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Pebrnary 16^ 1^28
McCORMlCK A£ESSENGJEH, AfcCJCJEM J South C^uroitnu
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There were fewer hozees and moles
hot more milk cows, cattle, sheep
^aiid ffrine .on Seoth Garoliita farms
January 1, 1928 than a year previous
according to the annual livestock re
port of the United States Depart-
Agriculture. Horses, mules,
«ttie are worth Jgore jer
#!th sheep abourtoe same and
less than a year ago. Farm livestock
total about 1074,000 head with an
estimated value of $38,299,000, ^ ^
an increase
pared vd$h 987,000
mm##«yw-
.Ki-i
in value of $|,86tM)0O during the
Sfear, • -v. - •
*£100108 decreased about 7 per cent
during the year, dropping from 4S,n
000 to 42,000, thus continuing $
steady decline in numbers from tfeg ^
estimate of 80,000 head in 1920. The <as compared
average price of $81.00 is $4.00 per, gradual upw
head more than reported last year,
making the total value of $3,422,000
only $21,000 less than last year's es
timated value.
The number of mules decreased
' about 3 per cent during 1927, from
186,000 on January 1, 1927 to 179,000
on January 1, .1928. However, the
total value increased from $17,548,-
000 to $18,768,000. due to an increase
in value -per head from $95,00 in
January 1927 to $105.00 on January
‘51;this,year. . t ■ , ,v f
Milk cows are estimated at 160,000
or 101 per emit of last yea^ - The
Price per head also advanced from
last January to $49.00 on Jan-
1, 1928, and the total vahle
$6820,000 to $7840,000.
cattle and calves increased 2
par Cent, from 300,000 to 306,000
head. The value per head 1 is given
flu $28.50 in Jannary 1927 and $34.20
this year, and the total value as $8,-
8640000 last year and $10,450,000 on
January 1, 1028.
The number of swine on South
Carolina farms increased 20 per
bent during 1927, the number being
at 632,000 bead on Janu-
ary l, 1928, compared with 443,000
• yaar previous. A f decrease in value
per head from $12.00 to $10.50 is
more than offset by the increase in
numbers, so that the total value of
swine on farms January 1,1928 is
$5 586,000, compared with $5,316,000
on January 1, 1927.
Sheep increased slightly in both
numbers and total value, altho the
price per head of $4.90 is the same
for both years. The estimated num
ber on farms i* 15,000 head, com-
pared to 14,000 last year, with a to
tal value of $73,000 on January 1,
19£8 and $.68,000 January 1, 1927.
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Livestock Conditions
if leant In Farm
"Situation
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Increased numbers of hogs on
farjns with prospects of a reduction
in market supplies next winter, some
increase in market receipts of lambs
with last year, and a
upward trepd in .beef cat
tle production, are regarded as out
standing features of the agricultural
situation by the Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics, United States De
partment of Agriculture, in its Feb
ruary 1 report on farm conditions.
There me more sheep and hogs,
but fewer cattle and horses, than a
year ago, according to the report.
Computed on the basis of equivalent
units, it appears there are about the
same total number of animal units
in the country as last year but the
total value of livestock is about
$5(Xb00Q,000 higher.
“Favorable prices two and three
years ago stimulated hog produc
tion,” says the report, “so that last
year 6 to 8 per cent more pigs were
raised than in 1926. A slump in the
foreign pork market early last sea
son contributed to depress prices-
The swine industry thus opens this
year with about 4,500.000 head more
on farms than a year ago, with
prices relat vely low, and with little
likelihood of a reduction in slaught
erings until the present crop of pigs
is worked off. The December .sur
vey suggested the probability of a
pig crop in the Com Belt about 10
per cent'smaller this spring than
last. This would mean a substan
tial reduction in market supplies by
next winter.
“The number of sheep and lambr
in the country was 2,700 000 greater
at the beginning of this year than
last and was the largest in 16 years
About 10 per cent more lambs were
reported on feed. Prospects indicate
a lamb crop this spring somewhat
larger than last, summ ng average
weather conditions.
Thus there will be apparently more
lambs coming to market both in the
first half and in the latter half of
this year tha n was the case last
year. The wool situation! however,
appears favorable to producers, with
light supplies abroad and fairly firm
markets.
“The beef cattle industry has been
curtailing production. The total
number of cattle in the country Jan
uary 1, was 1,176,000 head or 2 per
cent fewer than a year ago. That is
15.500,000 or 22 per cent below the
high point of 1918. It seems prob
able that the cattle industry is at
or near the low point of a production
cycle. These cycles usually extend
over a period of 14 to 16 years.
Previous low points in production
occurred in 1898 and 1912. The ex
pectation is that the improvement in
cattle prices will stimulate the re
stocking of farms and ranges and
that the trend of production will
soon be greatly upward and for sev
eral years to come.
“The dairy industry appears to be
in strong position, with some slight
tendency to increase its young stock.
There were about 3 per cent more
yearling dairy heifers on farms Jan
uary 1 than a year ago. The steadily
shrinking number of horses reflects
a transition perhaps without parallel
in history. It has gone far enough,
however, to stimulate horse prices,
with the presumption that good
draft-type will grow into money for
some years to come.”
The bureau's index of purchasing
power of farm products in terms of
other commodities is placed at 86 for
the past year, compared with 85 for
1926, and 89 for the year 1925. The
best preceding year was 1919 when
the purchasing power figure was
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atop in the State
A yield of one and one-half bales of
cotton per acre, in spite of weather and
weevil. Consider this fact. It is particu
larly important right now when you are
planning Spring fertilization.
Mr. Spearman used "AA QUAL
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in a farming experience of thirty years.
Hundreds of enthusiastic letters have
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ers who use "AA QUALITY” Fertil
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report large yields per acre.
Mr. Spearman writes: "My crop
is probably the best crop in the State,”
and ends wqth. this significant statement,
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W. D. Spearmen, Earley, Pickens County, S. C-, says:
**/ used only 400 lbs. of 'AA QUALITY’ Fertilizer
per acre without top-dressing or sods and 1 have
been informed by those who are • acquainted with the
cotton situation this season that it is probably the
best crop in the state, the yield being around 1 Vi
bales per acre. This is by far the best crop I hare
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105, the 1909-14 five-year average
being used as a base of 100.
Viewing the entire agricultural sit
uation tho bureau says that “so far
as concerns the production plans of
farmers, the probability appears to
be that the domestic market for this
year's output will be equal to that
at present, with tin possibility of
some improvement.”
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The Itinerary Of
Deputy Collectors
Listed below are the names of
towns am^ dates on wh ; ch each will
bo visited by deputy collectors for
the purpose of assiting taxpayers in
preparing income tax returns for the
year 1927.
Name of Town Date
Abbeville, March 3.
A'ken, March 1 and 2.
Anderson, March 9 to 15 inclusive.
Bamberg, March 1.
Belton, March 2.
Bennettsville, March 2.
Camden March 3.
Charleston, March 1 to 15 inclusive
Cheravr, March 2.
Chester, March 1.
Clinton, March 2 and 3.
Columbia, March 1 to 15 Inclusive.
Conway, March 6.
Darlington, March 1.
Edgefield) March 3.
Florence, March 5 to 15 inclusive.
Gaffney, March 1.
Georgetown, March 2.
Greenville, March 1 to 15 inclusive
Greenwood, March 5 to 8 inclusive.
Hampton, March 3.
Kingstree, March 1.
Lancaster^ March 3.
Laurens, March 1.
Mann’ng, March 6.
Marion, March 5.
Newberry, March 3.
Orangeburg, March 2.
Rock Hill, March 2.
St. Matthews, March 3.
Seneca, March 1.
Spartanburg, March 5 to 15 in.
Summerville, March 1.
Sumter, March 7 to 15 inclusive.
Union, March 2.
Walterborq, March 2.
JNO. F. JONES,
Collector.
Household Hints
Chopped apples, sprinkled with
sliced carrots and served in a let
tuce leaf with mayonnaise, make a
good salad.
A tablespoonful of vinegar, added
to the water when corned beef is be
ing cooked, makes the meat much
more tender.
A good fruit trifle—whites of four
eggs beaten to a stiff froth, two
tablespoonfuls each of sugar, rasp
berry jelly snd currant jam. Eat
en with a sponge cake, this makes a
very delicious dessert.
Serve grapefruit in the follow ng
way: Fill core hollow with seeded
grapes. Add one tablesp^enful of
orange juice and one of pineapple
juice. Sprinkle top with chopped
nuts.
In making custard pudding, the
yolks of the eggs and sugar should
be thoroughly beaten together, be
fore any of the milk or seasoning is
added. The well beaten whites of
the eggs should be added last.
they will never run. They will also
burn twice as long.
Add a few slices of thinly cut on
ions and a few. cloves to pickled
beets, and you will be surprised at
the excellent flavor.
One cup of dried bread crumbs,
one-quarter cup of sugar, two table
spoonfuls of almond flavoring, m’.x-
ed together, and put in the oven to
get very brown, make a good sub
stitute in a recipe when macaroons
are icquired.
Th$re is an old saying—“Food is
half epten by the eye.” T his is
particularly true about salads, and
a light touch must be used in their
arrangement. The leaves of lettuce
should be placed on the plate in such
a way that they will curve crisply
around the other materials.
The other chief requirements are
that they must be very cold, and the
seasoning must bl^nd well with the
materials used.
Try these tomatoes stuff I with
corn: To each pint «f raw earn, add
salt and pepper to tsita, a .id two
tablespoonfuls of melted butter.
Scoop out centers of large firm to
matoes. Fill with corn and
thirty minutes in a mode
Never salt meat before cooking it
for it will harden the tissues. Sea
son when it is on the platter and
ready for use.
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No Unusual Floods
This Year In Mis-
sisippi River System
While the danger of loss by floods
is one of the necessary hazards of
farming in many sections of the
country, especially in the spring and
early summer and in the fall, it does
not follow that severe floods one
year will be duplicated the next. At
this time last year there was al
ready evidence that the Mississippi
system would have high river stages,
due to incessant ,and torrential rains,
and it became evident very early in
the spring that disastrous flooding
was certain.
According to the Weather Bureau
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, unless the rains that
cause high water in the Mississippi
region are considerably above nor
mal {Hiring the next two months, the
prospect so far this year is that
there will be no great flood such as
in 1927. The rivers will rise, as they
usually do in the spring, and some
areas may be partly flooded, but
present indications are that there
will be no calamitous rising of river
leyefc*
The river and floqd division of the
Weather Bureau undertakes to warn
dwellers of the Iqwlapds along the
larger streams of the various river
stages and the coming of dangerous
floods. It does not have facilities
for extending that service to the
small streams that are liable to
fjpqd from so-called, cloudburst rains.
The recent development of radio
transmission has enbrmously in-,
creased the distribution of flood
^varfTmgs so as to make it practi
ce now for almost everyone inter-
or affected to receive them
readily and much earlier than
before. i