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" BOLL ASSOCIATION Ecw They Work . Out in Vr:,ctlcc.?Helpful to Large zz Well as Small Breeder!. Clcassa College, April M.?More f rtl thA r?rw u w ?U?<iC uo uomiiwvM vo w .. ir..tive bull associations Is recogr zed as time goes oo and lis ben?!. .? u> tie dairy Industry hare a * sri.iice to become evident. The full r.-3uli3 that can be obtained from tuch an association obviously can aot u.<I>e.ir for several years. It is evi' L.rr.t therefore that since the "bull asejetetions are of only recent beginLl_:g, the benefits so far obtained are only t^o foreshadowing of greater things to come. The co-operative bull association has been carefully planned to enable a number of small dairymen and farmers who individually could not afford good bulla, to oomblne their resources and fcuy a few really good dairy airefc. For example, suppose tmi* JirrriflM each have $100 to invest In a bull. They are bo situated that they can all use th? game hull. The association makes it possible for them to $ofl their resources and buy on? |4M bull, presumably tour times as I food as nay <oee et the (our $160 animal* that they eould buy individually. It hi fratifyiai to eee that this theory l? working oat In practioe so well that K applies uet only to the dairymen with |100 available Cor to vestment in a bull but ofually well to the one with only 910, er on the other hand It the eoe with $600. lavM the Qoed Bulla It* money advaatace to the first which attracts the fanner's atleMtofi te the bull association, but by Aar the greatest advantage at the orgealnsrtl? is the exchange of bulls * iwry twe years by means e< which wattaaod use of bulls een be had un01 their value to proved. 'Statistical rures todteete the* buHs owned by ladividnato are used ealy te aa average age e< abeut three yaw. At this at* H to toipoeslMe te have aay production veoorde ef the offspring:, tmt of a sire's vaiae. 1?MM of thla shert Mfe of ttw bull ft happen* orer aad orer agala that dairy farmer* ten dleeorered, attar tha daughters had flnlahed a reeord, tha wceftlonal yrayoteot gaalitlea of tfeelr alra;, and Ihea, cm looking aromd for that aire, lava nada aaother dlacorerr, a aad oae, that tha aearch taa tattle, for the alra had fooe to the fcoMhee. Beneficial ta Family dew Owners Th* areraire herd af all the saem I ' bM ef fee? aaeoeiattaoe cohMi of is emurr Inaaameh u ?bere , are naany beHU with tea ar a Iwe nwi, 4 II faBewa that there past Ha a great amtar of herds with lew than sis ee-we each, la fact, town people wnitng famUr town are aftea nambara. payiag feelr ihare or aaaeaftueat af tra, tan, or whatever number of foliar* ! reqaired for aaoh ?ow; aad for thte TMiynaot they have the ?ea of all the bulla hi th? auoAMta. ifcuc a family eom owner may far a fit in TMUaiDI UT1 I or r jmivu w i? j-??i o th? use of suck bulla aa frss8y as tfeOUffe ha Owned tk?QB hlmMtf. Leatfa t? Keeping Pvrsbrarf Cmm. The claim la made la behalf af the bull aasociatltfD as aa tint H opens up aa opportunity far t*v? small dairyman to da pusa bvaatfng. The flguraa tatfiefed ia tha 1MI directory of bull associations ahoar that h while the number of organisations, the number of members, eto., hare Increased leas than 77 per c?t as ompared with 1911, tha Increase in number of purebred cows owned by members went up Z4U per com. rcuw^ tag plainly that the bull association does help the small breeder to do pure breeding. Ne Chance ef Loss. We hare still to get the first report from a farmer to the effect that lie has lost money on his investment in a co-operative bull association, says J. P. LaMaster, Extension Service dairy hnafcandman. Ttoe greatest loes that oftn be sustained from ft Alsband *4 association Is that the wrong imwhich the semiminKy and otttr coacnuBitiM may receive may prevent them from orxmalslag other aasooiaMons of the itnie kM. For 1Mb r?uoB, we in anxious to see all aaaootatlons erg&nised on the right bad* aad properly lookad altar, ao that aoaa ef them will <H?kand. upfeetlens far Svcetss. t Tfce principal potats ta keep to mtBd far building a successful aaeoeietoc ara as foUawa: r 1. Hare the Mocks well organised, principally with refsreaee ta satlafactory looatloa of members and vvhe flaea la keep the boll. 2. Rare the association well organized, with carofally seleotad offion a of whom 4s the secretary. The secretary Is the Hfe of the association. Ha should b? a dairyman interested In the breed selected and In breeding generally, and ? man with good buatneee idoa*. 3. Buy the beet bull* porslble with the available money. 4. Provide a good place for the bull, stad keep hla properly. I. Hold at least two meetings a few, the regular annual business meeting aad the anneal ptcnta. 0. Cooperate in all this whh the eotmty agent ani the stat? specialist in bull association werfc, aad you will have an organization that will exert o tremendous influence for the fanprerement of livestock in your oeoinunity, far-reaehing in its beaeite. \ FARMERS GET ONLY $5.85 FOR WOOL IN $75 SUIT , * Sheep raisers in Indiana are r.ot responsible for the high cost of clothing,. according to Claude Harper, Purdue University sheep specialist, and also secretary of the Indiana Sheep Breeders and Feeders Association, who had just issued a statement to the effect that the farmer receives only $5.85 for enough wool to make a suit for a man weighing 175 pounds. " A man who weighs 175 pounds requires three and one-half yards of cloth for a suit, the weight of the clothing being from ten to eighteen ounces a yard," Mr. Harper says. "The average medium weight wool suit is made of goods weighing fourteen ounces a yard. At three and | one-ha-'f yards a suit, the cloth in the entire suit weighs forty-nine ounces, or a little more than three pounds. In the manufacture of all-wool cloth it requires one and three-fourths pounds of scoured wool to produce a puuuu VA V1VMII ' "Therefore,, considering waste in manufacturing, it requires about sixty-two ounces of scoured wool for an average suit of cothes. Most of the Indiana scoured wool is seling in Boston from $1.25 to $1.44 a gound. This wool scours around 50 per cent of grease and dirt. At $1.44 a scoured pound, this makes wool worth 9 cents an ounce. A? sixty-two ounces are required for the entire suit, then the cost of wool in the suit is $5.85. Mr. Harper says that if a suit is made of the very best grade of wool, which is selling at about $1.90 a scoured pound, then the wool in the suit will cost $7.37. The cost of shipping, commission, etc., he says, is at least 5 cents a pound, which is deducted from the producers' receipts. These suits, he pointed out, sell at retail all the way from $40 to $75 and higher.?Indianapolis News. DOING WITHOUT Cannon Landbridge in the London Daily News. How things have changed! I re/nember the day when observing a crease in my coat, I turned into my tailor's and ordered a new suit. Now, for five years,I have lived, as a bear on his fat on my husbanded resources. If a pair of trousers showed an undesirable roundness, I put them between the mattresses of my bed. If ' ">y waistcoat were greasy, I rubbed it with ammonia and water. If my boots were down-at-the-heel, and lumpy as an ancient pod of peas, I put them int? the cobler's hands. I became a connoisseur in patchtes?I, who always preferred a jaunty hole to the patient premeditation of a seam. Everybody, I suppose, has a few old things lying about him, like roseleaves in a garden bed. They are not as old as they look. Old clothes can learn a sprightliness unguessed if you go the right way with them. They can be refreshed like ancient pictures. ? ? ii ? J-1- _ Lake long lanes, mey nave meir turnings. Like damaged young men in elegant shops, they can acquire a smile of artificial charm, and teach their wool a second summer. They can be turned out well-groomed young fellows, in not too strong a light. Take your old things in rotation; every time their turn comes round, they will come up smiling. I have kept my four suits marching round ?nd rnnnd. like a staee armv of about the same number. Happily, I have long preferred unobtrusive apparel; you can't hide thunder and lightning; carpet patterns will out. But my symphonies and nocturnes in gray were sweet, shy things, like violets by a mossy stone. I find I can subdue the shininess of a trouser-leg by looking firmly into people's eyes; it protects all but the very crookiest knees. (If any faded philosopher has found a way of maintaining the level of his knees, I wish he would tell me the trick.) With collars I contrive a very successful thrift. India-rubber and bread crumbs are tine restorers, oe sides, in this New-year light, a gentle dubiousness passes as merely an autumnal shadow. My unfortunate habit of losing my right-hand glove has been neutralized by carrying an odd left glove in the covered hand. One of the chief expenses of my extravagant old days was the pui'chase of books . Merely reading a book is painful pleasure to me. I want to read no others. If a book isn'^ better than ever at its tenth reading, it never was very good. When I found that books were too dear to buy, I fell back on the old books that I had. I was amazed by their number. All around me were masterpieces that I knew hardly I more than by sight. "Robinson Crusoe" cariie upon me as a long-delayed revelation, though I had loved him 1 since I was nine. The richness of my dictionary al- | meet overwhelmed me. Really, a | good dictionary is reading for a life | time. What surprises it holds? What | l n-f wr>Tvls vnn Hnn't know: = ? J? -Ig what hundreds you cannot spell!j| How you grow into the intimacy of ^ | speech; what relationships spring up; | about you! When your dictionary j ? begins to live, you almost feel lan-11 guage in the making.I think for a ? few weeks of delicate browsing, I 1 shall pasture on my dictionary alone. I A Bible, a Shakespeare, a diction- g a?y, and a "Golden Treasury,",, and | no man need be hungry. Upon my | word, I have grown rich on having no j money and no books'. ? t It was rather a blow to me when I felt "dryness" settling on my world. I had always been a bad sleeper, and without the kind persuasion of a nightcap, sleep, I thought, would for sake my pillow forever. With a grim of fatalty that was not resigntion,7! took my nightcap off. I was thinking what a pity it was never to g have a wink of sleep again, when I | woke up after a very good night. My | nightcap was a fool's-cap that wor- | ried me with its jingling bells. I cast I it off and felt my head calmer and 1 eooler. Do you know, I think that "doing g without" is rather a growing pleas- ? ure.lt is more than not mitfing I things. It is, attaining something be- | yond; it is climing a hill into lighter and purer air. It is a sense of the spirit's being est man. Certain it is that the more you do without, the more you have. It is an earnest of the keen and starry existence when the body shall be outgrown, the spirit, in exquisite self-sufficiency, shall fill the whole beings needs. | All the people who are learning to | do without are becoming citizens of I a new world larger, clearer, higher than the old. Who ' could have thought that such a radiant gift lay clasped in the hateful hand of War? EAT LESS MEAT 1 IF BACK HURTS Tako a glass of Salts to fluh Kidneys if Bladder bothen you?Drink lots of water. I Eating meat regularly eventually pro- { duces kidney trouble in some form or i other, says a well-known authority, be-! cause the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, thpy become overworked; pet: sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of; distress, particularly backache and mis- j ery in the kidney region; rheumatic twinges, severe headaches, acid stomach, constipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bidder and urinary irritation. j.ue moment your back hurts or kidneys aren't acting right, or if bladder j hplhers you, get about four ounces of j Jad Salts from any good pharmacy; j take a Itablespoonful in a glass of water I before breakfast for a few days and your ! 1 kidneys will then act fine. This famous L| salts is made from the acid of grapes j| and lemon juice, combined with lithia, , | and has been use*1 for generations to ! 1 flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them | to normal activity; also to neutralize tne 11 acids in the urine so it no longer irri- | ? tates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts cannot injure anyone; l| makes a delightful effervescent lithia- 11 water drink which millions of men and 11 on/1 fft IfAOn fhfl I i vr vixJCTZZ wmi/ kx\j n nam?i>utu??uu kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus 1 avoiding serious kidney disease. SSi NHEraSNRi II ''iirr JiijJJ'l,J, ill BS%?KiO|y |:<3 HKI v 11,',: ?'>;' | -HI ! hHH p ^BHPbbBBBWH MnBmdnMfliiHH v HSwffiSi | JOHN A. HOLLAND, The Greenwood Piano Man ? I i j The largest dealer in musical fnstrn inents in Western Soutn Carolina. Sells pianos, self-player pianos, organs and sewing machines. "Reference: The Bank of .Greenwood, the oldest andjf itrongest Bank in Greenwood County I Spe< V V Bt I We have which wei Advance i will sell as For $i; t We neec | which we | Get you I gone. They are n Stock. m | ' ! ii i h , j IY. H. mmamamam ^iai i OF iggl< / 4 forty Park e bought in Prices \ long as the ? 00 Si* \ this roorr have comir rs before ice fresh Bui Calvert Sale I BS j ;er Buggies 1 before the ? Arkirk \A7P I rvuiv^ii hv/ ^ :y last. I ' ot Cash I s 1 for goods | lg in daily. I they are j ggies not old g & Sons I tWIIillllil