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SOME CHICK DISEASES HEAD LICE IN PARTICULAR ARE SOURCE OF MUCH TROUBLE. Dust Hen With Insect Powder, Spray Coops With Disinfectant and Rub Ointment on Chick's Head and Under Wings. Lice, head lice in particular, while not a disease in themselves, are a fer tile source of trouble and disease. They are generally lound where the chicks are hatched by hens, the litUe fellows appearing droopy, pale and with some diarrhea, due to weakness. Dust the hen with a good lice killer, spray the coops with disinfectant and rub a little lice ointment on the chick's head, under the wings and around the vent. While not so prevalent as some times supposed, "white uiarrhea" is a real menace, and here prevention is the best remedy. Breed from serong, healthy parent stock and avoid the long, scrawny, crow headed hen, for disease is transmitted through the egg. Keep the incubator dark, feed good nourishing food, separate suspected chicks at once and disinfect thorough ly. If trouble is expected use a white diarrhea remedy in the drinking water for the first ten days. It will save many chicks, but will not cure the dis ease or save badly infeoted ones. Bowel trouble, due to Improper feed ing, ia often mistaken for white diar rhea Don't feed chicks until 48 hours old, but give fine grit and fresh water from the start. Let the first feed be finely crumbled boiled egg, breadcrumbs or a prepared baby chick food, given dry, or moistened with sweet or sour milk. Do not overfeed, but feed often. La:er give a little bit of fine grains, such as pinhead oats, cracked wheat or chick size cracked cora, scattered in the litter to induce exercise. Beef scrap should not be given until chicks are at least a week old. Scald the drinking vessels fre quently, give plenty of greens after the first five days and keep the chicks exercising and there will never be any bowel trouble among the birds. Leg weakness frequently comes from lack of exercise. Chicks appear healthy, have good appetites, are bright, but have no use of their legs. Give them every opportunity to exer cise, but do not allow thom to be come chilled. Bottom heat in a brooder will cause this trouble. The beat should always descend on a chick's back, never upward. Lack of *-4-? mxtarials ia th? food, xx csu Traten auu uar? uumuiuil.sense. ATTACHMENT CN TAF5M GATE j Discarded Plow Wheel and Wooden Axle With Narrow Strip of Board Makes Handy Arrangement. There are a great many different kinds of gates used on farms through out the country, come simile and oth ers complicated. The Farm and Home describes and illvstrat.es one as ar ranged by Leslie Beattie of New York i as follows: I take an old plow wheel, fit a. wood- ! en axle to it, and bolt it to the bottom corner of the gate. Then I take a nar- j row strip of board six inches longer ' J Easy Gate to Open. than height of gate, and to the bottom end bolt a short piece which makes it T-shape. This is bolted to the gate as shown in the illustration, and serves as a lock, for the short piece goes be tween the spokes in the wheel and holds the gate either open or closed. A child can easily open a heavy gate that has this attachment. REMEDY FOR THE WOODCHUCK Among Other Methods of Extermina tion Suggested ls That of a Man With a Good Rifle. (By M. W. WILLIAMS, Minnesota.) The woodchuck, or "ground hog" is so destructive to gardens in some counties in this section, that a few remedial measures may be of interest White muslin strips may be tied to the pea vine supports about a foot above the ground, at intervals of about a foot in the row, to keep the animal away. Cotton or oakum may be wrapped around a stone soaked in car bon bi-sulphid, and the mass rolled I into the hole as far as possible. In ! order that the fumes may have the ! fullest possible effect, close the hole | as tightly as possible. A good marks- I man with a rifle, stationed where he can secure a good view of the infested field, may prove effective. Blasting powder and a long faa? are sometimes ?sed and so is th* tiwi trap. 3 Lucky; Accident for Him. After proposing three times and being rejected on account of his ugli ness, a man in London was injured in an accident so severely that when he recovered his face had been com pletely reconstructed, decidedly for the better. He proposed again and was accepted. Excusable Delay. Twenty-five minutes after her di vorce from one husband a Wellsburg (W. Va.) woman was married to her second. The delay was caused by tha need to have a marriage license prop erly filled out.-Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Fortunate Indians. In a composition dealing with th< habits and customs of American In dians, a boy deeply impressed with their free-and-easy life wrote the fol lowing: "The Indians had few laws, but they were well violated." ? Hatched by the Sun. In breeding goldfish, an industry which has flourished in China from time immemorial, the eggs are re moved from the reach of the adult male fish and hatched by the sun in' shallow dishes. The Tapestry Mode. The Millionaire (declining to pur chase post-impression creation) Xoth'n' doin'! Why, my maiden a'nt cud darrn a better picture 'n that.-Punch. Danger of Too Much Talk. Don't Ulk too much. Just after you haye talked a man into buying, if you keep on talking you will talk him out cf buying.-Atchison Globe. Defined. A literary genius is one whom na ture lets in on the ground floor, and Avhom the publishers force to live in an attic. Costly English Port. More than' $100,000,000 has been spent in bringing and keeping the port of Liverpool up to date. At tho Top and Bottom. Of ail the people in Europe the Tnmth hare the fewest children and til* I risk the most. Cant. i? tv* twin sister of hypocrisy. ?]'2.W to insure sounu cou. 'peed and works anywhere. R. L. BODIE. R. F. D. Modoc, S. C. I rf/ fm?mw ; kB Light Saw, Lathe and Shm jie -Mills, Engines, Boilers?, Supplies and repairs, Porta ble , Steam ;ind Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files, Belt* md Pipes. WOOD SAW? md SPLITTERS Gins and Pre^s Repairs. Try LOMBA lil), AUGUSTA, GA. Real Estate -FOR SALE 125 acres land near Hibernia in Saluda county. 120 acres near Monetta, Sa luda county. 330 acres in Aiken county, near Eureka. 100 acres near Ropers. 300 acres near (Celestia or Davis' mills in Greenwood and Saluda counties. 50 acres near Edpetield C. H. * ? 250 aeres near Trenton,S.C. Several tract* near meeting Street, and other tracts near Monetta and Batesburg. -Apply to A. 8. TOMPKINS, Edgefield, S. C. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium) Prompt Powerful Permanent Its beneficia.' ef- Stubborn cases Good results are fects are usually yield to P. P. P. lasting-it cures ftlt very quickly when other mcdi- you tostay cured cines arc useless 0 Makes rich, red, pure blood-cleanses the entire system - clears the bftin - strengthens digestion and nerves. A positive specifiWfor Blood Poison and skid diseases. Drives out Rheumatism and Stops the Pain; ends Maiaria; is a wonderful tonic and body-builder. Thousands endorse it. F. V. LIPPMAN CO. ,>S???. SAVANNAH, GA. AVE SOME MONEY AND YOU DEFEAT POV? Copyri?ht 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co.-No. 41 Put some money in the Bank of Edgefield and you will defeat pov erty. Everybody has a horror of poverty. There is only one way to insure against it, that is to culti vate a habit of thrift which you can easily do by putting money in this bank. Courteous and prompt attention given to all business. OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, Pre-.; B. E. Nicholson1 Viee pres.; E. J. Mira?, Cashier; J. H. Allen, assistant Cashier DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, Geo. W. Adams, Thos. H. Rainsford, Jolin Rainsford B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins, C. C. Fuller, E. J. AI ima, J. H. Allen. ocix a itu and Cumming streets, two blocks from the Union Passenger Station where we have the most modern warehouse in Augusta with floor space of 24,800 squa.e feet and it is literally packed with Groceries and feeds from cellar to roof. Our stock must be seen to be appre ciated. Our expenses are at least 3450.00 a month less since discon tinuing our store at 863 Broad street, and as goods are unloaded from cars to warebeuse, we are in a position to name very close prices. If you really want the worth of your money see or write us ARRI Augusta, Ga. Stewart & Kernaghan s Edgefield, South Carolina. Notieeto the Publie: All persons wanting pictures framed will please leave same at store of Dorn & Mi ms. Best work guaranteed, and prices right. AU pictures will be framed the same day left at Beauregard Timmons, Edgefield, S. C. April 1, 19H VOL. 79. ED JEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, ?9?4 NO. 12,