Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-09-04
menced Our Cash System, Our Grocery Business Has
II POUNDS GRADUATED SUGAR FOR SI.OO.

III one OF Inc buildings Lnero lB an
immense food cooker which will hold
q thousand gallons. 1t occupies two
stories, being loaded from above and
empticd from below. Several bar
rels of fresh meat and bone are
dumped in here at once, the door is
bolted down and pressure of seventy
pounds of steam is turned into it for
thirty minutes, at the end of which
time the entire substance, meat,
bone and all, is reduced to soup.
Mule meat is used almost exclusively
in making this broth. The soup
made from the flesh of the mules is
used to mix with the food Of the
young fowls. Water, is never mixed
with their food. They are given
plenty to drink. Great quantities
of bread are fed to the growing fowls.
They consume from 600 to 1000
loves daily. Shell is purchased by
the car load and ground by steam
machinery on the premises. The
food is carted about the place on
the cars of the little tramway.
When the track runs through the
yards, as it must in some places, it
is built on trestles 80 as not to injure
or disturb the young fowls.
There are many curious facts in
connection with the business. Little
ducks do not get along as we'll as
little chickens. They are the great
est towards in the world. When a
stranger enters their pen they rush
pellmell to the opposite side and pile
upon each other several feet deep.
AS a result of such scare there will
always be several dead ducks and a
number of crippled ones. 1t is esti-
mated that duck loses in weight
every time he is frightened, so it is
matter of good business to keep
strangers away from the duck pens,
and few visitors are allowed to 90
there. One OF the best ways to get
a flock of young ducks to venture
and forage for themselves is to put a
young chicken among them. They
are great to follow leader, and
when young Mister Chicken, who is
not so cowardly, leads off the ducks
are right after him. But they are a
timid folk; light has to be kept
burning in their pens all night. If
they are left alone in the dark it is
not long until the vivid imagination
Of one of them will conjure up some
thing to get scared at. Ifc will
sound the alarm, and the panic that
follows is something terrible. The
keepers 60 through at regular inter-
walls during the night. The ducks
become very fond of the men who
feed them and care for them, but
any other breathing thing frightens
them. The machinc-made fowls
that are raised SO systematically lack
a good many of the characteristics
of the ordinary birds and have some
ways not common to others.
The keepers have a peculiar call,
which never fails to attract the fowls
from all portions of the place. They
also have another sound, which is
intended to initiate the whirring
noise of a hawks wings. In event
of a storm coming up suddenly they
can clear the pen yards quicker than
it takes to tell it by sounding this
alarm.
The natural enemy of the young
chickens and ducklings is the rat,
but several fcrrcts are kept on the
place constantly, and the loss from
the dcpredationB of the rodents is
small.
Thcre is moro catarrh in this section
of the county than all other diseases
put together, and until tho last fow years
it was supposed to be incurablo. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
local disease, and prescribed local rem
cdics, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it in
curablc. Science has proven catarrh to
be constitutional disease, and it thcro-
fore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by r.
j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional euro on tho market.
It is taken informally In doses from ton
drops to q teaspoonful. 1t acts directly
on tho blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer ono hundred dollars
| for any caso 1t fails to cure. Send fol