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IDENTIFICATION OF <Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture,) On a farm where hogs are raised for purely market purposes and where the. number of sows ls small there need be no Identification of the stock. The feeder knows his animals and even when mistakes are made they are of relatively small importance. But where large herds are maintained or where purebred stock Is bred, there ls neces sity for some method of Identifying the individuals. It enables the careful breeder to tell the ancestry of any member of the herd, which ls a self evident advantage in the selection of breeding stock. The clerical end of record keeping need not be discussed, but it is well to mention a few methods used to identify the animals. No prac tical method of branding hogs has been dev&ed. Some breeders use ear tags marked with different numbers, but these tear out very easily and become lost. They are also subject to the ob jection that it ls impossible to mark hy this method at birth. No sys tem is free from defects, but one of the most satisfactory methods ls to mark by means of ear cuts or notches, each of which represents a number and by combining them any number from one up can be designated. These 1 m? :j<sss?sfiss3p^..^ : sss sum: <vss?r?&!.: ??N ? ] WEANED PIGS ON SI TOWNS AID FARMER Campaign to Incpease Production Helped by Organizations. DISPOSE OF SURPLUS CROPS Problem of Greater 1 Production of Foodstuffs of Sufficient Impor tance to Attract Attention of Business Men. (Prepared hy the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Many city organizations have this year joined in the campaign to increase production and have aided consistently in plans for disposing of the surplus grown In city gardens and by the farmers In the surrounding communi ties. Boys' and girls' clubs, women's organizations and business men's asso ciations have given aid In many locali ties. In nearly all cities and larger towns the business men are organizing to handle matters that relate to the com imercial life of the municipalities. The problem of greater production of food stuffs has boen deemed of suflicient im portance in many places to justify the attention of a special committee of rep resentative business men. In many .cases there seems to be the need of a committee to superintend the market ing of the surplus from the new gar dens. A committee of business men could act In co-operation with the woman's .clubs to determine the true state of (local conditions and to devise some ?plan whereby improvements can be (brought about. For example, after an investigation, the business men of one WHY, WHERE AND H (Prepared by the United Stat Figures prepared by the Bureai department of agriculture, show as tick eradication July 1, 1900, to Dec o ?? .< i WI State. Na Xe Alabama . 67 - Arkansas. ~5 2 California . 15 Florida . 50 4 Georgia .149 T Kentucky . 2 Louisiana . 63 4: Mississippi ... 81 Missouri . 4 North Carolina . 75 2 Oklahoma .*61 t South Carolina . 44 V Tennessee . 42 Texas .198 15 Virginia' . 30 Total .956 43 .Only portiens of 5 of the Cl counties ft HOGS IN BIG HERDS notches cnn be cut nt the time of birth, and unless the pi? ha% an ear muti lated In fighting, they usually remain permanently. The following Is a key to a simple and effective method of notching pigs so as to be able to record their breeding. All pigs In the same tit ter should have the same mark. Keep a record of the mark and the sow's identification, and her pigs can then be selected at any time : A Method of Notching Pigs. Number Indicated. Location of Mark. Left ear. Right ear. Outer side, next to head.1 IC Outer side, midway between head and tip of ear .3 Outer side, next to tip of ear..5 Inner side, next to head .2 2C Inner side, midway between head and tip of car.4 4C Inner side, next to tip of ear..6 K The cuts may be made with a knife, but the most convenient instrument ta a punch which nicks the pigs' ears quickly and makes a clean cut. Little trouble will be experienced In having the edges of the cuts heal together, but if they should it is an easy matter to see them on close inspection and to cut them open again. By this'method lt is possible to number consecutively from 1 to over 100, with not more than two notches in either ear. ICCULENT PASTURE. Western city decided that community drying plants were needed, so they [ loaned the necessary funds to establish several. These plants cost about $200 each and were so located as to serve best the needs of the greatest number of people. A small charge is made for the drying service to cover the cost of operation and to pay off the loan gradually. Finance Community Enterprises. In other places where the business men are not financing such community enterprises themselves they are help ing the municipality to finance and manage them. One Eastern city has appropriated $l.n00 to be used, to gether with a similar sum raised by a business men's organization, for the establishment of a drying plant. At one time another Western city faced rather strained relations between the growers and the deniers, largely due to n misunderstanding, which was removed in the following manner: The husiness men secured a vacant ware house located on the railroad and placed :i competent produce man In charge. The farmers delivered their products to this warehouse and the local dealers secured their daily supply from there, paying the market price. The surplus not needed locally was properly graded and packed by the man in charge of the warehouse and shipped in carload lots to the most fa vorable market. All nccounts wert audited regularly by a committee, com posed of an equal number of growers and dealers. Not only has this plan greatly improved the marketing meth ods in that district, but It has created a better feeling between producer and dealer. The city growers who have had prac tically no marketing experience usual ly are not organized to look after their own interests. This need suggests a service that the business organizations can well render, particularly in the shipping out of the surplus products. OW TICK IS ON RUN es Department of Agriculture.) i of animal industry, United States follows the progress in cattle fever ember 1, 1017: . O O > > s. M c 2 2 r* q ."a qi o p S S g Sp Sf ? -5 o ? a S? ? S 2 a si g ? -s a. 3 a. - ?F3 hole. Whole. Part. Part. ). No. No. No. 7 S 37 3 51,279 19,918 31.301 61 r 6 42 ti 62.526 31,573 60 . .. ]i? .. "y.924 .... 7:*.:*24 IO) G 1 3 1 54,.M;1 49.M1 4 m 9 9 .. 70 .. 57,438 35.324 22 114 39 2 .. S41 .... *.sii lix) 3 2 12 2 45.409 37,824 7.5^5 17 . .. 81 .. 46.362 .... ?.se 10) . .. 4 .. 1.386 .... 1-?se 100 I 2 P2 2 37.!!?.-, 9.674 27 WI 74 I l? 15 14 47.S90 22.377 25,ol5 V? ? .. 34 .. 30.495 fc,619 2l|s76 "'> . .. 42 .. 16.987 .... 16,987 ICO 4 3 41 3 191.885 142,918 4S9G7 26 3 1 26 1 13.91S 1,656 12.232 W 5 28 4SG 32 72S.5C3 349,13 37??lS 52 ; were quarantined. Sugar the Most Common Sweet The world has a sweet oth. It would be difficult to find in ivlduals and probably impossible to find a peo ple who do not like sweets. And of all sweets the most common is sugar, practically all of which is produced from the sugar cane and the beetroot, the beetroot ( being the source of somewhat more than half the supply. Sugar not only pleases the palate, but it helps to sus tain the body, for though it is not suf ficient itself, it forms a very useful component of foods, being easily sol uble and assimilable. Infecting Ink Into the Eye. Sometimes when n scar has been left on the cornea of the eye it is most un sightly. Oculists used to tattoo these scars with India Ink, but the method was not satisfactory and has almost been abandoned. Dr. F. H. Verhoeff of Boston describes in the Journal of the American Medical association the delicate operation by which he injects India ink with a hypodermic syringe into such scars, and says the results are far superior to the old-fashioned tattooing. Garden Hose Restores Vision. Garden hose, at full pressure, re stored a man's sight at San Rafael, Cal., recently. The man, Charles Brown fell 40 feet from the roof of his home. Neighbors turned the gar den hose on his head as a first aid measure and after an exanile;?tion Brown was found to be the be.ter in stead of the worse for his tumble. His vision was completely cured. He is wondering whether it was the fall or the garden hose that was responsible. History of the Louvre. The Louvre was originally a royal residence. Napoleon turned it into a museum and deposited in it the finest collection of paintings, statues and art treasures known in the world. Many of those brought from Italy have been restored to their rightful possessors. The magnificent buildings of the new Louvre, begun by Napoleon I and com pleted by Napoleon IH, were inaugu rated In 1857. Ox, Slowest Animal. There is no animal possessing less speed than an ox. In the old days, the days before the advent of railroads lt would take a farmer and his ox team two weeks to make a round trip with twenty-five or thirty bushels of grain to marji et, a' trip that can now be made by rail in half a day. Then the patient animals did well to jig along at the rate of two or three feet a sec ond. Severe Test. Perhaps no test of one's poise and manual dexterity is more difficult for a man of sedentary and intellectual pursuits than the effort to pick up seven or eight newly released water melon seeds from the tablecloth with his left hand without arousing so much as a passing suspicion In his wife's breast that they're there at all.-Ohio State Journal. Edward's Diplomacy. Edward had been told repeatedly not to say he did not like food which was passed to him at the fable. He was invited to a neighbor's to dinner and was offered cherry pie, which he did not care for. He tactfully said, "Well, I'm just crazy for cherry pie, but won't you just save lt for sup per?" Chinese Plant Statuettes. Chinese gardeners sometimes plant statuettes of tiny men firmly in pots, just like real plants, and then train live evergreens to grow up over these statuettes. The vines thus form a kind of robe for the statuette men, their white faces and hands protruding from the green leaves. An Arab's Saying. "It ls well that all men are not rich. "Riches corrupt the soul, but virtue enlarges the hope." These words were foun J In the parchment of an Arabic treatise by some ruler, and ls no doubt the bitter verdict of many that are rich today.-Exchange. What Might Have Been. "What are you worrying about?" "If I eat eggs I think about the chickens they would have produced, and If I eat chickens I think about the eggs they might have laid ; and it's becom ing difficult for me to enjoy anything." Uncle Eben's View of Life. "Life," said Uncle Eben, "ls like fl trip in a flivver. If you misses de right way, the harder you travel de worse you gits lost"-Washington Star. .lhX^ ? 'y:''~T;;V.';y~ Culture Not Enough. .. "Culture is dust and ashes If the spiritual foundations are not well laid, rind lt takes two, a man and a woman, to lay those foundations."-Dorothy Canfield. Gone Forever. In the meantime, what has become of the old fashioned man who gave away all the pennies he received to children? Thought for Day. There are in the world few things that are worth having. Reasons ! Why you should use Cardin, the woman's tonic, for your troubles, have been shown in thousands of letters from actual users of this medi cine, who speak from personal experience. If the results obtained by other women for so many years have been so uni formly good, why not give Cardui a trial? Take The Woman's Tonic Mrs. Mary J. Irvin, of Cullen, Va., writes: "About ll years ago, 1 suffered untold misery with female trouble, bear ing-down pains, head ache, numbness ... I would go for three weeks almost bent double ... My husband went to Dr. - for Cardui . . . After taking about two bottles I began going around and when I took three bottles I could do all my work." E-80 FIRE INSURANCE -F o r This World ONLY J. T. HARLING OFFICE OVER Bank of Edgefield, S. C. Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gle Mills, Engines. Boilers, Supplies and Repairs, Porta ble, Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files. Belts and Pipes, WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. GINS and PRESS REPAIRS Try LOMBARD AUGUSTA. IGA. GEO. F. MIMS OPTOMETRIST Eyes examined ana g.asses fitted only when necessary. Optical work of all kinds. EDGEFIELD, S. C. WANTED Carpenters and Painters. Work nine hours; from 20 to 33^ cents per hour. Compensation for all overtime. W. A. PARDUE, Bath, S. C. ??.........M * { g Used 40 Years ? GARDO' The Woman's Tonic t To Prevent Blood Poisoning apply at once the wonderful old reliirie DI PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC BEALING Ol?., a sui ?ical dressing that relieves pain and heals a -."ie sim", time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. $1.0C Fertilizers for 1918 We beg to announce that we are now ready to deliver fertilizers for this season, having secured a liberal , supply which we have on hand in our warehouses ready for delivery. Haul your fertilizers now while you can get your supply. Do not wait until there is congestion of freights, when you cannot get goods shipped. Armour. Swifts and Koyster our spe cialty. Mixed goods with' potash, mixed goods without potash. 16 per cent, acid; 20 per cent, acid, cotton seed meal. The Edgefleld Mercantile Co. ME STRIKE IT RICH UTA SURE M TO PUTA LIT IN THE BAN EVERY WEEK CoDTtkht 1909. br C. E. Zi?"?crmaD Co.-No. 51 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. 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