The Pageland Journal, 1914-09-30

i. Winter Eggs Will Bring Rich c Returns 1, Clemson College, Sept. 26? , With a dearth of of cash on ev !, erv hand, indications are that the s business of raising poultry will p have more stimulus this fall and winter than for any time in years, r The reason for this is that the \ poultry business is one of the most easily and quickly profitae ble industries for South Carolina, with good prices for eggs and e poultry and small expense for i- food. There is reason to believe 1 that the industrious hen is about e to come into her own in this - State and that, once established ;; as a moneymaker on South Car, olina farms, she will never be r forsaken. , F. C. Hare, poultry husband, man of Clemson College, urges - the raising of poultry now as , a quick source of revenue. Hens, he states, will lay in this State i all winter if fed an egg mash of . cottonseed and grain. Their i eggs find ready sale anywhere i and there is no reason why the . value of the industry in this State cannot be inci eased to . compare favorably with its vall ue in nearby States. "Our hens do not now prot duce sufficient eggs for our own , tables," according to Mr. Hare, I "hilt U70 n rn 4

?.vruvua ?iivi w liuerspuon Mississippi;*Stevens, NewHamp shire; Thompson, Oklahoma and Wingo, Arkansas. Representative Hobson, j Democrat declared the temper ance forces opposed any ta x or beer on the principal that th< government should not be de pendent in any way on alcohol. The bill would impose an ad ditional tax of 50 cents a barre on beer, 2 cents a gallon an gasoline, 20 cents a gallon on sweei wines and 12 cents on dry wines stamp taxes on railway and steamboat tickets, brokers' con tracts, insurance policies, mortgages, telegraph and telephone messages, and special taxes on theatres, brokers, bankers, tobacco dealers'and others. Secretary McAdoo wrote Representative Underwood today that total treasury receipts for the present fiscal year up to Wednesday exceeded those for WtC d ?4 ja/ui wgtr $734,904, but that the increase was accounted for by the $12,AAA AAA ? ' ? '

"A traveling man in town last Saturday gave out some news very interesting here to people who actively participate in South Carolina politics. The said traveling man told that \ttorney General Peeples whipped Governor Blease last week in the office of the chief executive. The alleged scrap came about in this' manner: Peeples was in Blease's office bragging in a gentle manner about being the only Bleaselte to land an office. The governor was not in fit humor to be jostled on the subject and he told the attorney general some things. He accused Peeples of carrying water on both shoulders. He said that Peeples bartered and traded with the enemy and played traitor to his friends. The governor also cursed the attorney genenal. Peeples could not take the. insinuations so he jumped on the governor and! soundly walloped him. The papers did

Pump Is Safer Than Open Well. A few years ago we used to be inclined to believe that a great lot of our pollution of wells went through the ground, "Mr. Warren H. Booker of the North Carolina Board of Health writes us: "Now, we are coming to change our minds and we believe that a great source of difficulty with these open wells is on account of people carrying filth on their boots and shoes and washing it off on the well platform nearby, and then rinsing it back into the well by means of waste water or by means of actual contact with the bucket or rope and human hands and lips. Another means of polluting our farm wells is by means of dust, dirt, trash, insects, etc., getting in at the open top. The health officers are coming to believe now that hv nil nHHc tlio

, ^ ... v* V.VJU1 ptucu IU IIII" . port eggs from as far off as Kan. sas. North Carolina and Teni nesse ship us thousands of cases. ! All this, though we can have in our poultty a revenue-maker for the farmer's family that does not demand time or money from cotton, stock^or farm." Though it is possible to obtain i profitable winter egg production from any mature pullets and _ ynTP, pt Konc jin<4ar.{n.unroKlo /vim. i ditions, the two breeds selected bv the poultry clubs in South : Carolina are the Barred Plymouth Rocks for meat and brown shelled eggs, and the Single Comb White Leghorns for white shelled eggs. By following directions which Clemson College will gladly give to any who are interested, it is a simple matter to have eggs

v?uuii v..jU uu materially increased if the merchants of the South will call for the use of cottoti packages for every article that can be put up in such packages? A little figuring shows tha} every car of the commodities mentioned if put up in cotton packages will represent the con* sumption of nearly one half a bale of cotton, and we do nqf think it is any exaggeration to say that . 10,000 cars of the coijfc modities named above are ?eceived and handled in the Soutl} every day. Ifthiysso^i^iHA jtn of cotton represented bv the! packages in each car, which will amount to 4,000 bales per day, or 1,200,000 bales per year. This will help wonderfully and in addition to taking care of that amount of cotton! will materially inrroflsp tlio ivnrV *-i~

? _ M. ill Ull V11V/1 I to break through the respective positions. Both sides, according to the French official report issued to day, have made some progress, the Germans on the allies* right perhaps the greatest. For three days or more a violent battle has been raging in the hills and plains between ihe rivers Oise and Somme. Official accounts, bo h .German and French, are silent vis to how this fight is going, but in the frontal attack on the Germans' strongly fortified and well reinforced positions farther south, the allies have made slight progress. The Germans apparently are satisfied to remain on the defensive until the hflttlf* of tl"IO flonl/ line Knnn

Revenue to Meet War Losses Washington, Sept. 25.?Thi administration war revenue bill imposing additional tax on beei domestic wines and gasoline and special taxes on theatre and certain dealers, and stam] taxes, estimated to produce $105, 000,000 within a yeai, was pass ed late today bv the house, 23 to 135. The bill now goes to thi senate. All the Republicans and all th< Progressives, except Representa tive Copley of Illinois, vote< against the bill, and they wen joined by 11. Democrats: Repre sentatives Calloway, Texas Church, California; Hobson Alabama; O'Hair, Illinois; Rags dale, Oouth Carolina; Sisson .QtanViono nnA \171.1 -