The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 28, 1909, Image 4
WtOMtSOAV. APRIL 28, 1909.
The Sumter Watchman wu found
era In 1960 a ?d the True Southron in
Met. The Watchman and Southron
?ow hue ehe combined circulation and
influence of both of tfee old papers,
aad Is manifestly the beat advertising
gaeeium In Sor ter.
osssssssasssssssssspssssa
What e Political Speaker I ndorse.
Tha political stump speaker has
sjnany amusing and many unpleasant
?ipet leucea. A party of us went down
tnto the heart of the east sld 3 of New
fork one night with a politician some?
what handicapped by hie wealth and
?octal position, who nevertheless elect
sal to go to the doubtful district per
?onally. At a street corner o bunting
draped cart ewat ted htm. and. climbing
to the tailboard of this, be began tell
Ins the ragged audience In well round
ad periods how they should vote and
way. A few Jeers began to nx>p from
Caw fc4e ranee of the crowd. The Jeers
galnel volume. Re wee told to 44Aw,
afaat up!" "Close your bead.*" "Say.
A*re ss e drink; your talk makes us
t*tret] " Somewhat disconcerted, but
determined to finish his s|)eech.
Wee continuing when something
peat bis head end splashed
Qently on the floor of the cart An
something and snot bor followed,
every one wee dodging decadent
itoea until. It becoming impose, hie
to bear a about above the Jeers und
of the voters, tha horses a ere
forward out of the soft red
bombardment and the district left to
Ha own political sins.?John U. Win
?bell In Metropolitan Magazine,
Why He Did the Washing.
A men came up out of one of the
little roof houses serosa from the wo?
man's window with e big bosket of
clothe r Be wee followed by two
?mall boya carrying more clothes and
eaeuheafktna. The man put the basket
of dot bee down end began to sort
them out preparatory to hanging them
em the line. The boys helped, handing
hi a the clothespins end some email
one at a time. They were a
while hanging out the clothee be?
ef their awkwardness. It was
itly work they were unaccustomed
do, but at lest It waa finished, and the
rent down tnto the little roof
leevtng the man on the roaf.
Be stood for e moment looking et the
.eearWe, then, going over to e parapet
eat down between two tall chimneys.
The woman could see him from her
window lean against one of the chln>
?ye and by end by throw his aim
(Sscroas hit eyea
She found out afterward that hie
wife had died the week before.?N<"d
r
Only s Misunderstanding,
d years ago ui e well known
wholesale house in a big manufactur?
ing town an old bachelor bookkeeper,
Who bed been many years with the
Arm, suddenly announced that he waa
be be married.
The partners gave him a week's holi?
day, a) id eth fellow clerks rained a
sattle purse a id presented It to pay the
i*o of bis wedding trip,
couple of days after the wedding
of the members of the firm went
to a seaside resort, and there,
lounging about the parade and appar?
ently enjoying himself Immensely, he
?aw bis recently married old book
steeper, but alone.
"Where's your wifeV* asked the prin?
cipal
?"She's at home." was the reply.
"But I thought you bad money given
for a wedding trip v"
*Vo I had," waa the reply, "but I
i't understand that It was Intend
to Include her." - Pearson's Weekly.
A Valuable Milestone.
A well known novelist was touring
through Lancashire In order to learn
eomethln* of the lives of the Inhabit
?als when be came upon an old man
teeaklng stones on the roadside and.
aesseklug he might gain some knowl
frotn him. addressed him thus:
"How far la It to Fleet wood, my
sen?"
"You'll see a milestone a bit farther
a," wee the gruff reply.
-What's the use. If 1 can't readr
?Id the norel'ft eager to draw the old
aaa Into a conversation.
Then it'll 1'iHi suit you, for there's
rt on it." said the old fellow.-Lot*
Urnpalc.
Spscific Directions,
measnge was transmitted to the
lb" telegrapher. As written It read:
"Foundation under freight bouse
cede atteotlon at once.**
Ae delivered to the general foreman
dlspab h contained a rather star
til or: Mr of Information. It read:
"Found a lion under freight bouse.
Heeds attention at once." To which
bo replied briefly
"Veed the lion and notify the lite
agent."
Sad Luek.
?Mother." said flve-ycar-old. Jack.
?%ow mifb older than you is father."
"Ju r 'ttirteeu years," replied the un
?ewpectlag parent
"Well, mother," seriously continued
the child, "the next time you marry,
don't marry a man thirteen years older
than you. Don't you know It Is bad
;f?Delineator.
A Strong Pull.
Two men were having an argument
? to their respective strengths.
??Why." said the first, "every morn
before breakfast I get a bucket
lull up ninety gallons from the
well '
That's nothing." retorted the other.
!*T get a boat every morning and pull
uro the river '
Farmers' Union News
i>
?AND ?
Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
(Conducted by E. W. Dabbs, President Farmers' Union of Sumter
County.)
The Watchman and Southron having decided to doublt its service by
semi-weekly publication, would improve that service by special features.
The first 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 givo the Union news and official calls of the Union. To that end
officers, and members of the Union are requested to u.se these columns.
Also to publish such 'clippings from the agricultural papers and Govern?
ment Bulletins aa I think will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori?
ginal articles Ly 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,
Mayesville, S. C.
County Union Meeting.
Bear In mind that the time has
been changed from 1st Tuesday to
1st Friday. The May meeting will be
on Friday, the 7th. at Mellett school
house with Jordan Union, Just across
the line in Privateer township. I will
do my best to have some one or more
of the Government Farm Demon?
strators with us on that occasion.
Xow ts the time to organize if you
expect to be of any force next fall.
E. W. D.
We publish something more about
the pasture and stock. The situation
is summed up In these word??: "That
may bo all right, but I do not want
to be pestered with them." And as
I havo remarked before, the reason
there Is not greater diversity of crops
with us Is that it requires more plan?
ning, more constant attention than
tht all-cotton system. E. W. D.
I clip, entire, this week one page
of Progressive Farmer, being its six?
teenth article on How to Make $500
More a Tear Farming. This subject
of more stock and more pastures, has
teen a hobby of mine for several
years. I am sorry to say I have not
made the progress I wanted to to?
ward better stock and better pastures,
but I am trying. It seems to me that
only in this direction can we hope to
find the solution of that very vexa?
tious problem, the labor problem, and
the equally unsatisfactory one, of
low prices for what we sell, and
high prices for what we buy.
The campaign that is being waged
in the agricultural papers for more
horse power and less hand labor In
the production of crops, should be and
Is. also supplemented by a campaign
for more stock harvesting, and less
hand harvesting. Not stock and ma?
chinery, but stock feeding the crops
directly off the land, and putting
them through the process of manu?
facturing meat and beef, and milk,
and leaving the resulting manure to
^tlll further enrich the soil.
E. W. D.
Keep Improving Your Pasture.
Many farmers think that a piece of
Innd In pasture needs no fertilization,
but there Is no place where It pays
at tt?-r. Up In the northern section
of this State, not far from Baltimore,
many years ago there were rough
hill lands In a very poor state, and
toe rough for cultivation. They were
kept In grass and cattle bought In
Baltimore In spring, thin cattle and
turned on the grass. Every spring
the land was dressed with three hun?
dred pounds of raw bone meal. This
has been kept up for many years, and
now there Is no land in the country
that feeds more cattle per acre. The
grazers are Independent, and culti
itt no land, merely buying cattle j
I U\ putting them on the grass, and
the butchers take them as needed
when ready; and they lead the life
of country gentlemen, needing little
labor except merely for salting the
entile and looking uft? r thctn and the
ing. and now and then mowing
off the rank spots and scattering the
Irepplnge, There Is no part of the
in which pays better than the pa -
ture If It is kept Improving.
Mr. <\ S. Williams seems bothered
? the manure question. Nn one
ii usually N?st manors enough to
?v i his mem. but I know men who
ire profitably raising manure enough
(a saver their torn Hate every year,
und in 1)1 ?et >' ars covering the farm,
'?'?I the tattk are led ;.t | profit. too.
taking, tbe aetnal cost of tht feed
ate the ealeutatlon, And II Iht farm
er gets from the la-eve* he raises or
Ho cows he feeds only the market
re tue of tht feed, he Is doing fftlli
fsi at ban mads tie dlftertnet be?
tween tatl and market price as
though ho had sold iht feed, and ha*
the manure in addition. If tht pro?
I nation or forage and iht feeding of
i' I u o u b as It should be in tie
South, Iht Whntt thirteen million
bales of last years cotton crop oould
be grown on one-fourth Iht land It
took to make them.
But the attitude of the Southern
farmer is like that of a North Caro?
lina man in one of the best eotton
gTowing sections. I was urging the
necessity of growing more forage and
feeding cattle. He replied: "That
may be all right, but I do not want to
be pestered with them." And that is
Just what is the .matter in the South.
?Progressive Farmer.
1?500 IfOIUD A VKAK FARMING:
HOW TO MAKE IT.
B| Keeping More IJve Stock to Graz??
the Idle Lands.
In/traveling over the Progressive
Farmer territory, any one familiar
with the beet farming sections of
this country, cannot fail to be im?
pressed with our large acres of waste
lnnds which yield no revenue to their
owners. The total area of the State
of North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia Is 91,000,000 acres. Of
this vast area, only 63,000,000 acres,
or 69 per cent. Is cleared by the Cen?
sus Report as "in farms," and of these
farms only 24,000,000 acres, 39 per
cent, is classed as improved lands.
That is about 27 per cent, of the to?
tal area of the^e States is Improved
land. The balance, or 73 per cent.
Is, under present conditions, of prac?
tically no value from an agricultural
standpoint.
That only 39 per cent, of the area
included In our farms Is Improved
land is the mo.st significant fact
brought out by these figures; for In
other words, 64 per cent, of even our
farms is land yielding little or no
revenue to the owner. It is apparent
that if anything can be done to
make these Idle lands yield some pro?
fit, it should be done.
The lands which ara yielding no
agricultural revenues may be divided
Into these classes: (1) Woodlands
that are too rough or too wet for cul?
tivation. (2) The so-called worn
out lunds, and lands on which all the
valuable timber has been cut or de?
stroyed. (3) Small and Irregular
areas or patches in or between the
fields?spots too wet for cultivation,
patches that are washed and gullied,
and areas covered with briers, bush?
es, pines and other shrubby and
worthless growths.
The first class, or the timber lands
will be discussed later in article No.
42 of this series. It U believed that
theee can be made to yield a much
larger revenue than at present. The
laste lass has already been inciden?
tally referred to in several articles,
but will soon receive special consid?
eration In article No. 21 of this series
The second class of unproductive
farms lands?the worn-out or turned*
j out, and the cut-over lands?are the
ones which we desire especially to
consider In this article.
Why Stock Have Not Paid Us.
Right here we wish to call attention
t to the chief cause of our failure In
the past to make live stock husban?
dry profitable. We have procured
live stock without first having made
provisions for feeding them; and in
this connection it cannot be stated
too positively that the majority of
our idle lands are now in no Condition
to, and will not furnish sufficient
grazing to make the live stock busi?
ness profitable to us. Before we got
liv< stock, to make believe at gras?
ing these lands, they must re?
ceive some attention. A pasture is
not a piece Of poor land with B
fence around it. An agricultural
writer recently described ? Southern
pasture as "a place where grass does
not grow," and II must be confessed,
the description accurately tits too
many so-called Southern pastures.
Much of oar idle land can be made
to )>;iy a fair Income on Its present
value plus the cost of putting II In
condition for growing feed for cattle
and otlwr li??- stock tC graze.
If any laud Is so poor, or so u? i
that four or five acres cannot at a
moderate coal be put in condition to
furnish sufficient feed during the en?
tire grazing season for an animal
weighing 800 to 1,000 pounds, then
sueh land is not suitable for grazing
purposes. By sufficient feed we mean
enough to produce during a six to
eight months* grazing period, a
growth of 150 to 200 pounds on fairly
good cattle. To do this there must be
sulllclent feed to satisfy the animal
without too great effort on his part
to find it. About three acres of av?
erage land should do this.
A gain of 200 pounds, worth say
four cents a pound, or $8, is not a
large return from three acres of land,
but it is at least $4 net, more than
most of our idle lands are now bring?
ing. Moreover, it must be remem?
bered that land of a quality that
takes three or four acres to support
one steer is not high-priced land.
These idle lands now have a nominal
value only, and the higher that value,
the worse it is for the owner who
makes them yield nothing. The own?
ers of such idle lands should cer?
tainly do one of two things: dispose
of them for what they will bring, or
put them in condition to yield In?
terest on their valuue, whatever they
may be.
It we estimate the steer worth $25,
which he will not be unless of better
quality than those we now have;
charge 10 per cent, on this amount
to cover interest on investment and
Insurance against loss by death, for
the eight months; and add $1 for care
Of the pasture, we have a total
charge against three acres, or the $S
-ross earnings, of $3.50. This leaves
54.50 net income from three acres.
Four and a half dollars is 10 per cent,
on $4 5. which permits an investment
of $15 an acre. If this land is now
worth $5 an acre, we have left $10
fOr putting it into condition for grow?
ing feed for live stock.
Wo yiusi Keep tiie Pastures Clean.
The most .important point regard
ir.p the preparation of these waste
lands for growing grass is the re?
moval of the useless plants which
now occupy them. The space oc?
cupied by weeds, briers and bushes
cannot, be occupied by grass, nor can
the plant food used in the growth of
these useless plants go into the
growth of plants that live stock will
eat and thrive on. Our pastures must
be cleared up and kept clean. Cheap
or poor lands which are growing
timber of value should be left to
grow that crop, but lands which are
now growing nothing of value should
be made to furnish grazing for live
stock if it can be done and come out
even.
The first cost of cleaning up the
land for nastures Is considerable, and
rnnkt be regarded in the nature of a
permanent Investment, but when
once cleaned up and set in grass, the
cost of maintaining them clean ll
entail. This small expense, however.
13 none the less necessary. We are
so sure that cotton and corn, for in?
stance, will not grow profitably on
land occupied by other plants that
wc spend large sums on cultivation,
to keep down weeds and grass, but
we seem never to have realized that
grasses and other grazing crops must
also be protected from more vigorous
and rapidly growing plants in order
to produce the most profitable re?
turns.
Lands Must 1k? Fenced and Live Stock
Controlled.
That the pasture lands must be
fenced and the live stock controlled
must become apparent to any one
giving even casual consideration to
the subject. Even if this were not
necessary in order to protect the pas?
ture and keep the live stock where it
may receive the personal attention
necesrary, the necessity for the era?
dication of the cattle tick, the control
of hog cholera and the prevention of
Othor infectious diseases, would make
it imperative. In fact, it is beyond
understanding why any people in this
day and stage of agricultural enlight?
enment will permit live stock to run
at large at any time or season of the
year.
The cattle fever tick, the greatest
obstacle to successful cattle growing,
and hog cholera, the cause of the
heaviest losses sustained by hog rais?
ers, cannot, and never will, be con?
ti (died until cattle and hogs are con?
trolled; and so far as the eradication
of the cattle tick Is concerned, allow?
ing the cattle to run at large during
the winter, is practically as bad us
;ill?>wing them to range freely at all
tines. Moreover, cattle running at
large during the winter do much more
damage to winter growing crops and
i.\ tramping the land than the feed
gathered is worth.
Pasture or Grasing Planta
After these waste lands ha\e been
fenced and cleaned up, the next ques?
tion to be solved is the selection of
plants t'? be sowed or planted for
; using, it Is plainly Impossible to
j: . si M combination of plants that
will heat suit all soils, sect inns and
<?< nditlons in our territory; bul in all.
except possibly the most northern
part, Bermuda la unquestionably the
'?st general permanent pasture grase
available, it bus objectionable fea?
tures, the chief of which arei it starts
lat< in the spring. Is early killed by
tinst in the fall and i< dlf?culi to era?
dicate In case the land is ever desired
REV. J. G. DUKES
Writtt: My wife has been in a ve>y
bad state of health. Nothing seemed
to do her any gcod until she began
TO USE PERUNA.
mrs. j. g. dukes.
Itev. J. G. Dukes, Pastor of the Uni?
tarian Church or Piuetown, N. C,
writes:
"My wife has been in a very bad state
of health for several years, and nothing
seemed tj do her any good until she
began to use Peruna oue month ago.
Hince then the color has returned to her
face, and she is gaining in flesh every
day, and I believe she is a well woman
to- Jay.
'?My little boy, ten years old, was pa!*
gad had but little life. Ho be^ran to
Dae Peruna the day his mother hegen?
To-day his face is rosy, and he is out In
the yard running and juinpin?? with the
raat of the children.11
?teinacti Trosjhlo Re'leved.
Mrs. T. J. Ballard, Pryor Creek,
Tn'i'.^.n Territory, writes I "I am happy
to t< il you tliat I keep free from my old
stomaeh trouble; feel uo cal.irrha!
symptoms at aii. I am ablo to do my
work, eat and drink what I want, and
rejoice that I found a eure cure in youi
valuable medicines, which I fatted k
0od ? he bei fcjof home i hysicians."
for cultivation, but it will furnish
more grazing during the hot weathe-,
from May to September, than any
other pasture plant that does well
generally throughout the South. It
is essentially a hot weather grass.
But no one plant should generally
be depended upon for^ making a per?
manent pasture, and when Bermuda
is used a variety of other plants may
be used to furnish grazing early in
the spring before the Bermuda has
made sufficient growth. For this pur?
pose buT clover, white clover, and
some of the earlier-growing cultivat?
ed grasses are used. Where lime It
abundant In the soil, sweet clover or
melllotus Is a valuable crop for this
purpose, and where bluegrass will
grow, It is one of the best of all pas?
ture grasses.
If we roughly divide the soils of our
territory into three large classes?(1)
clay and loam soils; (2) alluvial and
rich rtver bottom soils, and (3) sandy
solle, the following plants are suggest?
ed bh worthy of a trial for posture
purposes.
Clay and loam soils: Bermuda
: glass lespedeza, bur clover, white
clover, orchard grass, the brome gras -
es, rescue grass, and, if the soil be
(irmp. alsike clover, red-top and wa?
ter grass.
Alluvial and river bottom soils:
Bermuda grass, rye grasses, large wa?
te;- grass, red-top, lespedeza, alsike
clover, bur clover, and white clover.
Sandy soils: Bermuda grass, rye
grass et, carpet grass, lespedeza and
bur clover.
It is frequently stated that for per?
manent pastures, it is safest and best
to depend on the native plants of the
locality rather than attempt to intro?
duce cultivated or foreign plants.
When Weeds, briers and bushes are
kept down, the native plants may
yield considerable grazing, but they
eon usually be supplemented by oth?
ers, and from no permanent pasture
In the South should Bermuda be omit?
ted. No matter what pasture plants
are used, weeds, briers and bushes
must be kept down if a full crop of
feed It expected.?Progressive Farm?
er.
GA8 PLANT TALK.
Mr. Ainut to Canvass City to Ascer?
tain Number of Prospective Pat?
rons.
j
As the result of the visit of Mr.
Henry s. Lee, of Chicago, the repre?
sentative of a Syndicate Of capital?
ists of that city who are maklni large
investments in p iblio ultility corpora*
tarns in the South, the plans for a gas
plant in Sumter are beginning to take
on a lomewhat more definite shape
' than heretofore. Mr. Lee spent boy*
I era! days here end during his stay
made a painstak ng Investigation of
conditions ami a careful Inspection of
the elty. He has now gone te> Beau?
mont, Texas, on business and is ex?
pected to return within two weeks. In
the meantime Mr. j. l. Ainut. at
whose invitation Mr. Lee came to
I Sumter, will canvass the city for the
i purpose of ascertaining how many
gas consumers can be counted on as
regular patrons of the proposed com?
pany. Everything depends upon \he
result of this preliminary canvas?, for
? unless there is an assure.1 patronage
j for the gas works the men who are
expected to finance the enterprise w ill
not care to put their money into it.
The slump in the speculative Wttaat
market did not come too soon for
tht se who eat whert products and
have no wheat v to sell. It Is to be
hoped that the price of flour will fall
a few points.
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TALCUM
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LEHN*FINK'S AW
RIVERIS TALCUM
POWDER.
We believe you will find this
the daintiest, most delicate
Talcum Pov?der you have
ever used, it is so extremely
light and fluffy that it can be
used frith pbwdei puff
if desired. It is in t glass jar
and wt n giv< j u
holder it.
2hcy h for $1.00.
Colgate's Violet J Cash
mer Boquet Talcum
Powder.
You know what this powder
is. We sell it at i;c, more
than I can at special price.
Sibert's Borated Talcum
Powder.
This is a refreshing, antiscep
tic Powder ior the nursery
and toilet, and where you
use quantities of powder
for the children, you will
find this as good as any. It
is put up in I lb cans with
sprinkle top. We are selling
it now at
15c a lb. or 2 lbs. for 25c.
We Have
Corylopsis of Japan
Williams'Carnation awl Vie -
let, Tetlowi in i lb tins Men*
nier's, Semibb's ant', hiudnut'I
Violet Sec 25c. iludnut's
Extreme Violet 50c, and
many others to nelcCt from,
It will pay you to buy your
summer supply n \
Call For Samples.
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W. W. SIBERT.
8 S. Main St. Phone 283