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f ? " ^MOIMAL |! ?C SCC C CCCC?6eee C&1'enl Lt;litly !:i tlic Warm Season. ]H!:i::;^ the summer mouths fowL should not ho overfed: that is. thoy should not he triwn more than onehalf the iiiuuutii of food whieh thoy ordinal ilv would sret uurinj; the fail ami winter mem lis. ' Ami, furthermore. that which tlioy get should l>e of light character. such as will produce the least heat ami fat. '1 he old fowls, if 011 ratine, should iia\e scarcely auy .trraiii food, except, perhaps, whole oats, at night. The insects and seed that they gather during the day will plentifully supply their wants, and keep them in a healthy state. All food which produces heat and fat should lie avoided, and we believe better results can be had if fowls are given only a slight feed of "whole oats late in the evening.?Home and Farm. Intelligent Animals or Scrubs? There is just as much difference between the intelligence of blooded animals and scrubs as there is between tiie intelligence of educated and uneducated persons. As a rule educated men are "as kind as kittens." If they have any "crochets" it is very rare that they exhibit them. They eudea^ -or to make themselves agreeable td everybody, high and low. and it is a pleasure to have associations with them, while the uneducated are too often boorisli and unpleasant to deal with. They have their notions of matters. often not founded on either fact or reason, anil if crossed in their views, an ebullition of temper is apt to result. The thoroughbred man. when in conversation with a scrub'mau, generally tries to ascertain what the latter really does or does not know, while the scrub usually goes on with a voluble tongue and tells all thai he knows and much that lie does not know, and his speech is chock full of great I's. And this is the difference. A scrub horse does not know much for a horse, neither can he learn. There is not enough gray matter iu his skull to be a fairly teachable animal. Balky, runaway, vicious horses are almost invariably of this 'class. Thoroughbred equines are altogether different animals. They take'' to education as a calf dees to milk, and seem to delight iu being tutored. In acquiring knowledge there is as much difference between them and scrubs as there is between day and niglit.?F. II. Sweet, in The Ephoinist. Iiilclliccnt Swine Feeding. There is quite a revolution going on fn swine feeding, which must not only finite a beneficial effect upon the health el the animals, but upon the quality of the pork. We are still inclined to consider quantity more than quality in this feeding, but gradually we may expect to see the old methods of feeding the animals with slops give way CA,.,nlkh,n ISI-n vl... ? ....... |.? , . n 1 1 ...1 tu iMfti.t ui.u^ uuu u iitu uv v.?im u a reiiued a ml civilized diet. A irootl deal of the prejudice existing against pork iti the past was due to this slipshod aiul careless method of feeding the swine. Any old thing was considered good e nough for the pigs, and the pens and feeding trough were iu many instances so literally dirty and filthy that it nauseated one to look at either from the inside. People who were fond of pork vowed they would never eat it again after looking in a filthy pigpen and seeing the kind of food the animals devoured. As a partial excuse for this the pig was said to be dirty and filthy by habit and nature, and that it preferred to grub its food from dirt and mud. This theory js not sustained by actual practice. Turn the pigs out into a clover field, and they will keep as clean as the cows, hut if you shut then) up into narrow pens where they <lo not get the food tliey need, they cannot help from gettiug dirty. Contine human beings in the same narrow quarters and they would prove almost as tiltliy in their habits. It is the artitieial life we gave to the pigs that made them degenerates. ? American Cultivator. Grub* and Cutworns. The eggs that hatch out white grubs .are laid l?y tlie May beetle, which usually does not come till about Juno with us. The eggs are deposited in / thin grass, a? a rule, so the young grubs can Uto on the roots when tbey hatch cut. They are three years getting their growth. The last year they are very large aud white. Now, as a rule, the beetle will not lay any eggs in thick, heavy clover and grass. At the time she comes such clover and grass completely covers and shndes the ground. Instinct teaches her not to lay her eggs in such a place. It would be too damp and cool for them to hatch. She goes to an old, run-out sod. or thin grass, where it is drier and the sun can get in better. Sometimes eggs may be laid under refuse on the surface in a stubble Held. * but not-often, I think. Instinct would prevent. So to keep tiie grubs from injuring you make your land rich with manure and tillage, and grow a heavy crop of clover and grass. Then do not let it stand to run down, but after t jV: mowing it oik* year plow, while frea from grubs and plant corn and pota* tops. In about .'our years seed down again. I have found thousands of young grubs hatched out just 0:1 th:! edge of a lipid of heavy plover, but none whatever i;i the plover, rule.-there were thin places in ir. Ail can not do this way, of course, but it i: the sure way of keeping free from grubs, and cutworms and wirewornis will be discouraged, too. Such pest.? acpuinulate in an old sod.?T. 13. Terry, iu Practical Farmer. A "Cut Carter" Cor Hay Ilaric. To give the forewheels a chance tc "cut under" the rack sides, use the device shown in the cur. The curved iron makes a neat appearance and "obviates the necessity of bringing the THE DEVICE. rounds over the opening into the interior of the rack to secure a support for the lower end. A blacksmith can readily make the iron pieces to lit into the desired position, leaving a hole at the top of the curve for the "round" tomtit into, as shown. This makes a much neater job than the usual form, and gives a clear space from side to sate in the rack. firn oir> d^ctcd cv/ii OiUlY nun rwx I kn liiui Adequate Itestrlctlve Legislation Should { lie Introduced. The abuse of advertising by signs arid posters has raised up in EnglaifJ a Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Advertising, the work of which is interestingly described in to-day's Tribune. In a word, the society found that the system, which works so admirably in France, of Imposing a stamp tax on all posted advertisements. was impracticable in England. Instead of this, it worked to secure a general law. which gave the local authorities full powers to regulate, restrict. or prohibit advertising that challenges attention iii a public way. Many towns immedk.tely adopted restrictive legislation. Dover has takei the lead, requiring a license for all advertisements which are not contained within a window, and for all * - ^ * * ~ ..it-t.,. vciucies cuieuy uscu ior iuaeiiKnu^ purposes, while absolutely forbidding all sky signs. London, Glasgow. Manchester. and many of the smaller towns have passed regulations covering various abuses, such as transparencies. electric flash signs, and sky signs, and regulating the size of the letters permissible in a poster. Everywhere a praiseworthy public spirit has been shown in this matter, nud it may reasonably be honed that England will eventually be as free from this disligurement as. say. France or Belgium. What has been accomplished in England is certainly possible here, where, in fact, reform should he easier; for * > /> !>?? ? O mn"A cti*nnr>1v lirnnmirwoil collective sense, and a less exaggerated idea of individual rights. The English precedent should encourage those who are working to arouse public opinion in this matter. If adequate restrictive legislation can be introduced in one of our cities, the work will be half done. The busiest among us will appreciate the comfort of walking in the streets freed from the disfiguring signs which now. as the French say. jump at your eyes.?New York Post. Locust Porridge. The every day life of a P.asuto village is a very simple affair when compared with the life of a British village. Take, for instance, the food supply. Porridge is made of mealies, and thickened and flavored with sour milk (mnfl) or herbs, and It is seldom that a Mosuto? Basuto in the singular becomes Mosuto?comes to bis meal leaving bis appetite behind him. Another standard dish is locust porridge" ? .. KnI.m ! />?. nt\ lvP tl>a Jl (llflllll 111 ?U{ipi^ UVIU? Ul-Jfl ?lj? -jj till. constant showers of locusts, which are veritable godsends |0 tlie natives in a country where food is very scarce. The Bnsuto collect tons and tons of these insects, and carefully store them, first pulling off the heads and wings. As occasion requires, they place quantities in large pots and boil them until soft and pulpy, flavoring the porridge with fat. and making it savory with salt. The locust to an unprejudiced European is not unpalatable, closely resembling the shrimp in taste, though scarcely so nice. Greatly as the Mosuto appreciates stewed locust, he likes still better the young green maize stewed and served with melted butter, and certainly not the most fastidious could desire a more delictus food.? Chambers's Journal. A Useful Invention. The latest invention in the way of improving methods for printing newspapers is a machine that will set type by telegraph, although the operator may l>e a thousand miles away. Western newspapers, who say the Inventor is a young Iowan, named Frank l'eame. assert that several telegraph companies are striving to secure the patent rights to the invention. BOTH SIDES ARE FIRM I Conditions In The Steel Districts Remain Unchanged. MJAlt i\tW MtA Ant AIIAUtU; j The American Tin Plate Company At- j tempted to Bring In Non-Union Hen, But Ti:csc Are Attacked. Pittsburg, Special.?Practically the only significant event in the strike was the positive stand taken by the American Tin Plate Company in reference to its course in the future. An | official statement from this company denies that there are negotiations look. | ing to a settlement of the strike and authorizes the statement that mills put into operation during th* strike will be continued non-union, and all men going to work now will be retained in their positions. This statement will have its effect because of the fact that the tin plate has always been considered as among the strongholds of the Amalgamated Association and the deal appears to have been brought about by the association declaring a strike f^ainst the Tin Plate Company after the scale for the year had been signed. Notwithstanding the fact that he Amalgamated people claim justification on the ground that their constitution provided for such procedure, the officials of the Tin Plate Company consider the action a breach of trust and say that henceforth they are determined to cut loose from union labor entirely. President Shaffer reiterated hi3 positive statement that all efforts for peace that were being made by the Civic Federation were without authority from him. He said that if official overtures were made by the combine they would be considered, but that was all. He denied that he knew of any move that was being made in New York except what he has seen in the papers. Other officials of the Amalgamated Association said that there was no change in the strike. Everything was quiet and the men were satisfied with the way things were going. The one place within this district where the strikers have scored a victory is at Irondale. O. At this place the American Tin Plate Company was compelled to close down its recently, opened plant for lack of men to operate it. The day was full of excite A i ? lliil A ?rl11n<?A on/1 ctrftof meni 111 me nine viua&i- auu ouvui. fights came thick and fast for a time until the inhabitants were wrought into a state of excitement, bordering o? terror. The first fight of the morning took place when rive non-union men left their homes and started for work in the mill. On the main street of the village they were met by a party of about 30 strikers, who by moral suasion tried to get them to desist from their determination to go to work. When this failed a stronger argument was used and the men were given a drubbing and driven back to their homes. The village had scarcely recovered from the surprise which this attack occasioned when word was passed around that a party of new men were drli'lng overland from Wellsville. Almost all the strikers at once started to meet the carriage, and when they passed the mill'offlce Ira Householder. a non-union man. shouted at them. The action precipitated a fight. Manager Banfield saved Householder by dragging him inside and shutting the door with difficulty. The Tin Plate Company then attempted to file infor matlon before Justice Baisley, cbarg Ing the strikers with riot, but the justice refused to entertain the charge, saying he would issue warrants for those mixed in the fights charging assault. but no more serious offense. The attorney then began the preparation of papers, for an injunction restraining the strikers from interfering with r.cn-unionists in any way. It is learned that President T. J. Shaffer has sent out letters to all members of the executive committee of the Amalgamated Association in viting their approval of the peace plan agreed upon last Saturday by the representatives of the National Civic. Federation and the Amalgamated Association headquarters officials. The plan proposes: First, that the New York offer of July 7, made by Messrs. Schwab and Morgan, be accepted. Second, that a provisional scale be arranged but not signed for Painter's Lindsay and McCutcheon's and the Clark mill, leaving recognition of the anion open. Third, that the United States Steel Corporation formally declare its attitude toward organized labor, this declaration to take such form as will have a reassuring effect upon the meu In the mnis. Operatives Joining Union. Col'imbia, S. C., Special.?Textile Union No. 211 was in session for several hourse Tuesday night and was addressed by membera of the executive committee. Many additions were made to the membership. A committee vas appointed to look for houses for the 500 operatives who have been suspended. The operatives declare that they have been ehut out and that in ao doing the fight has been forced on frhem. The operatives still In the mills were not required to renounce the union as the president said they would be. This has postponed the crisis. Officials of the union say a strike cannot be averted as the members are determined to stand 1 by the union. THE COMING STATE FAi?.. Arrangements Progressing Rapidly For a Good Show. Mr. T. J. Lsmotte has been notified that he has b<*en appointed assistant secretary of the State fair. Mr. LaMotte has been connected with the association since its organization in 1S7S and is familiar with the details of the office. He began at once to distribute the premium lists. The late Col. Vance, who was assistant secretary, was also a member of the executive committee, chairman of the committee cn grounds and buildings and a member of other committees. He was deeply interested in the fair. It was mainly to his efforts that the society secured a nice sum from the' Seaboard Air Line for a right of way. and Col. Vance gave much time.to tho expending of this money on new buildings, sheds, etc. The officers of the State Agricultural and Mechanical society are: W. D. Evans, Cheraw, president; J. Wash Watts, Laurens, presidehf pro tern.; Thos. W. Hoiloway, Pomaria, secretary; T. J. I^araotte, Columbia, assistant secretary; A. Gamewell LaMotte. Columbia, treasurer; A. W. Love. Chester, general superintendent. The vice presidents by congressional districts are: A. T. Smyith, Charleston; R. B. Watson. Ridge Spring; T. J. Klnard. Ninety-Six; J. Wash Watts, j Mrmntviiie- .T W. Dunnovant, Chester; | B. F. Williamson, Darlington; W. G. Hlnson. Charleston. The ?xecutive committee consists of: C. FItzsimons. Columbia; M. L. Donaldson. Greenville; A." Porter Haskell, Columbia: T. 0. Sanders, Hagood, R. P, Hamer, Jr.. Hamcr; J. E. Wannamaker. St. Matthews; S. J. McCaughrin. Newberry; J. G. Mobley, Winnsboro; C. F. Moore. Bennettsville; A. H. White, Rock Hill; J. H. Wharton. Waterloo; D. F. Eflrd, Lexington; J. W. Dreher, Leesville. The following, all of whom are expresidents of the association, are exoffieio members of the executive committee: Thos. W. Woodard, Rockton; J. B. Humbert. Princeton; Thomas . Taylor, Columbia; E. R. Mclver, Pad- j ?netto; B. F. Crayton, Anderson; R. A. ; Jvove, Chester; D. P. Duncan. Co'.um- j bia; Thos. J. Moore. Moore; T. J. Can- j ningham, Clowney. The following departments of the; fair are presided over by the superin- J tendents named: Held crops. M. L. j Donaldson. Greenville; Stock. Jno. H. , Wharton. Laurens: grade cattle, A. , Porter Haskell. Columbia: horses, mules, etc., D. F. Efird of Lexington, and R. P. Mamer, Jr.. Hamer; sheep : - --- . I and goats. J. wasn nana. ..w...... , swine. J. G. Mobley, Winnsboro; poultry. A. H. White. Rock Hill and Geo. L. DeHihn; household department. J. ! W. Dreher. Lexington; manufacturer's department. R. B. Watson, e Ridg Spring; mechanical department. J. W. i Punnovant, Chester; agricultural im- I plements, C. F. Moore, Bennettsville; I chemicals, mineral;;, etc.. C. Fizsimons, j Columbia; fruit and floral department. B. F. Crayton. Anderson; needle and ; fancy work. Dr. T. J. Kinard, Ninety- I Six; fine art. B. F. Williams. THE RACES. The races this year will be very in- J tere3ting as the purses are larger than J ever, and the track at the fair grounds j is becoming recognized as one of 'he j - ?_ por {hat rea- | fastesc in me ? _ son northern men who brings brings ! of fine horses south for the winter are ! setting up a circuit of southern towns j with Columbia as the most attractive : The following races and purses are an- I nounced in the premium list: FIRST DAY?TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1901. No. 1-3-4 Mile dash, weight for age,1 3130. No. 2?2.16 Class, trot or pace. $230. | No. 3-1-2 Mi'e dash. South Carolina J raised saddle horses. $75. No. 4?Gentlemen's roadsters (trot or pace, owners to drive), $100. . SECOND DAY, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1901. No. 5?3-4 Mile heat, weight for age, $150. No. 6?2.25 Class, pace, $200. No. 7?Mile novelty, weight for age. one-quarter of purse to horse leading each quarters), $150. No. 8?2.30 Class, trot, $200. THIRD DAY?THIIRSDAY.OCTOBEIi 31, 1901. No. 9?1 Mile dash, weight for age, $200. No. 10?Free for all, trot or pace, $400. " *1 " ' Ml1" ^oVi nwnars' handi fto. 11?O-t ilium UUUU, V/ .. cap, $75. No. 12-5-8 Mile dash, weight for age. $75. No. 13-1-2 mil? heats, weight for age, $100. FOURTH DAY?FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1901. No. 14?Mile heats, weight for age. $150. No. 15?2.20 Class, trot or pace. $-50. No. 16?3-4 Mile dash (2 and 3 year olds, weight for age), $75. No. 17?3-4 Mile dash, consolation (for horsea not 1, 2 or 3 at this meet), *75. .. ''viT "; hM .3 " ' 'i A GREAT CMNCROP Bredstreet's F'gures for the Current Season. . A YIELD OF 1,400,000,005 BUSHELS With An Estimated Value of $750,000,000?There Will Be "Bread in The Land" For Another Year. New York. Special.?Eradstreet says: Late advices as to the probable corn crop yield and as to the resulting effect upon the general business of the country have made for a rather saner view of the subject than could have been taken some six weeks or two months ago. With the idea of getting a clearer view of the actual situation in the closing week of August Bradstreet sent inquiries to all its officers nr.u correspondents not only in the surplus corn growing States, but in the leading Middle tnd Southern States as well. A consolidation of the replies from the seven surplus States of Iowa. Kansas. Nebraska. Mine's. Missouri, Indiana and Ohio, percentages of increase or decrease by States being barnl upon the ieported yields as indicated by the Department of Agriculture. point to a reduction in the yield nt thosA States of not far from 650. 000,000 bushels from a year ago. Smaller decreases are likewise indicated in the smaller corn producing States, like Texas. Tennessee and Kentucky, sufflcent to swell the shortage by perhaps 25,000,000 bushels. Against this is to be noted larger products reported in such States as New York, Maryland. Virginia and South Dakota, which, while not sufficient to offset these decreases, still limit the falling off so that a shortage of not to exceed 675,000.000 bushels in the country's crop is to be looked for. A yield of not le68 than 1.400,000,000 bushels is indicated for 1901, a drop of about 30 per cent, from a year ago. Replies to the question of farm prices being out the fact that the present prices per bushel are fully 40 per cent, higher than a year ago. The farm price for the entire United States a year ago as reported by the Department of Agriculture was in the neigh a- I ~ nne borliooa or su cents, <tuu a. *? cent, increase in price would point to at least 51 cents per bushel being realized this year, which, applied to a total yield of 1.400,000.000 bushels, would net a total return of about $715,000,000 this year against $751,000,000 a year ago, a decrease of only $36,000.000 or less than 5 per cent. Special interest of course attaches to the answers a3 to the probable effect upon general business the coming season of the shortage in corn, and it is in a high degree encouraging to learn that Bradstreet's agents the country over in the majority of instances look for little that is hurtful to flow from the corn shortage this year. The fact seems to be that the agricultural interests are in pretty good shape at present The wheat yield is large, and prices received have been very good. Those sections sending the poorest corn reports, in fact, send the best advices as to wheat yield and returns. The results of the inquiry are. therefore, to indicate that far from being the failure earlier indicated, a fair crop of corn will be gathered and that, thanks to the goou wheat and other crop yields, and to the prosprous condition of the farming interest, what would in years of depression be regarded as a very good crop outlook exercises little adverse affect. Extension of Seaboard Air Line Rail? *? C oevIrA. way wvi ? Effective August 25th, train service was commenced on the Brunswick & Birmingham Railroad, operating from Thalmann, Ga., on the Seaboard Air Line to Brunswick, Ga.; on September 1st, through trains will be inaugurated between Brunswick and Savannah, Ga. This gives the Seaboard Air Line an entrance to Brunswick, St. Simon Island, Cumberland Island, and JekyI Isiand, and forms the short line be-, tween Savannah and Brunswick and between Brunswick and Jacksonville, Fla. DeLima Case Reviewed. Washington, D. C., Special.?Mr. Tracewell, the comptroler of the Treas ury, has rendered a decision which disposes of the famous De Lima case. He holds that under the recent decision ol the United States Supreme Court the judgment obtained by De Lima & Company for $14,597 from the Unite'd States on account of duties paid by them on goods shipped from Porto Rico to the United States, between the date of the ratification of the treaty of Paris and that of the approval of the Foraker act. may be paid out of the general appropriation of the Treasury Department without further action by Congress. Lockouts flay Be Declared. Hazleton, Pa. Special.?The miners' onvention authorized the representaovpfiitlve board to declare iive uiaiiiw ? lockouts where last spring agreements have been violated by the companies. Preparations wll be commenced at once by National President Mitchell, and the three dl3trict presidents for bringing about a joint conference with the oper* a tors. m ? ' S ' T