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LIVE STOCK NEWS j MPORTANCE OF BEST STOCK Good Care and Right Kind of Feed Are Best Means of Preventing Undersized Animals. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The importance of good breeding in the grow.th of live slock, and especial ly in the prevention of runts, is illus trated by the experience of an Indi ana swine grower. "I started with stock," he remarks in a letter to the United States Department of Agiicul ture "direct from the foundation stock of the breed, and the results were sat isfactory. When I had time to read of the work of other men, the results of feed composition and experimental feed trials, I took from these expe riences what I .thought practical for me to follow, and the results, though not exceptional, have been the natural results of good blood and good feed. One of my boars, farrowed in April several years ago, weighed 165 pound3 the following September. At sixteen months he weighed 606 pounds, at twenty-eight months 850 pounds, and the following fall 1,015 pounds. This boar was one in a lot of 15, as uni form a bunch as I ever saw. Others grew into 600 and 800 pound hogs under farmers' care." "In addition to good lines," he adds, "care and the right kind of feed are important means of preventing under sized animals, but the most important of all is the mais with the feed basket, for lt ls 'the eye of the master that fatteneth his cattle.* So far as runts Eliminate All Female? That Are Not Good Mothem to Prevent Appear ance of Runts in I.Itters. are concerned, I have: never found it profitable to raise them under any treatment I have seen lots of 'be fore and after taking1 illustrations sn paper, but not la the feed lot." SCRUB PIGS ARE EXPENSIVE Virginia Farmer Finally Convinced That Purebreds Are Most .Profitable Animals. The county agent of Page county, Virginia, tried last summer to per suade a farmer In his territory to keep purebred hogs. The man was diffl-. cult to convince. At the time of the argument the boys' pig-club contest for the year was just starting. De spite the arguments which the county agent made In favor of purebred stock, the man went ahead and bought four scrub pigs, saying he did not think the boys' club would do any better than those he had purchased. He bought his pigs a month after the club contest started, and gave them the best of attention. He butchered his hogs in January, this year, and the largest weighed 175 pounds gross. The prize winner in the pig club weighed 330 pounds, and was fed only a lit tle over five months. This farmer is now trying to buy some purebred hogs, and declares his scrubs cost him more than twice the amount the meat they produced would have cost him. BEST FOR FATTENING STEERS .'Feed Daily an Average of Fifty Pounds of Silage, Some Oil Meal and Clover Hay. One of the cheapest and best ra tions for fattening steers ls an aver age dally of 50 pounds of silage, two or three pounds of oil meal and two or three pounds of clover hay. With corn as cheap as lt f.s In most local ities lt is a good plan to add to this ration during the last two months of the feeding period an ever-increasing amount of corn. EARLY SHEARING IS FAVORED Lambs Thrive Better If Mother ls Not Compelled to Suffer From Car rying Heavy Ccat of Wool. Practice early shearing. Sheep shorn early will thrive better and the lambs will also do better If the mother ls not compelled to suffer from carry ing a heavy^coat of wool In bot weath er. There ls but little gain In the \ eight of the wool after the weather gets warm, not enough to make lt worth while to leave lt on, when the comfort of the animal Is considered. CARE FOR FATTENING LAMBS Give an Abundance of Succulent For age Supplemented With Different Kinds of Grain. Special care should be given the fattening lambs as soon as they are weaned. Abundance of succulent for age supplemented with grain foods that can mostly be grown on the farm, witi: tl* addition of a small amount of wheat bran and oil meal, has al ways produced the best results. Christian Education in the Home. Only too true are the words, "The [hands that rock the cradle, hold the destiny of the world." Everyone remembers the early training and education in the home. If our moth er and father were Christians, it was a Christian education and it was the easy and natural thing for us to come into the Kingdom of God. How | dear to our hearts are the days we spent at mother's knee, learning the first great truths of God's love. How gently she led us into Sunday school and church. Are the homes of today, Christian? Does the little childs Christian edu cation begin in the home? The high est type of scholarship is knowing the truth. This early education will lead boys and girls in the right di rection, it will create in their hearts a desire to go to Christian schools and to have the best mental training that they may become powers in Kingdom building. A mother can lead the child to love the best, to live to serve. The Bible stories told at bedtime, the early morning verse, taught as a guide for the day is truly Christian education. Mother is often too busy to teach the child the first lessons in life, the lessons that will mold their character. It is left to the Sunday school teacher and church, and the greatest earthly teacher, mother, robs herself of her dearest privil?ge. Jesus had a chris tian education and. it began in. His home, when Mary told Him all things and I wonder if Joseph did not teach Him heavenly truths with the car penter trade. This training and ed ucation in the early years would in sure the noble, Christian growth of |i any child.-Christian Index. Soil Improvement Pays. Clemson . College, Aug. 31-Some people who are more interested in |1 the sale of commercial fertilizer than they are in soil improvement would 1 have the farmers of Scjuth Carolina ! believe that it is possible, econo mically, to solve our nitrogen prob lem for field crops by means of le gumes; but some of our best farmers < are proving, beyond a shadow of a 1 doubt, that it can be done, says N. E. Winters, Extension agronomist, < who cites the experience of Mr. Wade J Drake, a leading Anderson County farmer. By means of the systematic use of summer legume catch crops of i velvet beans, soybeans; and cowpeas ( for plowing under, and of winter i cover crops of rye and vetch, oats i and vetch, and crimson clover for 1 hay and green manuring along with < the use of ground limestone to go 1 with the legumes and organic mat ter, combined with the intelligent 11 use of commercial fertilizer, Mr. Drake has consistently increased his | ( yields of corn, cotton, oats and wheat, for the last ten years. This has been done on soil which ten years ago was no better than the i average soils of the Piedmont sec tion of South Carolina, having an ] average yield of less than one-half : bale of cotton, eighteen bushels of corn, twenty bushels of oats, and ten bushels of wheat. As a result of soil improvement j J methods Mr. Drake's yields of these crops during the last three years have averaged ?bout 70 bushels of corn, two bales of cotton, over 50 bushels of oats, and over 20 Jbushels of wheat per acre. In 1920 Mr. Drake applied nitrate of soda at the rate of 600 pounds per acre in a strip through his corn field to see what the effects would be. This was done at the suggestion of S. M. Byars, County agent, who had suggested to Mr. Drake that he was wasting mon ey in the use of nitrate of soda as a top dressing for corn with his method of farming. Three of us went over this farm in August, 1920 and it was impossible to tell where the nitrate of soda had been applied. The reason for this is perfectly j simple. By means of large amounts of organic matter, Mr. Duke has filled his soils with humus, which is holding a large supply of nitrogen for the use of growing crops, and there was no need for nitrate of soda in this case. We have other examples in South Carolina almost as striking as this one which will prove the fact that we can produce crops much more economically than we are now producing them if we will give more attention to soil improvement. now To <UIve Quinine To Children. PHBRILINE is the trade-mark name (riven to an unproved Quinine. J. is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas ant to take and does not disturb the stomach. Children take it and never know it is Quinine. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot lake ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor causi nervousness nor ringing in the head.* Try lt the next time you need Quinine for any pur? Tose. Ask for 2-ounce ori?inal pockage. The tams FI?BRJJ IN S is b'ow? io bottle. 25 ?;eeU 3r King's New Sssswan KILLS THE COUGH. CITES THE LUNGS. Strawberry Culture? Clemson College, Aug. 31.-Th strawberry is probably the most eel tain small fruit that can be growl in this state; it is rarely injured b; frost, and ifproperly fertilized an? cultivated, a good crop may be se cured annually. While the straw berry grows well on almost any typ< of well drained siol, a sandy loan is the best. Fall planting is better than sprinf plantin.g as there is less danger oi the plants dying when transplanting in October and November than ii March or April according to th< Clemson horticulturists. When plant ed in early fall strawberries wi! produce ? few berries the' following spring, but not enough for market ing to any extent; when planted in the early spring they will produce very few berries th?t spring, but the following spring a maximum crop will be produced. It is customary to allow the straw berry field to stand from three to four years,-three or four crops being harvested. If the plants are properly cultivated and kept in sin gle crowns, the field will remain in profitable condition longer than it will if the plants are allowed to form in masses along the row. Select land that is well adapted to strawb?rries, plow to a depth of 8 to 10 inches and harrow repeatedly until absolutely free from clods. Lay off rows 3 feet wide. Apply fer tilizer in the drill, 600 to 800 pounds per acre, and mix with the soil. Then set the plants 18 inches apart in this furrow, taking the greatest care to see that the buds are not placed below the general surface of the soil. But in order that the plants be placed deep enough in the ground to prevent the roots from drying out, they should be placed one-half to one inch deeper than they stood on the nursery row, and the soil should, be firmly packed about the roots. If ;he soil is moist when the plants are, set out, there is no necessity of watering; in case water is applied, about one pint to each plant will be sufficient, the wet soil being imme iiately covered with dry soil in order ;o prevent baking. A good fertilizer for strawberries >n sandy loam soil is one that will inalyze 8 per cent phosphate acid,, 1 per cent, nitrogen, and 4 per cent potash. * . Cultivation should begin about two veeks after the plants are set in or ler to destroy any fall weeds that/ nay appear. The strawberry grow? veli during the fall months and for ;hat reason it is very n?cessary to :ultivate during October and Novem jer. It is at this season that the strawberry produces* embryo fruit iuds, which appear in the early spring and produce berries. In March jr early April a side application of in 8-4-4 fertilizer should be made ihe amount depending upon the growth the plants are making-the asual amount^ being 400 to 600 pounds per acre. Cultivate absolute ly clean throughout the spring, sum mer andfall. For local market the Excelsior is probably the best extra early berry, and the Lady Thompson the best general purpose berry where a heavy yield is desired. The Excelsior ripens about ten days before the Lady Thompson, but the berries are small er and the yield is not so large. For commercial purposes, where the ber ries are to be shipped to distant mar kets, the Klondyke is probably the best variety to plant, on account of the fact that it stands shipment bet ter than the other varieties named. There aro a great many other good varieties, but the ones mentioned above will meet all requirements for home use, local market and shipping purposes. Two distinct methods are prac ticed in growing berries. One is to remove the runners as fast as they appear, leaving only the original plants; the other is to allow the run ners to form new plants along the row, gradually forming1 a narrow bed. If berries of the highest type are desired, the former method is best; if quantity, rather than quality, is desired, then the narrow matted row should be employed. Most grow ers make a mistake of allowing their beds to grow up in weeds after har vest, which greatly reduces the qual ity of the nextsession's crop. When strawberries are grown on a comparatively small scale, it will pay to mulch the plants heavily with pine strtew, or partly decomposed material should be scattered about three to four inches between the rows, leaving only the tops of the plants exposed. The best time to ap ply this mulch is in the fall imme diately after cultivation. The mulch will conserve the moisture and pre vent the berries from becoming grit ty after rains. The yield of first class ^?fiiiiiiiiHHmiiiiiiiimn,,,!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,""""",""" Five South Mission Qiiiiiiiniitiiniiinitiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (1) Miss Clifford Irene Barratt, ? ?linster, educational work, Kaifeng. C China; (4) Millard Theron Rankin. WI educational work, Temuco, Chile. From the larger proceeds of the Baptist 75 Million Campaign the For eign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has been enabled to send out more than 160 new mis sionaries since that movement was launched, it ls announced, and of that number sixty young men and women, 'representing fourteen states, have Just .ailed for China, Japan, Africa, Brasil, Argentina and Chile. In addition to these, Dr. and Mrs. Everett Gill Of Kansas City will sail September 14 tu become representatives of the Board in Europe, while Dr. 'and Mrs. W. A. Hamlett of Austin, Texas, have just ?ailed for Jerusalem, where they will maintain headquarters In acting as the Near East, representatives of the Board. The new missionaries to China and Japan sailed from Seattle, Saturday, August 27, on the Hawkeye State of the Admiral Line, while those for Bra sil, Argentina, Chile and Africa salted from New Tork on the Aeolus August 17. They will be engaged chiefly in evangelistic, educational, medical and agriv,, ?tura.J work and will be sta tioned at various points in-these fields. While a large number of new workers have be*m sent out by the Board since the beginning of the Campaign, at least 100 other capable young men and women could be employed to advant age if they were available, Secretary ff. F. Love advises. Mission Money Gets Results. Of the more than. $25;OQO;000 that has been collected In cash on the 75 Million Campaign to date, about $5, 000,000 has gone to foreign missions? This has made it possible not. only to strengthen the old work on all fields 8T>d employ a large number of new berries from an acre of mulched berries will be approximately one third more than from an unmulched area. An acre of strawberries proper ly cared for, will produce -on an av erage 3000 to 4000 quarts twelve months after planting. State Line Dispute Soon To Be Decided. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2-The dispu ted boundary line between Georgia and South Carolina will be discuss ed by the attorneys general, of the states when Samuel L. Wolf of South Carolina comes here Thursday to take up the matter with George M. Napier. The case is pending before the United States Supreme court. The dispute is based on the ques Keowee Rivers is to be considered the upper boundary of the Savannah River, which is named as the boun- , dary. If the former river is named, then the boundaries remain just as thy are, but if the Keowe? River is decided to be the Savannah, then Georgia will gain additional terri tory amounting to one whole county. South Carolina claims the Tugaloo as the boundary, While Georgia con tends that the Keowee is the rightful line of division. It was during the administration of Governor Howell Cobb that "a great river known as treaty ipf Beaufort. At that time the fact was overlooked that the Savannah River is formed by the Tugaloo and the Keowee. Many years later the question was raised and made the basis of a suit. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System, ?0 cents, iiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniliiniiiitiiimiiiiiiiiiiMiimii Carolinians Sa aries (or Chin 111 ?? 1111 II: ] 111 ll 11 ti 111111.i ? i III i im 1111 ?? i [i. i .II 11111 II tt 11 ii ii 11 ii ti i r i Ireezewood, evangelistic work, Pocbow, I h Ina; (3) Miss Hannan Jane Plowden, Illiston, evangelistic work. Canton, Chin missionaries, but to do much other I work, Including building or making1 substantial additions to 15 . boys' schools, 17 girls' schools, 37 mission i residences, five hospitals and dispen sarios, four light and powir plants for I mission compounds, 26 church build-! Inga, four colleges, seven theological seminaries. In addition, assistance has been given seven church building loan associations, six new stations have been opened and equipped, land has been bought for the enlargement of several mission compounds, a home for orphans in Italy bas been established, and a block of ground has been pur chased in the heart of Rome for head quarters for the work in Italy, a theo logical seminary, publishing house, church and mission residence being provided on this property. Enlarge European Field. As a result of the Campaign, South ern Baptists have been enabled to greatly enlarge their work in Europe. They have carried on mission work in Italy since 1870, but now they have opened up new work in Jugo-Slavia, Hungary and Rou mania, and have made a beginning, through the distribution of Bibles, in the Ukraine and Southern Russia and Siberia. To act as the European representatives of the Board in this enlarged program, Dr. and Mrs. Everett Gill of Kansas City were re cently named. They will probably make their headquarters in Switzer land. The first work Southern Baptists have ever done looking to the evangel ization of Mohammedan lands has just been undertaken in Palestine and Syria, and Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Hamlett of Austin, Texas, have gone to Jeru salem, where the ARRINGTON Wholesale Grocer.? Corn, Oats, 1 Kinds o . Gloria Flour and Dan Our Le: Corner Cumming an On Georgia I August; YOUR PATR??? j JJSF See pur representative We Can Give Yoi on MilhWork ano Large stock of Rough and Di Immediate '. Woodward ] QUALITY Corner Roberts and Du{ HAWK?*?: STATZ China; (2) Miss Grace S tr ibl lng, West Klugstree, evangelistic work, Soochow, a; (5) Misa Cornelia Prower, Sumter, the work of the native evangel ista. It ls planned to establish a church, theological seminary and col* lege, hospital and orphanage at Jeni? salem as soon as practicable and thu* seek to reach other points in Pales* tine and Syria from this center. Minister to 300,000,000 People. With the enlarged foreign. mission program of -Southern Baptists that de*, nomination is now operating in 18 countries on every sids of the globe, and has in its employ practically SOO foreign missionaries and twico that number of native workers trained in the mission school*. Through its present missionary operations th? Board ls seeking to minister to 475,* OOO.OO? yellow people, 4,000,000 brown people, 200,000,000 black people and 225,000,000 white people, making a total of 900,000,300 people, or more than half the population of the globe. Numbered among its workers already on the field are 21 foreign .physicians and 8 foreign mission nurses who last year gave 154,070 treatments. Thens are now 611 mission churches on the foreign fields and of this number 184 ar? self-supporting. The average con* tri butions of these ? mission churches last year to denominational causes was $5 per member, the Christians on the foreign fields responding more liber* ally as a result of the 75 Million Cam* paign. The new missionaries sailing at this time were contributed by' the following states: Alabama two, Arkansas one, Georgia five, Kentucky six, Louisiana two, Mississippi four, Missouri four, North Carolina three, South Carolina five, Tennessee five, Texas fifteen, Virginia six. Iowa on? and Pennsv; BROS. & CO. s and Dealers in lay and all f Feeds i Patch Horse Feed Eiders d Fenwick Streets I. R. Tracks i, Ga. GE SOLICITED ?, C. E. May. i Prompt Service I Interior Finish ?eased Lumber on hand for Delivery. Lumber Co. SERVICE pas 5ts., Augusta. Ga,