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JAMES CRUZE
Director of Feature Photoplays, writes:
"During the fiiming of The Covered Wagon,
the coilstantuie ofmyvoicedeinanded that
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out any chance of throat
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The Cream of the Tobacco Crop
“The growth of LUCKY STRIKE Cigarettes is a
wonderful thing but there is a reason. I know,
because I buy theTobacco for LT_JCK Y STRIKE.
1 buy Tlie Cream of the Crop,* that mellow, sweet
smoking Tobacco that the Farmer justly de
scribes as I have described it above. The quality
of LUCKY STRIKE Cigarettes is telling. It is
natural that the brand should show the tremen
dous growth that it is showing today. r
Buyer of Tobacco
Louisville. Ky.
It’s toasted”
No Throat Irritation-No Cough.
J. S. STROM
FUNERAL DIRECTOR,
EXPERIENCED EMBALMER IN CHARGE
McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA.
FURNITURE AND STOVES
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Night Phone, 55 Day Phone, 76.
Subfl
as it
Condu
ton Grow
Carolina
tive As~oc
The Sout
crs’ Co-op^r;
orating with
Growers Exch
ers at Memphis^
National Co-oper
say Contest.
Any South Car
girl und^r 21 years
more than a h : gh
is eligible to take p
trst. The subject of
“Co-operative Ma: keti
fects the Cotton Farm 1
rules governing the con
National Prizes.!
To be awarded by the
Cotton Growers Exchange.
1. Fourteen educational prize
to Memphis, Tennessee, to the S
Champions of the following state:
Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Cali
fornia, Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexxo,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South
Carolina and Texas.
2. Cash Awards:
1st prize National Essay $75.00
2nd prize National Essay 50.00
3rd prize National Essay 25.00
3. Medals—Beautiful medals will
be awarded to each state winner who
takes part in the National Contest.
Any state Association in the
American Growers Exchange is eli
gible to compete in the National Con
test provided as many as three hund
red essays are submitted in the State
Contest conducted by that Associa
tion.
Exceptions to this rule are made
in the case of> California, Arizona,
New Mexico, Missouri, and Illinois,
California, New Mexico and Arizona
will be eligible to compete provided
as many as three hundred essays are
submitted from within the three
states. Missouri and Illinois will be
eligible to compete provided any one
county submits as many as one hund
red essays.
Rules Of The Contest
1. Who may compete—Any white
boy or girl not over 21 years of age,
who has not had more than a high
school education.
2. When essays must be written—
On or before April 20th, 1928, in the
presence of the teacher, county sup
erintendent, county agent, or home
demonstration agent.
3. The subject shall be—Co-opera
tive marketing as it Affetcs the Cot
ton Farmer.
4. Each essay shall be not more
than two thousand words in length.
5. Not more than three hours shall
be allowed for the actual wr'ting of
the essay.
6. Essays must be written in ink
or on a typewriter and on one side
of the paper only.
7. Contestants shall have access to
no material other than pen, ink, or
typewriter, and paper during the
three hour period which may be de
voted to the actual writing of the
essay.
8. The following items should ap
pear on the upper left hand corner
of the first page of the essay:
(a) Name and age and sex of
contestant.
(b) Town (post office).
(c) County.
(d) Name of school.
(e) Grade in school.
(f) Name of person under whom
essay was written.
(g) Name of contestant must ap
pear on each sheet.
In grading the contestants who
compete at Memphis, each contest
ant will deliver or recite his or her
essay before a group of judges. In
determining the standing of the con
testants, the following score card
will be used.
1. Subject matter 50 per cent
• 2. Arrangement 25 per cent
3. Delivery 25 per cent
National Essay Contest Commit
tee—Alex S. Foreman, Sallisaw,
Okla; L. F. McKay, Memphis, Tenn.,
Secretary and Treasurer, American
Cotton Growers Exchange; N. C.
Williamson, Miliken, La.; and R. O.
McCutchen, Bishopville, S. C.
An additional prize will be given
by the South Carolina Cotton grow
ers’ Co-operative Association to the
school which has the largest number
of pupils that write an essay and
participate in the contest. This prize
will be $25.00 to be used in purchas
ing for the school’s library the best
books obtainable for the money on
Co-operative Marketing.
Mr. Jas. H. Hope, State Superin
tendent of Education, writing to the
teachers in the State regarding the
essay contest said in part:
“Tlr 1 situation that agriculture
now f’nds itself in has attracted the
attention of approximately all inter
est in America. It will occupy a
tion
advance^
theirs thre£
at various tymes. The leaning lou
at present, are: J. A. Davis, Spar
tanburg, S. C., March 1, 1932; J. F.
Loveless, Asheville, N. C., March 1,
1931; Mf.jor John T. McLane, Wash
ington, I). C., August 1, 1930; J. A
Edmundsl^Santa Barabara, Calif.,
August 1, At different times,
some have paid as many as five
years in advance, while one paid ten
years in advance. Nobody is re
quired to pay more than one year in
advance. Having good accounts like
these is like having a checking ac
count in a good bank—you can get
your money when you want it.
These things are not said in any
flattering manner; and the letter is
not published for the purpose of
broad cast'ng any praise the paper
or editor may get, but to impress
upon each of our home people the
fact that friends of many years ago
are keeping tab on you through the
columns of the home paper, and any
contribution you make to the paper
helps it serve as “the link with the
old home town.”
The letter referred to, follows:
“WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF
CAVALRY
WASHINGTON, D. C., /
Jan. 9, 1928.
Dear Edmond: Although you have
never sent me a bill, I believe that
I am about two years in arrears on
my subscription to The Messenger,
so I am inclosing my check for $5.00
to square up the past and take me
a few years in the future.
The Messenger serves as a link
with the old home town, and I would
feel lost without it. You are to be
congratulated on editing such a
woith while paper.
All best wishes to you.
Sincerely,
John T. McLane.”
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Card Of Thanks
May we, with love and gratitude,
express through these columns, our
thanks and appreciation for the love
and kindness shown us at the death
of our beloved little son, Marshall,
by our many friends ?
Also for th/e beautiful flowers.
May heaven’s choicest blessings rest
upon each one.
Mr. and Mrs. Bussey Bowick.
large part of the time of the pres
ent Congress and co-operative mar
keting is not only tied in but featur
ed in every plan that has so far been
offered to correct the present agri
cultural condition. Co-operative
marketing has the expressed ap-
pitoval of the Federal Government
and also nearly every agricultural
leader in the United States, the
Federal Govemment going so far as
to create a Bureau of Co-operative
Marketing at Washington.
“The growing of cotton is the
largest single business in the State.
Of the total value of farm products
in South Carol : na last year, which
amounted to $155,500,000.00, $84,-
907,000.00 of this amount is repre
sented by cotton and cotton seed. It
is, therefore, fundamental that an in
terest as large as this, has a great
bearing not only on all institutions in
the State, hut the maintenace of the
schools themselves is largely depend
ent on the succes of the cotton grow
ing industry.
“The prizes offered are worth
while and worthy of every effort to
win; in addition to the educational
advantages that will accrue to us all
through a study of this subject.
“I endorse the movement and re
quest that you enlist the interest of
all of your pupils in this contest.”
far
ered through inte
smaller areas, prop^?
fertilized and abundantly
‘But this intensive cultivation
been impossible with the acreage the
farmer has usually tried to farm,” he
declared. “This fact and the one-
crop habit, has been largely respon
sible for the southern farmers’
troubles.” Terracing, sowing down
at least part of the land in cover
crops, crop rotation, seed selection,
and better and more livestock—these
fundamentals must be tho foundation
for any successful farm program,
according to Mr. Lancaster. “And the
farmer must learn to co-operate
whole-heartedly, not only with his
banker and merchant,” he declared,
“but with his neighbors and with
agencies like the Interstate Cotton
Seed Crushers’ Association, in their
efforts to develop new uses and find
new markets for the things the far
mer produces.”
Mr. Lancaster referred to a bill
which will shortly be introduced in
Congress, providing for the sale of
cotton on a net weight basis, thus
opening way for use of cotton in
stead of jute as a covering for the
cotton bale itself; and to the -rium-
erous additional uses being found for
cotton seed, especially in the rapid
ly developing dairy industry, now in
its infancy in the South, but with
unlimited possibilities as an addition
al source of farm revenue, once giv
en its rightful place in our farming
program.
“Not only are cotton seed hulls a
cheap and excellent substitute for
hay,” he said, “but the meal pro
vides the highest dairy feed known,
as well as a splendid fertilizer after
having passed through and nourish
ed the cow.”
Mr. Lancaster expressed his com
pany’s deep interest in the agricul
tural situation in the South, particul
arly in that territory served by the
Texas & Pacific, in the up-building j
of which property large sums have
been spent that it may be able to
give constantly better service. “We
have distributed and will continue to
distiibute pure-bred pedigreed bulls
in the formation of bull-circles along
our line,” he declared. • “Pure-bred
live-stock and selected seeds are to
the farmer what sharp tools are to
the mechanic. They enable him to
cash in on his knowledge and skill.
We believe pure-breds do pay—'that
no man can afford to match his time
against a sciub; and we stand ready
to do what we can to help make pure-
breds possible in our territory.”
fased!
Dillon, South
v of the South,
don Committee, has
>nt call for delegates
conference and ban-
i n Washington on
pressing the fact that
^uthern States selected
ier^ to send from twenty to
at "is interested in the ad
vancement of this reclamation pro
ject which will bring a new era of
farming prosperity to South Car<i->
lina. Considerable ent.husiasm\ waju
aioused among the Southern •fon-
gressmen at the joint meeting held bk
Washington, D. C., on December 14
and 15, at which time it was unan
imously decided that the project was
worthy of Government support and
that at the January 24th Conference
and Banquet, to which has been
vited practically the entire Congress^
ional delegation of the Southern
States, efforts will be made to en
list the support of the Government*
At the recent coriference it waa
resolved that reclamation as now de->
fined should not have as its object
ipi increase in productive agrfcut*
tural land, but rather the establish*
ment of group settlements of farm
owners with better homes in direct-*
ed country-life centers for diversified
farming.
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McCormick, S. C.
Ma'ntaining the farm work horse
in healthful condition during the win
ter is the first start in fitting it for
How a revolution in China may af
fect agriculture in the United States
's reflected in the annual report of
the Bureau of Entomology of the
spring work. The horse should not i iJnited States Department of Agri-
be so fed during the winter that it | culture. Since the Japanese beetle
becomes fat and soft. On the other been damaging orchards in a re
hand, poor care during the winter,
resulting in f.oss of weight and vital
gion in and about New Jersey, the
bureau has had trained men search-
ity, so weakens the horse that it is j n jr through Japan, China, and India
not in condition for spring work, and
often its resistance is so lowered as
for parasitic insects and organisms
that are natural enemies of the bee-
to invite disease. The liberal use j tie. The report comments that “dur-
of roughage, supplemented with the | i n jr the year it has been necessary
right amount and kind of any other
nutritious feed, will maintain a
horse properly during the winter.
—JXt
Next to loafing, the one thing that
takes up more time than anything
else is working.
to curtail the parasite work in China
because of unsettled conditions in
that country.”
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Crooked horse races some way or
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