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j r Address AMONG I I inquiries to ???????? m. w. wall Articles in this Conway, S. C. Mid E . ? FARM WOKK FOR JUNE. The Farm Lcnumstration Agent has laid out ti c lollowing work for ] June: Side Dress fai r.i crops. .Intensify cat paign for winter cover crops. Harvest (/ruin. , Sow sun.titer k$umcs. 1 ' Frequent shallow cultivation. Coutinue to plant succession of garden crops. Plant late corn after winter lego mes where seed are saved. Plant Sorghum for seed. Watch for *>lant <disruisns nml in scot pests. Plant all stubble ;and idle land in summer legumes. Breed sows to farrow in September. Mound pouch trees. Continue W plant grazing crops. Clean and tfpray poultry houses. Each farmer should read the above and see i.f he could not follow practically evetrj 'thing for this month. If there a re other items left out that j should fee mentioned I would be glad to hear f rom any on this mutter. o ?* CLEMJSG1W COLLEGE { SHORT CX)tTRSES Farmers, club boys, teachers and) preachers will find something vale-1 able, entertaining, invigorating uiv j inexpensive in the short courses at Clemson College next August. MaL1! ptan.s now to attend tone of l./s courses. It will reqxvire only tlv time usually given over to a vacnti n am! the results will "benefit you i 1 future years. Write Dr. F. H. II Calhoun, Clcmson College, S. C, for full particulars about the various courses and board and lodging CPI/riVATION OF ONIONS. Chrrvson College, S. C.? As sooon a.?the onions arc th.ree or four inches high they should be-cutivated, using an ordinary wheel .hoe. It is very nec?essary to continue this cultivatio. especially after ertery rain, until the onions begin to bulb. If the onion field is allowed to became badly infested with grass or wee&s it will be vi r> expensive to eradicate them. There-! fore, it is nec ess.it ry to destrop ail J grass and weeds a.1 koon as tliev an-1 pear. Onions are harvested soon after the neck begins to stirivol and the top bends over and commences to turn yellow. The onni wny/ are then pulled up by hand, the top*- wrung off in itio) 1 field and the bulbs placed in hail J 'bushel baskets . They are then trans j ferred to flat crates three feet \vi?:b. ' .and four fet long, the.sides being i'oijvj inches high and the enrls five inches high. The bottom wf the crate isj made of latticet leaving one-half inch! between the strips for am air space. These crates are stacked one on topj 1 of another;- in a shed whore the onion? [ are allowed to remain .until danger of i freezing weather; they are then plac^ ed in storage or sold. The object of having Lhe ends of the ' crate one inch higher than the sine? t is to afford a free circulation of air | f when the crates are planed on top of 1 each other. This will leave an air , space .of about one and one-half Inches between the onions and the bottom of the<crate above. The old method of curing onions f was to gather them by hand as soon as they '-were mature, throwing thro i or lour rows together and allowing them to dry partially for a few days. The tops were then removed and the r onions plaoed on t'Aie flat crates de! serf-bed avove. The best varieties vof onions to ^rov; { in the South for commercial purposes are White Pearl and Prize Take' Tbse a,re onions of larpfe size, attrac tive appearance and very mild flavor ' Bermuda onions may be grown in some sections of the South profitably. I The Crystal Wax is probably the most satisfactory of the Bermuda type. The onion is one of the most important of our truck crops. Many car. loads are shipped into this state every i year from southern and northern points, yet onions can be grown to } perfection in this state. They thrive best on a very fertile, sandy, loam soil. On clayey soil they will grow * fairly well, but they are much more difficult to cultivate than on a sandy loam and the yield is never as great. In selecting land for onions, care i should be taken not to select a field i j previously grown in grain, as the < grain will volunteer and cause con- i | siderable trouble, coming up at about i y the same time that the fell onion ; * seeds germinate. 1 f i IQHBY'S PROGRESSIVE f ; Deoartment are Prepared by leal With the Problems of the ICounty Farmer. ummmmmmmmmtemmmmmmmmammm HOG GRAZING CROPS Information Concerning Several Crips Valuable for Grazing of Hogs. Clemson College, S. C.?As soon as a farmer has his cotton and . corn well under way, he should get about planting grazing crops for his hogs. Most of these crops are admirably adapted for planting just the time when the average farmer has a little brecatfoing spell after getting his corn and cotton stands, and this is the time to put in the grazing crops which are to feed the hogs and makei moat for the farm or money for the farmer. The. following are a few of the crops that make excellent hog graz-j ing crops: Cowpoas, sow May to July, one to 1 1-2 bushels per acre, broadcast or 1 to 2 pecks in drill. Time before ready for grazing, two months; grazj ing period, four weeks. Usi...... ?. 1 .... 4- AT i-_ ? A-I kj\j\ uuuiiO) j;; 11; i L iUcI^' lO tJU'y, i l'1 2 pecks per acre in drill. Time before ready for grazing, two to three months; grazing period, four weeks. Sorghum, sow May to July, four to eight quarts in the drill. Grazing period , four weeks. Peanuts, plant May to July, 1 l-2j to two peeks shelled or f? to 7 peek?, in hull, drill. Time before ready foi grazing, two to three months grazing period, ail fail. Potatoes, plant May to July, two to three foot 'xnvs, 10 to IS inches In drill. Time before ready for grazing, four months; grazing period, all fall. Rape, sow in late summer, th-'oe i ) six pcunds per acre, drill or brea. east. Time before ready for grazing, two months; grazing ipor.iod three months. Chufas, plant in April and May 1 > j fr.nf **" A...I ... ......... i-i/n f>| v?iivr MOO'S per aere. Time before Had/ for grazing, fire to seven months.. Graz nig period, 'timing fall and winter. Mangels, plant in April .and May. six to nine pounds of seen y*er acre in drill. Apply good appTv.'utibn of stable immure before planting. Ready for feeding by September and October o SPRAY FOR TERR APE* ISCALE' Methods of (Controlling ax 'Important Insect Enemy of Peach 6)rchards Amd Ornamental Twees. A spray .containing j-aw linseed oil and gasoline is recommended by specialists in the department as tin bet-t, moraius of controling the terr. pi> scale. This is now regarded as sec oral in economic importance to tV San Jose stti:de ;aniong the ?cr.le peril ol* the peach. It also attadk.s a mailt - /.! fit flliiAf a . .. W . *' ?/??v. I JH VV.OJ i ?UI tv J I 'J I . (.? I . i the plum, rrvap'le, cherry, and syca more, ami has spread through Ih poach belt in the eastern Unite. I Stales and northward beyond the 'belt, at lacking ornamental t *ces, of whirl, maples and sycamores are ii* favorites. At the present time ii is men feared by pencil growers in Maryland and Pennsylvania than any other species of scale insect. ? Inject Cholera Serum. CI meson College, S. C.?Write tf Dr. R. O. hleley, CI em son College, S. C. and request a free .bulletin on hoy cholera symptoms, and post yourself.; When your hogs show these symptoms, phone or wire your county demonstration agent at once for aid, unless you have already had his services, in which case you ought to know how to proceed without his step. II is impossible for him to see every man's hogs, so it will be necssary foi you to learn to treat them yourself after one demonstration. "Prevention is worth more than cure,'" 15 an old adage which applies especially 1 othis malady. o IK)NT WAIT Make Plana For Building Silo Now. Clemson, College, S. C.?Our dairy experts are always busy, and will be especially so in July, August and September. If you want their help in building a siloo write to the Dairy Division at Clemson College, at once, asking for plans and specifications, and get your name on the list for aid early in the season. The demands along this line of work is increasing, and if you fail to get help it will be your own fault if you wait.?Don't wait! Do it now! s THE HORRY HERA LI -? ARMER& I MSoil Building I ^ J ????? and I Able Writers Economic I lorry Production. I 1?0??MMtlHHIMllirfJ COW PEAS FOR POULTRY. Cleinson College, S. C.?Those who keep poultry for profit should make m rangemcnts to plant several acres of cow peas this spring. Several experiments in feeding cowpeas to loying hens, fattening turkeys, pigeons, 1 and even ciacked for baby chicks and developing youngsters,, go to prove that there is no grain of greater value to the poultry or pigeon producer. 1 Cow peas contain 21 per cetn pro- 1 tein, the food from which the whites of the eggs are made by the laying hen, or about two-thirds as much of this valuable constituent as cotton- 1 seed meal. It is necessary to grind the peas for poultry food; simply add 1 ' llPiri In thr> mivinvn . . ?.fv V \S * UAIIO v??v Ik lis receive. A simple egg-making mixture to be fed twice daily in litter to make the j hens scratch to find the kernels is 100 pounds cow peas; 100 pounds cracked corn, find 100 pounds whole oats or j sorghum seed. This has been fed | with success. Another way to use the cow peas is to add one quart of cow i \yovs to every two parts of the grain ! mixiure you are feeding. | Hens running on a good, natural range where they can obtain bugs and ; vegetable food, will lay well in sumj men; when fed the cow peas mixture of i j rains ajone. It unnecessary to rso the Cleir.son Egg .Mash until next fall when natural food is deficient. A constant supply of fresh water and shell materiel should bo before the i hens at all times. . . j thery Farmer Should Know How to, BALANCED EDUCATIONAL RATION. I Clemson College, S. C.?It is a ! well known fact that all animal and | j plant life, in order to obtain maxi| mum health ana growth, musi i.i .e a balanced ration?foods oont idling the clement <:f nutrition in the proper proportion, A balanced educational ration for all people is next r order. Tt is coming, Fet ready! fo> it by ashing the State Super in-' ! ter.dent of Education at Coluirtbku ' what must be done to secure stoat;;! ; aid in yonr schools for teaching ayr-l ! riculture ami home economics, dnri ing the next school year. ! RUB-^-TBSlW Will care yoar I Neitr.dgia," Headaches, Grarnpa, j Colic, Sprains. iVmises, Curs srod ! Bums,Old Sores, Stints of U.ar>eci.fi | Etc. Antiseptic Afiwdyiie^as-ed internally *iiv. Price 25c-. >4) ? The hind of man vho will improve rs long as he draws the breath of IT % : . J is ho to whom nothing in the world i." ' ouite good enough. 11 1 1 11 itmmmmm m tm^^w i i ? ? > | Bann< ; I \ GOOD / . 3. WHISKEY THINK #fyf LCWlS fl ^WROSEh^ ! ft Cream | Mathewson Standa | , Bottled in Bond I 1 Fall Qt. 2 Fall Qto. 4 Fall Qt I 75c $1.40 $2.61 I OLD WOODRUFF Better IMtwl 1 Poll Qui 66c $1.21 All the Abore Price* I Always Do What I Say RANDOLPH ROSE, Pi R. M. ROSE COR DISTILLER; JACKSONVILLE, Useful and Beautiful Premiui ROSE Good*. Write f? % 0, CONWAY, S. C. RESULTS REALIZED FROM TURNING WINTER LEGUMES Clemson College, S. C.?A bar.kei farmer of Greenwood County beg... a few years ago to sow crimson c.c ver on a poor, sand ridge lain which he followed by cotton ear: spring, lie was using large am un. of commercial fertilizers and gettiu. ir.significent yields of cotton at . high cost and of course at a sma profit, if any. He saved his clove seed from year to year, and by co. tinuing the land in clover and cottv the result was that he made last ye: over ?5,000 worth of cotton with ; fertilizer expense of only about $105. His neighbors are beginning t< "sit up and take notice" as is evidenced by a considerable area ?1 crim son clover now growing on otkc* farms in his neighborhood. If Mr. Robert Hodges can do sue! farming and reap such economic rt suits and run a bank at the sum. time, it is reasonable to expect tha any farmer ean do at least as wc with his entire time and attention and a life long experincee aid hii.. Some farmer will doubtless remark, "Yes, if 1 had a hanking insti Ultion behind mo, I c>uk <o it. too, forgetting the fact that Mr. Iiodgc. used the same economy and businc;...methods lit farming as in safe ban! ir.'V. He produced his own s?(d, sera 1 el "A them in the cotton middles in So timber or October and lot nrtu e < the ro:--tf resulting in not using: man; j and cofdy fertilizers. but in givri.y increased yields with far U s expense every way. Nature furnish. both soil fertility and soil ability, doing the work in the winter when the land would have otherwise been i~* and wasting;, instead of accuiuulat ing nitrogen and humus. These ar the chief needs of nearly ail lands i: this state. When such principles are taught in the public schools, all people wh | eventually cooperate with nature.! and South Carolina with her many other industries depending* I'nr suc cess on a better agriculture, will eo..ie into her own. lier people, as a whole, will own their own home vo'.o for their rights a id dare to maintain them; for a home ow hv people ;ivc a satisfies1! hopeful, helpful, patriotic people. ? "D'ORS SLOAN'S LINIMENT HELP RHEUMATISM? I Ask the man who uses it. ho ktvows. j "To think I suffered all'those: years i when one 2"> etnt battle of Sloan's I 'T.,>. tiiinpnf ? ? >/> " ? * - 1- ^ . V ?. VI :i'V| T* ' I U'S VMM* 1'ill.C fsil user. If you have Rheumatism or I suffer from Neuralgia. Flnoknche, ; Serfer.css avid Stiffness, don't put off '.'getting a bottle of Sloan's. It avi 11 give you such welcome relief. It warms l and soothes the sore, stiff painful j places and you feel so much better. ! Ihi" it at any Drug Store, only 25 | cents.?adv. !- " . Crimson clover seed are likely to | be high priced next fall so don't let anything keep you from harvesting your seed to use for next fall's pitting. >SE SELLS "jT FOR LES ray Hill Club Quart Quarts Qii t Good Whiskey"_$1.00 $1.95 ;r Rye 1.0G4 1.95 i "ee* 1.00 1.95 2 ?of Kentucky 80c 1.50 2 rd Duffy's Malt Put up in Fives s. 1 R?ttl? 2 Uottlca 4 Bottle 5 90c $1.75 $3.44 ' KENTUCKY WHISKEY Than the Best %ri? A Fall Quart* Jpaaataa* > $2.50 J? Thin A* th?>iko ExpreM Collect Z^Zc^o / Will Do / which ?n? IOH?Ml eflident j? IP ANY /? g $ Kama FLA. 8 Bipmi Offloe ? Free Wltfc J PMt omc. >r Book. | a R. F. D. or 8traat ? TURKEY PRODUCTION Clemson College, S. C.?Turkeys nature slowly, and for this reason it is preferable to select for breeders hens from two to four ycais old math! with two to three-year toms. OKI nens lay larger eggs, and tluir poults are not only larger but stronger tnan poults from immature stock. To net .nbreed or mate related stock toccther. Medium sized birds, plump Jine in bone, active and vigorous are jest. Mate one torn with about ten lens. , A shed open on the south side, and closed otherwise to afford protection from the weather is an ideal house Do not keep turkeys with chickens i* close, poorly-ventilated heuses. Feed the Clemson Egg Mash dry i ' a hopper, and once daily scatter i. litter a mixture of. grain consisting ol equal parts by weight of crncke corn, wheat and cowpeas. The laitc is an excellent grain for maintaining turkeys (or common chickens) i; good breeding and laying con."i. ion Give buttermilk or thick, sour skim- 1 milk to drink. The birds should be '< kept active and ready to forage at all 1 times, and where there are plenty of 1 bugs on the range, the dry mash is really unnecessary. To induce turkey hens to lay near home, provide nests of loose straw I a... i _i i.. i ? it - - - * - - i hi unipiy uai rois una mi me siue, oi in dry weather make nests of leaves and straw in secluded places and cover the place loosely with branches. From 12 tol8 eggs are laid at a clutch and one service fertilizes all. Gather these eggs as fast as laid and rep'acc them with a couple of china or hard-1 boiled hens' eggs. Keep the eggs in | a cool place not to exceed ten day: before setting them under a common hen. Select a fat, broody hen as she must sit from 28 to :u> days before the. eggs hatch. Grease her as recom| mended in Bulletin 1(>. "Poultry Culture for South Carolina" U) kill tlv lice. .Make earth nests. Immerse the eggs in water warm to the hand (100 degrees) for two minutes on the 18th and 25th days. Remove the poults from the nest to a warm basket as soon as they become dry urn 1 strong, so that the hen will remain on the nest until the hatching is completed. Feed and water the hen and let her move about for a short time. Then take mother and poults to < Urge-sized packing box covered with roofing paper, with laths two and one half inches apart in front. In front of the coop inclose a grass plot (> feet Sana re with hoards 12 im-lms wl.m m i prevent the poults wandering away. The coop should have a board floor j and both coop and hen should be movS ed to fresh ground not less than once a week, and more often if necessary. Feed the poults when they are plac ed in the coop a mixture of equal parts of hard-boiled eggs, rolled oats, and dry bread crumbs. Cut the eggs i fine and make the mixture crumbly. , Feed five times daily. Give clabbered milk or cottage cheese. Soak light bread in sour milk and squeeze dry. Alternate this with the egg mixture. 8" !Iji! ll!0^ Full / .: jj i :i ,li t I! ! i ; i 'U ' 65 | I1 7 f'i,:'; ; || '!: yiilillfij 11 ,.65lllllli II! II* BOSSES WOODRUFF HlHlllfWhH... ?? * offer expire* Jul V 15 la erder te eecere II prleee either r.n out coupon, or plo It to nville: Pleeeeehlp me the folio' .ug, km II pleeee find money order for II e e e e e ? ? ee?? # ! II * Btate * ? ? 11 THitfcE DRAINING THE FARM IK EFFIGIEHT WAY Frequent Inspection of Drains and Ditches and Prompt Repairs Necessary WATCH THE OUTLETS AND ALSO THE INLETS Consider if You Have Your Ditches and Drains Properly Laid Out. * '-"Ml*, In the spring of the year, when land is being prepared for planting, there Lire frequent complaints from farmers that the drainage system which they rili<lr>il ? v /*> mnrn urn not improving the laml as they ha<l ex peeled. Perhaps the soil is just as wet as it was before installing drainage, but is this a valid reason for condemning drainage V To answer this question correctly, other questions must first be answered. Were the drainage improvements in the first place properly designed and constructed? If the answer to his question is affirmative, may not some defective condition have developed in the system since construction? Have the ditches been kept open and clean or have they v n p ?'mittcd to cave in and deteriorate generally? Have the outlets to the tile drains been alowed to close during the winter? Have tlie inlets and' catch basins been permitted to bicmvte* choked with leaves and oilier dry ug< tabic matter of the previ u > s.nsoa11 these coialil ons exist aot3 noJ. the failure ol tho s\ item to give the desired lvsuhs lie with the farmer rather than the system? . In the spring, when the root system oi ti"ii young plant is developing, it is essential that theMevel of the ground water be maintained, at such a depth as always to permit free growth oi tlio rooots downward as well as laterally. The control of the water level ifi the purpose of a drainage in.p o.cn?ent. The largest returns on money invested in such improve merits can be obtained only when they acebvbpbs .? th< ir real purpose, and this purpdsf can be accomplished only by keeping the drains in T;u best possible sta'.e cf efficiency. To obtain the greatest degree of efficiency in drainage improvements, as in any other work, frequent inspection J is necessary, brush and weeds should be cut from the banks of the open I ditches and the latter cleaned out to 1 the proper depth. Openings should be i made into the ditches where necessary to permit the surface water in the fields to flow off rapidly. In tile systems, if the outlet has not been protected by a headwall, one should ho constructed, for unprotected outlets are often damaged by stock and the action of surface water. lr a t ie drain empties into an open ditch or swale, sti ps should be taken to see that sufficient" fall exists in the ditch to remove the water as fast as it is discharged from the tile; otherwise the water will back up into the tile and the efliciency of the drain will be impaired. Where surface inlets and sand traps have been installed in a <;a. i -i? iii ?... .-ivrin inrst* >lit)nm DO examined, and cleaned if necessary. To realize the maximum results from any drainage system it is therefere essential that inspection be frequent and that necessary repairs be made promptly. Cut Them Into Shape. Philadelphia, May 31.?To help along the cause of preparedness by increasing the number of enlistments in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, surgeons at the Jefferson hospital, ii, . i.) nave a.mounced that they will remove, through minor operations, and without charge for their services, lisqualifying defects in applicants that can be remedied by the use of the knife. Many men are rejected at the recruiting station who might be saved to the service through a simple surgical operation, the Jefferson doctors have found. Last week they removed enlarged - - vimsiis iiDm one and hammer toes from another rejected applicant of the United States Marine Corps, and both these men will be enlisted when the wounds heal. o Twenty-one thousand Sunday Schools in the United States and Canada are in touch with the 21,000 missionaries on the foreign fields, supplying them with surplus lesson helps, pictures and books.