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I Thursday, March 1, 1921 QRMK. b i’ South Carolina. Page Number Scve* All Mash Feeding a All-mash f<~edi. pr offers a strong appeal to the practical and prog^res- i R ve poultry keeper. The little op-i rosition bein^ enccuntr/'d come?! prjnr’p-'lv frm b^’n^ contrary j to tradifonal beliefs, preiud'eo and j frem corm rcial feel manufacturers thrt have rot as ye' - rc'n fi J ‘ ^o ac- ccrt the new m thod of fcedk'g- Some o e has said “all jp; ogress is uncomfcrtable” (when you come to tb nk of i f . how true it is). Also, * Most of the ih ngs we do axe done, not because they should be 'done, but • b'cause they have been done. Prac tices often outlive the purposes they were designed to serve. Rituals sur vive the reasons that gavp rise to them. Tradition is the uncrowned j king of humanity. Inertia is his con sort.” Let us then summon Mr. All-Mash before the court, present all the ar guments for and against, and let you as the jury decide the case according to the evidence. The Case Against All-Mash F rst let us state the case for the prosecution as summed up by a feed manufacture who prefers the old system and can see little good in the new. We are quoting the following: 1 “A few weeks ago I wrote that the 'all-mas)!* system of poultry feeding which Has recently been receiving some publicity was not a new idea and not the most profitable system. Several folks have asked me to ex plain more fully, so here it is. 1. The only advantage in the “all- mash” System lies in the fact that la bor ’s reduced through one’s having only one feed to supply. 2. Offset against this is the 're duced egg supply which more than balances any saving. 3. Why does one get less eggs on the “all-mash system.” Well, the first Teason is that it is not as flex ible as where both mash and scratch feeds arc fed. There are times of the year, as every experienced pcul- tryman knows, when layers need more mash than scratch feed or vice versa in order to maintain body weight and production. Where mash feed alone is fed no variat on can be made to ~ coihp%nsate • for season, weather, care, range or other condit ions that affect the respective amounts of mash and scratch that a hen needs. ' N 4. You r.djust your car’s carbura- tbr for summer and winter, for sea level and for mountains—how much more important to adjust your flock’s feed. 5. Another thing, flocks fed the “all-mash way” seldom get enough exercise. There is no scratch feed to scratch for so the hens aie less active anch the litter is apt to become packed and damp which means trouble always. • 6. No, sir. Scratch feed and mash are for such different purposes that to combine them in a def nite fixed prcport : on for all year round use is impossible if you want best results. 7. You don’t eat the same amounts of the same foods every day in the year, winter or summer, do you? Then why ask your hens to do it? 8. Perhaps you ask what about the tests the “all-mash” ration Were they all wiong? Yes. 9. In every one of these tests the “all-mash” ration was fed in com petition with a fixed 50-50 ration of scratch and mash the year around. That’s not the proper way to feed mash and scratch for the b~st re sults.” Such is the case for the prosecu- t : on and you will perhaps notice that while it must be presumed the pros ecutor had some sort of evidence to support his arguments, nevertheless such evidence was not introduced in his testimony. The Case For All-Mash Let us now, gentlemen and gentle women of the jury, present the case for the defense, and we want you please to notice that we will intro duce real evidence in support of our testimony: 1. All-mash feeding is not such a new idea but it is a new practice. As to comparative profits the evidence available indicates the all-mash method to be as profitable as the old method of feeding scratch grain and mash. So far as real evidence is concerned there is considerable in favor of, and but little*, if any, against all-mash feeding. 2. The saving of labor is but one of the advantages of all-mash feed ing. More important is the matter of sanitation. There is no contradic tion of the fact that feeding scratch grain is an unsanitary practice. 3. Another advantage of all-mash feeding is that it is the easiest and simplest way of feeding a definite ration, whereas it is difficult to feed scratch grain with sufficient care and skill a- to avoid unbalancing the ration. 4. The contention that all-mash feeding reduces egg production is not supported by facts. Whereas the fact is that there s considerable red-hot tip on feeding baby chicks \ •> McCORMlCK HIGH SCHOOL PAGE ' fusiKa] Raising 100$ of your hatches is not the easiest thing in the world. Most of your losses can be definitely traced to improper starting rations. Get this right. Old methods of feeding baby chicks and growing pullets are changing rapidly. This is the age of progress. New methods, tried and tested, have reduced chick mortality to almost zero. By the new Ubiko All-Mash System poul- trymen can raise nearly 100% of their hatches and develop the chicks into strong, lusty, wide-awake pul lets and cockerels. The All-Mash System is en dorsed by leading experiment Sta tions as the last word in poultry feeding. The UpiKO All-Mash System is made up of two rations— the Ubiko All-Mash Starting and Growing Ration and the Ubiko All-Mash Complete Laying Ration. They are composed of a variety of chpice. wholesome grains, dried buttermilk, meat scrap, cod-liver oil and other tested ingredients that make perfectly balanced rations. The important vitamins—A, B and C—are richly supplied. In addition, the cod-liver oil furnishes Vitamin D, that has been found so necessary in preventing leg weakness and promoting growth. Give your baby cbicks a real chance. This spring will find the majority of progressive poultry men feeding their chicks on Ubiko All- Mash Starting and Growing Ra tion. Your dealer sells it, together with other Ubiko quality feeds. Write for descriptive circular The Ubiko All-Mash System is fully described in our new circular. Write for a copy today. Our Poul try Department will also answer, without charge, any questions about feeding, housing, culling or disease* Write to McCORMlCK GIRLS DEFEAT CALHOUN FALLS. On February 21 in a very thriil- i.-g basketball game, the McCormick g rls (’c/eatsd Calhoun Falls by a sc' e cf 20 to 16. The Calhoun I Fal's g'ris led by a score of 5 to 1 I -n the first quarter and were still leading at the half 11 to 8. After the McCormick girls held the 'r confe. encc they came back r. the last stanza more determined to bring home the bacon. The game was strictly refered and fowls were called frequently. | Calhoun Falls, until th's game, had i never been, defeated. Their game w th the McCormick team last year was called off on account of rain af- ?: only three minutes of playing. At that time the score was 9-0 in favoi of McCormick. LEE STROM, SUE LUDWICK. When The Extra Is Out M. G. & J. J. DORN Distributors Of Ubiko Feeds McCORMlCK, S. C. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS CHANGE CLUBS. On Tuesday, during the assembly •p^riodr'Mr.--Clemons announced—that the members of the clubs would change to other clubs. This is to en able the students to learn 'something about all the subjects taught in the^ different clubs. There was one club, the-Debaters’ Club, that didn’t change its mem bers. The purpose of this cont’nu ance of membership is to give the debaters more practice before the preliminary contest that is to be held next Friday in Greenwood. GLADYS DILLASHAW. ftJWDMIUJP ONOtun. B# Ubiko AIX’MASH (Two Rations) Starting and Growing Ration Complete Laying Ration lliXOMilliG® MCIHNATI, OHIO SCHOOL GETS HALF HOLIDAY. . .... . . On Wednesday of this week Mc Cormick school celebrated the 196th anniversary cf Washington’s birth day by a half holiday. As the 11th and 8th grades con- t: ; buted 100 per cent in the Christ mas donation to the 1 brary, th^y were awarded an extra half day off and by combining the two, received a whole holiday. KATHLEEN HOLLINGSWORTH, GRACE DUNLAP. evidence to the effect that equally as good egg production, if not better, can be secured from all-mash feeding as from the same ration fed as scratch grain and mash. Some of the facts supporting this contention are the following: . 5. Tests conducted on an extensive scale during the past four years by the Ohio Experiment'Station indicate conclusively that about equal egg productoin can be expected from the same rat : on fed as all-mash or as scratch grain and mash, provided skill and proper management is used in the feeding of scratch grain. This involves feeding the scratch grain so as to avoid unbalancing the ration and renewal of the litter often so as to prevent its beconrng too unsan itary. • 6. A test by the Poultry Depart ment, University of IlPnois, report ed in th'' December issue of Poultry Tribune was as follows: “The exper iment involved three flocks of Rhode Island Reds and three flocks of White Leghorns. These were put on the same ration for forty-four weeks. One flock of each breed was given scratch grain in litter, one flock in troughs and one flock was getting no scratch grain at all. The results showed there was no difference in production due to the method of feeding.” 7. In the November Experiment Station Record, Page 662, the follow ing quotation is taken: “Is Scratch Grain Necessary ? Two lots of pull ets were fed the standard Purdue laying ration. In lot 1 the scratch grain was scattered in the litter and in lot 2 it was ground and mixed with the mash and fed in hoppers. Both lots received small amounts 'of sprouted oats daily. The pullets av eraged 120 and 146 eggs for nine months in the respective lots.” (i. e., 26 eggs per hen more on All-mash). 8. The highest egg record made by any hen in the U. S. was 344 eggs laid by a hen in one of the flocks of the Washington Experiment Station at Pullman, Washington. This hen was one of a flock which received all-mash and no scratch grain. .9. The Ohio Station has been re ceiving letters from poultry keepers located in all parts of the country reporting their success with all-mash for egg production. 10 The Ohio ‘ ‘ .fion c c'o. 1 r. Clemson Bulletin Gives Cotton Fertilizer Hints obtainable (more grain in winter and gradually reduced for summer re quirements) and the other received the same ration as all-mash. At the end of the two years’ test the scratch grain group had 276 eggs per bird to their credit and the allmash group 281. 11. The qeust'on of adjusUng the ration to meet seasonal requirements is a plausible sounding theory, but the trouble is to find some one who really knows how it should be done. Of course it is easy to think that this or that should be done, but when it comes to testing out such theories they don’t seem to work out accord ing to expectations. In other words a lot of such theories, beliefs and ar guments are not based on facts. 12. Actual experimental ev : dence fails to substantiate the popular ex ercise theory, the idea of changing the ration to suit t he season of the year, the “carburator theory,” or the comparison to human beings. You have* read the evidence, Agairst All-Mash, and For All- Mash. What is your own opinion ? Do you believe Experiment Stations results are worth following? Is it not poss : ble that the All-Mash sys tem of feeding offers real worth while advantages for progressive poultrymen. We feel the merits of * All-Mash feeding are strong enough to war rant our making All-Mash feeds for progressive poultrymen in order that they can have the advantages of the most up-to-date feeds. Our purpose: this state at planting time, is to serve the poultry raiser with the best and most practical that science can produce. Following the Ubiko standards we have used the same care, the same high quality products, in making the All-Mash feeds. Whether you raise your ch ; cks on Ubiko All-Mash or not is your business. We still make the finest Starting and Growing feeds with chick and intermediate grain, tried and proven the country over. Ubiko poultry feeds offer you high quality. They are always uniform, and re sults are certain. Feed Ubiko mash es whether you prefer the old meth od or the new. -JXI- Farmer-owned- co-operative asso ciations in western Canada handled about 220,000,000 bushels out of a to- O* o" aj. r !'.r' '•f’tily 1 :9,0 ; ;0,COO wo years’ test with two groups of bushels of grain marketed from that White Leghorns, 100 to each group. The one group received scratch grain fed according to the best schedule section in the crop year of 1926-27. according to a report to the United States Department of Agriculture. CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb. 28.— “The Agronomy Division of the South Carolina Experiment Station has found through long-time experi ments on various soil types of the State that these types require the ad dition of certain amounts cf phos phorus, nitrogen, and potash if they are to produce cotton efficiently,” writes R. W. Hamilton in the new Extension Bulletin 86, “Cotton Fer tilizers,” which is just eff the press. Phosphorus, which hastens the ripening and opening of cotton should be applied under the crop in abundance. On the “light” soils of the Coastal Plains, no less than 48 pounds an acre should be used. In the Piedmont at least 54 pounds an acre of phosphoric acid should be supplied. Eighty pounds an acre should be the limit for this fertilizer, points out the soil feitil'ty special ist. After the absolute food necessities of cotton have been met the further addition of nitrogen has a greater benefit than any ether element, says Mr. Hamilton. Since all South Carolina soils are low in nitrogen a minimum of 18 pounds and not more than 40 pounds of ammonia per acre should be used under all cotton in Within two weeks after chopping, cotton should be side-dressed with at least 18 pounds of inorganic ammonia. If the stand will average plants every eight inches in three-foot rows, if grass and weevils are under control and moisture conditions are favor able an additional side-dressing at blooming stage with 18 pounds of ammonia may pay, says Mr. Hamil ton. Lighter Coastal Plains soils should have at least 18 pounds of potash an acre. Heavier clays of the Piedmont will need at least 12 pounds an acre. This bulletin, which will be sent to f anyone writing The Division of Pub lications at Clemson College, also contains bales that will be useful to anyone home-mixing his complete fertilizers and will readily show any one how much of any particular fer tilizer will satisfy his need^. t Xt Comparatively few farmers in Jap an own as much as 10 acres of land, i I AGRICULTURE CLASS ORGAN IZED INTO CLUB TO IMPROVE SCHOOL GROUNDS. The agriculture class organized it self into a club for the purpose of improving the school grounds. The club will co-operate with the -school tiustees and Parent-Teachers Asso ciation in any plans made. The first meeting was held on Tuesday and the officers were elect ed, as follows: Luther Drennan, i prcs ; dent, William Robinson, vice- president and treasurer; Thomas Dowtin, secretary. An executive com mittee was elected that is composed of tlm three officer^ Mr. Mason, Willie.-.n Moss. The executive com mittee wdl discuss plans and bring them before the club. The boys will do most of the work during extra curricula period- and if necessary, the agriculture per’od may b', used sometimes. As the boys wish to do something for the school, they plan to do as much of the work as they .can. / This is a big undertaking, but we believe that with the Help of Mr. Mason, that a lively class of boys can put it across. WILLIAM MOSS. Many a man who thinks hi* property safe: who puts off ordering insurance regrets his negligence when the paper tells the story. The time to discuss the possibility of loss with this agency of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company is before a fire starts. Keep your name out of the paper. That’s real Insurance Service Call or Telephone jf Frank C. Robinson j Insurance Agency ; PHONE NO. 66 McCormick, S. C. BORDEAUX NEWS (Too Late For Last Week.) SINGING PERIOD.. In order that the student body may have practice in singing, a large r.umb?r of new song books have beer, bought and an assembly period of fifteen minutes every day has been arranged which will be devoted to singing. The enthe student body seems to be taking great interest and it is hoped that this will continue through the school year. I FRANK CORLEY, JOE DUKES. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The old McCormick Public Library donated to the High School Library a set of thirteen volumes of “Stod dard’s Lecturers.” These books are very interesting as well as useful and the school students are very proud of them. They are valuable because they are out of print now. Some have read several volumes through, and some have begun to read and to study the pictures in them. The Senior Class met on Tuesday, February 21, and elected their class musician, Elliott Seigler. This of ficer was overlooked when the other officers were elected. Our girls went to Newberry on Friday, February 24, to compete in i r Gask.'thel! ioumfme»' + Messrs. George and Tom Lindley and Misses M’pnie Lindley enjoyed Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Manly Willis. M^. and Mrs. J. F- Singleton enjoy ed Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. P. IX Parnell. - Misses Minnie Lindley and Bennie and Pauline McKinney enjoyed Moh-t day n'ght with Mrs. L. A. Hoffman*' Mrs. Manly Willis enjoyed Thurs-i day afternoon with her •grandnioth-» e:-, Mrs. J. F. Singbton. . Mrs. H. M. Bouchillon and grand daughter, Clair, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Bouchillon and daughter, Blanche, of Greenwood. Misses Bennie and Pauline McKin* ney and Minnie Lindley spent Tuest day afternoon with Mrs. A. E. Willis of Cedar HT1. Mr. Hemy McKinney was in Mc Cormick Saturday on business. Mr. Willie Mitchell and Ruth Per ryman enjoyed Saturday night and J Sunday with their aunt and cousin, Mrs. H. M. Boqchillon, and Miss Clair Bouchillon. Mr. J. T. Lindley was in McCor mick Tuesday on business. Mrs. W. W. M. Lindley and M ss Alma Lindley spent Monday aftei'*- noon with Mrs. W. R. McKinney. i Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Calhoun and children were in Augusta Tuesday. Mr. Tommie Willis spent awhile Sunday aiternoon with Mr. and Mrs. W. W. M. Lindley and family. Mr. Dock Lindley enjoyed Sunday very pleasantly with Mr. Guilford Cade. Messis. O. G. Calhoun and W. W. M. Lindley were in Columbia on business one day last week. Mrs. S. C. Cade spent Sunday w th Mrs. G. W. Cade. Those on the sick list this week are: Martha Hoffman, Fannie Mae and Irene Hodges, Helen and Guil ford Lindley. We hope they will soon be well again. We were sorry to hear of the death of Mr. S. J. Zeigler at his home in Bordeaux Monday. He was buried at the Upper Long Can? Cem etery near Abbeville Tuesday even ing. Several from here attended the funeral. Misses Bennie and Pauline McKin ney and Mr. J. T. Singleton spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hoffman. We all enjoyed the sermon preach ed by Rev. E. A. Wilkes Sunday moi ning. “Bill.” txt ) It often pays to make an investi gation of the markets before selling timber from a farm woodland, says the Forest Service of the Un'ted States Department of Agriculture. As an illustration of this a Foiest Service officer relates a recent ex perience in the South. “In one in stance,” he says, “while riding along a road with a truck driver, it was learned that the man’s father-in-law had approximately 10,000 feet of cedar lumber for sale. The owner was offered only $25 per thousand for this material, by a local buyer. In formation was sent to him, thieugh the truck driver, as to vthcr: k: ?cnfd Due to tlie absence of some of the 1 :;cll same lumber for -^..O per teachers in High School Thursday, Mrs. Harmon and Mrs. Thos. Mor gan taught some of the clashes. thou' 4d. This meant a saving-of $35 on a thousand feet, or a total of $360.”