McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, February 27, 1930, Image 7
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Thursday, February 27, 1930
McGORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. South Carolina
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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.
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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
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Three Important Factors
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Enter Into the Cost of
Yo ur Automobile
1. Hour much it costs to make the car
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2. How much extra you pay the dealer
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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
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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.
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Almost one-fifth of the world’s
! people live in the United States.
, and ought to be glad of it.
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1 Financial reverses never take the
jPta, oi rorn ? They.
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