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5BeautiSul i Flowers I Free / for Hastings* Catalog You can have & packets of ?< ? ds of > different and very bountiful flowers 'ree Hustings' 1 '# *J 7 Seed (a'alog ells you all about it Hunting Seeds are "Th- Stand ?rd the South " They glv?? th?? best rc<ulth In our Southern pardons and on . )ur fat'ms 11 astlugs' new l!)27 Cii'aog ha* 112 pages in all. full of pic .tires from photographs. handsome overs 1n full colors, t rut hful. accural o Inscriptions and valuable cultur diectldns. We want >ou to have (his catalog In .our home. It tells all about Hastings' tarden, flower and field soeds. plants ind bulbs the finest in America. Write for It today A poHt-eard rejuest brings It to you by return mall H G. HASTINGS CO., SEFDSNEN, ATLANTA. GA. - Some Facts About I'ecan Trees As a dour-yard treo the pecan is otnnmentnl and fruitful. In no other trees are these qualities so blended. The trunk is .symmetrical and the - foliage lace-like, giving a light shade in which lawn grasses flourish. Its limbs seldom break even in severe storms and its tap-root fastens it so firmly in the noil that it is not blown down by fiercest winds. It grows to perfection on lawnsT around gardens and farm lots. At six to eight years old it is not only giving valuable , shade but increasing crops of nuts. I It lives for centuries. It is stated that ten or twelve pecan tries set around the home when a boy or gitl enters school, will produce sufficient funda to carry such l>oy or girl through college. A few pecan trees set on farms would, in a few years, pay the taxes on all su<;h farms and give a revenue besides. One pet aii thee bore 60 pounds of nuts at :? years and 150 pounds at 11 st ars of age. Another bore 00 pounds at II years. A third bore 72 pounds at 7 years. 'Four trees, about 12 years old, bore 500 pounds. Twelve trees 12 years old bore 1,000 pounds. One large tree bears as high as 700 pounds. Pecan trees growing on a city home-lot in a near-by state are reported to have produced, last fall, a crop of nuts that sold for $1,500. All pecan trees that hear record crops are door-yard trees. A farmer in another state with a single pecan tree near an acre of cotton on his farm, discovered that the one tree brought him more revenue than the acre of cotton. The tree occupied a space about 50 feet square. The cotton occupied the equivalent of 210 feet square or 17 times as much land. No product in America is more delicious in its raw state and no ! product is more valuable as a health giving, strength giving food, than pecans. They contain most of the mineral essentials for building the human body. They furnish not onlyproteins, oils and carbohydrates but also vitamine B. The pecan ranks first among all the nuts for human ! food, Expressed in calories, one , pound of pecan meats is equal to four ' pounds of beef-steak or twelve pounds ! of fresh fruits or vegetables. ' "Some venture to say they cannot afford Ao wait for pecan trees to grow, forgetting they must wait in any case. Those who plant," adds a statement issued by the Sopth Caro! lina Pecan Growers Society at Florence, "are well paid while the slothful wait for nothing." ?' * ,pv DWLTRY I! A LANCED RATION NEEDED FOR HENS NniMt n:?; of lien 11?ut lUi ordinary Mid should hi* uli't* to I>i'>?ltr? it thoufnnd egg? i f we know how So g: *e !; r ? fair chalice >i.i l.? .1 uo.lerful machine, with i J it- i-.iihr>.? of i. ore ihau a 111< ti?iuiirl egg* 111 ii''r make up, hot mi i.inqy i -' if "? < '?!!,t.j;(>? to pre vcu l hor froth C.i ng iiri best tluit Mho generally fulls uw .> >hoii of Muh production duift g ! or few yours <>f life II \o.j I lite to neurit eggs hoforo (hoy are laid, you tuay figure tho mat. Ii ??ut to suit yourself?ttif many I >.imU of grain, rnout, litno, fat, fiber d waicr to onoh dozen eggs -and II ? o > on are. All would 1h* well, and you rould begin i Hint to oouiu your eggs, if It were hot for the fact that "something always happens" to prevent (lie r< gulnr maehlrie lil:e prodm t!<>n do sir. d. Certainly we must be careful to supply the needful ration so that fat. protein, nitrogen, liber, ash or in noral and water will he fed. This Is necessary, been use no eggs call he proflneed if one of these elements Is lacking. The fowls must In* kept in condition or they will not "shell out." This Ik one of (he most difll'iib parts In our whole plan of egg production. 1 The grains are high In nitrogen and protehi. Meat scrap, bone and meat meal are high in fat and protein. When the (lock Is out on the range. , young and old pick up what they In st in. lively seek as needful. Some of the prepared feeds are mixed so that Just about the right proportion of each needed element Is In the ration. Sometimes the birds do not seem to like the ration as mixed for them, so the plans of the scientists do not work out. Molting Period Is Good Index of Value of Hen liens that are In the midst of molting do not, as a rule, lay. The lime of the year when .molting takes place Is, therefore, a reliable Index of the value of the lieu to the flock for the reason that a hen molting In wrong seakon, when she should he laying, can deprive the flock of more profit than would he the case had she molted early enough to he laying at the peak of high prices. The "early molter" Is not. however a good layer, ns a rule. Molting usually starts with the neck, then the laxly and finally the tail and the wings. Ii takes, usually, three months for the molting process to he fully completed. While It would seem that the early timbers would be the best winter layers, actual experiments have proved that such is not the case. These texts held by various experiment stations have brought out the fact that egg production controls the molt rather than the molt controlling the egg production. So long as laying is continued the molting will be post poned. And it Is quite universalis conceded that the late molter Is the best layer. In fact. It seems to be p standard...tlUc_ on .^commercial farms now and in the experiment stations t6 discard the hens which have completed the molt In late September and are in full feather and to hold those limiting in October and November. Soy Bean Meal for Hens Is Most Excellent Feed A number of feeding tests at vari mis experiment stations have shown the value of soy-bean oil meal as i poultry feed. From these tests it \vaw concluded that s<^y bean oil meal could replace rolled oats In chick feeding Poultry men In the Pacific coast stales have used soy-bean oil meal for Severn! years ami consider It n most e\ cedent feed for growth and egg production. Another series of experimentshowed that soy-bean oil meal when fed with a suitable mineral mixture 1h a better supplement to corn meal than scraps and Is nearly as good as oondense.1 buttermilk when fed to chickens f.tr short-time Intensive feeding periods. Way to Make Hens Sick Feeding moldy crntneal Is rather a sure way of making hens sick. Spoiled feed will ruin either young chicks or ducklings in a short lime. Always sort carefully any corn con tabling moldy or decayed ears and discard all that are not fit for food. Hogs can disgorge material that proves harmful to them but when a hen or chick eats spoiled grain or decayed meat it must pass through the entire digestive system and often It kills the bird. Feed Value of Chess There are no feeding tables giving the food analysis of chess. Hut It Is , safe to say that It has a fair feeding value. Many times It bus been fed with satisfactory results. It is best to grind It and nili It with othcrfcraln. Chickens are shy about JULY new grain. If you bring -ftmn ehfr%>? up on wheat, and that -atfttlttZly ebnnge to corn, they w!M >at ftrgt refuse to cat the corn, but In a ?gort time they learn to eat the own readily MI'KDKItEK BELIEVED FOUND i MyNlrry SurrouiuliitK DMth of Kin|?tree Hermit Apparently Solved ! Sunday's Florence News- Review ; j^The mysterious death of "Frenchy 'the Hermit" was brought into the fUfne'.ight again yesterday, when it became known that Slate Detective ! L. ( Johnson had caused a warrant ' to be ia.-ued for the arrest of John Oromari, whose birthplace is given as Al.-a.t Loframe, charging him with the murder of the lonely hermit whose head, severed from his body, was found floating in the waters of BlttCK river, near Kingstree, on Noyember 26. The hermit's torso has never beert found. The warrant for the arrest of Groman was issued by a magistrate at Kingstree, and the suspect was placed in jail there. Detective Johnson was detailed on the case after he had cleared up the mystery surrounding the death of veland Hart, a Florence cowity negro. John Groman, according to tlte officer, had taken up his abode in Frenchy's cabin on the river banks and was posing as a detective sent there to solve the mystery of his death by a Philadelphia welfare society. Investigation disclosed, howover, according to the officer, that the socallcd detective was not in Philadelphia at any of the dates he mentioned, hunting licenses found in his possession showing that he was at other places. j George Hammett, of Kingstree, stated to Officer Johnson that a man bearing Groman's description was seen at a camp still farther up the river the night before Frenchy was supposed to have been killed. Officer Johnson has gathered other evidence which he declares will upset the story Groman has told of his movements. | This includes a map, indicating that the man is himself a hermit, island , places and isolated swamps being circled on the map as his probable I camping places. According to Officer Johnson records found on Groman ! show where he spent eight or ten days in Pee Dee swamp, near Florence, just before going to Kingstree. Groman is about 44 years old. He speaks with a decided French accent. I He denies any connection with ' Frenchy's death, but maintains that , he was working as a detective to ; solve it. Officers have been co-operating with him. It was Groman | who found the body of Frenchy's I bulldog in the river. Iron spikes had 1 been tied about the neck of the dog ! to sink it beneath the surface of the water. Groman holds that he has been in that neighborhood only five weeks. He has been dressing as a | camper or hunter. He ^olds fishing ' licenses issued in New Jersey and Virginia. It is knownr according to Detective , Johnson, that Groman purchased a i shotgun at Suffolk, Va., a few days 1 prior to the death of the hermit ! known as "Frenchy." ! In tracing his journey south, the ' officers say, they have evidence of i where he bought hip boots and fishj ing tackle at other points south of .Philadelphia. The officers claim j these records prove that Groman was I not in Philadelphia at the time he j claims to have been there. I The only arrests ever made for the supposed murder of the lonely hermit of Black river occurred when Garfield Mutthews, white, and 12 Miction hands, were placed in Williamsburg ( jail not long after the hermit's head was found in the river. All of these men proved alibis and were released. Officers urge possession of Frenchy's cabin as a possible motive for the crime with which They have charged Groman. Others have called to mind the interesting letter sent to The Bta^' newspaper, by C'apt. Ben S. William^ of Brunson, a few days after Frenchy's disappearance, describing the educated young Frenchman who had applied to him 30 years ago for employment, in an effort to link up grounds for the existence of a vendetta between "Frenchy" and the man Gromon, whose home also was in France. It would not seem unlikely in view of the mystery surrounding the life of the young Frenchman and his reticence in unfolding its story to Captain Williams, that he had a reason for leaving his home in Franco othor than any he had given his employer, it was pointed out. The fact that Groman is a Frenchman and had arrived on the scene after so many years, gives color, those who have followed . the case closely, to the theory that he had been looking for Frenchy and had finally found him. All of that, however, is on its face purely conjectural. Detective Johnson stated that he had exploded the theory existent for a time that Frenchy had been killed by Harold Wheeler for the reason that Frenchy himself, according to the officer, had talked to the station agent at Kingstree on the day that Wheeler was arrested in Savannah. He Walks Back To Jail j Gaffney, Feb. 24.?Weary of wandering the face of the earth as a fugitive from justice and tortured by a conscience that would, not permit him to sleep in peace, Fred Rice, thirty, white man who escaped from the Cherokee county chain gang August 16, 1925, walked from Texas to Gaffney to surrender himself and complete serving his sentence. After a period of eighteen months' freedom yesterday, he resumed his work on the county gang. He has about six months remaining of a fourteen months' sentence. San Francisco, Cal., and London were linked up by wir^ and aerial telephone on Saturd^jfT MAN KIIX?D FINANCIER Admit* Running Over Aged Man at Miami Reach Miami, Fla., Feb. 28.?George Colburn, 39, realty dealer of Miami '? Beach, confeHKed today to <the killing of Milthorne Woolsey, 76, financier of Miami Beach and New York, who was run down and killed by a motorist at Miami Beach the night of .January 19. Colburn's confession was made to the police following his arrest in Orlando, Fla., Saturday. Three men t whose names are withheld have been artested on suspicion of having at- * tempted to blackmail Colburn. ,The inutilities body of Mr, Woolsey was found in a vacant lot the morn- t ing of January 26. Police said it apparently had* been dragged there after the aged man was struck and' killed by the automobile. Colburn told police the killing of Mr. Woolsey was accidental. He said he was driving home shortly after midnight when his vision was blinded by a newspaper that blew into his face. He felt his car strike some- i thing, but speeded on when he saft what he believed to be another automobile, because he feared an attempted holdup. Some blocks farther on he stopped his car and the body of 9 Mr. Woolsey dropped from, the bump- 9 er, he said. Crazed with fear, he said, he drove '9 to his apartment, telling only his 1 mother. Police say they obtained their first I clue to the identity of the driver of ; the automobile from one of the three I men held on suspicion of haying at* I tempted to obtain money from Col- 9 burn as the price of silence.. Three Die For Attacking Women | Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 28.?Francis I Webb and Max Amos Wilson, negroes, I were electrocuted in the Western penitentiary at Rockvidw today for 9 the slaying of Walter Harden . at 9 Chester, Pa., last September. 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