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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
This VII leave the lower bud

face. This VII leave the lower bud
not more thai zee or four inches deep
where the soil is warm. The roots Will
then put forth in tims to supply the
leaf with moisture when the bud starts.
Ninety to ninety-five per cent. OF such
cuttings will grow and be good plants
next year. Do not be disappointed II
the bud does not start until June.
Usually both the middle and upper bud
will grow. Two plants can thus be
made from one cutting. If a cutting
can be got with a small piece OF two
year-old wood on it, cut smooth on the
lower. it will be more sure to grow and
will make stronger vine the first year.
But any kind of plant, after being set
and well cared for two or three years,
will be vigorous enough if not allowed
to bear the first year it sets fruit nor
to overbear afterwards.-Boston Culti-
vator.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

/ Dr.. Walter Nynan, ,Surgeon-General
81 the United States Marine Hospital
Service, advocates the annexation Of
Cuba IS sanitary measure necessary
70 the welfare Ct this country, because
II Is the worst plague spot upon the
map and the source of nearly all our
epidemics. From the beginning of
the century until now there have been
only nine years in which this country
has been free from yellow fever. It
has been proved that in twenty-three
Of the eighty-ive years the disease
came from Havana direct, and in
twelve cases from elsewhere in Cuba.
The source of its infection in many
other years is believed to have been
the same, but there is no positive evi-
dence. Since 1862 there have been
fwenfy-six invasions of yellow fever.
The sources of nineteen are absolutely
known-sixteen from Havana, two
from elsewhere in Cuba and one from
Honduras. Since 1898 there has been
no yellow fever in the United States,
which, the Chicago Record declares, is
due to the extraordinary precautions
taken by DR.. Burgess, the United
States inspector at Havana, who will
not give certificate OF health unless
he is sure that it is correct, and with
ont his certificate no passenger, can
leave Havana for this country.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
.. Modern Appian Way.

Before long there is to be a magni-
ficent driveway or boulevard stretching
alorg the shore of Lake Michigan from
Chicago to- Milwaukee. Most OF the
towns along the route to be followed
have done something within their own
limits to make easier the accomplish
ment of the great undertaking. Mil
waukee has built two miles of roadway
like that at Chicago, and has given 1t
the same name, Sheridan drive. Wau-
kegan has done as much. When all
the gaps in this road are filled 1t VIII
rival the finest in Europe, both in con-
struction and scenic beauty.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.

Agriculturists have for some time
past been discussing among themselves
the advisability of taking strong meas
ures to protect their faithful servants,
the bees, against the fruit growers. who
spray trees when they are in blossom.
and this poisons not only the bees
themselves but their luscious product.
1t seems difficult for fruit-gFowers to
understand that they gain little or
nothing by spraying the trees when
they are in full bloom. 1t is rarely that
any harm is done at that stage. The
numerous enemies of the orchard work
earlier and later, but for some reason,
a sentimental one, perhaps, for even
insects may be possessed of sentiment,
the full bloom stage is much more free
from their injurious attacks than peo-
pie generally suppose. Some apicul-
turists claim that the blossoms are at
such times wholly given over to the
bees and such claim is quite consistent
with the usual benevolent methods OF
our ever watchful mother nature, who
makes provision for all of her depend
ents. There have been many instances
where most injurious effects have fol-
lowed the use of honey made from nee
tar slipped from flowers that had been
sprayed with poisonous compounds.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
THE USE OR THE HARROW.

In dry sections Of the country the
harrow is second in importance only to
the plow and in connection with the
disk harrow in few cases the plow is
dispensed with
try always to have in mind those
under different conditions. for l know
that in very wet sections the harrow IS
not needed nearly so much, for after
plowing rains will compact and level
the ground. and in cultivation weeds
grow so fast that the harrow will not
destroy them. In rocky ground the
harrow would often drag the rocks up
on the plants and in very sandy ground
in a dry windy section the soil needs
to be left rough, so the harrow is not
needed so much there.
But think in most sections it should
be used much more than it is. On our
soil, which is almost without sand and
inclined to crust over after rains and
dry weather being rather the normal
condition we are coming to use the
harrow more each year, almost dlspens-
ing with the cultivator in some things.
To be effective it must be used at the
right time. This, in a wet country, Is
sometimes simply impossible while
with us it is generally our own fault
if not used there.
There is but little of the time at any
season of the year but what the harrow
follows the plow the same day. Then
il the plowing is much before seedins
or planting time the ground is harrow
ed at intervals to destroy any weeds
starting and to keep the surface loose
to prevent rapid evaporation or mois-
ture.
Flowing for wheat commences IN
June Immediately after harvest II
ground is not too dry, and seeding sell
dom commences until October, so more
than one narrowing may be needed.
II favorable weather most OF the
plowing for spring crops is done during
the winter and the same use OF the
harrow is had.
For corn and sorghum known as KAT
fir corn, Milo maize, ETC., the ground Is
narrowed just before planting and as
many times afterward as needed, and
can be done before corn gets too large
and where the ground is smooth and
free from trash this can be done much
later than the inexperienced would sup
pose.
For millet and sorghum for hay We
do not plow the ground but cut with
the disk and then using the common
harrow, the sorghum seed being sown
before disking, the millet before Or af-
ter, owing to how deep we wish to disk.
). NJ. Rice, in Farm, Field and Fire
side.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

a correspondent of Cycling Life
writes from st. Louis: every house
called ON recently, NOT only in bicycle
but IN other lines as well, emphasizes
fhe fact of An immense improvement
The last few years in general conditions
in ths South. Nowhere else In the
country have the years of business de-
pression proved such a blessing IN dis
guise. The iniquitous credit system
which has been such hindrance to
buisress IN that section has received its
desth blow. Bankers and brokers have
been forced to discontinue loaning large
amounts on growing or prospective
crops. The planters have been forced
20 3 cash basis or something near 1t.
Merchants are better able to discount
their bills and are doing it. This is
true, says the Louisville Courier
journal in cosroboration. Except for
the foods. there is no reason why the
South cannot expect to prosper. ,----
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
WORKING THREE-HoRsE TEAMS.

WORKING THREE-HORSE TEAMS.
The true economy Of team work is
better understood by Western farmers
than by the average Of farmers in the
East. 1t is to the Western farmer that
We owe the idea Of cultivating hoed
crops with two horses, requiring no
stoppages, while the man may, If he
chooses, ride behind and manage the
hoes, so that none of the grain is de-
stroyed. 1t is rather more difficult to
turn two horses on cultivator at the
end of the row. Therefore, this plan
is best adapted to large fields where the
rows are long. But three horses will
on heavy plowing do nearly twice as
much as will two horses. Now that
horses are cheap, it is the farmers in
terest more than ever before to make
horse labor accomplish all it will, with
as little as possible of the much more
expensive human labor.-Boston Gull
tiyator.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

= H may interest young New Workers
whose careers have been pretty much
cutsrminous with the period of elevated
railways and cable roads to learn that
= correspondent of daily newspaper
recalls the time, some thirty-hve years
ago, when mules or asses were used to
draw street cars on the Sixth avenue
road The experiment was soon
abandoned, however, as the hoofs OF
the animals aforementioned could not
bsar pounding on the stones, nor we're
the mules capable Of making squirt OF
speed when . car was behind time
Ifuly, Ithe world moves, if the mules
did not. .-sz7s
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
THE HEAD OF THE FLOCK.

Upon the kind of ram employed will
depend the future crop Of lambs to a
very great extent. AS he is half the
flock, it will be wise to get a good one
not good individually, but good In
the matter of breeding, says the Live
Stock Indicator. A grade ram costing
sS to IS may be quite good individually.
but connected with his use there is a
great deal of uncertainty. He may
serve forty ewes, and the lambs from
this service have all degrees of make
up, from the sixth generation down to
the present. twenty-five per cent, or
perhaps more, may be pretty fair lambs,
while the remaining ones will be un-
dersized and culls. Lambs sired by a
pure-bred sire will be more uniform in
size and quality, and will be enough
better to bring fifty cents per head
more than those from a grade sire.
This difference will leave the pure
bred ram free of cost. This Is our view
when the ewes are grades, an. Il is only
intensified when the ewes are pure
bred.
The breeder who has pure-bred or
high-grade ewes of a certain breed can
ill afford to breed to pure-bred ram
of some other breed, no matter how
great the inducement offered. The
present writer handles some OF the
mutton breeds of sheep. but he has
never advised his readers to buy ram
from him when they have ewes OF any
other breed which are pure-bred; he
would not do it himself, and he would
not want anyone else to do it
If we had a flock of grades We would
select the type of sheep wanted, and We
would keep in this line OF breeding,
getting new blood of the same breed
from year to year until We had them
practically pure-bred.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

can be filed out at leisure. One Oiow
on the top of the fastener cuts the pa
pers. drives the staple through them,
clinches the staple through the papers,
and feeds the next staple, all ready for
the next bunch of papers. This Is q
great improvement over the old styles,
which took from one to three blows OF
the machine. besides adjusting each
staple separately by hand.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
RAISING LAMBS,

Regular feeding and stady growth
make good wool and good lambs. Ex-
perts claim that they can tell at about
what period of growth the sheep had
been kept upon a poor range or snort
rations by noting with a microscope
the thin places in the wool staple.
While sheep will get more sustenance
from poor land, and at the same time
do the land more good than any other
stock we may possess, it must not be
forgotten that they will also repay
liberal feeding. Food wisely fed Will
always come back to us doubled, If fed
to good animal.
If lambs three or four weeks old are
fed lightly at first on bran and ground
oats, gradually increasing their rations
as they become accustomed to eating,
they can be materially helped in their
growth. Better err in having them a
little hungry than to give too much
and have them on their feed for week.
Separate the pregnant ewes from all
the others at least month before
weaving time, and give some bone max.
ing food and plenty Of exercise Corn
and confinement will make large lambs,
perhaps. but with little strength or VI
tality. The larger the portion OF oats,
wheat bran and clover hay which can
be got into the rations, the better.
1t pays to feed lambs before they are
weaned all the grain they will eat when
on good blue grass or clover pastures
with their dams, and it pays especially
we'll if they are on dry feed. Any GER
tain amount of grain will put more
weight upon sucking lambs than upon
any other animal.-The Silver knight
VINES FROM GRAPE CUTTINGS.
Though the grape vine roots more
freely from cuttings than any other
wood. we cannot advise any one who
wishes but few vines, and those for
home use, to depend on this slow way
of getting them. All the best varieties
can be bought by the single vine for
from FIVE to ten cents each. Most deal
ers will let you have dozen assorted
varieties at the dozen rate, which is
still low. If you root and cut this
spring, you are likely not to get as we'll
rooted a vine a year hence as you can
buy now at less price than your own
vines will have then cost. 1t takes
several years for grape vine from cut
ting to get into bearing. Each OF these
years your cutting vine started this
spring will be year behind in bearing,
as compared with the one bought now.
But if you want to start the vines, the
lest way is to prepare the cutting sew
eral weeks in advance Of the time to
plant. Cut each piece three buds long,
leaving the bottom cut just at the base
of the bud, which should be removed.
Then heel in the whole cutting so as
to keep the bud back az the top. If a
clean cut is made opposite the middle
bud, merely showing the bark, it will
callous, and roots will issue from the
cut place more readily. Plant in dry,
warm soil, but without manure, so soor
as the soil is we'll warmed. Set the
cutting slanting lengthwise in the row.
and leave the upner bnd inst at the sur
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

II Saws Bradsheet's: sIt is pointed
ont with probable accuracy, that not
! little Of the disfsror with which
rhat is termed WALL street is re-
esrded throughout the country is the
result Of experiences with bucket shops
snd so-called syndicates, and the ab-
.sence Of actual knowledge as to what the
laritimase stock market really Is"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

= Near the East Tennessee coal yards
a North Knoxville father has made
. practice of claiming an eight-year-
old child in his cabin to keep it of the
streets. s'Some people," says a local
newspaper mildly, ''think that the
Humane Society should investigate the
...an ..Sssea
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

The Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton in sending out their DuletIns take
special care to caution fruit-growers
against spraying trees that are in full
bloom. but, notwithstanding their
warning, there are hosts of men who
sprinkle the exquisite blossoms with
poison regardless Of consequences
New York Ledger.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

The Balkans have been well des-
;cribed as ssthe lumber room of Eu-
rome" These fragments Of forgotten
Deoples" are found in profusion and
confusion. But it is possible that con-
iinental policies may yet be built out
yyof some Of these loose, unattached
sso;s&a -.,:
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

The Dallas News says that there are
flowers and bees enough in Texas and
cows enough to overflow State like
Massachusetts six feet deep with milk
and honey.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
and honey.

i No man can read the names OF Greek
and Turkish persons and places with
ont realizing that there is bound to be
q high mortality rate among compost
tors and proof readers.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

In the Hebron section, Marlboro
county, owing to the recent severe hail
storm, farmers generally were COM
pelled to plant their cotton entirely
over, and the oat crop was completely
DESTROYED.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

which feed auto
matically W b e n
ever one is used, Is
a great time saver.
1t has a spring coil
which holds about
$50 staples when
filled to the end Of
the coil in the CEN
ter, and as each
one is used the
center Of the coil
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

Governor Ellerbe announced posi-
lively that there would be no extra ses-
sion of the Legislature. He also says
that the constabulary will not be abol-
ished as published.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
FARM And GARDEN.
Items of Interest on Agricultural
Topics
Mineral Manures for Spring Crops. Work
ing Three.Horse Teams. Worms in
Seed Corn, Etc, Etc.
MINERAL MANURES FOR SPRING
CROPS.

To be effective mineral manures for
spring and summer crops must be ap-
piled early. They need some Of the
spring rains to dissolve the fertilizer
so that the plant roots can make use of
it. Besides. as weather and soil be-
come warm and dry there is less need
of the fertilizer, as the soil itself re-
leases more of its own fertility under
such conditions.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10

Gen. NJ. G. Butler announces that.hs
would not be candidate for the Sena-
torship or enter politics if asked by ev-
ery Living thing in the State.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
PAPERS QUICKLY FASTENED.

Staple Fastener Feeds $50 Staples
Without ReplenishinG.
A new staple fastener for fastening
papers together, which is always ready
for use and can be kept full Of staples,
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-10
Philsdelphia is to have pneumatic
mail Tubes. New York is also to have
the same method of saving time In the
dispatch of mail matter.

Since the year 1880 the Paris police
authorities have arrested as many as
as %. 900 children who are being
trained for begging and vice. o..
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-26

Congress had better stop building
battleships and begin building dry
DOCKS" was the ringing expression Of
Representative Amos Cummings during
the recent debate In the house ON the
proposition to appropriate SlO0, 900 to
repair the Brooklyn drydock.
Mr.. Cummings called attention to the
lamentable weakness Of this country I'm
facilities for the repair of our battle
ships.
He said that whereas in the single
port Of Portsmouth, England, there were
ri stone drydocks into which English
ships could be taken for repairs the en-
tire equipment Of the United states ON
the Atlantic coast was one timber dry
dock, and that one 30 badly out Of re-
pair that It. was useless, and that on the
Pacific coast there was also but one sim
gle timber drydock.
In the event Of war with any mari.
time nation, such as Japan or Spain,
tho United States would be practically
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-26
anu apunoanJIy Jusrines an expectation
Of more than 800, 900, 900 bushels Of
v,iutar wheat

anu apunuanJIy JusUines an expectation
Of more than 800, 900, 900 bushels Of
winter wheat.
In the spring wheat district higher
temperatures have forced rapid growth,
and there has been an abundance Of
moisture throughout the whole north
west. The crop Is in almost perfect
promise in every district where grown.
Present activity among harvester and
twine men indicates that growers are
abundantly satisfied with the outlook.
It is matter Of record that the July
condition of spring wheat in two years
out Of three may be safely taken as an
indication of the final result, and If this
rule holds even approximately good this
year the result will be heavy crop.
Corn is still late and behind a normal
season in growth, but this fact Of itself
is Of little importance should the near
future bring forth hot forcing weather.
Over a considerable portion of the belt
good rainfall would be acceptable, but
as local showers ruled there is no actual
suffering over any considerable terri
tory. At the same time more rain Is
needed in southern and western Illinois
and throughout almost the whole of
Iowa and Nebraska. and while the pres
ent situation in this important district
is far from serious ut the same time ten
days of hot. dry weather would be suffi-
cient to excite quite general apprehen-
sion.
North central and western Kansas
apparently enjoyed good rains, but the
heavy falls at Indianapolis and Okla
homa City came from local heavy thun-
/ derstorms. Elsew here in the corn belt
the rainfall recently was below the
normal.
As far as cultivation is concerned, the
corn crop il now in good condition. The
weather Of late has everywhere given
ample opportunity for thorough work
ing, 10 that the ground is fairly mellow
and weeds well under subjection. A lit
tie Of the earlier planting has been laid
by in Kansas, with the fields in excel
lent promise. First working is practi-
cally finished everywhere and second
cultivation generally we'll advanced.
In view Of the hurried preparation of
the soil east Of the Missouri river the
opportunity which has been given for
good first cultivation was extremely
necessary, and to that extent the rather
dry weather may be taken az having
been benefit to the crop. Chicago
Times Herald.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-26
A Would BE Parricide OF Twelve.

John Toscane, q peddler of Williams
burg, N. Y, accused his 12-year-old son
in the Lee Avenue police court lately of
having twice threatened to kill him.
Aweek previously the lad had stopped
his father OIL the street and demanded
% cents for frecrackers. When the
father refused to give him the money,
the boy drew stiletto and lunged at
his fathers head.
The father said also that his wife
found brand new revolver i'll the boy q
pocket. When asked why he had the
weapon, the boy rsid he intended to kill
his father whenever he should find him
alone.
The boy coolly affirmed his fathers
testimony and was sent to, Jail.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-26
TO REMAIN THE NAVY.
Ths warships to Be Manned on American
Lines.

Ths warships to he Manned on American
Lines.
Secretary Long has plan to Ameri-
oanize the United States navy about
which little1s being said, and yet its
Importance is greater than building
new ships. A large proportion Of the
seamen now enlisted on American men,
of-war are Of foreign birth. In case the
United States should get into war with
Sny foreign power, the fact that our
vessels are manned by foreigners would
give rise to serious apprehension. Score
tary Long has given this matter atten-
tion and from information received in
Washington there is foundation for the
announcement that steps are being taken
to make the crews of the United States
men-of-war more thoroughly American.
Recruiting is soon TO begin on the
Atlantic seaboard, the great lakes and
probably the Mississippi river. The
class of men who will be recruited ON
the Mississippi, if the present plan is
carried out, will be engineers and fire.
men. Canvass is now being made at
points where available men for seaman
ship duty would be most likely to be
found, to ascertain how many could be
obtained for duty il any emergency
should arise which would make their
services extremely desirable. Great
secrecy has been maintained about the
proposed movement, and it will prob
ably be asserted that the sole purpose
Of the prospective recruiting is to fill
up the necessary quota Of seamen to
!! man the American navy.
Atspresect the navy is several hun
dred men short Of the number required
for all the vessels which cloud be put
into action.
Secretary Long Is anxious that In the
event Of trouble there should be no
shortage Of seamen available to put ON
all our vessels at moment q notice, bat
the purposes which he and Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt have for the navy
do not stop there. They will endeavor
during the life Of the present admins
tration TO reman the navy ON American
lines. Chicago Tribune.