Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CULL EARLY TO GET PROFITS Every Breeder ls Anxious to Realize on His Flock and Get Back Some of Investment. The advice to cull early seems un necessary this year, when every breeder is anxious to realize on his flock and get back some of the money he has been putting into chickens. For the home flock one wants early cock erels, but If the trade in cockerels is for low-priced birds only, it will not be profitable to keep the early-hatched males for the trade. Keep all pullets save the deformed. An early-hatched pullet, with all the disqualifications mentioned in the standard, may be the most profitable bird on the place ns an early layer. She can be culled before the eggs are needed for hatching, but will pay for her feed until then. If one is grow ing purebreds for tho first time, get one who understands the breed to cull. An expert will be able to choose the birds best worth keeping. We doubt If capouizing will pay the farmer-cer tainly not caponizing the early bird. CLOVER SUPERIOR FOR EGGS Favorite Food for Fowls, and Each . Year Its Use ls Becoming Moro General on Farms. For years clover has been a favor ite food for fowls, and each year its | use is becoming more general. There is a large percentage of nitrogen and mineral matter in clover. What is known as "rowen," the second crop, ls best. In a hiph nutritive ration clover equals barley, and almost equals wheat. It should be cut when in fuir blos som, I. e., it should not be cut before the first blossoms begin to turn brown. Being very rich in protein, clover contains potash, soda, phosphoric acid and other Ingredients that make it one of the best feeds for poultry. In short, clover contains nil' the essentials in well-balanced proportion. In a ton of clover there are about 39 pounds of nitrogen. EGGS ARE TURNED TOGETHER Dpvi<-e Arranged by Minnesota Man Facilitates Work Greatly-Heat I Evenly Distributed. -Every _so_ often_the maa or woman who is hatching chickens in an incu bator must turn the eggs over so that the heat will be proportionately dis tributed. To do po by hand is a sb>\v process and involves quite a great fl r ? "If' 3?^g?',v;i Egg Turning Device. deal of shaking up the eggs which ls ' not good. Now along conies a Minne- ! sota man and hooks up some cog ' wheels, a chain and a couple of rollers to his incubator, and within a few sec- | onds you can roll over all the eggs in the incubator instead of doing it one at a time. Take one look at the ac companying drawing and you will see j at a glance just how the thing works, j -Fanning Business. FEED LATE HATCHED CHICKS Little Ones Should Be Fed Separately From Older Fowls-Thoroughly Disinfect Coops. It is a mistake to put the late hatched chicks in the same yards with older ones, to allow them to run on ground which has been more or less fouled by the earlier broods, or to use j the coops which earlier broods have used unless these coops have been I thoroughly disiufected. The little ones must also be fed separate from the larger ones or the latter will get most of the feed besides abusing the smaller i ones. FIT DUCKLINGS FOR MARKET] When Eight or Ten Weeks Old Young Fowls Should Be Fattened Keep Only Breeders. The early hatching ducklings, if they are eight or ten weeks old, should be fattened now and sent to market, ex cept those which are to be kept over for breeding purposes, and they should not be fattened, but should remain on free range if possible. PROTECT FLOCK FROM PESTS All Kinds of Poultry Lice Multiply Rapidly in Summer-Use Plenty of Vermin Killers. In the heat of midsummer all kinds of poultry lice multiply rapidly, and poultry keepers should use plenty of . lice killers to protect the flock against the torments of these pests, which often spoil the profit. The Only Remedy for the Quar rels in the Home ls Greatest Thing in World-Love. (Text-Genesis 37:18-28.) There are no causes for misery more common than, and none so dis tressing as family discord. The closer the ties that bind, the greater the chafing may be and the sorer the wound that this chafing makes. The sweeter the fruit, the sourer the vin egar; and when family affection turns sour, the product is worthy of the dis cord of the bottomless pit. No better illustration of the causes and results of family discord does the Bible afford than the story of Joseph, his father and his brethren. How many children today grieve over the preference of parents for a brother or sister! The less favored one is not so winsome or pretty, per haps, or he finds it less easy to express his affection ; and in secret, though too proud to tell his sorrow, he grieves over this partiality, and comes to think at last that he has no chance to make his way in life in comparison with his more favored brother. Nothing is more foolish than the exhibition of such partiality. Indeed, it is almost criminal. It is apt to ren der the favored one conceited and top lofty, and to depress and mortify and sour the less attractive. It is gratify ing to know.that often the affection of father and mother is poured out more lavishly on the sick, the crippled, the ill-favored ; but when the reverse is the case, family quarrels are sure to fol low. Our theme has to do with the fam ily life of Jacob's sons. We cnn easily trace the course of the quarrel which almost ripeped into murder. Partial ity, wrangling, conspiracy and Intend ed fratricide were the seeds and fruits of this evil tree. Every family quarrel contains some of these hateful seeds and may bear such hideous fruits. I am glad that the future story of Jo seph relieves this dark picture. Age sometimes hardens and sours the dis position, but sometimes it softens and sweetens lt. In the case of Jacob and his sous it seems to have the latter effect. They grew to be better men as they grew older. At last Joseph had an opportunity to take a glorious revenge. During all the years of his obscurity in the pal ace and in prison he kept a warm place in hi? heart for his old father, and bore no ill-will toward the brothers who had treated him so ill. "Is the old man your father, yet alive?" lie asks with trembling voice and eyes so moist that he dared not eat with his brothers in the palace lest he betray himself. He heaped Benja min's plate with a fivefold portion, showing the same partiality for the youngest brother that his father had shown for him. but not with the same disastrous results. For the older broth ers had been chastened by their af flictions, and starved into humility, and did not resent the favoritism shown to Benjamin. They groveled -t the feet of their unknown brother, the great premier of Egypt, bowing before him as his dream predicted, and lie completed the conquest by forgiving and loving then), and falling on their necks with kisses, and giving them aft erward of the best of the land. Thus ended this bitter family feud. We could scarcely have expected such a sequel. The sequel to the feud in Jacob's family points to the only remedy for all such quarrels. It is spelled l-o-v-e, and it Is described more beautifully than in in any other literature in the j thirteenth chapter of I Coriuthians. What a divine remedy is love for curing family discord! It ls the only ] one. Such quarrels, unless love ends them, will be likely to grow more and more bitter until they end in the di vorce court, as they have done so often, or possibly in murder and the murderer's cell. j Let us pray In every family circle, at every family altar, for the love that is kind, modest, well behaved, gen- i erous, gentle, that hopes and believes all good things about another-the love that never falleth.-Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D., LL. D., founder and President of Christian Endeavor. DUTY OF PRESENT MINISTRY Better Than All the Post-Mortem Tes timonials and Devotion We Can Bestow. Do not keep your sublime love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweet ness; speak approving, cheering words while their ears cnn hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and be made happier by them. The kind things you mean to do when they are gone, do before they go. The flowers you mean, to send for their coffins, send to brighten and sweeten their homes before they leave them. K my friends have alabaster boxes laid away full of fragrant perfumes of sym pathy and affection which they intend to break over my dend body, I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours and open them that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin with out flowers, a funeral without a eulogy, than life without sweetness of love and sympathy. Let us learn to anoint our friend beforehand for burial. Post mortem kindness docs not cheer the burdened spirit; flowers on a coffin cast no fragrance backward over the weary way.-Selected. . HURRY GOOD ROADS BUILDING Country to Profit in Future From Highways Built as Necessity of Warfare and Defense. It is the general opinion of motor ists arriving In Washington from all j parts of the country that the, war with Germany ls acting as a sharp prod to speed np road building. - Whatever the war costs the nation in dollars and lives, it will result in ? the building of thousands of miles of : usable roads in all sections, for these highways are now rated as one of the ? necessities of warfare and defense, 1 says Washington Star. Possibilities of an Invasion are re I mote, but now that lt has been decld I ed to send an expeditionary force abroad, it is certain that other thou ? 3ands will follow, hence the mobiliza tion of troops on the seaboard ls some thing not to be overlooked. Railroads are up to their ears in I other work and have shown their lack ' of equipment to meet ordinary de J monds of a period of fast growth and an attendant increase of consumption. So other means may haye to be relied ' upon to hustle the boys In khaki to the j ports, whence they will sail for the j front. For this purpose the motor ve-1 ; hlcle Is ready, and all it needs to add I to its wonderful record of efficiency In a pinch is a system of roads which can be traveled in safety and at speed dur j lng all seasons. Here on the East, where the troops i will be massed before sailing, good j roads are considered as of vital inter-, j est to the nation just as the raising j : of vegetables in fields and yards which i heretofore have produced nothing. I Throughout the Atlantic ar?a the mad builders are hard at it, and, In spite of the urgency of the calls for men for other purposes, help Is being enlisted in the cause. An immense amount of road building work is being done in the South, and in the Central Vest thousands of miles of roads are under way, these forming the connecting link and making pos ' slble hurried trips if such are needed.1 Experts point out that automobiles can take an army of 100,000 men from the Middle West to New York in less time than can the railroads, ajul when the highways are improved a great cut Concrete Road in Maryland. will be made in the running time of the motor cars. The West ls not overlooking any thing in the way of road building. There is not a state in which it is not one of the big movements, even in a part of the country which is least af fected. What Virginia is doing is being un dertaken in greater or less degree by many Eastern states. HIGH VALUE OF GOOD ROADS Estimated Cost of $900,000,000 to Get ! Surplus Farm Products to Mar* ket or to Railroad. J After careful inquiry it has been ! found that the average haul of the j American farmer in getting his prod uct to market or to the nearest ship ping station is 12 miles, and the aver age cost of hauling over the common country roads Is 25 cents a ton per mile, or $3 a ton for a 12-mile haul. I An estimate places the total tons : hauled at 800,000,000 a year. On the estimate of $3 a ton for 12 miles this I would make the total cost of getting i the surplus products of the farra to ' the local market or to the railroad no less than $000,000,000-a figure greater j than the operating expenses of all the i railroads of the United States. If any I thing could make an argument for i good wagon roads this statement sure I ly may. Litter In Hen House. Litter kept on the floor of the poul j try house should be removed when ; ever it becomes damp and filled with j droppings that do not dry. Whlte ! washed walls make the poultry house lighter and more sanitary. Patching OW Gravel Road. Patching done In the proper manner j when the road is wet, followed by a road drag, will maintain an old gravel road surface as good as new until it Is ! so badly worn that an entirely new sur? j face ls required. Don't 1 rior bi someth oughly ers. T "Quality has be< 75 yea in Edgi W. W. i c THE C( W. P. CASSELS, There can be no doubt as to the merit of Cardui, the woman's tonic, in ihe treatment of many troubles peculiar to women. Thc thousands of women who have been helped by Cardui in the past 40 years, is conclu sive proof that it is a good medicine for women who suffer, lt should help you, too. Take $2 The Woman's Tonic Mrs. N. E. Varner, of Hixson, Tenn., writes: "I was passing through the . . . My back* and sides were terrible, and my suffering indescriba ble. I can't tell just how and where I hurt, about all over, I think . ;. I began Cardui,. and my pains grew less and less, until I was cured. I am remarkably strong for a woman 64 years of age. 1 do all.my "housework." Try Cardup today, E-76 This World J. T. HARLING OFFICK OVER Bank of Edgefield, S. C. ion, Farmers! De misled into using infe *ands of fertilizers. Use ing that has been thor tested by Edgefield farm he Line of Fertilizers" 3n on the market for about xs. These goods are sold efield by Idams & Company all on Them for Prices I 1 CHARLESTON, S. C. Agent, Johnston, S. C., Phone 77 E8B32HE2E bONE S ?KlKE B?TASURE^ CoDvricbt 1V09. bT C. C. Z i rm an Co.--.No. 5! THERE is no doubt about money in the bank, it is sure and positive. Maybe slow, but there is the satisfaction that it is sure. Posi tive in every way, both that it will grow, and that it is safe. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E. Nicholson, vice-President E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Oashier. DIRECTORS : J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. C. Fuller. E. J. Mims.. J. H. Allen BARRETT & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) COTTON FACTORS Augusta Georgia