g Republican aenste and a Republi?
can hoste controls! by what Mr.
RooaeveH calls reactionaries ho* can
he eocape conflict either with the Re?
publican leider?? or with the Rep ibll
can vo'ers ot tie- Mississippi Valley."
In rilftcuwlng the tendency toward
reform legislation. Mr. Bryan says:
"The Democratic party I? In sym?
pathy with the growing demand for
fsjjudlal legislation; It Is therefore
rowing with the lids, for the tide la
award. Democrat* I ..nixing the
reapor*'blllty of their position, and
strong in the. confidenco they feel In
the righteousness of their cause, are
prepared to wage a winning fight
against an opposition already panic
stricken '
Influential Democrats declare Mr.
Bryan's article to be the m? it Impor?
tant political paper printed alnce the
election of Mr. Taft laat November.
?.I V MIX WlH K HEM.S ENTVTE
Ur.r l*1siitatlon In (;eorgetoivn, o
\\ ttk-h Cleveland M?nte?!. Changes
Hassan,
Georgetown. Feb. IS.?The largest
hind sale transacted in tbla County in
many years wan cloned at a late hour
Saturday night, when the property of
Oen. B. P. Alexsnder. comprising 15.
eeS acres sf land on the Santee river
aad tl.e ocean, was deeded over to
Mr. J. L. Wheeler, a north-? n capi?
talist, now a resident of Marlon. 0,
C. who is the owner of very v iluable
mining properties hi t'njmda Th"
purchase price wan $125.000.
SEVEN PWSEX.EItS PEHISII.
Terrible Wrcvk on the Pennnvlvaiila
In Delaware
Wilmington. Del.. Feb gg
men were killed or burned to gee til
early today In a bead-on collision be
tween an gflagagf and two ba-oinotlv.*
on the Delaware dlvNIon ?f the
Pennnylvanla railroad at DelgMaf, one
hundred miles south of this city. Two
para wer * Injured.
Farmers' Union News
?AND ?
Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
(Conducted by K. W. Dabbs, President Fanners' Union of Sumter
County.)
The Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by
semi-weekly publication, would Improve that service by special features.
The flr.Jt to be inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and
Practical Farmers which I have been requested to conduct. It will be my
aim to give the Union news and oflleial calls of the Union. To that end
officers, and members of the Union are requested to use these columns.
Also to publish such clippings from the agricultural papers and Govern?
ment Bulletins as I think will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori?
ginal articles by any of our readers telling of their successes 'or failures
will be appreciated and published.
Trusting this Department will be of mutual benefit to all concerned,
THE EDITOR.
All communications for this Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs,
siayesvllle, S. C.
The Manure Spreader Not Vet Ap- the North rich from the cottonseed
predated. i meal sold there for feed, while our
????? j lands have become too poor to make
"Before getting a spreader most of j a crop till again galvanized into ac
ihe articles I read in their favor j ilvlty, not life by more fertilizer,
looked like over-drawn pictures; but '? ? ? ?
now, considering the value of man- | Shall we then abandon the use Of
ere and how the spreader so com- commercial fertilizers? By no means,
pletety shreds and evenly spreads it, J They furnish the most readily avail
making two loads worth as much as able means for the restoration of the
three and changing manure hauling lost humus?when used to promote
from despised drudgery to the choice
Job for the boys, und enabling them
to be ahead with their work and
grow larger and better crops, I can
say I never read an article that came
more than half way up to my present
estimation of their value."
I wish to indorse the above para?
graph. The possession of a manure
spreader adds to the desire to save
manure. Ths permanent enrichment
of our soil by ths use of animal man?
ures, thereby changing the mechani?
cal as well as chemical condition of
the soli, Is one of the objects we
ought to keep In view. The day of
throwing out exhausted land and
clearing new Und has passed, we
trust, for the good of the country.
E. W. D.
Manure and Fertilizers.
The burden of most of the letters
I get from Southern farmers is, "How
much and what sort of fertilizer to
use" for this, that, or the other crop.
The Southern cotton farmers are
kept poor, while the fertilizer manu?
facturers get rich, because of the en?
tire dependence of the farmers on
commercial fertilizers. I have for
more than thirty years been urging
on the farmers the wastefulness of
the practice, and have been trying to
.?.how them that by practicing a good
rotation of crops, growing legume
forage, exhanging their cotton seed
for meal and hulls, they can increase
.nd maintain the productiveness of
their land without the purchase of an
ounce of nitrogen in a fertilizer. This
has been demonstrated in the evper
???nee of many of the best farmers In
ti i wheat-growing sections of M i v
.in.I l here they have gent rails
inloned the purchase of any fer?
tilizer except plain acid phosphate
n.l p >tash. god this only for their
main crop of wheat, no fertilizer be?
ing bought for any other crop. And
yoti while they haw 04 en doing this
twenty or snore ream, tin y have j
? n their lunds go ap from 1"> bus
be'.a of wheat per acre to 40 Of more
jshr's. and their oom crops from
40 bushels to 7."? DUShfls D01 acre.
Hut these farmers grow clover and ! now requires
Other hgumes and faad stock and K'^sive Farmer,
make manure, and as I have often
aald. stock feeding in some form lies
at the very foundation of all success?
ful farming, no matter what the
money crop may be.
aas
the growth of the crops which feed
the .soil and feed the stock, add nitro?
gen to the soil, and give us the hu?
mus-making manure, which year af?
ter year will maintain the fertility of
the soil and gradually make the
farmer independent of the fertilizer
trust, the merchant and the money
lender.
I would not wish for one moment
to be understood as advising the
abandonment of commercial fertili?
zers. In fact, I am in favor of their
more liberal use, and know that thou?
sands of farmers are losing money
by merely putting in a couple of hun?
dred pounds of the 8?2?2 to make
a little more cotton. Increasing the
humus content in the soil, and there?
fore enabling it to retain moisture
for the solution of the fertilizers, will
enable the farmer to use a larger
amount profitably.
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But what I do insist upon is, that
where a farmer works his land in a
good rotation, uses phosphoric acid
and potash liberally to promote the
greater production of the legumes,
and feeds his cottonseed meal and
roughage to stock, he has never any
need for paying 20 cents per pound
for nitrogen in a low-grade fertilizer
The nitrogen costs as much in these
low grade fertilizers as the rest of the
plant food in them, so he can for
the same money buy much more of
the acid phosphate, basic slag or
floats, and potash, and can use these
far more liberally.
No matter how liberally you apply
phosphoric acid and potash, there Is
no danger that they will get away
from you as the nitrogen is sure to
do, for the soil w ill hold on to these
till some plant calls for them.
Degume crops fed to stock, and
the growth of the legumes Increased
by liberal applications Of phosphates
and potash, will give us manure, and
manure will Increase the humus in
the soil, and the soil once stocked
with humus, and the rotation adhered
to, will make our lands rich and
productive, and while growing big
crops of corn, oats and wheat, we
can grow cotton at half the cost it
Prof. Massey in Pro
ARE VOC BAYING THIS MONEY?
The Minnesota Station found thai
in a rotation with legume crops for
ten years, and no fertilizers bought,
but the manure used from the feed?
ing of the legumes, the land had 300
pounds per acre more nitrogen in It
than when the rotation started. On
the cotton lands of the South where
men grow cotton year after year on
the same land, and dribble in a little
commercial fertilizer bought on credit
at a big price, the ten years would
sh<?w that the land Is far poorer not
F.very Horse You Own I*rodueos $27
Worth of Manure a Year and Ev?
ery Cow $2:1.20 Worth ?r property
Handled?Don't Lose Half or It by
Lettin,. It Heat or Drain Away.
Commercial fertilizers have proven
themselves of great value and are
destined to play even a greater part
In our farm economy, but It is only
when used as supplement! to the
home product that this will be so. it
is only when used with green manure
and barnyard manure that the most
permanent Improvements can be ac?
complished. It therefore, behooves
only In nitrogen but In all forms of ' the farmers of the South to give more
Plant food, and the farmers are as attention to the conservation of farm
pour as when the ten years began, manure. The small value frequently
The uplands of the South, which have refilled from the use of barnyard
for a long period been worked in cot- manure arises from the fact that it
ion only, have fOCOiat literally dead | was not properly saved and handled
soils. They are dead because the hu-] and the manure had lost the greater
mus that is the home of the bacteria j Pfft of Its plant food. If the manure
UM living millions of minute plante ? allowed to heat, a large quantity Of
tb.ii wmk In the Interest of tin* farm?
er, has been used up and burnt out,
and |fca bacteria have been starved
out. Fertilizers simply furni b plant
food In a readily avail table form( and
old nothing eis?- |0 the SOU, There
will be no lire In the old dead soil
till means are used for the r?sto:u
I eg of the humus, the home and food
of the bacteria.
Tin- Southern cotton fields grs
tnnklng the old fields of BurODS and
the nitrogen is driven off into tin at?
mosphere.
On the other hand, if the manure
is left exposed to the elements, the
uiiter from rains easily and rapidly
b at lies OUt the folublc plant food
So In order to get the most Valuable
manure, these sources of loss must
be avoided. There are several ways
Of accomplishing this. Probably the
best plan, where It Is practicable, is
i i haul the manure direct to the land
and plow It in. Again, especially with
horse manure, etc., it is good to al?
low the manure to remain in the
stable, using plenty of litter. The ani?
mals tramp it down, thus excluding
air, and as it is kept dry, it will ke-^p
with practically no loss. The litter
used in bedding is not only of value
itself as a fertilizer, hut serves to ab?
sorb all liquids and prevent their loss.
If not practicable to pursue either of
these methods, then a cheap shed can
be provided and the manure stored in
It until ready for use. There is one
precaution that must be observed
when the shed is used, and especially
if the droppings from the horses pre?
dominate. Under these circum?
stances, the manure is apt to heat.
This should be avoided by dampening
It
Commercial fertilizers do not add
vegetable matter, do not start soil fer
menation, and do not correct mechan?
ical defects of the ?oil. A ton of
well-preserved manure from a well
fed horse contains about 9.8 pounds
of nitrogen, 5.2 pounds of phosphoric
acid. 9.6 pounds of potash?plant
food that would cost $2.21 bought as
commercial fertilizer. A horse weigh?
ing one thousand pounds will produce
about twelve ton; of manure per
year, and this manure is consequent?
ly worth 7.6c per day, or about $27
per year. The manure from the av?
erage cow is worth 6.5c per day, or
128.20 per year.?Dr. Seaman A.
Knapp in Progressive Farmer.
ADVICE TO THE GROWERS.
President Taylor of Hie Glnnors' As?
sociation Talk.-. Sense.
President J. A. Taylor of the Na?
tional Glnnors1 association, has just
issued the following letter to the
cotton growers:
"A year ago I strongly urged yoj
to reduce the acreage in cotton an!
grow more feedstuffs. It seems from
the acreage report last year that only
a part of the growers reduced their
acreage, and in some sections a small
increase was shfAvn. The result has
been about as I predicted, the lowest
prices we have had for several years.
It now looks as if the crop will bring
around $550,000,000, or o<er $50,
000,000 less than last year's crop,
which was nearly 2,000,000 bales
smaller; and taking the cost of grow?
ing the extra 2,000,000 bales, it means
a loss to the South of over a hundred
million dollars.
"The time has arrived when you
must decide on the acreage of this
season. I strongly urge you to reduce
your acreage in cotton at least 10 per
cent, and raise more grain and hay
so you will be more independent at
marketing time. When the spinner
is assured there is enough cotton
grown to supply his needs, he is very
independent and will only buy at
cheap prices. With a possibility of a
shortage, he is a very eager buyer.
"While the consumption for 'the
first half of the cotton year ending
March 1st will likely be a little less
than half the crop, the consumption
the last half will be very much larger,
so that we will likely have about the
same visible supply that we had last
lea Son, so that WS should raise next
season at least a million bales lest
than the consumption in order to get
good prices for it.
"NOW. don't think that every one
else will rsdUCS and you can plant
more and get a big price, for that U
what too many of you did last sea?
son. It will take a uniform reduction
in order to get the proper results.
You should only plant enough so that
with the most favorable condition*
the crop would not exceed 12,500,000,
and then i? weather conditions reduce
the yield to 11,000,000 you will get
more money for it than If you raised
12,500,000.
"I hope that every merchant read?
ing this article will call his farmer
customers' attention to it and urge
reduction. It is the extra hundred
million dollars the cotton crop brings
that makes trade good through the
South. I suggest that meetings be
held in every school house in the
South Saturday, March 7th, so that
uniformity of action may be taken."
THE DISPENSARY CASE.
Several Other Matters Ilcforc the U.
S. Supreme Court May Cause Slight
Delay.
Washington, Feb. 23.?Appear?
ances now indicate that the lawyers,
including Attorney General Lyon, his
associates, Messrs. Stevenson, Roun
tree and Abney and a number of at?
torneys for the liquor interests will
have to remain here all this week
and into next before they will get a
hearing before the Supreme Court on
the dispensary case. They arrived
here last night and were at the Su?
preme Court today, but, in addition
to a number Of decisions which had
to be read, they learned that several
cases were down for hearing before
the dispensary case.
Bishop Ouerry has written Dr.
Meli, accepting the invitation extend?
ed to him by the faculty of Clsmson
college tO deliver the baeealaureat
sermon on commencement Sunday
this year.
TO CALL WORLD'S CONFERENCE.
Hoosevelt Sturts International
servation Movement.
Con
Washington, Feb. 19.?So thor?
oughly impressed is President Roose?
velt with the necessity for the con?
servation of the national resources of
the world that he today directed Sec?
retary of Sttite Bacon, at the sugges?
tion of the North American Conser?
vation Conference in session here, to
extend a formal invitation to foreign
powers to participate in an interna?
tional conference to deal with thisl Coast lane, had one foot crushed Sat
Oftirerw Fleeted.
A meeting of the board of dir^ct?jr?
of the Sumter Trust and Mortgage
Company was held great relay aft :?
noon for the purpose of electing of?
fice; s. The following oJ&csra wvt4
chosen to serve during the ensuing
year:
Pr?sident? R. L Manning: vice prss
idcMt, Muri )?: ICe!se; Secretary and
treasurer. Perry aToser;. Jr.; Attor?
neys. D. D. IXoisa 1*4 L C. Strauss.
Mr. Sid Celllae. fireman on th<?
Bishopville branch of the Atlantic
important problem to be held at The
Hague next September. All of the
forty-five nations represented at The
Hague Peacs Conference will be in?
vited to participate.
The announcement of this proposed
international gathering was made by
President Roosevelt following a
luncheor:, which he today, gave in
honor of the commissioners from this
country, Canada and Mexico, who are
in attendance upon the North Ameri?
can Conservation Conference. In ad?
dition Ambassador Bryce, of Great
Pritain, Senator Knox and others
were present.' Senator Knox, who is
to be secretary of state in^Mr. Taft s
cabinet, and upon whom will devolve
the duty of furthering the movement,
is in hearty sympathy with the idea
of a world's conference.
urday afternoon at Bishopville while
attempting to get aboard his engine.
He was brought to the Sumter Hospi?
tal for treatment and it was found that
his foot was so seriously injured that
amputation was aecaesarjr. He is do?
ing as well as could be expected in
the circumstances.
Peach, pear and plum trees are in
blossom and the outlook for a fruit
crop this year is not good.
STRAYED?From my premises one
dark bay horse mule, on Tuesday.
Finder please return to Marion
Moise. 2-23-lt.
FOR SALE?One extra fine roller top
desk. Two first-class steel ranges,
1 couch, two refrigerators. Alt
cheap. W. T. Rowland. 2-26-lt
It is announced that arrangements
have been perfected by which com?
panies A, B, C and D, comprising the
Carolina Nalional Guard, twenty-five
officers and 2SO men, with Liuet. Col.
Cogswell commanding, will attend the
inauguration of President Taft and
take part in the parade.
MONEYMAKER COTTON, improved
by T. J. Kirven makes one-third
more than any other variety with
same expense. Seed 50 cts per
bushel; if sacked and shipped. 53
cts. bushel. T. J. Kirven, Provi?
dence, S. C. 2-10-lm
Chicago, 111., Feb. 21.?Isham Ran?
dolph, one of the seven engineer*,
who accompanied President-elect
Taft to the Panama Canal Zone, to
day said that he could see no reason
why the Par.ama Canal should not be
completed by 1914, one year earlier
than the time generally set for com?
pletion.
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NOTICE.
Estate of W. C. Dana Stiles, deceased.
All persors having claims against
said Estate, will present them duly
attested, and all in any wise indebted
to said Estate will kindly settle same
with,
WILLIAM C. STILES,
Administrator.
2-15?W &. S?4t.
NOTICE.
All persors having claims against
the Estate of Mrs. Maude McBride
E'abbs, deceased, will present their
claims duly attested, and all persons
indebted to the same will make pay?
ment to
E. W. DABBS,
Qualified Executor.
2-17-W & S. 4t.
E. J. a W. K. DUNNE,
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Supervision of all Work.
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