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Ford Believes He Will - Succeed. New York, Nov. 19.-"You bet, its going through," Henry Ford said today regarding his lease of the Muscle Shoals, Ala., nitrate and wa ter power project. The terms, he added, were up to the government. Mr. Ford, who conferred here to day with Thomas A. Edison regard ing the Muscle', Shoal project, was asked if he proposed to compete with Chile ir. the production of nitrates. "If we can't beat the Chileans we ought to quit," he asserted. Referring to his visit to Washing ton when he conferred with Secretary Hoover, Mr. Ford said he also had a conference with President Harding and at that time had offered to buy for junk battleships scrapped by the government as a result of the arms conference. He added that the presi dent had enjoyed a heary laugh. Before leaving for Detroit the au tomobile manufacturer mentioned that he went to the bedside of Sec retary Weeks, who was ill, late l?st night in Washington and placed be fore him the proposition to take over the Muscle Shoals property. He de clined to say whether they had reach ed any definite agreement. He also presented to Secretary Weeks his proposition to buy scrapped battle ships for use in making automobiles and trucks. "It's nothing," he remarked, "we buy scrap iron all the time." Mr. Ford^said he would leave it to the experts to figure how much horse power could be developed and the amount of nitrate it would be possi ble to produce at Muscle Shoals. That would be determined, he said, after he and Mr. Edison with technical ad visers, had inspected the property. Both Mr. Edison and himself were anxious to eat turkey dinners in their own homes Thanksgiving day, Mr. Ford said, but the inventor would go to Detroit the following week, and then they would depart for Alabama. Mr. Ford and Mr. Edison would work out matters of chemistry in the ni trate production plan. "Me Too." .Colleton county has already placed in their sweet potato curing houses more than twelve thousand crates of potatoes this season and many thous ands more to come, according to the Press and Standard. Why Dorches ter county has let the time slip by and not prepared for this emergency is a problem not easy to solve. Quite ?enough was written " concerning the sweet popato and its care, and yet no preparation.-Dorchester Eagle. The above outline fits, our case like a glove. We see farmers plowing Tinder cotton stalks, and some plant ing a little more grain. Do you think that fills the bill? Have you made up your minds that you can pay your ex penses and back debts on the little cotton you make under boll weevil conditions? If you can, all these pa per, platform and riding farmers have been doing some monumental lying. You saw that the boll weevil put you out of business this year. You salve your minds and hands with the delusion that it was a wet boll weevil year. How do you know that 1922 will not be a boll weevil year? There are thousands of bushels of po tatoes over this county now which will largely rot on account of that pasteboard potato curing house that you talked so much about last spring. Will you let it happen again because you are too timid to risk a few dol lars in an absolutely necessary en terprise? You saw one man risk a , large part of his earnings, of years, in an ice and fertilizer plant. You now see one young man, daring enough to stake his every dollar and more, and risk his future, for years, on a cotton" milji venture, while the rest of you run away from the shad ow of a $3,500 potato curmg house. You sit still, like old Ephraim, astride that measly little blue bale of boll weevill cotton and expect it to carry you across a muddy and stormy fi nancial Jordan. It won't do. You must wake up. You are a coward when you talk about not paying an inflated debt with a deflated dollar. Who is to blame for it? Who escaped the penal ty? Don't blame the banks while you foolishly rode with whip and spur. Be men, not quitters.-Calhoun Times. Trespass Notice. Notice is hereby given that hunt ing and all manner of trespassing dpon my land is prohibited and the law will be enforced against all per sons who fail to heed this notice. This is meant for everybody, without any exception. Mrs. ELLEN Wi STROTHER. 11-9 At the drawing last Saturday Mr. J. P. Pruitt drew 660, the lucky num ber and was given a Fisk inner tube free. It pays to trade with U3. YONCE ? MOONEY. Licenses for Those Who Drive Automobiles. Under the law recently enacted, to drive automobiles in Spartanburg one must b elicensed by the city. Many of the large cities in the country have long ago adopted this regulation, and in most of them, an efficiency test is j required before a license is granted. Wherever automobiles multiply un til great numbers are in use, this li cense arrangement will be put on. j The license plan is desired not only because it puts the authorities in po-1 sition to know j all drivers, but "be- J cause of its possibilities for curbing speed fiends and reckless persons at the wheel." Violations of traffic laws j result in canceling the licenses. The Greenville News congratulates Spartanburg on its new law and isl sure it will exert a tremendous influ- j ence upon curbing speeding or reek-1 less driving. "The habitual speed j hound had rather go to the county chaingang for a few weeks than be deprived of the privilege of driving I his car for a year." says The News, that paper adding: "By exercising! the right to reject licenses the Spir tanburg council can do much toward ridding the city of its motor demons, j We know of no better way of coping j with this increasingly perplexing! problem than this plan, and we re spectfully recommend it to the coun cil of Greenville for consideration." There has been complaint in Geor-1 gia that 'too many children-children under sixteen years of age-are per-J mitted to drive cars; and in some] counties the authorities have an-j nounced that they are going to put a j stop to this. What is needed-for the public's good, as well as for the good of the I automobile owners-is a strong auto mobile association to bring about the j enactment of, and rigid enforcement I of, fair laws for the operation of* au- J tomobiles. As has been so often said, J if the automobile owners do not un dertake this organization and duty J the time will come when others than I automobile owners will enact and ap-1 ply these laws and then automobil ing will feel a heavy hand.-Augusta J Chronicle. ? Bees Work Ten Hours a Day. Ames, Ia.-Recent observations on the action of honey bees at the Iowa agricultural experiment station shows that the busy bee is all that has been claimed for him. Not only does he put in a good 10-hour day, but he can carry between 75 to 90 per cent of his own weight in a load. The number of trips made by an average bee during a day is thirteen. Some bees made as high as twenty four during a 10-hour day, while others did less work. The average bee spent thirty-four minuses in the field collecting his load while some spent less than thirty minutes. In the hive the average time amounted to eleven minutes although many of the workers were only five minutes unloading. Observation showed that the bees started from the hive on the average at eight o'clock in the morning and quit at 6 o'clock in the evening,, com pleting a 10-hour day. Auto Industry Is Near Normal? Many Cars Made. Detriot, Mich., Nov. 18.-The auto industry is now manufacturing more than three times as many cars as last January. The general belief 'among auto makers is that their industry is safe ly out of the depths of depression and well on its way upward to nor mal. Thirty-one cars were shipped from all American auto f?ctories in Octo ber, for every 96 cars shipped in May 1920-which however, was the peak month, with production greatly in flated, just before good times explod ed. ' Ford is producing "as usual"-at a rate of about 1,100,000 cars a year. Exports of autos, expressed dol lars, are now more than twice as big as in 1913. This indicates an export business at a better financial rate than in normal pre-war times, even though the productive capacity of the auto industry was incerased 150 per cent during the war. The actual amount of passenger autos exported in the last few months has been almost identically the same as 1913. The auto trade, anticipating much better business in 1922 than at pres ent, is looking ahead to keen compe tition and outlining its sales cam paigns accordingly. Not counting Ford, the eight lead ing auto companies have a produc tive capacity of more than 1,000, 000 cars a year. This will be increas ed at least 300,000 cars a year by new companies now preparing to en ter the auto field. Come in and get our new prices on Ford parts and accessories. YONCE & MOONEY. GIVE BREEDERS FREE RANG* Most Desirable for Production of Fer tile Eggs Intended to Be Used in Incubator. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Hazards which sometimes acconi puny tlie incubation of eggs arc large ly avoidable. Fertile eggs from vigor ous breeding stock are necessary in order to obtain good hatches. Free range for the breeders is most desirable for the production bf fertile eggs with .vigorous germs, but all eggs produced from such hens should not be used for Incubation. Eggs that are abnormally small and poorly shaped or those having thin or very poor shells should be eliminated. Dirty eggs or those badly soiled should not be used. If lt is found necessary to set*1 slightly soiled eggs they may be cleaned by rubbing lightly with a damp cloth/care being taken not to rub off any mort of the natural bloom than is n?c?s sary. It is never advisable to use; for hutching eggs that are more than-two weeks old. In freezing weather eggi should be collected two or three time* a duy so as to prevent their being chilled. Neither a hen nor an incuba tor will hatch strong chicks fronifcggs containing weak germs or from those which have not received proper cure. In preparing the nest for the' sitting hen, put from three to four" inches of damp earth or a piece of grass sod in the bottom of the nest before the nesting material is put: in to, provide moisture. When the hen becomes broody, and before she is transferred to tlie nest for sitting, she should be dusted with insect powder or sodium fluoride. In doing this hold the hen by the feet with tlie head down, work ing the powder well into the feathers. This should be repeated about the eighteenth day of incubation so as to be sure that there are no lice present when the chicks are hatched. The hen should be moved at night fi om the/ regular laying nest into the nest where she is to be set; The lat ter nest should be in some out-of-the way place where the hen will.net be disturbed. In order to malee sure that the hen will continue to stay in the new nest she should be started with one or two china nest eggs. If. at Provide Comfortable Quarter? for Poultry Flock. the end of the second day when the hen should be permitted to leave her nest for flood and water, she returns in a short time, the nest eggs may be replaced with the eggs that are to be Incubated. Throughout the period of Incubation the eggs and nests should be kept clean. Sometimes it will be necessary to change the nesting material. Eggs should be tested twice during the in cubation period, preferably on the sev enth and fourteenth days, and all in fertile eggs and those with dead germs should be removed. When the eggs begin to hatch, the hen should be con fined and not disturbed until the hatch ing ls complete. If she becomes rest less remove the chicks as they are hatched and keep them in a wann place until the hatch is complete', when all should be returned to the mother hen. ' t INCREASED EGG PRODUCTION Highest Number of Eggs Obtained From Mash Composed of Meat Scrap and Cornmeal. The highest egg production in poul try-feeding tests conducted by the United States Department of Agricul ture were obtained from a pen receiv ing a mash composed of four pounds bran, four pounds middlings, 26 pounds meat scrap, and 66 pounds cornmeal. Tills ration bas been one of the best mashes, giving consistent high production over h period of several years, and Is not distinctly different from tlie mash used in the wheatless ration, which has also given very good production. SIMPLE HINTS FOR POULTRY To Keep Young Brood in Healthy Con. ditton Supply Clean Water and Plenty of Grit. A successful poultryman offers a few simple hints (or keeping the young brood In health, as follows: Give clean water; supply plenty of gilt; feed a variety of cracked and who'.e v.uin, mostly in a dry state; keep chicks out of the grass whoa wet with duw or rain. ANNUAL WHITE SWEET CLOVER YIELDS WELL New Variety May Possess Im portant Possibilities. When Farmer Finds His Hay- Supply Will Bc Short This Crop Can Be Planted-Grows Well During First Season. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) It has-been determined that sweet clover, which grows luxuriantly along roadsides and out-of-the-way places, and which is grown in some sections as a forage crop, has one strain which is annual. The annual sweet clover occasionally appears in patches of the more common biennial form, either as single specimens or In small groups. Seed of the annual has been separated, and In recent years It has been prop Sweet Clover Hay Curing in the Cock. agated. These points are brought out in Department Circular 169, Annual White Sweet Clover and Strains of the Biennial Form, recently published by the United- States Department of Agriculture. The nature of this new variety, ac cording to the bulletin, is such as to Indicate that it may have important possibilities. Probably its greatest use .for hay will be as an emergency crop. Whed a stand of clover has been win ter killed, or when for any re ii s on a farmer finds that his hay supply will .be short, this variety can be seeded during the spring and, provided lime and the proper bacteria are present, will yield a good hay crop. Where rain fall is sufficient it may be seeded even after wheat harvest It makes a good growth the first season, and experi ments In Iowa and Michigan have shown that it may be seeded with oats, to be harvested after the grain ls cut. It gro ~s rapidly, and for this reason will i:?r?jp ahead of .weeds. . Thc annual has a smaller and more woody root than the biennial form, and crown or resting buds are not formed. The stems, branches, leaves, flowers, pods and seeds are indistin guishable from those' of tte biennial form, but during the season of seed-. lng the plant grows more rapidly, blossoms, fruits and dies. It blooms early and ripens* seed In August when seeded earty. Seed of the annual form ls still very scarce and high priced and, since lt cannot be distinguished from seed of the ordinary biennial, should be purchase! with caution. CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER SIRES _____ Since Movement Was Started There Have Been Many Animals and Fowls Enrolled. Recent figures on the enrollment of animals and poultry in the "better sires-better stock" campaign, which is being supervised by the United States department of agriculture, show that since the movement was started in October, 1919, there have been 174, 194 animals and 264,945 chickens or other poultry enrolled. During this time 8,676 certificates of membership In the campaign have been Issued by the department. Li order to secure a certificate, a stock breeder or poultry man must fill out a blank, which ia supplied by the bureau of animal in dustry, . stating that he will use only purebred sires. A report recently is sued by the department shows that j 45 states and two possessions-Guam and Porto Rico-have stock breeders or poultrymen enrolled In the cam-j paJgn. virginia ?ads In the move ment with 1,180 . ,p cates Issued, but1 Nebraska has th< .yest number of live stock enroll? BEST DIVISIUu y. PASTURES A 20.Acre. Tract Will Yield Mora Grata Where Herd la Shifted to Sniall Fields. Dividing pastures Into smaller fields is time and money well spent A 20-acre pasture divided will yield much more grass where the herd ls shifted, from one field to the other than If. allowed to tramp on the en tire field at will. BEST CONDITIONS IN WOODS Trampling of Sol I by Different Ani mals Among Growing Tresa lt Not Favored. Toa can't do two things at once. If the best growing conditions are wanted In a woods, grazing animals must be kept out. Hard trampling of sc ll fl jes about the same amount of good in a woodlot as it doea in e field of growing com. FOR THE Best Value in Tin Roofing CALL FOR Youngblood's I C. Old Style Re-Dipped Tin Manufactured under our special instructions, i and absolutely all right. ' . y; Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telphone 1697 THE FARMERS BANK OF EDGEFIELD, S. C. Capital and Surplus ...... $175,000.00 SAFETY AND SERVICE IS WHAT WE OFFER TO THE PUBLIC Open vour account with ns for the year 1921. Invest your savings in one of our Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit. Look boxes for rent in which to keep your valuable pa pers, etc All business matters referred to us pleasantly and carefully handled. We Solicit Your Business. ARRINGT0N BROS. & CO. 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