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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Spurs For Poultrymen.

Prepare for green food for the win
Ter and spring. Sow plenty OF rye
with a little rape mixed with it.
If the poultry house has not yet
been built. don't forget to have it
completed by the first of November.
Where fowls are closely yarded, a
Jew onions cut fine every week or ten
days will help to keep their systems
lin good condition.
If pure bred fowls have not been
secured, be in the market at once for
some good winter layers, and be
ready to start right next spring.
Provide dust box, or keep a por-
ton Of ground loosened up after beat
ing rains, so the hen can do her part
to keep rid of lice and mites.
Do not allow chicks to roost in
damp places, or scratch in moldy lit
ter. Roup, canker, chicken-pox and
other diseases Turk in such places.
II mites are still in the poultry
house. reduce the flock to where
every bird a be handled and
creased and busted, and the poultry
house saturated with Kerosene, tax
ing especial care to see that the oil
penetrates thoroughly underneath the
roost poles. 1t will save much work
and loss next season IL this is done
now.
See that. you. do not keep any old
hens over the winter Just for layers.
II q sufficient amount of pullets have
not been raised, better sell the old
hens and buy pullets. It's the pullets
Matched early tand these can be
raised only with good winter laying
hens) and young hens that lay best
in winter.
Cabbage seed sown in early octo-
Der will be ready to transplant In a
little more than a month, and TINS
makes fine food for chicks and older
fowls in spring and early summer,
after rye is tough. Try some. Give
a good mulch of. coarse stable manure
to plants after they are worked once,
and your work is done till spring.
For roup, canker, bumblefoot or
other troubles where there are ulcer
ated sores, we have found nothingoto
equal "creolin." The past season we
had nothing but the bumblefoot to
experiment on, but this remedy
worked charmingly. We bathed the
feet in warm water, to which had
been added an antiseptic tablet, then
lanced the ulcer and bathed again,
then put on a few drops of undiluted
creolin, and bandaged the foot and
repeated the above in a few days. In
a short time it was well. We have
discarded the use of. lime, only as a
whitewash, in the poultry house, as
we believe it tends to cause sore feet,
and sometimes to cause Inflammation
of eyes and throat. Have low roosts
also to help prevent bumblefoot.-
Mrs. ]. C. Deaton. in the Progressive
Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Girls Essay on Good Roads.

FLOWERS may attract us, poetry
may touch our hearts, the foolish wis
dom or the wise folly of love may in
vite u thoughts, but It is Of COM
mon, prosaic mud that this essay
snail be written; mud of the red and
yellow kind; Of the sticky and the
slippery kind, and of the 'f%fty-seven
varieties that hold dominion, over the
streets of our towns and the public
thoroughfares Of our country" The
foregoing is the opening sentence Of
an essay prepared by Miss Bertha
Harris. of the graduating class of the
graded school at Hickory, N. c., and
read May 6, 1910.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
choosing Best Layers.

There are a great many methods
advertised in various pamphlets and
papers stating that, If you will prac-
tice this or that method Of selecting
as laid down in the paper, you will be
able to determine the drones from the
workers. The writer has tried a few
of these so-carled certainties, and has
come to the conclusion the trap nest
is the only accurate test. 1t is by Sc
lection and keeping records that adj
vancement is made along this line.
Each hen has her own individual
ity; certain hens lay eggs that are in
nine cases out OF ten ~hatchable. Some
hens lay we'll, but although their
eggs are usually fertile, they will not
hatch. whether set under a hen or
placed in the best incubator. The
chicks develop to a certain size, in
many cases being fully formed, but
die in the shell. Again, many hens
lay eggs that are seldom fertile.
In selecting birds one has several
objects. The saying that the hen
that lays is the hen that pays" is Of
ten heard. The majority engaged in
the poultry business consider egg pro-
duction the best end of the business.
It is often the surest. There is not
the same amount of risk attached to
1t. At the same time, il people are
foolish enough to believe that Mr.. So
and-So can supply eggs from hens,
tested by the so-caIled new system.
which have produced 800 eggs per
annum, they have more faith in the
advertiser and the hen than the wri-
ter has.
There is no doubt that certain
characters should be looked for in a
good laying hen. She should be low
set, and stand on a pair of shanks set
fairly wide apart. The head should
be nice and clean cut, with a full
bright eye. In other words, hens
should show feminine character, and
not wrink1ed features. Hens of the
latter type should be discarded; in
short, masculinity in the hen is a bad
sign. A hen with a large capacity for
food has a large crop, is usually a
payable bird to feed. The smaller the
sack Of food she takes to roost at
night the fewer eggs will she produce.
Dairymen know that a 10Y must have
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
LEG A MASS OF HuMoR

about seven years ago a small
abrasion appeared on my right leg
just above my ankle. 1t irritated me
SO that l began to scratch it, and 1t
began to spread until my leg from my
ankle to the knee was one solid scale
like q scab. The irritation was always
worse at night and would not allow
me to sleep, or my wife either, and 1t
was completely undermining u
health. l lost fifty pounds in weight
and was almost out of my mind with
pain and chagrin as no matter where
the irritation came, at work, on the
street or in the presence of company,
I would have to scratch IT until l had
the blood running down into my shoe.
/ simply cannot describe my suffer.
ing during those seven years. The
pain, modification, loss Of sleep, both
to myself and wife is simply indie
scribable on paper and one has to ex-
perience 1t to know what It is.
81 tried all kinds Of doctors and rem
edies but 1 might as well have thrown
my money down a sewer. They would
dry up for a little while and fill me
with hope only to break out again just
as bad If not worse. had given up
hope Of ever being cured when l was
induced by my wife to give the cuti-
cura Remedies a trial. After taking
the Cuticura Remedies for q little
while 1 began to see a chacge, and
after taking a dozen bottles OF Cuti-
cura Resolvent in conjunction with
the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Otnt-
ment, the trouble had entirely disapZ
peared and my leg was as fine as the
day l was born. Now after a lapse of
six months with no signs Of a recur-
renee I feel perfectly safe in extend
ing to you my heartfelt thanks for the
good the Cuticura Remedies have done
for me. 1 shall always recommend
them to my friends. W. H. White,
312 E. Cabot St, Philadelphia, Pa, Feb.
4 and Apr. 13. 1909"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
A Convert Made.

A correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution, writing from Americas,
Ca, tells of a man in Sumpter Coun-
ty who was not in favor OF improved
roads. The man had a S00-acre farm
which he had been vainly trying for
some time to sell at $50 per acre. 30
opposed was he to road improvement
that he refused to donate land for a
projected road along his farm line.
The road was built, however, and
shortly after its completion the nan
was offered $40 an acre for his farm
$4,000 more than he had tried to
get for it SIX months earlier.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

A comprehensive system of good
roads would confer many substantial
benefits upon the farmers Of the Uni
ted States. Better roads would great
" lessen the cost of transporting pro-
duce to market, and as soon as the
farmers learn how to make good
roads, and make them, the greater
will be their profits.
When farmers learn that on each
mile Of highway, three rods wide, ap-
proximately $4,000 tons of water fall
annually they will begin to appre-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Cowneas and Alfalfa.

- &b ~ tSAe ="
ding, writes in the Atlanta Constitu-
ton very ,entertainingly about peas
and alfalfa, and in a general way he
seems to agree with me that the
SouthTneeds peas and crimson clover
worse than alfalfa in the present con-
dition OF the soils in the cotton belt.
Colonel Reddirst hinks'that I claim
too much credit for bringing the cow
pea and Its value more emphatically
to the attention of the Southern farm
ers, and says that eighteen years ago
he read q paper before the Georgia
Agricultural Society at Augusta on
the cowpea and its relation to South
ern agriculture.
Well, Colonel, we will not dispute
about this, for like Schley at Santiago
there is glory enough for all, who
work for the uplifting of the South
'ern farming. / was talking cowpeas,
writing cowpeas and growing cowpeas
more than twenty years ago. I grew
cowpeas when my fields were a Curl
osity in Virginia Piedmont, where
nearly every one grows them now.
Twenty years ago, when I went to
North Carolina from. Virginia, I
thought that there 1 would see many
fields of peas, but, to my surprise, 1
found only a. few farmers planting
them among their corn and gathering
the seed to sell to the sugar planters
in Louisiana. They never seemed to
imagine that a great forage crop
waited the man who would sow large
fields. Our Southern farmers had
been so accustomed to the pea that
they had not considered it as the
greatest hay crop of the South, but
were ready TO try any far-fetched
thing or weed that anne along.
1t was then that l took up the
cause of the cowpea in earnest, and
have been glad they have the second
ing Of men like Colonel Redding. so
that now the Southern farmers are
waking up to the great value of the
crop they had been neglecting or
mere planting in a haphazard sort of
way.
Alfalfa seems especially adapted to
the great Western plains, and cow
peas and crimson clover to the South.
and 1t is far better for every section
to devote more attention to the forage
that is suited to its conditions than
to try to grow those that demand
other conditions. 1 would not dis
courage anyone from growing a piece
OF alfalfa, but in the general farming
of the South 1 do not believe that it
can ever take the place of the cowpea
in summer and crimson clover in win
ter. 1t is a crop by itself rather than
one for an improving rotation in the
South.
Grow a pet lot in alfalfa, If you
choose, but put your reliance for hay
on the oliver of the South-the cow.
pes.-Progressive Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Another Iraditlon ExpIoded.

Two Englishnen were resting at
the Red Horse Inn" at Stratfprd-on-
Avon. One Of them discovered a
print picturing a low tumbling build
ing underneath which was printed:
The House in Which Shakespeare
Was Born" Turning to his friend in
mild surprise he pointed to the print,
His friend exhibited equal surprise, and
called a waiter who assured them Of
the accuracy of the inscription
"2Pon my word" said the observ-
ing Englishman, shaking his head
obviously, 81 thought he was born in
amangeri"-Srccess Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
PERTINENT Pointers ON RAISING PIGS.

Pigs should be sorted to size and
each lot kept by itself. This is not
much trouble and will enable the
little fellows to stand a better show
at the feeding trough.
Keep a pair Of nippers handy to
snip off the sharp points of a, sucking
pigs teeth.
Many small pigs are ssunted in
their early growth because they san
not hold their own against their
larger and more quarrelsome brothers.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

ciate the necessity of highway DRAIN
age, and learn that a hard road can
not be made out of mud. No plan of
road work, no amount of labor and
machinery, will make a good dirt road
that will stay good until some plan
is adopted to get rid of the water.
It has been satisfactorily demon
strated that a fairly gratifying road
for hauling heavy loads should be
rounded up in the center, SO that
water may quickly flow into bitches
at The side.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
5EoR ZaE
EHH3ZME
.>AraAsSsZs
90
-
Strawberry Jnm.
Strawberry jam.

To each pound OF berries allow
three-quarters OF a pound Of sugar.
Put them into a preserving pan and
stir gently not to break the fruit. Let
them simmer for half an hour. and
then put into air-tight, pots and cover
either with a round OF paper or with
melted parafine before using.-NeW
York Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
a New Version.

Lawyers have a peculiar system of
abbreyiation, such words as trustees,
executors being cut down to trees.
iexors. and admors. This practise led
to IN amusing slip on the part Of a
solicitor who, somewhat late in life.
abandoned his profession and entered
the church. A few Sundays after his
ordination he startled his congrega-
ton while reading the lesson by deliv-
ering one of the passages as follows:
IT see men as. trustees walking"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
The Girl.

How'd you like to be engaged to a
millionaire"
81 was engaged to n all last sum-
mer, and he seldom spent a dime. I
want to be engaged to a young man
who is down here for two weeks with
about $500 in his roll"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Advice,

Doctor" cried little Bingle, over
his telephone, my wife has lost her
voice. What the dickens shall ] do?"
"Why," said the doctor, 'gravely, If
I were you I'd remember the fact
when Thanksgiving day comes around,
and act accordingly"
Whereupon the doctor chuckled as
he charged Bingle two dollars for
professional services.-Harper's Week.
ly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Southern Agricultural Topics.
Modern Methods That Are Eelpful to
Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman.

plenty of room for food in order to
produce a large milk yield.
The advertised systems serve one
purpose. BY examining the lay bones
the amateur knows which bird is
about 40 lay, or is laying. Should the
lay bones be relaxed to the extent Of
about three fingers (closed) the bird
is laying; If they are almost in con-
tact, that is the hen to market, but so
much depends on the time Of year n
wishes to sell table fowls. H. ".
Hawkins. in NationalPoult Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

The man who raises pigr ought to
have a field of peas into which they
can be turned just before the peas
become hard.
Sometimes they are as sharp as
needles and hurt the sow so much
that she will not permit them to
suekle.
Never turn very young pigs into
the field in hot weather for more
than an hour or two a day until the
skin becomes t%oughened.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Maryland Awake.

The recent Maryland Legislature
appropriated 100000 for the con-
struction of a boulevard between Bal
timore and Annapolis. The surveys
are expected to begin at an early
date.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Strawberry Tapioca.

Soak over night a large %teacupful
of tapioca in water. IN the morning
put half of it in a blttered yellow
ware baking dish. Sprinkle sugar
over the tapioca. In this put a quart
of strawberries, sugar and the rest of
the tapioca. Fill the dish with
enough water to- cover the tapioca
and bake in a moderately hot oven
until 1T 1poks clear. Eat cold with
cream. II, when baking, thetapioca,
seems too dry add more water
New York Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Ihe Ress.

Hughes the best: Have been sell
Ing Hughes Tonic for years. It is the
best remedy Cor chills and fever. cur
ing several cases with n bottle.
Honest and valuable remedy" Sold
by Druggists-50c. and s1.o0 bottles.
Prepared by Robinson-Pettet Co.
(Inc.), louisville.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

The London city policemen get
from $3.50 to .s1O.33 a week. An
extra allowance for coal is granted in
winter, and uniforms are furnished
free.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
A Hard Moment.

"Well, JIM" said Bingleton, as he
proudly showed of his frst-born.
what do you think Of that for a
kid?"
"He's some kid, all right, all
right replied Jim, Internationally.
"Think he looks like me, old MANI"
persisted Bingleton.
HIN! Observation-Disclosures
Bill, well, old pal, to tell you the
truth, I'm afraid he does!" replied
the embarrassed Jim. - Harper's
Weekly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
At the Shore.

Polly-I wonder how Cholly man.
ages to keep that wide-brimmed straw
on IN a wind like this.
Dolly-vacuum pressure.-Judge.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

Relieved BY Murine Eye Remedy. Try
Murine For Your Eye Troubles. You VIII
Like Murine. It soothes Soc at Your
Druggists. Write For Ego Books. Free.
Murine Eye Remedy Co.. Chicago.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Gallant.

She-RI werea man. / should new
er marry.
He-If you were a man. i 1 dnld
never marry.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

One of the first necessities of our.
life is that we grow upward like men.
When we cease to aspire we descend
In the 1scale.-Freston.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

For HEADACHE-Hiekss CAPUDIyE
Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or
Nervous Troubles, CaPudine win relieve You.
It's h9uid-pleassnt to take-acts mmedt-
ately. Tryi It locl, 25c., and 80 cents az drug
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

Man will have what he desires, and
will find what is really best for him.
exactly as he honestly seeks it.
Froude.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, 2sc n bottle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

Modern electric hoists are SO de-
signed that the speed varies with the
load.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

a woman tells her troubles to a doc
tor; q man tells his to a lawyer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17

A business mans leisure is simply
the time he doesn't know what to do
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
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Makes the skin soft as velvet. Improves any
complexion. Best shampoo made. Cures most
Skin eruptions.
Munyon's Hair Inyigorator cures dandrrf,
stops hair from falling ont, makes hnir grow.
II you have Dyspepsia, or any liver trouble,
-sne Constipation and drive NIL Impurities
from the lioods-MuHYoRS HOMEOPATHIC
NOME REMEDY Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
STATE CANDIDATES WILL
HOLD CONVENTION SOON


Guthrie, Okla, Sept. 29.-An inter-
esting convention of all the state can
didates of Oklahoma of every party,
and of any other candidates who may
desire to attend, is promised at an
early date, following the publication
of letter today by Lee Cruce, demo-
cratic candidate for governor, to J.
w. McNeal, republican candidate for
the same Office.
Mr.. Cruce agrees to Mr.. McNeal's
idea of an honest election" conven-
tion, at which the candidates of all
parties shall pledge themselves to
and devise plans for securing beyond
possibility of fraud, an honest cleo
tion November s.
Mr. Cruce leaves the time and place
of the convention to Mr.. McNeaI,
since the latter first proposed the con-
vention of candidates, and says that
he will attend and will urge all demo
cratic candidates to do likewise.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
An unselfIsh Reform.

One thing that must have appealed
to the vast audience which heard DR..
Mccormack lecture here on the pre-
vention of disease, was the absolute
unselfshness of the reform advocated.
1t is known of all men that doctors
live by the ills of humanity even as
lawyers live by others trials and
tribulations. So we can readily under
stand that the strenuous efforts being
put forward by the physicians all over
the land, to educate the people to good
health, can only be actuated by the
best of motives. 1t is unselfishness
and humanity in their broadest sense,
and should receive united encourage
ment and support from the masses of
the people. The doctors have every
thing to lose and little to gain by the
promotion of sanitary measures and
the sacrifice is being made purely for
the advancement of science and the
cause of humanity.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
ROOSEVELT WAS
IN FULL CONTROL
Wadsworth Would Not Admit His
Withdrawal Was Due to Wednes-
days Victory Of Progressives.

Saratoga, N. Y, Sept. 29.-The re-
publican state convention last evening
made Henry L. Stimson of New York
its candidate for governor. The nom.
ination of Mr., Stimson was one more
victory for Roosevelt who personally
led the fight for his nomination, com
pleting an unbroken series of triumphs
from the moment the convention was
called to order yesterday Afternoon
until the final adjournment. The re-
ma'nder of the stare ticket follows.
Lieutenant governor. Edward Scho.
eneck; secretary of state, Samuel S.
Koenig (re-nommaJel) state comp.
troller, James Thompson, state treas.
.urer, Thomas F. Fennel, state engi.
neer, Frank M. Williams, (renomin-
ated); attorney general, Edward r.
o'Mallery (re-nominatedl associate
judge OF the court Of appeals, Irving
g. %arn, (re-nomin4tecl.
The vote for governor follows. lieu
~ L Stimson, 6s5' WI la.n s. Ben
net, Of New York, 242, Thomas s
Dom, Rochester, 81; James 3. Nc
Evan, of Albanv, 2S.
The slate as made up yesterday
morning by Roosevelt, Senator Root
and advisers went through without
hitch. With the exception of the NOM
nations for governor and comptroller
there were no contests. Representa-
tive Bennett, who had been conduct
ing the only open campaign for the
nomination for governor, kept up the
fight to the end and his persistency
and strength with the New York dele
cation threatened to break the slate.
1t is understood that Roosevelt will
stump the state for the ticket
At the close of the convention
James S. Wadsworth, Jr., speaker CT
the assembly, announced his with
drawal from the legislature, due to
personal views as to the length of
time during which member of the
assembly should be candidate for
speaker and If successful hold that
important office. He has been speak
.er for five years. Wadswortn would
mot say that his retirement was due
TO the victory of the progresslves.
Just before the convention came to
m end the new state committee was
announced. The list contained sew
erai new names and it was assumed
that the progressives would control,
turning over to the Roosevelt forces
the party machinery of the state.
Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff,
who failed of reelection IN bis own
district, was elected from the second
district. The election of chairman
from the progressives in place Of
Woodruff is expected.