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WHY THE SMALL FARMER SHOULD RAISE PURE BREDS Community Organization Places Smallest .Scale Breeder on Sub stantially the game Basis Oc. cupied by the Large Scale Breed. er-Opportunities in Home and Foreign Markets. Time was-and not so long ago when the small farmer could not af ford to breed purebred animals. - The time has come-just now, per. haps-when the small farmer can harp ly afford not to breed purebred ani. mals, and 'at least he should use pure, bred sires. That is particularly true if his lin of live stock is cows and, more par. ticularly, if they are dairy cows, ac. cording to men i nthe United State, Department of Agriculture who hav< given their lives to the study of dair3 farming. What has brought about the chang< Principally, community organization The small farmer who ha sto operat .alone and unaided-as practically at of them (lid 10 years ago-has a rock3 road if he aspires to purebred stock Now, the whole situation .is changed or is rApidly changing. The smal farmer does not stand alone, and hi i ttittuututttti t ututittittmtitttui - IST NAT I' l I tlk ! The National : of Our Counti constitute a to the deposi National Bay more public ernment is t; ing that the safety of th< FIRST NATI( The T. N. FOR taining about located two n S. C., on Pu in two miles and church. For further Mrs. N~ Sumtei UI J.. owdyi Electric (o. any * bineRIIss for hin thiat contract foi stur prices. Iepi I SEE OR PH has all kinds of aids. There, to start with, is the county agent, ready to bring thA accumulation of expert knowledge to bear on the problems of the small farmer. There is the coun ty farm bureau, perhaps. There is the cowtesting association. There d1 is the cooperative bull association. f1 There are enough things, if they are N used, to pull the community together si and make it possible for the smaller ti scale breeder to enjoy many of the ad- p, vantages formerly obtained only by r the largest breeder. A Land of Purebreds. n "Why not," inquire the dairy ex- w perts of the Department of Agricul- w ture, "make the United States a pure- it bred country, put it in the mind of the r< world as a purebred country"? Peo- c< ple do not think of it that way now. I Try it out with yourself. You think a of the Island of Jersey, say, as simply It a breeding ground for pure Jersey c cows, of Scotlad as the top otch in I Aberdeen-Angus aantle, of Clydes- .s i CHICHESTER S PILLS r THE DIAMOND RAND. Radical Ask your Druggist for A Sllehbn 8ted an Viaold iirald/o t boxes. seated with Blue Ribbon. I Take no other. Du. of '&u t a yearsknown asBestSafest.Aways 'Sellablo 9 SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE I. tos uuuu c n s uutmn )NALK. BA IYlk d' I Banking Laws bulwark of protection to tors of such institutions. I As are becoming more and institutions and the Gov eking a strong hand in see y are conducted for the public. )NAL BANK R. C. Baggett, Cashier. W. C. Davis, Pres. A n ith T ae cixie 587e but res dond Ie. L. or SMiTHng -your ph~tbing. Gset ir'work especially. ONF~ DOWDY THE BEST TEST Is the Test of Time. Years ago W. R. White of S. Boun 'y St., Manning told of good results om using Doan's Kidney Pills. ow Mr. White confirms the former atement-says there h ras been no re rn of the trouble. Can Manning ople ask for more convincing testi ony ? Mr. White gave the following state ient March 19, 19e8: "I suffered ith kidney trouble for home years. I ould have to get up a good deal dur ig the night to pass the kidney sec tions, which were highly colored and )ntained a brick-dust like sediment. sutliered constantly with backaches ad there were sharp pains across my >ins. My back ached badly and I artainly was in misery. I used oan's Kidney Pills and they gave me plendid relief making me feel better n every way." NEARLY TEN YEARS LATER or n February 15, 1918, Mr. White said: It is always a pleasure to recommend loan's Kidney Pills. I found then ie only remedy that did me any good, n fact, Doan's cured me of all my rouble." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't imply ask for a kidney remedy-get loan's Kidney Pills-the same that Ir. White had. Foster-Milburn Co., lfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. ale horses, even of Collie (logs. Your icture o1 England is likely to be one f purbred Herefords or Shorthorns. Lnd you have a sort of feeling of re erence toward them. Do you think of America, from a ive stock standpoint, in that way ? )f course not. You think of it as a neat-producing country, a range ountry, a grade cattle country. Both estimates are, in a manner, orrect. But, to the individual farm r on the Island of .Jersey or in the vhite-face country of England or the lack-cattle country of Scotland, the natter of having his animals pure >red is simply a matter of doing what verybody else is doing. It is easier r", to say the least, just as easy-to lo it as not to (10 it. Until just now, that condition never xisted in the United States; it does xist now. Communities have organ zed an dare organizing still more losely. Breeding associations are eing formed with secretaries who an give help in keeping the records f all animals straight, one of the hings with which the small farmer iperating alone has greatest dillicul y. When a coninunity organiz( ani tarts raising purebred stock of any ind, it brings a market for that kind if stock to the door of every farmer in he community. The man who, operat ng alone, could not hav'e sold a pure wed animal for a dollar more than he -ould have got for a good grade ani nal can get the worth of every ani nal he raises under the community systemi. Opportunity Is Here. America has the opportunity just low to develop as a great breeding in ;titution. South America wants pure >red "stuff.' As an indication of how tetive the wants is, Argentina recent v appropriated $100,000 to encourage he importation of purebreds. If the United States gets any considerable ortion of the business in South Am rica, Department experts say, it uust be because American animals ompete s'ceessfully on final test with mimals from anywhere else in the vorbl. They see no t rouble in doing hat. with dairy cattle, where pro luetion is the test. The tihing to be !one is to give the Sou.th A mericans vbiat. they want in dairy cattle. There is likely, also, to be a pretty ig market in France for American aturebred dairy .ows. 'The problemi of umnply ing that demand is somewhat liff'erent from the South A merican rproblem. France wants a general urpose cow, while the United States is~ the home of the special izedl cowv. l'he thing that has to be (lone in that ease is' to give France the specialized lairy cowv that most nearly me(ets the eurements, withI the hope that when 'ier priodluction records show up they wvill he so good that other Frenehmen wvill wvant other' cows like her. Big P'urebred Market at Home1. But, after all, the big market for pulr'lere an i mals is at home. The same facts that apply to foreign mar kets ought to apply to b eginners in th is country. Takew the mauni who has beeni opeIrating ai dairy farm with Lgradle cows. Let him have a pur'ebrked that not onuly loo1k sb)ette'r thian .any -ow he ever owned beftore, hut also produces better, :tmel he is pretty cer' La in to start substi touig pu rebreds for h1is gradles. If he gets a poor pro lucer, of cou rse, he is Iikealy to make up his miind that "'thle pu0r('bred busi ness is mostly bunk.'' ('ommun11it y trgan iz/at ion tendls to see to1 it that the leginner gets a goodl p. oducerm, wich'I, in turn, tends to make him a steady :-ustomeor for puir(eed cows unmt it he hats placed his herd on(' a purtebre'(d Now that het. can1 affIord to do it, the .mall farmer shoul give himself the pleasu re---anmd the actual b'neflit---of having dairy animals tamt he can1 be 'int husiastic' over. . You niever saw a man1,"' says one of' the Gover'unment's daIiry experts, "just boilinig over with enthu1 isiatsmi ab lout grade( ('ows. Thie gradow maRI maily th ink abouLIt getttig upl 'R ely in t he morning to wvork with hiis cows;' but t he Ipure-b~red..cow manl i is per fect ly willing to sta~y up all ntight to work with them."' In all ot' thIis d is '1ussion the good~ P purebredI is 0under't Rt oodl, and1( not the scriuI) purebr'ed, for there are I'lsome Of thiat hind WVithl the growing s'arreit y (If feed 't' ('attle' anmd the ml vance inl valuIe (If f-im lands, says the Uinited State Ls DIm) IIrt ment (If Agricultaire. the baby be(ef ind~ustr'y is of increasimg impor' Lancoe and is receiving the att entiont of farmers'I' in all Ilive-stock sect ionis of the co'unit'v. Farmers' IHul let in 811 mliscusses(' the vartiousi phases(' (It pr1o dlucing baby bi ef for market. Urove's Tasteless chIll Tonic restores vitality and energy by purifyIng and en' riching t he blood. You can soon feel Its Strength enind" Invlidoraating Iffret, Price Snc. A not he r Car of I, If you want an animal that is service able and has class to it, we can ac commodate you. Our buyer knows the needs of the farmers of this sec tion and he buys accordingly. The Thomas quality of Stock cannot be beaten anywhere. We have some extra fast Horses with track records. If you want a fast ridd, you can get it. Farm Machinery! WE have a large stock of Farming Machinery that has real labor-sav ing merit to it. The machinery is is the product of the largest manu facturers in the United States and is backed up by iron-clad guarantees Come in, we will be glad to demon strate any of them to you. THOMAS LIVE STOCK CO. H. M. THOMAS, Manager