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T t Thursday, April 1930 McCWMICK MESSENGER. McCOmfICK, SoutH CaroVtn*. Page NumUer FoiS Census Officials Farm Is All Land Farmed By One Person, Whether It Is Three Acres Or Three Thousand Acres TW** Aniv*c Tc Vi* inn average person as farming comes XUTCC i <UH1 9 within the Census Bureau’s defih- iticn. All market and truck gard ens, fruit orchards, nurseries, greenhouses, poultry yards, places for keeping bees, and all dairies in or near cities, even though lit tle land is employed, are, for cen sus purposes, farms, provided they produced in 1929 agricultural pro ducts of the value of at least $250. A farm, according to the Census If sucl1 places are of more than Bureau, is all the land farmed by; thr ee acres, they are farms re- one person, whether it is three | gardless of the value of their pro- acres or three thousand acres. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well, April fFarm Calendar THINGS THAT SHOULD BE DONE THIS MONTH duce, In 1925, the last year in which a Agronomy The greatest loss in cotton pro duction is from not having suffi cient plants per acre to make max imum efficient use of land, labor, fertilizer. To prevent this loss: 1. Thoroughly prepare seedbed. 2. Mix fertilizer thoroughly with soil two or three inches under seed. 3. Plant seed of known viability The Sex Question STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF STATEMENT OF CONDITlok OF In The Census In 1920 there were 104 men to every 100 women in the United THE FARMERS BANK located at McCormick, S. C., at the close of business March 27, 1930. THE PEOPLES BANK located at McCormick. S. C., at the close of business March 27, 1930. it wasn’t so simple for the Govern- fan ^ census was taken in the Unit ment officials to decide what ed States, there were 15,151 farms should be considered a farm by the ^ ^ ess than three acres. The to- suffic * en t to give uniform close enumerators during the census to tal number of farms in the nation s t and - be taken in April. Much study and was 6,371,640. I 4 - “ Run around” or “bar off” years of practical experience were The general definition of a farm with harrow or cultivator, not with necessary before the short, concise ' —“All the land which is directlv twister or Dixie Boy- definition was agreed upon. i farmed by one person either by 1 5 * Chop to leave two or three said - Even in the first ver y sim- Surplus Fund Dr. L. C.^Gray and Dr. O. E. his own labor alone or with the as- stalks every hoe width - : ple census taken in 1790 - when on- undivided Profits less ;ly four questions were on the cen- RESOURCES States. Whether this ratio has Loans and Discounts $207,445.92 risen or fallen will be one of the Overdrafts, j ,128.16 Overdrafts, most important facts to be determ- Bonds and Stocks Bonds and Stocks RESOURCES Loans and Discounts, --$209,403.92 9.43 Owned by Bank, 36,330.19 4,968.42 ined by the 1930 census according | Owned by Bank, 30,667.80 to Dr. Joseph A. Hill, Acting Di- Furniture and Fixtures- 1.500.00 Furniture and Fixtures, rector of the Census, who has Banking House, 4 000 00 Banking House, 7 93314 pointed out that the relative num- other Real Estate ’ ’ i Other Real Estate bei of males to females is one of i Owned, 31,738.58 Owned, 32 944.81 the most fundamental factors to be Cash on hand and due i Cash on hand and considered in any analysis of ,so- ! from Banks, 26.302.03 ! due from Banks, __ . Checks and I Checks and Cash Items, e sex question has aiways had j Cash Items, 885 96 Other Resources, Viz: an important place among the list of questions asked by the en 30,142.24 1,604.17 umerators at each decennial cen- TOTAL LIABILITIES $303,710.45 sus of the United States, Dr. Hill Capital Stock Paid in, __$ 40.000.00 i 10,000.00 i Overdrafts Secured by Cotton 5,919.49 Livestock Account __ 1,004.49 Baker, of the Department of Agri- sistance of members of his house- Horticulture Current Expenses Bureau is con- parisons, they must be based on ceroed. The question is not how the same definitions. When the much land does he own but how census records show that there were muzzle work animals and wrap | by the Census Bureau, much dees he operate or farm. A six million farms in the country ‘ :race ^ c h a i ns - man who owns 300 acres might at one time and five million at an- farm half of it himself and rent other, the meaning of the word the other half out to three tenants ■ “farm” must be the same for the €n cr °P s in °P en - 50 acres to each. This would go two periods if useful conclusions! Eovv onion seeds to grow sets, down on the census records as four ! are to be drawn, census officials ‘ Eow ^ oma ^° seed for mid-season TOTAL $330,315.30 I LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid in, __$ 42,600.00 4,481.45 Surplus Fund, 4,000.00 Undivided Profits, less NONE • Current Expenses and Taxes Paid, 10,957.54 Due to Banks and Bankers, 1,021.11 m ..... * a. . J . ^ ^ of Deposit, 91,937.44 Individual Deposits To avoid injuring fruit trees; .according to sex for the first time cashier’s Checks, 1 1,739.94: Subject to check, 137,194.01 culture, assisted Census officials hold or hired employees”—has 1 Plant tender vegetables; and j sus schedule, one of them concern- and Taxes Pa^d in deciding upon what should be remained practically the same since trans P lant tomato, eggplant, and ed the sex of the white persons Due to Banks and ‘ called a farm. 1870, the first year in which it was P e PP er in the coldframe and grad- | enumerated. The sex of negroes Bankers Bed sweet potatoes at once. Plant most warm weather gard- farms, because the laild farmed by each man is considered as a unit. On tiie other hand, one man might rent various tracts of land from 10 different owners. He might rent a few acres on shares, a few more from somebody else for money rent, and the rest from oth er people on different terms. The different pieces of land might be widely separated. If they were all farmed and managed by one man, however, they would all be put down together as one farm. If, however, a separate manager were hired to supervise a certain por tion of the land, that portion would go down as a separate farm. No tract of land of less than three acres will be registered as a farm unless It produced more than $250 worth of farm products last year. In the Cftftgus of 1920 if a piece of land (9f*les^j^an three acres was farmed by anfan who gave his entire time to the task, it r as a farm regardless of how little it produced, but this year none of these small tracts will be counted unless they produced $250 worth of products, regardless of how many people spent their full time cultivating the area. (It is estimated that approximately 5,000 tracts of less than three acres in the United States are farmed by individual: who give heir full time to the occupation.)- This change in the classification of farms is the only difference between the Census Bureau’s regulations for farm enumeration in 1930 from those of ten years ago. There is necessarily a border land between what is a farm and what is not. Small places on the edge of towns or villages are often the homes of city workers who undertake to keep a cow, some chickens, arid probably cut a little hay or raise a large garden or small crop. If the agricultural products , from such a place amounted to more than $250 dol lars in 1929, it will be returned as a farm, regardless of how much or how little time the city worker have pointed out. Lions Club Had Prominent Speakers At Dinner Recently and late crops. Sow celery seed early in April. Plant Diseases Delint cotton seed with sulphuric As far back as the records go, there have always been more males than females in the United Slates. In 1790, the sex ratio for the white population was 103.8 to 100. The early frontier clays of our history called for men more strongly than for women. The continued excess of males in the United States is accounted for Notes and Bills Re-d ^counted Bills Payable, including Certificates for Money Borrowed, Reserve Fund Carried on General, Indi vidual or Savings Ledger, acid or treat with organic mercury, j mainly by immigration, since males Remove from tobacco beds plants immigrate in larger numbers than The McCormick Lions Club had as guests at its dinner Tuesday evening all local merchants, a number of local business men and as special honor guests W. G. Query, chairman of the state tax commission, J. Fraser Lyon, gener al counsel for the tax commission, and state senator Frank C. Robin son, recently appointed to the tax commission, and “Slim” Ormsby. director of International Lions Clubs and recent benedict. The body was addressed by each of the honor guests. W. G. Query, chairman of the tax commission, spoke of taxes in general and dwelt on the “nuis ance tax.” It is necessary at every session of the legislature to raise money to meet the appropriation bill, he stated, and that these nuis ance taxes had prevented an extra property tax; he estimated that 1,500,000 people in South Carolina paid these nuisance taxes, some of whom wcruld not contribute to the upkeep of the government other wise. Mr. Query stated that 55 per cent of all taxes go for edu cation, the schools costing just twice as much today as ten years ago. The business of the tax com mission is to enforce the laws pass ed by the general assembly and see that a positive and fair collection is made, Mr. Query stated. “Slim” Ormsby talked of the ad vantages of lionnism, which really is a group of business men banded together for the good of the town, he said. He stated that the Lions Club is the second largest service club in the world. “It isn’t the size of the club, but the spirit of the dub that counts,” he said. J. Fraser Lyon commented on with leaf spot diseases or mosaic. Spray potatoes with Bordeaux for early blight when first leaf spots appear. Carefully select clean sweet po tatoes and treat before bedding. Treat melon seed with corrosive sublimate to reduce anthracnose. Dust roses with sulphur for mil dew. . „ Entomology Begin spraying peaches to con trol curculio and apples for cod ling moth. Spray or dust with nicotine sul phate to destroy plant lice. females. This explains the fact that the excess of males reached its maximum in 1910. at the end of a decade of the heaviest immi gration this country had ever known. The sex ratio then went to ; 106 to 100. In 1920 it had dropped to 104 to 100, due largely to the restricted immigration during the war, and to the number of Ameri can men who remained in Fland ers Fields. In the European countries from which our immigrants came there is. as one would expect, a defici ency of males. The present defi- Protect tobacco beds from flea ciency in European countries, how- beetles by dusting with one part {ever, is not solely the result of im- Paris green and five parts of arse- j migration. It reflects also the de- nate of lead. \ pletion of males through the World TOTAL $303,718.45 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Before me came F. C. Robinson, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing state ment is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. F. C. ROBINSON. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of April, 1930. P. J. ROBINSON, Notary Public for S. C. Correct Attest: W. M. STROM. J. B. HARMON, J. C. BROWN. DIRECTORS. Savings Deposits, 23.934.61 NONE Time Certificates of Deposit, 87,541.88 Cashier’s Checks, 568.15 NONE Notes and Bills Re-discounted, NONE Bills Payable, including Certificates for Money Borrowed, 22,500.00 Reserve Fund Carried on General, Indi vidual or Sav ings Ledger, NONE NONE the service rendered by Mr. Query, gave to his farming pursuits, and stating that there is no more regardless of how small the tract of land tended. Indeed, if a man living on Fifth Avenue of New York City raised more than $250 worth of strawberries or aspara gus on a lot 50 by 100 feet, his place would be returned as a farm. The value of the agricultural pro ducts is the criterion. On the other hand, a large coun faithful public servant in South Carolina and that the state is ex tremely fortunate in having such a man for this job. “Taxation is just a crude, arbitrary method of raising funds to defray the ex penses of government,” Mr. Lyon stated. “Logic and taxation are not the best of friends,” he added. Mr. Lyon congratulated McCor- try place of 10, 15, or 20 acres may . mick on having furnished one of War, in which eight million or more soldiers were killed or fatal ly wounded. As a consequence the number of males per 100 females fell off from 93.7 to 91.2 in Eng land, from 97.4 to 91.0 in Germany, and from 96.6 to 90.6 in France. Within the United States the sex ratio shows a wide range of varia tion in different sections and lo calities. It is high on the Pacific Coast, where there are, or were in 1920, 114 males to 100 females. In New England, on the other hand, there is a slight deficiency of males—98-5 males to 100 females. The variations are doubtless large ly accounted for by the migration of people from one part of the country to another. In the west ward migration that has long been going on within the United States, as well as in the immigration from Europe, there is a majority of males. The state having the largest ex cess of males in 1920 was Nevada, “College Love’' Coming Soon ZIPPY COLLEGIATE FEATURE STARS GEORGE LEWIS TOTAL $330,315.30 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Before me came P. G. Fooshe, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. P. G. FOOSHE. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of April, 1930. ' ROBT. L. DENDY, • Notary Public for S. C. Correct Attest: J. J. DORN, J. T. FOOSHE, P. G. FOOSHE. DIRECTORS. Urges Census Taken Of Alien Population WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.— A fast moving comedy drama of j The immediate passage of a reso- college life is heralded for showing i lution, providing for a census of at the Dixie Theatre beginning ! all aliens and the immediate de- To avoid bud worm injury plant corn in Coastal Plains, May 1-10; Pee Dee, May 10-29; Piedmont, May 20-30. Dust for Mexican bean beetle with magnesium arsenate. Agricultural Engineering Purchase a two-horse cultivator now and use it all the season. Equip cultivators with fertilizers for use before planting and also for side-dressing as you cultivate . See that planting and fertilizing machinery are adjusted so that fer tilizer is properly distributed and seed planted to insure good stand. Investigate the duplex hopper obtainable for some planters to en able you to plant corn and bgans at the same time. Animal Husbandry Feed sows suckling pigs a full, balanced grain ration, and allow suckling pigs grain in a creep. Market unproductive sows, or, if thin, feed 30 days and market. Plant enough soybeans to graze hogs during summer. Shear sheep after the last cold snap, and dip the flock for ticks and lice. Feed lambs grain in a creep. Don’t turn young calves on pas- | ferent cities. ^ ture where sheep with stomach | that had a population of over 1 ^ ire ' Great care has been exer- mg a census of them. Under its worms have been running. j 100,000 in 1920, the excess of males cisad preserve the continuity of provisions we will find out who Plant enough feed crops to run was greatest in Akron. Ohio, 140 ac ^ on in game and to follow they are, where they live, how they Friday and Saturday when “Col lege Love,” a feature picture made by the same cast as Universal’s popular “Collegian” short comedies will be the principal attraction. “College Love” may be consider ed the graduating opus of this popular group of screen players. It is the last college picture in which they will be seen together. Featur ing George Lewis with such ster ling support as Dorothy Gulliver, Eddie Phillips, Churchill Ross, Hayden Stevenson and Summer Getchell, the photoplay was direct ed by Nat Ross under the super vision of Carl Laemmle, Jr., from 148 males to 100 females, Wyoming a stor y b y Leonard Fields. ranking next with a ratio of 131 to 100. There is a wide range of varia tion also in the sex ratio for dif oortation of those in this country illegally, was urged by Senator J. Thomas Heflin, of Alamaba. in the Senate recently. In speaking of this resolution (S J. Res. 153) the Senator said: “Seven million aliens inhabit our land. It is claimed that more than half of them are here in violation of our immigration laws. They are stealing into positions that belong to American citizens. They work for half price and get jobs that were formerly filled by patriotic American citizens. They consti tute the main trouble in the prob lem of the ‘unemployed.’ They are stealing the birthright of hundreds of thousands of American citizens who are driven out of employment The high-light of the picture is a stirring championship . football game and it is a matter of record j by these swarms of aliens who in- that this football game is the best fest tha land. Taking the cities ever screened for a moving pic- j “My resolution provides for tak- livestock next year. Dairying not necessarily qualify as a farm. Actual farming or agricultural op erations must be carried out before her favorite sons, Frank C .Robin son, recently appointed a member of the tax commission. McCor- any tract of land will be classed in mick county is bound to come back this category. A large country es- males to 100 females; while thei^ 116 var * ous P la ys through so that j came here, when they came, and most marked deficiency of males! ^ beatre audience can follow. where they came from. This will Plan for enough corn to make was in Washington, D. C., where j the k aI1 and get tlle maximum j enable us to know how many of three tons of silage per cow next j there were only 87 males to 100 of sus P ensc from the game. This part! them came here under the immi- winter. the opposite sex. The proportion ! of the P icture made in the j gration law and how many came Save enough good land to grow a of males in the population of any j f am ous California stadium where here in violation of it. The resolu- ton and a half of cowpea or soy- ! community is affected in some de- big East-West game is plajred. j tion provides that the latter class bean hay per cow. gree by the nature of the principal and tbe color and excitement shall be deported to the countries Keep cows off pasture until grass is two, three inches high. community is affected in some de gree by the nature of the principal industries. It is noteworthy that in Detroit the number of males per Continue grain after cows are! 100 females increased from 107 in tale of a retired capitalist is lot believes. in an agricultural way, Mr. Lyon ! on pasture to prevent drop in milk 1910 to 119 in 1920. This no doubt flow. reflects the increasing employment of the vast arena and its thous- | from which they came. The pass- ands of football fans have been age of my resolution would be a captured in celluloid. i body blow to racketeering and to Other phases of college life al- . communism and to unemploy- so are shown in faithful produc- : mentism that now so sorely afflict a farm if all the work done around Frank C. Robinson, who is also a ! Have roofs over salt boxes and of men in the manufacture of au- i ^ on > campus antics, fraternity j our country. I hope to get favor- the piace consists in mowing the local Lion, stated that he was keep salt in them. j tomobiles. j and sorority house festivities and able action upon the joint resolu- lawns and clipping the hedges. If glad to be present on this occasion Remove all manure and rubbish! It is of interest to inquire what!^ be f ev(? rish enthusiasm of a big- jt.ion which I have just introduc- the eslafe is of more than three and was very grateful for the from lots and premises. j the ratio of males to females is or same rally and torch-light parade.. acrcc, however, a very small many “bouquets” handed him. amount of agricultural products Lion, the Rev. Leon T. Pressly, Poultry .'would be if not affected by immi-: * pbrou £' b ^ ad runs a delightful Maintain sanitary conditions in gration. It is a statistically estab- i * ove s t° r y and the rivalry of two X ,, . ^ - - - - , , c . ,. , The season of the year is near co’ud give it the rank of a farm, extended cordial greetings to all brooding and avoid carrying dis- : lished fact that the number of P°P u lar campus figures over the ■ , v > 1?n the broomstick will be regardless of whether the products visitors. He stated that the pur- 1 eases and parasites from old birds male births is slightly greater than | bear ^ °f a campus sweetheart. , :r j.vbticr than the lip stick. amounted to $250 or not. In such a pose of the Lions Club, as he sees ■ to chicks. jthe number of female. But for some . Special matinee Saturday, 3:20: I ^ ca:c as this, it would be up to the it, is to help make us more useful, Separate cockerels and pullets at j reason, which biologists apparently i 3:15. judgment of the census enumerator citizens; “the club stands for the j 10 to 12 weeks of age. Fatten and . have not yet fathomed, the female to decided whether agricultural op erations were being carried out. Farm land is considered “operat ed” not only when cultivated crops are raised on it, but also when it is used to any significant extent infant is more tenacious of life than her baby brother, who conse- census as to the number of males and females in the population is The safe thing about being the weather man is that you always have another guess coming. for pasture or for cutting hay. ; some boys is when the house next A number of agricultural pur- to the school building is destroyed suits not usually considered by the by fire. uplift of mankind,” he stated. isell surplus cockerels as broilers. Appropriate music was furnished , Select vigorous cockerels of de- by Miss Elizabeth Dillard. Charles | sirable type and color for next Acker and Emory Bentley. 1 year’s breeders. 1X1 j Sell weak, slow feathcri i^ pulled at the outset. By the time the ris- | tion of mortality rates, and in j again, it appears as if the jig is up. The greatest disappointment to as broilers. Keep culling through ing generation reaches maturity j studying the incidence of disease. 1 x . tXt quently does not maintain the! indispensable in the calculation j in spite of the effort to bring numerical superiority which he had 1 of life tables, in the determine.- the old fashioned dances back che season. the two sexes are very nearly equal Plan for next year’s supply of in numbers, feed for the flock. I Infcrmaion obtained through the It is knowledge that is needed in. Laughing may make one fat, business, in lep.»c-!ation. and in erh- j but being fat next July or August 1 won’t be a laughing matter. or ccr.nec nens.