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Thursday, May 7, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER THREE
Widows
(Robert Quillen in Fountain
Iml Tribune.)
Tennessee Honors
Revolutionary Hero
WASHINGTON, D. C., ° —
Representatives of the State of j
Tennessee recently unveiled a sta-; strangest of all women are
tue of John Sevier, Indian fighter, w id 0WS . statistics prepared by life
Revolutionary hero. Mason, and insurance companies reveal the
first Governor of Tennessee, in the fact ^ average estate lasts
National Statuary Hall in the Na- | ess than twelve months in the
tion’s Capitol. hands of the widowed beneficiary.
John Sevier, bom in Harrison- The wonder is that any estate lasts
burg, Va., in 1745, is credited with so long. x n this age of sex equality
laying out the present village of an ^ female freedom, you would ex-
New Market. When the frontier p e ct women to reveal in business
moved westward he migrated to matters the same shrewdness
what is now eastern Tennessee. shown in searching for a bargain
He served in the Revolutionary or a husband. But the sad truth
Army and in the famous Battle of i s that the average widow hasn’t a
Kings Mountain, the turning point h ck of sense w hen it comes to
of the Revolution, Sevier led the money matters. Now and then
first charge of the famous left you’ll find a spunky, matter-of-
wing. It was here that he made j ac t one> hut in nearly every case
famous his battle cry: “Here they j s on g w ho learned business
are! Come on, Boys, come on!” sen se while bossing an impractical
.Later he served as Brigadier Gen- husband. Those who have no
eral in the U. S. Army. He was a training before they are widowed
member of U. S. Congress from usually are as helpless as babies.
North Carolina 1789-91. He was *i«h e i r very efforts to be shrewd and
first Governor of Tennessee 1796- economical are merely new ways of
May Farm Calemlar
THINGS THAT SHOUT,I> ^ OONE
DURING THIS MONTH
1801 and served another term 1803-
09. He also served as a member
of Congress from Tennessee 1811
to 1815 the year of his death.
losing money. Their ignorance of
the world and their trust in rogues
is tragic. Of course I shall be
scolded for saying such things, but
Like most of the early patriots the saying is needed. Wives know,
and heroes of colonial days Sevier or should know, that most of them
was a member of the Masonic Frat- . will survive their husbands. The
emity. He served as the Master of m ost elementary common sense
Lodge No. 2, Knoxville, Term., in should prompt them to learn some-
180 °* thing about business matters be-
—txt fore they are left alone with noth-
Cutting too much pulpwood ing between them and destitution
without an assured market is risky except a few thousand dollars of
for the farmers, according to the: life insurance. If they won’t learn
Virginia extension forester. If the theij* husbands should leave them
wood is not sold, it will be only a the kind' of insurance that pro-
few months until decay sets in, and ! vides a monthly income which
much work and wood will be wast- ! neither folly nor extravagance can
cd. , | dissipate.
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IT MUST BE RIGHT!
Manjy times a life depends on the correct filling of a
prescription. At least the safe recovery from illness or af
fliction is dependent upon it.
There must be no guessing or no inferior or unfresh
drugs used. You can depend on us to fill it exactly right
for maximum benefit to the patient. We use all possible
speed, yet work carefully and use only the best drugs.
PATENT MEDICINES AND PACKAGE DRUGS
We always have a most complete stock of high grade pat
ent medicines and package goods. We handle only that
which has been tried aqd proved good.
You can depend on us having what you want and need
in every line and our years of experience enables us to
give you expert advice.
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C.
Tiflin ii i !■ —
That New Living Room Suite
is here in our fine new showing.
How do we know we have the one you want? Be
cause our showing is so complete and attractive that
you are certain to find just what youj want at the
price vou can afford to pay.
THE NEWEST 1931 CREATIONS
Pillow back construction; low, flat arms; new
shades and patterns in coverings; deeper, more com
fortable springs; and many other notable features
are embodied in these new suites.
The prices are the lowest ever offered. You
must come and see them now.
I S STROM’S Furniture Store
* Main Street - McCORMICK, S. C.
MORE TIME TO PLAY
We offer housewives and farmers more time to play.
How? Because you can save time by depending on this
store for your needs. You don’t have to shop around to
buy your household and farm equipment—just come here
where you are assured of getting just what you want ev
ery time.
GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE YOU—
and prove to you that it is far more pleasing tq depend on
us for every general need in the hardware line.
Our prices are always the very lowest possible and our
implements and utensils the very best quality.
WHITE HARDWARE CO.
MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C.
11 ■■"Hi , 1 1 ji,
Agronomy
Join the five-acre cotton contest.
Chop cotton to leave 20,000 or
more plants per care.
Side-dress cotton immediately
after chopping with 50 pounds of
soluble nitrogen material, addition
al applications to be made later.
Have ready sufficient cowpeas,
soybeans, or velvet beans to plant
all grain stubble.
Side-dress early com with soluble
nitrogen material.
Horticulture
Sow cabbage and collard seed
about May 1 for transplanting in
August.
Plant tomato seed for trans
planting in July.
Mulch tomatoes heavily with
straw or leaves to hold moisture
and prolong fruiting.
Cultivate gardens frequently to
save moisture.
Do not cultivate beans while the
foliage is wet.
Apply nitrate of soda to garden
srops if not grmying well.
Do not cut young asparagus too
closely; fertilize and manure the
bed after cutting season.
When the strawberry crop is off,
remove the mulch and cultivate. If
new plants are needed, allow the
first runners to take root.
Injurious Insects and Diseases
Spray fruit trees for curulio,
codling moth, and diseases.
Spray pecans with Bordeaux
mixture to control scab.
Band apple trees for codling
moth by May 15.
Control melon anthracnose with
4-4-50 Bordeaux spray.
Control Irish potato and tomato
diseases and insects with Bordeaux
lead arsenate spray.
To avoid serious budwom injury
plant com in lower South Caro
lina about May 5; middle South
Carolina May 10; upper South
Carolina May 20.
Beer
Give the hive the full opening
for the front door.
Put supers on, using full sheets
of foundation comb.
Do not let the queen get crowd
ed for laying space if she does they
will rwarm.
If hives have too many drone
cells, cut them out and fill the
frame with a full sheet of founda
tion nomb.
If bees are in hives other than
loose frame, transfer them in loose
::rame hives.
Agricultural Engineering
Have disks on harrow sharp and
ATS DIE
so do
SNAP,
hind.
—try
mice, once they eat RAT-
And they leave no. odor be-
Don’t take our word for it
a package. Cats and dogs
won’t touch it. _Rats pass up all
food to get RAT-SNAP. Three sizes.
35c size - 1 cake - enough for
Pantry, Kitchen or Cellar.
65c size - 2 cakes - for Chicken
House, coops, or small buildings.
$1.25 size - 5 cak^s - enough for
all farm and out-buildings, storage
buildings, or factory buildings.
Sold and guaranteed bv
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
McCormick, S. C.
Hog Prices Low, But
Look Favorable
CLEMSON COLLEGE, May 5.—
Marketing of hogs for slaughter
has been relatively heavy . since
the beginning of the year and mar
ket hogs have been fed to a better
finish and heavier weight than
conditions last fall indicated, says
O. M. Clark, farm management
specialist, who states that the
relatively heavy marketing along
with the weak consumer demand
delayed the up swing in prices
which usually occurs after Christ
mas until about March 1. Prices
have improved since that time but
are still unusually low.
Hog slaughter in the United
States for the three months, Jan
uary through March, has been
above that for the corresponding
period of last year. This relative
ly large slaughter in the face of a
weak domestic and foreign demand
has resulted in a larger accumula
tion of pork and lard stocks during
these three months than in the
corresponding period of 1930.
On January 1, 1931, there were
nearly a million fewer hogs than
there were on January 1, 1930. In
view of* the fact that there were
fewer hogs on farms and the rela
tively large slaughter since Janu
ary 1, the total slaughter for the
remainder of the hog marketing
year will, according to Mr. Clark,
probably be smaller than for the
corresponding months of 1930 and
last year’s slaughter was smaller
than any previous year since 1926.
There has been some improve
ment in the domestic demand for
pork products. Foreign demand
has remained dull and because of
the large supply of hogs in Europe
probably will not greatly improve
duiing the remainder of the pres
ent season. The domestic demand
will probably improve as the year
advances, such improvement will
be reflected in hog prices. The
rapidity of improvement is con
tingent upon the improvement in
FORD BRAKES
ARE UNUSUALLY
EFFECTIVE
Reliability and safety
due to simple design and
careful construction
ONE OF the first things you will notice when you
drive the Ford is the quick, effective action of its
four-wheel brakes.
They are unusually, safe and reliable because
they are mechanical, internal expanding, with all
braking surfaces fully enclosed. This prevents mud,
water, sand, etc., from getting between the band
and drum and interfering with brake action.
Other outstanding features of the Ford are the
Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield, four Hon-
daille double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers,
aluminum pistons, torque-tube drive, more than
twenty ball and roller bearings, Rustless Steel,
reliability, economy, and long life.
You save when you buy the Ford and you save
every mile you drive.
THE FORD DE K.UXE PHAETON
THIRTEEN BOHY TYRES
430
630
(F, o. b. Detroit, plus freight and delivery. Bumper* and
spare tire extra at low cost. You can purchase a Ford on
economical terms through the Authorized Ford Finance
Plans of the Universal Credit Company,)
properly set for cutting In cover , busines3 conditions and thereby vhe
crops. A weed chain on two-horse | consumer’s ability to purchase,
turning plow helps in turning un- whlle business conditions show
der crops. signs of ’ improvement the revival
The spike-tooth harrow or rotary will not likely be rapid enough to
hoe can be used to advantage in cau:e hog priC es to average as
breaking crust on stiff land. ihigh for the remainder of the mar-
Any row crop can be sided with keting season as for the corr e S - ,
two-horse cultivators. Use disks or pcnc iing period of last year. Even PVianPP Wp Put TTlt Onr Sharp
small sweep on each side of plants. though hog prices are now low and ^CieiltlStS 560 ^nailCC W6 rill Up UUT 5113r6
Order repairs and get grain
binder ready for grain harvest.
The combine harvester-thresher the ou ti 0 ok for feed prices, Mr.
Clark thinks the outlook for hog
production is favorable.
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will not likely improve rapidly and
in view of the supply of hogs and
IT’S NO TRICK AT ALL
To prepare appetizing and different meals and yet be
economical if you depend on this grocery for your food
stuffs.
Our fine variety makes it possible for you to have a dif
ferent menu every meal for every day in the week and yet
have the things you like best.
Our low prices enable you to choose at will without the
possibility of exceeding your budget.
Depend on us for all of your foodstuffs and learn just
how satisfactory it will prove.
I. T. MARTIN
Main Street, Mcpormick, S. C. ’Phone 43
is a great labor saver where acre
age will justify purchase.
Animal Husbandry
Breed sows about May 12 for
September farrow.
Rotate pastures for sheep every
wo or three weeks.
Treat heavily infested flocks for
stomach v/orms.
Destroy weeds by mov/ing per
manent pastures.
Dip sheep and lambs for lice and
ticks after shearing.
Dairying
Feed lambs grain in creep.
Plan for two tons of legume hay
(soybean or peavine) for each ma
ture cow and one ton for each
yearling.
If a silo is planned for this
fall, have ample corn or cane to
fill.
Plant enough extra com to sup
ply eight bushels of corn-and-cob
meal per cow this winter.
Sow one-half acre of Sudan
grass, or Teosinti or Pearl millet
for soiling purposes in July and
August.
Do not graze plermanent pastures
too closely .
Clean out the barns and premis
es to save manure and destroy
breeding places for flies.
Poultry
Clean and disinfect the brooder
houses each week.
Cull all weak, slow growing pul
lets and sell as broilers.
Cull the non-laying hens and
sell. Do not keep boarding hens.
Remove males from laying flock
when incubation season is over.
Produce infertile eggs.
Provide shade for growing
chicks.
Protect Potato Foliage
With Dust Or Spray
CLEMSON COLLEGE, May 5.—
Insects and diseases affecting the
foliage cf the Irish potato can be
effectively controlled with a com
bination spray or dust, states Al
fred Lutken, extension entomolog
ist and plant pathologist.
The most effective spray is made
by adding two pounds of lead ar
senate to 50 gallons of 4-4-50 Bor
deaux mixture. A dust substitute
may be made by mixing 20 pounds
of hydrated copper sulphate, 24
pounds of lead arsenate, and 56
pounds of hydrated lime. The dust
should be applied at the rate of
15 to 20 pounds per acre.
The first application should be
made as soon as Colorado potato
beetles appear. Mr. Lutken recom
mends additional application
about every 10 to 14 days to pro
tect the new foliage.
The proper use of this combina
tion spray or dust will protect the
foliage from the Colorado potato
beetle, flea beetles, blister beetles
and any of the leaf eating insects.
Injury by the leaf hoppers will be
prevented by the Bordeaux mix
ture.
The fungus diseases, which can
be controlled by fungicides, aro
early blight and late blight. It is
much more effective to keep the
plants covered with the fungicides
to prevent disease than to attempt
control after the disease appears.
For Human To Live
Average Of 200 years
(The 3i!lon H?raid)
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., ’ 2 .—
Man’s chance to live 200 years was
discussed at the opening of a three
day session of the American Philo
sophical society here last Thurs
day.
He may expect soon, it was as-
Men who have seen expensive
automobiles on the Coastal high
way and ■'uxariotu private cars on
! the railroads, speeding north, o. % -
south, have been heard to ask:
j -Where do they get the money?’’
Last week the manufacturer of a
popular brand of soup and canned
vegetables died in a lorthern city.
serted, to add 10 more years so 1113 estate was appraised at $114,-
that the majority of us live to 70. 000,000 or nearly double the value
Present medical science may later 0 f a South Carolina cotton crop,
carry the average to 90, but beyond The Herald wonders how many
that lies a barrier—ignorance. South Carolinians helped to build
The beginning of a knowledge j up that big fortune by sending
that may lift even this barrier! their money away for the same
was described by Lee K. Fran- ' coups and canned vegetables they
kel, second vice-president of the
Metropolitan Insurance company.
‘T am making a conservative
could have made or bought at
home.
No doubt the ingredients of the
statement,” he said, “when I say soup or the canned vegetables were
that there is no evidence at this raised on South Carolina soils, sold
moment that human life may be a t a small profit or no profit at
prolonged beyond its presumed all, and bought back at high
biologic limits. All the evidence prices.
indicates that man, like other The Herald has, of course, no
animals, lives an alloted time, criticism to make of the manufac-
All that has been done thus far turer of the soups and canned
has been to save the wastage of vegetables. He was, no doubt, a
life at the younger ages. remarkable business genius and
“Yet we must remember that earned every dollar he made out
man differs from other animals of his soups and vegetables. He
in that he is a reasoning being. was entitled to all the good things
Certain insects live a day. The that his wealth placed within his
elephant lives 200 years. These reach. If there is any room for
animals adapted themselves to criticism the blame rests upon the
their environment. Man has not people who helped to build up this
only adapted himself to his en- big fortune with their own hard-
vironment, but in many instances earned dollars.
has conquerred it. How far this The number of southern people
may go no one can tell.” who ride in expensive automobiles
Mr. Frankel quoted a 140-year- 0 r de luxe private cars is very, very
old report to this same American small.
Philosophical society showing that - — -
in 1791 man’s average life was will rise to 70 “if we can further
about 35 years.- Today he said the reduce the incidence of transmiss-*
average expectation is 60, and it ible diseases.” * ,