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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-09-27
Up Against It.

The fight is on earnest and Joke Our artillery loaded with the
choicest styles qualities
with prices that Won't hang fire. Our fort mpreguab having bought
selling
competition
prices count for anything with
IL OF the made to order brigade will give
them with
account To all
will have from leading tailoring establishment
Chicago with full patterns al the novelties
the last of this month, and will give
N PEI % isrs sExs JOHN ADAMS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-09-27
Harrows & Land Rollers

the very best at SArrERFIKLD & DoDsoN.
II
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-09-27
Disc PloWs.

See the "Pony Kid" before you buy lat
Il. Satterfield q Dodson's.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
Hop Pickers,

1t requires great many hands, and
has to be carried through quickly. AS
soon as the tinle arrives the East Lon
doners by the thousand give up their
work and take the train 10 the hopping.
Then they have the finest time imagin-
able. They arc quite free from any inter
ference; no one watches over them; all
day long they are out in the fields. They
are paid, and paid well, by the basket;
therefore they work hard. In the evening
they have games entirely of their own
devising. There is no lady to watch the
girls, no young university man good
with his fists let loose upon the lads;
money is plentiful, suppers are copious,
beer flows in streams, they dance and
sing at their own sweet will. The farm
ers, so long as they do no mischief to
the crops and orchards, do not inter-
fere. At night the girls sleep in one
barn and the lads and men in another.
When hopping is over they come back to
town. Like Bottom, they are trans
formed: their cheeks, which were pasty-
colored, are now rosy and sunburnt; they
are no longer the children of the curb;
they have been adopted for the time by
field How they get back to work do
not know, but l believe that in many fac
tories the employers look forward to the
hopping desertions and make arrange
ments accordingly-Sir Walter Besant
in The CentVrr
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
Tho Extinct Mocking-Bird.

The mocking bird is practically ex-
tinct save in captivity, and there are
but few of them captive, for the bird
does not take readily to cage, and
unless caught when very young, it
is reported to commit suicide rather
than endure imprisonment, or to be
supplied with poison by the free birds
that pity its fate. 1t was discovered
not long ago that many of the negroes
on the plantations, knowing very lit
tie about ornithology, shoot any bird
they come across and are indulging in
potpie made Of the American night
ingale.
This slaughter has been largely
stopped by the license taxes placed on
the sale Of shotguns and ammunition.
This action was not take, however, un-
til there were very few mocking birds
left in Louisiana. The same is true Of
the game law which was passed only
at the last session Of the legislature,
when the ducks had been killed or
largely driven from Louisiana; and the
action of the Ornithological union in
regard to sea birds also came little
late.-New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
cabbases a, a Profitable Crop.

Phe cabbage crop can be made a
profitable one on the farm, as all heads
not sold in market may be used as
green food in winter for cattle, sheep,
swine and poultry. Beginning with
f1e early varieties, and following with
intermediate and late kinds, one crop
may mature after another, while the
around from which the early heads
are sold may be planted to turnips.
! 1t is possible<to have cabbage nearly
SaH the year round by proper methods
3of growing and storage. The very ear
ly heads are grown in cold frames.
Cabbages thrive on rich soil that has
bee1rheagdy manured, and as the
crep IS one that draws largely on the
soil, and the plants are also gross
feeders, there is no risk Of giving too
much manure. 1t is crop that thrives
with frequent hoeing or cultivation,
every working Of the soil seeming to
benefit the plants. To make them
start off in growth rapidly scatter a
tablespoonful of nitrate of soda around
each plant and hoe it into the soil.
A little later, just as the plants are
beginning to head, repeat the applica-
tion of nitrate Of soda.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
Cattle and Water.

Il is not at all unusual to see cattle
pastured In a field in which the only
water, supply is small, stagnant pond
or two, covered with green scum, and
filed with animalculae and water in
sects; and to see other cattle watered
from barrels that have collected the
rain water from the roofs Of the barns
and ontbuildings, and which frequent
ly swarm with larvae of the mosquito,
besides being impure and stagnant;
to see cattle driven quite distance
only once day for water when If at
that time some, of them do not feel
like dFinking they. must endure their
thirst another "a hours.
Water plays one Of the most impor-
tant parts in the make up Of every
living being. Life can be sustained
quite a time on water alone. How ina
portant it g then to see that the cows
whose milk we drink and whose flesh
we eat have their water fresh and pure
instead of being contaminated by the
absorption of that which is impure
The Epitomist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
pEADENlNc MACHINERY NOISE.
Some of the Novel Expedients Resorted
TO nv Eupineerg

Some of the Novel Expedients Resorted
to by Engineers.
Hair felt has repeatedly received
mention as a means Of deadening vi
bration and noise from machinery,
placed for this purpose between en-
gine bedplates and foundation cap
stones and underneath rails subject
to heavy train traffic. Now, however,
cork is said to have been used in
Germany with the same end in view,
the available particulars being to the
effect that sheet, made of fiat pieces
of the cork, in mosaic fashion, CORE
spending in size to the bedplate of the
noisy machine, and held together by
an iron frame, is laid under the ma
chine. What measure of success has
been obtained with this new expedient
Is not told. though as means Of tenn
porary relief it probably answered the
intended purpose. The true solution
of most, If not all machinery vibra-
tion problems Is, however, to be
found in proper foundations. ample
III CD du0 WOi5ul, dllu IL SCuCl oily
pays to provide these if at all practi-
cable.
To what exercise of ingenuity the
engineer is sometimes put in accom-
plishing this was illustrated dozen
or more years ago In one large factory,
where, on an upper floor, row Of
small engines had to be installed for
the independent driving of CORE
spending number Of different ma
chimes. Though the building was Of
substantial construction, with steel
floor beams. it was foregone conclu-
sion that that row of engines would
cause trouble if set with nothing but
the floor as foundation, and as it was
undesirable to raise them much above
the floor level, each engine was pro-
yided with separate foundation,
built up of brick and mortar in the
usual way, but suspended by steel
straps between the floor beams and
thus projecting down into the head
room of the floor below. Seen from
there, each foundation. with it's en-
CINE, appeared as if resting on airy
nothing. But those suspended iounda-
tions accomplished all that was ex-
pected Of them as vibration absorbers.
-Cassier's Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
Jews and Chess.

No player has yet made fortune
out of chess, and many Of the great
masters find it difficult to make even
a mere living from the game. This
makes it all the more remarkable that
such a large percentage Of the most
famous players are Jews. Among
present.day players may be men,
toned Lasker, Janowski. Marocsy,
Tschigorin, Tarrasch, and Marco, all
of whom are Jews. and in the past
generation Steinitz, zukertort, Lowen-
thai, Rosenthal, Kolisch. Harwitz and
Horwitz. One of the Rothschild fam
lily, though he never takes part in
tournaments, is known to be a first.
class amateur, and his interest in the
game is so great that he has found
positions in his bank in Vienna for
many a struggling professional chess
player.-London News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
PEAT CHANGED INTO ELECTRICITY.
Germans Will Utilize Enormous reposits
of Turf Fuel.

A scheme for the transmission OF
electric power and its distribution on an
enormous scale is TO be tried in North
Germany. 1t is proposed to utilize the
great peat beds there for the manufac-
t,ire of currents that shall be distributed
to manufacturing centers.
1t .s estimated that an acre of turf
ten feet thick contains thousand pounds
of dry peat and that this is equivalent
to 10000 tons of coke. In the peat
valleys of North Germany there is an
area of thousand square miles, which
should furnish the equivalent of 3oo,ooo,-
ooo tons of pit coal. That would be
more than the total production of Ger
many for three years. 1t is proposed to
burn this turf at central stations, each
of which will have engines with 10000
horse power capacity, consuming an
nually 100000 tons of turf, the product
of 200 acres of the beds.
These power stations will grind out
electricity that will be conveyed by wire
to the consumers. One application of
the power is to be to boat traction on
the canal now in course of construction
to connect Dostmund with the peat re-
gion.
Another very interesting application of
the power will be in the manufacture of
acetylene, the materials of which can be
obtained easily and chcaply in the neigh
borhood. 1t is calculated that with
horse power of 10000 acetylene can be
produced daily in quantities equal to
10000 gallons of petroleum, or equal
in value in one year to 10000 tons of
foreign imported petroleum.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
Abandoned Ant Villages.

The traveller frequently meets in
the open plains Of Sudan what appears
to be giant mushrooms, relates
Lieutenant A. Bacot in La Nature. On
closer examination. however. it is
seen at once that these mushrooms
are abandoned and Weather-beaten
structures of white ants. These struc.
lures or abodes were originally
cone-shaped. 1t is familiar to many
that these convivial insects make
their nests out of organic material
which they grind between their jaws.
These materials consist Of wood,
leaves, also partly Of clay. and by the
use of their saliva the ants make them
still more plastic and durable against
all sorts of weather. The covering
layer is prepared with sort of var
nish which is quite as waterproof and
impenetrable as tar roof. While the
rain cannot go through the roof, the
sides of the abode are made porous so
as to admit the air.
When the nests become old they are
abandoned. The side surface becomes
weather beaten, while the middle pill
lar remains intact owing to the protec-
tion of the impenetrable roof and is
thus able to render longer resistance
in it's thin form. This is the simple
explanation given by Lieutenant Ba-
cot as to the form of the mushroom.
Many of the nests are. however. made
from the very first with overhanglng
protective roofs.
The. dome-shaped nests. owing to
their great waterproofing qualities,
are used to a large extent as roof
bricks by the natives in Congo. This
is, perhaps, the only good quality at
tributable to these damaging insects
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
To Avoid sofh Shell Egss.

Study your hens, keep them warm in
winter and cool in summer. and above
all have no filth or lice. Do not buy
hens from nock that has at any time
been afflicted with ihis disease. Al
ways separate the layers hom the
non-layers if 1t can. be done. The lay
ing hens will have larger and redder
cUmps tnzn the others, but a hen that
wants to lay and is too fat also has
a red comb.
Soft-shelled or misshapen eggs are
sure indication that the hens are too
fat. The fat has crowded the repro
ductiye organs out of proper shape,
hence the misshapen eggs. Not feed
ing enough bone or shell making ma
terial is the cause Of soft-shelled eggs.
Make your hens. hunt for their feed
and you will have no trouble in this
respect.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
The Honest watchman.

The owner Of a factory found his
night watchman asleep while upon
duty and discharged him on the spot.
The man returned next day and asked
to be appointed day watchman at a
salary of $40 a week.
"But do not require day watch
man." said the factory owner. "and
why should I pay you SO week for
doing nothing?"
"Well," replied the former watch
man, ~ just think you're getting
mighty stingy all of sudden. You
used to pay me $40 week for doing
nothing."-New York Commercial Ad.
vErtiser.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
Eeedinr value Of But,orm,lk,

A reader asks information regard
ing the feeding Of buttermilk. In Its
simplest terms the answer is that but
termilk and skim milk which has been
allowed to sour some arc the same.
Cream Is merely milk with an addi-
tional proportion of butter fat. After
tkis butter, fat has been churned out,
the remainder is simply skim milk.
Skim milk and buttermiik both vary
J In amount Of butter tat retained, and
the amount of acid fermentation some
what controls the feeding value.
Because buttermilk has some acidity
1t, is not recommended for very young
animals, sweet skimmilk being prefer
able, but the Massachusetts, expert
nent station, the only station which
has tested 1t, reports practically equal
results ia feeding pigs with skim milk
and buftermilk and this is eorrobo-
rated by the experience Of farmers.
The same is true in regard to Doul-
try, while in. regard to human food,
the stomach often takes kindly to but
ternilk when other forms Of milk
cause trouble. This is doubtless due
to the beneficial effects Of the ferpen-
tation, many invalids certifying that
buttermiIk will almost grow a new
liver" Both skimmilk and buttermilk
can profitably enter the human die
tary to far greater extent than is
now common. Major Alyord has very
strongly recommended an increased
use of skimmilk In cookery, and has
published articles to that end, and
as skimmilk and buttermilk are iden-
teal In composition. the same holds
true with both, remembering that but
termilk is usually 9 slightly fermented
form of skimmilk. Dairy buttermilk
is generally richer than creamery but
tsrmilk, and for two reasons: The
small dairy churn does not churn out
the fat SO extensively, and 1t is gen.
eral creamery practice to wash tho
granulated butter and run the wash
water into the buttermilk tank, there
by diluting it.-American Agrcultur-
fcf
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
TRAPPING ON THE EASTERN sHoa
Hunters Mako Their Living from s
of Otter. Muskrat and Mink. ~

= :
State Senator William F. Apple
garth. of Dorchester county, arrived
in Baltimore OH Sunday on the steamer
Ffed Avon with $4,000 otter, mink atnd
muskrat skins, valued at about S60p0s
which he had collected from the trap
pers of his county. The senator said:
"Much of the southern part of DdEs
chester is composed of low-lyitg,
marshy land, cut up into small islaAls
and peninsulas, about whose sh6fes
the fresh water streams Of the Bladk-
water and Honga rivers thread their
way. It is the ideal home of aqul&ic
fur-bearing animals. Ever since tS
hides of the muskrats have begunEto
be utilized the trappers of Dorchester
have done thriving trade in the cap
ture of them, and they are practically
as plentiful now as ten years ago.
"The otters have not held upagainst
their prosecutors so successfully, and
have now become very rare. There are
yet many minks in some favored Sec
tions, and in my immediate neighbp pr
hood about 200 were captured during
the last season. In Lakes district,
where I operate, there are about 100
trappers but of that number about ten
procured the majority Of the 25,O00
skins which have just brought to the
city.
"The successful trappers depend lal-
most entirely upon the product Of their
marshes as q means of support, and
through the proceeds coming from fish,
animals and wild duck during the Fin-
ter season are enabled to live Very
comfortably. Cabins or shanties are
erected upon or near the marshes, land
during the trapping season, which
lasts from January 1 to March 81, they
live practically upon the marshes.
Some of the most successful own their
marshes, and many others rent either
on fur shares or money rent from
the owners. A hundred acres are con-
sidered large range for one man to
hunt over, and usually, upon a good
marsh, Is acres worked thoroughly
will produce as many pelts as a larger
area covered insufficiently.
"The trappers are hardy fellows,
who can stand any amount Of expos
ure. Most of them have been raised
from boyhood upon the marshes and
the traits necessary for good trapper
are instilled into their youthful minds
from the start. The men frequently
work several hundred eeltraps. Very
little shooting is done but sticking rats
with gigs which pierce through their
houses when the tide covers the
marshes is yet extensively pursued.
AS many as hundred rats are some
times speared by one man during
days hunt.
Women haev also been known to
prove successful trappers. and ! have
seen them attired in mems clothing
and long rubber boots plunglng about
the marshes spearing rats or tending
the traps"
The prices this season are but little
different from those of last Rat skins
sell in Baltimore at wholesale at IL
cents for brown and % cents for black.
Mink skins bring from 81 to 81 each
Baltimore Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
a I,fmoral Fable.

When the new reporter came in
to write his first story, after adopting
journalism, the hardened sinners in
the office began to offer bets. One
and all wanted to bet $40 that he
would.
Just to accommodate them, foolish
but sportive stranger took them up.
And when the new reporter turned
in his copy, which told about cir
Gus, it was found that he had not
referred to the elephant as "the giant
pachyderm."
So the stranger won.
It Is wrong to bet.
Submoral-But the new reporter
did not know how to spell "pachy-
derm."-Baltimor America1
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24

% height with those on the horse Sta
BILE side. These are light and strong,
and can be easily taken out and laid
to one side Then we have light joists
reaching across the barn floor, with
erds resting on these girts.
All this arrangement can be taken
out in short time and laid to one side
out OF the way. A floor is laid on the
joists to within a few feet of the barn
door in which we draw hay. The team
can go under the floor until the load
strikes the upper floor, and then We
shift our hay fork so that We can un-
load and fill nearly all the space over
the barn aoor full. We feed from this
frst, and by the time cornstalks ara
ready to draw, the hay in the other
mews will have settled SO they will
hold all that is left over the barn
floor, leaving the entire space for our
corn fodder, or any other stuff we wish
to put up there. AS we don't sell hay
it is not often necessary to take out
this floor, but it remains there year
after year. It not only makes more
room, but makes the barn and stables
much warmer. 1t is easily reached by
a short ladder.
This space can also be filled with
nice dry straw for bedding, but we pre-
fer to stack our straw close to the
lack barn door, where it is easily
reached and live stock can rIa around
it. We can get all the bedding we
want very easily, and then it is handy
to cut and throw the stack down for
the live stock to work into manure. A
barn is larger than it looks when all
the space is occupied, and a little
thought along these lines may save
building more barn room. know I
was surprised when came to fill the
unoccupied space upon our barn floor.
IL. N. Cowdrey, in the Country Cen
tleMan.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
1ntenalxe orohard Cultivation.

There is more need Of intensive
methods of orchard cultivation than
ever, tor If there is anything that
modern experience teaches !: . is that
fine fruit raised in abundance pays
exceedingly we'll, whilesordinary fruit,
either in small quantity or in abund-
arce, hardly returns profit enough to
represent interest on the investment.
4 great many people go into orchard
ing with the idea that they know it
all; but after they have tried it for a
few years they drop 1t as improbable,
or wisely learn that they knew next
to nothing about the industry.
There is located near me an orchard
which pays the owner a handsome in
, come. 1t occupies 80 acres of land that
las been brought to the highest state
of fertility through persistent work
for 10 years. Every acre of that land
is capable of making any fruit tree
or vine produce their best. Through
careful selective methods the owner
has obtained the trees and vines
which he considers do the best in his
locality, and the fruit OF which has a
high: market value. Every variety pro-
duees> the finest fruits-grapes, pears,
apples, peaches and small fruits. Ev-
cry modern scientific method of cul-
ture, protection and stimulation OF the
plants and trees has been experiment
ed with, and after careful tests those
found satisfactory adopted.
This orchard never fails to produce
excellent fruit. So constantly does
this happen year after year that the
mans reputation for the finest fruit
shipments has extended to all markets
within 100 miles. There are off sea-
SONS when the fruit is poorer than in
other years, and when the crop Is
small; but during years when others
cannot sell their fruits because Of poor
quality and glutted markets, this
:neighbor of mine has orders for his
products at satisfactory prices. In
deed, the commission men seek him
out and try to induce him to sell; but
hes has learned to value his products
at their true worth, and no specula-
tor can hope to come and buy aim out
unless the cash is handed over drst.
For five years now he has averaged
from 10 to 20 percent more for his
fancy fruits than the average market
price paid.
His secret is not difficult one. He
has made intensive culture his aim in
life, and he has developed his orchard
to its utmost limits. In his early ef-
forts he found his trees yielding poor
fruit. Time and again he was de-
ceived by the recommendation Of 9TH
ers in regard to varieties Of vines and
trees, and he had to cut out poor and
inferior varieties. This severe meth
cd in time helped, for it enabled him
to establish fine orchard Of trees
and plants that he personally knew all
about. 1t is the old story of man
learning for himself, but persisting
through failure and Encouragement,
always having faith in the future. He
believed some day he would make the
business pay. Today he does, and he
is such master of the whole industry
that he is sure of his incomes. w.
Chambers, in American Cultivator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-24
utilizing Space in the Barn Loft.

:
There are too many barns with un-
used space overhead. Generally the
space over the barn floor is open from
the floor to the roof. Sometimes there
5 Is small scaffold overhead at each
end Of the barn floor that usually
holds a load or two, with the great
central space open to the roof.
This isAthe way we used to have our
barn, but now we have It arranged so
the entire overhead is in use eight feet
above the floor and stables. Along in
front of the horse stables, we had a
strong girt framed in, eight feet
above the tnreshing floor. This was
done when the barn was first built.
Then, after few years, we were short
of storage room, and we framed in
some temporary girts on the opposite
side OF the barn floor to correspond