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PESTS INJURE LIVE STOCK Screw-Worm and Blow-Fly Trouble some to Stockmen in Different Parts of Country. <Prepared by the United States Depart Both the so-called screw-worm and the blow-fly larvae commonly called maggots, are pests of prime importance to stock raisers. The screw-worm is often confused with the other species, especially during the spring and fall months. Injury to live stock from mag gots is more widespread than is that due to the true screw-worm. In fact, this maggot injury may be found among live stock in any state of the Union, although it occurs most fre quently in the warmer portions of the country. The true screw-worm inflicts enormous losses on the stock raisers Of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ari zona, and southern California during seasons which are favorable for its ^development During the warmer por tions of the year it is never entirely .absent from this region and may also cause injury to stock in the other Southern states, and as far north as ?Nebraska. The screw-worm is a native of the Americas and has been causing trou ble to stockmen for many years. No doubt it is largely due to this fact that cattlemen accept the pest as a necessary evil and always count upon "doctoring" a certain number of cases every year. \ The seasonal abundance of the screw-worm fly depends largely upon climatic conditions. The first ap pearance of adults in numbers In spring varies from the first of April to the middle of June, according to the I latitude and earliness or lateness of the j season. Throughout most of the ter Black Blow-Fly, or Common Maggot Fly, as Seen From Above (En larged). ri tory where it is a pest it usually be comes numerous during early May, and cases of screw-worm injury be gin to appear soon after. The insect then gradually increases in numbers until the hot dry weather of midsum mer, which In Texas usually reduces the abundance so that the injury is no! severe under normal conditions in the months of July and August, unless considerable cloudy and rainy weather occurs. It becomes more numerous again in the early fall, especially when the weather is warm and showery, and Its activities are terminated only with the advent of heavy frosts. The abun dance of this fly, of course, is depend ent to a large ?xtent upon breeding places at hand, but it is also true that a warm, humid atmosphere is best suit ed to its development GOOD FEED FOR LITTLE PIGS Scalding Middlings With Some MUk and Sweetened With Molasses ic Most Excellent. When pigs are about three weeks old they will want to eat more than the milk they can get from theil .mother. A small, shallow trougfc should be placed where the sow can not get lt Scald some middlings, stir and pour In some milk; if the milk Is sweet all the better. Put Into the feed about a tablespoonful of mo lasses. Drive the little pigs carefully over the trough. They will get the odor from the molasses, put their noses to the feed, lap It and begin to eat KEEP DUAL-PURPOSE CATTLE Popular With Farmer Who Most Do pend on Few Animals for Milk and Butter for Family. (From the United States Department ol The dual-purpose cattle are popular with the small farmer who keeps but a few cattle and must depend on them to produce all the milk and butter needed for the family and. at the same time, raise calves or steers which will sell readily for slaughtering pur poses. They have not been popular with the ranchmen or farmer who raise large numbers of cattle, ment of Agriculture.) Agriculture^ ?sa A WELCOME GUEST By ARNOLS WARRENT0N. .(Copyright, ISIS, Western Newspaper Union.; "I saw it first P shouted Robert Les lie. "And I heard lt first!" roared his brother, Martin. "Why, what's your idea?" jeered the first speaker. "Suddenly taken a liking to humanity, that you want to grab a poor little abandoned skit of a thing, after-" There Robert Leslie paused. An acute expression in his brother's face checked him. He was sorry, for he realized that he had made a bad break. There had boen a passage in both their lives where anger had led to injustice and this, in turn, to sorrow deep and lasting. , Into their lonely, lives this sunny af ternoon there had come a startling ex perience. Their home was a double house, with a common porch. Robert lived alone in his quarters. Martin had a housekeeper, a Mrs. Wade. Thus for years these two rare old bachelors had lived, daily sinking deeper into a rut of uneventful existence. "See here, Robert," spoke Martin, after a pause during which the twain gazed dawn at the little huddled atom snugly ensconced in a padded basket, "I see we are of one mind. Some moth er, heartless or driven to direful ex tremity, has left the child here. Why she selected two crabbed old cranks to take in the little refugee I cannot com prehend. Here it is, though, and we are like two schoolboys with an odd toy. All right-we'll adopt tho child." "Yes, it will break the loneliness," responded Robert; "bat what do we know about babies?" "That's Just it." said Martin, eager ly. "But I have Mrs. Wade. She's old, but she's a woman and knows a baby's ways. Don't you see?" "No, I don't!" grouled Robert. "I have as much right to the child as you have." "Granted, and well make it a mutual adoption." pacified Martin, persuasive ly. Tve thought "for a long time how senseless it was for us to maintain sep arate establishments. Close up your joiat and lessen the expense by taking a room with us, and share the baby among ns." So the little foundling was carried into the house, each of the queer old characters jealously Insistent on hav ing a handle of the basket all to him self. "Here's a visitor, and we're going to adopt the little fellow," announced Brother Martia. aad Mrs. Wade w<?ut into ecstacies ow the tiny stranger. Never was such a lively, smiling, blue eyed engel! Why see-he wound his chubby fingers a*"vm d her work-worn hand and actual!;, ugh ed up at her! Oh, this was such a rare gift from heaven ! And Martin grinned and chuckled, and Robert hopped from foot kt foot in a state of high excitement And Mrs. Wade cried and laughed, while tlie baby cooed and crowed. In tlie following irrational week Mar tin sneaked down town and came back with all kinds of baby goods. Robert eontrilKited a high chair and a rocking horse. The two fond and foolish guard ians hovered about the crudle on all occasions possible. "I've been thinking that baby ought to har-e some one to care specially for him," suggested Mrs. Wade. "I have my other duties, end I'm old and slow," se search was made and a Mrs. Min turn hired to take charge of the child. Slyly Martin hid a baseball and bat, a kite and a pocketknife. Robert se cretly went him one better. He had a toy wagon and a sled under the bed. Tke days went by pleasantly and peacefully, the infatuated brothers dis covering daily some new cuteness and intelligence in the baby, always crow ing aad smiting. One day the new nurse was wheeling th* little child along the street when a lady, youthful in face and form, stopped her to bend over'and caress the baby. The nurse was attracted by this interest. They fell into conversation and the nurse mentioned that she would have to give Vf) her charge, as some relatives had asked her to make lier home with them. "Oh, can I trust you? Will you bless my Ufe by one simple act?" broke forth the strange lady, and into the nurse's ear she whispered a story that brought tears of sympathy to her eyes. It came about that when the nurse left the Leslie home she recommended "a friend." As Mrs. Bell, the latter succeeded her. The boy seemed to love her from the start. She won upon the brothers and Mrs. Wade. One day. Martin called his brother into the library, closed the door care fully and extended to him a letter. "Read that," he said soberly. "Why. what is it about? Who wrote nv "Mrs. Bell, otherwise Mrs. Arnold Leslie, wife of the nephew you sent adrift eight years age. He has been ill in a sanitarium for a year. She had te work to keep ?J*B there and had to give up the baby. The letter tells all the story, and Arnold k> well and coin ing for her." "Not te take the baby away?*' quav ered Robert. Unless-" "I understand," spoke Robert, arts? tog and Leaving the room, ?le drew a roll of banknotes from his pocket He Sound Mrs. Bell in the garden. "Daughter," he said, tendering the money, his w>ice quivering with the ut most emotion, "send fer our nephew and tell him wife, and baby and home and love are all waiting for bia here -home I" TERRORS GIVEN INDIAN NAMES Mrs. Wilson Credited With Idea That Really Has a Good Deal to Be Said in Its Favor. Selecting names for the many new vessels soon to slide from American ways is a task needing patience, and application. It ls one of the duties of Assistant Secretary Roosevelt of the navy department, who, though he finds many volunteer assistants, IS always hard pressed In his pursuit of suitable names. The wife of President Wilson has now come to his aid with a list of names. Mrs. Wilson is a descendant of Po cahontas. The names she suggest? may be calculated to spread terror among the enemies of America afloat They are taken from Indian history. When an enemy vessel sees the Sln namahoning approaching flying the Stars and Stripes, the captain is likely to think one of the devils of the deep is in pursuit If tbe SInnamahoning ls followed by the Sisladobsis and the Sisladobsis by the Skaneaieles and the Shawangunk-all names conferred by the president's wife-the enemy may well believe that the day of legendary sea terrors has returned. Suppose, again, that the Saccarappa, the Sagaporack, the Tobesofka and the Tongan?xie were to sail forth together, is there any power on the sea's surface or beneath that wouid court encounter with such an orthographical onslaught? There is a warwhoop In every name. If the Shickshinny does not suggest scalping, or the Sheshequln an ambush, it is because one ls unfamiliar with In dian nomenclature. DESERVED TO BE FORGIVEN Dog's Repentance'for Thoughtless Act Was Evidently Genuine, as Shown by His Actions. Sam was a small, sleek yellow pup six months ago and was sold by the dog fancier with the guaranty that he would not grow to weigh more than 25 pounds, and that he was "most all bulldog." But Sam grew to look like a cross between an Airedale and a lo comotive. He has big feet and a big body, and when he comes head on look out! But that isn't the story. Like almost all dogs of the so-called genus CUP, Sam ls almost the smartest quadruped that ever ate bones. He can sit up in the corner like Jack Hor ner; he can cut a figure eight by walk ing around his master's legs ; he can Jump on a chair and put his front feet on the back and "say his prayers;" he can lie down and roll over ; act like he ls going to cry when someone say?: 'Poor Sam, poor Sam !" and he can do lots of other things. He walked along after a pedestrian the other day and refused to come back until his master went after him and scolded him se verely, so that he' would not forget. Then the roaster piomptly forgot the matter. Ten m?nufes biter wben he went ont trrto tlie kitchen, there sat Sam on the chair In a ''praying'* attitude and the tears were fairly streaming down his cheeks. . Needless to say he was for given Immediately and would have wagged his tall only it had been cut off.--Indianapolis News. Teaching Soldiers Caution. I have a friend-a young six-foot of ficer, powerful as a horse-at one of the cantonments in the far South, who has a way of showing his men the need for individual responsibility, Edward Hungerford writes in Everybody's Magazine. It is his practice to skirmish around the camp late at night and approach the sentries, giving careless, indiffer ent, casually friendly replies to their challenges. The sentry in his happy go-lucky back country fashion, feels that the stranger Is not merely a friend, but of the cantonment. Then -200 pounds of brawn and muscle land upon him ; he feels an awful blow in the pit of the stomach; his gun ls taken away from him, and he finds himself sprawling on the ground. As soon ns he cnn get his breath he looks at his attacker and begins: "What the-" "Exactly so," Interrupts the officer, "only If this really had been 'No Man's Land' and I a German scout you would have been completely dead by this time." ' ' They are taking few chances In the training of our great army. Air Raids Cause Tickling. Two men In a garden who had watched the air-raid unmoved, heard, when danger was over, a window sharply banged behind them. The eld er leaped four feet Into the ala, the other sneezed for ten mi ?utes, and nenrly frightened thoee people ont of an upper window. A lady who bad the sweetest of voices marshaled her maids, and bade them keep perfectly cool, and tatt quietly-all this in piercing shrieks. But an original man, who skipped for safety, explained: **? knew the moment had come to leave, for I felt a queer Internal tickling-like a nest of skylarks beneath the diaphragm." Loodoo^ Chronicle. Stand While Typewriting. Officials ta the French array do net believe that the most efficient service ts obtained from members of the mili tary clerical farce when the latter sit at their desks practically all day with out taterrupfloo, according to the Pop ular Mechanics magazine. Thus the French government has Installed, for the use of army clerks, typewriter stands se made thai each machine is alternately raised and lowered each half hour. The Innovation ls reported to have proved very beneficial. Your ALL! "DOING YOUR BIT" Is Not Enough The Fullest Measure of Service Save and Lend Your Savings Is the measure of our personal re sponsibility in this war. Homes united, families enrolled, resources conserved, waste eliminated means AMERICA INVINCIBLE. J Every Man, Woman and Child Should think and act and serve to gether. What each one of us does during the next year Will Decide the Fate of the World When each of us learns to sacrifice every interest in the National Service, Germany's doom will be sealed. Live in health and efficiency, but without extravagance and without waste. Here is an opportunity for each to share in the joy of service; as important as the service rendered by the man at the front. You can render double service hy lending your savings to Uncle Sam. He needs your savings now. You will need themf after the war; if you keep them till JanH uary 1,1923, you will get your money back} with 4 per cent interest, compounded} quarterly. They may be redeemed beforej maturity at any post-office with interest tai about 3 per cent 'Buy War-Savings Stamps And hold safely the results of your patri-. otic thrift against a time of neei It nelps, to win the war. [And your dollar will buyj more after the war. J They Are Ballots for the Rights j of Mankind A Savings Stamp cost $4.12 in January, and! to this price one cent has been added forj each month since January. This stamp wiH? be worth $5.00 on January 1, 1923. BUY WHERE YOU SEE THIS SIGN WS.S. ma SAVINGS STAMPS IO 3 UKO BY THU UNITED STATES * GOVERNMENT Thia Space Contributed by Trenton Fertilizer Company Trenton, South Carolina Hardware Department Are You Buying THRIFT STAMPS EVERY DAY? If you buy 25c Thrift Stamps at the rate of only one a day, and exchanged each book of 16 (with a few cents added) for a certificate worth $5.00 in 1923, you are saving money at the rate of $10.00 a month. Good investment, isn't it? And a patriotic habit besides-for every single. Thrift Stamp is a little added momentum behind the one great common desire - to shorten this war. Thrift Stamps are for sale at the postoffice, by all mail carriers and at most stores* THIS ADVERTISEMENT PAID FOR AND DONATED BY J. M. WISE & SON General Merchandise Trenton, S. C.