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Thursday, May 21, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER SEVEN
Your Questions
Answered On Pro
duction Of Sweets
CLEMSON COLLEGE, May 18.—
Jn. reply «o numerous questions
by farmers on sweet potato pro
duction. L. P. Watson, extension
horticulturist, gives the following
answers:
Q. Can sweet potatoes be grown
profitably in South Carolina.
A. Yes. In the 1930 sweet po
tato contest, 209 growers had an
average yield of 118 bushels of
No. I’s per acre at an average cost
of $44.95 per acre.
Q. When should sweet potato
plants be set in the field?
A. Plants should be transplanted
to the field during May or the first
half of June.
Q. Should I plant sprouts or
vines?
A. Vine cuttings are apparently
superior to sprouts for the produc
tion of disease-free sweet potatoes
of high quality.
Q. How far apart should I set
my plants?
A. Rows should be spaced 36 to
40 inches apart with plants 8 to 12
inches apart in the row.
Q. How much fertilizer should
I use and what kind?
A. Use 800 to 1000 pounds of
an 8-3-10 or 8-3-12 (PNK) per acre.
For a complete account of the
sweet potato contest, ask the Publi
cations Division, Clemson College,
for Extension Circular m.
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ed. Spectacles,
Eye Glasses,
and Artificial iCyes fitted without
Drugs, Drops or Danger.
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Optometristi
956 Broad Street Augusta. Ga.
A sapphire weighing thirty
karats is reported to have been
discovered in Burma.
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The king of Siam who is over
here for an operation on his eyes,
will probably close them when he
is presented with an American
doctor’s bill.
Forest Conservation
Gather At Asheville
National Conclave
National Problems of Land Utiliza
tion, Soil Erosion, Forest Acquisi-
ti' > ~» and F*ood Control to be
Discussed by The American
Forestry Association
Forest conservationists from ev-
ry s:c icn cf the country will
ather at Asheville, North Caro-
na, on June 3. 4 and 5 to hear
he nation’s outstanding authori
ses diseuss such national problems
>s land utilization, flood control,
oil erosion, state and federal for-
2St and park administration, and
protection of wild life at the Fifty-
Sixth Annual Meeting of the Am
erican Forestry Association, the
ildest forest conservarion organi
sation in America. The conference
vill be held jointly with the North
Carolina Forestry .Association.
Terming soil erosion as the
greatest national land menace in
America, and as the chief attrib
ute to destructive floods, the con
ference is expected to bring to
light some astounding facts con
cerning its influence on the life of
the nation, and to present direct
plans for its control. This sub
ject will be dealt with by Hugh
Hammond Bennett, of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, one of
the country’s outstanding author
ities on the subject. Forest con
servation as a function of State
Govefriment, a subject which has
developed nation-wide interest, will
be discussed by Col. Henry S.
Graves, dean of the Yale Forest
School, and at one time Chief For
ester of the United States. Col.
Graves is one of a small group who
started the Forestry movement in
America.
America’s land situation, with
special reference to the southern
Appalachians, will be presented to
the conference by Dr. L. C. Gray,
in charge of Land Economics of
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, while R. Y. Stuart, Chief For
ester of the United States, will
speak on the National Forests in a
co-ordinated program of land use.
The subject of state forests and
parks will be presented by William
G. Howard, . superintendent of
Lands anjei Forests of the State of
New York. Dr. Wallace W. At
wood, president of Clark Univers
ity, will tell of the meaning and
place of the National Parks. Other
speakers will be Dr. Frank R. Oast-
ler, of New York, Dr. ,Nehemiah
Boynton, of Medford, Massachu
setts, and James G. McClure, presi
dent of the Farmers Federation,
all nationally known figures.
Other features of the meeting
will be the planting of a walnut
tree from the historic grounds of
Mount Vernon by the Boy Scouts
of America in honor of the bi
centennial of George Washington.
Chief Scout Executive James West
will speak at this ceremony. The
American Forestry Cup will also be
awarded to the organization or
agency doing the best work in for
estry education during 1931.
A number of interesting field
trips have been arranged, includ
ing the famous Biltmore Estate,
the cradle of forestry in America,
and to Mt. Pisgah and the Pisgah
National Forest, and into the
Great Smoky National Park.
Founded in 1875, The American
Forestry Association is the oldest
forest conservation body in Am
erica. Playing an important part
in the establishment of the Na
tional Forests, it has consistently
worked for adequate forest fire
protection, reforestation of denud
ed lands, sound remedial forest
legislation and the elimination of
forest waste. One of its chief ed
ucational instruments ' is the
magazine “American Forests.”
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Nearly 32 Millions
Visited The National
Forests In 1930
Recreational use of the national
forests continued its steady growth,
with 31,904,515 visitors last year,
according to complete reports an
nounced by the Forest Service,
United States Department of Agri
culture, today.
Although this was an increase of
146.284 as compared with the pre
ceding year, the gain was small in
comparison with that of 1929 when
the estimated number of visitors
increased about 8 million as com
pared with 1928.
Many of the 151 national forests
participated in last year’s gain.
Campers and picnickers showed in
creases in number but guests of
hotels and resorts located in na
tional forests showed a slight de
crease. Campers last year num
bered 1,980,736 as against 1,902,961
for 1929. Most of the gain was
in the national forests of the West.
Estimates for picnickers showed 3,-
272,682 for 1930, against 3,056,456
for 1929, with increases both in the
East and in the West.
With forest highway and road
extension making nore areas ac
cessible, the great majority of rec
reationists last year entered the
national forests by automobile. The
total number of visitors traveling
by motor increased from 28,786,-
516 in 1929 to 29,541,607 last year.
Hikers entering the forests also in
creased—from 202,272 to 220,853.
The Forest Service last year add
ed several hundred miles to its sys
tem of national forest roads and
trails, and also improved many
camps and picnic grounds for free
public use. In these camps drink
ing water systems have been de
veloped, sanitary facilities provid
ed, and fire risks minimized. Im
provement of public camps is con
tinuing and there are now more
than 1,500 recognized public camp
ing grounds in the national forests.
The Forest Service also has allotted
suitable sites under special use per
mits for Boy Scout, club, summer
school, and municipal camps.
“Although essentially utilitarian
in purpose, the national forests
play an important part in the life
of many, regions as recreational
grounds,” says the Forest Service.
“Rapid growth of population and
travel facilities have brought the
national forests into greater prom
inence for their inspirational, edu
cational, and recreational values.
Social needs have become as urg
ent in many of the forests as eco
nomic use.”
Camping in Michigan national
forests gained 60 per cent last year.
There were gains for campers also
in North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Oregon, California,
and Arizona. Arizona was the ban
ner State for gains in all types of
national forest recreation, with a
million and a quarter more visi
tors than in 1929, a gain of about
30 per cent.
California still leads with the
largest number of national forest
recreationists, more than 16 million
entering the forests last year. The
White Mountain National Forest in
New Hampshire led all the rest of
the East, with 1,928,000 visitors.
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Garden Problems
Studied At Meet
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THE THIRD OF A SERIES OF
MEETINGS ON GARDENING
HELD AT MERIWETHER
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The third gardening meeting
held at Meriwether Thursday night,
May 14, was well attended and
keen interest was manifested. The
problem discussed at this meet
ing was “The detection and con
trol of the more common insects
and diseases which attack garden
vegetables.” A close watch of the
plants so as to be able to check the
first damage, and a supply of pois
on materials kept always on hand,
also the possession of a good spray
and dust gun are the fundamental
requirements for the proper con
trol of garden insects and diseases,
according to the information stud
ied. Direct control measures for
specific diseases and insects were
studied and each member of the
class obtained a copy of these con
trol measures for future reference.
The attendance was as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ryan, Mr. and
Mrs. M. C. Cassels, Mrs. Marie
Minarik, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Jones,
Louise Ryan, Joyce Bridges, Mrs.
R. H. Middleton, Mrs. R. A. Cobb,
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Rich, Ben T.
Bunch, A. M. Bass, Billie Bass,
Beryl Bass, Claudia Bass, Thos.
Mason, H. L. Hines and Mrs. W. E.
Keller. . •
Itemize Annual
Insect Bill At
$2,000,000,000
About 6,000 species of insects
collectively destroy $2,000,000,000
worth of property in America each
year, according to J. A. Hyslop,
chief of the insect pest survey, Un
ited States Department of Agricul
ture. Thirty-six pests cause near
ly half cf the damage, and at least
two-thirds of the damage is pre
ventable.
Mr. Hyslop recognizes that mone
tary estimates of insect damage
can not be precise if. for no other
reason than the fact that destruc
tion of part of a crop by an insect
may enhance the money value of
the remainder. But they do serve
to indicate the relative destruc
tiveness of the pests.
Most notorious in the insect
underworld, Mr. Hyslop says, is the
boll weevil, which annually destroys
12 per cent of the cotton crop, or
cotton worth $163,000,000. To this
must be added $1,500,000 a year
that growers spend in an attempt
to control the weevil.
Next in destructiveness is anoth
er pest of the cotton crop, the boll-
worm, which, because of its vers
atility in feeding, is likewise known
as the corn ear worm and the to
mato fruit worm. Its destruction
is estimated at $24,000,000 on the
cotton crop, $75,000,000 on field
corn, $4,000,000 on sweet corn, and
$500,000 on tomatoes. Collectively,
these damages exceed $100,000,000.
Each year insects damage for
ests and forest products worth
about $138,000,000. One of these,
the spruce bud worm, ranks third
in our list of “public enemies” by
reason of an annual damage of
$71,000,000. In the 10-year period
1910-1920 it destroyed about 250,-
000,000 cords of pulpwood—enough
to supply the Nation for , about 25
years at the present rate of de
mand.
Termites, or white ants, add 1
per cent annually to the deprecia
tion of wooden buildings in this
country. Their damage to farm
buildings alone reaches about $29,-
000,000 annually.
Cattle grubs cause a loss to the
beef industry of nearly $30,000,000
annually, and twice as much to the
dairy industry. The damage to
hides alone amounts to about $5,-
000,000 a year.
Concerning the long list of in
sects that attack stored grain,
dried foods, clothing, and furni
ture and those household nuis
ances, the cockroaches, ants, and
fleas, Mr. Hyslop says the damage
is incalculable. Nor can we meas
ure the great drain by insects on
the energy, thrift, efficiency, and
comfort of man and beast, and the
toll of diseases transmitted by
these parasites.
The Federal Government ex
pends annually about $2,500,008 in
entomological research, some.;years
more than $5,500,000 in eradicatidrl
campaigns and in the maintenance
of quarantines to keep dangerous
insects out of this country. _ * '
THINGS WORTH
KNOWING
The metal lithium is so light that
it floats readily on water.
One establishment in Germany
fattens 7,000,000 geese a year.
The so-called glass snake, which
has no limbs, is really a lizard.
In the last three years electricity
has been made available to more
than 250,000 farms*
The leaning tower of Pisa, un
stable as ^appears, has withstood
several severe earthquakes.
Even in this: hiachinery age,
about 95 per cent of America’s
dairy cows are milked by hand.
Even in this age of steel, wood
is still the most widely used ma
terial for construction purposes in
the United States.
The world’s most ancient flying
creatures, the pterodactyls, or fly
ing reptiles, had wings made of
thin leathery skin.
The suicide rate in American
cities reached a peak in 1929.
The Alaskan brown bear is the
large s t species of living bear.
Iceland’s summer climate runs
a temperature average 50 to 55 de
grees.
* The name of the chemical ele-;
ment “Masurium” means the met
al of Prussia, Masuria being an
other name of Prussia.
A clock in an observatory at
Sydney, Austrailia, is operated by
sunlight.
In the last five years, 297,900,-
000 game fish have been planted
in Montana waters.
A Massachusetts plant inventor
has produced a plant which grows
potatoe g at its roots and tomatoes
.rcm the r:ta.k.
The editor cf a well-known med
ical journal states his belief that a
specific cure for cancer will prob
ably never oe found.
Many so-called cold-blooded ani
mals can breathe through their
ckins.
The United States gets 41 per
cent of it g tin supply by recover
ing it from waste articles.
A frog frozen in a ball of mud
may become as lively and hungry
as ever when the ice melts.
It is predicted by some highway
experts that by 1990 the United
States will have 71,000,000 auto
mobiles, one to every three inhab
itants.
Study of a baby gorilla during
its first three years of life shows
that the young gorilla grew more
slowly than a baby boy would have
grown.
The explorer Fridtjof Nansen be
queathed one fourth of hi g proper
ty to the Nansen fund which is
used in scientific explorations.
German investigators have found
iodine in coal.
Eighteen karat gold contains 75
per cent cf pure gold.
Recent census figures show that
the city of Mexico contains 107,-
000 more women than men.
Insects with biting mouths are
fought by using poisons on the
plants they devour, but sucking
insects have to be fought with
dusts and sprays.
The "quick-freezing process of
preserving foods may soon be a
common place feature of our mar
keting.
A gold watch lost twenty years
ago by John E. Frazer, of Hal
stead, Kas., has been found by a
road grading crew. It was little
damaged.
During the fiscal year of 1928
Los ^hgeles harbor ranked sec
ond to New York on tonnage of
foreign exports, according to the
federal shipping board.
A vegetable garden that grows
rapidly usually forecasts well-
flavored vegetables, says a Cor
nell agriculture J expert.
T£e ancient Romans used lead
extensive# in plumbing.
The world is.using sixty-three
different kinds of standard time.
A new rayon factory, said to be
Europe’s largest, has been com
pleted near Leningrad.
The automobile industry spent
more for advertising than any oth
er American business last year.
New Orleans claims one of the
world’s widest streets, *. for its
Florida Walk covers 438 feet be
tween property lines.
The common cold is more com
mon among yOung men in their
twenties than among middle-
aged men, statisticians have found.
Mayan Indians of the prehis
toric American tropics used pot
tery stamps to impress colored
designs on their bodies, accord
ing to J. Eric Thompson, archael-
ogist.
Antelope have a deep-rooted ob
jection to allowing anything to
cross their path, and if a man at
tempts to pass a band of these
grazing animals they invariably
will swing across the trail.
Alaska is in approximately the
same latitude as Scandinavia.
A tornado may travel as slowly
as ten miles an hour, or it may
speed at sixty.
Gas warfare has proved effec
tive in killing of ant colonies.
Baptist Ministers’
School Meets At
Hartsville June 22-27
The fourth session of the state
Baptist ministers’ school will be
held at Coker College. Tune 22-27.
Dr. Chas. A. Jones, dean of the
school, announces that the faculty
for this year will be rV .. --
est ever secured for this school. Dr.
John R. Sampey, President • . hi
Southern Baptist Theological Sem
inary, will present a course in “The
Prophet Isaiah,”; Dr. V/. O. Carver
of Louisville Seminary, will pre
sent a course in “Comparative te-
ligion”; and Dr. W. W* Barnes of
the Southwestern Baptist Theolog
ical Seminary, will present a course
in “American Baptist Church His
tory.” Baptist ministers from all
over the state wiT be in attend
ance upon this school. All class and
lecture work will be conducted dur
ing the morning and evening
hours, leaving the afternoon free
for informal conferences, recrea
tion and fellowship.
The minister c^n bring his fam
ily with hini and find helpful in
struction and fellowship for them,
as the W. M. U. camps, classes and
conferences will be in session at
the same time and place.
The ministers’ school is one unit
of the great Baptist- General As
sembly, which will complete its
seventeenth session at this time.
This is the third time the sessions
of the assembly have been held at
Coker College.
Other assembly units are: The
Baptist State Sunday School Con
vention, June 15-16-17-18; - the
State B. Y. P. U. convention, June
19-20-21; the state evangelistic
day, June 22; and the state mis
sionary program, June 24.
It has been the aim of the as
sembly management to build the
assembly program so as to con
tribute to every phase of the de
nominational life. Complete pro
grams are now available and may
be had by directing requests to Mr.
J. L. Corzine, Baptist House, Co
lumbia.
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Agricultural
Teacher’s Schedule
FOR WEEK OF MAY 25TH-30TH
Monday—May 25, Flat Rock, 2:00
-6:00 p. m.
Tuesday—May 26, Modoc, 2:00-
6:CO p. m., also evening class meet
ing, 8:00-9:00 p. m.
Wednesday—May 27, Parksville,
2:00-6:00 p. m.; evening class meet
ing, 8:00-9:00 p. m.
Thursday—May 28, Meriwether
and Clarks Hill, 2:00-6:00 p. m.;
evening class meeting, 8:00-9:00 p.
in.
Friday—May 29, special calls.
Saturday—May 30, clerical work.
W. H. WOOTEN.
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Schedule Of Services
At Colored Churches
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Schedules of services at the Col
ored Churches are as follows:
Young Mt. Zion, Chappell, First
Sunday.
Old Mt. Zion, Epworth, Second
Sunday.
Bethany, McCormick, Third
Sunday.
New Hope, Plum Branch, Fourth
Sunday.
REV. J. F. MARSHALL,
^ Pastor.
Springfield, First Sunday.
Ebernezer, Second Sunday.
Shiloh, Third and Fourth Sun
days.
REV. DOUGLASS,
Pastor.
Zion Chappel, First Sunday.
Piney Grove, Second Sunday.
Bailey Bethel, Third Sunday.
REV. W. S. MIMS, i
Pastor.
Liberty Spring, Second Sunday.
Mt. Moriah, Third Sunday.
REV. WILLIAM PETERSON,
Pastor.
Cedar Spring, first Sunday.
Shady Grove, second Sunday.
Mt. Herman and Mt. Lebanon
third Sunday.
Carry Hill, fourth Sunday.
REV. C. M. MIDDLETON,
Pastor.
St. Charlotte, First Sunday.
Mt. Moriah, Second Sunday.
Hosannah, Third Sunday.
New China, Fourth Sunday.
REV. E. D. TALBERT,
DULL u , pastor.^j