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Thursday, April 16, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA' PAGE NUMBER THREE? Entry Blanks For Contests ftajmty Agent, E. L. Rogers an nounces that the cotton, com and sweet potato contests are again be ing conducted under auspices of the Clems on College Extension Ser vice. Substantial prizes are offered in each contest. This year the com places me in the district prize winning class. If for any reason the County Agent or the College wishes to publish my results indi vidually my permission to publish same will first be obtained, if I am not a prize winner. I am in the Piedmont or Spar tanburg district and I desire to en ter the Up-land section • I desire to enter the Low-land sec- contest in the Piedmont section has been divided into “upland” and ! tion ’ (Note: •‘low land” classes. The entry blanks are as follows: Place an Application for Entrance -South Carolina 5-Acre Cotton Contest 1931 I wish to enter the South Caro lina 5-Acre Cotton Contest for 1931. I agree to abide by the rules, regulations and decisions of the Clemson Extension Service for this Contest, and to use on my con test plot a variety of seed that nor mally produces staple of one inch or more. The variety of seed that I will “X” in the section you wish to en ter. You. may enter either or both.) Signed R. F. D. County If interested, please sign and re turn application to Crop Report As Of April 1,1931 use Is Signed P. O. —County Sign and forward this applica tion to your County Agricultural Agent. Record book will be furn ished you by your County Agricul tural Agent. Ail applications must be in by May 1, 1931.- Any staple length less than 15-16 hnr-h will not be considered for prize In the 1931 contest. Help yourself and South Caro lina Agriculture by showing that you can produce quality cotton at a profit. 1 Application for Entrance Carolina 5-Acre Corn Contest 1931 I wish to enter the South Caro lina 5-Acre Com Contest for 1931, and I agree to the following: To abide by the rules, regula tions and decisions pf the Clemson College Agricultural Extension Ser vice for this contest. TO keep the record book, fum- * ished by the Clemson College Ex tension Service, and send not lat er than December 1st, 1931, the Tirst and second copies of each record sheet to the County Agent. He will forward the original copy to S. L. Jeffords, Box 225, Spar tanburg, S. C. I understand that the record I Mr. County Agent County Agent. 1931 NOTE: This application when filljed out properly should be sent by applicant to the County Agent, —the County Agent to forward the blank to S. L. Jeffords, Box 225, Spartanburg, S. C., not later than June 15th, 1931. Application for Entrance South Carolina Sweet Potato Contest ^ 1931 I wish to enter the South Caro lina Sweet Potato Contest for 1931 and I agree to the following: To abide by the rules, regula tions and decisions of the Clemson College Agricultural Extension Ser- South vice for this Contest. To keep record book, furnished by the Clemson College Extension Service,* and return the original record sheets to your County Agent as soon as possible after the crop is harvested. Fill out fully, please print care fully. Signed P. O. R. F. D. County NOTE: This application when filled out properly should be sent keep and furnish will not be pub- to E. L. Rogers, County Agent, Mc- lished unless I make a yield that Cormick, S. C. 10c MAKE VOUR MONEY W 17 — " — * , - - You can do that easily by buying your groceries sind meats from us. We have the right kind of , buying power and that gives us the right kind of selling power. • The benefit goes to our customers all the time. Read the list and ask us for other sav ings not mentioned here: FATBACKS, per pound Armour’s Veribest Milk 3 large size for . FLOUR, Cyclone 48 lbs. SUGAR, 25 lbs. SALMON, Dixie Bell per can TOMATOES, 3 cans S1.35 $1.35 10c Pork, Beef, Pure Pork Sausage, Mixed Sausage, Hog Head Cheese, Smoked Sausage, Balogna Saus age, Veal, Cured Ham, Breakfast Bacon, Fish and- Oysters all at prices you can well afford to pay. ’Phone No. 8 and have your order delivered prompt ly. We buy and sell the best country produce. A. H. FAULKNER McCORMICK, S. C. it •v* COLUMBIA, April 10.—SOUTH CAROLINA: /Soil condition in February and March was favorable for plowing, and planting prepara tions are well advanced. Prolonged cold weather has delayed growth of vegetation, but winter grains are in good condition generally, with a minimum of abandonment from winter killing, and present pros pects are for at least reasonably good yields of wheat, oats, and rye. The April 1 condition of Wheat is reported at 76 per cent; Oats, 77; and Rye, 78 per cent. These are slightly below the 10-Year av erage condition, but above last year. Peaches are reported at 78 per cent of a full crop, compared with 59 per cent a year ago and a 6-year average, 1924-1929, of 74 per cent. The condition of Pastures at 62 per cent of normal compares with 65 per cent last year and a 6-year average of 74 per cent. The con dition of early Irish potatoes is re ported at 85 per cent, which is 15 points above last year and 8 above the 6-year average. Farm wages are reported about 30 per cent below last year. By the month with board, the average is $12.50; without board, $19.25 ^ by the day with board, 60 cents; without board, 85 cents. The sup ply of farm labor is reported at 103 pef cent of normal, and the demand at 73 per cent; and the supply, expressed as the per cent of demand, is 141 per cent, which compares with 112 per cent last year. UNTED STATES: Wheat—The condition of winter wheat on April 1, is reported at 88.8 per cent of normal, compared with 77.4 per cent on April 1, 1930 and the 10- year average of 79.2 per cent for that date. The April 1 condition and the preliminary reports from correspondents indicate an aband onment in the neighborhood of 4 per cent for the United States as a whole, which is materially below the 10-year average of 12.1 per cent. The condition is well above 10- year average in all sections of the country except in a few States and portions of States where the 1930 drought was most severe and where the rainfall during the germinating period in the fall was greatly deficient. The winter was unusually mild and spring moisture has been ample to date. While April 1 is too early for an accurate forecast of final yield and production, an analysis of condit ion and weather reports indicates a probable total winter wheat crop of approximately 644,000,000 bush els. When considered by classes, the probable crop of hard red winter wheat in 1931 is indicated at about 405,000,000 bushels, compar ed with 365,578,000 bushels in 1930, the probable crop of soft red win ter at about 194,000,000 bushels, compared with 194,153,000 bushels produced in 1930, and the probable crop of fall-sown types of white wheat at about 45,000,000 bushels, compared with 44,606,000 bushels produced in 1930. RYE: The condition of rye is re ported at 81.5 per cent, compared with 82 per cent a year ago, 84.9 per cent two years ago, and 84.6 per cent the 10-year (1920-29) av erage April 1 condition. Pennsyl vania, r Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia show rather sharp declines in condition from a year ago, while North Dakota, the prin cipal rye producing State, shows a condition 3 points lower than a year ago. In many of the states the condition is materially better than it was a year ago. No fore cast of the crop in bushels will be made until May 8. OATS: The condition of oats in the 10 Southern States is reported at 83.3 per cent, compared with 71.1 per cent a year ago. Most of the winter sown grains in the South have come through with a minimum of winter-killing, which is markedly different from a year ago, when there was heavy winter- killing throughout most of the Southern States. POTATOES: The condition of early potatoes in 10 Southern States on April 1 this year is re ported to be somewhat better than on the same date last year and only slightly below the averagq condition oh April 1 the previous six years. The crop is in more favorable position now than on April 1 last year in pfActically ev ery State but Texas. In the latter St&$e, blight and frost have handi- 1930 FARM CENSUS PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT McCORMICK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - . f WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14, 1931.—The following statement, issued by the Director of the Census, gives some of the results of the 1930 farm census for McCormick County, South Carolina, with compara tive data for 1925 and 1920 for selected items. The 1930 figures are preliminary and subject to correction, (1930 Census taken April 1, and 1925 and 1920 Censuses, January 1.) I 1930 FARM ACREAGES AND VALUES Number of farm i ~ Acreage of all land in farms Average acre per farm Value of land and buildings Land alone Buildings » Dwellings alone Value of implements and machinery Average value of land and buildings Per farm r Per acre 1,8131 147,481 81.3 $3,013,965 1,884,639 1,129,326 814,185 198,841 1,662 20.44 TENURE OF FARMS Number operated by: Owners Managers Tenants Acreage operated by: Owners - Managers Tenants 1930 1920 Value of land and buildings of farms operated by: Owners Managers Tenants 388 4 1,421 46,622 2,593 98,266 $1,213,651 64,650 1,735,664 629 10 2,272 62,507 440 106,133 $3,325,947 40,670 4,536,824 SIZE OF FARMS Under 3 acres 3 to 9 acres 10 to 19 acres 20 to 49 acres 50 to 99 acres 100 to 174 acres 175 to 259 acres 260 to 499 acres 500 to 999 acres 1,000 acres and over LIVESTOCK Number Horses Mules Cattle Milk Cows Hogs Chickens Iz *** * * * *** 1930 295 2,105 3,004 1,792 2,218 38,623 1920 1,0841 3,192j 6,276j 3.4491 7,743| 50,898 CLASSES OF LAND Crop land, total Harvested Crop failure Idle - Pasture land, total Plowable ' Woodland Other Woodland not pasture All other land 1925 1920 2,003 2,911 161,719 169.080 80.7 58.1 $3,015,144 $7,903,441 1,947,202 5,983,277 1,067,942 1,920,164 • - * 172,886 459,323 1,505 | 2,715 18.64 46.74 Number 1930 1920 67 1 44 323j 337 576 1,362 338 738 313 290 105 83 68 44 14 12 9 Acreage ♦♦ 1930 62,713 37,465 2,364 22.884 37,720 7,482 18,837 11,401 33,578 13,470 1925 76,783 41,169 1,471 34.143 30,037 6,656 13,237 10.144 38,687 16,212 SELECTED CROPS zz 1929 Wheat Hay Sweet potato'es and yams Sweet sorghum for sirup Acreage / 1 1924 1919 Unit | 1929 | 1 16,941 21,535 Bushel I 134,510 l 838 2.487 Bushel | 28,226 i 211 484 Bushel | 1,501 i . 2,364 2,947 Ton | 517 1 196 608 Bushel I 13,437 i 155 821 Gallon — | 6,630 1924 "173,800 12,587 1,543 1,475| 15,2831 zzzl 1919 265,986 32.158 3^103 3,884 49,722 30,479 Not shown in 1925 and 1920. Not shown in 1920. ♦♦♦Excluding animals bom after January 1, 1930. • • z Excluding chickens hatched after January 1, 1930 zz Cotton figures will be shown in later publications. zzzNot reported. yield prospects. The present con dition . of 79.1 per cent for the 10 State’s represents all potatoes being grown for harvest before Septem ber 1 in these States, including the commercial early crop grown principally for shipment. The year. EGG PRODUCTION: All sec- tioni of the country show less egg production on April 1 than on that date last year. Crop correspond ents reported on April 1 an aver age of 53.2 eggs per hundred hens April 1 reports indicate that the on hand, compared with 54.5 eggs commercial early crop in Florida on April 1, 1930. The number of and the Lower Valley of Texas will hens and pullets per flock also ap- amount to approximately 3,700,000 pears to be 6 or 7 per cent lower bushels, which would be about an than a year ago. average crop but 8 per cent small- 1 FARM WAGES: At 127 per cent er than last year’s estimated pro- 0 f the pre-war level on April 1, the duction. It is top early to fore- index of farm wages was 2 points cast production in the other early lower than at the beginning of the potato States from present condit- 1 year, 35 pcints under a year ago, ion reports. For the entire group an d a t the lowest level recorded of extreme Southern States, the nince 1916. first commercial forecast is to be issued on May 9 and for the sec ond early Spates about May 23. The 2 point decline in the index from January 1 to April 1 was most unusual, since it occurred during PEACHES: In the 10 Southern a period when farm wages ordin- States, the reported condition of a rily advance due to the increase peaches on April 1 is 71.8 per cent, in demand for workers during the compared with 52.0 per cent on spring planting season. This sea- April 1 last year and a 6-year aver- sonal advance averaged 4.7 points age of 73.7 per cent. In the im- f 0 r the period, 1926-1930. During portant South Atlantic States, che the current year, farm wages peach crop prospect is quite fav- : showed a tendency to advance or orable, with little or no damage hold steady only in that area from cold to date and with pos- north of a line extending from sibiiity that some thinning may oe southern boundary of Nebraska co necessary. In the South Central the southern boundary of Michigan States, unseasonably cool weather an d in the northern half of the has held the crop back and frosts Far Western division, the last week in March caused much damage, particularly in northern Texas, Oklahoma and western Arkansas. All classes of farm wages, on April 1, were lower than a year ago. Wages per day, without board, were The reported, a^ut 28 per cent lower in the conditions in the 10 States cannot South Central States> down 22 per safely be used at this early date cent ^ the South A t la ntic Division, £*HECK up on your Fire Insurance. The time to make sure of your insurance is before you have a fire. The place to go is to this Agency of the Hartford Fire Insur ance 'Company. F C. Robinson INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 66 McCORMICK for forecasting production. The effect of weather conditions be tween now and harvest, and es pecially during the next month or six weeks, can make the situa tion much more or much less fav orable than it now appears. PASTURES: The condition of pastures on the first of April was below the usual average in prac tically all states except in the Pa cific Northwest and from Colorado and Nebraska south. Pastures are particularly poor in the state that were most affected by the drought last summer. The cold weather the latter part of March has also made pastures late in starting. In the country as a whole the April 1 condition of pastures was 76.1 per cent, compared with an average of 21 per cent in the North Central group, and approximately 15 per cent in the North Atlantic and Far Western Divisions. These declines are due to the considerably lower level of industrial employment which has increased materially the supply of farm workers and the sharp decline in demand resulting from the drastic drop in prices paid farmers for agricultural products. Crop'correspondents reported the j supply of farm labor at 112.9 per, cent of normal on April 1, as com- Simonds’ F Inserted Tooth Saw holds its Jeeth..lasts longer and cuts 10more and bettor Yumher. Let us. change your' saw '-(o this tooth, or. tradeit-''in 'On a, new .^Simonds. Our SLIDING LUMBER. vS(?al/E, and.. How to STRAIGHTEN A DISHED SAW IS' FREE! J. H. MINER SAW CO' Shreveport, La. Meridian. >1 lv»*. •Columbia. S. (*. Alfalfa Needs Lime The lowest April 1 average during this period was the 78.5 reported last year. MILK PRODUCTION PER COW: Milk production per cow has in creased in the Gulf States. Else where there was about the usual seasonal increase during March. Crop correspondents report an av erage production of 14.3 pounds of milk per milk cow in their herds on April 1, as compared with 14.5 pounds Jn 1929 and 1930. As the plumber of milk cows has been in creased, total milk production is 82.5 during the previous 7 y ears * ftained for April 1 as compared to 116.8 per cent a year ago. FRANK O. BLACK, Agricultural Statistician. R. C. LIGHT, Jr., Agricultural Statistician No other common forage crop needs so much lime as does al- pared to 99.0 a year earlier, while f a jf a j n the East all soils except the reports on demand averaged those of limestone origin generally 71.1 per cent of normal in compari- j re q U i re itme for alfalfa. Even son with 84.8 per cent on April 1, ii me stone soils are often acid at 1930. Expressing the supply as a the surface and need lime before per centage of the demand for the a if a if a will succeed on them, two dates, a figure of 158.8 is ob- Limestone soils that do not usual- probably nearly 2 1-2 per cent capped the crop and reduced the above production at this time last Eyes examin ed. Spectacles, Eye Glasses, and Artificial Eyes fitted without Drugs, Drops or Danger. DR. HENRY J; GODIN Optoinetristi 956 Broad Street Augusta, Ga. ly require additional lime occur in the black belt of Alabama and Mis sissippi and near Syracuse, N. Y. Limestone soils that do need lime are found in the Shenandoah Val ley. Except for the soils on the Pacific slope of the Northwest, most soils west of the 95th merid ian do not require liming for al falfa. .. x Serve different kinds of cereal for breakfast. The same kind ev ery moriiing becomes monotonous. Salt the cereal sufficiently and train the children to eat it without sugar.