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Thursday, February 6, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. South Carultnm. Page Number Eight Control Of Utilities Stock Is Acquired By New Owners H. D. Baldwin Makes Statement As To Southern Public Service Company, Carolina - Georgia Service Company and East- , ern Carolina Service Cor poration; Office Here. (Greensboro, N. C., Daily News of February 2.) Confirmation of published re ports from New York city to the effect that there has been a change in ownership of the con trolling common stock of a group of large public utilities companies, including the Southern Public Service company, the Carolina- Georgia Service company and the Eastern Carolina Service corpora tion, with division office in Greensboro, was obtained yester day from H. D. Baldwin, of Greensboro, vice-president and general manager of these three concerns. In response to questioning by a Farm Prospects Are Outlined Daily News reporter M. Baldwin yesterday made the following ' many country banks and they are CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb. 1.— Supplementing the outlook and suggestions made public recently on crops and livestock, intended to guide farmers in planning their farm enterprises for 1930, D. W. Watkins, assistant director of the Extension Service, has summed up for busy farmers the following outlook as to land prices, money rates, production shifts, fertilizer and labor costs, and cotton acre age. Land prices have not yet shown any upward trend, though there is no increase in mortgage indebted ness. Farm incomes are about the same since 1925 on the average. The year 1930 will likely see a re duction in the purchasing power of city populations. Taxes paid by farmers continue to grow larg er but at a slower rate of increase. Money rates are lower, but cred it for agricultural production pur poses is scarce especially in the Southeast. The stock market speculation of last year leaves less money on checking accounts in FEBRUARY Farm Calendar Things To Be Done This Month statement: “Until last Wednesday Chase and Gilbert, Inc., of Boston, Mass., owned 51 per cent or more of the common stock of Atlantic Public Utilities, Inc. As of that date A. • E. Fitkin and company through their subsidiary, the Fitkin Secur ities company, purchased this con trol from Chase and Gilbert, Inc., and are organizing a new company to be known as Eastern Atlantic Public Service company, which company will acquire this controll ing stock. “The United States Engineering Corporation and Engineering and Management company, which is -''OWfeed- fcy the Fitkin Securities company, \wiU have /the manage ment of the properties. They plan to take over the personnel of Chase and Gilbert, incorporated, management organization, includ ing the personnel of the Boston of fice and their division offices. No Changfe In Personnel “No change in the personnel of the Greensboro office or of the local offices in the towns in which they operate is comtemplated. The Greensboro office is in charge of the management, engineering and ^counting for all properties of the Southern Public Service com pany and its wholly owned subsid iary, the Carolina-Georgia Service company, as well as the Eastern Carolina Public Service corpora tion. The Southern Public Serv ice company also owns 75 per cent of the common stock of Roanoke Ice Delivery, incorporated, and manages that company. “As a result of this change in ownership the position of the com panies will be very materially strengthened. The strong finan cial connections will make it pos sible for the companies to grow 'fapidly. The new owners contem plate many additions and im provements in their plants which will enable us to give improved service to the public. “Although the final program ot these improvements has not yet been passed on, it is probable that over $250,000 will be spent in im provement of the properties of the Carolina-Georgia Service company, the Southern Public Service com pany and the Eastern Carolina Service corporation during the next 12 months. These improve ments will include building two or more new plants and will probab ly include erection of a modem new cold storage plant in Greens boro. The two new plants men tioned here are to be in South Carolina.” Officers of the Carolina-Geor- Ria Service company, the Southern Public Sex vice company and the Eastern Carolina Service corpor ation in addition to Mr. Baldwin as president and general manager axe C. L. Stafford, assistant gener al manager and purchasing agent; James L. Scott, sales and delivery manager; W. P. Wright, produc tion manager^ and C. B. Melton, auditor. All of these officers are located in Greensboro. Originally the ‘headquarters office for this division was in five rooms in the -Greensboro Bank and Trust com pany building; now the ^xcadquart- therefore not as able as heretofore to lend funds for making crops. Agricultural production con tinues the shifting process, seek ing those areas that have, com parative advantage under post war conditions. Mechanization and labor-saving methods are the order of the day but the South east is lagging in this respect. Quality is being insisted on and is being reflected in prices more and more in nearly every line of pro duction. Retail prices of fertilizer are about three per cent below last year’s. Farm labor is somewhat more plentiful at slightly lower wages. The acreage of cotton is large enough. In fact, with the same acreage as in 1929 and favorable weather conditions without an in crease in demand there would re sult an increase in the carryover, which has been on the decline since the big crop of 1926 that proved so disastrous to prices. Moreover, some Indian cottons are increasing in quality so as to com pete with the very short staple of American growth, that is, 13-16 to 7-8 inches. Cotton of 15-16 to 1 1-32 inch staple has been in bet ter demand than other lengths. Premiums on 1 1-32 to 1 3-16 have for two years been disappointing. The effort to improve staple lengths started In South Carolina in 1926 and which is making con siderable headway has proven to be a very Wise and farsighted move in the interest of cotton growers and of the American cotton indus try. We unhesitatingly recom mend that most farmers of South Carolina should grow varieties of cotton known to produce 1 to 1 1-16 inch staple. Also they should study and plan for wise but eco nomical fertilization, and labor- saving methods in cotton produc tion this year even more than usual. merly operated by Tatum’s, Inc. They also operate a down town store on North Elm street, carry ing heating system and refrigera tors. Mr. Boldwin referred to Atlantic Public Utilities, Inc., as having “an appraised value in excess of $50,000,000, furnishing electricity, gas and water service to cities and towns in New England, the Mid dle Atlantic states and the mid dle west, and ice and fuel service in 33 cities in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, in which they operate 50 plants.” Plants operated by the Caro- ’ina-Georgia Service company, the Southern Public Service company and the Eastern Carolina Service corporation are located in the fol- owing towns: Carolina-Georgia Service com pany—Anderson, Greenville, Sen eca, Belton, Greenwood, Abbe ville, MeCornjick. Aiken, Laurens, Ninety Six, Clinton, Honea Path, Westminster, Edgefield and Lang ley, S. C., and Augusta, Gaines ville, Cornelia, Toccoa and A.av- onia, Ga. Southern Public Service com pany—Greensboro and Gastonia ers office for this division occupies i to this state and Roanoke and two-thirds of the 10th floor of I Salem, Va. the building, a fact evidencing the remarkable growth of the busi ness. Eastern Carolina Service cor poration—Elizabeth City, Edenton, Washington, Greenville, Kinston, Operating Plants Here | Goldsboro, Rocky Mount, Wilson, In Greensboro these three com-!^ e ^ on ’ Roanoke Rap- panies operate ice and fuel plants I 018 ’ Henderson and Fayettesville on East Market street near the 111 s * a te and^Savannah, Ga. Southern railway underpass and; x on West Lee street at the Tate Bearing orange trees in Brazil ^street intersection, the plants for- number 7,830,000. • l <• • _ weeks before saving hatching eggs. For best fall layers make set tings of heavy breeds last half of February. Gather hatching eggs twice daily, hold at 45 to 55 degres Fah renheit, turn once daily, and set within 7 to 10 days. Check incubator and make eure everything is in working order. < Have brooder stove regulated and in operation one or two days before placing chicks in the house. IXI RED ROW NEWS. As the weather was so bad and the people could not visit much and the news is short, I thought I would send in a few items any way, but we certainly did enjoy the snow. Mrs. Oscar Butler from Troy spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Napoleon Wide- man. Misses Alice and Maude Wide- man spent Tuesday with Mrs. Kit- tie Creswell. 7 Miss Maude Wideman returned home with Mrs. Oscar Butler to stay awhile. Messrs. Jim and Ralph Wide man spent Sunday with their grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie Wide man. Misses Alice and Willie Mae Wideman spent Friday night and Saturday with Mrs. Herbert Wide man of McCormick. Mrs. Celo Moseley spent Sunday with Mrs. Lizzie Wideman. Mrs. Janie Spence spent Satur day evening with Mrs. Moses Wide man. Mr. J. S. New and Mr. Frank Bolden spent awhile with Mr. Press Wideman Saturday night. Mr. Leon Wideman spent Sun day in the home of Mrs. Napoleon Wideman. Mr. Jim Wideman called on Mr. Leon Wideman Sunday morning. Mr. Archie Wideman visited Mr. Press Wideman recently. Misses Alice and Willie Mae Wideman were visiting awhile in Greenwood Sunday night. “Brown Eyes.” txt Smith And White, Prize Winners, Will Attend Conference Agronomy Buy fertilizer on a basis of pounds of plant food per acre. The cotton plant does not know the meaning of “analysis,” “unit,” or “ratio.” Use cotton seed that will make one-inch staple so you can see your cotton made into cloth in your local mill. China, India and Russia can grow 7-8 inch cotton cheaper than you can. Sow a few pounds of lespedeza carpet grass, or Dallas grass seed per acre for better pastures. Horticulture Plant strawberries, dewberries, blackberries. Prepare land for planting a lawn late in February. Set out grape vines, fruit trees, and ornamental plants. Plant asparagus and Irish pota toes; transplant cabbage to gard en and field. Plant celery, spring kale, lettuce, mustard, onions, parsley, garden peas, radishes, spinach and turn ips. Plant in hotbeds, eggplant, to mato, pepper. Separate and plant cannas, cut ting intc pieces with two to three eyes. Dig and divide lemon lilies and flags if they are too thick. Plant Diseases Use disease-free soil and covers for tobacco beds and treat seed be fore sowing. Get tanks in order and treat seed Irish potatoes with mercuric chloride or organic mercury dips. Clean up vineyards and orch ards and apply dormant sprays. Entomology Spray for San Jose scale. Do not 4eave prunings in the orchard to increase infestations of shot-hole borer and other bark beetles. After winter spraying, wash out pump, hose, and nozzles and put away carefully for spring spraying. Get a line on materials for sum mer spraying or dusting. See your county farm agent. To destroy twig girdlers pick up and bum girdled twigs under pecan and hickory trees. Kill many hibernating insects by destroying trash and rubbish around garden and fields. Bees Clean the^beeyard of dry grass and rubbislTby plowing. Clean up all hives and supers before spring. Don't disturb bees unnecessar ily. Agricultural Engineering Observe National Farm Equip ment Week—February 17-22 by: 1. Ordering repairs and getting machinery ready for the crop sea son. « 2. Planning to become a two- mule farmer instead of a one-mule farmer. 3. Using the tractor, if you own one, for more profitable work in 1930. 4. Building broad terraces so you can operate machinery over them. 5. Sharpening stalk cutter knives to get best results. Most of them are double-edged and can be reversed. - Animal Husbandry Feed bred sows liberally a well- balanced ration and allow them exercise. Remember the high market us ually comes in March and April, so feed hogs well now an corn and fish meal or other well-balanced ration. Give eves extra *-.pre during lambing time, with-exercise and abundance legume hay, and, if thin some grain; Feed mules and horses to be iiiv good flesh at plowing time. Feed beef cattle for breeding purposes to maintain their weight until grass comes, and those be ing fattened for market a well- balanced. gradually increasing grain ration. • Dairying Watch the young calves and j yearling heifers for lice, which at | this season do the greatest dam- j age to young stock. } Plan the spring pasture im- ' provement work and remember j that any seeding or plowing to be | effective must be done during I February and March. i Denmark — Denmark Public Li- | Breed as many cows as possible brary opened on second floor of during February for calving in j old Bank of Denmark building. November and early December. | Georgetown — New hospital for Continue to repair fences, clean | colored dedicated here recently, up the lots ^ and grounds, and | Summerville — Bids opened by ; whitewash out buildings and State Highway Department for COLUMBIA, JAN. 31.—B. R. Smith of Johnston, winner of the state-wide five-acre cotton contest conducted by Clemson College, and J. Ryan White of Sumter, win ner of the state-wide five-acre corn contest, will attend a meeting of the Southern Agricultural Workers’ Association in Jackson, Miss., February 6th and following this meeting they will take a ten day educational tour along with the other cotton and corn cham pions of the South. The trip is be ing tendered the champions by the Chilean Nitrate of Soda Educa tional Bureau. A banquet will be given for the champions at Jackson, Miss., to which all members of the South ern Agricultural Workers’ Asso ciation will be invited. On Febru ary 7th the champions will visit some of the most interesting sec tions of Mississippi including the National Park at Vicksburg. That afternoon the party will leave for New Orleans where they will be met Saturday morning by the Mayor and other prominent citi zens. Saturday afternoon the party,' will leave by steamer for Tampa, | Fla., where they will arrive early J Monday morning. A bus trip will • be taken through Florida from! Tampa to Jacksonville, giving the champions a chance to see the citrus fruit, section of the state. Mr. Smith, a prominent farmer of Edgefield county, made 5770 pounds of lint cotton on his five acres in winning the state cotton contest while Mr. White made an average production of 118.8 bush els of corn per acre in winning the corn contest. t X% S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Store opened for business in building formerly occupied by A. H. Baiden, Front and Broad streets. Camden — New Majestic The atre installed talkie equipment. Rock Hill — Waldrop Supply Company, capitalized at $25,000, filed charter of incorporation. Total value of 13 principal truck crops grown for shipping and can ning in 1929 in South Carolina, estimated at $9,107,000, which is 39 per cent more than estimate of $6,549,000 in 1928, according to Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Greelyville — Survey being made of Highway No. 261 which connects No. 26 with Santee bridge. Abbeville — High School grounds being beautified. Easley — Sweet Potato House opened for business. Sumter — Construction work on new wing of Tuomey Hospital building progressing rapidly. Newberry — Newberry Laundry installed modern dyeing depart ment. Pickens — Pickens Hatchery started operations for season. Loris — Loris Light & Power Company plant changed hands. Highway No. 26 in Lancaster County being paved.—Lancaster News. Spartanburg — New Stephens Grove School building dedicated and opened recently. Cheraw—Arthur Stores expand ing quarters to take care of in creasing business. Newberry — Opera House will be remodeled. Abbeville — People’s State Bank of Abbeville purchased control of Farmers Bank of Abbeville Coun ty. Walterboro — Modern filling station to be erected at corner of Wichman and Bridge streets on property known as Middleton place. Greer — Kopper Kettle changed location. Columbia — Radio broadcasting station to be established here. Johnsonville — People’s Hard ware Company, Inc., capitalized at $5,000, filed papers of incorpora tion. Allendale — St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church of this place ded icated recently. Ridgeland — Ellis Lumber Mill resumed operation. Greer — Gordon Stokes purchas ed half interest in Stone and Wakefield Store and name chang ed to S. & S. Grocery. Honea Path — Southern Lumber Company, capitalized at $1,500, filed papers of incorporation. Greer — Kirkwood Jewelry busi ness changed hands. Hampton—Court house grounds being beautified. Abbeville — Old Citizens’ Bank building being repaired. Stockholders of Woodside and Easley cotton mills will share div idends totaling $200,000. Abbeville — Electric Bakery changed hands and will be known as The Abbeville Babery in future. xxi Swap Seed For Meal AS FERTILIZER COTTON SEED NOT ECONOMICAL SAY tfANTADVS. MEN WANTED IMMEDIATELY— by giant international industry; over 7000 already started; some doing annual business $13,000; no experience or capital required; everything supplied; realize suc cess, independence Rawleigh’s way; retail food products, soap, toilet preparations, stock, poultry supplies; your own business sup ported by big American, Canadian, Australian industries; resources over $17,000,000; established 40 years; get our proposition; all say it’s great! Rawleigh Company, Dept. SC-33-J., Richmond, Va. WANTED—Reliable man 21 to 55 years old with car to call on far mers *n McCormick County. Make $8 to $15 daily. No experience or capital needed. Write today. FURST & THOMAS, Dept. C, Free port, Illinois. WANTED—Plain sewing. Prices reasonable. Children’s clothes a specialty. Mrs. E. N. Creswell, Mc Cormick, S. C. Itpo WANTED—Several croppers for farms near McCormick. Apply to J. D. Richardson, McCormick, S. C. 4t. CATTLE—Am paying highest mar ket price for beef cattle and hogs. See me before selling. A. H. Faulkner, McCormick, S. C. BUYING Cows, Veal Calves, Chick ens and Eggs. J. B. Blackwell’s Store, McCormick, S. C. FROST PROOF PLANTS — For Sale—Cabbage and Bermuda On ion Plants all varieties, $1.50 per 1000, 5000 lots, $1.25 per 1000. Prompt Shipment. Dorris Plant Co., Valdosta, Ga. NEW 7 OR OLD PIANOS—Tuned repaired and put in best possible condition. John A. Holland, The Greenwood Piano Man, Greenwood, S. C.,■ Girls And Young Women Favorite Vic tims Of Tuberculosis CLEMSON COLLEGE, Jan. 25.— The many farmers who because of present low prices of cotton seed arc holding their seed with a view of crushing them and using as fertilizer for cotton, are advised against this plan by R. W. Ham ilton, extension agronomist, who says that the wise arid economical practice is to swap the seed for cotton seed meal and use the meal with acid phosphate, mineral am monia, and potash as a fertilizer. The prevailing basis of the swap of meal for seed is 1300 to 1600 pounds of meal for 2000 pounds of The annual seal sale of the Girls and young women are the favorite victims of tuberculosis in South Carolina according to an analysis made by the South Car olina tuberculosis association of the last available reports of the Bureau of the Census. Among females, death from tuberculosis ranks third in the ‘six leading causes of death, being exceeded by deaths from heart disease and nephritis. Among males, death from# tuberculosis ranks fifth. . Six hundred and eighty-eight girls and young women in the state between the ages of 15 and 45, died from tuberculosis. Four hundred and thirty boys and men were killed by tuberculosis in the same age period. The waiting list of patients for the State Sanatorium shows a like ratio. The number of girls and young women far exceeds that of men. Commenting on the situation. Dr. Ernest Cooper, Superintendent of the State Sanatorium, says that the chances of spreading the disease are greater where women are involved because of their closer proximity to children at the ages of greatest susceptibility. The Sanatorium Committee of the South Carolina tuberculosis asso ciation is asking the present leg islature for an appropriation for beds at the State Sanatorium to take care of the women on the waiting list who arc in immediate need of treatment. seed. It is more profitable. Mr. Hamilton states, for the farmer to swap at these rates than to use seed as fertilizer. Nitrogen is the South Carolina tuberculosis Asso ciation did not realize the amount desired to carry on the work on its present scale. We need more important plant food in meal or 1 mon ey for this year’s operation. seed. Nine hundred and sixty- three pounds of seven per cent meal contains the same amount of nitrogen as 2000 pounds of cotton seed. One pound of high grade cotton seed meal as fertilizer is equal to 2 1-16 pounds of cotton seed in cotton production, as shown by the average of experiments on many soils. A good fertilizer mixture sug gested by Mr. Hamilton for an rather than less. It is vital to the interest of the whole state that the scourage Tuberculosis be bet ter handled in future than in the past. Some who would like to con tribute to this cause have doubt less overlooked the matter and others would probably increase their contributions if they under stood how vital it is for the nec essary funds to be raised. Further contributions should be acre of cotton, using cotton seed ! sent to the county chairman or to fences around the lots. Poultry Mate breeding pens at least two construction of .838 miles of paved road on Route No. 61 in this place. Georgetown — Corner Drug plant food. meal is: 300 pounds phosphate 100 pounds cotton seed meal ?0 pounds nitrate of soda 50 pounds nuriate of potash Other mineral ammoniates o • other potash carriers may be sub.- stituted in equivalent amounts of} Mrs. D. McL. McDonald, Executive Secretary, 1218 Senate Street, Co lumbia. South Carolina. Contri- , butions will be credited to the counties from which they are re ceived. DAVID R. COKER, State Christmas Seal Sale Chair man.