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THE PURE BRED DAIRY SIRE. How Valuable.?Pedigree Plus Individuaity. Clemson College.?"It is a common ?ying that the sire is 'half the herd.' As a matter of fact, in most cases, he Is of even greater value," says Thos. W. Moseley, Dairy Specialist of the fiztension Service. A Common Practice, Yet many farmers do not appreciate the above statement and year fter year are content to use any bull that will make their cows come fresh. "he result or tne use 01 mienor or ecrub sires is that the calves are nearly always inferior to their dams, and fter awhile the farmer complains that his stock has "run out." One farmer who owned a scrub bull bred ttim to his cow, which had produced 146.8 pounds of butterfat in one year, and their daughter when she came info milk produced only 126.3 pounds f butterfat. This heifer was bred feack to the scrub bull and a heifer from this mating produced only 99.7 founds of butterfat, of 47.1 pounds less than her grandmother. At 50c. #er pound for butterfat this would mean an annual loss of $23.55. * An Investment That Paid. Another farmer who had become discouraged with scrub sires decided to buy the best he could afford. He mated him with his cows, which were lust "ordinary," and the first six heifers produced an average of 93.8 pounds of butterfat more than their dams. With hntterfat at 50c Der Dound this would mean an increased yearly in. come of $281.40. These heifers wera retained for five years and in that time brought in $1,407.00 more than their dams. In other words, through the use of a good pure-bred sire for only one year he realized $1,407.00. Only Pure-Bred Bulls Are Good Bulls. But you can't expect these results toy using a scrub bull. The scrub trail has no individuality. He is the result of years of careless, indiscriminate, haphazard breeding. In his tolood runs the inferiority of many antagonistic breeds. The scrub bull is W mixture and almost without exception the bad far out weighs the good. f The scrub bull chokes instead of prodoting improvement in the herd. - And you can't expect these results irom a grade bull, no matter if he is the son of a high-producing cow. The grade bull has no lines of good tolood back of him. He is more apt to transmit the weakness of his make-up than his strong points. > But you can expect these results by wsing a good bull. A good bull must toe a pure-bred bull. He must be Nanore. He must be a good pure-bred EM r *mii. tlae Only Bred-For-Production Sires. A good bull must have back of him <a family of high producers, because tie can transmit to his offspring only what he has received from his ancestry. His mother must be a family of fiigh producers, because he can bansmit to Itis offspring only what (he has received from his ancestry. <His mother must be a high producer, end his sire must come from a high ?>roducing dam. His sire must have Wired high-producing daughters.^ If tils family for two or three generations track has a record of uniformly high production, there is little doubt that ^ lie will be able to transmit that qual' Sty to his offspring. And such a bull lean earn for the dairyman many times liis cost. But Pedigree Is Not Everything. Many an animal has a fine pedigree 4rat is a very poor individual. The right dairy sire should be a good individual as well as have a good pedigree. He should be fairly typical of this breed and show Masculinity, Capacity, Size and Quality. The real value of a dairy sire to any herd is told when his daughters freshen. Then we are able to tell whether he is improving the herd. If his daughters are better producers than -their dams were at the same age, then we are on the right track. -A sire which does not improve the fcerd and whose daughters are not better than their dams should be sold y at once. If you caught a man running off with $100.00 worth of your property, would you sit back in your chair and Jet him do it? Well, then,/why be so partial to the scrub or grade bull? fie is robbing von of $100.00 every time he breeds one of your cows. He Is breeding your herd down and not op. HOW TO PREVENT COTTON ANTHRACNOSE. Cotton anlhracnose, the fungus boll rot of cotton, is carried in the seed. The fungus lives over from one year to the next in the boll. To prevent this troublesome and destructive disease it is necessary to practice a rotation, and to secure seed for planting v purposes from fields where there was no disease last year. Seed may also eome in contact with the disease at the gin, and thus carry the trouble into the field. Cotton seed three years old will be free from disease even though they came from fields where the disease was present Avoid this disease by observing these precautions. Even when they appear clean, dairy utensils may harbor large numbers otf t bacteria. Strri.lize thoroughly. * TESTYOURSEEDCORN Make Sure of a Good Stand Clemson College.?This is the time of the year to test seed corn for germination. The importance of testing seed corn cannot be over estimated, for it means a good stand of corn and a good stand of corn means a good yield of corn. One of the best and most reliable ways of testing seed corn is with the germination box. Any farmer can make cheaply his own box. It may be any size to suit the needs of the individual. The sides should be made i of 2x4 timbers; the bottom, of any i convenient material. A box the size i suggested here will test two hundred ears at one time, enough seed to ! nlant about sixteen acres. It usually ! requires about 12 ears to plant an acre. 1. Make a box 48 inches long, 28 inches wide, and 4 or 5 inches deep. 2. Procure a good piece of muslin one inch larger each way lhan the box. 3. Mark this muslin with heavy lines into squares 2 inches. Leave a j margin of 4 inches between the outside row of squares and the edge ol ; the eloth. ' 4. Begin at the left of the upper row of squares (top .row first) and number the squares to the right. The squares down the left hand side will then be numbered 1, 21, 41, 61, and 81. I 5. Place 1% bushels of sawdust or old chaff in a sack and soak well in j warm water (at least two hours). 6. Drain and afterwards press sur ; plus water out of sawdust. | 7. Place about 2 inches of sawdust in the box and press firm and smocth 1 with a brick. 8. Place marked muslin on this j sawdust and tack to box around edge " 1-1 V, ninno nf m 11 a. y. rreyaxe auuiua ui lin 2 inches shorter each way than the one marked. 10. Secure another piece of any coarse, strong cloth twice as long each way as one mentioned in 9. The Corn. 11. Number the ears of corn to be tested from 1 to 200. Use tag in butt of ear fastened by pin or shingle mail. Preserve the identity of the ear , until the test is complete. | 12. Remove 6 kernels from each ! ear as follows; two about 12 inches J from the tyutt of ear; two about mid' die; two about 2 inches from tip. 13. Place the kernels from ear No. 1 in square No. 1; from ear No. 2 in square No. 2, etc., putting germ side of kernels up and tips all pointing toward rows of squares with lower I numbers. 14. Wet small sheets of muslin, as made in No. 9, and place over kernslls to hold in place. 15. Place a large sheet of cloth as j made in No. 10 over this. 16. Put about 2 inches of wet sawdust on this, press firm, and fold edges of cloth over to cover sawdust. j 17. Keep from freezing. If ke?H warm, sprouts should be long enough in 7 or 8 days. ! 18. Onen by rolling the cloth containing the sawdust; then taking off the loose cloth carefully, not disturbing the kernels. Reading the Test. 19. Do not read until sprouts are at least 2 inches long. i 90 Tf all tho six kernels e-rnw well. -the ear is considered "strong." 21. If the sprouts are weak, cal] I that a "weak" ear. j 22. If two or more kernels do nol grow, call it a "bad" ear. 23. All but strong ears should b? ! rejected for seed. Have all sawdust and cloth thoroughly wet. If warm water is used, it will promote early growth. If sawdust and cloths are to be used repeatedly, thoroughly scald to destroy mold. PREVENT SWEET POTATO ROTS. I I Increase Production, Decrease Loss. i Clem son College.?Sweet potato rots take a toll from two to four million dollars every year from South Caro* lina, and as the time approaches for bedding, the way in which some of the more troublesome of these diseases get into the field should be k^pt in mind. Black rot, foot-rot, and scurf live over winter on the potatoes in storage. When potatoes affected with these troubles are used for seed, the diseases get on the sprouts and are carried directly to the field. Seed potatoes should therefore be carefully selected and no tubT used whose suri face shows any sign at all of blackened or discolored areas. These diseases also live over from one season to the next in the old beds. The potatoes should therefore be bedded each year in a new place where potatoes have never been grown or bedded before. These diseases are so common that it is almost impossible to secure potatoes entirely free from all of them. Therefore, it is weli to soak the tubers 30 minutes in a sc'ution of formaline made by adding one pint of formaline to 30 gallons of water. This treatment. which will destroy any disease germs which happen to be on the surface of the potatoes, can be made at any time before planting, provided the potatoes are allowed to dry and are stored in bags or bins w hich hare been similarly treated. By selecting and treating your seed potatoes you can increase your proI duction and at the same time make | the potatoes Itpap cuxtier winxa* BLEAK REGIONS OP ARCHANGEL Base of British and American Troop* Operating in Russia. Archangel, Russia, where a joint Allied and American expeditionary force has been in conflict with Bolshevik troops, is described in a bulletin of the National Geographic society, issued from its Washington headquarters. i ne city 01 Aixuaugei, wueie Allied and American troops have the-'r headquarters, was the capital of the Archangel province, or government, under the czar's regime, a vast, barren. and sparsely populated region, cut through by the Adriatic circle," the bulletin says. "West and east, the distance, across the Archangel district is about that from London to Rome,: from New York to St. Louis, or from ; Boston to Charleston, S. C. Its area | exclusive of interior waters, is; greater than that of France .Italy,: Belgium and Holland combined. Yetj there are not many more people in \ these great stretches than are to bej found in Detroit, Mich., or San Fran-j cisco, Cal., or Washington, D. C. "The climate is extremely cold, Tn the northern Darts the around does not thaw the year round. The port of Archangel is ice-bound six months in the year, and entirely free from ice only three months. "Arable land in all this territory is less than 1,200 square miles and three-fourths of that is given over to pasturage. The richer grazing land supports Holmagor cattle, a breed said to date back to the time of Peter the Great, who crossed na-j tive herds with cattle from Holland, j "Rocky, barren plains stretch south of Archangel city, and these,1 with the swamps and marshes to the! east, and more plains and lakes to! the southwest, form about half the; province, while a third more is overgrown with forests. There also are] tundras, covered with lichens, where! reindeer find pasturage. "About fifty miles from the mouth j of the Dvina river, which affords an; outlet to the White sea, lies the city j of Archangel. Norsemen came to: that port in the tenth century for! trading. One expedition was describ- j ed hy Alfred the Great. But first! contact with the outside world was; established in the sixteenth century! when Sir Richard Chancellor, an: English sailor, stopped at the bleak j haven while attempting a northeast | passage to India. Ivan the Terrible IORANGl FRIDAY, 1 NORMAN FRIEDENW. HAWAIIAN MUi | m I A TUNEFUL CONCEPT OF SWEET CONTEI 1 SUM? 1 Kileauea Troop of R || 18?BIG SON j I HOSTS OF VERY j H Seats on sale new at D( j | $1.50, $1.00, 50c. Tax adde H ernmeni Especial attenl j 1 mail orders. Phone No. 5, MAY 1 MEMORIAL DAY. Mr. J. Aithur Wiggins Will Make Address at Rivers Bridge. The Rivers Bridge Memorial association will observe Thursday, May 1, as memorial day. Mr. J. Arthur Wiggins, of Denmark, will deliver the memorial address. The public is cordially invited to attend. The ladies are requested to bring flowers; all old soldiers are urged to attend. Fifty-four years ago, we were returning, cot from Europe, but from a bloody field caused by a family fight. Let us meet and greet our boys who are returning today from thp world's wnr rnvorod with honor and glory. DR. N. F. KIRKLAND, Pres. J. W. JENNEY, Sec. Have you ever tried Carter's "Pencraft," the best ink made? For sale at Herald Book Store. s summoned him to Moscow and made his visit the occasion for furthering commerc'al relations with England. Tlrrty years after the Englishman's v's;t a town was established and for the nevt hnudred years it was the Muscovite kingdom's only seaport, chief doorway of trade with England and Holland. "When Peter the Great estahpshed St. Petersburg as Irs new capital much trade was diverted to the Baltic. but Archangel was compensated bv desienapon as the capital oc the Archanael government. Boris Gudunov chrew o^en to all nations and in the seventeenth centnrv Tartar prisoners were set to work bmld'ng a large bazaar and trad'ng hall. Desnfte its i~olat;on the city thus became a cosmopolitan center and up to the time of the world war Norwegian. German, Brit?sh, Swedish and Dan:sh cargo vessels came in large numbers. , "Every June thousands of pilgrims would pass through Archangel on their way to the famous far north shr'ne. Solovetsky Monastery, situated on an island a little more than a half day's boat journey from Archangel. "The city acquired its name from the Convent of Archangel Michael. In the Troitzki cathedral, with its fiva domes, is a wooden cross, fourteen feet high, carved by the versatile Peter the Great, who learned the use of mallet and chisel while -working as a shipwright In Holland after he ascended the throne." 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