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I UCTION my i I STOCK G THE Season ! ! r: I Compare D PRICES! | j irnis iN THE CORNER I , - s. c. ri Make Our arters. i Dill till j; i\ Market [PriceJPaid i bles on Hand]in Season* S MARKET Proprietor. i R gs to Eat | B E : CARTER iy arrears send or | .1 /-\ /In 11/1 TT7/% n e uuc us. we | id will soon have I ts due the estate and Owner, Mr. le hands of an' don. We prefer :h a step can be COUNTY RECORD. : EVERY FLOCK OF CHI HAVE A SANITAI Poultry Husbandman of Clems< . Can Construct Poultry Needs, Yet Be m _ 1 vy'&jMjatr deuj-GB je. ' 'f | ? ' College. i MM 1 Wonts/iv Lirr our Tt) clea/t) dropbcard 0sJf Ti hH *"<5jL i ['/ ear77t floors U=. J Q 1 a I GROUND PLAN? ^ V Ma Every tiock of chickens should have a house to live in. It need not be an expensive building but it should be bright and sanitary. The best place to locate it is near some shade or fruit trees, to protect the hens from summer he^t. The ground must be dry and preferably of sandy loam. -j The front or open side of the house should face the south, so as to have as much sunlight as possible on the floor. Cut 4-by-4-inch lumber for the sills, two pieces 10 feet long and two pieces 7 feet 4 inches long, for the house shown in the accompanying illustration. This will accommodate 40 laying hens. Then erect five front studs 7 feet long and four back studs i f> feet leng. Put up the two center studs, the plates and roof rafters. Cover the frame with wide unplaned boards (not recommended unless cheapness is a primary consideration and even then it is better to cover these boards with roofing paper, ton- i gued-and-grooved flooring or weather boarding.) If you use tongued-andgrooved flooring, lay It up and down. In the front side leave an opening 7 feet long by 4 feet deep and a door space 2 feet 6 tnches wide for the open front and door. Both openings extend " ?J au- ? o 10 me rooi ana uie re mm mug o icci (at the bottom) is closed to prevent heavy wind or rain from blowing on the chickens. The openings are covered with 1-inch-meshed wire netting to keep out sparrows. Ventilating Door. The door 12 Inches wide near the I ORCHARD WORK Have you a supply of fruit on your farm? If not. why not begin now to make arrangements for it? On almost every farm of the state there are a few trees, producing a small quantity of fruit. In most cases all the fruit ripens at once and is soon gone, giving a supply for only a short time and leaving none to put away for winter use. Xo southern state is better adapted than South Carolina to producing fruit for home use, yet millions of dollars leave the state every year for canned "u"" Preparing Soil. At this season of the year (September 1 to October 15) orchards are usually neglected. Farmers seem to think that there is nothing to be done then that will be of any material help. Nev- | ertheless. now is the time to begin to prepare soil for the trees that are set out this fall and winter. Select the orchard site, break the soil as deeply as possible and harrow thoroughly. This work will greatly reduce the later labor or setting the orchard. Choosing Varieties. What varieties are you going to plant? This is a point of great im- ; portance. Be sure to make selections that will provide fruit throughout an entire season. If you are not familiar with the varieties that are adapted to your particular section, write to the Extension Division, Clemson College, for Bulletin No. 15. In this will be found lists of varieties suitable for the various sections of the state. Buying Trees. ~~ ?m, oninor tn (rot vr?11 r \ V ilCI C ttl U J V> u gV/iug wv/ ow v ^ ? trees and what are you going to pay for them? If you are not in touch with a reliable nursery and if you are not familiar with the prices of trees, the Extension Division of Clemson College will be glad to help you in this j matter. Beware of the tree agent. The i Farmers can obtain a circular on 1 the growing of wheat and oats by writing to Sidney S. Rittenberg. Cleanson HNS SHOULD ' ' ] IK HOUSE 10 LIVE III ' T >n College Telle How Farmer House That Answers Inexpensive. . s t A fbultpyifou^eT a<$MlLTlodC. | ' ! ''^^yviDZ J -i I M*1 jw ^ ' \f I r 1 4 ! Ii ^VYXTEB- 1 i i ! i V J *B II 4j -H K- fi'-O' A dRO& 0ZCTIQH roof at the north side (see illustration) extends across the house. This door is opened in warm weather to ventilate the house and create a draft to cool tne interior. It is closed in winter. This is a valuable improvement for Southern poultry houses and should always be provided. The interior has at the north side two roosts and a dropboard to catch the droppings. The dimensions are J * An in rlnomincr T K A r An K/VJ TV^ fo 1 > Cil 111 I lie Uianiug. 1 lie Lt A Kjy V* is 3 feet wide. Nests and Hoppers. The six nests can be made of old egg crates, orange crates or packing , boxes. They can be placed on a raised platform together with the wafer vessel. This keeps both nests and water clean. Dry mash is fed in a hopper or self-feeding box which will be described in a later article. The floor of the house should be well-packed dirt filled in till level with the top of the sill. A concrete floor is best of all aftd you should try to makt an earthen floor as near a concrete sun face as possible. Chickens are injured by having to live i> a house full of dust? Board floors soon rot and harbor rats and mice unless raised high off the ground, as in a squab plant. Cover the earth floor to a depth of I inches with straw or clean litter. Scale ter the grain in this litter and make your hens sratch for every kernel. PRANK C. HARE. Extension Poultry Husbandman, Cljrason Agricultural College. FOR EARLY FALL i nurseries they represent may be all right, but you are not always sure of what you are getting and in most cases you are paying the agent's salary and the expense of delivering the trees. It you are thinking of setting out an or chard this fall, let us help you. Improving the Orchard. If you already have an orchard, why not begin to improve it now? A covei crop sown now and turned next spring .vill help wonderfully. Twenty pounds of crimson clover seed per acre, sown and disced, will make a good cover, provided the seed are inoculated. Three pecks of rye and 20 pounds of hairv vetch to the acre will also make a good cover for the orchard. If these are turned next spring at the first cultivation they will add a lot of fertility to the soil will also help to hold moisture. There are a good many mummy fruits hanging to the trees. These are full of spores and if left in the orchard will cause more rotten fruit another year. Now is a good time to get these out of the way. Pull and burn them. Borers may have been giving you trouble. You were advised to paint and mound the trees early in summer. The mounds should be pulled down on October id ana me irees e.\auuut*u borers. The young borers are Jus: entering the trees the middle of October and will be found going in just above the level of the hill of dirt you pull down. If you find any of them, scrape the bark off with a knife and the little borers will be destroyed. The work at this season consists largely in cleaning up and preparing for winter ard spring, ir done proprely. the trees receive much b?neflt. C. F. NIVE7N, Assistant in Horticulture. Clemson Agricultural College. If you don't know what you giv? your cows and you don't kno.v what your cows give you, why do you keej cows? Keep records.