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« Thursday, May 15, 1930 McCOKMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, SoutH Caronn*. Page Number Foul quite generally affected by lack of 6-0-1 School Fund rainfall during April. Crop Report As Of May 1’ The supply of farm labor in the •/ State is reported as 13 per cent • above the demand, compared with COLUMBIA, S. C., May 30.— 2 per cent a year ago. Dry weather during the latter FRANK O. BLACK, part of April retarded germina- Agricultural Statistician, tion of seed, but recent rams have H. L. RASOR, improved the crop situation wmch I Junior Agricultural Statistician. may now be described as generally tst satisfactory. ^ j wr i 17' at schools under the 6-0-1 law, ap- The condition of winter wheat (jrcirClCll Work r Of JVIcty proximating $1,800,000 was on May 1, was reported as 71 per Time For Sowing Distributed Counties! Beans And Grasses Is Rapidly Passing McCORMICK COUNTY, NEAR BOTTOM OF LIST, GETS $9,363 COLUMBIA, May 13.—Aportion- ment of the second payment to COUNTY AGENT URGES FARM ERS TO PLACE ORDERS NOW FOR SEED AND PLANT SOON cent of normal, which compares with 78 per cent last year ana a 10-year average condition of 79 per cent, on uac'esamaoj of io,- Garden work for this month will consist of making successive plant- The time for sowing velvet beans, an- soy beans, sorghum, Sudan grass inounced yesterday by J. H. Hope, an d other feed crops is rapidly state superintendent of education, passing, says Thos. W. Morgan, The money will become available county agent, who urges all farm ers to place their orders for these gat The great- This Week h Arthur Briseans A Billion Dollar Target Chicago's Big Gain Successful Miss Hollins Mr. Wells’ Chimpanzee >9 Tuesday and the warrants to th; them in the ground. — __ ^? rou ^ 1 * county treasurers will go forward see d as soon as possible and U60 acres remaining for harvest culti ^ atlon ’ and fighting insects and diseases. |. Greenvi j le with $159,903 and est drawback to the production of , _ , 1 , m * , ... Spartan^rg with $137,542, lead s °y bean and velvet bean hay in 1. Do not cultivate this year the concnticn of 71 per cent indicares a crop ci about 515,000 bushels. ' This compares with the final estimate of 763,000 bushels produced las*; year and a 5-year average production of 723,- 000 bushels. The smaller crop this year is cue mostly to a reduc- lien in acreage wliich is only about ure the bed after you stop cutting STOLEN — One Female Hound Bitch, whitish color with liver colored spots, 3 years old and an swers to name of Queen; missing from home since Sunday, May 11, On the ferry from Jersey City to Liberal reward for recovery’. Liberty street one morning recently B. N. Chamberlain, McCormick, S. j you saw flocks of airplanes above the C. money district reaching from the Last | ' - - *l. - _ to the North rivers and from the Bat- FOR SER vi C E-Young Jack' fee tery to Canal street. ; « 5 . " Lazily floating in the air above the ^ 0.00. Raymond Clinkscales, water were two big blimps and the Willington, S. C. Itpo. navy’s giant Los Angeles. i SUMMER SCHOOL—Session June 17th-July 25th 1930. Great Var- beans while the foliage is wet. 2. Deeply planted tomato plants will stand drouth better. 3. Young asparagus must not be cut too closely. Fertilize and man- 72 per cent of the acreage harvest- 4. Where the strawberry crop is the list of counties in the appor- McCormick county is the lateness ' tionment, based on enrollment of sowing. If these crops are ‘ average attendance and number of sown early the chances are that teachers. they will receive plenty of rainfall 1 Richland county is far down the rnake a good crop. However, if 'list with only $35,223 as its share the seeding is delayed until late in while Beaufort, with less than a season, as is the case with half dozen schools receiving the stubble land, the mid-summer Later you learned that New York was bombed, skyscrapers and banks destroyed by 140 military planes, and. le ty College Credit Courses offered most interesting, the navy’s great fleet —expenses very moderate. For fur- parading below had been sent to the ther information address James P. bottom of the water. Kinard, President, Winthrop Col- That was theoretical. But if it laid j ege> Rock HiU) s >c been real war there would have been ■ no theory; instead, a great city and fleet wiped out. If 110 planes, one dirigible and two LOST—Ladies wrist watch, Chamberlain’s Ferry, May ed last year. Excessive rains last 0 ’ ren ^ e . e mu ° 1 an .,, CU . 1- aid, tails the county list with $4,224. drought very often cuts the crop fall in the Piedmont, where most _ Tne J 1 ™ 1 runners wn give Next above Beaufort is Charleston of ha y more than half. For this of the wheat is grown, interfered J e ,^ s a f , s 1 ronge ® an S * " with $5,712 and then come Allen- reason, many farmers have seeded low these to take root if you need .. . .’ _ ,. .. , dale with $7,092; Jasper with $9,- s °y beans and been dissatisfied and .with the results. seriously with sowing operations and the farmers were unable to m ? ie _ p an ,f, seed the usual acreage. A United States winter wheat crop of 525,070,000 bushels is in- K Ur, 025 » McCormick with $9,363; g ’ Calhoun with $9,830/ All other I. For best results for hay sow one taken not to break the roots of shallow rooted vegetables. Culti- counties are above the $10,000 bushel 90 Day Runner Velvet mark. i beans and one peck to one-half — - weeds in check and to loosen the t The payments are on the second .'bushel Orange cane seed per acre, 78.7 per cent of normal. The pro- j^^ ^ when jt becomes com . three months period of the school or, drill O-Too-Tan soy beans in dicated by the May 1, condition of vatl ° n * necessary for keeping duction last year was 578,336,000 bushels, and the 5-year average production 550,636,000 bushels. The pact. , Make successive plantings of: Com — Stowell’s Evergreen, year, which the state guarantees 18 to 24 i nc b rows. For fall and to be at least six months. The winter forage on land that will first three month period brought 1 stand grazing, plant 90 Day Run- acreage of winter wheat remaining ""7™ ° the counties approximately $150,000 , ner Velvet Beans in the row with for harvest on May 1 is estimated'^ J U less than the total being paid this the cor n, in every row on poor to be 38,676,000 acres, as compared j Ba 4 ltam - with 40,162,000 acres harvested ini, “® an ^ 'Snap. ful, Late Refugee and 1929 and a 5-year average of 35,- 585,000 acres. The abandonment of acreage to May 1 is reported at 11.0 per cent of the 43,434,000 acres sown in the fall of 1929 for har vest-in 1930. The acreage of rye for harvest is about the same as last year, but the condition of 72 per cent indi cates a crop of 77,000 bushels, com pared with the estimate of 88,000 bushels harvested last year. ’ In the United States the outlook bunch) —Bounti- Stringless Green Pod. ' Beans (Pole)—Kentucky Wonder and McCaslan. Make plantings of seed for later transplanting for the fall crop: week. | land, and in every other row on The second payment of the 6-0-1 S° od land. as funds will go to the counties follows: Abbeville $ 27.131 Aiken Allendale Sow Sudan grass at the rate of 25 pounds per acre and harrow lightly, or drill in 18 inch rows. 46,299 Plant a patch of sorghum alone in 7,092 24 i nc b rows for summer feed, and blimps could work such havoc, whut R ewarc j jf returned to Neil Steifle, could a real fighting air fleet do, such Bradley S C as the French fleet, for instance, with ’ 5,000 airships? FOR SALE—Cook Stoves, cash or credit, and new sewing ma chines, cash or credit. Buying J. B. Black well’s Store, McCormick, S. C. ‘•Nearly complete’’ census figures give Chicago more than 3,350,000 inhahitcint^. chickens and esrers That is a gain of 648,000 since the _ CKens eggs. last census and almost 13,000 more than Chicago’s Association of Com- | merce expected. FOR SALE—Few fresh Milch Cows. , \ “ i, o.*,- I Buying all kinds of cows and And Chicago hasn t shown any- » T , , thins yet.” Wait until 5.000 sea-1 Veal Calves - Few cars cord wood planes ' wming trom Europe on one wanted. J. B. Blackwell’s Store, side, Asia on the other, drop daily on McCormick, S. C. the smooth waters of Lake Michigan. I *' That is coming, and then Chicago will have a real population, spreading to Milwaukee on one side, Gary on the other. ~ ~ ^ • 'Anderson 96 240 to cut and shock for the cows in Collard -Georgia or Georgia I8.55lthe winter. Southern is a good variety, ounce of seed gives about One Bambe ^ 1,500 plants. Sow in late May or Early June for fall crop. Cabbage—Succession and Late Flat Dutch are good varieties. One I erkeley 27,128 Barnwell 18,493 j Beaufort 4,224 Calhoun 9,830 ! mick almost every hour of Charleston 5,712 da y* Grow your feed at home and stop the endless caravan of hay- loaded wagons that leave McCor- the * ac oo4 nnn v. v. i 41 .ounce of seed gives about 1,500 is for 46,831,000 bushels of rye,' , . „ Z . * . ’ ’ plants. Sow seed now for fall and June, and early July for winter. compared with 40,629,000 bushels prouuced last year and the prev ious 5-year average of 50,851,000 bushels. There is an increase of 9.2 per cent in acreage this year, but previous to the^up-tum this sea son the acreage of rye has declined steadily since 1922. The condition of oats is report ed as 70 per cent, compared with 83 per cent last year and 63 per cent in 1928. Correspondents esti mate that 67 per cent of the acre- Tomatoes — Greater Baltimore and M'-^lobe for wilt resistance. Darlington Dorchester One ounce of seed gives about 1,500 to 2,000 plants. Sow seed in May for transplanting in July. Celery—Giant Pascal and Gold en Self Blanching, frame, transplant to partially shaded frames, spacing the seed lings 2 inches apart. Transplant Cherokee 31,632 Chesterfield 21,304 Clarendon 26,538 Colleton 38,437 - 36,723 16,653 Dillon 27,733 Edgefield 20,014 Fairfield 11,515 Sow seed in FI °rence — 93,886 Georgetown 17,561 Greenwood 28,536 Greenville ; 159,903 -txt- to field August 1st. Be careful Hampton 12,486 not to cover seed too deeply. Press Horry 91,920 age was sown last fall and 33 per small se ed into soil after having Jas P er 9 > 025 or Kershaw 29,410 very fine soil. .Lancaster 41,602 Insects and their control. . * j * « Lee 18,007 . postmarked at Seneca, and warn- cent uus spring. Ordinarily about! covered with sifted leaf mold three-fourths of the South Caro lina oats acreage is fall-sown. The May 1 condition of the oats ANDERSON, MAY 9.—The life of Solicitor Leon W. Harris of the tenth judicial circuit, was threat ened in an anoymous letter he re- Laurens 40,865 ! ceived here tonight. The letter was Oconee Mob Prose cutor Threatened By Unknown SOLICITOR LEON W. HARRIS WARNED TO “LIE LOW” OR SUFFER GREATER INJURY THAN SHERIFF THOMAS Pope Pius, who. has installed a broadcasting station in the Vatican, will, according to an Associated Press dispatch,'initiate the use of the station with a personal address senit to the faithful everywhere. That scientific miracle would have amazed the ancient popes. TAKEN UP—One hog, which owner can get by describing an^ pay ing costs. J. W. Marshall, McCor mick, S. C. Charles M. Schwab, in pleasant op timism, says 1930 will be a year of normal progress. “Business is better today than it was six or nine months ago,” says lie. A million women, burning with the FOR SALE—High grade Cabbage and Potato plants. H. R. Dea- son, McCormick, S. C. COTTON SEED—500 bushels good sound planting seed $1.00 . per bushel here. R. W. Cowan, Will ington, S. C. tf CATTLE—Am paying highest mar ket price for beef cattle and hogs. See me before selling. A. crop in the South is reported at lowish in color, 16 black spots on Lexington 66,549 . ed the solicitor to he low re- 62 per cent of normal, which com- back, feeds on bean leaves, con-j McCormick 9,363 .garding theprosecutionofmem- pares with the 5-year average con- trol—Spray using magnesium a r- Marlboro — 20,730 , bers of a mob which ^lynched Allen dition of 74 per cent on May l.and senate 3 teaspoonfuls In gallon of . Marlon 71,246 , Gree » e - “ear Walhalla, in Oconee is the lowest May figure since 1925. water; or. dust using magnesium Orangeburg 57 >13 9 county after overpowering Sheriff Conditions were lowest, in the arsenate one part and hydrated pickens 65,887 ( John Thomas and fracturing his South Central States where they lime 3 parts, averaged below 60 per cent, being above 70 in the South _ Atlantic group. The extreme dryness this spring over most of the South is cabbage, turnips, etc Richland . 35,223 sku11 - Seneca is in Oconee county HariequhT’ Bug—Black and yel-' Saluda - - 30,414 W is 26 miles northwest of An- low bug, often called “calico” or Spartanburg 137,542 “tarrapin” bug; feeds on collard, Sumter 30,6861 Solicitor Harris was told m the Union 31,275 tetter, which was prmted with a Control- mainly responsible for the low con- No spray is effective. Control by dition of the growing crop. Owing picking off insects and destroy, to ’tne severity of the winter tern- , Colorado Potato Beetle—Black peratures, there was considerable and orange striped beetle on pota- loss in acreage of fall-sown oats to leaves. Control—spray using which this year amounts to 31 per calcium arsenate 3 teaspoonfuls in cent of the total oats for harvest gallon of water or dust, using cal- in the South. Last year 43 per ceht cium arsenate 1 part and hydrated were fall-sown. Ordinarily, from lime 4 parts. ' or Williamsburg 33,969 Pencil, that he would “fare worse” York 50,488 than did Sheriff Thomas if he con- gyg tinued his activities against those involved in the Walhalla lynching. After The Pig g j Solicitor Harris tonight declar ed ed that the “vigorous and relent- Are W6R116Q tess prosecution of all those sus- _______ pected of having taken part in the Oconee mob” will go forward un- After the pigs have been weaned interrupted at the special term of haif to two-thirds of the oats crop Flea Beetles—Black or striped the sows should be placed on pas- , „ . . .. _ in the South Atlantic and Gulf jumping beetles 1-16 inch long on‘tore and given a small quantity of 2, 0U J^ ^ e • 01 f ^ U -^ e Coast States is fall-sown. cabbage, turnips, potatoes, toma- grain. Sows two years old and .?* C * Dennis of Darlington presid- Peaches are reported at 60 per toes, etc. Control—spray using over which have weaned spring Z 11 ®* cent of a full crop, which compares Bordeaux mixture, add 6 teaspoon- litters and which are not bred for 1 wil1 need no warnmg or be with 69 per cent last year and 82 tote lead arsenate to each gallon or f a n farrowing may be carried suc- per cent in 1928. • 2 lbs. to 50 gallons. cessfully on good alfalfa or clov- TJie condition of peaches in 10 Btekle Worn—In cantaloupes and e r pasture without grain for two control. Yours very truly, A. E. SCHILLETTER, Extension Horticulturist. given a libera! grain ration. The thin sows will generally gain rap idly enough to be taken out in a month. It is well to feed the gilts some grain during the whole period between th3 weaning of Southern States was reported on cucumbers - Control—^Details of 0 r three months. Very thin sows May 1 at 44.5 per cent, as compar- contr ol too lengthy for this sheet an d gilts weaning their first lit- ed to 67.4 per cent last year and — wl4 to Entomology Division, Clem- ters should be separated from th ? 73.8 per cent two years ago. The son CaBege, S. .C., for methods of others, placed on good pasture, and . present condition indicates a crop of about 11,700,000 bushels, which would be about equal to the short crop produced in 1929 and about 35 per cent smaller than the 5-year aveiage production. Of the more 0ne of the most recent develop . important States, Arkansas was the ments ln operative organization thelr fu ‘ St tW ° h ^ lS - most seriously damaged during the among farmers ^ the co-operative past winter and very little commer- buylllg of gasoli k e rose ne, and cial production is now anticipated lubricating oils. Members of co- in that State. operative oil associations in Min- — Early Irish Potatoes in 10 South- nesota in 1927, according to a study Dear Mr. Editor: ern States had a condition of 74 made by the U. S. Bureau of Agri- We wish to thank the many friends in county affairs. per cent on May 1, declining slight- cultural Economics, were saved an and visitors for thetr kindness X — ly as a result of exceptionally dry average of 1.69 cents on a gallon shown us during the illness and at Some things that really come weather. The commercial early of gasoline or quart of oil. These the death of our father and hus- with waiting are hunger, bill col- crop which includes about one- associations are usually organized band and for the beautiful floral lectors and whiskers. third of the total early potato as community or county organiza- offerings. tXt acreage in tnese States shows a tions. They sell at prevailing j ‘ Mary E. Galloway, wife. The main objections to most trhle better condition than the prices and prorate the savings to j Pearl Galloway, daughter. spring poetry is just that. It isn’t general farm crop, but has been the members. ] Janie Mae Galloway, daughter poetry. Card Of Thanks swayed by any threats or intimida tion that runs contrary to my duty,” the solicitor added. He de clared that the case of the state against the alleged mob members “is shaping up nicely” and that every effort will be made by his office to bring those who are be lieved guilty to trial. Solicitor Harris, during his term of office, has handled several im portant cases, including one of un usual significance in Oconee coun ty in which an investigation he conducted of county affairs result ed in the arrest and subsequent conviction of the treasurer, ex clerk of court, a magistrate and an auditor, who were charged with attempting to cover up shortages K iueu. "U •u.i n h. Faulkner. McCormick, S. C. desire to he “independent," although j ■ nobody is independent, will ho inter ested in Miss Marion Hoi!ins. Years ago she was champion female golfer. Now she takes her place in big busi ness as an able “oil woman.” Sii« made up her mind that if men couh. do it she could, went into oil financ ing, and a recent sale netted* hep $2,500,000. Did you read II. G. Wells’ interest ing statement about the higher apes? They can “think ahead” a little. No other animal except man, not oven monkeys with tails, can do.it. Without being taught, a chimpanzee will take one stick, insert ft in the hollow of another stick, and, with the added length of stick, draw a banana into his cage. Since the beginning of time no oth er animal but man could think as much as that. LOCAL MARKET Consider ,what man does now, weigh ing the stars, measuring the electrons inside of an atom, and only 12,000 years ago he was using sharp flints for weapons, not far ahead, mentally, of the .chimpanzee. What will lie do 10,000,000 years hence? News from Burma tells of many deaths by earthquake and tidal wave. Ancient pagodas were rocked to de struction. From the top of one, the Shwc-Dagon pagoda, there fell a huge weather vane of solid gold said to be worth $1,200,000. Many devout Burma ns doubtless asked themselves what particular god had become annoyed, just what had a nr:* yeti him and how be could be placated. COTTON— Strict Low ‘15 Middling 16 Strict Middling 16 1-2 Good Middling * 17 Cotton Seed Bushel 40 cts. Breakfast Baecn per lb. __ 35 to 50 Eggs per dozen 25 cts. Bacon per lb. 12 1-2 to 22 cts. Flour per sack $1.00 to $1.40 Flour per barrel $8.50 to $11.00 Butter per lb. 50 cts. Green Coffee, per lb. __ 20 to 60 cts Roasted Coffee, per lb. 20 to 55 cts. Rice, per lb. 7 to 10 cts. Grist, per lb. 4cts. VIclasses per gal. 50 to $1.00 Corn per bu. $1.25 Fine Feed, 75 lbs. $1.85 Oats per bu. 80 cts. Wheat per bu. $1.60 cheese per lb. 25 to 35 cts. ^ 6 6 Tablets Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 666 also in Liquid This country’s workers and indus trialists need protection, and should have it. Our people come first, other people second. But intelligence should control eveA 'appears In Case Of Tornado If a tornado is threatening, the '^t thing to do is to move as rap idly as possible at right angles to the direction in which the storm to be moving, says the the tariff. It is possible to overdo j Weather Bureau of the U. S. De- the business of discouraging friendly partment of Agriculture. In an automobile it is easy to run away nations with whom w*e deal. from the storm, as its velocity of President Musy of the Swiss repub- i travel usual i y is only 25 to 30 lie wires President Hoover: “I am * compelled to call attention to the fact mi te s P er hour, that your watch and lace duties will, proach of the strom may be no- eventually, paralyze our industries.” ticed at some distance. Refuge to The Swiss National Chamber of'the north of the tornado’s track is Commerce recommends the boycott of usually safer than at the same American goods, especially autos. mt tQ the south> If quick e s- That suggestion meaift little to us. . . ... . ir . fr . „ tnr _ But we should take seriously the dan- ca P e 18 impossible g ger of hopelessly discouraging Swiss nado cellar, or into the cellar of a industries, offending and injuring the frame house. The safest spot in good people of Switzerland. the cellar is usually close to the iwall on the side from which the She lives apart and few will know strom is approaching. This is when her career ends. : , „ ,, ,, But Cancniaise, Jersey cow of Mount most freflUCntly the southwe S t c01 - Kisco, New York, is a champion fe- i ner * H the house moves or breaks male worthy of honor. j apart, the debris is likely to fall Last year she produced 1,072.7 clear of this corner. If there is pounds ot butterfat, and 18,822 pounds no protection below ground level, of nuHe. pick out some depressed location Such cows could help to solve the j 4-^ faym problem. They are, in their way, anc * * ie ^ a ^* ^ ace down, g as remarkable as machinery: lo mass anything handy- Tornadoes production factories. most likely to occur in May and (©, t>r Kmg PwtTeca Sjadicate, inc.) June, says the Weather Bureau.