Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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; ^ City of Union and Suburbs Has fil |~T | "^ ? ' t I f i V T |~^ f|i>f. ( "i ' y of Union and Suburb" Has Fir. ^ Crtlon Mill.,One Knitting I II IJ \ | I I \| I ' | 1 /I 4 IJ ' L Fire Orrfed School., W.t.r Worl,., 1 y? ant, Oil I I I I | , gj III .-' Jt .. I ' 1 ' : &weraghOy>lein,Jil?clricLights,Tbra. Mill turmture M.nur.ctori?g .nd I , II B N | 1 I 1 f "W - |' "J W .'... ? ?" ?*> .ISS6U.0.O, Lumb?r Y.nia, hcmalo bemmary. M. ^'Tof QSilU*-*i- * V/ * ., * JL 1 f Ji , Elw.-tfieH.il. ay!S?l?ioi, 7,000. 1 v,."..- . - * - =_._: .,. ? < ' iy ti .M j. J*ht?i 'nif ?_J_ VOL. LV. NO 4. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, X$W } '?? V ../&* #?W0A YEAR. We Have Mo v*. ' * * * On Cotton or o * \i \ Collateral, and w to have an interv r:-T. # Wm. A. NICHOLSON ? 'I GROWING Of3 EARLY CABBAGE. A Successful South Carolina Cabbage Grower Tells How and When to Plant and Cultivate. The writer of this article is the originator of the cabbage growing industry on the Carolina Coast. I grew my first cabbage for market in the year 1868, from a beginning of one-half acre, the business has increased until (at the present time there are (>?wer 4,000 acres of cabbage grown each season in this territory. "To grow a successful crop i the faftt and most important , , thing js to secure plants that are i ; . grown from high grade seed, as v^<tiu&ount of care, fertilizer or < i T ?r!j 'ill Ufl^fon can make a good crop, if th^.plants used are grown ] from inferior seed. You cannot : stock very carefully, removing . from the held all heads of cab- i bage that are not perfect. Some ] seasons they have to cut out two- j thirds of their plants and do not 1 save their seed from more than i one-third. Seed selected in this i way will cost from $2.50 to $3.00 per' pound, other seed-growers 1 allrt.V thmr O .fiviW.l-An^fnnLKnrrn 1 V .1 V??W?A V viv^WX J to make seed, do not use any i cajre in the selection of* seed i grown. These seed will cost < you from 40 to 60 cents per ] pound. . The cost of the seed is < two-thirds of the cost of growing ] cabbage plants, so you can readi- i ly understand why a plant grower < who pays $2.50 to $3.00 for his : seed cannot sell you plants as < cheap as the grower who buys j inferior seed at 40 to 60 cents 1 per pound. My thirty-six years 3 v W-e ptriei.ce has proven to me, that ip would pay me better to use 1 high grade seed at a cost of $10 1 per pound, than to use inferior j seed if 1 could get them free. ^ Those who do not make a regular I business of growing cabbage have 1 be~n in the habit of setting out 1 theyr plants in the months of February and March thinking j I that the plants do not live if set ; earlier in the winter. This is a ; mistake as a plant set in Decern- 1 ber or January under the proper ; conditions will live just as well ] p* and head much earlier. Thefol- j lowing instructions will give the proper method of setting. The j Soutn Carolina sea coast, on account of locality, and climatic ( A/Vii f Ul.. 1 1 - I wuuiiiuus is ctumirauiy auapteu mLo the growing of hardy open air f? aBplants. The plant growers sow their 3eed in the open fields in * .. the late fall from October 20th ; ^ to*November 15th, these seed germinate quickly and make a very rapid growth for a couple of weeks, by tiiis time the nights /. D start to get cold. The growth of th plants is checked, and dually aooatdJecemoer 1st to 10th our freezing wea"bher begins, when the plants stop growing entirely. The cold weather has caused it to oecome tough and hard, it is novv in a dormant condition and will remain in this condition until the latter part of February or unfil the spring weather opens r - X UP* While in this condition these m plants will stand cold without ' injury. I have seen my plants covered with ice and sleet for several days, with the thermometer dawn to 18 and not be in* * jured at oil, while the same i ney to Lend | ther Acceptable | e shall be glad | Jew ~with YOU! | I ft SON, Bankers. | plants if they bad been in a thrifty greying condition and full of Sup would have beon killed by a heavy freeze or a slight- frost, to avoid the danger of losing your plants you want to buy them whlb> thev arp rWmnnf the sooner you do this after December 15th the better. If you have it, select a piece of dark, mediumly low, well drained land, break it up as thoroughly as you can, then pulverize well with a good clod breaker or harrow, lay off your rows east and west, 30 inches apart, with a oull-tongued plow. Make up your bed, by throwing to o furrows together with a single hor3e < turn plow. Take your plants and set them 20 inches cpart! on the south side of the bed, far enough , down, that the top of the bed < will be above the plant, this is done to keep the north and northwest winds from twisting and breaking the small plqyts. Be sure to set the plants well down in the soil, and see that the entire stem up to the hrti&eaves is in the ground. fcn should be well packed arounflThe plant, irsnouia oe packed jHFfirm, that if you tal^e yqur.jwant by the teaf and pull -the break off before ci>e plant wou-q1 f puH out. It is understood that /ou have used plants that are in i dormant condition. These plants should not be fertilized at ill, until about two weeks before the regular spring weather opens ap. The top of the plants will not grow during the winter, but the roots will be growing all of the time. About the middle or last of February?or say two weeks before your regular spring weather starts, take a turn plow, 3r half shovel, and throw a furrow away from the plants in sach alternate row, run the furrow close to the plant, sow in this furrow fertilizer at the rate af 1,000 pounds to the acre, this p^4.:i; u n 1 ? lci iiu&cr miuuiu analyze 5 per cent phosporic acid, 7 per cent Eimmonia, and 5 per cent potash. A.fter you have put dbwn the fertilizer, throw the furrow back, with the same plow, being sure to work the dirt well up around the plant. About two weeks after this fertilizing, go into the furrow that was not worked before and do the same thing, then keep the alleys well cultivated, using for this purpose a cultivator or diamond toothed harrow. You want to keep the land from this time on, well cultivated and as well open as possible, so that the sun and air can get in and warm up the soil. The cabbage roots that have been grow- ! ing all winter are now strong and < will take up the fertilizer rapidly, and the plants will grow much faster, and make you a head of cabbage two to three weeks sooner than if you had set the plants in February or March. This article applies to the growing of cabbage in Virginia, North a id South Carolina, Georgia and n|| n..1.u n. _ i ix_ aii ui 1.11c vjrun oiaies. uo not forget that the success or failure of the whole crop depends on your getting good plants from reliable seed. For this reason you should buy your plants from a responsible grower who has been in the business a long time and has an established reputation. Yours very truly, W. C. Geraty, Young's Island, S. C. Bring your job work to The Times. We have new type fccas and can please ypu. THE NEGRO AND THE SOUTH. Striking Words by Onecf The Most Prominent of Southern Negroes. (From an address at Bismarck, Kan. by W. H. Council, president of the Negro College at Normal, Ala,) 1 do not fear Southern oppression half as much as I do the invasion of white Northern labor, which comes with its social prejudice, which comes often plead-! ing its color as its only mark of j superiority. The color line was never carried upon brick walls, to the carpenter's bench, in all the other industries of the South, until Northern white labor carried it there. The colored men of the North make a great mistake in abusing the South. Let the South alone and look to your own neglected opportunities and correct your own wrongs. You are driven from nearly every decent wage earning position, whipped from the hacks and the drays, shop doors shut in your faces, labor unions united, against you, and Ll O * * ' me irienasnip and sympathy of hitherto white friends slipping away from you. , I appeal to the\ white men of the North to thinly more kindly af both black men a id white men af the South. Every honest Keep Your Cotto And # If you are .holding your cott< keep tt^off the groundv Y^? ^eYifef4#^dge^^ If ttie cotton i worth protecting from the \ it wdl be sure to rot, and if i will bring less than it sells n selling for 10 cents. If you does not leak put your cotto house for anything else, ,noi cigarettes. If you have no pine logs as follows; Cut place them 5 feet apart aft would to build a log house, onll'f CA ' ? l-v.ll.-v "v-f cij/di i ow 11 uil cl LAI It; J1 LUllU The logs should be large enc inches or 2 feet above the g all around the platform, to with plank so as to prevent; ping through on to the cotto at least ten feet from cotton, people smoking etc. fromge of your cotton. If you do n the weather, we advise you take the risk of letting th< will regret not having takei HOW TO PROSPER. A Wise and Practical Cn/i/i/>cti/\n p??r>rr?/>?c ouyyv,oiiuii iu i ui illCI d. Mr. Editor.?Our farmers need more than a temporary relief from an overproduction of cotton. Short lived will be the pood evolved out of the contention that paying prices for cotton can be realized by simply reducing the size of the next crop. A system to be permanently helpful must be protected indefinitely into future years. May not a reminescent investigation of the antebellum system of farming aid in solving the cotton problem, now! sorely perplexing the Southern farmers. The planting interest! in those goo 1 old ancestral days, before the spirit of commercialism tempted the farmers to invest money in western barns, cribs, an I meat houses, was selfsustaining. Then the best land and enouorh of it. was devoted to cereal crops to make a sufficiency during an ordinary crop year to meet the needs of the farm. The cotton was an incidental crop, and therefore a lucrative one, however low its market value. That would now be the result were our farmers to readopt that antiouated method of farming. Make the farm absolutely self-sustaining, independent of the cotton crop. Let it be the [ source Of revenue for business , ; ~ negro heart is loyal and true to the South. We need and want the sympathy of every section of our country; but there is a kind of unfriendly meddling which invariably increases friction and harms ths negro. We have strong men of both races in the South who are capable, and have the righteous inclination to fairly adjust all probleihs growing out of our new relations. There is a class of Northern whites who come South of a disturbing element. They are hypocrites, singing one i tune to the negroes and another to the whites. There are many mistakes in out own social's life, which we as a race must correct, and which we alone can correct. Our women and children are left unprotected , by fathers^ mothers iufiters are deserted by sons and iWothers, who often leave home to increase the army of idlers and criminals. The great majority of our boys are not in school, do not attend church, are growing up idle; vicious, insolent, ignorant, or shun hard, honest toil," and look for soft jobs. The negro woman, almost alone, is lighting one of the grandest battles in the annals of mam with the cooku pot, the washboard. sewing "needle, ironing bo^rd, scrub brbsh; she builds Churches, suppoiH$ schools, her daughter, of tap supporting an improvident hii^bdua Ojc; .an unworthy sion. " n Uiwfer ?W^*er . Dry. in we eaif^tey ufgeyou to s worth holding, then it is veather, which if not done, it rots, the damaged cotton ow for, even if cotton were have a vacant house that n in it, and do not use this I even farm tools, gears or house, make a platform of logs 6 or 7 feet long and er notching them as you put two logs far enough n will rest between hoops >ugh to raise your cotton 18 round. Make a deep ditch drain the water off, cover my rain or snow from drip? n. Build a fence all round SO as to Ol'PVPnt enrl/ nn 1 tting nearer than ten feet of iot protect your cotton from to sell now. Those who .Mr cotton get blue or rot n this advice at this time. Editor. investments. And being a surplus crop, made with labor that might be otherwise lost, will it not bring remunerative prices, though it reached lower figures on the market than it is possible for it ever to go? Those who will say that this is visionary may be cited to the fact that our most prosperous farmers are those who make corn enough and to spare. What the few have been doing, the many can do. Try it, and no more wiil the cry of overproduc- j tion and low prices be heard in I our south land. And more than j that, it would be a matter of sur-1 prise how quick an increase in the value of land would respond to it. And that would mean to the farmers, money. It is strange, hot. lmw trno : that our farmers wait until they are financially throttled before they adopt measures for selfpreservation. They knew full well that the government was approximating nearer and nearer each year an accurate estimate of the growing crop. The market is excited more or less by the report from the area planted and the farmers of the growing plant. Later is the more exciting estimate is made from the ginners report. And this is followed by financial spasms. But why run from the truth? We don't, when the government at an early date, report a shortage, and the price goes bounding up ?c r." - - ' 1' ' 'T 1 .1 F. AU^AR*, President. * * k -*; Merchants And Ha Successfully Doinp Bus J . *. * V j*? L an '? theOJitfcEST Hank I fl ban a <*ft>ltni nn<l mirjfl iHtli 'tfli V N VTION'A rj _ * ba? MM dlvwondA *i q ? 's t.hopbfy n:uiViJnf>i V a - lias Uuf(ilnr-^To<>f vh?1 B B .' tax*? than j ?-?fis?. -, figs.?5 S WE EARNESTLY SOL """"'" & ' . ' vards.. The point I want to nake here is, that while the government *eport * mp. r be correct, i$?*s at the sam*1 t'me mis? leading. For it is the b des tabMated and not the nuhiber &f pounds m them, that conjures I fro market. Now it is not un ^asonable to suppose that the' 12,000,000 hal^s estimated to be tL- _ _-< -? ? ui? size or tne present'crop, will not average 450 pounds.. Take inother hypothesis and suppose the farmers by forethought and mity of action had demanded of tke ginners, bales averagmghOO or 550 pounds. Then the goyfrnnent would have reported- less than 10,Q00,000 bales arid millions, of dollars wo\^d have been AvetT for the farmers in the cotcm hjjdt. NofsAatisdcian can tell die njumbe^fr pounds; of xsotton crielong th n ions 'ui the couritry 'vv'iiuMi wim-ii lutions that they WOuIda iH'hire radical negroes on th uif^arms he next year. The result was hat well to do farmers who di I not seriously regar the res. lutions hat they voted to pass, and soon had the best hands oa the neighboring farms hired, and the farmers who were more scrupulous had to make their next crop with inferior labor. The point is that farmers are such a hetrogenious class of peoplo that it is quite impossible to unite them in any important undertaking, though they are to he the recipients of its benefits. When planting time comes many will sav yes. those resolutions are binding. Audi they will reduce the cotton area 25 per cent and use 50 per cent! less fertilizer. But as many more less unconscient'ous, w lUay this is our opportunity, and they will increase the cotton area 25 per cent and the fertilizer used 50 per cent. And the result will be tnat tne demoting J nomas or today will be able next fall to sav I told you so. H. F. S. CONSUL WARNS SOUTH TO HOLD ITS COTTON. Government Representative atTunstall, Eng. Reports Combinations Are Being Pormed for Campaign to Get American Staple at Ten Cents. Washington, Jan. 18.?The following report from United States Consul Smytbe at Tunstall, hhigland, was given out today by the Department of Commerce and Labor dated Dec. 16, 11)0-1: "It was my intention to cable you to lay in reference to reports that appeared in last ni; ht's papers, concerning the condition of the Egyptian cotton crop,with relation to the position of our cotton planters of the South, but 1 concluded a mail dispatch would accomplish my purpose just as well. These reports art very discouraging, inasmuch as they foreshadow a shortage it next year's crop of the class ol staples that come into competior with American cotton. For this reason I do not hesitate to say il i would be advisable to warn the i Southern planters against anj j move on the part of Lancashire manufacturers to force sales a saga J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. ,,. ffjfr - ' UPS. infers National Bank, mess at the "Old Stand." IU? ottlie.OOO. nou?{t.t:ur ?< rawVtn. oil lltM" 8ita. ?'*?>??TO,'e< t?*r! t?y mi ollloor, |1t?*IW Saf?-wi'h ok. tho Ranks in Union coinhln <1. irflT YOUR BUSINESS. _4 _ _ V w prices in or^er to meet the requ re n nls of smh a deficiency. "The general opinion in Lancashire is that a plentiful supply of American cotton can be had * on a 10-cent basis. Combinations are being formed to hold " the price at this notch, if possible, and these combinations in! tend to operate through agents sent specially to Louisiana and all the cotton producing centers Of the South T'noti-nnkU?? ..... iiv bi uumca amuilg tlic cotton manufacturers of the East are expected to aid in the development of this scheme as they are calculated to have a depressing effect on the home market in their relation to sup| ply and demand, j ."My candid opinion is that an enormous amount of money can be saved to our planters by taking this matter up in time, and invoking the assistance of the banks or the national treasury, if such an arrangement can be made, to enable the planters to warehouse their cotton until the I present stocks are worked up on an^ the necessities of iritics vnufacturer3 compel them or make liberal terms \ 1 X ^rowers. s *"^The erection of new mills in Lancashire, and the effect which their consumption is likely to have on the market next year, ; lends additional interest to this subject and serves to emphasize | the views I have taken the liberj tv to present in this dispatch, j Fifteen-cent cotton, or even 12i cent cotton, a difference of two | cents, compared with 10 cents. on every Dale of cotton exported, would cut a very important figure in the net assets of one year's crop, and add materially to the wealth and prosperity of i the South." I ^ m ^ JONESVILLE NEWS. Corn Crib Burned?Mew Drug Siore?Other ! News JONESVILLE, Jan. 23.?One night last week a corn crib on Mr. W. 15. Fowler's place near Jonesville, was burned. The crib contained about thirty bushels of corn, some cotton seed and a corn shredder. The fire was just before day and none of the family had been about the crib since the evening before, it looks very much like incendiary work. Robt. Ciatfney a good negro who lives near Jonesvillo harl n fellon on one of his fingers and it assumed a very serious condition, and he had the finger amputated, and now the whole arm seems to be full of blood poison and threatens Rob's life. Rev. J. W. Kilgo, presiding elder of the Spartanburg District, preached in the Methodist church last night and will hold the first quarterly conference for the year tin's morning and the Stewards will hold their first meeting this morning. Mrs. L. N. White has moved to Jonesville. Mrs. Sue West is visiting rela tives in town. Mr. I). A, T. Farr has been i quite poorly, but is some better now. Miss Mary Southard is quite ; sick with pneumonia. , The latest enterprise in Jones* ville is a drug store which is bet ing worked up by Dr. H. T. J Hames. ' Telephone. t r \ j The Times and Home and & t Farm one year for $1.25.