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* New Session is Record Breaker Clemson College, Sept. 16.-The opening of the 1921-22 session of Clemson College yesterday was a rec ord breaker. While exact ngurjes are changed every hour because of new arrivals, there are now, counting all classes and courses, 925 or 950 men on the grounds. The one-year agri cultural students will not report un til October. President Riggs says that there will likely be a thousand men enrolled this session. The enrollment on the opening day is fully a hundred above that of any other opening day in the history of the institution. Especially to be noted are the large number of old students returning. After deduction for the graduating class and for those not eligible to re turn, more than 98 per cent of old students are enrolled again. And bet ter still, they seem determined to make this year a success in every re spect. Large Freshman Class. The freshman class approximates three hundred and fifty men, the largest perhaps, on record. These men are well prepared and mature. The average age of these freshmen is about eighteen and a half. The big chapel was full this morn ing and even the gallery was almost full. The Rev. J. K. Goode conducted the religious exercises. Dr. W. M. Riggs announced that S. C. Tillman was expected to make the welcome address, but that he had been de tained at the last minute by court business in Greenwood. President Riggs, though not expecting to do so, made a brief welcome address in which he spoke of the advantages, attractions and opportunities at Clemson, reviewed the work of last session and sketched briefly but most interestingly the joys and hardships of a college year. Earnestly and con vincingly he spoke for a true college spirit that would unsparingly con demn any unfairness in sports, in class work or in conduct and that would demand honesty, integrity, and gentlemanly conduct at all times, in all places and in every relationship. The New Commandant. President Riggs introduced Col. Madison Pearson (Major U. S. A.) as the new commandarit. Col. Pear son, who has been associate comman dant last session, was heartily re ceived and made a very brief state ment. . There have been very few changes made in the faculty, probably the smallest number of changes on rec ord. The work of the classes started immediately after chapel exercises. The students at Clemson are near ly all South Carolinians, because the rules require the college to provide for these men first. Every nook and corner of the state is represented. Among the students are numbered 1 from Paris, one from Jamaica and one from Madras, India, and a few from other states. Loss in Lice-Infested Hogs. Lice on hogs are extremely ex pensive. The fact was proved in ex periments recently concluded by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the t?. S. Department of Agriculture. It was shown that lousy hogs not only con sume more food a*d make less meat, but that they are uneasy or restless, a condition that doubtless lessens the pork producing abilities of the ani mals. When not eating, the lice-rid den swine spent most of their time rubbing themselves or running about. If strangers came near? they were no ticeably excited. This did not hold true of hogs free from lice. Three experiments, each extend ing three months or more and with from twenty to thirty hogs as sub jects, were conducted. In one experi ment it cost exactly $l a hundred pounds of pork more to feed the in fested animals. In another, it cost $1.50 more, and in the third, $2.94 more. The specialists who conducted < the experiments reached the conclu sion that the main reason why hogs with lice consume more protein feed is due to the fact that the lice suck the blood from the animals, and the latter must use more feed to replace their lossses. But the infested hogs cannot make up for the blood sucked by their par asites. For instance, at the beginning of one experiment, fifteen hogs with lice weighed a total of 1167 pounds, and fifteen hogs without lice weigh ed 1025 pounds. At the end of the experiment the lousy hogs weighed 2872 pounds and the clean hogs weighed 3150 pounds. More was eat en by the lousy animals than by the clean ones.-Farm and Ranch. - Only One "BROMO QUININE" To get the genuine, call for full name, LAX' TIVB BROMO QUININE. Look for sienuture o fi. W. GROVE. Cures a Cold in One Day, Stop? cough and headitcbe, and works off coli. 25c Is Silage Better Kept in Con crete or Wooden Silos? Is silage any better when put up in stave silos than when it is saved in concrete silos? Stave silos are probably the most common kind; they are usually less costly. Many people, however, prefer the more per manent concrete on account of the greater durability and the fact that the building material may be found near the home in many cases; but there is an impression on the part of some people that the concrete silo does not give good results in the pre servation of the silage from spoiling and from freezing. Experiments made by the Dairy Division, United States Department of Agriculture, do not bear out this notion. In experiments conducted on the Dairy Division farm, at Beltsville, Md., two silos were used, one "con crete and one stave, standing side by side. The stave silo was directly south of the concrete one, and hence got more sunshine and less north wind. Otherwise they had exactly the same conditions. Temperatures in the two silos were taken by means of electri cal thermometers buried in the si lage, which made a record which could be read on the outside. The thermometers were placed at 3 inch in and 18 inches from the wall and also in the middle of each silo. Three sacks of silage were carefully weigh ed and buried in each silo at various depths, close to the thermometers; and when the silage was fed down to where the sacks were, their con tents were taken out and analyzed. The quality of the silage was judged by its appearance and odor and its palatability to the cows. If much difference had been apparent a feeding trial would have been made to see which lot of silage was bet ter, but the results in the two silos were so nearly alike that it was not thought worth while to make the feeding test. In short, neither the temperatures nor the chemical analysis of the two kinds of solage revealed any marked difference that could be ascribed to the material used in the construction of either silo. Cows ate the silage from both silos with the same avidity. It is concluded, therefore, that far mers may build stave silos or con crete silos, whichever they prefer, without any fear of not getting good silage from either one, if the silage is put up right. It is assumed, of course, that the silo in either case will be properly constructed, with smooth walls, straight up and down, so as to be free from pockets and bulges, and properly coated inside with coal tar or some similar preparation; and that the silage will be properly pack ed, so that all air will be excluded. Silage wil not keep in any kind of silo unless packed down and kept airtight. Selling Farm Timber Calls for Good Business Methods. Based upon methods used by wood land owners that have been success ful in marketing their products, the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture offers the following 10 suggestions for aiding others who have timber on the farm for sale: Get prices for various wood prod ucts from as many sawmills and other woodusing plants as possible. Before selling consult neighbors who have sold timber and benefit from their experiences. Investigate local timber require ments and prices. Your products may be worth more locally because transportation is saved. Advertise in papers and otherwise secure outside competition. Secure bids if practicable both by the lump and by log-scale measure. Be sure that you are selling to re sponsible purchasers. Get a reliable estimate of the amount and value of the material before selling. Market the higher grades of tim ber and use the cheaper for farm pur poses. Remember that standing timber can wait over a period of low prices without rapid deterioration. Use a written agreement in sell ing timber, especially if the cutting is done by the purchaser. Additional details concerning the profitable marketing of woodland products are contained in Farmers' Bulletin 117, Forestry and Farm In come, copies of which may be had upon request of. the Division of Pub lications, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Found-On the street in Edgefield, a gold pin. The owner can get it by calling at the store of Israel Mukashy and paying for this ad vertisement,. M '?^ The Cause of Cotton's Rise. Commercial authorities declare that the chief reason for the welcome rise in the price of cotton is the fact that the new crop is one of the small est in the history of the country, and that the people are realizing that they must resume the consumption' of cotton upon a large scale. In discussing the situation Com mercial and Financial America says: "The impression prevails, and is probably justified that the world's spinners have seldom had less cover against forward requirements than they hold this season and their re quirements have been very poorly defined. People have been buying very little and the bottom of prices found nearly everyone short of supr plies." There is no doubt that people quit buying because they did not like high prices, and of course when the' consumers quit making purchases the retail merchants quit buying. There fore when the merchants quit buy ing the manufacturers quit manufac turing. It was a simple case of every body refraining from buying. People decided that for a season they would get along without cotton goods. Un derproduction was the natural re sult. When the people began to buy again the merchants of course placed orders with the manufacturers. When the manufacturers found that they were being showered with orders they naturally found they had to have more cotton. - If the people of the South want the price of cotton to continue to rise let them continue to buy. To pur sue any other policy at this time would be most unwise. Cotton is sell ing for a good price now but we want that price to go higher, and we firm ly believe it will go higher. All indications point to the early return of our former prosperity. Let us renew our courage and our hope. Let us face the future with determi nation and with enthusiasm. . Let up buy-not foolishly but wisely. This is not the time to hoard.-Charleston American. Penitentiary to Harbor Family. Columbia, Sept. 15.-A whole family, mother, daughter and son, and two male friends of the family took up their abode in the state pen itentiary this afternoon to spend the rest of their lives there, as guests of the state. They were convicted in the court of general sessions at Lexing ton this morning for the killing of Marcellus Cook, head of the family, an aged paralytic. Mrs. Julia Cook, Mimie Cook, Ira Cook, Henry Wheeler (Mimie's fian cee) and James Barfield, Sr., are the prisoners. The verdict against them was direcetd by Judge Sease, after the attorneys for both sides had con sented to it. It was "guilty of murder, with recommendation to mercy." Marcellus Cook was killed on Au gust 5. His throat was cut from ear to ear as he sat in his invalid's chair in his home near Steadman, in the Batesburg section of Lexington coun ty. Ira Cook, his son, killed him while his daughter, Mimie and her fiancee,, Henry Wheeler, held the old man's feet and hands. His wife, Julia, was accused of having instigated the crime, and Barfield, charged with hav ing plotted the deed. Barfield and Ira Cook confessed their crime, after being arrested, and later other members of the fanrrly confessed complicity in it. The only witnessoa sworn in the case today were Secretary G. Croft Williams, of the state board of pub lic welfare, and Miss Louise Bishop, psychiatrist for the board, both of whom testified that the Cooks were mentally deficient. The case against J. C. Swygert, charged with the murder of Dr. J. C. Nicholson of Leesville, was to have been tried at this term of court in Lexington, but was postponed a week on account of illness of Swygert's brother. The Newt Kelly case, in which Kelly is charged with the mur der of David- Shull, of Columbia, was continued to the next term of the court. Money from Chickens and Eggs* Are you a 'doubting Thomas' when it comes to the value of club work? Well, if you are, be convinced. Think of the $293.61 made clear of expens es by Rose McGrath, a little club girl of Florahome, Putnam county, Flor ida, and throw no more cold water upon efforts of those who support club work among the boys and girls of this state. Rose had a few dozen Single Comb White Leghorn hens at the beginning of the present year. She has just as many hens now, plus several younger chickens. But ?that is not all. During the first six months of the year she collected $408.69 from the sales of eggs and chickens. Her expenditures for that period amounted to $115.08. This left her a clear profit of $293. 61. In addition to all this profit, Rose has received $50 as prize money. Miss Sarah Partridge, State home demon stration agent and Miss Floresa Sip prell, home demonstration agent of Putnam county, are very proud of Rose's record as a club girl.-Farm and Ranch. Fattening Hogs. The pigs should be fed grain and finished as early as possible if the pork is to be economically produced. Growth and development of pigs should be rapid if the bacon is to be profitable. A little neglect at this critical season may retard the growth of pigs. When the pigs are to be finished they may be confined in pens unless there is a luxuriant pasture whence plenty of grain may be fed. They should have some green food occa sionally to supplement the dry feed, even if they are put in pens. Slops are good, but they are sel dom sufficient unless very rich. When the pigs are being fattened they should have grain. Corn is the best grain for this purpose, but oats, rye, barley, emmer of grain sorghum will answer. The smallest grains are bet ter crashed and fed in slops.-Farm and Ranch. Abbev?lle-Greenwood Mu tual Insurance Asso ciation. ORGANIZED 1892. Property Insured $17,226,000. WRITE OR CALL on the under signed for any information you may desire about , our plan of insurance. We insure your property against destruction by . FIRE, WINDSTORM, or LIGHT NING and do so cheaper than any Com pany in existence. Remember, we are prepared to prove to you that ours is the safest and cheapest plan of insurance known. Our Association is now licensed to write Insurance in the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCormick, Edgefield, Laurens, Saluda, Rich land, Lexington, Calhoun and Spar tanburg, Aiken, Greenville, Pickens, Barnwell, Bamberg, Sumter, Lee, Clarendon, Kershaw, Chesterfield. The officers are: Gen. J. Fraser Lyon, President, Columbia, S. C., J. R. Blake, Gen. Agent, Secretary and Treasurer, Greenwood, S. C. -DIRECTORS A. 0. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C. J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C. J. R. Blake, Greenwood, S. C. A. W. Youngblood, Dodges, S. C. R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. J Fraser Lyon, Columbia, S. C. W. C. Bates, Batesburg, S. C. W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. ?. J. R. BLAKE, General Agent. Greenwood, S. C. June 1, 1921. Notice of Final Discharge. To All Whom These Presents May Concern : Whereas, J. H. Allen has made ap plication unto this Court for Final Dis charge as Executor in re the Estate of Clara Penn, deceased, on this the 23 day of Augusta, 1921. These are Therefore, to cite any and all kindred, creditors, or parties inter ested, to show cause before me at my office at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, on the 28th day of Septem ber, 1921, at ll o'lock A. M., why said order of Discbarge should not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P. C., E. C., S. C. August 23, 1921. West Virginia "Blue-Star" Semi-Anthricite COAL The "King" of Coal for Domestic Purposes It is the most economical and satisfactory coal in the world. It is sold under absolute guaran tee, is unexcelled for grates and stoves and gives intense heat. Distributed exclusively in Edg field by M. A. Taylor. It will pay you to personally see this coal and test it out. A. C. PHELPS Sales Agt. Riddle Coal Company Sumter, S. C. I A Hen That j \ Walked Backwards I I By WILLIAM FALL ? (?, 1921, Western Newspaper Union.) "Why, Colonel Travers sends 500 miles for a Hate of strawberries cost ing a dollar a ni*ce, If he takes a no tion," was the >. ay Gregory Jones usu ally descanted upon the Immense wealth of the proprietor of Hillsdale hall. "They say, too, that he has bank notes bound up Into books in his library." The Travers family lived in grand style. They were pleasant, liberal, and (.pent a good deal of money with the village storekeepers. There was, therefore, considerable regret when it was known that tho hall had been sold for a seminary. In Hillsdale hall Gregory was very much Interested. He was given many an odd task well paid for by the col onel. The matron of that lordly es tablishment was Mrs. Susan Morton. She was a buxom widow, cheery but all business. On the day that the hall family moved, Gregory brushed up his best suit and started for the hall with a de termined, though anxious face. He ex pected to find Susan there, and he did -seated on the top step of the porch. The house had been divested of all its furniture and moving vans were visi ble down the road. Susan had the keys of the house In her hand and looked lonely. ^ "You've been crying, jSusan," ob served Gregory, sitting down beside her. "Yes, I'll admit It," confessed Susan, making room for him. "It grieves rae to leave such a kind, liberal family." "Susan," said Gregory, wlvh longing eyes, "you know my feelings towards you?" "I do, Gregory," acknowledged Su san, frankly, "ind feel honored by them. It ls useless to talk tbont that, though, just now. All I have Is the lit tle plat of farm land my mother left me. You will have to walt till you get some steady position." "And then, Susan?' pressed Greg ory, anxiously. "Why, the day you can make a start to stock up the farm I will be glad and willing to go Into life part nership with you." "It's a good, sensible woman you are," declared Gregory, warmly. "I'm going to deserve you, and then I'm going to have you." "I hope so," returned Susan with an encouraging smile. "Oh, Gregory, would you do a favor for me?" "You don't need to ask that." "The colonel sold off all his barn stuff, the chickens among them. There's a poor witless hen the pur chasers wouldn't take. They said lt was crazy and would annoy the other layers. They've left the homeless thing behind. Won't you take care of it?" "I will," promised Gregory, "and think of what a kind-hearted woman 3-0U are every time I look at IL" Gregory located the lone chick on Its roost, found a bag, said good-by to Susan and took his prize home. The keeper of the village general store was Just getting ready to put up the shut ters for the night when Gregory rushed Into the place. "Hello!" hailed the storekeeper, "going to move?" "Pretty nigh that, Silas?" replied Gregory. "See here, I want a little ac commodation of you." "What is lt, Gregors-?" "I want to borrow $25." The storekeeper proceeded to his old Iron box of a safe. Gregory be came immersed in reading the glaring poster on the wall of a circus exhibit ing 50 miles away. "Just in time," he said to himself. "Thank you, Silas, I'll pay you back all right," he added aloud. There was great gossip as to the mysterious departure of Gregory. A week later there came a letter. "Dear Sweetheart Susan," lt read, "I've ordered that farm outfit and I'm coming home. Get ready to begin that life partnership this fall-beauti ful sunsets, harvests and alli" . Susan gave a scream of delight as she opened the door one morning and found Gregory on the doorstep. "Gregory," was her first word as they were seated on the sofa, "what does It all mean? Did some one leave you a fortune?" "Better than that," replied Gregory buoyantly-"a chance to earn every dollar I've got. It was ?he chicken, Susan." "What chicken?" asked Susan for getfully. "The one you asked me to care for. Susan, that was a wonderful fowl. No more crazy than you or I-only queer." "How queer, Gregory?" "Well, lt walked backwards. Think of a hen that walked backwards-the only one in the world. I .vent straight to the city where a circus was show ing. A side show was intarested. Not that a chicken that walked backwards was so strong an attraction of Itself, but with the tattooed boy~ and the trick porcupine lt made a big draw. A show man offered me $1,000 cash for the curiosity, so I'm here with the money to stock up that farm. What do you say, Susan?" "That you are a husband worth walting for," replied Susan tender^. Headed for Trouble. "Did yon congratulate the groom?" "New. Would you congratulate a fellow Just going to the dentist'? chair?"-Detroit Free Press. PROFITABLE DAIRY IN SOUTH Home Demand Supplied for Products and Soil Fertility Built Up and Maintained. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) More than 9,500,000 pounds of but ter was made by 93 creameries in the Southern states in the year ending De cember 31, 1919. Thirty of the 54 cheese factories scattered throughout i?e mountain region turned out 431, 0U0 pounds of Cheddar cheese. SiJosr modern dairy barns, and purebred dairy t cows are becoming common. "Fifteen years ago dairying as an in dustry had been scarcely started in the southern states," said a. specialist In the dairy division, United States Department of Agriculture. '''The South probably has made more prog res? In the last 13. years than any other section of the country. The In crease In the number of dalry cows from 1907 to 1920 was more than 50 per cent. The Increase for the enr tire United States durirng the same period was 13.8 per cent." While the increase in number of cows. has been large, lt is pointed out by men working co-operatively with the federal government and the state agricultural college that the Improve ment in quality has been of even great er importance. Purebreds have beeu shipped In every year in large num bers, and great Interest bas been shown In the use of purebred - sires: There are now 48 bull nsocintlons in these states. The latest census lig ures available show there are 5,184 head of purebred dalry cattle In South; Carolina and 9,586 in Virginia. "Dairy development began In the southern states shortly after 1906," said one of the specialists, "but the. improvement was slow at first It was difficult to convince growers in my territory that there was anything, for .them In dairying. But an object lesson was found that finally conr vlnced them. On one side of a road was a field of cotton that yielded two bales per acre; on the other side a field gave half a bale. The farm that grew two bales to the acre had kept cows for five years, and the manure had produced the change. Farmers were taken from miles around to see these two fields. "This little demonstration illustrates the purpose for which dalry cows wjere Purebred Holsteins on a Louisiana Farm-Cows Have Been Dipped Reg ularly for Ticks Without Loss in Milk. recommended In sections of the South -not to make dairying a major Indus try, but. rather to estai lish a system that would supply the home.demand for dalry products, and at the same time build up and maintain soil fer tility, both by supplying manure and by enforcing a proper rotation of crops. This would make possible the production of cotton and other staple crops at greater profit This was the aim of the southern dalry extension work, the first large scale extension project attempted, which was started) under the direction of the dalry di vision of the Department of Agricul ture in 1906, and carried forward co operatively by the department and the state agricultural colleges. One of the first things corrected: was the poor feeding methods. Cot tonseed meal and hulls formed the basis of the ration; farmers had no knowledge of balanced rations; silos were few in number, and lt was not known generally that they could be built by farm labor. A few silos were erected In 1906 as demonstrations, and< the Idea began to grow slowly In pop ularity. The value of silage compared with cottonseed hulls was very striking, even in the days when hulls were only $4 or $5 a ton. A dalry farm near Blloxl, Miss., where 40 tons of silage were fed Instead of cottonseed hulls, reported a saving of $250 for the whi ter. "From a local standpoint," writes one of the federal agents of the dairy division, "the establishing of dairying In the boll-weevil districts of Mississip pi ha3 been one of the greatest achievements. Anyone acquainted with the despondency of farmers In 1912 In southern Mississippi, and who was enabled later to see the ?mange wrouelit by the dalry cows, will agree that en thusiasm for dairying is well founded In a region that was floundering fot some means of a livelihood, .now changed to a country In which thc farmers are supplying whole milk for New Orleans and other points. This means good methods are being used."