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OUflY' TOTES N~Y C.f.UARNITZ PA. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED POINTERS FOR POULTRY BUYERS. "Iin've you ever purchased a sick rowl hn omrhiet and fft-v k v Me family for i Sunday dinner?' "CertaInly not." "IIave yOu ever Selcted a sleC chick en from your own flock and served it to t:he mInister of your church. the guest of the family?" "Wha't a shocking idea! How dare you hIsinuate such a horrible thing?" "Well, dear inadam, we are not here to iininate, but to tell you kindly that there are many housewives who pur chase fowls under the impression that. all are healthy. With them it is Him ply a question of age and weight and juley tenderness. There are others, however, who have placed a han againt dressed poultry and who pit every live fowl through a strict exam ination before dressing it for the ta ble." We comie to the reader of this arti cle with a few pertinent points for purchasers of poultry. They may save a doctor's bill. We watched a farm er's wife dress a Plymouth Rock for dinner. "How can you tell when a chicken is healthy?" we asked. "I always kill the hen that's laying. I take her off the nest. A laying hen Is always healthy." "She was right," you say. But listen. They don't keep hens on nCsts in meat markets, jid roosters do not always lay. People eat two-thirds rooster. According to her rule, the nonprollt payer would always drone. and the lousy, skinny old cluck would always get the hatchet. "The hen that lays is the hen that pays." Does it piay to kill the layer when eggs are 50 cents a dozen? Egg farms aren't meat markets. The layIng hen is not always well. A good neighbor persisted in killing a lie that Iad chronic diarrhea. We said, "Eury her." "Not a I i. fat hen like that. She lays. We wilI have her for dinner." No; you wouldn't be guilty of such a thing. We belleve you, but you might sin against the family health through ignoran ce. Let us give you soeic polliters for purchasing and se lecting poultry. COMBS, SIIAPE. Do not select a male bird with a flop comb. Iens' combs often turn over naturally, buit a rooster's (lop comb is an hiidientlon of weaknes's or disease. A manlu's comb may lbe misshaipen and turn, lbut you can quickly detc~t this, as it wIll have a thin base or' a fold in front. A lousy rooster's comb often turns dlown, amd he gets lanky. Flop combs in little roosters often come from head lice. D~o not bny a fowl with a loose comb. When a chlckenl's comb pulls back fromlu the beauk you will generally find yellow liquId underneath. Just b'e nervy enough to lift the fowl and smell its beak. It will not be "sweeOt violets." It will be catarrh or roup,. and you will never forget that smell. You will likely notice a yel low liquId running tromn the nostrIls, and this proves that the fowl's head 5s clogged wIth yellow~ bloody matter. Tihiese troules conme from colds, and you will fiid their victimus in near'ly ever'y shipinmg crate that is exposed to wIn try wveathler. D~on't buy chickens with scabby, sniotty' noses. COMBRS, COLOR. D)on't (eat chickens with dark combs. They arec generally daubed up behind and have cholera, diarrhea or sour criop). It' time comb is white, it Is scurvy: if yelow, It Is jaundice. If the comb is scauly and the feathers are off the neck. it Is f'avus. If the head and eves are swollen, it. ia cold or roup. If the head hais yel low toppeid sore(s, It Ia chicken pox. If the throat has whIte patches, it Is diphthila. MISCELLANEOUS. Chlekens with scaly legs aire objec tionabile. Larige swellings that bulge upi between the toes is bumblefoot. Look out for gangrene or blood poIson. The lhet that dIrags a big sack behind does not carry a dozen eggs, as y'ou supIpose. It Is likely a cheesy tumnor. Avoid turkeys wIth white, black or' swollen heads. Geese and ducks with limber neck-stre unfit for use. Do inot select lable birds haphazard. The clear combed, bright eyed, sprlgl'tly, good feeder, with few exceptions, 1s the bird fit fmern anpcum. DON'TS. Don't forget the midnight head jerk ers. The best preventive is a Iullidog Clothes wringer. Catch on? Don't put your mistakes 0:1 ohers. Wheit a man oters you it trade and you accept, you are the ducto:-. If you get caught with your eyes open. don't squeal. It's your own funeral. Don't buy a lot of high prieed eggs and then get angry because the hatch [ig mnachine isn't sent on a special. An incubator in hand is better than a hundred rotten eggs on the garbage rile. WAR IN DOVELAND. What's wrong within the pigeon coop? The squab raisers charge the middle nuen with brealkitg up the business by faking $4 or $5 on a shipuent and gob biiilug the profl s. What slick brokers to catch such old birds with chaff! MA tte's th 9quab Gr-a f t comlpany. I:iliing Fpecial bird trade with its hot air picture books and cull stock. Hing 'Om! I'igeon show muen atre knockig against being cooped in the pelnilt uil lery itt the chicken shows. and some quit p!aying and Joined the Pouters' club. Tut. tut! Where's that olive branch? lut worst of nll Is the sorrow of the poor g.rnft victim. Listen! "Millions in squabs." "Easy work and rich returns for con tenarians. nvalids may lie in bed and raise squahs." "Give the babe in the cradle a chance to earn his milk and a million by rals ing squabs." "Find check ($) inclosed." replied a myriad of hot air castle builders, and iri FAMOUs PIOEON GYMNASTs, THE n1OLTEn AND 'UMULEl. the Graft company unloaded pigeon cocks galore. "Are pigeons all roosters?" asks a poor fenmiale cnught in the graft net. No. poor dear. but manty fea:le rquabs. being the weaker. (lie in in fancy. !eaving bachelor squals "to vorry nienong." Three hundred "guaranteed mated homers" were sold to inl innocent. and each wrinkld he! had just tfty-nine 111hsbands. There were ten little eggs laid. and 295 cocks laid. hillIng and cooine:. aside 1 and squabbled as to Vho should be papal of those teni little squabs. At this junictnre a stranger appeared and bought thbe whbole engeful for a somng. Next day it was dliscovered they had been shipped back to the Squab Graft com1panyl to be sold1 to the next vict im. "But no one seems to know how to tell the sex." Listen!. Buy your hiomer-s C. 0. D. Take an -extra erate to the express5 filee nnd h i tranlsfrinhg tihe birds a pply this test: Take a pigeon by the hill, holding feet with thet ot her hand. If tail turns down while wlin:rs flap, it's a rooste.r; up, it's a hen. This is cocksure. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. The Y. M. C. A. or Worcester, Mass., has introduced a poultry course. It's going rounad the circle, and the wom en's clubs will soon lie swinging In. Then there will be a cackling. Th'ie poultry.nwnm who keep htens and ducks are in it when eg:.s ar'e hIgh. Tlhe liens lay in daylight and the ducks at nIght. 1If the duic'ks quacked over their eg;gs as a hen cenekies. the chick en houise would lbe full of nigh tmares. Maniy People in the eities have nn annual arrangement with poulItrymen at a distance for eggs the ye'ar around at one price. Fa milics pitch In and get a crate pet' wveek. Thelmy mann smael;' their lips in oggs-ultation whille others growl like all creation. The fellow who is too sthigy to pay at decent priice for hatching eggs and sneaks them att thle store wvhereo the lpoultrymlant tr'ades eggs is a we'ascl. Fortunately few htigh class breeding eggs get to tihe store, and thtoso that do are fixed. That fixes 'emt. The surest way to get fresh eggs is to become a private customer of a thoroughbred poul1try iraiser- who runs his plant for a liv-ing. Ills hens must lay thte year' around, and lhe must feed scientifically and keep htis henis in nai tary qluarter's or be goes hungry. Whlat's the cockfight about ini the Amterican Poultty associatiotn? Is it the result of high leading, hIgh breed lng or high feeding? Is it a ease of swelled head, wid~ puff or high p~erchi ambition? There'll bo some pretty feathers nutlied soon. Wire to :ann for the peuce envoy. A poultryman in Maine has discov ee(d the crowlerm rooster. As Maine is prohibition. we sltould expect every. tl!fig t9 ho (lone on the quiet. Better ship those speak-eatry roosters to Wash ington. where neighbors are getting out injunctions against cocks crow ing In the carly inorn. This will in:.l:e peace. There's enough high perch, (-n. grossinl cock-a-doodleism inl Wad!h ington anyhow. By the loo S of things next spring will see niany new chicken enterprises launched. This will prevail every where. Our big incubator firms are shipping hatching machinery to all parts of the world. They are now batching with incubators lin Jerusalemti. aid our l'rooders tire enring for clileks that are descendants frot the cock that crew thrice. I'anama:, the land of mongrel stock. will eatch the yillow hen fever and Import fline eggs from the United Sates. If you join the fast InereaJing procession, we wish you good uc'k. WHERE TO BUY 'OULTRY AND EGGS P - . s h> coib Brown Leghorns. - 'in in, the South. Pir et Iin -: '.: P, .McCarty, Pick l ack .lire ..- TIh birds thIt h.v in iriter t-. Il;ch. d inl Februarv and 00mlimtlencek-d htioni. iM September ind ma, :iv-r-. 1In l, s, each, up to M.u. th;I. A ruw be tihttrs of eggs at $2 00 wer 15. Tley ine. fiim bards aind were von a high ait k b*% 3arshall Mr--. N1. F. Hester, I et 1 ,1 I-v: Itue Si'rvice. D ; ric:. ( f S..u'.h Carolina, Dea :uy CI!.- c'or's Oflice, t Pick,-n, S. C , Feb. 21. 1903. 'Not ice is I.ei (. by given that Owh fol low ng-dlescribed prolwrJety having been iized on tho 2-th day of February, 1908. iear Brown's )Iountain, in Pickiens omtity, S. '., for violation of Sections 242 and 3290, R. S. U. S., parties claim rig the sane must. file bond in the Col ector's office within thirty days of the late hereof, or the same will be forfeit d to the United States: One 1-horse N1agon, 1 innie, 1 set single harnets, 1 hot -gut, 2 r;fle-gun. - gallons corn vhtisk;y, seized from J. C. Wade. J(tIN P. SCRUGUS, feb2 Dep. Col. 3d Dis. S. C. Notice of Election Jflice of County Superintendent of Ed ucation of Pickenis County. Piekens. S. C., March 3d, 1908. Whereas, a petiti.n from the freehold ,rs and .lect os (if Johnson's school Estrict No. 10. hAs been filed with the lountv lHonrd of Education of Pickens .ounty asking t-aid Board for permission to holI an election in said Dietrictto de .rintai(e wherlisi or1 not two and one malf mills amhlit ional shall be levied on ;he above distriet. It appearing to the County Roard of Educatiioni that the' petitions meet the wiuire imintI of l,- law. Therefore, It is >rdered that tw tritees of the above immed dst.e-wt do hold an election on darch 2Sh at Jnhnttstt n's school house, or the aI.. staied pirpIose. 'Ihe trus ers shall hi.- mnagers and~ shall onidutl ihis *Ilect ion as all geteral elee !ins Litr' Ocanani~el- and strictly in~ iecordanceiL w"th I)seLction 1208 of the school Law. Ily order of County Bonrd of Edutca ion.i. Tr. HALLUM, Secretarv and Chairman. For Sale. 75 Acre(s Wioodl bmdI inl P~ickens co1uty Onl Ensta too crlecl, knIownI as Muir.. phree or Eindle Iy lanids. Will sellI forb 810. per' iere. First (come, fir'st ser'ved. J. J. FRET WELL, Ander~son, S. U. DtIAnIt.F-sTION & WESTERtN JA1ROLINA It A ILW.AY. *Iruit andt Ilirtuare of Trains, Green ville, 5. C. E.11.ct ive A prl 14, 1900, ;:3 ni t, Nii. IN ch uiy exceept Sundtay, for laiu JUniu reus 5:444 5 it |2:15 y mo. No. 533 dailye for E~nurens, ('initont Trini No. S3 I or Utithmond~, \vashttingtn W . t ris No5. 1 for $;ipautaug anid Iraint Nit 2 for (ireeniwoodi, Aiagustai, (ete. .\ rrive L~iarens I :35 pi m, Clinton i:n . Newbierry :t. 10 p. tm, Coliumbia -I:1 Siuimter 5:24' y mi. ?il4hetont 9:-10, sp'nt tan burg i. :30 p. mn, Greentwood 2:-lit p iiu, y ii Augustai 5'2 p. ma. S:.10 y m. No. 3I |ilyt except Sitadlay. for titau res atit intermsedhtst tions. ArrIve ati 10:21 a m, No.8$, diIly except Sun day' frmta Laurt i an i tite(rmetdiatlest91ats. o00 p m, Nii. 85, dily -x ceptl Sunadny, from LiiurenisastI int ermaetdtate stationtt. 1;m pttm, No. 52, dil y fromt Chlarleston Suminter, t'olumbin, Newhierry, Cl intonl, Spar ltahmtg, - AuguslaGreentwoodt Lautrenis.etc. Tra ins N O. 52 itid :53 rin i throuigh btweeu cn J. W. Ligion, Aglt. Geo. T1. ttryan, Geni. Ag:. GREE;I-N \' I LE~i, S. c. [I _ t I traind. T1rnf. Aati. Atwiustat ntt REAL 68' Now is the time t FARMS: 120 acres near Central; 30 in / cultivation, balance in timber; cl 15 acres in bottom. $ii.oo per acre. 2 w $i,ooo.oo. 16o acres; good V 5-room house and outbuildings; 5o acres in cultivation. 'I his $i place is known as the Parrott id place near Antioch church io ei miles of Pickens. 1 256 acres original timber land PI with good houses and good lY orchard; only 8 miles from Pickens; fine strong land. Go- V ing at $4.50 per acre. This is ni a bargain. pI Let us know your wants, and v Holder & 4at-M Real Estate a Pickens, S. Office over Picke 0 ~c EM. A. Finey b CI) ~ .ICI: P, 0 C Pla. inTlksy, i awll-know F.s containlyactua poslbaden tk byw toepat. e rats Mainiy famrcwlte thati orrto prduce orihinefo vsery gcancs possible asii atyie from sarve teir crop musthecoitaen in tat posiy e aeoii on r btilzrhe expeiencsso Myfarmers overneters stok a mchaouissn foody as teycnwposibe confirm ontemitke fat that tilzerThepeines e fni farersgoermes, neets, aules posilr ( iset teheayt where cnftirn ifthey fact tohbe developedlso eetmt is nt intheamount ofe blu in teraisqualt th cot. Virginia-Carolin Frtier ar tebeti the r ob deopd o the utost. money ecoomyiretiliern arne besn ine IFATC. o buy Bargains. TOWN LOTS: acre on-Main Street in Pick is. Price $400. lots in the town of Calhoun hich can be bought dirt cheap.. lithin stone's throw of depot. 100. New 4-room house; eal location in town of Pick is. Let us show you this. acres in good r'esidence )rtion near the college. On $6oo. le have also a few of those cc! lus lft on the Robinson ace. Desirable property. re will fill them. Taylor. .nd Stocks... Carolina. ns Drug Co. CCc: ;a Fetiizr 0 * C 01 U r Psil Yeld~ per. Ace ersl 01 tya; n vr noesgreaer. sold to Southern farm The best results in producing corn, the good old stand-by crop of the South, follow the application of 200 to 800 pounds of the right fertilizer. Virginia- Carolina Fertilizers will greatly "in crease your yields per acre" of corn or any other crop, even on poor land-and the most wvonderful rcsulta are produced through its use on good land. Write today to the nearest office of the Vir ginia-C arolina Chemical Com pany for a copy of their latest Year Book or Almanac,alarge/ 130-page book of the most valu able and unpre judiced informa-. .tion for planters and farmers. VIRIGTNTA-CAROLINA CIIEMICAL Co. Richmond, va. Durham, N. C. Norfolk, V a. g Charleston, s. C. Columbia, M. c, - Baltimoro Md., Atlanta, Ga. y ISavannah. Ga. Montgomery. Ala.