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V Thursday, January 8, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA: PAGE NUMBER THREE JANUARY Farm Calendar THINGS THAT SHOfTI.O BE DONE THIS MONTH Agronomy Before buying 1931 fertilizer: (1) Determine amount of money needed. (2) Decide to home-mix to save money and to adlust plant food to individual field* end crons. (3) Pool the tonnage with others to get carload prices. For better profits plant cotton seed that will produce staple of one inch or better. Horticulture Prepare hotbeds and coldframes for cabbage, tomato, pepper, egg plant, cauliflower, onions. Plant English peas, if soil is in condition, covering five to six inches. \ Prepare land for Irish potatoes, and order certified seed. Prune fruit trees preparatory to spraying with lime-sulphur in early j February. Plant fruit trees now rather than later, if soil is in condition. Ditf, separate, and reset all canna I roots not dug last fall. Prune deciduous ornamental shrubs severely at transplanting. Injurious Insects and Diseases. v Continue cleaning up orchards to destroy fallen fruit and limbs. i Prune grapes to remove and bum disease-harboring vines. Order mercuric chloride to treat, seed potatoes. Make plans to treat tobacco seed before sowing in beds. Continue clean-up of trash and remnants about edges of fields and gardens to kill hibernating insects. Do not bum woods areas for con trol of insects. Gather and bum fallen severed pecan twigs to help to control the beetle. Put orchard spraying outfit in order to put on the dormant spray lor San Jose scale and diseases. Fumigate with carbon disulphide to save grain, peas, and beans. Bees Clean beeyards of all old rubbish and dry grass by plowing—with care not to hit the hives. Clean any hives where the bees have died and stack them under a shelter. If bees are not located right, move them] now. Agricultural Engineering Plan to lower production costs in 1931 by efficient use of labor, pow er. and machinery. Build an implement shed and farm shop to take better care of . equipment. Make more efficient use of land and machinery by*, rearranging, fields, removing stumps and stones.' constructing good terraces and drains. Include fences in the 1931 build ing program. Dairying Make an inventory of livestock, feed and equipment at once. Decide now whether you will have silage for your cows next fall and plan for its production. Analyze your herd records for 1931 and decide where you can im prove in management and feeding. Repair pasture fences, clean out under-growth, bushes, and briars, and stop the washes in pastures. Start the New Year right by keeping daily milk record on each cow and by feeding grain in pro portion to the milk yield. Animal Hurbandry Give the ewes shelter from rain and ample legume hay. Treat for worms sheen that ar* thfn and do not rspond to good feeding. Double treat for cholera all hogs to be carried until spring. Provide hogs winter snelter and liberal bedding. See that the hogs have green feeds—barley, rye, oats, or rape. Winter breeding beef cattle on cheap roughages. Add enough cot tonseed meal to prevent weight loss. Feed horses and mules rouvha^e liberally and enough grain to keep them thrifty. Avoid changes in rations. Poultry Mate breeders for hatching eggs. Make special breeding pen of best hens and pedigreed male to produce cockerels for next year’s matings. Treat sorehead and roup prompt ly—use sanitary measures to pre vent its spread. Provide the breeders with green feed or good substitute. Get ready for baby chicks. III 11 I I miiiimm irrr minimi ffrr trr rrrrrrn rrr ]|i f r r rrrrrrrrm “A* Industry Prospers—So Prosper The Peopie" VALUE OF JOB While commodity values generally have been on the down grade in recent years, and particularly in recent months, and the cost of living has fallen; THE JOB has become immensely more valuable. Steady employment has become a thing most to be desired. Unfortunate circumstances, facing not only industry, but also agriculture, commerce, transportation and finance, have necessitated rigid elimination of a 1 ! unnecessary costs. In some cases wages have been reduced; in many cases surplus labor has been dropped. Unemployment is today a problem which requires solution. The man or woman who has steady employment today is extremely fortunate. With the cotton manufacturing industry, the situation is particularly distressing. Common sense has necessitated curtailment of production and a subse quent curtailment of working force. As a result,* the year 1931 will no doubt show a smaller proportionate number of operatives per mill than for years past. In fact, the mills have been finding employment for large forces of unneeded help for months past. This they have done solely in the interests of their o wn employees. This burden, steadily increasing each year, has reached impossible proportions and cannot continue. It is interesting to note that in spite of the efforts o f mill executives to give some type of employment to as many adult citizens of their villages as possible, s till the ratio of employees to residents of mill villages has steadily dropped since 1908, so that the burden actually carried by the mill has become enormous. For example note : From the Year Book—1929 of the Dept, of Agriculture, Commerce and In dustries of South Carolina No. of Textile Total Mill P. C. Employees To Employees Population Mill Population "ij 1908 ...46,885-.. 104,214 1918..,.. ...48,169--.. ....125,942 1929..... -72,223--.. .-..194,272. v:- The job is all important . . . • • ‘ ... He who appreciates the value of a job in a time like this is wise »s* ‘on Manufacturers’ Association south Carolina County Officials With Delegation (The Dorchester Eagle.) All Dorchester county officials were asked to meet the county delegation to the General Assemb ly—Senator R. Lon Weeks and Rep resentative Randolph B. Lee—at sudden : the court house last Friday morn ing for the purpose of making known the needs of their various officers so that the county supply bill for 1931 may be drawn up and passed as early as possible at the coming session of the legislature. Practically all officials of the county were in attendance and a full and free discussion of the vari ous branches of the county govern ment was held. Senator Weeks and (The BESTGray Bair remedy is Home Made To half pint of water add one ounce bay rum, admail box of Barbo Compound and one-fourth ounce of glycerine. Any druggist can put this up car you can mix It at home at very little cost. « Apply to the hair twice a week until the desired shade is ob tained, * It will gradually darken fad— 1 or gray hair and make it toft 'and gioaay. barbo will not color the scalp, £ aot atfcky or *n»ay and does net rofc oO» Representative Lee are anxious to dispose of the county supply .bill j T bey think it false economy during the first days of the session said that some plan must be work cutting salaries it was pointed out by both Mr. Weeks and Mr. . Lee that a ten per cent cut all along the line would be negligible in mak ing up the tax levy, amounting to only a fraction of a mill. The real burden of Dorchester county’s tax ation, it was declared, was the in terest paid on the county’s debt caused by the loss of large sums in banks and otherwise. The bond issue which was authorized in the recent general election will give im mediate relief to the taxpayer, in asmuch as the bonds will be is sued for a long term of years. All county officials expressed great interest in the schools of the county. It was learned that one or more schools in Dorchester bad de cided to shorten the term to 7 months this year because the dis tricts were in debt. Both the Sena tor and the representative express ed themselves as opposed to this. and it could be clearly seen, by the men county government bring their ex- who are in charge of county af- penditures down to the most eco- fairs. nomical basis during the coming The meeting will doubtless prove | year, and in having taxes kept to take of great assistance to the delega tion when the county supply bill is drawn up and it also served the purpose of giving each county of ficial a clearer insight into the the minimum figure, should advantage of this opportunity to present their views on these sub jects to the delegation at its meet ing tomorrow. A concise and force working of the county government ful expression on these points from as a whole. The legislature will convene on the second Tuesday in January, the 13th. The citizens of the county will, no doubt, commend their Sen ator and Representative for show ing their determination to dispose of the supply bill in the early part of the session, thereby eliminating the uncertainty of previous years, when sometimes for several months the county jogged along as best it could without a supply bill to guide expenditures, and with con sequent dissatisfaction and grumb ling on the part of the public. Wail paper may make or mar & home, says a decorator. And so fcxay children, by the way. Eyes examin ed. Spectacles, Eye Glasses, and Artificial £yes fitted without Drugs* Drops or Danger. DR* HENRY J. GODIN Optometristi fgg Broad Street An ed out whereby all children in the county will be guaranteed an equal chance for an education. The matter of unsafe school buses was also up for discussion. It was pointed out that many were constructed with doors at the back, making it easy for an accident to happen to the riders. Also that in some instances the buses were not constructed so as to keep the chil dren warm and comfortable. In most counties, it was brought out, at the same time comply with their j standard school buses were owned so that they will be free to devote their time while in Columbia to the consideration of other import ant matters. They feel that the discussion and drawing up of the supply bill can easily be done be fore the legislature convenes. The meeting with the county officials was to get a more definite insight into the needs of the county. The Dorchester delegation is anxious to draw up a supply bill that will be satisfactory to all concerned and -X- TURN LIGHT ON COUNTY EXPENSES citizens of the county cannot fail to stimulate. the members of the delegation to their most earnest efforts in both state and local fields, and should be of assistance to them in their efforts to respond to the sentiment of the citizens of the county The county delegation has a per plexing task before it. It feels the responsibility to provide for ade quate governmental service, and, like all legislators, is constantly confronted with requests for ex pansions here and there of public j service activities. All these things ! cost money, which the taxpayers [must provide. If we would have lower appropriations and reduced taxes, we must be willing to do cessfully. What The State is disturbed about is not the cost of construc tive things but the cost of unnec essary and wasteful things. Columbians have been foolish to* neglect the county affairs as they have been neglected. They pay be tween eight and nine tenths of the cost of county government, but few of them know whether they pay $400,000 or $1,200,000. If the county is in “sound” fin ancial condition it is due solely to the fact that Columbia has furnished a big reservoir from which to draw funds to meet huge expenditures. But we are not get ting value for our taxes until we eliminate waste in government. And we cannot stop the waste un til we know where and for what expenditures are made. txt A PRINTING OFFICE IS A HOME INDUSTRY (The State.) (Walterboro Press and Standard.) policy of retrenchment and eco nomy whereever it does not hinder the adequate administration of the county government. Mr. Lee stated that while some thought the county levy of 39 mills for 1930 was high, he had investi gated and found that the levy in All of the work is done by local without some of the public activ- people who spend their money in ities we would like to have, or con- the community, sent to a curtailment of some of The local newspaper is the only “The Greenville county legisla- them.” newspaper in the whole United tive delegation will hold an open The State says: Doubtless ther^ States that is boosting this town, meeting tomorrow at which it will will be other joint meetings of ® ver y week something in praise of hear suggestions and requests from of the members of county cornmun ity or in recognition of citizens of the county on matters delegations and taxpayers. There & 0 °d points appears in the col- connected with the conduct of pub- is a movement on foot, we believe u ^ mns the local paper, lie affairs, state and local. ; for one in this county. But before ' The local newspaper gives liber- A topic of primary importance the taxpayers can discuss intelli- ever y way possible to the to citizens in both these fields is gently these matters with their ^ oca ^ community and is entitled to* that of finance and taxation. The delegations they must arm them- printing of the com- by the county and the drivers em ployed by the school authorities. It could easily be seen that the Greenville delegation has its vote selves with information. We have niunity that it is equipped to do. no hesitation in asserting that not 2 per cent of the taxpayers in Rich land county, for example, know how much money is collected and matter of educating the youth of and influence in questions of rev- the county and safeguarding th2ir enues (taxation) and appropria- health was close to the heart of tions for the state government, all the officials present. Mr. Lee And in tfce . county field, it has said that you can’t stunt saplings virtually complete power over gen-^ for what it is spent. And until the neighboring county of Berkeley and expect to have a good stand eral county expenditures and tax | those facts are known it would be' COLDS an< * HEADACHES was about 2 1-2 times higher than | of timber. The school children are levies. Citizens who are interested difficult to start a practical re- It is the most speedy remedy known hat of Dorchester. In discussing going to be adequately looked after in seeing both the state and the form movement—and press it sue- 666 also in Tablets is a doctor’s Prescription for