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and Better Cows ? jr 1 r in Jvershaw to. We believe that no .scheme of farming", especially tor country like Kershaw County, is or can be permanently profitable that does not include live stock. We be lieve that any plan on the part of the farmer for making his farm self - sustaining must include the milch cow. There are two requisites for the proper and profitable keeping of milch cows oven for family use: i? . .-'tvjy? ? u , First. They must be the l ight quality of cows. Second. The farm must raise the feed they eat. Food experts tell us that a quart of milk is equal in food value to one pound of beef. Therefore, it is of the greatest importance that the farmers have an ample supply of milk and butter. And it's all a question of feed?tin; farmer who has the feed* will supply the cows necessary to keep the family supplied with milk and butter. The following feed requirement has been worked out by the Extension Division for one cow: One ton legume hay, Four tons mangels, turnips or silage. One ton sorghum, fed green to supplement pasture. One-half acre velvet beans and clovers. v One-half acre rye or oats for winter pasture. One acre permanent Bermuda pasture. Grain ration: 700 pounds corn and cob meal, 700 pounds velvet beans in pod, ground, Grown on a half-acre as above. 100 pounds cotton seed or soy bean meal. Feeil '.I pounds of above mixture per day to each gallon of milk, together with 10 pounds of hay and HO pounds of silage or roots. We cannot too strongly urge the planting of velvet beans in corn this spring. The velvet bean is one of the greatest feed and land building crops ever found fof the South. It is hard to overestimate what it will do along these two lines. ' Plant with corn, every three or four feet, or same way after corn gets started-,-or a row in mid dle of six foot corn rows as you please. Anyway you make two feed crops on your land instead of one as before. The wise farmer will look to his own home grown feed this year, if ever in his life and NOW is the time to do so. Clemson College, S. C. March 31, 1917. To All Men and Women Demonstration Agents in South Carolina: The conditions, as being reported, of the food crops of the world, if not alarm ing, are serious. This is especially true when we realize that the reserves will be ex hausted at the end of this crop year. It is reported that the English wheat crop is exceedingly backward. The Dutch crop is small. The French crop is very much less than usual, and what is most alarm ing Argentina will have little wheat or corn to export. The Australian wheat crop is reported 50,000,000 bushels less than last year's. The statement is made that the English Government has contracted for the entire surplus of this year's wheat crop of Canada. Wheat in the winter growing states in our country has suffered much for the want of moisture. Early vegetables in the Southern States have been de stroyed by recent freezes. Coming nearer home the prospects for wheat and oat crops in South Carolina are the most discouraging in years. The season is very backward and, therefore, little gardening lias been done in this state. The country is virtually in a state of war and we have every reason to expect that in a short time thousands of young men may he called from the fields to arms. Therefore, it is necessary to impress upon all classes of our people the urgent need of growing all vegetables for table use and for canning purposes. You should take this matter up not only with the farmers but with the otlicials and residents of cities and villages and bring about organizations for the cultivation of vacant lots in food crops. Chambers of Commerce, women's clubs and every a gency should be appealed to to assist in this most important work. The product ion of forage crops on large areas, particularly the velvet bean, sorghum, soudan grass, cowpeav and -soy beans. is urgent. The acreage in corn should be greatly increased. The greatest care should be taken with the spring pigs. Hogs are now selling 411 the Northern markets at 1 ?"> '5-4 cents a pound on foot; beef cattle from 10 to 12 cents a pound on foot with every prospect of increasing. The acreage of sweet potatoes should be increased many fold. Every farmer should plant a crop of fall lri>h potatoes?the Lookout Mountain variety it' obtainable. With the food .supply of the world ;n its present condition, we may be as sured of a profitable demand for all food crops. W e owe it to ourselves and our country to produce the noce s.u\v supplies for the family, for the men who are per forming their patriotic duty. The indications are that for the first time since the Civil War we wlil be unable to purchase supplies from other countries. Therefore, it is imperative that we pr >duce them at home. Th nossibility of shortage may bring some of our people'to 11.;?! - uffering. Depend On Us to Help Any Way We Can. Bank of Camden Bank of Bethune First National Bank Loan & Savings Bank MIMTIONH KXPM)M10N Mail) Killed and Wound?*! at Kddy atone riant Choter, Pa, April 10. One hundred' nnd twelve persons, most of thorn; women mid girls, arc known to have, ! lost their lives and 121 were Injured ; l?y a series of toriflln explosions today in the shrapnel building of the Kddy stone Animunltlon t'ofjioratloii at Kd d.v.dono, oiu> tulle from Chester. Many of the Injured were fatally hurt, and It is found the Hnal death list will reach IfM). ' How many of the .'100 or nu?re cm ployed In the building In which was stored approximately .'10,(MM) shells, es caped Is a mystery, hh there was scarcely a fragment of the structure left intact. Fire added to the horror, if ml most of the bodies were so hadly charred that Identification was imi>os sihle. Humors of plots and arrests were an me runs uf tyr the disaster, hut all lacked continuation infectives re ported the explosion apparently was purely accidental, and advanced the theory that shrapnel placed near a radiator might have caused it. An of ficial of the company, however, said there never was more than half a ton of jxnvder In the building, and that this never was in bulk. The explosion occurred about 10 o'clock in what Is known as the "F-12" building, a two-story structure 75 by .'100 feet. In this building time fuses were prepared, more than ko |>er cent of the workers being women and girls, Probably fifty men and boys were em ployed in the building at the time of the blast, and most of them escaped. The Seaboard in Line. The Chronicle Is in receipt of the following letter from .Mr. It. L. 1 lamer, general development agent of the Sea board Air Line Itailway: "In this hour of an iui(>endlng crisis the railroads of this country are pre pared and are preparing to serve the (ioverninent in everv possible way, and arc not to be outdone In patriotism. "In your community there are a great many men who are willing to enlist, and, if need be, sacrifice their lives that the integrity , of this nation l>c maintained. "It is a fact that the result of the present war is going to be decided in favor of the side which can ade quately solve the food supply question, and there is an opportunity for emery farmer and every man with land to prove his patriotism by planting every possible acre to food crops. . "It is not only a patriotic act for the man to plant a fotnl crop now who intended to plant nothing or some oth er crop, but it is good business judg ment to do so. "The allies have lK?en taking vast quantities of food from this country and are bidding against our own jxv> ple for it. and naturally prices have advanced and there is no pros|M?ct of decreasing cost at this time." Stockton NVvvh Notes. Ituykin, S. April 10th, 1017.? Mrs. I'. C. lVam* and children, Alfred and Mnry Lindsay s|>ont Saturday in SumtiT. Miss I la Heard en was tho week-end guest of Miss Nell (Jillis of Heinherts. Miss Mary Moore <>f Camden spoilt tho week-end with Oma and Fatiric Workman. Miss ShHit* Pea roe who has boon in the Columbia hospital has returnod home. Wo an* glad to know that sho is improving greatly. Mr. Arnold Workman sjjont tho wook ond with Frank Moore of Camden. Tho Kpworth League mot at tho homo of .Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Galloway t.ho first Friday night in April. Tho following program was carried out very successfully: Song ? Ho SjH'aks to Mo. I'.ihle Heading. Psalm 1<M). Prayer. Song?This is so Precious to Mo. Holl and minutes. Koading by MLssos Ua Hoardon, Oma Workman, and Mr. Tom Humphries. Col loot ion. Song. Adjourn to moot at * tho homo of Mr. Tom Smith tho lirst Friday night in May. Miss Ithrano (Jalloway spent tho woek-ond at tho homo of her uncle Mr. It. L. Shirley. STATEMENT of tho ownership, Managomont, etc., required I? v tho Act of Congress of August 21. 1012. of Tho Camden Chron icle. published weekly at Camdon, S. i for April 1. 1017. Publisher* -II I). Nilos and F. N. McDowell. Camden. S C. Fditor H. 1?. Nilos. Camdori. S. C. Owners? II. I). Nilos and F. N. Mo Dowi'll. Camden, S. C Known bondholders. mortgagees. or othor soouritios?Nono. H. D. Nilos. Fuhlishor, Sworn fo l?oforo me this 1st day of April 1017. M. M. Johnson, Notary Public. William Hooves. a young man of Grt*envlllo, was so badly crushed bo twirn tho Southern Hallway cars at Paris lu-ar Greenvillo. that lie died Tuesday. Ho was about '.i'J years old. Opera House Store to Rent. iiids for the b*a*-o of the Opera 11 oust ? More from July 1st. I!?17 to July l>t, 1!?IS. will ho received by Clerk of Council until May 7th, 1!?17. Council reserves the right to reject ?i:i>? and all bids. ily order of '< 'on.!?-:!. J. J GoODAI.F. ?M City Clerk. CONDITIONS IN THE WEST 'Continued From Fir r Page.) l'e.ioj) of arroage in eottoi:. but I)o ''.T'.ii -r ought to relu-'o the acreage of : J .?::?! food but .-hou'.d bv ail moans . r? ,i ?? jr this year. A report ; ubliiJiot; i.u Monday ?>f tills \v.?'k a 100,000,000 pounds less :n?*:i! i:: storage hi tho big packing ? ?enter- the Cnited States than ? year ago. What does this mean to us of South Carolina who purchase the bulk of our bacon from the West? Hogs wore selling last week on the bie markets of the west for 2 1-2 oonfy jx-r j>ound higher, live woiglit. than during the civil war. And now WE ARE NOW WRITING HAIL INSURANCE The Home Insurance Company OF NEW YORK, and The Hartford Insurance Compar of HARTFORD, CONN. . , ?I??y TWO OF THE STRQNGEST.. COMPANIES W JNG INSURANCE OF ANY KINI); THEIR COMBI,, "ASSETS BEING OVER SEVENTY MILLIONS OF ij LARS. YOU WILL NEED HAIL INSURANCE. ' THESE TWO COMPANIES CARRY THIS RISK YOU. THE RATES ARE VERY REASONABLE. US TELL YOU ABOUT IT. Williams Fire Insurance AgenJ R. .M. Kennedy, Jr., Preaideni K. MtPoynlL \i J 1012 Broad St. Phone 52. that wo are at war and i*>rk products being a largo imrt or the army ration and in case one to two million soldiers are mobilized wjiero will the price of bacon go to No 'one knows, but you will pay more than 25 eents per i>ound more before the year is out than you are payfng today. So you say what shall vft' do? "Adopt a safe farming program at once." 1. A home garden for every family on the farm. From one-tenth to one fourth acre, well located, well tilled and tended as carefully as any other crop on the farm, planted in rotation to time the vegetable croj)s no as to have a contiguous supply for the fam ; ily table as many days In the year as possible. To this should be added one-fourth an acre of potat??es, either Irish or sweet or both, to l>e used as food for the family. An acre of sorghum should be produced to supply the family with syrup. 2. Produce enough on each farm to Inst the family ami the livestock with certainty for one year, with a itttle excess for safety. .'{. Produce the hay and forage croi>s necessary to supply the livestock on the farm for one year, with a little excess for safety, not forgetting le gumes which add fertility to the soil and produce the best hay ?I Produce the necessary meat, eggs and milk for the family. The meat should Ih? produced by increased at tention to poultry and hogs because of the rapidity with which these can be produced. ICvery family should have at least two cows so that one can be In milk Mil .if the time. A sufficient num ber of brood sows should be kept to produce the pork for the family with some excess for sale. The number of laying hens should be increased and carefully tended to produce eggs and poultry for the table with a tmflieient cxc?-<s for sale. The average number of poultry jwr farm should be gradual ly increased to vat least fifty. The livestock on the farm should be grad ually increased as a whole so as to consume the otherwise waste products of the farm and make the unprofit able and untiilable land productive. This means attention to the breeding, care and feeding of poultry hogs and milch cows. 5. When the living has been amply provided for, grow cotton fori money crop, it might bt- wo Xluce tlie normal acres [iU cotton ami plant stun cru|? beans, peanuts. and velvet tx cash crop, or to feed live stock sal oh. ($. Plan sell or exchause plus products'of the garden, chard, the poultry, the livesi eggs aud tin? food crops, to o necessary running expenses of I and save the cotton as the r crop. There Is one crop I ? wish t Every farmer should plant veil in his .corn, as he can produce ly as many bushels of this valui crop as lie can corn, both gi the land at the same time cost,vonly of the seed and Rett planted; 1 know of no crop J produce more growth of vlu$J ing next fall and winter for all kinds and leave the land I tion for a profitable crop to fo following year than this beaa farmer, no matter how small plant several acres of this on Experience shows it cellent feed for fattening b every farmer in Kershaw eon and should fatten all his hogs I on velvet beans thus revising amount of corn for other p By planting velvet beans In every fanner in the county q ten his i>ork next winter one cents cost, as this woul extra crop in his corn that * cost him II thing but the cm seed to pro<luce, as Uiey are between the hills of corn aod tivatiuK the corn you cuith beans. Therefore the man thi feed a single ear of corn toft hogs this fall and winter, is who will not lieed sound advi given hi in. The velvet beans are ihei compared to i?eas, they can be ed in rather large lots from t den Wholesale Grocery. C<* $1.05 per bushel, in small lots per bushel. It takes about < per acre to plant between ead corn The early sj>eckled to one recommended for this a the present time. Ill conclusion I wish to w farmer in Kershaw County K )>ortion of his corn in vehet McCALL PATTERN ? T,wo of the many smart McCall Designs for April becoming and inexpensive gowns for every occasion, made possible by the use 'of McCall Patterns The McCall Patent ed Cutting- Con , struction Guide, furnished free with each' McCall Pat tern, insures a per fect-fittinpr gar ment. MrCall McCtH Biw? , *ltf. 7.M 1 APRIL PATTERNS NOW ON SA1-". 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