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MARION PROGRESS, MARION, N. C, THURSDAY; SEPT. 9, 120 GOOD CARE OF LIVE STOCK ' MEANS GOOD CARE OF HOME The Only Profitable Animal Is the One That Is Cared for Well Merely Owning Purebreds Is Not Enough Must Be Handled Intelligently. U. S. Department of Agriculture Service. As a rule, better stock means bet ter homes and better homes better stock. There are exceptions, of course, but when you think of the one it is very likely that you think of the other also. Even if you are 'making no effort to grow high-grade stock or pure breds you are apt, after taking more pride in your home and your build ings, to take better care of the ordi nary stock on your farm An expert can get better results with less fuel from an old and poor heating plant than a slipshod person will get from a high-grade outfit. The most money is not always made with the highest grade or purebred animals. There are some men who make really good returns by handling good grade ani mals in an intelligent practical way. The thoughtful farmer knows that the only profitable animaT is the well-cared-for animal. Many a man who is not at heart very kind has learned the lesson so far as cattle are con cerned that the exercise of consid eration and gentleness means the saving of dollars. Very few men are mean enough to be mean when they know it hurts their pocketbooks. Anyone who gets the notion that it pays to give the best possible atten tion to the animal he has, even if poor, will not need much argument to convince him that better-bred have worked wonders and produced splendid results. Boys' and girls' live-stock clubs have been able to bring reforms that no other agency could reach. Occasionally the older men who haye never had very good ways and have become set in them are reached only through the kiddies. Following: Good Practices. About the first thing that may be done toward getting better stock and better homes is to check up on con ditions as they are and see the many ways in which they may be improved. But most people are not able to make the best of what they have. A man vho lets his buildings and fences fall down, pays no attention to rotation of crops, lets his manure leach away into the creeks, forgets or neglects to feed and care for his stock regu larly, and lets his wife go out to pump water and split wood is apt to instill into the minds of his children the idea that nobody is ever a farm er who is smart enough to be any thing else. On the other hand one who maps out his course and lets no season go by without making some improvements in his way of doing things will surely find himself get ting better animals and gaining in selfrespect and importance, not only to himself but to the community as well. Gradual, continuous live-stock im provement has been practiced for p gfgpi II " ': They go hand in hand Well-cared-f or stock and well-kept homes better stock will yield mm still Detter re sults. Good Handling: Necessary. The one who thinks all he needs to do to acquire fame and wealth is to buy a lot of purebred cattle, hogs, horses, or sheep, and then proceed to let them shift for themselves will soon earn the reputation of "the man with the undesirable pure breds." He will find that his wealth is not the kind the banker will recog nize. In some of the older-settled re gions of the United States there are men who have stock that is bred well enough but has been handled in so shiftless a way that the animals might just as well be scrubs. In some of these cases the advent of an "up-and-coming" neighbor has work ed a change of conditions. In the more progressive communi ties organizations county breeders' associations, extension workers of universities, and county agents many years by the most successful live-stock farmers everywhere. Im proving livestock grading up, elimi nating the scrub, etc. is merely fol lowing the practice of these success ful men who for years have been keeping the best and "breeding the best to the best." It is well kuown that a good cow, for example, bred to a good purebred bull will usually produce a good calf. It is also well known that a better bull bred to a better cow will produce a better calf, and this applies to other kinds of live stock. It was to emphasize this important practice that the United States De partment of Agriculture, in coopera tion with the different State agricul tural colleges, inaugurated the "Bet ter Sires Better Stock" crusade to raise the general quality and useful ness of our animals. Not only the scrub sire is to be eliminated but the undesirable sire as well, even though he is a purebred. The Taste Is the Test Our bread meets the only REAL test of bread TASTE Nobody wants Bread, however wholesome or sanitary, that hasn't an appetizing taste. Every loaf of our Bread tastes like "more" and as wholesome and sanitary as the most taste less. Fresh bread every day. There's satisfaction and strengthen every loaf. Eat no other. Bread, Pies and Cakes on sale at Grocery Stores. MARION BAKERY, J. M. Crowe, Manager. TURKS DEVASTATING COUN TRY AS THEY RETREAT. Ismid, Sept. 3. Turkish national ists are carrying out their threat to devastate the country as they retreat before the Greeks, it is reported here from trustworthy sources. Bands led by notorious outlaws who have joined the nationalists are said to be beginning to pillage and burn vill ages on a large scale. I Greek and Armenian refugee? are ! 1 i arriving here from the interior in ! great numbers. Their number in Is mid alone is estimated to be 1 5,000. j They are being rationed in part by (. the American committee for relief in the near east. James Braswell, a prominent citi- ; zen of Avery county, was instantly killed when the automobile in which he was riding with his brother, Sher- j iff J. B. Braswell, plunged down an embankment near Spear, that coun ty. The machine struck a tree as it rolled down the embankment, break- 1 ing Mr. Braswell'? neck. The sheriff escaped with only slight injuries. Friday, September T7. ha? been set aside by Rowan Superior court as di vorce day. There are twenty-five di vorce cases on the docket, and tit teen of these are set for Friday. There Is more Catarrh In this section of the country than !1 other diseases put together, and for years it wi 1 sup posed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. 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