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M. JLgl i^UllUi ClL The Cotton Seed Products. An interesting little paper, "the Cotton Seed," shows the many products now being manufactured from cotton seed bv the Southern (Jotton Seed Oil Co., Atlanta, bra , utilizing the cotton seed of many mills all over the South. Cotton seed meal for stock food, fertilizers. Cotton seed oil, fr< m which soap and many other things are made, aud the hulls are made into mattresses. The South makes and sells cotton seed oil in competition with western hog lard and beef tallow ; cotton seed meal in competition irith western corn, bran and hay for feeding purposes; also cotton seed meal in competition with western packing house products for ammomates in commercial fertilizers. The commercial rivalry between the South and West is strong. One industrial army is marshalled under the snow-white banner of King Cotton, land the other iB arrayed under the bright red emblem of the slaughter pens.?Live Stock Journal. How to Get Rid of Mites and Hawks. In his lecture before the: students of the Agricultural De- j partment of the University of Missouri last week, T. E Orr,' ! secretary of the American Poultry Associatian, told methods of ?ombatiug mites and chicken hawks that might easily be used hi' <> IT n rir \f I oa n wi h Aimn i f .? v/> c * ci j iii irouuu uuuoc n c . Mites, he says, may be gotten rid of by spraying the chicken house with a mixture of one part crude carbobic acid and eight partscarbon oil. 1 his mixture he i recommends in preference to mite exterminators sold by trav eling agents. Hawks, he claims, may be j kepi out of the poultry yard by I attaching bright pieces of tin, six! by ten inches, to the trees and poles surrounding quarters, by i strings two feet long, so that the j wind will make the .bright metal < dance in the sunlight.?Live Stock Journal. As to The Value of Mules. .1. F. Cook. Union Stockyards, | Lexington, Ky., is convinced that' the mule as a class is a morel valuable animal than the horse I on the farm. He has observed! from reoeated exoerirrents fha' I three mules tifteen hands high constantly worked consume about as much forage as two ordinarysized horses; that the viciousuess and stubbornness of mules are developed by bad handling, and that they are truer pullers than the horse and are of better hear ing and vision. Discussing the raising of mules he says in the Kentucky Farmer and Breeder: "We lind the best colts we buy are out of mares with from one iourui 10 one-nan urait mood in Ihem, which draft blood given them the bone and weight, while the Kentucky blood gives them the style and finish. We think a colt which stands three feet five, inches to three feet six inches high, properly cared for when weaned at 53 to 55 inches, when fully developed will measure 15 3 to 10.1 hands high, and that makes them good enough for any market. vFor breeding mules we prefer jL/cpaiiment. a jack with large foot and heavy bone, with weight in proportion. 14 12 to 15 1 2 hand? high, a? they are more uniform than the larger jacks. "We keep plenty of fresh water in their trough and plenty of salt, sulphur and wood ashes in sep arate troughs iu the sheds. The majority of our small mule colts are brought up by Penn Isylvania buyers for $40 to $60 at I weaning time: the larger one?, i selling for $60 to $00, are bought j ! bv Keutucky buyers and kept for sugar mules. The small colts that j go to Pennsylvania are driven] through the country and peddled I out to the farmers by the pair. They find it very profitable to grow them until three or four years old aud sell to the miners. The mule is always ready for the market and finds a ready sale at I any age." As to feeding and taking care of mule colts,we feed them green corn cut in a cutting box until after frost, with old corn, usually four or five eats a day, good clover hay and sbeaf eats. We find that bran and chopped feed about twice a week are very good, as such ration keeps the bowels in good condition. We think bedding is very essentia), either straw or corn fodder. We U n r* a f/M? ?-wl AAen f f. rl / ] n r u rnr ua > C IUUUU tui 11 nmuci ? ? ui j l good bedding. Once ? week we sprinkle airslaked lime, not too heavily, on the bedding to prevent the mules having sore feet. Apostrophe to the Hog. (Moro, La., Observer.) You will never know the trouble and pleasure ot life until you raise hogs. They are a bother and a vexation to the spirit of man while they live, but bring joy and contentment to the soul of man w hen they die at hog-killing time. The American hog, however, is the dad blamest, split hoofed, long-mouted busybody anim il we ever saw. He can make a fellow madder than 1 .. _ 1 4 I. _ 4 i C - - 4 ? 4 t any uuier animai ma< lmeMHtne premises. He will always squeal airl muddy your punts when he knows you are trying to feed him. He will get in your garden through a knot hole and destroy enonuh produce in three minutes to lee 1 your wile and children lor three months. He will pay no attention to a wide pen gate where you want him to go through, but will shovel out several cubic yards of dirt to make a hole into a place you don't want him to go He is the biggest nuisance and most profitable on the larm. Reflections of a Bachelor. There is a lot more fun run1 ning into debt than crawling out. A woman ia awful proud ef I her husband when he gets in a lawsuit. A woman hardly ever haa to tell a fib twice to make heraelf believe it. Most men would rather have a measily political job and starve to death than to get a living by work. The way the devil getamen to drink more than their familliea want them to ia by telling them it ia the way to prove their independence.?New York lJre8B. ? AAvaV" |j age. It i? said that "Ttxas will plant in "1906 a larger acreage i ill cotton than "ever before " I For several years the cotton crop of that Sta'e averaged ! about 3,000,000 bales a year,but in 1905 it did nor aceregate more than about 2,400,000 bales, il It is expected that Texas will J grow this year 4,000,000 bales, I or more than the yield ol 'hejl entire World outside of 'hell United Scat's. I: i* e-Hma'ed I that if all the available cotton I 1 <n !> in Texas should be put nn- I der cultivation i: w> ul ' be prac- I ticab'e lor that Stare to grow jl from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 I bales ot cotton a year, or about I twice the number of b-les to I supply the wants of the raauu- II fac'unng world. The point of most interest toil the cotton planters of the South I generally, and to the cotton plan- ' I j ters of South Carolina, in whom ll j we have a particularly friendly j | interest, is that Texas will pro duce this year a millon and a half bales of cotton more than it produced last year. In pitching his crops tor 1906 the prudent South Carolina farmer will reduce his cotton acreage at least 33 per cent if he wishes to get anything like a fair price f<>r the s'ap'e next fall. What our farmers ought to do is to make this year the 1 truest provision crops they have ever made. If they grow cotton largely, their condition at the end of the crop year will be far worse than at any previous time in the _ last decade. The world can take only 60 much cotton, and the | planters ought to have learned | by this time that a large crop means a small price for the sta pie.?News and Courier. Gems of Thought. Love runs over but it never plops over. It takes more than diplomacy to defeat the devil. People who beat about the bush net none of the berries. Only a crooked heart will jusJ tify its acts by twisted texts. The only way to lighten your labor is to find something to love in it. Many a pessimist as to humanity finds his premises in his own heart. When a man brags of a good deed it is because he knows so few of them. When God wants a man to come in ahead He frequently gives him a handicap. It takes more than brotherly manner to make up for lack of business method in religion. Little Splinters. (Philadelphia Telegraph) Ootfee grounds?Brazil. The man that won't bend usually goes broke. The higher your hopes the so -ikt they topple over. Many people take lime by the lorelock, only to find it baldheaded. Thfl NflWO I)oes Job|Printing I 111C nUHO for others. Why [can't we do yours? ? ? ? ? ? ?j| TO THE *TRADING ' PUBLIC! 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