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The Watchman and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Company, Sumter, S. C. Terms: $2.0Q" per annum?in advance. Advertisements: Ohe Square, first insertion .-$1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or kmggr will be made at reduced rates. All communications which, sub serve priyat? interests will oe charged, for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of rer ?pectrWili he.charged for. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of both .of the old papers, and is man ifestly xher best advertising medium In Sumter.._ I-OCT-SFEAK1XG TLEPHONESj The loud-speaking telephone is J said to be giving the radiophone a j hard race for popularity. That's j perfectly satisfactory to most of I us as long as it doesn't mean an i increase in the number, of loud speaking telephone-users, whose unpopularity now stands in a class by itself. " There are people who appear never to. grasp any of the scientific j principles of the miracle of the; telephone. They retain to the end ! the idea that they must shout loud ; enough to project their voices, as j through along tube, to the distant listener. The fact that the other: party rarely understands them [ without numerous repetitions never ; gj&ts to .them. Neither does the] fact that it is a painful thing to j be close to a receiver from which j the harsh and scratchy shouts j emerge. Here is a matter to which the na- ? uon, might well devote a special j week, putting on a big drive against j .peaking into telephone transmit-] ? ters with more forcefulness then j courtesy. ??-?* .. I THREE HEXPRED PER GAL-, EON What with aerials going up in every, ether yard, and a new flivver coming on .the market to compete! with Henrietta, and somebody dis-j covering a light that can be lit and; stay Sit without fuel, and somebody! else maintaining that cockroaches; invented radio, and girls discover ing that brjbbed* hair is a great deal more trouble than . the a\one-up j kin?v"'Tif* 23" pre ty interesting! thesi dayr. The newest invention is that of-\ the ejagine designed by H. H. Q}r l ?er^olj'^racuse, N. Y., which he is; quiij^ure.^vill run an automobile ' 31>0 niCesitm a gallon of fuel. Noj carb^"reT:mf:i5 necessary. Any kind of 00 can be used, mineral, animal or "vegetable. "The chemistry of oil",. whatever that phrase may! mean, is the basis of tav alleged | discover*^- ';]] A grttfup of engineering experts j have pronounced this engine prac ticable and- far ahead of the times. If it comes up to the hopes of its inventor, revolutionary changes may T^j?peeted in automobiles. Poor-old China's getting crack ed worse, than ever. That gasoline tree that seme-1 body has 'discovered in Brazil ought to be planted in our auto mobile camp sites. * * * ''What .literature needs to be great." says an English editor. "is a sense of sin;" Present-day liter ature has the sin all right; all ft lacks is the sense. \ - * * * As B^veridge breaks into politics again in Indiana, in this more or less "dry year, there is a natural curiosity as to whether he's hard or ssft. ECBOPEAN I-Kp>THBKS Lloyd-George, in his capacity of s^pef-plremier. is now engaged with the problem of national frontiers, and with good reason. Most of the wars ;a history have started over territorial disputes. From precedent, then. Europe is surely full of the s,eeds of new wars. As Lloyd George told the corre spondents at Genoa the other day. there is not a border line from the Baltic to the Black Sea that is ac cepted hgrall Europe. So the boun dary, problems have to be taken up at ?libroa, in spite of the sup poscd jrP?e against "political" sub jectf-,. b|c^&'se they are fundamen tal to- j?ie peace of Europe and therefore, fundamental to economic reconst*u*3aNm. It is "doubtful, though, whether anything final can be accomplish ed ar<Jenea. The boundary quar rels affect* too many nations and are too*-^tfrnphcated. What could be dom>, presumably, would be to turn them over in a body to some rcognized.tribunal.with leisure and authority to handle them. There is The Hague' Tribunal, though it does not amount to much now.. There is the new World Court established by the League of Nations, which is doubtless competent. There is the League Council, too. The League now embraces nearly all the Eu ropean nations except Germany and Russia, which are the two biggest troublemakers, actual and potential. From this distance it looks like the logical thing to take the remaining outsiders into the League, and then let that body handle the boundary disputes. It was for such work that it was created, and its most effective work so far has been along that, lino. \ COURTEOUS MOTORING It is generally recognized that courtesy and safety in motoring are closely allied. For this reason much current safety instruction [ takes the form of establishing rules fof courtesy for the highway. An eastern paper recently offered eight suggestions for the approval of J motoiisls. These rules include such mat ters as permitting a car to pass one from fh? rear without assum ing that the driver ot the swifter car is looking for a race. It is possible that he is on important business. Another point is fair ness in keeping to one's own share of the road so that no other car neeA be crowded Or inconvenienced ?hnecessarily. Stealing a parking place by pushing in just as another diver is preparing to back in, or by shoving some one else's car along the curb to jRiake room for one's own, is regarded as discour teous. Cutting directly in front of ja car one has just passcl, honking continually when halted necessari ly in a traffic jam and omitting or giving hand signals carelessly are all discourteous. These little matters of courtesy, if omitted, open the way for all sorts of accidents, both minor and serious. The thoughtfulness. and caution needed in their observance make for careful driving and in spire good wi$ in other drivers met on the road. This is the deadly chain of facts with regard t? Ri?s?a:, The Soviet government is now in the saddle. It has established it self with a good deal of strength and is npt to be ligjitly overthrown. Nor is there, any use ip overthrpw ! ing it until something better is j ready to take its place. j There cap be nothing better to take its place until the Russian people themselves are thoroughly awak? to what ails them, and to *its remedy. While whole provinces of Rus sians arc ?tarvihg because they cannot ( run enough^ trains, over enough rails, with enough locomo tives that will run, Tand enough cars that will hold things, and ! enough trained crews to run the ! Locomotives and look after the cars, there is' not much prospect of th3 Russian people as a whole waking up and. taking a hand in their government. The Soviet officials have not suc ceeded in organizing the Russian people to the point where they can take care of their own affairs, and they dertainlr cannot organize or help themselves while under the i present Soviet government. Obviously, aid must come from .. > c ... - . . ? . ... . outside Russia. When such aid has i been furnished so that trains can i uii, and agricultural machinery can be transported, and industries can be operated with some degree Of success then a fed and clothed and housed Russia can begin to use its head along political lines. : That, briefly, is the great reason j why the powers have deemed it necessa' v to offer aid in such quan j tities. on the condition that their ! nationals and their property shall j ! be protected while advancing the j j assistance. PRIVATE ARMIES There is a great to-do in West Virginia just now. over the trial 1 of the miners charged with treason t as a result of their armed opera ] tipns last summer. There are hun dreds of defendants, and thousands j of witnesses have been called. The 'case will probably drag along for several months. It may be safe, too. to hazard the guess that, be cause of its very magnitude and intricacy and the vigor with which it is being fought, it will get no where, as far as actual completion and concrete punishment of of fenders is concerned. The ca^e, nevertheless, may be worth while because of the public i ty it gives to the whole situation in that coal region. With sufficient public education on the subject, .there in ay cpme a V> tter recogni tion of fundamentals than there seems to have been so far. It is quite likely that last year's armed outbreak of miners was of less im portance than the conditions which, rightly or wrongly, produced that outbreak. What the miners had. and the thing for which they are now being prosecuted, was a private army. Whether organized to resist wrongs real or imaginary, private or public, private armies cannot be tolerated in any civilized country. Whether treason or not. it is in tolerable just the same. But what I the thinking citizen wants to know j is why any group of people in this country should consider it neccs- j sary to raise and operate a private army, and how the conditions causing such rash action can be remedied. While the lawyers are arguing about law and precedent, the public may concern itself with this living problem. RED GROSS HOME SERVICE . The chapter acknowledges with thanks the gift of a food safe ask ed for under case 8. Thanks are given for clothing! for girls asked for under case 9.. Some gifts of shoes are grate fully acknowledged; more shoes are yet needed. ~ - Met news 1 (Furnished by MacDowell & Co., 18-South Main St., Correspondents of H. & B. Beer, Members New York and New Orleans Cotton I Exchanges.) Morning Cotton Letter, New Orleans. May 8.?Liverpool { was due 2 to 6 up by New Orleans, j 1 down, to 3 up by New York. Southern spots Saturday were unchanged to 25 down, Dallas 10 lower; middling there 17.75. Sales rather large, especially in Texas, at Dallas 9,092 bales, all told 15,-' 101. hales. Stocks at five interior towns Sat urday decreased 17,0000 bales vs. i a decrease last year of only one i thousand and exports from United j States to Europe were 22,000 i against only 23,000 one year ago, | since August 1st. 4,863,000 compar- j ed with 4,156,000 last season. An- j ticipate another sort of bullish j statistics for week next Friday, j probably more of a bullish na^.urj j than that of last week. Cotton! is surely working into a strong I statistical position as result of do-1 creased stock in interior. Genoa news attitude of Liver-1 pool and weather conditions likeiy j dominate market today. . | Sentiment apparently divided out evidently more bullish than other wise. Stanley on the Weather. Memphis, May S.?Very light I rainfall reported Saturday and Sun- j day over north Georgia. Memphis j district, Arkansas, Oklahoma and i Amarillp districts; temperatures generally about normal over the belt, highest at Abilene 96. San Antonio, Ft. Worth and Shreveport 90. Monday easier i ^elt generally fair with central ana ?vestern belts mostly cloudy; showers expected, j Tribune on Grain. Chicago, May S.?Chicago is the target for all the surplus wheat in the western markets. The price here is relatively the highest. Every effort is being strained to get wheat to Chicago for May de livery. Cash interests are buying the cash wheat and selling the May and scattered longs are selling out while a few of the. most aggres sive local traders are trading in and out on the May having suf ficient prestige to create the im pression that they are working for j che leading short interests. For the \ present the general trade has be- ! come somewhat discouraged on the j long side over the slow disap-; pearance of wheat and the limited 1 export and milling demand. Ap- ! parently foreigners have bought enough wheat to relieve t their im- [ mediate wants. Crop prospects have improved and with other, conditions sur rounding the wheat trade, have les sened the confidence of scattered holders as regards a big advance at once. It is possible, however, that the trade may have too large a line of shorts out and should any thing happen to start a buying mo\ement, prices might advance sharply. Corn is passing into good hands prices held well last con sidering the break in wheat. COTTON MARKET NEW YORK COTTON. Vestdrs Open Hi;;h Low ( lose Clos? Jan 18 98 19.48 18.97 19.42 18.70 March tQ.&l 19.54 18.96 19.50 13.72 May .19.50 19.89 19.40 19.88 19.30 July .J8.80 19.44 18.78 19.42 18.69 Oct . 19.00 19.57 ?8.96 19.53 18.83 Dec . 19.07 19.63 19.07 19.60 18.84 spots o<i up. 20.15. NEW ORLEANS COTTON. Yestilys Open High Low Clnsv. Close Jan . 18.44 ?9.03 18.42 19.03 18.24 March 18.45 ?8.95 ?8.45 18.95 18.20 May !8.45 18.85 18.43 I3.fift 18.16 July 18.45 19.07 18.45 10.01 18.23 0?t 13.53 19.11 18.52 IU-07 18.29 Dec 18.50 19.10 18.47 t9.09 18.23 Spots 38 18.51). Liverpool Cotton. Jaouary 10.72 March 10.64 May ... 11.03 July ._ . .. .. . 10.93 October .. ... . 10.84 December 10.77 Receipts I.<??<>: sa!?s n.nou; Middling 1?.:?7: CijixJ Middling ilA'l. In Boston :i robber ran from :i flapper. A single man, i.?> doubt. COW TALK BY C. \Y. SCHMOLKE Is Dairy Farming Profitable? The same, cow in the hands of different men would give vastly different results and few of those who fail to make a. profit from them would he wise enough to ad mit that the fault lay in the treat ment administered. A great many of the failures in South Carolina arc due to the neg lectful manner in which cows are treated, especially during the win ter months. The writer ha*, seen score:-; of good cows starved until they were nothing but skin and bone, while if they had been prop erly fed all the time, could have been paying their owners at least from $10 to $15. per month, besides rearing their calves. A:.d it is no uncommon thing to find acres and acres of good land lying idle while cows, and in some cases the farm er's families starved. If you should happen to ask your neighbor, if he should be one of the above type, whether dairy farming paid, he would certainly answer in the negative, simply be cause he has never given the cow a chance to show what she can do. He expected the cow to do certain tilings, while he neglected to carry out his part of the con tract. Dairy farming is .profitable only if the owner of cows plans well in advance to have a plentiful supply of the right kind of feed on hand for his cows at all times. A half starved cow cannot produce pro fitable results. If you are planning to keep cows if you already have them, you should make your plans right now as to what you arc going to 'sow for your cows and how many acres of each crop you should sow. Some good Bermuda or carpet grass pasture with a mixture of Iespedeza should be prepared with out further delay, and then at least 1 1-2 acres of velvet beans and corn should be planted for each cow, which may be used for Winter pasture, after sufficient of the beans and corn have been gath ered to supply the cows with from S to 10 pound's of ground corn and velvet beans for the whole of the. winter and spring. Millet, either German or Japa nese, and teosinthe may still be sown/for a summer green feed, while some land should be put un der rye and barley, about August for green feed in fall and early winter. Barley is a splendid green feed for cows and it grows faster than rye. For anyone who has five or six cows and expects to have from eight to ten animals to feed during next winter, it will be a paying propo sition to erect a 'silo and grow sufficient corn this summer to fill that silo. . - Silage corn should be planted in rows not more than four feet apart and closer in the row than if the corn is to be harvested in the grain The land selected for the purpose should te good rich land and should be well fertilized. It has been estimated that a silo holding one hundred tons can be put up complete for two hundred dollars. Messrs. "Whilden & Onsrud near Sumter, put up one last year for that price. If you want to beat the boll wee vil, get "cows, put up a silo, fill it with corn silage, sow some other ?crops besides and get ready to have a steady cash income every week. If you have not had the .experi ence and don't know how, come and see the writer at any time, or write him, and he will come and see you and help you solve your difficulties. Cows are profitable and the beauty of the dairy industry is that it. gives you a steady income all the time. About sixty years ago in the state of Wisconsin, when the price of wheat dropped so low, that it did not pay to grow it. the farmers turned to the dairy cow. and to day that state is one of the most prosperous in the union. All be cause they had faith in the cow and set to work to give her an op portunity to siiow what she could do. . Just think what an enormously wealthy country South Carolina would be if every farmer had from ten to twenty good dairy cows. And there is nothing to prevent their, from having that number. i-'outh Carolina needs more cows to supply her own de mands for dairy products. Here is indeed a great opportunity for the farmers of this state. Are you going to sit still and bemoan your fate because the boll weevil and low price cotton are here, or are you going to do what is obviously the mo:.i sensible thing to do, namely, get cows? If you couldn't fool some of the people all the time. the world would soon outgrow the notion that spinach is a food. ? ? ?? About tin- only tiling to be said for the practice of pistol-toting is that it lightens the labor of the cen sus takers. We appeal to God in time of trouble, but when we get on our feet we soon outgrow the habit of getting on our knees. The eoal strike might seem more alarming if our sensibilities hadn't been hardened by b>ng contact with the saxophone. The practice of crowning raeers witii a wreath of laurels endures only as a desire to crown speeders With a lead pipe. The new literary school teaches us that one cannot be a proper hero until he can tap a cigarette gracefully against a thumb nali. Ruth Law. a via t rix. has quit Hying and settled down instead of crushing down as the> usually do. I To-day's Best Jokes and Stories At limes we suspect that a "com plex" is just highbrow for darned I meanness. I The great need of France at present is less propaganda and more propagation. In these days of self-service j eating stations, the good digestion 1 also die young. It isn't really a home unless the j living room rug shows more wearj than the automobile cushion's. And perhaps it would be a good thing if courts would establish a j six-year term for precedents. Success is three parts the will to j get there and seven parts the cbn viction that you can make it. And another explanation of tight money is tax-free securities. With the wireless phone we can ! hear a musical comedy without see- j ing it, but it would be much bet- j ter if we could see it without hear- J ing it. * ? If the man is clean-shaven, it is much more difficult to tell whether he had egg for breakfast. The quoted price of champagne I in France causes a pain on this side [ of the water that isn't sham. Apparently half the world thinks! opportunity consists in a vacant lot where one may start a filling station. England, France and Italy love) one another too well to fight. So I they let Greece and Turkey do it by proxy. About the only thing to be said for prohibition jokes is that they save us the affliction of more Ford jokes. Johnny, out to dinner, thrice re-i fused chicken gravy of which he was very* fond.. His hostess, who had added macaroni to the gravy, finally said: "Why. I thought you liked chicken gravy?" " 'I do. sometimes," replied John- j ny, "but my mamma never puts the windpipes in. Xot Like it Used to Be. At twenty you left the farm and came to the city. And for thirty years you have been working like mad. What for? In order to get money enough to live in the coun try.?New York Evening Sun. The Friendly Challenge. . In the early days of Colorado everybody ducked when a man j reached for his hip pocket. Now-! adays they ail crowd around him. m?-Colorado Transcript. A tough old bird was dying and his Wife, tseut out for a preacher. The preacher came and said to the dying sinner: "You had better renounce the devil, my friend." ? "Renounce the devil!" exclaim-,1 ed the dying man. "Why, I ain't! in a position to make any enemies I right now."?Times Dispatch. ? sr:?: Teacher: "Don't you know that j Washington never told a lie?" Truthful Pupil: "Xo. ma'am: I only heard it."?Calais Gazette. Emerson Waldo (aged five): "We I have a new baby at our house, but I I hope we shall be able to get rid j of it." j Howard: "For Heaven's sake!" ! Emerson Waldo: "Yes; it cannot j read or write, and I shall have it deported as an illiterate emigrant." j ?Life. ; "Fred." said an enthusiastic ; friend, "your wife looks younger and younger!" "That may be." replied the sour i husband. "It's probably because she is dressing like a kid. If her bodice was a's high as her dress making bills, you wouldn't be able | to see her ears."?Movie Workl. ! "Doctor. I'm not feeling well." . "We'll find out whats the matter j with you." "I already know. Have you a' prescription blank handy?" "Yes, but my fountain pen is; dry as you are."?Birmingham Age Herald. Teacher?Now, Eric, how many \ ribs have you? Eric?I don't know, Miss. I'm so j ticklish I. can never count 'em!?j i Passing show. I - ! j Doctor: "Your trouble is dys- ! pepsia: you should laugh heartily before and after your meals." I Patient: "Impossible, doctor, rj I cook them myself and then 1 wash j the dishes."?Medical Pickwick. A person whose father had been j hanged by the neck until useless answered .the question: ?"Is your father dead? If so, how did he die?" "My father was taking the prin cipal part in a publie function, when the platform gave way."? Richmond Times-Dispatch. And speaking id* floods, here's a good one we ran across today: fsaac- "Yot insurance you got. Jake?" Jake?"Fire, burglary, tornado, and flood.*'' Isaac?"Flood? Saw Jakie. tell me. how do you start a flood?"? Field News. ?'Pa!" "Well, my son?" "What is the last word in hos pitality 7" "It isn't a word. son. It's a hic cough." - -Birmingham Age-Herald. ; "1 tell you what." said Mrs. Uni son, "it won't be long before women are in many of the public offices." ! "Well," said Umson, in reply, "I don't care.so .much what they do as long as they keep out of the weath er department.** "Why should they keep out ot the weather department?" "The weather is changeable enough now."?Voungstown Tele gram. The Retort Courteous "Ah suah pity you." said a col- : ared p.ugilist lo his opponent as; they squared off. "Ah was born with boxin' glove3 on." "Maybe you was, retorted the other, "and All reckon you'se gom' to die de same ? way."?Boston Transcrip. "My little baby girl." proudly proclaimed the joung dentist, "is only 8 months old and is getting a tooth:" "Huh!" sneered the young chiro podist, "my little baby boy is only 7 months oid and is getting a corn!*' ??Science and Invention. "Now. don't you be downheart ed, dearie," said the consoling landlandy. "You'll get over it. Why, look at me. I was jilted by three fellers an' had two breach o' promise cases: but. bless yer. I've lived to bury a couple of hus bands.":?Houston Post. "Man is the only animal that! uses tobacco." said the prohibition- j ist who had joined the Anti-Tobac-1 co League. "Yes." replied the rounder, "and he is also the only animal that is always minding other people's bus iness."?Wilkins Eagle. A. little fellow sat on a doorstep j crying bitterly. Presently a sym pathetic old lady come along. "What's the. matter, little boy?" she asked. "Got my new pants covered with ! dust," sobbed the boy. "But they're clean now, dear," continued the woman. "I kpow they are,'* wailed the lad. "Then why do you still cry. child?" "'Cos mother wouldn't let me take 'cm off while she beat the dust out."?Houston Post. "Our old friend Jonesy is married at IasL" "Got tired of boarding life, eh?" "Apparently not. He married his landlady." "Father." said little Rollo, "what; is meant by 'a Sabbath day's jour ney'?" "I am afraid, my son. that in too many cases it means twice around the golf links."?Edinburgh Scots "Must be some millionaire in our neighborhood." "Heb?" "He throws golf balls at cats. Picked up four in the alley this morning." - - Louisville Courier Journal. Willie was running, the lawn mower wh'.n the minister stopped at the house. "Is your mother in. Willie?" "Do you think I would be cutting this grass if she wasn't?"?Van couver Province. The tired-looking com m.u t e r shook his head sadly. "Yes," he added to his but half interested fellow-travelers, "she was good, as cooks go?and as cooks go, she went!"?Life. Indignant Lady: "Sir, when I was your age, a young man would not let a woman stand up in the subway." . . Young Man: "When you were my age. madam, people still went about in stage coaches."?-Le Jour nal Am?sant. PUBLIC NOTICE The regular Teachers' Examina tion will be held in the Court House, Friday and Saturday, May 12th and 13th, beginning at 9 o'clock. Those desiring to . teach in primary and elementary depart ments will take this examination. The high school examination will be held at a later time, notice of which will be duly given. Applicants are expected to bring necessary material to take the ex amination. By order of State Board of Edu cation. J. H. HAYNSWORTH. Co. Supt. of Education. Where, now. is the "shy, down ward glance" of the oldfashioned fiction heroine? Respectfully dedicated to Cen tral: "Tell me not in mournful numbers that are wrong." The average man wooes most ar dently when courting disaster. ? ? ? The umpires are on the job and the fans yell that the first robbin' is here. ; CASH FOR LOGS?We pay the j highest market price, for strictly high class ASH, POPLAR and I CYPRESS logs delivered by rail or truck to our Sumter hand-mill. Write or call for particulars. The Sumter Hardwood Co., Sumter. S. C. _ j UNDERTAKING THE CHERRY CO. 18 N. Main Street Motor Equipment KELL BRUNSON Licensed Embalmer. Night Phone 798-L. HOME" DEMONSTRATION DEPARTMENT MISS CARO TRULUCK, County 'Agent. Poultry Notes. Poultry associations arc study ing sanitation this month. An ounce of prevention is the need. In Lgiving the lesson Miss Atkinson! {.emphasized the importance., of {cleanliness. First let's have the 1 premises clean. Every poultry house and yard should he thorough ly cleaned now. Houses should he [sprayed with kerosene or kerosene cniulsion. or crude oil.' ' Or hum sulphur using 1 pound to every 90 or 100 square feet. Xests and feed ing and drinking vessels should be cleaned and sunned. 1 ter at the rate of one pound of ' j bluestone to one gallon of water, : Use only wooden, glass, copper, or '? I earthenware vessels. Place the } ! bluestone in a cloth bag and susr ! pond it for a few hours, just under I the surface of the water. Then j siake one pound of fresh stqne i lime fo-reach pound of bluestone, j adding enough water to make one \ gallon for each pound of lime used, j Thus if you use fpur pounds of ? bluestone you will have four gal ions of lime solution. To prepare the spray for use, put one quart of the bluestone so- . lution .and ten quarts of water in the sprayer tank. Start the pump ? with a stream, not a spray nozzle, and with good pressure direct the stream back into the ta^nk. Then while the pump-is. running strong, pour in slowly one quart of the ? lime solution. Pour the lime water slowly and let it enter the liquid j in the tank at the same point where Keep clean chicks both internal-1 the bluestone spray is being .pump- \ ly and externally. Potassium per-! ca in. This insures quick and manganate in the drinking water is good. Proper feeding and clean liness make a flock much less sus ceptible to diseases. Lice and mites should not be tolerated. Many in sect powders are good but we be lieve that sodium fluoride is the best obtainable.. Tobacco in the nests is good. Flocks shouid be looked over . carefully before hot weather .comes. Should disease set in kiil and,1 thorough mixing. After the mix ing ts Complete, continue to pump the solution back into itself for a minute or two. Give careful at tention to straining. Do nor use muddy water. Well water is better than warm stream*" or tank water. Spray as soon as the dilution is made, since it should be applied while fresh: - > Another way for mixing the so burn the first. Government but] lution is this: Add 3 quarts of wa ter to 1 quart of biuestone stock solution and 3 quarts of water, to 1 quart of lime stock solution. Pour these together slowly and stir vigorously all the while. (For large quantities of spray material / increase the two solutions by any equal number of gallons desiredL' If one ounce of arsenate of lead powder (or two ounces of arsenate . of lead psate) is added to this so lution, it becomes highly effective in destroying chewing insects. A lit tle more than a teaspoonful of nic otine sulphate added to# S quarts of the mixture will be effective against sucking insects. Dusting. For caterpillars, beetles, and other chewing insects poison .pow der applied with force is one of the easiest and most effective means letins: Mites. Lice and Cleanliness, and Important Poultry Diseases should be in the hand;- of every poultry man. Some home remedies which have been given us: Cholera. 1 pound copperas, 1 oz. sulphuric acid, 1 gallon water. Mix and put aside to use in drink ing water. 1 teaspoonful to 1 gal lon water. Schedule for Week Beginning May 8th. Monday, 10 a. m.?Dalzell. Tuesday. 2 p. m.?Pine wood. Wednesday. 2 p. m.?Wedge held. Thursday. 10 a. m.?Oswcgo. Friday, 2 p. m.?Horatio. Girls' Home Demonstration Clubs arc gaining in popularity each year, for girls are always in terested in making money for them selves, and in learning how to sew, cook,* can and raise chickens. In many instances, the county home demonstration agents have bpen unable to- meet all the re quests to organize clubs, on ac count of v inability to cover every community in a county. The club girls who are so fortunate as to be enrolled in the various clubs are hard at work, and each one is trying hard to live up to our mot ' of control, and every gardener GiiK Home Demonstration Clubs j should be provided with a dust Fcr 1922. ! gun. Mix one part of arsenate of lead powder with 8 parts of air slacked lime or finely sifted ashes or road dust. Apply liberally and preferably when the plants are wet with dew. For Plant Lice. Many gardeners have difficulty in controlling this insect. This is ef fective: Dissolve 1 ounce of soap in a pint of water. Dissolve 1 j teaspoonful of nicotine sulphate in a pint of water. Mix well, and add three quarts to make a gal lon. Spray with force, using av fine nozzle. If leaf tobacco -is available, it makes a good substi tute for the nicotine sulphate, if Boil 1 pound to: "To make the Best Better." Valuable prizes arc offered to those properly prepared of tobacco in water for half .an' hour, strain and.add. water, to raise to 2 or 3 gallons. It is then ready for use. These two solutions may girls who make the highest scores on all phases of work during the jyear. Contests arc being staged in ibiscuit making, canning, and sew ing, and many girls have entered j ay60 0e use<i witn some effect these contests. The final contests j inst the harUi0uin or" calico iwill.be held at the State Fair m ^ .--r-~ I Columbia in October, and the state ? bugs. ^ ^ .. prize winners, announced. TJje following figures give some j idea of the popularity of the clubs, { these figures including all club I members in the state. The num- j the ber of members in To. raise chiLdren means the same as to rear children. But when congress raises taxes, the tax payer does the rearing. o m jm .?<r ?sewing clubs is 1895, followed closely by!. If there really are no cuss, words 1,261 in the cooking clubs. Poultry clubs are. next in"popularity, with a total membership of 4SS. There j are 201 gardening and canning1 j club members. "9 home-makers' [club girls, and 105 miscellaneous .members. The grand total for all (clubs to date is 4.089. ^_ Club enrollment for Sumter! , _ ... . .... , , T, , Some young men stick to the ; countv is thus: Gardening I, Poul- . . ' . ? ? _? ?!v* n~.iri~~ c o??.;?,T-n rr straight and narcow. way: others , try 6b. Looking Sewing <0. T in the Japanese language, a. Jap must feel fearfully handicapped when he steps on a wad of gum. -. ... ? * ? ? If a man has an . oily tojigue and no conscience he is almost certain to be annoyed by women iu r search of financial advice. j tal members of boys' j clubs, .11 J; and girls' to the straight-and-fiush way. The Standard Spray for Plant Dis eases is the Bordeaux Mixture. Stock solutions may be made now for the season's operations and kept on hand for use when needed. To make this solution, dissolve blue stone (cooper sulphate) in wa The following is a full list of things the average flapper does to help her mother: m _m * ?? The senate is all right. How's that for an original idea? .. . Modern version: God heip the rich: the poor can bootleg. YOURS TO ENJOY A comfortable old age will be yours to enjoy if you start a bank account and add to it each month. FIRST NATIONAL BANK S4 NEILL ODONNELL President SUMTER, S. C. ARCHIE CHINA Vice President O. L. YATE3 Cashier The National Bank of South Carolina Of Sumter, S. C. 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