The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 24, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
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
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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.
TWO Rood Second -hand tttovt-H for mile. I
Apjdy ttt The News Ohiee.
TO THE
PUBLIC!
?MM?? IBIBII?lima?I'll III I Ml?II?I ^
If you want to SAVE
your money during the
present month,
Don't Spend <
A Nickle
till you get our prices on
Clothing, Shoes, Overcoats,
odd Pants, Ladies'
Jackets and a hundred
other things.
We have odds and ends
in all these that we are
going to close regardless
the price. a
With best wishes to our
patrons generally,
\
Funderburk Comp'y. ^
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Kcisliaw Oil Mill j
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