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# TAKING CASE G? j MILK IN HOMES That Milk Sours Slowly at Cool! Temperatures is . Well Known i FLIES ARE DANGEROUS |' IN CARE OF MILKi i i \ Clean Receptacles Aid in Keep-! | ing it Sweet,?Whipping1 Cream Described. With the advent of warm weather ( the care of milk in the home becomes more complex than during the late autumn and winter. Heat to the ^ extent accumulated by allowing milk to stand on a warm porch or in the j ?nn it? onmiffli in cfjirf. t ho hnetoria in milk to multiplying at a rapid rate and thus make it unlit for use as| sweet milk, according to the dairy < specialists of the department. The hot days also bring the flies, the great germ carriers, and the clouds of dust laden with bacteria, which, when com f 1 ing to rest on milk receptacles, may easily contaminate the milk. Milk is regarded as a natural cul ture medium for bacteria, and thej rapidity with which the various forms will multiply under the proper tern- i peratures is astonishing. It has been shown that if a cubic centimeter (about one-half teaspoonful) of milk, containing 10 bacteria is kept at 08; detrrpos temnerature for 24 hours the! bacteria will have multiplied into! about (51,000. In the same milk, if; held at 50 degrees, the growth of bac j teria wouhl be very small, possibly, as low as 40 in 21 hours. Milk which contains a large number of bacteria j is either not fresh or has come from a diseased cow or has otherwise been contaminated. Flies are possibly the most danger ous bacteria carriers which are like! ly to come in contact with milk. These scavangers may convey the germs of typhoid fever or other contagious diseases from the sick room or cxcreta to the milk. Typhoid epidemics' have been caused by flies spreading the germs. Milk should be guarded from flics as rigorously as you would avoid exposure to disease. Cows are now out on pasture, and! milk is more easily produced, under sanitary conditions than during the winter months when the cows are stabled continuously. Milk may be, handled by the most correct and sanitary methods known, and yet if ii is' not cooled immediately after milking and kept cool until consumed, it v( < y soon begins to change and grow sour. In fact, the bacterial content increases rapidly as long as the milk remains above 50 degrees F. The bacteria are dormant or increase slowly at a lower temperature. For this reason, every! precaution for keeping milk cold 4 from the time it is produced until it reaches the consumer is essential, and, especially so during the warm wcathJK er. Milk may absorb impurities whenm ever it is exposed to the air or placid ed in unclean vessels. The amount or * degree of contamination depends on 0 the cleanliness of the air and of the utensil. Even the air of a so-called clean room contains some impurities. If the producer and dealer have done their duty, there is left at the consumer's door a bottle of clean, cold, unadulterated milk. But the consumer also has responsibilities in handling milk so that it continues to be fit for consumption, especially as 0 food for babies. The niilk in the home may be placed in unclean vessels, or exposed unnecessarily to the air, or not kept cool until the time of using. Thus things may happen to Ai.? :11- ? /v?i.: *i _ 1?. mi: in UK unucung us quality, many of which occur through carelessness. Receiving Milk at the Home. The expression, "a bottle of clean, cold, unaulterated milk," describes the J|. kind of milk which should he delivered to the home. The method of dipping milk from large cans and pouring it into the customer's receptacle in the street, with all the incident exposure to the air, not always the cleanest, is a bail practice. Drawing ) milk from the faucet of a retailer's p. can is almost as bad as dipping milk, although the milk is not exposed to the air as long as by the dipping process. Besides the insanitary part of this method, some consumers, un less the milk is kept well agitated, are likely to receive less than their proportion of cream. The custom of ^ setting out at night an uncovered ves scl which collects thousands of bactt ria from the street dust before the milk is put into it is obviously ver> insanitary, and yet it is practiced tc a large extent. If milk is to be received in a bowl or pail by the consumer, it is worth while to have it dc livered personally to some member of the family, or, if the receptacle is to be placed in waiting for the milk deliverer, it should be covered with a plate, or better still, a glass preserving jar may be used in which nothing but milk is put. The jars with the glass tops are preferable; no rubber baiuls should be used. Direct sunlight on the bottle of milk warms it rapidly and increases the bacterial content Milk which is de livcrcd very early in the morning, say at 4 a. m., and remains out of doors until 9 or 10 o'clock, is very likely to become warm and less fit for human consumption than if it were taken in the house and placed in the refrigera tor early in the morning. Milk should not he transferred from the original bottle into another receptacle until just before consumption. The bottle should be kept cove) ed with a paper cap or an inverted tumbler as long as the milk is in it, Milk deteriorates by exposure to the air in the pantry, kitchen, or nursery Housewives are familiar with the ability milk has to absorb smells from strong foods like fish, cabbage, oi onions. It is obvious, fherefore, that such foods should be kept out of the refrigerator which contains milk. If the milk is received in u howl pail, or other receptablc instead of s bottle, the same rules apply to the keeping of the milk as those mention ed above for bottled milk. Milk frorr the grocery store or bakery which k kept in a can, open most of the time and possibly without refrigeration, \i to be strictly avoided. Care of the Refrigerator. The refrigerator, unless kept scrupulously clean, often is in itself i source of the bad flavor in milk. Th< refrigerator should be inspected a short intervals, at which times th< the outlet for the melted ice should b< freed, the ice rack clean, and th< place where the food is kept scaldet with a salsoda solution. Even thougl the refrigerator is cold, a few drop: ~r r?;11 _.] :11. n i yji ?pnifu 11111k, uj a sman purucic o food ncg'ccted, will soon contaminat< it. Milk bottles arc made for milk an< not to hold sundry other foods. A soon as the milk bottle is empty i should be rinsed with lukewarm wote until it is clean and then set button side up to drain. Mottles shoub never be returned in a dirty or filth; condition. All utensils with whicl milk comes in contact should be rins ed, washed, ami scalded every tiim the\ are used. When cleaning thes. utenscils, do not wash them in dish water or wipe with ordinary disl towels. First rinse them and the) boil in clear water and sot away un wiped. If the receptacles arc hot they will soon become dry withou wiping. When a baby is bottle fed, ever; time the feeding bottle and niple ar< used they should be rinsed in lukc warm water, washed in hot water t< which a small amount of washinj soda has been added, and then scald ed. Never use a rubber tube be twee: the bottle and nipple. If a case of typhoid fever, scarle fever, or diphtheria breaks out in th< family, do not return any milk bottle: to the milkman except with th< knowledge of the attending prescribe! by him. Whipping Cream Should he Cold. The above suggestions on the cart of milk are equally applicable t< cream. Often the housewife find; that the cream she has will not whip The department's dairy specialis points out that to obtain satisfactor: results in whipping cream it should bi cold and of the right thickness con taining about 30 per cent or more o butterfat. Ordinary cream, designat ed as col'fee cream by the trade, is al together too thin to give good results The whipping cream, as delivered b; the milkman, contains 30 to 40 pe cent of butterfat. Thoroughly chil the cream before whipping placing i in a covered bowl on the ice. Tin whipping process is also aided an* hastened by standing the bowl in i pan of ice water. Two other subjects bearing on tin topic of care of milk in the home an pasteurization and the food value o milk. These are treated in Unite* States Department of Agricultur* Farmer's Bulletin 413 and Bureau o Animal Industry Circular 107, whicl may be obtained free on application t< the Editor and Chief cf the Divisioi of Publications, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, Washington, D C., as long as the department's sup ply lasts. o Only One "BROMO QUININE" To ret the renuine, call (or full natrt, LaXA TIVU BROMO QU1NI29B. I^ook (or atroature o B. W. GROVB. Cures ? Cold la One Diy. Stop eougt and hMdecfco. tad work* ofl cold. 25c M THE HORRY HERAEI k : FAR! ; l^EavicE-1 rf^ II AH Inquiries on Farm f U Throucrh These a I M. W. WALL, Farm Dc j CLEMSON NOTES ON THE COW AND HER PRODUC ' Bacteria grow very fast in wai ! milk. Keep the milk cool and avc disease. As the weather grows warmer lo or the churning temperatures of vo 1 cream. Do not wash butter with ice-cc water, as to do this will ruin the bo i of the butter. Skimmilk is fine to feed to pi} but be sure all the butterfat is c .? before you feed it. Butterfat is woi I too much for hog feed. Do not use any of the patent cj k feeders. An ordinary open pan is b< ter and.far cheaper. See to it that t , little calves have plenty of shade a water. Try to sell some sweet cream to t . ice cream man. It pays much betl , to sell butterfat in the form of cret than in the form of butter. The flavor of butter is soluable cold water. Never place butter in , rect contact with water to cool. I the butter in a vessel and have t , water around the outside of the v ,'sel. i o 1. _ ! i, . t. ? oee tu u tnat an pans trom wh . calves are fed are kept very clean hot weather. Dirty pails will v< likely cause calves to have scours. "Waste not, want not," runs the < l adage. Farmers who "waste not th , butterfat" seldom complains ab< I j. poor profits from their cows. Gel ? separator and be sure. ?1 The cow is a machine for convert! 31 fodder into butterfat. She may b< j; highly efficient machine, but unl< . i the farmer succeeds in separating .. i the cream from the whole milk s r cannot possibly return the larg ?. profits. "i . v J Begin to set out tomato plants : s' the fall crop. t' . The agricultural short course to held at Clcmson College in Aug j offers some good things in fruit i vegetable growing. For complete formation, apply to J. C. Little jo Registrar, Cicmson College. e Tut in a crop of fall irish potatc They will keep throughout the wint To insure a stand, plant the potat I in a very deep, fresh furrow and c er deeply or mulch heavily with p st raw. ? ? 1 c is often difficult at this season . get a stand of small-seeded vegetab ! A good nlan is to sow the seed in i bottom of a fui .*ow 3 inches deep r run a wheel furrow over them. T1 will then not d *v out as they will wl planted on a bod or on the level. II (> To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAX ATI VK 15KOMO Quinine. It stops t Cough end Headache and works o!T the C p Drujrgir.ts refund money if it fails to ci E. OWOVE'S signature on ach box. ! S _______________ B OUR PUB B 3 III?Juliu On Flna t ^ P???? farmerfl this nation n< to become bet * acquainted w raiiroad 11 ;* ienis. it is o y those who kn r that can give 1 JVK&Skwk < t ^armers listen attentW 1 who manage r road prope o havo to say. Mr. Kruttschnitt, ex -> | utivo head of tho Southern Paci p' has written an article dealing w j the financing of railroads, ile fc in part: r> f "The financing of a railroad Is function which tho people, tl\ro\ 1 their servants, tho Railroad Coran 3 eioners and tho Legislators, hi 1 never attempted, but it is a most - portant problem, especially to s i. tions of a State where new railroi . are needed. The placing of securlt has been left entirely with the l moter and owner of railroads. "The Immediate determination what earnings the railroad shall permitted to rwcelye and what b t dens It shall hare put on It la In ' ' hands of othav servants of tha pal ), CONWAY, r c !=5g^%^ VIE ELS' e ^ >EPARTMEN'f J subjects Will We Answered Columns. Address: ii '' >m. Arrant, Conway, S. C. 11 DO NOT USE ENOUGH :T " COTTONSEED MEA1 *m Clomson College , June 28.?Th >id Southern farmer has not yet learne* that in cottonseed meal lie has one o NV~ j the most economical and most valu nr j able feeds for cattle. He knows mucl 1 less of its feeding value than does th >bl f > ? . . ; European farmer, who uses it very ex (intensively. rg) In an article on the cooperative cat iut tie sales held in South Carolina thi th pPrm? by the extension division o Clemson College, a writer of the U. ? Department of Agriculture conclude as follows: he "At the present time products o ncj the South are used in finishing no only some of her own cattle hut th he cattle of all other parts of the Unite j.er States as well. In addition there i im shipped annually from the South t European countries more than 800.00 tons of onffonsoofl mofll on/l TUi ^ V VW..WVM IIIVUI MIIVI V c* l\V ? 1 III ^j_ material is shipped from this countr >u{. because there is unsufficient markc he for it at home. One country in El DS_ rope feeds annually an average c - ovre 500 pounds of oil cake, chiefl cottonseed cake to each of the matur jn cattle within that country. The pec ,ry pie of this country know less of it feeding value than these Europea farmers do. A very large per cent c ejrjthis material could be used in th )ut South for cattle feeding purposes, i j. a some successful method of marketin the cattle of the small farmers coul be found. ? a "It is hoped that these sales (thos= pss conducted by Clemson College in thi aU state) will result in a general stimi ,jie lus to the cattle industry of that set esj. tion, since a great many farmers wei in attendance and all were very er thusiastie over the outcome of the sal for Such meetings and the kind of entlu siasm that was here evinced are sui to result in general improvement i be the quality and methods employed i ust the feeding of the cattle as well as 3 md better systems of marketing." in- o hn, | MArket problems are now upon yc : Are you cooperating with your neigl j bors or are you trying to work oi >osJ your salvation alone? ;cr. ocs Place your order now (but not wit Dv_ the tree agent) for fruit trees to s< ino o?t this fall. There is but one safe way to ha: vest fruit. Pick it by hand. les _ , 11. If you are not sure as to the vara , ties of fruit trees to buy or where t met . : purchase them, write to the Horticu icy tural Division of Clemson College. ion 1 In placing peaches on the marke see that they arc graded uniforml and arranged attractively in the pad old. age. It will increase your sales an ^X fhe price you receive. lie forum" is Kruttschnitt .ncing Railroads : 1KWJ *v r C ' Li of ?the Legislators and the Com ml Bed sloners. ,ter "Managing a railroad Is quit? diffe dth ?nt from managing a governmei ion whore tho money Is raised by tax ,0k. tlon. When the expenditures, f< uly good reasons or otherwise, increas l0W taxes can bo equally increased. TI u9 railroads, while servants of tho pu ind He, cannot raise money with sue cf ease and facility. The railroads mui uld kG?P their expenditure# within tho , incomes because while they ha\ some control over tlieir expenditure they have almost no control over the a1'* incomes, their rates being fixed Id idy public authorities. ;ec- "There is not a railway manager \ iiCf the country today who is not fe-arfi ith that under the pross of increasing d? aid mands tho transportation systems c the country will, in a few years, brea clown, unless the railroads aro allowe i a to earn larger funds wherewith t igh build it up. Thoro aro vast section lis- of tho country, especially in the Wos lVe wnere more railroads are needed an jm. they cannot bo built unless the rai iec_ ways raiso now capital, uls "F'eople invest money in order t . make money, and they are skeptici as to whether they can make nione >ro- by investing in concerns that aro deal with stringently and unfairly. Rai 0f road securities must be made mor attractive to iuvlte investments, an in order that they may be made mor '"r* attractive, the roads must be allowe earnings that will enable them t >lio meet the Increased capital charges. why is Tin: 1 woman restles I ? . , 1 Destiny of the Nations Depends I po J Contentment in Our Homes. j By W D. Lewis. ' President Texas Farmers' Union. Why is woman dissatisfied? Wh; does she grow restless under thi crown of womanhood? Why is shi weary of the God-given jewel of moth erhood? Is it not a sufficient politics achievement for woman fntm - ? - W. tllWV lUVUi rulers nurse at her breast, laugh ii r her arms and kneel at her feet? Cai J ambition leap to more glorious height e than to sing lullabies to the world' ,\ greatest genuises, chant melodies t master minds and rock the cradle c human destiny? - Clod pity our country when the banc ^ shako of the politician is more grat fying to woman's heart than the pa 0 ter of children's feet. Woman Is Ruler Over All. Why does woman chafe under r< s straint of sex? Why revile the han ^ of nature? Why discard the skirl , I that civilization has clung to sine the beginning of time? Why lay asid s this hallowed garment that has wipe the tears of sorrow from the face < f childhood? In its sacred embrac ,t every generation has hidden its fac c in shame; clinging to its motherl j folds, tottering children have learue to play hide and seek and from youth learned to reverence and r " 8poet womanhood. Can man think < his mother without this consecrate s garment? y Why this inordinate thirst for po> er? Is not woman all powerful? Ms cannot enter this world without h< P consent, he cannot remain in pea< without her blessing and unless si -v sheds tears of regret over his depa e ture, he has lived in vain. Why th >- longing for civic power when God hi s made her ruler over all? Why cra> n authority when man bowB down ar worships her? Man has given wom? his heart, his name una his muue i G What more does she want? 1 Can man find It in his heart to loc & with pride upon the statement that h (1 honorable mother-in-law was one < the most powerful political bosses ;o the country, that his distinguish js grandmother was one of the able j filibusters in the Senate or that h mother was a noted warrior and h< name a terror to the enemy? Whith< 'c are we drifting and where will v land? ^ le God Save Us From a Hen-Pecked Nation. e |1 T fnllnw t)lf? Tllrwv fr>t? o r% ? ? . . ? . v.. V/ p*vr ?? AW* IV II T lilg C% 1 in my views may have in them the smc jn of the soil; my hair is turning whi under the frost of many winters ai perhaps I am a little old-fashlone but I believe there is more moral i )U fluence in the dross of woman than i-; all the statute books of the land, i it an agency for morality, I wouldr give my good old mother's horn made gowns l'or all tlie suffragette I constitutions and by-laws in the worl As a power for purifying society, wouldn't give one prayer of my saint mother for all the women's votes Christendom. As an agency for goc l*~ government, 1 wouldn't give tlie pi* of a mother's heart for righteousnc for all the oaths of office in the lan i There is more power in the smi 0i of woman than in an act of congres j | There are greater possibilities fi good government in her family < laughing children than in the ca inct of the president of the Unit* t, States. y The destiny of this nation lies c_:the home and not in the legislate 1(j halls. The hearthstone and the fai ily Bible will ever remain the sour* of our inspiration and the Acts of tl ? Apostles will ever shine brighter tin the acts of Congress. ]This country is law-mad. Why a< to a statute book, already groanii ! under its own weight, the hysteric ; cry of woman? If we never had * chance to vote again in a lifetime ai I A\A ~ ~ rlu-k \?Z-. x X i uiu uui iniHs uuuuiur mw in iweni live years, we could survive the c deal, but without home, civiltzatk would wither and die. g. God save these United Stat< from becoming a hen-pecked natioi ip. help us keep sissies out of Congre; and forbid that women become ste a.( fathers to government, is the prayi )r of the farmers of this country. e, /m 10 A DIVINE COVENANT. ^ b God Almighty gave Eve to Ada: jr with the pledge that she would bo h j helpmeet and with this order of cor panionship, civilization has towerc jr to its greatest heights. In this rel ?y tionship, Cod has Messed woman an man has honored her and after fov In thousand years of progress, she no Ji proposes to provoke God to decc man by asking for suffrage, thereto ^ by amending an agreement to whic j she was not a party. u | Woman, remember that the Israelii l8 ' scorned a divine covenant, and as t,j result, wandered forty years in tli d I wilderness without God. Likewis 1- man should remember that it is dangerous thing to debase woman to ? law. Rome tried lowering woman ll standard and an outraged civillzatio ^ tore the clothes off the backs of tb human race and turned them out t e roam in the world naked and ui d ashamed. e o 0 Do not cultivate beans when t, * foliage is wet or they will ruat. THREE . CORN QN PLAINS ~ YIELDS COMPARED How Corn Responds to Cultural a Methods?Comparison of * Average Yielo's. j 0 a a Experience has shown that corn 8 grown for fodder on the silo is at least a a safe crop, and perhaps as productive as any that could be grown in the I Great Plains area. The response to ^ the different modes of culture and t- crop sequence, however, is greater in the southern and central portions of the area than in northern, according to the new department bulletin, No. 1219. Some 14 field stations are situ^ ated in the Great Plain* area, which *a covers 10 States, Montana, North Da' kota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The climate ;e in this area is often classified as semiJ8 arid, but as the variations in humidity 'y from season to season are so great, * some years have a relatively high precipitation and may be allowed by years of drought. Thus climate and ?d the distribution of rainfall play a very important part in determining the V- siy.O of tllf> Crti'n oi'Arv NT ?1 - - - ? VVI II 1.1 v>(). 11CLC8??1 Iiy, 1(1 in a bulletin dealing with such a wide expanse of territory deductions when " J not applied to a specific station must r- be very general. i9 Corn growing posesses merit as a 19 preparation of the land for a crop of fQ small grain. When these two factors, l(l yield of corn or fodder and the influLa ence of the crop upon the soil are com bined in one crop they make its growth of double importance. Corn is i8 the only crop that at present offers of this advantage in the Great Plains in area, and which, at the same time, Jd lends itself to a large acreage and to a general farming system. Even grain 13 er sorghums, which fit equally well into er a farming system that includes the ,0 production of live stock, are not adapts ted to the whole of the Great Plains area, and furthermore have not, in general, shown effects as beneficial ^ as corn on the following crop. Potaid toes as a crop may have the same effects as corn on the follow crop, but do not lend themselves so well to ld 4, , ^ growth on a large acreage. n. Such crops as spring wheat, oats, in and barley in the Great Plains area, ^3 when following corn, luivn fimsiotnnt. it ly j>ivon higher yields as compared with other methods of preparing a ^ seed bed for these crops. Very often I these small grains crops have yielde.d ly the highest, or approximately the in highest, yield when grown on disked id corn land, and when the cost of pre3a paration is considered, this plan was , also lound to ho productive of the ly greatest profit. Therefore, in the ;3# growing of corn much importance is ;)r attached to the fact that it leaves the of field in excellent condition for the b* crop following. A striking point brought out in the bulletin is the uniformity in the in amount 01 stover or iodder produced 11- by all methods at the stations in Monco tana and North Dakota. So far as the 10 production of rough feed is concerned, 111 there appears to be very little diffcronce on which to base a choice. South of North Dakota there is a general agreement of heavier yields of stover a or fodder produced after corn than id when corn follows a small grain y* crop. This is true with one exception, ,r" that of Seottsbluff, Nebr., where )n yields are heavier after a small grain than after corn. Only small differj. ences in stover yields are to be noted Kni tir 4 J- -?* ? gg uv I tl 111 I LUC? I LAlilUlIll yitJlllS lOHOWlIl^ p- spring and fall plowing. On the whole, er the average yield by the two methods are almost the same, cf; Corn on summer-tilled land, especially at the more southern stations of Garden City, Kans., Dalhart, and m Amarillo, Tex., showed a marked in13 crease in stover yield over other methll* ods of preparing soil. The increase, however, was not sufficient to make 'Jj it the most profitable except at Seotts ir bluff, Nebr. NV Corn as a grain crop has not boon >y produced at a profit at 8 of the IH >y stations by any method. But when a h value of 81 per ton is assigned to the stover or fodder, corn has been profitQ ably grown by some method at all but one of the stations. ,Q No one method of seed-bed prcparaa tion stands out as essential to the corn iy production. Thus the prevailing con's ditions with relation to farm labor, n farm capital, type of soil and weeds 10 to be dealt with are the prime factors 0 in determining differences in practice. lm o Tht Qufnins That Doss Net Affect The Neei Because of its tonic and laxative effect. LAXAhe TIVK BROMO QUININR is better than ordinary quinine ana ooes not cause oenrottlOMt nor ringing in head Remember the Mi name and look lor the signature of r. w. OUOVrT Sc.