The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 11, 1903, Image 4
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the virtues of the persimmon as a money
crop. During the war, we remember
hearing it said that a North Carolina
fortune consisted of a 'possum dog and
'simmon orchard.
Under the terms of the will of J. K
Gracie," whose funeral President Roosevelt
attended iu New York a few days
ago, the President receives $:}0f000 and
tryo of his children, Ethel and Kermit,
$5,000 each.
Mr. Gracie was the President's uncle
Hon..W. J. Bryan is 011 a European
s ' ^ tour. In England, Mr. Choate, ihu
j* United States Ambassador, introduced
( him to many prominent men, and gave
- ^ a banquet in his honor, Mr. Bryan's
ready wit, line oratorical powers and
pleasing manners are much admired.
An unusual number of hunting accidents
have happened this season.
Is this because there are more liunto?o
th'a'n aver before? If so, there is
warning of the ^Audubon Society
against the destruction of all birJlife.
C 0,TTON 'FA
" T1IRI-; A TIC MS I).
There is in the minds of many cotton
experts a belief that the South
will not be able to supply the growing
demand for cotton.
Across the Mississippi the boll weevil
threatens the fine cotton lands of
Texas and Indian Territory, and on
this side the production per acre is
steadily decreasing.
The cause of this decrease is explained
to be partly due to carlossness
in selecting seed for planting.
Formerly farmers always saved seed
from their second picking, many taking
a pride in trying to improve their
cotton. Now, cotton is ginned at a
public ginnery, and the farmer takes
the amount of seed due him from the
general pile?much of it not fit to
plant."
Another cause of lessening crops
is the decreasing fertility of our soils.
Commercial fertilizer is a stimulant,
and causes the crop to grow well,
using up what fertility is naturally
in the soil, but not making a permanent
improvement of the land." Clean
culture on rolling ground leaves it to
be^pewed up in winter, and made
loose, so that tho rains wash tlie top
off down to hard pan. The remedy
for this is to farm on tho intensive
system, making not less than a bale
of cotton to the acre. Plant only
level spots in cotton, fertilizing high1
u trith Prtnn mnr/?lo I fnnfili -1
* J ||?VM WUAKt Vi V>U* itl WlllAClO illiU
stable manure. But how shall we
get this stable manure? Bet every
farmer keen milk cows. Feed to
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them all the small grain, roughness
and surplus cotton seed?this last in
the shape of cotton meal and hulls?
and save all the manure carefully.
To use this milk let these farmers
see that a creamery or cheese factory
is established in their neighborhood.
They need not necessirily take any
stock, in these factories, only guarantee
so much milk a day, and parlies
aro now ready to erect the factory.
Better prices can be paid for milk
here than is paid by northern factories.
If jJjovo pjao is followed, our lands
will sofliq regain more than their original
fertility. Besides, milking an 1
carjpg for cows will give the women
folks profitable employment, undj:
there will nodopger bo th necessity M
for a man with a large family of girls '
to leave the farm and .go to a cotton (
mill. \ I
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ADVERTISEMENTS
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Obituaries and tributes of respect
will be charged for at half rates.
UNION, S. C., DECEMBER 11.1903.
The city council, of Greenville, has
very properly prohibited turkey lafiles
There were four different places in
tuat city engaged exclusively m me milling
of turkeys, a most demoral z.'ng
busiuess.
Some of our exchanges are extolling
FA RAir.RS OUG ii T I Hi,
TO POST LANDS, j of
j do
"The indiscriminate hunting that j cu
follows tlie opening of 1 He season is ! th
convincing proof that tho farmers do
are standing in their own light by sis
neglecting to post their lands. Every th
community has a number of Individ- in
uals, white or coiorcd, who are in a th
position to hunt almost every day, in
and as a general rule they are going in
in every direction for this purpose, 7,1
while the owner of the'land does not at
have the time or inclination to hunt,
but his neighbors are slaughtering fit
the gome constnutly and reducing th
tlie number in large quantities every pf
ve.ir. This is to be deplored on every th
account, and as the law provides a a
remedy against this evil the owners uj
of land should co-operate with each bt
other in protecting their lunds. at
"Why is it that farmers are usually lo
so careless or indillerent in regard to d(
posting their lands? Usually the vi
persistent and indiscriminate hunters tr
belong to a class I hat is non-observant tl
of the laws generally, and they do gi
not have an abiding interest in the pi
welfare of the neighborhood, so that fc
the posting of lands is desirable in l)
order to rebnke these trespassers tl
upon the rights of others. Every si
worthy citizen who desires to hunt p
can obtain permission from some of a
his friends, and it Is not unneighborly S'
or selfish to protect the game from a
extermination, as is sometimes the d
case. Only a few days ago a gentle- w
man told us that a Regular camping tl
party had been on his farm for days i
and that rabbits were killed by them O
and loft in the fields. w
"The law against general and pro- 1?
miscuous hunting is right and proper, w
hut it can never be enforced uidess p
there is a sentiment in its favor o
among the farmers who are most in- I
terosted in the matter. The mere f?
fact that lands are posted against un- f<
lawful trespassers will help to en- c
force the other provision of the law k
that prohibits hunting during certain r
seasons, and this was enacted with t
the intention of protecting game, 1
but if the posting is disregarded by i;
t Ko 1 Att'noi* t It i c f oz?f ivnoa o Innrv f
way to convince others that he does c
not care whether or not the law is i
obeyed, and henee the man who f
wishes to violate the law takes ad- 1
vantage of his carelessness and indif- I
ference." f
The above-, taken from the Green- "
ville Mountaineer, Col. lloyt's paper,
is good advice to land owners, and
should be hoeded by them.
The indiscriminate trespassing by
hunters and others, is really one form
of that spirit of lawlessness so prevalent
in these times, and which is so 1
A CUFFS Iv FACTORY 1
FOR UNION.
About a year ago, Mr. M. V. Rich- ,
aids, iiiriuilri.il agent of the Southern i
Railway, induced a stock raiser and I
dairyman of Illinois to come to this state. 1
lie settled at Kasley and established a 1
cheese iactory, having previously induced
fanners in the vicinity to keep j
milk cows, and he himself went into the
business also. As a result, the factory .
had an abundant supply of the necessary
"raw product," and it proceeded to *
manufacture cheese in large quantities
The operatinn i f it was under the direc- ,
nun oi nr. \ oignr, who has been in Ibe |<
same business in Illinois. The factory* i
was a success from the start, and all of {
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its product is disposed of at a good prof- j
it as fast as it can Ire thrned out. ,
Mr. Yoigt is expected to visit our |
county shortly after Christmas for i
the purpose of negotiating with stock- '
raisers and others in forming a com- '
pany to build a cheese factory in this |
section, and will take a part of the c
stok himself to prove his faith in the
enterprise. *
The cost of such a factory is not |
great, but the com puny would have v
to establish a dairy herd of its own 11
as a nucleus for the supply of milk. (
While it would be necessary to start
on a small scale for lack of milk cows j
here, it is believed that milk from 200 li
or :M0 cows could he obtained in a F
year or two, making this business ^
one of the most profitable ever estab- n
lished in the State. t
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? haiimen I \V . IJaih-y, of the North c
Carolina Anti-Saloon league, has given o
t'e i tlicial figures as to the prohibiten f
.ncvnnei.i in that state Fiffy-thue 1
c-unties ;ue under prohibition. There j
a.?-(ii-peusuics in 1"? counlas aud in 2S t
are sdocrrs. There are saloons in less
than bo cities and towns. Mr. bailey ^
says the league will make determined
efforts to have the i ext Legislature iu
full sympathy with the temperance
ir.ovemei t.
The Mourning Dove. tl
" Ik
Is 1 hero a farmer in the country, !v
who, after a hard day's work with di
hoo or cultivator, has not, wished that in
some other means could be devised w
to prevent the rapid growth of nox- to
ions weeds, and at the same time
emancipate him from the sweating m
brow, the blistered hands, and the ''
aching buck? ')
There is one ineuns of weed ' Hn
stroymg that has ueen entirely over
looked by the agriculturists, prob- XV(
ably because they never soriou?-'y Mi
considered the food habits of the ,,,
Jove. Mi
Recent investigations made by the
- v ?-1
?)ogic?l Survey, II. S. Department |
Agriculture, of tho food of the
ve, provo this bird to be of incnl- 4
lable value. The examination of
0 contents of 2117 stomachs of tho
ve shows over DDj'o of its food conits
wholly of vegetable mutter i
e shape of seeds ; less than 1 % beg
unimul food. Seme instances of
e enormous numbers of seeds that
dividual birds consumed will be of
terest. In one stomach were found
seeds, in another 0,-40U seeds,
:d a third had euten I),200 seeds.
The three doves in question benoted
the farmers, on whose land
cy fed, by destroying 251,100 proactive
weeds. Is there a farmer in
lis land who would not welcome as
friend the man who would oiler to
iroot and kill 28,100 weeds? Yet
'cause the doves go about silently
id unobstrusively, and make no
ud boasts about tho good they are
>ing, they are thought of little or no
ilue. In many sections of the couny
this valuable, harmless, and gene
creature is considered us a scmiimc
bird, und is shot during a large
irt of the year. It is a question
ir tho farmers to settle whether
ley will permit anyone to kill 011
icir land birds that annually deroy
tons of the seeds of noxious
Lints nnd are thus worth so much
< helpers on furms. The matter revives
itself into a <iuestion of dollars
-,d cents to tlie fanners. If three
eves at ono meal destroy 1<K?
veil seeds, how much good will all
.e doves on a farm or in a State, or
i the country at large accomplish?
r, to present the case in another
ay, how much will it cost in time,
ihor, and actuul cash, to destroy
hat the doves will eat if they are
rotected and encouraged to remain
n the farms. The farmers in. the
Inited Stutes spend enormous sums
;>r labor; how much of this is paid
i>r killing weeds, and how much of it
ould be saved if no doves hud been
illed but all had been protected and
lermitted to perform the work that
he Creator designed them to do?
"he dove is far too valuable an auxilary
to the agriculturists to have it
lussed us a game bird. Its value
onsists in its weed-destroying activtics,
and not in the few ounces of
ooil it may furnish if shot as a guine
>ird. We trust the time is near at
land when the farmers of the counry
will protect the dove as carefully
is thev do their domestic fowls and
inimals?Audubon Society.
Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, D. 0 , Dec. 7, liMKl,
Advocates of internal arbitration
ire renewing their etTorts to bring
.fns couuiry tina Ureal ijntni'n.' r,\*Secretary
John W. Foster nc?iai,.,j
>y Thomas Nelson Pago, as secretary,
resided at a recent meeting oI the
oca! committee of the National Arbirut
ion League in which arrangements
were made to hold a meeting
liere on January PJtfh, at which a
arge number of prominent men
throughout the country are expected
to discuss plans for securing the
treaty. Among the more prominent
members of the local committee are
Admiral Dewey and General Nelson
V. Miles.
Opposition to Senator Reed Snioot,
:>f Utah, has received a new impetus
vy the formation of a union of women's
clubs, which will meet here
egularly to agitate for the expulsion
jf Mr. Smoot from the Senate. The
eader in the movement is the presilent
of the National Congress of
Mothers At the lirst conference
ield, it was decided to issue a call to
the country to raise at least $:!,()( (>
'or the expenses of the work. For
ho same purpose a pamphlet will be
ssued and sold in which the reasons
or expelling the Senator will be
jointed out. Senator Smoot's prirate
secretary attended the oonfer nce,
although his presence was not
mown until ho rose to leave just heore
the end of the proceedings.
The Panama canal treaty, signed
>y the Junta and the ministry, and
vrapped ip the American and Pununu
Hugs, has been ofliciully deliverd
to the United States Consul Genral
Gudger, who will forward it to
A'ashington without delay, probably
n nu ovmeucan warship. The ratiicntion
of the treaty by Panama was
irompt. The Minister of Foreign
Lflairs met the ship, bearing it, at
Jolon and carried the document at
nee to Panama. The members of
lie Junta and ministry awaited him
11 the government palace where the
hest containing the treaty was opend.
It was written in Knglish and
here was but one copy. The fo'lowng
morning the treaty was ratified
nanimousiy and without nmendlent,
and the act was celebrated by
tie people of the Isthmus.
J OUT II CAROLINA MILL
MUN I'HA RI'UL.
o in in the New L tig land
Cry for Curtailment.
A meeting of cotton men to consider |
ie advisabiliiy 11' cintni^pg p oducioti.- |
ild in Charlotte l.olTucs-day was l uge- ,
attended, the rise in piiee of cottoi ,
uing the last frW days probably can.-- j
ft tlie attendance to be larger than ii .
ouM have lieui otherwise. In addition (
mill men sill over the Hou'h. rnanufjMiei3
and commission men frofn tIh c
?rth and east were |?i??-iit. The moveent
looking to a cm tailing of the pro- i
lotion of the M iiihern mills is heing
itched with ;i great. (leal of interest by j
ew England manufacturers.
It whs expected that the cloth mill; <(
mid Im> more largely represented tlia1
e yam null.1, since the laltir, as #
Ie, it is said, aro in better condition
nn the former k
it is estimated that about 20 per cent.
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of the : cut hern milts have a siitllcient
mount of cotton bought to run them
until next summer and it is not expect- I
ed that any of these mills will agieo to |
curtail their production. Neither are J
the mills which have contracts to ill' in a ]
position to curtail or shut down. :
A gentleman who is connected with j
one of tiie largest cloth mills in the 1
south says: 'The situation is critical, ]
view it any way you may. Taken as a |
whole, 1 believe the condition confront- I
ing us today is the worst in 25 years, j
The only remedy I see is a general cm - J
(ailment, the chief benefit Irom that ;j
being that t he mills could i uu at a small- t
er loss/ What makes it worse for the II
south i.s that the mills in eveiy other I i
part of the manufacturing world aie het- 1
ter off, so far as supplies of raw material 1
|ate concerned, than we ate. Kurlv In H
11he season, when we were holding oil |
i for low prices, tlie continental spinners j
| came into the market, and pin chased J
their cot*on, and today, no mailer.where c
the price of cloth may go, they can man- {
ufacinre cotton at a cost of from 2 to j
cents a pound hss than we can. In as- (
much as not more than than a third of |
the Araeiican cotton crop is consumed ,
in this countiy, we are in no position
wliativer to control the market., especially
on export goods. As 1 see it, the
only hope for us now is to curtail production
and run our plants at a reduced
low"
(irimliill (irimliiifis. i
( hixi>a1.1., Dec. Slh. ? It has lu'i n 22
year* since cotton has tij>j?ed the inaike'
at eleven cents; times are far better now
than then, for everything to eat, use or ,
wear, was far higher (lieu than now j
At that lime people llu ugliL that they g
could not prosper if cotton were to go I
down to where it has been, which they #
could not, if eveiytiling else had staid \
high, lint as the juice of this staple f
product, went down other things did also. V
Hy the landowners jiosting their lands
igniis' hunteis pi?\i. us to Thanksgivnig
I'i.y, theie were not so many guns L
leard, only a few bps with "polk 5
calkr/' alter the "cotton tails." ^
t^ome it lit oldn < :,?suie jrophesyiug r
for this to lie an unusual cold winter, to L
theie being : > many acorns, pcrsimm. n.-> /
ai.d hickory nuts for the hi ids and othei L
creatures m feed on. 5
(>ra<iy M >ore is a colored fain ei K
a hose i amo can go am i?g those who 5
i>av taxes on teal estate of their own. l
ue ow us 100 acr? s of land. K
Some f?'w swy there Is i o money in T
tanning, but there is. if you understand B
iiow to gt t it. out, for so many wil fay \
hat. lliey only get what, they eat. a no fe|
Aear. Well, that is all they will woik C'
'or, for the men who have become tie
nost famous have done some kind ( #j
urn woik in their young days. K
(Quilting at every bonrn is a good sij.n \]
?? approaching cold winter. JJj
"Hog" and hominy means a Mg thing L)
tut more p?'ople like "pig" and hominy ^
The conliactors who were to timid th ^
ridge across M iff Creek have lit hi ed il
t. is a great help to the people, yet u K
joks dangerous, as it has no haninters f]
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