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HOW TO BUILD A SILO Should Bs Lined With Cement Mortar When of Lumber. Concrete Foundation Extending Six Feet Into Ground May Be Made With 2x4's Placed on Top Outside Left Exposed. In reply to a fanner asking for plans for a silo and who has on hand pine, white oak and chestnut lumber for Hs construction. Hoard's Dairyman makes the following reply: It ls our opinion that if lt is most desirable to build a silo of the lum ber on hand it would be well to plan on lining it with cement mortar. A concrete foundation extending six feet into the ground and two feet above l?* y/m kp* .sr . End View.-This illustration shows tho half-inch board which is nailed to the 2x4's, and they may be any width; the beveled laths and how the cement is put over them. may be made. Thea place on the top of this foundation 2x4's iii teen inches apart from center to center. On the inside of the 2x4'a nail half-inch lum ber horizontally to them. Over this . sheeting nail beveled laths, which may be made from half-inch lumber obtained at a saw mill. The accompanying illustration shows the relation of the sheeting, laths and cement mortar. The dovetailed open ing formed by the laths as shown holds the cement lining very solidly. The cement mortar should be mixed one part cement to three parts of sharp sand; it will be necessary to put on two coats. The second coat is put on before the first is thoroughly dry. After the second coat is dry, or nearly so, a wash consisting of pure cement and water made to the thick ness of cream, should be applied with a brush to the silo. This wash will close up the pores of the plaster and ; prevent it from taking up any mois ture from the silage, also prevent air from entering the B?O. The outside of the silo, or the 2X4'B, may be left exposed, or they may be covered with siding, or sheeting, as the fancy of the builder decides, lt would be possible to use paper and several thicknesses of lumber, and make a very good silo, setting up the 2x4's, as described, but we believe it is better and fully as cheap to line the silo with cement plaster. ROOT CHOPS FOR DAIRY COW Where Large Quantities of Turnips Are Fed Directly After Milking No Bad Flavor Results. No matter what some people tell you, turnips and other roots make fine milk-producing feed. Turnips will not affect the flavor of milk if fed at the right time. If turnips are fed in large quanti ties, and two or three hours before milking, they are likely to give the mi"< an unpleasant taste, but if fed directly after milking, no flavor whatever will be noticed. A peck of turnips to each animal per day is sufficient in most cases. A good plan is to feed directly after hay in the early morning, and once a day is often enough. A little salt scatered over the turnips, which should be chopped in quarters or smaler, add to their pa!?fability. i Hoots make a very valuable addi tion to the winter ration, because they add to the variety of the feed, and no animal on the farm appreci ates variety more than the dairy cow. In Wisconsin, Iowa, and other western dalry states the root crop ia becoming a very important part of the crop of the farm. Drainage of Wet Lands. For management of wet lands the usual advice is to tile drain them, but an intelligent German farmer now living in this country suggests that ft sometimes pays better to make artifi cial ponds. In Germany, he says, an acre of fish ponds is often reck oned worth more than an acre of wheat. The dams can be built with farm la bor at small expense, and the ponds add considerably to the beauty of the scenery. Very often, also, the ponds can be used to some extent for irri gation, and irrigation will work won ders. Soil for Peas. Give peas rich ground and a new location each season. Work the ground thoroughly. Plowing the ground in the fall is an advantage. Up-to-Date Farmer. The up-to-date farmer is always busy laying his plans for the next eeason'o work, no matter whether lt ls summer or winter jost ahead. SECONDARY AND NOT A PRIMARY MOTIVE IN HIGHER REALMS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY. AN eminent professor of psychol ogy in a leading university has just been discussing the Influ ence of fear as an incentive to human' action. The conclusion has been drawn that lt must remain as a powerful factor in the evolution of the race. W'thia certain limitations fear must ever be an active element in its re lations to conduct and character. Bnt those limitations are very narrow. Pear must be a secondary and not a primary motive In the higher realms of human activity. In the lowest realms it is purely instinctive and has been given us for preservation from physical danger. The fear of pain and disease has resulted In the splen did efforts which have been made to lull the oae and overcome the other. But in the moral sphere it must give place to higher -\n? holier impulses. Children in their education must not be driven with the "big stick" to learn and obey. There may be rare excep tions, but the exceptions prove the rule. The fear of the results of mis conduct must and do hold many men In obedience to the law of their being and of society. But it ia a low spe cies of fear. The history of civiliza tion proves how te-rible and degrad ing has been the fear both of nature and of God which has held barbaric people in the thrall of superstition. The whole trend of Christian teach ing has been to emancipate them from its influence. It will not do In our ad vanced civilization to bring back all the terrifying descriptions of unspeak able physical torture to hold men in the path of virtue. Love Meanr, Power. The fear which causes men to grovel and to call upon the rocks and moun tains to hide the face of its possessor from the God of heaven and earth, which Ruskin so eloquently delineates, we are to avoid. But the filial fear which is prompted by the very love itself of the highest and holiest which God can inspire must be experienced. The profoundest psychology is con tained in the language of St. Paul In dealing with the whole subject of fear. He says: "God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." Fear in the moral and spiritual as pect robs a man of power. It means weakness, timidity, instability, Inac tion. To be girded with unwearied and unconquerable force, to be nerv ous, muscular, brawny, strong, to have "the wrestling thews that throw the worTd," we must away with "sad doubt and anxious fear." This spirit of power must be ander the sway of the spirit of love. That ls the overwhelmingly dominant prin ciple of the higher life. Even in what we may term the lower liie, lt must be lov*;, not fear, which controls men and leads to the end In view. The love I of gain lu?"es some men on. The love of power, a mighty ambition, is the master impulse in others. The love of adventure, which conquers every "Hill Difficulty" and opens up new continents and islands, urges on the eager discoverer. It is love, therefore, not fear, which thus moves the world forward God ls Love. It is love iu the religious life which is to be supreme. "Fear hath tor ment; perfect love casteth out fear." It ls to proclaim the gospel of love that the heralds of the cross are to go forth. They are to deliver those who all iheir lifetime have been in the bondage of fear. The spirit of a sound mind follows the spirit of love and power when emancipated from the sp'rit of fear. Ask the mental and the Christian the rapeutist what retards the recovery to saneness and soundness of those who seek his help. It is the spirit of fear. He has to encounter an almost Innumerable host of "phobias" or fears which have harassed and weakened and thrown out of poise those who are praying for deliverance-fear to walk, fear to eat, fear to work, fear to sleep, fear of heat, fear of cold, fear of distance, fear of misfortune, fear of living, fear of dying, fear of a thou sand thinga besides. Fear is the fell foe of a sound mind. Out of fear into love, into power. Rooted and grounded In love so that no base fear shall find a resting or an accompanying place-love of God, who himself ls love; love of the world he has made; love of all the forces he baa placed in lt for the happiness of his children; love of man, whom he has created In hiB own image; love of Christ Jesus, who lived and died that this love might flood cur entire being-this ls Christianity. Let lt drive out forever the spirit of fearl Birth. Some of the greatest thinkers, poets, philosophers and musicians, were born under consumptive tenden cies. Take Keats, for example, and Byron. Metbusalah lived 895 >ears. A man to-day who lives twenty-five years lives longer than Methusalah, for he did nothing but beget sons and daughters.-Rev. J. W. Taylor. Meth odist, St Paul, Minn. Vengeance. My youth was fraught with fear be cause God was depicted to me as one who wreaked vengeance. How terri ble ls the thought that God compels disaster to fall upon man that he may be made to realize God's power. Rev. W. W. McArtirur. Baptist. Den ver, Colo. (Conducted by the Woman's Christian Temperante Union.} PERNICIOUS EFFECT ON BGD? Beer Drinking Produces Disease of Stomach apd Digestive Tract and of Nervous System. My connection with large medical Institutions for many years past has given rae, I think, an excellent oppor tunity to observe the effect of beer drinking and the use of other alco holic liquors In many cases. I can say as a result of my own observation j that beer drinking has a very perni cious effect upon nearly every organ of the body. It produces disease of the stomach and digestive tract, ct the heart and circulating system. r2 the kidneys and liver, and of the nerv ous system. In addition to this it les sens the vigor and vita' resistance of the whole boiy, makes the beer drink er very much more susceptible to in fection such as pneumonia and other acute infections, and also lessens his ability to recover from illnesses of any kind. An untold amount of mis ery and disease would be avoided if the use ot* beer and other intoxicat ing liquors could be wiped off the face of the earth-Dr. W. H. Riley, Battle Creek Sanitarium, Hattie Creek, Mich. NO FOOD VALUE IN ALCOHOL Dr. Evana, Former Chief Health Offi cer of Chicago, Says Liquor Has Only Fuel Worth. Dr. M. E. Evans, former chief health ofUcer of Chicago, now on the Chi cago Daily Tribune staff, In an arti cle -ecently contributed to that pa per says: "A man with the alcohol habit ls a sick man. however much he may think to the contrary. He Is mentally sick. He may have Inherited a mental make up which makes it strongly probable that he will be a drunkard, or it may be tho fault of bad social training. Usually, however, the disease devel ops as the result of what it feeds on. The man's mentality becomes per verted through chronic alcoholic poi soning. "Alcohol has fuel value, but no food value. Its poisonous qualities over shadow its fuel value. It has no toxin neutralizing power. It ls no longer used by well-informed people for snake bites, or consumption, or blood poisoning. There is mighty little, If there Is any, place for alcohol la med icine." GOOD OF TOTAL ABSTINENCE In Supporting Temperance Cause Po liceman Says Never Had Ab stainer Under Arrest Two boys were seated tn a railway station talking, and a minister across the room waa listening. "Say, John, they tell me you have signed the total abstinence' pledge:" "Yes, Harry, I signed the pledge, and joined the Loyal Temperance Le gion." "What put that into your head?" "Well, I think it will help me over come any temptation to drink or use tobacco, and I notice that the best people are abstainers." A policeman stood near with a pris oner in handcuffs. The minister turn ed to him and sa'd: "Sir. what have you to say about temperance?" "Well," said the policeman, "all I have to say la, I never took a total abstainer to prison in my life, nor to the house of correction." Showing Trend of Times. A Minneapolis saloonkeeper recent ly advertised in a liquor journal for a bartender in which he said. "Bar tender wanted. Must be sober. No boozer need apply." Suppose employ ers in other trades should adopt the same nile, what would be the effect on the cash register of the saloon keeper? The truth is, the rule of to tal abstinence ls becoming popular among employers all over the country, and the man who is a boozer 1B find ing it more and more difficult to se cure a position, or to hold it if he does secure it. Criminal Waste. The estimated wholesale market value of liquors as reckoned by the United States census bureau is $440, 728,471. It is a startling fact that this entire production of liquor ls so much waste. In evory branch and detail of the busi ness of the manufacture and Bale ot Intoxicating liquors there IB absoluto destruction, without a single redeem ing or qualifying feature. The raw material used is wasted, the labor ex pended upon lt ls wasted, the money spent by the people for the liquor Is wasted. Raises Lifo Limit I am thoroughly In sympathy with the temperance movement and be hove that the non^uso of alcohol will bo a tremendoua factor in promoting the health and raising the life limit of the people.-Dr. A. S. Warthln, Pathological Laboratory, University of Michigan. Make and Protect Men. Men support the aaloon to make money and to protect money; we op pose the aaloon to make men and orotect men. tweiuiness and the moat open communi cation and the noblest Bufferings and tho most exemplary faithfulness and the severest truth and tho heartiest counsel and tiie greatest union of mind of which brave men and women are capable. -Jeremy Taytor. SEASONABLE DISHES. Wash, scrape and parboil a half dozen parsnips. Split a young chick en down the back and lay in a drip ping pan. skin side up. Arrange the sliced parsnips around the chicken, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dot with bite of butter, cover with thin slices Nf 3alt pork, add enough hot wai. * prevent burning, and bake untii . vegetable and chicken is ten der. Fry slices of thick, meaty tomatoes in olive oil, season with onion juice and salt, with a dash of cayeurro. Serve with lamb chops or veal cro quettes. A thick slice of tomato, sprinkled with chopped onion and Borved with French dressing is a good and pretty salad.. Cocoanut Drop Cakes--Soften a half cup of butter, but do not melt it, add a cup of light brown sugar, a cup of sour milk, a teaspoonful each of clnnomon and cloves, and soda, two cups of flour; beat all together thor oughly, then add a half cup of shredded cocoanut Drop by small spoonfuls on buttered sheets and bake In a moderate oven. Add more flour if the oakes do not keep their shape. English Muffins.-Dissolve an yeast cake in a quart of lukewarm milk, add a teaspoonful of salt and add enough flour to make a good batter; set to rise. When light stir in a half cup of melted butter, and when well blended and light again, pour into muffin pans and rise. When very light, bake. Serve toasted. Butter generously and serve hot . Marmalade Pudding.-Mix a cup of flour with the same amount of stale crumbs and beef suet chopped fine, one egg, a half teaspoonful of salt, and a cup of marmalade, orange or any other kind; turn into a buttered bowl, tie up in a cloth and steam three hours. Serve with hard sauce. For a little word of love: Speak lt, then, and as tho euramina Ollds the lofty peafts above. So the joy of those who hear lt Sends its radiance down llfe'a way. And the world ls brighter, better. For the loving words we say. -Et A. Rexlord. WAYS OF SERVING THE OYSTER. Before the oyster is out of market, let us try a few new ways of serving it: Oysters a ia Gordon.-Bring a cup of cream to the boiling point, add a third of a cup of bread crumbs, a dash of paprika, a pinch of salt, a grating of nutmeg, a tablespoonful of butter and a cup of chopped oysters. Cook un til the oysters aro well cooked through. Oysters a la Long Branchs-Dram a pint of oysters. Cook a cupful of finely cut celery in the oyster liquor until transparent adding water if needed. When the celery is cooked, add a tablespoonful of butter, the juice of half a lemon, a grating of the peel and three tablespoonfuls of or ange or any fruit juice. Bring to the boiling point cook the oysters until the edges curl, and serve on toast French Way of Cooking Oysters? Make a sauce of a tablespoonful of butter, two of flour and a cup of to mato juice. Add a tablespoonful of chopped onion, two tablespoonfuls of ange or any fruit juice. Bring to the Cover and cook until the oysters curl. Waldorf Oysters.-Put three table spoonfuls of olive oi! In a saucepan, and a small onion sliced, a shredded green pepper; fry slowly until done, then add a pint of oyster?, or more, a dash of salt, red pepper and two table spoonfuls of currant jelly. Cook fivo minuies, then add a tablespoon fol of tomato catsup, Ltoil up and serve piping hot Good Reasoning. A weather-beaten woman, drossed in new and stylish clothing, was marching up the street one Sunday morning, when down carno a sudden shower, relates Harper's Bazar. The woman had no umbrella, but quick as a flash she caught up ber dress skirt and threw lt over her bat "You'll get your ankles all wet Maria," said her husband, who was coming along in the rear. "Oh, never mind the ankles," called out the woman as she hurried along. "I've had them the l&vt sixty years and I Qnl'y got the hat yesterday." Guano! Guano! We handle Southern States Phosphate & Fertilizers Company's Goods. P. &F; A, D. Bone Augusta High Grade, Acid of all Grades. These goods are now in the ware house ready for delivery. t Jones And Son- j Monuments and Tombstones. I represent the Spartanburg Marble and Granite works in this section and shall be pleased to show you designs and quote price* on all kinds of work. Write me a card if you are interested and I will call to se*; you. John R. Tompkins, Edgef?eld, S. Carolina 1.*"':~77.'"~rT~r"-""'i I j The J. Willie Levy Comp'y i is ready with your spring clothes and hats. 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Patapseo, Mastodok, and other famous Fertilizers -of the Georgia Chemical Works, of Augusta have an established position which is unequaled by any other goods on the market. 38 years of exper ience and careful study of the fertilizer question back up eyery bag of these goods. No such reassurance as this can be furnished by others. Then why exper iment with the uncertain. FOR PRICES, TERMS, Etc., Call On THE EDGEF?ELD MERCANTILE CO, Early Arrive a We are daily opening up ?new Spring goods and in vite the ladies to call and see our early arrivals, partic ularly our Laces, Embroideries and Wash Goods We are showing a very strong line of these goods at low prices. ?I. W. PEAK