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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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