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10 FURNISH INOCULATIONS. WlIX MM.I. M \ I i III \l lo l \HM I'HS AT CXSsT. _ Vsrtous Kinds of Nltro-Culiore* lo be Furnished by Department of Ag rWnhnrr Mt t owl of Forty tent* per Aero. Columbia. April ||.?Tnder. the act of the general assembly passed at ths last session upon my recom? mendation." salt! Commissioner Wat son yesterdav. "srltbin a week we fftll be able, through the department. Is furnish to ths farmer, carriage charges prepsid. soil inoculating material, pure bred and virulent, at .0 cents an aere for one sere or for any number of acres and for all leguminous plants, hoth summer and winter Prices that hare prevailed for the material here? tofore have been practically prohibi? tive? 91 for an sere stse and not less than 11.15 an acre for lOo-acre lots. The South Carolina farmer will now be in s position to get his costly ni? trogen free from the air by farming the air. 1 do not believe that there Is anything that has ever been done that meune more to the future prosperity of ths Htate than the action of tho general assembly which has made It possible for the average fsrmer to forsake soil robbery and tum nulckly and effectively to soil building." Commissioner Watson has been st arors on the proposition since the ad? journment of the general assembly, his purpose having been to.romplete arrangements for furnishing the cul? tures In time for the summer legumes, such as cow peas, peanuts, soy bean* and velvet beans. He has Investigat? ed thoroughly all methods employed in other States, and all processes of manufacturing the cultures and in tin end says he has exercised his author? ity usder the set to secure only high class, virulent bacterial cultures in unlimited quantities, snd at the lowest pries possible for material of the character that will bs furnished. Commissioner Watson said yester? day that the general use of legumes properly Inoculated meant the quick end successful growing of forage crops and that meant the establish? ment of a real live stock Industry, snd live slock meant more than he dared predict, without taking Into consid? eration the more far-reaching effect on the soil Itself. Ths act of the general assembly referred to b#ars ths title. "To pro? vide inoculation material for legumi? nous crops and for the distribution mt ths same to ths cltisens of South C*">Uaa." It differs from the acts in Oeorgia and North Carolina. It provides that the commissioner of sgrlcuiture whall make arrangement with one or more reputable manu? facturers of inoculation cultures for she supply of cultures st or as near as possible at the cost of production, to bs furnished through the depart? ment to ths fsrmera. or. failing there? in, to manufacture in the Htate liboia tories ths culturee and furnish them at actual cost. The other acts refer? red to simply require the State to manufacture and allow- no alternative. Commissioner Watson was convinced that ths beet prop.?nimm was not to put ths Stats laboratories to manu? facturing, but to make the authorized arrangement and have regular exam? ination* made.of the material In the Stats laboratories. The effort has been made to get the best cultures obtainable in the coun? try snd with this In view the con? tract for the cultures has been made with the Standard Nltrogerm c ompany of New Jersey, guaranteed by the Barp-Thomas Farmogerm companv of New Jersey, manufacturers of tin culture known ss "farmogerm." At the price named no attempt fftll be msde to put out cultures tlmt will stand indefinitely. Columbia being the centrally located iaSUlPlllhUI point, ths department considers that it Is easy, as Ir in tSHalgdjj best, for ths farmers to order culture* us tie \ need them. The nitrocultur? * to (>? distributed, therefore. b> < gsISS, will bo cultures thst must d within 3S days snd preferably within ihre? wsel - The price of 4<? SOSU PSf errs ?. II include packing. addreesliiK snd postage or express to destination No shipments will he made on < O, I? orders. Order blanks will SS furnish ed by the department and the easb i In ths form of postal money ordei or check or currency most ac< ompany the order. In ea'h case the date oi shipment will be ntitmp''d o,, tin package. Kach bottle will Si gjtSSjfgt* panled by a full fSTOStftoS Pst ttSS will bear ths label of the department of agriculture, commerce and Indus tries and none other. The label iv|| be recognised fron? Its alfalfa plan) border encircling a palSSSttS ii?-? heailug on s .*r >ll the word Nino culture." The packages will be ii, one Mt re and five-acre slses. A stork siiflbieiii to nwel nil sen sonable demund* will be carried in ths distribution an I sbipi-m.. houdnuli ? ters In Columbia, now bem* < -o iblish ed In quarters adjoining the de pet mental offices, and shipments will ?.. made th* riiy of the re*e4p4 ..i lb. der, If desired. The dletrlimtlag o (lot* will Ii? In charge Of Kdmuu A. Felder, manager of t*??* Southern de? partment of the I Si rp-Thomas Farm <'V.*tmi coinpan.\. who will look care? fully to ilit; promptness of all ship metit * upon orders certified front the department. The department will have ready ioi distribution this week a very com? plete bulletin, in plain language, so thai ;m> farmer may understand it, dealing with inoculation, explaining its use, telling how to prepare the need and the soil, and Hiving complete instructions for all of the various le? guminous crops; .this bulletin will be tree to everybody." said Commission? er Watson yesterday. The crops that will be dealt with in the bulletin will be those more likely to be used, but the department will be in position to furnish cultures for the whole gamut of legumes and cut gardeners can Increase their yields by securing bacteria at the price offered. The department will bv In position almost Immediately to furnish the cultures for all of the following: Alfalfa or lucerne, red (lover, mammoth clover, crimson clo\er, white clover, burr clover, sweet i lover, yellow clover, yellow trefoil, berseem clover. Japan clover, garden peas, chick peas, or garbanza Canada lo-10' peas, sweet peas, tangier pea, pidgeon pea, Jerusalem, cow peas, SO] luMtis, velvet beans, sword or jack beans, garden beans, lima beans, moth beans, horse beans, kudzu, vetch (spring and winter), peanuts, manl clllo, beggar weed, lupins, lentils, aantfoin, fenugreek, Serradella, wis? taria, lespedeza, sand clover and oth?r legumes . Mixed Off composit cultures will also be supplied as follows: 1. Good for red, white, crimson, al nike, mammoth and berseem clover. 2. Good for alfalfa or lucerne and xw eet clover. 3. Good for vetch and canada field peas. 4. Good for soy beans and cow peas. 6. Good for garden peas, garden beans and sweet peas. Applications for order blanks may he mailed to the department now and orders may follow as soon as those desiring bacteria for cow peas, pea? nuts, soy beans and velvet beans are i' ady to do so. Within ten days the department will be in position to com? mence shipment "The next forward step that we need to take now following the se? curing of cultures for legumes," said Commissioner Watson, "Is to secure lime for the farmer at a living figure t for sweetening the sour soils and re? storing carbonate of lime to the soil. This I believe we are on the way to accomplish before fall. And then wc must do something towards securing and using properly raw rock phos? phate at a reasonable figure and cou? ple Its use with an intelligent use of commercial fertilizers. When we get these three things accomplished, ag? riculture m South Carolna Is going to he something that will make the whole country take notice and no collapse of a cotton market or manip? ulation of the price of cotton will ever again make gray hairs in the head of any farmer." lit'lit i AltS SINKING REVENGE. Minister Suggests Ttiat Rage Over Alleged Servian Cruelties May Have I teen CauKC. Washington. April 12.?Semi-official mail advices to Stephen Paranctoff, Mulgarlan minister here, declared to? day that the recent raid by irregular Mulgarlan soldiers into Servia prob? ably was Instigated by reports of cruelties indicted on Bulgarians liv? ing in that part of Macedonia now un? it i Servian rule. A i ? port to Soli.i H orn the gov? ernor ol Strumnitza snid that recent > considerable number of refugees. M u I ga r la ns and Turks, arrived from lta4o\1sh in Servian Macedonia." The governor said: "The population in llM county of Madnvish have been subjected la retrular maaaaore In the full sense of the word. All of tlw Inhabitant*, irrespective of na? tionality or sex, are being killed by the Servians in a most cruel manner. If this continues the whole Macedon kai region will soon bf devastated and depopulated." Mr. P.u inteoff asserted that there OOVM be no truth In a published re? port from Nleh via Pa til that on the boi*tea <?f some of the MuMgarinns in Um raaaal rale! were found Bulgarian eaatal aarti containing views of Uffumnltaa, urhiek wore taken to In? IfOate 'liit i lie i ,iid u ;is pi.tuned on Mulgarlan territory THREE STRICKEN, ONE IHM?. M- um. in Attacks son*, or Oraaaaliwii <ountv Mini. Orangeburg. April \2?Den Gibson, the || vt n-oid son of Mr. Hear) Gibson, of Ooffdova, tins county, died this afternoon after an illness nf < v aval days. Thre? of Mr. Gibson's eeaa um re Striekel with the same malady, which the doctors pffOnounC? e<1 eeretn o-sphiu 1 meningitis, und the ntb?i two. Mack l#cc and Fritz, nre now dusperutel> ill. GRAND JURY ENDORSES PUN. _ TWI IA K MEMBERS SKiN RECOM-I MSNDATION FOR SHED FOR CFRii MARKET. Ask Tliat County Lot be Set Aside for Tlds Purpose and Tlist Hoard of Commissioner* Erect Suitable Structure?l'orema ii Heartily En? dorse-, Scheme. The grand jury of Sumter County has recommended that the County Commissioners set aside the property owned by the county, on the southern edge of the court house lot for the use of a public market, and that the county commissioners expend such money as may be necessary, not to ex? ceed seven hundred and fifty dollars for a curb market shed. A copy of the recommendation, signed by twelve of the eighteen jurors, printed below, has been fur? nished by Mr. C. Elvin Stubbs, him? self a member of the grand jury for the year 1915. Appreciating the value of the curb market to the farmers of Sumter county and to the consumers of Sum? ter, and having watched the opera? tion and success of this market very ! closely, and hearing a great many consumers, and many farmers express their desire for a curb market shed to be erected by the county commis? sioners, Mr. Stubbs Interested him? self to the extent that he had mem? bers of the grand jury to discuss this matter with the result that the rec? ommendation herein mentioned was made. To the Supervisor and County Board of Commissioner for Sumter County. Gentlemen: We, the undersigned, members of the grand jury for Sum? ter county for the present year, here? by respectfully recommend, that you do set aside the property owned by the county on the southern edge of the court house lot on the southern side of the Law Range, for the use of the public market, and that you do expend for the purpose of erecting a suitablo market building thereon for the use of the public such amount as may be necessary, not ex.?? eding. however, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars. We believe that the expenditure will result In great good, not only to the citizens of this city of Sumter, but more especialy to to the farmers of Sumter county, thereby giving them a fit and suitable place to dispose of their country pro? duce, and thereby bring the produc? er and the consumer together, elimi? nating the middle man, and reduce the cost of living for those who re? side In the city of Sumter. Respectfully submitted, J. C. Dunbar, Foreman, J. S. Folk. S. A. Harvln, C. E. Stubbs. B. O. Cantey, J. P. Rrunson, J. W. Kinard, W. J. Crowson, C. S. Mason. Willie Shaw, J. W. Spencer, Thos. J. Baker. Mr. Stubbs says that everyone of the grand jury whose names appear to the recommendation, signed without the slightest hesitation, and that without exception every one express? ed himself as heartily in favor of the county erecting the market shed, and spoke highly of the value and import? ance of the curb market. Foreman J. C. Dunbar, of the grand jury, one of the most progres? sive farmers of the county, and five other leading Sumter county farmers on the jury who signed the recom? mendation, were outspoken In their endorsement of the curb market and their desire to see it maintained and its usefulness extended. .Mr. Dunbar will present the rec ommendation to the county commis? sioners at their next meeting, at the special meeting to be held this month if possible. Mr. Dunbar in speaking of the necessity for a general market shed emphasized the fact that the producers receive greater prices for ibeii- produce, and the consumers get fresh, wholesome and palatable foodstuffs for much less by the elim? ination of tho middle man's profits. He says that the countv should do anything within reason to cooperate with the consumers in providing mar? ket facilities to encourage the farmers to "live at home" snd to diversify thSlr crops, while at the same time gsttlng better pricea by dealing di? rectly with the consumers. Hs be? lieves also that the thousands of eon sumera should be protected by reduc? ing the rost of living. Every section of Sumter county is represented by the grand jurors in the recommenda? tion. Several of the grand jury could no! be reached by Mr. stubbs. He be? lieves that he could have secured seventeen out of eighteen of the jurors bad he waited, but a majority is suf? ficient under grand jury working rules. With this recommendation from ?USh high authc Ity as the grand jury and the guarantee of the Sumter county delegation that the next gen? eral assembly will enact a bill rati tying the expenditure of the neces? sary money and the use of the county property, added thereto a well dellned and healthy public sentiment both in county and city favoring the rec? ommendation of the jury, surely the county commissioners can now see no reason for not reconsidering their rofusal at their last meeting to erect the curb market shed. WANTS STRKKTS WIDENED. Secretary Reardon Tells of Need of Making I^rogressive Move. "Any Sumter citizens who doubt the advisability of widening Sumter's streets should take a ride from Sumter to Mayesville and see the big improve? ments brought about by the widen? ing of that road," said Secretary Keardon, of the Chamber of Com? merce. "Through Scape O'er and Rocky muff Swamps particularly the widen* ItlS has been exceedingly beneficial. Where heretofore have been narrow, (me vehicle causeways are now roads sufficient for three vehicles to pass. The country looks different in many places. The road is in line shape, well drained, ?nd wide ditches prevent plowing up of the road bed. Many Sumter citizens have ap? proached Secretary Keardon and sug? gested that he try to have North Main street widened and other nar? row streets before circulating the petition for the election to issue bonds for street paving. Miss Lucia Roach has already made application to the secretary to donate whatever land is necessary for widen? ing North Main street and her offer alone covers a strip of land over five hundred feet in length. Miss Roach also offers a strip of land sixty feet wide, or wider if necessary, through her lands covering a length of nearly an eighth of a mile to extend Live Oak street through to North Mag? nolia street, and to extend North Magnolia to intersect the proposed Live Oak street extension. Those citizens interested in widen? ing streets and paving should get busy helping to build up interest in the widening movement, and should also help out in getting the petitions sign? ed to order the election for street and sidewalk paving. . .HARDWICK QUITS SOUTHERN. Southern Railway Passenger Traffic Manager Retires From Active Ser? vice. Columbia, April 15.?Samuel H. Hardwick, passenger traffic manager of the Southern railway for many years, is to retire today because of 111 health and will settle in Montgom? ery, his native city, W. H. Tayloe suc? ceeding him. Information of the change reached Columbia in the form of a telegram, as follows, to W. E. Mc?ee, assistant general passenger agent of the Southern, with head? quarters here: "Announcement is made by the management of the Southern railway of the retirement of S. H. Hardwick as passenger traffic manager because of ill health, and the appointment of Mr. Harwick as general agent of passenger traffic de? partment, with headquarters in Mont? gomery, Ala., his native city. Mr. Hardwick has been connected with the Southern railway and its predecessors in continuous service extending over 40 years and has effectively and suc? cessfully lllled various positions, from that of telegraph operator, his first position as a youth, to and including the office of passenger traffic man? ager. Mr. W. H. Tayloe has been appointed passenger traffic manager of the Southern railway, succeeding Mr. Hardwick. Mr. Tayloe is a native of Richmond county. Virginia, and began his career in the service of the Southern railway and its predecessors as*a stenographer and has tilled suc? cessive positions as passenger agent, then general passenger agent and lat? terly as traffic manager of the Chesa? peake Steamshp Company. These changes and appointments are effec? tive April 15.,1915." Real Estate Transfers. Master to W. I. Whitehead, 7 4 acre tract, $50.00. Geo. Harvtn to B. w. A. Bftltman, lot on Webb Avenue, south of city, $50.00. Naomi Dine? Smith to Eugenia P. Dines and Mamie A. Dines, lot on Harvln Street, lot on Manning Avenue and two lots on Bee Street, $1.00 and ol her considerations. Perry Moses. Jr.. to D. C. Shaw, l<jt on Sumter Street, $1,750. Master to W. P. Flake, four lots southwest of city, $5o.00. <io to Methodist Conference. Messrs. J. B. R. Goodman, Hen Mitchell, J. I!. Harnes. J, 15. Wilson and J. M. Kodgers, of the llroad St reel Methodisl Church have gone to the district conference at Beth?ne. The effort to have a curb market, .'bed erected on the lot adjacent to the Court I Ions?- square has not been abandoned.. IMPORTANT ITEMS OF CROP OUB TURK. Harrow and Werdet* should b? Used Mueli at This Season?County Agent Discusses Crops and Tenant Kra? tern. Right now is probably the moit io? portant part of the season In pro? ducing a crop. About half of the cul? tivation of most crops should be done before the seed is placed in the ground. This year of all years, a great deal of early cultivation should be done for a three fold purpose?to COnaarvt the moisture, to kill grass and weeds, and to keep the soil pul? verized so that the air, sunshine, and moisture can make available the plant food in the soil for the plants. A great many farmers in this county are depending almost entirely upon the plant food in the soil to grow their crops, while a majority have reduced the amount of fertiliser that they have been using about fifty per cent. The seed bed on nearly all of the farms has already been prepared, and there is not anything worthwhile that we can do to add to the depth of prepara? tion, but where the land has not been planted the harrow should be run over the land, and it should he run over land after the seed is planted, as soon as the land is rained upon. One of the defects in our farming sys? tem in Sumter county, is the failure to run the harrow and weeder enough at this season of the year. I am glad to see so many farmers using harrows and weeders on their oats this spring. If it continues dry the harrowing will do more good than a heavy applica? tion of nitrate of soda without the harrowing. The weeder run over cot? ton after it comes up will do a great deal toward destroying that crop of May grass thai, all farmers dread. I have seen farmers in this county pay a dollar an acre for chopping some grassy cotton when one or two weed ings at a cost of ten to fifteen cents per acre would have kept the grass and weeds down, so that no more than the usual price would have had to be paid, beside the cotton being left in much better shape for plow? ing, I wonder how many farmers in Sumter county in planning their crops, \ry to estimate the difference in the amount of fertility left in the soil by different crops? On the Bethel School Demonstration, we have three acres planted at this time in oats and vetch. The land is fairly uniform and was seeded at the same time in exactly the same way. The two acres that was in corn and peas and oats and peas are much better than the acre that was in cotton last year. If the farmers of Sumter county ever succeed In growing good crops without large quantities of costly commercial fertilizers, it is necessary for them to rotate their crops and grow more of the> summer and winter legumes, and begin raising live stock. I believe that the farmers of Sumter are awaking to the fact that a good bermuda pas? ture is essential to every farm, worthy of tho name of being called a farm. With bermuda for summer pasturage, and burr clover for winter the cost of keeping cattle and hogs In a healthy growing condition can be reduced to a minimum. We also need more good barns on a great many farms in the county. Mr. R. B. White, R. 1. Sum? ter, has a model barn that any one contemplating building a barn would be well paid for making a visit to see it. He has some burr clover and ber? muda that is looking good and is planting eight acres of his best land around his barn with a view of fenc? ing it. Mr. White is not taking ihe view of pasture land that I once heard a man remark about pasture land. This man was showing his farm to a man trying to sell it. The prospec? tive buyer objected to a large field of barren waste land on the farm at the price it was being offered, and the man who was trying to t 11 the land replied, that you always need some waste land on a farm for a pasture. I should like to see a change made in the way a great deal of the land is rented in this county. Good farmers tell me that they cannot rent land but for one year, and that If they im? prove the land that the rent is raised. In other words, land owners instead of cooperating with their tenants and encouraging them to build up their land, they encourage by the way they rent the land, the taking off of the land a great deal that would better pay the tenant to leave on the land to help him make another crop, if he knew that he was going to get the beenftt Of it. No land owner should rent his land without an understand? ing what was going to he planted on it. A smaller rent should be charged for crops that add fertility to the soil, than for soil robbing crops. Until this fact is recognised we may ex? pect to have the eyesores in the shape of la i ge farms along tho roads with poor tenant houses small crops with nothing green on the land in the win? ter, and renting for the mere pittance of three to four dollars per acre; and not worth that. Looking at the situation from every standpoint, I cannot but believe that the depression in the price of cotton i last fall will result in ultimate good and when the boll weevil makes his appearance we will he better prepar? ed to meet him. J. Frank Williams. MANNING'S BOOSTER WEEK. Cliatitauqua Opens with special Ex? ercises?Big Auto Parade. Manning, April 13.?The Booster club chautauqua in Manning opened auspiciously yesterday morning with exercises in the court house and con? tinued in the afternoon and evening with concerts and lectures in the au? ditorium of the graded school. The first feature In the morning was an excellent and timely address by E. J. Watson, State commissioner of agri? culture, the burden of whose mes? sage was the importance of replen? ishing the earth and producing neces? sary supplies on the afrm instead of robbing the earth of its natural fer? tility by using commercial fertilizers to produce one crop to sell while buy? ing food and all necessaries from abroad. It was an old story but fresh? ly and vigorously told with iteration of well known facts to impress the truth. He was followed in an in? teresting and instructive address by John Lb McLaurin, State warehouse commissioner, who explained the ? purpose and feasibilities of a ware j house system to enable the cotton producers to market their product in a systematic and profitable manner. The lectures and concert features In the auditorium in the afternoon and evening were well attended and very much enjoyed, their underlying purpose being one of good cheer, amusement and inspiration?an op? portunity to forget for the moment that there is a war going on in Eu? rope. The feature of this morning was an imposing automobile parade, with cars tastefully decorated to represent severally the boys' corn club, the girls' tomato club, poultry farming and small grain production. Follow? ing the parade there was a demon? stration of fruit and vegetable can? ning suited to domestic purposes. This was conducted by Miss Kath erine Richardson, superintendent of the girls' clubs, assisted by C. A. Mc Faddin, county farm demonstrator and superintendent of the corn clubs The programme for this afternoon was an entertainment of magical illusions and a humorous lecture on "Grumblers" or "The Evils of Worry Ing," while this evening there was an? other half hour of fun and magic and another lecture on "More Taffy and Less Epitaphy." Tomonow afternoon there will be given in the auditorium a concert by ihix Lyric club, followed by an enter? tainment by Ellsworth Plumstead, the impersonator, and tomorrow night three will be a medley of imperso? nations and a grand concert by the Lyric club. The grand climax of the week will be on Friday when the annual school fair and field day takes place and everybody will be in Mannir- . wit? ness the friendly contests between the different schools and to gain new ideas as to the best ways of making the schools better and more enthu? siastically supported. TO :$E NATION Ali BANK. Olan a, April 13.?The Bank of Olanta has received permission to en? ter the federal reserve system, and as soon as the requirements of the laws are met the name will be changed to the First National Bank of Olan? ta. This bank was established in 1906 with a capital of $10,000 and in? creased In 1914 to $25,000. The total resources on March 20, 1915, were $89,714.95, and total profits for the nine years of its existence $23.383.52. It probably has the best equipment and the best backing of any bank near its size in the State. Its equipment includes a modern fire and burglar proof safe. The small grain crop in Sumter County is making rapid growth and the prospect for a fine crop is ex? ceptionally good. Our Foreign Advertising is in Charge of Jacobs & Co., Clinton, S. C, SOLICITING OFFICES: New York?118 B. 28th St.ft, L. Mould rtiicjiito?ist Advertising Bidg...w. it. Rsreaet Detroit?Hotel Tuiler.C. J.. Wiuu st. Louis?iww Central Nuti. 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