Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Live Stock Facts SHEEP RAISING IS PICTURED Film Shows Treatment of Flock at Culling Time in Fall and on to Selling of Lambs. .A motion picture film dealing with sheep on the farm has recently been completed by the film laboratories of the United States department of agri culture in co-operation with the bu reau of animal industry. The film Is now available for use by county agents, county or state sheep-breed ers' association, agricultural colleges, and other department or co-operative workers or agencies. The film is in three sections and leur reels. About 45 minutes is re quired for the showing of the whole production. The, subject treated in the first and second reel is a year with the flock on the farm, beginning In the fall at the time that the ewe flock should be culled prior to breerl'ng. and carrying it on through until the lambs are sold. Each seasonal practice is brought ouc sind educational points are featured. The third reel deals with the co-opera tive marketing of wool and lambs, and the fourth reel with the slaughtering of a mutton sheep, dressing the car cass, and then cutting it up for meat consumption. MEAT SUPPLIES FOR FAMILY Greater Portion of Pork Products Used by Farmers Are Produced on. Home Farm. Nearly two-thirds of the meat eaten on the farm is pork, the average farm consumption of pork being over 500 pounds per family. The greater por tion of the pork products used by farmers are produced on the homo farm. A small number of pigs can lie raised cheaply, says the United - States department of agriculture. Kitchen and garden wastes, and some times dairy by-products, are available for feed. The farmer usually kills the hogs and dresses them on his own Berkshire Barrow. place. The hog furnishes a good va riety of meat and also lard. The smoke house, a common improvement on the farm, provides a convenient way for curing pork. SHEEP BUSINESS PROFITABLE Study Being Made of Specialized Raising With Complete Reliande on Forage Crops. Results of a farm sheep experiment reported by the United States depart ment of agriculture show clearly the possibility of a profitable sheep-raising business upon eastern lands. At the -government farm, Beltsville, Md., a study is being made of specialized in tensive sheep raising with complete reliance upon forage crops for sum mer pasturage. In 1910 a 30-acre area did not pro duce forage enough to feed satisfac torily 44 Southdown ewes and 33 lambs. This field is now capable of furnishing sufliclent summer feed for 100 ewes with their lambs. The im provement is due in part to the appll cation of manures, lime, and phos phates, but chiefly to the fact that legu minous crops were largely used and .all crops were fed upon the ground. 'Under the system followed forage crops are seeded in rotation and the sheep are allowed such frequent changes of pasture as are necessary to prevent troubles from parasites. I LIVE STOCK NOTES ? 4 * ?.<>?>?>?>>>>??: ?? .Practically alt range-bred lambs are ?docked and castrated. * ? . - Hogs on pasture are not so liable to be troubled with intestinal worms and are usually In a thrifty condition. * * * Horses' teeth demand an examina tion at least once a year. As the horse gets some age, his teeth need rasping oftener. * . . The success of the hog business hinges on the fact that the most eco nomical gains are made when the pig ls in a growing condition. .* * * The calf will start to eat grain when about two weeks old and it Is a gefd idea to start out with ground oats, barley or corn meal and wheat ?ran. WEED OF FOREIGN MARKETS New York Business Man Tells How in His Opinion America May Control Trade Marts. "If the United States expects to ob tain its share of the world's com merce," a New York broker was over heard to say, "it must keep pace with other world powers with which it has to compete. Trained men are neces sary in any line of business and for eign commerce Is one line in which training Is absolutely essential." "I believe that the United States merchant marine ls again to come into Its own," continues the same broker In the Washington Post, "but the finest lot of merchandise on earth, coupled with the greatest fleet or merchant ves sels ever known, is of no avail unless bncked up by the selling ability and understanding of trained men who know how to pince American goods in foreign markets. "All the large 'mercantile firms are taking steps to train men specially for each country in which they expect to do business. The prospective salesman or manager for any particular coun try Is educated In the language, his tory, traditions and peculiarities of that country, so that he can in a sense meet the people on their own ground. He knows just what to do under given conditions and ls of vast value to the finn that euploys him. "The bureau of foreign and domes tic commerce is doing a great deal of good in aiding In the introduction of American goods abroad, but I think the government should *go a step furth er and have a regular school for such experts, maintained on the same stand ing and in the same relation to com merce In general as West Point stands to the anny or Annapolis to the navy. The students should be taught every possible fact regarding European, Asi atic and South American countries, so that they could step forth as experts, each on some particular country. Such a school would amply repay the gov ernment in the large increase In vol ume of foreign business which would be attained." SAVING' DID HIM NO GOOD I Fate Had. Laugh at Man Who Prac ticed Self-Denial in the Use of Tobacco. "Six years ago," said Smithson, "I made up my mind that I was smoking too much. It didn't seem to affect my health in the least, but 1 thought it a foolish waste of money, anQ I decided to give It up." "A very sensible Idea," remarked Brownlow. "So I thought at the time, I reck oned up as closely as I could now much I. had been spending each day on cigars and tobacco. That sum I set aside each morning, and started a banking account with it. I wanted to be able to show exactly how much I had saved by not smoking." .'And how did It work?" Inquired Brownlow. ' "At the end of six years I had ?150 in the bank." "Good ! Could you let me-" "And a few days later," Interrupted Smithson, "last Tuesday, In fact-the bank failed. You haven't got a cigar about you, have you?" She Objected at Last He had just gone Into the grocery business and did nothing except talk "shop??hop-shop" when he went to see his best girl. At first she endured lt because she did not wish to offend him; later merely because she could find no way to reprove him. But her chance came. One night when he-was at her house he picked up the telephone book and began Idly to glance through lt. His idle manner became one of Interest as he scanned one page. Then her wrath overcame her. "It's been bad enough to hear you talk about nothing else but that old store," she stormed, "but It's too much for you to come to my house and go through the telephone book hunting out prospective custom ers." Praise for High-Heeled Shoes. Women's high-heeled shoes, regard ed by medical science for years as production of nervous troubles, paral ysis and other Ills, have at last come In for professional commendation. That high-heeled shoes may be re garded as a preventive of consumption .was the declaration of Doctor Gautiez before the Academy of Sciences. Doctor Gautiez, following experi ments, found, he declared, that the nc tlonjOf standing or walking on the toes ls conducive to chest breathing as op posed to abdominal breathing. Many cases of consumption, he pointed out, have their origin in the fact that the upper lungs of abdominal breathers become diseased through lack of com plete use-a condition from which the wearers of high-heeled shoes seldom suffer. Tractor Which Walks. A new type of traqtor that has re cently been developed has a series of legs and walks like a horse. There are four crankshafts, each having a set of four legs, giving the tractor sixteen legs on which it walks. In addition there are four wheels automatically operated by tte tractor engine, so that they can be lowered to the roadbed, thus converting the machine Into a motor truck. The feet are shod to con form to the ground conditions. It ls said that the tractor may bc used to plow, seed, cultivate, harrow, mow and harvest, nike, furnish power for other machinery as a tractor and power plant and also to act as a track for roadj, work and heavy hauling. V iOOOOOOOOOOOOQQOOOpOOOSOO i The S Better Part g By MURIEL LEE &osoa*Gceoooseoeeooscoe>s (?. 1920, /Western Newspaper Union.) Love and charity had played I portant parts in the career of Ma Wallace, and he had entered into t sentiments of the same with earne ness and faith. Upon only one worn had he bestowed thc fervor of a ster fast affection, had basked in the si light of her smiles for a brief perk and then she had flitted like soi beautiful bird and he was left de; late. Esther Wayne had been very frier ly to Wallace, and had he been of more venturesome nature he mig never have lost her. Unexpected Miss Wayne had become heiress to fortune. It took her away for month, settling up an estate. In ti meantime extravagant stories of h wealth came to the ears of'Wallat She and her young brother, Sidnt were to return and build a fif thousand dollar mansion, rumor sal . It placed the Waynes on a pedestal social and moneyed prestige that fal ly daunted Wallace. He was poe obscure-how cou id be ever hope win this rare paragon of beauty ai fortune. He decided that It would.1 ' best for his peace of mind to go aw and try to forget her. This in fact he never did, but i was somewhat buoyed up hy his su cess in securing a position In the ci: at three times his former country to^ salary. He made steadfast progre: and this was well, for it took his mir away from sorrow and despair. I settled down to a quiet, steady golr life and sought in kindly>deeds a cot pensation for the loss of love. If he hud only known it, Estin Wayne had come back to her nath town hoping to find him there, an disappointed and more than that whe sbe learned that he had left the plac permanently. It was natural that si should* decide that he had never care for her outside of casual acquaintance ship. For a long time Esther che: Ished her own dream of affection, the sought to banish Its memories an married a man, Eris Danvers, wh sought her only for her fortune, dh sipated nearly half of it and left he a widow at the end of a year. Esther had gone through an exper: ence that ages the soul, and the ol home and old friends too had grow distasteful to her. She removed t the city where Sidney, then only te: years of age, could receive the benefit of a superior education. They mad their home with a family who accom modated a few chosen boarders. Th son of the family, at table one evening made a remark that suddenly opene< the flood gates of memory with Esthe: in a strangely acute way. "I've got the happiest man In th< world for my boss, they tell mn,' spoke the young man. "He is tin manager of our firm and I heard iii! history today. He has been with th? house for five years and his name ii Mark Wallace." Esther was startled and a flutter o? emotion crossed her face, but she was unobserved by those present. She was eager to hear more. "He's the friend of everybody in the establishment and jolly as con be always a word of cheer from the old .bachelor, as they call him. One o? the fellows at one desk told me that Mr. Wallace was disappointed in love years ago, and that he has never looked at a woman since his first love disappointed him. I just tell you this because he doesn't act like the forlorn pining lover with a broken heart. He just pulled himself together and sought a new line of Interest-being good to others. They say that from the first day he came to the store he faithfully put aside exactly half of his earnings. Every Saturday night he starts out to spend this surplus, dresses up in the most commonplace way, goes down in to the slums and hunts for poor fami lies in trouble, neglected children, the sick, the weak, the unfortunate. Makes a system and a business of lt. He has compensated for the loss of the love of one woman by cherishing that of the whole world." Esther managed to see Wallace sev eral times during the next month, but always at a distance. He had Improved with the years. The beneficent ex pression of his calm, yet pleasant face told of an unselfish and a sacrificing soul. There opened up no way, that brought them together, although Es ther looked for that welcome material ization. Then her constant thoughts of Wallace were broken in upon by an occurrence that distracted her. Sidney Wayne did not return from school one day, and no trace could be secured, of him. The police were satisfied that a band of city ruffians had abducted and were holding him In captivity to force his wealthy sister to ransom him. Esther was heartsick with anxiety and dread. She was mourning over the new trouble that had come to her, when one afternoon she heard welcome tones in the hall below her room and she rushed down stairs to fold her lost brother in her loving arms. And with him was Mark Wallace, and soon Esther knew that through his acquaintance with the poor and lowly there had eventuated a clew to the whereabouts of the kidnaped boy. "I have always shared my love with you, Wallace," confessed Esther a month later when reunion had brought a mutual happy understanding. "Let me now ?liare your life of good deeds, and hand UV hand, and soul to soul forget the mistakes of the past-**" 1 I We have just rc mobiles and can fi ing car. You do after placing you: rolet back home v If You are Contemj Gi\ Chevrolet cars have sto have the wearing quality th is the cheap upkeep and rur Acme , FISHr 1 IN BOYHOOD DAYS Gloriouf re When Mother Kept S' Praised the Five re Sunfish. The city man who was the country boy of yesterday closes his eyes a few minutes and lives over again a sum mer afternoon of long ago, notes the Milwaukee Journal. A day when his little crowd, equipped with enough worms to feed a school of fish, betook itself to the pool where lt was annu ally reported and fervently believed the big bass were hiding. They didn't get big bass. Bites came slowly, and those they landed were lit tle sunfish. Is there anywhere In any lake a muskie big enough to give him as great a thrill as those little sun fish? He was late to supper, but there was supper kept for him. And mother didn't scold. She was pleased as punch, and told him to hurry and clean the fish, and she would cook them. And she did. No other grown person praised his catch. In all the world he and mother alone recognized how worth while those five little sunfish were. And yet lt didn't seem wonderful that she didn't ask him where ?he bass were. That was what other people did. It was a wonderful day, but as he looks hack on lt, he sees that the won derful thing was not the little string of "boy's fish," hut the mother who was so pleased that she stood over a hot stove cooking them. How glad she was to do lt. How happy she would be If she could do lt again, to day. Eut she lives too far away now. We wonder if he remembers to write and tell her of his ?discovery-his dis covery that mother's heart was big enough to make his little fish a splen did catch. FOREST ON DRIFTING SANDS Frenchman's Ingenuity Has Made of Waste Place a Region of Fertil ity and Usefulness. In the southwest corner of France, between the rivers Adour and Gar onne, are long stretches of pine woods, green and cool. Where these pines now stand was a barren waste In the middle of the eighteenth century. Sun and wind vied with each other In mak ing the land drier and dustier. Over the stormy bay of Biscay came winds that set np great sand storms and sometimes burled whole villages. But at last there came along a man who acknowledged fate only as something to be. overcome. ' His name was Bre montler and he was an Inspector of roads. He began fencing In the des ert. He built a fence and behind It planted a' handful of broom seeds. Be hind the broom seeds he put seeds of the pine. The fence protected the broom seeds and the broom grew. Then the broom in its turn afforded shelter to the delicate pine shoots. Soon the pines spread and their tough roots bound this sandy soil together. The first step was accomplished. Then canals were made to drain the wet parts and carry water to the dry. Money to Lend. For loans an real estate. See CLAUD T. BURNETT, " . Lawyer. Over store of W. W. Adams & Co. 7-7-20 Or. ling's Kew Discwer) KSU S THE COUGH. CITES THE LUNGS ROLET CARS reived a car load of Chevrolet auto 11 your order for a run-about or tour not have to wait an unlimited time r order, but can take your new Chev rith you., )lating Buying a Car Come in and Let Us re You a Demonstration od the test of the Edgefield roads for a number of years and at everybody wants. Coupled with their wearing qualities ming expense. Let us give you a demonstration. Auto Company i Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing Mantels, Tile, Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Etc. Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telphone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Contractors and Builders Persons contemplating building of any kind should see tis or write us for estimates, etc. We make a specialty of paper hanging and painting We have a large force of skilled men and can do work promptly. PARDUE & STEIFEL TRENTON, S. C. ROUTE 3 LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works and Mill Supply ' House AUGUSTA GEORGIA Cotton Oil, Gin, Saw, Grist, Cane, Shingle Mill, Machinery Supplies and Repairs, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Grate'Bars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and Fittings, Injectors, Belting, Packing Hose, etc Cast every day. GASOLINE AND KEROSENE ENGINES Pumping, Wood Sawing and Feed Grinding Outfits. FLORIDA M GOOD FARM LAND-HIGH ROLLING AND HEALTHYI . 'Good Roads, Good Schools, and Good Neighbors in Red Clay Section of North Flor ida, adapted to general farm iog, cattle and hog raising; any size farm $20 to $50 per acre. For information write JOHN PASCO, MonticeiorFla. 0K.KWS NEW 0SSC3 VERT W?l Surelf S?oo Tbat Cout?% /