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BUTCHER BIRD'S DIET Eastern Variety Consumes Noth ing But Animal Matter, Consumption of Grasshoppers Far Out I weighs Harm Done to Other Birds i and Beetles-Capable of Doing Much Good. ( (By P. E. L. BEAL.) The southern butcher bird in some of it3 numerous form9, is found over much of the United States, and is especially common on the Pacific coast. All the forms retire southward at the approach of winter and in many localities are replaced during the cold season by the northern butcher bird, whicb comes down from the north and winters in the United States. The butcher bird resembles a bird of prey in form of beak and to a cer tain extent in food habits, but it las no talons such as euable tho true birds of prey to seize their victim and hold it while tearing it to pieces. For the investigation of the food of the southern butcher bird 124 stom achs of the v/estern sub-species were examined and 88 of the eastern. The ?western bird showed 2.5 per cent, of vegetable substances in their stomachs ?but the eastern ones contained noth ing but animal matter. The animal portion of the food of western butcher birds consists of 83 per cent, spiders and a few snails, 2 per cent, and ver Southern Butcher Bird. tebrates 12 per cent The stomachs of the eastern farms show 68 per cent, spiders 4 per cent, and verte brates 28 per ce) it. The difference is undoubtedly du? to climate, the western bird being able to find insects all the year round, while the eastern one gets very few during the winter. While the southern butcher bird eats a few birds and some useful insects, its diet is on the whole very much in its favor, as the consumption of grasshoppers far outweighs the harm to birds and beetles. As a feature of the landscape, and as lend ing animation to rural scenes, the shrike, or butcher bird, in California is a pronounced success, and. while not so numerous in the east, it is just as attractive and is doing the same good by its food habits. A cow has a peculiarly sensitive and delicate organization. Regularity should be the keynote of every successful dairy system. Make a study of foods, and feed a balanced ration. This will save waste. When cut in the milk and cured, the oat and pea hay is most palatable and nutritious. A good dairy cow should have all the feed she will eat and digest, and keep in good health. Successful dairying depends entire ty on right methods in breeding, feed ing and management. The dairymen who are not success ful do not apply ordinary business principles to their calling. Success in dairy farming depends not only on good stock, but also on good common sense work. Stir the cream twice a day, using a long-handled spoon which will reach to the bottom of the cream jar. With good cows, good food, good stables, all profits can be wiped out by an ignorant or cruel stable man. There may be occasional bad luck in the dairy business, but it almost in variably follows bad management An exposed or an abused cow will give less milk, and that milk of a poorer quality, than one well cared for. It is a well known fact that the cow that makes the largest profit is given the best care and most com fortable shelter. Heifers require a larger amount of feed for the production of a certain amount of milk than do older cows. They have to grow. The man with the hammer really is engaged in a process of slow sui cide. And it isn't a happy death he Is treating himself to, either. The demands of a cow are impera tive. The dairyman who consults his own convenience, and disregards the comfort of his dairy herd, suffers loss. TRUE SP?RIT OF THE WEST Broad Interchange of Ideas On? of the Secrets of That Section's Rapid Growth. The western cities have commenced :heir anuual gadding around among :heir neighbors. Just as soon as the snowdrifts melt and train schedules become regular, ''boosters' " organiza tions from every Trans-Mississippi hamlet and metropolis pack their grips, charter a train and zigzag through three or four states, which is some territory as the west goes. They have two missions-to spread che gospel that their particular local ity is the best in the country in which to be happy and prosperous and spy out, absorb and appropriate any improvement, method or custom of value which their guests may have and they lack. This interchange of ideas regard ing business methods, municipal gov ernment, how to raise bumper crops and swat the greedy corporations is the secret of the growth of the west, and also explains why it annually pre sents a new batch cf political and civic ideas and backs them with a solidarity that is amazing. In unity there is strength, and in. co-operation and neighborliness there Is growth. It is peculiar of the west and to the west that while the citie3 fight among themselves for su premacy they will drop all differences and fight much harder for the west. Philadelphia Evening Times. SERVES A DOUBLE PURPOSE Cultivation of Garden Reduces Cost of Living and Helps to Beautify the City. There is no good reason why the occupant of a small lot in city or town should complain about the high cost of livinc in the summer time, if he is ^'Illing to endure sore muscles for a brief period and to undertake perhaps unaccustomed labor with a spade and rake. Every back yard on which the sun shines with reasonable warmth can be made to produce fresh vegetables enough to supply the average family In abundance and variety not sur passed by the menus of expensive ho tels. Every food requirement can be met with vegetables grown in the back gar den. It is Indeed difficult to find the soil or location which will not produce gocd crops if proper skill and care be used in fertilizing and preparing the soil and in choosing the seed. Statistics have proved that the high cost of living is not due to increased expense in producing food, but that the big proportion of the high prices goes to the middlemen. Every owner of a garden is independent of the mid dleman. No time may be lost by the man who wants to try gardening in preparing the ground and sowing thf seed. Beautiful Cities of the Future. The development of American cit ies, especially since the civil war, has been so rapid that it has been almost entirely commercial. Like Topsy, American cities have "just growed." They began wita a cluster of shacks at some road crossing and in their growth they followed the lines of least resistance. Streets took the places of cowpaths and gradually a town came Into existence and the authorities thought that all that was necessary to prepare for future growth was to adopt a city plan of square streets or streets conforming to the topographi cal conformation of the place. In many places the main thoroughfares are narrow and these lu later years have become congested, the cities have taken on a hodgepodge look and Som TO ONE AND ALL: I will have by May the public in repairing ; Also will have a Mrst-c Dam Mills, and will ca my planer mill stand. One car ki One car g One car fl One car li I also have a complel your many wants at pr E. CLEMSON AGRIC?L Enrollment Over 800-Value of a Third-Over 90 Tea Degree Courses trical Engineering; Civil Engineer^ Engineers. Short Courses, y weeks winter course in cotton gradin farmers. f^rvQ-f? Cost per session of VjU?1' heat, light, water, 1 uniforms, 133.45. Tuition, if able to session for the one year agricultural all expenses, $10. Scholarship and Entrance Examina four-year agricultural and textile set tural scholarships. Value of scholar tion. (Students who have attended I lege or university, are not eligible ft no other eligible applicants. Scholarship and entrance examina Superintendent of Education on July NEXT SESSION OPENS J Write at once to W. M Clemson College, S. C., for Catalog may be croi there has been no room for beau, tying things unless radical changes should be made. Many an American city has waked up to these conditions and the result has been that all over the country the architectural physi cians have been called In to help things out. If the pace keeps up these architects venture to predict that with, in twenty years the United States will have a score, if not more, of beautiful cities, which cannot be surpassed any where in the world for their size. Rose-Slip Day. i Tacoma, in the state of Washing ton, has worked out an idea that is worth copying. It has a Tacoma Rose society, and this society has hit upon the plan of giving away rose slips In order to encourage the cultivation of roses and to help along the campaign for a city beautiful. The first rose slip day was celebrated this year. The society wai not prepared for the de mand for slips. Crowds, many of whose members were children, clam ored for cuttings. The society had only 35,000 to give away, and this did not come anywhere near meeting the call. It has now announced that lt will be glad to receive cuttings from any citizens who ar9 pruning their bushes, and next year it hopes to dis tribute 500,000 slips. What such a {..anting of roses will do for Tacoma can be Imagined. Ot course, rose-growers on the Pae?ft? coast enjoy certain advantages which th*ir eastern kindred sigh for In vain. Hut. the Tacoma idea ls worth copy ing, If not In roses In something else. Baled Shavings and Sawdust Are Best, Everything Considered-Straw ls Too Valuable. Always place bedding toward the side and rear of the stall, as a horse lies well backward and on its side.. Should the horse kick and scratch the straw too far back, place a coarse Docoanut-fiber mat under the straw about where the hocks of the horso iie and there will be no further trou ble. Otherwise, the hocks may be capped and injured. Wheat straw is good for bedding, rye next and barley is tabooed, while oats ls too soft. Besides, a horse likes oat straw and may be tempted to eat unsanitary bedding, the salty taste of ammonia proving agreeable to a de praved appetite. , Baled shavings and sawdust are best, everything considered; their use stopping indigestion caused by eating bedding. Straw, baled hay, old swale and such matter rolls up too n-uch, which tact, together with the steadily increasing value of straw, makes it almost too valuable for bedding in the horse barns. ething Nee OTIC 15, 1913, .1 first-class machine ill kinds of machinery such as i lass machinist. Mr. J. C. Wall rry in stock a complete line of I have just received erosene oil asolene ooringand ceiling One car patent ph' One car brick Two <*ars shingles te line of merchandise at the d ices to compete. I solicit your S. JOHOSC T?RAL COLLEGE. Property Over a Million and chers and Officers. , Agricultural. (seven courses). . Chemistry: Mechanical aud Elec r; Textile Indu3try; Architectural tne-Ycar course in agriculture; 2 ear course in textile industry; four g; four-wee!cs winter course for nine months, including all fees, Doard, laundry, and two complete i pay, $40 extra. Total cost per course, 117.55; four-waeks course tions: The college maintains 167 lolarships, and 51 one-year agricul ships ?100 per session and free tui Clemson College, or any other col >r the scholarships unless there are tions will be held by the County 11th. at 9 a. m. SEPTEMBER 13, 1913. I RIGGS, President. r, Blanks, etc. If you delay, you vded out. Leishman, Dollar Diplomat. For the president of the Dollar Dip lomatic club, the Journal nominates John G. A. Leishman, member of the Pittsburgh uobllity and ambassador to Germany. Mr. Leishman gambled heavily in stocks just prior to the opening of the Balkan war. The charge is that he used the advance knowledge which came to him through diplomatic chan nels to play the market. If so, he muse have followed the tips of the Herr Baron von der Goltz; for Mr. Leishman s broker has been obliged to sue to get his commissions. Misfortune of that kind should not be a bar to advancement, however. The Journal can think of no bright, particular star better fitted to shine on the Dollar Diplomat club from the head of the table than Mr. John G. A. Leishman.-Chicago Journal. Enforcing the Law. For more than seven years Mr. Roosevelt roared from the White House that the criminal clause of the Sherman antitrust law could not be enforced. It never was enforced while Mr. Roosevelt was in office. Sentences recently imposed on of ficials of the turpentine trust and cash register company go to show that the criminal clause of the Sherman act can be enforced whenever officers of the law want to enforce lt. Juries will convict trust officials against whom is brought satisfactory evidence and the judges of lower courts will in flict jail sentences. Task Ahead for President To restore popular government, to get rid of tariff and other monopolies, to bring back the golden era of Amer ican invention, are wholly proper aims. The achievement of those -ims will be a great task to accomplish in four years ^nder the limitations of the Federal Constitution. Probably Dr. Woodrow Wilson realizes this as clearly as anybody in the United States.-Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.). Sensible View of Situation. The people of Florida can take their share of the cuts and still gain tens of millions annually more than they lose. The Democratic theory ls that this is a government of the peo ple, and that none should be taxed to supply special favors to others. Those who hold to the idea that the gov ernment belongs to special interests, whether orange growers or steel man ufacturers, should have voted for Taft, and the monopolistic platform of the Rp.nublicans.-Florida Times-Union. ded shop and wish to serve is used in this country, ter, now of the Beaver piping and fittings at is ter epot and can supply patronage. lauo! Guaro Phosphate & Fertilizers Company's Goods? P. & F, A. D. Bone Augusta High Grade, Acid of all Grades. These goods are now in the ware house ready for delivery. m J Monuments and Tombstones. I represent the Spartanburs: Marble and Granite works in this section and shall be pleased to show you designs and quote prices on all kinds of work. Write me a card if you are interested and I will call to see you. John R. Tompkins, Edgefield, So Carolina - masaam ?Sae Levy Comply Is ready with your spring clothes and hats. Men's suits in Linens, Mohairs and worsteds-hats in Panamas, Straws and Felts-underwear and ties f Everything That Soys Wear Most complete Ready-to-Wear Wom en's department in tue South. Patapsco, Mastodok, and other* famous Fertilizers -of the Georgia Chemical Works, of Augusta have an established position which is unequaled by any other'goods on the market. 38 years of exper ience and careful study of the fertilizer question back up every bag of these goods. No such reassurance as this can be furnished by others. Then why exper iment with the uncertain. -FOR PRICES, TERMS, Etc., Cali Oo THE EDGEFIELD MERCANTILE CO. CopmcUt 1909. br C. E. Zimmerern Co.- No. IO No matter what your walk in life, or what your station may be, you have an opportu nity to be the possessor of a bank account, and it emly re mains for you to realize the importance of this one thing, to render you indedendent. OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, Pren.; W. W. Adame, Vioe pres.; E. J. Miras, Cashier; J. H. 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