Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday, September 4, 1930 McCORMIGK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina. Pap;$ Number $eve< r Nine*Tenths Preventable Nine-tenths of all the diseases of the American people can bo traced directly, to constipation, doctors say. Constipa tion throws into the system poisons which taint and weaken every organ of the body and make them easy victims for any germs which attack them. Prevent constipation and you will avoid nine-tenths of all diseases;] with their consequent pain and fi nancial losses. Herbine, the good old vegetable cathartic, will prevent con stipation in a natural, easy ana pleasant way. Get a bottlo today from. STKOMS ; PRUG STORE Egg Money CLEMSON COLLEGE Aug. 23.— Seventy-five, poultrymen reported in July on their flocks which pro duced 50 cents worth of products per hen at a cost of 33 cents worth of feed each, leaving, a net pro fit of 17 cents per bird for the month. The average egg produc tion for these hens was 11.7 eggs each. This isn’t so bad, especially when one remembers that July is a month of low egg production and also low prices."" Mrs. Herbert L. Till of Orange burg had the best backyard flock, which averaged 23.4 eggs per- hen. Mrs. Carrie Bragdon of Manning had the best farm flock, which produced 21.4 eggs per hen. M. B. Henderson of Owings had the best commercial flock, which produced 19.5 eggs per hen. Among the calendar flock record keepers Mrs. O. G. Dorn of Oswego had the best backyard flock. Her birds averaged 20.8 eggs each dur ing the month. Misses L. and M. TheUkuhl of Walhalla had the best farm flock, which produced 18.7 eggs per bird. X College graduates seeking a job are now finding out that most of the big companies have presidents and general managers. txt Perhaps the rush to summer lake resorts is prompted by many who want to see something that never goes dry. txt A pig stunted by early weaning will never make so profitable a hog as it would without this setback. A good brood sow properly fed and handled should furnish a good flow of milk until the pigs are 10 to 12 weeks old. A sow that can not do this should be discarded from the herd. FORD BATTERIES S7.95 WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE 622 BROAD PHONE 1166 AUGUSTA, GA. Beavers Are Workers Com Borer Control The important thing to remem ber in corn-borer clean-up vo’k is ithat all com remnants must be dis- j posed of sometime before the borer ! changes to the moth, or flying, j stage. In fields that are not plow ed or otherwise handled in the | raring, all coni debris should be i disposed of in the fall. If the corn , ___ !is cut, it should be cut as iow and Beavers are good woodsmen. In as early as possible. ow-cu mg one cagc afe j cnown have | attachments for corn bin ers may cut through a balsam poplar 46 be bought. If infested corns a s inc h es across the stump. a re- are fed to stock witnou previous mar i 5:a i)i e p ar t of the work of beav- cutting or shredding, t e ^ nea en ers j S the carrying they do, says portions should be destroyed unless the u g Biological survey. On trampled deeply into the manure. 2 arjd they will drag heavy poles Breaking or cutting ofx s an mg or goQd-gized branches, holding cornstalks at ground level, fo ow- them with their strong incisor ed by thorough raking into p es, teeth. To carry stones they use A boar used as a sire should mot be discarded until the growing and feeding qualities of his progeny are determined by a- test in the feed lot. Sires of superior quality are none too numerous and many *a valuable sire that should have been retained in the herd has been sent bo the block. With the rapid expansion of the »ybean industry poultrymen have ivailable a new poultry feed that ;ould well be used more than it is, says the U. S. Department of Agri culture. In the Pacific Coast States poultrymen have used soy bean meal for several years and consider it an excellent feed for riesh and egg production. A min eral mixture increases the value of soybean meal as a protein supple- nent. -txt- Many grain growers fail to re vive top prices • for their wheat md other grains because the grains are damp when they arrive it the terminal market, says the J. S. Department of Agriculture. Vhen the weather has made it iccessary to store damp grain on he farm, it can be dried to a con- iderable extent by frequently ransferring it from one bin to an- >ther during dry weather. If grain ontains only a slight amount of noisture, it can be dried in the >ins by means of ventilators, if hey are open at each end to the lutside air and spaced fairly close ogether in the grain. txt Sheep seldom make profitable ise of grain when good grazing is .vailable. One hundred pounds of ;rain in a year for one ewe and ter lambs is usually the maximum hat can be fed profitably. Under ome conditions, flocks keep in ood condition and lambs may be larketed without any grain. txt For higher yields and longer-liv- d stands, cut alfalfa for hay when be plants are well in bloom, says be U. S. Department of Agricul- ure. Cutting at an earlier stage f growth results in hay with high- r protein content, but cutting earer full bloom keeps the stand i better condition. . * * and burning, will destroy the borer. Plowing under also is effective, ! provided all debris is turned under so completely that it will not be dragged to the surface by later cultivation. Each field of com in borer-infested regions offers a sep arate problem, but one or more of the following means of disposing of infested corn plants are recom mended by the U. S. Department of Agriculture: Feeding to livestock, direct from the field, as silage, or as finely cut or finely shredded material; plowing under cleanly; and burning completely. —X Vary the amount of feed for the farm horse according to the work. When a horse is to bp idle on the following day, as on Sunday, sub stitute a bran mash for the Satur day night grain fed and reduce the grain feed for Sunday to about half the usual ration. Do not cook or scald the mash by using water that is too hot. A teaspoonful of salt added to the mash ration will increase its palatability. tXI Farm real-estate values on March 1 showed an average decline of about 1 per cent below the pre ceding year, according.to the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Maine, Connecticut, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oregon each showed * a small increase in values for the year. Declines are reported for all other States, not ably in the Middle Atlantic, East North Central, West North Central, and South Atlantic groups. txt “Do it right or not at all,” is the advice of the U. S. Department of Agriculture on poisoning the boll weevil. Begin when the weevils have punctured about 10 per cent of the squares. Use only pure cot- ton-dusting calcium arsenate in the form of a dry powder. Apply from 4 to 6 pounds per acre for each application, using special cot- ton-dusting machinery. If possible dust only when the air is fairly calm and the cotton plants are moist. Repeat the- applications at 5-day intervals, as long as may be found necessary to keep the wee vils under control. X The troublesome Mexican bean beetle has spread from the South western states to a large part of the farming country east of the Mississippi. x Herman J. H. Papke has been organist in the Bethany Lutheran church at St. Louis for thirty-nine consecutive years. their paws and arms, and often bring up from the bottom of a pend stones weighing 8 or 10 pounds. Something like 17,500,000 acres of land that were formerly cultivated in this country have been des troyed by gullying, or so severely washed that farmers can not af ford to attempt their cultivation or reclamation, according t^o the Bureau of Soils and Chemistry, United States Department of Ag riculture. X Ripe, dry grain is essential to the successful operation of the com bine. Green or damp grain not on ly interferes with threshing and cleaning, but it also lowers the market value and the keeping quality of the grain. Do not start the combine until the grain is dead ripe. If the threshed grain feels damp or is easily dented with the finger nail, the moisture content is probably too high for safe stor age. X John D. may have made his first dollar by selling a flock of geese, such as historians have stated, but any motorist can tell you where he picked up his last* two-bits. X- Oxford University will allow one woman student to four men, which is about the proper handicap if de bating is to be a feature of the curriculum.-. 6 6 6 Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the First day, and checks Malaria in three days. 666 also in Tablets In choosing a gas stove consider where it is to be installed and how the window light will fall on it. The choice of a left-hand or right- hand oven is not so much a matter of left or right-handedness as it is provision for good light on the op en burners when one is cooking, or cleaning. When the oven is be tween the window and the burners it casts a shadow on them. Would You Know One If You Saw It? If you ever came face to face with a *56 it? Of you ever o r you own a tremendously powerful microscope, for you would have to magnify one over a thousand times to make it as big as a pin head. But you should recognize * the fact that these tiny germs can get into your blood streams through the smallest cut, and give you typhoid fever, tuberculosis, lockjaw, blood poisoning, and many, more dangerous and perhaps fatal diseasesL There is one sure safeguard against these dangers — washing every cut, no matter how small, thoroughly with Liquid Borozone, the safe antisep tic. You can get Liquid Borozone at STROMS* DRUG STORE A great many farmer boys left the farms early in life to go to the large cities to make their fortune so they could spend the rest of their days in the country. X Prohibition may be a failure, in the minds of critics, but you may have noticed that the papers are not full of snake stories this sum mer. X , Getting down the facts that an aviator expects to fly 250 miles an hour, our opinion is that even when that rate gets to be common, a lot of people still will be late. IXT The pedestrian always has the right of way, a court rules, pro vided of course unless something’s coming. txt That young Michigan pugilist who is studying for the ministry is probably looking forward to some lively bouts with Satan. txt The Bureau of Standards an nounces a new and rapid method of analyzing the human breath which takes only six minutes. Some wives can make a rough analysis in about two seconds. txt It is estimated that it would cost about $20,000,000,000 to elim inate all railroad grade crossings throughout the United States. TXI Giant oysters of prehistoric times sometimes grew to be twelve inches in diameter and had shells weighing as much as sixteen oounds. txt An unbrella mender, who died recently, left an estate of $100,000. Like the rest of us, he was merely laying something by for a rain, day. x- The man who complains about the many bones in his piece of fish, has a counterpart in the nan who complains about the seeds in hiJ watermelon. txt They claim the average man speaks 11,000,000 words a year, bu 1 : you can’t prove that to any aver age married nfim. ' ' RADICAL CHANGES TRANSFORM BANKING National Commission Sees Changing Opinion on Branch Banking Issue—Studies Group and Chain Banks. NEW YORK.—Modification of the at titude of bankers on the long disputed branch banking question is forecast in a review and report covering rapid changes going on in banking issued here by /he Economic Policy Commis sion of the American Bankers Asso ciation. The report, however, after referring to recent proposals that na tional hanks he given branch hanking powers within the business territory surrounding their location, declares that "we do not believe that so-called ’trade-area’ branch hanking is likely to gain the support of any large per centage of the hanking fraternity.” The commission says that the "most important development that has af fected American banking in recent years involves the rapid growth of multiple hanking organizations in the form of group, chain and branch hank ing systems,” and adds that "we pre sent this report as an unprejudiced economic study and have mo theories or policies to urge at this time.” The statement says that the commission’s information indicates there are now 269 group or chain bank systems, which control 1922 banks and $15,285,- 000,000 in aggregate resources, and that there are only six states and the District of Columbia where it does not find any group organizations. The Commission’s Investigation "We have been in touch with the managers of many important hank groups,” the report says. "Aside from the obvious economies of centralized operation and control a number of these organization heads very frankly tell us that they do not feel that the system has been in operation and tested long enough to justify them In making positive or sweeping state ments as to its advantages or disad vantages compared to unit hanking. "The Banking and Currency Com mittee of the House, which is con ducting an investigation Thto banking developments, has called a number of operating heads of some of the great group systems. These men declared that they found, under certain condi tions, definite operating and economic advantage in both group and branch banking over independent unit bank ing. Some thought group hanking was only a transitional stage, that branch banking was preferable and if it were permitted on an extensive enough scale they would change their groups over to branch systems. Others held that group banking was preferable. "Some held that the ideal plan was a combination of the two with group bank units for localities strong enough to support complete hanking institu tions and with branch offices extend ing further into the smaller places requiring hanking services but not large enough to support complete banks. Several of these who advocated multiple hanking declared that never theless they believed there would al ways be room for vigorous indepen dent unit bank competitors. - Government Officials Express Views "The Comptroller of the Currency recommended that natiema! banks be given branch banking powers within ‘trade-areas.’ The Governor of the Federal Reserve Board appeared to be in general agreement with the Comp troller. He said there were 24,645 banka and 3,547 branches, a total of 28,192 banking offices;'; that in this total, 6,353 offices were either branches or bank members ofjgroups, or both, leaving 21,839 banking institutions that might be definitely termed inde pendent unit banks, having no branches and in no way connected with group affiliations. He said all the banks had total loans and invest ments of $58,500,000,000, of which the group and branch systems held ?30,- 000/100,Q00, or more than half. M IIe opposed nation-wide branch banking at present but said that ulti mately if bankers became trained and experienced in the larger technique of ‘trade-area’ banking he thought it would in time evolve nation-wide branch banking under control of rel atively few banks, but he did not be lieve this would mean monopoly or lack o£ competition. He favored branch over' group banking which, however,, he said represented an eco nomic development along ‘trade-area lines and would spread unless some thing else were substituted and thought ‘trade-area’ branch banking wouk’ serve this purpose. • "It is the intention of the Commis sion to develop its own studies ir these questions, watch carefully ever} move that is made and every bit o» information that may develop in thL connection and keep itself prepare! to give an unbiased and accurate statement of the facte of the cas* whenever that is desired,” the repor concludes. Federal Reserve Pays Government In the fifteen years since its estab lishment in 1914, aggregate net earn ings of the Federal Reserve System’s twelve regional banks hoVe amounted to $515,216,000, of Vhich $90,672,000 lias been paid to the member banks as dividends, representing 6 per cent an nually on their contributions of capi tal to the reserve banks, while $277,- 134,000 has been added to the surplus of the reserve hanks and $147,110,000 aas been paid over to the Federal UovernSftettt'as a fftHchise tax. Choose designs for childrens' clothes with ironing in mind, whether you make the clothes yourself or buy them ready made. Fussy ruffles and queer-shaped parts take up the time of the laun dress, and never look as well after washing and ironing as trim, smooth garments that are well-cut and made of interesting materials. j Alligators are not so discriminat ing in their choice of food as most reptiles, and they swallow strange things, says the U. S. Biological Survey. Biologists have examined some alligator stomachs that re semble a "small boy’s pocket/’ Turtles, birds, small animals, peb bles, dead w T ood, bulrush roots, and empty shotgun shells have been found in the stomachs of these reptiles. SAVE AT LEAST ONE TENTB OF WHAT YOU EARN You should put one dollar out of every ten in your thrift and opportunity account and more if you possibly can, out of each week’s salary. Then add to this your sur plus dollars money that you would other wise spend foolishly and watch the total of your savings grow. You will soon have enough to begin to realize your ambitions in life. THIS IS THE BANK YOU NEED Not just because it is a home hank and possibly managed by your friends, but be cause of its excellent points of service. The service we offer includes safety, expert financial counsel, good interest on your savings accounts, and co-operation in any and every way to make your connections with us pleasing and profitable. START YOUR ACCOUNT HERE NOW THE PEOPLES BANK McCormick, S. C. £ •3E 3E 3E FIX THAT ROOF This is the time to fix that leaky * roof or replace the old worn out roof with good new metal roofing or rubber roofing. We have what you need and bur prices are right. Mower repairs and paints. Tin pans, 2 to 6 quarts, 5 cents. WHITE HARDWARE CO. MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. 3E CANT BEAT OUR MEATS Try as you may you can’t get any be*ter meat than we have at our shop. And it’s always good, too. You don't get good meat here once and poor meat the next time. You can depend on us for wholesome, tasty, tender cuts every day of the year. LOW PRICES PLEASING SERVICE Our prices are always the lowest even though the quality is the best and our service is most oleasing, all of which makes a combination you can’t heat. Make this shop your standby and enjoy the pleas ure of good meals the year around. CITY MEAT MARKKET Phone No. 61 Augusta Street JL L. PLYNOLDS, Prop. McCormick, S. C.