The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, March 17, 1906, Image 2
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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,'
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secretary of the American Poultry
Associatian, told methods of
?ombatiug mites and chicken
hawks that might easily be used
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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
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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
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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.
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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|
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in all these that we are
going to close regardless
the price.
With best wishes to our
patrons generally,
Funderburk Comp'y. I
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