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PEDIGREED SEED CORN <- ?~ CleniMou Col Iuko liureuu. No one known the pedigree of niout of the need corn i^nicd in South Carolina and with un average yield per ucr? of leu* than twun ly bubheln, it (loom not appear to have u very bigh yielding quality. To have good weed one may atari At tlx.! crib or in the field boforo tbo corn crop 1# gathered and an it lb beat to atari in thu fluid, wo Hturt there, A number of chftrectofH Indicate whether com will yield well <?r not and alno whether it will tranHinlt Mb qualities t?> i t h offspring or not, Cylindrical earn art) better than tapering onw?. I)eop wedge-ahaped KralitH arc preferred above shallow, wide grains and straight roww and w<dl filled tips and buM# tire pre ferred.. J'ure bred corn will trans mil bettor than corn of mixed breed Ing. Btalka that make Ifood yields under normal conditions tire pre lerred to stalks with similar >leldH*j but with more ijpace or other capecr billy favorable environment. Good yields may be had hot h with one eared 'and with prolific varieties k*ut Hon I hern iirnwccH urc partial ?o It prolific Kort, an an average of ftwo cam to the atalk mcctH f h ?? demands fot prolificacy. Thin pa per will deal with a type of (torn that will tend to product* two earn u > the atalk under normal conditions The Field Work. When the corn In mature and nljowH fully what lta characters are, Ko through the field. Boleeting from two rown at a time. One may Ho led from five to ten acres a day. Select only from Htalka having a normal amount of apace and other I ?tondltloiiH that Influence the yield. Select only from prolific, healthy Htalka bearing the desired number and type of earn. Let the ears be lite right height from the ground, aa the height of the ear hits t'conoiii ic value. In the name way consid er all Important qualities, that can ?nly he observed in the field. The eha meters of the eara themselves ?an. he further studied at the barn, but the atalk characters muat he et (idled In I he field before t ho ear in gathered. Select about two hun dred of the Very heat eara from t ho fery beat stalks for a compel It i vo ear tea! and about thirty eara for every acre that la to. be planted ? exf season. One hundred eara will be ample for the ear teat and fifteen eara will furnish enough aeed fco plant an acre ao that the field selected corn can la* further atud led ami only tho bout hair of It used for planting- Take tho ono hum! rod bout i^i'h a iic| number each ho that U muy l>o Identified at any time. Plant only one-half of ?ach oar in a tout plot ho managed an to give each ear an equal chance with normal condition** for all. hot ev ery row have the name number an the ear from which it was planted in order that Hh yield may he cre dited to -the right ear. If this tout Jh properly made, ii will hIiow the relative yielding power of tho one hundred ears used. Carefully save and protect from all harm the oiut hundred half ears not planted. The ear teal will hIiow some of those half earn to ho very valuable. If tho&o half oars are lost , the ear t?*Ht will practically ho without value. In managing the ear teat plot. It l best. to have two rowH for each ear. tinted, oho row being towards one Hide of tho plot and the other row towards the opposite wide. Tho object being to give every oar an equal chanco and tlx* irregulari t i en of the noil on any plot, may he hotter checked with two iowh than with QI16. Ho plow, harrow, cultivate and fertilize art to ?lve tho entire plot a good chanco hut nothing more than this, You want to know what these earn will do under normal con ditions and whatovor differences In yield that may appear should he due to tho Heed and not to any other factor. h'roin the germination of the weed to tho matured crop note tho be havior of tho. corn from each row, an the object of the test Ih to de termine -I 1j<? beat, Obtain tho yiolds accurately. The wide differences in yield usually shown by oar tests will probably appear iti oach huc? ceodlng one If properly conducted. Having Klven oach ear an equal and a fair chance and determined the yields from each, It Ih easy to Heh'ct the high yielding ones. Hav ing learned which of tho one hun dred ears are best we are through with the corn made on the plot and It may go to the barn. The Two Kar Plot. We now begin to deal with the half earn that were saved and we now know which are good, which are not good, and which 1h tho best ono which the next best. If pedi greed corn is wanted, we take the remainder of the two best ears and use ono as a sire and tho other as REMEMBER Wednesday is the last day you can get a pair of pants free with your order. THE FIT RIGHT TAILORS M. L. GULIAM, Muiager. mmFm f L ? H Pleasure and Protection "One of the best reasons why I would not he without telephone service," writes a Georgia far mer, "is the pleasure it gives my wife and the knowledge that while I am awav, she has the pro tection that the telephone gives." On the farm the telephone dispels loneliness and is the means of bringing help in any emer gencv that niav arise. If von haven't a telephone on your farm see the nearest Hell Telephone Manager or write for our tree booklet and learn how little this service costs. FARMERS' I.1NE DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY S. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. ft dam. Thene two half ??arauiu*t be plumed away from other core ao that pollen from other corn will not roach thla plot, (live thin amall plot a good chMuce. riaru the half earn aide by Hide and only allow the atalka front one of the eara to de velop tanhela. Uetaaacl all atalka from the othor eiirtt before (buy abed any pollen. Have seed front detaaaelled atalka. Let the corn on tho atalka with t anno la go to the barn. Wo now have a amall amount Of High Yielding Pedigreed Heed Corn, We know the aire ear and the mother ear and what tholr'yleld 1 ii K power wan, Kecorda may bo kept of each feneration. ? HkIi Yielding 1'edlgroed rl??L l'lant the need from the mother ear (the atalka were all (JetaHBol-' od ) In a protected place where no pollen from tho taftHela of Inferior corn can reach it. Lot It have fa vorable condition# forgrowlng good corn. Pfom tlila plot, need In o!> talned for the field crop. Twenty llalf-Kar 1'lot. Only the beat two half earn were lined for the high yielding need plot. The one hundred ear teat, would ahow other ears to be near ly aa good aa the two beat ones, ho that twenty of the next ,beat earn rrtuld be lifted In a protected plot to producp weed for tho field crop Un til enough pedigreed aeed could ho grown. Ip'jHiut the Kar Teat. The ear teat ahould bo made each year. After getting a atari with tho beat aeed , aome of the oara uk od for the toat may come from the Two Bar l'lot, aonto from lite High Yielding riot, Home from the field, and aome from the beat rowa of tho provloun ear teat. Do not lot the pedigreed aeed mix with the Inferior corn. . IHilwtlb Newa No'Uyt. Special to The Chronicle; DeKalb, S. C,, April 30. Mrs. Herbert Dowey and two children Bpent last week end with her ais ter, Mrs. John Rabon. MIhh Ihvttle TrueBdale left Satur day for a three weeks stay with friendn at Orangeburg and Hran.ch villo. Sho will spend a couple of days in Charleston also. Wi* wish her a pleasant trip.. Mr. and Mrs. 1). F. Owens spent Sunday with the family o/ Mr. W. H. Owens. Mr. Charley Young, of Bishopvllle, is spending some tlino with Mr. and Mra. Jim Gardner. Ho Will visit relatives at Kershaw also while here. Mr. Cook, of Kershaw, was here Tuesday looking after his farm. Mr. James Belk, of Camden, was here Wednesday on business. Mr. K. A. Vaughan is putting in i saw mill about a mile from the station, lie will saw tho timber on Mr. \V. A. I'M wards' place. Mr. W: F. Russell. Jr., of Camden, was here Monday with his team moving a boiler for Mr. R. A. Vaughan. Mrs. M. 13. (Jaskins, of the West ville section, is spending the week with her sister, Mrs. W. H. Owens. Mr. and Mrs. Louis TrueBdale and i Master Alva, spent Sunday with Mr. ; .iii'd Mrs. J. F. Clarke. .vlrs. Hruee McLeod and baby have, returned to their home at Dalzell. Horn to Mr. and Mrs. Willie Owens, on April 20. a girl. Mrs. Logan Roberts, who was re ported ill last week died Thursday, j April 24th. She was buried at I)e- j Kalb Friday, the funeral services I were conducted by Rev. Jahez Fer- j ris, of Kershaw. Mrs. LI I lie Ray will leave Satur day for Columbia for a ten days stay with friends and relatives. Miss Hessie Spears is spending | j the week with her brother, Mr. j J Henry Spears, at Kirklands. j j WANTED The best dressed man ; I Lo try one of our suits. Ask the ! I man that has bought one about how it fit. Fit Right Tailors. WINTHROI' < OLLEOK ; Scholarship and Entrance KxHini na tion, July I. The examination for the award of , ] vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col-| ' lege and for the admission of new students will be held at tho County Court House on Friday, July 4, at !? a. m. Applicants must bo not less than sixteen years of age. When scholarships arc vacant after j July 4 they will be awarded to -those making the highest average at this examination, provided they meet the conditions governing tho award. Applicants for Scholarships should write to President Johnson before tho examination for Scholarship ex amination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100. and free tuition. The next session will open September 17, 191 For fur ther information and catalogue, ad I dress Pres. 1). 11. Johnson, Rock | Hill, S .C, ! NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED ITORS. I All parties indebte d to tho es I tate of A. R. Hough, deceased, are ? hereby notified to make payment to J the undersigned, and all parties hav ing claims against the said estate ! will present them duly attested .within the time prescribed by law. Mary Ann Hough, Executrix. I May 1. 1913. i S|>ott<"d The Man. ; \ clerical-looking gentleman, in j the* hope of obtaining a contribu tion, entered the office of a news i paper and. finding the editor in, be 1 gan : "I am soliciting aid tor a gentle | man of refinement and Intelligence ; who is in neeed ot' :> littlo ready money, but is :o<> proud to make known his sufferings." "Why!" exclaimed the oditor. '"I'm the only man In town answer ing that description What's the ? gentleman's name?" i "I'm sorry To pay I am not at liberty to disclose it." "It must be me. parson Heaven ; prosper yen In your good work." ; said the editor, wiping away a tear, I ? Exchange. TRAINING CHILL) MIND (M8ORDERLINE88 A THING TO BC CORRECTED EARLY. Responsibility Rest* with Mother j When 8he Allows Bed Meblts to Become a Settled Thing In the Life of Offspring. If I had only reallzod when I wa? a child how much more work it made to hare people disorderly and cureles* about their t hi I am sure I should hare been more careful. Hut I didn't realize, writes Ruth Cameron in the Milwaukee Hentinel. That Is the oft expressed sentiment of one young woman who has recently j gone to housekeeping In a home of her ; own. And I fun<*y there are many of | us who could say the same thing we ' didn't realize! And not about thai j matter only, but about muny matters, j I have heard It said that children are naturally selfish. I beg to differ, I think they are naturully full of the most ' generous impulses. Hut I do admit that they are naturally thought less and that is what makes them seem selfish. It Is not that thoy would be deliberately selfish and unkind; it is Just that they have lived so short a time that they do not understand the trouble and pain and self-denial they may be the cause of ? they Just don't realize! I once knew a wise mother who grasped this facf and based her train- i ing on tho efTort to make her children , realize exactly, what they were doing when they were thoGghtless or care less or unreasonable. For instance/take the very matter of which the young housewife spoke, i This mother had a daughtor who wae ' terribly slack about leaving things : around. Hho would cort^e . Into the I house and leave her coat on one chair and her fur on another, throw her gloves on the table and put her hat- j pins .on tho mantelpiece and only put' away her hat because she was afraid ; something would happen to the feath ers If she didn't. Her mother talked j and talked to no avail. Finally she i decided to make the daughtor realize ! the trouble she was causing, so she told her that for tho next week she, J tho mother, would not pick up one j thing that any of the children left ly ing around, that her daughtor must keep the house in order as a punish ment for past misdeeds and that If she felled to do so she would not be allowed to go to a certain function to which she was looking forward. As all the children .'inherited more or less a tendency to dlsorderliness from an artistic father, her task was by no means easy. Needless to nay, the end of the week found her Bay ing: "I never realized how much trou ble leaving things round mude. I will be more careful in the future." Agnin, when the two older children ; got the habit of teasing for things that j were beyond the family purse, this I wise woman, Instead of scolding, sim plv took them into her confidence about tho family income and outgo, asked their help about keeping the accounts, and without saying a word of her purpose to them, soon made them realize for themselves why they could not have everything that other children had. And after that she had no more troublo with teasing. T.ook back into your own childhood and see if the unkind, the Belfish, tho thoughtless, the cruel things that you did wore not all done because you did not realize. What better basis, then, could we have for training our children than helping them to realize now instead ! of years afterward when it is too lato? Queen Helene's Charity. The Italian people, who are giYen to sentiment, adore the Queen Heleno because sho loves the poor. Recently a woman with her little boy present ed herseslf at the dispensary of the Via Morsini, at Rome. The child was alarmingly ill. When the doctor came to see the little patient, a woman, plainly dressed, who had entered a moment before, stopped to hear what the physician was saying. Then, seeing the mother in tears, she said: "Your child will require special care. It will be necessary to send him to the hospital." "I know that he will die there," said the poor mother, "and yet I cannot keep him at home, we are so poor." "I understand you," Bald tho woman, sympathetically, "I, too, am a mother." and she placed in tho hand of the poor woman a bank note for 100 lire. "Your child shall lack for nothing, my good woman. Como and see me at tho palace." And this was Queen Helene. _ His Part In the Game. William Kaversham was talking modestly about an nrticle on women's Raster dress that ho had written. "If tho article made a hit," he said, 'it was bocause I wrote it calmly, without heat or rancor. I didn't treat I this important subject liko Rpratt. "Sprntt, you know, said to his book 1 Kooper: I " 'My wife brought home a new Eas I or hat last evening? ono mass of [ follow paradise plumea ? ninety-seven ? plunks.' I " Ik>w'd you liko itf asked the ! iookkoopor. " Ob, I ?Ju8t raved over it,' aoid Rpratt." Benefactor of Humanity. ! "I undorstand that tho young man in" j 'ho house next to you is a finished cor i notist ?" ' "Geo! Is he? I was just screwing ip my courage to finish him myself. I Who did ttr UOO AND HOMINY. Tlio HouUi Um> l'Uc? for Divdrnltjr of Crop*. Tho South has ulwuyH been known as the "land of cotton," but recent years have proved It to be hIbo the land <>r corn, It lu very nearly Hie luiid of perpetual spinuier, all of which go to make up Ideal condi tion! for dairying aud the raisin*-. Of live stock. In the Western mates, where con ditions are not neur so favorable, It hut) proved profitable, and if our Southern farmers could be uiade to realize the value of pure bred Htock, the constant handling of money at all times of tho year, from the pro (I net h of live Htock, there would no longer be an influx of Western pro duce to our marketa. 1 am now milking fifteen Jerseys. 1 endeavor to have thema Jorlty of my cow h freshen in the spring for tho Hummer trade. During month of February 1 milked twelve, and my profit wan f 4 6,00; not ho much, but considering that the majority of the cows had been milking over hIx montliH, the wagoB of dairymen and cost of feed ,1 think it did wcllv ? ?As yet 1 haven't a hIIo, but in tend building one thin Bummer, 1 believo It will pay any one who keepB a herd of ten. I feed my co wh cotton Heed meal and hulls, pea vino hay, beftUH, alfalfa and Htover. Homo dairymen teeu\ a oow giving hIx or eight pounds of milk the Bamo aB on? giving fifteen. This 1h a mistake. They Bhould be fed in proportion to the milk they give. 1 ubo a Del. aval separator, and 1 raise calves and pigs on the skim milk. I plant rye and clover in the fall as a Hpring grazing crop, and am an alfalfa enthusiast. 1 find the stock like it both green and cured better than any other hay. For my hogs, 1 plant potatoes, turnips and peanuts. 1 keep tw.o brood mares, and In the course of a few years I hope to huvo home grown mules and Per eheron mares to work my farm. I believe In copimercial fertiliz ers to a certain extent, but in hu mus and manure to build and keep up the fertility of the soil. The hope of our worn out soil Is live stock; the hope of the South is in home grown products. I believe in raising cotton, but only at a profit; in homo grown hog and hominy; in building up the soil, not depletion; In rotation of cropu; In pur? br?:<l utock- -3 Southland with ?*?> coodll^i-g ed. LewU L. i .U'.on, KaorLl C? lu Boutbern HuraiUt. ~ i 1>K1NK1N<* i'M'H V\ FrtW U? oil All lUdlvtay Train*. ^ ? . - .*? Washington .>> <' , April JO ' rangumonU ha?e been made Hnut horn Hallway to furnUh i ry individual drinking cup# ^ - tH on all traliiH aud | u supply of cuptt of tho (xjlUpui^ per typo has been ordered, ^ aa the < upK have be&Q ouch cowdutor will be turning supply and any L?aHH?ngor de* ,i nip will receive one fret 0f {2 on application to tho coiid*. Notice to thin effut will U a ed in eftcb conch. furnlihlng drinking mpHtoi Bougors on tbo large number of truiiiH operated by the Soutk Hallway will involve a nub^ expenditure * hlch Ih being ^ taken to provldy for >ht?conve?k of patron* of the '"dlway. Ail ? inon drinking eup? havo been moved from train* in comjll( with United States <iOv?riinient \ illations and the Htatute# and ? nancea of many states and mad paUtles. lloroafter pasBengoiH on Hoatki Hallway trains will be put to u? convenience or expense ' Ia 4r,n1"' ovoftlonc,, Oxper.^ m il drink ,,K water ami ? no will not bo BBlblc Infection thru tb? (A pnmm/m to time .... possible ...im uon mm the uei] tho common drinking cup. , H? i < ?lii >. I "Why doee that darned oktt alwaya want to room on a J box?" 1 "8be wan hatched from & pq poat egK." Judge. H Fannie, May, the 13-yeir^ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J, ?1 ManuB, of Edgefield was killed! day by pulling down on her hetn bar that held up tbo well m while drawing water at the wen John Lewis, one of the biggtj; wealthiest planters In Chester^ ty, whh murdered last Thuradij nlng about 11 o'clock at his hi about three miles west of Cw|j In Chester county. Every effot being made to apprehend the ties believed to ho connected tho deed, but in all probability will be several dayB before ? can bo gotten on them. Holstein Cattle and Their Ability atl the Pail. ? Great Record of OneCi In a recent issuo of The Coltim-* bia Record appeared the following article and the cut of a famous Holstein - Friesian cow of remark able attainments In butter and milk production. This animal is named 'i'ontiac Clothllde do Kol 2d,' ? and lias a record of 6 4G.1 pounds milk, :i 7. iiO 7 pounds butter in seven days. South Carolina farmers are grad ually comparing statistics on butter and milk production as regards the relative value ol' different strains. The cattle callde Holsteins in Am erica are all descendants of or di rect importations from Holland and nearly all cf them are from the pro vinces of North Holland and Fries land, where .are found the types most pleasing to Americans. The antiquity of the breed is so great that history records no period when the shores of the North Sea and its inflowing rivers were not not i d for their great, black and white 4 cattle. The Neiherland herd book states that the pedigree of these cattle dates back two thousand years, and that they descended from the cat tic of the Frieslanders who, several hundred years before Christ, in habited the country north of the rivers Waal and the Ithina. That would seem to be far enough back. In comparatively modern times we find importations of these cattle playing an important if not funda mental part in the foundation of - both the short horn and the-' Ayshlre breeds, as may be readily ascertain ed by reference, to the history of these breeds,. In continental Eu rope these cattle and their offshoots have stamped their impress in ev ery direction and are found in more c.untries, occupying grealer territo ry and producing more milk, butter and cheese combined. In 1 870 there were less than a scoer of men owning small pure bro herds and these gentlemen formed an association known as the Associa tion of Breeders of Thoroughbred Holstein Cattle and issued their herd book tho following year con taining entries of 59 bulls and 67 cows. Last year 19,591 animals were recorded and the total number in the herd book is about 200,000. The greatest importations took place in tho. early '80s, one firm a lone bringing over 2,000 head. Within the past three years per haps 20 0 very choice specimens hav been brought over and sold at large prices, but the extent of the breed in this country is now so great that there is little encouragement to im Port in the face of a prohibit glBtration fee of $25 and a % quarintine, and further, the are by no pieans willing to ocw that the Holland stock excelij bred in America. Under art of ad.amvd registry lestln&j the experiment stations, which] been l .irgeij, do /eloped' since II i lie Molstein i.rtcd now u<u a r foundation Ktock about whl^h tfc is indisputable evidence of theiri ity at hto pail, and of their pn teney; and some believe tball more satisfactory to the averaj vost<,r in this i-reed to knowj yond question, what several ti ma o. a .c b ry have done-a. produceis and as breeding _ than 10 depend entirely upta poarance and imnudiate qa*1 as h j is ob.i^ed lo dj in salt importer stock. The piij 8c.il appearauce of : Hols Jen bieed is well known; you but to .in admirer there to" er-ending delight in their strll black and white colors, their U symmetrical forms showing W' s.eci 1 zcu ability., "ihey are_ at rac.i e catiie irom anystw" an J the r many .j ualiitca and ac o.is i b render them exto valua ie in a. y sort of agrical^ and Ihey doub iufis combing f highest capacity of any hreedJ in use. To bo less general, the Ho cow In comparative 8i?e ranfr* the Shorthorn; the dlmensio her frame are quite, as ,gre at maturity sho will average pounds, .while it is not unuso* find them weighing 1.500 p some remarkable cows have ed 1,800 pounds. In the four umo of the Advanced Register! cows five ytfars of age .and of oraged 1,262 pounds, iiwn cow, Ploterjo 2d, whose sun ualed milk yield in 12 niont 30,318 pounds, herself weign 366 pounds at 1 1 years. Paul, whose marvelous ylWffi ter from daily c^urnPfl? milk for 3 65 days Vas UJ* also an unequalled j weighed at einht years 1.* DeKal 2nd, the progenitor ^ now most famous and "wp lino of blood, and ff cord excelled 26.1 Pounf days, weighed, at tourjr noa 1,240 pounds and M&?]po maturity. Aaggie CornucoP* ine, a 34-pound butter1 co . ed 1,4 60. Pontiac Ra8 cow which sold for $8,00". 1,600; so her price was $5 per pound.