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Experiments in the hof? feeding have shown clearly that pork costs only ona-third to one-half as much when pastures are used as when concentrat ed feeds alone are used, and that by means of pasture cropa |pork, can -be made more cheaply in the South than it is possible to make it in the Corn Belt. The importance of greerLfeed is thus casy to see. This is the season for South Carol* 1111 farmers to plam-a succession of hog grazing crops. Plant one ahead of time ^nd , there will be no need to hesitate at any son.' The Animal Husbandry Divis ion of Clemson College will answer any question on this subject that farmers ask. J Following is a table of summer and fall growing hog crops. The crop is given first, the time to plant second, quantity of seed per acre third, and number of days from planting to graz ing time fourth. Alfalfa, February 25 to April 1, 15 to 25 pounds, 75 to 90 days. Chufas, April 15 to June 1, one*-half to one peck, 120 to 150 days. — Cowpeas, May 1 to July 10, one-half bushe 1 (drilled), one and % one-half bushels (broadcast), 75 to 90 days. Soy beans, May 1 to June 30,'bne- half bushel (drilled), one and one-half bushels (broadcast), 80 to 120 days. Japan clover (lespedeza), March 1 to March 15,-24 pounds, 60 to 75 days. Oats, February 1 to Murch 20, one and one-hurf to 3 bushels, 75 to 90 days.,, Peanuts, May 1 to July 1, one to 2 bushels (not hulled), 90 to 120 days. Rape, March 1 to March 31, 4 to 6 pounds (drilled), 9 to 10 pounds (broadcast), 60 to 75 days. Sorghum, May 1 to July 1, one-half to one peck (drilled), 60 to 75 days. Velvet bean. May 10 to June 20, one and one-half pecks (in drill), 100 to 130 days. Corn and peas, May to June, corn 4 quarts, pens one-half bushel (drill) 100 to 120 days. AN INSECT MARVEL Curious and Complex la the Tongue of the Butterfly. Of all the marvels In which the world of insect life la so rich none la more curious and remarkable than tbe tongue of the hotterUj Tbla to always of great length. When ooc In use it la coiled like a watch aprtifg in a flat aplral cloee to the ijjid But when tbe butterfly vis its the flower on which It feeds the tongue is uncoiled, the tip inserted deep in the heart of the flower and tbe Jnlcee tucked up. The butterfly's tongue rerUly consists of two tubes. Each of these hue a concave inner face, wboee edges in terlock one with the other, so as to form a third or central tube. In butterflies we have the highest development of the Insect nice, so far as beauty la cunceniedr ln other re spo ts, however, they do not hold so high a place. They are outranked in Intelligence by ants, bees qnd wasps and In perfection of external parts and mechanical excellence of tbe Joints by beetles. Tbe colors and patterns on the wings which make butterflies so beautiful are due to tbe arrangements of Inntnuera We ertries that etHt t** dWtlnguished only with a powerful microscope. In some cases these scales are themselves colored, but often tbe effect of color is only optical, due to the reflection of light from the delicate ridges on each scale—New York American. Tha Aryan or Whits Raos and Its Nu mar#us Divisions. Tbe division of the earth’s popula-j, tion according to race is tu follows: IndodJermanic or Aryan rafe i white), occupying Europe, America. Persia, In- dla and Australia, about 775,000,000; Mongolian or Turanian, (yellow and brown), Ilying in Asia, al>out 082,000,- 000; Setolfic" ('white), lining In Asia,- Arabia, etc,, about 65,000,000; negro and Bantu (black), found in Africa, about 150.000.000; Malay^nnd Polyne sian (brown). Inhabiting Australasia, about 85,000,000; American (Indian redi, .found in North anil South America, number. Including balfbrifeds, about 25,000.000. I • The Slavs are one of the chief divi sions of the Aryan race. They are di vided. •** 11 ''i* e > lnb> two leading fam ilies. the eastern and western Slavs. The eastern Slavs comprise the Rus sians ((Frcat Russians. Little Russians and White Russians); Bulgarians. Ser-.. ho-Croats, including the Servians and Montenegrins, and Slovenes in Cartn, thla, Cnrnloln and part of Syria. The western Slav family t* divided into the Poles. In Russia, Austria and Prus sia, and. the Kassubes; the Czechs, or Bohemians, and the Moravians, with the Slovaks in Hungary, and the Lusa- tlan Wends or Sarbs In Saxony and Prussia. The theory Is that their orig inal home was in Volhyuia and W hite Russia. — VICTIMS OF NIAGARA. Are Water Bird* Go to Sleep end Swept Over the Falle. Swimming too near the brink of the falls, hundreds of water birds, even ■ wans, ducks and geese, go over Niag ara falls to their death each year lu the migratory season. So many birds pay the |ieuaRy for their daring each year that bird lovers on both the American and Canadian sides of the falls are considering steps to lessen the annual toll of the fact tiered life. Since n majority of the victims are claimed lu the night, tbe theory is ad vnnceil that flfeTimja Utf lu sb I'P "hlle swimming and don't wake up until the rapids have carried them over the dan ger Hue. Usually they are killed out right In the fall. Sometime-® »y are unly stunned and are picked out of the river below the falls and sold for food In 1912. so Ernest Harold Baynes, tbe naturalist, relates. 140 whistling •wans went over Horseshoe falls Boya and men fished the birds out. knocked them on the head and Bold them. •James Savage of Buffalo.** Mr. Baynes sayt. “with some friends one* saved a flock of swans by chasing them in a power boat and making them fly away Juat before nightfall. It was a daring thing for these men to do. for If by any chance the engine had become disabled nothing could have prevented their going over tbe faUa."—Philadelphia North American SAFEGUARDING ROYALTY. , Precautions In Olden Daye When an Englieh Monarch Wat III. The British law retains some pecul iar provisions with reference to the “illness of the king.” These provisions are mere survivals In the present set tled order of government, but there was a time when tbe king’s Incapacity afforded opportunity to aspirants to the throne to shorten his day at a mln : imum risk of detection. Accordingly certain wise precautions were matters . of law. ■ In his ’’Institutes" Coke says': “If the King be taken sick there ought to be a warrant Issue from the Privy Council, addressed to certain physi cians and surgeons, authorizing them to administer to the Royal patient po- tiones. syrupos, laxitavas, medlclnas, etc.; still, none of these should be giv en except by consent and advice of the Council, and they ought to set down in writing everything done and administered, and they should com pound toll drugs themselves and not entrust their preparation to any apoth ecary. ^ CJoke thus wrote of precedent In 1610, and today the law is practically as be found it. although now the privy council simply hears reports of the progress of the king’s malady and leaves actual treatment entirely to the physicians in direct charge of the case. —Pearson's Weekly. African Marriage System. You cannot fancy how deeply compli cated the African marriage system Is nor how many rumlticattoua there may tte. to a woman palaver. One day Mr. Hemluger was sitting In a hut talking with two mem here of his congregation, wives of one huslsind. He was talk ing to them- alwut their sins. whK-li were of an obvious character. The yypiigor woman had l*ecu accused of stealing food. Then he turned to the elder. Wnwa. she of the ten children. tl\e of them dead and five of them cruel. ‘ “Wawa." said he. “why cannot you Bve at |««Hce with this. B’lfe .Of your husband? Why are you always quar rellngV" (They are notorious scrap pers.) “Well,” said Wawa. “she was bought with one of my childretk and I cannot forget it”—Jean Kenyon Mac kenzie In Atlantic. a Turks’ Names For Greeks. The Turks have deflnlte names for the Greeks who Inhabit Ottoman terri tory and for those who are their own masters. The latter ore Yuuan and their country Yupantstan—names de rived from ••Ionia’’—while the Greekli and Turks are Rum. By origin this Is simply ••Romans” and Is an Inheritance from the Byzantine days, when the in habitants of Constantinople, the New Rome, were called Romaiol, while the provincials were known as Ilelladikot "Rum" was the conquering .Turks’ name for the Byzantine empire. Itsur- rives Hi Rouinelia, while the popular Greek language of the present day Is still known as Romaic. But every Greek, in Greece or In Turkey, calls himself a Hellene.—London Chronicle. Home Ml 11 fn ary. • , ^ Poetto Lady—Oh. had I tb# wings of a flora! Practical Lady-They're not toon rery much In tte nawast k—Philadelphia Record. ffkt crarthinf to right if wa Jaa* k An Ominous Symptom. “A good wife Is heaven’s greatest gift to man and the rarest gem the earth holds," remarked Mr. Jarphly the other morning, “She is his joy, his in spiration anil his very soul. Through her he learns to reach the pure .and true, and her loving hands lead him softly over the rough places. She is”— “Jeremiah.” said Mrs. Jarphly sol emnly — “Jeremiah, what wickedness have you been up to now?” Muriel Adams was, nursing her 4n valid mother in their hointHn the north of England. Her brother. Hugh, a sol dier with the British army In Flanders, had not written-for some time, and apprehension was felt that be had been killed or wounded, or was ill. Mrs. Adams was old. nearly blind, and her daughter’s efforts to keep h&r up were wearing on the poor girl dreadfully. News hadroOme of one of the.German driven on Calais, and the old lady was dreading every moment to hear bad news from her son. .One morning the news came enough. An officer of Hugh Au^iS regiment rang the doorbell at her home.. Muriel, who was on the watch, answered the summons, and' Lieuten ant Arnold prewer broke the news to per that her brother had been killed in Che late drive. Perhaps it was that Brewer's voice was very like Hugh Adams’; perhaps j the old lady, who was listening on the ; floor above, wished that her sou was. below. At any rate, she mistook the ^ comer for Hugh and called out feebly:’ "My boy, my boy I Come to your ♦% mother.*” i Muriel looked at the officer in do J spuir. - Brewer saw the Situation an 1 i resolved to stave off the critical mo-j «£► ment Mounting the stairs, be suffered the ]>oor mother to put her arms about , X him and weep on his shoulder. Mu- ; rid, -who realized that the deception would soon Ite exposed, ran up the stairs and. separating the two, said; “There, there, mother. Ybu are not strong enough to bear this. Hugh, go below. I will take mamma back tuber bed. and she may see you again later.” Brewer, who bad shown signs of brretrng trowd umter exposure tn ttte f trenches, had been given a three weeks' leave that he might recuperate. Hav ing been thus suddenly drawn into a deception, neither he nor Muriel could see a way out of It Muriel, In addi tion to her grief at the death of her brother, now had the burden of keep ing up a deception which, if revealed, ahe feared would cause her mother's death. After disposing of her mother, when ahe had separated Brewer from her, ahe went down atairs, and the two held a consultation as to what should be done next It was decided to tell Mrs. Adams that Hugh was obliged to report himself at a certain military station »ome distance from the Adams home, that be bad gone to do so and could not get back till tbe next day. Before his return Muriel summoned the doctor and Informed him of tbe xltu&tlon. He sakl that bis patient was at a very low ebb, but he hoped she would »<>on be stronger. He there fore advised keeping up. if possible, the deception till ahe was In a better condition to bear tbe shock. He vol unteered to assist In this by telling Mrs. Adams that he would not con sent to her receiving her sou more than once a day and that only for a few minutes She must be kept very quiet and not excite herself. This helped matters very much, so far us keeping up th^ deception was concerned, for It would have been Ins possible for Mrs. Adams and Brewer to be much together without an expo sure. Unfortunately Mrs. Adams did not Improve, --indeed, she— tteeatne weaker every day. Lieutenant Brewer was kept from his own home except when an excuse could be Invented for bis leaving tbe Adamses. But for this he was not over sorry since be found the playing of brother to Muriel Adams very attractive. Then, too, Muriel needed much comforting. He longed to take her In his arms, smooth her hair and whisper encouraglpg words In her ear. The constant watching lest Mrs. Adams should become possessed of their secret also tended to draw them together. Every day when Brewer vis ited Mrs. Adams Muriel was with them and contrived to render It unnecessary that he should do much of the talking, fearing (hat her mother would discov er the deception from his voice. She also coached hlm .before the meeting took place and led the conversation into such channels would be safe. r* t WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE IN THIS ISSUE OUR. 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Y f T f T t T f T V t J f J T T t t ♦ T T T t T T Y I Evan Break. “Well, did your husband succeed In beating the carpet?” - "My sportily inclined brother aaya that the contest was a draw."—Louis ville Courier-Journal. J«et What Did He Meant “Do you remember when you pro posed to yoqr wife?" y.:- . \ - “My boy. I can never forget It"— Richmond Times-Dtopetcbu Grief to crowned with consolation^- All these things drew the bonds be tween Brewer and Murial cloeer. Meanwhile Mrs. Adams was sinking and the day for Brewer’s return to the front was approaching. The departure of her supposed sou affected the Invalid adversely, and the leavetaking was dreaded by all. The doctor and her daughter united In begging iher to let the supposed Hugh go without a good- by. but she would not consent For two or three days before the day sei for the parting she was slowly sinking, and when the hour came and he went into the sickroom with Muriel she was .dying. \ ,\ , The two -were kneeling beside her bed when she sakl to them; *T cannot bear to leave you, my chil dren, feeling that you are to be sep arated. Promise 'fMe. Hugh, that If you outlive this dreadful war you will always give Muriel first place in your heart, that no other person shall ever supplant her and that you will cherish her so long as yon both live.” “I promise,” replied the young man. and tbe dying woman knew by tbe fer vent tone' in which be spoke that be won Id keep bis word. So died one who supposed ahe was taking leave of tbe son who had al ready gone before her. Arnold Brewer rejoined bto command, leaving an en gagement ring on Muriel's finger.