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VSST. av\ B ill H d U v 0 FARMERS' I'M OX U 0 (K 0?0_()_0?0? 0 -0?0-0-0?0 To the Officers and Members of the Farmers' Union: Discussion the country over is rag ibg around the subject of rural cred its. At the outset I want to say I have made some investigation of the matter, that I believe a modified sys tem of rural credits feasible in Amer ica, that I am convinced the time has come for ACTION* and not merely TALK, and that rural credits may be used to stem the tendency toward landlordism which I know to be one THIS IS T1 of the can that Hold users arc slow to rei strength of this coff< required compared The cover continual saves half the col far. Its qualit You'll say, "It's tw ran a if sb HER OW ft f ? M With C JkXt ICE j of the gravest menaces facing this nation. 1 There is little use for p\e to dwell ; upon the various plans offered where j by some system of rural credits can i be made effectual. It is only essen ; tial to say that the Raiffeisen and oth *er plans have been followed in Ger j many and other old-world countries I with signal success for more than a century. It is possible, under one of I these plans, for a number of farmers I in a given community to become mut- 1 ually responsible for loans extended j to their respective members. It is al so possible for rural credits to be ma terialized by constituting the land it self the basis of loans?and that plan is meritorious and economically HIE COVER If Luzianne. New ilize the extraordinary se?how little of it it with other coffees, ly reminds them that fee bill?goes twice y speaks for ? itself, ice as good" trove'its popularity; oves its goodness. - *\ ity; 1 ess. Accept i no substitute, r V 3R CO.>New Orleui lid m m N COMEE F? Driginal Supp B - i SEATS sound for the simple reason that in the last analysis the soil is the source of all wealth. The International Institute of Ag I riculture in Koine, under the direc tion of David Lubin, has made thorouglrfnquiry into all these plans and if any American farmer desires detailed information Mr. Lubin will be glad to furnish it. I want to stress right now to every farmer in this country who is talking excitedly about "plans" and who thinks that all that is necessary to succeed with rural credits or any thing else is to find "plans"?that there are plans galore. What is need ed right now is Men bold enough and with sufficient initiative in every com munity to curry tiiese plans into ex ecution, and to do it in the face of discouragement, difficulties und sac rifice of time and health, if that is necessary. It is just as well, therefore, to stop worrying so much about "plans" and think more about how we are going to find the men to execute the plans, not just for one week but right on to the end of the chapter. It is necessary to remember, how ever, that Germany is a country of thickly settled, small communities and that the plans which have proved ' - * i ,,!Ur. aavisaoie mere muy nave iu uu un.v* j ed to take into account separation of I agricultural units in America. This process resolves itself, however, into a matter of detail and the main por tion of the task is, as I have stated, the locating and training of the men to carry into effect any system of rural credits that may be devised, whether under governmental or pri vate supervision. How, to the second feature; that of landlordism in America. I believe that a perfect system of rural credits can do much to overcome or at least lessen this evil. If you doubt that it i exists I only ask that you investigate in your own neighborhood as to the number of men who own their farms, and as to the number of acres, wild or cultivated, owned by an absentee landlord. After all is said, it remains that America is a land the prosperity and progress of which are founded on ag riculture. If we allow to form in this country a class of controlling land | iwners, and a corresponding class 01 tenants subject to these landlords, we create a system that is the direct op posite of Democratic government and that will eventually lead to a condi tion of land monopoly beside which the problems of the so-called high cost of living and other muchly-agi uted issues will dwindle to insignifi cance. I was astonished when, in con versation recently with Professor E. C. Branson, of Athens, Ga., he gave meflgures relating to Georgia alone of absentee ownership which are almost incredible. Had not the figures been based on conditions of which I am I personally aware, I would have doubt ed them. Unless it is checked, ownership of the land by a few in each community is going to strangle individual initia tive and collective prosperity in America. If every farmer, every M'hn rsatis these lines and /illici iv.au, *? who is genuinely concerned for his individual welfare and that of the country will deliberately study tliepe conditions I have outlined, he will bo convinced as to the need and the duty of securing leaders who will material ize rural credits or any other sound, proven agency that will prove a reme dy for the drift toward landlordism. Finally, don't fret so eternally about the Plans. The men to execute them i DAINTY IN )Y SUCCE lorting Comps ?5, 50, NOW S constitute the real problem?the men ! and the spirit ol' cooperation in every . community. Charles S. Barrett. Unitn City, Ga., Sov. 5th, 1!?12. ' Conkey's Stock Remedies are not l'oods, but medicine?a. separate rem edy lor each disease?made by the same people that make Conkey's Poultry Remedies. Sold on a money Lack guarantee by The McMurray i Drug Co. 1 SCIENCE OF BREEDING DETTElt CHICKENS | The science of breeding better ani I mals is becoming better understood kit a ranid rate. It was necessarily slow at lirst, as only time was able to prove the correctness of scientific de ductions. In a recent number of the "Farm Journal" it was stated that 9u per cent, of the trotters and pac ers that raced in 1910 were descend ants of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, and that the other 1U per cent, had prob abiy some infusion of his blood. Rysdyk's Hambletonian at his best was not very fast as we consider fast these days, his best record being about 2.48. In two generations his des cendants are 1743 trotters and 232 racers. It is needless to add "that this wonderful horse was a "gold mine" to his owner. The comparatively new science of Eugenics, which may be called the science of breeding better men, is throwing a Hood of light on this great question of heredity. From the great number of statistics that have been carefully gathered and are being rap idly augumented by trained observers, it becomes more and more apparent that heredity plays an enormous part in the mental and physical character istics of offspring. It is easy to breed an inferior quality but a very slow and tedious undertaking to improve on common stock. Like tends to be got like, but the ofl'spring is not iden tical with each other or with either of parents. Here the law of variabil ity comes in which makes it possible for improvement to take place. Even when we get the variation we desire by a process of selection it is not at all certain that the variation we have secured is sufficiently strong to transmit these valuable qualities on to succeeding generations. This gives us some idea of the great value of proven blood lines and forever knocks into a cocked hat the idea that a horse is a horse, a cow a cow, and a chicken a chicken. Inorn thflf SC!en 11IIC UVWUKi a suun .. v..v.. blood will tell and when we see them shelling out hard earned dollars for prize stock, hundreds of dollars for a single chicken it may be, they are not merely gratifying a whim, but are making a legitimate investment that will pay bigger dividends than any other kind. Horses like Rysdyk's Hambletonian j.re extremely rare, and bo are chicken: that have this marked quality of breeding better than themselves. The man that has spent much time and money selecting and perfecting a strain of chickens that will breed true to color and other desirable qualities :s not only entitled to a good price for his product, but is in a position to command high prices for a superior ai tide. A cockerel may look fine, have all rim fine points necessary to win priz es and still be only an ordinary breed er, if he is not of an established strain, but not. one in millions that is off in these desirable qualities will produce prize winning descendants. ' 51 SS IN F01 my and Prod 75, $: ELLING We must select those that come nearest to the standard, and if we are lucky enough to find one of those rare fellows that transmits his good quali ties we should be loathe to part with ! him at any price. In fact, it is hard 1 to put a value on a bird of this kind.; If you want to breed fine chickens Viv hiivincr , J U U Udll IIU v ui OUV/UVCU tJJ a?g somebody's cull stock at a small j price. Start with a few good ones and | you may soon have a large flock that i you will be proud of and other peo-! pie will desire them, affording a ready sale at good profit. A3 the same laws hold true regarding the breeding of chickens as other animals, man in cluded, I want to present a few facts on this important subject, heredity, and see if I can not make it so plain j and impressive as to dispel all doubts | in your minds as it has in my own. j This subject it seems to me, is the ! one, of all subjects, a farmer should be familiar with, as it applies not only to his livestock of all kinds, but also holds good in the vegetable king dom as well as man himself. Men do not gather grapes from thorns, nor figs from thistles now any 1 more than they did when it was first j "Horort nnri tiip sonner Southern far mers awake to these scientific facts j and learn to breed their stock and | plants only from the best, they will ! begin to ^ome into their own God-; given rights, that have been laying i idle at their very doors, unnoticed : since the world began, while men have bewailed their hard lot and! "cussed" the politicians for not bring-1 ing good times. In describing the facts of hereditary j resemblances between successive gen erations, two formulas are available: | The first, deals only with the individ-j ual?the mendclian formula: The: second deals with the group?the sta- j tistical formula. The Mendclian formula regards each individual separately and de-1 scribes its heredity thus. The Statistical formula regards the j whole group as a unit and considers ; the individual as only one of the j crowd. As the Memlelian is of the greatest,1 importance on account of its more ex act character, a short description will be given. One of tlie simpliest illustrations is the one given by Bateson and is as follows: The Andalusian fowl is of two colors, white and black. Each j breeds true to itself, black mated with , white producing white. Crossing black and white, however, results in the production of a grayish color, which is really a fine mixture of white and black. This is what would be naturally ex- 1 pected and would lead us to believe ! we had a gray hybrid strain from the! mixture of white and black. Xot so; | or if we continue to breed succes sive generations from these hybrid! wis we get three different ooioreu ; forms. Some will be grey like pa rents, some black like one grandpa- j rent and some white like the other; "rrnndparent. Not only this, but we jet certain definite proportions among; these classes of descendants. Of the j total number approximately one-half will be gray like parents and one-1 quarter black and one-quarter white j like each of the grandparents. Now comes the most important; fact of all. These blacks bred to-:, gether produce only blacks,the whites similarly only white?the gray on the otber hand produce progeny sorting; in 1 o the same three original classes and in the same proportion as the; first hybrids. No race of hybrid character can be OffS th (JR ACTS /If c uctiou 1, $1.5< established; grays always producing ' white and black as well as gray, i while any of the white or black will breed true to color. Don't fail to see my line of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, etc. livery tiling brand j new. J. >V. Itykard. SALE OF REAL ESTATE By authority conferred in and by power of attorney of the heirs and distributees of Monroe Beauford, de i =oll at nnhlir. nutcrv at lcuocu, x ii wi dvu wt ? Abbeville C. H., Monday, the 2nd day of December next, being Salesday, the real estate of said deceased, ot a tract of land known as tract Number 1, con taining 101 acres, more or less, bounded by lands J. T. Thornton, David Ward law, Rosenberg and Company. Also that tract of land known as tract Number 2, containing 121 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of J. T. Thornton, L. A. Ramey, Rosen berg & Company and Mrs. Edwards. Terms Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. J. A. Beauford, Administrator. Mr. Poultryman: If you are not get holp them along by feeding Conkey's help them along by feeding Conkley's Laying Tonic. The McMurray Drug Co. FLAGGED TRAIN WITH SHIRT. Tearing nis snirt irom ma uaun. an Ohio man flagged a train and saved it from a wreck, but H. T. Alston. Raleigh, N\ C. once prevented a wreck with Electric Bitters. "I was in a terrible plight when I began to use them," he writes, "my stomach, head, back and kidneys were all badly af fected and my liver was in b.id con dition, but four bottles of Electric Bit ters made me feel like a new man." A trial will convince you of their match less merit for any stomach, liver or kidney trouble. Price 50c at P. B. Speed's and McMurray Drug Co. (Advertisement) $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there ia at least ono dreaded disease that sc.enee has been able to cure in all Us eU.jes, and that ia Catarrh. llnll's Catarr!! Cure is 'tie oniy positive cure r.jw known la the medical fraternity. Catarrh bc-ia.< a constitutional disease, requires a con:?Utu(ional treat ment. Hall's Catr.rrh Cure i.j ta!:en in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surraces < f t'.;.-! system, thero by destroying r.e founditim cf the dis ease. n-.d e'vlr.g t!:e patient strensth by huSUiinj up t' o constitution ar. 1 assisting nature in doing i.-s wer!:. Ti.e pr prietors have no r.-;!*.h f-ti'h in i'i rurativ* pow ers t! "t IV.cy o':Vr Op > Hundred Dollars f: r cvje t' r.t ff fills to cure. Send f.:r ' ~t rf tc:;(i;no:iir,l.r A l !: ? ? J. ("i.'.'.l ; * CO., Toledo, Ohio. SjH f'v r'.l Prwr-i::'T"-. TaUe llall's family i."i'.t i f :r constipation. - -T a??? James Frank Glinkscales, Attorney and Counsellor at LaH Ahbkvjlle, s. r. Offiep?First floor Oily Hall. Legal Blanks for Sale. The Press and Banner r 99 BIDDYS Ml CACKLING SOUNDS LIKE MONtTJINOllMO I EGGS MEAN MONEY Do not force, bat energize to the highest paint of profit. CONKEVS LAYING TONIC promote* actWlty and aaalmUatlon of egg' making material?th? wholi becbit or EOO-L4TTHO. Money back It It don't pleaae. Price* 25c, 60o and tt. Aak for Oonkc/'a Book on Poultry. Fax* FOR SALE BY THE McMURRAY DRUG CO. WORDS FROM NOME Statements That May Be Investigated. TtstimoD} of Abbeville Citizens. When an Abbevillfr citizen comes to the front, telling hi9 friends and neigh bors of his experience, you can rely on his sincerity. The statements of peo _t_ M1 ^ft I.. far aayov hlgnpf) llfj nnt pjo ICBlUIIJg JU 10. " " V.J r command your confidence. Home en dorsement is the kiud that backs Doan's Kidney Pills. Such testimony is convincing. Investigation (troves it true. Below is a statement of an Abbeville resident. No stronger proof of merit can be had. H. C. Strickland, blacksmith, Tan yard St., Abbeville, S. C\, tays : "I suffered from pains in my back and the passages of the kidney etcretions were irregular. Doan's Kiduey Pills, which I got at P. B. Speed's Drug Store, brought me relief and I am therefore, pleated to lecommend them." If your back aches?if your kidneys bother you, dou't simply ash for a kid ney remedy?ask distinctly for Doan's Kidney Pills, the same that Mr. Strirkiand had?the remedy backed by home testimony. 50c all stores. Foster-Milburn Co.," Props., BuUalo, N. Y. Land for Sale! One of the most desirable tracts of land in the Up-coun try; lies about six miles frcm Troy, S. C., and coitiins 350 acres; has five gocd settle ments with all recessary out houses. One hundred acres of place is in virgin forest, possi bly the best body of timber in the State. lies well, is well watered and has a fine pasture wire fence. This place would be cheap at $25 per acre. I offer it for $7,500. Cao give terms. ROBT. S. LINK. I I I i I