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Ubt ??lucbman anb J^outbron. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1909. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed In 1860 and the True Southron In list. The Watchman and Southron mow has the combined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, and Is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. One of Our Croat Wastes. The \alue of the excrement of our domestic animals is far from being appreciated. For instance, the Uni? ted States Department of Agriculture estimates that on January 1, 1909. there were in the States of North Carolina. South Carolina and Virginia 964.000 horses and mules. 1.984,000 cattle. 2.889.000 hogs, and 797.000 sheep. The estimated average value of the manure of these animals for a year la as follows: Horses. $27; cat? tle, $20; hogs. $8; sheep, $2. This gives an annual value to the manure of these animals in the three States named of $89,319,000. Probably one half of this value is lost, but If we estimate the loss as one-third, we an? nually waste or neglect to save sta? ble manure to the value of $29,773. 000. The trouble of feeding live Btoc* and handling manure and the ease with which commercial fertilizers can be bought, have developed an in? difference to the making ind saving of farm manures, while the losses from that made are so general and constant as to escape notice.?Pro? gressive Farmer. Wasting Labor In Other Ways. In Virginia the counties of Acco mac and Northampton aie mainly devoted to the gowlng of 2arly Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes for the Northern market. They are prosper? ous counties of small farm* and neat dwellings, but all winter the sweet potato growers rake the pine straw from the woods and haul It on to the land that Is to be planted in eweet potatoes, spread am: plow li under for the potato crop. Of course, the burying of this organic matter does good and they grow j.ood crops of sweet Potators. Uut then in win? ter one's eyes are pained by the bare land ? < I tare after the bit*' crops have been shipped or stored. I have been urging the?e men that It would be far loss laborious to grow a crop of crimson clover to turn for their sweet potatoes, and that the clover would Improve their land far more than the pine straw. One man wrote to me that it would not do as the clover would make too great a growth of vine and make the crop late. Then I met some time ago one of the more progressive far? mers there and asked him if he had tried the clover. He sal 1 that he had, and always tries to hive It, and that he makes better crops by reason of It. Meeting the same man a few days ago. I asked him aboi t his crop. He said that he has made this sea? son 150 barrels per acre a'ter clover, and that one of his neighbors got a growth of crimson clover on land that would not make mor > than fif? teen bushels of corn per acre, and turned the clover under and made 127 barrels of potatoes per acre after liberally fertilising the clover with acid phosphate and potash. And I will warrant that that land will now make more than fifteen bushels of corn per acre from that one effort to Improve It. When one can get largo crops of potatoee from the sowing of a few bushels of clover seed, larger crops than by laboriously raking the forest and hauling pine straw, it Is amazing that others do not see it. Where I now live, the man who falls to put clover In his corn and among all his truck crops of watermelons, canta? loupe* and tomatoes is considered be? hind the times. As I have often said, cowpeas In summer and crimson clover In winter muke a team for the Improvement of the land and the feeding of stock that canrnt be beat? en.?Progressive Farmer. Whv !,l\e u t.overnment Lie? Put in any case wo ought to play fair and be honest. Since we have rnment by Business, let us say s<? honestly and let Business have Its WSy WlthOUl these degrading di> ?Ulees, advises Mr. Charles Bdward RUSsell .ii Sue . s Magazin?. W?. .1 ever laws Business finds are hostile to Its welfare Ought to be abolished; t?? keep these op the statute booae * e t I e while Business, by devious means secure* their nullifu a'.n-u Is intoler? able. If there arc any laws that Ku? ? n .1 t ? hi-. . ? .,. t. I. !. f us try to arrange our affairs so that Business run secure such laws with? out maintaining Timothy Sullivan at Albany and Joseph Cannon at Wash? ington. \\> are a Buslnos* nation; we have the flr,st Business govern* ment In the world; lot us say ? so frankly and so,uaroly, play the game to the limit, and see what the results will be. And let us have no more pretense that we mean anything Farmers' Union News ?AND 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 tilt Union are requested to use these columns. Also to publish such clippings from the agricultural papers and Govern? ment Bulletins as I thlnl will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori? ginal articles by any of o* r readers telling of their successes or failures will be appreciated and | jblished. 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. Mayesville. S. C. Greater Sumter County." Greater Sumter County should be the slogan of every loyal citizen re? siding in the county. How may this be brought about? By keeping com? petent officials at the helm of her affairs? This will help considerably in the forward march; but officials may do all in their power ami still the rank and file may flounder along. There is an economic problem con? fronting every man of this commu? nity (Sumter County). of which Sumter City is the centre. That is: how may we the citizens of Sumter County get more of this medium of exchange, called money? The Pied? mont region of this State has thou? sands of dollars distributed each month as wages to its cotton mill hands; and every farmer and busi? ness man in that region lias B chance to obtain a portion of it. The Iralnage of Sumter bounty, on the account of its being so level, is not *uch as to invite the thickly settled ommunities made nec^snry . n the ?MOUnt of the mills. 00 let Ul look to some other source. A irrcat deal 3f the timber has been taken off and we need what is left right here at homo. So holy from that score. Mow about our farms? Can th?ir production be Increased? Right here ios tiif secret of the "Greater Bum tef County.' Why. as we ride along the roads, do we see a field produc? ing u bale of cotton or forty bushels rjf corn to the acrv, and an adjoin? ing field of the same kind of soil, lacking humus oaly, producing ten to fifteen bush<b of com and a third of a bale of cotton? It takes prac? tically the same amount of cultiva? tion for each. Such differences should1 not be, and as a result, many of the so-called farmers are havUlfl the farm and going to the city. The lands are being bought up in large farms, and are being cultivated un? der the direction of an overseer. These conditions tend to ruin society In the country and make ?it hard for the few remaining farmers to educate their children and keep up ,their churches. An overseer works for Immediate results and does not plan Improvements for years to come. The real owner of the land must be interested to put into execution plans for permaney^improvement. If the production on the farms is to be Increased, then there must be more Interest and enthusiasm Inject? ed Into farming. How can this be done? The United States Govern? ment has taken a hand in the mat? ter and Is placing a Demonstration Agent in almost every County in South Carolina and other States of the South to awaken renewed in? terest in these worn out soils. The Government knows that If the pro? duction Is increased that consump? tion will also be Increased, thereby Increasing the revenue of the Gov? ernment. As the profits of the farm Increase. tho banking business grows, the merchant sells higher class articles on which he Justly realizes more profits, and every In? dustry Is stimulated thereby. There Is l work and a great work' for every man of brains. Fortunately or unfortunately Providence lives t< every man the lame amount of gray matter, and, according to hlfl talents every man should leave an account "i hix life. Now. would it not be I business proposition OH the part ol tho business men to do ?v? rythin in their power to stimulate an in? terest In scientific farming. Th? gumter Rank led oft In the right direction, last year", offering' some' vaf? ttgble prizes for the highest produc? tion of corn per acre, among het patrons. iA [ others join in and show the. Government that yo?.are wllllni to cooperate. This year we must push the School BwyH' Contest! foi In the youth of the land is tli?' hop* of the country. A numher of farmers are-still ne? looting the problem of procuring th< best seed, and keeping it bred uj by Judiciously selecting it In th< Fall of the year. A small amount 01 money wisely spent along this line might bring In a handsome return Sumtor County needs more lntores1 in a "County Fair." Pickens Coun? ty has a splendid exhibit each year In so small a town as Pickens, and the soil of Pickens County will not begin to compare in natural fertility with that of Sumter. The news? papers are contributing a great deal in the way of advertisemer t of any? thing that helps in the forward movement. With their help, and we may safely count upon that, let us resolve that no County, not even Marlboro or Darlington, shall be in lead, when it comes to growing the crop of nineteen hundred and ten. J. Frank Williams. *."<)() MORE A VF.Alt FARMING: HOW TO GET IT. By Making and Saving Farm Man tires. The making and saving of farm manures is of such basic and vital importance to soil fertility that it might well be made the subject of a dozen <>r m?-re articles the length of this one. it can, therefore, only be briefly treated in the most general way in this article. Wiiiie tew will deny that barnyard manure is the oldest and best general fertiliser we have, it is not largelv used in Southern agriculture. The Intelligent labor n< cs sary to iced and care for the live stock required to make this manure and the ex? pense and heavy labor of handling it, with its tendency to loss of value when not properly handled, all com - bino to make its use dillicult if not unpopular. Moreover, the Introduc? tion of commercial fertilizers, which are much more conveniently handled, and the discovery of the manner in V/hloh our numerous legumes improve the soil, have led us to substitute these for barnyard manure, under the ; erroneous impression that they can profitably take Its place in maintain? ing or increasing soil fertilty. The Gold Mine of the Farm. Professor Hopkins, of Illinois, has estimated from carefully prepared data that the manure produced by live stock In this country, if it was economically saved and applied. is worth more than the whole corn crop rroduced. And yet, even when live stock are fed, what a waste there Is of this mine of agricultural wealth. In the best agricultural sections of southeastern Pennsylvania I have seen barn after barn with little win? dows in the rear of the horse stalls from which the manure is thrown out in heaps against the barn to He in heaps and beat and wash away un? der the eaves till more than half Its food for crops has been wasted. Then I have seen farmers there loading this wasted manure on wag? ons and hauling it to the fields and then laboriously forking it of into piles over the field to lie there, in many cases, all winter to further waste and then to be handled again, when it could have been loaded on a manure spreader and been spread at once where plants could find it. And I have seen in the South the little accumulation from the few cat? tle kept left to lie and waste In the open lot and in the spring hauled out and with much labor mixed with dirt from the fence rows, when it should have been hauled and spread at once as fast as collected. I visited once an intelligent farmer in Alabama, who was breeding fine stock and making large crops of wheat in a section that had been de? voted to all-cotton, and though he kept many cattle. I found his barn? yard so clean that a lady could have walked over it in slippers. This man r allied that his manure was a gold mire and did not let it run to waste He spid that when he lio?nn to grow wheat, he was laughed at, but he persevered, though his first crop was but six bushels per acre, and when I was there he was making 1,000 to 5, 000 bushels of wheat at the rate of thirty-live bueheli per acre. He was a man who found tha it paid to feed c:Ut!e in the Ho and make manure. Growing large crops Of wheat, he did not have to rake pine BtTOW for bedding, but had a great surplus of straw, and some of this he used for covering old red gall! and gullies on his farm. He showed me large spots which were formerly bare galls. He cover? ed them two feet deep with Wheat straw and let it lie there to stop the frosting off and washing until it was completely rotted. Then the rotten straw plowed down deeply put some humus into the .soil and the gall was no more. In the gullies filled with straw the soil collected, and soon the gullies could be plowed in and were HAD CATARRH THIRTY YEARS. Ex-Congressman i Meeklson Gives Praise To Pe-ru-iia For His Relief From Catarrh. EKISON COMMENDS P'7 RU NA. 7 have used several bottles of Ptr?nm end I feet creatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged to believe that if I use it a short time longer I will be fully cble to eradicate the disease of thirty years' standing."?David Meeklson. other rema:::vAble cases. Mr. Jacob L. Davis, Galena, otone bounty, Mo., writes: "I have b?en in bad health for thirty-seven years, and after taking twelve bottles of your Peruna I am cured." Mr. C. X. Potorson, 183 South Main St., Council Bluffs, Iowa, writes: "1 cannot tell j*ou how much good Peri -i has done me. Constant confinement in toy store began to tell on my b ?Ith, and I felt that I was gradually breaking down. I tried several remedies, but obtained no permanent relief until I took Pe* runa. I felt better Immc diately, end five bottles restored me to complete health." A SINCERE RECOMMENDATION. Mr. D. C. Prosscr, Bravo, Allagen Co., Mich., writes: "Two years ago I was badly afflicted with catarrh of the | tomach. I had had a run of typhoid fever, was very depleted. I could find nothing I could eat e ithout i rinsing dis? tress and sour stomach. Finally I came to the conclusion the! 1 had catarrh of the stomach and seeing Peruna advertised, began to take it. It h >Iped mo soosh and after taking three or four bottles I was entirely cured of tto^uch trouble, and cuu now cat anything.*1 Ask Your Druggist for a Free Peruna Almanac for 1910. no more. Where a man practices a good ro- i tation of crops, grows small grain ' and feeds good forage to cattle, plows ' deeply and subsoils the red hills, he BOOn finds that In the manure made on the farm he has a real gold mine that increases in value and produc tlon year after year. The more man? ure used, the more feed can be '? j grown; the more feed, the more cat- 1 , tie can be fed; and the more manure, the more corn and cotton, until the farmer is Independent of the fertili? zer mixer.?Progressive Farmer. If Its Kid Gloves. Buy them at Schwartz's. Every color. Bvery size. They wear. 12-13-lt. Sec the Crowds at Schwartz's? There is a rtason?first class mer? chandise. Largest variety. Little prices. 12-13-lt. HOLIDAY SPECIALTIES! KEISER CRAVATS Holiday Shipment Red figured effects, deep shades, in rich Satins and Silks Silks specially woven Slip easily under fold collars Keiser-Barathea, bright all-silk, in over sixty plain color-, three qualities Grand Prize St. Lonia World'? Fair for Quality, Workmanahip and Style Nev. y )hk I BtftAi.i.rv.ofF. Bear t '.?. Labt T| HE selection of a suitable i Christmas Gift for a Man or a Boy, is an easy proposition at this rtore. We have so many "just right" things, that it's only a matter of choice in making selections. The thing a Man or Hoy appreciates most? the thin .js he would buy for himself ?are here in great variety and the picking is now at its best. CHOICE 6ARMENTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION CORRECT HEAOWEAR OF ALL SORTS. TOGGERY FROM MAKERS, THAT KNOW HOW. CHOICE OUTFITTING IN ALL THE BEST STYLES. Our store fairly glows with the spirit of Christmas, ami we promise you the best of service, looking or buying. Make your selections early ! The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co., Phone 166, Sumter, S. C.