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EVERY FLOCK OF CHICKENS SHOULD HAVE A HTM HOUSE TO LIVE IK Poultry Husbandman of Clemson College Tells How Farmer Can Construct Poultry House That Answers Needs, Yet Be Inexpensive. GROUND ?W ^ y-..-a'-o'-.-4 Every flock of chickens should have a house to live in. It need not be an expensive building but it should be bright and sanitary. The best place to locate it ls near some shade or fruit tree3, to protect the hens from summer heat The ground must be dry and preferably of saudy loam. The front or open side of the house should face the south, so as to have as much sunlight as possible on the floor. Cut 4-by-4-inch lumber for the sills, two pieces 10 feet long and two pieces 7 feet 4 inches long, for the bouse shown in the accompanying il lustration. This will accommodate 40 laying hens. Then erect five front studs 7 feet long and four back studs 5 feet long. Put up the two center studs, the plates and roof rafters. Cover the frame with ?wide unplaned boards (not recommended unless -cheapness is a primary consideration and even then it is better to cover these boards with roofing paper, ton gued-and-grooved flooring or weather boa: din g.) If you use tongued-and grooved flooring, lay lt up and down. In the front side leave an opening 7 feet long by 4 feet deep and a door space 2 feet 6 inches wide for the open front and door. Both openings extend to the roof and the remaining 3 feet (at the bottom) is closed to prevent heavy wind or rain from blowing on j the chickens. The openings are cov ered with 1-inch-meshed wire netting to keep oui sparrows. Ventilating Door. The door 12< inches wide near the j roof at the north side (see illustration) {extends across the house. This door ?is opened in warm weather to venti late the house and create a draft to cool tue interior. It is dosed in win ter. This is a valuable improvement for Southern poultry houses andi should always be provided. The interior has at the north side two roosts and a dropboard to catch the droppings. The dimension* are] given in the drawing. The 4ropboard is 3 feet wide. Nests and Hoppers. The six nests can be made of old egg crates, orange crates or packing boxes. They can be placed on a rais ed platform together with the water vessel. This keeps bot* M?H ?nd water clean. Dry maiih is fed in a hopper or self-feeding ?ox which will be described in a later article.. The floor of the house sftould be well-packed dirt tillea in Ott level with the top of the sill. A concrete leor is best of all and you should try te make an earthen floor as near a eeo?rete Mr face as possible. Chickens are iajured by having to live i M a bouse full of dust? Board floors soon sol asd har bor rats and mice unless vatted high ?ff the ground, as in a aqaob plant. Cover the earth floor to s depth of 6 inches with straw or cleaa Utter. Scat ter the grain in this litter ?au moke your hens sratch fo> every kernel FRANK C. HAR* Extension Poultry Iftrsbanteian, Clemson Agricultural ?c?lege. ORCHARD WORK FOR EARLY FALL Have you a supply of fruit on your farm? If not, why not begin now to make arrangements for it? On almost every farm of the state there are a few trees, producing a small quantity of fruit. In most cases all the fruit ripens at once and is soon gone, giving a supply for only a short time and leav ing none to put away for winter use. No southern state ls better adapted than South Carolina to producing fruit for home use, yet millions of dollars leave the state every year for canned fruit Preparing SoH. At this season of the year (Septem <ber 1 to October 15) orchards are ueu ally neglected. Farmers seem to think that there is nothing to be done then that will be of any material help. Nev ertheless, now is the time to begin to prepare soil for the trees that are set ?at this fall and winter. Select the orchard site, break the soil as deeply as possible and harrow thoroughly. This work will greatly reduce the la ter labor or- setting the orchard. Choosing Varieties. What varieties are you going to plant? This is a point of great im portance. Be sure to make selections that will provide fruit throughout an .entire season. If you are not familiar with the varieties that are adapted to your particular section, write to the Extension Division, Clemson College, lor Bulletin No. 15. In this will be found lists of varieties suitable for the various sections of the state. Buying Trees. Where are you going to get your trees and what are you going to pay for them? If you are not in touch with a reliable nursery and if you are not familiar with the prices of trees, the Extension Division of Clemson Col lege will be glad to help you in this matter. Beware of the tree agent The nurseries they represent may be all right, but you are not always eure of what you are getting and in most cases you are paying the agent's salary and the expense of delivering the trees. If you are thinking of setting out an'or chard this fall, let as help you. Improving The Orchard. If you already h&ve an orchard, why not begin to improve it now? A cover crop sown now and turned next spring will help wonderfully. Twenty pounds of crimson clover seed per acre, sown and disced, will make a good cover, provided the seed are inoculated. Three pecks of rye and W pounds of hairv vetch to the acre wffl also make a good cover for the orchard. If these are turned next spring at the first cul tivation they will add a lot of fertility to the soil will also help to hold mois ture. There are a good many mummy fruits hanging to the trees. These are full of spores and if left in the or chard will cause more rotten fruit another year. Now is a good time to get these out of the way. Pull and burn them. Borers may have been giving you trouble. You were advised to paint and mound the trees early in summer. The mounds should be pulled down on October 15 and the trees examined for borers. The young borers ar? just entering the trees the middle of Octo ber and will be found going in just above the level of the ?DI of dirt you pull down. If you find any of them, scrape the bark off with a knife and the little borers will be destroyed. The work at this season consists largely in cleaning up and preparing for winter and spring. If done prop rely, the trees receive much benefit. C. F. NIVEN, Assistant in Horticulture, Clemson Agricultural College. Farmers can obtain a cir>mlar on the growing of wheat and oats by writ ,ing to Sidney S. Rittenberg, Clemson College. If you don't know what you give your cows and you don't know what your cows give you, why'do you keep cows? Keep records. MEN "To have no crushing circumstances would be to live a poverty-stricken life. We wculd nene of us attain what; we should be unless we were driven to it often against our will. And so the things that we most long to escape are likely to be the things that we most need."-The S. S. Times. SUMMERY FOODS. Necessity being the mother of In vention is proved every day by the housekeeper who is sud denly assailed with the thought that there is no dessert and unexpected company, all in the same breath. A good emer gency dish to keep on hand these^warm days and one which will keep for several days is some form of fruit jelly. Lemon jelly is especially nice in combination with other things. If one has a dish of jelly in the ice chest, arrange small spoonfuls of it in alternate layers of fruit in a sher bet cup. This is one that was tried the other day and was highly praised. A little lemon jelly, a preserved peach cut in quarters, a spoonful of orange marmalade and a tablespoonful of pineapple preserve with a little of the juice. This was topped with cream garnished with halves of strawberries and served with simple little lemon cookies and made a dessert most grati fying to all who partook of it This pint of orange jelly in combination with other fruits like banana, orange and a few strawberries made dessert for another day, in fact it made all to gether eight servings in sherbet cups. Rhubarb Delight-Rinse, wipe and remove the peel from tender stalks of rhubarb. Cut the stalks into an earthen dish, scattering sugar over each layer. Add two tablespoonfuls of water; cover and set in the oven. Raisins, dates and figs may be added to the rhubarb if desired. Cook until tender and pink. Vegetable Salad.-Take two cupfuls of chopped cabbage, pour over lt the hot fat from a slice of salt pork, cut in dice and fried brown. Add the bits of pork and a minced onion, stir and mix well, then heat hot enough vin egar to just moisten the cabbage and flavor it To Can Rhubarb.-Wash the rhu barb and cut in inch lengths without peeling. Pack in sterilized jars, then fill with cold water and be sure that there are no spaces which the water does not fill. Now plunge the jars in a pan of water and screw the tops on under water: MUCH ?DLER-I-KA USED UH EDGE- j FIELD. It is reported by Penn <fc Hol stein druggist, that ranch Adler-i-ka is sold in Edenfield. People have j found out that ONE SPOONFUL j of this simple buckthorn bark and glycerine mixture relieves almost ANY CASE of constipation, sour or gassy stomach. It is so power ful that it is used successfully in appendicitis. OWE MINUTE af ter you take it the gasses rumble and pass out. It is perfectly safe | to use and cannot gripe.-5 Insurance Notes, Fire And Life. The PRUDENTIAL life (Strength of Gibraltar Co) has lowered the cost of life insurance. The PRU DENTIAL has decided to allow annual dividends on their already extra low rates. At age 35, for in stance,-an average acre-PRU DENTIAL 15 (Fifteen) life PAR TICIPATING rate is only S35.70. The premiums are reduced by an nual dividends. This is lower than most companies* 20-payraent Life participating rate. I do not know of any company represented in Edsre field whose Capital and Surplus is as much as? 150,000.00,having 20 pay life participating rates as low as th* PRUDENTIAL 15 payment par ticipating rates. The PRUDEN TIAL has Capital, Apportioned Funds and Surplus of $84,000,? 000.00. See Spectater Company's reports. The PRUDENTIAL wrote $87, 000,000.00 in 1914-more than any company represented in Edgefield. Please write us for rate at your age. E. J. NORRIS. Edgefield, S. C. HEMSTREET & ALEXANDER GUNS REVOLVERS CARTRIDGES, ETC. JUST BELOW Ga. R. R. Bank 647 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, GA. THU COLDS OP MANKIND CURED BY . PINES! Have you ever gone through a typical pine forest when you had a cold? What a vigorous impulse it senti How you opened wide your langs to take in those invigorating and mysterious qualities. Yes, Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey possesses those stimulating qualities and over comes hacking coughs. The inner lining of the throat is strengthened in its attack against cold germs. Every family needs a bottle ?on 8ta?tly at hand. 25c.-2 Treasurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office will be open for the purpose of receiving taxes from the 15th day of October, 1915, to the 15th day of March, 1916. All taxes shall be due and payable between the 15th day of October, 1915, and December 31st, 1915. That when taxes charged shall not be paid, by December 31st, 1915, the County Auditor shall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent, for January, and if taxes are not paid on or before Feb ruary 1st, 1916, the County Aftditor will proceed to add two per cent., and five per cent, from the 1st of March to the 15th of March, after which time all unpaid taxes will be collected by the Sheriff. The tax levies for the year 1915 are as follows: For State purposes 7 Mills 44 Ordinary County 6 *' " Cons. School Tax . 3 44 " Bacon School District 4 44 44 Edgefield School District 5 14 44 Long Cane S. D. 3 44 " Liberty Hill S. D. 3 44 Johnston S. D. 8 44 44 ColMer's S. D. 3 " " Flat Rock S. D. 4 " " Elmwood S. D. No. 8 2 44 44 Elmwood S. D. No. 9 2 " " Elmwood S. D. No. 30 2 " " Hibler Township ^ 44 \* S. D. 3 44 " P. Branch S. D. 5 " " White Town S. D. 4 " Trenton S. D. 5 44 " Ward Township 2 u " Moss Township 3 44 " Parksville S. D. 4 " " Mbdoc S. D. 2 " " Oak Grove 3 44 H Red Hill S. D. , 4 44 44 Antioch S. D. 2 " " Shaw Township 4 44 14 Talbert Township 2 44 ."RR Bonds Wise T'sp 114 44 "RR Bonds Pickens 3 44 "RR Bonds Johnston 3 44 "RR Bonds Pine Grove 12 44 "RR Bonds Blocker (portion] 12 44 44 R R Bonds Elmwood 12 44 "RR Bonds Elmwood 44 Pickens . 3 44 " Edgefield sch'l bldg. 2 44 Town of Edgefield Corporation purposes 10 44 All the male . citizens between the ' ages of 21 years and 60 years except those exempt by law are liable to a SDil tax of One'Dollar each. A ca pi ta on tax of 50 cents each is to be paid on all dogs. The law prescribes that all male citi zens between the ages of 18 and 55 years must pay $2 commutation tax or work six days on the public roads. As this is optional with the individual, no commutation tax is included in the property tax. So ask for road tax re ceipt when you desire to pay road tax. JAMES T. MIMS, Co. Treas. E. C. Land for Sale Life is too short to go on , renting land, when you can ; buy a small farm for almost j the rent money. I have land in small lots j around ?Johnston, and near ] Batesburg, Meeting Street, j Celestia, Rocky Creek or \ Fruit Hill, Ropers and near ! Edgefield, and lots and j stores in the town of Edge- j field. TERMS EASY ArthurS. Tompkins Edgefield, S. C. Notice to Creditors. District Court of the United States, Western District of South Carolina. In the matter of A. J. Day and W. F. Roper, trading as Day & Roper, Bankrupts. To the Creditors of the above named Bankrupt: Take notice on the 23rd day of Sep tember 1915, the above named bank- . rapt filed his petition in said Court praying that he may be decreed by the Court to have a full discharge from all 1 debts provable against his estate, and a hearing was thereupon ordered and ' will be had upon said petition on the 28rd day of October 1915, before said Court, at Greenville, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear and show cause, ? if any they have, why the prayer of \ said petition should not be granted. J. B. KNIGHT, Clerk. Sept 29., 1915. Tor Weakness and Loss of Appetite The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, CROVIE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. A true tonic md ?itre Appetizer. Ppr adults and children. 50c I Ford Cars Have Stood the Test The experience of scores of own ers of the Ford Automobiles lias proven that there is nothing better made for the Edgefield roads. Ford cars will carry you safely over any road that a buggy or any other ve hicle can travel. An All-the-Year-Around Car They are light, yet substantially built. They are cheap, yet the best of material is used in their con struction. Are you contemplating purchasing a car? Let us show you a Ford Run-About or Touring Car G.W.ADAMS Edgefield Auto Repair Shop Next to Court House Our Edgefield Friends Are invited to make our store their headquarters when in Augusta. W i are better prepared than ever before to supply their needs. Every department of our large stock is filled with stylish fall merchandise. In Dry Goods we were never better stocked. Our Shoes were bought from the leading manufacturers. Our stock of Men's and Boys' Clothing was never more complete. We invite the ladies to see our tailored suits from the largest makers of women's ready-to-wear factory in the country. Our Millinery Department is also filled with the most Stylish Hats and Trimmings ever brought to Au gusta. Do not fail to call in to see us whether you buy or not. Augusta Bee Hive 816-918 Broad Street Augusta, Georgia J. WILLIE LEVY CO. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Is ready with Fall Suits, Hats, Overcoats for Men and Boys. Our Wemen's Department carries the Most Up-to-Date Suits, Cloaks, Dresses and Furnishings in the entire South. Waiting and Resting Rooms for the Ladies. Send your packages here. We'll send them to the train for you. Make Your Augusta Headquarters LEVY'S Serving you and yours since 1848 W. W. ADAMS & CO. Members State Warehouse System All persons storing cotton with us, we think, will have no trouble to bor row money on certificates issued by the Warehouse Commission. We will appreciate any business pvenus. W. W. ADAMS & COMPANY Edgefield, South Carolina