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QUICK PASTURES FOR SHEEP Rye, Wheat, Barley, Oats, etc., Are All Excellent-Cowpea ls Favorite Among Legumes. For a quick-growing sheep pasture some of the graiu plants are excellent. Rye, wheat, barley, oats, etc., are all used. Some of the peas and other legumes are often used, the common cowpea being a general favorite for this purpose. Sorghums are a big help when sown in the spring to furnish sheep pasture during the dry deather of midsummer, when the meadow grasses are brown and the bluegrass is apparently dead. There is a great list of grasses that may be used in establishing a tempo rary sheep pasture. When a pasture is needed in a short time it is necessary to pick a grass that will establish it self at once and begin furnishing for age. Timothy is fairly satisfactory und so are all the clovers. Take timothy und red clover as a combination to be sown early in the spring, with a nurse crop of oats and you have a mixture that is hard to beat. Cowpeas sown in the corn will make a fine late pasture for sheep and lambs. Alfalfa has been recommended as a sheep pasture. It hus points in its favor, but these are more than off set by [ts disadvantages. It will grow quickly and furnish a vast amount of grazing, but unless it is well mixed with other grasses its value is doubt ful for this reason: It is likely to cause bloating. This, with the harm to the alfalfa that will be caused by the characteristic close grazing of the sheep makes it a poor plant for a sheep pasture. SHEEP FLOCK IS PROFITABLE Particularly Adapted to Rougher and Hilly Regions Where Much Land ls Going to Waste. When you take Into consideration the prices that wool and mutton are bringing at the present time it is easy to see how any farm can support a flock of sheep and make a good profit therefrom. In fact, it is hard to see how any farm in the rougher and more hilly regions, where there is a great deal of waste land, can afford to do without sheep. Where a man will take the time and put his attention to the job he can First Prize Leicester Ram. make a big return on his investment if he lives in me of those regions where thc dog nuisance is more or less under control. A few years ago a good many sheep farmers were holding their lambs over the first winter Instead of selling diem in the fall for the holiday and win ter markets. The demands of the lamb market during the last year have been such to hurry the youngsters Into the markets as soon as they would weigh from 55 to GO pounds. There is every sien that the lamb markets of this se-ison will be fully as active as those of last fall and win ter. MAKING HOG CHOLERA SERUM Object of Treatment ls to Stimulate Production of Antibodies in Ani mal's System. Serum is blood taken from a healthy hog which has received special treat ments consisting of injecting large quantities of virus or hog cholera blood directly into its veins or circu lation. The object of this treatment Is to stimulate the production of antibodies or immune bodies. A hog that is made immune to hog cholera by the use of serum has a sufficient quantity of an tibodies to protect Itself, but has not enough to protect others, consequent ly, we must create an excess of anti bodies in its system, which is done as described above. The blood taken from a hog thus prepared with the addition of a very small amount of preservatives consti tutes hog cholera serum as placed on the market today. ALFALFA FAVORED FOR SHEEP Greater Gains Made in Test With Western Range Animals Than Those Fed Mixed Hay. Greater pains t re made by sheep fed on alfalfa than on any thor hay. In n test where four lots ?f western raupe sheep were fed for 120 days nu wheat screenings and different kinda : of roughness, those receiving alfalfa !gained^.20 pound daily per head, while j those receiving the mixed hay gained but .12 pound. Plan of Collecting Income Tax ls Criticized. New York World Advises a Change tn Methods, and Presents Arguments Upholding ' Its Vision of the Situation. Secretary McAdoo is right in the view that the income tax needs "tightening up." But it needs tight ening up in more ways than requir ing the taxable citizen to make a de tailed return of deductions from gross income. The honest assessment of the tax suffers primarily from the attempt to "collect at the source." This amounts to an effort on the part of the gov ernment to turn over the collection of the individual tax to the corporations at their own instead of the govern ment's expense. Work which the gov ernment's tax collectors are paid for doing is passed on to those who are forced to do it without compensation and at no end of trouble. This is not fair to the collecting corporations. It ls demoralizing to the government's own collection serv ice. It has resulted in indescribable confusion. It cannot but result in many evasions which are not the in tent of the taxpayer. Taxable incomes may be derived from a single corporate source, from several corporate sources, from no j corporate source, or partly from one j and from the other source. This ex l poses the assessment to no end of i complications wide open even to hon ; est evasions. But when the work is ; further divided between corporation j assessors for Incomes of corporate 1 origin and government assessors and I collectors for other incomes, how is ! an effective assessment fairly to be j expected? Government collectors who ? are required to shirk two-thirds of their work cannot be depended on to I perform the other third, j Let the government go to the In? ! dividual in the first place, and count j upon the corporations only as infor I mation bureaus in getting at the in I dividual and his taxable income. This is the simple way; it must, accord ingly, be the more effective way. It I is more in harmony with that spirit of the tax which seeks to bring the individual into a direct pocket rela tion with the government and the way the government is managed.-New , York World. Loaning Government Money. True it is that in 18S8 the Repub I lican national platform denounced the Democratic policy of loaning the gov ernment's money without interest to "pet banks," but President Harrison and his secretary of the treasury con tinued the Bame policy during every month of his four years of occupancy . of the White House. ! So ft waa under Cleveland's second administration, so it was under Mc Kinley's administrations, so it was under Roosevelt's administrations; and what banker .and what business j man so forgetful as to fail to remem ' bei the scores of millions of dollars 1 in United States treasury funds which ! Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou I piled into the vaults of the banks of i New York city when the panic of , 1907. under a Republican administra tion, brought pallor to the bankers' ! cheeks as their vault shelves were emptied of their own stocks of cur '. rency? Republican Death Knell. "The Republican leaders have sound ed the death knell of their party by , proclaiming that it is a party of the i North and not of the South; not a ; national organization, but a sectional organization," declared Col. William ! F. Sapp, Democratic national commit '. tceman of Kansas, in a*recent inter I view. "The Acpubiican national com ; mittee has voted to reduce the South ; ern representation in tho convention. ' This is a virtual declaration that the Republican party does not represent the South; but the North alone; it is not a national organization. There has been a lot of apparent enthusi asm among the Republicans of late, for what reason I am unable to under stand. Certainly they cannot base their optimism on poor business con ditions, for as an old friend of mine back in Kansas expressed it, 'business is gettin' better every day and the Re publicans are thro win' a fit.' " ' Need for More Democrats. The World calls it "a disappointing congress." Well, It's a Democratic congress, isn't it?-The Herald. The Sixty-third congress had a much larger Democratic majority than this congress, and its record of great constructive legislation has never been surpassed. The Herald will have to advance another explanation. Per haps there are not enough Democrats in the Sixty-fourth congress.-New York World. America in Leading Position. The reason for making the dollar the measure of the world's money is simply that the United States has taken the lead in commerce for the first time in history and that foreign nations are obliged to pay in money, for they have relatively little return of exports. Will Start a Stampede. "Let the G. O. P. come to us," says George W. Perkins. Shake your checkbooks at 'em, George, and the coming will start.-Houston Post. TESTING ALL ROAD MATERIAL Hardness, Toughness and Binding Power of Rock Should Be Deter mined-Qualities Defined. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, Counties or communities intending to build water-bound macadam roads ; run considerable risk of failure un i less they have the rock they are to use j tested for hardness, toughness, and ! binding power. These are the quali i ties, In the opinion of the engineers of the office of public roads and ru j ral engineering of the department, I which experience hus shown to be ! most essential to the endurance of a road. In a recent technical paper de ? signed to assist engineers In making uccurate laboratory tests of road ma terial, the road specialists define these qualities as follows: j "Hardness is the property a rock should possess in order to resist suc cessfully tlie abrasive action of truihc, especially iron-tired vehicles, which tend to grind to dust the individual fragments of rock forming the wear ing course of macadum road. "Toughness is the property a rock should possess to resist successfully fracture under the impact of traffic. "Binding power, or cementing values as it is more frequently called, is the ability which the dust of a rock should possess or develop by contact with wa ter, so as to bind or cement the larger rock fragments together and prevent tlu'ir displacement under the shearing action ol* traf!'u\ This property is es ' pecinlly valuable in water-bound macadam construction, since it is de pended upon to maintain the integ rity of the wearing course as the road surface is worn oj? by traffic." The use of rock suited to withstand the wear of traffic is regarded as so .. important that the department offers Impact Machine for Testing Tough ness of Rock. to test samples of road-building rock for any citizen free of charge, pro vided the samples are sent prepaid and are submitted in accordance with defi nite printed instructions. These in structions will be mailed by the office nf public mads ?md rural engineering to whoever requests a copy. Where a community is considering using ;i lo cal stone or other stone which has not already proved its durability In high way work, the highway supervisors would do well to secure u laboratory report from the department. These; laboratory tests are conducted with elaborate and rather expensive appara tus, and in the case of untried rock are the only practical safeguards against the employment ol' material that will wear out too quickly to prove a good investment WONDERFUL SAVER CF TIME Little Hand Hoe, With Small Blade, le Great Convenience in Weeding Seed Onions. Hoe away fruin onions instead of dilling up; they spread out and grow much Netter, if truck fanning a little liaucl hoe. the lilade about'thu si/.e of vour thumb, ls a wonderful lime saver in weed!r.g seed onions. Tiley can be nude hy any blacksmith and cost buta 'ew cents. IS NOT CONVINCING Country Will Not Approve of Root's Program. Criticism of President Wilson's Atti tude During the Tremendous Up heaval in Europe Must 13? Said to Lack Sincerity. From the lofty vantage ground of hindsight, Mr. Root declares that Pres ident Wilsen has made mistakes in dealing with foreign complications. That is extremely probable-the Jour nal pointed out one such mistake and the way to retrieve it only a few days ago. This war has surprised everyone and upset all calculations. Germany, which had the advantage of the initiative, made three tremendous errors at the very start: She thought that Bel gium would not resist, that England would not come into the war, that France could not stem the torrent poured upon her. England has made so many blunders that it is useless to enumerate them; Russia has tripped again and again; even France, though sanest and most clear sighted of ail the combatants, has erred many timeB in the simple business of fighting. Why, then, should we expect to be flawless in the much more complicated task of maintaining neutral rights without ceasing to be neutral? Mr. Root's program of "what should have been done" makes it clear that if he had guided the destinies of the nation, we should have been at war with Germany long ago. He would have protested against the violation of Belgium, but without going to war on that point Such a course would have been equivalent to serving no tice on Germany that we hated her but would not fight her-a fine way. truly, of persuading ber to respect our wishes. He would have backed the Lusitania protests with "action." The only possible action is the use of j force, and force means war. Mr. Root would be more candid and more convincing-if he omitted entirely his lip service to peace, an* declared boldly that this nation ought j now to be at war with Germany and j Austria.-Chicago Journal. Germany's Protective System. The American Protective Tariff league, through the American Econo : mist's Washington correspondent, cleverly turns the tables on the Tariff I Commission league, which has just is \ sued a pamphlet asserting that the strongest argument in its campaign for a permanent nonpartisan tariff commission is the fact that Germany j has a permanent nonpartisan tariff ? commission which brought that coun ty .\o the high standard of efficiency ' in competitive ability which it en ! joyed at the outbreak of the war. The ; Tariff league shows that Germany's tariff was made not by a nonpartisan tariff commission but by a body which was composed almost entirely of pro tectionists, in which manufacturers and land owners were in a large ma jority. Germany wanted an adequate ly protective tariff and she got it at the hands of this protective commis sion. "She has that tariff yet," says the American Economist, "and will shove it up higher after this big war is over." It is becoming clearer each day that the tariff commission idea cannot pos sibly prevail. President Wilson has declared against it on the one hand, and he is supposed to very fairly rep- ] resent the Democratic party, and the Tariff league is opposed to it on the other hand, and it voices the views of 1 a large majority of those who will sit representing the Republican party in this congress, as in the next President Has Done Well. In tho presence ol' the greatest of ! all wars, which appeals strongly to di- j vided American sentiments, and which ; strikes deeply at American interests ! at a thousand points, the president has j preserved thc honor of the nation, has j in its behalf performed his duty to | mankind of insisting upon the pres- I ervation of tho sanctions and re- | straints of international law, and has so far achieved important diplomatic victories without the threat of force, but in a manner that leaves neither America nor Europe in doubt that he would use force if diplomacy should fail. At the opening of a presidential campaign the Republicans will, of course, loudly deny all these things, but they are true, and in ten years no one will dispute them.-Philadelphia Record. Does Not Seem Like Ruin. Is it as an expression of confidence in the ruin of the industry to follow the war under free wool and a low tariff on woolens that the American woolen trust begins to pay dividends for the first time on its common stock? Forecast by Hilles. On the eve of the meeting of the Republican national convention Chair man Charles D. Hilles gave out a statement in which he predicted a Republican victory. As a forecaster, the Honorable Charles ls without a peer, and if prognosticating were the sum total of the national chairman's duties, he would be the ideal man tor the job. Unfortunately, however, the retrospective is not so pleasant, as Mr. Taft, surveying faitliful-unto death Utah and Vermont, can testify. ! 50 HAPPY To Have A BANK ACCO Oocirieht 1909. by C. E. Zimmerman Co--No. 44 0 F all the unhappy homes not one in a hundred has a bank account and not one home in a hundred who has a bank account is unhappy. It seems almost foolish to put it off any longer, when it is such a simple, easy matter to start a bank account. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E. Nicholson, vice-President E. J. Minis, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Oashier. ,".."-,) ' DIRECTORS : J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B.?EL Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. C. Fuller. E. J. Mims. J. H. Allen. ,^HFJBiUjnaaaa^.^p*w. ? /ESP? ^BfcEra lt ?f? ' WM' A 1 W-*"^ . " 11 vi* ^ mji mm .i \ r-i?-^ V^J^-V, / ff,.) ? wm T-T !-:- - Ih'cc] ?:c-.s W?U t!:c ?.r. :?ccra'ic. Epy*earer?ce. . ;ce: and lusbo??a i?.t "poiniz ofvkvj* .Reinforced at "pcmlscfacar' DORN & MIMS NOT BURNED OUT Although the fire was all around us only a corner of our warehouse was burned. We have storage for 8,000 bales. Our office was not touched, and our business goes on as usual. DAVISON & FARGO, Augusta, Ga. COTTON FACTORS. VACATION TRIPS Low Summer Fares to Mountain, Lake and Seashore VIA Southern Railway For complete information regarding Summer Excursion fares, Week-end and Sunday fares, and for illustrated and in formative literature about cool and de lightful places at which to spend the summer or vacation, call on J. A. TOWNSEND, Ticket Agent, F. R. McMlLLIN, Edgefield, S. G. District Passenger Agent. Jackson and'ENis Sts., Augusta. Ga.