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To clear my counters, and make room for an immense stock of Fall and Winter Goods, I am offering
IJTVTrlEA.RDOF BARGAINS in my CLOTHING DEPRTMENT.
EVERYTINO
and anything you may need in the Clothing
THE LINE COMPLETE.
W. O, TIFT has been laying himself out in the endeavor
to please his patrops and can boast of a com pie line of Men’s
and Hoy’s Clothing. Every variety, size and style of rai
ment is carried in slock and retailed at the lowest possi
ble price.
When you want a slick lit, fashionable cut and first-class
materials, come to Headquarters.
CLOTHING.
Men’s Sack Suits, $2,25.
“ All wool Cheviot suite, *3,00.
“ “ « Round Sack suits 3,50
“ “ “ Square Sack suits 4,00
“ “ Square Sack suits 4,50
“ « 11 Fine Cheviot suits 5,00
“ “ “ Cutaway suits, 3,50
“ “ “ Clay Worstedcut-
away suits, 0,00
“ “ “ Clay Worstedcut-
away suits,in blacks and blues, 7,50
Moleskin pants, ,05
“ pants, heavy, ,75
“ pants, heavy, 87Jc.
Corduroy pants, heavy, 1,25
.leans pants, warranted not to rip ,39
Jeans pants, extra,warranted not ,
to rip, 49
Jeans punts, extra heavy, war
ranted not to rip ,05
Jeans pants, our best, ,88
Cottonade pants, ,50
Cottonadc pants, extra heavy, 1,00
All wool, black cheviot pants, 1,00
All wool, black cheviot pants, 1,50
Our wool pants worth $1.50 only 1,00
Our wool pants, worth 2.00, only 1,25
Our wool pants, worth 2.75, only 1,75
Our wool pants, worth 3.00, only 2,00
Our wool pants, worth 3.50,only 2,50
Our wool pants, worth 4.00, only 2,75
Our wool pants, worth 4.50, only 3,00
Our wool pants, worth 5.00, only 3,75
Our wool pants, worth 0.50, only 4,50
FIRST-CLASS,
All Wool Goods Going at
NEW YOIIK COST.
A WONDERFUL LINE.
This wonderful line is comple in every detail. Fashionable
garments in all styles and sizes for boys, youths and men ;
underwear and furnishing goods in every conceivable
variety.
You don’t need a “pull” to get your share of this line.
It’s merely a matter of cash, and the amount required de
pends upon your taste and your income
Take Advantage of this Chance of YOUR Lifetime, for the
Opportunity will Soon Pass.
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FARMER AND PLANTER.
COTTON CULTURE.
homn Aid* to Itnprovniii'iit In lln I'rndrm*
Hon In IIhi South.
In a former article 1 have shown
1 hut what the south needs is not an
abandonment of her great staple, but;
a system of culture that will increase
the crop per acre, so that the crop can
he grown at less expense and on a re*'
duced acreage. Thin is to he done only
by an abandonment of the old method
“f planting cotton year after year on
the same land, by the aid of expensive
fertilizers, and the substitution for It
of systematic farming methods, in]
which a rotation of crops Ahull he de-l
vised, all suited to tin* southern condi*.
tioiiN, and which shall all tend to tlicj
increase nt»\he yield per acre of the
cotton crop, through a systematic-’
building up of tlie fertility of the soll.i
It is now a well-settled fact that/
economical soil improvement in any
pari, oi i ne country must he accom*
pUshcd through the aid of the plants
known to botanists as the leguminosie,
or the pea family. It lias been
demonstrated that, tills family of
plants all have the power to got and
tlx in I lie M>il from the tiir (lie ulomcnt
nit rugen, wliirii is of i lo> oB.i'ittlnl
I'lemi-nls of |»Innt food, without whit'll
mi giorii pinnl cun ifrow, iiin! which is
thi'inosl cost| v purl uf our fertili/.t-rs
ulu'ii puri'luiM’il iii the imirkct. Iii the
iiui'thi'i'li iiml middle Milton, mol iu tin!
upper k'iedmout purl of the soulh
\ I iu II tic sillies, | he o luui'V red clover
is tho Is.si legume lor gcnt-rul fiirm
purposes, mulling, us it docs, ex-
cel loll t I iu v, und raphllv milling humus
to tlic soil, us well iis gathcring the ni
trogen for t lie succeeding crop. Ilul in
nil of tile suud v piuiII of the HOiitll the
rail clover will not thrive through the
lung summers,mid il iieeumoA neeessurv
to ivNort lo some nt her pin n l to In he its
place. Fortunately, we lire not with
out one eminently ndupted to the
wtinlu of tlie hotilli, and one thnl will
ho more in tho mime length of time for
the Improvement of our soulhern liinils
tlinn red clover could If II. were u per
fect HUt'ci'S'i, This has heen welt
tfi'ined "the clover of the South," the
cow |iru. Vein s ago i none planters
who wished lo do something for their
land und not crop It Incessantly,
were, In the habit, of "resting" It in
alternate years; that Is. they allowed
it lo He idle a whole neuwui, and
gather a coni of weeds and grass lo he
plowed under for the next crop. This,
of course, was to some extent better
than the constant cultivation and the
use of fertllUcrs merely to ('tree a sale
crop. Hut It Involved the beeping of
half the land continually producing
nothing of value, und, worst! than "his
It, orollgill, in weens ami grans 1,0 iimnn
the labor of the nextyenr's cultivation
more costly and dlfllcult. It was only
one phase of planting, and was not
farming nu a business-like man should.
Wo know now that the host way to rest
la ml Is to beep it at work growing soinc-
tliing that will he of advantage to tho
soil, and at tho sumo time bring money
lo the farmer's purse, between every
sale crop of cotton or grain. Iu the ef
fort now being made Iu many places
to diversify our crops, there is too Ut
ile notion that the crops used to make
the diversity cun not only be made In
serve the purpose of food for tho
farmer, ami his sloch, but that they
can also lie made siihsldlarv sale crops
to the staple crop of cotton. We hear
of farmers who have grown a crop of
rorn, congratulating themselves that
they have corn enough for two or
more years, totally Ignoring the mnr-
Itel value of the corn, or its value to
put into slock fin' Immediate sale, and
forgetting (hat hoarded grain is worse
than hoarded money In Its rapid de
preciation by reason of slirinkagu und
Insect tie prods t ions. The effort should
tie made to mulio the most profit
able use of llie diversifying crops to
Increase the profit of (he farm.
In getting away from the bondage of
the one crop of cotton we should en-I
ilcuvor to gut as money producers ns
ninny other products us is consistent
with the proper carrying out of the ro
tation adopted, liven the recuperative
crops of pens, grown while the land Is
"rystitig," should lie used as forage for
live stnek. und while Improving the
hind sliMtild at the smile time be made
to improve the poclcel book as well.
The corn crop, unless the marketls too
good for tho grain, should, with Us
fodder, be made to promote the same
pur pi isn either in feeding beef and
pork or for the dairy. The straw
of the out crop comes iu play for tile
same purpose, and all enter into
the improvement of the manure pile,
and consequently of the soil. Weth
er the cotton farmer should sell
Hit'grain he grows iit rotation with
cotton will depend almost entirely
upon his location. If lie is where lit-
can sell the products of the dairy to
advantage, il may be better for hint to
use tlie grain mainly In that way. Hut
if lie lias a good market for grain, lie
bad 1 letter usttnlly sell bis surplus and
sell It before It bus depreciated by tlie
inyriilds of weevils and other Insects
Unit prey so rapidly on grain stored in
southern climate, lie will start usual
ly cm a soil that lias been badly depleted
of plant food, und the greatest problem
that usually coinfrouU him is, how can
I get my land into a productive condi-
1 Ion, so that I can adopt and maintain it
regular rotation of crops" liy the mils
Lite of peas und clover 1 can secure nil
the needed nitrogen from the air. lint
whoic am I to get,, the food for plants
more mat win eiiunie me to goo
best crops of peas and clover? Our
sandy soils arc usually deficient in both 1
phosphoric acid and potash, particulars
jy In potash. These art* mineral mat- |
ters that wc can not. get from the air 1
by any process. Forliiou'.ely they are |
the cheapest forms of plant food, and
unlike nitrogen are not all the time |
getting away from us before we can j
get the plants to use them. One of
the most important steps then in the
improvement of the soil for a rotation'
Isa restoration of Ihcse lacking ele
ments. The only mailable sources
of phosphoric acid and potash in the
south are dissolved phosohal.lo rock
(neld phosphate), and the various salts
of potash that arc imported from tier-
many. Hy the use of those cheap
forms of plant food wo can secure a
luxuriant growth of the legumes, and
by their aid can bulltl up our soil,
either by plowing under the mature
pea vines, or wlint is better, curing
them for bay for stock, and the mak
ing of manure. Tlie most important
step then in the improvement of land
for cotton growing is to get It to grow
p heavy crop of pens.—W. I'\ Massey,
in Tcxus Farm and Ranch.
HERE AND THERE.
—The power of heredity is ns strong
in the animal as the hninnu race, and
the rptinker our farmers come to real
ise its force and comply with its re
quirements the better for both them
and the stock they keep.
— If any farmer would successfully
keep any of the Improved breeds of
stock lie must make all the environ
ments at least, as congenial, and feed
as well and judiciously ns they have
had to bring them to tho present high
state of development.
— Knrly and often Is the way to cut
hay If permitted to stand too long,
the tissues art- more or loss changed to
woody fiber, which is hard to digest,
While much of the nutritive qualities
are exhausted by age or the attempt
to produce seed.
—The Improvement of mutton sheep
lms not kept puce with stock improve
ment. in other lines. While hogs, cattle
and horses have been wonderfully per
fected within recent years, the sheep
for mutton purposes lms not progressed.
Perhaps this is because wool has ah-
' sorbed tbft efforts of floclc masters tc
the detriment of the more solid, ami at
present prices of wool, the more valua
ble characteristics of carcass.
—Mrs. Robert LnrreU, ot I tall I more,
has just completed it poultry house
costing 810,000. It Is 250 feet long, and
has three towers, one of each is ele
gantly titled tip for the accommodation
of the poultry keeper. Some people
have it great deal more money than
anvt.hlntr -'i—