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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
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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
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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
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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
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