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Hit GdluKbmun ;mi) ^aaikoK. SATUROAY, FEBRUARY 5, 19(0. The Sumter Watchman was found- j ad In 1860 and the True Southron in lift. The Watchman and Southron tow has the combined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, and Is manifestly the best advertising medium In 8umter. Senator Joe Bailey Is an able man, else the Standard Oil Company would aot have retained him In a legal ca 1 nclty. but that Is not sufficient reason for the Legislators of South Carolina to ask him to come down to Colum? bia to tell them how to vote on the Federal Income tax amendment. Once xgaln the Senate has checked the unwisdom of the House. see Representative Foster's bill may keep the washer woman from wearing her mistress's shirt waist, but what about the washer woman's husband and the boss man's shirt? e \e . t There was a time when the legis? lature received the kicks and cuffs administered by Senator Tillman and thanked him for the attention, but a new generation has come upon the scene. e ? ? The present session of the legis? lature should not adjourn without repealing the statute that makes pos? sible such eajea as the Tillman suit now in the courts. There should be a law by which children could be re? moved, from the custody of an un? worthy or vicious parent?father or mother- but the law under which the Tillman action was taken Is Inhuman in that It places the mother at the mercy of a vindictive husband. MEETING OF COUNTY BOARD. RuergetU' Measure* for Suppression of Small Fox Authorised. Compul? sory Vaccination Ordered?Public Road to Betts Mill to be Opened. The County Bosrd of Commission? ers met Tuesday Feb. 1st. In regular session with all members present. Dr. K 8. Booth. President of the City Board of Heelth , and Health Officer Reardon appeared before the board to confer In respect to the email pox situation In the Boasard's section Mr. Reardon made report of his investigation made at the In? stance of Supervisor Pitts. He said that he found Mr. Madison Yates suffer? ing with a virulent case of small pox and that many of his neighbors had been exposed to contagion. He had vaccinated 1(1 people and advised that vaccination in that section be continued. He also advised that steps be taken to enforce the law as to vaccination, as many people refuse to submit to vaccination. Dr. Booth advised that energetic measures be taken, that the co-oper? ation of Lee County bw secured In the effort to prevent an epidomlc. and that an officer be appointed to go into the infected sections and en? force vaccination and quarantine. He offered the services of Health Officer Reardon as long as he can be ?pared from his regular duties. The Clerk waa directed to write to the County Commissioners of Lee County requesting them to take up the matter in that county. He was Instructed, also, to write to Stats Health Officer Williams, that Stimter County is doing its part but would be glad for him to take up the mat? ter with Lee County and urge co-op? eration on their part. Dr. C. P. Osteen. who wan first called in to attend Mr. Yates ard re? ported the case to the Health Officer, stated that the case Is small pox of the most severe type and the situa? tion In the neighborhood demands that prompt and strict measures be taken If an epidemic Is to be warded off. The patient had visited around In the neighborhood and no precaut? ions had been taken prior to his and the Health Oiflcer's visit. The place is a center for considerable congre? gation of people of that section, being near the cross roads and a country store and that a large number of people had been exposed to infect? ion. He advised that co-operation of Lee County be secured and that the law aa to vaccination and the quar? antine of infected places be lnforced. It was moved and carried that Dr. Oetecn and Health Officer Reardon a* instructed to take such measures as they deemed necessary to. control the situation and stamp out the small pox in the Infected section. Health Officer Reardon whs directed to have warrants Issued for all persons re? fusing to be vaccinated and to comply with the requirements of the health laws of the State. Mr. J. W. Allen presented a peti? tion for a public road leading from the Retts lumber mill to the Mayes ville road. The petition was grant? ed. The Supervisor was Instructed It dispose of the furniture turned over to the county by the dispensary. The removal of a house on Mr. T. D." McLeod's place that Is on the right of way of the public road from Rembert to Plsgah was discussed, but no action was taken. Farmers' Union News - AND Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers ? (Conducted) by E. \V. Dabbs, I'resident Farmers' I'nion of Sunder y County.) j> The Watchman and Southron riaving 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 o.r readers telling of their successes or failures will be appreciated and | abllshed. Trusting this Department will be of mutual oeneflt to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for tl Is Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs. Mayesville, S. C. To the Boys Who Are Thinking of Entering the Corn Contest: A letter from the President of The Sumter Savings Bank, states that the Board of Directors of that Bank are very much interested in promoting better farming and will give a "Cer? tificate of Deposit for $25 bearing 5 per cent, interest to the boy who grows the most corn on one acre or any number of acres. The terms of the contest have been, by them, left in my hands to arrange. I am glad they make their prize "a certificate of deposit." It will encourage the saving habit. The boy winning it, If not now carrying a savings account, will begin with this prize. I trust the other Banks, if they see fit to contribute to the prizes, will make them in the shape of certificate:* of deposit In their savings department. In addition to the above the Osteen Publishing Company, pub? lishers of the Watchman and South? ron and The Daily Item, authorizes me to announce the offer of $50 for the best bushel of seed corn proluc ed by a member of the Boys' Corn Club, the award to be made on the following points: perfection of sample bushel submitted, the yield per acre and the economy in cost of production. This prize Is offered to encourage the development and growth of a type of corn especially adapted to the soil of this section. Those who contest for the prize must be prepar? ed to furnish a brief history of the seed used and furnish an accurate itemized statement of the cost of growing the acre of corn from which the prize bushel is selected. Knight Bros., today put down their unconditional offer of $50 for a first prize to the boy in Sumter county growing the most corn on one acre In 1910. This makes $175 for first prize open to this county. If a Union boy wins the first prize, he receives $100, while If the boy who has the largest yield also has the best bushel of seed corn he will also receive the Osteen Publishing Co's.. prize of $50, making a total of $150. The other ' banks and the mer? chants of Sumter are still to be heard from, and it Is hoped that other public spirited citizens will unite In the effort to Increase the pro? fits from our farms. E. W. Dabbs, President, Sumter County Farmers' Union. Some llandom Thoughts. Articles on winter breaking and plowing under green or cover crops deserve careful reading. There is more winter breaking going on than I ever saw before, anjl soil conditons have been ideal for the best kind of plowing. I wish some of our farm? ers would experiment with running a spike tooth harrow over this broken land every week until planting time. Take one acre, and leave the harrow on it and once a week, when the ground is dry, hitch up a team and thoroughly harrow the surface. An Acme harrow would do Just as well or may be better. Keep this up un? til time to bed and plant, or rather lay off and plant level, and there could be no question of getting a stand and early development of the young plants. Then keep account of the erops grown and see if the har ro w Inga paid. It Is worth a trial. E. W. D. HOYS COHN CONTEST. "Hie school boys of Sumter, city and county are requested to meet at the Court House it 11 o'cloc c, a. m. on Saturduy, Feb. 12th. for the pur? pose of organizing the Sumter County Boy's Corn Club. Valuable prizes will be offered to those who succeed best with one acre of corn. S. D. Cain, County Superintendent of Education. Editor Farmers Union De larment, Watchman and Southron: Mr. S. D. Cain, County SuperIn? tendant of Education, has called a meeting of all the boys who have agreed to Join the "Sumtei County Boys Corn Club," and all of those who wish to join, to meet In Sumter Saturday a. m. Feb. the 12th. An organization with President, Vice President, and Secretary, will be perfected; and information and in? structions as to the methods to be carried out in growing the corn, will be given the boys. The instructions will cover how to select and breed the best seed. Let each boy, or man that wishes, bring along thirty or forty of his best selected seed ears, and an expert from the De? partment of Agriculture at Washing? ton, will select the best seed ear, and explain wherein the corn fails to conform to a true type. This is a proposition in which there is no chance of losing and every boy that joins the club is sure to win. If ho wins neither of the National. State, nor County prizes, of which there are a number, amounting in value to hundreds of dollars, he Is sure to gain some experience and in? formation that will be of Inestimable value all the rest of his life. Some of the business men of Sumter are especially active in encouraging the organization and creating- interest In the "Boy's Corn Club," and probab j ly all will bt when It is brought j to their attention. Notably among these are Mr. R. I. Man? ning and Mr. Lee Scarborough, who will guarantee a substantial prize fund. The Farmers' Union has al? ready donated fifty dollars. There will be at least a half dozen county prizes offered and the boy who wins first prize will get more than fifty dollars In cash, besides the chances at the State and National prizes Then he may have the opportunity of selling his corn for seed at a fancy price. Bascom Usher, the Marlboro boy, who won the National prize from South Carolina, sold all of his corn to the Government for two dollars per bushel. I should like very much to see every school In the county well represented at the court house Saturday, A. M., February 12. I believe the boys will take hold and continue to keep Sumter county among the leaders as she has al? ways been. J. FRANK WILLIAMS. Winter Plowing. By Tait Butler. Soils are formed by the weather? ing of rocks. That is, the effect of the weather-air, moisture, frost, etc., up? on rocks is to break them up and finally pulverize them and mak* them Into soil. The weathering of the soil further tends to break up and pulver? ise the particles, and the smaller the foil particles, the more plant foods set free or made Into condition for the plants to use. Winter plowing adds to the weath ing effects of the winter freezes and rains on soil. Is this desirable? It is of Itself, wholly so; but there nay follow results which are undesirable. These undesirable results should always be kept in mind, but they are not so serious nor so difficult to over? come as to prevent the winter plowing of practically all ends not growing winter crops. Objections to Plowing in Winter. In this Southern country probably the most serious objection to winter plowing is that it increases the tend? ency to wash off certain lands, those In the valleys that overfllow, in which this overflow Is accompanied by the formation of currents, and those hill lands which lie in such manner as to causes certain aroe4 to receive large quantities of water from other areas In addition to that which falls direct? ly upon them. In many cases, in fact, in the most cases?ditching, ter? racing and proper plowing will cor? rect these defects. Of course, there is a greater prob? ability of finding the lands too wet for plowing in the winter than in the fall; but while lands should never be plowed too wet, it remains a fact thnt the winter plowing of lands when too wet does comp uitavely little harm because of the freezes and rains which follow and the absence of a hot sun to cause the baking of the soil. Directly stated, the winter plowing of lands throws them up In? to such loose condition that the hetavy rains of winter have more op? portunity to wash the bare, loose soil away and, even when this does not occur, to leach out and waste the soluble or available nitrogen. These are real objections which we should strive to overcome be? cause the other effects are so bene? ficial that we can not afford to neg? lect winter plowing as an aid to bet? ter farming. Some of the beneficial effects ^of winter plowing may be briefly stated is follows: All grass, weeds, stalks, etc., which are on the land may be plowed under, where they will at least partially decay and Improve the texture of the soil and help to feed the next crop grown on the land. If not plowed under until spring, it may become necessary to burn them in order to get the land in condition to plant. If the quantities of these ma? terials on the land be large, they can? not be turned under late in the spring and the land gotten into sat? isfactory condition for planting. This leads to the burning of this much needed humus-forming material, or the results are an improperly prepar? ed seed bed. We have thought we had to burn these materials because our small plows would not turn them un? der, but if we had plowed them under as best we could in the fall and win? ter, even with our small plows, that part remaining uncovered could eas? ily have been managed by a spring plowing. Large plows and winter turning are both needed to handle the large quantities of grass and weeds now on our fields, but winter plowing alone will help us to save most of them and do away with the need of burning the very stuff our lands need most. Because of our small plows it may require two breakings to work ail this material into the soil, and to do this, the first breaking should be done as soon as possible so as to get the advantage of the winter weathering in pulverizing the soil and starting the decay of this trash. Another advantage derived from winter plowing is that the labor and teams are given something to do in a slack time, and better ?still, this something done in the winter will aid in putting the land In condition for seeding early next spring when there is a rush of work to be done. We frequently give as an excuse for insufficient preparation of the seed bed that the rush of work will not permit of giving the necessary time to (more thoroughly prepare the land. If more fall and winter plow? ing were done, the land could be easier prepared for the seed and the spring work would be more easily and thoroughly done. Winter plowing also causes the lands to dry out and warm up earlier in the spring, there? by making earlier planting practi? cable. When Deep Plowing Should Be Done. Much Is heard these days of the necessity for deeper plowing. There is no question but deep and better plowing is needed If our soils are to be materially Improved in fertility, but deep plowing: is an expensive op? eration and unless done at the right time, may fail to yield results which will pay for the greater expense. The time to do deep plowing is unques? tionably in the fall and winter. There is more time and other matters are not so pressing; hence a better op? portunity to do the work. Again when the plowing is to be done deeper than usual, it is of th greatest im? portance that the subsoil be dry, In the fall and early winter the sub? soil is usually in ideal condition for breaking. Moreover, If new soil ia to be turned up, it should be done In the fall or early winter so that the frost and rain may break it up and give it that weathering necessary to make live soil out of it. There is still another reason why deep plowing should be done in the fall and win? ter: If done in the spring the land may not have had time to settle suf flcintly before planting time and the dry weather which sometimes corns in the spring may be dry out the loose soil that there is not sufficient moisture left to sprout the seeds. Winter plowing also destroys many of those insect pests which prey on the young plants, by expos? ing them to the winter weather. Probably the most important rea? son for winter pfowing has purpose? ly been left to the last. It is simply the weathering effect of the winter frost and rains on the soil particles. "Tillage is manure" when it causes locked up plant foods to be broken down and made soluble in the soil water. The air, the freezing and ex pansion of the moisture In the soil, and the rains are our greatest natu? ral aids to the setting free of the plant foods In the soils. The finer the soil particles, the more readily these agencies can act on all parts of the soil, hence the advanatge of winter plowing which turns up to the weather the deep, dead soils that they may by nature's agencies be made to yield up their plant foods for the growing of crops.?Progress? ive Farmer." Hope! thou nurse of young desire. ?Bickerstoff. 1 ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. AVcgctablePrcparationforAs s iraila t ing rhe Food and Regula ting the S lomachs andBowels of Infants /Children I ft Promotes Di?es lion Cheerful 1 nessandRest.Containsncitterl Opiuu.Moiphine norMiDcraL Not Narcotic. 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Dealer ln Pure Drugs and Medicines, CHOICE PERFUMES rAND FINE TOILET ARTICLES, COMBS AND BRUSHES, PATENT MEDICINES AND DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, A FULL LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. :: :: :: :: :: OUR MOTTO: PURE AND RELIABLE GOODS. IK Our stock is complete and we cheerfully solicit your patronage. :: :: :: Banking. The year 1909 brought us many desirable new accounts, and a largely Increased volume of business. We commence 1910 stronger and better prepared than ever be? fore to please our patrons. We solicit your account. The Farmers' Bank and Trust Co. No Man? Can place a limit on YOUR possi? bilities, but a GROWING bank account with a GROWING bank will increase them. We solicit your banking busi? ness. Bank of Sumter