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Don't Pull Fodder Fanners Advised “Go fish inf and forget to pull that fodder, advises Hugh A. Woodle, leader, Agronomy Exten sion Work, pointing out that pull ing corn fodder reduces com yields and that it is a hot, dis agreeable, and expensive way to produce a low-grade roughage. “Most farmers have already stopped the old custom of pulling fodder, H he says. “However, we soli see an occasional com field where the farmer has pulled the from his corn. It’s much less expensiv _ than to pull fodder, and it's more pleasant too." “Suckering” com is an uneco nomical practice and only a waste ‘ * effort, Mr. Woodle emphasizes. ive the suckers, for you will make just as much com and sometimes more. And don’t plow that com to death either, he cau tions, but lay by early. Don’t go back in the field with a plow of any kind, even if there is some grass. A good crop of com can be practically made and then ruined *Alfll m I by just one late cultivation. BllTAL yUxTOdJL Though dry weather has hurt HVinw | in gQjne areas, the com crop is omising at this time, es- in the lower coastal sec- aks Oil Co. m S. C—Phone ISO ver co | ion of the state, Mr. Woodle joints out Approximately 1,000 aimers are entered in the 1949 ! state-wide com contest de- , , to break existing com yield records and prove beyond any doubt that South Carolina is justified ip claiming the world’s record yield of com per acre. Mogeleys Purchase Blue Star Cleaners Edwin R. and Charles W. Mose ley have purchased the Blue Star Cleaners from Mean. Vaughan and Cameron, according to an nouncement this week. The Moseleys have had years of dry cleaning experience, having been with Bechham Russell’s Quality Cleaners establishment for some time The Blue Star establishment is one of the newer ones in Camden and is located on U. S. Highway No. 1 near the DeKalb street city limits. In addition to offering high grade dry cleaning the Moseleys announce that they have contract ed with the DeLuxe Cleaners and Laundry of Columbia to provide a super laundry service with three pickups and three deliveries every week in Camden. ■ it- Farmers Advised To Market Hogs Early This Year The 1949 spring pig crop of 59 million head, or 15 per cent more than that of a year ago, was re ported in the last USDA pig crop report, according to J. T. Graves, Clemson extension livestock spec ialist. Reports on breeding inten tions for the coming fall crop indicate a total of 5,832,000 sows to farrow or 13 per cent above the number farrowed last fall. The combined 1949 spring and ; fall pig crop is now expected to 'be slightly over 96 million head, Mr. Graves points out This is 13 per cent larger than the 1948 crop and 8 per cent larger than the 10-year average from 1938-1947. The combined 1949 pig crop is the third largest on record, being exceeded only by the pig crops •reduced during the war years, 942 and 1943. In urging farmers of the state to get their hogs on the market as early as possible this fall, Mr. Graves has the following to say: ••nm.— * * • Over One Billion In life Insurance Is Owned In State South Carolina families owned $1,650,000,000 of life insurance at the start of last year, according to the 1949 Life Insurance Fact Book, published by the Institute of Life Insurance and released to- -■ m 1948 are under “•{hi. represented an increase of $344,000,000 over the ownership reported in this state two years before. During 1948 the people of this state purchased $107,000,000 of new ordinary life insurance, the Fact Book also shows. Death benefit payments South Carolina during 1~ reported at $12,0660^000 25,357 policies. in a table listing the location of the 584 legal reserve com panies in the U. S. this state is listed with 13 companies whose head officers are here. “For policyholders, as for the companies,” the yearbook says, “the 1948 highUghts of the U. S. life insurance business were: first, the investment earning rate went up; second, more families had more life insurance protection than ever before; and third, pur chases of new life insurance stay ed near the very high level of the past three years. “Probably the most important single development was the up turn of the investment earning rate on life insurance funds after a decline of about 30 years. The rate in 1948 was 2.96%, up from, 188% in 1847. There were two-l chief reasons for themptum. One was the continued direction of funds into higher earning invest ments such as business and indus trial securities, real estate and mortgages that began in 1947. The other was the upward trend in interest rates in general that also began in 1947. ‘Tods lay nearly times as many people have life insurance as in 1900. Four out of five Ameri can families are protected. The large amounts of new insurance bought in the past few years, to gether with the low lapse rate, brought the total owned in the U. S. at the end of 1948 to $202,- 000,000,000. This is twice the total only 13 years tgo and nearly 30 times the amount in force in 1900. “Purchases of new insurance in Don't Invite Deafness If you now have a slight hearing lost, do something about it before it's too late. Get the free facts NOW. Valuable information may help you avoid the dangers of progres sive hearing loss. Ask for Booklet “A". No cost or obli gation. Simply write: J. H. Lomax. 401 Palmetti Columbia. S. C. to Bldg.. the national average. N 'farmers did the bat jot ing pigs with 7.2 per htti “South Carolina far “The number of pip saved per tter is 6.45 pigs. This is slightly higher than last year and is the second highest on record for the nation as a whole. South Carolina farmers saved only 5.8 pigs per litter or .65 pigs per litter less than the national average. New York u job of sav- itter raised. farmers in 1949 farrowed only 98 per cent as many sows as they did last year. All other South Atlantic states produced more pip this year than last Not 6nly do we need to far row more sows but especially im portant is it that we save more pigs per litter farrowed. Unpro ductive sows should be culled and replaced with good producing breeding stock. Better feeding and ipanagemsnt of sows is necessary to save more pigs per “On the farms the number of hogs 6 months old and over on [June 1, including sow*, waa 22,- 1940,--- ■■■ —i »*—• v veut I less than on June 1 last year. The smaller number of hop on June 1 indicates .a smaller slaughter qf hogs from the 1948 fall crop dur ing June thrruigh Sentember than lot year. FREE FISHING AMD — PICNIC GROUNDS beaver t CREEK Came Bring Your Family . jf W. B. Fort ON HIGHWAY NO 87 BAKER'S GARAGE And BODY SHOP K. R. BAKER. Pap. General IUpairs on AH Mokot of ol Hopairs £ARS A* AND TRUCKS SpocioKstiMn Bottory Ropoii Startors Gonorafort and Rear of Jack Stein's Oarage East DeKalb Si. « ow- •- arere again near the they first hit in 1846. three years nows 1848-47-48; : purchased has vToa ^ov,000.000,000 each year, with 1948 only 2% below the peak of 1847. “Benefits, too, increased in ith the I 1948 along with owth of in- e gro surance ownership. The total of all benefits paid to U. S. families in the year was nearly $3,250,- 000,000. This was more than a quarter of a billion above 1947.” J. MANLY SMITH REUNION The Jared Manly Smith reunion „ _rly was held at Big Springs on July A few met in '48. This reunion will be held every year, expecting j every direct descendant to be j present. ADAMS HATS America’s Foremost Hats D. C. Dixon’s Bargain House 951 Broad Stmt Phono 5061V CAMDEN, & C Landmarks of Growth in Farm Telephones Every day, along rural roadways of the South, you see new telephone poles reaching fa the sky. Telephone service ha been supplied to a lot more sbuthern farms during the list three years than during any other three-year period in history. Right now Southern Bell is building rural lines at the fastest rate ever. And total telephone installations in southern rural area this year will set a new record. Telephone service is oar business, and we are work ing to get it to those who want it a toon a we can. It’ll be good service, too—the kind for which America is famous! Because the farmer aervea everybody, serving the farmer is one of our most important jobs. And we’re keeping right at it. SOUTHMN BILL TMXPHONI AND TIUORAPM COMPANY V U % UJM£R& TO GO v/or DEP F A/D A & L L AMD / / £ /V O l V VC, T. A. Bradley Electric & Plumbing Co. ■■ - «> - - Air CDffeditioning D. B. 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