The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 19, 1914, Image 5
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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."
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Will Be Paid to Members of
The Bank of Sumter's
1914 Xmas Savings Club
Wednesday, Dec. 16th.
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?In 1914 we had 999 members.
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Larger and Better Club
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