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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-02-22
WALIIALLA, s. c.:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY ~, 1911
TILIAIAN STATES POSITION.
lie Maintains that II College Trustee
ship Is Not an "Onicc."

Washington. Feb. li.-Iolding
that the meaning Of the word office
where it occurs in the constitution of
South Carolina does not embrace
that OF trustee of a college, and that
therefore he is within both the letter
and the spirit Of the law in holding
the Office Of Senator while at the same
time trustee Of Winthrop and Glenn
son colleges, Senator Tiilman to-day
explained his views OF the situation
for The State.
States His Position.
''lnasmuch as Governor Bleasc. in
a special message regarding the hold
ing OF two Offices. has made specific
mention OF me as one Of the law
breakerS.' said Senator Tillman, ."
feel willing to make public my posi-
ton. Otherwise | would have moth
ing to say until the court passed upon
1t, as suggested by the joint commit
tee OF the Legislature.
'rhc whole question hinges on the
Interpretation that shall be placed
upon the word office. The language
in Article ,, Section ., OF the Consti-
tuition is plain and simple enough:
But no person shall hold two offices
OF honor or profit at the same time
1herc Is special exception in the
case OF notarics public and Of militia
officers.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-02-22

state, and ! do not think I have done
so. The two positions hold are not
Offices under the State Constitution
as | understand the meaning OF the
wOrd."
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
BuTrERMILK DISHES.

To keep up the interess IN
living every little while some new
specific for prolonging hfe' re-
newing the tissues and preserv-
ing beauty springs into popular
favor. Buttermilk and sour milk
have both been highly praised. and
science is experimenting to prove the
wonderful tales. For years butter
milk has been recommended by physi-
clans for people troubled with govt,
rheumatism or liver troubles. Many
times those who cannot retain sweet
milk find buttermi1k most satlsfac-
tory A glass of iced buttermilk with
a sandwich makes most satisfying
and wholesome luncheon. Butter
milk may be used in place of sour
milk in cookery, making. a richer and
finer-grained product. For those fond
of buttermilk, the buttermilk soup Is
great delicacy. Heat a quart of
buttermilk until nearly boiling; do
not let it boil or it will curdle. Pour
over three wellbeaten eggs, season
with salt and sugar and serve with
grating of nutmeg on top of each
soup plate.
ButtermiIk Ginger Cake.-Take
cup of molasses, one well-beaten egg,
two-thirds of cup of buttermilk,
third of cup of melted shortening,
two teaspoonfuls of soda, spices to
taste and -four enough to make bat
ter not too stiff, when it drops like a
veil from the spoon it is sufficiently
thick
Buttermllk Spice Cake.-Take two
cups of light brown sugar one-half
cup of butter, two cups of buttermilk,
two teaspoonfuls of soda, teaspoonful
of cinnamon, half a teaspoon OF
cloves, pinch of ginger and grating
OF nutmeg, two eggs, a cupful each Of
raisins and currants and sufficie
flour to make heavy batter. The
fruit will cause 1t to fall If 1t is not
stiff enough
ButtermIik cookies.-Cream one cup
of butter. add two cups of sugar.
cup of buttermilk. teaspoonful Of
soda, nutmeg to taste, and suffi cient
-four to roll. Roll very thin and bake
In hot oven.
Buttermilk heated hot, and adding
noodles Is another favorite soup.
In the west and middle west many
housewives use buttermilk in their
bread. Use two cups heated warm,
add yeast cake teaspoonful Of
soda and then proceed as usual in
making bread.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
General Purpose Breed Red polled Cow.

for animals of any breed will be far
more profitable to their owner than
a larger number of animals of poorer
quality kept in mediocre manner.
A person intending to take up the
breeding of any breed of pure-bred
stock should make careful study of
both his own conditions and such en-
vironment as the breed would be call
ed upon to produce under. Then a
careful study of the breeds to see
which one is so constituted as to be
able to produce the greatest results
when placed under the conditions and
management you are able to give
The writer has noted many cases
where it seemed from all evidence
available, the poor success the breed
er realized was from lack of unison in
choosing the breed to procure under
conditions prevailing in each particu-
lar case
Good breeding and good feeding go
hand in hand-one without the other
is not capable of producing the great
est results. The two combined with
good common sense and good judg-
ment are sure of the best results.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
MAKE FIRST CLASS BUTTER
Any Farmers Wife Can Produce su-
perior Article by Following Few
Simple Precautions.

Every farmers wife can easily
make first-class butter by observing
few simple precautions and by pur-
chasing few simple and inexpensive
tools. Cleanliness is of paramount
Importance at every turn in handling
milk and in making butter. The sec
ond paramount issue is to keep the
cream at the proper temperature and
to ripen it just right. Where the
churning is done every day this is
simple enough.
Every farmer who owns two or
three good milk cows ought to own
good small hand separator. The sep
arator will get all the cream out OF
the milk and the milk can be fed
while sweet.
When the cream is 'eld for several
days it should be cooled immediate
ly and held at temperature of about
sixty degrees; each succeeding skim
ming should be cooled to the same
temperature and added slowly and
thoroughly stirred to secure an even
mixture.
When we have a sufficient amount
of cream to churn it should be held
at a temperature of about seventy de-
grees for about twelve hours to ripen
it, The cream should have a mildly
acid taste and family sour smell.
When the cream is ripe it must be
cooled at once to the churning tenn
perature and churned. The churning
temperature, from about 55 degrees
in the summer to about 70 degrees in
the winter. 1t is also affected by the
feed given the cows, the period of lac
tation, the breed of the cows and 9TH
er minor considerations.
Avoid the dasher churn or any con-
trivance inside the churn which tends
to break the butter grains. A small
box or barrel churn is recommended.
Stop the churn when the granules
first begin to show, and if the but
ter seems to be too soft, add small
quantity of cold water and continue
the churning until the butter grains
are about the size of oat or wheat
grains. Wash out the buttermilk, add
about one ounce of salt to the pound
of butter, and work the butter prop
erly.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

south the growing of leguminous
crops for two or three years until the
WORKOUT cotton land will grow good
grass and the sodding of the land in
Bermuda grass and the grazing of
pure bred hogs, sheep, cattle, goats,
horses and mules will result in big
profits instead of the loss sustained
by the growing of cotton on the same
land year after year.
Senator ingalls, said. Next in i'm
portance to the divine profusion of
water, light and air--those three phys
ical facts which render existence pos
sible-may be reckoned the universal
beneficence of grass" ingalls, told the
whole truth, but few farmers in the
south believe what he said. Not one
farmer in a thousand fully appreciates
the full value of a good permanent
pasture. The most prosperous coun-
ties in England owe their prosperous
agriculture to the magnificent perma-
nent pastures. The blue grass region
of Kentucky has done much to cause
our farmers to appreciate grass to
some extent There are sections of
Tennessee and Virginia where the
successful growing of fine stock on
grass has helped Kentucky to gain
friends for grass.
Let us adopt better balanced sys-
tenn of farming-one that will include
large areas devoted to thoroughly
good permanent pastures; one that
will include more pure-bred live stock
to eat the grass and the leguminous
crops that must be grown in the corn,
cotton and other crops to economical
ly enrich the soil. More grass and
more leguminous crops and more good
stock means prosperity in the south.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

pigs became dry. If the wind strikes
the young pigs when they are frst
born they will often chill to death.
Each farmer can make his own shel-
ter, to be in keeping with his sur
roundings, but probably the best and
most economical building that can be
made is the portable hog house. These
houses may vary in size; those with
floor dimensions Of by feet, by 9
feet, or by feet will be fuuEd most
satisfactory. The roof need not be
over feet high at the highest point.
The house may be made on runners
to facilitate moving it about To prevent
sow from crushing the pigs at farrow-
ing time, a scantling should be fas-
tened to the inside of the house, about
8 inches from the ground, projecting
about 10 inches toward the center of
the pen. The small pigs can run UNI
der this protection and keep the
mother from lying upon them. There
is no necessity for supplying floor
for these houses; some straw at far
rowing time is all that is required.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
TURN MORE LAND TO GRASS
Many Farmers DO Not Realize How
Valuable Crop Is, Especially With
Beef, Mutton and Pork.

More land in grass should be the
slogan in the south. We have been
fighting grass for many years. Let
US put thousands of acres in grass
and give it a square deal. We do not
realize how valuable grass is. we
do not value it fully as feed. We
have never kept an account of the
beef, mutton, pork and so on that an
acre of good grass produces. We do
not realize that land in grass instead
of cotton, corn, tobacco, cane or rice
to a large extent solves the labor
problem We do not measure the large
return from the land in grass and the
small cost of growing the grass.
Many farmers in the south prize
wheat, oats, corn, cotton, rice and
cane crops because their growth has
become a habit. Very few farmers
have compared the profit derived from
an acre of cotton and an acre of ber-
muda grass, lespedeza and some win
ter clover On many farms the grow
ing of cotton represents loss instead
of a profit. On many farms in the
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
USEFUL FOR PULLING BEANS
Rake With Cutting Blade Attached
Ships Full Pods Off vines-No
Bending Required.

A bean puller has been invented by
a Michigan man. With it farmer
may remove the full pods from the
vines without having to stoop except
to pick them up afterward and if he
likes can have some one follow him
and do that. The implement resem-
bles rake, but mounted on the tooth
blade is movable cutting blade, op-
Grated from the handle. The user can
reach out and rake in full pod or
two and with one movement snip
them from the vines by bringing down
the cutting blade. Except for man
with weak back, however, the value
of this implement is not so readily APP
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
PuDDlNes, OLD AND NEW.

What to have for dessert is the
daily question asked by thousands of
housewives all over the land Here
Is one to try:
Orange TartIets.-Take two table,
spoonfuls of sponge cake crumbs, two
tablespoonfuls of cream, teaspoonful
OF vanilla, two tablespoonfuls of but
ter, one egg, the grated rind and Juice
OF an orange and four tablespoonfuls
of sugar Roll out some pastry. cut
In rounds and line gem pans with it.
Beat the butter to a cream, add the
egg well beaten, then the crumbs and
havoring and juice of the orange. Mix
we'll together and put teaspoonful
In the lined gem pans. Bake fifteen
minutes in a hot oven
Ice cream with hot pudding sauce
of maple strip or chocolate makes q
delicious dessert.
Cocoa Fruit Pudding.-Chop two
thirds OF cup of suet and cup Of
tigs. two and fourth cups of bread
crumbs in meat chopper; add a half
cup OF cocoa, cup of brown sugar,
two eggs, half cup of milk and a
half teaspoonful of salt Steam three
hours and serve with chocolate sauce
or sweetened cream whipped
Fig pudding is made as above. using
a cupful of figs instead of the dates.
Tongue canapes.-Toast triangles of
bread, spread with butter Cut slices
OF cooked tongue in small pieces. Mix
with creamed butter; add two table
spoonfuls of capers to a half cup OF
tongue. Spread on the bread.
Sprinkle with salt, cayenne and gar
nish with water cress.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
Bonham Portable Hog House Showing Plan of
ADVANTAGES OF DEEP SOILS
Increases Water-Holding Capacity and
Permits Air to Circulate Free
iy-Fail Flowing Here.

deep soil is certainly desirable.
This is proven conclusively by the
good cotton and corn that grows on
back burrows and the small cotton
and corn that grows in dead burrows.
We must deepen our soils for the fol-
lowing reasons: First, to increase the
water-holding capacity; second, to let
the water escape from the surface
without running over the ground and
washing it off; third, to permit the
air to circulate freely for consider
able depth; fourth, to secure crops
against drouth by enabling the roots
to go down to perpetual moisture;
fifth, to increase the area from which
the plant roots may obtain food.
There is one way and only one way
to deepen thin soil and that is by
blowing little deeper every time it
is broken and by turning under vege-
table matter, such as corn and cotton
stalks, oat and pea stubble, grass and
trash
Fall blowing time will soon be here.
We should hitch two or three large
horses or mules to disk pillow and
break the land four or five inches
deeper than it has ever been broken
before. The turning under of the
vegetable matter will loosen the soil,
furnish food for the bacteria in the
SOIL increase it's water holding ca
pacity, and add plant food to the soil.
Large plows and strong teams will
enable us to pillow deep and turn I'M
der the vegetable matter.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
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GENERAL fARrl
5 ; 5 :. N|,'|oTES S

Cowpeas are splendid for either hay
or pasture
Glover is cut for seed after all the
heads have turned brown.
Ripe, dry corn, if put in the silo,
should by all means be watered.
Land for vetch should be plowed and
prepared the same as for sowing.
Add a few more roosts until the
poultry is thinned out for winter.
Do not neglect to spray the orchard
trees and berry bushes this year.
Never allow the calf to get fat in the
sense that the beef breeder desires.
A few hens are always profitable
while very large pocks are seldom SO.
Soaked grain generally puts on
slightly faster gains than dry grain.
Winter rye has usually survived
without any protection from stubble
or other growth.
1t is not unusual for the cream from
COW advanced far in lactation to he
difficult to churn.
The chief benefit from silage fed to
hogs, at least that from corn, lies in
the grain in the feed.
Alfalfa or cloverlis relished by hogs.
whether green or as hay or silage. if
the latter is not too acid.
Corn smut does not, to any extent.
harm the feeding value of corn fodder
so far as cattle are concerned.
The feeding of silage to hogs has
been tried experimentally by several
stations, but with varied success.
Crowding poultry in roosting room,
feed yards or even on the whole farm
does more harm than any other thinS
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

Train and automobile collisions, gen.,
orally attended with loss of life, are
being reported from various sections.
These collisions belong in the class of
entirely avoidable accidents. The
grade crossing is well known as one
OF the always present dangers of civ
ilization, and eternal vigilance in cross
ing 1t Is the only price of safety. On
the part OF both railroads and public
too much care cannot be taken at
point where two swiftly moving bodies
are bound to sacrifice life If they
meet.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
Farmers Meet at Columbus.

The next annual meeting of the
American Association of Farmers In
stitute Workers will be held at Column
bus, o., November 10 to Is, 1911. The
meeting of the association of Ameri.
can Agricultural Colleges will also be
held at the same place beginning No
vember Is. Thousands of farmers
should attend these meetings.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
RAISING LIVE STOCK
industry Has Materially In
creased in Recent Years.
Few Carefully Selected, Well Cared for
Animals of Any Good Breed viii
Be Found to Be Quite
Profitable
fBx H. a. MART1N.l

The attention given to breeding live
stock in the United States has mate
rally increased in the last few
years.
1t is question that much time and
attention can be wisely applied, not
only by few, but by large number
of our live stock breeders and farm
ers.
1t is self evident to any that will
take time to think on the question,
that we should develop the quality of
our stock, before we try to make great
strides in breeding large numbers of
animals.
A few carefully selected, well cared
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
Roads in Minnesota.

The Elwell bill, which became law
in Minnesota recently, provides that
the state shall pay one-half of the ex-
pense of the road, the county one
quarter, and the owners of the bene-
fitted property one-quarter, Under this
law number of trunk highways are
being constructed. The farmers are
more than willing to pay one-fourth of
the COST of constructing the roads.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
Shelter for Live Stock.

A shelter is needed to protect the
live stock from the cold winter winds
and rains. The shed also protects the
manure from the rains that too often
leach practically all the plant food
out OF the manure. The shelter costs
very little money and pays for itself
every year in protecting the cattle
and maDura
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
Gooseberries.

Gooseberries are picked green and
are used for pies American gooseber'
ries are not a high-class fruit, but the
English varieties are very fine indeed
A lime and sulphur spray holds the
mildew on the English fruit in check.
The quality of these is much better
either for eating, making jam or pies.
They should have great future.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
SHELTER FOR SWINE.
Little Protection Is Required in
the Far South.
Each Farmer Can Construct His Own
Building, but Most Economical
House Is Shown in lIlustra-
tions Herewith.

(By DAN T. GRAY, United states De-
partment of Agriculture)
In the south, the far south espe-
cially, very little shelter is needed ex-
cept at narrowing time There is no
occasion for extensively constructed
buildings. OF course, at narrowing time
the mother should always be supplied
with a building that will afford shell
ter from the rain and the wind for
both the mother and the pigs until the
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

History is repeating itself A de-
mand is forming for the regulation
of aviation because the birdmen in
their machines frighten horses Later
on automobiles In their turn will be
complaining of aeroplanes. hiplanes
dirigible balloons and other awcrafs
running them down.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

An eastern young woman wants
every young woman in the country
to sign a pledge not to marry a man
who smokes. This, however, will
hardly affect the smoke habit either
one way or the other.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

With the wife OF one model hus-
band" committing suicide and the
of another suing for divorce. the COM
mon everyday kind of husband may
be better thought Of
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

1t is reported that Egyptian coats
are the latest in woman's garb. After
viewing chromos portraying Cleopatra
we gather that a miscroscope will be
needed to find the coats.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

Within ten minutes after landing in
New York Toledo citizen had been
robbed twice. New York may keep
that record for speed as long as 1t
likes.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

Sandwiches made of finely chopped
violets spread over thin slices of but
tered bread are being sold in New
York grill rooms. Evidently cloves
are too plebeian for some of the New
Workers.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

Elated. apparently. at the addition
of an "h" to its name. Pittsburgh is
to have 40-story bank building. The
Smoky City is feeling the uplifting
tendencies Of the times.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

Now physician rises to remark
that there is really no such thing as
seasickness. The imitation. however.
Is SO good as to deceive the most ex-
perienced
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

A temperance society in Cleveland
is trying to find out what highball
Is. 1t may be unnecessary to state
that the society In question la a strict
ly feminine one.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

In duel between two Hungarian
counts the other day the right ear OF
one OF them was slashed In two II
Hungarian duels are going to BIO as
sansuinary as that they will have to
30 %opped.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

Forty years ago this fall COW in
Chicago kicked over a lamp and
burned the town down 1t has, how
ever. picked up remarkably well ever
since
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

1t is announced that Russian caviar
Is cure for the cholera. Probably
1t works on the principle that anyone
who knows he would have to eat Rus
sian caviar will refuse to have the
cholera.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

The Pennsylvania man who, while
intoxicated, took out a marriage IL
sense, thinking it was dog license,
well deserves the dogs life that his
marriage is apparently leading him.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

American women, according to
German. do not know how to pose for
q photograph. In the art of arriving
with both feet, however. they are
quite sophisticated.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

"Ayiatrice" is the new word for the
woman aviator. AS there is only one
90 far we needn't bother our heads
about what the plural of "ayiatrice"
u.s.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

A London girl smoked a calabash
pipe on the streets of that city. And
still they say over there that Ameri-
can girls are forward.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

Boston has the distinction of having
the first mortgaged aeroplane. But,
then, on an airship it ought to be sasy
10 raise mortgage.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

An Akron (O.) man was found walk
Ing in his sleep with baby in his
arms. That's our notion Of a model
husband!
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

The samples of ice cream contain
Ing 100000 bacteria to the cubic cen
hmeter seem to be minor leaguers
compared to those containing g.
100000.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

A physician finds that there is an
other standard life prolonger-sauer
kraut. The discovery was made in
Cincinnati.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20

st. Louis man committed suicide
because his wife was too affectionate.
IN other words. she loved him to
death.