The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 09, 1932, Image 8
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1982
Farm Demonstration
Notes "
Clemson d^ge, May 29. — “Even
the record-breaking low prices for
C. B. Cannon, County Agent
I^Vritten for The Chronicle by Caleb [is absolutely essential to balance thej
Johnson Through Autocaster state’s budget and put us on our fi-i
'hogs have not checked our progress.
When a fellow is mai4ceting feed
through hogs, even these low prices
return as much above what the feed
would bring as such as when both
hogs and feeds are correfipondingly
higher,” says J. M. Eleazer, Sumter
^ .Service),
j think it is as certain as anything
in the future can be that eventually
the United States will adopt a general
sales tax, as a means of raising na-
nancial feet again, will pay it cheer,
fully.
“Mississippi is merely leading the
way. I believe other states are going
Caterpiliar Outbreak
So far, two outbreaks of caterpillar
OUR FRIEND—THE SKUNK
There'are few wild animals more
valuable to man than fhe skunk. He
18. like the snake, killed on sight by
those who do not know his worth.
We are told in Farmers’ Bulletin
No. 587 ihat Mister Skunk does not
to find that the retail sales tax is the
tiohal revenue. I am sure that will; only way out and that experience will
come about as soon as the majority of
county farm a^ent, regarding pro-1 P^’ople -undersUnd exactly what is
gress made with hogs in that county. I by a sales tax, and when they
And this is typical of other Pee Dee have had an opportunity to observe
counties.
In Dillon, for example, S. W. Epps,
the operation of the sales tax in the
state of Mississippi.
county farm agent, says, “In spite of i Mississippi has gone boldly ahead
the extremely low prices for hogs our I an,d adopted a sales tax, which went
men are sticking to the game and are j into effect on the first day of May
preparing to grow cheaper hog.s byith.s year. After ia month’s experience
growing more feed"; and (’olin Me- evei.\body in Mississippi—at least ev-
Laurin, Williamsburg agent, report-j 11>body who can make his voice heard
ing recent .sales, says that despite hwvj -t-ems to like the sales tax. That
prices “the farmers seem fairly sati.s- "oes even for those who were most
prove it i« in reality the only suit
able form' of taxation. ,
“Our state was forced to adopt it
as an emergency measure. We have
but two things to tax in this state,
property and business. The property
tax system hks broken down because
of economic condition.^ among the
farmers, and we had to take the sales
tax, whether we wanted it or not.'*
The general basis of the sales tax
in Mississippi is 2 per cent, varying'
have been reported, which are cannot molest poultry on
ing considerable damage on the farmi^**®'*" •’oosts, provided a plank or lad-
of George A. Copeland, Clinton, in the I is not handy. A
Wadsworth school community, and on fence will keep a skunk
the farm of M. G. Parson, Lanford ^onfif^ed. Nor does he destroy gar-
section. The caterpillars are destroy- farm products. What he does
ing the jetton as .they go, doing much
damage.
do is to feed on harmful insects,
grubs, tobaccb worms, grasshoppers,
moths, beetles, larvae, army worm.
Glynn To Riin
For Magistrate
a. • I-
Among the earliest of the political
announcements is that of John D.
Glynn .in today’s paper, who an
nounces himself as a candidate for
magistrate of Hunter township at
Clinton, in the approaching August
primary. Mr. i Glynn has been a resi
dent of Lydia Mills for the past eigh
teen years and has a number of
friends in this section who will be
interested in his announcement.
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To control this insect, use sweeten- ^ » • ... n
ed poison or dust, calcium arsenate, I
mixed as for boll weevil. Also, to pre-i a ratter, he is par The skunk is man’s frer.d,
vent the advancement of the caterpil-' ' ‘ ■ " ■ - -
lars, plow a furrow around the field |
with a turn plow, throwing the dirt I
toward the advancement, leaving the |
slick side of the furrow which will
prevent them from crawling out. Ev-
on only a few classes of business. Iti"^. sh^.ld k/fP a close watch
' and report to this office any outbreak
fied and are making arrangements !>itterly opposed to it.
for fall feeding."
From central and we.stern counties
come equally encouraging reports. .1.
R. Clark, Richland agent, says, “We
have had excellent results this .spring
and though prices are discouraging,
farmers are not going to quit but are
laying plans to produce hogs cheap
er.” R. F. Kolb, Orangeburg agent,
writes that growers are staying with
hog work and are planning to lower
production costs by more liberal use
of so>’beans for grazing. The recent
sale of 175,000 pounds of pork is re
ported from Hampton by J. C. An
thony. county agent, whose sales have
been largely to local markets" in the
Carolinas. Other agents reporting
sales include V. M. Jghnston, Allen
dale, where 20 farmers recently'sold
150 head to a Greenville packer; C.
W. Carraway. Charleston, w’hose ship
ments this spring have totaled eight
.Mississippi’s sales' tax is expected
*o yield about $4,000,000 a year. The
tate was up against a treasury defi
cit of $12,000,000, inherited from for
mer admnistrations which made ap
propriations in excess of tax revenues.
.Something had to be done. It was gen
erally agreed that real estate could
not stand any higher taxes. I don’t
know what intelligent member of the
Mississippi legislature it was w’^ho
first brought in the idea of'a sales
tax, but wh(>ever he was, he ought to
have a medal for getting a new idea
through the heads of legislators. F'or,
after all, the main objection to the
sales tax is tJiat it is something ijew,
and being new, members of congress
and of legislatures are afraid of it
for fear that in some way it might
injure them politically to be for it.
People, generally, are conservative.
includes all business and professions,; “I"' any oucoreai
exempting only insuranco companies, i f catcrp.lla,-, whether .t helonft
building and loan associations, state
s
fall
and national banks, mutual savings
banks, religious, charitable, scientific
and educational institutions, fraternal
societies and hospitals.
Business men are required to keep
accurate books reflecting their gross
income, preserving all records relat-
to the corn ear worm or to the
army w'orm.
The red spider is doing considerable
damage to a number of gardens in the!
county. The spider may be controlled I
by dusting thoroughly with sulphur*
dust when the tem'perature is about
70 degrees and the air still.
The Mexican bc-an beetle is now ap-!
Get ahead—
I
stay ahead of the wee vlO
inspection at p^.aHng on bean vines and may be de
tected by the sieving of ^e leaves.
rone<
^JpHAT is the whole story this yesr. Either,
all times
Deductions are allowed from gross
sales as follows^:
1. Sale price of goods taken in ex
change for new goods.
2. f.'redit sales by retailers and
wholesalers may be reported as col-
' lected.
3. Taxes collected on gasoline and
tobacco.
4. Gross receipts from sale of agri
cultural products when i sold in the
They distrust change. But they are
not nearly as conservative as a good
'original state or condition of prepara-
cars. R. A. Jackson. Ilicrchester agent,
U-lls of .'Six fc'eding tests in whic h' many politicians think they are
gains were madp at the remarkably'
low co.st of $2.82 per hundred pounds;
and L. .-Xlford, ('olleton agent, re
ports similar tests where gains cost
only $3.12 per hundred.
Even in the Piedmont
The theory of the sales tax i.s not
so much that everybody pays it, as
th
that everybody knows that he is pay
ing it. There is no tax, of any kind
I imaginable, that is not paid, in the
, . , , 1 long run, bv the ultimate consumer,
where dairying and poultry overshad-1 somkhing politicians, or .some
ow hog raising, progress is being
made with hogs. From Uhesterfield.
\V. .1. Tiller, county agent, writes thai
his new feeding demonstrations are
attracting much interest and that
-there js much planting of corn and
soyl>eans for hogging down and te.m-
porary cro{)s for grazing. From Sa.
luda, t'laude Rothell reports several
timckjoads of specially fed hogs sold
during the last monih, and from
casler W. F. Howell reports a greater
numler of farmers
for hog grazing. P
b< rry agent, tells of one farmer who
(if them, understand, but which they
think the average man in the street
does not understand. It is one of the
most prevalent delusions among law
makers that they can make people
think they are not paying taxes when
tion of sale.
5. .Sale of fertilizers, seeds, boxes
and crates used in preparing agricul
tural produet.s for market. ,
fi. .Sale of school books when sold
under state contract.
7. Sale of cotton, .seed cotton, lint
cotton and baled cotton.
8. Amounts received from life in
surance policies and annuity contracts
up to the amount of premiums paid
thereon,
9. $1,200 each .vinir, to be deducU'd
from total gross income and or gros
proceeds of sale.
A feature of the sales tax is that it
This beetle may l)e controried by the
use of one ounce of magnesium arse- {
nate with three gallon^of water and!
spraying thoroughly; or, by mixing]
one pound of magnesium ar.senate to;
three pounds of flour or hydrated lime
(builder’s lime), and dusting thor
oughly while leaves are moist.
they are And there .8 no way of con-practically every person en-
cealmg from the man who pays a tax | business a tax coljector .serv.
,.f two percent when he | compe-nsa-
or bicycle, or a Panama hat,-^e fact, keeping a record and-making
that he himself is paying the tax. Ev-1 returns without being even
ery time one buys a pack-of i >Kar-; po.stage on the remittance.
planting soybeans playing cards now he is re-
’. B. Ezell, New- .
minded of the tax he pays, when he
( breaks the revenue stamps.
All businesses collecting more than
$10 a month must make monthly re-
hac s<.ld $431.33 worth of hogs in the , considerable
last 00 days. K. L. Rogers of Merjor- ' tj^^t they
^b» not pay taxes, that the govern-
' ment’s revenue is derived only from
j the ri< h, there will be large bodies =
and group.s of people trying to get
ports. Smaller concerns report quar
terly.
Some classes of manufacturing con
cerns are also included, soft drink es-
ta))lishments being required to pay 1
per cent, and cotton seed oil mills and
ice-factories one-quarter of 1 per cent.
The danger in the sales tax as in
any other new form of taxation is, of
course, likelihoorl that it will encour
age tax spenders to new extrava
gances. If adopted merely as an added
burden upon the tax paying public, itj
will fail of its purpose. If adopted by]
states as means of re<lucing the bur-]
deiDii^me,taxes which fall upon owners:
real estate, it certainly is to be j
highly commended. And, as I pointed ,
out in the beginning, one of the great]
things'to be hoped for from the sales]
tax that, by making everybody who
spends a dollar.tax conscious, it may
in time make everybody who spends
money for anything realize that he is
a part of the state, and that it is his
money which the law-makers are ap
propriating.
you get ahead of the weevil or he will get
ahead of you. Fields are full of weevils this year,
according to reports. If they find squares, there
wc'.’t be much cotton at picking time.
Colton squares are the weevils’ favorite food!
Thcrcfa:- don’tXJve them any squares to eat in
your field. Set y^ur crop before they are ready.,,
A side-dressing of 100 pounds per acre (200 pounds
would be much better) of Chilean Nitrate will
do it. There is nothing like Chilean to pick up a
crop of cotton anji hurry it right past the weevil.
What else can you do that is so easy, so cheap;
80 safe and so sure ?
Side-dress—100 pounds Chilean Nit^rate per
acre—right after chopping.
See your dealer now and impress op him you
want Chilean “Natural” Nitrate. He is anxious
to get you just what you want.
TWO KINDS
Both arm natural
100 LI. lAOS
AND
200 II. lAOS
CHILEAN NITRATE
EDUCATIONAL
Columbia,
BUREAU, INC.
South Carolina
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cord fabric under the
tread in this tire, ^wp
do not run from bait
to bead—they are really
cord “breaker stripa”
and that's what we call
them, although tome
tire - makc^ call them
cx/ro plies.
mom v from the govcTnmvnt on the ^
i tluMiry that it com«*8 out of somebody ^
t'lsc’s porkfts. When any sort of tax ^ ~
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■it and knows that hi* is paying it, j
then there i.® a much b‘*tter t haneo ~
■; that everylx'dy w4H tako an inte+Htrentrss-
intere.st in how the tax money is .sjient —
by legislatures and congress. That is ^
one of the .soundest arguments in fa- sir
vor of the sales tax. ■ SS
The lH*st, argument of all in favor
of the sales tax, however, is that it is ^
the one tax which is automatically | ss
j di.stributed among the people in pre-
j cise jiroportion to their al)ility to pay j ZSZZ
lit. If there were a sales tax of two
I iwr cent, let us .say, on every article
I of eommerce, thr'ii the man who! as-
AIl the king's horses... and all the king’s men can’t
pends $.^(UI a year Would pay $!(• in iss
taxes, and the man who .spends $5.0(10 j as
goohyeah
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would pay $100 in taxes, and so on.j^^
The man who spent nothing would —
pay no sales tax; the multi-millionaire
I who spent half a million dollars a —
year would pay $10,000 in sales taxes,jss.
if the rate were uniform on all com-'S
! modifies.
i Every seheme of 'sales taxes ek-
empls from the tax certain clas.s<*.s of
cLOiiiraDdHiesxdirqweyWi7^^ it®*^**^«
make a success out of a Ijad product. No aniount of ad
vertising will create a market for it The more it’s ad
vertised, the more its defects become known.
t<iAr.y-.fiK»d anjd lq»’.piruiad hing. *04an-
that peo^e o'f'iow incomes pay pro-
imrtiDnatyly less .than those of high
meonies. , e
The prineipal outcry against the
I sales tax everyw'here has come from
retail men-hants who, in the absence
• of any exact km»wl<*dge of the sub-
! jei't. assume that they will have to
I absort) the tax, that it cannot be f»#is8-
i ed on to the consumer. In Mississippi,
retail merchants contended that the
measure would drive them into bank-
ruptcy, but when the tax went into;
' effect it turned out that the old adage
thnt “the consumer always pays” still
} holds good..
But a good product well advertised grows As Swiftly
and naturally as a healthy plant. People try it and lik^
it. They tell others. They like it. Soon that product is
-fou^d everywhere-Ti i and-its namerspread abroatH^
advertising, is on every tongue. '
When you see something widely and consistently
advertised, you can be pretty sure it’s well worth hav
ing. If it weren’t... if it didn’t repre^nt an honest and
worthy value .. . the -maker couldn’t afford to adver
tise it
On the second day of May, the day ^
I the tax went into effect, merchants
announced new prices with the two
I fier cent sales tax added and had no
i difficulty in pa.ssing on the tax bur
den. Every mercantile establishment;
in the state, from the smallest soft
drink stand to the largest department
store, reports after a month’s trial the
public has taken kindly to the new tax
and is paying it gracefully and with
out serious protest.
“This is eminently proper,” says
Governor Conneri “The measure was
Look over the advertisements in this paper. Some of
these names you know. Others perhaps are newcomers,
potential friends bringing some new comfort or con
venience. But all are entitled to your trust.. % are
here because they have something' real to contribute to
your advantage ... your service... your happiness.
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intended as a tax on consumers, and
I am Wbifident that the merchants,
, after giving it a fair trial, will hax’e j SB
I no complaint to offer.
“In tJie first place, it Js not a taxing
on earnings, but a tax "on spendings,
and the people, realizing the measure
THE CHRONICLE
mick, reports an interesting test on
feeding 18 head of hogs which aver
aged 151 pounds It five months of
age.
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