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[ f^B&raftfoitgagelifters Buy Good Mgs Right I Hit Market Right I ci?"?s?n College, July 535.?"After Lying Jfuod ri#ht? hitting the [gh market is a moat important sueIjs factor in feeding hogs," aays K>fj. L. V. (Starkey, chief animal lusbandman, discussing profitable El production and marketing. I "This year there seems to be a circity ?t P'Ka ahd a fairly good Lpply of feed on hand," Mr. Starkey Efltinues. "For this reason pigs Eiy sell too high, and it is necessary I buy right if maximum profits are E be made on the feeding operations. E we pay six dpllara for a pig Keighing only 30 pound* we are payEy 20 cents a pound, though at sellEr time we will get only eight cents I "September and early October are Lilly the high months in the fall, Ehile March and April are high in |e spring. If farmer* do not have Lir hogs up to weight when the Lrket comes, they must take the Lp in price, which often means that L 205-pound hog sold late is not Berth any more than the 175-pound Ky was at the peak of prices. "In buying feeder pigs we should Bfce sure that they are thrifty and right weight to be ready for the Hgh market. Since a good average ilygiiin is 1 1-2 pounds per head Br day, we can figure about when "Bhogs will mature." airy Products I Aid To Farmers ; i u 'Dairy products yielded Newberry Hmty farmers a total of over a half llion dollars last year," says T. F. Holey, the only county dairy husHndry extension agent in (South CarHna. It was largely because of trying in that section that the BorB people decided to locate in the Hy of Newberry their 'South CaroB plant for daiiyring milk. "Over B Newberry county farmers now Bduce dairy products for sale, most them selling sour cream," Mr. Holey states. "There are 25 to 30 Hiry herds of commercial size in the Hunty and the average small herd is Hing improved and enlarged. The velopment has been of much help H farmers in adjusting themselves B recent cnoditions. Many a one of Bern has been saved by cash money, B*|h not usually of large amount, fBiting in regularly from products of ';.|B com, which help a lot in building j^Bw/i Prices received for milk and ^Binfhave gone down, but not nearly ; much as have cotton and grain BThe "President Hoover," newest Ber of the Dollar line and the targH passenger ship ever built in the Bited States, is now in New York, the maiden voyage from NewB^aratory to starting on a voyage San Frameisco by way of the PanB"r Oakley, Kan., Miss Cleo Br* was married to Edgar Smith, B lemony being performed in a B^t field in the shadow of a comB bridal couple was showBd w'^ wheat instead of the conBtlonal nee, and the justice of the B" ?ff'ciating accepted t-wn hnsh of wheat, the weight of the bride, I his marriage fee. B?: Fnutson, 76, railroad and m d' recto r and known as the Jince of Beggars," is dead in LonB' fa"owing an abdominal opera| on duly 6. He died from a weak Bri.and was a surprise.'", He W" a hospital for which h* had m nearly $25,000,000. sunday excursions f. Cent Per Mile Traveled ween all points 1'50 mites oi m Coo<i in coaches only. Returr B date of sale. week end tickets and One-Fifth Feres IB,, Round Trip H\ Point* in Southeast. Sole Saturdays and Sunday B"!?? tr*ins. Return limit Tu?* Icoaci^excursions One-Tenth Far* Bm n Round Trip B point* in Sorrthaast. Sold Fri cnl 4-^ and VB%XL2clBtt I T??wi Railway . "awl Br Train 1 _15* '&* % / r," ' ^ ? '.7 ~ Cannery Set Going By Wisacky Farmers Nothing by way of edible foodstuffs is going to be allowed to go to waste, whatever the market prices be. on the farms of a group of substantial planters in the Wisacky district of Lee county. The group has set up a small but real canning factory on the place of L. F. Montgomery, one of the group, and it is to >o used primarily for conserving food products for home use. This means that we are going to live at home throughout the year not only as to things like meat and grain products that we think of in connection with all-year home living but as to all kinds o? vegetable products as well, ' says Mr. Montgomery. "We are going to can. and keep for winter use large quantities of all sorts of fruits and vegetables, and probably meats also, especially by-products of hog killing consumed quickly. We away unless consumed quickly. We are going to put up stuff for supplying our tenants as well as our own homes. E#ch of the eight cooperative owners of the cannery operates eight to ten plows. iStuff will be canned for non-members on a fee basis of 5Va cents per number 2 can, which includes the cost of the can. The cannery has 3 retorts of medium pressure and a capacity of about' 3,000 cans a day. The equipment was bought at second hand and, with its setting up, cost between $600 and $700. It will >enable farm families making use of it to provide, from their own larders, a balanced dietary the year round. Lady Makes Good With Large Farm Rembert, July 30.?Miss Annie Keels, Winthrop college graduate, school teacher and extension service worker who took over management of a 44l5-acre farm shortly after the World war when a brother died, is setting a rapid pace for men farmers in this locality. For more than ten years she has directed the large farm and, recently, finding the area too smail for her plans, rented 00 additional acres. iShe bases her success largely on power farming. Last year she gathered 300 pounds of lint cotton per acre from 78 acres on which mules were scarcely used. It was produced at 5.S5 cents per pound. Diversity is the rule of Miss Keels* farming. "I produce anything that I helipve can ho Hioposftd nf profitably," she said. And she sends something to market every day or two. "I peddle produce in Oamden one or more days a week," she said. "On a place like this there are many fragments of production, small lots or left-ovef^.from large shipments, if I can 'take a load of luch things to town and pick up five or si*"dollars of extra cash, the effort may save me, as it often does, from a, need of borrowing money." In cold weather she kills a hog every week for sausage to supply a select retail trade. In summer she peddles fruit, vegetables, shrubbery, and poultry and dairy products. She grows much truck for a cannery in Sumter and markets most of her surplus grain via hogs raised for " sale in "Richmond. On her place are four share-croppers and one renter. She keeps abreast of the scientific literature on farming and is usually a leap or two ahead of prevailing practices.?Columbia Record. Premier Mussolini of Italy celebrat, ed his 48th birthdny anniversary on Wednesday. According to Italian ' custom his two youngest children, 4 and 2, tweaked his ears one,time for , each of his years. 1 USED TO SUFFER v EACH MONTH **I uaed to hare'aerere headaches each month," writes Mrs. Henry Heape, of 248 Lincoln St, I Safannab, Oa. "I suffered a great deal. The pain In my haad seemed to ran down the back of my neck. I felt like t was drawing back. I ; Ohllls. I would here to ge. to bed. My tg|!!P fc1^ **1 'i-? i;.. . r ' AUGUST FARM CALENDAR Things to Be Dene This Month A* . Outlined by Clemson Clem eon College, Aug. 3.?Important phases of farm work that* may not be neglected in August without loss ^re given below by Clemson College specialists. Agronomy Plan now for abundant winter legumes for soil improvement, the most economical wuy to increase soil fertility. D<> not pull fodder; it is extremely disagreeable, an expensive practice and reduces the yield of corn. Clean up weeds everywhere to prevent seeding. Horticulture Want pansy seed for fall ttansplanting. 1 lant fail crop of Irish potatoes as late as August 15. t Beans planted in late August often bring a good price. Aftor peach harvest cut out ull broken limbs, as a preventive for shot-hole borers. Insects and Diseases Control the red spider with superfine dusting sulphur. Kill the chinch bug in lawns, by spraying with one-half ounce of nicotine sulphate and one ounce of soap in one gallon of water. Fight the fall army worm with barriers, poisoned baits, and dusts. Use rust-resistant beans for the fall crop. 'Continue 4-4-<50 Bordeaux spray for tomato leaf diseases. After the fruit harvest, remove and destroy all fruits 'left on the trees. Agricultural Engineering The side delivery rake and hay loader are labor-saving machines for curing choice hay. For rat-proof grain storage buildings, consider metal structures with concrete foundations. Watch feed adjustments on dusting machines, to prevent the dust from being wasted and to obtain an even distribution of not more than five pounds per acre. Build a septic tank for farm sewage disposal. Animal Husbandry Feed sows soon to farrow liberally, and try to make them gentle through handling. Cull the swine herd and market the culls in September, for the price should be higher than later. Turn hogs on soybeans when they are 12 inches hjgh. Breed ewes for spring lambs, allowing 30 ewes to one ram. Change sheep pastures often and treat sheep for stomach worms. Pasture idle horses and mules. Dairying Mow pastures to keep grasses tender and to kill weeds. Maintain mirk flow by temporary grazing of Sudan grass or Pearl millet or by cutting green feed. Plan winter grazing crops, purchase sepd and select land. Jfoep milk prrwWt.R elgnn anH and deliver promptly. Poultry Do not force the pullets into production too enrly. Clean and disinfect the laying houses before using. Free pullets from internal and external parasites before housing. CnlL t.hA Trnji-nroducine hens. General News Notes The Canadian (National Rail-way, through its president, -has announced a reduction of all employes receiving $3,000 and over, of 10 per cent. Dispatches from Cape Town, South Africa, report the killing and eating by cannibals of M. Mallot, the Belgian district commissioner of Leopoldville. Four bandits, armed with shotguns lined up 20 employes and patrons of the West .Side Atlas bank in Chicago on Tuesday and got away with $7,000 in cash. Two members of the Pennsylvania National Guard were burned to death at Middletown, Tuesday, when the plane they were in -hit a tree and burned up. Lewis F. Erchert, a school teacher, was convicted at Clearwater, Fla. on a charge of assault and battery having whipped a 10-year-old pupil :r his school last April. At Condesburg, N. J., Frank Fitz herbert and his neighbors tore dowr his barn to rescue a littef of puppies which had crawled into . a hole anc could not be Teached exefept by tear ing down the barn.' Louis Lopez," 45, of Portersville Cal., professed not to know that i: was illegal to sell booze?never heart of its being unlawfirt. The judg< said $260 or 250 days. Governor Murray, of Oklahorm threatens" to shut down production oj crude oil in that state unless the oi operators raise the price for petrol eum to $1 per barrel. The revolutionary government o President Zamora of Spain, has ptc sen ted its resignation to tne consti tutlonal assembly, which will sdec a new president and premier. Congressman Samuel C. Major Democrat of Missouri, died at hii home in Fayette, M<o., Tuesday. B: tbe death of Major the party lineu] ih congress is now 214 Republican' and ^12 Democrats. ' " * - .m-.i ? .. 'if Advertising I I Service! 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