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r\ * ^ | t t'; l&t.: m-e B.'- Ttf/St * -•• • .'• r V " r^sr^at THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1926 «•*«♦*£**+++++• »««•♦»**••* to yield such, but he used a sim])te : farm demonstration j | ™‘ h f h “ p ^r^ c, iruwn r b» ♦ rtEiW^ j i + ^ clover throufrh the winter on this soil. ♦ C. B. CANNON, County Agent ♦ j Last winter clover got three feet high «+++*»+**++*«++»*«4.»*»+i»«* on the land. QFirniNr of <*mah TRAINS ! If the f * rmer 8 would concentrate .EEDING OF SMALL GRAINS more 0 f our t j me on sma ller acreage, The times jetting short for see<K; we „ ou , d rwlucc , abor and keep down ing of small grains other than wheat. | ^ cDst of oduction No time should be lost m seeding the last mentioned grain. I am glad to see the large acreage vvord, under present conditions. I am of grain sown throughout Laurens recommending from two to four acres county and several farmers are still 0 f wheat per plow. With wheat pro- lowing. Every day we wait gives duced on the home farm a farmer is winter freezes a better chance to kill relieved of the expense of buying produenig a sufficient yield is that we do not plant enough seed per acre in the beginning I recommend at leaat three pecks drilled per acre and four to five pecks broadcast per acre. Smut Treatment Very few old time wheat farmers would think of sowing wheat without treating the seed for smut. The treat ment they used, and it is still a good Wheat is not a mhney crop through-; method, is-the bluestone method. \ou out our county, in one sense of the 1 jH IH * * may us£ at the rate of 3 ounces per bushel. There is another method which is quicker' and less expensive and is just as good as the bluestone method. This is the formalin method. A pint of form'alin (40 per cent for- i ialdehyde) .to 10 gallons of water will treat 75 to 80 bushels of grain. Abeuz tftfur Health Things You Should Know by John Joseph Caines, M. D. small grain. If you are not sure you fj our w ith low price cotton. . _ v a r-rfxi aT'lrtxT have enough grain sowed for feed,| For the past few days farmers have l v.ill treat 75 to 80 bushels of grain. VACCINATION continue sowing. No one knows what 'come to my office in regard to treat-! The formalin will cost about 65 cents With the approach of winter, comes, kind of seasons we will have next j n g their wheat seed for smut, and i per pint, and may be bought at any the possibil ty of winter contagion,! year and it may be that the next sqm- methods of sowing. If we wait until [drug store. For about eight bushels, » n d the prevention of such seems a mer hay crop wifi be a failure like we are through harvest iirg^our cotton! of wheat you would need from (very rational thought at this time. We j. it will be'five tablespoonfuls in one gallon of know that Jenner was a hundred years failure like we are through harvesti this past one, but th ; s year’s grain here in Laurens count v.ater. You jnay see from this that the cost is very small and is in reach or every farmer who wants to make .crop has and still will save the short- semetime next year before we can age. It will be too late next year to 3r , w t ,ur wheat in cotton land as here- say “I wish I had sown a few more tc.fore. I am recommending drill ceres of grain, so I would have feed wheat with‘a three-row drill in the, the most from his labor. This forma- rcw.” i cotton middle as for oats. Now, I lin method is so much quicker than Large amounts of hay may be made know the common old practice of sow- the bluestone method. The treatment from small acreage rfh-we will • oh1y | ing wheat is by broadcasting. Good try. Mr. L. D. Armstrong of Fodntain results have been obtained from drill-j Inn, made the statement to me, and I j ing wheat and you will find experi-j *'er cent formaldehyde) with ten gal- kr.ow it to be true, that he can feed j ments conducted by Clemson college! Ions of water. Keep solution covered is as follows: (I) Mix one pint of formalin MO two mules the year round on feed produced on half an acre. A few days ago he harvested 15 two-horse wagon loads of sorghum and peavine nay from a little less than half an acre. He has seeded this land to vetch and oats for hay. Yes. it takes good land 1 ahead of his time when he gave the world its most valuable preventative of smallpox. Only within the last ten or fifteen years have vaccines been extensively used for the prevention of other equally serious diseases. . | Vaccines have almost obliterated ty- j phoid fever—wdth the increase of! knowledge in sanitary precautions. One of the most dreaded diseases known today is scarlet fever. Chil- dien anywhere near a case of this ter- Keep hacking the statement. | **o as to prevent the w cape of the We are having sufficient frosts now; gas fumes., * . t< protect our wheat from the Hessian j (2) Place the grain on a tight floor r: ble infection should be vaccinated by a good physician without delay. I believe that influenza can be pre vented by the timely use of good vac cines; I vaccinated twenty-five pa- 1 tients during the epidemic of 1918,; My damage and the fcooner the wheat or a good canvas and sprinkle the so- seeded the better chance for good lUtion with a sprinkling can at the rate of from one to k wo pints per rushel. Mix rapidly and thoroughly in order to get every grain covered. is yields. One of our biggest troubles irr not THE KU KLUX WILL PARADE THE STREETS OF CLINTON, S. C. ON NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 18 AT 7:30 P. M. There will be some open air exercises and the Grand Dragon will make an address to the public. Place—T. R. Owens lot on Musgrove St. Let Everybody Come Out and See It. N. S. S. A. 1 (3) Pile wheat and cover with 1 twent y-three of them escaped the blankets, camas, or bags free from j di sease > °ne coming from an infected j.yvjut family. I do not know a single phy- j. sieian that claims to know a satisfac- (»» After two hours remove cov i. . . . . .... „ ... .r, , . u 4 *11 .j tory treatment for the flu. We get rung. The wheat may then he inlled ^ . .. , . . If it is to the l>est in f° rmatlo n obtainable, but, the best is meager. I would always or broadcast in the field, be held over, it should be spread in a thin lay?r and stirred occasionally un til all gas fumes have escaped. This treatment is for oat smut also. For smaller amounts use at the rate of fiom four to five tablespoonfuls of formalin to one gallon of water. III. Man Invents New Ford Cas Saver «nd Quick Starter Walter Critchlow, 4438-P street, Wheaton, 111., has patented a new gas i saver and quick starter that beats | anything ever gotten out. With it Am | Fords show as high as C6 miles on I l gallon. Other makes do equally well. This new invention saves gas and oil, makes a Ford start instantly in any weather and completely de- , carbonizes the engine. Mr. Critch low offers 1 free to advertise. Write i him for one. He also wants County iand State*Distributors who can make ! $500 to $‘2500 monthly. ll-18-2t l advise vaccine in a threatened epi demic; it can do no harm, and may do a very great good. I The virtue of anti-toxin in diph theria is well-established; so firmly so, as to make it an act of criminal j neglect to fail to give anti-toxin in this deadly foe of our children. 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