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Thursday, July 9, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT j | FINEST ACRE OF CORN IN STATE M *1 Will Wage Fight Against Typhoid MEETINGS SOHEDtXED FOK SEVERAL PLACES IN COUNTY George Getsinger of Ridgcland, Jasper county, who produced highest official yield of corn on one acre in South Carolina last year and won statewide 4-H dub contest. He made 131 bushels on one acre. He used 400 pounds of ^ 8-4-4 fertilizer and 200 pounds of acid phosphate and side-dressed with 1,000 pounds of Chilean nitrate of soda put down in five applications of 200 pounds COLUMBIA, July 8.—To George 1 — Getsinger, of Ridgeland, Jasper ,^ e ^ ime P lowin & on Ma y County, goes the honor of produc- 20 yo un 8 Getsinger put down 200 ing the highest official yield of j pounds of 8-4-4 and on June 1 he com on one acre of land in South Put down 200 pounds of acid phos- . Carolina in 1930. In the face of a P hate - He P ut down 1 » 000 Pounds severe drought, he made a total of 134 bushels on his acre at a net profit of $88.20 and in so doing won a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress and the International Live Stock Show in Chicago, offer ed by the Chilean Nitrate 6f Soda Educational Bureau to the winner of £he 4-H club corn contest. At the beginning of the season, Chilean Nitrate of Soda in appli cations of 200 pounds each on May 28, June 7, June 15 and June 22 and June 28. His total cost for fertilizer wa^ $34.50 for the acre. The total cost of the acre, in cluding fertilizer, rent, labor was $45.30. Valuing the corn at $1.00 per bushel the gross proceeds were $134.00, leaving young Getsinger a young Getsinger, who is a member ne ^ profit of $88.20 on i/he acre, of the 4-H Club in Jasper County,; which demonstrates that corn # can told his county agent, J. P. Gra- de grown as a money crop when haip, under whose supervision he worked, that he had an ambition to make 150 bushels of corn on his acre and win the prize. While, as .his final yield shows, he did not make his 150 bushels, he did suc ceed in topping all of his rivals in the otate. Young Getsinger selected an acre of typical Norfolk sandy loam. He had a good cover crop on the land of oats, rye, rape and barley. In the spring the cover crop was turned down and the land broken to a depth of 10 inches. He plant ed his com in 3 feet, 10 inch rows and the stalks stood 12 inches in the drill with a perfect stand. The com was planted May 8 and 4? n —\niz of 3-4-4 fertilizer was used at the time of planting. At properly fertilized and cultivated. The yield was very carefully measured by officials of the exten sion service of Clemson College. Young Getsinger’s corn attract ed the attention of business men and farmers for a radius of fifty miles and farmers came in groups from adjoining counties to see this remarkable field. ‘ The Ridgeland section suffered from a prolonged drouth but by good cultivation and the use of quick acting nitrate this field of corn escaped serious dam ages. This field did not fire or burn during the dry weather while an adjoining field of wide rows, wide spaced and fertilized in the usual manner for that section, fir ed badly and produced not more than 15 bushels per acre. Training Camp handicap of too much waist line are now able to lace their leggins Breaks Friday without . acute sufferings. Careful ____ ^ | diet under supervision of experts TT _' . ^ J and supervised physical training (By H. J. Hindman, Capt. Inf. Res.) has turned the trlck Trainees will return to their FORT MOULTRIE, July 8. 750 no new ideas of neat- soldiers of . the Citizens Military Training camp here at Fort Moul trie will turn back their olive drab uniforms, receive their travel pay at the rate of five cents per mile liness and orderliness but will have formed^ the habit of putting things where belong. Thirty days of intensive training where every thing is built upon discipline will and return to Civilian life next Fri- f orm habits not easily forgotten day after have spent 30 days in the Many a lad who at one time would service of Uncle Sam, a vacation send his j lat sa jii n g i n t 0 the first with all expenses paid. empty chair or lose his best tie will During this training period many now cause his mother to gape with beads of perspiration have been as t 0 nishment as he puts every shed by each youth engaged in his thing in its proper place, effort to become a better citizen, | jj e m ight even get up for break- but at the same time many of the fast the first time he is called> cares of the world have been wash- ma i ce hi s bed, or wash and dry the ed away by the soothing waters of dishes if mot h e r or sister can as- Father Atlantic as the trainees sume the base tones of the first spent their leisure hours on the sergeant early in the morning. famous beaches of Sullivan’s Is- x. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ i Mother ,dad, and the rest of the r^' _ x ! , .. family will now have to brush up The central theme for the en- ,, , . , . ^ , x, _ ... , . on their history for sonme knows tire camp has been citizenship. , ^ J . T „ who Osceola was and why, of Jas- Realizing that It is necessary for a . . braverv of good citizen to be able to defend £ „ ^ u his country in time of a major how WU1 T M °“ ltrle .^ ho {emergency, the citizen-soldier has “°™ ed , n f e8ancl S0Clal P°f lo t n s^x^, x , . , in England when approached to u... a * forsake-the colonies, has seen the Due to the increasing number typhoid cases in the county, the County Council of Farm Women i c sponsoring the holding of clinics in four sections of the county for the purpose of giving the typhoid serum to those who wish it. Dr. W. G. Blackwell and Dr. Garnette Tuten will give the serum. As thexe is no Health Unit in the county it will be impossible for free serum to be administered this : year. The physicians will make a ; charge of only 75 cents for the three shots. i Everyone is urged to avail them selves of the opportunity to help keep down this dreaded disease of typhoid fever. Any colored peo ple who wish to take the serum may come on the same date. Fol lowing is a schedule of the time and place of the clinics: | July 13, 20, 27, Willington School House at 3:30 p. m. i July 15, 22, 29, Washington School House at 3:30 p. m. i July 17, 24, 31, Plum Branch School House at 3:30 p. m. t July 21, 28, and August 4th, Mc Cormick Court House, 3:30 p. m. MRS. J. M. BUSSEY, Pres. C. C. of F. W. IXX Edgefield Baptist S. S. Convention Meets 16 rij% r A .sc: Round the World Flyers Shown Planning Start of Harold Catty and Wiley Post (right) are shown looking at course of the flight they have electrified t!* >orld by making. Ten days was all the\' allowed for the ieat. Below are shown closeups of Post (left) aud. Catty. Above is shown Ruth Nichols’ plane shortly before it crashed in attempt to fly the Atlantic. First to Fly to Copenhagen fro The Sunday School Convention of the Edgefield Baptist Associa tion will be held with the First Baptist church of Edgefield on Thursday, July 16. when the fol lowing program will be carried out. 11:00—Devotions by Rev. C. Ross Pennington. Hymn. 11:15—Organization and Reports of Sunday Schools. 11:35—Special music by Mrs. J. A. Hungerpiller and Mrs. Claude Lyon. 11:45—Address—Rev. B. E. Wall. Hymn. j 12:20—The Duty of Church Offi cers to the Sunday School—Rev. O. L. Orr. Hymn. Prayer. 1:00—Adjourn for lunch. 2:15- .7?ng service. Prayer. Special music—Miss Ruth Kemp and Pittman Hightower. 2:30—“The Essentials of a Suc cessful Sunday School—Rev. C. G. Campbell. Reports of Committees. Closing Hymn. Benediction. X Picnic At White Town On Fourth Won Trip to Paris J means of national defense but the teaching of war has had no part in the schedule of this camp. Trainees entered the 30 day training period many of them with . . . shoulders stooped, heads bent with 1 ® a story k 00 ^ eyes gazing on the ground, feet battlements of Old Fort Moultrie and Sumter, has heard of the bat tle of Sullivan’s Island, knows the NO MORE inside of the Charleston Museum The people of White Town and elsewhere enjoyed a picnic the 4th of July at a spring near Mr. J. C. Jennings’ home. It was an nounced as a Sunday school pic nic but it seemed to be a reunion more than a picnic. Each family brought a well fill ed basket and there was an abund ance of fried chicken, sandwiches, pies, cakes, iced tea and lemonade. The table was ro well filled that no signs of hard times were to be seen. About two hundred were present and there were people from the following places there. Augusta, Meriwether, Parksville, Plum Branch, McCormick, Bethany, Greenwood and Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fowler from Meriwether and two daughters, Jessie Lee and Willie, and Mr. Wat son Crook from Augusta furnished some very delightful music and singing for the occasion. iCiany hearts were touched by the music and sweet songs that were sung. All enjoyed the occasion and each went away with the expecta tion of coming again next year. Otto Hillig, 54, wealthy photographer of Liberty, N. Y., and Holgar ! Hoiriis, the young pilot, finally got to Denmark after wandering over | Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany. Their gas gave out and they •had to alight in Bremen before finishing their trip. Viola Mach, 15, Tabor, S. Dak., is shown wearing the handsome tailored dress..she designed in the 4-H dress making contest. She is now chi a three weeks’ trip to Europe. Champ* pious from thirty-three states com peted. Poultry Letter, Asks For New Survey; V* 1 * July 1931 Rejects First Route 1 I The following letter by Miss (Lincolnton, (Ga.,) Journal of Several of the Blue Course dragging, and skins pale from in- Trainees have successfully com- door life. Now, as the youngsters P leted their four summers tour of march to martial airs, faces beam dut y- P assed the examinations and with a ruddy glow of sun-tan, wU1 soon be sporting the brass in heads are erect and eyes are off the signia of second lieutenants in the ground, shoulders are thrown back Officers Reserve Corps. Those of and feet are lifted smartly in time the lower courses are looking with with the music. longing eyes to the day that will Medical examinations at the be- ** nd tli em all dressed out in Sam ginning of camp revealed many of Browne 1:>eA ts and sabres, the youths underweight. The same Ye s, not one of the 750 trainees lads now boast of having gained will return ic civilian life without anywhere from five to ten pounds aking something bigger and bet- yhlle others started out under, ter in the way of ideals back home. RATS or mice, after you use RAT-SNAP It’s a sure rodent killer. Try a Pkg. and prove it. Rats killed with RAT-SNAP leave no smell. Cats or dogs won’t touch it. Guaranteed. 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 cakes - enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage buildings, or factory buildings. Sold and guaranteed by STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick, S. C. Juanita Neely has been received by Mrs. Nell A. Stallworth, Home Demonstration Agent and will be of interest to poultry raisers in the county: Dear Poultry Raiser: Your attention should be drawn to the fact that your poultry will be one of the main sources of cash income from the farm during the coming fall and winter. This is due to the low hatchery report this spring, and poultry has a bright outlook. In order to make the most from your flock excellent summer care should be taken of the young pullets. Do not fail to feed grow ing mash throughout the summer months, and give the pullets every chance to make good s rowth. When the general purpose pull ets are about five and a ha w> months or the egg type pullet Tour and a half months of age be yin feeding for egg production, ana move them to the laying house. A 'ecommended economical laying »nash can be mixed of the following ngredients: 200 lbs. yellow corn meal. 200 lbs. wheat shorts or mill run 100 ^s. fish meal. 5 lbs. salt. You will be interested to know I i hat Dr. W. K. Lewis, State Veter inarian, Columbia, S. C., is now in ! a position to help in combatinp i colds, roup and sore head in ttv ! •oultry flocks. The vaccination | nethod will be used and no chir f ^ is made except for the serum Where trouble of this kind is fouiv each year among the young stock i this preventive measure shoulc' be taken. It is best to vaccinate , the young pullets between the age: | of three to four months. Those of you wishing to haw ! your flock B. W. D. tested shoulr write Dr. Lewis regarding this in July or August in order that the veterinarians may line up thr work for the entire state. Keep improving your flock from year to year. It will pay. Sincerely yours, JUANITA NEELY, Extension Poultry Specialist. tXi Some men, when they are down, blame the law of gravitation. !ast week.) X- It never takes pessimists long to understand each other. Official rejection of the propos ed Lincolnton-McCormick highway route through the town of Lin- colnton as recommended by the highway engineers several weeks ago, and a request for another survey “that will serve the people of Lincolnton and at the same time be as economical as possible,” was contained in a resolution handed Monday to Judge Homer Legg commissioner of Lincoln county for transmission to the State Highway Department. The resolution was signed by W. L. Candler, Mayor pro tern, ano Councilmen E. L. Lockwood, W. S. Mims and Guy Moss. This step was taken by a ma jority of the board of town council man, they stated, as the only means of obtaining a survey of the “lower route” through the town end thereby ascertaining with definiteness the probable cost to the tax-payers of the proposed highway. • Proponents of th? “urmer route” as well as the “lower route” which is now asked for are hopeful that the highway authorities will grant the request and that the new sur vey will be undertaken as soon as possible. Judge Legg stated Thursday that the resolution as signed by a ma jority of the council had been for warded to District Engineer E. A. Fish at Gainesville for his atten tion. But there has hardly been time for a reply to have been made. From the expressions previously made both by Mr. Verner who made the original survey as well as by Mr. Fish, it is generally felt that the new survey will be grant ed but just when it will be ac complished no one was able to pre dict. -X * 1 - ,m > Silage made from corn, alfalfa, sweetclover and soybeans; and green alfalfa, cabbage, turnips, rape, and kale markedly affect the flavor and odor of milk if fed just before milking time. Give thesT feeds soon after milking. 1 xi When beauty is only roup ‘ deep, it’s not hard to see through. ±Xt Your slant on life depends on whether you are looking up or down. l GREENWOOD, S. C. THURSDAY and FRIDAY July 9th-10th Lav/rence Tibbett and Grace Moore in “NEW MOON” Saturday, July nth Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes in “THE CRIMINAL CODE” MONDAY and TUESDAY July 13 th-14th Gloria Swanson in “INDESCREET” with Ben Lyon and Arthur Lake WEDNESDAY, July 15th Constance Bennett in “THREE FACES EAST” THURSDAY and FRIDAY July 13 th-17 th jfi Robert Montgomery 4 in Z “SHIPMATES” 5 with y ^ Dorothy Jordan S FOR SALE—Poland China Pigs,. good and thrifty, $3.50 each fer quick sale. J. L. Leslie, Troy, S. C. Itpo. WANTED—^Through July and Au gust, large quantities of sound and well manufactured mixed Oak Cross Ties, delivered P. & N. Yard, Greenwood, S. C. Will pay cash for ties as hauled in. 7x9—8 1-2 feet, 65c; 7x8—8 1-2 feet, 55c; 6x8 —8 1-2 feet, 40c. R. M. Winn, Plum Branch, S. C. EXCHANGE YOUR WHEAT for HIGH GRADE FLOUR—Ship us your wheat for exchange. If you pay freight on the wheat, we pay return freight on the floor. Write us for particulars. SPARTAN GRAIN & MILL CO. Mills at Spar tanburg and Landrum. 4t. FOR SALE—Deering Binder and good Rake in good shape, for $45.00. Can be seen at my home at any time. R. F. Fteeland, Plum Branch, S. C.