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WEONCSOAY, AUGUST II, 1909. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed in 1160 and the True Southron In tiff. The Watchman and Southron low has the combined circulation and lencs of both of the old paper*, Is manifestly ths best advertising lam la Sumter. KIRNT WPUCK OF "PROHIBI? TION." "The .State countable* in Charles? ton weise* on .Saturday 1.276 bottles of beer sad 6 bones of loose beer, snd It quart and 66 half-pint bottles of -Whiskey. That was a pretty fair days work, tsurlng the last week ths Mate constables captured 6,400 softies of beer. 66 gallons of whis? ker and 160 gallons of keg beer. We do not have the figures of what the SI men especially detailed from the City police feres accomplished last week; but ws Judge from the very "bad start they msde on ths first two <lays of "prohibition" that they did not earn their salt "la ths meantime, it would be In? teresting to know what ths County Sheriff and ths deputies havs been doing to make prohibition prohibit. "What is ths use of fooling about It any longer? If wc are going to 1st the blind tigers run the town, lets say so and suite trying to make our? selves believe thst ws sre "in control of the "situation.* "?Nswa and Courier. This i? straight talk and ths sort w* like to hear Coming from the Nst.s and Courier It leads us to hope mad believe that ths nils of the bilad tigers In Charleston is not to be a perpetual condition in that city. It w scarcely to be believed that the decent people of the city will submit ,to forever endure existing conditions. A neuester Worn the Army. Miss Rateila Smoak. who has 'for several years been ths editor and publisher of the Branch vi He Journal was married recently to Mr. O. B. Hern dos Stis has been a regular at? tendant at the meetings of the Press Association and is pleasantly remem? bered by alt ths brethren. Col. Bacon, of the Bdaefield Chron? icle refers te ths marriage of Mies 8moak in his characteristic style as follows: According te the laws of all na ttons. ? deserter from the army, oaught and ths fact proved, is at once to death. Therefore, stand up. ?tla Smoak. Ists of that dear con? trary, the Brsnchvllle Journal, ?und face the fatal volley. We know that yes 'will meet It bravely, for you "have done a far braver thing. You ~have got married' And you ought not to hare dene it. And if you think any of as ere ever going to call you "Mrs. Q. B. Herndon" you ere very muck mistaken We are going to call yon nothing but "Bstslla Smoak. of ths Brahchytlle Journal " And you had no right?knowing ss yog did that you arc were going to desert us ae soon?to make us all sdmlre and trust snd love you It was a mean trick. And although we earnestly pray for you all happiness and all prosperity snd all good things, yet at earnestly hspe that they will not ae vouchsafed unto you. F1RHT BALK IS SOLD. wrtl Mas Reuest? Victory of Year Ago. Bs-nwell. Aug. 7.?South Caroll aa's first hale of If01 crop was sold la Barnwell today to Molalr and Por? ter by Mr R H. Luts. The bale weighed 166 pounds snd grades good Hing. Mr. b*6j sold to Molalr and Portei le tret bale of cotton for 1608. Th bale wa*? shipped to F. W. Wag *r * ' 0 ('h?rtesten. Flrnt Itala of New Cotton. Montgomery, Ala. Aug. 7.?The bale of new cotton here reaob the Montgomery market today rirarcvllle. Fla. It sold for K, ts i peeed pad bssssM strict poad i<i.i I i PON ( HOP CONDITION'S. l <>* In H'Mitli Carolina. Im pn- ??:?#?> t In Some Other State*. Raw orleins. La., Aug. 8.?The T'a ii will tontarr .v. i \ In )t in ? of i otton crop oondb In Arknt?.< n. ?i- oi Kla. IvMilslana. rtsaWaiiipi 'o.i Taaneesse, improve ant 11 bit! I hi rule. Nor h Carolina as a whole siicv > Import**^ (hange, but there hai in a distinct lose in South Carolina, la Texas pad Oklahoma there has burn ^b H p drtrri ?igt- Mi and the -*lt nation i erttfeal There Is comptuint of ball w? ? I In som i districts, bu( the damagt mot be estimated at this time. The grep t-? ver> spotted and Is atnrfctrly subject to unfavorable PPsV Mon ? Farmers' Union News ?AND 8 Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by E. W. Dabbs, President Farmers' 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 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 tl Is Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs. Mayesvllle, S. C. Some Random Thoughts. "Saving the Entire Corn Crop" Is reproduce, not because I endorse that method of harvesting corn, but large? ly for the sentence of co-operation, which I have asked the printer to pit In large type. If we cannot trust our neighbors enough to buy and own a manure spreader, or a grain drill, or a harvester, or a shredder, together;. Implements that could do all the work of their kind for from two to half doxen farmers, according to sir.e of farms and distance apart, does any reasonable or thinking man believe that thousands of farmers scattered over entire counties and States will trust each other sufficient? ly to make effective any resolutions that a handful of delegates may see fit to adopt? No. Emphatically, No. For this reason I have combatted the Idea "In season and out of season." and contend for neighborly co-opt? ing and caring for It pretty nearly equals it again, it is easy to see that this is an unprofitable and wasteful way of handling the com crop. Too many farmers make the same fundamental mistake here as in a great many other farm operations? they neglect to take Into account the time and labor expended on a given piece of work in counting up the profits they get from it. Fodder pulling belongs with such outgrown practices as cutting grass with the scythe or grain with the cradle, as planting corn by hand and covering with the hoe, as using one horse to a turn plow. Worse still, while these things may mean only a loss of time and tabor, fodder pulling means an actually decreased yield of corn. Some folks may question this; but their doubts will amount to little against the positive evidence secured from every careful experimnt made ration, and Individual education as ?long this line. If no more roughage the foundation of all success, and were obtained by cutting up the corn without which all these big schemes and curing In shocks, it would still will come to naught. Pfty to do It But there will be more feed secured in any case; and the Notice, Notice! J farmer who raises corn to any ex-' tent can well afford to provide some The County Organizer will visit means for cutting or shredding his Dalsell on Thursday, Auguat 12th. at corn stover. 10 ?. m., Rembert at 7.30, Plsgah The c?rn shredder is a much-need Friday morning, 9 a. m., Hagood at ed implement in the South, the corn 3 p. m., to Ulk Unionism to all who harvester is another. *Whhe most are Interested, with the expectation farmers could not afford to buy of reorganising the Dalsen and Rem- either of these machines for their in bert Unllns. and new ones at Plsgah dividual use. in almost every nelgh and Hagood. Borden can be in- borhood there are several farmers eluded at 3 p. m.. Thursday, if Inter- who c?uld acord to *<> in together ited friends will get up a meeting and Purchase them. Local co-opera and take him from Dalzell and on to tlon *??ng euch lines would solve Rembert. Other points In the coun- ot the problems which now ty. Wedgefleld, Manchester. Bethel, perplex those farmers who are ham Tlndal. Brogdon. Shlloh and Taylor WrtA in their work by lack of eap|. or any other neighborhood will be +M and untU the farmers learn to co arranged for when those interested operate in such things as this?things of direct personal Interest which In? volve not more than a half dozen persons?it Is scarcely reasonable to expect them to work steadily and Union Notes and Comment. | ???"?onlously together in cases where The meeting of the County Union nK>r* difficult problems are presented Indicate a desire to organize. E. W. Dabbs, Organizer. at Cane Savannah demonstrated be? yond the shadow of a doubt that the leaven of education, self-help and neighborly co-operation is at work in Sumter county and our sister coun? ties of Lee and Clarendon and where the co-operation of thou? sands must be secured. One must learn first to co-operate with one's neighbors. In any case, whether he can use improved machinery in caring for his crop or whether he must depend on The County Union instructed the nand work and h,s own resources, no president to arrange for a rally and farmer can afford to *? into his corn fields this fall and waste labor and feed?for tnat is just what he is do? ing?by "topping" or "blading" his corn. Having raised the corn crop, and In most cases getting little enough off of each acre at the best it should be every man's effort to get basket picnic at Mayesvllle during the third week of August, next week. Just as soon as 1 can hear from Prof. Goodrich, of the United States soli and farm management bureau of the Department of Agriculture, will pub? lish the day. Everyone at Mayesvllle and vicinity, to whom the subject has Just as mucn as Possible out of it ano been mentioned, heartily agree to to secure ^st as great returns as pos Join In and make the meeting worthy slble from tne money and labor in of the advanced farming of this pro- Vttttd In it. Until one can estimate gresslve section. Everyone in easy the8e tnlngs with some certainty, and reach will help provide, and friends tnen act accordingly, he is not farm from a distance will be heartily wel corned. It is probable that one or two other prominent speakers will be there. But should only Prof. QsjOdfluh come, his charts and dem? onstrated facts that Illustrate his lecture will make It a profitable day to every farmer who doesn't already " know it all." E. W. I>. ing on a business basis.?Progressive Farmer, saving All the Corn an a Guide PCMM It "fjgffj More a Year running." Raving is harder than making, ac l'ling to the nld saw, end OUT wast< - f>ii practice s would often; stem t<? In ilry Iiis statement. \t any rate? savtM Is of so.ua 1 Importance with making it' one Is evei to gel ahead, Out cannot afford to ko t?> the trou? ble of raising i good crop <?r corn, for i implo, end then allow from one third to tWO"flfthl of it to go uriutil |ged, Yet. Una is .lust wii.it occurs when tin- t orn is "foddered" and only the bladee, or tin- lops end blades, ed for reed. To be sure, there I i large pan of the stalks thai will not lie taten bj the stock unless ii is run through ? outlet of ? shredder, but the damage done lo the yet un matured grain by foddering ordlnarl?l ?quads the full value of the fodder I clubs as well as locker secured, und since the labor of pull- \ soft drink establishments. How Wo Waste One-Third of Our Corn Crop. When B mature crop of corn is put In the silo about half, and when it i> cut at the ground and cured in ?hOCkS, about 40 per cent, of the feeding value Is In tie- stalks, leaves and shucks. Those wie? "pull fodder" pay twice for the feed they net --once In the labor of pulling an i ??nee in the de? creased yield of corn. The whole corn crop can be saved by putiing it into a silo, and from 80 t- 18 per cent of it by cutting, curing In shocks and shredding. The best time to cut corn, If the who!,- crop is t'? be saved, Is just when tie- ears are well glased and the shucks and middle leaves are begin? ning t<> turn brown. Until we iaise all the bay we nee i for our stock, and have all the stock and all the manure we need, it will pay us t<> save the whole of the corn crop. The drastic prohibition law pass* b) the Alabama legislature has pat ? ?lit of business all purely social Clubs and Tills Month's Work in the Garden. At this writing (July 24th) our market here is well supplied with last year's sweet potatoes, because our large growers have all provided them? selves with curing houses in which the potatoes are dried off in the fall at a high temperature. They then keep easily. But in the South the new crop will now be coming in, though the varieties usually grown there are not so early as those grown for the Northern markets. Growers on the eastern shore of Virginia are always putting sweet potatoes on the market before any are offered in North Carolina bcause they grow an earlier variety. But it would pay well in the local market all over the South to grow the Hayman potato to be sold half-grown in summer. This potato, like th* pink Peabody, is not liked in the South when mature, but it is early and a fine keeper, and people do not expect the finest quality in early dig? ging. I have seep half-grown Pea body's selling very well on the Ra? leigh market, simply because there were no others to get, while after the orop has matured, no one wants a Peabody. But the wise grower can make money with these half grown. In the home garden the last plant? ing of sweet corn can be made the first of the mJonth, and succession crops of snap beans can be planted till the last of the month. Do nottet any land in the garden He idle and grow up in weeds to raise cutworms for next spring. If yotr have not sown salsify or parsnips, 1 / some the first of the month, ^ T 1 two fine vegetables to your w. . _.? suply. You can also sow the Half Long Danvers carrot any time this month, and can have these to pall all winter for soups, etc., and if you plant a quantity of them, your horse will ap? preciate a mess now and then in winter. Bum a seed bed down near water and sow seed of the Premium Late Flat Dutch cabbage, and see that the young plants never suffer for lack of water. Then, getting sVong plants by the first of September, you can set them on rich and heavily manur? ed soil and make fine heads by early December. You cannot make land too rich for cabbages. Some are in the habit of mowing off the tops of asparagus, but this should never be done till the tops are mature and dead. In my garden I have a corner where I stack all the leaves from the lawn in the fall and all the vegetable tops and refuse from the garden with a little lime sprink? led through the heap. The next sum? mer this rotted stuff makes a fine mulch to be put between the toma? toes and squashes after cultivation ceases, and it retains the moisture well. A good part of it is spread and turned under in the spring to add hu? mus to the soil. Rutabaga turnips and the Long White French should be sown early in this month. Some Strap Leaf tur? nips can also be sown for fall use, but succession sowings should be made till middle of September for winter use and spring greens. The Ruta? bagas and Long White French should always be sown in rows and not broadcast. In thinlng these, the young plants thinned out can be transplanted to other rows and do about as well as though left where they started from seed. Some of the Rose-Colored Chinese Winter radishes can be sown this month for fall use, but the sowing for winter should be deferred till September. It is better to get small celery plants from the Northern dealers early in the month and plant them In a bed where they can be partly shaded, setting them In close row? six or eight inches apart and two or three inches in the rows. See that they do not suffer for water, and If the tops grow tall, shear them off -lightly. Then you will have strong plants to set early in September, and I will then tell how I do it. The small plants can be bought for about 11.60 per thousand and it is better to get them than to try to grow them from seed In the hot weather in the South. The ground should be well manured and prepared for the Sep? tember setting some time before. The self-blanching celery can be set any time this month in rows fifteen Inches apart each way and cultivated by hand, and as the plants develop, wrap heavy brown paper around each and hold it with a'.rubber Bnapper, leaving only the tops exposed, [twill blanch prettily In the early fall, bul v. ill never I e of as good quality a? that blanched In eurth In late fall and winter. Cuttings of swwet potato vines can be sei now to mow seed potatoes for bedding, stake the cuttings about u yard long and coll them around the hand and plant the whole coll, leav Ing only the tip exposed. Every Join! will make a bunch of little potatoes that are far better for bedding than the little ones picked from the general crop, and they keep better, too. * We have been getting tomatoes since June. My plants are sei two feel apart in the row and trained to a single stem tied to stakes, and all side shoots pinched out. My plants are now over six feet tall, and I have not seen a rotten or a wormy tomato yet. This is a good plan for a small garden hut takes close attention. Our growers here in Maryland who plant fields of twenty acre*? or more, let them tumble on the ground. This is all right where land is plentiful, but and is now higher than usual. The rains at seed harvest time here dam? aged the crop of seed badly, and the crop in Delaware is smaller than ever while the hay crop was line. Keep the cultivators ;n>r shallow* ly through the corn is long as you <an get through. I passed a field yes in the garden it pays to train to single J larday, where a farmer had failed to stems. I keep his corn clean by rapidly going Blood Turnip beets sown now will 1 through with harrow and weeder make fine roots for winter use. De wing's Blood Turnip beet is as good as any. Eclipse is earlier. Lettuce for fall setting should be sown early in the month. The Big Boston is generally preferred by truckers. Rawson's Hot-House let? tuce can be set closer in the frames, and I pref?r it to the Big Boston. Let? tuce, like cabbage, wants fat soil.? Prof. If assay in Progressive Farmer. Farm Work for August. Lei the peas grow till the pods turn yellow, and then there is no hay more easy to cure well than cowpeas, not? withstanding all the talk about the difficulty in curing them. They will cure If you just let them, and do not go to monkeying with all sorts of contrivances to spoil them. when the weeds were just germinat? ing, and he had a couple of plcws running to cover up the grass, and was tearing the roots and piling up the soil to dry out, and will lose corn enough to.^ more than have paid for beter early cltuivation. Then that same man will go through and strip the blades and cut the tops while the corn is still green, and will again lose corn enoupgh to pay for all the fOdiefl der he gets, and wiil have his labor thrown away. The early corn will mature this month, and should be cut when the ears are well glazed and dented, and cured In shocks. Some think that it does not pay to shred stover, but there are many advan> tages in the practice. You can stack it outside safely, more of it will be eaten, and what is left wMl make a j good absorbent in the manure, and I had a letter today from a farmer I there will be no long stalks in it to who said that he would not have barn room for his pea crop and wanted to know if they would keep well stack? ed. He really answered his own ques? tion, as he said that a neighbor had stack some when well wilted and 0 limp, and they heated and Steamed. But to hla surprise, he found that they cured perfectly. If he had open? ed the stocks and trfed to cool them off, he would, doubtless, have had moldy hay. Mow the peas in the morning, and, if possible, put a tedder behind the mower to keep them tossed up and I hasten the wilting. Rake the morn? ing mowing into windrows that after? noon. Turn them the next morning > and lie till afternoon while cutting I more. Cock them that afternoon, and i when the hay In the codes can be tak? en and twisted hard, and no sap runs to the twist, haul them in. If to go into stacks, make the stacks well, and rake down the sides, but cover the tops of the stacks wfth straw or dry hay. This hay will cure, even if '.he stacks heat. Put some rails under the stacks to keep the hay off the ground and prevent its absorbing moisture from the ground, and you have a good as in the barn. If the pea stubble is to be sown to wheat or oats, do not replow it, for late plowing is bad for winter grain but simply disk It shallowly, going over and over both ways to get th surface fine, for the finer yoo make It, the better the chance for the crop On red land apply to the grain only a liberal amount of acid phosphate but on gray land add some muriate of potash. The pea roots will glv you t the nitrogen needed by the small grain crop. Sow oats in early September, but keep the land harrowed for wheat till there has been a light white frost be? fore sowing, for early sown wheat Is liable to be attacked by the Hessian fly. If you intend to sow crimson clover after the peas, run a harrow lightly over the stubble to slightly freshen the ground, and sow fifteen pounds of seed per acre the last of this month or early September. If the land is dry and level, it will be well to roll after sowing. But I would not roll land that is steep and liable to wash, for the roller will inevitably leave some loose places into which the wa? ter will run and start gullies. You can sow crimson clover late this month among the corn, among watermelons or cantloupes and get a good stand without any preparation, as the crops will shade the young plants. If you have seed of your own, and there is no clover huller to clean them, you can thresh them out and sow in the rough, but sow forty pounds instead of fifteen of clean seed. The hulls will retain moisture and often a better stand can be had from sowing in the rough. Get the clover seed as soon as pos? sible, for the crop is small this year break pitchforks and cause cuss words. I once saw shreded stover baledV and selling for $12 a ton in Raleigh. If a man can get that price for It, he had better sell it and put the money n fertilizers. Some here find it profitable to sow turnip seed mixed with the crimson * clover seed on good land. They mix twelve pounds of crimson clover seed and two pounds of turnip seed for an acre. The turnips help shade the young clover and are pulled out as they get large enough. * Another plan here is to sow buck? wheat and crimson clover, sowing the buckwheat first and then scattering the clover seed. They get a good crop of buckwheat and the clover docs very well In this way. I saw one field yeterday being sow a fn this way (July 23rd). In North Carolina, - east of the mountains, buckwheat can j be sown in early August, but fs hard? ly a crop for sowing further South. ;4 How to Get Rid of Galls and Gullies. Whenever we see a galled spot or a gully, bare of vegetation, we can'ta help wondering how any land-owner can get his consent to permit the con? tinuance of such conditions. The longer they exist *he worse they be? come. Why sho dd any farmer per? mit himself o be thus robbed of his "stock fn trade," his capital, htsd farm? Furthermore, the time lost' through the necessity of more fre? quent turns, or In working over or around them, rightly employed, would prevent their existence or restore them to a useful condition after they have been formed. We do not be-^ lieve in filling gullies with rails, brush, or other materials which are likely to be in the way later on. For gullies or galled spots, the best rem? edy is straw, coarse stable manure, or some other material that will improve their fertility. Follow this with some 4 growing crop. If a gully, plow dirt into it, turn"" the excess of water in another direction and sow peas; if a galled spot, plow deeply and keep something growing on it all the time. We have seen gullies ten feet deep filled and brought up to the most pro- _ ductive parts of the field in three or four years by a liberal application of straw, leaves, or coarse stable manure and the sowing of cowpeas. It will pay to fill them up for the crops they will bring, and if the fields are to be put in condition for the use of the implements necessary for economical^ cultivation, these scarred and gullied fields, so common in many parts of the South, must be made to disap? pear.?Progressive Farmer. Does Mr. Tillman consider that his picturesqueness is a quite sufficient return to his constituents, without his performing any unpleasant or Incon? venient service? Has he become valu? able "for ornamental purposes" only? and the price will be sure to advance, The State. 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