The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 28, 1904, Image 3
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Testing; Covr*.
When it is possible to test the butter
value of a cow it does not pay a
dairyman to feed any cow that he is
not sure is giving him a profit. The
following from the Southern Ruralist
shows what has been done:
"It would be interesting to know
how many dairymen in Georgia test
their cows so as to ascertain which
cows are paying a profit and which are
being kept at a loss.
"Some recent tests have been reported
which are very instructive, not as
showing how much individual cows
give when fresh in milk, and at their
best, but what they give during the
year, for with this information, with
the market price of the product and
it th? PTsot amount of
profit is easily determined.
"A dairy expert in Minnesota in testin?
about 200 cows reports some very
striking instances illustrating the farmer's
ignorance of the relative value of
bis cows.
"One case is the following: Two
grades of similar breeding, with exactly
the same feed, care, milking, etc..
one yielding twenty-three pounds of
butter per month, the other sixty-three
.pounds. If the farmer paid for her
care. etc. and butter was worth
^ ^venty-five cents per pound, the latter
made a clear profit of $10 per month,
which is more that the yearly income
of one share of the best railroad or
factory stock in the United States.
And yet the market value of such a
cow is about $35 or $40.
"The Illinois Experiment Station reports
a similar case among others:
Two grade cows. Rose and Nora, as
nearly alike as possible, were fed the
same and managed exactly alike for a
year. The difference in favor of Rose
in the year's prodnct was 3207 pounds
nf ?ly> nnunds of butter fat.
For every 100 pounds of milk from j
Norn, Rose save 130.5 pounds. For,
every 100 pounds of butter fat from
Nora. Rose save 180.7. Rose produced
564.8 pounds of butter during tbe year. I
Nora. 298.6 pounds of butter: the differ- j
ence In favor of Rose being 200.2;
pounds. With butter at twenty-five
cents per pound. SC6.30. If Nora made ;
expenses. Rose made tbe neat sum last
stated. If 175 pounds of butter will |
pay the expenses of one of these cows, j
and this is enough according to some
dairymen, then the profit from Rose
amounted to $97.25.
"A very Interesting article in the Chicago
Dairy Produce of May 5 last,
gives a report of a Scotch writer upon
the methods of the Danish farmers.
They weigh and test their milk with
great care, having societies organized
for the purpose of employing and sup
porting experts, whose entire time is
devoted to this work. The plan and
the working of it cannot now be given
in detail, bnt it is only mentioned to
ahow some of the discoveries resulting
from it. One man began with twelve
heifers and by careful management
weeding ont the most valuable one
from year to year, and breeding only
from the best, he about doubled his
product per cow in a few years. This
careful system of testing brought to
numerous instances where whole |
families of cows were giving twice the
milk and butter of the average cow.
One cow is mentioned as giving 1100
gallons a year for seven years: another
1400 gallons a year for fifteen years.
Without testing the individuals, a large
part of the profit from these good cows
would have bepn wasted supporting
a lot of scrubs."
Protfftln!: Strnwberrjr Plants.
A great many different things can be
nsed as protection for strawberry
plants. At the South we have In pine
straw an ideal covering. It should be
applied so as to be about one-half of
an inch deep after settling. What is
sought Is to cover the plants just deep
enough to greatly lessen, but not entirely
prevent, freezing. If the covering
is so deep as to entirely prevent
freezing there is danger that the plants
might be smothered or bleached. The
crickets and other harmful pests, especially
at the South, are more liable
to take refuge in the thicker covering.
Crickets sometimes do considerable
harm to plants.
Where nine straw cannot be pro
cured, wheat or oat straw or different j
kinds of long, coarse grass can be used I
to some extent. The objection to grain
straw Is that it is liable to blow off
unless chopped short or weighed down
by small quantities of earth or small
stones placed at intervals. Forest
leaves can also be anchored in the same
.way. Corn stalks, or any coarse stalks
of that kind, can be used. In the far
North, where no other protection is
obtainable, several inches of earth is
thrown on the plants to protect them.
Coarse stable or barn yard manure
protects plants and at the same time
enriches the soil. A top dressing of
hard wood ashes, followed by a liberal
one of stable or barn yard manure,
will insure a fine crop of berries at the
next fruiting time.
While not essential, it is better i
^ Brief Mention. j
We laugh at sueers, Jibes and blows
of an enemy, we expect nothing else.
But the wounds from the hand and
tongue of him who calls himself our
fcpend, those wounds never heal; we
feel them even in the grave.
If the wrongs we committed in this
life affected only ourselves, we could
afford to go right ahead and think
about the consequences after the act
had been done.
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wherever practicable to cover the middle
and all. No matter what kind of
covering is used, it will be necessary to
remove part of it as the growth begins
in the spring, which in the latitude
of the central parts of the country
is early Marvh. At this time the
straw litter, or any kind of covering
that is used, can be raked from directly
ofT the plants and left scattered between
and around them to serve as a
mulch to protect the berries from grit
at ripening time.?O. W. Blacktiall, in
the Practical Farmer.
Ths Dairy Heifer.
The dairy heifer should be handled
constantly. This is essential in order
that she mav be kent gentle. The so
called "breaking" of a heifer to inilk
is an evidence of improper management.
If she comes in contact with
the herdsman often enough and is
properly handled she will be so gentle
that there will be no trouble about
milking her. even for the first time.
The necessity of having to tie up a
heifer and break her with milk stools,
hay forks and other implements of torture.
is not only inhuman and nonsensical,
but a useless waste of energy
due to the neglect of the early education
and training of the heifer. It
is necessary that the udder parts of the
heifer be handled from day to day.
or as often as possible, so as to induce
a flow of blood to that organ and thus
I develop at the earliest possible date
the maternal instinct which is so
j closely correlated with the capacity
to give large yields of milk. The
gentle kneading of the udder from day
to day Is a point of more than passing
importance. It does not take long to
perform the operation, and the benefit
of the practice is now well established.
The average man says: "I have no
time for such things. These are the
notions of theorists, and as such are
not worthy of my attention." There
is where a serious mistake is made.
Why should people enter into the
breeding and development of a dairy
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I lit'XU II liirj? uatr uvi iv |/M(f
j tention to the fine points; in other
words. If they have not time to propI
erly train up and develop their animals
so as to bring out the desirable instincts
in the most perfect way? The
attainment of perfection in the development
of the dairy heifer requires a
systematic course of treatment, and
the man who is not willing to give the
necessary time to the education of
his animals can not hope for the best
results.?Professor A. M. Soule.
While the j)ew is On.
A small plot of ground was divided
equally between the hired lad and the
son of the farmer, and to each was to
be given the entire proceeds of his
labor. They planted their plots with
corn and laid a wager as to which
should make the biggest crop. At harvest
the son came out a bushel or two
behind. He could not understand the
reason, as he had hoed his twice every
week until it was laid by. while he had
not seen the hired lad cultivate his
at all. and yet the latter had gained the
wager.
r* ?nvnui nut thnt- tlif? winninc croD
had not been cultivated as frequently
as the loser, but it was done before
bis rival was out of bed in the morning.
Providence, it seems, had followed the
hoe of the early riser with a special
and increasing reward.
Now. to our mind, it is not at all
certain that the mere fact of the early
cultivation accounted for the gain in
production. Is it not likely that the
lad who was enterprising enough to
turn out of bed so early in the morning
while the other one was asleep, was
also more careful and thorough in his
cultivation?
We believe that this is the true ex?
* Afhoi* rvnrrle tliA
pianuiiuu, iuui, in viuci ...v
very early rising and the hoeing while
the dew was on were merely the accompaniment
of success and not Its
cause.
Farmers who believe In early cultivation
for the cabbage, which is hardy
enough not to be affected by it, know
that the bean and some other plants
are very impatient of hoeing at the
unseemly hours when people ought to
be in bed. They show their resentment
very decidedly; the earth which
is spattered on the leaves stops up the
Oior heeorne the victims of
rust, which is simply the indication
that the leaf is deprived of breath.?
Florida Agriculturist.
Correct Diagnotl'.
She?'"It's really wonderful how
much that doctor knows."'
He-"Why so?"
She?"He asked me if I ever heard
a buzzing noise in my ears."
He?"Well."
She?"That's just where I do hoar
it!"?Yonkers Statesman.
"Queer idea that of calling a man
and wife one." "Well, when they are
married they are practically one."
"Nonsense; it takes two to make a
quarrel."?Philadelphia Ledgex*.
News of the Day.
William Jennings Bryon has purchased
the old homestead in which he
was born at Salem, 111. It is a plain,
two-story house, and its heavy timbers
were hewn by Col. Bryan's father a
half century ago. Col. Bryan's purchase
is prompted altogether by senti.
ment, as he has told his friends he
has never considered changing hi* residence
from Nebraska.
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In tlie South.
O movement rvillir.IT for DOO
I * *J ular aid or co-operative as-1
Nsistance 011 the part of the
legislative and commercial
m m ho lies has made such rapid
progress in so short a time
as the good roads movement in the
South. While this movement is general
throughout the country and seems
to he attracting all elements to its support.
in the South, where great natural
resources are being developed at an
unprecedented rate, and where facilities
for transportation are a matter
of immediate, pressing concern, largely 1
made so during the past three years,
this subject of improved country highways
is taking deeper root with the
people than in most other sections.
The commerce of the world comes
primarily from the ground, and as a
rule the cost of transporting a product
is relatively higher in the initial stage
?from the field or mine to the railroad,
river or canal?than in any other part
of its journey to the world's markets.
The most expensive and the most oppressive
kind of transportation is
wagon transportation, where it is ac
complisned over Dan roaas, dui mis
fact is often lost sight of by communities
which address themselves to the
work of correcting alleged inequalities
in the freight rates charged by railroad
and steamboat companies.
A village in the West, which had its
own peculiar grievance touching
freight rates, was so situated that all
the incoming freight delivered by the
local railroad had to be hauled up a 1
steep hill in wagons, on which only
half an ordinary load could be drawn.
This condition was complacently submitted
to for a number of years, wliec
it occurred to somebody to suggest that ,
the point of attack might be profitably
shifted from the railroad, or its attitude
on the subject of freight rates, tc
this hill.
When this suggestion was acted
upon, finally, resulting in the cutting
down of the grade, the reduction ir ,
j cost of local cartage of one-half, and a
! corresponding saving in cost of transj
portation greater than could possibly
I have resulted had the raiiroad granted I
all that was asked, the business mer
of this village realized that tbey had
been guilty of an error of omission in
not having figured, at an earlier day,
the cost of transportation to and from
the doors of their stores and ware
houses instead of between stations on
the railroad, and that it is possible foi
a short piece of neglected wagon road
to be an important adverse factor in
the relations of their community with i
distant markets.
The encouragement given to the good
roads' movement in the South by th(
Southern Railway, beginning in 1901.
when it co-operated with the United
States Agricultural Department and the
National Good Roads Association in an
expedition for building object-lesson
rnn rle in crtnthnncforn SOptinnc nf
the country, is a consistent part of
the policy which aims at the develop
ment of its territory.
In recent years 60 much has been .
done to perfect traffic relations between ,
Southern railway points and all the
groat commercial centres, not only of
this country, but of the world, that it Is
simply logical to extend the system ol
economical distribution of products to
the home of the farmer, and the way to
accomplish this is through the Improvement
of the country wagon roads.
One of the most promising and gratifying
features of Southern development
to-day is the activity displayed by commercial
bodies in promoting road building
in the country, assuming part of the
burdens in many instances, and thus
recognizing what has been so long
largely ignored?the mutual interest
and inter-dependence of town and country
in one of the most important movements
of the time.?Home and Farm.
An Alabama Exp-rlence.
Of the 3200 or 1300 miles of country
roads in Jefferson County, about 230
miles are macadamized, and the common
dirt roads are kept in fairly good
repair. Twelve miles of new macadam
roads have been completed this year.
and the amount of betterment, including
the repair and constructiou of
bridges, during the past summer and
fall has been more extensive than in
any previous year.
The poorest dirt road in Jefferson
County is better than the best road in
some parts of the country, while Birmingham
has few streets equal to the
best roads of the county. The facts
speak' well for county administration.
No money that the board of revenue
expends annually is so profitably applied
as that which is paid out for the
improvement of the highways. County _
values are greatly enhanced by our
good roads work and every year will
mark an increased ratio of progress.
By 1910 Jefferson will have 400 or
."00 miles of macadam roads and it
will then be more than ever "a garden
spot." The great development of truck
farming and the dairy industry in the
county has been made possible by the
excellent roads, and in five or six years
the few stretches of land not covered
by industrial plants or suburban town
houses will be cultivated to the highest
degree of productive capacity.?Birmingham
(Ala.) Age-Herald.
Portugal is the most illiterate country
in Europe; nearly fifty-eight per
cent, of her population cannot write.
In Italy the proportion of illiterate is
I fifty-three per cent.; in Russia, thirtysix
per cent.; in Spain, nine per cent.,
and in Britain, not quite four per cent.
MEDICAL I
Of the United State
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Other Prominent Physicians Use
and Endorse Pe-ru-na.
Dr. LLEWELLYN JORDAN. Medical
Examiner of the_U. S. Treasury Department,
graduate of Columbia College,
and who served three years at West Point,
has the following to say of Peruna:
"Allow me to express my gratitude
to you for the benefit derived
from your wonderful remedy. One
short month has brought forth a
vast change and 1 now consider
myself a well man after months of
suffering, fellow sufferers, Peruna
will cure you."
A constantly increasing number of physicians
prescribe Peruna in their practice. It
has proven its merits so thoroughly that
even the doctors have overcome their prejudice
against so-called patent medicines and
recommend it to their patients.
Peruna occupies a unique position in I
medical science. It is the only internal
systemic catarrh remedy kftown to the J
medical profession to-day. Catarrh, as
every one will admit, is the cause of onehalf
the disease which afflicts mankind.
Catarrh and catarrhal diseases afflict onehalf
of the people of United States.
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? Robert R. Roberts, M. D., Washing-;
J ton. D. C., writes:
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{ Through my own experiences
* as well as that of many of my!
J friends and acquaintances who ?
*have been cured or relieved of ?
{ catarrh by the use of Hartman's j
Peruna, 1 can confidently recom- ?
J mend it to those suffering from
{ such disorders, and have no hest
J tation in prescribing it to my pa- J
J tients." -Robert It. Roberts.
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Dr. R. Robbing, Muskogee, I. T., writes:
"Peruna is the best medicine I know of
for coughs and to strengthen a weak stomach
and to give appetite. Besides prescribing
it for catarrh, I have ordered it for
weak a?.d debilitated people, and have not
had a patient but said it helped him. It is
an excellent medicine and it tits so many
cases.
"I have a large practice, and have a
chance to prescribe yonr Peruna. I hope
you may live lone to do good to the sick
and the suffering.
Dr. M. C. Gee writes from 513 Jones St.,
San Francisco, Cal.:
"Peruna has performed so manv wonderful
cures in San Francisco that 1 am convinced
that it is a valuable remedy. I
have frequently advised its use for women,
as 1 find it insures regular and painless
His Preference for America.
William Stoll, a young German ol
Milwaukee, who three years ago left
that city for the purpose of serving
his three years' term in the Germany
army, has just returned to the cream
city. Within twenty-four hours after
the close of his allotted term of service
Stoll was on board a steamer
booked for his adopted country.
Good works is not the price of a
ticket to Heaven, but the proof of the
right to enter there. So. 5.
Lore can neither be bought nor sold,
but it may be exchanged.
Money Saved is Money Made.
Dr. Win. Self, of Wehstar V. f! an
old practitioner of medicine, tells us that
after many years experience in medicine
he finds it money saved to his patients
to utc Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of
Sweet Gnm and Mullein for coughs, colds
rod consumption.
At druggists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 a bottle.
Some men who won't trust themselves
wonder why others won't trust them.
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mSW out all the dang
H Other medicines treat sjrmpt
|H cause, and, therefore, its
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BB " MM *y To Cure Your HeiiUcI
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blood, wind ob the stofflach, bloated bowels, f<
pains after em tins, liver trouble, aallow akin an
regularly you are lick. Constipation kills mor
starts chropic ailments and lonf years of suffer
C ASC ARETS today, for yon will never get wc
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EXAMINER
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^ Dr. Llewellyn Jordan. ^
C Medical Examiner United States 3
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menstruation, cures leucorrhoea and ovarian
troubles, and builds up the entire system.
I also consider it one of the finest
catarrh remedies I know of."?M. C. Gee,
M. D.
Catarrh is a systemic disease curable
only by systemic treatment. A remedy that
cures catarrh must *aim directly at the depressed
nerve centres. This is what Peruna
does.
Peruna immediately invigorates the nerve
centres which give vitality to the mucous
membranes. Then catarrh disappears.
Then catarrh is permanently cured.
If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory
results from the use of 1'eruna.
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full
statement of your case and ne will be
pleased to give you his valuable advice
gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio.
Bank Account Long Untouched.
A Whitman, Mass., woman recently
presented at an East Bridgewater savings
back a book issued Oct 1, 1875,
when $500 was deposited. Nothing has
since been deposited and but twenty
dollars withdrawn. The deposit now
amounts to $1,643.50.
The Ost Wonder.
The Editor must tell its readers of this
marvel. It originated with the largest
farm seed growers in the world, the Jobn
A. Salzer seed Co., La Croase, Wis. It
has stiff straw, stands up like a stone wall,
ia white, heavy, and has long ears, filled
to the tip with fat, plump kernels. It is a
great stooler, 80 stoclcs from one kernek
ur YOU WILL SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10C.
IN BTAMP8
to above address, yhu will ret a sample of
this Oat Wonder, which yielded in 1903, in
40 States from 250 to 310 bu. per acre, togetner
with other farm seed samples and
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It takes heroism to be a good husband
When he has ceased to be a loving one. I
The promises of Providence are to I
those who dig for their bread and not I
to those who dream about big loavee. j
WORK with the first dose, j
he blood of all the poisonous H j ?
e RHEUMATISM, driving \
crous germs that infest the M j I
the way cures are effected by
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CH With Naoaeooa Cathajiica U
WE. It Cures I j -10
bad effects on the Stomach. IT IS fk I
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sul mouth, headache, indigestion, pimples, \
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11 and stay well until yon get your bokrela ywj
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A Boston physician's
covery which cleanses and "*^>4"
heals all inflammation of the mucous !
membrane wnerever located.
In local treatment of female ills Pa*- !
tine is invaluable. Used fts a douche it
is a revelation in cleansing and healing i
power; it kills all disease germs which*
cause inflammation and discbarges.
Thousands of letters from women
Iirore that it is the greatest core for
eucorrhaa ever discovered.
Paxtioe never fails to cure pelvic
catarrh, nasal catarrh, sore throat, sore
mouth and sore eyes, because these
diseases are all caused by inflammation
of the mucous membrane.
For cleansing, whitening and pre- '
serving the teeth we challenge the
world to produce its equal.
Physicians and specialists everywhere
prescribe and endorse Paxtine, and thousandsof
testimonial letters prove its value.
At druggists, or sent postpaid 50 cts.
A large trial package and book of
instructions absolutely free. Write
The R. Pax ton Co., Dept. 25 Boston, Moss.
The flavor of TOBACCO may be injured
by the use of stable and rank
organic manures. " ?
Potash
; in the form of sulphate produces an (
improved flavor and a good yield,
t Tobacco must have Potash.
Our little book. "Tobacco Culture." con- >
I tains much valuable information, and every
tobacco (rower can obtain a ccpy free of
charge by writing for it.
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CAPSICUM VISELIIfc (PUT
CP IN 00LLAP8ML* TUB Kg) A
substitute for and superior to mustard or
tny other plaster, and will not blister the
aostdellcaic skin. The pain-allaying and
;urativequalltiesof thisartlcloHrewonder- 4
'uL It will stop the toothache a t once, and. ?
elieve headache and sciatica. Werecom- >
nend it as the best and safes* external
ounter-irritautknowu.also asanexterns)
emedy for pains In the chest and stomach
i nd al 1 rhe uma tic, neural gioand gout y cum-,
ilainta. A trial will prove what wo claim
or It, and it will be found to be invalnablc
n tho household.ManypeoplesayTtisthe
lestofallof yonr preparations." Price tg
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endiugthlssmounttousinpostagestamps
trn will aan/^ wntl A fnhftht mAn \n ftrtJpTn
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a m e ca rri es ou r 1 abe1, as of h erwi se i 11 s n o 11
renulne. CHESEDROt'OM MFd. CO., I
17 State Street NEW Toss Citt.|
7?rSalzer's^?3National
Oatsli
Greatest oat of tbe century. lpB
Yielded In 1903 In Ohio 137. WT
s""fl\\ tn Mich, Si, In Mo. Zii.and la- Iff
It ) N. Dakota 310 bua per acre. You 11R
Iff can bent that record In 1904 ? 1\U
J ( For 10c and this notice ji|
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