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THE CAROLINA UNION PARMER
[Thursday, February 27, I9l8.
Parcel Post Handbook
Complete information for ascertaining
postage on parcels to any given point in
the United States, with map, rules, etc.
25c, Postpaid
JAS. MOFFITT, Ramsnr, N. C.
Prize-winning Single Comb Rhode Island
Red Eggs, $2. $2.50 and $3 per 15. Ringlet
Barred Plymouth Rocks, $2 and $2.50. White
Orpingtons. $2.50. Guaranteed 8 fertile eggs,
and prepay express. Buggaboo Farm, Dim-
mett, N. C.
WE PAY
4 Per Cent on Savings Accounts and
Certificates of Deposit. Accounts j
Subject to Check invitedj
Merchants and Far- ^
mers National Bank
CHARLOTTE, IM. C.
United States, State, County and City Depositary
Capital - - $200,000.00
Surplus - $200,000.00
GEO. E. WILSON. W. C. WILKINSON,
President. Cashier.
The
First National Bank
STATESVILLE. N. C.
Capital $100,000.00
Surplus & Profits >3133,000.00]
Resources 750,000.001
Farmers are specially invited to open
an account with us.
JOS. C. IRVIil, Pres. E. S. PEGRAM, Cashier.
THE
CITIZENS NATIONAL
BANK
GASTONIA, N. C.
Capilal & Surplus - $ 92,249.26
DcposUs 392,300.45
Resources 603,927.71
B F»er Cent Paid on Time
Certlilcates oi Deposit
Tile
Union National Bank
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Capital - - - - $100,000
T. W. WADE F. B. McDOWELL
President Vice-Pi esident
H. M. VICTOR
Cashier
We cordially invite business and offer
every courtesy and accommodation con
sistent with safe banking. We particularly
invite the accounts of farmers.
~^H. M. VICTOR, Cashier!
Every Idle Dollar
■of your money should be put to hard
work
When your money is invested it
works for you day and night—interest
accumulates with astonishing rao-
idity. .
Also the knowledge' that your
money is safe from thieves or fire
helps you sleep nights.
Why not start a Savings Ac
count here and let your money earn
future money ?
VIE PAY 4 PER CENT ON CERTIFICATES OF
DEPOSITS AND ALL SAVING FUNDS.
Southern loan and Savings Bank
CHARLOTTE, M. C,
JNO. M.SCOTT,. W S. ALEXANDER, W. L. JENKINS
Prfsldeat. Vlcc.PrcsIdtnt. Cashier. •
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Stop Posts From
Stealing Chicks!
Feed your chicks Macnair’s Chicken
Powder with their food. It kills rats,
hawks, foxes and minks if they eat your
chickens. Best remedy for Cholera, Gapes,
Roup, Sorehead, Indigestion and leg weak
ness. Gape worm cannot exist when
this rem^y is used. Keeps hens free
from vermin. Send us B5c. in stamps
and your dealers name for a sample
package.
W. H. Macnair
Chicken Powder Co.,
Norfolk, V-,
Dept. l>
FOR SALE
Straight North Carolina Peanuts
for seed direct from grower to con
sumer. Guaranteed to be 1912 crop.
Our Union has upwards of 1,000 bu.
on hand. Peanuts are not rubbed
up orstemmed but just from thresher.
Snipped in lots from 4 bu. to 500 bu.
4 cents per lb., F. O. B., cars at Win-
nabow, N. C. Cash with order.
References; J. W. Brooks, Wil
mington, N. C.; Bank of Brunswick,
Southport, N. C.
E. W. TAYLOR, Secretary.
ACFlUTlikf Wake up. Get busy. Send $10.
HuEliIa. Get new 36 lb. Feather Bed with
6 lb. Pair Pillows FREE. Start right in making
money, big money. Everybody buys. All
women enthusiastic. Say best bed and pillows
ever offered. New feathers. Best ticking.
Freight prepaid on all. Satisfaction guaran
teed. Live Agents making big profits w ith easy
work. Reference, Commercial Nationa 1 Bank.
Write today. TURNER & CORNWALL , Dept.
19, Charlotte, N. C,
Veterinary Course at Home
^ U $1500 A YEAR
can be made by taking
our Veterina^ course
at home during spare
time. Taught in simp
lest English. Diploma
granted. Graduates as-
Dr. E. H. Baldwin writes: sisted in getting loca-
"I took the course for my tions or positions. Cost
own beneht on the farm, within reach of all.
but the euccess 1 had Satisfaction guaranteed,
started me in practice and write for particulars
now I am going night and t Vptprlrn w
day. Yourcoursehasbeen LOnQOn VCtermary
worth thousands to me, COrrespODoCnCC SCuOOl
and will be to any .nan." London, Ontario, Canad*
WeLoanMoneyat5
Percent
[ AM Selling Cheap to Farmers
Union Members.
I can save you money on watches, clocks
watch chains, lockets, bracelets, rings, emblem’
pins and every kind of jewelry. I will mail
post paid, a Union Emblem Pin for 6 cents. Be
sure and write for catalogue and save money.
mu C. WALKER, Bntler, Tens.
THE NEWCOMB
COMMISSION CO.
Wholesale Produce
Live Stock Brokers
PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA
We Solicit Consignments of all
kinds of Country Produce
Reference National Bank of Peters
burg, Chamber of Commerce, South-
ern Express Company
PROMPT RETURNS
To buy or build homes, pay off mortgages or
improve real estate; either farm .ir city prop
erty ; long lime and easy payments, with pre-
payment privilege. Loans made anywhere in
the United States.
*J. W. PONDER,
612 Mutual Building, Richmond, Va.
Holmes’ Proliiic Seed Corn.
have for sale a few bushels of above seed
1 lanted and cultivated under same conditions
as other yaneties and has proved its value bv
greater yield and better corn. Superintendent
of Demonstration in our county says Holmes’
Bu^heT $2 M ® '
J. G. Bradshaw, R. 2, Graham, N. C.
. SUNFLOWERS.
Every farm should be made to pro
duce a crop of sunflower seed. Its
advantages should not be overlooked
at planting time. Any soil that will
grow a good crop of corn will grow
good sunflowers, and they are suited
to almost any climate. In Russia
where ‘the best seed come from it is
a staple crop. The seeds may be fed
whole or ground as meal. All classes
of stock relish the meal as readily as
they will cotton seed meal. To make
a good crop it is necessary to have
the land rich, but the yield is from
thirty to forty bushels an acre, and as
food the value is much more than
that of grain. If one desires to grow
a special crop for poultry this year,
try a patch of sunflowers, which can
be grown and cultivated in the same
manner as corn. Be sure and plant
a patch this season for your chickens,
It will pay you.
The seed can be fed whole. My
method of feeding them is to throw
the heads on the ground when ma
tured and allow the hens to pick out
the seed. At moulting time there is
no better feed for poultry than sun
flower seed. Another good crop to
plant for them is the little white
lady-pea. A small patch of kafier
corn will yield an excellent variety of
hen feed. When ordering your gar
den seed put the above on your list.
A Hen’s Natural Food.
With the appearance of green food
come insects, and the fowls secure a
large amount and a variety of food
which is more valuable to them than
grain. To provide eggs at the cheap
est cost the farmer should take ad
vantage of his opportunities. If green
food is plentiful, he need not give the
hens any assistance. It is also due
more to the seeking of the food—the
exercise—that the hens are more
prolific in spring than in winter
more warmth, more exercise, content
ment, greater variety of food and
less grain are the causes of the in
creased supply of eggs, which may
not bring quite as high a price as in
winter, but upon which the proflt is
about as large, because the cost is
much less.
Roup.
There is more roup in the spring
months than in the winter, due to
spring rains and dampness. While
the drafts of air in the poultry-house
may not be very cold, yet they are
damp and chilly, rendering the fowls
uncomfortable. It is at night that
fowls seem to take disease. During
the day they are active and at work,
but at night they cannot change their
positions on the roost, and are conse
quently helpless to avoid damp drafts
of air. The longer days and warmth
at mid-day induce the fowls to re
main outside during the spring sea
son, and they consequently do not al
ways resort to shelter in damp spells.
It is then that they are frequently at
tacked by roup. A little extra atten
tion until dry weather sets in will
greatly aid in preventing roup and
the liability to disease.
Fat Heus.
Hens that have been highly fed
during the winter are usually too fat
to lay. Their combs are red and they
may appear thrifty, but when they
are very fat the farmer will wait
quite a while before he will get many
eggs from them. You know the kind
of hens I mean. Those that stand
around the crib door, horse stable
and pig pen and never venture be
yond these places for fear of missing
a feed of corn. With such hens there
is but one course to pursue, and that
is to cut off the supply of food until
these particular hens are willing to
work. Pen them up and give no
feed for a day, or even two, but sup
ply fresh water. A hen that is fat
will not starve until the stores of fat
on her body are utilized. At the end
of two days give them just a small
feed and continue these small rations
for a week, or until they have lost
weight. Then turn them out and by
that time they will have concluded
that they must work, and will go at
it, and in a short time they will be
looking for a nest.
Some Farmers Know a Good Tiling.
Some few of our Southern farmers
are learning that they cannot afford
to keep any kind of poultry that does
not bring the highest prices to be ob
tained. No matter what the regular
prices may be, there are good prices
paid as the very fact that the supply
is abundant induces buyers to select
more carefully, because they have a
larger amount from which to do so,
as there is no sentiment or favoritism
shown in trade when the buyer de
sires the best to be had. The farmer
who goes to town with a choice arti
cle will secure the highest price. It
may be a reproof that is disregarded,
but the time will come when the far
mer cannot afford to ignore the value
of breeds; and he must also give his
personal attention to the farm poul
try, for by so doing he can keep more
fowls and have fewer losses of chick
ens. However, it will be useless to
keep good birds, or even common
stock, if the advantages are to be sac-
rifleed at the last moment by careless
marketing. • The wise farmer will not
All a coop with fowls of all kinds—
roosters, hens, and half to two-thirds
grown chicks—to be sold in one lot,
as the price will be influenced by the
inferior birds. The old saw that “a
chain is no stronger than its weakest
link,” applies also to the marketing
of fowls, as the very best will be gov
erned by those that should not have
been sent at all. Fat hens will sell
on sight, and should be separated
from the moles, while poor hens and
scrubby chicks will not bring good
prices at any time. No farmer should
take old male birds to market, as
they seldom bring much over half the
price of a fat hen, and the demand is
never great. If they are to be dis
posed of, let it be on the farmer’s
table about thrashing time with a pot
of dumplings.
' A Puny Lot.
On some farms the flock of
chickens never seem thrifty. Dis
ease seems to appear without appar
ent cause, and the slightest exposure
leads to roup or something allied to
it. I have known whole flocks to es
cape roup when all the birds belong
ing to a neighbor was effected. Con
sumption, scrofula, asthma and such
diseases are surely transmitted to the^
offspring of fowls, as in the case of
animals. There is not enough atten
tion given to the selection of fowls;
with the view of preventing disease
and avoiding the liability of heredi
tary transmission.
When roup appears in a flock it de
notes some organic weakness, and if
it spreads rapidly to all the members
of the flock, the indication is that the
members are of the same family, and
more readily susceptible to disease
than some other flocks. It Is safer
to avoid using any birds for breeding
purposes that have at any time been
sick with a contagious disease, and
by so doing the flock will in a few