Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I Bobolink a Common Summer j Resident in Northern States. ! FEEDS MAINLY ON INSECTS Also Devours Many Weed Seeds-In accurate Grading Cause of Much Loss to Western Wool Grow ers-Remedy ls Sugg sated. <Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The bobolink, rice bird, or reed bird, ls a common summer resident of the United States, north of about latitude 40 degrees, and from New England westward to the Great Plains, winter , lng beyond our ?outhern border. In New England there are few birds about which so much romance clus ters as this rollicking songster, natur ally associated with sunny June meadows; but in the South there are none on whose head so many maledic tions have been heaped on account of its fondness for rice. During its sojourn in the northern states it feed mainly upon insects and seeds of useless plants; but while rear ing its young, Insects constitute its chief food, and almost the exclusive diet of its brood. After the young are able to fly, the whole family gathers into a small flock and begins to live Bobolink, Rice Bird or Reed Bird Length Atout Seven Inches. almost entirely upon vegetable food. This consists for the most part of weed seeds, since in the North these birds do not appear to attack grain to any great extent They eat a few cats, but their stomachs do not reveal a great quantity of this or any other gram. As the season advances they gather into large flocks and move southward, until by the end of August nearly all have left their breeding grounds. On their way they frequent the reedy marshes about the mouths of rivers and on the Inland waters of the coast region and subaiat largely upon wild rice. In the middle states, during their southward migration, they are commonly known as reed birds, and becoming very fat are treated as same. Formerly, when the low marshy shores of the Carolinas and some of the more southern states were de voted to rice culture the bobolinks made great havoc both upon the sprouting rice in spring and upon the ripening ?rain on their return migra tion in the ?tt With a change rn the rice-raising districts, however, this damage Is no longer done. > Co-operative Marketing of Wool. ' Serious losses are often suffered by the flock master because of improper methods of handling the clip. West ern wool growers are paid lower prices th/m foreign producers because of Inaccurate grading. In recent years they have made 9ome ad vancement in clipping and assort ing fleeces as shown by cleaner clips being offered for sale in some localities. In the West some of the large sheep breeders' associa tions have officially recommended certain changes in the handling of wool by the growers. It is estimated that Improper methods of preparing the wool for shipment cost the flock master fros oce to three cents a pound, for the manufacturer is fre quently put to an extra expense, against which, of course, he protects himself byjdowering the price to the grower. To' remedy this condition, some form of co-operation among wool growers in any given region is urged in a new publication of the depart ment of agriculture* bulletin 206, "The Wool Grower and the Wool Trade." The individual alone can do little to improve matters, for his clip is like ly to be too small to induce the buy ers to make any alteration m their accustomed methods of estimating wool values. With co-operation, how ever, it should be possible to prepare the entire clip of any section so that the reputation of its wool would be enhanced and the growers obtain the tull market value of their product, A sufficient number of wool growers should be included in eadh coopera tive association te en ?Me at least 4,000 or 5,000 nyunds ef each of the various grade? ts W marketed at ona time. Co-operattim wtL of course, do lit tle good, however, unless the Individ ual growers Wilow improved methods of handling th? ?1rs. An instance of the present lew price of American wool as compared with * foreign ls given ta tts ??1 latin already men tioned Tw? tatt of woe! of the same grade, one of them from Idaho and the other from Australia, were pur chased ir/ a Philadelphia manufacture er-the American at 18% cents a pound and the foreign one at 28 cents a pound, before scouring. In the American fleece the kind of wool that this manufacturer really wanted amounted to 86.79 per cent of the total; in the foreign fleece to 98.96 per cent A more accurate system of grading had given this manufacturer 12 per cent more of what he wanted than the American methods. In con- i sequence the foreign sheep grower got the larger price for hie fleece. The manufacturer paid for the im ported wool 28 cents a pound and for the domestic wool 18% csnts a pound-a difference of 9% cents. By the time shrinkage, "off sorts," etc., had been deducted, however, the cost per clean pound to the manufac turer of the wool he wanted was 41.32 cents for the American fleece and 44.69 cents for the imported-a differ ence of only 3.37 cents. It may have cost the foreign grower a little more to prepare his fleece, but he more than recovered this in the higher price he sold it for. The bulletin suggests 15 rules for the wool grower which. It is said, no one can afford to neglect if he is at all solicitous of the reputation of his clip. These rules are: 1. Adhere to a settled policy of breeding the type of sheep suitable to the locality. 2. Sack lambs', ewes', wethers'and all buck, or very oily fleeces sepa rately. If the bucks or part of the ewes or wethers have wool of widely different kind from the remainder of ? the flock, shear such separately and put the wool in separate sacks so marked. 3. Shear all black sheep at one time, preferably last, and put the wool in separate sacks. 4. Remove and sack separately all tags, and then allow no tag discount upon the clip as a whole. 5. Have slatted floors In the hold ing pens. 6. Use a smooth, light and hard glazed (preferably paper) twine. 7. Securely knot the string on each fleece. 8. Turn sacks wrong side out and shake well before filling. 9. Keep wood dry at all times. 10. Make the brands on the sheep as small as possible and use a brand ing material that will scour out. 11. Know the grade and value of your wool and price it accordingly. 12. Do not sweat sheep excessively before shearing. 13. Keep the corral sweepings out of the wool. j . 14. Do not sell the wool before It is grown. i 15. When all these rules are fol lowed place your personal brand or your name upon the bags or bales. CABBAGE STORING IS SIMPLE Cheaply Constructed Bank or Hillside Root Cellar Is Only Shelter f Needed-Keep Place Cool. (By KL A. TCT'RTCPATRTOK, Minnesota Experiment Station.) Cabbage storing is rather simple ? and easy. The shrinkage is small. A j cheaply constructed bank or hillside I root cellar, or a basement under al- j ?cet any fana building, is the only I storehouse necessary. This should not be too dry and should be a place which could be kept at a temperature of about 40 or 50 degrees in the early part of the season. This is often ac complished by opening the doors to let in the cool night air and closing them ; to keep out the warmer air during the ! remainder of the day. Later, of course, the doors must be kept closed contin uously. In storing, most growers place the heads in a cellar with all leaves and roots attached. Many market garden ers have a better plan. They cut off the stalk as thouin preparing the heads for market, but leave two or three rough leaves to protect the more tender parts. They then pack in or dinary cabbage crates and rack these crates up, leaving a gangway every third or fourth tier for air circula tion. This work is not particularly diffi cult, and will certainly nay the grow er well if it inereaseB thu Rolling price of his production eight or tenfold. For the last few years, it has been market ed and harvested at from $5 to $7.50 a ton. The purchaser haB stored it and sold it during the late winter for $50 or $60 a ton. FEED THE PIGS SEPARATELY Young Animals May Be Given Same Ration as That Provided for Moth ers During Nursing Period. When the pigs are from four to six weeks old they will begin to eat with the sows. They should be fed separately by penning off a smell space on the feed ing floor or hog lot where the young pigs have access to the feed. The feed should be given in a small trough which can be cleaned easily before each feeding. The pigs may be given the same ra tion as provided for their mothers dur ing the nursing period and continued on the same ration after weaning. The Furrow Slice. Regardless of the time when plow ing ls dono, whether spring or fall, the furrow slice should be Armed down (n close contact with the subsoil. Whether or not it Is so firmed down is expressed largely in the yield of crop at harvest time. Fattening Wethers for Market The wethers intended for the tell market should be taken from the fleck, put by themselves, and fed lib erally- ?til tbay are so fat that an other week's feeding will not add a ponnd. For Chilly Nights ^Frosty Mornings SMOKELESS, odorless PERFECTION OIL HEATER is just what you need In the morning it warms up the bed room and bathroom in five minutes. In the evening it lets you read and smoke in comfort-and saves start ing a costly coal fire or furnace. The Perfection burns 10 hours on a gallon of kerosene. Clean-quick-convenient Look for the Triangle Trademark. Sold in many styles and sizes at hardware, general and department stores everywhere. Use Aladdin Security Oil or Diamond White Oil to obtain best results in Oil Stoves, Lamps and Heaters. STANDARD OIL COMPANY Washington, D. C Horfollt. Va. Richmond, Va. (New Jersey) BALTIMORE Charlotte, N. C. [Charleston. W. Vp. {Charleston, S. C. Highest motad Pancmo~Pac?c Exposition mm A telephone on the Farm affords the Farmer's family freedom from isolation as well as protection in the absence of the men. Mr. S. S. Lee, of Blanch, N. C., writes: "Some time ago one of our friends' husband was compelled to be off until ten o'clock at night. During that time no one was in the house but his wife. She talked to us all up and down the line, and each family was ready to go to her at a minute's notice. She said she was so glad she'had a phone, as she would not feel at all lonely." Write for our free booklet and see hov/ little it costs to have a telephone on your Farm. Address Farmers Line Department SOUTpE&N BELL. TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY Soalh Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. f^l I Cured-no cutting:, no pain, no danger, no detention I I from business. Testimonials furnished from people J inc LB %0 YOU know. Call on or write me for particulars and mmml^?mmmmmm^mmmmm information regarding my advanced method of treating "------ Piles, Nerve, Blood, Skin and special diseases of men and women. 25 years' experience. . Consultation Free. DR. W. R. REGISTER, 506 Union National Bank Building, Columbia, S. C. I The I wish to call attention to the Star line of pianos for which I ara the representative. They consist of the Star, the Trayser, the Rich mond and the Remington Pianos. The Star Piano Company manufac tures all of the parts which go into each piano. There are twenty-two buildings required for the factory's equipment. These pianos are used in over four hundred schools and colleges in the United States. The workmanship is the highest, and all instruments are fully guaranteed. Sold on terms of easy payment by J. A. Hi Greenwood - - - South Carolina J. C. LEE, President F. E. Gibson, Sec. and Treas. FARMERS, MERCHANTS, BUILDERS, If you are going to build, remodel or repair, we invite your inquiries. COMPLETE HOUSE BILLS A SPECIALTY. We manufacture and deal in doors, sash, blinds stairs, interior trim, store fronts and fixtures, pews, pulpits, etc., rough and dressed lumber, lath, pine and cypress shingles, flooring, ceiling and siding. . . Distributing agents for Flintkote roofing Estimates cheerfully and carefully mane. Woodard Lumber Co AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Corner Roberts and Dugas Streets, Our Motto: SSE C OUTRIGHT METAL>; ? SHINGLES The four designs of Cortright Metal Shingles as shown above are made in any of the following ways : 1. Stamped from Tin-plate and painted Red. 2. Stamped from Tin-plate and painted Green. 3. Stamped from Tin-plate and Galvanized by a hand-dipping process. 4. Stamped from special tight-coated Galvanized Sheets. Each and every genuine Cortright Metal Shingle is embossed with this Trade-mark, M Cortright Reg. U. S. Pat. Off." 6 For Sale by STEWART & KERNAGHAN EDGEFIELD, S. C. ARRINGTON BROS. & CO Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Kinds of Feeds Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks Augusta, Ga. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED gjfiST See our representative, C. E. I May.