The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 06, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
Agricultural
Good New Year Resolutions
For Any Farmer.
1 will have a money crop, but
I will not go wild over any one
taple.
] will as nearly as possible
keep an accurate account of my
receipts and my expenses.
1 will study the experiences of
r>ther farmers and the counsel of
agricultural scientists, and will
profit by their labors.
1 will give my children the best
educational advantages I can
afford, and I will try to make
that education bear directly on
their lite work.
1 will try to get ray neighbors
to start a movement- for better
roads, and will see that our pre
sent laws are more rigidly enforce
J.
if possible, 1 will organize
S'?rae kind of farmers'club at my
school house, so that the farmerp
and their families may meet
every two weeks for social and
intellectual improvement.
1 will co operate with my
brother farmerp as much as
possible in the-purchase of supplies
and in all other matters
which reward united action.
I will study the fertilizer oroblern,
and see if 1 cannot expend
my guano money more economically.
I will look into the matter of
improving my breeds of horses,
tattle, hogs and poultry, and cooperate
with my neighbors to
this end.
I will try to get the best mail
service possible lor our rural
districts.
I will see if the town nearest
me would not purchase certain
supplies which I can raise, and
pay me a larger prolit. than I get
from staple crops.
I will send for catalogues of
farm advertisers, and make better
tools and machinery do some
ot the work that would otherwise
require high priced labor.
Seeing that my health ih my
capital, 1 will look to its preservation
by living temperately and
according ta the common laws of
health and not by dosing with
patent nostrums whose ingredients
I know nothing of.
1 will encourage the study of
agriculture in the schools.
Besides trying to have the best
farm, I will try to have the hap
- piest home in the neighborhood,
nnd will try to get the help of
to- wife and children to this end
ertwill improve and beautify
buildings and grounds.
8 'I get the best books and
liifor my family to read.
Make a short vacation
,i|fe after the crops are
wtv
to lighten the house
.>11 as the farm wnrlr
implements and ap'"d
.
ind I will have the
lat , .
>ply as convenient as
red
and H no? j0j. slick tongued
;IU,8 persuade me into buying
^ Tl^es 1 do not need, or into
^ th.'ying two prices for those I do
need.
J will not be humbugged into
paying two prices for food for my
stock merely because it is put up
in gayly-colored packages and
boosted with high-sounding testiTnonials.
I will not waste money for
finery, but 1 will not help the
c>mio cartoonists by being
orish or careless in my dress.
Department.
I will visit my neighbor and i
try to make the community an ]
attractive social center. 1
I will put my brain as well as '
mv muscle into everything that I 1
do. <
Not only will 1 try to use the
moBt progreppive farming method?,
but I will hIro endeavor to i
interest my farm laborers in 1
better methods by having them
read good from literature.
1 will raise as many vegetables
in the garden as the family can
use, and thus save the buying of
high-priced groceries. <
I will take an interest in politics
and will try to get my party
to support the best men and the
best policies, and I will not abuse
those who difTer with me.
I will get as many of my
neighbors as I can to read the 1
farmers' bulletins and farm pa 1
pers po that they may co-operate
with me in bringing about better 1
fiii-mincr methods.
1 will avoid debt as 1 would a
pestilence.
I will investigate tiie profits
ray wife makes on poultry, and
see if the industry could not be
profitably extended.
I will try to keep plenty of
fruit, milk, and eggs, for family
use and will enlarge my orchard. 1
1 will encourage the planting 1
of llowers about the house,' and
every other reasonable effort to 1
make home beautiful.
As the farm's best crop, after 1
all, is its crop of strong, sturdy '
men, and pure, sweet women, 1 1
will do all I can, both by precept *
and example, to train my children
for useful, happy lives.
Lastly, I will not worry. If 1
an.t rv;1 ran be remedied, I will 1
remedy 11, iusi"c: no time in *or- '
rying; if it cannot be remedied, '
I will not make it doubtly 1
evil by worrying about it.?The
Progressive Farmer.
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Poultry Management. ,
i
The high price of poultry and
eggs should induce the farmer to j
provide better poultry houses
ami give more attention to poultry
on the farm as the farm conditions
give far better results
than the confines of restricted
quarters. <
Now we should cull our Hocks I
and select our best pullets for 1
layers and breeders.
"Pullets for profit should be 1
kept tame. Wild, scarey birds !
never amount to much, the egg j
crop depends upon the amount
of confidence and comfort, the i
hen, old or young, possesses.
Each must be active, made to
take all the exercise possible.
This advice has been given time
and again, and quite as frequently
neglected. The best exercise
is a search tor food. If allowed
o f -,w. ln.,,1
(\ i icq i (u.^; im ci ^noiuic ianut
they will get down to solid work.
But if compelled to yard them,
all the grain must be scattered
among some light litter, not a
full allowance of feed at one
time, but just sufficient to keep
them at work. A semi hungry
condition isthe best. Oar. owever,
must be taken that they
are not underfed, for that state
would be as bad aR one of over
feeding.
r._ i i l i. 1
ror i inure layers seieci oniy
the best developed birds and discard
the runts. We do not believe
in an egg type, but do pin
our faith to size, vigor and 1
health. Pullets when selected 1
for future work ehoulc! be yard
?d alone. No males should be
admitted until [ready for breeding,
which wiii hardiy be before
February or March. We believe
in full development first, and
prefer receiving no eggs at all
uutil the body has matured. We
believe, [in fact our experieuoe
has proved, that such birds make
our best and strongest winter
layers. No female should be
bred when under nine months of
age. When nearing the laying
stage, pulletH are apt. to overFatten,
and for this reason we do
not feed very much corn. A little
cracked corn daily is beneficial,
but it should not be more
than one third the meal.?Live
Stock Journal.
Dairy Notes.
Butter, if once allowed to
thoroughly cool, cannot be made
so thoroughly plastic as when
completed at its first finish.
Butter failing to come quickly
is often due to a difference in
temperature: using a good ther
mo meter will avoid much un
necessary trouble.
One advantage with the sepura
tor is, that it enables the dairyman
to secure more cream from
the milk and also more butter
from the cieam.
As "hay is made when the sun
shines," so is money increased to
that dairyman who managed so
that, his cows yield milk abund
untly when dairy prices are high.
Some dairymen seem to forget
that the amount of profit on a
pound of butter often depends as
much on reducing the cost of pro
iuction as in obtaining an en
tianced price.
VV Kan Q r* r\ rr? i r> 1 11 full m 1 1 Lr n ml
*? iicii n in in iiiii 111111% ctuvi
Full flesh, she will give her normal
quality of milk for at least a
limited time even though the
quality and quantity of food be
?ery deficient.
The work of making butter is
least when all the conditions for
making the butter are just right.
It is easier, therefore, to make
stood butter than bad because
liood butter is always produced
when conditions are just right.?
l^ive Stock Journal.
Winter Quarters For Hogs.
(Farm News )
You think of the hog as being
covered with a two or three-inch
layer of pure fat. You think of
that fat as being a poor conductor
of heat and cold, letting little
body heat escape and letting
little of the cold of the weather
fet at the real hog.
If you will stop to think you
remember that hogs are a hot
weather animal. All summer
they spend much time in the sun,
and in winter they pile up so as
4 i_ __ fin. r
to Keep warm, nicy came irom
the house or pen steaming in the
cold air of winter. They shiver
with the sudden chill. Somehow
that fat does not act as a non con
ductor. The hogs sweat in the
dead of winter as they pile up in
a cold place.
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it wwiijii HUM nuir rtt-oiii uu?
ble that it would require more
feed to keep hogs out in the cold
than it would in a warm place.
Experiment!! have ahown that
a saving of about 25 per cent in
the feed bill is made when hogs
are sheltered so they are comfort
able.
It is better for the hogs to be
warm all the time. They move
about more and take needed ex
ercise, and are less liable to catch
cold when they do not get up a
sweat, then go out in the cold to
feed.
A Slaugt
In view of the fact that wc
changes in our business on Ji
make some special prices t
following and compare with
2000 yards 10c Outing at 7 1
, r- r*AAA 1 /? .
Iing at dc ; zuuu yarns oc uuij
ette, all colors, 8 1-Cc ; nice 1
sale 50c ti e yard ; yd. wide T
wear guaranteed, 98c; 52 in*
per yard, for only 75c. We 1
Clothing and
to beat the band, but we ar
(previous records. $15.00 sui
suits, this sale 0.0 >; 10.00 sui
this sale 5.00 ; 5.00 suits, thi
ter price in Overcoats. Ever
advance in the leather marke
but we continue to sell
Shoes at 4
Should you need Undcnve;
weather, see ours. Wright's
best 50c knit Underwear 37c
22c. If your dollars are wor
making your purchases. _;?r ^
Funderburl*
5 cents will buy either 4 <
10 cents bottle Machine Oil,
a hundred other things we ca
1 Horses, Mu
^ Our Mr. Hood has just clos
^ loads of Mules and Horses
^ cars come here, one of horses
m of it, 00 head to arrive in
* wires they are the best we
ft Some closely matched team?
? that weigh from 1100 to 125(
0 portunity to buy brood mare
^ finish and family broke.
1 Buggies,
Two solid cars to arrive this
^ Wagons,
IHave just closed a deal f(
stacks of them on hand of all
four horse with regular or br
all. Those who do not feel a
^ vehicle can buy a second han
J second hand buggies, carriag
W we are going to sell regardles
f Come anc
ft for we are far ahead of ar
m tVio Miceioei
I ^ harness department. We mi
J ness and have no competitior
(==
s Gregory-Hood
iter Sale
; are going to make some
inuary 1st, we are going to
o cash buyers. Note the
what you've been paying :
L-2c ; 1000 yards 7 l-2c Out- *
ghams at 5c ; best Flannelme
of 75c waist Silks, this
affeta 75c yard, best grade,
L'li Broadcloth, worth $1.00
lave been selling
i Overcoats
^ 1a 1 wnnLr oil
C UCLC1 II111 ItU tv/ Mivtuv uu
its, this sale 11.00; 12.50
ts, this sale 7.50; 7.50 suits,
s sale 3.75. Same slaugh- J? ybody
knows there is an ... JU*
t of at least 25 per cent.,
Did Price
ir for the cold December
i Health Underwear S5c;
; good 35c knit Underwear
th saving, see us before
fours to serve, i
; Comp'y.
4
!akes good Laundry Soap,
8 balls Sewing Cotton, and r
.n't mention here. I
F. Co.
;ES! !'.
les, Mules! |
>ed another deal for six car ^
-180 head. Two of these ^
; and one of mules. Think ?
i few days, and Mr. Hood ?
have bought this season, a
; of extra fine mare mules W
) each. This is a grand op- J
s. Have some with extra ^
Buggies. I
week, all kinds and styles. ft
Wagons. 5
>r 100 more, and we have ft
1 sizes?one, two, three and ft
oad tire. Come One, come ft
ble or willing to buy a new ft
d, as we have at least 100 ^
es and wagons on hand that J *
>s of the price. Don't fail to W '
i See Us |
iy retail stock and vehicle ft
r>ni Por orMKnx M
|/|Vi i IT v> > 1VV1 I^IULfCI UUI
anufacture all of our har- J) l
as sell. J
Live Stock Co.
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