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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,
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everybody knows exactly how to
raise children except the people
who are raising them.
Use Carbon
Disulphide To Con
trol Pecan Insect
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
On the basis of these tests, the en
tomologists estimated that the
normal fly population of the 200
square miles was 234,531,000 flies,
or 1,172,000 flies per square mile.
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