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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23
CHEAPEST WAY TO FEED FARM ANIMALS
IS TO HAVE THEM CRAZE IN PASTURES.

| labor cost is much less where more
time Is used. Time is often valua.
bic aid in farm operations and it y
very inexpensive. This is particular.
ly true in establishing good pastures.
grown cow should gain two hun.
dred and fifty pounds during the pas
ture season. With fairly good pas.
tures and good management the gains
per acre should be worth four to five
dollars and may be more. This ap,
pears small whom compared to cotton
at 500 per acre and this difference
| is just as great as it seems and yet
tho pasture farmer may make the
most money. Unless land is scarce
and limited 1t usually does net matter
about tho acre profits. What should
be of interest Is how much does the
man mako. The man labor on ono
acre of cotton may be creator than 1t
Is on ono hundred acres of pasture
whore beef cattle are bought in tho
| spring at the beginning Of the season
and sold at the close Of tho season In
the fall. One man may do the requir-
ed work on flye thousand acres Of pas
| sive crop than pasture grass but e1-
tensive crops may be just as profita.
Bile as intensive crops. 1t Is really
better for one to think Of how much
money he Is going to make during tho
year rather than how much crop he
Is going to make OIL one acre.
Near the middle of the cotton belt
IN 1P n&,~xy hot
pears to be about one.half gullies.
BY pasturIng that land o man made
eight to ten thousand dollars a year.
There was plenty Of land, such az 1t
waa and he used it. The fact that
he was using large areas Of land did
not worry him.
Pasture farming is q very sure way
to make money but you must use
comparatively large areas.
With some pastures 1t pays to ~.
tate the animals. Let them grass
one area for while then change to
a different area and in this way the
grass in each field is given q good
chance to grow while the animals are
grazing elsewhere. But this is not
the way to manage a Bermuda pas.
ture. Keep plenty of animals on a
Bermuda sod to keep It gra7ed close
to the ground.
BY eating the best grasses animals
encourage worthless weeds to grow in
pastures and for this reason It is often
J / advisable to run a moving machine
over them once or twice year. Pas
lures need some shade but it tahea
open land to grow good grass. The
cattle Craze on the open areas.
The cotton farmer may have somo
excellent temporary pastures. A corn
held whore good crop Of peas or vel
vet beans have been grown as COM
panion crops makes q valuable pas.
ture for the fall season. Tho gains
made in such pasture may be worth
~ much as ten dollars an acre.
Other temporary pastures may be
had with peanuts and soy beans and
still others with rape and sorghum.
Temporary pasture in tho cotton bolt
may be made to supplement tho psr-
manent grasins areas to very great
advantage.
Nitrate Of soda, as q top dressing on
Bermuda sod, can be made to pay good
profits. II should be applied the first
Of May.
Cotton is very reliable crop but
J even cotton is not a. sure as pastures.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23
Invention to Protect Gunne1s' Ear

A device to reduce to the minimum
deafness caused by the detonations of
heavy guns has been invented at Chi
cago by Prof. Albert Michaelsen, of
the University of Chicago, a winner
Of the Nobel physics prize. 1t is a
small aluminium valve which fits to
the ear. A spring keeps the valve
open to ordinary sounds, but heavy
sounds automatically close it. 1t will
be tried out at Fort Sheridan.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23

Clemson College, 8. C.-The cheap.
est way to feed animals is to havo
them Craze In pastures. 1t is an easy
and sure way to make money. The
profits per acre may not be large but
comparative large acreage can be
used with small amount Of man la.
Dor.
AS all kinds Of land may be used for
grazing there need not be any idle
land on the farm. Much land can be
used for grazing that is not suited to
staple crops. Pastures occupy some
or the best land in the country and
pay profit on 1t.
For the cotton belt, Bermuda, Les
pedeza, White Glover, and Bur Glover
are the best plants to occupy the pas
ture area and for any given quantity
and area OF land will carry the largest
number OF animals. When we'll estab.
lfshed on good land this combination
OF plants will carry as many as four
grown COWS per acre. A pasture that
Will carry one grown COW per acre is
\ good one.
For the rest Of the country, ex.
tendpg as far west as Kansas and Ne.
braska, Kentucky and Canada Blue
Grasses and White Glover make the
best pastures and these plants are
we'll adapted to the section indicated.
A blue grass pasture that will carry
ono grown cow to the acre is re-
garded as exceptionally good; one
that will carry grown cow to two
acres is REGARDED as good
For certain types Of land Canada
blue grass, Red Top and Alsike Clio.
YER give the best grazing.
For the country north Of the cotton
belt the blue grasses and white clover
are SO aggressive that they occupy
land not otherwise used SO that most
OF the good blue grass pastures of the
country are established by natural
agencies and this is a desirable and
OF the large area Of land used for graz
ing In tits country is occupied by
plants established by natural agencies
and sometimes this results in good
grazing, but often it results in very
Indifferent grazing.
In the cotton belt no pasture estab
1ishod by natural agencies is compare.
BILE to a pasture sodded with Bermuda,
Lespedeza, White Glover and Bur
Glover. AS a rule II a cotton farmer
wants good pasture he must make
It,
Bermuda may be established by
planting a small piece Of sod every
two feet each way on land that has
been prepared as for oats or other
small grain. The sod may be put out
any time from April to October when
there is moisture enough to make the
sod live. White Glover may be sown
In the early fall. Bur Glover lin the
burr) is best sown in July. Lespe.
deza should be sown the latter part
OF February. Five pounds Of White
Glover seed are enough for one acre;
twenty-five pounds Of bur clover burrs
and twenty pounds Of Lespedexa seed
are sufficient for ono acre.
Good pastures should be made grad.
ually as the time element permits OF
making the cost small. Enough Bur
Glover and Lespedeza to SOW one acre
each gives q start and seed from these
small areas can be soWn on ether areas
and the process continued until the
plants are established over the entire
area. Cattle may help to scatter the
seed. especially Lespode1a seed. The
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23
Senator Tillman to Hospital.

Augusta. Ga, May Ex-senator B.
K. Tiilman passed through Augusta
Tonight from his Trenton home CT
route to Atlanta, where he is to enter
a hospital for treatment for sore
wrist, about which he is much con-
cerned.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23

Flag Stations: Anderson Freight Depot, West
Anderson, Denver, Sandy Springs, Autun, Cher
ry's Crossing, Adams Crossing, Jorlania.
Steam trains will stop on flag at Welch, TOx-
away, Phinney's, James.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23

Ninety per cent OF estates Of over
$4,000 are entirely dissipated in
seven years.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23

BE at war with your vices, at peace
with your neighhors. and let every
new year find you n better man.-B.
Franklin.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23

Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic.
GROVES TAsTELESS chill TONIC. drives out
Malaria ,enriches the blood, and builds up the sys
TEN. A true tonic. For eaulto and children SOC.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23

BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY.
Between Bolton and WalIlnlla.
Time Table No. 18--EneCtiye Fob. 27, 1916.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
POLITICIANS
ARE INDICTED
CITY HALL OFFICIALS CON
cERNED IN SCANDAL BASED
BY PROSECUTOR.

Chicago, Sept 20.-Francis A. Beck
er. an alleged political lieutenant OF
Mayor William Hale Thompson. and
Willis Melville, wers indicted on q
charge Of conspiracy and operating q
confidence game today. The indict-
ment Of three counts was returned In
the Cook county criminal court Bonds
Of the defendants were fixed ut
$500 each.
The first two counts OF the conspira.
cy indictment charge Becker and Mel
vim with conspiracy to mulct Louis A.
Berger out of $500 for restoration OF
his saloon license.
States Attorney Hoyne recently
made public hundreds Of copies of let
ters said to have been written by
Becker. to city hall officials in which
it appeared that he kept close track
whether saloon keepers were for or
against Mayor Thompson.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
JuNkERs ATTACK WILSON.

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1S.-(Delayed). -
President Wilson's references In his re
ply to Pope Benedict's peace proposals
to the need Of the demonstration of
Germany continue to ue used, accord
ing to kilograms received here from
Berlin as the basis for steadily broad
ening the anti-American and anti-reich-
stag campaign launched by conserva-
t1ves and other annexationist forces.
The liberals now are joining the out
cry, to break up so far as possible, the
association Of ideas which their oppon-
ents are using against the reichstag
majority Two prominent radical mem.
bers OF the reichstag, Conrad Hauss-
mann and Heinrich Ernst Mueller Of
Meiningen, are the latest to take a
stand against President Wilson.
Deputy Haussmann addressed a con-
vention of the members of the Wur-
temberg radical party today on the
political situation and the policy Of the
reichstag majority.
RESENT INTERFERENCE.
Z At the conclusion Of his speech the
Oonvention adopted q resolution ap-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
MILITIA UNITS
To BE JUCCLED
Army Reorganization To
Result in Reduction of
Many Officers.
IFrom Courier Rureau.l

FROM COURIER bu(Sdu.J
Washington, D.. c.. Sept. 20.-Plans
of the war department as divulged
today contemplate entire reorganiza'
ton Of the national guard units of the
army and probable dropping Of reduc
ton in rank of large numbers of guard
colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors
captains and lieutenants to make way
for regular army officers.
State identity of militia regiments
virtually will be lost. Just as the
Third Iowa was filled in, after its call
to make up part of General Mann's
division, by men from various places,
50 all former guard units will become
material for filling up new regiments,
each man or group being selected on
the basis Of fitness and experience.
A protest from Delaware against the
rumored disintegration Of her militia
regiment brought out the announce
ment of this plan, and at the same
time It became known that several Of
the young officers commissioned at the
recent training camps have been dis
charged and some OF them are SEW.
ing as privates In the ranks
This announcement explains why no
regular army officers were attached to
guard regiments at the outset. Il
would have been necessary to pre-
serve their status, which is not the
case with guard STATS taken into the
regular army.
These, 1t is said, will be scattered.
Many of the men who remain in TIE
service will be given ranks lower than
hose they hold now.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
SENATE'S O. K.
ON CREDITS BILL
$11, ooyOoo, ,oc0 CONFERENCE RE
PORT is ADOPTED WITH
OUT ROLL CALL.

Washington, D. c., Sept. 20.-Ths
conference report on the S11,000, ,000,-
900 credits bill was adopted today by
the senate without roll call. Approval
by the house and final enactment is
expected tomorrow.
Secretary Daniels and his aides ex-
planned the navy's great destroyer con-
struction program today to the senate
appropriations committee considering
the $1,000 100000 war deficiency appro-
priation bill Immediate appropriation
of $225.0o0,o00 toward $3.50, 900 900
program Is provided in the bill which
the committee hopes to present to the
xAnate tomorrow.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
SUGAR PRICE
WILL BE CUT
CENT A POUND REDUCTION Is
OBTAINED BY FOOD
CONTROLLER.

Washington, D. c., Sept. 20.-Reduc
tion of sugar prices about l cent pei
pound apparently was assured today
when beet sugar producers agreed
with the food administration to sell to
wholesalers at seaboard refining
points for TX cents per pound. maxi
mum. instead Of the prevailing price
Of 4-10 cents. Retail prices ordf
narily would be from X to u Of cent
higher.
These prices will be effective in the
western section Of the country where
sugar beets are raised, about October
weeks later.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
Defense Says Basis For
Shifting ! Axe Murder
Guilt to Kansas City Man
Whom Grand Jury Re-
fused to Indict.
PLEA OF INSANITY
IS PRESENTED AGAIN

Red Oak, Sept 2O-William (Black
! ie) Mansfield of Kansas City, Mo.
whom grand jury refused to indict
] a year ago in connection with the Vii
lisca axe murder, was the subject OF
the testimony Of defense witness to
day in the trial of Rev. Lynn George j.
Kelly. charged with the Villisca axe
| murders.
r. H. Thorp of Jefferson was on the
stand until recess was taken, and this
afternoon Attorney W. E. Mitchell OF
the defense was to present a state
ment to the court as to what the de-
fense expected to establish by Thorp's
testimony.
RECOGNIZES MANSFIELD.
Thorp testified that when he was
alone in smoking car at the railroad
station at Clarinda shortly before
noon, June 10, 1912, the day after the
murder, two men who approached the
train from the fair grounds, boarded
the car, one from either end, and an
alleged photograph Of Mansfield was
identified by the witness as that Of the
man who entered at the front.
The man who entered at the front
end Of the car, the witness said, was
dressed in worn checkered suit, soft
shirt, brown shoes covered with mud
and he appeared very nervous"
When counsel showed him the pur-
ported picture OF Mansfield, Thorp
said:
Y "Yes, that's tho man. ss
I WiLKERsoN's HAND APPEARS.
Mansfield was arrested In Kansas
City in the spring OF 1916 at the insti-
cation of J. N, Wilkerson, a detective
long associated with the case. Mans
field returned to Red Oak voluntarily
to face a grand jury investigation and
that body refused to indict him.
Miss Fanny Longman, stenograph-
or, read an account she made Of the
conversation at the sheriff's Office at
Logan from midnight until $3.50 q. M,
August II, in which Kelly was ques-
toned by Attorney General Havner
and others.
Miss Longman's account Of the pro.
ceedings contained many utterances
attributed to Kelly similar to those
quoted in stenographic record pre-.
sented in evidence yesterday by ]. ].
Ferguson, court reporter Of Council |
Bluffs, whose record was from $3.50
a. m. until a. m.
KELLY PLEADS INSANITY.
The alleged confession Of guilt
Kelly is alleged to have made later
that morning has been admitted to
evidence. Kelly was quoted by Miss
Longman as saying several times that
he was insane and wanted Attorney
General Hayner to send him to an asy-
um. He also said he had thought he
was Christ and, according to the wit.
nesses, said:
IF God wants me to burn barn,
have to do it, and II he wants me to
'slay utterly, have to do that, too"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
NETS BIG SUM
FOR REDCROSS
STYLE REVUE BY DAUGHTERS OF
ISABELLA AND LOCAL MER-
CHANTS YIELDS $s13.

A check for $S13.05 was turned over
to the Wapello County Red Cross by
the Daughters of Isabella yesterday as
the total receipts from the Style
Revue.
This amount was the complete re-
turns of ticket sales for the three per-
formances of the Style Revue which
was produced at the Grand Opera
house September II and 10. The to-
tai was somewhat beyond the estimate
made Of receipts before complete re-
turns of ticket sales were in, and
establishes a record for proceeds of
home talent productions In the city.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
BRITISH IN DRIVE
TO FORCE GERMANS
FROM COAST BASES
Giant Guns Wage Duel AS Infantry
Charges Force Teutons to Give
Ground; Hail of Bullets
Meets Attacking Army
ENEMY STRONGHOLDS TAKEN

oNDoN 2oThe
German positions Maryhal
ag that satisfactory
already have
The British Official Field
We attacked
Satisfactory
valuable
AIMS AT SUBMARINE BASES
Belgium the his newest offensive against
nander in chief to the Grown Prince
from
aplane bases the zeebugge
-o
The British
which Belgian according
the frontier
the civilian population
for
made
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
AMERICAN OFFICERS
RECEIVE'WAR CROSS

American Headquarters in France
Sept. 2o-(By The Associated Press.
-Brigadier General George B. Duncan
and Major Campbell King are the
first American officers to receive the
war cross in the French awards grow
ing out Of American participation in
the recent Verdun offensive when they
acted as observation officers in for
ward military posts. Whether the Off.
GERS will be permitted to accept the
decoration Is not known.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
ARGENTINA BREAK IMPENps.
cRohHoLM DENIES CHARGES.

Mexico Cit, Mexico. Sept. 20-Folke
Cronholm, former attache Of the
Swedish legation, in statement to
The Associated Press today denied
that German Minister Won Eckhardt
offered or promised him decoration
in German order, or that he receiv-
ed any such decoration. Cronholm
also denied that he had furnished
the German minister with information
gathered amongst the enemies of his
country in Mexico"
Previous to making this statement
Cronholm had maintained silence re.
garding the dispatch made public by
Secretary Lansing in which Minister
Won Eckhardt recommended Cron-
holm for decoration.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
MAYOR mitchell is
GIVEN NOMINATION

New York, Sept. 20.-Mayor John
Purroy Mitchell won the republican
mayorality nomination in yesterdays
primary by plurality of approx
LOO votes over William NJ Bennett.
With only two districts missing out
Of 1850, Mayor MitcheIs vote was
36,646 and BENEFITS 35, 527.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
MEXICAN MUST DIE
FOR INSULT TO u. s.

Elcentro, Calf. Sept. 20.-Octavio
Flores, a Mexican resident of Mexicali,
was today ordered shot by Colonel
Esteban Csntu, military governor Of
the northern district of Lower Califor-
mia. for. his alleged offensive in tear
ing an american flag from the automo-
bile Of Ben HUH Saturday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
Turks Can't
Stop Drive
By Latins

- ONE, Sept 2o.-Prlsoners
taken by the italians on
~ the Carso front Include
several Turks This proves, ItaI-
Ian army officers say, that Aus
tria-Hunsary 10 getting reserves
from every possible quarter in
making . last desperate effort 70
stem the italian advance.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
ACCUSED GOVERNOR
DEFIES QUESTIONERS

Austin. Tex, Sept 20.-Governor
james E. Ferguson. on trial before
the senate high court Of impeachment
this morning refused to tell who
loaned him $156,o00 several months
ago to pay of debts He also refused
to answer this question when 1t was
propounded before the house which
recently preferred impeachment
charges against him.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
STEEL CORPORATION
RAISES WAGE SCALE

New York, Sept. 20.-The United
States Steel corporation today an.
nounced 10 per cent advance In the
wage Of Its workers to take effect Oc-
tober l.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
AMERICAN VESSEL SUNK.

Washington, q. c., Sept. 20.-News
of the sinking of the Ann ]. Trainer,
an unarmed American schooner, on
September 16, was announced tcday
department. The crew Of seven men
was saved. Whether the vessel was
sunk by n submarine or mine was
not stated.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
"Over The Top"
With I. Atkins
As-Day Breaks
IAssociated Press Summary

/ IAssociated Press Summary.J
i Early this morning the British in
fantry went "over the t..s" cl, wide
sfront cast of iKpr W andsasss 4 aandarG
! offensive was on again.
! The rush evidently was successful at
the outset for the capture OF positions
of value were reported by Field Mar
shall Haig during the forenoon and the
progress made was described as salts
/ factory
The renewal Of the offensive came
after long pause in which intensive
preparatory work had been carried on
increasingly. The fighting In this
period caused heavy casualties on both
sides, while the crushing drumfire
from the British guns has been ad-
mitted by the Germans to have had a
destructive effect.
FIGHT ON WIDE FRONT.
Early reports did not definitely out
line the extent of the front attacked
but Berlin yesterday reported the
/, drum fire to be pounding the line from
Houtholst wood to the river Lys, dis
tance Of about fifteen miles.
This would indicate that the main
force Of the drive was directed toward
Roulers and Courtrai, with the prob
able object of driving a wedge further
into the German Flanders front and
eventually compelling a German
abandonment Of the Belgian coast.
with its valuable submarine and aerial
basis The civilian population is
recently reported to have been remov-
ed from towns in the German rear
along wide stretch Of this front, in
cluding two cities named.
DRIVE BEGAN IN JUNE.
The Flanders operations were open
ed this year with the blowing up OF the
Messiness ridge on June and the cap
ture Of the Wytschaete salient by the
British and was continued by COM
bined attacked Of British and French
troops on July 81. Progress on a
notable scale continued to be made dur
ing considerable part Of August, but
recently the infantry fighting has large
ly been confined to local drives.
From the French front today only
artillery activity Is reported. The |
statement covered only last nights
operations and the early reports today |
did not Indicate whether the French |
in Flanders had Joined in the renewed
drive there.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-21
RUSSIAN OUTLOOK
HELPS GERMAN STOCK

Stockholm. Sept. 20-Conditions In
Russia occasioned small peace boom
this week on German stock markets
So-called peace shares, such as ship
ping and colonial shocks made gains,
while munitions stocks were CORE
spondingly depressed. The movement,
however, according to Berlin and Ham
burg newspapers was on = limited
scope.