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‘rgsrae 1 Thursday, March 5, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO March Farm Calendar THINGS THAT SHOULD BE DONE THIS MONTH Agronomy Apply readily available ammonia to small grains as soon as possible. Get ample supply of planting seed on hand for expected acre ages. Break early and thoroughly all land, especially clay and clay loams. —- v Use harrows and reduce the amount of cultivation necessary later. Prepare to plant an abundance of feed and forage crops. Horticulture Set out fruit trees that have not already been planted. Plant raspberries and blackber ries any time this month. Prime and spray fruit trees. Cultivate and fertilize orchards. Prune bunch grapes not already pruned. Bleeding will not be as harmful as leaving thenT*unprun ed. * Plant salsify and parsnips now for use next winter. Transplant cannas, dahlias, and chrysanthemums. Prune roses and spray with Bor deaux varieties subject to mildew. Injurious Insects and Diseases Remove bands from apple trees, scrape the rough bark off, and kill the overwintering codling moth larvae. Burn twigs severed by the pecan twig girdler. Grow com as far removed as possible from last year’s planting to control billbugs and borers. Control cutworms with poisoned bran mash. Dust tobacco plants with arsen- icals to control flea beetles. Fumigate weevil-infested ^rain. Plow under leaves and shucks in pecan groves as an aid in scab con trol. Delint cotton seed with sulphuric acid for better stands and disease control. Examine tobacco beds and re move and burn all diseased plants. Spray potatoes with Bordeaux for early blight when first leaf spots appear. Plant wilt-resistant tomatoes, * * A FEW SPECIALS We list a few specials to let our customers and the general public have an idea as to the savings offered them at our store on quality merchandise. Note the low prices and bear in mind that our entire stock is high in quality and 1<£W in price. FAT BACK, ! m per pound CORN FLAKES, 1 C 2 packages for LARD, OK#* 8 lb. pail MACARONI, IK#* 2 packages for JL -fe# w SPAGHETTI, IK#* 2 packages for JL 4x# GOOD FLOUR, "7 K #* 24 lb. sack m PORK and BEANS, 3 cans for Our fresh meat, fish and oysters are the best to be found and will satisfy the most fastidious at prices you don’t mind paying. Delivery made on short notice. We buy and sell country produce. Telephone No. 8. A. H. FAULKNER MAIN STREET .McCORMICK, S. C. such as Marglobe, Norduke, Marve- losa and Norton Varieties. Agricultural Engineering Cut stalks and trash with disc harrow before plowing instead of burning. Use a two-horse middle buster with wide double-tree for laying off evenly spaced rows. Equip the riding two-horse culti vator with opener center shovel, fertilizer distributors, and disc hillers and save labor. Plow terraces just before plant ing and make them wide enough for three rows of crops. Use two-horse machinery where- ever possible and save labor for growing feed crops. Animal Husbandry Make plans for summer forages for hogs. Give the sows and ewes close at tention at farrowing. Place sows and young pigs on new territory to avoid parasites. Feed nursing sows liberally. Feed some fish meal, tankage or skimmilk to brood sows. Give ewes grain and legume hay. Feed young lambs from two weeks old grain in a creep. Gradually increase mule feed to avoid digestive disturbances while they get accustomed to spring work. Dairying Remove cows from onion-infest ed pastures five hours before milk ing. Freshen up by whitewashing un painted buildings and fences. Clean up lots and haul off litter to destroy breeding places for flies. Use acreage cut from cotton for feed crops. Silage and legume hay make ideal roughage feed for next win ter. Poultry Raise baby chicks separate from old birds. Provide fed for chicks in clean troughs or hoppers. Get chicks into sunshine early. Clean brooder houses regularly. Plant green feed for summer. Chicken lettuce offers possibilities. Arrange to secure stock for flock improvement next season. Large Number Will Attend The Furman Summer School Beaufort Farm- v ' ; ;*■ i, er’s Corn Cost Them Only 16 Cents BEAUFORT, Mar. 2.—Beaufort county once boasted of its silky- stapled sea-island cotton, so fine that it was always packed by hand and never compressed, and its “Carolina rice,” the finest raised anywhere, but now it has another accomplishment to tell about; Corn can be grown on this fertile soil for 16 cents per bushel. W. C. Brant, a contestant in the five-acre corn contest, produced 523 bushels of corn on five acres, or an average of 104.6 bushels per acre, and thus won second state prize and second Orangeburg dis trict prize in the contest. This won derful yield of com followed a crop of Irish potatoes, which perhaps accounts for the low cost of culti vation. Mr. Brant cultivated the com only three times with a plow and pulled the weeds once. Mr. Brant used 120 pounds of 7-5-5 commercial fertilizer at planting and side-dressed twice with a mixture of 200 pounds of nitrate of soda and 200 pounds of muriate of potash per acre each time. He used his own seed, which was of no special variety. The total cost of cultivation, fertilizer, rent, and other cost was $16.49 per acre, or a total of $82.43 for the five acres. ' If this com had been marketed through hogs, as many farmers did, thereby returning $1.50 to $1.75 per bushel, the total profit, of $440.57 would have been very much larger. Herbert Evans, a 4-H club mem ber, also proved that corn is a profitable crop to grow in Beaufort. Herbert produced 124.5 bushels per acre on his club plot. The total cost of production, including rent, was $37.49. “I planted Williamson’s variety on March 18,” said young Evans in explaining how he produced this yield. “The corn was cultivated six times and side-dressed twice with 175 pounds of nitrate of soda each time. I used 600 pounds of 10-4-4 commercial fertilizer at planting.” He plans to feed this corn to a prospective ton litter this spring and realize the full profits from the great yield. USE OUR COLD REMEDIES A cold is far too serious and annoying to let “run on” even if it isn’t such a bad one. You should take steps to get rid of it at once and relieve yourself not only of the present disagreeableness but also of the danger of compli cations which are numerous. WE HAVE THE RELIABLE REMEDIES YOU NEED We have a most complete line of reliable remedies for coughs and colds which will rid you of either or both in quick order. At the first warning, supply yourself of the needed remedies from this store or better still, get thm now and have them ready. We also have every supply needed for the sick room, and fill prescriptions properly and promptly day or night. STROMS’ DRUG STORE MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. 1 a a b = HAPPINESS WITH A Come see a copy of “Facts about Farm Profits.” Read how other farmers get increased yields and extra profits with ASHEPOO Buy your fertilizer from us. Prompt service assured. Get extra yields and bigger profits with -ASHEPOO- AA QUALITY FERTILIZERS W. T. STROM McCORMICK, S. C. Deliveries Made To Any Railroad Station in McCor mick County. AUTHORIZED DEALER AA .QUALITY Fertilizers GREENVILLE, March 3.—Inquir ies regarding the 1931 summer quarter of Furman university are coming in daily from widely scat tered states, and indications are that there will be a fair represen tation from the East and Middle West as well as from the Southern states, according to Dean E. M. Highsmith, who is busy with ar rangements for the annual sum mer term. A preliminary bulletin of the summer school was issued recently listing the various courses offered, together with dates for the two terms of the quarter. Fifty-eight classes on the summer school rost er are primarily for teachers, while 85 classes are primarily for col lege students, according to the ad vance bulletin. A final bulletin of the summer school is being pre pared, and will be issued around March 15, Dean Highsmith stated. A second preliminary bulletin relating to instructors and faculty members for the 1931 term will be issued within the next week or 10 days and will be mailed out to prospective students. Inquiries to date have come in from states as far away as New York and Penn sylvania in the East, from Arizona in the West and from Illinois in the Middle West, it was said. An exceptionally strong faculty has been secured, some of the in structors having gained national reputations as leaders in educa tion. All are outstanding in their respective fields, and have fine records as school administrators. Miss Mattie E. Thomas, former South Carolina Rural school sup ervisor has been secured for courses in Primary education for the 1931 session. Miss Thomas holds an A. B. degree from Win- throp college, an M. A. degree from the University of South Carolina and she has taken further gradu ate work in the school of educatior at the University of Chicago. Mis r Thomas, through her rural schoo 1 activities, has come to know edu cational conditions in this state well. tXf New York man who had not taken a bath for twenty years died the other day and the aver age small boy will agree death would not be so bad after such lux ury. txt Everybody knows exactly how to raise children except the people who are raising them. Use Carbon Disulphide To Con trol Pecan Insect f!® CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 2.— The larval form of the oak or hickory cossid inhabits the trunk and larger branches of pecan, hickory, and oak, boring into the hard wood and making tunnels several inches long, according to Alfred Lutken, extension entom ologist and plant pathologist, who says that the only control measure known is to locate the holes and inject about one-half to one tea spoonful of carbon disulphide, us ing a small oil can or medicine dropper, in each hole and plug im mediately with wooden pegs, clay, or putty. The work should be done by April 1. After this date some of the larvae will be transformed to pupae and become harder to j kill. The presence of the larvae is de- i tected by the heaps of pellets of wood at the base of the tree. Care ful examination will reveal the holes, about the size of a lead nen- cil and closed with flaps, through which these castings are pushed out. The adult is a gray moth, mot tled with brown and black, and has a wing spread of ^bout 1.5 inches. The larvae when full grown, is about 1.5 inches long, is generally pinkish in color, and sparsely cov ered with short fine hairs. The pupa is generally brown, except the forward part, which is black ish. On its head is a sharp pro jection which it uses in pushing its way out of the larval burrow, preparatory to the emergence of the moth. The moths emerge usually in May and June, and lay their eggs soon after, observes Mr. Lutken. Newly hatched larvae first attack small twigs in which they tunnel out the pithy wood, but as they grow too large for the small twigs they attack larger ones and by fall will be found in the trunk or main limbs. Presence of the larvae can be detected by the piles of castings in the fall and spring. The larvae transforms to a pupa during April or May and the adult emerges about a month later. X More auto production means pedestrian reduction. The last few months have marked a trying period in the lives of some, while to others it has been just a breathing spell. ? Those who had a savings account to tide them over the time of depression felt no want. START TODAY! You can never know when you may need the help of a substantial savings account. You are cordially invited to open your account with this bank. We of fer you the utmost service and take a friendly interest in whatever attracts you here. / Start your account here now, no matter how small you start. THE PEOPLES BANK McCORMICK, S. C. PROBLEM OF THE AGES (Greer Citizen.) Control Flies On 200 Square Miles In Texas Recently a pastor began his sermon with a statement which sounds quite familiar. He said: “There is lawlessness every where. Children no longer obey their parents. It is evident that the end of things is at hand.” Then the preacher told his con gregation that the words were not original with him, nor even an ut terance of the present day, but that they had been translated from an inscription found among ruins in ancient Assyria, dating centur ies before the time of the patriarch Abraham. Throughout all recorded history such pessimism regarding the fu ture of the race has been express ed from time to time. Now and then an era of comparative peace and quiet has been experienced, only to be followed by recurring outbreaks of violence and lawless ness. While present day conditions are bad enough, it seems that on the whole they are better than those of the past. There is more thought given to the relief of suffering, to the betterment of industrial con ditions, to the protection of the helpless and to other humanitar ian enterprises than ever before. Although the World War gave civilization a severe test, recovery has been rapid and the ground lost is being speedily regained. It must be remembered that war has mark ed the history of every generation of mankind, and the same is true of lawlessness, oppression and ev ery other manifestation of human imperfection. It is reasonable to believe that these will always exist in greatev or less degree, so long as good and evil struggle for mastery in th^ minds and hearts of men. x Strange as it mav s^em. tb" man who gets plenty of sleep is wide awake. A good way to get rid of flies, the United States Department of Ag riculture finds, is to trap them. Texas ranchers and entomologists of the department reduced the fly population 36 per cent on 200 square miles of ranch land with fly-traps in one season. A local fly-trapping association, co-operating with the Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agri culture, distributed the fly-traps at the rate of 1 to every 407 acres and caught 8,533 quarts of flieT in seven and one-half months. Many of these were screw-worm flies and fleece-worm flies, two pests credited with a $10,000,000 damage to southwestern livestock in a single year. The trappers used 2 pounds of fresh meat, 2 gallons of water, and eight cubic centimeters of nicotine sulphate in each trap for bait and poisoning. They renewed the bait once in 15 days during the sum mer, once in 20 to 25 days in the fall and spring, and renewed the water every 7 to 9 days in summer and every 10 to 12 days in spring and fall. Test catches of flies, made from time to time at various distances from the traps, gave an indica tion of the effect the traps had on the number of flies in the region. 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