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\ **'■ ' Thursday, February 27, 1930 McGORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. South Carolina Paee NiiTnhpr 5eve# Forty Leaves Re quired To Produce Full-Grown Apple How many leaves are required to produce food enough to develop a full grown apple? This is a question that has attracted the at tention of horticulturists in the United States Department of Ag riculture for several years because of its relation to the practice of thfhning apples and pearp. Latest results of experimental work car ried on with the Washington Ex periment Station, at Wenatchee, Wash., indicate that from 40 to 50 well-formed leaves are- necessary to develop the fruit and furnish the necessary amount of food re serve for the growth of the tree. In the experiments it was found that a smaller number of leaves per fruit would produce a fairly saitsfactory crop for the year 'in question but would not produce enough fruit buds for a full crop the following year. There is a fairly definite correlation between number of leaves per fruit and the size of fruit until the ratio reaches at least 40 to 1. While the size of individual fruits increased with greater leaf surface the increase in fruit volume was not proportional. In other words, thinning the fruit increases size but decreases total weight of fruit per tree. To increase production, the ex periments indicate, it will be nec essary first of all to increase the amount of foliage per tree or per acre. To secure regularity of pro duction the quantity of fruit pro duced per tree must be sufficient ly reduced through thinning to al-. low the development of fruit buds which results only from an accum ulation of food materials after the needs of the fruit have been met. To obtain maximum food develop ment in the leaves a steady supply of moisture must be available throughout the growing season. The experiments referred to were conducted in irrigated orch ards in the Pacific northwest. Where there is a shortage of water through the latter part of. the growing season a larger number of leaves per fruit is required. txx For sweetening punches and fruit beverages, make sirup, using two parts of sugar to one of wat er, cooked together about 10 minutes and cooled. This sweet ens more uniformly than granu lated sugar and is more econom ical. S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record of indus- | trial activity lists items showing j investment of capital, employ ment of labor and business activ ities and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be considered generally cor rect. Sumter — New building of John Evans Welding and Manufacturing Company on East Liberty Street, formally opened. Pageland : — Pageland Thread Mills, Inc., capitalized at $50,000, j filed articles of incorporation. Ariel — School grounds being ! beautified. Dillon — Dillon County ginned 20,996 bales cotton up to January 6th, as compared with 12,320 bales ^to same period year previous. Newberry — Commercial Bank of Newberry acquired by Socarnat Bank Corporation. Columbia—“Columbia Record,”' ; afternoon newspaper, changed management. Union — Rogers, Inc. located on Main Street installed new fixtures in grocery store. Kingstree — 116 farmers shipped ; 6,505 pounds poultry from here for ! season, netting them total of $1,412. union — Collins Department . # Three Important Factors % \ Enter Into the Cost of Yo ur Automobile 1. Hour much it costs to make the car \ V f 2. How much extra you pay the dealer . •» 3. How much it costs for operation and up-keep The PURCHASE of an automobile involves a considerable amount of money and it should be carefully considered from all angles before a final decision is made. The value of the car to you depends on the value built into it at the factory, how much extra you pay the dealer for dis tribution, selling, financing and accessories and what it will cost to operate and main tain the car after purchase. Each of these factors, as it relates to the Ford car, is frankly explained below. Economy in production The FORD CAR is made economically be cause of the efficiency of Ford production methods. The money saved through this efficiency is put back into the car in im proved quality of material and in greater care and accuracy in manufacturing. The constant effort is to eliminate waste and find ways to make each part better and better without increasing cost—frequently at lowered cost. Because of Ford economies in large production and because the Ford organiza tion operates on a low-profit margin, the jsrice you pay for the car is much less than it would be under any other conditions. Yet it brings you many unusual features of construction and performance. At least $75 extra vplue is represented alone by the Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield, the Rustless Steel, the four Houdaille double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers, and the five steel-spoke wheels. The unusually large number of ball and V teller bearings and the extensive use of fine steel forgings instead of castings or stampings are additional features that reflect the high quality built into every part of the car. Throughout, it is a value far above the price you pay. XrOir dealer charges The SAME PRINCIPLES of efficiency and economy that characterize the manufac ture of the Ford car are applied also to distribution. Obviously it would do the public little good to save in production if these savings were sacrificed later in ex cessive costs of selling, financing and accessories. The Ford dealer, therefore, operates on the same low-profit margin as the Ford Motor Company, his discount or commis sion being the lowest of any automobile dealer. He does a good business because he makes a small profit on many sales instead of a large profit on fewer sales. NOTE THESE LOW PRICES * Roadster . . $435 Phaeton . $440 Tudor Sedan $500 Coupe . . $500 Sport Coupe $530 Two-window Fordor Sedan . . $600 Three-window Fordor Sedan . . $625 Cabriolet . $645 Town Sedan $670 (All prices /. o. b, Detroit) Low charges for time payments through the Universal Credit Company The lower cost of selling, combined with the low charges for financing and acces sories, means a direct saving of at least $50 to $75 to every purchaser of a Ford, in addition to the savings made possible by economies in manufacturing. The money you pay for a Ford goes into value in the car. It is not wasted in high dealer charges. JLotr up-heep costs It IS IMPORTANT to remember that the cost of your automobile is not the first ebst only, but the total cost after months and years of service. Here again there is a decided saving when you buy a Ford. The cost of operation and up-keep is lower because of simplicity of design, the high quality of material, and the reduction of friction and wear through unusual ac curacy in manufacturing and assembling. The reliability and longer life of the car contribute to its low depreciation per year of use. The intelligent, painstaking service ren dered by Ford dealers is under close fac tory supervision and is a factor in the low up-keep cost of the Ford. All labor is billed at a flat rate and replacement parts are always available at low prices through Ford dealers in every section of the United States. In two, three or five years, depending on how much you drive, the saving in operating and maintaining a new Ford will amount to even more than the saving on the first cost of the car. FORD MOTOR COMPANY Store moved to temporary quarters in Grand Theatre building. Ariel — Post office established here. Columbia — Broadcasting sta tion WIS will start operations soon. Allendale — Community hatch ery started operations recently. Newberry — Imperial Theatre installed talkie equipment. Sumter — Sumter Packing Com pany will operate at full capacity this season. Union — Jolly, Incorporated dry goods ccncem, opened for business in Jolly building at comer of Main and Gadberry streets. Walterboro — Erection of addi tion to Walterboro High School building progressing rapidly. Six plants of Woodside and Easley cotton mills, having total of 225,000 spindles and employing several thousand persons, now op erating on full-time schedule. Ruby — Canning plant to be established here. Pickens — First carload poul'try shipped from Pickens County this year contained 11,369 pounds, poul try and was sold for $1,294. Camden — Store room formerly occupied by Baruch-Nettles Com pany being altered for occupancy by J. S. Penney Company, Inc. Lexington — Traffic signals erected at two corners in city, at Main and Depot streets and Main and Church streets. Leesville — National Bank of Leesville purchased by South Car olina National Bank. Fairfax — South Carolina Pack ing Corporation operated success fully last season and now contract ing with farmers for trucking acreage for plgmt this coming sea son. Road program mapped out call ing for surface treating approx imately 25 miles Pickens County roads and regarding and topsoil ing 16 miles of Pickens-Marietta Highway—Pickens Sentinel. Much Cotton Goes To Association COLUMBIA, Feb. 24.—The South Carolina Cotton Growers’ Co-op erative Association has already re ceived more than twice as many bales of cotton in the 1929-30 sea son as it received in the entire season of 1928-29, according to an announcement by Alfred Scar borough, general manager of the | association, today. The deliveries j continue good despite the lateness of the season and cotton continues to come in from almost every sec tion of the state, he said. The South Carolina association also shows the greatest per cent- age increase in deliveries this sea son over last season of any as sociation in the belt, it was stated. While nearly all of the organiza- i tions have shown an increase this state leads all of them in the ratio of the increase. j The association’s deliveries have i increased each year under the new ! contract, it was pointed out to- ! day, the figures for 1928-1929 hav- i ing shown an increase over 1927- 1928, the first year of the associa tion’s operations under the new , contract. Officials of the organi zation predicted at the beginning of the present season that this, year’s deliveries would be well ahead of last and they have been f practically from the beginning of the season. Further impetus was given by the action of the Federal Farm Board in throwing the full I strength of the government be- i ; hind the cotton co-operatives. Hundreds of well known South-, j Carolina farmers have joined the association during the past three months and new contracts cqu- tinue to come in daily. A very heavy sign-up is expected during the spring months and the deliv- ! cries for next season are expected to show a substaintial increase i over this season. ' / During January or February the ibest layers in the poultry flock should be selected and those with the whitest beaks and shanks i banded with numbered aluminum or colored celluloid bands. In breeds whose beaks and shanks are normally yellow, as the Ply- 1 mouth Rock. Leghorn, and Rhode- Island Red. the pullets that lay i at the highest rate will usually * ee *a o-'t the normal color or the 'beaks and shanks more quickly , than pullets that lay only inter mittently. | x Almost one-fifth of the world’s ! people live in the United States. , and ought to be glad of it. X 1 Financial reverses never take the jPta, oi rorn ? They. *"»! —f' , * ' * • -A