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EVERY FLOCK OF CHI RAVE A SANITA1 Poultry Husbandman of Clemsj Can Construct Poultry * Needs. Yet Be cVjjyr/r sc '""'yju-^ ?n *rv a 11 h - .v < <kts /w lirr out to clean') I I 1 I propbcmkd qjwh k iH 7>*v-rnf i ill mash\y\ kxdljl *wwi?ln; " j earth?-jL J v ? ??-^s'?lo'-?' v---^ qrcund plan ' Every (lock of chickens should have a Ijoubo to live in. It need not he an expensive building hut it should be bright and sanitary. The best place to locate it is near some shade or fruit trees, to protect the lions from summer heat. The ground must be dry and preferably of sandy loam. The front or open side of the house should face the south, so as to have as much sunlight as possible on the floor. Cut 4-by-4-inch lumber for the sills, two pieces 10 feet long and two pieces 7 feet 4 inches long, for the house shown in the accompanying il lustration. This will accommodate 40 laying hens. Then erect five f-ont studs 7 feet long and four back studs 5 feet long. Put up the two center studs, the plates and rohf rafters Cover the frame with wide unpinned hoards (not recommended unless cheapness Is a primary consideration and even then it is better to cover these boards with rooting paper, tongued-and-grooved flooring or weather boarding.) If you use "tongued and grooved Mooring, lay ft up and down. In the front side leave an opening 7 feet long by 4 feet deep and a door space 2 feet G inches wide for ibe open front and door. Both openings extend to the roof and the remaining It feel (at the bottom) is elosed to prevent heavy wind or rain from blowing on the chickena. The openings are covered wtth 1-inch-mcshnd wire netting to keep out sparrows. Ventilating Door. The door 12 inches wide near the ORCHARD WORK Have yon a supply of fruit on your farm? if not. why not beglnjiow to make arrangements for it? On almost every farm of the state there are a few trees, producing a mall quantity of l'ruit. In most cases all the fruit ripens at once and ia soon gone, giving a supply for only a short time and leav ing none to put away for winter use. No southern state is better adaptei than South Carolina to producing fruit for home use. yet millions of dollars leave the state every year for canned fruit Preparing Soil. At this season of I lie .vo ir (Septom ber 1 to October li?) ore hardwire usually neglected. Farmers seem to III ink that there is nothing to ho done then that will be of any material he'p. Nevertheless. now is the time to begin to prepare soil for the trees that are set out this fall and winter. Select the orchard site, break the soil as deeply as possible and harrow thoroughly. This work will greatly reduce the later labor or setting the orchard. Choosing Varieties. What varieties are you going to plant? This is a point of great importance. Me sure to make selections that will provide fruit throughout an entire season. If you are not familiar with the varieties that are adapted to your particular sectjon, write to the Extension Division, Clomson College, for Mullet in No. 16. In this will 1*> found lists of varieties suitable for the various sections of the state. Buying Trees. Where are you going to ^et your trees sltd what are you going to pay for them? If you are not in touch with a reliable nursery and If you are not familiar with the prices of trees, the Extension Division of Clenison College will he glad to help you in this matter. Bewaro of the tree agent. The Farmers can obtain a circular on the growing of wheat and oala by writtag la BMaxjr & BlUoabary Pie?oa OrikQik * CKENS SHOULD MUSE TO LIVE IN )n College Tells How Farmer House That Answers Inexpensive. V A fbultrytfou^e II ^ flock". Ij Si ;-/7vnv i mesh wire 4 rr wide j] rwii Si I "Tr TFrlT] a=um^^i - ; j*- i''~ 'B. V I n ^wtrzje > ! J AB * *LI -* K > P'-O" <4 CRO&} fEcrnoN ' roof at the north side (see lllustration? extends across the house. This floor is opened in warnt weather to ventilate the house and create a draft to cool tne interior. It is closed in wintor. This is a valuable improvement for Southern poultry houses and should always he provided. The interior has at the north side two roosts and a drophoard to catch the droppings. The dimensions are Riven in the drawing. The drophoard is :i feet wide. Nests and Hoppers. The six nests can he made of old egg crates, orange crates or packing boxes. They can he placed on a raised platform together with the water vessel. This keeps both nests and water clean. Dry mash is fed in a hopper or self-feeding hox which will be described in a later article. The floor of the house should be well-packed dirt tllleci in till level with the top of the sill. A concrete door is best of all and you should try to make an earthen floor as near a concrete surface as possible, (thickens are injured by having to live is a house full ol dust? Hoard floors soon rot and liar bor rnts and mice unless raised high 4fT the ground, as in a squab plant. Cowor the earth floor to a depth of inches with straw or clean litter. Scat ter the grain in this litter and make your hens sratcli for every kernel. FRANK (\ HARK. Extension Poultry Husbandman, (Meinsoti AirrienW nr:?1 ('itllotrn FOR EARLY FALL nurseries they represent may he nl right, hut you are not always sure o what you ace getting and in most case you are paying the agent's salary am the expense of delivering the trees. 1 you are 'hinking of setting ont an or chard this fall, let us help you. Improving the Orchard. If you already have an orchard." wh. not begin to improve It now? A rove crop sown now and turned next sprin; will help wonderfully. Twenty pound of crimson clover seed per acre, sowi and disced, will make a good cover provided the seed are inoculated Three necks of rye and L'O pounds o ha?rv vetch to the acre will also inaki a good cover for the orchard. If titer are turned next spring at the first cnl tivation they will add a lot of fertllit; to the soil will also help to hold ntois tore. There are a good ipatiy mum in) fruits hanging to the trees. These art full of a pores and if left in the or chnrd will cause more rotten frui' another year. Now is a good time tc get these out of tho way. Pull and burn them. Horcrs n>ay have been giving you trouble. You were advised to paint and mound the trees early in summer The mounds should be pulled down on October 15 and the trees examined foi borers. The young borers are Just entering the trees the middle of Orto her and will be found going in just above the level of the hill of dirt you pull down. If you (ind any of them scrape the bark off with a knife and the little borers will be destroyed. The work at this season consists largely in cleaning tip and preparing i for winter and spring. If done prop rely, the trees receive much benefit. C5. P. N1VKN. Assistant in Horticulture. Clemson Agricultural College. ? ?If you don't know what you give your cows and you don't know what i your cowa civ* you, why do you keep BAIT CASTING A REAL ART Worth Pursuing, Slnco It Gives to Its Devotees So Much of the Joys of Life. The bait easier! What memories of lily-pa dried lakes, shimmering in the burnished gold of the setting sun, of a roseate twilight peace, when the lake is one Vast mirror; of furious battles with that bulldog of the sweet waters, the black bass, are i his! A most difficult art, one that requires more than a modicum of prae tice to acquire?to place that lure precisely in a given spot, forty or fifty feet awav, where a bass may lurk?not near the spot, but right in it, mind you?to land that lure so as to simulate a frog or minnow naturally leaping or jumping to escape possible attack by a bass; to do all this with a short rod and high-speed I deel. casting the lure as a small boy J throws an apple from the end of a { stick to do this with accuracy aud deftness is no unworthy ambition. And after the strike comes a battle between a five-pound tish and a 150pound man, squnlized by fair tackle, that will put the exhilaration of eternal youth into any man?especially if he proves himself worthy to beat the fish at his own game, to take him with all the handicaps imposed bv the necessary tackle and win out against nil the snags, tactics, leaps ; and plunges, rushes and feints emplowed by the battling bass.?Amer| ican Forestry. TWO CLASSES CF THINKERS Bodins Tffat Have Been Alluded to aa the Tender-Minded and the Tough. Professor James of Harvard was! wont to divide philosophers into twoj classes, the tender-minded and thcj | lougn-nnmieci. At Hint's ne varied I the phraseology by referring to them ' ns tlie thick and the thin; at other j times as the tenderfooted and, the Jtockv mourt :in tough. The teti'ler-ininded are, aeeortling to l'rof ?r James, the philosophers of a speculative turn, the rationalists. "going by principles;" the tough-minded are the empiricists, "going by l'aets." Further, the tender-minded are intelleetualistic, idealistic, optimistic and dogmatical; the tough-minded are materialistic. pessimistic and skeptical. If we are to believe James, there is little love lost between these two classes of thinkers. "The tough think of the tenders as sentimentalists and softheads. The tender feel the tough to he unrefined, callous cfr brutal." The tender-minded spin their fine cobwebs of theory, hut the toughminded look abroad "on the colossal universe of concrete facts, the awful Imw i Mermen ts, the surprises and cruelties and the wild ties* things show," and at least face all that, if they can't explain it. UNDESERVED CENSURE. "1 dare say you haven't worked in years," remarked the hard-featured hotisewi fe. "You do me a great injustice, mum," said the tattered tourist. "I'm recuperatin' right now front a sentence of six months at hard lahor." NO DOUBT OF IT. "Was there running water ill thf ' house yon looked at." "Sure. Hverv floor in it was leak ing" ' CAUGHT AT IT. "What's Iwcoiiip of Bill?" "Oh, lv o|i ?)( <! a store." "ifOlllo well?" "N<>: (loin* time." CALOMEL WHEN 3li MAKES YOU SIC "Godson's Liver Tone" Is Harmless To Clean Your Sluggish Liver and Bowels. ITgh! Calomel makes you nick. It's horrible! Take tt ildw of the dangerous drug tonight ami tomorrow you may lose a day's work. Calomel it mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the hones. Calomel, when it comes into eon tact with sour Idle crashes into it, breaking it up. This is when vou fee! that awful nausea and cramping. If you are slug giali and "all knocked out," if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you ha\c headache, dizziness, coated uongue, if breath ia bad or stomach sour, mat try a sjxtonful oi harm lews IWsua'i Unr Toil i on mtj guaranl?a. i ? tfhrn . ^* ijSf ^ KNEW HOW IT WAS Howe?Going to have a garden this year? Wise?Not much. Howe?I thought you were so en thusiastic on the subject last sum- | mer. Wise?Won't you allow a man to j learn anything by experience? SLIGHT HANDICAP. | "So you think diplomatic talents , are likely to be scarce?" "Yes," replied the visitor from kbroad. "In public life a man de- | votes so much energy and time to ; looking for a chance to make a speech that he is liable not to recognize ihe occasions when he ought not to.'.' DIFFERENT. "Can you keep a secret?" "Yes." "But will you?" "Oh, that's different. 1 don't! know." HOLDING BACK. "Me a tramp? Xo, sir. I'm a member of the army of toil." "I never see you toil." "1 belong to de resorts." SAID TO BE COOL. "This seioiitidt ..II ...... I - ? """vo ",llL "" "^6" etahlcs contain heat units." "1 suppose the cucumber is un except ion." HIS CHOICE. "I assure you, sir, I can paint a speaking portrait of your wife." "Couldn't you do it in what you artist fellows call still life?" THE REASON. "Why do the English political par- ' ties have a whip?" "To heat their opponents with, i you stupid." I><J CUSaiBILITY. "Maynie needn't try to keep it secret that she blenches her hair." "How could she, in the nature of things, keep such a matter dark?" A QUAINT CUSTOM. "You say the Holdings are an oldfashioned family?" "Very They all eat breakfast to gcthcr." "Somebody has done Jinks a foul wrong." "What was it ?" "Stole his incubator." ' PROVED FACT. "Do you believe the theory that accidents come in cycles?" "Sjll i n I tl/^ i?cnnoii?ll\' f t hott'ao " ,,,L7 motorcycle*" EXPLAINED. "Mrs. IMayall has such winning ways." "I know she has. That's why I don't care to p!av l>ri<!<;e with her." LIODS? NO! STOP! K AND SALIVATES Hero's inv guarantee?Go to any drug store and pet. a 50 eent l?ottle of Godson's l.iver lone. Take a spoonful and if it doesn't straighten you rigut up and make you feel fine and vigorous I j want you to go Park to the store and get your money. Godson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of ealomel t>eeauso it is real liver medicine; entirely Vegetable, therefore it ean not salivate or make you sick. I guaranty that one spoonful of Podson's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of | that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. 1 guarantee that a liottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will I keep your entire family feeling fine for month*. Give it to your children. It is haraleas; doemt gripe and they like its jsi =11 eiei r= [ How I F'lrfc Vrti 1 LU JL^ V/ A VSVl The Net Pren the Union Centra Policies written ir lows: For $1,000.( Kind of Policy. Ordinary Life^ $1' 20-Payment Life 2! 15-Payment Life 2' 10-Payment Life 3' 5-Year Term ? We write all and rates are pro Ask for specimen AZr I lL|i ?j| 1=11= VERY LOW Panama Pacif SAN FRANCISC Opened February 20th, CI Panama-Calif SAN DIEGO, Opened January 1st, 1915, v Southern * Premier Carrie Tickets on sale daily and li uoou goinj? via one route am Stop-overs allowed. From Round Trip f Columbia, S. C - $82 Charleston, S. C.. 85 Orangeburg, S. C. 82 Sumter, S. C ? 84 Camden, S. C. .. - 84 Aiken, S. C . 79 . Chester, S. C 82 Rock Hill. S. C 82 Spartan burg, S. C. ....81 Greenville, S. C. 80 Greetr" <od, S. C 79 New l ry, S, C. -- HI P portionately low rates from < tr' rates to Seattle, Wash.; Port I !i i ij other western points. 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C. =1B I if- n? l o iTES ACCOUNT :ic Exposition, * O, CALIFORNIA. loses December 4th, 1915' ornia Expos'n CALIFORNIA. Closes December 31st 1915. IA l Kanway, ;r of the South. mited 90 days for returning-. 1' 3 returning via another. ares One way via PertlaMl, OrefM .4.r> $104.24 .15 106.85 .15 104.70 .15 105.65 .14 105.05 .15 ; 102.45 .90. 102.82 .00 102.32 .50 101.00 .00 101.00 .20 101.00 .10 102.81 Dther joints. Also very low rounriand, Ore.; Vancouver, R. C , and /arious routes, points of interest, Also descriptive literature upon jr trip. i our services are free? Address? ['ass. Agt., Columbia. S. C. y, G.P. A., W. E. McGee, A.G. I\A pton,I).C. Columbia. S. C. 1 NOW A ^1 W lilding's good ing is great. tion of a new homo, tenement, wdeling or repairing of your W. You will he the winner n do the work cheaper right it a little later. 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