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\ h - 'Thursday, March 26, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO Rid Home Of Disease Carrying Germs No matter how clean you may keep your home, insidious germ life is bound to find its way in. It is carried in, in many ways. The sure way to sanitize your home is to fumigate it at least once a year with some good accepted form of fumi gation. Here you will find several excellent fumigators in differ ent forms. Consult us now and select the one best suited to your needs. It won’t take long to use it or cause much trouble, then you will be sure your home is a safe abode. • STROMS’ DRUG STORE MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. 3E Urging Use Of Home Garden Helps Home Products j Economic Problem CLUB WORKERS AND OTHERS A GETTING INTERESTED IN THE MOVEMENT Six million cases of canned goods are consumed annually by South NOTED HORTICULTURIST PRAISES GARDEN OVER RADIO Recently W. R. Beattie, Senior Horticulturist of the Bureau of Carolina housewives and chefs ac- Plant Industry, United States De- cording to Ashton Williams, of Florence, who is interested in the Live at Home movement being sponsored by the South Carolina Natural Resources Commission and the Liberty Life Insurance Com pany. partment of Agriculture, in a na tionally broadcast radio talk on the farm garden, stated that in every economic crisis through which the agriculture of any sec tion of the country has passed the home garden and other sources of Mr. Williams, pointing out that home food supply have saved the We Now Offer You The Lowest -# , * • Furniture Prices In Years Never before have you been able to get such high quality at such low price in furniture as we are now offering. You can refurnish your entire home or replace the worn-out pieces at half what it would have cost you not long ago. * WE WANT YOU TO SEE OUR NEW SPRING SHOWING We now have a beautiful new spring display for your approval. The newest and smartest in furniture for every room of the home is here. We invite you to come and see it at your very first op portunity, and learn what wonderful values are to be had throughout the store. J. S. STROM’S Furniture Store Main Street — McCORMICK, S. C. >7^ AUr>' R D E T Y Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield has saved many lives in collisions EVERY new Ford is equipped with a Triplex shatter proof windshield. This is made so that the glass will not fly or splinter under the hardest impact. It has saved many lives and prevented injuries in many automobile collisions. This shatter-proof glass windshield is* just one of many features that make the new Ford a value far above the price. Others are the silent, fully enclosed four- wheel brakes, sturdy steel body construction, four Hou- daille double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers, more than twenty ball and roller hearings, extensive use of fine steel forgings, aluminum pistons, chrome silicon alloy valves, torque-tube drive, three-quarter floating rear axle. Rustless Steel, and unusual accuracy in tnanufacturing. In addition, you save many dollars because of low first cost of the new Ford, low cost of operation and up-keep, and low yearly depreciation. . The New Ford De Luxe Coupe LOW PRICES OF FORD CARS $430 TO $630 T. O, B. Detroit, plot freight end delivery. Bumpert end tpmre tire emirs mt tmsil eotl. Pom cmn porches* m Ford on economicmi terms through the Aothorimod Ford Firumce Plant of the Universal Credit Company. 200,000 cases of South Carolina canned goods are now stored in packing houses, says that this quantity would last this state only 12 days if every housewife de manded Palmetto State products. “Our club women and others are already getting interested in this work, the movement spreading from the coast to the mountains” Mr. Williams said. • “It must be state-wide, however, if it is to be successful for there must be a de mand for South Carolina grown vegetables before the farmers and canners will again put up such a large crop as they did in 1930. “Last year around Fairfax and Orangeburg, for instance, unusual ly large crops of beans were put up because of the drought. Whether or not the quantity will be as large this year as last depends upon the sale experienced in the next few weeks for South Carolina vege tables. If the demand is good, the farmers will be encouraged to plant large crops of vegetables, and the canners will alsi^ put up large quantities of the various fruits and vegetables.” Mr. Williams said that in many of the larger cities of the state, in cluding Greenville, housewives are now able to obtain South Carolina canned products. This was not the case a few weeks ago but the in sistent demand has caused mer chants to stock their shelves with these goods. Many, housewives, however, do not specify South Carolina vegetables and because of this fact they often obtain a pro duct which contains considerably less iodine than the goods produced in this state. Mr. Williams also pointed out that the canneries of South Caro lina employ something like 4,000 persons yearly. If all goods con sumed by South Carolinians were packed in this state, however, something like ten times as many persons would be given employ ment, and this does not take into consideration the number em ployed on farms. “The employment question alone is an important angle of the can nery movement” declared Mr. Williams. txt WORSE T0AN WAR (The Camden Chronicle) During 18 months of the World .War,. 50,510 members of the Ameri can Expeditionary Force were kill ed in action or died of wounds. During the 18 months preceding January, 1931, 50,900 people were killed in automobile accidents in this country. There could be no better illus tration of the seriousness of the automobile accident situation. According to a survey by the Travelers Insurance Company, the leading cause of accidents in 1930 was failure to give right of way, which accounted for 15 per cent of deaths and 31.5 per cent of in juries. Second was excessive speed which was responsible for 21 per cent of all accident, and third, driving on the wrong side of the road, which totaled 16 per cent. Higher speed is a natural result of improved roads and cars. But the other two primary causes of accidents—which together ac counted for 27 per cent of deaths and 47.7 per cent of injuries— amount to simple ignorance, reck lessness or carelessness. They show improper training on the part of the motorist, coupled with inadequate enforcement of traffic laws. That such accidents could be at least partially curbed by ex amining and licensing laws, and by adequate enforcement of modern ized traffic codes, is well within the limits of plausibility. Every year complete and detail ed resumes of the previous year’s accident record are prepared. Study of them should show what enforcement is needed, what can be accomplished. A few states, in a period of rising hazards, have managed to appreciably decrease accidents within their borders. All other states can do the same. day. • When the boll weevil struck the cotton growing sections, Mr. Beat- tie pointed out, one of the first steps taken was to start a cam paign for vegetable gardens, poul try, pigs and cows on every farm so that the land would at least provide d means of livelihood. Things haven’t changed much and the same principles apply today. The farmer, however hard times may be for him, who plants and cultivates his own garden has a form of insurance against privation that is denied the city worker. In this respect he is far better off than the thousands of unemployed in the cities, many of whom left the farm at the time of industrial prosperity and are now looking wistfully back at the land. “If everybody engaged in farm ing,’? Mr. Beattie said in his ad dress, “will produce plenty of fruits, vegetables, milk and butter poultry and eggs, home grown and cured pork, also fresh meats to some extent, they can at least have a good living at home and that is more than a lot of people who are out of employment have today. ‘But,’ says the pessimist, ‘that will only increase the difficulty and reduce the market for foods that are grown in a large way for sale.* Perhaps, provided the farmer has the money with which to buy the food, but suppose he does not have the money, what then? As a mat ter of fact, it is good business and economy to produce most of the living for the farm family and the hired help right on the farm.” In all parts of the country there are far sighted agricultural leaders who are in agreement with Mr. Beattie in preaching the advant ages of making the farm as much as possible a self-sufficing unit; not only in these times of agricul tural and general economic de pression, but as a permanent agri cultural policy. In South’ Caro lina, Virginia, Arkansas and other states, statewide campaigns to bring about the planting of farm gardens are being actively pushed. In these campaigns the agricul tural colleges and the state’s home demonstration agents are taking a leading part. A well planted and cared for half-acre garden will produce more vegetables than the average fam ily can eat, during th4 period when the crops are maturing. Carrots, late cabbage, beets, onions, pars nips, potatoes and turnips can be grown and stored for use during the winter, thus cutting the» win ter food bills. One acre of garden was worth as much as 65 acres of cotton on a farm in Texas last year whose owner figured that the acre yielded a profit of $400. It is not only from the point of view of cutting the family food bills, however, that the vegetable garden deserves a place on every farm. So much has been said and written about vitamins during the last few years that practically ev eryone knows they are .essential to good health. Fresh, green vege tables are among the best sources of these invaluable vitamins, but entirely too frequently the farmer, busy with his money crops, feels that he has no time to bother with a garden even though his wife and the older children may easily be able to take care of it once it is ploughed. The result is that in many in stances the farm diet is too much restricted to meat, potatoes and bread. Green vegetables, one of nature’s best preventive medicines, have little place on the menu. The various deficiency diseases have a chance to creep in, breaking down health and stamina. Investigators have found that a large proportion of ill health in rural districts is traceable to the absence of a well balanced diet. No diet can be call ed well balanced that lacks an abundance of fresh, green vege tables. A vegetable garden planted this spring will return ample dividends in health and in helping to make the farm family self-sufficing, able to weather any economic storm. SOUND ADVICE by your Fertilizer Dealer No. 4 in * Series appearing in this newspaper G IVE first thought to nitrogen this year in ordering fertilizers. It’s nitrogen that gives your crops healthy growth and healthy yield. This year, more than ever, on account of unusual dry weather, nitrogen is most lack ing in the soil. Play safe. Buy plenty of Chilean Nitrate of Soda. I’ve got a big supply. 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