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ECONOMIC HOG ; PRODUCTION' I ??? rit Grazing Crops and Feed Heavily at All TimH; Clemson College.?"The market ho| | that sees his tlrst birthday usually , loses money (or the owner." This statement is made by D. W. Williams, livestock specialist of the Extension Service, In discussing profitable hog ! 9 production in South Carolina. This ; means that the hog must go to the K slaughter at eight to ten motnhs oi age, weighing two hundred pounds I Tikis is not un unusual weight for > hoes at eight months. Recently one feeder averaged over two hundred on twelve head at five months. To make profits from hogs it is necessary to ' feed heavy at all times. A starving process is a losing one in growing hogs. The hog raiser's problem, therefore, is "How can I make the most hog, in the least time at the lowest cost?" Plenty of feed provided ahead of time Is the solution. Pigi farrowed in Jan uary and February should be read} j for the October and November mar ' kets. Start now and provide the feed; that will be needed this falL We can not compete with th# corn belt farmer raising hogs in a dry lot on corn and purchased supplementary feeds such as shorts and tankage. While these ; are always necessary to make the best gains, we must use forage crops Just as much as possibly With the wide j use of forage crops cheaper pork can > be produced in Soutt Carolina than it the corn belt Be sure to plant some supplement ! ary feed crop with'your corn- Cow 1 peas, soy beans, and velvet beans all furnish good grasi|g for hogs. In Ike tall let the hogp do the harvest-' tag and you will flad but very Jit$e wasted. Let the hags you are gplng bo market gather most of the feed; Iken when it gets sS scarce that they I ? ? enwr a mit lul of mnad in 1 getting enough to tot, remove them [ end let sows and smaller pigs finish WMiag up the field small patch of sweet potatoes will i (Walsh much succalent feed, whleh with a grain ratio! will make very satisfactory gains. | Bvery farmer, whether or not he I \ raise hogs, should lave some alfalfa, I ! ft pays handsomely where it is j i grown. As a forag^ crop for hogs it I is unexcelled. B It is Questionably whether It Is ad- , K Tiaable to plant very many peanuts for hogs this fall, sayi Mr. Williams While hogs make Very cheap and rapid gains on this trop. the carcasses are greatly discriminated against on ; the market Soft Irippv perk is not desirable. South Carolina is now producing hogs thai sell to better advantage than tboseifrom other South^ ern States, because these hogs kill hard as a rule. It h to our advantage i to continue markethg a superior prod- j net which sells wel toward the top of , the market rather than to get a rep! station for soft hqes an,d take a cut in price which is ?ften three or four cents per pound. * Hogs will be mjrketed this fall In carload lots from practically every county. Aim to pnvide a few surplus hogs for these shbments to help ec- | tablish a hog marlet in this state. Be euro to kill enoufh to assure your ; home supply of aeat; then / market 1 the surplus, hi tk future of diversi- ! fled farming In leuth Carolina the j hog is o e of the host promising factors. GREEDY HITS ARE GOOD M0T3ERS Clemson Collegt?It is not generaBj known that tk? greedy mother I who eats almost ill the food thrown I to the baby chick: is doing her best to preYent the loe of her brood. Just before a chiok is hatched it absorbs the greater part oi the yolk of the egg. This yolk witl nc be digested for a week or ten days and if the chick is j | ? overfed its systen becomes clogged the yolk decays, aid the chick dies Ifiuiy persons *aieing chickens In brooders make ?e fatal mistake of feeding the bidd5s too much The { ' brooder is not a greedy hen and it : I' cannot eat the fod and thereby present the chicks totaining more than they should haveio eat i Place the broder oa sharp sand. ' hare the tempeature one hundred degrees whec th< chicks are removed from the inoubabr. and do not feed '' the chicks the fht day. Give them ' buttermilk or stir milk; otherwise fresh watsr. A tomato can with a hole punched nur the open end should be filled with liquid and inverted over a sticfcr to prevent the chicks from becming wet. On the secondand third days seattir a little rolld oats on the sand floor four or flvetimea daily. On the fourth day been alternating rolled oatS witn some garec uuwiuj vi mercial chick fed. The latter is v .^referable becase it contains alio ~wbiUet seed and racked wheat. Scatfcr these on th fine littef to make ' ' the chicks exerise On the fifth dv provide a dry mash of equal parts bminy. wheat shorts, rolled eats, (orjround oats with the hulls removed).wheat bran, sifted beef scraps, ancfcrltbt yellow cottonseed meal. Keo this dry mash before the chicks onstantly. If theee sanations are fellewed. the baby ehieki are likely to pass tiueufh the erfenl ported without i i I I YIm flMrtk's tfatMt Mi t* M I kferion tooi i ; ii .[ I i Averse * f JET MR SAVI lro TuC CUC? ?"CMCH4 EAt H Bctte- r ~~i Loyal Americans! Get Toj WAYS OF EARNING MO! DURING SUMMER VACAT Many Opportunities Open to Chll Who Wish to Encourage Habi' of Thrift and Saving. groat many questions about thildrsp may earn money in ord< purchase Thrift and War Sai Stamps daring the summer vac period have come into the War Organisation at Richmond, and to answer these inquiries that a resent article has been prepared A* suburban or country child ably has the bMt opportunities f btug money, though selling jm end megeelnes, running errand* doing chores offer several wayi the eity ehild to earn the whereall for Thrift Stamps. In the country there is flr^t c the garden. and at this time grc food stuffs should receive speck tention. It is not too late to plan crops which may be marketed profit Lettuce and radishes easily grown and always find markets, especially in the late mer and fall. There will probab more of some kinds of vegetable the garden than can be eaten or ned. These should be sold. On almost every farm there is a when much of the fruit ripen! once, and the problem of disposi: it arises. Some of it is eaten, preserved. A quantity of it nt frequently rots. This should be If thrtt is a market near enough if such is not the case the c'ai can put it up and sell the canned in the fall. Pigs, chickens, turkeys or ra are easily raised in the summer tion. and all of them will brinj large returns for the time and 1 Berry picking is anothes way of rag UlUflfjr iuai I.I1I1U1CU ouvm.u-v od this year there is a. plei erop. Many mothers and fathers wl glad to pay the children for ti care of the yard, cutting wood, ning errands or doing daily cl In faet there are so many way earning money during the sui that the list might be indefli lengthened. But of course the o of any and all of these ways h simply to make money, but to srad save mopey; in other w enough to buy War Savings St which will bring m four per cei terest compounded Quarterly. Tou can do this, every boy an< tn this big country. A. B. C. OF IT AGITATORS and BOLSHBVIKI howl CONTINUALLY, DENOUNCING EVERYTHING they FIND In the GOOD old System, HANDED down to at, INTACT JUST t? our KIND forefathers LEFT it, to MAKE the young NATION OPULENT and Free, PROTECTOR of all in QUEST of Liberty. RIGHT and Equality! SMITE down THESE vile efforts to UNDO our Blessings! VINDICATE AMERICA! WAR SAVINGS STAMPS EXTERMINATE "Reds!" YOU can help. Put ZEST into your WAR SAVINGS SOCIETY. HOW ABOUT IT? 9ameone is saving the money waste. Who Is depositing your lars? Save them and deposit yourself. Blag a song of Barings Stamps, Tfcft flltfJMW'i Bat hare yon counted all the this Asm Serfage Stamps will bay? father on National War Savings Day. <EY BEN FRANKLIN EARLY ion ! learned frugality % I t dren Great American Examplar of Thrift Knew Value of Regular and Systematic Saving For Future. how Thrift is not stinginess. In fact It is J" more often than not that the thrifty man is the one who is truly generous. * Benjamin Franklin, our national exemplar of thrift, was. from boyhood up, always liberal and unselfish. Rene 6 Bache, his great-great-great grand. son. gives an instance of this charac, teristic of his ancestor in a story he 'or tell.: tpers "The price of bread two centuries i for ago was a penny a loaf. Thus it hapwith pened that Benjamin Franklin, a boy of seventeen, on arriving in Phlladel>t all was ab,e *? buy three loaves for wing three-pence; and with them he walked il at- UP Market Street from the wharf, t fall holding one under each arm and eatwlth ing the third. An hour later he gave are two of them to a woman and her good child who had been fellow voyagers sum- up the Deleware." ly be Rene Bache goes on to say of s in Franklin: "Where his own expend!* can* tures were concerned he was always frugal, saving what he could out of time his wages as printer, while his fel* at low-workers spent theirs as fast as n& of they got them, or faster. In this way some came about that, while a mere in" youngster in a printing office, he lent so'? them money every week. idr'en "Though (he earnings of most of stuff them were greater than his. he was '' capitalist. By the middle of each bbits week *bey were penniless, and came to aca- 'lim ^or ,oans t0 rariT them over until p, jn payday. He would accept no interest. akor but each Saturday, on, getting their raak- monf,y tbeT gave back to him what ,njoy .they borrowed?only to repeat the ntiful borrowing a day or two later." The secret of Franklin's success ]j he was systematic and persistent saving, iking 'rom the time he first began to earn pjjj. money. And always having a savings tores. fun<1 he was ever rea(Jy t0. f?rasP his s 0j opportunities--those of lending a nmer helping hand as well as those of selflitelv betterment. bject ket Benjamin Franklin be your ex, not amlpar?start saving today. Thrift make Stamps are an /as.v beginning and 'nrHc pave the way to a certain future. amps THRIFT I girl Without me no man has ever achieved success nor has any nation ever become great. I have been the bedrock of every successful career, and cornerstone of every fortune. All the world knows me and most of the world heeds my warning. The poor may have me as well as the rich. My power is limitless, my application boundless. He who possesses me has contentment in the present and surety for the future. I am of greater value than pearls, rubies and diamonds. Once you have me no man can take me away. I lift my possessor to high planes of living, increase his earning power, and . bring to realisation the hopes of his life. 1 make a man well dressed, well housed and well fed I insure absolutely against the lUinv ua/. I drive want and doubt and care away. I guarantee those who possess me prosperity and success. I have exalted those of low degree, and those of high degree have found me a helpful friend. To attain me you need put out no capital but personal effort, and on all you "Hi invest In me I guarantee dlvldol ,r*5ds that last through life and afthem T am as free as air. 1 am vonrs if you will take me. I am THRIFT. money beoaase they ear* more aawr I ? ' fn r I * ? King'stree Dry1 "The Stoi I King'stree, i A KWO MATS TO GO ' 1 M? DOW* TO TH? C&GZK S\NO A. Tc" SGAf? A='SAf ? A/OBO&y's 5AT*V1 A &JTjl ZZfirS AAfY or A+Y (l\- 0^> 5?^ I AAf6e? rooD - ovoj^r^i / ****< L _ U *' I vCf.r;A,&..: i THIS GREAT AMERICAN CUSTOM HA NEVER WILL. 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