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t VAIilABLK INFORMATION RELATIVE Tl> SYKl'P MAKING Many Points of Information in t'oii-J' ncction With Making Syrup Which Should he tif Interest to the Farmers. Grinding?If horse power is abundant ou the farms, there is no serious objection to its use. If the teams, however, can be used in the field, it is far better that the grinding be performed by gasoline or steam engine. Abundance of power should be provided, and at least a three-roller mill be used. The two-i roller mill is too extravagant in Itsj waste of juice. Where power is available, a mill with horizontal rol-, 3ers has many advantages of economy over the upright mill. Straining the Juice?The first process toward making first-class syrup is to free the cane juice as largely as possible from refuse, coloring matter and other foreign materials. For' common farm practice, the use of chemicals for this purpose is never j advisable; careful mechanical straining should be depended upon. The! most effective, simple and economi-j cal material for straining is found in ; the common Spanish or black moss | growing on trees nearly everywhere that cane is cultivated. Either moss which has been naturally weathered miry be used or the fresh gray moss hanging from trees may be freed of its outer gray covering by being j 'boiled for two or three minutes. Thorough washing reduces it to the form of the black wiry mattress j moss, ready for use as a cane juice1 strainer. This moss should be packed as compactly as possible into a half barrel or a long, square box set on end under the outlet of the mill. The juice should be allowed to run through the moss and be drawn from the bottom through pipe' sufficient moss to fill the tub or box twice should be provided, and after each day's run the moss used should be thoroughly washed and sunned for a day before being used again. The juice is thus freed of most of its xoreign matter so* mat skimming is reduced to a minimum and the resulting syrup is light and clear in color, with the finest of flavor. Evaporation?The best evaporator is one in which the syrup is not exposed to the direct action of tire, i This means evaporation by steam heat, either applied by means of a steam coil in the bottom of the evaporator or a double-bottomed pan. In any case, the best results are obtained from absolute separation of the fresh juice from the nearly finished syrup by the two separate pans or by a fixed partition in the middle of the evaporator. With the continuous action evaporator, it is almost impossible to avoid finished syrup from mixing with the unskimmed juice. Skimming should always be done before the juice begins to boil. At this stage a green "scum" forms a heavy thick blanket i on top of the juice and can be removed in a single sheet by means of a board or board flat wooden paddle i like a snow shovel. If care is exerci <1 at this stage of the process, lot* little later skimming will be neces- i sary. If for any reason there is difticlty in bringing the impurities to 'ice, the sprinkling of a teaspoonful of baking soda into me evaporator will cause the impurities to rise. If there is danuer of the i syrup boiling over at the top of the . evaporator this may be prevented oy nibbing the rim with a piece of fat uavoii. , j Thickness of Syrup?Syrup should always bo made of a fixed and even thickness. The greatest drawback in the marketing of syrup is its con-, stantlv varying thickness. To over-, come this disadvantage some definite in'1 accurate means should be adopt- ' ed for invariably bringing the syrup 1 to a difinite thickness. This is best 1 . accomplished by the use of the sac-'' charometer, which can be obtained 1 from most wholesale druggists, at a cost of about 7 5 cents. With the use ' of such an instrument, the syup should be boiled to 33 or 35 degrees. '' T'or all practical purposes, however, a very simple device will accomplish 1 the desired object. Prepare a round ' smooth stick of very light wood, 1 slightly smaller in diameter than a ' lead pencil and about fifteen inches,' long. Weight one end with a sur-j1 rounding strip of lead as boys weight * arrow heads. Use lead enough so s that when the stick is dropped into the syrup it will stand upright in- : ntead of floating. Take any clear ! glass bottle and fill with syrup which has first been allowed to cool so that the maker is satisfied that it is just|1 of the thickness he desires. Then,; -when the syrup is again heated to!' boiling point, drop the weighted stick into the bottle of hot syrup and , let it settle until it floats quietly on end without touching bottom. Put a notch at the point marked by the yruu oh .the atlck. In use, teat ev TB ery repeated run of syrup until this stick sinks to the notch. Each rut) . of syrup is then of exactly the same density or thickness as the original ? sample uSed in marking the stick. Sugaring and Souring?These are two of the most serious disadvantages with which the syrup maker has to contend. Syrup may easily be prevented from sugaring by grinding * the cane with two or three more green joints than usual.. If this precaution is not sufficient, a positive prevention is secured by dropping from four to eight drops of concentrated sulphuric acid into each gallon of hot syrup when drawn off. This is a positive prevention of surgaring, without interfering with the quality of the product. There is no satisfactory means for prevention of souring except by herniitically sealing in receptacles which have pre t iuuoij uccu nicuiiicu ?v uu an'um or " boiling water. Tin cans are by far the prefreable package for market ' purposes, but for home or neighbor- ^ hood consumption, bottles or jugs 1 may be satisfactorily used. Syrup made by these simple, practical directions is of such quality and dependable character that there is no dilliculty in hnding market at , profitable prices. < "CAVE M IN" DIES BY 1 POLICEMAN'S SHOT | Memphis, Tonn., Sept. 9.?Police ' declare that when "Wild Bill' Latu- 1 ra was sh.ot to death by Patrolman ' John C. Lyons the last real Memphis "bad man" bit the dust. He had , killed seven persons during the 30 years of his life. Once he killed four , negroes within five minutes in a sa-j , loon. Here is Wild Bill's record: i < 1900?Dave S. Wright, killed with t baseball bat. | 1 1907?Albert Hunt, wounded withi shotgun. 1908?Henry Mitchell, negro porter, wounded with pistol. 1909?Killed Bob Carter, Charlie ^ Miller, Clarence Allen, Lesie Wll-: liams, all negroes; wounded Birdie, Hines, Richard Slott and Robert, Spect all negroes. 1910?Fatally wounded unknown negro woman. 1911?Wounded Sallie James, negro woman, with' knife. | a 1913?Killed 'Alabama Tom," ne- i5 gro. I Latura was known as the "Cave i s Man of the Memphis Jungles." He 0 was "Boss" in the underworld dis-? trict and although he had the blood of many whites and blacks on his i hands he spent only a few weeks in v jail. He was too valuable to the reigning politicians to De kept in s jail. He was needed in every elec- p I & tion and he did valiant work. His j reward was to cut and kill, rob and sell liquor in defiance of the law. j c But during the last 12 months the ij "law and order" element of Mem-; s phis has gained the upper hand. Two a judges, three mayors, a sheriff and some minor officials have been ousted B for failure to enforce the laws. The law enforcement squad finally react# ed I,atura's dive, where he sold j, whiskey and gambled. He warned e young Lyons, the nervy patrolman, t lo "leave iue alone or take what k ihem niggers got." The patrolman was persistent. Latlira started to ilraw a pistol. The patrolman lired Aounding tne "Cave Man." Wild itill. wounded, dashed toward an automobile. He was felled by another -hot In the automobile for which he was racing was found I wo automatir pistols, a Winchester ritle and several rounds of ammunition. S1?.\IN .NIIST CHOOSK. Now Standing at Crilieiil Point in ( aroer. Paris, Sept. 12.?Spain must de-ide in favor of one or other of the groups ot Deuigcrents in the opinion r>f Antonio Maura, former premier ?jnd leader of the Conservative party,I according to news dispatches from Madrid quoting an address delivered >y Sen or Maura. The address was delivered at Her? mga near itilboa at a meeting at-, i ?' ended l>y 6,uu0 Mauristns. The for-,, tier premier declared, according to he dispatches, that Spain could not thandon her neutrality but that the tl conditions of war made her isolation tl Tenceforth Impossible. He is quoted; w ?s saying that it was moreover esicntial that France and England w should not be hostile towards Spain., The Madrid dispatch predicts that fenor Maura's speech will cause a ^ <trong impression, as his prestige lr was never so high as at present.. The n.ajority of his followers are sup- b posed to be pro-German. s< Lax-Fos, A Mild. Eftactlvs Laxstlvd I LJvsr Tonic " Do?s Not Grip* nor Disturb thi Stomach, j 5< la addition to other proper^ ts, Lax-Poo T< contains Cascara in accepa >le form, a p stimulating Laxative and Ten c. Lax-Pos acts effectively and does tic t gripe nor disturb stomach. At the safcietime, it aids digestion, arouses the livuar 1 secretions p' and restores the healthy functions. SOc, c* % I b IE LANCASTER NEWSTU: SOUR MILK FOR ( The difficulty o>f buying meat scraps. Mood nieaJ. meat meal or other animal food in South Caroliuo should not worry any poiqpryman in our state, rhree experiment stations have tested sour milk or buttermilk and found A equal, if not superior, to auimal food >f any kind. The Missouri Experiment Station ti&fl Juet published the results of their tests, and these tend to show that sour milk is better than meat scraps lm svery way. Seventy-five pullets were used in :he experiment. Twer*ty-flve were fed ill the sour milk they osuld drink in iddltion to a mixture .of two parts whole corn and one part wheat soatter?d in the litter, and a dry mash of wheat bran, middlings and cornmeal 'ed in a hopper. The second lot of twentv-flvo pullets lid not receive sour milk to drink, but j ,n place of it they were given meat ; x-.raps in the masn and the same whole j rrain. The third lot received only the j IPheet b??n. middlings and corn meal lry mash, and the whole corn and wheat in the titter. The cost of feeding each hen was 1 M.06 for the milk lot. $1.02t? for the meal scraps lot. and $0.95 V4 cents w nc waiii nor milk let. 'I^ie CAROLINA SOILS CAN I BE KEPT EROM WASHING Vorn Out Soils Can Be Built Up and Enriched By Use of More Leguminous Crops Clemson College. S. C. Old worn out soils can be rebuilt, n<l IXXxllX t i Vt> snilx l-MX !>? mulo nwira roductive by the fall planting ol numinous cover crops. Never ore In South Caiolina has there bees uch interest in this question as la hown now. and never was interest lore timely. Vetch, crimson and hurr clovers can e grown anyw iere in the state, proided always that they have proper reatment. On thin clay soils, and all andy soils, at least 200 pounds of 16 er cent, acid phosphate should he pplied. and on the sandy soils an aditlonal application of potash, if it is vailable. would greatly beaelt the rop. At least 1000 pounds of burnt me. or a ton of ground limestone hould be applied if the soil is quite cid. If the soil is not already inocuited, this may he accomplished by etting soil fr.om a field in whjch the artlcular'legume that is to be planted as grown well, and sprinkling this oil on and immediately harrowing it i the new field. 1'nless it is harrowd into the soil of the new field the tocteiia which it* contains will be illed by the sun. f f . < v: < ;i * ' > K ' V , '? if! # Crimson Clover like this all over outh Carolina would mean thousands f dollars of conserved and Inoreased 1 srtility. Clovers make their growth In late i ill. winter and early spring, affording 1 le soil the covering and protection lat Is so badly needed to keep it from ^ i ashing and to keep the fertility from caching out. They will grow on any ( rell drained soil that has been prepar- ! < 1 for them Numbers of cases are I n record where the following crop ' f cotton or corn was doubled by the 1 rowln-f of clover on the land and turn- | ig It under. I I Sow between the first of Septemer and the middle of October. Crim- i >n clover is sown at the rate of 20 | r>unds to the acre; burr olovet at the . | ite of 15 pounds of cleaned seed or ' 1 pounds of seed In the burr: and etch at the rate of 30 to 40 pounds er acre. ? 1 To build up the dairy herd, uae a tirebred bull and save the best helfar i ilvee. I EgDAY, SEPT. 19, 1916. IHICKEN FEEDING | number of egga laid per hen was 131 for the milk lot, 107 for the meat lot, and 55 for the no meat nor milk lot. The cost of producing a dozen eggs was 10 cents for the milk lot, 1214 cents for the meat lot, and 2214 oenta for the no meat nor milk lot. The profit per hen In dollars was $1.13 for the milk lot. $0.79 for the meat lot, and there was a loss of four cents a hen on the no meat nor milk lot. These are significant result* directly applicable to Southern poultrymen. They relieve us of the worry over not being able to buy the animal foods that are so popular for poultry feeding in the North. Give your chickens all the sour milk or buttermilk they can drink and change your flock from an unprofitable to a money-making investment. Feed them the dry mash used by the Missouri Experiment Station or the Clem son Egg Mash and scatter whole grain in pine or wheat straw, leaves or other litter each morning and evening. By doing this with 25 pullets Missouri increased the nnmber of eggs laid from 137.1 to 3275. and made a profit of 128.26 as compared with a $1 .00 loss on 25 similar pullets that simply did not have sour milk to drink, but were fed and housed the same. HOW TO USE STRAW AND SHOCK CORN FEED Beef Cattle May Be Kept Over Winter By Feeding Rough and Rich Foods Mixed Clcmson College.?Beef cattle may be kept over the winter in fair shape by feeding rough foods mixed with rich foods; and, in the spring they will be in condition to put on good grains trom pasture. Straw and shock corn can be used In South Carolina in this way. so don't allow the straw to become damaged, and plan to use tfce shocked corn. The following rations are suggested for wintering breeding cows: Ration 1: Lbs. Straw 10 Silage 20 Cottonseed meal or linse 1 meal IVi Ration 2: Lbs. ou a w 2U Cottonseed cake or oil cake 2 Ration 3: Lbs. Straw 10 Shock corn 10 Cottonseed meal 1 Cattle bought In the fall and kept over winter in this way might cost; lees than would have to be paid for them In the spring, and the farmer would have more manure to put on hia crops. ' SOUTH CAROLINA MOVES UP Food Crops in This State Have Increased in Value $27,000,000 During the Past Five Yearn. In the census year, more than twothirds of the total crop values In South Carolina were produced by cotton alone, and her bill fcr Imported food supplies was $95,000,000. The same year her cotton and ootton seed were worth $96.380.000?or Juet a little more than her pantry and term eupply bill.. For long years the state has been ' buying staple food supplies with ootton money; but In 1910 the per eapita' farm wealth of her country population was only $337. against $995 In the Unl-, ted States, $829 In Oklahoma and '3,539 In lewa. both of which are food producing states, with surpluses to market abroad. A Twenty-Seven Million Increase. Rut last year was epoch-making in South Carolina. Recent reports of the Federal Agricultural Department show that the state has gained $5,574,000 In livestock and $21,848 000 in food crops since the census year?-a total gain of $27,000,000 In five years. On January 1, 1916. the farmers ownaA 11 rtrtrt ~ 11 . .. . .,?w iiioi n iniii 11 iowii ni?i Dinar rattle than In 1910, nearly 20.000 mora homes and mules, and 252,000 mora swine. The six-year Increases In food crops were as follows: hay and forag* 99.000 tons or F>4 per rent; potatoes. 2.000.000 bushels or 51 per rent; oats, 4,229,000 bushels or 74 per cent; corn. 14.686.000 bushels or 70 per rent; wheat, 2,119,000 bushels or 682 per rent. It Is a great record. South Carotin* has gone a long way towards establishing a self-feeding farm system. Of course .there were other agencies at work, but Clemson College feels 'hat she has a right to claim * part In brlngtng about these changes. Help tight the rattle tick and tot's get him out of the stste. SKKK INJUNCTION TO I'ROTKCT MEN OPERATING CAR> Subway and Elevated Service Normal and Other I Anew Better. New York, Sept. 12.?Union labor leader:* of national and State prominence were called into New York's transit situation today with the announcement by local strike organizers that within 24 hours a conference would be held here, the outcome of which might be a 24-hour tie-up of all the city's industries employing men affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. A telegram was sent to Samuel Gompers, president of the latter organization, who is on vacation in Maine, asking him to hurry here, and the Central Federated Union announced after an all-night m eting, that a committee had been empowered to call a general sympathetic strike in all trades if such action was considered necessary to help the employees of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and New York itauways vompany 10 win men fight for annulment of the so-callt-d "master and servant" contracts binding th emen not to ask wage incieases for two years. Meanwhile, it was announced or behalf of the Inlerborough that anplications would be made to tht courts for injunctions to restrain labor leaders from interfering with men operating the subway, surface and elevated lines. Police reports indicated that underground and elevated service wa normal today and that the situatior on the surface lines- affected hat considerably improved. Union lead ers claimed on the other hand taal the surface roads were madly af fected. Disorders of a minor charicie continued throughout the day anc there were 18 arrests. FKJURKS DON'T LIE, PAT. An Irishman was working for i Dutchman and wanted a raise Ir wages. The Dutchman said: "Pat if you are worth it I will give it tt you, but listen, Pat. You know there are 365 days in the year.' Pat said "Yep." "Now you sieei eight hours each day, that equals 121 days you sleep. Figures don't lie Pat. Take that off of 365 days ant you have 243 days. "Now, Pat, you have eight hour: for vacation and devotion," "Yep" said Pat. "That equals 122 days Now take that off of 243 days, ant you will have 121 days left. Thei there are 52 Sundays in the year You must take that off. for you don' work on Sundays, and that leave you 69 days. "You know that I always give yoi fourteen days vacation each year.' j"Yep" said Pat. "That leaves 5i days. Now, Pat there are 52 Satur day half holidays in the year. Yot know that you don't work Saturday afternoon." . "Yep" said Pat. "Tha makes 26 days. Now take that off that leaves 29 days. Now, Pat, yoi have one hour and a half for meali each day." "Yep" said Pat. "Tha equals 28 days. Now you must tak? that off. That leaves one day, ant figures don't lie, Pat. "Now, Pat, you know I always giv< yo uevery year St. Patrick's Day off Now, Pat, I want to ask you, do yoi think you are worth a raise?" Pat said: "What the hell have been doln gall this time?" Aircraft Raided Railways. London, Sept. 15.?British nava aircraft raided railways and troo] concentrations within the Bulgarlai lines of communication beyond Ka vala between August 25 and Augus 31, according to a report issued bj the Admiralty tonight. Conaiderabh damage, the reports states, was dom to the railways, rolling stock petro and other depots and troops concen tratlons at Berk, Drama, Okjilar, Ka vala, Perna and Angista. 1 The Implement Co. 1M2 Main St . - Richmond V. Offer the Best and Most Improved Farm Implements and Farm Machinery. Seasonable Implements fr> which we call special attention are Papeck Ensilage/Cutters. Williams PokaMe Corn Meal and Fde/Mill. Olds GasolinjrEngines. Farmers FaVbrite Grain Drills. NonpMriel Lime and FertUtzenSowers. Special circulars Wiving full information w regarJto the advantages and uses of th&e implements mailed on request, me can also supply y/ur needs in y Cane Mills. Evaporators, Watts Cylinder Power Corn Shelters, Wood-Sawi. Roofing. Wire Fencing, etc. Write for ?'atat<>e an<1 prices of any Implement* or Farm iuppllea required. RUB OUT PAIN' with good oil liniment. That's the surerft way to stop them. ^The best rubbing liniment is MUSTANG LINIMENT Good for/he Armenia of * Horses, M61es, Cattle, Etc. Qood fdr your own\A ches. Pains, Rlleumatism, Sprains, CtAs, Burns, Etc. 25c. 50c/$l. At all Dealers. : ! HOTEL MAN WOUNDED. i A. A. Gates Shot Through Shoulder at Greenville. Greenville, Sept. 12.?A. A. Gates, proprietor of the Hotel Alexander i and a well known hotel man of this section, was shot through the right shoulder and painfully wounded about 9 o'clock this morning by 11 Charles Ward, who has been em | ployed in a local near beer dis'jtrlbuting station. Ward was a I roomer at the lurtel and insisted on i carrying his dog up to his room. Mr. J; Gates told him he couldn't take the dog up and after a few words Ward -1drew a pistol and fired. The shoot |ing took place in the hotel lobby in 11 the presence of Mrs. Gates and -a few I guests. Mr. Gates will probata/ re cover, physicians say. t j When you yawn a good deal In the daytime, feel dull, achey and t want to stretch frequently, it is an | unmistakable symptom of malaria, and unless you do something at once you are booked for/ a spell of chills. HERBINE is a/chill medl1 cine that will prevenl/or cure the 1 disease. It drives ou? the lmpuri ties on which the miliaria germ }. thrives, strengthens the liver and cleanses the bowels. Price 50c. ; Sold by all dealers In medicine.? ); Adv. > l/OOK TO BETTERMENT | J Berlin, Sept. 12 (Wireless).?No .'peace will he made by Germany which will not place her in a better j 'position than she occupied before the j; war, declared King Ludwig of Bavaria in a speech inaugurating the new t palace of Justice at Nuremberg, as 3 quoted by the Overseas News agency. "We do not know how long the j war will go on." said the king in his address, "but we know to a certain, ty that we shall make no peace which . lowers, us, but only such a peace as _ 1 VL' i 1 1 trivo lU O hot tor nnui t inn than ota y had before." t ~7?~ For the stomach and bowel dlsor? ders of babies MpOKE'S BABY ; s KLIXIIt is a remedy of genuine t merit. It acts quickly, Is pure. ' wholesome and pleasant to take. 1 Trice 25c and 50c per bottle. Sold by all dealers in medicine.?Adv. J 1 i 1 -f j Circulars i r> Have you something yoa i want to tell the people about? Tell it to them ' IN A CIRCULAR. Let ? ua FIX IT UP for you. 9 i ^=====^= We'll Guarantee I ! \ Immediate Results ? MONEY TO LOAN \ I i I am bow pAoarrid tt>|aeftotiatr loaaa | of money oa i bonded cotton laraa i ia Uarailnr rtmy ia aaaaa of 1300. I aad ay ward* at <\orr or at iatrrrat, I repayable in'aaitabV iaatallmrata,ia I period* of liar. arret or torn yeara. I K. E. 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