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mx TEXAS BOY CLAIMS PIG CHAMPIONSHIP Raiser of Poland China Sow Has Best Record His Agent Says ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ABOUT 15 MONTHS How This Work Down There is Boosting the Meat Supply of Country. Out of Bartlctt, Williamson County. To v.. pnnins tlir? nlmm -.-J > ? ?" *- ffe >-??" pion not only of Texas but of the United States; that's what Owen W. Sherrill, the county agent says, at any rate. The name of the claimant is Elton Sartor, and here's the record on which the challenge is based: His 68-pound registered big typo Poland China sow pig, selected 15 months ago from a famous herd in Kansas, cost him $25. The first litter from this sow was 11 pigs. The price he got for them when they were 6 months and 4 days old an 1 weighed 2,233 pounds was $527.85. For 9 pigs out of the second litter of 12 he received $225. Adding $500, the amount refused for the sow, and deducting the fee bill of $172, the gain was $1,052.85. This means i net profit of $1,052.85 in 15 months e>n Jin ini+i'il 559 IV.H Vi??i Y?-v/ ill ? i lUillUlU. JL 1 L" I v > Lard to beat, isn't it ? Perhaps you wouldn't be so astonished if you lived in Texas, for, from all accounts, that's where chani pion pig raisers are developed. That's where young Shelby Mullins, the 1917 champion, came from. Mullins, % though, hails from Georgetown, but also he was a protege of County Agent Sherrill. But let's get back to Bartlett, the pig club, and the 19i8 champion. "Bartlett," says the knowing ones down there, "boasts the fact that as good hogs as money can buy in the United States are right here." Puithermore, it is the home cf the Barth tt Boys' Registered Pig Club, of which Elton Sartor i-> a member. Help From Bankers. Bartlett is a thriving city of 1,815 inhabitants situated on the line of two of the richest counties of Texa-. Williamson and Bell. It is a typical "live wire" city, whose business men spell progress with a capital P, and whose bankers are pace m.nkers in cooperation. Sixteen Williamson County bankers, by the way, have .+.11 + : -'--I i - * ? aiui still tl I U I Ulililt'lUI I'lUCKUl ' of these pig" club boys. Of this feature the county agent says* "J am safe in saying that no deserving boy has >*et been refused assistance in buying his pig or brood sow where he was willing to follow the suggestion of the county agent"?a recognition of the worth of the methods recommended by the extension Service of the United States Department ol Agriculture, and the State agricultural colleges, and a tribute to Bartlett bankers. T. B. Benson, cashier of Bartlett National Bank, gees further, declaring that "Any boy who will raise hogs and take an iir(-rest in them needs no other security than his note at this bank. I have not lost a cent on these notes and do not expect to." The Bartlett Boys' Pig Club? strictly speaking, a pig club in th ? south is only one specific branch of boys' and girls' club work?is the outgrowth of the needs in Williamson County,.as the wideawakes in Bartlett saw it, of high-bred pigs and plenty of them. One of these men i was County Agent Sherrill. He got together "two carloads of business men"?that's the way he expressed il?and "in one day organized at eight schools in B.arllett trade territory. Mr. Benson financed the boys, at 8 per cent interest, taking the boys' plain moral note, with their fathers' permission in every case, but with no indorsements *3f liens." This bank cashier further financed those youngsters in their feed bills? there had been a drought the previous year?and gave them two years in which to meet their obligations. The heat, nut of a f<ni'l/\nil fn v/infio. ? w ?. v vr ^ m V%<M IVUM A V/ IC^IO" tered big-typo Poland-Chinas from the leading Kansas breeders wore selected and distributed to pig-club members. These consisted of 30 sow pigs and 1 boar three months old, cholera immune, weighing an average of G8 pounds each and costing $25 a head. "To date," says the report to the States Relation Service, United States Department of Agri4 THE HORSY HKKJ l. J1 . ?? \ 88 four Blood Supply ins:. A few bottles of S. S. S., the great vegetable blood medicine, will revitalize your blood and give you new strength and a healthy, vigorous vitality. Everyone needs it just now to keep the system in perfect condi* li/vn /\ 4/\ ? Do Not Get Carele With Tl Impurities Invite Disease. You should pay particular heed to any indication that your blood supply is becoming: sluggish, or that there is a lessening in its strong and vital force. By keeping your blood purified, your system more easily wards off disease that is ever present, waiting to attack wherever there is an openculture, "17 of those, sows weigh an average of 500 pounds each. They farrowed an average of 10 1-8 pigs around and raised over 1,000 poundof pig meat each." Reports to County Agent Shcrrrill now show that one pig-club member has cleared over $1,000; four, ov?-r $500;. eight, over $250; .and eleven; over $100 out of one sow pig each in the past year. There are other good records, too; for instance, that of one boy who was guaranteed $1,000 foi his sow and litter of 11 pigs at Dallas last fall, but none of them is up to the standard of E'ton Sartor, the star pig raiser of the Lone Star S.attc. O PROHIBITION MOVE MADE OFFICIAL Proclamation Issued at State Department by Polk Acting Secretary. Washington.?Ratification of the prohibition amendment to the fedcr- ( al constitution, effective January lb. 1920, was proclaimed'today in a proc lamation signed at 11:20 a. m. at the state department by Acting Secretary Polk, The proclamation follows: To all whom these presents shall ( come, greeting: Know ye, that the congress of the United States at the second session, , Sixty-fifth Congress, begun at Wash ingtcn on the third clay of December in the year 1917, passad a resolution ; in the words and figures following. to wit: Joint resolution: Proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States: Resolved, by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring therein), that the following amendment to the constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become valid as a part of the constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided by the constitution. "Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. "Sec. 2. The congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by ap propriate legislation. "Sec. 3. This article shall be inop erativc unless it shall .have been rat- j ified as an amendment to the constitution by the legislatures of the sev- j eral States, as provided in the eonstilution, within seven years from the date of ti e submission hereof t > 1 "! >r. uti <-V>n '? CIIV uv<u' r. uy uir I r; *->. And, further, that it apnc.ars. from j official documents on file in this do-1 partmcnt that the amendment to the, "on?.1iU?li( n of the Unite'1 ,Slides pro-1 pores /is aforesaid has been raf'fieGj by the lepi.ie urcr. of tiio fcilatcv of I Alabama, Arizona, C Grornia. C lor-j ado, Doloware, Kloi art, Gc vg'a, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ken tacky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Masssachusettr, Michigan, Minnesota. Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, | Now Hampshire, North Carolina , j North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ore- j I yon, South Dakota, Soutn Carolina. PERU Made Me a Wc Mr. Louis Young, 205 Merrimac St., Rochester, N. Y., writes: "1 suffered for thirty yearn with chronic bowel trouble* n t omit ch trouble and hemorrhage* of the bowel*. Wo bought a hottlo of Pertina and I took It faithfully, and I be*en to feel better. M7 wife perauaded mo to con* and I . took it for some time an directed. Now I am n well v.vri viv vu jwu? uiuji oWiV OIIU gCV a bottle to-day, and if you need any medical advice, you can obtain it without cost by writing to Medical Director, Swift Specific Co., 25 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta.. Ga. Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyomind. And, further, that the States whose legislatures have so ratified the raid proposed amendment constitute three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States. Now, therefore, be it known that I, Frank L. Polk, acting secretary of state of United States, by virtue, and in pursuance of Section 205 o1* the revised statutes of tbe United States do hereby certify that the amendment aforesaid has become valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the constitution of the United States. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my band .and earned the seal of the department of stale, to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 20lh <!a.\ of January, in tbe yea: of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and nineteen. Frank L. Polk. Acting Secretary of State. New York.?The action of Frank 1 Polk, acting secretary of state informally proclaiming ratification of the prohibiton amendment to the federal constitution is not yet binding, according to a contention contained in a statement issued by an executive committee renrosontimr th,-? 1> Distillers Association of America at :iic close of two days' conference here. Of the 42 States whose legislatures have acted on the amendment the constitution of 22, the distiller-: claimed, contain a referendum prevision which expressly provides that no action of tin* legislature becomes effective until 90 days after .adjournment. If during those 90 days, 5 or l> per cent, of the voters petition for a referendum, the action of the legislature must be submitted to the people. Of these 22 State*, the commtiteo added, the legislatures of 14 are still in session, "and the 90 days in which i to petition for a referendum have not begun to run." The committee announced that immediate steps would he taken to have referendum evoked in these 14 States and "probably in others." o REMEMBER THE FARMS!' In the stress .and strain consequent on the readjustment of the national life to a peace basis there is real danger that the needs of the farms will not receive the attention duo them. And the needs of the farms, it is almost unnecessary to say, soon oj or later become the needs of every one of us in a particular intimate and insistcnt, manr.cr. Were demobilization taking place in any period but winter the situation would to a larjjc extent take ra*-o of itself. In spring, summer, or autumn agriculture is active,?and the demand for farm help would be sure to absorb a good proportion of th.i men who are returning from war service without any definite future in : ight. But in winter the farms are dormant. The solders, sailors, and war \v< rkors. who arc returning to normal life h,oar no call from the plough hare and the pruning hook. The farmers and farm laborers who have hil nn iiti war acit nul inr. ; Uimmik* lir? pa I \S months arc row for the most part soohirg clerical or industrial wrrk in the hiu cities. Not only fro; 1 necessity but choice, for oxpe1 h nee Sr. the past has been that few ve turning soldiers .and war workers v ill, cf their own free will, turn to 'h.e placid, i: -.event f'ul life oagriculture. Trey have tasted the thrill of gregarious and urban life and they prefer it. In a few months, when the. y stomach trouble end hemorrhages of the bowels. riquld or Tulilrt Form ILD, OOHWAY, 0. O. wV* % RO FE % ICOF DE5 IF. S. RC Norfolk, Va. Eichm ton, N. C. Columbif Columbus, Ga. farms will want men and want them badly, there will be great difficult;, in supplying farm workers in ade,.,w, 4 ^ ... I rin a ? ijuaic iiumuc'is. inai is an almost i ii disputable prophecy. One of the solutions to this very serious problem will bo found in j continuation, on a wider basis, of the I part-time workers' plan. The farm | service clubs organized in cities', an ! j towns by many different agencies I composed of men and women from all walks of life, did yeoman work last summer and fall in going out into the fields in the afternoons during :tho peak load period on the farms. In the planning and organization of this work, particularly in western States, the United States I Employment Service played a promI inent part. I The shortage of farm workers promises to be nearly as marked in ! 1911) as it was this year. The call foi increased food production promj ises to be even greater. Even under the press of more immediate duties j it is necesary that officers of the. i Employment Service in the field be 'prepared for this coming emergency. Jit is none too early to lay plans, i When you want advice the Farm Ser\ ice Division of the Employment Scr vice is at your disposal.?U . S. Employment Service Bulletin. ?~z?r* ? A ionic Laxative that will remove the bile from thi Livor and cleanse the System THOROUGHLY without griping I or disturbing the stomach is truly a Perfect Laxative. LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN is the nnme of a Reliable and Perfect Laxative which soon relieves Sick Headache, Dizziness, Indigestion, Stomach Trouble, Ga3 and Piles ca'< by a Torpid Liver and Constipation. Always utc n j Reliable Laxative in the treatment of Colds, Grip I and Influenza. i LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN Is a Liquid Digestive Tcnic Laxative excellent in its effect on the System, both as a tonic and as a laxative. It is just a9 good for Children as for Adults. Pleasant to take. Children like it. 50c. I Made and recommended to the public by Paris j Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mc., manufacturers o? Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic. o Thorp is ovory evidence that the second influenza epidemic in Sumtei has played itself out. Q ADMiRAL MAYO WANTS BIG NAVY Washington. ? Urging immediate naval legislation before tho house naval commttee Admiral Mayo, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet ' aid: "The league of nations is rapidly getting down to a sewing circle with o me/ms of enforcement and no in mational police force. Now is th< ime to go the limit in expanding oui mvy." ,.V1 ....... . ... . Mil! IIVPII ? 4 VSTEI RTILIZ TftAOS mark' -fSfrr REGISTERED. vlmands defere serves prefere: l!lllill!lll!!l!!IIIIHIil (YSTER GVA ond, Va. Tarboro, N. C. Charl< i, S. C. Spartanburg, S C. At Montgomery, Ala. Baltimore, AIR AGREEMENT WILL GOME NEXT Manchester, England.?Within the next six months the allies should reach an agreement regulating commercial traffic in the air, and within I the next five years it should be as easy and as safe to pilot an airplane through fog and storm as it is to pilot a ship, asserted Lord Weir, secictary of state for air forces, before an audience here the other day. In order that ambitious projects now being discussed might be entirely su'. j cossful, he said, these things were necessary: Development of navigational instruction by really sound and severe navigational training. Creation of an energetic metcrolo- j giscal service especially designed to I help air transport. The adoption of improved systems of wireless telegraphy and tele phony. Tho adoption of a first class system of day and night marking of landing places and airdomes. " We now possess in subtantial j numbers, either delivered or in course of construction, airplanes which carry a crew of seven and .10 passengers, which will climb to a height of 10,000 feet, and which will travel 1,200 miles without a stop," said Lord Weir. "One typo can come dewn at sea, float on the waves and rise again with a full load. FOR S?PPINGFR0M SOUTHERN PORTS ; Jacksonville.?The South Atlantic Maritime Corporation has been in ses j s;on here under the auspices of and j financed by the Chamber of Commerce of Jacksonville, Savannah, Wilmington, Charleston and Brunswick, to establish regular lines of ' steamers from each of the five men i'uiicu pons 10 csoum ana uentrai ? American ports. The first steamer - will sail from Savannah in March to - be followed soon after by one from , Jacksonville, then from the other ports until each of the five ports ; have a well established steamer line, i Export traffic men are now in South. and Central America and in the MidIdle "West Of the United States working up cargoes for the trips both ways. ? ' * * rs ER i V I t i . * NCE NCE i- 1 .NO CO. I site, N. C. Washinglanta, Ga. Macon, Ga. Md. Toledo, 0 I i LESS THAN 500,000 IN GERMAN NAVY ' . | American Authorities Be!ieve Even This Force Has a Low Morale. Coblenz.?According to estimates made by intelligence officers of the American 3d Army, based upon reports from all parts of Germany, the oiganizcd German ui my now located in various depots numbers from .'100,000 to .">00,000 men. Reports in dicate that these soldiers are of such morale that they hardly will be a\ailable for operation of any extent. The number of men in the army, re-? ports reaching Coblenz suggest, is decreasing rapidly. The new volunteer army numbers between 100,000 and 300,000 men of doubtful morale, as they have not yet been organized fully nor tested fairly. The volunteer army which is being organized to stop Polish and Bol ~r / o.m v.i\ iiiv^Munr? oi vicrman icrriup.ry I has 40,000 men in the region o< P rank fort-011-the-Ode. r. Many vol untoer battalions also are reported <inj moving eastward. jk '1 ho organized German army eonsists of the classes of 1898 and 1899, v IP less some discharged because they ^ l live in occupied territory, less large I numbers of deserters and less some * j discharged according to demobilization plans. Evidence is said to be conclusive that the troops now in the depots have assumed the attitude of drawing their pay and doinn^as little as possible until they are discharged. A new order has been issued by headquarters here, prohibiting Amor- I ican mess officers from buying any j fbed frem G with the rxcop ticn of cabbage and a few other A vegetables. This is to meet any con- | tention which may be made by the I Germans as to food supplies. | A few Germans continue to request I food from the Americans, some of 1 thorn clni'minni +v.nt - * uiai vnu imier Duy articles in stores and from farmers at prices too high for the GermSs to pay. m Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT falls to euro Itching, Wind, Weeding or Protruding Piles. ' :.:antly relievos Itching Piles, on^ yon can get -c&tful uccp after the flrut cpp'acatLa. Price ?Unu I