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CARE OF BABY CHICKS. / iggestions Retarding Natural and Artificial Brooding. The season is at hand when we just give careful attention to the Iby chicks. Whether we buy them ^Wfc^hatch then ourselves, he baby clKks must be vigorous, active, strong on their feet, and must have high vitality, says N. R. Mehrhof, Extension Poultry Specialist. If the chicks P come from good stock they will have these qualities. Only from such chicks can we expect to get heavy egg-production and good breeding stock for the future. Proper managef ment of good young stock calls fori [ ^attention to housing, feeding and sanitation. [ Natural Brooding.?If the mother | ben is going to bring up the chicks, one does not have to worry much Mrar hww?in<r rnnditions. but it is L necessary that there be a good clean pfc crop, that the mother hen herself be clean and free from lice, and that the chicks be locked up at night as protection from rats and other enemies. Artificial Brooding.?If large num1 hers are to be hatched and brooded it is advisable and practically necessary to use artificial brooding. With this method the brooder is the first real home of the baby chicks, and suitable conditions are very essential, since during the first three weeks environment is of the greatest importance. Success and economy in growing! r baby chicks are determined largely by (1) careful operation of brooder, <2) methods of feeding. The gener al principles of artificial brooding are . practically Cue same whether for large or small brooders. The principal functions of the brooder is to supply heat and the ideal brooder suplies the proper degree -of temperature but is sc constructed that the baby chicks can find any tem-1 perature they desire. Beneath the hover the temperature for the first few days should be approximately 100 degrees Farhenheit The baby chicks should be closely confined under the hover of the brooder for the first day or two. This can be accomplished by using a circle of oneinch mesh poultry wire 8 inches high I about two feet from the other edge I of the hover proper. After the secI ond or third day this wire may be fc removed and the chicks allowed the run of the entire house, but towards! Weight each day this wire should be ^Bused again until the chicks learn to ISM | What Dam< I tion. We \ I n I o r g OH V tZ t* ;uoinc?>D iv? Aftuvn v? v|#ot From reports and letters received daily by the Extension Service, Clem-, son college, it seems likely that the. acreage planted in truck crops in South Carolina this season will be materially increased. But what of the markets? That is the question that every cnc is asking. Much of this truck will be ungraded and improperly handled as in the past and there will be no market for such, is the warning given by F. L Harkey, agent in marketing. While it is true that the buying power of the public is diminished, it is also true that the product properly handled and graded will receive first attention on the market But how do we get these results? Through a co-operative fanners' selling organization in carlots is tha ideal way. There are other ways generally less satisfactory and altogether unsatisfactory when the demand is weak. The advice of the marketing specialists, therefore, would be for farmers to go slow with truck unless ( marketing is cared for. Buyers look , to the old truck sections for their supplies, because from these sections their chances are better for securing a graded product The new sections, especially if unorganized, are at several disadvantages. First, they are unknown on ? ? -J me nuutewi scwuu, uxcjr uv av? have a supply; third; there will be a? ma .y grades as there are shippers; fourth, Many will have less than carlots, and express shipments in jless than carlots shipments have a 'very limited outlet. It is wise, therefore, for those who fare thinking about truck crops to have a thought about the markets. If truckers are in need of grading rules, packing and loading rules for any of the truck crops, the information will be gladly furnished by the marketing agents of the Extension Service of Clemson college. ART e Fashion has d< lave a number < ) Spring Millinery ) It is in Millinery that fashion's creators most display their ingeniousy. Our Millinery display \this season portrays fashion's most choice nnl nnlinnn on J viva /dClCVUUlId, <U1U IT C invite yon to call and inspect them. UR STOR irman' The Way To Success. The idea advanced by Dr. H. A. Morgan, president of the University of Tennessee, of a program for the readjustment of agricultural conditions based on regional, rather than national distribution of products, may lead to the solution of some of the problems of the farmers of the south. He refers to high freight rates as a barrier to wide distribution and calls attention to the facts that the south has not met its obligations in the production of meats and other food essentials for home consumption, and to the construction of modern highways which will tend to facilitate regional distribution and the development of home markets for home grown beef, dairy products, poultry, hay, corn and other things that the south should raise for its own use. There can be no question about the importance of raising on the farm nearly everything the farmer requires, with a surplus for nearby markets, where freight rates will not be burdensome to the producer and where money will be put in local circulation to stimulate business and supply the needs of all classes of workers ;< and, as for a change to regional systems of distribution providing a way for the adjustment of present inequalities, the trend is undoubtedly in that direction. A change may come in the system of distributing farm products before the farmers in the south are prepared to take full advantage of it. The important Vi a/A W\ ??M ?II M A??* ?n A#1AM^ tiling L/CiUIC UO JUOb IIv W IS IAJ OUU^l the slogan suggested by Dr. Morgan for the Southern Cattlemen's Association: "Home Production of Livestock," with this addition for general farmers: "and everything else required to enable the farmer to live at home." The one-crop system may be profitable on large plantations, but even on such big farms money is lost during periods of deflation in prices for the crops produced, because supplies must be. purchased, with profits of producers, shippers and transportation companies added to the cost. But, on small farms of the south, the raising of livestock and the diversification of crops along with improved methods of soil improvement and conservation is the only system that will pay. Let's lime our lands, raise clover and other legumes, raise livestock? J * ^ 1 i.. 4. _ i.L . 1--I anve iarm products to uie market on foot and return fertility in the form of manure to the soils of fields SPF ecreed should 1 of her most ch Ladies' v ilk ^^^^QJg} \ Jbi jHisP J jflm ?flR7|l / ' y ** / V ^wse which will meet your n?re a t A.rv ill ViV/' s De ?&. HEEEEiitiiaai from which they are harvested?en courage the development of hom< markets and the consumption o ' home products?live well at home 01 | a variety of choice food produced 01 j the farm, and have a surplus o: ' everything to sell. Under such i I system, farms will increase in fertfl ity year after year, and the farme: will have something to put in thi bonk, whether the money received fo: his products be much or little. Let us read again the statemen made by Henry W. Grady in 1888 and profit by the truths which in spiration and clear knowledge of fact enabled him to teach: "When every farmer in the soutl shall eat bread from hit own field and meat from his own pastures an disturbed by no creditors, and enslave* by no debt, shall sit amid his tee mini gardens, and orchards, and vineyard* and dairies and barnyards, pitehinj I Taste is a matter of tobacco quality i We state it as our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield are of finer , quality (and hence of better 0 taste) than in any other cigarette at the price. Liggett & Mytri Tobacco Co. t I 'J % \ \ 20 for 18c 10 for 9c Vacuum tin8 of 50 - 45c EING be worn this Sp oice creations, Spring Mrmc UIILOUMJ t Oar showing 01 Ladies' Spring Dress J2?,es embodies tfao? y made from mosl ' popular material: along the latesl lines laid down bj the desipers foi this spring's wear And onr prices arc very moderate, too. Before yon buy yom Spring outfit, call ii and look these smart garments over and and we are sure thai yon will find here J aesires in every way. 0 P. M. E-XCEJ partm \ charges his debt, but 9ms not rmiotgi his freedom?then shall be breattflt the fullness of our day." Send us your order far Job Matting. We only do the best work. if . O 5 d 3S . 2 "J his crops in his own wisdom and 9 growing them in independence, makf ing cotton his clean surplus, and sell" 1 ing it in his own time, and in his 1 chosen market and not at a master's f bidding?getting his pay in cash and 1 not in a receipted mortgage that diar I* i<oi + ^ i _= Chestc CIGAI of Turkish and Dom I '3 ' I 'I 'I il?1 ?l ill l iinmr WE ring is here for and invite you Ladies' Spring r Slippers ; * 1 It is often said 5 that Shoes and Hats 1 are die most im| portant part of a man's dress, when a . appearance is considered. No less so is this the fact i in Ladies' Wear. We have Ladies' ' Slippers in all the latest styles. See 1 them! ' ^ ?T SATURDAY ient i v jrfield IETTES eiric tobaccos bUndoa jm". iwstMiHtMMWgggm ARM your inspec- | to see them. | j | s. i Store g # M . iA' iK go in the brooder for warmth. The chicks should have sufficient run if they are to develop into good breeding stock. In the colony sys- ; tem of breeding a run about 12 feet < by 14 feet may be used to accommo- ] (late 250 to 300 chicks. The temperature the first week j should be held at the same degree ] and then gradually reduced. A sue- ] cessful poultryman will watch the ; chicks closely and govern the temperature according to conditions. < Ihe constant aim should be to keep | j the chicks comfortable, especially at night when not exercised. o W fnt* Prnno