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11 FOUR u fi News for A WAY TO KEEP SPARERIBS. Do you have too much sparerib and backbones at butchering time It is often the case when more thai one hog is killed. The problem o disposing of them without waste o having to eat them all nrst, is some H times perplexing. Put them in a keg containing K' brine maue of ten pounds of sal H&' and four gallons of water and le B them stay. They will keep for sev *$ral months. To use, soak the piec - es in boiling water to remove th< salt and you will find the flavor ha; B not been spoiled. This method i . recommended by T. Z. Atkeson, for merly agent for Suwanee County B Florida. He says the parts shoul< K not be salted down because then B is so little meat on them they ar< B almost sure to be over-salted.?Th< Progressive Farmer. DOG TAX LAWS: RIGHT AND WRONG KIND! "If you will agitate for a gooc t'?: big tax on dogs, a friend writes, "1 am sure you can help us in our ef \ fort to raise sheep." We do not believe much progress i will ever be made with an plan tc tax dogs and put the tax in the general public treasury. Much the wisi, est and justest plan, in our opinion, ! is one providing that dogs shall be * taxed at certain rates and these k dog taxes then set apart in a special t fund and used for repaying any man whose sheep are killed by dogs, v It will not help a man very much, nor encourage him greatly in sheep i.v raising, just to know that taxes I were paid on the dog that killed his sheep. But it will help him a great | deal if he knows that in case he I' loses sheep, he can get enough tax I money to replace the lost animals. & Along with this plan, of course, t provision should also be made (1) for killing immediately any dog ? known to have killed a sheep, and ^2) for levying on the . owner an extra tax or surtax amounting to J probably five times the normal tax p; ' on a dog. [. Instead of agitating for a general tax to go into state or county treasury and which might or might not encourage sheep-raising, why do not advocates of a dog tax unite in be[/ . half of some such plan as we have I here outlined? If they will, we be. lieve they can make progress.?The f Progressive Farmer. "LET WE "FORGET." Visit your school this month. Of course you have housed and painted all your farm implements! Get your account books in time & ; )to start the new year's business like a business man. Will you let Christmas find you f. with some harvest work still un done? We hope not. x If wheat is top-dressed with manure it will help bring it through the winter. This will pay in view of the assurance of high prices next year. Order lime now. It is as effective applied in fall or winter as in spring and if ordered at the last moment manufacturers may not be able to supply it. v The farmer who builds and fits up his repair shop now can get a lot of repair work off his hands during the ..winter, while it is too high to work outside. r > rw XT /\TtT in n AIA/V J /ll Ann fine id a &v/v;u time \aj txcau wit briers and bushes out of the pasture (?). Because of neglect in this matter, many of our Southern pastures are simply fakes. It's none too soon to begin checking up on this year's business sc that any mistakes you have made ir marketing, fertilizing, etc., may b< corrected next year. Start in time. Every Southern stockman shoulc ask his Senator or Congressman fo: a free copy of a 615-page book 01 "Diseases of the Horse." It will b< invaluable to any farmer who raisei horses or mules. A fountain pen and a number o: nncfnl oro omnrl fViincc tn hftVl ^/UOb C*i VU1 UO Ui. v gvvu vtMiigw vv MWX handy. In this way you will writ friends, relatives or advertiser while matters are fresh in you mind and not run the risk of for getting. In almost every Southern field ii the hill country one can find stump or bowlders that make it impossibl to employ deep tillage machines o power machinery. Wherever field *5 ' " ! 1 11 1 ... II i I J1 I ? the Farmer are in this condition, one can do no better work than to remove these s obstructions this winter. ? Every farmer ought to order his n winter reading matter right away f | now that the long evenings that ' * 11 * s Ano'o r snouia De useu m uaicaomg ? - fund of knowledge are here. Include a good magazine for Mrs. Farmer a and something especially for the t girls and the boys. t Hogs must have comfortable quar ters in order to make the best possi ble gains. Give them a well-roofed s sleeping place on a raised dirt floor, s protected from cold winds?being s sure to provide plenty of litter.? . The Progressive Farmer. 9 * 1 THE BEST SEED POTATOES * More than 25 years ago I insisted, i from the results of my experiments in North Carolina ,that the second crop of Irish potatoes was far bet, ter for seed the following spring * than potatoes from the North. The j northern experiment stations in gen ^ eral disragreed with me. I started what was to be a series of experiments in conjunction with the Cornell Station, New York, and the Maine Station. Thev were to send * j me early potatoes grown in their grounds, which I was to plant in North Carolina, and from them grow a second crop the same season. Some of these were to be sent to I the Northern stations and they were to send me more of their seed potatoes, and so on for a series of years. We progressed as far as the second season, when I had planted some of my second crop seed alongside the Northern seed sent down that spring. The growth of the second crop seed was. so much more vigorous than the Northern seed that I had a photo made of two adjoining rows. When the crop was made I took the contents of 15 hills of my second crop seed and 15 hills of the Northern seed and piled them side by side and photographed them. There was not a potato in the crop from the Northern seed that would have been a culling in mine. My Northern correspondents stopmn ?ia mAvo pcu nguy tucic auu l/ mw "V *?v* V of their potatoes. The results were proving all that I claimed. But there was still some inclination to doubt the superiorly of the late crop grown in the south, and it was suggested that it might do for one season, but it would be necessary to go North for seed at least every third year. More recent experiments II ?" AY. I rCMITINC ULHU111L III To The F 5 = ! 5E I IS 1 -1 Sjj Can be derived from II or her favorite Maga; ill have made sp : i II take Jour subscription || . ]I will club them for y ' II ; jj ferent addresses. Oi 1 1 obtainable here or els ' i Call in and let u 3 1 ii f II you. ! I! si ? l| Respei Ii II McMurray Di .1 I TiiiiiiniiiiiMiiMiiitiiniiiiiitiiiiiuiMimiimiiiNiiniittiiitintiMiiiiiitmNimiinitiMintHiiiiiiiHHiiiiiitu made in North Carolina full; bear | out the fact that the home grown I seed will make the best crop. Western H growers about Louisville, Kentucky, I were offering what they called second c*op seed, and on inquiry I found that these potatoes were a late corp grown from seed of the prtrious season which had been kept in cold storage, I insisted that the name second crop was only applicable to potatoes grown from the early crop of the same season, but that I had no doubt that the late crop from cold I storaee seed would be just as good j In fact the Louisville growers claim that they are better. The main thing is to get a late maturing crop, a crop dug in late November and early December, which can be kept till planting time in February without sprouting. This is the great difference between the Northern seed potatoes and the late crop in the ! south. The Northern cro;p is dug earlier, and being more perfectly mature, will sprout more or less in j the cellar in winter. These sprouts j are of course rubbed off before ship ping them. This carries off tne terminal bud of the shoot from the ey.e and the potato grows with a cluster of lateral shoots, while the late crop Southern seed grow with the strong terminal bud, anc'l anyone who is familiar with the Irish potato crop can easily tell the difference in yield, without digging, of a plan? growing with a strong single steirf and one with a cluster of stems. A few days ago I had a letter from 1 ? n xt?w a grower III iUUIlUlUUUl WILUigr, mn Jersey, the greatest potato-growing section oji the northern Atlantic Coast. He said that he is intending to invest largely in Southern second crop seed for another season. Last spring he bought some in Richmond Virginia, and found them worth double the Maine seed potatoes; in short, that the second crop seed made 100 barrels an acre while the Maine seed made 50 barrels. And I was told years ago that the second crop seed might show well for a season or so in the South, but they would never make a crop in the XTA?i4lt AAWtnovo/l nrifk f)iA 11VX Wirr VA/UA|N?JIVU ??<vu uuv wm era-grown seedv Another reason, why the Southern late crop seed of the early varieties should be used is that the Maine potatoes are all infected with the black shank disease, and if we want to keep clear of that it will be bet- 55 ter to use the home-grown seed of wi Irish potatoes.?The Progressive pr Farmer. qu . ? . toi THE CHRISTMAS OF 1917. mJ ;ha Was there ever a day in hte hia- ly tory of the last nineteen hundred <*a years when so many homes looked W forward to Christmas with less of ye anticipation and joy? In common we ' fo: "L th _ _ wc th ears ml PLEASURE I tri (ccspicnt gr its / J?. ut: a subscription to his ? Ci zine. ^ or ho ecial arrangement to ? i either single or we "i nc ou and sent to difn( it prices are the best I, * ewhere. 1 di | se I *e s explain our plan to j I ai "< ai tfully, .'I ** P rug lompany }| D . * u mmmmmm m i i ?ii?iiinnwiiniinwm?inmiNMMiinnHiiwiHii?nmifTTTfTr'*1'?*??,"iM .1 M??in wiiii Jii-LlDiJ? IIU?!> 1 "J >L' I CITY ' i Automobile R Plumbing On and after J; my busic Gasoline for ca Repair work ca Plumbing cash. This does not n ca Your wants will and attention a G. A Phone 58. th all the nations involved in this esent war ^onerica will Had it ite impossible to repeat the cusnary greeting?"A Merry Christis." Out of thousands of homes ve gone the noble sons whose earyears made for us -the Christmas ys a time of happiness and cheer, e never dreamed in these past ars that the little lads for whom s bought thu sleds and skates, and r whom we jingled the sleigh bells e night before Christmas, half ikine them from their dreams, | mid one day be marching over e fields of France facing the uelties and horrors of the most mman war the world has known. > many of us there have come mo;nts when it has almost seemed, ssomeone has said, that the Infini Justice had been too long neuil in this war. But such moments not last. Faith, born of the eat Christmas message, reasserts plf and finds refuee in the confi nee that "justice and judgment e the habitation of His throne." one of the darkest days of the vil War, when Frederick Dougless dressing a great audience of coled people, gave expression to his pelessness and despair for the fu re of his race, old Sojourner = uth rose from her seat, and stret- sum ing out her long thin hand cried, reqi Frederick, is God dead?" We do occi it wonder that men and women ing. lubt His presence and His good- ond :ss. And He too probably does For >t wonder that faith sometimes has eaks under life's inscrutable mys- Roc ries. But He is faithful still. With courage we must await those V V lys that soon will come when we ^ :arch the papers for the tidings we ^ ;ar to see. To train oar hearts to y y ice the worst?that is part of oui:eat task. To hide our own fears ? id send across to those who are ]00} >ver there" only the word of cheer ^re id hope, this too it is ours to do. the "Watchman, what of the night? sno he watchman said: The morning anc] jmeth."?Our Dumb Animals. is i for REACHER ENLISTS; WIFE the TAKES PLACE IN PULPIT rab sou Urbana, 111., Dec. 18.?Mrs Frank spo ?. Adams, wife of the pastor of the tho ^niversaliBt church here, has as- this GARJ! Repairing and V ' J Ql^AO.MV UL CU1U tJlUOiil 1,11 inuary 1, 1911 tess on a Cash. sh. ah. lean Thirty Pa sh on delivery i be given the g nd we guaranty L? a. AUkl JL M I Ab) ?. !. !' ! T- ./ - - A . ' ' Just Ai Nice line of Ne Kirkwi Now is the time 8-day Cloc Clocks, Xpias Cards of the Rings, Stick Pin^, Cuff Butto Fountain Pens, Vanity Boxe Sets, Sewing Sets, Umbrel] Serving Trays, Vases, Cut G Emblems, Rings, nice leathei and gentlemen. Come early and avoid the.: Yours for b THE KIRK} Abbeville, ed her husband's duties at the k( lest of the church board, and lpied the pulpit Sunday morn-' f. Reverend Adams won a sec- sj lieutenant's commission at the p t Sheridan training camp and jj, been called to Camp Grant, kford, 111. jj VVVUVVUVUVV d ANTREVILLE. V V V di si mtreville, Dec. 20.?When we ? ai 1 !nn/]p/?ono AT> _ tCU UpUU tuc laituoua^/v v?* jy dnesday we noticed that during silence of the night a beautiful ^ w had fallen to cover the land [ make the children glad. This ndeed a jolly time for the boys ^ the minute they think of snow w y draw a mental picture of a j bit sitting in a bed awaiting the ^ nd of a gun and become the rt of the hunter. However we a ught of the soldier boys during i bad weather. We hope they c< ' 1 I I I iGE I III : : ulcanizing. sating-. ^ I will put Jbm. 1 " ' / ; 'f' - ^ : i i. .1 v>? -Kh1 ' :P y,':: 5'i ... t J V _ ' J vs Time hut jp-r* -sp i w i.ij . . i>.3 ' pealisgfc c&ifc - se our work. ; ' .. . ' ? : ?-? 1 ? u*x.? , '? ' ' -:fi\' j, ^ jM, S0ft. Manager 0 beville, S. C. x ' " ; ? ? wived 1: * ' SM w Clocks at sod's ' / ' : ks, Alarm Clocks, Chime ! ' \ Davis quality, Watches, ns, Lavallieresj Thimbles, is, Toilet Sets, Manicure [ . ut las, Caiheos, Bracelets, lass, Chains and Charms, Pocket Books for ladies r . ' ' *'? rush. aismess, > * iVOOD'S s. c. . / 1 r apt warm and comfortable. Mr. R. A. Keaton surprised his ^ imily by going rabbit hunting and looting a rabbit during the snow. his was the first time he has been anting or has shot a gun in fifteen sars. We imagine he must have een in a few feet of the rabbit. Miss Genevieve Anderson of Laner College, and Archie Keaton of / /offord, are at home for the holiays. The Antreville High School has jspended school until January on ccount of bad weather. Mr. Paul [oore has resigned as principal, so e hope to have a new teacher af ;r Christmas. j* Mrs. R. A. Keaton has returned ome from St. Augustine, Fla., here1 she went to be with her aughter, Mrs. J. E. Cheatham, who ?i * A. J ? as recently oeen operated on ior ppendicitis. Wc are glad to report , jj lat Mrs. Cheatham is rapidly ?eovering. J