The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, February 03, 1916, Image 8
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.
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“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.