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|| Address all AMONG I L. inquiries to ????? i m. w. wall, Articles in thi; I Conway, S. C. 2nd [ excellent growth 1 ? of abruzzi rye! In passing over he county one will i be very much i...pressed with the plan j that Mr. B. I1. Williams, Nichols No. 2: I is carrying out. Last year Mr. Williams planted Abruzzi rye on most of j hiB land and he is now turning it un- j der. It made excellent growth andj gave plenty of grazing. Mr. WilliarAs is a small farmer but every focn of his land is farmed, not merely struck at, as you will see so many ' small farmers. 1MR. REY WORLEY j SOLVES THE PROBLEM Special mention is called to the farm of Mr. Roy Worlcy of the PleasBit View section. Mr. Worlcy seems P,1 Jiave solved a problem that many pre still gropping in the dark. He [planted a large area of rye and isi grazing cows, hogs, pou'try , and ^fcorscs on it every day. Mr. Worlcy a; s tv;o fine colts. There are very [few farms who have brood mares 01. | lA a ^Vhy not just as well have a : vj.i uriMMi niure aim raise a colt each i yi ar and make the crop as wed! if you .ad a node ?" This can be done, and wo would not have to buy imported mules and horses each year. ! GOOD WHITEWASH | At this time of the year there should do a lot of white washing* or thj farm. All of the outhouses that arc not painted can be whitewashed very easily and cheaply. The followi : < r pnrinr> w 1... ' 1 ? _ - ..r- . >.vuiillllv.ilUVll l>,\ UiC Government: Slake one half bushel fresh lime with boiling water, covering it to keep jn the steam. Strain liquid through : a fine sieve and add seven pounds of fine salt, previously dissolved in warm water; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste and stirred in, boiling hot; one half pound of fitted gilders whiting; one pound of J white glue, soaked first in cold water| until swollen then carefully melted' over fire. To this mixture add five! gallons of water and let it s<and co*-j erod a few days. A pint will cover a square yard and will last well. -o FOR SALE. * It 2 Pure-bred Poland China Sows, Gj, fio. old, $10.00 f. o. b. Nichols. WANTED. 1 good grade or pure bred bull.' Reef type desired. In case any one desiring to pur ; chase any of these articles get name and address from M. W. Wall, Co.n gW'AY. S. C. \ -? J TICK QUARANTINES 4 A total area of 9,7119 square miles v as released from quarantine on account of the cattle tick on March 10. ^ The free territory is situated in the * States of Florida, Texas, Mississippi, ^ Georgia, and South Carolina, and ineludes the whole or parts of 1(> counJ t{*?. There have now been released from Federal quarantine 284,521 square miles of the original 728,5411 which were .put under quarantine in 1900, when the work of system at ittick eradication wes begun. (i J The Mammoth Yellow 1 Soja Bean promises to he one of the most profitable crops for southern farmers everywhere. Makes a large yield of beans, which are readily salable for oil-producing and food purposes, in addition to its use for forage, soil-improving and stock feeding. Splendidly adapted to our southern soils and climate. v The New 100-Day Velvet Bean the quickest growing of Velvet Beans, promise to supercede Cow Peas very largely as a soil-improving, forage and grazing crop throughout the South. Cheaper to seed per acre than cow peas. Write for prices and "Wood's dProp Special** giving full information in regard to Sola and Volvat Beans, Cow Poas, Millet, Seed Corns, Sorghums, Sudan Grass, Stc. Mailed free. T.W.WOOD & SONS. SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, V*. % \ iORRY'S PROGRESSIVE I > Department are Prepared by )eal With the Problems of the F County Farmer. LOOK AFTER SPRING LITTERS OF PIGS CI meson College, April 10.?A comfortable house with dry bedding menus much to the spring pigs. In fact, all ot'.er cor.ditons may be perfect, and yet if this point is neglected failure may result. Get the pigs on a milk or milk and shorts ration by the third week of their existence, if possible . This may be done by building a small pen or creep near their bedding place and putting a small amount of milk in a shallow vessel (something that can't be overturned.) They will soon learn to eat. In crease the feed as they advance in age, but don't feed more than they will clean up. Keep the vessel clean b> occasional scalding ar.d supitin}?. The first four months of a pig's life determines largely his after sue cess. Never let him lose his ' pie fat' during this time. Prepare now for ample grazi ?g, hy sowi g rap. or rape and grain mixed. This can be grazed by the pigs within six t:> eight weeks after sown. Allow them to run on any green crops, especially clover or vetch, as soon as they will graze,?usually by the time they are four to five weeks old. Keep a succession of field grazing crops maturing throughout the summer a rl fall to supplement their daily ration of g**ain a id (o enable them to produce a product at a profit. Hogs fed on grain alone without craximr creps, will give little or no profit. GAREFUL FEEDFNF PREVENTS ODORS Clemson College, April 10. ?Several farmers have made complaint to the Division of Animal Husbandry and Dairying1 of Clemson College that the milk from their cows have a peculiar smell and will not churn. Just what is the cause of the trouble cannot be given, but the following has been found to be the usual conditions when the complaint is made: The cow i.% getting n >thing but dry feed, she l as been milking several months, and there has been a sudden change of the temperature. The treatment for all such cases is to give the cow some green food or Dotatoes or tnrnins Tf it pa ted give her one pound of Epson salts. Then raise the temperature of churning. Difhcult churning is due to Irving to churn whole milk or very thin cream at too low a temperature; having the churn too full and churning at too slow speed. Butter should come in not less than 25 minutes. The ordinary feed of the cow will not effect the flavor of the milk. Eeed having a high flavor as cabbage, onions an : hitter weed will give a bad flavor. CANNED VEGETABLES FOR MAKING SOUP Kor the canning club members w?io do not find ii practicable to procure soup stock during the summer canning season, and who would like a supply of vegetable soup during the winter, the specialists in charge of hoys' and girls' club work, North and West, suggest that the vegetable portion of the soup be canned separately. Whenever the soup stock is available during the winter the preparation of 1 ho soup is a simple matter. .Mixed vegetables for the purpose may be canned according to the following directions: Soak (> pounds of lima beans and 4 pounds of dry peas over night, Boil each one-half hour. Blanch 1G pounds of carrots, G pounds of cabbage, 3! pounds celery, 6 pounds of turnips, 4 pounds okra, 1 pound of onions, and 4 pounds of parsley for 3 minutes and dip in cold water quickly. Prepare the vegetables and chop them into small cubes. Chop the onions and celery extra fine. Mix all of the vegetables together thoroughly and season to taste. Pack in glass jarsf or tin cans. Kill with boiling water. Partially seal glass jars. (Cap and tip tin cans.) Process 90 minutes if using a hot-water bath outfit; GO minutes if using a water-seal outfit or a 5-pound steam pressure outfit; 45 minutes if using a pressure-cooker outfit. THE HORRY HERAL] ARMERS -sou Buiid..,, | ???? and X i Able Writers Economic ? lorry Production. 8 SORE SHOULDERS 0F*~ HORSES AND MULES The cause of sore shoulders can almost invariably be traced to illfitting or filthy collars. Owners, as a rule, | pay little attention to the fitting of collars and their care, and, consequently, most farmers have one or mere horses or mules with sore shoulders during their busy season. The chafing of ill-fitting and filthy collars causes inflammation and abrasion of the skin and, in many instances, injury of the deeper tisucs. Ouitc frequentily dee]) seated absesses form above the shoulder joint a: the lower part of the collar seat. These abscesses and the growth of fibrous tissue which form in this region require surgical treatment, but simple abrasions and inflammations [ of the skin yield readily to treatment | if treated promptly. Jn this, as in all diseased conditions I it is necessary to remove the cause. | This can be done by keeping collars I ch art, as often as removed from the! j animal, while accumvlat'o: s are soft, a. a I easily wiped off, and by seeing that they fit so tne shoulders will not I be chafed and bruised. The practice ! of removing collars and bathing shoul j dors at midday is one of the best pro; ventive measures that can he adopted, j As neon as the skin of the shouhicrs pnear sensitive, it should be bathed | sr veial limes daily with a solution of* j i alum or other astringent solution, j i Removal of pressure from the inflamed skin is absolutely necessary! and if this can not he accomplished by changing the style of collar or other. ! method, the animal should be rested until the shoulders heal. Abscesses which occur at the point of the shoulder should be opened as soon as they form, syringed daily with suitable antiseptic solutions, and be kept open until the discharge (. cases. Kailure to <lo this will result in the formation of hard fibrous tu-1 mors which can only be removed by i operation. nitrate?easw | grows in favor! Washington.?The committee on . agriculture of the senate favorably reported to the senate for passage the E. I). Smith nitrate bill. After a series of long and exhaustive hearings I the measure was reported favorably by a practically unanimous vote. It is i conceded among the senators and othj ' ib who have studied the bill that thi: i is an important, if not the most im: portant, measure yet introduced in congress bearing on the subject of pc rmanent improvements. When seen after the committee session, Senator Smith said: "I believe the passage of this bill, which now seems assured, will guarantee the farmers of this country a fair and just price for their fertilizers ; When tilt* yovprnmonl elm 11 U .?*?? established its plants, it will be in position to determine the cost price 1 of nitrates and potash and then, ! though it may never produce a pound I of munitions of war or fertilizer inj gradients, the factories or plants established for it will be the means of holding private corporations within fair prices. These plants will always be potential and available, and if an unreasonable price for these ingredients was charged, the governmnet could enter immediately into their manufacture and relieve the situation. Not only that, but in case there was in the minds of the legislators that unfair profits were being made the government would be in position to ascertain that fact instantly. All tluic it would have to do would be to refer to its own plant and the cost of pro (tuction and by comparison ascertain' the real facts. It wuild relieve all of this burdensome process of hearing interested parties on both sides as to the facts alleged and then, as in most cases, finally referring the whole matter to the interstate commerce commission, which itself must be largely dependent upon ex parte testimony in such cases. As stated once before, it will make the government absolutely independent of the possible exactions or extortions of private corporations for its munitions of war, and will relieve the country of the menace of private corporations interested in the manufacture of these articles lending their influences to a fomenting of war sentiment. D, CONWAY, S. 0. Uses and A bus By Prof. R. J. H. De Loach. Direct 4. FERTILIZERS A The Fourth of a David Dickson, after a life of ut Hie of success as a farmer, had tin gua.iO* "1 say that farmers can make will. Providence intended the earth i as it does in population. 10very nut mailt guano, lying idle and useless oi circulation, creating therewith food kipd. The country suffers for want material. Remove the deposit and a laud." "I commenced to use guano in 18 it until the present time, never lia1 excepting the last year of the war, v proper system of rotation of crops, ai except the lint of the cotton, land m alone, but not so fast as when you ments of the plants to he grown. An 1 know of no crop that it would no those crops that bring the most 111 one tion and tobacco in other sections." It will he seen from the above th use of guano. He knew well the val you will observe that he know quite i to the crop, lie got better yields wht food than when he applied ammonia a D -1 ? i ii kuou Dusmess to apply fertilizer, farmer, and knew all the keen points Views of Another The llpn. James .M. Smith, anolh died oply a few weeks ago, had the the ii'-e of fertilizers on farm crops: "The use of fertilizers has hecor.u Southern agriculture. It is a power! yield?a tiling we should desire and use of commercial fertilizers, hut we vegetable matter, the sowing of legun nure. The up-to-date farmer v i ! n ;t them, in tryiog to increase lv? fn~:.i c JOach of these two farnuis, who 1 provenient, learned the value of fertile 0c diversified farming. The\ vouhl diversify more. They wot.Id have us grow more plai\ls and vegetable nta this way increase the fertility of our today involves these two greet priuei crops. Rotate and feed the plants, ant secure from plant diseases?, a.id bring tion. Put Bask pia.it If growing crops take plant food der an amount equal to this, or gov ii our land is sure to decrease in feriilii dispute. With most of our cphik v,*e nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, the farm from whence it came. \\ ? s plant food takes its place, in the cas them large amounts of nitrogen and ten we hurn the stalks, and in this valuable plant food. It is sueidal pell plant food than we restore to the soi t>n a sandy farm in one of the ed hv its original owner and sola for manure and heavy applications of Tort fanner used $!."> worth of fertilizer pt cotton per acre. This was about a bal Investment in fertilizers and good br? ty fanner more than per acre whe All the experiment stations and o li/.ers applied to farm crops tinder gm on the investment. It generally men into a profitable farm. This, after all, as some pleasure. The average fartnet used. If fertilizers do not always pay, use them, "I>ut chiefly and above all my aim and object in this bill primarily is to relieve the farmers form paying the fertilizer companies practically all of the profits of the farm. As the matter now stands the farmer has actually to sacrifice every luxury of life and a great many of the nocsesities of life in order to buy fertilizers to enrich the land that he, the farmei, may have the privilege of producing < i - - - mi" Uiil l' PCCCSSillOS TOl' llllnSOl i UKO feeding and clothing the balance < i the world. In a word, my object i: to liiake it possible fcr him to enrich p.is soil and a^ far as possible enrich himscl IV' o FIFTY THOUSAND PERISH IN SERB RETREAT (Continued From Page 2.) shivering body as he made the offer. Then he would search along the road for hours until he was able to strip some dead man of his clothes to replace that which he had so freely y y given. What Mailer regarded as his most remarkable experience was the sight of a mad soldier dying from starvation. "Clothed only in a ragged undershirt he was running barefoot1 down a snow-covered Albanian road straight as an arrow, bellowing as he ran," lie said. "Me ran on and on down that road, seeing nothing yet wonderfully avoiding stumbling over the bodies of other dead and dying soldiers and the meat-stripped ear-! casses of the jirmv hn? ?*?? m-Iu'/U-. : ..XX. M II1V II I/IIH l\ ed tho way. Suffering intensely as I myself was, 1 turned and watched this strange figure. At last a half mile down the road he pitched forward and as I passed him later I saw he was stone dead." Hanged a Woman. "Other than that incident there is one other that will stick in my memory so long as I live," said Hallor. "This was the hanging of a Serb moth er by the Austrian troops before I was made a prisoner. We were marching across a rough country near Lochniztcr when we stopped near a wayside hut at its spring to get a drink. As we arose from the spring a shot came from the hut. That shot was fired by a woman. She stood at the door, an old shotgun in one hand, a V es of fertilizers or of Georgia Experiment Station. NO FIELD CROPS. iries of Six Articles leful service to his fellow-man and a e following to say about the use of every acre of their laud rich if they should increase in fertility as rapidly n that assists in removing this dorn the Chincha islands, and puts it in and clothing, is a benefactor to his of a snare of the surplus fertilizing pply to crops, and it will enrich th? 4(5, and gradually Increased the use of zing omitted to use it on my crops vhen I could not obtain it. With the ul returning all the crops to the land, ay be improved with Peruvian guano combine with the soil all the elenmonia being necessary for all plants, t benefit. It will pay the best upon ;y?cotton being that crop in this secat Mr. Dickson profited greatly by the ue of ammonia to growing crops, but lis well the value of other plant foods mi he applied all the elements of plant lone. Also observe that he considered He was a business man as well as a i iu the business world. Millionaire Farmer. er millionaire farmer of Georgia, who following to say with reference to * one of the most important factors in tul agency in producing an increased work for. We certainly believe in tin ah-o believe in the turning under ot ics and the saving of all barnyard maconsider one of these, but all four ot reps." liavo done much to stimulate farm imfers, but learned equally well the value not decrease the use of fertilizer, but use iiumv fertilizers, so that wo could lor, in turn plow this under, and in lands. The most effective tanning of pies. IVe fertilizers and diversify the 1 >ou will increase your yields. 1 o more your fa ;*m into a high stain of enlUvftKooc! in the Soil. out of the soil a id wo do not plow nnI from soVi'iC other source and apply illy and in nine. This is a firnt beyond lake from the fields a la rye amount of which nc er goes hack to the pi ice on hould see to i. then. that, some kind of :o of cotton, we sell the seed, a? d wi h other elements of plant food Very ofway take from the tie1?I much more cy for us to teniovc from the soil more I." Southern States, which had abandon(ll'ty cents per ihto, a litt'le h.irnyard ili/er made another farm rich The last ?r acre and raised 1.400 pounds of seed e per acre on the entire farm. The $; r? ?akinR and cultivation netted the t.hrif n cotton was bringing a high price. ther institutions have found that forth ad conditions pay a handsome dividend ns the converting of a nonpaying farm is what we farm for, for profit as well * yets large returns for fertilizers wisely , it is because farmers waste instead ol j baby in the ot her. I "One of tiio captains ordered hm j banged. There was not long else to tit but execute her. As the rape wa: placed about her neck and she was lot to the nearest tree all she said \\a. tiiis. is a hard, cold voice: 4Mv hue band is a soldier. I, too, die for Met" bin.' She made t-o appeal. She di I not cry out. Wo left h< r body hanging ihoro in the wind. The bai-y \ picked up and sent to the now its! prison camp, to bo cared for." I hi'ou^ii i.io i't Ki. is v i iv. ..i l l i Iav i crick, representing the Unit n' State, among- the Austrian prisoners, HeP.c: was rescued f?\ m :;lur\ aiion .u lUi j azzo and later Ambassador Pago i: I Rome interested himself in the case I "I am going hack hoir.e the best Amj erican citizen you ever saw," declared j Hailer. "1 wish I had words to ex I press my feeling for tho kind of poo pie that are grown in the Unite* States." Keep Your Skin Uloai and Healthy There is only one way to have ; clear, healthy complexion and that i; to keen the bowels active and regula* Dr. King's New Life Pills will mak your complexion healthy ano clear move the bowels gently, stimulate th< liver, cleanse tin* system and pu'"'" the blood. A splendid spring medicine. l! >c. ?it ,\\>ur 1 )ru"u'iav...--a?iV. o Wood's Productive beed Corns. Our Virginia-grown Seed Corns have an established reputation for superiority in productiveness and germinating qualities. Wood's Descriptive Catalog tells about the best of prize-winning and profit-making varieties in both Whlta and Yallow Corns. Cotton Seed. We offer the best and most improved varieties, grown in sections absolutely free from boll weevil. Our Catalog gives prices and Information, and tells about the best of Southern Seeds, 100-DAY VELVET BEANS, Soj* Beans, SUDAN GRASS. Dsllis Grata and ail Sorghum* and Millets. Catalog mailed free on request. T.W.WOOD Cf SONS. , SEEDSMEN. Richmond, Va. THREE HOW TO PREVENT | POTATOES ROTTING Field Diseases Controlled by Seed Selection and Dis' infection of Seed CONTROL OF DISEASE INCREASES PROFITS ?? | Germs Must Be Excluded From Fields and Seed Selected Carefully. ? ! i i The control of disease in the fi.fi will enable sweet-potato growers to I .... dispose of a greater portion of tneir crop at the higher prices widen prevail in the winter. At the presort many growers, especially too srr.a. r I ones, sell their entire crop at di.rgi lime when prices are low, while t.tose vhj store tneir potatoes lost bauvi y i!y from the various rots. Farmers' Bulletin NTo. 714. a 'uw ! publication of the department. offers suggestions toi the imprevt :rr ' ?>f iiiis s tuarion l>y protecting t s . from d'sease. Five field d'.-e. s , l.l i I Mviii :\h, ur.i( !\ :u. loot rot. s -i" :i nl v ?ot rot?aiv described a td, i bv turns for their control u'iven. They are caused by fur.^ v.: : \ a t > 1 ,?-a its an;\ their root?. and ;ar >t i 0. iy il?t plants bat lb*. soii . s? it', u ti may be carried i?? now ;m\; s a1'.! phu.ts a\ ius"C* a {'arm ar? > t\ cted :.plemenls. draina.e i.'.u', iad. or dbseasod roots or tubers. The funjji are also often spread in ' manure used as for-.ili;- ,r. ' fU'eil Select ioih | The means ef soun u>u' healthy | crops, therefore, must be the ( \oiu; sio.i of the jycrir.s from the fields ar.d ! thorn the seed and fertilizer used in i the tfrowia,* of the potatoes. The methods used in the prevention of these diseases include the treatn'oV** of the seed, tne hotbed, and the !''.ld. , Tito sccdj potatoes must he can fully selected Lite year in fore at biitir.if . * 1 >1 > iy I .'Mnt ? 1 % % I .1- - - - - - * . - . . ?-.n in.ii'V KT'iO'.VM 10 i contain hoalthy phrits. This may be determined l\y splitting the su'::i of | .Iw plants and o\a ainiay the intovI ior for judical! 01 s of rot. The - ed jnotaines th?vn ; b\cs should be v xnntimvl ayain before planting; for rviiriic 1 - of di tasc. Where s'hp seeding .> ast .'lie; 1 cave nvs.t bo taboo that 1 he cutt. re,; a a mace frov.i < "scnsei . coo ")1 . fV. ado; iion c! Sot d and llof.lv d. The ' ?'< d potatoes should Ik- oisinec:< d jit a bel'o e beddiny; by immersing them lev five or ton rrh ales in a a'.tear. a nait b svi );?; I i.u'nv e c; ,i abiiraa o y\ S yv.iions of water. This destroy.-, any spares which may adhere to the seeds. Kolowie?; this treatment the potatoes hould 1 >e rimed in warm vat n- and dried in the sun. I :! . oollanl is often the source el ; infection, Thorough disinfection v ". y year should be pram icon. The I'ramewoik and the proline around it must be thoroughly soaked with a solution ef formaldehyde or copper sulohate. Where forms.'delude is used, it shollhl l e ii<< <! In - ..... 1 1 ill UK.- I / ' 1) ( M I : L I" !1 (>I j 1 pint of formalin to ." () gallons of water. VViih copper sulphate I pound should bo used with - "> gallons of water. The operation should he repeated after 24 hours. The soil for | the hoti)od, preferably sand, must he taken front some plaee where potatoes have never hern grown; if possible, from some high place in the woods, removing; the upper <> inches of soil and using only the subsoil. Caro ; should he taken to see that infection | is not carried on the wagons, intp'e| moots, and tools used. Whore stable . manure is used on the hotbed, it should hot h(. from animals that have had access to decayed or diseased potatoes. Such potatoes, if fed at all, j snnuul be thoroughly cooked first, i The disinfection of seeds and hot; beds may prove ineffective if precautions are not taken against infect cm , in the field. Sweet potatoes should be ; grown in new ground or whi.-h i has not produced tubers for several i years. This can be accomplished by | adopting a suitable crop rotation. Most of the sweet potato diseases do not affect of her crops. o To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless fonn. ' i be Quinine drives out malaria, the 'ron builds up the system. 50 cents