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SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 24, 1925 SCRUB SEED SCRUB POTATOES Clemson College, Oct. 24.—Yow cannot expect good yields of sweet potatoes from scrub any more than you can expect good yields of milk from scrub cows says A. E. Schilletter. Extension Horticultur ists, who calls attention to the fact tnat the growers on the eastern shore of Virginia practically doubl ed their yields by following hill se ection for two years. Seed seections, Mr. Schilletter ex plains, has two distinct advantages: (1) It increases the yield by mak ing possible a good stand of strong plants and the development of high yielding strains; (2) it reduces the danger from diseases, many of which may be effectively controlled by this method. This best way to select seed is on a hill performance basis. Select those hills which proudce a good yield of the most nearly ideal roots SIP fl k \ fl( ,( V ' )< . Fresh and Firm— a Dish for a King! l FISH AND OYSTERS presh and Firm—a Dish for a King! Sherlock & Co. Cotton Avenue Phone 7 At Y our Service Best Shoe Repairing McLain Shoe Renury PHONE 252 “The Yellow Front on Windsor Avenue”. PHONE 252 AMERICUS White Shoemakers—Best Material—Latest Machinery GEORGIA WELCOME TO Sumter County Fair Visit Our Office South Georgia Public Service Company Gas Electric W. H. CURRY District Manager Day Phone 555 Night Phone 686 Any roots from such hills will pro duce a good yield of the most near ly ideal roots. Anv roots from such hills will produce plants with . desirable hereditary characteristics. .he small ones are as good as the large ones and vice versa. But small potatoes and “strings” culled from the bulk of the harvest are vary ; undesirable for seed. Such mater : ial is apt to carry all of the disease : and bad hereditary characteristic of . the whole crop. ■ Careful selection of seed should . ibe practiced in the fall at digging time, the potatoes thus selected be- ■ ing stored in separate crates and • given special care. They should not be handled or sorted until time for bedding in the spring. Only : well-shaped potatoes of medium ■ size, free from disease and dug from I hills producing not less than five • marketable tubers should be select ‘ ed. It would produce quicker re sults if the standard were set at I eight to the hill. Different varieties, of potatoes i should never be mixed, as the mar : kets do not want mixed lots. It is 1 best to confine the crop to one or i two of the best marketable varieties such as Nancy Hall and Porto Rico. WHATMAKES MEAT QUALITY? I CHICAGO, Oct. 27. —Twenty- nine state agricultural experiment stations are co-opgrating to learn what makes quailty and palatability in meat. I Their discoveries are expected to play an important part Tn the fu ture breeding of livestock. i The experimental program is be , ing undertaken under the auspices of the Nationa 1 Live Stock and ' Meat Board, of which Dean F. B. Mumford of the University of Mis jsouri is chairman. It has the ap proval of the U. S. Department of agriculture, agricultural colleges, the American Society of Animal Production and the directors of va rious experiment stations. j No one experiment station is ex pected to attempt a solution of the problem, says Mumford, but each will take up some phase in which it is especially interested. Subjects for investigation include feeding, breeding methods of slaughtering and curing methods of cooking and others. I The fundamental problem in this study, it is pointed out, is the search for a standard of measurement for quality and palatability. Mexico’s Dance Queen * ■ ' ~ r w”’t' !1 I ■' T IwW I. / . Mr i ii j - i lifa® ■ I ' ; / i > a it *■iKH f ® .mV Queen of Mexico’s dancers is Se norita Estella Montellano, by pop- AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ular acclaim. And she is planning a tour of the U. S TIPS ON HOW TO FEED STEERS Start Animals Slowly and Grad ually Increase Allowance, Says Morgan CLEMSON COLLEGE, Oct. 24. —ln feeding steers this season cot tonseed meal will be fed largely as the only concentrated feed. While this feed with silage or hulls or other roughage usually gives profit-1 able results in fattening steers there are a few simple rules which should not be overlooked in the' feeding practice. Prof. C. L. Mor gan Associate Professor of Animal Husbandry, has worked out the fol-: lowing rules for feeding cotton seed I meal. eo io To get the best results from feed-, ing cottonseed meal to steers the animals .should be put on feed slow- ( • When Y our Typewriter Needs Attention Then Is Die Tinie to Phone Frank Hall The Typewriter Man 1 carry all Parts for all standard make machines; 1 also Clean T ypewriters. Care Americus Welding Company ly and the allowance of meal in creased gradually throughout the l edmg period. By following this 11 nethod cottonseed meal may be I used from 80 to 120 days with ’ s eers weighing 700 pounds or more 1 witn satisfactory results, explains Prof. Morgan. •' Applying the above rules in feed ing practice the steers should be started on feed by allowing one pound of cottonseed meal jer steer per day. This allowance should be increased at the rate of 1 -2 pounds daily until 3 1-2 pounds of meal is being fed per steer. The meal should then be increased 1-2 pound per head every seven day until 5 pounds is being fed. After this amount has been reached the meal' should be increased 1-2 pound peril steers every ten days. At the end ' of 120 days the steers will he up to a ration of 10 pounds meal a dailv : points out Prof. Morgan. i In feeding roughage or hulls the t |steers should be given :.’l they will eat after they have consum 1 the ' allowance of meal. Tn feeding sil-L ( age with meal the steers should bi PAGE THREE fed about 10 pounds of silage per head the first day and this amount increased at the rate of 5 pounds daily, until they are receiving all they will clean up. To furnish the i bulk necessary for the steers some hay shoud be fed until they are on | full feed of silage. POINTED PARAGRAPHS FOR THE FARMER ‘‘Pay-as-you-go” farming and “one-crop” farming are opposites. The fair offer good “window shopping” for farmers to learn the best stylos in farm products. A fine motto for the dairy farmer is: Make hay whether the sun shines or not. Humus through cover crops is one good means of beating the weather next crop season. The wise cotton farmer’s chief fall sport just now is killing cotton stalks not “cotton-tails.”
