The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 19, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
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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*
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Seasonable Implements fr> which
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Olds GasolinjrEngines.
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with good oil liniment. That's
the surerft way to stop them.
^The best rubbing liniment is
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Good for/he Armenia of *
Horses, M61es, Cattle, Etc.
Qood fdr your own\A ches.
Pains, Rlleumatism, Sprains,
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25c. 50c/$l. At all Dealers.
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! HOTEL MAN WOUNDED.
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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.
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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.?
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l/OOK TO BETTERMENT
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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."
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ders of babies MpOKE'S BABY ;
s KLIXIIt is a remedy of genuine
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' wholesome and pleasant to take.
1 Trice 25c and 50c per bottle. Sold
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of money oa i bonded cotton laraa i
ia Uarailnr rtmy ia aaaaa of 1300. I
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