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BRAIN CONSUMPTION VARIES DURING YEAR -- ! Feeding of Oats Is More Uniform Than That of Corn. ?IFS5L _ Barley, Wheat and Rye Approach j Monthly Uniformity in Degree Lesa Than Oats-Silage Reaches High Point in February. ! ^Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) ; Whether the supposition is that the .consumption of corn by live ?tock on Harms in the United States varies llittle from month to month, or that ?the summer consumption is relatively ?small, the fact, as ascertained by the ?bureau of crop estimates, United iStates department of agriculture, is ithat during the six months from May ito October nearly three-eighths of the [year's corn ration is eaten, and from jNovember to April five-eighths. The jwarm-weather fraction will seem large lor small according to the size of the (guess. Oats, more than corn, is the (feed from April to September, and the ?monthly consumption of oats is more luniform throughout the year than that ?of corn. Barley, wheat and rye ap jproach monthly uniformity in degree ?less than that of cats throughout the jyear and a concentration of consump ?tlon in the colder months Is found in ?hay, silage and mill feed," as in the - lease of corn. Of the year's entire consumption of 'corn by live stock on farms the high lest consumption in one month is. 11.5 ?per cent in December, and the lowest , ? ?4.6 per cent in August. For oats the ?highest is 9.8 per cent in April and the lowest 6.8 per cent in December; bar ley, highest 10.9 per cent in November and lowest 6 per cent in June and also 'in July; rye, highest ?0.3 per cent in ?October and lowest 7.1 per cent in J July; wheat, highest 11.4 per cent in ?November and lowest 5.8 per cent in 'Joly. Mill feed consumption sags to 4.8 !per cent in July and rises to 11.5 per {cent in February and again in March. !More unequal yet is hay consumption. ?with its range from the highest, 14.2 'per cent in February and also in March to 3.2 per cent in August; and ?another degree is reached by silage. ?the consumption of which rises to 16.8 ?per cent of the year's total in Febru !ary and falls to 1 per cent in July and j again in August. COMMUNITY LIME SPREADER ?Farmers of Otsego County, N. Y., j Solve Problem of Spreading Lime at Proper Time. jCPrepared by the United States Depart , ment of Agriculture.) j Members of the farm bureau in one ?of the communities of Otsego county, jlKew York, have combined and pur ichased a lime spreader, and have thus jtaken a long step In solving tUfir jproblem of applying lime at the proper jtime of the year and in sufficient quan 'tities to get results. The spreader is Community Ownership of a Lime Spreader Is Practical and Feasible. ;to be rotated among the members. Nonmembers may also use it by pay ing 25 cents an acre. In the early 'Stages of the use of lime in a com - .Vanity, especially in a small way, 'Spreaders are often not available be-, ?cause single land owners hesitate to [parchase them. Even after the yjse of lime ls established a. single machine iftrtll often meet the needs of several tanners. HOW TO INTRODUCE QUEENS itt ts Necessary to Remove Old and De? ; fective Ones and Replace Them ]>N With Younger Stock. i j Every beekeeper who Is' really car ling for his bees should know how to ^introduce queens, because it is neces leary to remove old and defective ?queens ami replace them by young .j?dg?r?us ones?-fe: Queens may be introduced in cells j Jor after they have emerged from cei|s, . {while still unfertilized, or after thej. .have begun to lay^ :J\ n^fr' '.. TROUBLE IN FIGHTINfcWEEDS ; Sheep and Goats Will Be Found Effi cient in Eradication of Many Noxious Plants. Some of the trouble and expense or dinarily experienced ip fighting weeds might be dispensed with by keeping \ sheep and ?oats to graze the noxious plants. At present prices for? wool, mohair and mutton these* animals ought to be profitable. .. Back the Fi . Buy Morel BUNCO MEN ARE STILL HOT AFTER THE COIN But New Securities Offered by Gov ernment Are Calculated to Go Far Towards Ending Their Business Farmers are a great deal morel prosperous than they were a few years ago. Nobody knows this any better than that suave and oily gen tleman, the "bunco man." The farm ers' prosperity has made him a shin ing mark in these gentry. The Jake security man, the stock company pro moter and the wily sharper are mighty busy persons just now and a" great many of them are "working the country.' 'and working it hard. Do you recall the "miracle wheat" proposition of a few years ago? M?y be not by that name, for it had a good many names. One of its aliases was 'Jerusalem wheat." Another was "Egyptian wheat." However, the name doesn't matter much for it was all the "same thing. Most farmers will recall it, anyway. When the farmers would not fall for the story any other way they were told that if they would give $10 or maybe $20 a bushel for the seed they could sell the whole harvest back in the fa1.1, for the same price per bushel that they paid for the seed. Lv course, some people bought and paid for the seed. And they went ahead and sowed it and waited a year full of trustfulness but the sharper who was to take the crop off their hands failed to show up. They found that they had a very poor grade of wheat, anyway, and it dawned upon them that they had been stung and stung hard and de^o. Right now a good many farmers are being offered all sorts of invest ments, on stocks and plantation stocks and a whole lot of other stocks. Some of these are offered in exchange for War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds. Some of them, too, are jost about on a par with the "mirach wheat" that came from Egypt or Bat ettine. It will pa^ about such. divi dends. It is likely not to pay a wat one way or another. In a few years it will be valuable only as waste paper. The same United States gorem ment that more than a year ago promised the American farmer 93.28 for his wheat, and is making good every day, ls now offering the farmer an investment that is just as safe as the wheat that ne grew on his tann this year after it is stored In BM granary. New Treasury Saving Certificates, simply a development of the. famflter War Savings Stamps, can be fend. These certificates ure offered rm de nominations Of $100 and $1,000 on the Identical terms of the War Saving* Stamps. Eighty-four dollars and twenty cents invested in a $100 Certificate will grow Into a $100 bill hy. January 1, 1924. Multiply these figures by ten and the words will apply to a $1,000 certificate. Or the youngsters, or the persom-wlth limited means to in vest, may pay $4.21 for a War Savings Stamp and OD January 1, 1924, lt'will be a $5 bill. These securties draw four per cent interest, compounded quarterly. War Savings Stamps do more than add dollar^) dollar. They begin to multiply. j? hj-'J u - ""?lu..? I -. Z_i_. Vitalize the: saving habit Buy War Savings - Stamps. Lend money to your government Buy ?hrift^and War Savings Stamps. Own a part -of th? United States government Buy Thrift and War Savings Stamps. A stamp ia time saves dimes. Buy W. S,;8. . ... . r: cAr . . .i ..' Opportunity, knocks. It's knocking now. .Buy W. 8. S~ gfoting Eagle iberty Bond? BANKS G?VE SPLENDID AH) IN LOAN DRIVES -! Public Should Now Help Them In Their Efforts To Make Country Even More .Prosperous. By Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury. No group of men in the. United States measured up to the test of the great war more admirably th?.u did the bankers. The success of the Unif ied States Treasury Department in floating over $21,000,000,000 in Liber ty Bonds and Victory Notes during tfbe last two years was due in no small measure to the patriotic co-o?eration of the banks. They took a most ac tive part in each of the loan cam paigns. % They subscribed generously for themselves, made loans to their cus tomers in order that they might buy bonds, and sold bonds on installments to accommodate those having a small savings. In other words, the banks did everything possible to promote the sale and distribution of .government securities. The banker can render an equally great service in reconstruction by co operating with the government in its movement to teach the people of the United States the leesons of sound fi nance'and wis? investment In pro moting this cause the banker will aid his institution and the financial sit uation in general at the same time. Now that the war is over the peo ple should be impressed with the wis dom of holding their government se curities and also of purchasing more, from time to time. The more gener ally the people of the United States absorb government securities the greater will be the ability of the com mercial banks to devote practically all of their resources to furnishing adequate credit to the commerce nnd Industry of the country. Providing short-time credit to com: merco and industry is their normal peace-time function. The sale and movement of farm crops, manufac tured products and other commodities, aa well as the continuous and efficient .mpliyment of labor, in fact, the whole lodM trial process will be promoted by perm/1ting the commercial banks to devote all their resources to this tanotion. Tb3 people of the United States should, therefore, be encouraged to pay off their installments and borrow lng! on bond collateral as rapidly as posalble, and also to purchase addi tional government securities as is ?oed from time to time or in the mar Wt If thta is done the people of this oowntry will be benefltted in a two fold way. They will free material and labor for the production of commodi ties which are now so' desperately needed the world over. At the same time they will be strengthening them selves financially. HOW THEY GROW Plant a crop. Nothing happens. Nothing that one can see. Be patient. The seed sprouts. The stalk pushes its way through the earth. Still no sign of fruit Be patient. Leaves come out. Buds open. Berries begin to form. Still no harvest Be patient. Th ruit fills out. It ripens. It ir -a. Harvest a? -miraculously creased fr * little handful of seed. But tb- War Savings Stamp beats this. There ?B no element of risk. There ls no way to lose, You must win. Your money works for you. It makes more money all the time. War savings Stamps work bask ao? count wouders. I In Building Your New Ko rt'. BUNGALOW IVO, SO A complete bungalow, built to give the small family all Ikat can be desired in a modern, sub stantial, attractive, well-built home, at a reasonable price. built to stund the severest COMFORT-1^5 easily heated. /~Tibt\ZI<'hI?T?ftI/~'I? T'ie Plans, prepared after care IslSiV K.CiV/.CiiV^Xi-fni stm]y by tne best and most experienced of architects, are so designed to cover every need of the average family. Made with very best of mn strength. E:fch part securely locks Into the other. Erected after perfected patented In ck in;: process. Will stand tho roughest nf tempests without strain and will far outlast the average house. DJ7A//yVLThc designs are graceful and represent the *-*?Li^\.\J I ? mest modern architectural art. It will blend beautiful, appro FCClNCiMY- QUICKB?LT Bungalows arc built n **wvJ i\yiVM l immense plant in winch hu.idreus SATISFACTION an of other houses are being built simultaneously. Er?ry s'.iort cut to perfection and economy is used and thereby, ;% gain the ad vantage of thc low cost of quantity prtjduetion. The architect's a;d contractor's fees arc avoided, lor you are lurnished free a complete set of specifications and plans, and with them thc erection of the house is SJ simple that any carpenter of average intelligence can erect it. Many owners build them themselves. In purchasing* a QUICKBILT Bungal JW you eliminate all extra middle-man's commis sions and profits, as you are dealing dlr.-cc with thc source of material; with tho mill, manufacturer and forests in one. Once in your QUICK Bl LT Bungalow yo i will be highly satisfied wit!. Its convenient arrangement, its artistic finish and its cozll ess. i COSTS LITTLE TO ERECT. With tiie II ater?; I already, prepared for the house, waste Is eliminated from the cost. As a large portion of the house comes already built in panels, preliminary preparation ls nvolded. Thi systematic, simple, tiorough p!;ins and in structions save time and make lt possible frr a carpenter and two helpers to erect the house In lc3s that 10 days. A saving In waste, labor, time and material is A SAVING IN MONEY. Shipped complete F. O. B. Charleston with all nec?ssary material except brick work end plumbing. A cozy, attractive. .bungalow of fix rooms.. Size over all :;?,-ft. T-ln. x 21-ft?j-?nT" Two large bea tooms, one U-?t. x 12-ft, and cn*: 12-ft. x 12-ft., a spacious Urins rcom 12-ft. x lj-fi., .1 cc:;-, convenient dining alcovo 12-i't. > C-ffci kitchen tt-tt. x 12-ft, bath roora ?Mt. x 6-ft. Closets and attractive front porch 12-?t. x 6-it. Woodwork of the best gradi- of North Carolin:'. I'inr. ~T!io Wood Universell." Walls in panels of siding lined with heavy paper to 'instiro warmth. , Durable, lire-resisting, Standard Asphalt Strip Shingles, with slate green o- red ftnln.i. Artistic paneled ir.sido bluish. All necessary na ls and hardware "'drnlshcd. House comes with exterior walls stained any one > . a number or s ir.dard rolers, or painted Avith one heavy cont of priming paint. Exterior ?rim and interior finish with one heavy coat of priming paint, WRITE TO-DAY fer a copy 0?' our book "QUICKBILT Bunco Ions" No. D-110. It will g?te a tull explanation cf l<o. Ku ana many oilier attractive Bungalows. Or bet..r still, if No. 30 pleas.3 you instruct us to s!i!:> lt Inmediately ?nd give ua l!iec:.;r desired. QUICKBILT Bungalow Department, A. C. Tuxbury Lumber Co., Charleston, S. C. A Cozy V Convenient Plan QUICKBILT BUNCALOW DEPARTMENT, . A. C. TUXBURY LUMBER CO., Charleston, S. C. Please send me a copy of your book "QUICKBILTBungalows" Am especially interested in a.room house. NAME . ADDRESS . No. D-110. Have Made Large Purchases We invite the people of Edgefield county, the ladies especially, to visit our 2nd floor and see our large stock just received from the largest manufacturers IN FURNITURE we have the best assortment of Bureaus, Washstands, Hat Racks, Wardrobes, Chifforobes, China Closets that we have ever shown. Also see our Rocking Chairs, Dining Chairs, Centre Tables, Iron Beds, Springs and Mattresses, purchased direct from the factories. Large stock of RANGES and STOVES to select from. Make your wife happy by buying a new stove for her. x Trunks, Suit Cases and Traveling Bags See our stock of trunks, suit cases and traveling bags, all marked at rea sonable prices. Rugs and Art Squares Beautiful assortment of rugs and art squares. Just what you* have been : needing to make the home brighter. . c Lap Robes and Harness of all Kinds We have on hand che largest stock of lap ropes an d harness of all kinds that we have ever shown, both single arid double/ for wagon or buggy. When in need of a buggy or wagon call on us. We carry a stock of good buggies, open or with top. We sell the celebrated Mitchell wagons. No thing better on the market for the money. It you need a one-horse wagon, try our "Chase City." We have been selling them to satisfied customers fer eight or ten years. ? > GROCERIES AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES When in need of fancy or heavy groceries get our prices before buying. We buy in large quantities and carry a large stock, consequently we are in a position to make attractive prices. If in need of hardware of any kind ipr the farm or supplies of any other kind come to us. We can save you money. Edgefield Mercantile Company -?-.s-?-r?w*r,v:-_y.v! -Air