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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14
HOW TO SHOCK CORN.
when Properly Cut and Shocked
There II no Danger of Damage.
and the Crop is Easily IIaudlcd.

McSsrs. Editors: Recently there
have been spasmodic efforts made
here and there to utilize the entire
corn stalk by cutting and shrcdding
the crop, but very few of these ex-
pcrimcnts have amounted TO much;
and the old method of stripping the
fodder has been resumed in most
cases. These failures were caused
by the work being improperly done
Our first effort was copied after the
plans used in the Northeastern
States and its results were anything
but satisfactory.
This attempt proved to us it's de-
fccts when applied to Southern corn
our corn plant grows too tall to
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14

Mr.. Geo. Il. DesChamps, Nominated
Magistrate I'm Second District, Has
Failed to File His Campaign Ex-
pense as Required by Law.

AS is we'll known, all candidates for
County and States Offices are requlr-
ed, by a special act of the legislature,
to file with the clerk Of court in the
county in which they reside an item
lied account of their campaign ex-
penses on the day before the primary,
and, also, Immediately after the pri-
mary, statement Of all further eX-
penses incurred. each candidate
picdging himself when he enters the
race to fulhll this requirement.
Upon inquiry it has developed that
this requirement has not been COM
piled with hy n number of those who
made the race for Offices in this coun-
ty.
Mr.. Geo. r. DcsChamps. the unop .
posed candidate for Magistrate in
the second district was of necessity
duly nominated. hut without having
iiIcd his campaign expense account
either before or after the primary. Ac-
Democratic committee i'm Grcenvillc
his nomination should therefore he de-
"larcd void. In the GrccnvilIc case Mr..
John G. Greer was nominated for the
| nous" OF representatives but il was
found that he had failed to file his
campaign expenses. and Mr.. John
Harrison who received the next high
est numbcr Of votes was declared
nominated in his place.
Mr.. +. l.. Player who was nomI-
mated magistrate I'm the First District
over Mr.. II. A. Dennis failed to file
his expense account after the pri-
mary and Mcssrs. G. f.. Stubbs. can
didate for House Of Representatives
j. Edwin Rembcrt. candidate for SUI
perintendent of Education, and s. +.
Gaillard, candidate for magistrate in
the Sixth District, who were all de-
feated. failed to file their expense ac-
counts after the primary
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14

snOcks In Its entirety. Its height
renders it unsuitable to withstand
the winds, and it is almost impos-
sible to bind it properly. The mass
of corn is bulky and hard to cure. 1t
can not be handled economically on
account of it's bulk, and the stover
and the butts of these long stalks
must necessarily be composed large
ly of indigestible material, which
when deducted makes the product Of
small value.
In our succeeding effort we let the
corn ripen until most of the shucks
were Drowned. We cut the stalks
just far enough below the ears to
keep them from resting on the
ground when the stalks were stood
upon end in the shock. The shocks
were made more than double the
size recommended by Northern
farmers, and the shocks were tightly
bound just below the tassels. The
nearer the binding is to the top of
the shock the better the results.
Much corn and fodder is damaged
by being tied too low down.
When the stalk is thus shortened
the weight of the ears, instead of
being above the middle of the shocks
where it tends to pull the mass over,
is at its base where it proves most
effective in keeping the contents in
an upright position. Four years ago
we adopted this method of shorten
ing the stalks and thereby shorten
ing the height Of the corn shocks.
Now it Is very rare thing to find q
shock down. Although through
stress Of circumstances beyond our
control much of our crop Is COM
PEELED to stand in the shocks until
far into the winter, the fodder comes
out bright and there are but few
rotten ears Of corn found when the
crop is put into the cribs.
The butts, ranging from two to
four feet high, are utilized here by
converting them into ensilage. They
are by this process softened and
made into food for cattle. Where
farmers are not in a position to util-
ize them this way it is better to
leave them to rot on the land than
to attempt to put them into the
shocks where they will most assured
ly cause more damage to the corn
and stover than they are worth.
There are many advantages In
shocking corn over the old method of
managing the crop, and there are no
disadvantages when the crop IS prop
erly managed, some "pellagrist' to
the contrary notwithstanding, as the
grain is preserved better and in
sounder condition than when the
crop remains as it grew in the open
field. The fodder averages better
and the crop can be shocked as we'll
when wet from rain as il can when
the weather is dry.
I believe that corn can be as sue
ceSsfully shocked in the humid coast
region as elsewhere if properly done,
for our shocks very often stand upon
wet branch bottoms for months to-
gether without injury.
j. W. Burch. in "ProgressiVe Farm
er"
Richland Co., S. C.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14
HARMON 4 SURE WINNER.
SO Says Joe Cannon According tt
Montgomery Lawyer.
Richland Co, S. c..

Spartanburg, Sept. 10.-The fol-
lowing statement is credited to Speak
cr Cannon by a prominent Mont
gomery lawyer, who is in the city.
He and Mr.. Cannon were thrown to-
gether on a train in the Northwest
several days ago:
l am a strong partisan, I admit.
and have given my whole life to the
service of the Republican party. But
sixteen years is too long for any party
to remain in absolute power over
the Government of this country. 1t
is necessary, in the interest Of good
government, that the reins should be
shifted from one party to the other
every now and :'.en.
And If the Democratic party, in
1912, nOminates JudSon Harmon. Of
Ohio, for the Presidency, and Mr..
Bryan does not fight him, Harmon
will be elected. and ought 70 be
elected"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14
VALUE OF THE COTTON CROP.
Southern Mills Now Use More Bales
Than Northern Competitors.

(From the New Orleans Times Dem
ocrat.)
The report of Mr.. III. G.. Hester, Of
the New Orleans Cotton Exchange on
the cotton crop of last year contains
many facts of great interest to the
South, but none of more direct i'm
portance than the splendid price OBJ
tanned from the crop, although
small one, and the development of
the Southern cotton industry, the
Southern mills now taking a larger
amount of the raw cotton for manu-
featuring purposes than do those Of
the North.
The South has long been fighting
for these two things. For thirty years
after the civil war it did not get more
than enough for its cotton to pay
the expense Of growing and picking
1t. Having but little capital, and the
farmers being heavily in debt for
supplies, and compelled to sell their
cotton at once to pay their debts. they
were completely at the mercy of the
British and New England mills. and
usually got just enough money for
their crop to pay the cost Of living.
Yet they kept at cotton and went on
raising it, and little else, until the
overproduction still further sent
down prices. Farming Of this kind,
raising cotton at less than II costs,
and buying corn and all the other
supplies from the North, kept South
ern agriculture in a depressed con-
dition.
These conditions have steadily i'm
proved Of late. With more money In
the South. and with the farmers here
better organized, they could hold their
cotton longer and thus get better or
ganized and better informed as to
the needs of the cotton mills, and
not easy victims. Finally the boil
weevil has not only taught them bet
ter farming methods, but has so kept
down the cotton crop as to advance
the price.
These two points are we'll known
by Mr.. Hester in his report. Although
the crop was the smallest in the num-
Der of bales Of cotton produced for
half a dozen years, 1t brought the
highest gross amount ever paid for
cotton. Compared with last year 1t
was 3.215,7SS less; it brought the
farmers s95.099.6O1 more in money
and $150.6ss.736 more than the crop
Of 1904-05. The total value of the
crop was s77s,ss4.Os5. equal to half
the value OF all our exports.
Mr.. Hester notes that the South
ern mills took less cotton last year
than the previous year. This does
not mean any decline or setback in
the Southern cotton industry, and as
a matter of fact the number of mills
and spindles in the South show an in
crease; but the mills In this section,
like those elsewhere, could not get
all the cotton they wanted and had
to cut their supplies. But even with
this decrease the Southern mills are
today taking and manufacturing g.
$4,000 bales of cotton, against L.
s94,999 taken in the Northern States
being thus S45.001 bales ahead. The
cotton problem has been wonderfully
bettered in the South now that the
farmers are getting so much better
price for the staple, and the South
ern mills are manufacturing so much
larger a proportion of it,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14
Farmers Union News
Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
Dabbs Sumter
Conducted by E. w. Dabbs. Pr

WRtcbman
semwseky publication
The nrst
Practical
aim end
Bulletins
will
be of
is should
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14
Sbr ddlattbnlan mtn Suutbrurl.

The Sumter watchman was found
Cd In 1850 and the True Southron In
1855. The watchmsn and southron
now has the combined circulation and
influence CT both OF the old papers
and Is manifestiy the best advertising
medium In Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14

Attorney General Lyon may be
poor politician. measured by some
standards. but he has an admirable
way OF speaking out like a man.
Col. Roosevelt has suddenly become
squeamish. 1t Is not matter of
record that he ever refused to break
bread with Mark Hanna, Platt or
any other Of a half dozen shining
lights In the Republican party
who did on a Wholesale what Senator
Lorrimer is accused OF doing In
instance.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14
Some Random Thoughts.

The County Union last Friday de-
termined to have the U. s. standard
official cotton samples. To that end
committee of the Union on yester-
terday met President Jennings of the
Chamber Of commerce to enlist the
cooperation of that body. He as
sured the committee that it would
have his cordial support, and he
would have a joint meeting of the
executive committee of the Chamber
of Commerce and the COM
mittee of the Union to meet
Thursday to press early action by the
department of Agriculture. With the
pressing demand from these two
bodies, and the money to pay for the
samples, we trust it will not be many
weeks before the cotton growers can
begin taking lessons in cotton grades
by comparing their cotton with the
standard grades as shown by the
official samples.
Another matter that the Union
has taken up and intends to see right
ed is the totally inadequate facilities
for weighing cotton quickly at Sum-
ter. The conditions have been in
tolerable during five or six weeks of
the rush season ever since the pub
lie weighing of cotton began. Just
what will be done, If the law which
says there shall be two approaches
for wagons and two sets of scales in
operation, is not complied with, or
II the law is declared unconstitution-
al. 1t is hard to say; but something
will be done. If the Union has to build
its own warehouse and platforms and
have its own weighers. With a Union
selling agent to control and market
all Union cotton.
A committee on legislation was ap-
pointed by the County Union, and all
the County Unions were asked to
in touch with their respective dele
cations in the legislature, and aid the
State Union legislative committee.
TO that committee has been assign
ed the duty of correcting the weigh
ing conditions in Sumter This action
of the County Union will probably be
of more far-reaching effect in consoli-
dating and crystalizing union senti-
ment than any thing we have done so
far.
The reorganization committee Of
the County Union reported that a
good union had been organized at
Dalzell and prospects for organiza-
tlons at other points. One local
union mon, organized or revived
is sure and safe work, and we look
for the entire county to be thorough
ly organized before a great while.
The Union in Sumter county is en-
tirely out of politics, and it is the in
tention of the men who have made
the union in this county a power
for lettering the financial and social
conditions Of the farmers, to keep it
clean of politics. But we expect to
keep in touch with our officials. to
help them enact wise laws. and en-
force them. We think this platform
ana some Of the results of our two
years work ought to appeal to every
thoughtful farmer in the county and
we invite YOU to join us and still
further increase our usefulness.
f.. w. y.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14

Every man as an individual is
secondary 20 what no is as a worker
for the progress OF his kind and the
glory OF the gift allotted to him
Stedman.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14
hcN. DIR. David Klein Leaves for the
South.

Rev. DR.. David Klein, for three
years past pastor OF the Jewish
Iemple on Union street, will. leave
with his family this evening for Sum-
ter 5. c., where he has accepted the
pastorate of the JEWS congregation
of that city.
DR.. Klein preached his farewell
sermon at the Union street Temnla
Friday night last. taking as the sub
ject Of his remarks "A Parting Rene
diction."
Since his residence in Petershur,
DR.. Klein has made many friends
who will sincerely regret his depart-
ure and who will wish him every suc-
cess in his new field Of labor Dr
Klein is not only an eloquent pulpit
orator, but is a man Of deep learning
and withal splendid gentleman. The
Progress finds pleasure in commend
ing him to the people of Sumter
petersburg, Va, Daily Progress.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14

After October tst Sumter will have
FIVE banks. with a total capital stock
and surplus aggregating $500. 900.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14

Smut of Wheat and Loose Smut of
Oats.
25s. The termination of Seed
Corn.
255. The Home Vegetable Gar
den.
256. Preparation of Vegetables
for the Table.
257. Soil Fertility.
25S. Texas or Tick Fever and it's
Prevention.
$50. Seed of Red Glover and its
Impurities.
266. Management of Soils to Con.
serve Moisture.
27O. Modern Conveniences for
the Farm Home.
272. A Successful Hog and Seed
Corn Farm.
277. The Use OF Alcohol and
Gasoline in Farm Engines.
27s. Leguminous Crops for Green
Manuring.
27s. A Method of Eradioating
johnson Grass.
ESQ. A Profitable Tenant Dairy
Farm.
2s2. Celery.
2SS. Comparative Value of Whole
Cotton Seed and Cottonseed Meal in
Fertilizing Cotton.
2S7. Poultry MANAGEMENT.
ESQ. The Cotton Boil worm.
2s1. Evaporation of Apples. ..
2s2. Cost of Filling Silos.
293. Use Of Fruits as Food.
2s5. Potatoes and Other Root
Crops as Food.
2sS. Food Value of Corn and
Corn Products.
2ss. Diversified Farming Under
Plantation System.
3O1. Homegrown Tea.
So2. Sea Island Cotton; It's Gull
ture, Improvement and Diseases.
3O3. Corn Harvesting Machinery.
80. A Successful Alabama Di-
versification Farm.
311. Sandy-clay and Burnt-c,av
Roads.
S12. A Successful Southern Hay
Farm.
313. Harvesting and Storing
Corn.
315. Progress in Legume Inocu-
lation.
318. Cowpeas.
31s. Demonstration Work in Co
operation With Southern Farmers
S21. The Use of the Split-log
Drag on Earth Roads.
S24. Sweet Potatoes.
S25. Small Farms in the Corn
Belt.
S26. Building up Rundown
Cotton Plantation.
333. Cotton Wilt.
3SS. Macadam Roads.
S39. Alfalfa.
S43. The Cultivation of Tobacco
in Kentucky and Tennessee.
345. Some Common Disinfectants.
346. The Computation of Rations
for Farm Animals by the Use of
Energy Values.
BAT. The Repair of Farm Euuiu.
ment.
S4s. The Dairy Industry in the
South.
$50. The Dehorning of Cattle.
351. The Tuberculin Test Of Cat
tie for Tuberculosis
354. Onion Culture.
355. A Successful Poultry and
Dairy Farm.
356. Peanuts.
Home.
1868. The Use of Milk as Food.
1854. A Profitable Cotton Farm.
S67. Lightning and Lightning
Conductors.
369. How to Destroy Rats.
$40. Replanning a Farm for
Profit.
372. Soy Beans.
375. Care of Food in the Home.
377. Harmfulness of Headache
Mixtures
S7S. Methods of DISCRIMINATING
the Texas Fever Tick.
379. Hog Cholera.
SS5. Boys and Girls Agricultural
Clubs.
3S7. The Preservative Treatment
Of Farm Timbers.
@S9 Bread and Bread Making.
391. Economical Use of Meat in
the Home.
1898. Habit Forming Agents.
397. Bees.
''S. Farm Practice in the Use of
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-14
SEND FOR THEM.
BULLETINS EVERY FARMER
SHOULD GET AND READ.
write Postal Card to Senator
ohith or Congressman Lever ami
Ask for Those You Want.

he wants. We publish below this in
valuable list of bulletins-publica-
tions of more value than any Of the
gaudy and high sounding subscrip-
ton books for which we pay 81 10
80. Look over the list of subjects
and pick out six or eight in which
you are most interested and ask for
them. They are free absolutely, and you
can get them by writing either your
Senator or Representative in Con-
gress, or the Secretary Of Agricul-
ture, Washington, D. c.:
%. The Feeding Of Farm Ami
mails.
2S. Weeds; And How to Kill
them.
80. Silos and Silage.
"a. Meats; Composition and Cook
ing.
35. Potato Culture.
SO. Cottonseed and It's Products.
AZ. Facts About Milk
"A. Commercial Fertilizers.
4S. The Manuring of Cotton.
40. Sheep Feeding.
81. Standard Varieties of Chick
ems.
Sd. Some Common Birds.
55. Dairy Herd.
81. Asparagus Culture.
62. Marketing Farm Produce.
63. Care of Milk on the Farm.
ga. Ducks and Geese.
II. The Lining of Soils
81. Corn Culture in the South.
S5. Fish as Food
sc. Thirty Poisonous Plants.
81. Potato Diseases and Treat
ment
93. Sugar as Food.
90. Raising Sheep for Mutton.
80. Insect Enemies of Shade
Trees
100. Hog Raising in the South.
101. Millets.
104. Notes on Frost.
106. Breeds of Dairy Cattle.
110. Rice Culture in the United
States.
11S. The Apple and How to Grow
Il.
116. Grape Growing in the South.
l2f. Beans, Peas, ana Other Leg
umes as Food.
126. Practical Suggestions for
Farm Buildings.
127. Important Insecticides.
1928. Eggs and Their Uses as
Food
1874. Tree Planting on Rural
School Grounds
1875. Sorghum Sirup Manufacture.
1873. Irrigation in Field and Gar
den.
142. Principles of Nutrition and
Nutritive Value of Food.
$50. Clearing New Land.
152. Scabbles of Cattle.
154. The Home Fruit Garden;
Preparation and Care
155. How Insects Affect Health
in Rural Districts.
1856. The Home Vineyard.
157. The Propagation of Plants.
164. Rape as Forage Crop.
166. Cheese Making on the Farm.
10. Principles of Horse Feeding.
ia. Broom Corn.
175. Home Manufacture and Use
of Unfermented Grape Juice.
1T. SQUAD Raising.
179. Horseshoeing
1S1. Pruning.
1872. Poultry as Food.
1873. Meat on the Farm; Butch
ering, Curing and Keeping.
1S5. Beautifying Home Gorunds
1877. Drainage of Farm Lands.
1872. Barnyard Manure.
1914. Alfalfa Seed.
195. Annual Flowering Plants.
1913. Strawberries.
200. Turkeys.
203. Canned Fruits, Preserves
and Jellies.
2O5. Pig Management
2O6. Milk Fever and It's Treat
ment.
213. Raspberries.
21S. The School Garden.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-04-22

When triangle is spoken. of the
mind at once forms a picture of an
area bounded by three sides. These
sides may or may not be equal. My
subject is based on the principle of
an equilateral, having all sides and
all angles equal Any one side could
be the base and still the relative posi-
lions of the other two would be the
same. Remove a side and you re-
duce the area to nothing and destroy
the figure. All the principles thus
involved in an equilateral triangle are
illustrated in my subject. There are
certain principles of life and of living
that are essential While there may
be differences of opinion as to the
finer arts of life, still there can be no
difference of opinion as to the funda-
mentals. The triangle of life which
| desire to leave with you has for its
three sides, sell-knowledge, self-re-
spect and self-control. The area this
incloses will be an honorable and sue
cesSful life. These are equal sides,
taking self-knowledge as the base
CullJ oOl, IuS
these three principles in the follow
ing strong and choice language
"SelfTeverence, acknowledge, self
control,
These three alone lead life to sover-
eign power"
the highway of the worlds life are to
be found monuments commemorative
ideals approached and attained and
as well wreckages of shattered hopes
and aspirations. Governments have
risen and fanen; monarchs crowned
and dethroned; principles enunciated
and disproved; laws enacted and re-
pealed; inventions patented and laid
aside-all in the effort of adjustment
to life ideals. There has been clash
between intelligence and ignorance;
between the strong and the weak; be-
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-04-22

appearance, in 1885, that Cowell and
Crommelin could not have laid a
mathematical finger upon Halley's
comet. That is why they had only to
say to the astronomers of the world:
Point your telescopes to right ascen-
sion hours, IS minutes and u Sec
onds, and declination II degrees, IL
minutes on September II, 1909, and
YOU will find Halley's comet within
few seconds of that spot" And that
is why Wolf was not blindly cropping
in space for comet when he sys-
tematically photographed the Twins.
Right ascension and declination are
the astronomical equivalent of longi-
tude and latitude. Hence the finding
of Halley's comet is very much like
telling a navigator to sail for an is
land in longitude 105 degrees east of
Greenwich, and latitude degrees
north.
1t was Edmund HALEY, Newton's
most intimate friend and adviser,
who first succeeded in plotting a COM
cts orbit and bringing into mathemat-
ical harmony with the rest Of the
universe a class of bodies that had
terrified mankind for ages. Newton's
law of gravitation, so new discovery
in those days that it was not yet seri-
ously accepted by the world, taught
that comets must move in orbits
which are parabolas, hyperbolas or ell
lipses, all of them curves obtained by
cutting a cone in different ways. The
comets that move in parabolas and
hyperbolas visit us once and disap-
pear forever in the depths of space;
but the comets that travel along ell
Ilipses-which are closed curves-may
reappear again. 1t occurred to Hal
ley that the comets of 1881, 1907 and
1852, separated by an interval Of sew
enty-five years, might really be the
same body moving in an elliptical or
bit. His computations, quite as re-
markable for his day as Cowell and
Crommelin's for ours, so firmly con-
WINGED him that they were the same
body that he ventured the prediction
of a temperance in 1853. Past the
prime of life when he made his pre-
diction, and realizing that he would
never live to see its fulflllment, he
left behind him this patriotic plea
for recognition:
Wherefore, if according to what we
have already said it should return
again about the year 1853, candid
posterity will not refuse to acknowl-
edge that this was first discovered
by an Englishman.
With poetic fitness the comet blazed
forth on Christmas day, 1853, and can
did posterity has ever since called it
Halley's comet. 1t reappeared faith
fully in 1885 and is scheduled to
swing around the sun on April 20,
1910. Three or more exact observa-
lions made on different dates will
show just how much a comets course
will swerve from a straight line. On
Continued on Page 81
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-04-22
G. M. f. BISHOP
ELECTION THE Absorbing
QUESTION
That Will Come Before
General

CONFERENCE = MEETING CON-
VENES MAY 4-MANY PRoMl-
NENT CANDIDATES TO SELECT
FRoM-RAcE EXPECTED TO BE
HEATED oNE-SPECULATIoN AS
TO THE NUMBER THAT WILL
BE ELECTED-MANY MATTERS
OF GREAT IMPORT WILL COME
BEFORE THE CONFERENCE.