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SUMTER IS GROW! ARE YOU? Get in the game. Buy "Sumter Dirt". It's going up and you can go With it if vou buv now. . MTALLUM REALTY CO. YOU WATCH YOU INSURANCE POLICIES Do ever estimate the v^ue of your property. Real and Personal, and see that you are ade quately protected. If you have several pieces of property, and many policies expiring at different dates, do you keep a schedule of amounts and expirations and know how everything stands? WTe pride ourselves on the service we give our friends and customers Altho you may not yet be among the latter we will be glad to give you the benefit of our knowledge and experience in insurance. If you will bring in your policies we will be glad to go over them with you and to make up a schedule for you. HENRY P. MOSES COMPANY INSURANCE OF EVER V RIND 123 So. Main St Phono 577 WHEN YOU BUILD! Let Us Figure on the Plumbing If you are thinking of remodeling your house let us furnish estimates and suggestions. We make a specialty of installing new sanitary bath rooms. Plumbing, Steam, Gas and Hot Water Heating. KING PLUMBING CO W. Hampton Ave Phone 702 DONT FORGET 10 SEE ABOUT ' HARDWARE FOR YOUR NEW BUILDING We carry a larpre stock at all times. If you want Special Hardware1 we will be glad to figure on your requirements and quote prices. It Will Pay You to See Us. We will be glad to figure on your require ments and quote prices Full stock of Devoe's Pure Lead and Zinc Paints. Also Benjamin Moores paste paints DURANT HARDWARE CO 17 N. Main St Phone 62 U II FOD 1 SMALL Fl Equipment Now Available Re moves Much Irksome Toil. DIRT NO LONGER TOLERATED Plans Show Stables for Cows and Horses That Can Be Kept Clean With Little Trouble. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr. "William A. Radford will answer questions and give ad%"ice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor. Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt. the highest authority on all these subjects. Address'all inquiries to William A. Rad ford. No. 3827 Prairie avenue. Chicago, 111., and only inclose three-cent stamp for reply. - The word "barn" brings to the mind of everyone who lived on the farm more than ten years ''ago a building in which the first and last work of the day was performed amid a variety of ! their backs to the sun. So this has ? become an accepted practice in barn I planning. j Through the center of the bam runs \ the feed alley, the mangers being on ! either side. Contrast this with the old system of having to carry feed around : the horse or cow to the manger built j against the wall. On either side of ? the barn is a litter alley, usually pro ; vided with a carrier running on an i overhead track. While this barn is j only 30 by 40 feet the same plan can ? he used on a larger barn, with the ex i ception that the feed alley will be 1 made wide enough so that a wagon ! may be driven, through it, and when I larger numbers of cows are kept a I silo will be added. In the floor plan that accompanies ! the perspective of the barn it will j be noticed that the foul air flues are ; placed in the walls and lead to the i ventilator .on the ridge. These flues j follow the walls and roof, thus making I the mow space clear of obstructions. Hangjng the barn doors has engaged the attention of the manufacturers of burn equipment during the last few years and nowadays they are so hung that they open as easily as the door I in a home. An enclosed track, weath er and bird proof, is put over the door and ball-bearing wheels follow it. Care in Planning Necessary. Competent builders in every com munity now are familiar with modern odors and in partial or total darkness.! barn construction. They know how But a barn to the modern business! the :barn should be built so that the fanner means a clean, well-lighted and ventilated home for his live stock?a place in which the work of caring for' the animals can be performed with comparative comfort and in much less time than it formerly took. Barn construction has made greater progress than building of any other sort. And a great deal of this prog ress has been brought about by the .n greatest profit may be made from the live [stock it houses. The prospective barn builder should exercise as much care in planning this building as he would in erecting a home, for on the plan depends whether or not he con ducts hrs live stock business in the most efficient way. This is to be a "Build a Building" year. The need for farm buildings I*, 40'0* LJTTEX A1XEY ii tV-ft" 50X STALL FEED B1H nwm alley MANGjfcl 1 SiZ?11 DOUBLE!'HOUSE -pTAU-5 UTTXR, ALU-Y Floor Plan as great as the need for homes. With wheat at $2/20 a bushel and other grains in proportion, none of them will be wasted. And it is sheer waste to house the live stock in poorly con structed barns, where they will require a greater amount of fuel in the shape of feed than they would in a tight barn, whore water is available. There is n<> place where work can be so lightened on the farm as in the barn. In considering the care of live stock, the silo should be also considered. One-third of the feed value of the corn is in the stalk. To allow this feed to bo lost is another waste that should be eliminated. The silo provides the live stock with fresh nourishing food of Small Barn. , vestigationfi made at the state experi i mem stations and the agricultural col leges. These investigations have prov en that a cow or a horse, or even a hog, must have a clean, well-lighted place in which fresh air can circulate freely in order to be healthy and in consequence as productive as possible. As a result, the barns that ^re now erected are planned so that these fea tures are included. Lack of water meant less milk, so running water is now carried to each stall; a cold barn had the additional erTeot of requiring a greater amount ct feed, in order thar the animal mighr be kept warm; lack of sunshine meant that the barn was a breeding place for all sorts of dis ease germs, sunshine being nature's greatest germicide. Shown these facts the modern business farmer at once decided that sick animals were bad in vestments, so he accepted the modern way <>f housing his animals. Good Barn for Average Farm. On the average farm, however, not such a great number of live stock are kepi as to require :i large barn. The building shown in the accompanying illustration is designed to house four horses and sevenVcows and to provide storage space for their winter's supply of fri-d. This gambrel-roofed barn 1 will meet the requirements of a ma jority of farmers. The floor plan shows how the -tails are placed in the two compartments, it now being re quired in many states that milk-pro ducing cows be separated by :i closed wall from the horse barn. :is the am monia nnie? in tin- latter contaminate the milk. The animals face in. allowing lb'* sunshine from the windows to strike the litter alley ami gutter, ;iml to keep the bright Light Out of the eyes of the cows and horses, ii was observed by u<!? nis .?!' live slock ilia' h<?th cows und le.rses in the pasture alwjiys turn throughout the several months the> are in the barn and goes a long way toward solving the problem of feed. Erecting such a barn as has been here described is good business for the farmer. It will save him labor, and labor is costly. It will give him in creased nrorits in both money and sat isfaction. Quite Happy. Through the wild ways of her good for-nothing husband, a hardworking charwoman had to remove to a little two-roomed cottage, where there was scarcely space to sneeze without shak ing the ornaments from |_ho mantle ].:.-ce. "'It's hard lines for yon |o he brought (!? wn like this, nfier what you've been accustomed to." said :i sympathetic U-'Ighbor. "I don't doubt you frei ven miserable. Mrs. .Tones." "\'o. 1 don't." the charwoman stotitl) d nied. "I'm happier here !?;. :i but: way than I used to !??> in (!??? old \'ace I'or oil" thing, when mv husband come* home in a brute of :i temper, h" can*; throw me down i!e> cellar jfs |i used io do. Vos i!i ?'.'<? ain't mum now. ?Pearson's Weekly. ARE Y?? G?ll TO BU1D? We Furnish Everything For Any Building BOOTH and McLEOD, INC, Building Material Headquarters UILD NOW! This is not a Command from us. We are simply giving voice to the need of our beautiful city. Build now and let us furinsh the Electrical Equipment and do the Wiring j THE IYNAM ELECTRIC CO ; Phone 900 31 W. Liberty I ? ? ? -%<> ? DOE THIS HIT YOU? Yon are now face to face with the fact that soonner or later'yott will Iiave to build a new home or make extensive repairs".on the*" old one. . . ... - Right Now Is the time to do one or the other most economically. If it 1^ v. new building it will certainly cost no less later on, while thef .. i diances are it will cost more. There Is An Urgent ^eit"'" "^"---^ For more homes in this City. As ? proof of this fact, try to rent or buy a desirable home at this time. Desirable Buliding Lots are Available In this City as well as building material. We have the materall' i in quantity and quality and arc able: to quote you attractive prices ? and make prompt delivery. - Submit us a list of your needs. AVERY LUMBER CO. INC. After You Build the New Home The next thing to consider is NEW FURNISHINGS The selection of the furniture should be made with eare and thought. It will not be a 'real home' unless the furinishings are in harmony and give tliat atmos phere of good taste .und comfort. We Are "The Home Furnishers" Everything in the Furintnrc line for ev?Tv kind of home JENNING-GAINEY* FURNITURE CO. W. Liberty Sumter, S. C. Home of the New Edison Sellers Kitchen Cabinets