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Agricultural Value of Corn Stalks. When one our cornfields now with the blades stripped and the stalks left to rot, he cannot help marveling that tlie shredder >s not in more general use among our people. At one of our Expe ri mental otarioiit1 recently wiin a crop of forty bushel* per cent analysis of the difTerent parte o! the corn stalk proved that the relative values are as follows: Pounds. Parts of Plants. Per acre. Value But Is of stalks 1,31)5 $5,511 Tops of stalks 207 1.13 Bottom blades 357 1.27 Top blades 212 .82 Shucks and shanks 743 2 34 Tassel 75 .4(1 Total 2,979 $1101 Of course shredding cannot make all this material available for digestion, but it does save enough to convince anybody that the work means an enormous saving. There is no doubt that it pays.?Progressive Farmer. Pure Blood in Poultry Raising. TU. T : ? _ o. i T I t Aiitj xjivb oiuck journal nan persistently urged pure bred stock and the adoption of the improved breeds in poultry, as well as in cattle, horses, sheep and hogs.? The Canadian Farmers' Advocate, Loudou, Canada, has the following excellent article that explains the tolly of mixing the breeds, the merits of breediug some particular breed for the best results for e^gs or table poultry : "Not long ag > we entered a barnyard in which that well known type, the mongrel fowl, predominated. We asked the farmer the breeding ot the motley collection, and were told thai there was a touch of Rock, a little Black Spanish, some Crpington. and now he thought to improve the laying qualities of the llock by introducing a top cross of Leg horn blood. Talk about mixing drinks?that man had a mixture thero that would kill a poultryman's chances ol success at fort\ rods ! What did he hope to make from the combination ? In his own mind he thought he would produce a general purpose fowl ;| reany, lie was getting with each succeeding year a further cross between "no good" and "good for nothing." The value of pure blood in poultry depends on the ability of such atock to reproduce its kind along fixed liues of type and conformation, subject, of course, to such variations as take place along any line of breeding. Select birds that are pure-bred. If you waut chickens for market watch for the cockerel standing straight and firm on short legs set well apart and possessing a well-de veloped breast and a good long keel. A pure bred bird, having inherited this eonfoiniation from a long line of anor,.,rv, will, if he is of good sound constitution, tend to reproduce that type, but I from the mongrel eross bred we can hope for nothing but disappointment and failure. If the egg yield is the object of your desire, then it is important that, in addition to breed, you take particular care to secure a laying strain, in any breed there are families that have been bred with greater care than others, and there is frequently Department.? mere variation between different * strains of the same breed than 1 between the different breeds. ! Above all, in the selection of lay ^ ing stock, as in the production of 1 birds for market, fix in your I mind a definite object and go 1 straight for the mark, and remember that you are never likely to attain that object by the pro miecuous crossing of breeds, so common on many of our farms.? Live Stock Journal. 1 . - . I The World's Official Record, s 1,000 Pounds of Butter in One Year. The Guernsey cow, Yeksa Sunbeam 15439, owned by Mr. Fred Kietbrock, Athens, Wis., has completed the largest year's re cord of any cow in the world, made under public supervision, that of an Advanced Register and Agriculture Experiment Station. Years Kecor d?14920.8 lbs. milk ; 857,15 lbs. butter fat.equiv aleut to 1,000 lbs. butter. This record is not only a great credit to Mr. Rietbrock and his herd, but of estimable value to the interest of the Guernsey breed, as it shows in an undisputable manner the capability of a Guernsey cow and of special ( value in the development of the high record dairy breeds. This was made under the rules and regulations of The Advanced j Register of Guernsey Cattle and ' supervised by the Wisconsin Ex : periment Station. Adding one Uivtli i/\ t liii Ln H f u t t a nAitor oiavii vw i iiu uubtci 'inv iu v.u?c? the weight of salt and water ( found in butter in addition to the butterfat, we have 1,000 lbs. * of butter for the year's work ol 1 ihis cow. This is nearly three ' times the amount she was requir ' ed to produce to enter the Re i gister. Yeksa Sunbeam 15349 was tired by the late W. I). Richard son of Garden City, Minn. She was dropped April 2, 1895, mak ing her about nine and one halt years old when commencing her record. She calved Sept. 11, 1904, and was not in calf at the end of the year's record. Prof. Woll of the Wisconsin station at the completion of the year's record, wrote: i "1 am glad to learn that Yeksa Sunbeam will head your list as having the greatest ollicial year's , record. She certainly is a wonder fu! cow and had made a record that it w ill bo very dillicult to I beat. There ran he no doubt but that the rich and abundant pasturage in which Yeksa Sunbeam and the rest of the cows reveled in a large measure contributed to the tine showing they made, and especially to Yeksa Sunbeam's wonderful production. She has the capacity for large dairy pro duction strongly developed in her, but it would not have been brought to the perfection it reached but for the ideal condi tion as regards the system of feeding under which she was kept, and along with the feed the .....i 1 ??l. ~ l . . iti i^tu i nim rinci III IlieillUU 111 handling the cow during the entire year w?n doubtlesa of the greatest importance in bringing about the result that were reached. Mr. Kietbrock says: "Her average weight during the year has been about 1,150 Iba. Her ' beat work during the year has ' been made on pasturage, supple- , nented during the hot weather ind ily time, with soiling crop somposed of oatB and peas. For he size of the cow aud the imount of her production, I think he grain ration has been com j naratively small. She has al-1 ways had a good appetite for'a roughage, and, of course, has had 5 plenty of it."?Live Stock Jouru jjl Both Mistaken. An Irish merchant, who had I more money in his pocket than I liis appearance denoted, took a I seat in a tiist-class carriage. The I I u n i o r Christian Endeavor I World tells (lie story: A dandy fellow-passenger was I much annoyed at Pat's presence, 1 and missing his handkerchief, I taxed him with having picked l! his nocket. Alter recovering I his handkerchief, which he had put in his hut, ho made a lame apology, but Pit stopped him with the remark: "Make yourself easy, darlint; don't bother about the matter. You took me for a thafe; I took von for a gentleman. We were both ot us mistaken, that's all, me honey." Fifteen Cents Cotton. Is good for the pocket; tut it takes OUIt l)IS(X)V13ltY for that bad taste in Lhe luouth every morning, and that old weak back, and tired dull feeling when I \ou gel up. 'lli? only $1.00 liquid pre- u parntion sold with ?n absolute (HIAUAN- I I'HK with each bottle for all ltlood an ' >l,iu I iseases, Nervou?nness, l.iver and u Kidney Troubles. You run no lisU what- I ver in bming UUU NfcW UIKCOVEKY. I four druggist will sigu the guarantee 9 Sold by Crawford Bros. A Brooklyn Sunday school leaoher once had occasion lo catechise a new pupil whose ignorance ol his Testament would have been amusing had it not I been so apalling. One Sunday she asked the little fellow how many commandments there were. To her surprise, the lad ?nswtr^d, glibl/ eioug's "Ten, ma'am." "And now, Sammy," pleas, an'ly asked the teacher, "what would the result be it you should break one of them ?" "Then thore'd lie nine ! triumphantly answered the youngster.? Woman's Home Com panion. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Lancaster. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Charlotte I>rn<j Company Plaintiff, against, Walter S. Taylor Defendant To the Defendant above named : You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their offices, in the town of Lancaster. South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service* And if yon fail to answer the co i.plaint within tho t.mo aforesaid, the plaintitf mi tliis net ion will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. WILLIAMS A WILLIAMS Plaintiffs Attorneys, hated November IN, A 1). 1905. To the absent defendant, Walter S, Taylor: You will please t ike notice that tho complaint in this action was tiled in the office i?f the Clerk of the ourt of Common I' eas in Lancaster county on the 20th day of January, Iff <?. Dated January 20th, 1900, V 1LLIA.MS A WILLIAMS, Plaintiffs Attorneys. Jan. 23, 1900- Ow. Inh Wnrlf of il11 kinds (,one JUU II UI Iv at The News office. 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