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(" Care t?f F Milk -?ncT Cream on ' t'therFaxm. Clemson^ College, April 18.-There are two ^o?d reasons for giving milk and <(rreaxrrspecial care : first, milk is . a delrciaps,'.! highly. -.nutritious, very vahi?bie,."iaiid essential food product, but :it -swill never reach its highest quality ?unless properly cared for: secondly-only food products of the highest -.quality command a ready market-rat. top prices. For . the latter reason .?ilone!-it is well worth while to care .'for-the milk and cream be cause .the ^.difference in return for a high .class and inferior product will more than ?pay for the added labor. At no tizne.has.fhis been so evident as during' the last year, when the best butter has brought as high as 20 cents per pound more than butter of a lower quality. Moreover satis fied customers.mean more ready out lets for .one's product at higher prices. Care ccf Milk and Cream Easy. The .care.of..milk and cream is so easy that one is obliged to believe that it is thoughtlessness rather than anything:else which is responsible for the lack of care and attention. All that is needed is. to is?e that the milk is drawn .under clean conditions into clean vessels,.and then cooled at once to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.. The cooling is far more effective when it is done right away than when a couple of hours are dllowed to. elapse before ? ,cooling is ?egun.: If the dairy is large enough to warrant doing so, the cool ing can he done most easily by buying some kind of cooling: device designed 'for that purpose. Such a cooler can be had for .a small . sum and has the - advantage that the milk is poured right over the cooler when the milk ing is completed. The-principle of the cooler is that the . milk passes over coils through -which.-cold water cir . culates and thus .very nearly assumes . the temperature af the water used. When the dairy . consists only of ~ one or two cows, the: milk may be put in thin walled vessels . and-, set in a ? . pail or tub of cold water. By stir ring the- milk now .-arid-again for a short while it will soon *-be cooled , enough ot keep for-uMong time. If - -?he milk is skimmed by means of a j . hand separator, the cream . can be j .l; treated in the same :mannerr as out-J " ..lined for the milk. Milk.and cream] :-.-treated in this way .nas.amuch better - taste, will keep longer, '.will; sell for j ? a- higher price and produces better i . .quality product no matter'for what I .. -purpose used. V'l?eanuts a Paying Crop -Eor the South. . .Washington, April 17..-^Onet.of the ' best ; paying of Southern crops and one which may be made productive' if the-people of the South would turn away-from cotton is that of growing peanuts. They are just now a drug on. the market, largely because they . are-not eaten to any great extent in -cold weather. With the coming of spring,-there is a largely increased .consumption, which means higher prices, this larger consumption being . due to-the; fact that in that period there rare many picnics, out-of-door entertainments* gatherings in the va ?rious parks,., etc., at which time the peanut, js in demand In round figures :90$Q0iQ00 pounds of peanuts are ?grown in.the United States every year and 100,000,000 pounds were import ad .-from .'Aya alone last year. About 5>?j000,000 pounds of roaster peanuts are .consumed annually,.according to the "U. S. [Department of Agriculture. Ailthoughiit is not known, there are more than 1O0. different methods of utilizing peanuts, including the-mak ing of fancy dyes, wool stains, peanut milk, coffee and ice cream. Few of the products are sold commercially because our people have not investi gated thoroughly to see how this .val uable product may&e used to besjtiad vantage. Up to the present time, the -peanut is used largely in oil, candy, ?peanut butter, salted -peanuts, roasted peanuts and in various other forms, our per capita consumption being about three and one-b^alf pounds. Every time soaps are used, the con sumer is partaking of hie three and /one-half pounds. Fully ?half of the peanuts ^grown in the Southern States are fed to hogs. Large quantities of peanuts :are ex ported -also, 1,074,007 pounds faying gone out of the country during fche month of January alone. Of this .qu&n tity 78 per cent went to Canada, where the peanut enjoys co-poppjari ty with the clove. Cuba took 14 per cent., Jamaica 2 per cent., and Ber muda 1 per cent. ? They Speak W*II of lt.* ; "I frequently hear Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised by friends and acquaintances which only tends to strengthen my good opinion of it" writes Mrs. Fred Arter, Zanesville, Ohio. Try it when you have a cough or cold and see for yourself ,what an excellent medicine it is. Tolly ??cL?ie Ouija Board ?ii By ?.3iOUI? rRAYBQED (Copyright.) The position of .flagman at*.'S&unders Crossing, which the railroad company gave John Peters when, .he.'injured his foot while acting.as brakeman .on one of their trains, had .its delights and its torments. It was ?an easy, job with considerable leisure time attached, but it afforded him too frequently the sight of Polly Carr, who lived in the little red house at the top cf ?the bill Not that .Folly was disagreeable to look upon. Quite the contrary. Any girl is pleasant to see. whose eyes sparkle with the . joy of living, whose curving mo?t* turns upw.ard.at the corners and in whose cheeks- shines the glow of health :and..youth. But when John hurt his foot he.gave up the thougnt of Polly. Ask a . girl to marry a cripple, with nothing better than the job of flagging trains? Well, he should ?ny not. And. Polly, who had been on tip-toe for the question to which she could so truthfully say "yes," was left to wonder If she had been mistaken in thinking he cared. Now Polly, otherwise eminently sen sible, was the most superstitious/little body imaginable. Then one bright May morning the north-bound train slowed down and stopped at the crossing. Out stepped Polly's up-country aunt With umbrella and traveling bag. Polly was glad to see her aunt, part ly because she was fond of her, and a very great deal because now\ it would be quite all right to iuvite John Peters to supper. If she had known that Aunt Susan carried in .her bag something which would prove, more efficacious in John's case than ..any love philter, she would have fallen on her aunt's neck and blessed her. That something was -an ouija board. When John received from Polly the invitation to supper he 'had half a mind to refuse. 'Til initiate you into the mysteries of the ouija board," ?he promised. "Aunt and I work at it every .eve ning. And every single thing it .says is true!" she added solemnly. Ordinarily John had three hours at supper time when neither north nor. south-bound train was due at the) crossing. On the very night of Pol I ly's invitation, however, he was "no tified by the dispatcher at the junction to throw the switch for a frei cht. Throughout the meal, delicious evi dence of Polly's ability to cook, he kept his brain working at thc words, even as he praised with ransenline ap preciatipn the featherweight biscuits, steak done exactly right and flaky pie. After supper Aunt Susan gave Polly a little push. "I'm going to wash up,ichild. You run along in the parlor and entertain Mr. Peters." And Polly, after one dutiful but weak protest, obeyed. 'iLet's get out the ouija board," she suggested. "You ask it the first ques tion and see what happens!" So John, thinking how pretty Polly's pink cheeks were, wanted to know if it would rain in the morning. Heads close together, fingers resting lightly on the triangular bit of wood, they waited'.for the ouija spirit to start working. Polly pouted when John didn't seem impressed at the vaguely Indefinite .reply of "Maybe." Question followed question, tum and turn about, with more-or less-marvelous re sponse. Then Polly, her color deep ening a bit, inquired if she would ever marry. "Some day," came the answer. "Who?" /dared Polly. John, his fingers trembling In spite of himself, awaited the answer with trepidation. What was Polly-or the j ouija boi-jrtl-up to? Slowly .the letters spelled ont into a word: fA s-w-i-tnc-h-m-V John sprang up ; as If shot. Down . clattered the hoard and planchette. Seizing his caae, the man . leaped to the front door, opened it and was gone. Polly, thunderstruck, stood where she had risen, her cheeks drained .of their rosiness. What was it? It couldn't be-how silly of her even to think of it. John wouldn't leave like *hat just because he thought he was be ing proposed to. But t?ere was some thing wrong. Quickly she went out to the little porch. Far down the hill sounded the tap-tap of John's cane and his swift footfalls. There was another .?sound-slow, monotonous, rumbling (Oben a whistle for the Crossing. .She must find out if he got there ?In time. Hatless, coatless, she ran down the hill, only to meet John, breathing heavily, on the way back. "Were you in time?" she cried. "Thank heaven, yes!" he answered. Then, **Polly," he demanded quickly, "what was that answer going to be?" Polly gulped down a little sob. "C can't you guess?" she asked. "A switchman?" he said slowly. Me?" And as Polly was silent he con tinued, wonderingly: "Would you marry a cripple?" <1 wouldn't call any man a cripple that could get down the hill like that!" flashed Polly. With a happy sigh John yielded to temptation. "I have wanted you so, Polly, dear," he whispered. "Isn't the ouija lward wondrrful?" said Polly a minute Inter from the depth of John's shoulder. John patted her head lovingly. "Well, it couldn't do much moro for a man than save his reputation and give him his best girl, now could itf be said. _ ._* BP" WEEVIL CONTROLJN EARLY SUMMER v Weevil Picking. Clemson College, May 9.-The cot ton boll weevil requires a long time to come irom its winter quarters in the spring and early summer. These pesta begin to emerge usually during the latter part' of March and while nearly all of them will be out by the first week in June, yet there are stragglers that will not come out until the first week in July. They feed upon the tender leaves and the tips of the buds until the squares begin to form. Whenever weevils are present in no ticeable numbers on the young cot. ton, it will pay to go over the field, carefully onfc or twice and collect these 'overwintered weevils from thi buds, says Prof. A. F. Conrad, entomo logist. This can be done most econom ically and, effectively just before the time with the utmost care, the ma jority of the weevils may be gathered before any egg? have been laid. The weevils may be killed by crushing them when caught or by putting them In a vessel containing water with a film of kerosene over it. The collec tion of weevils before the squares are formed, it is estimated, will not- pay where upon thorough search less than ?50 weevils per acre are found. To catch weevils from the plants, the fol lowing method is generally used: "One hand is held horizontally under "the tip of the plant so that when this tip is bent- over with the other hand, it may be readily caught. This method is: based on the fact that the weevil "plays possum" and will drop to the ground like dead when disturbed. The operator will soon learn this. A great many weevils will escape by dropping to the ground so quickly that they are not even noticed by the collector. Square Picking. Where an attempt at square pick ing is contemplated, the following : should receive careful consideration. First, collecting should be begun about ten days after the first bloom is seen in the field. Second, unless the work is done thoroughly it is not pro fitable, and this means not only that squares must be picked from the ground, but also those that have'dried on the plants, as well as those that show by their unnatural pale or yel low color, or by flaring, that they arc injured so that those squares hang ing on the plants may not give the we evil sufficient time to come out be fore the next collection. This-means that collection should be made about every fifth day. Fourth, the collec tion of squares should be continued .for-.at least six weeks. Fifth, the col lection of squares is generally advis?d during the gfirst few weeks of the square forming period where weevils have lived through the winter in large numbers. Sixth, it must not be for gotten that under boll weevil condF " tions much depends upon cultivation. The chief obj*.." 4s to urge the growth .and fruiting of tb-1 plants as rapidly tas possible. Seventh, it is estimated that it will not pay to pi?k weevils or squares unless low priced labor is available. Frequently this can be .secured by the employment of women and children who have an interest in the crop. Those who are planning to use the .calcium arsenate poisoning method" for controlling the boll weevil are di rected to . Circular 162, U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C which gives explicit information in the fewest words possible. To Control Chicken Lice. -Sodium Fluorid Most Satisfactory. Clemson College, May.-Poultry li?e do not suck blood. They feed on por tions of the feathers or on the scales of the skin. The greatest loss from lice is possibly that of young chickens which may become infested from th? mother hen, even before they become dry atter leaving the egg shell. Though there are several kinds ol poultry lice, Ihey can all be controlled by the same method. Control. Sodium fluorid appears to be the most satisfactory chemical to use for the control of all kinhs of poultry lice. The treatment must be thorough, and . every fowl in the poultry yard must be treated, because if one infested chicken escapes, it may then be but a sort time until the entire flock ls ? again infested. The commercial form j of sodium fluorid may be obtained at most drug stores. Small amounts oj 1 "pinches" of this chemical should be ] placed on different parts of the body j of the chicken as follows: Place the fowl on a table in an open vessel, hold the legs and wings in one hand, and ?with the other hand place a small pinch of the chemical next to the skin ] among the feathers on the head, neck ( each thigh, underside of spread wings, and distribute by pushing the finger? among the feathers. One pound will treat about 100 hens. For young chicks the head, back and body are the only parts that are necessary to treat. Precautions. ? Wash the hands thoroughly after : using chemical. It will not injure the j hands, but it ls frequently irritable to ; sores. It should of course never be . taken internally. The reading farmer is th?' leading ! farmer. Do you take a good farm pa ; per and do you get the bulletins frorr your agricultural college? 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