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SOREHEAD CAUSED BY ^ PRESENCE OF mold. poultry Husbandman of Clem son Collage Discusses Chicken Pox. II |k not generally known that sore htid or chicken P*>* tli poultry Is cau#? i <kI >>> I be same tuilgus or moid that Is ^.ii on bread and many other tub , kept ?" '? wiiini, damp place. C), I ubiif mold of bread results from the i>rweilco of a fungus known teeh jjo&lly ii h Aspergillus fuiiilKaius. uii.i If tbl* f?>nkUH attacks the face of young ?r mill nr.' chickens t lie repulsive look llj;, (Kireliead warts will appear. The early sy mptoms of sorehead 4k?w In a depressed appearance of the fowl ami a number of small, round, reddish sores on the fa<"e. Fever In preHent ami the appetite has gone. The aecond and third days And the fowl more depressed and the sores brown hi color, hard on the outside and slml lar la apjiearanse to brown warts. However, there are two varieties of Mrehriad, the dry and the moist. The wait of dry type haw been described. The variety is found when the fungiis attacks the mucous membrane ?,f the eye or throat. Having ho fa v orflhle 11 medium for developing the (nagus spreads rapidly and soon the eye is closed and tlio nostrils and throat are filled with mucous/0 Tills explanation of tlie origin and gauge "I sorehead suggests means for the prevention and control of the di sease. In almost every case that has Iteeii reported to the writer the poul tryina n remembered that the litter in the poultry house had become damp and moldy, of that moldy feed had been fed, or that the chickens had been roosting In a warm damp house where mold was probably present. It can be stated with assurance that an outbreak .of sorehead is impossible where there are no conditions among the fowls favorable for the development of mold spores. Hence, at this season of the year especially, the poultry should be I i k?i>t III II dl.V. wi ll Milk lit Itonse with dry little (HI 111.- flooj . ir I lie lltlci berollic.s ditllip, scatter U ovei with a fork so as to dry It us rapidly as |H>Kh|blc and prevent Its Ik* coming heated and moldy. Hy leinem licrlug the nature of this dls?us?- and lighting U intelligently no one In South Carol lint should have a sorehead Opl deinlr among ill* chickens. It has heen stated that a mixture of Kpsoin salts and sulphur given several times a week in the mash will prevent an attack of Horeheud. The fallacy of this opinion Is apparent, hut It re rulnied for one of the visitors to the Clemson College eg# layltiK contest at the state fulr to prove positively that a scouring of sultHjind sulphur in no preventive of this disease, lie followed the directions and gave the suits and sulphur regularly from last July, hut shortly before the state fair his ehlek ens had the worst attuck of aprehead he had ever seen. Many died and the remainder were still sick when he told the story. His course of *ults and sul phur did not proved t the stores of the fungus from attacking the exposed llesh of the chickens and It 1h doubt fur If the treatment would oven mini mize the severity of the outbreak. Probably the simplest method of treating sorehead Is to House the head of each afflicted fowl In a mixture of (HM'iuaugunat" of potash and peroxblo of hydrogen. First, make a dark pur ple solution of permanganate of jmtash In water. Only u wiuull ipuount of tho crystals will be needed to color u quart of water purple. Then add a teaspoon ful of i>eroxlde of hydrogen to the quart of purple solution. Catch the Chicken and, holding Us feet and wings In the left hand, shake its head around in the solution with the right hand. Repeat, twice, or until the Holutlon has entered 'all tho pas sages of the head and had an oppor tunity to attack the' fungus growth. It Is advisable to give this treatment In the early stages of the disease, l>e fore the warts become brown and Baby's Morning Dip "GOODNESS KNOWS," says grandmother, "what ' we 'd do without this Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater." "If I'd only had one when you were a baby, you'd have been saved many a cold and cnftupy sp3L. For warming cold corners and isolated upstairs rooms, and for countless special occasions when extra heat is wanted, you need PERFECTION SMOKELESaECm HEATERS \ ? The Perfection is light, portable, inex pensive to 4>uy and to use, easy to clean ? and rewick. No kindling, no ashes. Burns kerosene ? easy to handle and j inexpensive. Smokeless and Odorless. At all hardware and ^neral ftores. Look for the Triangle trademark. t . . # STANDARD OIL COMPANY (NEW JERSEY) D. C CkdtH*, N. C. Ncvfcik, v*. BALTIMORE Out*** w. v*. RkUtaJ, Va. CKarfettM, S. C. Kt-aly, mm tt 1h dull, uii (o kill the fun KUH hidden under h hard Mult*. Ift (hut CSMt It la hest to KhuriH*n ii Niuall wtlck .and remove the hard ?<*ule over the whtIm, thou wou*e t kit* head lu the ho lutioij, ami the per ma inornate will erud il'HtM the j) Other uxeful remedies can lie j ?a luted on the head and wires with a feather. Thene ure Iodine, Fearnon'H ereollu, ami hul piiuU* of copiier. Uood renultA are obtained hy greaidiig the head with iiu'iil liolal inn iiihI ea r hollaed vaseline F. 0. Hart*, Fun I try llushaiidiuun, Olemwon Agricultural College. SANITARY HOME FOR FOWLS IS NECESSITY. Providing Hens With Proper Quarters First Stop in Profit able Egg Production. Clotnson College, Nov. J 2, The llrst step to .!?? taken In' the direction of profitable egg production in South Car olhm according to F, C. Ilare, poultry husbandman of Clemson College, is to provide a sanitary poultry house for the fowlH. Up-to-date hens, with mod ern clHolemy methods of luiuniftu'tur 1hk eggs, require "modern convenienc es" in their homo* Just an mueh an do up-to-date i>eople, and they will not do good work If made to live lu what, might be called "chicken slums." Mr. Hare has outlined lu simple form what Is "JuHt the thing" In poultry house construction fur South Carolina and sonic of these directions follow, First, says Mr, Hare, who has the reputation of knowing what to say when the subject of conversation is poultry houses, ? remodel your i>oultry house, if necessary, and make tt con form to South Carolina conditions, un der which fowlH require nn open-front, draft-proof bouse in winter and as eool a house as possible ? in summer. If you want to build, erect un Inexpensive house closed tight on the east and west sides (also on the north side In win ter) and open on the south or front. A good size to accomodate forty fowls is 10 feet long, by 8 feet wide, with the studs 0 feet high in front and 4 feet high in the rear. The 10-foot side 6 feet high faces south. ('over this south front with 3-4 inch mash wire netting, with the exception of 2 feet at the bottom, which board t winds from blowing in keep out rats or sparrows you can use 2-Inch mesh wire netting, which is cheaper than the smaller mesh. A door 2 1-2 feet wide Is placed at either end of tye front and covered with wire netting and boards. Before completing the near (north) side, make three wooden doors 2 feet wide and, about 3 feet long for the Upper hulf of the wall. Hinge them outside to drop down and cover the openings with wire net ting. .These back doors must be closed tight in cold weather, but by opening them in summer the hot air inside the house is removed by the draft created and the house is much cooler than one with no circulation. Have the roosts and nests remova? ble. Small packing boxes from the grocery store with clean straw and a couple of tiest eggs in them are more sanitary than nests built under the dropboard or nailed to the house where they cannot be readily ? cleaned. Nail four laths to the boxes, raise them one foot from the ground and place them agdlnst the wall. Six nests are suffi cient. / The roosts about 10 feet long are required, made of 2 by 3 inch dr^ted lumber with the corners of the 2-inch face (on which the fowls roost) round ed. Nail cleats 4 Inches wide by 2 feet long to the side walls, with two notches 2 inches wide by 1 1-2 Inches deep cut In them 14 inches apart, tnese being for the roosts to rest In. Tlie two roosts are level (not one above the other, which causes fighting for possession of the top roost) ' with the upper edge 30 incites above the sill, and the rear roost 10 inches from the north wall. The dropboard is 30 inches wide by about 10 feet long, placed 0 Inches below the bottom of the roosts. Clean of the droppings at least once a week. Keep scratching material on the -floor A dry earth floor is satisfactory. Fill In with garden soil so that It Is high er than the outside ground, then cover it with 6 inches of straw, pine straw, leaves, litter of any kind or sluiviugs. Place the water dish on a box or shelf of sufficient size for the hen<4 to stand on it, In order to keep it dean. More Horses Sentto Europe. ? St, Louis, Mo. i Nov. 7.- ? Twenty thousand additional head of horses are to !>e purchased 5n Missouri and south ern Illinois by agents of the British, French and Russian governments, ac: cording to recent reports. It is said the agents of the various governments have been instructed to make the pur chases. A uniform price of $270 Is be ing paid for each horse, and white and grey horses are being refused. The German government is said to be offering $000 to $800 a head for hones delivered in Germany. The French agents have. also bought flour and great qusfttitien of other pro* visions here. If you do not need to IOYS AND SORROWS Emotions That Are Closely Akin in the Hearts of All the Children of God. Fsw Will B* Found to Whom ths Ps?t Year Has Not Brought Both, twit as a Nation 8ursly ths Joy ghould Bs Predominant at This Tims, OY and sorrow are not so fur apart um might be Im agined, The little child who cries over the death of a kitten or a pony be cause death has robbed him of the brightness and happiness of their pos session, will also weep for sheer happiness when an overwhelming delight has come suddenly into his little world. Evi dently both feelings touch something akin in the innermost being. That may be what the people mean who de claro t hat extremes meet. And yet one emotion expresses joy, the other pain. We are indeed curl? ousiy constituted, when things ho dis similar have the same effect upon our expressions. Perhaps the truth of the matter is that whatever is deep enough to tap our real selves, at the center of our nature, has to go to one common reservoir. The ripples of pleasure und the blowings of hard fate move the depthB of this reservoir In just the same way, because when they^ reach there they represent only emotion of the most realistic charac ter. * The wrinkled, aged mother weeps about the neck of her long-lost son In her ecstasy of joy at his return, t ?mile hn the happiness of It all. Crops ere nearly always almost on tbe verge of ruin A single night drawn the line between failure and fUQCftM* Tbe relief of having it ell safely over' would be hard to bear, indeed, if we stopped to think of It. For never is a man more helpless than when he comes to gepeftd upon the crops. And we all depend upon the crops. Htarvation is only junt spared the world year by year. Those who realize it fully may be excused If (heir Joy becomes poignant enough to becloud the face, and make tho eye watery. ?-> What If the harvest had not spread the table of tbe world satisfactorily? There is never a full year's spare sup ply of bread on hand, you know. And it is hard to see children, women and strong men staud helpless in the face of famine. Home part of the world faces famine conditions every year! Our Thanksgiving Is for the harvest primarily, remember. Knter iuto tbe spirit of it. Try this year and real ise what the harvest meant) to you, your country and tho whole of the na tions. Reach down Into your heart's recesses, and feel how little, after all, you have done to secure for us all thlB crop, than just to drop the seed into the prepared soil, and gather H up when the crop baa been given f9Vr 1 - ? ? r--:" ? ' Possibly It would do you no harm If you measure up to your privileges, aud then ask of yourself: "How much of this harvest did I deserve, re* memberlng whence it cume, and what I am and have been?" Take Thanksgiving day that way, and you will cease to wonder why it wrb this message began with tears min gling with Joys and sorrows. It Is an affecting time to all of us* the bless ings from the fields are so fine, so un deserved, so necessary. They lead to thankfulness, and to Thanksgiving almost naturally. When you add to them the glorious blessings of peace, WITH THE PRIDE OF THE FLOCK 8ome ha# meat and canna cat, And aomo wad eat that want lt? But wa hae meat and wa can eat, 8aa let tha Lord be thank it. 1 ?Robert Burnt. 1 ' as she had wept bitterly over the news of his disappearance. Mothers weep as they pray tor blessings upon the distant one, and weep when they come bringing sheaves of blessings with them. We know of that sort of thing In the history of the crop that has Just been harvested. Such anxiety there has never been over It! So much de^ pended upon what should come back to us fro 1)1 the seed grain we threw into the s</ll and helplessly left there, last spring. Whether .prosperity or tribulation should befadl our coun try hung upon the crop. Wars abroad and restricted ? funds at home were hard to put up with even temporarily, and* ftll over . AmaHon ? thoughtful 'men anxiously awaited what every week brought forth regarding the state of the growing grain. Hundreds of farmers had struggled along through discouragement so far, and their suc cess or failure seemed to depend just upon this one year's crop. And ythen news gradually Altered through the usual channels of Infor mation that plenty was to crown the plains. A first-rate crop was harvest ed. Anxiety was turned into Joy. A year's success with the grain means so much. ' The heaviness which brooded over ui Bg withered away l>efore the Joy, that came in the morning after the threshers had done their work, and the blessing of the months past could actually be weighed and measured. If we could almost have wept wtth anx iety last spring; we are almost ready to weep for Joy now that Thanksgiv* ing time has come round to us. Mort gages will be lightened. Notes wlU be met Education can be afforded for the promising lad or girl. There need not be stinting In the house next winter. Many a devout man and worn- ' an, many a thoughtful father and mother, will feel a filling of the heart, and throat as they realise what the harvest means to them, and what Jtoy It brlngp Into life for the toyed ones. !tar harvest always im a tiirw for ? heart-full kind of happiness The tear Is never verf far away trass the the Joy of living In a new, fresh, rap* Idly developing country, with bright promises to crown the lives of the little ones, a climate full of variety to Invigorate and encourage us to clear thought and constant effort, there Is something wrong If you do not feel the impulse within to shout out: -''Praise Qod from whom all blessings flow," and to realize how true it ' ii that Joy lies very close to tears. *- i - " ?? ? r.T~ ' V' THE DAY IN BUGTOWN 'Two* Thanksgiving day in Bugtown And Mr. Bug* and his wife Were preparing a Thanksgiving dinner, The finest they'd had in their life. , as*s teamTng' and *ho t as could be. t A feast was spread out there before them, As fine u you ever could see. When the grasshopper course had been eaten ? ; .. They had a course or two more ? They had cranberry sauce and all kinds of nuts, And goodies a sweetmeats galore. *Twas a r< al old-fashioned T)iajik8glvlng. -~Thd "bOgs Vrcre all happy and Ray, Tou never would dream that '(was Bug town On that beautiful Thanksgiving day. , Parable Easily Interpreted. Somewhere In the good book te a parable which speaks of & certain king whose servant owed hi tn a great debt. And when the latter/was discovered to have nothing te pay, the king freely forgave him all. Which parable needa no Interpretation. For who fa the king hut the Almighty, *ad who the servant hut humanity? R Odd Bits of News, 1 Iteldlng Mich.'- A silk thread manu facturing company of thlx city, 1* ?up* plyiiiK tlu* United Statew with crochet cotton, a product, which until the breaking out of the 10uro|H>aii war, waw Umdt* exclusively 111 Alsaec The demand for the cotton 1h euormou* and l he manufacturer* are putting In new machinery to meet It. SI. iMllv, Mo ? The* war revenue tax of approximately #l>0,<MM),000 on Hit- tin mill I output of beer Is agreeable to file brewers of this ?4ty, although thin in dutdry already paya a pearly Internal revenue lax of $1 <18,000,000. 'l^ho new beer lux will yield a revenue more than ten times greater than that of ai^y other single commodity. HKCONI) VVKKK J|)ltOKN. it. 1*. Delxmche, Camden Luther barker, Lugoff, rfd 1 T, lioon, Westvlilu (?. \V. Ainmonds. Iloyklns l{. T. Holland, Camden, rfd I W. Ollntou Moore, Camden .1. \j. Guy, Camden j. K. I AH), Lugoff <5, W. Dahney, Camden, rfd 2 \V. 1>. Barrett, Camden V. linker, Woatvllle Wesley lioon, Westvllle j, M. Hatfield, Oamdeb, rfd 4 T,. W. Jackson, Camden l'\ lioua, Jilaimy 1). W, Stover, Kershaw Walter lllnson, Camden Joseph Clark, Bethune .1. Hoyd Ma Kill, KoihIuiw it. W. Humphries, iiUeknow 0. 15, Taylor, Camden J. I). (i<?IT, IjUgolY (Jeorge Arledge, Logoff L. W. Haley, Jefferson J, T. B. Elliott, Cassatt J. I>. Shaw, Camden H. S. Campbell, Camden 8. K. (iallowav, Both u no J. 11. Moore, Camden R. M. Iluckahee, Bothujie It. Kubanks, Bethun? H. T. Johnson , Bethune W. T. Cope land, Camden J. J. Saunders, ImgolV J. L. Mlcklo, Lugoff D. V. Owens, Westvllle TAX NOTICE. office of Treasurer, Kershaw Co., Camden, S. O., Sept. 15, 1014. Notice is hereby given that the books will be open for collecting State, Ooua ty anti School taxes from October 15th, 1914 to March 1st, 1015. A penalty of 1 per cent, will be added to all taxes unpaid January lHt, 1015; 2 per cent. February 1st, 1015; and 7 per' cent March 1st, 1015. Tho rate per centum for Kershaw, county Is as follows: Mills State taxes .'. 0 County taxes ...4Vi Special tax oh 2ty Head taxes v....... ...? -21/ School taxes .......... ............ 8 Special School taxes .1 Total / ; 10 The following school ? distrlcta have special levies : Special school District No. 1.. 5 Special school tax District No. 2 ?4 Special, school tax District No. 4 .8 Special school tax District No*. 0 4 Special school tax District No. 7 4 Special school tax District No. 8,. 2 Special schobl tax District No. 0........4 Special school tax District No. 10........5 Special school tax District No. 11..<....J5 Special school tax District, No. 12.; .4 Special school tax District No. 18.- 4 Special school tax District No. 14 ,..8 Special school tax District No. 15.. ......8 Special school tax District No. 17..... ...3 Special school tax District No. 18 4 Special school tax District No. 10.. 4 ? Special school tax DlstWct No. 21 ,.2 Special school tax District No, 22 4 Special school tax District No. 24 .4 Special school tax District No. 25 .8 . Special school tax tttfitrlct No. 26 ? .2 Special school tax District No. 26 2 Special school tax District No. 27 ~.6 Special school tax District No. 28 3. Special school tax District No. 29.. .4 Special school tax District No. 80 2, Special school tax District No. 81........6 Special school tax District No. 82 ...4 Special school tax District No, 88..V....4 Special school tax District No. 84 ..4 Special school tax District No. 40......11 Special school tax District No. 46 ..8 Special school tax District No. 47........4 The poll tax Is $1. All able bodied male persons front the age of twenty-onb (21) to sixty (60) years, both inclusive, except resi dents of the incorporated towns of the county shall pay two dollars (|2.) as a road tux, except ministers of the gospel actually in charge of a congre gation, teachers employed in public schools, school trustees and persons permanently disabled in the military service of this State, and persons who served in the late war between the States, and all persona aetually employ ed in the quarantine service of this State, and all students who may be at tending school or college at the time when said road tax shall become due.? Persons claiming disabilities must pre sent^ certificates from two reputable physicians of this county. 7 All Information as to taxes will be furnished upon application. . i . i D. M. McCASKILL, County . Treasurer. - NKiPl M?U?* | NILP! 1 MARY E. HAMPTON ? - REGISTERED NURSE Durham, N. a; passed State oj South Carolina; p - ? otXincoln Hospital, Y. 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