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*t^3$dulwan ain) cSoutjjrori VCONC9DAY, MAY 5, 1909. The Sweater Watchman was found In 1850 ard the True Southron In lees. The Watchman and Southron Nee combined circulation and of both of the old papera. la manifestly the beat advertising taa*4hiea eB & winter. T.a? Aati-Saloon League of South <Ca?e41na hid* fair to be the moat effec ?Uve political machine the Slate has had ?ahioa the Farmera' Alliance went out *Qf buaiaeaa. It has an excuse for be Mid a great moral laauo as ballaat. if with theee to recommend It to ?Bai anaaeea, the aleit and ousy polltl ^ gee do not aucceed In jslng It to tpture a majority of tho offices that worth the taking they will neg the opportunity of the decade, tlaere are no signs that the office f aaaeliaia are neglecting anything and fa* eeed are being aown that will yield ?tulta*e la a whaling big crop of can etidataa next year. Just watch the 4auma>(*?uvers from now onward and 3r%m esllJ be able to pick the candidates l*a?x VoAore they come out In the open atod admit that they feel duty bound 1a> aave the State or the County, as may be by accepting the of Tae Antl-Saloon League la an dient organisation with a great >ral purpoee. hut ao waa the Farm ice, and we all know what to the latter, e e e *t a real earnest effort ahould be to preaecate the Income tax there would be a yell In South Hau that would make all previous qNfe aeem like <vhlepere. This thing ?ait taxtag the income* of rich men la ?a eary aatioua matter and ahould be Readied with care and diplomacy, leat ?flea feeling* of a large number of ln <uhsantlal cltlaeaa be wounded. e e e *?e Jar** add years experience Mr. 'at IX Moaa haa had in killing and luring African Ilona cornea In real for America's great faunal nat 'Wadhlt Mr. Seloua ahould write one "?waxa bank under some auch title as ???taten Killing Mitde Easy." 4fXaCAX .VKW8 PARAGRAPHED. oi Utereet Gathered hi and Around! the City. im Klchardaon left the first part thla week for Tampa. Fla. erttt play that club In the Florida ef Oe<ut Parrott la paying out Confederate penal one rapidly and af 4ha fund for Sumter County will been distributed within a abort fund collected by the Columbia for the monument to the Wo of law CenJderaty now amounts *'a? more than TVOOO. Some aecttons * <af aHJrtMeT1 fkrunty are yet to be heard I ffceajn tasad the amount contributed by t^hunter County is still leas than $400. i !Tbe 1 all game at the park Frl ly afternoon waa attended by a targe rd. Aa a whole the game waa a exhibition of amateur ball play law. Orangeburg won out. Score Otangeburg Collegiate Institute (. ar High School 4. The do* muaallng law Is a good law should bo In force from years end %? yearn end. It keepa the doga off th* jatiww t, which la no place for them aaiiiiMUir or winter. Chief of Police Bradford waa notl fled on Monday to be on the lookout Car Uwvernor Belser. a negro man. who hilled a woman near St. Paul. C?arendon County Sunday and made has escape. Whea last aeen he waa MM in the direction of Sumter. la talk of a email cigar fac to make fine hnnd-mnde goods kg eatabllshed here. Mr. A. Hahn. New York, baa been In the city nral -days looking around with a af locating here. The I> J. Chandler Clothing Co.. aebfccb baa an eatabllshed reputation 9ar ttandltng only the best and most ntltuM* make* of ready to Wear cl<?th aant. haa today a special advertisement ?fesatu-lng the Hart Schaffner & Mark Mam. ThLt firm Im nab) to he the lead lam manufacturers of America and orrery garment that bears their label Ma guaranteed to be pereet and every afar**d pure woolen. _. <K\*i t unmuealed dog foundWn the ?et? la fair prey for the boy who ints te earn a quarter. TVir regulaa atatement of the Farm ira* Punk and Truat Co., which U to m f?>-,nd in another column, la a sat ?'racrory ehowlng for this Institution, depoalt account Is large for the ?n of the year and the rediscounts tratlvelv amall The statement 4a'pr...>f that while this bank Is doing ? tanas and steadily growing bu*lne*e at la maikmi by conservative and \m) metnoaa of management. y flew York Cotton Market. Open High LOW Close 10 9ft 10 M 10 At 10 M 10 41 10 18 10 37 10 48 10 VI 10 In 10 17 10 To 18 10 93 10 15 10 23 Steal t " Farmers' Union News ?AND I Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by F. \V. Dnbbs, President Farmers* Union of Sumter Comity.) The Watchman and Southron having decided to double 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 give the Union news and official 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. Mayesvllle, S. C. I wish to call special attention to the clipping: "Make the farm the place to which you will wish to 're? tire.' " In my rambles from time to time I see many such farm homes; they are on the increase, but our far? mers should not be satisfied until every farm home, be It cottage or colonial mansion, has Its convenien? ces and shade, water and flowers, that with contentment In the hearts of Its Inmates, will make It, to them, the most attractive place on earth. E. W. D Make the Farm the Place to Which Yon Will Wish to "Retire." There is not only a migration of the roung folks from the country to the town In these days, but there is a fide-spread notion that It Is also the proper thing for the old folks who lave made money farming to go to own for their last years. The farm? er and his wife?the wife especially? lave In many cases the same desire as heir children to get rid of the cares >f farm life and move Into town that hey may "take life easy" in their old ige, and are often equally dlsap ?olnted In the results of the change, n every town of any size may be ound country bred men and women >f mature years who are Incessantly onglng to return to the farm. Aside from all this, Is It not strange oiks should desire, In so many cases, hrough all the years from youth to Id age to get away from the environ dent to which they are most accus oraed and where, it would seem, they hould And most contentment? And vhy are such thtlngs so? It seems to us that the answer n many cases Is to be found In the arren, dilapidated home surround ngs and In the lack of beauty and omfort Inside the home. It Is from he farm where the yard is bare and infenced, the house unpainted, the tome devoid of books and games and dctures and music, that the young, oiks are most eager to get away; and t Is from this same type of farm life hat the old folks are most desirous 4 escaping to the new life?for them ?of the towns. If you wish your boys and girls o remain en the farm, If you wish o remain on it yourself with enjoy nent and contentment when you have -~r^ ', the age of greatest activity, nake It a cheerful place at which to lay. From the farms whore there are )ig oaks and maples and magnolias hadowlng and protecting the build ngs, yards where the grass grows and he roses bloom. homes where jrovlsion is made to satisfy the sense >f beauty and where the charm as well is the labor of country life Is part of >ach day's experience, it Is not, as a ?ule, that those come who throng to :he towns, either In youth or In age. :hrough dissatisfaction with their lot. When you have seen the trees in the ?ooryard growing taller and broader pear after year, have watched for the coming of the Irises and the holly? hocks In the garden summer after ?ummer, have cared for the rosebush or the honeysuckle from the time It was planted till It clambered all over the porch, have filled each nook and cranny of the old house with scores of pleasant memories, you will not be quick to tear yourself away from It all SO spend your days of enforced lei? sure amid the unfamiliar scenes of some town. Make th?; home attractive. There Is no excuse for an ugly farm home; and with a little care and Attention, the planting of trees, and shrubbery and vines and flowers, the caring for the lawn, the brlKhtenlng of the walls, and the addition of new pleasure to the fireside, you can make your place prettier and more home-like with every parsing season. With country llf?> what It should be and what we can make it. we would h?ar little of the rush of the young to the cities or the often pitiful desire of the old to get away from the homes of their own making. Two Uukle Posts to "$500 More a Yoar." With corn at 60 cents a bushel and plant foods In commercial fertilizers at their current values, cottonseed meal has a total feeding and manurial value of $60, if three-fourths of the original fertilizer is saved and return? ed to the soil. With good care an ev? en larger per cent of the plant food In meal could be saved; and, estimating that 75 per cent, of the meal Is used direct as fertilizer, this means an an? nual loss In the State of North Caro? lina, South Carolina and Georgia of $20,000,000 on this one product. Rotation of the Crops. In this number we publish an in? teresting article from Manning, S. C. on Cotton vs. Corn, which shows the relative profits derived from the cul? tivation of cotton and corn, and in this special case, the profits are fav? orable to cotton by considerable odds. For fear the article may be mislead? ing, we feel It proper to urge the arguments favorable to diversifying the crops. When the whole South grows cotton and that alone, price* decline and all lose, whereas, when other crops are also raised, prices of cotton advance In response to the sup? ply and demand theory and the cost of production decreases. Here Is the whole thing In a few wcrds: By raising some corn, truck, hay and the other necessaries, the cot? ton grower reduces the cost of pro? ducing his cotton crop by saving the cost of these things, which he would have to buy at high prices, and which would have to be deducted from the profits of his cotton crop. Then again, If too much cotton is grown, as would bo the case If none of the farmers di? versified their crops, cotton would diop in price and wipe out whatever profit was promised. Summed up, di? versifying crops mean economy in p eduction of the principal crop by rsIsing on the farm things which would otherwise have to be bought outside, and also by diversifying, the promise of better prices for cotton by limiting the supply is safe. We men? tion these things In order to apprise growers who might feel disposed to follow our Manning correspondent too literally, of the consequences of over? production, to which universal cotton growing would lnveltably lead.?Cot? ton Farm Journal. What We Lose by Not Feeding Our Cottonseed Meal. What, then, Is the farm value of a ton of cottonseed? With corn at 60 cents a bushel, a ton of cottonseed is worth $25 as feed. When fed, its fer? tilizer value in stable manue may be as high as 90 per cent, of the original fertilizer value of the seed. Thltt is, if all the solid and liquid manure were saved, 90 cents worth of manure would bi obtained from every dollar's worth of fertilizer In the seed fed. If the fertilizer value of the seed were $16, the fertilizer value of all the droppings, if saved, would be about $13.50; but only three-fourths the fertilizer Ifl saved in the manure?and it will require better care than we are now giving our stable manure to save that much,?the fertilizer value of the manure from a ton of seed will still be $11.25. On this basis, therefore, a ton of seed, when fed, may be worth $11.25 plus $25.00, or $36.25. This is at least $11.25 more than we now get for a ton of seed, sold to the mills or used direct as fertilizer. Assuming that 90 per cent of the seed are sold to the oil mills, or used direct as fer? tilizer, this on the low feed value of 22 1-2 cents a bushel, means a total annual loss of at least $20.604.315 to the States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia from their fail? ure to feed this farm product to live stock. One pound of cottonseed meal is worth one and a half pounds of seed for feeding purposes; hence, a ton of teed is about equal In value to 1,350 pounds of meal. To pav for the haul? ing and other trouble connected with the exchange, and because the seed are worth It to the mills, the farmer should not recive less than L^500 pounds of cottonseed meal for a ton of seed, and some get more. If a ton of cottonseed meal be used as fertilizer direct, and most of It used j in the South is used in that way, i either by the farmer or for supply? ing nitrogen in mixed fertilizers, the value is not far from $30, as follows: 124 lbs. nitrogen at 20 cents. . $24.80 36 lbs. potash at 5 1-2 cents.. 1.98 56 lbs. phosphoric acid at 4 1-2 cents. 2.52 Total.$29.30 This is about twice the fertilizer value of a ton of cottonseed. If the ton of meal be fed, and three fourths of its prginal fertilizer vaiue saved in the stable manure, this man ure will have a value of $22.50. As a matter of fact, however, there is con siderable evidence to show that the stable manure made from feeding a ton of cottonseed meal will give as great an increase in crops as will the ton of meal applied direct. Cottonseed meal, for feeding, is worth $25 a ton when corn is worth 40 cents a bushel, or $37.50 a ton when corn is worth 60 cents a bushel, or $50 a ton when corn is worth 80 cents a bushel for feeding. That is, one pound of cottonseed meal is equal to one and three-fourth pounds of corn for feeding, up to the limited amount which it is wise to feed of such a rich feeding stuff. A ton of cottonseed meal, when corn is worth 60 cents a bushel is, therefore, worth: Feeding value.$37.5C Fertilizer value of the stable manure.$22.50 Total.$60.00 If a ton of cottonseed meal is not worth $60 when properly fed on the farm, then it follows that either corn is not worth 60 cents a bushel, or plant food in mix/'d commercial fer? tilizers is not worth the current prices paid for it. The feeding values here given to cottonseed and cottonseed meal are not based on theory of chemical ana? lyses. They are the values given to these feeds by cows and steers ifi hun? dreds of trials. If 75 per cent of the cottonseed meal produced by the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia is used direct as fertilizer instead of being used as feed, as it should be, the loss at present prices of feed stuffs is more than $20,000,000 annually. It is needless to state that we have not the live stock to consume this cot? tonseed meal. The writer knows it only too well, but we ought to get them. That is the object of this ar? ticle.?Progressive Farmer. COTTON VS. CORN. Tty I. Kyle Go nicy, Manning, S. C. It has often been discussed by cot? ton planters in South Carolina which is the most profitable crop?cotton or corn. In a conversation with Mr. J. M. Barwick, one of the1 leading farm? ers in Clarendon County and a strong advocate of the growing of corn as a money-making proposition, he assert? ed that corn would give a much larger profit on the yield than cotton. The writer dissented and being somewhat of an accountant, proposed that we test his statement by figures, which never lie, or should not, if honesty is the guiding star. Here are the figures a.i collected by the writer from Mr. Barwick's own statement: COTTON. By 35 bales cotton, average 500 lbs. <@> 8 12c. $1,487.50 By proceeds on sale of cottonseed, 35 bales @ 50c. 262.50 To fertilizers, 20 acres @ $25 per acre ..$500.00 To hoeing 20 acres ? 50c. 30.00 To picking 35 bales @ $7.50. 262.50 To hauling, ginning, etc., 35 bales 0 $2 70.00 To plowing, putting in fertilizer, etc., 20 acres, ? $8 . . . . 160.00 To net profit on 20 acres cultivated in cotton. 727.50 $1,750.00 $1,750.00 By net profit brought down.( * TIT.lt CORN. By 1,063 bushels corn corn, ? 85c, (pre? vailing price at the time). $ 903.55 To fertilizer & plow? ing 20 acres, ? $15.. $300.00 To planting corn, 20 acres, ? 20c. .. 4.00 To gathering corn, 20 acres. || $1. 20.00 To 40 bu.mels cotton seed, used as fertili? zer 20 acres 800 bu. fa $2. 160.00 To net profit on 20 acres cultivated in corn.419.55 $903.55 $ 903.55 By net profit bought down. * 419.r>5 The above accounts are on a basis of 20 acres cultivated in cotton and corn A PRETTY VERMONT HOME. Capt. Hutchinson is a Stanch Friend of Pcruna, Made so by Personal Experience. The Home of Captain Hutchinson, of Montpefier, Vt. Chronic Catarrh and Throat Trouble. "It gives me pleasure to write you this letter at this time on account of the good your Peruna has done me when I was quite done up with a very bad cold. "I could hardly perform my ordinary duties, but from the mve of Peruna I am almost restored to health. "I am quite convinced that It has helped me from chronic catarrh, to which I am subject. It has also benellted my throat. "I can truly recommend it as the best all-round medicine it has been my privilege to become acquainted with. Of this I am quite convinced from my own experience."?Capt. Lemuel M. Hutchinson, Montpelier, Vt. Can Now Eat Anything. Mr. J. W. Pritchard, Columbia City, Ind., writes: *41 am pleased to say that I have been curtd of catarrh of the Miomach by Peruna. "I could hardly eat anything that agreed with me. Before I would get half through my meal my stomach would fill with gas, causing *ne much distress and unpleasant feelings for an honr or two after each meal. "But, thanks to your Peruna, I am now completely cured, and can eat any? thing I want to without any of the dis? tressing symptoms. I can now enjoy my meals as I used to do, and it is all due to Dr. Hartman and his wonderful medicine, Peruna. ??It has been one year since / waz cured, and I am all 0. K. yet, so I know * 1 am cured." A Nervous Breakdown. Mr. Lewis Zim, editor and proprietor of "St. Augustine Meteor," writes: "Any man in public work finds at times that he is under a peculiar nerve strata, I found that with it I lost my appetite, and my brain seemed to work unceasingly during waking and sleep? ing hours, so I waa tired and worn out in the morning. "Tonics and in vigors tors were aug gested and tried, but nothing waa of ben? efit to me but Peruna. That ia cer? tainly a remarkable medicine. I waa restored in three week* to my normal healthy condition, my appetite returned [ and my sleep was refreshing." and the result shows that King Cotton as a money making crop has King Corn bet thus: Net profit on 20 ac cotton. . I I: ' N'et profit on 20 ac corn.419.55 Balance in favor of cotton. $ 307.95 And thus cotton holds supreme as the very best money making crop In the South. In this instance, however, Mr. Barwick was certain corn would lead as to profit. Of conr*?*? u woi very necessary that own should be Cultivated tO me< t tho r a,i >i eme.us hj beine c^neumpt!? n and ru t be pcr v'h.'taed freed the West, but eovteej will aya continue *~> reeualo '.he grePt and powerful product for the agricul? turists of the South. While we have cotton as our staple crop, we are mas? ters of the situation and no nation can compete with^us. 25c. 25c. RED RIVEN HOSIERY. 25c. 25c. SUMTER, S. C. 25c 25c. ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED 25c. 25c. Looking out for the iiitei of our Lady frit n< WE hi the exclusive agenc RED ' EN HOSIERY for Ladie? Gentlemen. Yv e guarantee this line of hosiery t absolute satisfaction or replace any of them pi unsatisfactory with a new pair or your money Remember there is no red tape to this, no co to sign, nothing but our absolute gua that this line of hosiery will do just as we say. price the same as any similar quality hosiery, 2 pair. Give them a trial. YOURS, 25c. MORE T -FOR FANCY Wunn. 25c. 25c.