McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, August 16, 1928, Image 2
J ^Thursday, August 16, 1928
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina
Page Number Two
Quality Of Carry
Over Cotton Being
jj Canvassed U. S. D. A.
Under the provisions o' the May-;
field-Jones Act, the United States
Department of Agriculture is mak
ing its first official canvass of the
quality of “carry-over” cotton on
hand in tho United States at 12:01
tS m, August 1. The results are to
be announced upon completion, on a
pr'e-arranged datei ; probably in Sep
tember.
The wo k of inventorying the
grades and staples in the carry-over
is i.; response to an intense public
interest in the quality of this cotton.
In recent years it has been thought
that the cotton in the carry-over
might be of such low grades and in
ferior lengths as to have a depressing
effect upo.i the price of American
cotton whe n bales in the supply a: e
counted regardless of quality. In
j :«ears following a large crop of low
I grade and short length, says the
department, th’s contention is more
commonly heard than in years fol
lowing small crops of high grade
Jbt Eeomomical Trantportatlom
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When did your battery last have
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you fed
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“Standard”
motor OIL
PStandard” Greases, Transmission Oil and
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tu & Standard” motor fuels and motor oils.
“Standard” Wins In
Fifty-Hour Test
In his engine laboratory, a large
truck manufacturer made a fifty-
hour test to compare “Standard”
Motor Oil with other oils under
the same operating conditions—
all power generated being used to
overcome friction. With other
well-known oils, the number of
! revolutions per minute had
[ dropped fifty per cent at the end
of the fifty hours. With “Standard”
Motor Oil not only was the initial
' speed five per cent greater, but
this speed was maintained
throughout the test.
Since this test was at idling speeds,
the motorist can appreciate that
it indicates less friction and motor
wear in starting — less wear in
continuous operation .
cotton.
Tb.i report will supply foe- the
first time the facts concerning the
grade and staple in the carry-over.
The Division of Cotton Marketing
’s assembling from owners the facts
as to the number of bales of each
grade and staple le: gth of th.e cotton
in the carry-over. The actual cotton
is f<*Jnd in public and private stor
age warehouses and compresses, in
consuming establishments, on farms,
in trar.sit from merchant to domestic
spinner, etc. In form and scope, this
report will tv very similar to those
issued last year during the ginn'ng
season and showing the grade and
staple length of the cotton crop in
the State of Geo: gia and a Texas-
Oklahoma area. It is said at the de
partment that the report w ll check
with the Census Bureau’s report of
the number of bales of cotton on
hand August 1.
The grade and staple report:; are
designed to provide growers, mei 1 -
chants, spinrrrs, and the public gen
erally with current information on
the quality of the supply of Ameri
can cotton, including both the carry
over and the crop. It is a well-known
fact to those who enter the cotton
market, says the department, that
the quality of the cotton sold has
an important bearing upon consump-
tu-i and, therefore, upon its price.
With a given supply, the lower the
quality the lefwcr the price and, con
versely, the higher the quality, with
in limits, the higher the price. Buy
ers, and sellers of cdtton, therefore
pay qu'te as much attention to the
quality of our cotton crop as they do
to quantity) It is felt, therefore,
that info.-mation concerning the
grade and staple length of the cottoi
in the carry-over as well as that in
the crop should be made a matter
of information available to all, and
to all alike.
With such information available,
economists of the department say,
the different prices pa’d for the sev
eral grades and sttaple lengths of
American cottoi should more ac
curately reflect values than has been
possible in the past when quality was
little known except by those most
experienced in handling American
cotton on an extensive scale.
With the demand for American
cotton increasing at the rate ■ of
probably 300,000 bales a year, and
with the development of new uses,
the need for information on the
grade and staple quality of the- sup
ply of American cotton is coming
to be quite generally appreciated by
growers, spinners, and merchants,
and the support of the department’s
efforts in this direction in recent
months has been vevy gratifying.
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Burriss Family To .
Hold Reunion In
Anderson On 22nd
ANDERSON, Aug. 14.--(Special)
—Announcement'here today that the
regular quadrennial reunion of the
Burriss family will be held Wednes
day, August 22, at Salem Church,
three miles west of Anderson, will
arouse interest on the part of thou
sands of descendants of Joshua Bur
riss scattered throughout many coun
ties of this and other states.
The program committee announc
ed that the usual exercises will be
observed on the occasion cf the
great family gathering. There will
be devotional services, conducted by
the Rev. W. J. Bolt, of Inman, wh'le
tb/2 sdng service will be led by the
Rev. James FrankL ; n Burriss, of Wal-
halla. That part of the program
devoted to the mcmoi«y of kinsmen
who have died since the last reunion
will be in charge cf W. W. Leathers,
Jr., of Anderson. It was also an
nounced that among the distinguish
ed kinsmen from a distance expected
at the reunion is Arthur Flake, of
the Sunday School Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention.
Salem Church, for many genera-
t ens the shrine of almost number
less Bu:*rissos and their family con
nections is situated about one and
one-half miles to the left of the
main highway connecting Anderson
with Clemson College. This brick
edifice, served for many years as
pastor by the Rev. Jacob Burriss
who, incidentally, contributed one-
half ef the cost of the buTding out
of his personal fortune, is c-ne of the
best k own houses of divine worship
in And' rson County.
The elf. scendants of Joshua Burriss,
born in Virginia in 1724 and emigrat
ing to Anderson in 1781, number in
to the thousands and are known to
reside In every state in the Un'on,
south < f the Mason-Dixon line, be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
“Standard” Products Made In The Carolinas.
Clifford Burriss, of Piedmont*, is
presid* .t of the reunion organiza
tion a. d will preside at the exercises.
IXJ
Some people envy the idle rich,
but after looking around you can
find a lot of people with jt a dollar
who are just as idle.
Cotton Report As
Of August 1,1928
A co'ton crop of 897,000 bales of
THINGS WORTH
KNOWING
ECO pounds gross weight is indicated •
for South Carolina by the August 1,
condition of 64 per cent of normal. Of all the radio receiving sets
However, the final outturn will de- sold in th s country last year, three-
pend upon whether the various in-' fourths wqre battery-operated sets.
fluences affect'ng the crop during
the remairder cf the season are mere Pictures in colors can be ti’ansmit-
dr less favorable than usual. ted by wire across the continent.
Prospects are better north of the
fall line than south of it. In the A n attempt to plant scallops on a
latter section of the State the crop commercial scale,, as cyste-s are
s not so good in places due to ex- P 1 anted, is to be made in North Car-
cersive rain. olina.
The condition of the crop cn Au
gust 1 last year was 66 per cent of
normal and the ten year average for
this date is 64 per cent of normal.
Last year the State ginned 730,013
bales cf 500 pounds gross weight;
n 1926 1,008,068; and 883 666 in
1925. with an average for the past
five years of 840,701 bales and a
ten-year average of 1,006,961 bales.
Cotton acreage in cult'vatoin in
the State on July 1, was estimated
at 2,577,000 acres. Allowing the
ten-year . average abandonment e*
acreage would leave 2,518,000 acres
for harvest and upon this acreage a
crop elf 897i000 bales indicated by
the August 1, condition would ap
proximate a yield of 170 pounds lint
per acre. This indicated yield com
pares with 148 pounds last year, 182
in 1926, and 160 in 1925, a five-year
average of 167 pounds and the ten
year average, 1917-1926, of 191
pounds per acre.
UNITED STATES:—A crop o
14,291,000 bales (500-pounds gross
weight) in 1928 is indicated by the
condition e'f 67.9 per cent of normal
upon the 46,695,000 acres in culti
vation on July 1. In the more im
portant cotton States prospects seem
best in North Carol na Texas, Okla
homa, and Arkansas, pcorcst in Ala
bama and Mississippi, and about
average in other States. .
Production ’n 1927 was 12,955,000
bales; in 1926, 17,977,000 bales; in
1925, 1C, 104,000 bales; in 1924, 13,-
628,000 bales; and in 1923, 10,140,-
000 bales.
Ccndition on August 1, in 1927
was 65.5 per cent of normal; in 1926,
69.8 pe/ cent; in 1925, 65.6 per cent,
ard ten year average (1917-1926),
67.3 per cent.
If the per cent of cotton area
abandoned during this season shf.ilc
be equal to the average of the past
ten years, the area which would re
main to be harvested in the United
States this year would be 4^953,000
acres. Updn this acreage the crop
of 14,291,000 bales indicated by the
August 1, condition would approxi
mate a yield of 152.2 pounds per
acre. The yield in 1927 was i54.5
pounds; in 1926, 182.6 pounds, and
average ftr the ten yeais 1917-1926,
156.3 pounds.
FRANK O. BLACK,
Agricultural Statistician.
Columbia, S. C.,
Aug. 8, 1928.
X
The annoying chigger may be com
bated to some extent by flovers of
sulphur dusted on the body and cloth
ing, but there is no entirely satisfac
tory method of protecting human be
ings from this pest. Contrary to the
general belief, the chigger does not
bu:‘rdw into the skin, but injects
poisonous material which causos the
itching and discomfort. When visit
ing places where chiggers are abund
ant, it is advisable to wear high
shoes or leather leggingd. Chiggers
are pests of poultry as well as of
humans, and are especially bother
some on late hatched chicks and
turkeys. Flowers of sulphur or a
very fine dusting sulphur should be
applied to poultry infested with
chiggers, and late-hatch-d chicks
should be kept out of high grass and
brush where the insects are preval
ent.
More than half 1hr< people in the
world live in countries touching on
the Pacific ocean, and 3o000,0(J live
on its islands.
Negitoes have migrated to New
York so rapidly in the last ten years
that the ci f y’s Negro population has
increased almost four times as fast
as its general population increase.
The United States produced 70
per cent of the world’s petroleum
supply last year.
In tracing the careers of 100,000
automobiles, it was found that 5,000
cf them had lasted twelve years.
The wild turkey got its name be
cause the Turks were the first peo
ple of the old world to try to dom
esticate it.
The wetk done by honey bees in
scattei ng polle n among blossoms of
fruit trees is more valuable than the
honey they produce.'
The White Star liner Majestic, the
world’s heaviest ship, has been made
sixty-nine to is heavier by conversion
of nonejrnirg rpace into cabins.
An inventor has patented a com
pressed air-driven machine to pack
railroad ballast about ties more rap
idly and evenly than the work can
be done by hand.
Glenwood Earl Busby, six months
old, son of Mr .and Mrs. Harold Bus
by, of Washington, D. C., has fc»jr
grandparents and five great-grand
parents living.
More than two-thirds of the fatal
cases of measles occur in children
under three years of age.
Paintings on recks, discovered in
South Africa, bea^ a resemblance to
the art of far-away Egypt.
Skeletons of about 80,000 horses
were found near a settlement c»f an
cient me n at Solutre, France.
Schools of herring from five to
twenty n^iles square have been seen
in waters about Nova Scotia.
Automobile accidents in 1920-1926
increased 64 per cent in north At
lantic stages, 100 per cent in middle
western states and 230 per cent in
southein states, according to a state
ment from the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States.
Some of the most beautiful garnets
come from Arizona.
IXI
Dcokage makes valuable feed, a
fact that is not generally recognized.
Grain should be cleaned on the farm
and the dockage used for feeding.
The aveiage dockagq. or screenings,
is roughly comparable to oats in
composition, and heavy screenings
freen which the chaffy material has
bee n removed are nearly equal to
corn, wheat, or barley in per cent-
ages of the various nutrients. In
ord.^r to avoid contamination of the
soil from the screenings that are
used for feed, it is important that all
screenings be thoroughly ground be-
fore they are fed, except when fed
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Cures Chills and Fever,
Intermittent, Remittent and
Bilious Fever due to Malaria
It Kills The Germs
Mud baths are being used to make
women beautiful, and with a pitsi-
dential year at hand, the political
mud si’nging should produce a great
improvement over many.
X
August is the month to be on the
lokout for signs of “liver rot” in
sheep or calves. This disease is
caused by liver flukes, fla*. leaf
like worms about an inch long, wh'-ch
c'ccur principally along the Gulf
and Pacific coasts and the adjoining
basins of the'r tributary ztvers.
Sheep or calves affected with liver
ilukes may improve and get fat in
the first stages of the disease, us
ually in the summer and fall, but lat
er grow th’m eat less, and have per
sistent diarrhea. The best remedy
for liver flukes in sheep is carbon
tetrachloride administered by a vet-
e 'inarian. The manure from animals
infected with liver rot should not be
put on pastur\ especially on wet
ground, and livestock should be kept
dff wet pastures where flukes are
prevalent. ’
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Some people worry over having
flat feci, but there is one thing about
it, they will get co farther than
, having ^ flat tire. ^ _