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i THE AIKEN RECORDER. AIKEN, S. C-, JULY 24. 1891. enough six ^ BUILDING A SILO. PnM^tlcal Hints fur Fanners I>eslrons of HXakliig Such a Structure This Season. Silos may be made from any building inaterial, and aljove ground or under ground, but it is generally conceded that a cheap building of wood above ground is better and cheaper than the under ground pits. Silos should be watertight, and preferably airtight and frostproof, Although these two points are not es sential. The situation and construction of the silo, and the arrangements for fill ing. covering and emptying, should be largely governed by local conditions. Several small silos, independent or con necting. are better than one large one, and the depth should be considerably greater than the length, width or diame ter. Thus a small silo, ten feet square on the ground, ought to be fifteen feet high to the eaves. This is about as small a one as will be found profitable to use, and it will hold about thirty tons, or to feed nine or ten animals for months. In Powell’s A, B, C of Agriculture are given the following directions for making a silo: Having determined how large the building is to be, set stout hard wood posts in the ground four feet apart the full height of the walls, around the space to l>e inclosed. These posts should be brought to au^xact line with each other on the instil. Now sheath with plank one and a quarter inches thick on the inside horizontally. On the inside of this cover with building paper and sheath again with narrow dressed plank verti- caiiy. so as to make a smooth inside sur face. This inside sheathing should be painted over with boiled tar to prevent decay. The walls should be braced hori zontally aert'ss each comer, and an oc casional girder across the top. The roof should l>e made of a sharp pitch to give head room in filling, and the eaves should project well all around to throw the water away from the sides. No floor is needed inside, and if the ends of the roof project well the gables need not be closed. It is best to build next a hillside, so that a platform can be run Jtcross to the .gable end on which to place the cutting * machine in filling. But this is not es sential, since all the ensilage cutters are now supplied with carriers for elevating the cut corn and dropping it in at the top. On one side of the silo a doorway should be made between two of the posts tho entire height of the walls and well braced across at intervals. A series of doors without hinges should be made to drop in one above the other, each about four feet high, to be held in place by pressnL-nm whinn, so as to make DUCKS .Vi D DUCK t£G' Does Farming Pay? Practical Information on Several Much Disputed Points in Duck Culture. The following queries were recent!/ asked and answered in the New York World: “1. Do I need drakes? 2. Is there a sufficient and paying market for large quantities of duck eggs? 3. What is the best !>kx1 for laying ducks? 4. How long bef ie ducks hatched in March will com mence to lay? 5. Must I separate them into small flocks, or can l leave them to gether in one large flock? 0. Is there a good market for spring ducks? 7. Will a dock farm managed right pay?” The foregoing questions were answered as follows: 1. You need to keep drakes for breed ing purposes. There should be about one drake to five ducks. 2. Duck eggs have a fairly good market. When used for culinary purposes they sell at fully the same rates as hen eggs; sometimes they sell higher. It is, however, believed that raising ducks for eggs alone can hardly be made profitable. Their natural laying season is at a time when eggs are plenty and cheap, and there would be along interval, with no ca-rij return, ynd ducks are hug - eaters. Simply as egg producers hens will be found the most profnable. Rais ing ducks for their and marketing them when 8 or 10 weeks old, is consider ed the best part of the business. 3. Ducks will eat almost anything, and generally appear to be on the move hunting for something more to eat. They are ex tremely partial to soft food, such as a cornmeal and bran mixture. They also devour all green stuff and cooked vege tables greedily. Dry grains may be given them once a day in small quantities. 4. As before stated, spring is their natural laying season, but under domestication some varieties have been made to lay at 7 months old, and in some cases, it has been said, even earlier, but such precoci ty cannot be depended on. In reply to question 5 wo quote from Mr. James Rankin, an excellent author ity on ducks. He says: “My ducks are confined in yards 21 by 100 feet, some forty birds in each yard. They never see water the year round except to drink.” As will be perceived, Mr. Rankin does not consider a free range essential. He hatches his eggs with artificial incu bators. While ducks may be reared, under careful management, without water and in restricted quarters, when practicable they ought to have a reason able amount of space and water. All poultry thrive better for having suffi cient range. 6. There is always a good market fit largo cities for early young ducks. 7. Whether a duck farm will pay depends on the man, his management, his liking for the business and a location convenient to a good market. There is ample testimony that persons favorably situated as to markets, who raise chickens and ducks in large num bers, do make the business pay. No one should undertake it, however, under the mistaken idea that it will be an easy business that will half run itself. Noth in— 'ffiort of unremitting attention, con st. at labor and the l>est methods will make it a paying one. A beginner should go slow at first until he learns it and finds out whether he likes it. For ducks that are to be kept the year round a location where they can gather a good part of their own living will be an ad- For such as are to bo sold, the In the Augusta Chronicle of the 17th in a letter over the signature ot Mrs. Janette C Mclnnes on the sub ject of farming she says: We unhesitatingly reply that farm ing, conducted by farmers, produces as satisfactory returus for time, labor and capital invested as any other vo cation, with equally, if not more com pensating advantages in the way of health, independence and home en joyment. ********* The real delinquents, we have not found in the ranks of the exclusive and systematic tillers of th** soil, the followers of the plough, sowers of seed and harvesters of crops, but iu the hosts of amateurs, horseback far mers, and those who sit around home one day overseeing their wife and children “tending crop,” and the next drive a load of wmod to the adjoining cit3', returning with the proceeds in a demijohn; or that class who endeavor to combine the straight furrows of their plough-shares with the intricate and devious windings of the expedi ent politician. The reading of this letter, the Chronicle says, in the Cotton Ex change, turned the conversation to that familar topic, the fooliahness of the farmer in planting all cotton, and Mr. O’Dowd said: “The only hope for the farmers of the South is to let cotton go down to 4 cents and corn up to $2. If they can get nothing for their cotton, and have not money enough to buy Wes tern provisions, then they will turn in and make them at home. As long as the ceaseless tide of money pours from the South to the West for the necessaries of life, and we get no mon ey from the West for anything, the farmers of the South can never pros per. It makes me mad to see our farmers trying to form an alliance with the West, the worst enemy to the Souths development and prosper ity. I had a farmer write to me to send him a can of butter. I wrote him that I wouldn’t do It, to make his own butter at. home.” “One day I had a farmer to order from me,” said Mr. Z. W. Carwile, “flour, meal, corn, hay, lard, molas ses, butter, and I think a little of ev erything else that ought to be raised on a farm.” He was sitting in his wagon at my door and I went out aud asked him: “What is your occupation.” “I’m a farmer, sir.” “Why, what do you grow on your place?” “Cotton.” “Well, why don’t you buy it, too; you buy everything else you ought to raise; and you can buy it cheaper than you can make it. “The fellow looked thunderstruck, but I hope I set him to thinking.” Why It Is Popular, zause h »a A liberal Proposition. £ Who lias not heard of that paragon of family papers, the enterprising and opulijir Weekly Detroit Free Press? or a, generation its name has been a household word and has become a synonym for all that is excellent, pure aud elevating in journalism. It isde- lightfijjj entertaining, without resort to cheap sentimentalism instructive without being prosy or pedantic. 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Sample copies free, Fran 4 Leslie's Popular Monthly August. for Grealt interest is now taken in any thing merlaining to Alaska, and those who cannot go and see what that part of ourcomiiry is like for themselves would 1 he glad to read of the experi ences ^f two persons who have been there, (as set forth in “A Trip to Alas ka,” by Dr. A. Victoria Sco t and Emily J. Bryant, in Frank Le-1 e’s Popular Monthly for August. Olh. r highly interesting illustrated irtichs in this number of the Popular Month ly are: “Down the St. Lawrence on a Raft.’’ by J. J. Bell; “Mediseval Epidemics,” by Joel Benton; “The Older Boston,” A Malagasy ‘ Man.” by Lieut. Shufeldt, U. S. X.; “Wo men as Inventors,” by Frances Ste vens; “A Black Giant.” There are six s : iort stories, besides an exciting installment of the serial, “John Maggs, Barbarian,” and several pret ty poems. At Flat Rock, nine miles from Col umbus Ga., Calvin Knight, Mrs. Knight and daughtei*, Miss Flora, an entire family, were killed by one stroke of lightning on the IGth* inst. The bodies were burned blue. King of Medicines St rbfulous Humor — A Cure ‘‘Almost Miraculous.’’ “ Wheu-l was 14 years ct age I had a severe attack of rheumatism, and after I recovered had to go onP-'utches. A year later, scrofula, In the form , * ‘'Hite swellings, appeared on various part) 3 m -> body, and for 11 years I was an inv^^’ bring confined to my bed years. In tn at tiire t en ->r eleven sores ap peared and b« 0 ^ e > causing iik- great pain and suffering. jB^ared I never should get wotl. “ Early in® 86 1 went to Chicago to visit a sister, but ?^fc2onfiiied to my bed mooi of tho time I was» re - In Jul y 1 read a book, ‘ A Day with a^B :us ’’ in which were statements of cures Sarsaparilla. I was so im pressed wi^^^- uccess of this medicine that 1 decided ■ To toy great gratification the sores creased, and I began to feel better an^^^B s b°rt time I was up and out of doo^^Kt nti bued to take Hood’s Sar- saparilB^^^Kt a year, when, having used six become so fully released from bat I went to work for the Flint ^^^^»Mfg._Co.. and since then THOUSANDS OF WOMEN JESSE THOMPSON&CO Become afflicted and remain so, suffering untold miseries from a sense of delicacy they cannot overcome.; F.MDFIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR, > V stimulating and arousing to healthy icJon all her organs, ACTS AS A SPECIFIC. Tt causes health to bloom on the ’!• tk, and joy to reign throughout frame. Tt never fails to cure. Bast Medicine ever Made for Women. My wife has been under treatment of biisr physicians three year*, without ..lit. Af ter uting three bottlae of Brad- •. >.1.1/8 Frmai.r Regulator *he can do ... ,R OWN COOKING, MILKING AND WASHING.” N. S. Bryan, Henderson, Ala. "uad^ield Regulator Co.. Atlanta, Ga. cr.jid by druggists at $1.00 per bottle. Augusta & Asheville Short Line. Port Royal & Western Carolina Railway. O N and after July oth, 1891, passenger trains will run as fol lows, bv 75th meridian time: North * * Leave Aiken.... .10:22 P m Lv Augusta ,. 7: 20 a in Ar McCormick.. . 9:33 a m • * Anderson .... . 2:15 P in it Greenwood .. .10:45 a in ii Laurens . .. . ..11-55 a m ft. Greenville ... ..1:35 P m ftft Spartanburg. . 1:50 P in it Henderson ville4:20 P m ft t Asheville.... ..5:17 P m Ar Hot Springs . .6:45 P m South * * Lv Hot Springs. .. Lv Asheville 11:30 a in “ Henderso’ville 12:36 pm “ Spartanbuig 3:20 pm “Greenville 3*00 pm ** Laurens 5:15 pm “ Greenwood ... .6:25 pm “ Anderson 2: pm “ McCormick 7:40 p in Ar Augusta 10:00 pm Port Royal &, Augusta Railway. Time—90th Meridian. South - * + Lv Aiigusta 11:45am 8:00 pm Ar Yetnassee .... 3:35 p m 2:10 a m Ar Charleston .. ..6:50 p m Ar Savannah. .. . 6.20 p m Ar Jacksonville. . .7:35 a m Ar Beaufort .5:20 p m Ar Port Royal... .5:40 p m North Daily Lv Port Royal .. . .7:30 a m Lv Beaufort m Lv Jacksonville. .6:30 p m Lv Savannah ... ..6:55 a m Lv Charleston... . .8:10 a m Lv Yetnassee ... . 9:40 a m 3:00 a m Ar Augusta 1:30 pm 8:40 am ♦Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Through Palace Sleeper runs be tween Savannah and Asheville. Connecfion made at Greenwood with C. & G. Road; at Anderson with the Blue Ridge Road; at Spartanburg wT4h R. & D. Roads. * ' <• Eibt^further information apply to JAS/lXTA YLOR, W. J. CRAKi? G^P. A. ^P.A. R. W. Hiitnt. SjuTHaas, T. P. A.^^ T. M. AugqaK^Ga. -MANUFACTURERS OF- YELLOW PINE LUMBER , SASH, AND -DEALERS IN- Window Class* Builders’ Hardware COR. HALE & CENTRE ST., - - AUGUSTA, GA. -AT THE- IIM) (IK!! -A-IIKEUST, S. C-, A COMPLETE STOCK OF FURNITURE is offered allow prices, consisting of Parlor aud Bedroom suites; Safes; Sideboards; China Closets; Bureaus from $5.50 up: Wardrobes; Book Cases; Extension, Parlor and Kitchen Tables; Fancy and Plain Rockers; a Large lot of Chairs from 50c. up; Bedsteads from $2.00 up; Refrigerators; Ice Boxes, as low as $4.00; Mat tresses from $3.00 up; Wire Woven Springs; Slat Springs; Wire Woven Cots; Kitchen Safes, wire and tin; Looking Glasses; Clocks; Mosquito Nets and Frames; Wall and Corner Brackets; Hat Racks; Curtain Poles. Mattresses renovated in short notice. Pine Fibre Pillows and Mattresses a specialty. Upholstering and Repairing Furniture is best of style. J. If. BECKMAN. E. R. SCHNEIDER, Importer, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Fine Wines, Brandies, Whii Cin, Porter, Ale, MINERAL WATERSjjrO^ACifV, CIGARS, ETC. QS^Agent for Veuve-Clicqqnlr^onsardin. u rbana Wine Company, Anheuser Buscii Brewing Association. 601 and 802 Rroad St., Augusta, Ga. 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