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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-08-08
Agricultural Department.
Results of Working Crops
Injured by Hail Storms.
Southern Cultivator.

note your editorial in issue
of July 1st, Crops Ruined by
Hail :" also your request for in
formation. Hence | beg herewith
TO submit my experience along
these lines.
Some six weeks ago we had a
very severe hail storm-corn was
about shoulder to head high; the
blades we're all split up like rib
bons and some broke off; cotton
about half-k knee high; not a leat
lett on it. Some of the stalks en-
tirely beat down In the ground
or broken off at the ground some
standing about half original
height; the field looked like a
fire had swept through it and
left a few stalks standing where
the cotton had been. To say |
was blue, is very mild express
sion. | did not know what to do,
but did the following: ploughed
the corn out at once it was time
to plow it and was the laying by
plowlng; used 22.inch winged
sweeps three burrows to the row,
4-foot rows, run shallow it is
now higher than | can reach :;
has cared out nicely; and, but
for the fact that there are no
bottom blades, or what few are
there are all split up, you could
not tell that the hail had ever
struck it. The cotton had been
chopped out and sided up just
before the hail sent plows from
corn to cotton which was five
days after hail, and run around
cotton two burrows to the row
with eighteen-inch wing sweep,
shallow 4; run in siding furrow
and dirted the cotton just little.
Some OF it had, by that time. be-
gan to show signs of life. By care
full examination 1 found that the
stalks that were broken off above
the first leaves were sprouting
out, but all that were broken off
below the two first leaves were
dead. | waited ten DAYS and
plowed again same as before. on
ly using % inch sweeps; hoes
following this plowIng five davs
behind the plows; by this time
all of the stalks not broken off
below the two first leaves had
sprouted out nicely, some one.
most OF them two or three, some
four TO the stalk. and looked
vigorous. 1t Is now knee 10 half
thigh high and very bunchv. or
well limbed and well fruited bv
just looking atlt You can't tel! it
was hurt by the hail. only there
Is not over three-fourths Of a
stand in other words. one stalk
IN every four was killed. broken
Of below the two first leaves
Right behind the hoes | wen,
over and planted with hoes Span.
ism peanuts in the missing places.
and while will not make as
much cotton as | would have
made | viii have some extra
meat and lard winch always
comes in handy. With best
wishes for the CuItivator. |
remain.
a Florida Subscriber.
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Thoughts for Farmers
The Winter Garden Pre-
pairing Land for Small
Grain.
Progressive Farmer.


aration for good winter garden.
The family that lives without
vegetables, or which depends on
canned goods, only half lives.
1urnips demand attention now.
Rutabagas should be planted at
once. The other varieties will
be in time, if sown August 10th.
If the large. curled mustard is
planted in August it will give
fine salad in November and De-
cember. Successive paintings of
spinach and lettuce should be
made. At Clemson College last
October Prof. @. L. Newman
planted onion seed in rows. They
came up and stood the winter
and made fine onions. Beet seed,
early varieties, may be planted
IN August. If good stand is se-
cured fresh tender beets will come
IN during the winter. The leek is
great favorite with many. 1t is
early and milder than the onion.
For turnip salad, get the old
fashioned Seven.t top, or some Of
turnips that grow deep in the
ground. They make good turnips
as well as excellent salad. Let
tuce planted now will head
about the first of Decem Der. If
planted In October and protected
somewhet during the winter, il
may be transplanted in February
and it will give fine solid head
IN April. 1t is understood that
deep plowing or spading, with an
abundance of manure. is neces
sary to make best garden truck
Commercial fertilizer Is very
good, but if you have manure
from a well-fed COW tits better.
On Virginia soil, which had an
abundance of plant food, our
grandfathers made fine wheet
crops with little preparation and
no commercial fertilizer. About
1850 they began to learn, as the
soil was growing thinner, that
pea-vines and cottonseed increas
ed the yield of wheat. Now that
we have very little fresh land.
the small grain crop Will be very
hight unless there Is thorough
preparation and judicious fertill
zIng. For small grain, the sub.
soil should be well broken and a
fine seed bed prepared by har-
rowing. At least two or three in.
Ches Of the clay should be broken
and mixed with the top soil. That
preparation prevents winter XII
ing and carries the water down
" Az q CA'SciNC ain lulI. IL DIl u -
the potash and phosphoric acid
locked up in the clay in contact
with sun, air and frost, and by
degrees renders it available. 1t is
laid by chemists that the first
foot Of Piedmont red clay con-
tains enough plant food, with the
exception of ammonia, for more
than one hundred crops. Between
Naples and Rome fine wheat
fields may be seen and they had
fne wheat on the same land
800 years ago. Onr land is mex
haustible if we only take care of
1t. In the Carolinas there are
thousands of acres of land that
have nothing except weeds and
grass growing. Let all Of it be
thoroughly broken and narrowed
IN August 80 as to be ready for
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Welsh Neck High School
HARTSNILLE. =. G.


CoEducatonal and Military Buildings large and commodous
heated by furnaces eam provided with shower baths
situated campus of twelve Pure artesian water In
srucor graduates of leading colleges of the country Terms
for board tuition and medical attendance for session $4,000
Uniforms for cadet S00 for young lady about $500 for
sion. Write for cataog.
ROBT w. DURRETT, A. NJ. Principal.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03
FEWER CH1LDREN: BETTER ONES?

President Roosevels
periodicals differed with him
this question, tie
the National Fedora
O womens Clubs.
Mrs Deckers opinion is worthy of
the land and be taken certain extent at least embody
o a majority of the members.
what Mrs Decker just this I'VE do not want more
children; children and better ones"
Mrs does moi temporze
compromise American need
n of progeny is quantity, but quality
children Deckes opinion is evil tshan
rearing of
good citizens
This certainly feasible line of reasoning
family of small proportions would naturally re much
simpler proposition provide adequate education for the offspring
compelled shift for HIM
from infancy.
praisworthy intentions eff ITS of the
parents attend household of little
o that in the
their rearing
generally In the
family where practically the entire responsibility
devoves the mother there generally several children
Looking when world and
families twenty twenty-five uncommon would
only exceptions the
rule whic
the worlds history have been
of brothers and sisters.
proposition that there
opportunity properly children the
the personality
parents inherent qualities of the children.
Decker she speaks
body
should something
say the subject.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03
OREGON TRADE RATS DO
BUSINESS WITH DOCTOR

ROSEBERG, Ore, Oct. 3.-While
en- route to his timber claim in
Southern Oregon recently DR.. c. A,
Maurer of La Crosse, Wis, met
with an experience new to him and
amusing to his friends
The physician had not previously
heard of the Oregon trade rat"
and upon retiring 20 his "pallet" in
an upstairs room of an abandoned
log cabi, unsuspecting!y left his
small medicine case, ais wallet and
his gold watch on soap box beside
his pillow, When the call of the
timber cruiser who was plotting the
party reused DR. Maurer at dawn
the following morning he found
himself sitting up in his pallet"
and staring at a pine burr, big
splinter Of cedar wood and a small
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03


BAR HARBOR, Me-, Oct. LIN
view of recent happenings, shall
be glad to give you in an article
my opinion of the enlisted men Of
the United States navy.
Enlistments are made for the
service from all parts of the coun-
try-the coast as well as inland.
OF the applicants for first enlist
ment probably as many are reject
ed for one caluse or another as are
accepted, for the standard physi-
cally and morally is placed high.
1t happens in the navy, as in
civil life, with an equal number of
men, that some are not worthy;
but the large mass of men in the
navy are all that can he desired.
Even with the most undesirable
cruit, the training that he receives
in his first year of service turns out
a man who will become a better
citizen of the United States than
he would have been had he not
been in the service.
Since the incident which occur
red in Portland last month, | have
received many letters from persons
whom | have never met; like the
following:
Il have watched them with great
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

eer. "Haint you heard NV trade
rats?" Why, man, all you got to do
is ter ferret out the nest. you'll
find yer stuff all right, and If you'll
take back the sticks an burrs an
things an tell Mr.. Rat tibet you
hain't satisfied with the bargain,
| guess he'll give you back yer
truck Them rats means ter be
square, all right"
Just then the physicians wife
and a woman fried who had slept
in another room came rushing forth
with cries of alarm. Some thing
jerked at my pillow two or three
times in the night" she declared,
land now both of my shoes are
gone! Mae says she heard sqlleaks
and bumpings all night long!"
The whole party turned out to
locate the headquarters of the
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stone the size of An egg; the watch,
wallet and medicine case had dis
In alarm the physician hurriedly
began to dress Reaching for his
second shoe in the half gloom, he
picked up, instead. an old tomato
can. DR.. Maurer is a methodical
man and knew where he had placed
his shoe. The can had obviously
been left, as had the worthless OBJ
jects on the soap box, to replace
what had been carried off. Rush
ing down the stairs, the physician
made known his losses and had
begun to roundly score the guide
for not having warned the party of
the danger of thieves or practical
jokers in the neighborhood, when a
loud guffaw from an old mountain
eer who had just ridden into camp
stopped him.
Trade rats!" said the mountain
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03
LAYING RAILS IN
BIG CASCADE:
TUNNEL

Without delaying train service
the Great Northern is laying new
S5-pound steel rails through the
Cascade tunnel. Track crews run
in and out between trains working
when they can by torch'iGht. 1t IS
expected that the three miles of
tunnel will be equipped with new
rails throughout insid of six weeks.
White men at first refused to work
in the tunnel and Japs were tried,
but they could not do the work and
white crews were secured by re-
laying the rails at night and pay
ing overtime. The work Is done at
night in order to escape all the
traffic possible. Operations are
greatly hindered by the suffocating
smoke that remains in the tunnel
half an hour after train has
passed through.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

trade rat" and a little later two
nests were found, one in hollow
log and another in the attic of the
cabin. All the missing articles save
Dr.. Maurer's left shoe were found
snugly tucked away in these nests,
but the missing brogan had evident
ly been carried off to some other
place and the physician had to
continue the trip in a borrowed
boot unearthed from the cruisers
pack.
Many stories are told of the
trades" made by these rodents,
and one of the stores is to the eff
feet that a mountain love affair
came near being wrecked because a
trade" rat once carried off an i'm
portant missive. Another story has
it that a business partnership was
dissolved over a missing check,
which three years later was found
in a rats nest under razed cabin.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

a plate at the reception to be
given Sir Thomas Lip;un by the
--ago Athletic association has
been extended Lewis NJ. Head of
this city. The banquet will be giyen
Oct. 5. The gueSt invited from
Spokane was formerly a Chicago
newspaper man.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03
A PAYING GUEST

Christina had been biting the end
of her pencil for FULLY three min.
utes.
1--WE must do something to keep
the wolf from the doo",' she said.
With this agreed. 81 ct us take
boarders," | suggested. 81 know
you have a horror of the thought,
but it would be all right if we
called them paying guests"
"M-m-yes," she said ct length.
The first answer we received
from our advertisement was, would
you believe it, from a man. 1t was
with much hesitancy that we &C
cepted him. When he came, our
doubts vanished. He was adorably
/ handsome.
After dinner our guest began ask
ing questions about our interes ting
old town. | did not feel disposed
! to join in such banal conversation,
so seated myself at tie piano and
| commenced to sing my favorte bal
lad, "Snowflakes."
1t seemed to me from this time
forth that when I happened to be
alone with him his attentions were
most marked; but no sooner did
Christina intrude upon our tete-a-
tete than, with guilty look, he
would leave me to attach himself
to her apron string. | considered
it most unfair to Chrissie.
He went into ecstasies over our
old silver plate, which my sister in
sisted on displaying in his honor.
Christina was even so weak minded
as to fetch down for his inspection
the exquisite Indian jewelry which
father had brought home for dear
mother.
Said Mr.. Constantine: Tf ever
you are inclined to part with these
beautiful ornaments Miss Harlowe,
you must really let me have the
first chance of becoming a pur.
chaser"
The mere idea of parting with
dear mothers jewels brought the
tears to Christmas eyes, and she
hurried from the room
AS soon as we were alone Mr..
Constantine was lingering the gems
delicately, as though tteir contact
were pleasant to the touch of his
taper fingers.
as there any one among these
trinkets upon which you set par
ticuar store?" he asked without
looking at me.
held up little miniature of my
dear mother. 1t was set in brill
liants.
THAT is my favorite,' said.
WAS not my mother lovely?"
you are very like her" he said,
gravely. And again l bushed, this
time with no touch of aLger in my
heart.
LET us lock them up here in the
cabinet" | said. "Chrissie can put
them all away in the morning"
| Together we made the jewels
fast, and then bade our paying
guest good night"
| On the following morning Chris
tina and | were seated at the break
| fast table.
| "Please tell Mr.. Constantine that
we are waiting breakfast, Sarah"
said Christina.
"Mr. Constantine amt in his
room, miss" she said.
Christina and | stared at her.
"And his bed aln't been slept in"
continued Sarah.
turned trembling to that cab
met. I flung the doors wide, and
saw that the Indian jewelry was
gone. My cropping hand foil upon
one little packet, evidently forgot
ten. But, no, it must have been
Intentionally left, for on the paper
were traced some words:
an order that your sweet faith
in human nature may not be de-
stroyed, have left you the trinket
of your choice"
sank helplessly into a chair.
The packet fell open in my lap and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03
ADMIRAL bob" WRITES
ON THE ''ENL|STED MAN.
BY Admiral RobIey D. Evans.

Recently sailors from the United
States Atlantic feet on shore leave
at Portland, Me-, were denied adj
mission to entertainments and
were also attacked on the streets.
Following this treatment, Rear Ad-
miral Bob Evans, in command of
the fleet, issued orders that none
of his ships shall again enter the
harbor of Portland.
In view of the Maine affair and
similar occurrences in other ports
of the country, Rear Admiral Evans
has written the following on the
enlisted man of the navy exclusive
ly for the Scripps newspapers:
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03
MILWAUKEE CUTTING
THROUGH THE
MOUNTAINS

Reports from the Occur d'Alenes
say that the Milwaukee railway is
slashing its right of way through
that country. This news was
brought to the city by men who
have been employed or the work
of marking out the route of the
new transcontinental line.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

interest, and would say that l have
never seen a lot Of men behave
themselves in such a clean, decent
and self-respectirg manner as the
sailors On shore leave did at Rock
port"
Reports such as this come in
from nearly every place we visit,
and, even from Portland. where
the men were treated so outrage
ously, I have received many letters
commencing them in the highest
terms.
The men in all of the ships are
graded in FIVE classes, according to
their conduct. A man receiving no
report of any kind for a period of
more than six months is placed
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

on what is called "the special first
class conduct list" and is given
liberty On shore when his services
can be spared.
On board the Maine, with a crew
Of about 1870 men, there are no less
than 512 who are on the first ella SIS
and special first class which is
about 10 per cent of the total
number, and of these 329 are on the
special first class list.
The day is long since past when
the naval seamen were a drunken
and boisterous set of men. Those
that we now have on board ship
are self respecting; they do their
duty and are an honor to the SER
vice
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

disclosed my dear mothers por-
trait. But-alas for my sweet
faith in human nature!-the gold
setting and the brilliants had been
carefully removed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03
BEATS EDITOR WITH SLUNG.
SHOT.

DENVER, Oct. S.--At Lajara vs.
terday Postmaster jay Cochran at
tackled and probably fatally wound.
ed c. l.. Wilder, editor of the
Chronicle. The trouble grew out
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

of a fight between Wilder and the
Independent party Of which CGch-
ran is candidate for congress. He
struck the editor over me hea l
with a slungshot.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03
BURGLAR GETS GOLD

A burglary was reported this
morning from S704 Adams street.
"a gold watch and chain with a
nugget charm was stolen.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

HEAD is INVITED.
The privilege Of paying $40 for
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

Elsewhere they'd be $40. Some of the very
latest styles in all the grays. worsteds,
cassimeres tweeds etc Splendidy tailored.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-10-03

VS. paper man
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-01

schools-where our children are taught
are other statues of these same naked
persons; the children see them day
after day, they gaze upon the human
form divine, all undraped as 1t Is,
and learn 30 admire itl What think
We Of this, noble park commissioners?
oh, let not the crusade against naked
ress stop with the public parks. Go
after the galleries, the art stores. the
schools and the homes. Put panties on
every naughty. naked man, woman and
child. Get Mother Hubbards and frock
coats IL pahties won't suffice. and
swathe them till every lineament is
wrapped i'm fold on fold. There's a cru
SADIE worth whilel
Nakedness? A basl We want no
nakedness neither in our statues nor in
our lives. why. fellow park commis-
sioners, you wouldn't stand for the
naked truth itself, would your
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-01
THE WAY TO MAKE HENS MouLr

One of the achievements of modern
poultry keeping is that of forcing a
hen to doff her old coat and grow a
new one before the time when she
would do so naturally. Many hens shed
their feathers so late in the season,
naturally, that cold weather overtakes
them before they get new suits, con-
sequently they seldom begin laying be-
fore spring. If the moult can be has
tened so that a new coat of feathers
is grown and the laying can be started
before cold weather, the prospect is
good for a supply of eggs during fall
and winter.
The result is usually accomplished
by cutting off all meat and mash foods,
putting the hens on short rations of
grain for a week or so to stop the lay
ing, then allow more liberty and feed
full ration high in protein. This
loosens the old feathers, which drop off
quickly, and starts rapid growth of
the new. A liberal allowance of beef
scrap is essential, and lnseed meal is
an advantage Sunflower seeds are
also good during the Notwithstanding.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-01
THE CHRONIC KICKER

The chronic kicker is not a pleasant
parsonage, but he performs a most USE
full functlon he is the watchdog of
liberty, the price of which is eternal
vigilance The kindliness and the social
feeling of the Americans tend to make
them shrink from protest against
trihing abuses and unimportant in
fringements of public rights. The indi-
Viduality of the British, on the other
hand, their bull-headed harshness, tend
to make an act of protest congenal to
them. Before a petty infraction of
right the long-suffering Americans are
inclined to submit with laugh, adj
mitting that the joke is on them,
whereas the British fail to see the
joke and rise up i'm their wrath. They
refuse to pay an overcharge, and If
they are compelled by circumstances
they appeal the case-or they write to
the Times. And when enough letters
have been written to the Times, public
opinion is reused at last, and then the
matter is quickly settled. If the hotels
of Europe are now cleaner than they
were half a century ago, with larger
towels and wash basins, with better
sanitary conveniences, our thanks are
due to two generations of travellers
from the British isles who were uneeas-
ing in complaint whenever they failed
to find what they wanted and when
they did find what they did not want
The Reader.