Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-15

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Cloud Cash Store--Is. showing big
line of white oxfords for ladies and
misses. Also black and tan oxfords
for ladies, gentlemen and children
Rev. T. P. Burgess-Offers his horse
and buggy for sale. The horse is g.
years old.
]. C.. Wilborn-Offers Ill acres, neal
Sharon, known as the Wylie place
for sale.
Farmers in different sections are re-
porting damage to the oats by the
Hessian fly.
The way the prisoners. plead guilty
in front Of Solicitor Henry, Is suggest
live Of what the coon said to David
Crockett when he aimed his unerrine
rifle: Don't shoot; I'll come down."
The doctors of South Carolina as
semble this week at Rock Hill for the
annual meeting of the South Carolina
Medical association, to be held today
Wednesday and Thursday. A large at
tendance is expected and an interest
ling programme has been prepared.
The arrest of the two white men out
in the neighborhood of Hickory Grove
recently, while making a liquor ex'
cursion into that section, may con.
tribute a little to the, future well-be.
ing Of the community; but from such
information as Is to be gathered, there
IFS still some strenuous work to be
done. The liquor sellers have been
coming In generally on Saturday
nights. Negroes and whites who were
advised in advance would be gathered
waiting for the coming liquor, and
the business of retailing out five OF
ten gallons in pints and quarts was
only a matter of. about half an hour.
From then on through the balance OF
the night and much Of the next day
there was quarreling and fighting and
shooting Of pistols around the negro
quarters and in the public roads. The
thing had grown common, and unless
really strenuous means are used to put
stop to such proceedings in the fu-
ture, 1t will be difficult for quiet, law.
abiding people to live in the neighbor-
hood. The remedy, Of course, is in the
court house.
Ask the average farmer who has
tried 1t, whether nitrate Of soda as
fertilizer pays on corn, oats and GER
tain other crops and he will at once
say yes, and begin to tell Of the won-
derful difference to be noted on crops
so fertilized, compared with crops on
which no nitrate of soda was used
Then ask whether 1t is possible to pay
$50 ton for the nitrate Of soda and
still get a profit, and while some farm
ers Will maintain that they are quite
sure that some profit still remains
others will scratch their heads and fl
nally admit that they are not sure
And indeed there Is some doubt about
the matter-considerabl doubt. That
nitrate of soda acts on oats and corn
as does a drink Of whisky on a thirsty
topper there Is no question. and 1t does
the crop more substantial good than
the whisky does the topper; but at $50
a ton for the nitrate of soda 1t Is a Sc
rious question as to whether there Is
any profit in the transaction for the
farmer and right here Is where lay
one of the great ideas Of the late DR.
Knapp. He held that with little time
and intelligence, farmers could get
far more profit from nitrogen produc-
ed naturally than they could from the
commercial article. In this connection
we are reminded Of story that Ira
w. Williams told the writer few
years ago. One Of the first counties In
which he began his demonstration
work was Fairfield, and one Of his first
efforts in that county was to get about
dozen farmers to agree to SOW in
the fall an acre each Of rye, vetch and
crimson clover, with the understand
ing that the acres were to be turned
under in the spring. The breaking OF
the ground and the sowing were done
according to specifications, and every
thing moved nicely until spring when
the owners Of all the best acres refus-
ed to plow under. They said the crops
looked so promising and profitable for
hay that they were unwilling to take
the risk Of losing what they already
had. In other words, they were un-
willing to give up what they counted
as a sure thing for an uncertainty
And that is the trouble with many
farmers. But nevertheless DR.. Knapp's
idea is beginning to take hold. Not
long ago The Enquirer told Of the fin
est five-acre patch Of crimson clover
in the state, on the farm Of Mr.. ]. C.
Burge, near Yorkvi!le, how Mr.. Burge
made 80 bushels of corn on one acre
last year and how he proposes to turn
all the clover under this spring and
see what it will do. He has an Idea
that he ought to get $50 bushels OF
corn to the acre, but as to that, OF
course, there is no telling. One thing
is certain and that is, he will have a
very large amount of nitrogen in his
soil to begin with and 1t will be SC
stored as to be properly available al
during the growing period Of the corn
and it's cost will be far less than that
of the commercial commodity. The
result of the experiment will be watch
ed with very general interest.