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We Are Hea Nitrate ( in quantities fr upwards. We h the past ten d age of this-mat prices have ad past week it is pared with otil Get our prices MANNING STO and look o, have to s: our line n( come to tc I be you are market ju what we 12 but would privilege a of showin anyway. V you only si will give* Prices an< ways in lin us when it ommenIIllisemmamma M. FBat Is your Hon' to-date ? Are you giv Health the tion? We are in p Light and F' ply, Moderr Sewer disp( Our Engin< N is at your di to you. If youi are ite: 1e, let us knowi will call anid se DIXIE ELECTR AN] Sumfil dquarters for )f Soda om ten tons and gave sold during ays a large ton erial, and while ranced during the still cheap com 1er ammoniates. before you buy. OIL MILL. P INi ver what we how you in a !xt time you a wn. It may not in the st now for ave for sale, give us the a nd pleasure. g you thru le will show. ich goods as you service. a I terms al ie. Stop with 1 town. rmer ! .ae Sanitary and up ing your Family's proper considera osition to give you owver, Water Sup Plumbing System, 2ering Department sposal, at no( cost rested, andI you should and our Representatlive (' you. ) PLUMJNBINGi CO. Which ,I 'I b b C I,' II C SI b HOME BA MANNING, Farm We are a for one of of Farm United St IT HE A SWe Have All K PLOM CULT STAL] COTTI GRAIl In fact, al: Farm Ma Co.f 7$: wwwwwtwww AGRICULTURAL ADVANCES DUE T0 EXHAUSTIVE TESTt Governmental Agencies Are Finding Out Facts--Experiments Fre quently Require Such Long Periods That Individuals Can No1 Aftord to Engage in Them. 'bhe scientific experiment is a slov process,- but it is the best way in the world to get facts. The slowness of it is one of the rea sons why the farmer, even though he is a scientist, can not do the experi" meats for himself. He has not the rme to devote to them. Then, some times a great many experiments hav to be tried before one is made thai produces the desired results. The fai mer can not afford the numerous ex periments that may not get satisfac tory results for the sake of the on( that does. Here is an illustration of the kin( of experiment that, from the stand point of the ,length of time it takes no farmer cuold undertake for him self as a business proposition. Thi United States Department of Agri culture wanted to know whether th( milking tendency in beef cattle is transmitted mainly by the dams through the male line of descent, an< to what extent the milk-giving func. Lion of the dam influences the beet character of the progeny. An experi ment to determine those facts was be gun in 1915. It will not be complete( until 1935. But at the end of that 20 year period the Department of Agri culture will know those facts, an( every farmer in the United State; may know them just as thoroughly a, if he had devoted 20 years of his owr life to working them out. This is one of the experiments of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and like all the experiments of that bureat has as its object the improvement of live stock. But it has been repeatedly provel that work for the improvement f live stock always has an indirect nd frequently a direct, beneficial ef feet on human beings. Here is an ill ustration of direct benefit: Horse: sometimes (lie of what is known a: forage poisoning. The Bureau of Animal Industry negan experiments to determine the cause of that poi!on ing. The bacillus boturinus was in. 'riminated. Experiments were begur to develop a serum that would protect tgainst botulinus poisoning. A sheci was finally immunized and a quantit) >f serum made from its blood. Then mne lay, word came to the bureau thai 1 little girl had contracted botulinu: poisoning from ripe olives and wa: lying. The serum-prepared with th< idea of protecting horses against for Age poison---was rushed from Wash. ington to New York, and the litth irl's life was saved. Cases of botul inus poisoning, from canned goodh And other foods, have frequentl3 caused the death of entire families and there has previously been no re lief for it.. Experiments prove theories or dis irove them, and one may he just a significant as the other. There ha: long been a theory that a cow woul give mor:. milk if milked at regula: times every (lay than if milked irre p:ouarly. The )epartment of Ag'ricul ture tried it out on a scale sufficient ly large to .make certain of th facts, and found that, so far as pro i uction is concerned, there is no note worthy difference between regular an irregular m ilking. although regular ity is usually desirable for other rea sons. In the experiment the feedin hours were regular throughout. Mor difference might be found if both fees ing acid milking were irregular, as i the case on many farms. It has al ways been the common opinion, als that a cowv wouldi eive more milki she h-ol water1 'onistantly blefore he t han if i she werie watered on3ce or twie a da v. 'The depar1 itmient is exnieri mentim1 on~01 that, andu hats reached~ th tIntIa tive conc.'tIluin that t he ad van tav go f water contin iuously lies ma inl: inl the' saving of lhbor' rathler than i aI gr'leater' prloductioni of milk. Thee wasii 5I ather comonmon thieor: on wvihi peole were dIividled. Som, mien sid that a hog wmould do bet te if he hadi wiater to wallowv in. Othe m11en of equItal xper1ien3(ce Sid thier wa(s nothlin g t(o it; that a wallow had n1othlin g to do( withI tihe prosplerity (of hor:. Tlhe dIepar 1tmenl1t miadle somei ex perIimen(1ts. and1( 10ound thiat a hog dobe gain wieight more rapIdly it he ha a(ccess to a willlow than if lie ha~s 1not Ther Arei I other animal11 C exper'imen(t iln progreCs sthat1(. will requ ilr' longoe pieril Is thian the13 20-year e'xper1iimen w'ith iicat.t le. Some( l ll('1 br dinig C eper ments1 are0 inljl prgres sthat have al read3(y r'eached t he t wven k'iet gene3ra tionl ofI inbred anlimals. One series (o Crea1tion o1 (f a breedI ~of horsI'e-th, MlorIgian- that1, wmhenI tile e'xperiment(1 be(ganl, was3 thought to bel lo1st to thi cress wvith the ohiet oof crea1tin~g br'eedI of Americalin ig(eea l-purpos)0 horses, and1( still ot hers for the evolu t ion oIf thle idleal cavalry horse. E'xperimentls are3 iln pogres1' stoI de term(line till best method o111f deelopim lot ter umilk and3 hutter prloduc'ing ('ow ini Iarger' numbllers. I ine breeding. ini breed Iinig, and1. crossb13'reding are'l beil) tried1 throu(3gh'a numbiler' of geenra'l tiolns. Tlh(ese lines o(f exper'liment11at illa mere'ly indic'ativ'0 of scores5 of line n (Ilne:I whilh worIk is nlow~ ml pro4'gre(s and1( of1 hundreds('( t hat hav' alread11( p':in 1i n i.;((33 co ph-'td and1. the facet ar <-ti ned,13'l'oi t information312 i result . ted \b the 1,3part m e3t Avriculture. 31''r \he Stat ' tgiulturii 1'*' i .1 'for rath 3 h- 33i of rrli nra a 31 i >t Pra33 ial 3' ' y al of13 ; t;t ( i tI, fiir.1 i. i e t e h i n p i l OR Ti D.+ You. Pre HE land flowing honey exists in i: ut the home of peac eckoning to every yi ommunity. you squander your umulate only the 'tin we and invest then y iegin with a savings ank. Time will take NK & TR Mach ii gents in this the very be Machinery ates,. VERY i inds of IVATORS,. K CUTTER; ON PLANTE ~I DRILLS, E miost anythir chine line. See us first. lhe Live Stock Doenlors fer ? with milk and rnagination only, e and comfort is sung man in this earnings you ac sel of life. If you rou reap the gold. account at this care of the rest. UST CO. SO. CAROLINA. very!. county st lines in the Li NE! RS, ;tc. gin thea eA ligbhv.j