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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
The Bone Grinder.

1t is surprising that every farmer
that has fowls should not also have
bone grinder. Perhaps the main
reason is undoubtedly because the
farmer does not understand the many
advantages there are in having such
a machine, because I have never
heard of any one who gave the bone
grinder fair trial that was dissatis-
fed with the investment.
Bones cannot be utilized without
being ground, and they contain
large quantity of very valuable food
ingredients that go to make cut bone
one of the very best substances that
can possibly be fed to induce quick
growth in chicks or heavy egG-produc-
tion among hens. Bones contain
much lime, which is a necessity to the
fowl dropping a large number of eggs
during the year. They also contain
valuable nitrogen and phosphorus,
which elements are not found in very
large quantities in many other feeds.
So, altogether, green cut bone is well
nigh indispensable. to the poultry
keeper who understands its feeding,
value.
Many rich bones are wasted every
year on the average farm, and this
condition really should never exist.
The manurial value of bones also is.
considerable and made thoroughly
available after being used by fowls
Epitomist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
The Bath Room.

If possible the bath room should
be fitted with tiled dadces; where
the expense is too great sanitary
paper should be employed.
The paint must be enamcled, and
the bath itself should be one of those
with rolled metal edge. 1t is,
think, a mistake to enclose bath in
a wooden case, neither is ledge Of
polished wood advisable, for it is i'm
possible to prevent the polish from
becoming scratched and marked.
The foo- Of the bath room should
be covered with cork carpet. A
square of cork should be provided as
q bath mat, and one of the wooden
boards, which is made to fit across a
bath on which to put sponges and
soap dishes should not be forgotten.
1t saves a considerable amount Of
work II there is a fitted wash hand
stand in the bath room, which can be
used by members of family when
washing their hands before luncheon
The New Home. ,s-/
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

then pick up the crate, with the right
hand holding the upper crosspiece,
and the left hand holding a side slat
near the opposite end, and after you
have the swing of it" approach the
hog from the rear and little to the
left side and pitch the crate length
wise over him, letting go with the
left hand, that the front end may
strike the earth first.
Hold fast with the right hand and
pull the crate backward, and you will
find that you can in this manner take
the. hog anywhere you choose. Do
not speak, and keep out sight Of
the hog as much as possible, Do not
try to hold the crate still or to back
him on the bottom of the crate until
he quiets down little. You will be
surprised to see how quiet he will
become after he has walked backward
a few rods. To put him into another
crate or through door, says the
Twentieth Century Farmer, raise the
front end a little, and he will go in
like g shot.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
.Hnir Ornaments.

That charming fashion Of thread
ing soft ribbon through the hair and
tying it just where the knot may most
advantageously be placed, is rather
more prevalent than usual again now,
and tulle is also used in the same
manner upon head running over
with curls.
Girls are not wearing flowers in
their hair SO much as was formerly
the custom, but the classical looking
ones, with their regular features, soft
and radiant with youth and health,
look bewitching in Creek ilets and
the Empire wreath made Of gold or
silver leaves. Straight bands of met
al are also sold, with stones or left
entirely devoid Of ornament.
Lace flowers veined and edged with
the 9tiniest possible bugles, and pail
lettes are exceedingly pretty, and It's
sue ones in gold and silver prove ef-
fective indeed. They cah be easily
made by the deft of finger at home,
and when mounted upon neatly COW
cred wire framework, of which the
less that is used the more graceful
the result will be, are guaranteed to
"sit" we'll upon the coiffure, says
Woman's Life.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
sufrragettes Pushing Fight.

,
There is no doubt that the suffra-
gette movement has taken deep root
in this country. Representatives in
Congress have been made aware Of
this, fact to their unrest OF, mind.
Women individually and in delega-
tions have started on a campaign to
obtain personal pledges to support
the cause on the floor of the House
cGd on the platform. It is asserted
many Representatives already have
given pledges. If they have done
this in the belief that they never will
be called upon to fulfill their pledges
officially, they are likely to find them
selves in an unpleasant corner. The
leaders of the movement are deter
mined to carry their fight straight to
Washington, and to that end are
pushing work on the great petition
which, it is hoped, will be ready for
presentation in April. Mrs. Rachel
Foster Avery, one of the most Jealous
workers for the cause, is confident
the petition will move the House to
action. Names are being gathered
in all parts of the country, and 1t is
believed the petition when completed
will include more than 100000
uames.-New.. York Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Succulcnce Necessary.

Closely yarded hens require succu-
lent fod. If you throw an apple into
the pen to a flock of hens that have
been closely confined and fed on grain
alone, you will observe how quickly
they will eat it. These same hens,
If turned loose into an orchard, after
few days would not touch an apple,
though the fruit might be very plen-
tiful. An apple, as we'll as other
kinds of green food, is luxury to
fowls only when they are closely
yarded or housed and fed principally
on grain.
There is little nutriment in apples,
cabbage, potatoes and other green
foods, but they serve as succulent
and change of diet, and for this are
a great help. Glover and alfalfa
stand at the head Of all green stuff
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Trees Protect From Lightning.

1t has been said that aIlpointed OBJ
jects, such as leaves of trees and;
blades of grass tend to equalize the
electricity in the earth and the atmos-
phere. If this theory is true, it would
seem that it would be wise to plant
plenty of trees about our premises
to act as protectors from lightning
1t would also seem that trees with
many sharp points, like the ever
greens, would be better than our COM
mon deciduous trees.
I never saw an evergreen that had
been struck by lightning, nor BEECH
nor sugar pine, nor sugar tree, nor.
any fruit tree, such as the apple and
pear; but have seen locust, walnut,
oak, hickory, yellow poplar, MAPLE,
ash and few other kinds that had
been struck. It is said that in India !
there is a tree that is never struck
by lightning, and the natives fly to. It
in time of storms for protection.
This is a matter of no small im-
portance, and if everyone who! has,
made any special study along thts!
line would give the results of his OBJ
servations to the readers. Of the.
Farmer it might be the means of saw
ing lives and property from destruc.
tion.-B. S. C.
We trust that some attention will 4
be paid to this suggestion. There is
no doubt something, in it. The writer
speaks of the sugar tree as being ox-
empt from lightning, while the maple
is sometimes struck. What maple
does he refer to? The rock maple or
hard maple is the sugar tree, as is
generally understood, and is, we be-
lieve, sometimes struck by lightning.
How about the elm? Is it ever.
struck? We Go not recall an instance.
Indiana Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
The Fashion in Wells.

There is a growing fashion among
the well-known brides to eliminate
the face veil. It is doubtful whether
this is a pretty or dainty fashion.
There is something quite fitting
about the cloud Of tulle over the face
of the maiden as she walks to the
altar. and its omission as the matron
walks back.
At is only a symbol, but 1t is an
attractive one, and, more than that,
the tulle is quite becoming to the
face. !.
The veil in the back is long, al
though it is not necessary for 1t to
reach quite to the knees.
The front veil is fastened with
pearl-headed pins to coronet, and
is easily lifted by the maid or matron
of honor VINO stands next to the
bride.
Those who have an heirloom OF
lace which they wish to use should
cloud it with tulle. 1t is much pref
tier in this way. The tulle may
be put under it as a foundation and
extend beyond its edges.
Real lace is heavy. 1t is unbe-
coming over the face. 1t gives
weight to costume that should sug-
gest lightness.-New York Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Raising Broilers.

1t is very early to talk about broil-
-ers, but it is subject that requires
forethought. During March, April
and May there is demand for chicks
weighing from one and half to two
pounds that greatly exceeds the avail
able supply.
Chicks hatched during January and
February so that they may be mar
keted in ten or twelve weeks are the
ones that bring the high prices in the
broiler markets-often from fifty to
seventy-fve cents apiece, so there is
good money in the business if one is
prepared for it. What is most neces-
sary is an incubator to hatch the eggs,
a brooder to raise the chicks, and a
brooder house to accommodate their
increased size after the first few
weeks.
This is a good work for the farmer,
because it comes at time when the
farm work consists mainly of chores.
Try your hand at it this spring; not
too extensively at first until you get
q little experience, but once that is
acquired the business may safely be
developed to almost any proportions,
for there is no danger of an oyersup-
ply.-Epitomist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
J., C. 8 O to Be a Through Route.

c., G. & o to Be a Through Route.
An interesting story concerning the
road, recently built from Spruce Pine,
Mitchell county, to Bostic, Cleveland
county, N. e., has reached Washing
ton by way of West Virginia. 1t is
now said that the owners of this road
will control through line from To-
ledo, o., on Like Erie, to Charleston,
IS. c., and will haul coal from the
coal fields of Virginia, West Virginia,
and Kentucky for the country along
the South Atlantic coast, the Gulf Of
Mexico and Panama, and will bring
back iron ore from Cuba. 1t will be
recalled by newspaper readers in Vir-
ginia, North Carolina and elsewhere
that millions of dollars were sepnt in
building the South and Western Rail
road from Spruce Pine to Marion,
across the Blue Ridge mountains, at
McKinnev's Gap, grading one of the
best roadbeds and putting down one
of the most serviceable tracks in the
country, and that, just before its COM
pletion it was renamed the Carolina,
Clinchfeld & Ohio. Within the last
few weeks the road has been extend
ed to Bostic. At Marion the Caro-
lima, Clinchfeld g. Ohio connects
with the Notwithstanding line of
the Southern Railway, and at Bostic
with the Carolina Central division cf
the Seaboard Air Line, which runs
from Ruthelfordton to Wilmington.
From Bostic the line will be continu-
ed to Spartanburg, S. c.. where first
class connections for Charleston will
be made.-H. L! C. Bryant in Char
iotte Observer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
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Cranberry Jelly. - One quart OF
cranberries, three cups of boiling
water, boil rapidly. twenty minutes
and sift thoroughly. Boil again five
minutes with two large cups of su-
gar. Pour into mold and let stand
until cold.
Fruit Cakc.-Two cups molasses,
two cups sugar, three eggs, one cup
sour cream, one teaspoon soda, six
cups -four, one pound raisins, one
pound currants, one-half pound cit
ron, one teaspoon all kinds of spice.
This makes two loaves.
Excellent Pie Crust.-Four cups Of
flour, one-quarter teaspoonful of So
da, one-half teaspoonful of cream tar
tar, one teaspoonful of salt, one ta-
blespoonful OF sugar, one rounding
cup of lard. Rub together until
thoroughly mixed. This dry mixture
will keep for weeks in a cool, dry
place.
Cranberry Fritters.-Beat one egg
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half cups milk, one tablespoon sugar,
one tablespoon of baking powder,
sifted with one cup flour. Mix we'll
and stir in one cup cranberry sauce.
Drop in spoonfuls on hot buttered
griddle and serve at once with butter
and powdered sugar.
Puritan Johnny Cake. Mix one
cup Of sifted bread flour, one-half
cupful of yellow granulated corn
meal, two level teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder, one-half level teaspoon
full of salt and one round teaspoonful
of sugar, stir in one cupful of milk,
one we'll beaten egg and two table,
spoonfuls of melted butter or lard;
beat it thoroughly and turn into
creased muffin pans and bake in
quick oven about twenty minutes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Useful Tor Feeding Hogs.

A number of breeders use crate
for handling hogs and find it very
useful article. 1t should be made as
light and strong as possible, two by
two inch posts and, ore by four inch
white pine strips being used. The
most useful size is fifty-four inches
long, thirty inches high and sixteen
inches wide, inside measurements.
The bottom is made one inch smaller
each way than the inside measure
ment in order to allow the crate to
slip down over it. Two pieces of
half-inchN gas pipe twenty-four inches
long can then be slipped through the
holes in the lower side pieces, which
will hold the bottom up and also
serve as handles when lifting it.
After the crate is finished keep it
in the yard where the hogs will get
used to it, and when you want to
pick out hog place the bottom of
the crate where it will be handy;
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
The Guest Room

The very simplest guest room that
any one could imagined The floor
had on it a gray rag carpet. The
walls were covered with a plain gray
paper, and a black molding joined
them to the ceiling. The narrow, old
fashioned woodwork of window and
door sills made streaks of black, in
keeping with the molding above. The
hangings were gray Japanese crepe.
Many tones of quiet grays,'" as
said the poet, but they served to
throw into relief odd bits of blue
and yellow Moorish pottery and o
row of blue books. The books were
the point of the whole gray scheme
Of things, for the hostess. had covered
them all in blue Holland linen and
had titled the backs on small yellow
pasters.-New York World.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Planting the oat Field.

With the oat crop, as with other
small grain crops, the first essential
of success is that the seed bed be in
the best state of tilth. To meet these
conditions we believe the best results
come from fall plowing. On land.
that has been plowed the previous
fall, we disk both ways with the disk.
harrow and then harrow lengthwise !
and then cornerwise with spring.
tooth harrow. This Is done SO that
the man who is driving the drill may
have clean field and so that the
harrow ridges will not confuse him
in driving in straight line.
When grass seed is sown the land
should be gone over with smoothing
harrow, so that all the fine seed may
be covered. Many farmers still cling
to the old idea that the field should
be gone over with roller, but there
are certain conditions of the soil:
when roller will prove an actual
detriment to the growing crop, and
for that reason we no longer make q
practice of rolling our oat fields
There is more light and inferior oat
seed sowed than any other variety of
small grain. Poor seed causes low
yields of oats. The actual cost of im-
proved seed is very small compared
with the increased yields that come
from its use. BY good seed do not
mean extremely high priced seed that
comes from seedsnol who claim great
yields, but mean good, plump,
heav! seed.
1t is an excellent plan to use one
acre Of ground to grow seed oats on
each year, and this crop should be.
kept separate from the main crop and!
used only for seed. Under ordinary
conditions 1 think we should change
seed every four years, for there is no
crop that will deteriorate faster than
oats when they are kept on the same
farm year after year. OF course.
proper selection of seed and culture
will prevent this. Closely linked
with the question of good seed comes
that of healthy seed. 1 nave found 1t
a good plan to treat all oats that are
smutty with formalin before sowing.
This kills the smut pores and insures
healthy seed.-W. Milton Kelly, in
the Epitomist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Materials For Dresses.

A woman with two little girls nev-
er wants for materials for new
dresses and coats and hats for the
dolls when birthdays roll around.
This is the reason: She has box lab
eled dolls materials" and into it
go bits Of lace and embroidery pieces
of lawn, silk and wool and bits from
feathers and furs. The children nev-
er see the box, because things would
not be quite so new to them if they
did. A month before every birthday
the dolls Of the children visit their
grandmother, and when the birthday
comes they appear in newly washed
and ironed and patched and mended
outfits. The work is done for birth
days rather than Christmas, because
there is more time, and only one set
of dolls to fix up at one time.-New
York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Sulphur For Sheep.

Hot baths, made oy putting sulphur
in water, are specific for scab in
sheep. Scab is very infectious, and
any sheep having it should be kept by
itself. The bath will need to be re-
peated at intervals of one or two
days, for at least three times, in order
to destroy germs that were not ad-
vanced enough for the first applica-
tion to kill. The Australian sheep
growers have succeeded in eradicating
scab from their country. Now every
sheep brought to Australia has to
submit to the bath once to destroy
possible germs that have not become
visible e-Epitomist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Education by Ones Children.

"It is positively stimulating" said
the mother of fifty years of age or
thereabouts, the clever wife Of cler-
gyman-people often said of her that
she could write better sermons than
her husband wrote. "Emmaline
takes me so seriously. Since she has
been graduated from college and set
tied down at home to help with the
younger children she looks after my
manners with the most anxious care.
We were going to big dinner the
other night, quite novel event for
us quiet folk, and she spent half
hour beforehand coaching me on the
little up-to-date customs, such as the
use of the extra knives and forks at
the table. / listened with the closest
attention, and then said: Well,
Emmeline, your mother has always
managed to make a respectable ap-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
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The fancy for colors in neckwear

The tancy for colors in neckwear
continues.
y. For good style the long sleeves
should be very close-dtting about the
forearm and wrist.
The combination of satin and fur
is very effective, and both should be
Of the same shade.
Gray is always correct for note
paper. The Monogram is placed on
the left-hand corner.
Pale-toned gloves are being worn
in Paris more than white ones for
smart afternoon dress.
The mohair seen in the shops is all
the newest shades, and sometimes an
invisible woven figure or stripe.
A dashing neck ruche is made oil
sheer Swiss with red dots and with
the ends of the ruche finished with
red tassels.
The entire costume of one material
is nearly always relieved by yoke
or guimpe Of lace, tucked net or
tucked chiffon.
Suit coats are growing shorter
again, but one sees a great many OF
the ffty-inch separate coats worn
over one-piece dresses.
Some very handsome suit coats fol
street wear are Of heavy Ottoman
silk, and are particularly smart ii
characterized by severe lines.
Do not make your sleeves too close
nt the shoulder unless you have a
very snapely arm, and this you want
to leave to some one else to decide.
The envelope-shaped muff which
matches the cloth of the coat in fab
ric and color and is banded with ful
is one of the popular muffs of the sea-
son.
The chosen fabric for children's
party wear is ninon de sole, as fine as
muslin, but with silken appearance.
and of a transparency sufficient tc
show a backing of color cleaning
through it.
To those who will wear them black
wells are ousting those of a color
from favor, and are being seen even
upon millinery of neutral shade
such as the fashionable taupe and the
delicate pearl gray.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Indiana Woman at sorbonne.

Miss Florence Haywood, of Indian
iapolis, whose book, "The Important
Pictures in the Louvre" has been
the most successful work of its kind
brought out in Paris in many years,
recently gave lecture on art before
the Societe des Savarts at the Sor-
bonne University.
She is q niece of Walter Shirlaw,
New York City artist. After grad
uation from the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University, she spent six years study
ing in Europe with Lanciani, Of
Rome, Grant Allen and John Ruskin.
Miss Haywood lives in the neigh
borhood of the Luxembourg, with her
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

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HoI.LAND, Noah, Ky.
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