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Thursday, January 29, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT 4 i LOST—1 Male Fox Hound 4 years old, black and tan, tour white - leet and legs, long biishy tail, white tip on end of tail, white ring half . around his neck. Name “Tobe.” Notify W. T. Brown, Parksville, S. C., for reward. Itpo. SAVE YOUR FRUIT—We have sprays and spray material. Now is the time. Please see us for Hard ware needs also. White Hardware Company, McCormick, S. C. M- 1 - 1 1 M ■»■»■■■» ANNOUNCING—New prices Feb ruary 1st on barber work. Hair Cut, 25c; Shave, 15c; Shampoo, TOnic, Massage, etc., reduced to former prices. Walker Barber Shop, Paul D. Holloway, manager, McCormick, S. C. NOTICE—We are now selling at re duced prices a supply of horse and mule shoes and stove pipe. J. B. Harmon Si Co. FOR , SALE—Frost Proof Plants— Cabbage and Bermuda Onion Plants all varieties, $1.00 per 1000, 5000 lots. 75 cents per 1000. Prompt shipment. Dorris Plant Co., Val dosta, Ga. New Furniture And Undertaking Equipment I have just returned from High Fbiht, N. C., where I bought a com plete line of dining room suites, living room furniture and stoves my stflr^. Call in and let us show you around. A nice Buick ambulance has been added to our undertaking equip ment. J. S. STROM, McCormick, S. C. 666 LIQUID or TABLETS % Cure Cold, Headaches, Fever ' 6 6 6 SALVE CURES BABY’S COLD Cows will eat an unpalatable grain mixture or low-grade hay more readily if flavored with mo lasses. Before adding the molasses, mix it with enough water to make It flow freely. Excessive quantities of molasses make the ration too laxative. Don’t give more than 3 pounds a day to each cow. 1 , ALL LIGHT CABS $6.65 > WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE <22 BROAD PHONE 1166 AUGUSTA, GA. Good drainage of the ice house is essential for satisfactory storage, says the Bureau of Dairy Industry. Water standing in contact with ice usually causes melting. A floor below the ground level in porous soil will usually be well drained but with clay soil a floor below ground level needs arificial drain age. In clay soil, excavate a foot or two and fill with gravel or cind ers, or place a 3-inch porous tile drain under the floor. HaVe the floor slope toward the center to keep the ice in a compact mass and to carry the water to the drain Cover the floor with dry sawdust or shavings. X Treatment of flower seeds with mercuric chloride in a 1-100 solu tion will destroy many seedbome parasites and so help to prevent the common diseases of garden flowers, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Most flower seeds will stand soaking in this solution for one-half hour without injury. Shake or stir the solution contain ing the seeds frequently to keep air bubbles from preventing con tact between the solution and the seeds. Rinse the seeds in clean water after treatment. Use only wooden, glass or earthenware ves sels for the mercuric chloride solu tion. The seed should be planted immediately after treatment or it may begin to swell. If prompt planting is not possible, the seed should be spread out thin at once #tnd dried thoroughly. » One-Horse Power Unit An Economic Hazard CLEMSON COLLEGE, Jan. 28.— If it is true that profit or income is the margin between cost price and selling price and we realize that one of the surest ways to re duce production costs is through labor efficiency, then we must realize that to continue a farming system built around the one-mule plow is most hazardous, says J. T. McAlistejtf extension agricultural engineer § The ^Dantity produced under such A system is entirely too small to pay all costs and net any profit with prevailing prices. Farmers are now faced with world competi tion in producing nearly all PNney crops. Other sections are very rapidly adopting mechanized prac tices in order to increase volume produced per worker and for the southeastern farmer to continue with the one-man and one-mule unit is like trying to fight a war with a pop-gun. To say the least It does not offer great hope for profitable production under pres ent conditions. From demonstrations conducted by the Extension Service in South Carolina with a two-horse machin ery it was found that only 15.7 man hours of labor were required to produce an acre of cotton, whereas with one-horse machinery it re quired 32.4 man hours. Assuming the yields to be the same, the man* with two-horse machinery was paid more than double the amount for his time than the one follow- - v \ , ing the one-horse power unit. The two-horse outfit enabled the work er to handle twice the acreage in crops that could be handled under the old system. This system like wise will return more to the land lord where share-cropping is prac ticed. The working out of some system that will provide for in creasing labor efficiency through the use of two-horse and other types of improved machinery is most urgent. It is realized that the plans for individual farms will have to be modified to suit con ditions, but considered in the light of present conditions it offers the most promise for reducing costs in 1931. X Greely Edwards Dies ■» After Short Illness , Greely Edwards, a colored man of the Pettigrew section, died at his home there last Saturday, fol lowing an illness of ten days. He was forty years of age at the time of his death. He is surwied by his wife and seven children. Burial was made at St. Charlotte Church near Bordeaux at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. X * : ' i * ■ ! Grass Roots Vital To Range Abnocknal erosion on range lands can be&ontrolled by establishing a ground cover of plant growth, ac cording to the United States Forest Service, which has been conducting experiments on this problem in the Southwest. Where a few perennial grass roots remain and the soil has not been depleted, restoration of cover under protection from over- grazing is fairly rapid, but where the grass is practically gone and where the soil has been removed or impoverished by erosion, recovery will be very slow. In moderately grazed or totally protected areas the trend is for improved pastur age. XXX Packing Poultry It pays to use great care in grad ing and packing poultry for the cold storage trade, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Pack together birds of about the same color, size, quality, and appearance. For the boxes, use a good quality of new lumber, free from odors. The poultry trade prefers birds packed 12" to the box, breast* up, in single-layer boxes, except the larger chickens and trukeys which are sometimes packed on one side. Heavy turkeys are usually packed in double-layer boxes or barrels. Line the boxes or barrels with good quality white parchment paper and wrap the birds’ heads in water-fin ish fiber paper. On account of tender skins it is desirable to wrap the bodies of broilers in parchment or waxed paper. When barrels are used place absorbant paper be tween the layers of poultry. This Week b Arthur Brisbane THINGS WORTH KNOWING Light colored walls make a room look larger than dark walls. Rodents or gnawing animals are most numerous of all mammals in this country. Airplane funerals are barred in Japan. Authorities say they “de base established customs.” An expensive revolver was pre sented to John Mitchell, jailer of Beaufort county, South Carolina, by his prisoners. Yellow rain is coating fields and buildings with a viscous substance in Vendee, France. Botanists say pollen is responsible. Judge J. E. Rait got a letter ad dressed not with a name, but with a photo of himself pasted over the words: Omaha, Neb. London’s airport at Croydon is called the Liverpool of the air. The Colorado river basin is al most as large as the state of Texas. Farmers of Alaska substitute barley and peas for com in feed ing their cattle. Chinese manufacturers use jas mine and other fragrant flowers in making scented tea. Groundhogs are a menace to crops in many eastern states where they were unknown ten years ago. The first shipment of ice from this country to the West Indies was for use in a yellow fever epidemic about 100 years ago. Switzerland supplies about half the ribbons imported annually by Mexico, France and Germany sup ply most of the rest. Total yearly purchases exceed $300,000. A case of sorcery was brought be fore a French court in/1926. Some sugar cane was carried to Santo Domingo for cultivation in 1494. California has 115 aviation land ing fields, the greatest number in any state. ' Surilmer hay fever was once known as rose fever, but rose pollen seldom causes the disease. The jaguar of the American tropics is extremely powerful but is not known to attack human be ings. L * New automatic welding equip ment makes it possible to manu facture metal railroad ties from scrap rails. A Kansas law prohibits adver tising signs within 500 feet of road intersections, turns, or railroad crossings. The tunnel being bored under the Pyrenees is the first to cross through the mountain barrier be tween France and Spain. Soldiers of ancient Assyria were sometimes paid in beer, the finer fighters receiving better brew than the ordinary soldiers. X Sorghums Ex haust Moisture Sorghums have the reputation of being “hard on the land”—that is, of having an adverse effect on the yields of succeeding crops. There are several reasons for this, ex plains the U. S. Department of Ag riculture, the most important one in dry regions being the exhaustion of soil moisture by the sorghum. Another is the bad physical con dition of the soil resulting from the lack of humus and deflocculation owing to decay of the sorghum stubble. Therefore, fall-sown grain does not usually succeed on a sorg hum field says the department, anc it is best to follow sorghum with £ spring-sown crop or summer fal low. ixt : In roasting meat, sear it first in i a very hot oven, then reduce the ! temperature and finish more slow- | ly. Meat cooked in this way shrinks \ less than when it is roasted from start to finish at a high tempera ture. X • Hot gingerbread, split, and fill ed with a mixture of cream cheese, dates, and chopped nuts, is an ex cellent dessert. Still Gold to Be Found Lady Shoots Lady Wickersham Report To Detect Falsehood There is still gold to be found, if you know where to look. At Alamos, in the state of Sonora, where Governor Elias rules, an Amer ican, L. S. Patterson, bought an old mine from Filipe De Iza. After six months, discouraged, he sold the mine back 'to De Iza. The latter went to see what work Patterson had done, tapped a rock with a small hammer, uncovering a vein of gold now yield ing $2,000 a ton. But don’t let that persuade you to buy stock in a gold mine. When it runs $2,000 a ton they don’t sell it A lady who lives in Oklahoma fired two shots into Miss Charles Cardell, aged twenty-eight, and Miss Cardell may die. Jealousy sent the bullets on their way. Such incidents have been fre quent since the day of 40,000,000 years ago, when Mrs. Big Tooth split the head of a younger cave lady trying to steal away her husband. A jealous woman usually kills the other woman to save her husband. And that, although she doesn’t know it, is done In obedience to atavistic impulse, to protect the children, who need a father. The jealous husband often kills his wife. Tnat is done to protect his im portant jself-respect. It is easier than killing the man, and he can get another wife without trouble. Every newspaper, congressman, clergyman and at least 50,000,000 others have discussed the Wickersham prohibition report. The discussion will continue, with minority members tell ing what they think. The fact is that the commission recommends, by a ma jority vote, to do nothing except to epdhd more money on enforcement, which, according to the commission’s unanimous opinion, does not enforce. Chicago’s police have a “lie meter,” that, attached to.the arm of a suspect under cross-examination, tells when he is lying. It works, because the human heart, not taught to lie, changes its beat when the anxious process of lying begins. In India barefooted natives giving testimony lie with straight faces. But they twitch their big toes, and lawyers watch their feet. A well- known capitalist twitched his thumb when bluffing at poker and lost large sums until he began holding his cards with four fingers, the thumb kept hidden. Douglas Fairbanks has gone to India, taking letters from the Duke of Suth erland to the Maharajah of Mysore, and letters from other dukes to other maharajahs, princes and potentates, plus a letter of credit, which is im portant. Fairbanks will shoot real tigers from the back of a real elephant in the Mysore territory. His camera man goes along and his director, to tell the tigers what is expected of them. Distance lends enchantment, per haps. It surely creates indifference. Under the heading, “Millions Dead ol Famine,” you read six lines of Asso ciated Press copy to the effect that in China’s,Shensi province alone 2,000,000 have died of hunger and 400,000 have been sold into slavery within a short time. Are we our brothers’ keepers? Not if the brothers live 7,000 miles away. Bishops of the English Episcopal church decide that prayer by radio is good, because it brings family prayoi | back into the British home. Nevertheless, prayer broadcast, in stead of being addressed directly to the Almighty by the individual, seems a little too scientific. Dr. Hornell Hart of Bryn Mawr col lege, where many young women accu mulate knowledge back of their high brows, tells parents that early mar riages are usually failures. Those married before twenty are ten times more apt to land in the divorce court than others. Trial marriages fail because they are experimental and secret. They fail also, although Doctor Hart doesn’t mention it, because the man in such a marriage lacks respect and affection for the woman. The great philosopher Plato would have women marry well past thirty and men past fifty. But that depends on the breed and the individual. The mother supplies her child’s men tal and physical strength. She should have children when her strength of mind and body is at the maximum. The father supplies part of the child’s mental ability. He should mar ry later, giving such brain as he has a chance to mature fully. Philadelphia’s Liberty bell, silent for one hundred years, will issue thirteen cracked sounds, one in honor of each original state, on Washington’s birth day. If Washington at the sound could rise, like Napoleon’s old soldier when he heard the cannon growl, he would be interested in the forty-eight United States of 1931. 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