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6 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1913. agrio/lti/ral EDUCATION Successful Farming Seas $ Andbew ft. SouLt This department mill cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agricultural College, Athens, Ga. TRAILING THE MODERN FARMER PART X. FIFTEEN YEARS’ EXPERIENCE WITH A STOVER, HOW TO HARVEST CORN By T. IVEY, Cary, N. C. Fifteen years ago, on a two-horse farm, I began as a pioneer in my com munity to cut and shock corn. I was led to this by a bulletin or two on the subject by both the state and national departments. The instructions given in the bullet ins were no doubt correct and complete, but I was too stupid or stubborn to fol low them until 1 had first tried to fol low out my own plans. The first year I cut my corn too green, as overy beginner is apt to do, and neither the corn or the stover was as good as if it had been cut a week or ten days later. 1 cut with short-handle hoes, let lie upon the ground until the blades were cured. Undertook to take up and shock when the fodder was in Agncu*tu*e is the oldest or tne ans, rarmers of Georgia can In many in ihe newest of the sciences. It is not stances afford to use as much as a ton surprising, therefore, that its relation- of the finely ground raw rock per acre i case" and°‘without“'blndi‘ng i 'ln' ; ‘o‘ bnudlea’ ships to the ol,ier arts and industries on land intended for corn and cotton, without the shocWng d horse and with- have never been properly . worked out. and especially for leguminous crops. out the cord for binding shock to- Tnia significance of tne term itself is This lime should not be ground into gether thinking to tie the shock with so little understood that reference made an impalpable powder, but there should! some of the stalks The onlv intelll- to it today probably conveys to the be no particles in it larger than half - a 3 - The 0nly lnte111 average mind the one idea of plowing the size of a grain of wheat. The lime the land and garnering the harvest. As is best put on land which has been a matter •'if fact, the term agriculture fall plowed * and should be scattered is one of the broadest and most com- uniformly over the surface as soon as prehensive in general use. This is due possible. The finely ground rock gives to the fact that it includes so many better results on land which contains related topics and interests. The aver- a fairly large amount of vegetable mat age farmer, for instance, has to deal ter than on thinner soils, but it is so almost daily with some factors of soil much easier to handle, and relatively cultivation dominated by the general speaking, so much lower in price as term agronomy. He must have a work- compared wtih the caustic lime that mg knowledge of some of the prin- we are disposed to think it is the most cipiea involved in animal husbandry, j economical form to use. Lorucuiture, chemistry, veterinary med iCiiie. goojogy vaCicroiogy. Botany, agricultural economics, farm mechanics and agricultural physics. if he hopes to enjoy that breadth of knowledge which will make him competent to . >. c.ate t.ie scientific principles iaied to his business he must have a buuu command 01 i».e Hngiisii language, oe tamuia. with the main tacts of his tory. and be able to read readily at least two of our modern languages, i lenen and German, because in t..ese tongues many of the most important recent discoveries relating to agricul ture are first presented to the world. in tne old days tne master mechanic was one who had served long and thorough apprenticeship in association wit., the most skiUiul workmen in or der that he might have an opportun ity to profit by their knowledge and absorb through personal contact the experiences of a generation. The wise and competent agriculturist must ot necessity undergo a long apprenticeship If ne is to be familiarized with tne cnief facts concerned in the progres sive development of the industry witn which he is concerned. In other words, to - become a successful farmer one must have a broad and general knowledge of cosmic economy and ol the fundamental sciences. Training of this character will certainly bring to the individual broad conceptions of life, an appreciation of culture and a per sonal control over natural agencies, making the individual capable of domi nating h;s environmental conditions. Is it any wonder that farming should be rc yarded with inuifference by many who engage In it, and held in con tempt by tnose who have only sufficient association ’with it to live off the man on the land. To elevate and dignify agriculture is the problem of the gen eration of today. To teach the dig nity of labor is fundamental and to demonstrate that working in natures laboratory is as worthy a cause as one can engage in and is as likely to bring as great a measure of success to the Individual as is essential. This can and s ould be done, and with its ac complishment will come that new era In farming which alone will enable the world to adequately be supplied with the necessities of life at a reasonable cost. Why is it essential that the farmer should have some working knowledge of tne large number of specialized sub jects enumerated above? An elaborate exposition can not be undertaken at this time, but a brief review of the main facts will be appropriate. In the first place, agronomy involves a knowl edge of soils, crops and their manage ment. The plant food contained in the soil is of little value to a growing crop unless it is in a condition to be utilized. How may this be accom plished is one of the greatest prob lems confronting the agriculturists. Science has shown that the use of the plow and other implements for soil cultivation will aid ‘he end in view ma terially and will favor the normal ac tion in the soil of sun. heat, light, wa ter and air. The farmer who does not adapt the crops he attempts to grow to his soil will fail. A thousand observa tions of this fact may be witnessed «n a ride across country in any part of the United States. Without management all business interests fail and none more notably than agriculture. In this one phase of the industry, therefore, is involved a knowledge of science and an understanding of plants In their rela tion to soil types and a keen insight Into business relationships and adjust ments. Since the farmer must deal with an imals of various types and classes in large numbers, it is essential that fie understand some of the principles con cerned in their breeding, feeding and management. Ignorance of these results in failure, intimate knowledge in suc cess. The nutrition of live stock alone constitutes one of the most important and complicated subjects with which the farmer has to deal. We have medi cal schools, nurses' homes and institu tions for the s‘udy of domestic econ omy in order that some progress may be made toward the rational feeding of the human race. We maintain on our fa~m and ranges, millions of animals and make but a slight effort to feed them with that degree of skill and in telligence which will enable them to serve their master to the best advan tage. The days of planting an orchard and expecting a fruit crop has long since past. There are plant diseases to fight, insect enemies to control, new varie ties to test and adapt to local condi tions, new methods of pruning, spray- T ng, cultivating and fertilizing to be -eckoned with. What chance has the ig norant or unlettered farmer in his fight igainst the well-organized and ever present natural enemies of the orchard anless he brings to the task the latest Knowledge and skill. THE PRODUCE BUSINESS IN GEOR GIA. V. S.. St. Augustine, Fla., writes: We would like to know if a general live stock and produce business wo*'Id ra.v- in Georgia? .V\ e a.-e from Kansas and would like to Jo- eate In Georgia. Wliai is your opinion of dry lot feeding cotton seed meal and hulls, buying and feeding the year around? There is no reason why live stock ft- ing and a produce business of the character mentioned in your letter should not be succesfuDy carried on in south Georgia and in other parts of the state as well. To cany this business on successfully, it would be necessary in our opinion to have a considerable area of land, a part of which could be devoted to grazing crops or grass, and a part to the production of silage and such other roughness as would be de sirable to feed as companion foods with cotton seed meal and hulls. Where this is done there is no reason why you should not be able to feed cattle the year round at a fair mar kin of profit, provided you buy them right and handle them to the best advantage. Many per sons who undertake a business of this kind, however, secure stock of such a low grade that they will not make ade quate Increases in weight in propor tion to the food cost; others feed more meal than is necessary. Still others de pend altogether on stall feeding and this gent thing I did afttr deciding to cut corn was to use the short-handled hoe. My idea of the horse was too vague to undertake to construct or to use; and without it the corn could not De shocked, unless first bound into bun dies. This I did, tleing fifteen or twenty stalks together, but found it necessary to tie the shock with twino. This method I continued fon several years.'thinking 1 had made an improve ment on the printed ins:ructions. But while the corn was lying on the ground to cure it would sometimes be injured by the rain. DON'T TY TO GET ALONG WITHOUT A HORSE. Finally It dawned on me what the horse was and I made a beautiful one and useful, fifteen feet long, standing on two legs with head high in air and tail on the ground, and with hole In the neck, resembling “the devil’s horse.’’ or praying mantis.' Through the hole I thrust a half inch steel wagon body rod, his only bridle. In the angles formed by the rod and the neck of the horse I could shock the corn without binding the corn in bundles, placing an armful at a time and putting 200 to 300 stalks In a shock. Then I learned to throw a plow line around the shock above the horse, and, with a man at each end, draw the rope very tightly, then pass both ends of rope together on opposite side from lap, one man holding while the other tied a twine, or wire, around the top of shock. Then pull out the rod, back out the horse, and you have a shock that will stand securely. By accident I learned that a small galvanized wire was far superior to twine for tydng the shock, and it can be used many times over. Draw the wire tightly and cross it and turn each end backward. It is quickly done and will hold. In about ten days, or after the corn has had time to shrink, go over the field and tighten the wires. This will strengthen the shock and also keep out the rain. I do not wait now for corn to cure, but shock Immediately behind the knives, though the corn may be wet with dew or rain. It keeps and cures out nicely in the shock, and both fodder and corn are as good as can be made by any process. I have also a better knife than the hoes. Take a stick a little more than an inch in diameter and about two and a half feet long; make a split near the end with a thin chisel, through which insert a sharp blade, a discarded table knife, and wrap a wire so as to hold in place. HOW TO HAUL CUT CORN If before I am ready to house the crop, and while waiting for it to thor oughly dry out, any shocks get into bad shape, as they may do from an exces sive rain, they are righted up, or haul ed to the barn. It used to be a big job and expensive to haul up this crop, ORIGIN AND DEVlLOPMllNT OF POLAND-CHINA BREED OF SWINE (Texas Farm and Fireside.) The Poland China hog originated in the Miami valley and it is nowhere ap parent that It originated from the pur pose or work of any one individual. The conditions of soil, climate, produce and markets of that region all favored the business of swine growing, and, as a result, early in the history of Ohio, Cincinnati became, for a time, the great est pork packing center in the world, and made pork producing the most profitable feature of farming in the surrounding country. The farmers of Kentucky and Ohio were deeply interested in the common elfort to meet the demands of the market, and secure the best possible rewards for their labor and enterprise Before the advent of improved roads, canals and railways the concentration of farm products into animals that could be driven to market, induced a general improvement of not only the swine, but the cattle also of that re gion. Under the common law of se lection, as well as by importation of improved breeds, by the peculiarly fa vorable conditions of climate, feed and water, by the influence of trade and fashion, the Poland China breed of swine originated and developed from the common hog of the Miami valley until it has become the leading breed shuck out the corn, and cut, or shred, i of the state and of the country the stover. Now, since I have learned; If is greatly to be regretted that in something, it is comparatively easy. j the earliest history of the breed, we On a low truck wagon have a long 1 had not In Ohio and in the west such grinding. If the cobs are left in a coarse condition the feed is likely to prove unsatisfactory and might produce irritation. Corn, cob and shuck meai should be fed with a plentiful supply ot clean, bright roughness. This is a makes the cost of the” InoreaseTn live I ver >’ Important matter to bear in mind. weight too expensive. Large yields of silage can be secured from a combina tion of corn and sorghum in this state. Sometimes the regrinding of the meai is necessary. Much depends on the char acter of the meal used and the skill frame bed only. Take along a plow line for eaoh shock to be loaded. Stretch the line on the ground by the side of the shock. Push the shock over on the line, then tie it tightly around he butts. Two men then can easily load a large shock. Put five or six, or more of these on the wagon, carry to facilities for making a record of the work done and means employed by the farmers of the Miami valley, as we now have in the numerous and able stock journals and agricultural papers of this day. Prior to 1839 there was no paper in the west specially interested in agricul- tiie barnyard, set each shock again on j ture or live stock matters. Hence most ihe butts, take off rope, spread the j of the earliest history of the Poland butts a little and the shock will stand i China breed, and of swine raising in the When fed with cotton seed meal it! with which the product is handled, furnishes an ideal and ecomonic ration GrtmRhS corn and cob meal out of corn as v ’ Silage may be fed for as much which is not in the best condition will ** flit • t or nine months of the year not improve it in any way as a feed, in gia with advantage and grass an< * the use °f of this charactei can be depended on for several months, * n any form is to be deplored. It no especially where Bermuda and burr fiooht causes a good part of the diges- clover are used. The natural range ti ve troubles about which farmers corn- may often be used to some advantage, but to secure good results we think it would be necessary to free It first from ticks and this would require that the land be fenced. COTTON MEAL FOR HORSES AND A. O. M., Barnesville, Ga., writes: I hare rend a great deal about tlie feeding of work animals with cotton seed meai, and want to know if it van be fed -o hors.s and mules wlrolly to supply protein? I will have to buy feed for lour head of work stock an other year, except forage, and would like to have your advice in the mater. Would you advise planting white oats In the spring, or would you prefer another variety? plain. * v m MIXING RATIONS ON THE FARM. A correspondent writes: I would like to have you suggest some sub able rations for horses and mules, cattle and poultry, as I desire to mix some for myself. Good rations for horses and mules doing heavy work may be compounded from a great variety of materials. An excellent one may be prepared by mixing together three pounds of cotton seed meal, three pounds of oats, and ten pounds of corn and cob meal. This should be fed with twelve pounds of Ber muda hay, and will provide a r>•■♦ritive Cotton seed meal can not be used as; ratio of 1.6. Another good form . ould the sole roughness for horses and be three pounds of cotton set . , . .. . . ,. .. thirteen pounds of corn and cob meal mules, but it is an excellent adjunct j ftnd thlrteen pounds of peavi ne hay. The to a ration of corn, as it will cheapen ~ * it. and improve its qualities in every respect. The best plan for you to pursue would be to mix 600 pounds of corn and cob meal with 100 pounds ol’ high-grade cotton seed meal, and feed this mixture at the rate of 12 to 14 pounds per head per day, depending on the size of the animal and the character of WoFk it is performing. The ration is based on 1,000 jpounds of live weight, and as the animals fall below or rise above this standard, the feed should be decreased or increased. Where animals are standing in the stable only about one-half to two-thirds of the ration is necessary as compared where they are performing hard work. You will find that the addition of the amount of cot ton seed meal suggested to a ration of corn will improve it materially and their will be no difficulty in inducing your horses and mules to eat it if th6 mixture is properly prepared. You should feed in addition to the above 12 to 14 pounds of clean bright hay. Twelve pounds of pea vine hay will be sufficient or 14 pounds of Bermuda or mixed hay or timothy per 1,000 pounds of live weight. We think you will find the Burt oat one of the best varieties to sow in the spring; at least this has been our ex perience. * * * TREATMENT FOR INDIGESTION IN MULES. A. W. R., Healing Springs, Ala., writes: I have a mule about ten years old and at tim s his stomach swells when he is being worked and he sweats too freely. Some times he appears to have a little colic. LIME FOR GEORGIA SOILS. V. R. P. t Moultrie, Ga., writes: I under stand tha- you have made some tests with agricultural lime ns a fertilizer, and would like to have some Information relative to the merits of this lime, etc. In our Judgment the use of lime on many of our Georgia soils will prove quite profitable. We have had some very interesting tests in progress in Brooks county at points not far dis tant from your line. These tests have been conducted on the farm of Mr. W. W. Hast, of Pidcock, and you might find it of interest to visit his planta tion and gather from his experience such suggestions as he has to offer from the standpoint of the practical farmer. On the college farm here at A.thens we haev secured an increase of more than ten bushels of corn per acre from lime, which is a better return than we secured from certain forms of fertilizer combinations used in oppo sition to lime. On oar test plats throughout the state lime has given ex cellent results. We believe that the Your mule is no doubt suffering from some form .of indigestion. Indigestion may be due to a variety of causes. Overwork and malnutrition are potent agencies. Some animals have not near ly as strong a digestive system as others and require more pampering in their feed on that account. It is safe whenever a horse appears to suffer from this complaint to vary the food and change the ration. The use of dry con centrated foodstuffs corrodes the di gestive system, as it were, and make: the animal sluggish. The best thing yc can do under the circumstances is t give a light laxative diet and give thi animal as much rest as possible for l few days. Any green feed which yo. can secure will act as a tonic. Two’ ounces of Jamaica ginger in a pint of moderately hot water given as a drench three times daily is an excellent medi cine for this trouble. In case this treatment does not prove effective there is nothing better to use than a good condition powder. Care and good man agement, however, are the most im portant agencies in curing troubles such as you are now experiencing with your mule. * * * GRINDING CORN FOR MULES. C. S. J., Dublin, Ga., writes: Will corn cobbs give mules colic? I have a feed grinder which grinds shuck, cob and all. 1 have found men who argued that this feed would case mules to have colic. nutritive ratio of this will be 1:5.8. An other suitable formula may be secured by mixing together 600 pounds of corn and cob meal, 100 pounds of cotton seed meal. Feed this mixture at the rate of twelve to fiften pounds per day. accord ing to the character of the work being performed, in conjunction with twelve pounds of peavine hay or fourteen pounds of Bermuda or mixed hay. For dairy cattle a mixture of three pounds of cotton seed meal, three pounds of corn and cob meal and thtrty to forty pounds of silage provides one of the very best rations available. The cot ton seed meal may be used alone or it may be combined with wheat bran. Or a mixture may be made containing three pounds of cotton seed meal, three pounds of corn and cob meal and two to four pounds of wheat bran. It is in tended, of course, that these formulas should be fed at the ratio Indicated to cattle weighing 1.000 pounds. Larger MOTHER AND LITTLE GIRL animals will need more and smaller ani mals less. The amount to feed will also vary with the milk flow. These rations are suggested for cows giving approxi mately two gallons of milk per day. Where silage is not available, hulls and as in the field, and as securely against .he weather, where It will stay until the entire crop is ready for the barn, it used to take lots of men to haul and shilck and cut. Now, I hire a man to come with a gasoline engine and pull my machine which both shucks the corn and cuts the stover, and it is soon over. HOW TO FEED THE STOVER. When I first began to feed the stover, I did not think so well of it Is I do now after fifteen years’ experience. I did not like to feed it to horses, more than once a day, and I thought it re quired hay to make the competent. But 1 have learned now that it is all right for regular and constant feeding for both horses and cows, and since I began saving it thus, I have never been short on roughage except one year when I had trifling tenants and a bad crop year. I feed in this way: A large vat with metal bottom sets on barn floor. In this I dampen enough stover for two days’ feeding—take a bucket of water Into which has been put a handful of salt. For sprinkling use a dipper with holes punched through the bottom. Let feed stand after dampening and it will soften and sweeten and have a delight ful odor, the salt , adding to its palata- bility and aiding digestion while the dampening also allays the dust, which is one of the essential arts in feeding horses. With this stover I use about one pint of cottonseed meal with each horse, feed three times per day, when fed three times per day one quart or more, according to requirements of cow. To feed cottonseed meal I used to think it must have some bran or shipstuff as a “carrier.” But now. un less running low in corn I feed only cottonseed meal, corn in the ear and stover. Horses will learn to eat cottonseeed meal quicker by feeding less and mixing with it a little bran, or shipstuff. I have fed two quarts cottonseed meal per day for months at a time to small horses and mules. 800 to 1.000 pounds, shortening the grain ration, with good result. If farmers only knew the value of corn stover and the ease with which a crop can be harvested, they would not be so slow to adopt this new feed with intelligent methods of harvesting and feeding. I have seen a few farm ers who were disposed to give it a trial. They invariably cut the corn too green, shock it badly and with characteristic carelessness, leave it in the field until rotted, and blame it all to the stover. If I were personally doing the work on the farm again, I would plant corn in rows of proper and exact width, buy a one-horse corn harvester which cuts the corn two rows at a time, carries it until sufficient for a shock, and car- lies also a shocking horse attachment in the rear. I simply would not. permit a man to pull fodder for me in the old way, if he -would do the job gratis. Nor do I say it is the ideal way to farm without hay; but for several years I have been doing it, and in so doing have thoroughly tested the value of the corn stover. color, artistically relieved by the clean white on the face and feet and tip of the tall. No artist s brush could place the col ors more deftly and in more complete hamony The art of the breeder is fur ther handsomely illustrated In the molding of the approved form, the graceful outline, and in securing a har mony of colors now accepted as that of the ideal standard Berkshire. But this was reached only by persistent and long-continued selection and use of crosses intended to eliminate or cor rect the undesirable characteristics 01 the early specimens of this notea breed. A. B. Allen says that in 1841 aged men in Berkshire, England, told him that the breed had been known by them from earliest childhood, and yet he and they were still using Siam ese crosses—so persistent were the original colors and traits and tenden cies to reversion to the hateful char acteristics of the old English hog- such as low feeding, coarseness of ear, hair and form, and the mixed uncertain colors. Prof. Low tells of the use ot the Chinese boars as late as 1842, to refine and improve the feeding quality of this long known breed. This illustrates the difficulty met In the persistency of reversion to mark ings and characteristics of breeds to which the Berkshire, and through him the Poland Chinas trace, and to which both are much indebted. It shows, too, the folly of the men who so flippantly announce themselves as originators of some new breed; something which, in a secret way, they evolve as their novelty, perhaps by accidental mating of animals, of the breeding of which the proud origina tors knew nothing. MOST FOREST FIRES FROM NATURAL CAUSES WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Natural agencies are responsible for most of the forest fires so far this year In the na tional forests, according to reports to the forest service here from its Held men. In former years railroads with their spark-showering locomotives, campers and brush burners were the chief causes of fires, but most of the destruction hah been originated this year by lightning. The officials here attribute this change to the educational campaign conducted among forest users and to the improvement of the fire patrol sys tem. FIRST BALE IN ALABAMA FOR 1913 IS REPORTED DOTHAN, Ala.. Aug. 2.—Alabama’s first bale of cotton from the 1913 crop was reported In Dothan today. It was raised by James Cobb, of Geneva coun ty, and was forwarded to Montgomery by express this afternoon. KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT CAMDEN, N. J., Aug. 2.—Mrs. Ross P. Schlsbach, wife of Lieutenant Ross cowpea vine or mixed hay may be used ’ P. Schlsbach, an assistant naval con- as a source of roughness, but the best structor in the United States navy, and results will be secured from feeding a daughter, Elizabeth, five years, were silage. killed at Buena, tnirty-five miles south For beef cattle cotton seed meal may 0 f h ere today when an automobile in be fed alone or with corn meal In equal which they were riding was struck by proportions along with silage or any an electric train on the West Jersey and other of the forms of roughness men- g ea Shore railroad. Lieutenant Schls- tioned. bach and Miss Vera Hobart, a cousin Ground wheat, buckwheat and oats oi Mrs Schlsbach. were injured, the may all be fed with* advantage to poul- latter probably fatally, try. Corn should only be given to those rhat have sufficient liberty to enable ■hem to get an abundance of exercise. Oats give their best results if the hulls ! are removed. west prior to that date, is purely traditional. Happily, however, about the time the Interest of pork growing became the leading feature of agricul ture in the Miami valley, the Western Farmer was started in Cincinnati, in September. 1839. Its editor, Thomas Affleck, was a man of intelligence and a lover of stock. Associated with him was Charles Foster, who was skillful with his pencils as well as with his pen, and left many well executed outs and descriptions of animals of southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. The written testimony of these two men may be accepted as the most accurate and valuable of any now available. The history of the English breeds has been better preserved in the writ ings of Prof. Low and earlier English writers. That of the Berkshires is per haps best known of any existing breeds. It is valuable as a help to show how breeds originated. The history of these two best known breeds illustrates forcibly a principle In breeding an nounced by Prof. Brewer, of New Haven. It is this: “A breed of animals is never made by crossing two, and only two, distinct breeds, and preserv ing the better qualities of both. I am not aware,” he says, “that there is any such case on record, among all the countless breeds of our domestic' ani mals. But new breeds are often made of several breeds by a selection from the mongrel progeny.” The evolution of the Berkshire hog from the old English hog, the Chinese, the Neapolitan, the Siamese, illustrates this principle, though it has occupied nearly a century of time and study of many indefatigable breeders. Its his- f. w vpar . Advanced methods im- tory is full of interest to all breeders of IeW y ears - Advanced metnodS, im- swine, because it is better understood, proved machinery, better labor, ^wrtUnVi^thir^ thanTba^r! hay e lightened his burdens. But any other breed of swine. Now as this the greatest lesson the smartest earfy bLoV^Xe in X Southern Farmer have t ken to Miami valley, we may first consider it heart is Economy. They are sav- to better understand the part played by j { nature > s bounty, and the several breeds employed in the ® J * make-up of the one breed, which, foi- they are demanding better goods ”51 «” d »«« to toir money. the others, and has become the chief | That’s why Shield Brand Shoe in the counties and state where it had' . . J . •• w • its origin. The December crop report SalCS arc increasing. tblHClu orand of Ohio for 1883 shows the per cent Shoes offer the farmers the best of each of the four breeds in the state. , t_ 1 « to be 46 of Poland Chinas, 27 of Berk- Shoe—the longest wear—Sty I shires, 21 of Chester Whites and 6 of Jersey Reds. THE BERKSHIRE ELEMENT. By rioting characteristics of the sev eral brreeds- employed in the early for mation of the Berkshire breed, one may see why they were used, and where the lop-ears, sandy or reddJsh-brown color, spoted with black, described by Prof. Low in 1842, came from. Then by following along down a quarter of a century, one will seee how. by elec tion, these undesired features were eliminated, and how. by Judicious crossing and selection, have been sub stituted the erect ear, the solid black Concerts and Aiutcs Tempt Hands to Farm (By Awe-ated DEVILS LAKE, N. D.. Aug. Warned by scarcity of men to harveat this year's grain crop, farmers In this region have agreed to call a halt to work at 6 p. m dally. In many In stances they will furnish automobiles to enable the men to spend their evenings In town. Concerts are to be provided for a big amusement day to end with a big water carnival. Weston, Aged Walker, Covers 1,000 Miles Of His Long Hike MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Aug. 2.—Amid the roar of cannon, the clanging of bells and the blowing of whistles. Edward Payson Weston completed his tramp of more than 1.500 miles from New York icty here today. The aged pedestrian, by changing his plans after leaving the metropolis has walked 1,5-16 miles. Leaving New York on June 2, Weston was due to reach Minneapolis on August 3, but when he readied Stillwater. Minn., July 29 he was four days ahead of hie scheduled time. CANNING CLUB LECTURES SUCCESSFUL IN APPLING (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) BAXLEY, Ga.. Aug. 2.—During the month of July Miss Annie Lou Tappan. of Greensboro. Ga.. In co-operation with Georgia State College of Agricul ture and the Farmers' Co-operative demonstration work of the United States department of agriculture, has had charge of the demonstration work of the girls' canning clubs of Appling county. Successful demons'ratlons were given at eighteen schools and clubs In different sections of the county, besides work In private families. They have expressed their thanks to Miss Tappan for her untiring efforts and for the valuable Instructions she has given. As a result of these demon strations a large number of eannlng outfits have been purchased and the work Is progressing nicely. Miss Tappan gave special Instruction In making pickles preserves, sauces and jellies. She wrote a letter on canning which won first prize In a contest In a popular farm journal and by request of her club members she consented to have It published In the Baxley News- Banner. The succtfcs of the canning club work In this county has surpassed the most sanguine expectations of tha most optimistic people of the county. ECONOMY ON THE FARM Southern Farmers have made wonderful progress in the past snap—comfort—at the lowest cost he has yet had to pay for first- class foot wear. Shield Brand Shoes are proving their merits to thousands and thousands of the South’s most in telligent and practical farmers, and therefore they ore being worn and enjoyed by thousands of farm ers’ wives, and children and lar* borers. Shield Brand Shoes are econom ical, because they have proven their trade mark—-"Fit Best— »Vear Longest” Ask your shoe merchant for Shield Brand Shoes. Do not ao* cept the kind that are "just as good.” Make him get for your sake, and for economy’s sake, SHIELD BRAND SHOES M. C. KISER CO. Shield Brand Shoemakers Atlanta. Georgia HARVESTER with Binder Attach- UVAhl’t ment cuts and throws in piles on The mixing of a small | harvester or wlnrow. Man and horse cuts and amount of cotton seed meal wUh bran, .ho^equa^wlth i-round corn and oats furnishes a better.} Btale- rrice $20.00. W. H. BUXTON, of Johns-; :alanced ration than the use of the one i town, Ohio, writes: “The Harvester has proven alone. 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