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(Conducted by Lepnard L, Brown, intcmatioriiifljy known authority and J fouhder bi^ the Brown and Mann strain of 8, C. W. I^eghorna. Enquiries addressed cart- of thin paper gladly. JBiwer?l by Ml Brown.) Market 1'oultry At aboqi. five weeks you will begin to be able to separate the cockerels from the pullets. The cockerels at this age develop conspicuous bright red combs, while the pullets show m> combs at all, or just very inconspicuous ones. As soon as possible, some time between the 5th and the 9th week, take all of your cockerels out and develop them promptly for the broiler market, unless you have in mind keeping them longer for the later market seasons. For broilers, however, the cockerels should best be confined to limited size runs, in order to limit the amount of exercise they will get. A room 10 by 12 feet Vvill be enough space for <250 fattening broilers. For feed, a fattening ration should now be adopted, strong on corn, feeding it in small amounts, but often, to keep the broilers always well filled. At about seven weeks the mash should consist of one part of regular j developing mash as previously described, to which has been-added one part of yellow corn meal and one part of commercial skim or condensed buttermilk. This should be supplemented with cracked corn fed in panf or hoppers, with sour skim milk for drink, and green food for general conditioning. Marketing is usually the most profitable at about one and a half pounds live weight. Three to four pounds of dry feed is about the amount required for adding each pound of live weight to the bird. i The American Poultry School of Kansas City, Missouri, gives us the average weights of 100" Leghorn ! chicks as follows: at hatching time, 8 pounds, fifth wt'ek, 42 pounds, tenth week, 116,pounds. The heavy breeds start out at the same weight but get under way more slowly, being behind the Leghorn chicks until after the twelfth week, when they start to pvertftke the Leghorns and take on their natural heavy body development which makes them of greatest valu<j for late season marketing. In case the cockerels are being held for late season marketing instead of for the broiler market, the confinement and fattening ration as mentioned for broilers should be disregarded, and regular range and growing ration used as with the pullets you are developing for laying purposes. The Future layers Now for the pullets. With the cockerels separated out and fattening for the broiler market we can turn our big efforts to the development of our future layers. First of all, get them as early as possible, into quarters with lots of room and with a great plenty of good clean healthy range at hand. If possible, this should all be ground on which no poultry has been raised for at least a year, and it should if possible he freshened with green grass, grain or other growing -things. If there is no natural shade on the range, artificial shade should by all means be provided, by rigging hoards, canvas, etc., here and there, about three feet above the ground. It is a good idea to set the feed and drink all outside of the houses, in different parts of the range, to keep the pullets out.-fhle ;ill through the day and thus to keep them active and vigorous. Big, strong, healthy, sturdy, husky, rangy birds, are, what we are after now in building up the future layers, big-boned birds with lots of capacity and stamina to carry them through long seasons of high production, through fair weather and foul. Hence the big range and every fwssihle inducement to lots of exercise all the time. Also the feeding shuuld be shaped with this in mind. Rations now want to Ix- about half grain and halt growing mash. It is time to start feeding sprouted oats, about one pound of oats (dr\ weight) to u hundred pullets, per day. Sprout them by soaking the oats a day in water, then draining the water and leaving them for two days in a sheltered place. Feed the third day. Sprouts should he about a quarter of an inch loi g. If longer than that, the wonderful food value of this feed is lost. Always bear in mind when getting the young pullets established in now quarters, that :t is of prime :m poiianct to gel them onto the hign perchev t<>i* nig.'.i. Huddling, with th. ,,f He greater part of a flock in the teur-e ui a single evening. !'" -"do unt:: they o-e nl' thi>!eugii!.\ m u-i i rued to.faking to i at n.ght. and staying there. . iv! .Vi\ amount of patience i> justiticu getting them accustomed to the roosts. Airplane Sows Brass Seed Now grass seed may be planted from airplanes. Recently a 1,000acre field m < <><?s county, Oregon, wasuccessfully Seeded from the air, at a third of the expense of hand seeding, and an excellent stand of grass obtained. The plane fiew 500 fee t above the field at a. speed of seventy miles an hour, says Popular Sctonce Monthly. A lever in the hand of the pilot released seed from a specially designed hopper and allowed it to fall evenly upon a strip of land ninety feet wide. Following the successful L'-i. experiment, large areas along the *JPacific coast may be similarly planted Late Blight Fungus Works Potato Havoc Clemson College, May 11.?That lata blight i? the moat spectacular ami destructive disvaxo of Irish potatoes has been clearly demonstrated during the past few weeks in some fields of the trucking region along the coast, where magnificent fields on Friday of one wqek, with 100 barrels per acre in prospect, were browned and scared by the following' Wednesday morning until perhaps not over 60 barrels ?ouI<J be expected even If the disease wer3 checked by spraying. Such instances, says Dr. G. m. Armstrong, chief botanist and plant pathologist, may be expected during a cool late springtime, and serve to emphasize that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in protecting our crops from serious losses by plant diseases, bate-blight, Dr. Armstrong explains, is u fungus disease, usually first appearing on the lower leaves, which show a water-soaked indefinite spot along the, margin. The spot enlarges rapidly until the whole leaf is ; included when it may dry, blacken, i and shrivel up, or rot awuy if there is plenty of moisture in the air. As the spot enlarges recurring wefts of white mold appear adjacent to the healthy tissue on the under side of the leaflet. No other "potato disease organism produces a similar white mold on the under side of the leaf. Wherever late-blight occurs, spraying with 4-4-60 or 5-6-60 Bordeaux mixture has proved very profitable, hut a thorough job of spraying covering both the under and upper leaf surfaces is necessary for complete control. Starting when the vines are s:x inches tall, four to seven or eight applications may be necessary, depending upon weather conditions. Ordinarily, spraying at 10 day intervals will be sufficient. Copper-lime dust may bo used instead of the Bordeaux mixture if the . amount of metallic copper used is the | same as is recommended for spray^ 'if?i and if the dusting is done when there is no wind, and .the vines ar? wet with dew or rain. A good job of dusting is preferable to a poor job of spraying though a thorough spray is the best control. money in feeding hogs Marion Farmer Grows Out Figs for $6.45 Per Hundred Marion, May 14.??A record on ten pigs fed out correctly by W. D. Herring, of Route 1, shows a feed cost of only $6.45 per hundred pounds of gain and helps to prove that even in a year like this, with a short corn crop and high-priced feed, it still pays to feed the sow and litter a plentiful supply of good feed. So states J. R. Hawkins, Extension livestock specialist, who adds that this and other similar records give a black eye to the old opinion so often expressed that the cost of gains is excessively high while the pig is young. Ou the contrary, he says, much data accumulated from experiment station records and farm feeding demonstrations show that the cheapest gains are produced on young pigs. The facts and figures from / Mr. Herring's record as given by Mr. Hawkins are interesting and instructive. "These ten pigs from birth to the age of 180 ^iyst at which time they were sold, together with the sow for a period of ten weeks, consumed So.6 bushels of corn, 500 pounds fish meal and 500 pounds of wheat shorts in addition to pasture from , a.-small field of green rye. This gives a feed requirement of 4.2 bushels earn, 28 pounds wheat shorts, and 28 pounds fish meal for each 100 pounds gain. At the retail market prices which Mr. Herring paid ($4.10 per hundred for fish meal, $2.43 per hundred for wheat shorts, and $1.00 a bushel for corn), teh feed cost was $6.45 for each 100 pounds gain. These hogs sold for top price on the Richmon 1 market, $11.75 per hundred, giving a not return of $108.50 for the ten pigs. "It is interesting to note that these ten pigs weighed 1840 pounds before being loaded at Marion and 1800 pounds when sold in Richmond, a shrink of 2.2 percent. In the same car we have records on three other lots containing 32 head, showing a shrink of 2.2 percent. A considerable number of results secured in the same manner go to show that on hogs properly fed out on a g'>od green pasture wnere proper foods such as corn and tish meal are used, the shrink botwoon home and market weight is r.ot excessive, generally ranging from 2 to 3 percent. In coni trast, hog> fed on corn alone in a small .floored pen frequently become sore and lame and lose considerable .weight shipping." j More Corn, More Hogs, More Cash h lore nee, May 14, -?Pointing out i that the prospects are bright for' n good early fall market fur hogs, J. R. i Hawkins, Extension livestock speciallist, calls the attention Qf farmers to the favorable possibilities of using some ot the land where cotton was killed out by recent storms into corn and marketing this corn through hogs. Regarding the favorable hog market 'prospects Mr. Hawkins calls I attention, to the following points; j 1. Seventeen percent less hogs have been marketed during the past winter and spring than during the same period in lt?28. 2. i here is a shorter crop of pig*> in the country as a whole, and packers cellars are comparatively free of surplus cured meat. - 3. Relative high cost of other meats and good employment of. labor among working people will tend to keep prices of hogs up. AH these factors indicate*-*- good market for hogs and therefore a good market for corn?a safer bet mo?R likely than late-planted cotton. ?- \ No Feminine Paraaile Here They are talking more amf more these days about how the trend of the times is evolving m the cities a class of women, who are mere parasites. Old time home work has been taken over by this and that outside agency or cut out by lubor sav<^ ing devices and so on, until the woman has literally not enough to occupy her time. Bo she is continually out in the car or playing bridge or seeing a show or listening to the radio or reading a story. Meanwhile, however, while the woman on the farm, where capital is in hand to use, is being progressively [relieved of old drudgeries, yet there are plenty still, who know what U is to turn off endless work every day. The Columbia Record carries in its Sunday issue the story of Miss ^na I I Sanders, of Barnwell county and I from this we 'take, the following paragraphs: "In Barnwell county, South Carolina, in a live-room log house, wtych stands today just as it was built 40 years ago, lives Miss Ina Sanders, I This squatty little house stands on j the edge of an 82-acre farm which I was her grandfather's and her father's before her. Young as she is, lna Sanders has been running this farm, and successfully too the pAst nine years. "lna was the youngest of four children, two of whom have gone away to take care of themselves. Nineteen years ago her father died, leaving the farm in charge of an older sister, who ran it until she married. Then Inu though quite young, took the place in charge." After telling of many prizes taken in the girls' club contests and of steady progress generally as a '?**** manager, we have this concluding paragraph: "And this is how Ina spends iter days. With such labor as one. can get for the heavy work and with a share cropper on 10 acres, she, with her two mules, runs this 82-acre farm. She has one Jersey cow and 26 pigs and hogs. Ina does all the milking, cooking, housekeeping, washing, ironing, churning, scouring; pnd^ shells corn, and does much of the field work. She ets up, cooks breakfast, and has cleaned up and is in the field when the sun rises every day." - Wherever you find such energy, guided by intelligent purposes, you find a constructive producer, not a consuming parasite. ? Spartanburg Herald. A Glut of Wheat Threatens A serious situation faces wheat growers of the Middle West. Terminal elevators are still partly filled with last year's grain. In Kansas it is estimated the carryover is 40 million bushels as against an April average of 12 to 15 millions. Prosepects are good for the coming crop. More "combines" and tractors will be used in harvesting than ever before. That, will mean a rush of new grain tfc market, just what the grain gamblers want, for it is a mnde-to-order excuse for depressing prices. . - Thi< combination of circumstances seems to urge the necessity of more farm storage for gain. H. M. Bainer, director of the Southwest Wheat Improvement association, advises such storage to help stabilize the- wheatgrowing industry, assist in move orderly marketing, save county elevators from congestion avoid a car shortage and most important of all check the flood of grain that will ruin the market. Ten sailors, rescued from a small boat in which they had drifted for nine days, part of the time without food and water, were landed a: Brooklyn, N. Y., on Saturday night Their four-masted schooner, the James E. Coburn, sank 200 miles off Bermuda. One man died during the nine days before the party wore rescued by the yacht Amida. "Break Proof" Jail Proves No Barrier Eldorado, Ark., May 12.?Four men. three of them alleged members of the Asa "Ace" Pendleton gang, staged the second successful escape from tihe new $1,000,000 break proof" Union County jail here today. They locked the jailer and a trusty guard in a cell and escaped in two automobiles. ! Two of them?Claude Burnett and Joe Streiter?who are charged with robbing a Junction 'City, Ark., bank, participated in the first jail breai April 3. They and Owen Edwards, all of whom are alleged to be mem bers of the Pendleton gang, were t > face trial tomorrow on charges ot robbing t: Junction City bank. Thfourth ese.ipe was Carl Bray, held or. a minor * arge. Bray, V> ;r .ett and Streiter escap . from a lata-: cell by placing a broki dorhino 1>. won the door and t; frame, \vh.. .. prevented the door fro tit locking nf :he jailer, L. J. Harmat loft his k. \ - .rt another door and th trio took ;:u m, forced Sam Eads. .i trusty, and ; o jailer into a cell o cupied by ! wards and his wife, a: ! escaped Mr>. Edwards, also charge ; with part.,.nation in ?the -June!frt City bank robbery declined to lea, with the mcr. telling them srr "would onl> be a hindrance to then Three girls were held at Daltun. Georgia, for auto thefts* They confessed to having stolen a light touring car with a South Carolina licer.w plate. They were held in jail to await action of South Carolina of fleers. Thoy gave, their names as Edna Alexander, Minor, IS; Gertrude Ray; 21 and their homes Greenville, South Carolina. v ? Br - rii# ' 1 11'' II II"1' '' " Appraises Courtesy At $4,000,000 a Year The drivers of private automobiles generally understand that courtesy on the highway lessens the chance of accidents but not being a common carrier they have no interest in what the "other fellow thinks if he doesn't like the way you drive." It remained for a statistician of the Greyhound Bus Lines to figure out the value of courteous driving for his company, They have 1,000 dirvers traveling a combined total of 100,00(J miles each day. The statistician figured from records on the subject, that attracting0 one motorist, one pedestrian and impressing one of his passengers to the extent of taking one trip, by courteous driving each driver will increase his passenger list by $4,000 a year, making a total of $4,000,000 for the 1,000 drivers. Edward Yaroshek, who drives a Greyhound bus in the south, was recently pronounced the world's champion safety driver by the Atlanta Safety Council. He has been driving highway coaches for eight years at an average of 60,000 miles yearly. His iQtoljr mishap was in bending a fendtir on a car which was parked, for wpigh his company paid $5.65 in claims. Several ojther drivers had an entirely clear record, but the huge mileage driven by Yaroshek was equal to 20 times around the world and he was selected as champion. Edward Pay son Westou, 90, noted long distance pedestrian, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Monday night. United States cotton mills used a total of 631,710 running bales of cotton during April, as compared with 032,808 bales in March. Kills Alligator While riding *611 the highway towards Camden and when about 3 to 4 miles from Bishopville, Mrs. O. W. Palmer and her son Reid saw an alligator traveling. x A man was called on who secured 1 a gun, shot thex saurian in the hetf, I The reptile was about 6 or 7 feet long 1 and was dragged behind the car to II Bishopviljle where it excited much i^I ! terest. ?-?Bishopville Messenger. 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