Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 21, 1915, Image 4
SOUTH CAROLINA
m RAISE MULES
Unnecessary for State to Send
Away Large Sums for This
Product Annually.
BIG DRAIN ON RESOURCES
Money Now Spent For Mules Would
Purchase Good Draft Mares Frorr
Which to Obtain Mules?Points on
Care of Mare and Colt?Home
Pain mr* Muloe 9. A r. w
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The tremendous outlay for inuke
power on the farm can be eliminated
to a large extent in South Carolina
Already a considerable number of far
mors in the state are raising their
mules at home and if this policy Itadopted
by all the state's farmers, the
large annual drain on the state's resources
for this product will be
stopped.
Invested in brood mares, the
amount usually spent for mules would
purchase large, well-bred draft mares
of the right type for producing mules.
The cost of raising mule colts on the
farm to an age at which'they can b(
put to work is about $90 each, when
even every item in the process Is
charged against him. This arnouut
sounds large, but the fact is that most
of it is charged against things that
aro not missed on the average farm,
since the colt can be developed large
ly on pastures and products of the
farm that would probably not be mar
keted In any other way.
Mares .selected for mule raising
should bo of draft type, with Quality.
Hnd should weigh about 1,400 pounds,
though smaller mares are used with
good results for producing mules of
light weight. If mares are bred to
foal in fall, when work on the farm is
usually lighter and fall pastures are
good, they need lose very little time
during the year from their work In
the Held. Light work Is beneficial to
a brood n.are even up to the time of
fouling, and the resultant colt Is
stronger und more thrifty because of
it. provided the mare haa been proper
ly nourished with succulent feed for a
few weeks before foaling.
The average period of goRtation, or
time between servTce and foaling, is
about 340 days or 11 months, although
this varies somewhat In both directions.
Willi this information, a farm
er can have his mare foal at about the
proper time.
The pregnant mare's grain ration
should ho proportioned to the amount
jf work she does. About three weeks
before foaling, wheat bran should be
added to hor feed, the proportion of
this being gradually Increased and
other grain proportions decreased ai
foaling time approaches. Her food
should be altogether free of moldy
grain or woody fodaer or straw.
An essential point is to give the
mare in foal a large, roomy box stall
After foaling, mares should rest for
about two Wonlf?
at work.
Give the mare and her colt as much
pasturage as possible, with the nddi
Hon of hran and grain while tho colt
la young. Tare and attention are es
aentiul to mature the colt to proper
size and grain should he given to it
regularly with its pasturage or clean
hay.
I)o not let a colt follow its mother on
the rood or in the field. Do not let a
colt suck while the mare is overheated.
Always let the mare cool off first
That mules can be raised profitably
in South Carolina has l>een demonstrated
by several farmers In the
state, who save the expenditure usually
made for mule power and claim for
the honu'^ralsed mule many advantages
over Its imported competitor.
Write to Sidney S. Wittenberg, Clemson
College, for an Itemized statement
of a comparison of mare and mul*.
JOHN O. WIIJLIAMS,
Livestock Demonstration Agent,
Clemson Agricultural Collega.
LETTERS TO CLEMSON.
In seeking information or help from
Clemson College, farmers should ad^
tKo rtw? ? - 1,1 ' '
- vo. luu cA|iru ui umccr .n wnos#
line the point in question is, whenever
possible. This will avoid delays
which are sometimes coBtly. This is
especially true of such matters as insect
pests, plant diseases and animal
diseases, which can spread so rapidly.
In outbreaks of hog cholora. farmers
should either communicate immediately
with the county demonstration
agent or with the veterinary division
of Clemson College. Merely addressing
the college will get a letter to its
goal eventually, but sometimes delays
which are dangerous come about. It
Is a good plan for a farmer to keep
one of the experiment station bulletins
alwnys at hand, as in the front of
each of these bulletins will be found
the experiment station staff, which
will serve ns a directory to any one
wishing to write to the college for Information.
The rammer of 1915 was the most
successful for silo-hutlding that South
Carolina has ever had. There is much
yet to be done in this line, however,
and It U to be honed that this year's
r?curd will Em fay exceeded next year
USE OF FORMALIN
10 PREVENT SMUT
Botanist of Clemson College
Gives Simple Preventive
1 of Grain Disease.
FOROATS AND WHEAT SEED
_?
Formalin Solution Applied to Small
Grain Before Planting Kills Spores
of Smut Without Injury to Germiinating
Powers.
Smut is ttio most widespread and
destructive disease of small grain and
it occurs wherever oats and wheat are
grown. When proper control methods
are not practiced, it frequently
causes serious loss. Fortunately, it is
not hard to prevent this disease. In
formalin we have an easily obtainable
preparation thai does the work effi
ciently. Before sowing oats or wheat,
farmers should treat the seed with a
formalin solution to prevent smut.
Smut la cau9?d by a parasitic
growth that lives in the tissues of the
plant. The disease spreads by spores
(very small, seed like bodies) which
cling to the hulls or lodge in tlK>
creases of individual oat or wheat
grains and are thus carried into a
field with the seed. The spores germinate
at about the aanie time that the
plants come up and the disease grows
directly into the tissue of the young
plant.
Smut lives in plants apparently
without doing serious damage until
the plants begin to head out. Then
the disease concentrates its efforts in
the heads and black, sooty masses of
spores fill the places where grain
should form. Aa these masses break
up, the spores are scattered over the
fteld by wind. Marty lodge in grains
oc healthy heads of oats or wheat and
remain alive there until the seed are
planted again. Soma remain in the
diseased heads and are rarried to the
thresher. In threshing, the amut
spores are scattered everywhere and
many find resting places in healthy
grains.
Oat or wheat smut can be controlled
by soaking the planting seed in a
ohemical solution that will kill the
smut spores in the seed without injuring
the germinating powers of the
seed. The best chemical to use for
this Is formalin, which is a 40 per cent
solution of formaldehyde. It may be
procured from any reliable druggist.
Treatment with it is made as follows:
Make up the formalin solution by
mixing one pint formalin (40 percent
solution or formaldehyde) with 40 gallons
water. Sack the grain to be
treated, about a bushel to a sack. Dip
each sack of grain into the barrel of
solution and let it remain there for
from five to ten minutes, moving the
suck up and down several times to
make sure that all the grains are thoroughly
wet. Finally, lift the sack and
let the solution drain out, after which
either pile the bags of treated grain
together and cover with bagging or
canvas, or pour the treated grain into
a pile on a clean floor and cover with
bagging or canvas. Leave the grain
covered tlnix for from I1 in '?1 Imnrc
As a last step, spread the grain tliinly
over a dean floor to dry.
The grain seed should he dried as
rapidly as possible to prevent sprouting.
Nlaturftily. grain |thus treated
should he put in clean bins or sacks
so as not to he again exposed to the
disease. Sacks and bins that have
rontainod diseased grain may be disinfected
by washing with a formalin
solution made of one pint formalin to
10 gallons water.
If. W. RARRK,
Professor of Botany,
Olemaon Agricultural College.
ARE YOUR COWS EFFICIENT?
Putting the efficiency test to cows
with the milk scales and the Babcock
tester is one of the essentials of conducting
a successful da-iry. When feed
is high in price a farmer cannot afford
to have boarders In his dairy
limn **nu cm up more in ieeci than
their milk yield in worth. The Hahcork
teat will show these delinquent
cows in their true light nnd the milk
scales will put the clincher on the
argument. Testing cows will give
i some farmers a big surprise. SomeI
times the cow that looks like the
poorest creature In the lot is the best
butterfat producer. The dairy divls
ion of Clemson College offers to give
any farmer advice about testing milland
keeping records. Test, don't
guess.
EQUIPPED FOR LIVE
STOCK WORK.
The extension division of Clemson
College is well equipped to assist
farmers in any part of South Carolina
with any problems In livestock that
may arise. The college has two men
giving all their time to beef cattle
and swine extension work, three dairy
extension experts and one extension
poultryinan. This is one of the largest
and best equipped animal husband
ry extension forces in the United
States. South Carolina farmers
should teke advantage of their oppor
tunities along this line to get expert
help free of cost.
TAX LEVIES FOR 1915
Office of the County Treasurer of York
County. ,
Yorkviiie, S. C., October 12, 1S13.
In compliance with the law, I hereby
give notice of the several levies on
the property of York County, for the
fiscal year, beginning January 1st,
J 1915, to-wit:
For State purposes, 7 mills on the
dollar.
* For ordinary County purposes. 6
mills on the dollar. For
Constitutional School, 3 mills on
the dollar.
For Roads, 2 mills on the dollar.
For County Home, ? of 1 m.l! or. the
dollar.
For Interest and Sinking Fund for
Court House Bonds, J of 1 mill on the
dollar.
For Court House Furniture, 2 of 1
mill on the dollar.
Aggregating 19J mills on all the
property of the County, and in addition
to nil this the following Special
Levies for Townships and Local
Schools, viz:
Catawba township, 1 mill for interest
on township bonds; ? of one mill
for a sinking fund for said township.
3|Ebenezer township, .J of one mill
int? rest on townshin bonds, and i> of
one mill for a sinking fund for said
township.
York township. 2} mills for interest
on township bonds and 4 of one mill
for a sinking fund for said township.
LOCAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
District No. 1, 8 mills, making a total
of 27j mills in Bethesda's part of
said district; 282 mills in Ebenezer's
part of said district.
District No. 2, 4 mills, making a total
levy of 232 mills in said district.
District No. 4, 2 mills, making a
total levy of 21J mills for said district.
D strict No. 5, 2 mills, making a total
levy of 2:1} mills in said district.
District No. 6, 3 mills, making a total
lew of 22J mills in said district.
District No. 7, 3 mills, making a total
levy of 232 mills in said district.
District No. 8, 2 mills, making a total
levy of 214 mills in said district.
District No. 'J, 4 mills, making a totdl
levy of 2:12 mills in'said district.
District No. 11. 5 mills for graded
school, 1 mill for high school, and 1
; mill for interest 011 graded school
bonds, making a total levy of 294 mills
| in said district.
District No. 12, 4 mills for special
I school, 14 mills for interest on school
bonds, 1} mills for sinking fund for
oonds, making a total of 274 mills on
the property of Ebenezer, and 28 mills
011 tne Catawba part of said district.
District No. 13, 2 mills, making a
total levy of 212 mills in said district.
District No. 14, 4 mills, making a total
levy of 232 mills in said district.
District No. 15, 4 mills, making a
total levy of 2.52 mills in said district.
District No. 16, 2 mills, making a
total levy of 212 mills in said district.
District No. 17, 3 mills, making a
total levy of 222 mills in said district.
District No. 18, 2 mills, making a tot
I levy of 21f mills in said district.
A District No. 19. 2 mills, makimr a
total levy of 21 j| nulls in Broad River
and King's Mountain townships' part
of said district. 24J mills in York
township's part of said district.
District No. 20, 4 mills, special tax,
2 mills for interest on bonds, I mill to
retire bonds, making a total levy of
2t>J mills on the property of Bullock's
Creek and Broad River townships'
part and 29J mills on the York township
part of said district.
District No. 21, 5 mills, special levy
of 1 mill for interest on bonds and 1
mill for sinking fund for bonds, making
a total levy of 26J mills in King's
fountain townships' part of said disI
frict, and 29J mills in York township's
' part.
District No. 22, 4 mills, making a
j total of 233 mills in said district,
i District No. 23. 4 mills, making a total
of 23J mills in said district.
District No. 24, 2 mills, making a
total levy of 213 mills in said district.
District No. 2b, 3 mills, making a total
levy of 22J mills in said district.
District No. 27. 3 mills, making a
total of 223 mills in the Bethel town
slap part ot said district, and a total
of 22j| mills in the Ebenezer township
part of said district.
District No. 28, 4 in lis for special
levy, 1A mills for interest on school
oonds, and 1J mills for sinking fund,
making a total of Lt?i' mills in said
district.
District No. 2I?, 4 mills, making a
total levy of 23} mills in said district.
District No. 2(1, 2 mills, making ? total
levy of 21} mills in said district.
District No, 21, 2 mills, making a
total levy of 21 } mills for the Bethel
township part or said district; 22}
mills for the Ebenezer township part
of sai 1 district, and 24J mills for the
York township part of said district.
District No. 22, 2 mills special tax,
making a total levy of 22} mills for
laid district.
District No. 22, 4 mills, making a
total levy of 22} mills on Bethesda's
part, and mills on the York townhip
part of said district.
District No. 24, 2 mills, making a
total levy of 21} mills in said district.
District No. 2r>, 4 mills, making aj
otal levy of 24} mills on Ebenezer's
part and 2f>? mills on York township's
CALOMEL WHEN Bll
MAKES YOU SIC
"Oodson s Liver Tone" Is Harmless To
Clean Your Sluggish Liver
and Bowels.
Ugh! Calomel makes yon Bick. It's
horrible! 'Jake a dose of the dangerous
drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose
a day's work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the hones.
Calomel, when it coines into contact
with sour bile crashes into it, breaking
it up. This is when you feol that awful
nausea and cramping. If you are slugfish
and "all knocked out," if your I
liver is torpid and bowels constipated I
or von have headache, dizziness, coated
tongue, if breath is hod or stomach sour, I
juat try a spoonful of harmless IXodson'a
hirer Tom tonight on mjr guarantee, i
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part of said district.
District No. 35, 4 mills, making a total
levy of 23f mills for said district.
District No. 37, special lev^r of 5 j
mills for school. 1 j mills for interest
on school b?ildinor bonds, 1 mill for
sinking fund, making a total of 27$
mills for said district.
District No. 38, 2$ mills, making a
total levy 22$ mills in said district.
District No 39, 4 mills, making a total
levy 23$ mills in said district:
District No. 40, 3 mills special, 2$
mills to pay interest on bonds, 1$ mills
for sinking fund, making a total levy
of 26$ mills in said district.
District No: 41, 3 mills, making a
total of 23$ mills in said district.
District No. 42. 2 mills, making a
total of 24$ mills for said district.
District No. 43, 2 mills, making a
total of 21 j mills in Bethesda's part of
said district; a total of 22$ mills in
Ebenezer's part of said district, and
24$ mills in York's partof said district.
District No. 44, 4 mills, making a
total levy of 24J mills in said district.
District No. 45, 4 mills, making a
total of 26$ mills in said district.
District No. 46, 4 mills, making 25$
mills in said district.
District No. 47, 2$ mills, making a
total of 25_ mills in York township's
part and 22$ mills in Broad River's
part of said district.
District No. 48. 2J mills, making a
total of 22$ mills in Bullock's Creek
and Bethesda townships' part of said
district, and a total of 26 mills in York
township's part of said district.
District No. 49, 5 mills, making a
total levy of 242 mills in the King's
Mountain township part of said district,
and 27$ mills in the York township
part of said district.
|"District No. 50, 4 mills, making a
total levy of 25$ mills in said district.
District No. 51, 4 mills, making a
total of 23J mills in said district.
District No. 52, 4 mills, making a
total levy of 25$ mills in said district.
District No. 53, 5 mills, making a
total of 242 mills in King's Mountain
and Bethel townships' part of said district,
and 27$ mills on York township's
part.
District No. 55, 4 mills, making a
total levy of 232 mills in said district.
District No. 56, 2 mills, making a
total levy of 212 mills in said district.
Also $1.00 on all taxable Polls.
Also 50 cents each on all Dogs.
HARRY E. NEIL.
Treasurer of York County.
TAX NOTICE- 1915.
Office of the County Treaturer of York
County.
York, S. C., Sept. 15, 1915.
i\oiice is nereDy given tnai me i ax
Books for York County will be opened
011 Friday, the 15th day of October,
1915, and remain open until the Hist
day of December, 1915, for the collection
of State, County, School and Local
Taxes, for the fiscal year 1915, without
penalty; after which day one per cent,
penalty will be added to all payments
made in the month of January, 1916,
and two per cent, penalty for all payments
made in the month of February,
1916, and seven per cent, penalty will
be added to all payments made from
the 1st day of March, 1916, to the 15th
day of March, 1916, and after this date
all unpaid taxes will go into executions
and all unpaid Single Polls will be
turned over to the several Magistrates
for prosecution in accordance with law.
For the convenience of taxpayers, I
will attend the following places on the
days named:
At Smyrna, Thursday, October 28.
At Hickory Grove, Friday and Saturday,
October 29 and 30.
At Sharon, Monday, November 1.
At McConnellsville, Tuesday, Novem
At Tirzah, Wednesday, November 3.
At Clover Thursday and Friday, November
4 and 5.
At Yorkville from Saturday, November
G, to Tuesday, November 9.
At Coates's Tavern, from 8 o'clock
a. m., Wednesday, November 10, to 8
o'clock p. m.
At Yorkville, Thursday, November
11.
At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday,
November 12 and 13
At Rock Hill, from Monday, November
15th, to Saturday, November 20th.
At Yorkville from Monday November
22d, until Friday, the 31st day
of December, 1915, after which date
the penalties will attach as stated
above.
Note.?The Tax Rooks are made up
by Townships, and parties writing
about taxes will always expedite matters
if they will mention the Township
or Townships in which their
property or properties aire located.
HARRY E. NEIL,
Treasurer of York County.
"MONEY"
The mint makes it and under the terms
of the CONTINENTAL MORTGAGE
COMPANY you can secure it at G'v for
any legal purpose on approved real estate.
Terms easy, tell us your wants
and we will cooperate with you.
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K AND SALIVATES
I lore's my guarantee?Oo ir? any drug
store and pot ft 50 cent bottle* o4 Dodson's
Liter Tone. T&ko a spoonful and
if it doesn't straighten you ripht up
nnd make you feel fine and vigorous I
want you to po bftek to the atom and
pet your money. Ikxlaon'a Liver Tone
is destroying the sale of ralomel because
it ia real liver medicine; entirely vepe~
table, therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick.
I pu&rantee that one spoonful of Dodaon'a
Liver Tone will put your slupgiab
liver to work and clean your bowels of
that sour bile and constipated waste
which ia clopping your system and making
you feel miserable. I guaranteeathat
a I Kittle of Dodson's Liver Ton? will
keep your entire family feeling fine for
months. Give it to your children. It ia
harmless; doeaat (Tipeoaadthej liks its
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LIFE INSU
Look at Th
Under present c
ule the net second
are as follows
FOR $1,000.00 LII
?AGELJ
21 years
23 44
25 41
! 28 44
30 44
H 35 4
i I 40 44
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60 " -
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shown above.
These are Old Line rates i
America?The Union Central
J Your life is insured from tl
T] delivered to you.
These policies may be conve
surance written by the Cor
without medical examination.
No cost to you for medical
=j else, except the premium.
Bailee & L:
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VIA
Southern
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Tickets on sale daily and limi
Good going via one route and r
Stop-overs allowed.
Fron Rour.d-Trip Fares
Columbia, S. C 1 $82.45
Charleston, S. C.. 85.15
Orangeburg, S. C. 82.15
Sumter, S. C. 84.15
Camden, S. C. - 84.14
Aiken, S. C 79.15
Chester, S. C 82.90
Rock Hill, S. C 82.90
Spartanburg, S. C 81.50
Greenville, S. C 80.00
(lreen'V>od, S. C. 79.20
Newl ry, S, C 81.10
P portionately low rates from oth
trv rates to Seattle, Wash.; Portlan<
n any other western points.
Full information regarding the var
s \iednles, etc., gladly furnished. A!
quest. I jet us help you plan your I
Why pay tourist agencies, when ou
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W. H. Tayloe, I'. T. M.. H. P. Cary,
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BUILD
While the bui
and the savii
If you contemplate the erectio
barn, or outhouse, or the remoc
present buildings, DO IT NOW.
if you act at once, for you can
now than you can possibly do it
30 or 60 days, we verily believe
have passed. Labor will becoi
Building Material market is aire
know say that prices will be bac
We will supply you at close fitful
nish you estimates on what your
m 1 i
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Ore way tia Pot (land, Oregon
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