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* SI ' PAGE EIGHT .ECONOMIC HOG T"3" 3ave Your PRODUCTION! ~ Clemson jl Plant Grazing Crops and Feed ?XLVi"ad Heavily at All Times. of nuu the Clemsou College.?"The market hog 1 1 ,c hat sees his first birthday usually 8 ,tntt Ju - .... .... . ripen. l*r? loses money tor the owner. Hub ? . ) statement is made l?y L>. W. Williams, w^lj|, " ' livestock specialist of the Extension VV 18 Service, iu discussing profitable hog | 8 rU* '*'* 1 production in South Carolina. This ,!*, 1 ?n ri) ' means that the hog must go to the V" < laughter at eight to ten motnhs of 111 age. weighing two hundred pounds. su ur' 1 Here a This is not an unusual weight for . hogs at eight months. Recently one (tuV'sor?< feeder averaged over two hundred ou ''']' . 'V twelve head at five months. To make , v " profits from hogs it is necessary to ' H x . , n , . * . commercial feed heavy at ail times. A starving . . . . been used process is a losing one in growing hogs. to The hog raiser's problem, therefore. 1 r * is "How can 1 make the most hog. in ' eonf the least time at the lowest cost?" 1'lcnty of feed provided ahead of time "i's . ! la the solution. Pirs farrowed in Jan ; , , ,. . i . - ,, . i.i. . of the folli uary and February should be roadv , v- . ' mixture to for the October and November marJkets. ."V, . "n,J Start now and provide the feeds ? ?^s' that will he needed this fall. We can- J ' ^ not compete with the corn belt fanner t,l s' " raising hogs in a dry lot on corn and ia>; ( u (MK purchased supplementary feeds such '' 11 ' ur 1 as shorts and tankage. While these w-'ter tos , are always necessary to make the best s' ' ,n* |n ( m i . the sink ng gams, we must use forage crops just as much as possible. With the wide 'VY* "'gini use of forage crops cheaper pork can x OT1f >(>' be produced in South Carolina than in P?m,< s ? the corn belt. ,y- a,,,"n* Re sure to plant some supplement- P*1 rt of t le ary feed crop with your corn Cow nr '"ruing peas, soy beans, and velvet beans all '_in^ '"nw furnish good grazing for hogs. In '* ,(> the fall let the hogs do the harvest- exorcise "" ig and you will find but very little Pnrt or tin wasted. Let the hogs you are going dry. Fnoui to market gather most of the feed; 'n so then when it gets so scarce that they enough to t must cover a great deal of ground In hoillng lias getting enough to eat. remove them enough wat and let sows and smaller pigs finish t,!" "lix'un cleaning up the field. ,rrr' A small patch of sweet potatoes will three week furnish much succulent feed, which !,TU' nc"1>'1 ; with a grain ration will make very '",,r weeks satisfactory gains. ripen. Every farmer, whether or not he raise hogs, should have some alfalfa. | Tt p.avs handsomely where if is grown. As a forage crop for hogs it Easy Contr is unexcelled. It is questionable whether it is advisahle to plant very many peanuts for nson hogs this fall, says Mr. Williams. m"sl wi e? While hogs make very cheap and eas' ? sm* enrs on ? rapid gains on this crop, the carcasses . ' arc greatly discriminated against on nats an' the market. Soft drippy pork is not un s aro desirable. South Carolina is now I onp r,>,lu< producing hogs that sell to better ad i In * 118 a vantage than those from other South I an' 'n s"'" ern States, because these hogs kill 1 ",s ,ti0 hard as a rule. It is to our advantage | "* l"',%,>nt to continue marketing a superior nrod- i r(*a,m<'nL uct which sells well toward the top of | ' ' " '' J*'a the market rather than to pot a rep- .s (,1M vtntion for soft hoes and take a rut W1,( 1 ?r<iw in price which is often three or four ' ? p 141,1 cents per pound. a 0,,t 1 Hops will he marketed this fall in n,t P'*n,s 1 carload lots from practically every ? f"nt: county. Aim to provide a few surplus P'an,s with bops for these shipments to help es- SPr'",|s dan tablish a hop market in this state Re !n ure to kill enouph to assure your rr'ntr''"*s ii borne snnplv of meat; then market ,in'1 ""s the surplus. In the future of diversi- ^rn'ns 8^o Ued farminp in South rarollna the sont> mass hop is one of the most proinisinp fae- As tors. thpy nrp Sf r parts of th< STEM-ENP POT OF WATER MEI.ON. j inp opera ti spores rem Clemson Pollepe This d'sease is planted in comparatively new, hut it causes a Seed for serious loss of melons in transit saved from There was a loss of 2.HOP carloads of r,' pPr ,.OIlt melons shipped from the southeast raSe t era states last siiUiraer. <lu?* entirely ; Even if n to this disease. It is seldom f und in | sm?ts and the field and the shipper is often as near it fh tonished 'hat 40 to 00 per rent of hi* ' jn far( ^ melons rotted in tr- nsit. when at the ' ni?nf js so time of shinninp they are apparently no renson in pood condition planted sh< The stem-end rot funpiis is common on ripe or dyine vegetation in and there around melon fields. especially on mnnitv wtv cotton and corn stalks and old melon f lj] rompa vine Those become covered with black fruiting bodies of the fungus in 8?r^ a pr, which countless spores are borne and from which they are scattered by the wind When a melon is cut from the t?EN'lLE vine. a drop of san exudes from the SOI cut stem and provides ideal conditions for infection. The knives and hands | of workmen are often carriers of in-! ^||-s h?|jv fection, and thus perfectly healthy melons may become diseased. Factor i Keeping Up the White Houm. President Wilson has been extremely conservative in allowing expend!- ! tores for the White House since he Mrs. Sal has occupied It, and not a dollar has cently at 1 been expended, particularly sinee the declaration of war, that could posalbly be avoided. Last year, however, i Prom nen the wails in the state parlors were re- 'ina ()f papered, but the same design of wall sa'd: paper was kept In all of the rooms i "She wa The handsome patriotic design of the 1 Carolina w blue field and stars, which was re- late Mrs. I stored In HMKl, and which has been so potent fact popular, still graces the walls of the without th< blue chambers. The rugs were re- amen(|meni nlniuH l.t, nuar oihilo ? . . ' . . ' . , . tir>n. She curtains or lace were hunp under the heavy draperies. All the furniture (,"v- Faylo has been renpholntered in the same * ''ron^ pattern. These small renovations have eeasor of ( flven to the first floor at the Whit? States sen; House a vary attractive appearance. ahe was i * ? . ; THE I rN ROT IN a RUIT. Peaches and Plums From Iff Destructive Disease. I College.?Brown rot of plum is one of th*. most and destructive diseases it we have to contend with uses the entire crop is dest as tiie fruit begins to ictically every orchard in iliua is infected with it and widespread and very de-. t is at the same time easy according to Director H. of the South Carolina Ex- j Station, by spraying with re numerous commercial lime-sullur on the market of these have been tested experimenters and found satisfactory. The ordinary" lime-sulfur solution has I at the rite of one eighty parts of water success. This mixture rol brown rot. Soineever. and under certain of temperature and humid* roys a certain percentage ?ge. The safest and best use is the home-made self ?-sulfur mixture, made as ,'se 8 Ttis. of fresh quick ttis. of sulfur (flour )to f?n ter. Make this up hv nlac ht pounds of fresh limp in tirrel and add just enough ike it. An exress of water rown the lime and retards process. As soon as the ? to crumble apart and a ling is set up add eight sulfur and stir in thorough- III enough water to keep any I I mixture from becoming dry ||| Keep this well stirred III the boiling to continue for III lutes. Special care should III d .at this time to keep any 111 e mixture fron- becoming I;' ch water should be added. V11 that the paste is thin III >e easily stirred After the III continued 5 to 10 minutes III or sholud he added to cool III ! should he sprayed two to 111 s after the shucks drop, jll it inferva's of from two to I until tho frpit h? gins to | j OAT SMUT III ol Measures Prevent Great J ^ j Loss. | ! | . ?\/ i( in inn I, i pread and destructive dis I . | >11 grain It frequently oc serious disease wherever >wn if proper control mensit prac ticed. This disease es the production of oats te l>y at least 10 per cent, n fields there are losses as per cent, which can easily ed by inexpensive seed says J. I,. Seal. Extension nt pathologist. ase is caused hv a fungus s within the the tissues of The spores germinate same time that the young rnmo up and the filaments us remain alive in the oat out apparently causing any 1 age until the plants hegin the spring. It then con i* ruiiris in rue o;n neafls ^ the place* where the uld form with the black, es of its spores masse* of spores br?ak rip, altered by the wind to all > field Many of them lodge heads of oafs In the field, s are infested in the threshon ; hot in both eases the ain alive on the grain until the fall. planting should not he holds that show over 2 to VVV of smutted heads, and in he seed should he treated field is practically frre of there are smutty fields e seed should he treated 1840 to 1850 in ' e material for seed treat- j ni?rr,ed hor cousin inexpensive that there is , . . , . . . . Tnvlor. and lived ?n whv all grain seed to he . , . . , . , the eventful period mid not he treated before ' or ite war and toe Is a neighbor in your rum " ' has I'vnd. o treated his oat seed last ered to the end re your field w'?h his and nominated as presii e is not money saved hv < ,,f the state in sented as 'the Sou in Without prejur! WOMAN OF THE who represented t LTTH PASSES AWAY (arri<,d fo Washing of the family when elected to congress I'' |v T:;vllir Win: Putoot nvlraor/lln.ire ... ... . . ^ was taken to visit ? ii tile Mist >r \ of South saw Mndytno Celesti ( uro'inu. thrilled hv the actli fu! Ellen Tree, and the Husslan amha ly F. B. Taylor died re- , ? .... . ' * . mess at the Old I her home In Columbia.' where she Klniores ae of the moat gifted nnd; I'restona lived, she women of South Caro- I the table talk of 1 her, the Columbia State sueh oerasional V I Mr. Webster and > s one of the few of South ; father twice refused omen of the type of the haaaador to the cot joulsa J. McCord. who offered him by his ora in the state's hiatory. I'olk. p passage of an act or the "After the occi t of the federal constltu- Sumter she visited was the granddaughter of arriving at Peters! r. and the daughter of o'clock in the mo din H. Elmore the suc-l asked, while waitir Calhoun in the United'to play a march < tte. From 1835 to 184" thereabout and th< n Washington and from played Kosslni's ,ANtASTER NEWS, LANCASTER. S. < |> 1 1 -A Standing, sitting are the first esse and that elusivt A LL women wish to be well; but all w \ r /A do not appreciate the vital impor d. JLof correct corsctry as an csscnt yV' pood health. The well-known mi authority, Alice S. Cutler, M.D., wan & "As a physician who knows that if it ^ not for ill-fitting and the wrong kii V corsets we would have very few fema " GOSSAlli The Originaf-Uih have attained their unquestioned super by assisting nature to perfect cxprcssioi Every Gossard is hygienical1 y correct, erly fitted to the figure for which i designed it will give scientific suppc abdominal and back muscles, with no c of undue pressure at the waistline; the c of nutrition will be free from prcssun erect posture which is induced will cncc deep breathing and the diaphragmatic Gossards arc priced at $2.-*? ^2. Lancaster D "THE BEST PU i ^ Charleston. She anil sang 'Maryland, My Mf Col. Thomas which was received with wild this city dur ok slasm. It was due to her tl of the Conf ?d- historical volumes, 'South ( onst ruction, and Women in the Confederacy, honored and rev- prepared and published. In Mrs. Taylor was ing paragraph of an addr lent of the IT. I), titled, 'Deeds of Southern 1K!V?, being pre- Should Live,' Mrs Taylor sal th Carolina wo- you not see the womanhooi lice or partiality, came down the years fr he whole state.' threshold of colonial man ton with the rest cabin daughters following Col. Elmore was ers until the Confederate In 18.H5, she en- were massed: the outcome advantages. She sturdy experience, reflnenif ?!rs. Madis n and character which had been a ? dance, and v.as t? till southern nationalit; ig of the beautl- pressed into those women wl by the ball given precipitated upon the dilei ssador At the I860?" Capital building ^ Pickens and * + + + + + + + + + + + 4 frequently heard ?. NORTH LANCAST1 Vlr Calhoun and /hig visitors as 1r Clay. Her Lancaster, S. C., R. F I). I the post of am- 15.-?It has rained all day tod irt of St. James, creeks are high, over the friend. President everywhere. We have only .pation of Fort abnut lhr"" day8 ,n three wot'. the seat of war This Is slow progress Cotto burg, Va., at 3 to a stand and getting gras rnlng She was l? is not suitable for saving ig for the train all. The crimson clover was >n an old piano in the other rain. We wal n to sing She better weather for alfalfa 1 Cujus Anin.um' ed Saturday and we started r? - v and walking corn intials to good he i charm we call \ omen valids, I am naturally determined t< tancc thing in my power to educate the ial to woman in the proper fitting of cors cdical learned physicians now recognize t is us: corset as a hygicnically healthfu were and one that is often the best me; id of viding corrective 6upport for m? le in- ailments." ID> CORSE! quailed Front Lacing Corsets iority clcs become strong with use. A 1. corseted will have the undeniable health and that grace of body, Prop- Cuing, or walking, which is best t was jn the one word, style. >rt to hance Wc unreservedly recommend Goss; irgans as the complete expression of model e; the Our highly specialized corset servi >urape tained with a full appreciation of tl mus- needs of the modern, active woma 7S S3.00 553.50 554.00 25 00 555 so kpartment i ICE TO SHOP AFTER ALL." ?: # I iryland' j ting Now it is surely wot. Gal enthu-| dons are pood whore they have bee tat two kept worked. Hups are about t 'arolina eat the potatoes. The rains was were off the poison before the hups at a elos- killed Oats will soon be ready t ess en- cut. They are pood too. Women Mrs. J. Royd Cralp has improve d. 'Car for the last few days and is now u 1 as it a part of the time, om the | Miss lone f'raip from Iiethan; or and ratue and stayed a few days wit moth- her Expected to stay longer, lit women cousin, Hessie Plaxco, died siu of the denly and she went to her funera snt and Mr Lathan Robinson went with he iccruina ^jr aruj %trH- j{ \\' Oraeber an y was M'ss Annette Craig, of RIshopvRI to were Hp^nt the week-end with Mr an mma of \trs. J E. Craip. Mr. Oraeber 1 ik? /gl= ? lit AtYoui ay. The hot tome We have put on a two-1 plowed are now preparer! to do y k? now. house furniture or anythin m la up You can reach us any t ?sy too. ! ??_____ :t EVANS 6 It clear to cut ^*1 '** ... ' 1 1 FRIDAY, MAY 16. 1919. % f r-j his new hold of work fine he says, n He is putting out a good many p'ga o among the young folks. Wo need h a man badly to take up his work in e this county. <* We are proud of the confidence doctors, druggists and the public. (' have in tttiti Chill and Fever Tonic. ; ?Adv. | NOTICF. OF IHSCIIAKGK. y' Notice is hereby given that the unto dersigned wi.l, as administrator of ?r the estate of T. M. Nelson, deceased, j on the 16th day of June. 1 ! 19, make his final return as such administrator and apply to the Probate Court r of Lancaster county for letters dis1(i missary. J C. NELSON. Admr.. Estate of said deceased. I <! May 16. lit 19. 1 ?? 58-41. ? ltavr. == j| r Service on truck for dray service and , our heavy hauling, moving of g to he moved, ime?Phone 207. fc WILSON zZ =|g? and more res rS J tlj ialth style o do every: American ?X> ,ets. Most he modern ^yr il garment ans of promy bodily ft) ? T rs woman 60 beauty of , standing, ; expressed ard Corsets rn corsctry. ce is mainhe exacting n.