Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DAIRY FACTS 1 ===== -Ji AID BETTER BULL CAMPAIGN Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Offers $2,000 in Prizes for Re placing Scrub Sires. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) An illustration of the earnestness with which various states and local organizations have taken up live stock improvement work, especially in con nection with purebred sires, is shown by the work in Missouri. The exten sion service of the Missouri College of Agriculture started a better-bull cam paign In Januc ry, 1920, and so success ful wore the results of the work dur ing the year that the Kansas City chamber of commerce appropriated $2,000 to be used in cash prizes this year. The prizes are to be awarded to the four counties which replace the great est number of scrubs with purebred bulls. $1,000 being the first prize. $500 The Purebred Dairy Sire When Intro duced Into a Scrub or Grade Herd Soon Brings About a Phenomenal Change. the second, $300 the third, and $200 the fourth. To obtain a prize, how ever, a county must replace at least 25 scrub bulls. In an . announcement of the contest received by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, state officials di recting the work say they have con centrated ou better bulls because they think the greatest good will result from efforts along this line. The an nouncement states that any county in the state ls eligible for entrance in the contest. Awards will be made on the basis of the number of scrub bulls of breeding age replaced by registered bulls. A scrab is defined as one that IK not registered or eligible for reg istry. Any county which at any time dur ing the year completes its work with 100 per cent purebred registered bulls will be entitled to first prize: but should more than one county show 100 per cent registered bulls the various counties will be entitled to first, sec-% ond, third, and fourth prizes, respect ively, in the order In which they com plete the work. The counties com peting in the contest are to form or ganizations, under the leadership of the county agent, to promote the work. All questions arising In the cdntest will be referred to a better-bull com mittee of the Missouri College of Ag riculture for settlement, and the de cision of this committee will be final. A monthly report showing the name and address of the owner of the scrub bull replaced and breed of the regis tered bull In which an Interest has been purchased will be forwarded on the first day of each month to the state project leader. At the end of the year a final report, certified by the county agent will be sent in, giv ing the names and addresses of own ers of scrub bulls which have been re placed, together with the breed, name, and registry number of each regis tered bull in which the contestants purchased an interest CHURN NUMBERS ARE USEFUL Makes lt Simple Matter to Separate Different Churnings and Sell Ac cording' to Score. The use of churn numbers, so that the receivers of butter can more readily sort out separate churnings. is urged upon creamery men by food products Inspectors of the bureau of markets, United States Department of Agriculture. In a lot of butter rec ently examined by these Inspectors the score varied from 88 to 92. As no churn numbers were shown, the only way the receiver could separate the butter was by examining every tub. If the churn numbers had been showa, It would have been a simple matter to separate the various churn ings and sell them according to score It is not possible to take time to ex amine every tub, so the butter sold according to the samples taken and at a discount ' If the samples vary widely. If there should be just one poor tub ic the shipmeut and the sampler happens upon lt, the whole shipment would suffer, while If churn numbers are used only the tubs In that churning would receive the lower score. ATTENTION TO YOUNG CALVES Give Only Warm Milk While Young and Begin Feeding Grain After the Second Month. Feed only wann milk while calves are young. Gradually begin feeding proper grain after the second month. Do not allow them too much grass. Give tDlKty ol pure water, and never allow exposure to rain or co;treine cofd wind. We'll kuow-'what the world is coin lug to when it comes to. The best way to lose a frieiii Is to know tou much about him. For ? man who has upset sn much, Einstein isn't a bit set up. The center of American politics ls on the summer resort piazza. It's a wise gasoline that knows whether its tank is a man or machine. Normalcy is drawing nearer. There ls another war cloud ?n the Balkans. Putting liberty bonds into fake stock concerns is spending thrift with vengeance. When Noah died he took with him the secret of howito make the dove come back. ) There are still too many men mak ing a living by inventing things-te stop living. European kings who used to keep their crown jewels locked up now have them hocked up. So many girls paint now that you rarely find one wh?^?fn hold the mir ror up to nature. ' The unsinkable ship is being built | In pairs In the British navy-perhaps : for the last time. Gabrielle D.Annunzio is married. Oh, ? well, what could he do? Italy refused to fight with him. "But" is the greatest word in the diplomatic dictionary. As, for instance,1 "black is white, but-" I It's hard to understand these men who throw a fit about the government throwing out the unfit. The peak of rents is believed to have been reached. The peak ls when a tenant has a look in. It was an open winter, but the coal dealer ls writing letters to try and make lt a hard summer. How could a nian say with flowers what he feels like saying when he is digging out dandelions? The number of notes flying around the globe must make it hard on the international stenographers. Name it and you can have It ls 20 easy proposition when it comes to one of those Russian towns. Speaking of relativity, why is it that fleas stick so close to a dog and rarely bother even the meanest men? _ / There is hope for disarmament. The I women certainly have reduced the hat pin menace within recent years. Many a mickle makes a muckle, but there isn't anything you can get from the retail meat dealer for a muckle. An ounce of prevention ls worth a pound of cure. Hang the swatter out Bide the door where you can see IL Maybe the reason why people like the Silent drama is that it does not interfere with their discussion of the play. Poets are caroling everywhere, but the voice of D'Annunzio is still. His muse may be suffering from shell shock. The last word in the new English dictionary ls "Zyxt." It ought to come In handy when a man's fishing line backlashes. An unsinkable battleship would be flue, but an unsinkable freight and pas senger ship would be worth more to the world. . How the past Is linked to the present ls shown' by the contiguity on one person of the silk shirt and the denim overall. Occasionally a system of account ing can be understood only by a magic ian ol? the old "now-you-see-it-and-now you-do-not" school. There ls quite a bit of consterna tion because the gambling fever has hit jeweled women in Paris, but they won't be jeweled long.... Another thing the innocent people would like to know Is whether jazz musicians really get any pleasure oat of what they are doing. Native? of Tap, like those of other parts of the world, go on dancing to weird!, primitive strains without both ering their heads about the topics ?f the day. 1 Our foreign coal trade Is said te be suffering from lack of demand in France, but nothing that happens ever .jeems to be of any benefit to the home consumer. Doctor Abbott of the Smithsonian Institution, who has Invented a cook stove that stores che sun's rays, should now get busy on a furnace that will stock up in August for February activities. Doctor Angeli of Tale advises that one way of Improving education ls to cut out teaching as a lunch station be tween female adolescence and matri mony. Is it unanimous, or shall the clerk call the roll? i X . . I Making the Farm Attractive. | That the "farmer, speaking collect ively, is essential to the well being ?of the nation and the world is a proposition so seli-evident thai it needs no argument. And yet the trend of population is steadily aw?y from the farm and toward the cities and towns. All writers on economics and students of sociology agree that the congestion of great cities is mor-' ally unhealthful; a menace to our national life and proper development. What is the matter? Why do the young men and young women leave the farms and go to the cities? The reason is evident. They go be cause they believe the city offers better business opportunities and a more desirable social environment. You may say that they are mistaken and that they will be disillusioned7 by-'experience. Perhaps so but th? fact remains that this desire for i fuller life and for enlarged oppor tunities is the impelling force that drives them from the land" on winch they were born. What is the remedy? Make farm life so attractive, both from a bus iness and social standpoint that it will overcome the lure of the city How,, is that to be done? That, of course is easier asked than answer7, ed, and yet I think it can be an swered. 1 Man naturally loves the soil. It is natural for him to 'love to plant and till.yHe Joves to watch the de velopment of plant life, and espe cially if he has sown the seed from which it sprang. The city man, born in the country, never forgets the the scenes of his youth and in the hour of his greatest triumph longs for the green fields and woodlands of his childhood. But for the most part farm life is a life of drudgery and isolation. No other class works' such long hours or enjoy so little of social recreation. The financial rewards are nof proportional to the amount of toil, exposure and hardship in curred. In no other world is there so much risk and uncertainty. The* farmer's crops are always subject to the vicissitudes of the weather and his flocks and herds are always lia ble to be decimated by.disease. In the market, he is subject to the ?dic tation of the buyer of his products and the seller of those things he. needs in the conduct of his business. The farmer is the only producer of commodities who buys at retail and sells at wholesale. The packer, the manufacturer, the.money lender,' the wholesale and retail merchants manage to shift their share of tax ation on to the shoulders of their customers, but the farmer can not shift his, and he is compelled to pay taxes not only on what he owns but on what he does not own. ic?t schools; the farmer pays for them and sends his own children t'o inferior schools, poorly equipped, poorly taught and for the most part, with as dreary and uninviting envir onment as can be imagined. The remedy for farm conditions is co-operation. The farmers must get together and control the markets, instead of dancing always to the other fellow's music. The old unlove ly country school must give way to the consolidated* rural grade and high school, with modern, beautiful build ings and ample campus, laid out un der the direction of the best land scape artists. The science of agriculture must be studied to vastly increase pro duction, and the science of distribu tion learned, so that there will no f A Word tc People of We want you just of our 40c. Regu you visit Augusta. NEW YO Established in 1909 and bigger year after year. Just four doors from thi the Genesta Hotel. I longer be the wide gap between the produper and the consumer. The ideal country social life must be de veloped, so that it will offer great er attractions than the life in the cities. In short, the causes which drain the country and crowd the cities must be removed.-T. A. McNcal in The Christian Herald. Protection of American Labor. The labor department of Wash ington estimates the number of un employed persons in the United States as 5,275,000, or about five per cent, of the whole population of the republic. Everyone knows that the principal cause of the unemployment in the ?Upited States is the inability of Eu_ ropans to buy American products. The Europeans' stocks of gold have been depleted, they are short ,of iciw materials and therefore they are prevented- from producing and buying..Europe can not import from the United States without paying in goods the main object of a protective tariff enacted in this country would be to prevent the entry of European goods into it. How can American labor be saved from the competition of Europe by preventing Europe from buying the products of American labor? With more than 5,000)000 American work ingmen idle, will the congress de liberately erect barriers against trade with a certainty of a resulting in crease of unemployment? That is the prospect. It ought to-be obvious to intelli gent people everywhere that the only way through which the world, struck down by a world war, can re gain its feet is by cooperation of all the people . of the world. * They must help one another. The United States is the ablest and richest of the countries that remain, yet it is set ting out to block the channel of trade. To talk about cooperation annd to dam the arteries of trade at the same time is nonsense. The truth is that Americar labor, and we refer to workers wit urains as wells as hands, needs the s_ tition of European labor. Idl- 'i the principal cause of cr at low salaries and wages is ter than no work. Americans can live while Europeans starve, but their prosperity is bound up with Europe's recovery. Yet the United States is about to enact laws carefully design ed to perpetuate European industrial prostration. This it is about to do when more .than 5,000,000 of its working people have nothing to do. In the long run it would help the American farmers more to sell their' erops to Europe at prices below pro duction costs than to allow them to rot. N ' The proposed tariff policy of our country is worse than unChristian. It is selfish, cruel and criminal. In essence it is as barbarous as a Hun. nish policy would have been had the Hunnish war succeeded. Here are we Americans, with granaries and warehouses full to bursting while millions of people in other countries perish, while millions of our own people have nothing to do and the devil finds mischief with which thousands busy themselves. Trying to ' "cash in" on the pov erty and destitution of the rest of mankind, we are pauperizing our selves. Responsible for this maligi nant course are the rich owners of the mines and factories who last year deluded the voters and captur ed the government.-The State. ?R.fUNG'S NEW Will Surely Sloo That Cout? I \ i ?he Good Edgefield to give us a trial lar dinners when RK"CAFE have grown larger and 3 Square, right opposite Train of Refrigerator Cars o? the Fruit Growers Express from the South being rc-iced at Potomac Yards, Virginia, on its way .to Northern Markets THE public lac'.rs reliable infor mation on what it actually moans to take an orange, a grapefruit, a head of cabbage or let tuce, a bunch of celery or a box of strawberries from the warm South ern climate to the table of the Northern consumer and put lt there in as fresh and edible condition as though grown in the Northern man's own back yard. Realizing this lack of knowledge, certain ollicials of tho companies engaged in trajisportat&n under re-' frigeration are seeking an. official inquiry by the Interi-tate Commerce Commission so that the farmer who raises and ships his crop and the man in New York who buys the fruit and out-of-season vegetables may know whether they are paying fair charges for refrigeration cn route to market, and whether the transportation companies can give proper services on the charges al lowed by the Federal Commission. 9lt required over 600,000,000 pounds of Ice, costing over $1.700,000 tc re frigerate 25,713 carloads by lone transportation agency in moving perishable fruits and vegetables from Florida alone in the 1920-21 season, to Northern markets. This is in audition tu the movement of 10.000 cars of Georgia peachey, and thousands of other carsx of small fruits and vegetables under ice, from thc Carolinas and Virginia. In order to insure a sufficient and regular supply of ice for these cars, huge new icc manufacturing plants have recently been built at Jackson ville, Miami, Haines City and Lake land, Florida, and large modern ice plants also have been constructed in the Carolinas and Virginia. The volume of shipi^nts under refrigeration out of Florida alone, last year, was six times that of nine years ago, and twice that of two years ago. indicating the importance of the question for the future both to producers and consumers. 4 In the near -future the transporta tion companies will make an effort to'have the Commission throw the light of publicity on the actual op erations and all the costs involved in protecting the products of, South ern fruit and vegetable gro^brs from their farms and plantations to the tables of consumers In the North. l i i ! Barrett & Company (INCORPORATED) We have a high power, fast cutting outfit forced feed-a complete power plant in itself for sawing logs to any length. Does the work of six to ten men. Lever control of blade while --y?jfaP- engine is running. Huve good as ^?H^fe^jK^^^ sortm;nt of Gasoline Engines. All ^p^^ZI^^^^^^ equipped with Bosch Magneto sud COLUMBIA SUPPLY CO. ?Lever control starts and stops saw V 823 W. Gervais St., Columbia. S. C The first ten orders received for this engine will be furnished for $125 each. Do not forget Bosch Magneto Equipment instead of Battery. ARRINGTON BROS. & CO. I % Wholesale Grocers and Dealers In Corn, Oats. Hay and all Kinds of Feeds Gloria Flour and Dan Patch Horse ?Feed Our Leaders Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks Augusta, Ga. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED See our representative, C. E. May*.