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LICE, MITES AND FLEAS Slaughter More Hens and Clicks Than Does Disease. > Lice, mites and fleas. Here is a triple alliance that is more disastrous to poultry stock than all the host of diseases that chicken flesh is heir to. That they are on the warpath now is evidenced by the numerous requests for help that the poultry husbandman of Clemson College is receiving from persons whose fowls are attacked by the bloodthirty creatures. Yet proper care j and treatment will free fowls in a short time of these nuisances. The best treatment for lice is to grease fowls with 33% strength mercurial ointment (which is poison). Apply a piece of ointment the size Of a grain of wheat to the flesh of the hen at the rear part of the body, covering a space of skin not larger / than a silver quarter. Be careful not to use too much ointment, because when it is applied freely the mercury will be absorbed by the V chicken's system and egg production will ce&se. A piece of ointment the size ol a grain of wheat is enough and not too much. ?For baby chicks that have head lice, anoint the head with carbolated vasoline or apply mercurial ointment very sparingly. A little grease rubbed on the chick's head and under the beak will kill all lice lodging there and prevent development of . the lice eggs. This method is better than dusting with insect powder. One application of the poisonbus grease i| good for one month. Mites live in crevices of the roost, drop-board and nests in the day time and attack fowls at night. They can be seen in the morning and look like red bugs as they are filled with the blood of fowls attacked at night. Mites are eradi'? .Y r cated by painting or spraying roosts and. nests with the following mixture: keresine, l?gallon; crude carbolic acid. 1-2 pint; lard, 2 tablefci . spoonfuls. Melt the lard and mix with the kerosine, add the acid and ' shake the mixture well. Apply this mite-killer to quarters where mites live, making an application every \ two weeks. A few applications will clean any hen-house. However, some old poultry houses have so many cracks and crevices that the solution cannot reach the mites. In such a case, cover the inside of the house with building paper or sev11 eral thicknesses of newspaper, using paste for this. Then paint with the kerosine mixture., I , Where fleas infest a poul try house, it i? Decenary to spray a 5 per cent 2l solution of zenoleum, creolin, cresol or other coal tar disinfectant. Thoroughly soak the dust and dirt where the fleas live. This will kill them I and their young. Then catch any fowls that have fleas on the side of r v face and under beak and anoint ' these places with the 33 per cent m|rcurial ointment. One applica^ tion of this ointment will kill every flea and prevent more from attach-1 ing themselves to the bird. i Suttons Sittings. i'l , Suttons, July 5: ? The Fourth passed very quietly, here, the continued showers caused a great many disappointments among the young folk. Mr and Mrs Pervis Blakely, from the Oak Ridge section, were here visiting relatives Saturday. Mr ESdie Morris of Bryan is seen in this community quite often of late. I wonder what the attraction cai^ be? Mr J D Cooper of Georgetown is spending a few days at his old home near here. * % Several of the old and young folk of this place attended Farmers' day at Andrews Saturday. They report having had a splendid time Some of them had the pleasure of shaking hands with "Our Cotton Smith." Several interesting and beneficial talks were made by some of our prominent statesmen, among whom was Senator E D Smith, whose talk was much enjoyed. ^ Miss Mayme Blakeley has been in Georgetown for several days at the home of her brother, Mr J M Blakeley. Messrs Dock Rowell and Talbert I Lockliear of Trio were in this locality * for awhile Saturday night. Come again, boys. We are sorry to learn that Mr B P Cooper, who has been in a critical condition for the past two weeks,is not much improved at this writing. He has the skillful attention of Drs E I Kelley of Kingstrec and Harper of Trio. Mr Cooper's health has been failing for sime years, but we hope soon to hear that he is climbing the hill to restoration. Mr Willie Blakely spent yesterday with relatives and friends at Oceda. We have had the pleasure several times recently of seeing Mr Frank Richardson of Salters down here, driving his new Ford. This community was visited Saturday by an electric storm, accompanied by wind and an excessive ! down pour of rain which did much damage to the growing crops and fruit trees. Farmers around here are still tussling with the "general." He is like Jack Johnson. Don't think he is doing so much on the last innings, as I see the farmers wearing a more restful face. Mrs Wayde Barrineau and children of Oceda have been spending , several days at the home of her father near here. . Poor Boy. UGH! CALOMEL MAKES YOU DEATHLY SICK. Stop Using Dangerous Drug Before It Salivates You! It's Horrible! You're bilious, sluggiFh, consti- ' pated and \believe you need vile, dangerous calomel to start your \ liver and clean your bowels. Here's my guarantee! Ask your 1 druggist for a 50 cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone and take a spoonful tonight. If it doesn't start your liver and straighten you rignt up better than calomel and without griping or making you sick I want you to go back to the store and get your money. Take calomel today and tomorrow ! you will feel weak and sick and nauseated. Don't lose a day's work. Take a spoonful of harmless, vegetable Dodson's Liver Tone tonight and wake up feeling great. It's perfectly harmless, so give it to your children any time. It can't salivate, so let them eat anything afterwards. A Presidential Candidate. It is a safe guess that we are going to have Mr Bryan again as a Presidential candidate. His platform will be peace and prohibition. It will split the Democratic party all apart, for the South is strong for prohibition, and Bryan himself, as himself, is strong with the Democratic party throughout the wide West. He is likely, too, to draw from the Republicans on the same issue that will strengthen him at the South.?Hart. ford four ant. . i i * * Mary Phagan Monument. Citizens of Valdosta, Ga, have started a movement to raise a fund by popular subscription of $1 each from a thousand Georgians for the purpose of erecting a monument over the burial place of "little Mary Phagan, who lost her life in the defense of her virtue," in the words of the petition. The education of the public as to who you are, where you are, and what you have to offer in the way of skill, talent or commodity. The < only man who should not advertise , is the man who has nothing to offer the world in the way of commodity or service.?Elbert Hubbard. Traveling Man's Experience. "In the summer of 1888 I had a very severe attack of cholera morbus. Two physicians worked over me from four a. m. to ? p. m. without giving me any relief and then told me they did not expect me to live; that I had best telegraph for my family. Instead of doing so, I gave the hotel porter fifty cents and told him to buv me a bottle of Cham bcrlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and take no substitute. I took a double dose accordins: to directions and went to sleep after the second dose. At five o'clock the next morning I was called by my order and took a train for my next stopping point, a well man but feeling rather shaky from the severity of the attack," writes H W Ireland, Louisville, Ky. Obtainable everywhere. Chamberlain's Cough Hemedv Cares Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough* I RUBBER | We have them of a] I fresh shipment, such as I Combination Water Bottle? 1 Caps of all kinds, Bath Sp I dies' Household Rubber G1 1 and Rubber Sheeting; also I ber Bathing Caps for Ladi I Call and see them now in < I Kingstree Dr I KINGSTREE, lTlUVV^l O* Just received, on MACHINES. Price and examine them. M. F. H A CAR Mowers, Rake; just received. The ?the best made a We handle these a i to have you call t( | is time to start ha: S or hay crop,. 1 Prices and I isfactory to I VVT?11? 1 1 j Williamsburg I to gets in its deadly work i] when the weather is hot an and you are longing for a li of thousands of lives might cautions were taken agams Fit your beds up with our you csfh sleep and rest in peace Hip Sltpplp Fiirn JL AAV UIVVIV A MA it < Kingstree, REME1 When in need of a W Jewelry go to T. E. Bagg Ask to see the $5.5C watch on the market for this watch in-curing toba< If you are trouble^ wit you with glasses with whi print. Broken glasses du] Watches, Clocks, and Je : j receiveu. T. L B A V GOODS 11 kinds. Just received a Atlas Fountain Syringes, j 5 and Fountain Syringes,Ice rays tor Shower Baths, La- | oves, Invalid Air Cushions > a nice line of Atlas Rubes and Genes. All colors, our windows. ug' Company Soutli Carolina Mowers! e carload MOWING ), ?45.00 each, tall [ELLER LOAD s and Binders i McCormick kind Lnd the best sold, md would be glad ) see us before it rvesting your oat Terms SatPurchaser live Stock Co. DoYou Know ^ that it is imDossible 1\ to contract malaria without first being bitten by a mosquito? It's a fact, for Bft mosquitoes alone Sy spread the malarial germ. The mosquin the dark of the night, id the windows are open ittle fresh air. Hundreds ; be saved lif greater pret this death-dealing pest. Mosquito Proof Canopies so and awake in safety. iture Company % South Carolina MBER, || ratch, Clock or Piece of ett, the Reliable Jeweler. I Elgin Watch, the best the money. You need :co. ih your eyes, let me fit ch you can see the finest plicated. Save the pieces welry repaired same day j G G E T T || HHHHnnBHK I The Ice Hal Comes Early ai I Our Fountain is run with you as long as yo give a lot of joy for a A fresh supply of 1 Nice Fresh Beef, Pork and THE PEOPLE' H. A. MILLER, I Tunirnl Q1 ?iavd k-uipo IOOUCU Cream 1 bit I id Stays Late ning and will stay V u stay with it. We M nickel. | Morris' Candies al"t wi Baltic atAU Hogs ' j Mutton Always On Hand. I S MARKET j 'ROPRIETOR I I at this Market. J t RY DIAMONDS } IS SILVERWARE NOVELTIES ETC. j * I ^-S & CO., WELERS, ' , CHARLESTON, S. C. ' ?H I UP >CKETBOOK ocess with your table, ur grocery bill. Then our regular customers J ^ery high grade Flour, ' rroceries. I d or the table, and guar- fl tp the price way down. 1 . i luiaun. 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