Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1? New Firestone Champion Tire The New Firestone Champion Tire, i product of years of speedway experenoe and laboratory research. Streamined and ultra-modern In appearance, hlB new tire Introduces several revoutionary features of design and conduction, Including a new Oear-Qrlp read and a Safety-Lock cord body. Tho new tread design provides greater traction efficiency and retains Its superior non-skid qualities after many thousands of miles of service. The cotton fibre of the Safety-Dock cord is tightly twisted Into a strand of high tensile strength, treated by the patented Firestone Glum-Dipping process, and locked together to form the tire body. This construction affords a new measure of blowout protection. Ihicks That Live I Needed For Profit I Raising a high percentage of'chlckc Bs one of the major factors in n>ak Hug a profit from a flock of hens, saye Bounty Adent W. C. McCarley, ad vis Bug Kershaw oounty farmers to pro Buca more' 4hd better poultry as a Source of CAsh farm income as well Is better living at home. Records Sept on farm flocks throughout South B^arolina clearly show that in flocks S-here the mortality of chicks is highBst, the net profit is less than in Bocks where the mortality is low. I The best assurance toward raising Sigh percentage of chicks is to have Bood chicks at the beginning. Chicks Siat coine from pullorum-tested stock ^Biat have been well fed, that stand up Sell, have heavy bones, and are well Buffed out and active as soon as dried Bff will usually grow off with very Kv mortality. In moat cases, the agent explains, Barly-hatched chicks are more profitable than late-hatched chicks because Bhey are easier to raise, will grow inBo larger birds, and are less likely to Bet infested with parasites and cocci iosis. Then, too, the farmer is able Bo sell his cockerels on an early marBet and at a higher price. I It is a good policy to hatch heavy Breeds in February and light breeds i March. Pullets cf heavy breeds bould be laying when six to seven lonths old, lighKbre?d?--when five to ix months old. A practical general farm plan for etter chicka'lk first to secure a good lale 4romfa reliable breeder, next to elect the thirteen best bens and mate hem separately, and from this pen o save males for use in the general ock the following year. 4 Epidemic of Rabies An epidemic of rabies in the rural istricts of Sumter is reported by [ealth Officer G. R. Kitchen. Dr. itchen was called to the farm of . B. Upshur this morning to examine cow, which he found to be a victim f rabies. Last week he was forced o destroy a cow on the farm of J. H. dyers for the same Cause and the reek before a mule and a cow on he place of Charlie Emanuel. The lisease is being spread, Dr. Kitchen aid, by foxes and dogs. So far no ases have been reported in the city if Sumter.?Monday's Sumter Item. BARON DeKALB NEWS Westville, Feb. 1.?B. C. Livingston > and F. N. Culler spent the week end in Prosperity. 4 Mr. and Mrs. George Truesdale and MisseB Doris and Velma Truesdale spent the week end in Lake City with I Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wise. Members of Bethany, Westville, Thorn Hill and DeKalb JB. Y. P. U. attended the B. Y. P. U. Rally at Wateree Sunday afternoon. Miss Mildred Epting visited In Chapin during the week end. Miss Janle Castles, of Winnsboro, spent the week end in Westville with her sister, Mrs. Herbert Young. Miss Sue Wayne spent the week end with relatives in Columbia. J Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Williams and I sons visited Miss Elizabeth Holland on Sunday. Mrs. N. B. Workman, of Camden, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Nye Workman. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hornsby spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. R. B. I Drakeford. I Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smyrl, of Camden, visited their respective parents, | Mr and Mrs. H. L. Smyrl and Mr. and ' Mrs. J. R. Horton, during the week. _ end. The many friends of Miss Minnie Breedlove will bo glad to know that she is rapidly improving from a recent operation. R. B. Dfftkefora, MrB. H. hj gmyrl and Misses Margaret Drakeford and Eula Smyrl, of Flint Hill, attended the Union meeting at Hermitage Baptist church on Saturday. J. K. Drakeford, of Camden, spent the past week with his mother, Mrs. R. M. Drakeford. Miss Annie Cox, of Salisbury, N. C? spent the week end with MIbs Willie Mae Peach. When the outgoing Democratic administration of Governor Earle of Pennsylvania, retired from the ofTice a few days ago, it laid in the lap of the incoming Republican administration of Governor James, a deficit of more than $50,000,000. Brigadier General William H. Bis, bee, retired, celebrated his ninetyninth birthday anniversary Saturday at his home at Brookline, Mass. General Malin Craig, chief of staff, sent congratulations to the aged officer, on behalf of the entire United States army. 8MITH COTTON PLAN OUT Has Five Points, Designed to Hotter ..thy Fanner More Titan Present... V Washington, Jan. 30.--Senator Kill* aon 1) Smith, Saturday, completed the draft of lila new cotton bill, which provides a flve-point program designed to recapture foreign markets for American cotton, Increase consumption at home and reduce tho present heavy surplus. Thy Smith hill provides : Transfer from Commodity Credit corporation to Surplus Commodity corporation 1,600,000 bales of cotton now held by the government under the 1934 loan program, which will be used by the latter corporation in a program demonstrating new uses for cotton. The secretary of agriculture Is authorised to use 500,000 bales of this cotton for conversion Into cloth and free distribution to the needy. Cotton price adjustment payments to farmers who cooperate under the soil conservation program to assure the grower 75 per cent of parity, or around 12 cents a pound for his cotton, provided, that no payments be In excess of five cents a pound. Directs the Commodity Credit corporation to liquidate present government holdings In ootton by moving into the market each year between one and one-half and two and one-half million bales of ootton, but not during the season when the farmer Is marketing his new crop.' I The optional loan feature of the present law Is continued. . But it is provided that farmers receiving price adjustment payments cannot secure loans. | This Is designed to keep cotton out of loan storage and let it flow normally on the market. to reduce his production below AAA to reduce hi sproduction below AAA allotments the right to secure government cotton, In lieu of production, at Six cents a pound. It is expected that growers will choose to take 3,000,000 bales of loan cotton at six cents, instead of trying to produce it at that BOY WHO STOLE DIMES" TO BE SHOWN VICTIMS Uttffney, 8. A 17 year-old youth Tuvadsy confessed to stealing it container, partly IIIUul with dimes contributed by the public for the nationwide light against infuutllu paralysis., officials In charge of the drivo here; said. The container was taken front a local cafe about a week ago. Tho youth admitted taking the money after being Questioned by J. K Littlejohu and Mill Maddox, co-chairmen of the drive iu Cherokee county, and City Police Chief Julian Wright. The boy Is unemployed, it was stated, and had boon seen spending money rather freely the night following the theft. Punishment will be as follows: Chairman Maddox and Littlejohu will take the youthful culprit to view the ward where Infantile paralysis patients are treated at the Shrine hospital at Greenville. No criminal charge will be pressed. price, resulting In a probable 193U crop of between eight and nine million bales. At present prices growers would have $10 a bale profit In this cotton. Under the Smith cotton bill, the soli conservation program would be continued, and In some cases enlarged as the acreage taken out of cultivation under an option plan would have to be planted in soli building crops. The South Carolina chairman of the senate agriculture committee Bent his bill to the public printer and will submit it to cotton members of congress at a meeting today. Senator Smith has held a number of conferences with department of agriculture officials and hopes to secure administration support for hla program, which he believes holds the solution for the cotton problem and a partial solution, at least, of economic problem number one. Senator Smith ,said he would see Secretary of Agriculture Wallace early this week and ask his support of the cotton bill. . _ Death of Lee Hopkins A gloom was cast over the community when the news spread that L?ee Hopkins had passed away at midnight ! on Monday night, January 23. I Ho had been in declining health (or ! some time but was taken seriously ' ill for only a few minutes before he ! died. He was then living with his | half-brother, Sam Hopkins. He was B6 years of age, and Is survived by one daughter, Miss Ruth Hopkins, of the Orphanage Home in J York, also the following half-brothers: Sam Hopkins, Cassatt; W. W. Hopklna and Andrew Hopkins, Bishopvllle; John Hopkins, and one halfsister, Mrs. Sam Hall, Cassatt. The funeral was conducted at Concord church, Lee county, by the Rev. Floyd and the Rev. J. T. Llttlejohn, of Blshopvllle. The pallbearers were: Charlie Cauthen, Bock McCaskill, bowman Cobb, Leo Hall, Irby Outlaw and Lawrence Hinson. The flower girls were: Mrs. Robert McCaskill and Mrs. Charlie Cauthen. The floral offerings were beautiful. ? r-^g^WEEKLY BULLETIN ===1^, S.C.Game &Fish Association There are gathering In Detroit two weeks hence conservationists from all over North America, men with but on? pui'imso, wildlife restoration It is the fourth North American Wildlife conference at tho Hotel Sutler, February 13 through 17. held under the auspices of tho American Wildlife Institute and . Is an open forum where anyone interested may come and take an active part. For this purpose it gathers from all corners of the nation und from Canada I and Mexico, representatively from all groups interested from aerjTstandpoint in the one common purpose, wildlife restoration. The general sessions will consider problems of fundamental importance In wildlife administration. Each topici will be handled by a panel of about | four men selected for their Interest or epeclul knowledge of the subject. Af( ter each panel has covered Us subject, an opportunity for rebuttal will he given and then general open discussion of the topic from the floor will be In order. | Some of the problems to be considered are; The Plttman-Hobertson act, 1 whereby the several states receive, federal aid for wildlife restoration projects; Interstate control of migratory tlali; water pollution; wildlife education; mosquito control and wildlife; ulso a dozen technical sessions embracing such subjects as predators, winter food for wild turkeys, legumes for soil and wildlife conservation, forest food for wildlife, pond development for tlsh and waterfowl and the like. Wednesday will bo spent on the farmer-sportsman relationship. Thursday and Friday will be devoted to the business of the National wildlife federation, whilo the annual * banquet will he held in the grand ballroom of the Stutler hotel on Tuesday evening. Other than the American wildlife institute and the National wildlife federation related meetings of such cooperative organizations as the wildlife society, the outdoor Writer's association, the National committee on wildlife legislation, and many others, will be held. Delegates form this state should communicate with WeBt Jueocks", secretary, Columbia, that the South Carolina contingent may be assembled and act as a unit.-. 15,000 ACRES OF THE South's Finest Land. Producing WOOD'S SEEDS THE OLDEST AND LARGEST SEED FIRM IN THE SOUTH Pleeee MM m* WOODTS fOth ANNUAL SEED CATALOG lUofttn<li| the LmkmI AmiiiIumI M limn me* flower, - ? Vegetable ud Field Seeds Adapted te the Sonth. I* *Tbt" r|.i j aniw? That's what R. F. ELLIS says about his Cotton, Tomatoes and Strawberries, Top-dressed with NV Muriate of Potash MRS. MARTHA E. ELLIS, Orrvllle, Ala., widowed when her son, R. F. Ellis, was three years old, did a fine, man's-size Job of running the farm and raising a son. Despite her accomplishments, Mrs. Ellis contends that the farm is in better condition now that her son has grown up to be the boss. R. F. Ellis is a hustler, alert and eager to try new and more profitable methods of crop production. He says: "Three years ago, all of my tomatoes died of wilt and zny strawberries were not flrm.Ji decided to try a heavy ap plication of HV MURIATE OP POTASH and applied 175 pounds per acre. Oply about one-fourth of my tomatoes wilted and many folks remarked About the high quality of my strawberries, which were the best arid firmest I ever had. "My last cotton crop was ***e best I have ever produced and I attribute this largely to extra potash. At plantfng I used 4-10-7 fertilizer at 35Q~po\inds per acre and later top-dressed with 50 to 75 pounds of HV mIjh iatR Of P0TASH. I made 150 bales on 127 acres.'* < -. -J HE MADE 152 BALES ON 1$5 ACRES J. S. BROWN, St. George, S. C., say*: "On 120 acre* I made 152 bales, averaging 500 pounds each. My cotton received 600 pounds of fertilizer containing 6% POTASH and 100 pounds of 12-0-20 top-dresser per acre. A lot of cotton in this section suffered from Rust, but mine did not. In 1937 1 won first prize in our district in the state five-acre cottqn contest." - - ? ^ . 1,665 POUNDS OF TOBACCO PER ACRE A. P. McELVEEN, Pampllco, S. C., ttyn "I top-dreMcd my tobacco with 110 pound* of MV SULPHATE OP POTASH per acre after using 6% POTASH fertilizer under the crop. Yields and quality were a bore average and the crop sold for $441.37 per acre after warehouse chargee." His yield was 1,665 pounds per acre. FmnlliwmsssQmssis? mn mfmtiima NrK-MhH<s. PUsAtU. Fttk. ...says MR. MURRAY A. C. MURRAY, Fort Valley, Ga., says: "1 can take red land and plenty of potaeh and make cotton any year. Last season was bad, yet 1 produced 1,800 pounds of seed cotton per acre on 26 acres. This was fertilized with 4-10-6 and top-dressed with 300 pounds of 9-0-12 per acre. My corn Hot cottonseed meal, add phosphate and kalnlt at planting, was top-dreeeed with 9-0-25 and produced 50 bushels per acre on 80 acres. On oats and wheat, potash Is essential for higher yields of quality grain. It prevents bedding down and gives a full, plump head.'* MR. JACKSON BELIEVES IN A 1-1-1 FERTILIZER RATIO .. HENRY H. JACKSON, Barnesvllle, Ga.t saysi "To make a profitable crop of cotton It la essential that you um m much J potash as you do phosphoric add. My J formula Is 6-6-6 and my yields will stand A up any time against any farmer's In this j section. 1 also find that potash produces I high yields of fine quality pi mien to peppers. You can't make peppers without leaves and potash holds tb? leaves on and gives you a producing plant until frost." NV POTASH PAYS! ?. COTTON, tobacco, corn, mall grains, rage tables, . potatoes, peanuts, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, orchards, watermelons ? sll of these crops need plenty of potash to produce bigger yields and bet ^ . - tar quality at lower coat. It wttl pay you to aalt for mora HV POTASH in your fertilizer. The autre yield* and extra quality that It producee coat you leeeand pay you more. TeO your fertilizer man you * want a higher potaeh mixture for your cropeaad make euro the potaeh la genuine MV POTASH* - * ^ * V M -^P.W N.V. POTASH EXPORT MY, tec, ATLANTA RMyaterRU*, NORFOLK