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-?-f?I. ; ? PRODUCING PORK AT A PROFIT. 8agsje*tlonA Rcsrartrlng Fowl ami Man agesaunt?CtBuins; Grazing Crops? Sn4Wr?4ed Cropping; System for the Hoe; Reiser. A combination of good hogs, good feed, and good management will make a profitable business of hog raising al? most anywhere in the South. By good hogs, we mean hogs that inherit a group of desirable characteristics, among them capacity of rapid growth under favorable conditions. Any of the standard breeds will meet this re? quirement Hogs that have not been improved by selection and breeding cannot be used to advantage in con? suming cultivated orops though we should hsve good Iced and good man? agement in other respects than the selection of blood. The "rasorback" may be desirable to the man who provides no culti? vated crops for hogs, gives no atten? tion to breeding and selection, no care >f animals st farrowing, or dur? ing bad weather, and has accessible range of wool lands where acorns, roots, era* fish and chance grazing may be securec. However, the larger, mors v'gorous "rasorback" sows, bred to a ma.e of one of the established breeds will give offspring capable of developing, under proper care, about as rapidly as a full* blood, to a weight of 100 pounds or .nore. Grade sows make good motbeis and can be profi? tably used In a herd headed by a pure-bred msls of an established breed, when pork only Is the reject In view. Grade males should not be used under any circumstances. By good feed, we mean feed that Is palatable, highly digestible, nutri? tious, and cheaply produced. It must be palatable, that the'liog will con? sume a large quantity. We are view Ins; ths hog as a factory, for trans? forming vegetable products into flesh, blood and bone. We want the factory to run fj ths Highest point of con? sumption consistent with efficiency and economy. The fc od must, of course, be digestible before It can bo taken up by the blued. To be nutri? tious It must furnish what the body requires, else It will not be efficiently utilised by the blood. That means that It must furnish ths various forms of dlgescted food In the best propor? tion to have ths least waste: what we call a balanced ration. To lessen the cost of providing feed, we must utilize forage crops ss fsr as possible and make the hog gather much of the fattening crops. It costs too much to produce, harvest, store and apportion concentrated feed to enable us to profitably feed hogs on the dry-lot ba? sis, except for a finishing period. Ws sre msklng some headway In utilising forage crops for hogs, but ws srs not giving enough attention to ths establishment of a system of grailng. The proper selection of crops will give us a continuous supply of fssd that is appetizing, easily digest? ed, highly nutritious, and affording ths greatest abundance at the time it may be utlll/ ul without housing in barns. It srio afford winter cover e?ope for our lands, s distribution of winter-growlnj: snd summer-growing lsgumes to enrich the soil; the ma? nor, from feeding the crops will be Incorporated in ths soil by the ani? mal ss the crops are consumed. Ths following is one of several cropping systems that would afford these desirable conditions: Provide thrss fields. Inclosed in hog-tight fences, accessible readily from the permanent hog pasture, and utilise a three-year rotation of crops in the order of? (1) Early corn snd a summer le? gume?-cow peas, soy leans, or pea? nuts?to be "hogged off" In July and August or August snd September; to be Immediately followed by: (S) Oats, barley or rye. and a win? ter legume (some of the clovers or vetch) or rape, to afford winter graz? ing for sows and pigs, from Novem? ber to February 15. Harvested in May for hay crop, and planted as ?>on thereafter as possible in: (3) Pesnuts, or soy beans, to he "hogged off" in Septmber and Octo? ber, snd followed by: (4) Same crops as No. 2; grazed from February 15 to June 1 or 15, then plowed under and followed by? (5) Sweet potatoes. * 'hogged off" In November snd December, and land prspsrd for crops (1) etc. The crops oesrlng tho odd numbers srs the summer crops, and for start? ing the series plant the three fields In crops 1. l and 6. ami follow with the number next succeeding that of the crops 'ss enumerated. After 5. return to 1. and take each crop In the order given. The crops will he grszed In tho fol? lowing order: Hows ar.d pigs grazed on crops 2. fnll and winter; crops 4, spring and early summer; then begins the fsttenlng period with the porkers, on crops 1. and us the harvest Is com? pleted go to crops 3. then crop 5. The sows may l?e returned to per? manent pasture or allowed a portion of the time with the porkers. When sows and pig* are on posture ?h. v w II need some supplemental feed Sslrnmsd milk is best for small pigs. ^assjsjea %e\^^?^ asss Tankage and corn arc good. When grazing corn and peas no supplement? al feed is necessary. When they are on peanuts, soy beans, or cow peas, s>mo corn as a dry feed is very de? sirable. Good management means intelli? gent attention to breeding, sanitation, and feeding. There is nothing essen? tially difficult about it, except the difficulty of being systematic in work? ing along a well denned plan. W. R. Dodson, Baton Rouge, La. BOY KILLS TWO DEER. Richard Baker, Young Son of Dr. S. C. Baker, Has Luck on Deer Drive. There are many hunters much old? er than Richard Baker, the thirteen year-old son of Dr. 3. C. "iaker of this city, who have not had the good for? tune that he had in a hunt on the Wando river, Mt. Pleasant, last week when he killed two deer, one a doe and the other a buck about two years old. Bichard was on tie hunt with oth? ers In which six deer were killed, he having the good fortune to get two shots on the same drive and laying out both animals. He is undoubtedly much the youngest hunter in Sumter, and probably in the State, who ha.- the credit, as such things go, of having killed two deer. FRIENDS AT PARTING. Fane: What cruel sport Is this You play, to let us meet in fair Sep? tember, You lead us to the heights of bliss To break our hearts in cold November. Two little months, yet friendship sweet Ha* bound us fast with golden cords, Time counts as naught, when those who meet Find harmony with no discords. Fato wills that we must part awhile, Altho our hearts are torn asunder We'll look Fate in the face and smile, And tell him he has made a blunder. He soon will find out his mistake And work for us some other plan? When reunited we will make Things brighter for our fellow-man. So we will bid a fond good-bye And tho' the parting causes pain, We'll face the future cheerfully, Convinced that we shall meet again. ?O. E. F. BET/l 1 GETS^A CHANCE. Red Cross Seals Helped Her to Get Well. She was real pretty, and so full of fun that the dimples were always showing In her round red cheeks. Her eyes were big and brown, and nut-colored hair curled naturally in little ringlets over her forehead and ears. She was just eighteen when we first met her, and so neat and attrac? tive that one would think she belonged to the well-to-do class' of working people, but when we followed her to her home one day we confronted startling facts. Tho red in her cheeks was the flush of ur natural inward fever, tho high spirits were a pitiful antidote to piti? less conditions, and the big, brown eyes saw only squalor when they were not fixed upon a typewriting machine or closed persistently to any view but s.n imaginary bright one. Tho room we entered was a general living space, used also as an eating, cooking and sleeping apartment. There was but one bed, and Betty had to sleep In It with her mother, who was too weak to sit up. An open cuspidor sat where it would be conveniently near the bed, which placed it by tho stove, where their food was cooked. The mother, who was suffering In an advanced stage of tuberculosis, did not like cold air, and her querulous demands caused Betty to keep the door and windows closed. "Well." said cheerful Betty, with a laugh, "that Isn't so bad as not hav? ing any windows or doors to clo*e, is it? Things might be worse." "Infinitely worse," said tho Wise One. "You might even take a not im to stuff the windows and doors with rags to cut out what oxygen comes in through the cracks." Red Cross Christmas Seals, with their cheery message of hope, gave Betty a chance to get well after her mother died. It Is worth while to save tho Bettys? Buv your share to? day. Party Leave on Doer Hunt. A party eoaaltlng of Messrs. Geo, W. Lmrlng. I>avld Lnring. West Brad? ford, Oabo Bradford, wilder James, J. I >. 11?.W en, and two colored oooka, Willis Fraser and John Bradford l< fl this morning for Watreee river down which they will go. hunting ducks on their Shay down until they come to their bunting grounds at Clack Oak Island on Santee, where they will spend a week or ten days on a deer hunt. Sparks from Mcljctidon'H SermonM. Epigrams from McLendon's sermons since he has been in Sumter If I were a woman, and were going to wear breeches, I would get me a pair wi'.h two legs in them. Qod lias but one standard of honesty and purity of speech in life, for man and woman. Would your mother be a lady, standin? on the street corner, cussing and spitting streams of iobaco juice as wide as a handsaw, and enough to drown a jack rabbit? I hear you say, "No, no." Then sir, you can't do It and be a genlteman. You did that, did you ? Well, I am talking to a man who knows he is not a gentleman. Am I not right, when I tell you that you have crosed the gentleman line, the decent dog-line; and are nothing but an old cuss. When a ballplayer knocks a foar base hit when the bases are intoxicat? ed, you carry him off the field on your shoulders. But let a poor prodigal knock a four base hit from the hog pen of hell, to heaven, and you put him in an ice box. Some of you money bags get all you can; and can all you get. If you were to give h. dime, you would sing: "God be with you 'till we meet again." It wouldn't do for some of these preachers to give out Old Hundred around here, because some of you tight wads would sing Ninety and Nine, to nave one per cent. We need a revival in this country along the line of peach tree switches and leather straps. You need to take that little boy with the cigarette stain on his fingers, down across your lap with his face down, and work on the equator of his anatomy. The average boy needs a switch hunr up in his room, with this motto behind it: "I need thee every hour." The most God forsaken, rapacious, mendacious moral pervert and de? generate is the man or woman who sidesteps their marriage vows. Every man who sells goods under false pretenses, is a thief. The gambler who bets and wins, is a thief. The gamber who beta and loses is a fool. So he is either a thief or a fool. The employer who take3 advantage of his employee, and does not pay him the wages to which he is entitled is a thief. The employee who shirks his task, does not do the work his duty calls him to do, is a thief. The man who buys goods from a merchant, and wilfully r? '..) r him, is a black hearte rogue. And there are a lot of I lob*, sters right here in this What do you call it, when you ped? dle a lot of infamous gossip around the streets? You say "Isn't that story about poor Mrs. Smith shocking. Isn't it awful. I'm so sorry to hear it." You're a liar. If you were sorry, you would say nothing about it Some of you old wc men's tongues are like gat tling guns, and long enough to sit in the parlor and lick a skillet in the kitchen. Somo one says there are three ways to start a he: Telephone it; telegraph it; and tell it to n woman. And yet the women are not ball so bad as a lot of you old he-gossips. Not long ago, a fellow who was un? well went to a physician and the doc? tor said, "John, let mo see your tongue." Ho said, "Dock, its not my tongue you want to sec, its my wife's." Some of you men have no time for God, but you have time for the dol? lar. But you will find time to die and go to hell, and not carry a blank check with you, nor have the price of a yel? low dog. I am as much called to preach the Gospel, as the Apostle Paul; and when you get to the judgment you will lind it is true. God said: "I hewed thee with my prophets." Now, a hewer's axe, is not an in? strument with which to daub on salve or poultice. Somo are afraid they will stil up agitation. Well, where there Is no agitation there is no salvation. And where there is no salvation, there is stagnation. And stagnation is the next station to damnation. If you are a backslider, you arc a liar and a perjurer; and you hava broken your marriage vows with God. Qod is tired of this ground-hog re? union. Hi wants some of the ever? green kind. You never saw a dancing, card playing, theatre attending, show going. Whiskey drinking, cigarette sucklngi society gadding, church member thai I amounted t?? three whoops this side of perdition, it is no! the liars, thieves end nooks thai ars hurting our church; iL iw the tide of worldllness thai is swerpiiig over tins land, thai Is de? moralising our Churches and bonus. If you are a preacher ami have been called of Qod, you arc reckless of consequences, or else you have losi your commission. The chief danger that confronts tho present century, will be religion with? out the Holy Ghost; Christianity with- Christ; forgiveness without repentance; salvation without regener? ation; politics without God; and heaven without hell. The Christian religion is the most intense thing in the world. It is not the theoretical infidelity that is demoralizing the church. It it* the practical infidelity. He believes] the bible and won't do one thing. Now you have a fool and a rascal in one compound. This is the most awful mixture that the son of God ever struck while He was on earth. He believes in revival meetings, bui when they come, he makes it con? venient to stay away. He believes in prayer meetings, but" he has not been to one this year. He believes in the missionary cause, but the old tight wad gets out with the least he can give. He believes in family prayer, bnt he never practices it; and you can't prove it by his wife and children. If your sort was put on the mar? ket and everybody felt toward you as I do; you wouldn't bring five cents a dozen in any market in earth, heaven or hell. Some of you people are crawfishing toward hell faster than a fellow can slide away from a new years resolu? tion. The Bible says: "Loto your ene? mies," and you do; but you love him out of your sight. You can't be wrong with men, and right with God. God pity the preacher whose flock runs after the dance, the card party and booze, sooner than the prayer meeting. I You don't change a pole cat by put? ting him into a parlor. I know which will change first, and it wont* he the pole cat. You say "I was born with the devil in me." Well, confess your sins, for? sake your sins, come to God through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ, and you can be born again; and born with the devil out of you. Some of you people haven't opened your Bible since the last birth, death or marriage in your home. ? "Are you going out to hear Macs; preach tonight." "Oh, no! I think he is too vulgar." 8 Now. vou can bet your life; that tar beside his character. ) nountain minded fel mf language is Incor ret i id something in your skull besides buck oysters and saw? dust, you wouldn't think about my grammar. Lots of Christians are like the riv? ers that flow into the Arctic ocean, frozen up at the mouth. Every hypocritical church member is making it difficult for some Godly man to preach the Gospel. God knows every man at his worst. You may deceive the pastor. You may deceive the evangelist. But you can't pull the wool over God's eyes. Belshazzar had to send out after Dan el, to read tho writing on the WtvlL Daniel didn't attend a whiskey guzzling, wine drinking, dancing revel? ry. The reason the lions didn't eat De.niel was because he was all back? bone and grit. Don't try to appear better than you aro, or the sheep will bleat and the oxen will low. God has a strange way of exposing frt.uds and showing up hypocrites and unearthing skunks. \t you want to see Jesus at His bent, you want to see Him face to face wi:h a great sinner. Jesus never locked so wonderful as when he was dealing with a case that in the eyes and thoughts of other people, was ab? solutely helpless. If you are not a good man; it is the' fellow that walks under your hat, who is :o blame. Sin did not begin in the brothels. It did not begin in a beer joint, and it did not begin in a dance hall, nor in a liquor drinking, poker playing so? cial club. If the church was as sacred of im? perfection as it is of perfection; we would bring on the coming of Christ. If we turned the church over to this worldly, society-gadding gang, there would be a theatre upstairs, a circus in tho cellar, a dance in the rear, a card party in the front and a dispensary in the middle. Some of you poor old men, hopping here on the crutches of decrepitude, with your heads gray, form bent and eyes dim; and all these years you have resisted the tender pathetic 'coaxings of Calvary and the warnings of Sinai; and when you want to, yon can resist the devil by tin* same will. If you are an obi bloated faced, bleary eyed, red nosed, reeling spew? ing, puking. muttering. stuttering, sputtering down-and-outer on tin mat ready to take the count for hell; it is because you desire to be. If you are an obi self-seeking, self centred, idolatrous, avaricious money bag; it is because you love to be so, and you are content with it. You never hear a man say, "is there any harm in reading your Bible, or going to Church, or attending pray? er meetings, or paying old debts or being Christ-like? Hut what a lot of i>eople you hear say, "Is there any harm in the theatre or dance?". Not all theatres are bad. I wouldn't say that. But most of them are; and if you have any sense you know how few of them are good, and so do I. An actress said this: "After years on the stage, I am convinced that the theatrical business is the most cor? rupt in the world. It is corrupting, educationally, commercially and mor? ally. It is upon the charred souls of wo? men that most of tho men who are powers in the theatrical world, have climbed to their heights. Israel Zangwill says that the play? wright gets up his production to satis? fy the lust of the age. I do not condemn the theatre as an institution; but I do condemn tho way it is run. It is hellish, black and de? grading; and you church members are responsible for it. If church mem? bers would stop patronizing them, they would clean up or rot. The theatre is not a teacher. It is not intended to be educational; but it is intended for entertainment The day is long past, when the peo? ple looked to the theatre for inspira? tion or instruction. The legitimate drama can't live. A i , Shakgpcarian show can't last for a month. But let a God forsaken leg ?how start up; and it will be packed ito the roof. It is the spectacular that appeals , today. j Take the leg show and the spec? tacular from the stage; and tho the jatre would go to rot. You see a musical comedy, and you will see girls that haven't on enough clothes to pad a crutch. And ! then they try to hide behind "Art." Crude melodramas, mawkish plays ^and literary clap traps form the staple j production of the average theatre. I You may think that these are i scathing words, and that it is awful to utter them. It is ten thousand times more awful, to demand that they should be stated. If the preachers of this country do not call a halt, you may read, "Ichabod" on your door post. "Thy glory is departed." ft OVER $17,151.% Will Be Paid to Members of The Bank of Sumter's 1914 Xmas Savings Club Wednesday, Dec. 16th. ?In 1913 we had 431 members. ?In 1914 we had 999 members. ?How many shall we have in the Larger and Better Club for 1915 WHICH IS NOW FORMING? ?SMALL PAYMENTS. ?NO FEES. ?NO FINES. ?NO TROUBLE. Come in and see us about it; First payment makes you a member. A large check just be? fore Christmas is like finding money. The Bank of Sumter Fn?i?Hi?Hm?mmiiiii?M || In a Few Days f Members of our 1914 Savings Club, will re? ceive checks for $5u (and interest) and up. They only paid a dollar a week. It's an easy way to save. Come and join for 1915, NOW-TO-DAY, while you think of it. I The Peoples' Bank ""SSZ* f YOU PAY IN ONLY FIFTY WEEKS* j M ? ? ? M ? ? ? M ? M M M ) M t M ? < M ? M M M M M ? ? M t H M.Mi Artistic Photgraphy Our pictures will work wondera in improving the appearance of your home. They will reflect your taste and relinement and will give pleasure to yourself as well as to your friends. You are cordially invited to call and see us. WINBURN'S STUDIO, io;i s. main +*<*****i..\.4.A.4.M f-1 f I f I t f| 111II tllf J New Corn Mill J 1 have installed an electrically driven corn * mill of the most improved pattern, and am f prepared to do grinding for the public. * This mill turns out meal and grits of the f best quality. \ N. G. Ostteen, Jr. BSKT?