fLIVE
STOCK
GOOD SAFEGUARDS
PREVENT CHOLERA
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(Prepure.t by tlio t'nlt«<t Dcp*rtn>*nt I
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A recent Investigation of the hog- ;
cholera situation hy the Fulled Slate* !
Department of Agriculture reveals stir- !
prising carelessness among farmers la
deal I on with tlio disease. Tin* offer- j
liveness of the preventive-scrum treat- j
■ limit, has given many swine owners a
feel!UK, of security which Is not real.
"Vet without proper safeguards’’ de
ntures Dr. U. Ilouck, in charge of
hog-cholera control, "the discus® Is
just as dangerous today ns It ever
was."
For safety against this disease It Is
necessary to observe certain precau- i
tlons. Isolate nil new stock, keeping
it apart from other hogs for a period
of at least two weeks. This precau
tion applies especially to hogs pur
chased at public salt's or other sources
likely to spread infection. Permit no
kick hogs to roaiu at large.' Keep hog
hits properly fenced and maintain the
fences In good repair. Hum or bury
deeply the carcasses of animals that
die on the farm. l>ead animals lying
above ground attract dogs. Many out
breaks have been traced to portions of
diseased carcasses carried from place ]
to place hy dogs. Do not attempt to j
hide the existence of the disease, since |
every hidden center of infection Is u
Uiepitce to surrounding farms.
The preventive-serum treatment Is a
dependable Insurance against hog chol
era, hut tills treatment, It should he
remembered* Is a preventive anil not
g, cure. Hy adopting the foregoing!
safeguards swine owners may largely
reduce the loss from hog cholera which
last year exceeded SHO.OOO.tNtO.
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Splendid Time to Grow
Live Stock, Says Dean
Honn W. 0. Coffey of the University
of Minnesota, department of agrtcul
tnre, believes this Is a pood time for
energetic ami Intelligent .vounp men
to get on good land and farm with
live stock ns a major enterprise.
Speaking before the I5lo<ic and Itridle
club, an organization of agricultural
college students especially Interested
In animal husbandry, lienn Coffey
said:
“(iood land within comfortable dls
tauoes from market can be purchased
at more reasonable prices now than
lit several years past. If the capable
college graduate can arrange for ade
quate financing, he will be better off
In the course of 10 to 10 years if he
goes on good land than will the grad
uate who chooses a professional line
of work."
Sharp distinction was made by the
deiUC .between good and poor land.
Land of low producing power, said he,
constitutes a handicap. The young
men. were told that to be successful in
live-stock farming they should prepare
themselves to comprehend the whole
process of farming from the handling
ofttbe soli to the turning of the Mu
lshed product over to marketing agen
cies for disposal.
Sheep Eradicate Weeds
and Improve Fertility
*M64t weeds seem to he ice cream
and cake for sheep. In a list of 1100
weeds, sheep will eat 17.r> of them. In
cluding cockle, the young shoots of
Canada thistle, dandelion, pigweed,
foxtail, If on weed, horseweed, whltetop,
ragweed, wild mustard, winter cress,
wild morning glory, sow thistle and
many oilier species that represent the
Worst pests. And the more weeds
sheep eat the less is the cost of their
upkeep. Fields, fence corners, road
sides and farm waste places generally
can he kept tidy with sheep, all the
while improving the fertility of the
soli and yielding a comfortable profit.
Pastures can bo kept clean by the use
of stieep, while the cattle carrying on
-puvliy can be Increased In the mean
time.
. Sheep are also useful In grain
fields and in meadows. In n timothy
meadow there Is no better way to
kill whltetop than to turn sheep Into
the field, since .sheep prefer the white
tbf> ;i3n timothy. On grain stubble,
sheep will pasture on foxtail and other
late—liloomlng weeds.
~'~Live Stock Hints
If your cattle are infested with Hep,
Vet u brush ami groom them with raw
linseed oil, that is, paint them with it
'and see that they are thoroughly cov
ered.
• • • •
5> Young pigs must have exercise.
•Without it they tire very apt to die of
'thumps—which takes its name from
*a jerklness of the muscles accompa
nied by hiccoughs.
• • •
The prosperous farmers since the
iwar have been hog producers, for a
hog crop shows a quick turnover.
• • *
' Hand-fed pigs are more likely to
ibe overfed titan uuderfed when it ig
' understood that a sow has only about
* one quart of milk per day for a
"whole litter of pigs.
* * •
: Disposition Is an important factor
'In determining the number of pigs
. which a low succeeds In raising. It
should be mild and quiet rather than
nervous, mean or cross.
“-.Let's be honest about it. Even the
“good old liquor” gave one that awful
taste the next morning.
Great Activity
of Associations
Render Some Essential Serv
ice Connected With
Fanners’ Enterprises.
(Prpj>Rrei! .by th«* I'ri<t1 .•''■J.'tffHi Df-jiiirtnirnt
of All! «U 1U!*P »
There are now more than T2.000 ac
tive funner?!' business organization*
In I In* Chlted States, the ! >epurtment
•if Ajrri«’uIfurt* eatimutes on the basis
of a recent survey. This number is
more than twice that in lit la. when
the tirst nation-wide survey of eb-«p
endive associations was made by the
department.
Included in Associations.
The associations include those sell
ing farm products, haying farm Miip
plies, operating creameries, cheese
factories, canning plants, grain eleva
tors. stockyards, warehouses, or ren
dering some one or more of the essen
tial services connected with the eon
duet of farmers’ enterprises. The
figures do not include farmers’ co-op
erative banks, credit associations, nor
insurance companies.
I’ifty-four of the associations listed
are federations with local units, -11)
are sales agencies operating in cen
tral markets, 35 are hurgainhut asso
1 flat Ions, and OS are large-scale organi
zations of the centralized type. Of
>fle total number «>f associations listed
by the department, 3.5'_’5 are primarily
engaged In marketing grain,' 2,197
bundle dairy products, 1.770' ship live
stock, 1,350 market fruits and vege
tables ; nil perform various functions
in tin* marketing of cotton, 01 in mar
keting wool, 71 In marketing poultry
or poultry products, and 2-1 in mar
keting tolmcco.
In North Central Statec.
More than 70 per cent of nil the
associations arc hi the 12 North Cen
tral slates. Approximately 0 per cent
are in the three Pacific Const states,
•bud less than 5 per cent in tin- six
New Kiiglnad states. Tin* largest
number of associations reporting from
any one stale is 1,333 from Minnesota.
Iowa is credited with 1,004 associa
tions, Wisconsin 1,002, and Illinois
822, Missouri has 537 associations;
Nebraska, 4.NN; Kansas, 400; Califor
nia, 350, and New York, 280.
The grain marketing associations
tire largely in the 12 North Central
states, as are also the greater number
of the live-stock shipping associations.
Tito organizations engaged in market
ing dairy products are scattered
through tlie country with a fair per
centage of the total number lit Minne
sota and Wisconsin.
Possibilities Open for
Farm Storage of Grain
Tli<> farmer has the choke of three
pieces for storing Ills grain in order
to hold it for n favorable market, it
is explained bv I,. F. Rickey, grain
marketing specialist of the college of
agriculture; University of Illinois.
These three places are: (1) In cribs or
, granaries on his own farm, ('Jl eleva
tors or crihs at his shipping point, or
Cl) at the termluttl’elevators, lit order
to lipid Ids grain, it Is often necessary
for tlte farmer to borrow money upon
it as collateral.
When il is in public elevators at
the terminal markets he can readily
borrow oti the warehouse certificates,
hut tin* cost of such storage Is rather
high. Storage In the local elevator has
advantages, but these bouses are not
large enough to actually store very
much grain and many elevators refuse
this class.of business or limit the time
of storage to a comparatively short
period.
Farm cattle and granaries offer the
Cheapest storage for grain crops and
this method has several other apparent
advantages. However, no one would
care to loan money on grain so lo
cated. Iowa has solved this part of
the problem by its unbonded agrl
cultural warehouse law. Under it«
provisions cribs or granaries are offi
cially sealed and storage cert Ideates
issued which arc acceptable to local
hunkers as collateral for loans. The
grain thereby finances its holding for
a favorable market.
lAfiMEciSe
Clean out the cistern and catch
Cool spring rains.
* * •
Look Into bee hives and see how
colonies have sto*«l the winter.
• • •
Little potatoes make good seed only
when they come from high yielding
and disuse-free hills.
\ * * •
Dry skim milk, as 10 per cent of the
mash mixture, is one of the best ways
to check coccidlosis of chickens.
» • *
Get early vegetables started. Onions,
radishes, lettuce, peas and beets flour
ish In the cool damp weather of early
spring.
* • »
Mow up the sod bound orchard, and
cultivate It. This loosens the will,
kills weeds und makes re-seeding more
valuable.
* * •
A balance sheet is really a sys
tematized Inventory of everything r.
business owns and owes, and shows
the health of the whole enterprise.
* • ' *
How many farmers know whether
they lost or made money last year?
And how many know on what crop
or kind of live stock they lost or made
the most? Farm account hooks come
la handy for Just such Information.
Spring: is when all roads lead to
Shelby, until 8 p. m. June 9th, 192*5,
roam.
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FEEDING TURKEYS
.<:>/ IMPORTANT PHASE
(Tri-curcl by tbr I'liltra D«[>artm«nt
uf Aarutilt urr.)
■--* Feediri
tin- young birds Is one of
tthe most Important phases of turkey
raising. In wholesome feeds and 1 m
jirojier methods of feeding, espm-inlly
in the ease of turkeys closely confined,
liave resulted in many failures.
For the first two days after liatch
int; the poults require no feed, access
to clean drinking water and a little
coarse sand and green feed to peck
at being sufficient, Heginning with
the third day they sfiould Lie led, the
a mount given them varying with the
quantity of natural feed they are able
to pick uii outside the coop, it is best
to keep them more or less hungry.
When the range provides an abun
dance of green feed and insect#, the
growing poults require but little extra
feeding. More losses are attributable
to overfeeding, perhaps, than to all
other causes. One harmful effect of
overfeeding is that it removes the nec
cesslty for hunting food, with the re
sult that little exercise Is taken ami
Indigestion develops. Sanitary feed
ing places are also very liAportant
ayd, above all, the soil should be kept
sweet and clean.
When natural feed Is scarce or when
the poults have to lie kept, from rang
ing outside, it is advisable to feed them
about live times a day. If allowed to ,
run outside the coop where they can j
find Insects, seeds, and green feed, two ;
or three feedings a duy will he enough. .
If the poults are fed regularly every ,
night, In a short time they will re- j
(urn nightly lo their proper roost fug
quarters. Never allow the feed to he- j
conte moldy. A good plan is#to feed
the poults on boards, denning off any j
feed that nitty remain after feeding;
and standing the hoards in the sun to
dry.
Kutfermllk line been found very hen- j
efleial in bringing poults successfully
through the early stages. A good prnc- ,
tlce is to keep the milk In front of ,
the young birds during the morning
and water during the afternoon. If grit
and green feed eannot be picked up j
outside the coop, they must be pro
vided in some other way.
Loss on Bad Eggs
The United States Department of!
Agrieirtttnw Mttmtm that the total ;
loss of eggs in the United States each
year due to spoilage, breakage and In
efficient handling from the time the
egg Is produced on the farm until it
reaches the consumer 'is S-iti,000,000.
in the final analysis this loss Is a farm
loss, since a smaller price Is paid for
eggs to provide for the poor and
broken eggs that go to the consumer.
Baby Chick Is Stupid
-V In addition to grain, mash and
wafer, birds need some grit to help
grind their food. <£rushed stone,
oyster sliell or coarsely ground dry
hone will serve the purpose. Such
things should always be kept before
the. fowls in proper boxes. Since the
birds have no teeth, these substances
must he provided to help prepare the
food for digestion.
Leghorns Economical Layers
Recent figures released by the Mich
igan State Poultry Improvement asso
ciation. and obtained from the inter
national Kgg Paying Contest, show
that the Leghorns are the most eco
nomical layers. The cost of Leghorn
♦ggs was 14 cents per riozdn; the
ftocks came next with u cost of 21
dents per iloxen,
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Poultry Facts
Don’t feed too much at a time.
• • •
More chickens are killed by feeding
too soon than by starving.
J • • *
Feed five times a day for first two
weeks.
There are several good methods.
I'se one.
• • •
Keep rats, skunks, etc., away from
chicks.
• • •
The cause of so many ducklings dy
ing Is the way they are fed.
• • •
Chicks must have greens, grit, grubs,
grain, gumption, ground, and direct
sunlight.
• • •
Keeping small sized hens la folly.
There Isn't any too much meat on
chicken bones, anyway.
• • •
Cabbage la rich In the green mate- !
rial needed for laying bens. About j
sir pounds of cabbage may be fed per ;
100 birds per day.
• • •
Early hatched clicks can be most
easily obtained by wing a reliable
Incubator.
• • * _ ■
Watch yoor layers end don’t feed
the slacker hen. It Is always time to
cuH when tbs Indication* call for It.
' t » •
More tlian 250 chicks In one brood
Is an expensive and harmful risk to
take by anyone who has a desire to
produce a lot wtth small equipment.
As tlrn chick# grow, give them more
space. Chick# of different sixes und
uses da better with their own classes.
It takes e church row to reveal the
great number ef words that sound like
cussing and really aren’t.
A FAIR COLORIST
Th?9 youns: xvornan ascend® a giddy
ladder every day to put finishing
touches to the “Rainbow City”—the
Sepqui-Centenntal International Expo
sition, opening in Philadelphia June 1
and continuin'; until December l, to
celebrate the 130th anniversary of the
Declaration of American Independ
ence. She Is one of an army of your,
artists who are mahin- the Seiujui
colorful success.
PRONUNCIATION AID
Juno u ebster, descendant of the |
famous lexicographer. Xoah Webster. <
presents a copy of her ancestor's work ,
t j the Publicity Department of the j
Pesqui-Centannial International Expo-1
sition Association to help thefn in pro- ’
noun c in g properly the name of the I
big events which opens June 1 to cele- j
brute the 150th anniversary of the
f inning of the Declaration of Independ
ence. There are many types of pro
nunciations heard but there is just one
proper way Xoah says. It is “Ses
Kwuh-cen-ten’-nial” with the accent on
the first syllable of the ‘Besqui'’ and
on the second syllable of the “centen
nial.”
AID TO BEAUTY
Under this young woman’s skillful
hands the front of the Administration
building of the SesquMJonteunial In
ternational Exposition Association
quickly lakes cn a delightful aspect.
She directs gardeners where to place
the small trees and shrubs about the
great stucco building. She is doing
her share to make the big celebration
of the 150th anniversary of the sign
big of the Declaration of Independ
ence a success.
An empty house nearly always fools
you. It’s so hard to tell the difference
between a closet and a breakfast room.
The only time a bootlegger knows
how hist patrons feel is when he or- i
tiers hush in a cheap restaurant. <
Well, well; a. thousfmd years from {
now people may he contending for the *
right to drink soft drinks.
;W. A. ^YIcDaniel Dies
In Bethlehem Section
Suddenly Passes Away While Walk
ing: F re in Barn to House. Was
7."> Years of Age.
( Mr. W. A. McDaniel, one of the
most respected citizens of the Beth
Tlehcm section dropped float! Mor:!:.v
Jevening at 6 o'clock while walking
slowly from the barn to his house. i»,
McDaniel had been suffering with
heart trouble for the past two years,
but had continued up an 1 going. IDs
family knew of his condition and the
! sudden death was not such a shock to
i them, but the loss to ihc commruily
1 of one of its most respected and snb
i stan.tval citizens is a source of great
| sorrow.
Mr. McDaniel was twice maimed,
the first time to Miss Sara Patter
son. After her death he was march d
j to M'ss Josie Conner who survives.
; Mr. McDaniel also leaves three chi!
jdren: Mrs. \V. S. Patterson, J. I’. Mt
| Daniel and Miss Essie May McDaniel,
1 all of the Bethlehem community,
i brother, Hoyle McDaniel also w.r-,
vivo.".
The fune ral was conducted by Rfev.
\V. (i. Camp Wednesday morning «t 10
o ,-pi-l; and the interemnt was r.i Beth
lehem iliui' h cemetery Jimid a large
ctiiv.i! el' friends and relative;'. Air.
McDaniel had been a member of the
Baptist churches at Pleasant Move
and Bethlehem fer 58 years and was
a highly, consecrated-Christian whose
influence in the ’community had been
fur .h? gcidci.
Services Sunday At
Presbyterian Church
A.i enthusiastic spirit will be mani
fested in. the service; at the Pres!.y
terian church Sunday. The eengrega
tion has just had one of the best jird
ir. . t profitable evangelistic meetings
ever ht Id in Shelby. Large cong: -
gations. r.r> doubt, will bo prevent
Sunday. The program will begin with
the \Varbors Council of the Sunday
school at 11:30 a. m. The departmen
tal wor iiiii .periods " ill begin prompt
ly at Pat'S a. m. The Sunday school
had the best attendance in it-’ his
tory la--.* Sunday, and a special eflort'
n i.v on to e nlist eery member ; f
th-.- chii’ch in its work. With every
member cc operating,- gratifying ve-r
. i.it.-- are expected Sunday.
At il a. in. Rev. H. lx'. McDiarmi.l
will have for his sermon subject "A
Continued Aw-akeni»g.’’ At the 8
o’clock service in the evening the c a-"
gregaticn will have the privilege of
hearing Rev. George R. Gillespi,.
preach while Mr. McDiannid is fif
ing an appointment at Kings Moon-,
taiu. Special music will be mulcted
at both services. This church extend*
aeordirl weic.-me to the public to take
pi.it in it;- work and worship.
Big German Gun At
Kings Mountain Now
King Mountain Herald.
The big six-inch Krupp gun is hero
end ready to be stationed in the public
park. The gun arrived Tuesday on a
coal car of the C. R. R. <>f N. J. The
American legion arranged to get *hc
gun from the government. It is said
to have been used by the German in
the late war and captured by the
American forces,.
So live that you need never wo**y
about the narrow-mindness of. people.
A village is a place where all seven
of the filling stations look as pros
perous a: they are. y
JUST IN TIME FOR GRADUATION GIFTS THESE AR
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DUCED PRICES.
They will go on sale SATURDAY and it will pay you to come in
and see what splendid values they are.
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Originally sold for $15.00.
On sale Tomorrow nr;
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