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HOGS AND DAIRY COWS. Florence County Farmer Finds the Combination Very Profitable. Some very encouraging results have been obtained by W. C. McKenzie, a farmer of Florence county, in a recent feeding demonstration to ascertain the cost of feeding pigs on skim milk, corn meal, and rye pasture, the records showing that very economical gains can be made with a small amount of concentrates when skim mi'k and pasture are available, and indicating that, with the development of the creamery industry in the state, faimers might well consider the hogda ry cow combination for a practically sure profit. Mr. McKenzie had 43 purebred Hampshire pigs farrowed between January 10th and January 20th, 1922. The feed which the mothers consumed while the pigs were suckling, as well as all the feed consumed by the pigs up to three and two-thirds months of age, was charged against them. No attempt was made to have the pigs put on weight fast They simply received all the skim milk produced oa the farm, with the proper proportion of corn meal, the idea being to have the cows support themselves from the sale of cream and have the milk to feed for profit. The 43 pigs weighed the first week in May approximately 60 pounds each. Altogether 76 bushels of com were consumed and 14,300 pounds of skim milk, or an average of 42 pounds a*' forr> and 119 1-6 pounds of milk daily for the 43 pigs, which gained an average of one-half pound daily from birth. The total cost of raising the pigs, without labor, was as follows: 76 bu. corn @ 80c $ 60.80 14,300 lbs. skim milk @ 40c cwt. 57.20 2 acres rye pasture @ $12 per acrer 24.00 Vaccination 10.00 Total cost $152.00 The cost of feed per pig was therefore $3.53. But as Mr. McKenzie wished to keep only the gilts, he sold the ten males for five dollars each. This made his 33 gilts cost an average of $3.09 each for feed from birth to 60 pounds weight. An extension service livestock specialist who cooperated with Mr. McKenzie in conducting the demonstration states that the work was carried on under average farm conditions without facilities for doing accurate experimental work and that the results are most applicable to average farming. He thinks that considerable more rapid gains might have been mr.de during the last month or * - * ? Vtor) I six weeics xi more i-viiwinawa ???? been fed, and that it is not most nrofitable to feed skim milk in a larger proportion than 3 to 1. He advises also that corn meal is much preferable to corn and cob meal because of its less bulky nature, but as no sheller was available the corn was used as corn and cob meal. From the dairying of the venture it may be said that the cows on Mr. McKenzie's farm, which are mostly grade Guernseys, are more than paying for their keep with the weekly cream check. o Brining Cucumbers. Boil water, let cool to 1 gallon water, add 1 quart sugar, 1 pint vinegar, 1 pint salt; pour over cucumbers that have been washed and wiped dry. Keep weighted down so that all cucumbers will be under the brine. When fermentation has ceased, skim off white mold and cover with parafin. This will keep the cucumbers indefinitely and are ready cured for pickle. Pickling, If you want to make pickles out of the fresh cucumbers brine over night in salt water, 1 cup to the gallon of water and proceed same as if they had been brined. Take cucumbers out of brine, soak in clear water 2 hours, scald in hot water for a few minutes, soak 15 1 * 't fftklnonAAn. i minutes in nme water U?VlVO|/vv>t | ful lime to 1 quart water), rinse in clear water, scaid for 5 minutes, wipe dry and pack in jars, fill jar Half full of vinegar and finish filling with water, next morning remove 1 cup of solution, which can be saved for another time, and add pure vinejflff gar in the place of the cup that was ? > removed. Drain all liquid from jar, measure and to each quart add 1 cup sugar, stir to dissolve, heat, add spice bag containing the following: 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 tablespoon each of stick cinnamon, whole spice, and cloves, bring all to boil, remove spice bag and put away to be used another time. Pour solution over cucumbers in the jars, seal and process 5 minutes, at simmering, o Prepare to Poison Boll Weevil. "In time of peace, prepare for war," is a proverb more or less in disfavor in international negotations just now, but it still applies to fighting the cotton boll weevil, says the United States Department of Agriculture. Late poisoning is likely to hurt the farmer more than it hurts the weevil, and the only way to be sure of getting an "even break" with the weevil is to be supplied in advance with calcium arsenate and dusting machinery. "We find every year," says B. R. Coad, director of the Department's boll weevil laboratory, "that many farmers fail to realize their danger early enough and then start making desperate efforts to poison after the infestation has become very heavy. They scurry around trying to get calcium arsenate and dusting machinery, and nearly always there is considerable delay. Even when they get the poison and the machinery, it is extremely difficult to control weevil infestation after it becomes severe. There are so many weevil stages present in the squares and bolls that some of them come out every day and poison must be kept constantly on the plants if any good is to be done by it. This very greatly increases the expense of poisoning. Then, if there comes even a chort spell of rainy weather, such control as has been gained is lost and the tarmer nas gone to heavy expense for nothing. We advise all cotton planters to be extremely careful about starting late season poisoning. In a few cases, it has been successful, but at heavy cost and only under the most favorable conditions. The only safe course is to be prepared to poison at the right time." Write the Delta Laboratory, Tallulah, Louisiana, for instrictions "When and How to Poison." o Child Placing "Aid Cases." The Child Placing Bureau of the State Board of Public Welfare is often called upon for advice and assistance in cases where children are taken care of at the expense of relatives or organizations. In such cases the onlv expense incurred by the state is the time of the workers. The Child Placing Bureau has secured several excellent boarding homes for children and in these homes, "aid cases," as they are called, are placed. There are at present eight children who are being boarded out in these homes. For various reasons these children can not be cared for in their own homes and are being temporarily provided for until they can be returned to their homes or some other permanent arrangement can be made for them.. The children's parents or friends are allowed to visit them at convenient times, and regular reports are sent to the parents or friends advising them of the welfare of the children. These children are under the direct supervision of the Bureau JL.::Kl!iKT Kli :!. I, IB KIXIllXl'U!! ? Van F THE WORLD' Col made from mater no starching; yet I as well as the T collar. Try then Van Heusen wear McGill I Store] Kingstree, 1 KINGSTREE HA jj Funeral Director: FIRST CLASS M :: Complete Line Co: ; Metal Vaults an Mr. L. J. Has Charge of our 1 ;: and is throughly e DAY OR < ? ;; Day Phone No. 35 1 H WtWWHtfHW W W A Let Us Do Your Job at the request of relatives or friends. ' This phase of the work is growing in popularity and promises to be invaluable sen-ice to children who are not dependent financially but who are in need of temporary assistance. o The Soul Lives On. Paris, June 5.?Conclusions of Camille Flammarian, the French astronomer, from the study of a few hundred cases along purely scientific lines and apart from religious or spiritualistic viewpoints, are that the soul lives after decomposition of the body, is endowed with faculties still unknown to science and can manifest itself at a distance without the mediation of the senses. "I have spent fifty years studying the question," the astronomer says, " and have applied to it the same rules as to scientific research, I excluded every example which would not stand the test of scientific verification." Among the proofs offered by Dr. Flammarian are cases of dead persons fulfilling promises, giving notice of their own demise and giving of events which afterward matt .1ized, even such as the execution of vengeance for wrongs through mediums previously unaware of the wrongs done. REGISTRATION NOTICE The office of the Supervisor of Registration will be open on the 1st Monday in each month for the pur I. A?%?T nnitxtVio UOMJ UI rc^lsvCiiUK ou; pviovu ??mv is qualified as follows: Who shall have been a resident of the State for two years, and of the county one year, and of the poll: j precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months before the day of elction, and shall have paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both read and write any section to him by the Supervisors of Registration, or who can show that he owns, and has paid all taxes collectible op during the present year, property in this State assessed at three hundred dollars or ore. R. E. CI ' RKSON, Clerk of Board. NOTICE. The County Board of Commissioners of Williamsburg County will receive bids at their office in Kingstree, 1 S. C., on Tuesday, September 6tn, and on the first Tuesday in each month thereafter, for groceries in bulk lots for the chaingang for one month at a time. S. J. SINGLETARY. 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Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Stockholders of the Peoples Mercantile Company, a corporation duly chartered under the laws of the State of South Carolina, will be held on Monday the 26th day of June, 1922, at twelve o'clock noon, in the office of the Peoples Mercantile Company, in the town of Greelyvile, County of Williamsburg, State of South Carolina, for the purpose of considering the liquidation and dissolution or the said Peoples Mercantile Company, the winding up of its affairs and the surrendering of its Charter, and for the adoption of such resolution as may be necessary to this end. J. W. OLIVER, President U. E. KtliiSTiiK, secretary, Peoples Mercantile Co., Inc. Greelyville, S. C., May 23, 1922. 5-25-5t. NOTICE All claims against the county to receive attention of the County Board of Commissioners must be filed in the office, properly verified and itemized, not later than Saturday before the regcdar meeting on the first Tuesday in each month. S. J. SINGLETARY. 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