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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA , PAGE NUMBER SEVEN Tin:r: day, August 6, 1931 LEGAL NOTICE OF ’'INAL fETT^EMENT AN3 DISCHARGE Notice *s hereby given that we, G. A. Traylor and J. O. Patterson, 1 p'~ Adminir/rat^^e of th° Estates of Dr. O. A. Traylor and M. T. Tray lor, will at 10 o’clock a. m., on Fri day, August 28, 1931, file with L. G. Bell, Prbbate Judge in and for the County of McCormick, South Caro lina, at his office at the court house in McCortnick, S. C.f our fin al account as such administrators and will then and thereupon ask for final discharge as such admin istrators. * j All* parties holding claims against said estates are hereby required to present them, properly attested, on or before said date, or be forever debarred payment. All owing eith er estate will please make settle-*! ment with undersigned on or be- j fore said date. G. A. TRAYLOR, M. D., August^, Ga., J/O. PATTERSON, McCormick, S. C., Administrators of the Estates of Dr. O. A. Traylor and M. T. Traylor. McCormick, S. C., July 28, 1931.—4t. Buy Good Pigs Right And Hit Market Right CLSMSON COLLEGE, Aug. 4.— “After buying good pigs right, hit ting the high market is a most im portant success factor in feeding hogs,” says Prof. L. V. Starkey, chief animal husbandman, discuss- ng profitable poik production and marketing. “This year there seems to be a marcity of nig* and a fairly good of .fteed on hand.” Mr. Star- key continues. “For this reason pigs may sell too high, and it is necessary to buy right if maximum profits are to be made on the feed ing operations. If we pay six dol- You thought and planned and i ars f or a pig weighing only 30 watched your home built. | pounds we are paying 20 cents a \ pound, though at selling time we Conc^atrateon keep ing It as you concen trated on building it. 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Sold and guaranteed by STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick. S. C. Paul J. Robinson Insurance Agency PHONE 66 McCormick Another of the wonders of na ture is how the roads hold^togeth er so long when we bring so much of them home in our clothes and automobiles. hog sold late is not worth any nore than the 175-pound hog was at the peak of prices. “In buying feeder pigs we should make sure that they are thrifty and of right weight to be ready for the high market. Since a good average daily gain is 11-2 pounds per head per day, we can figure about when our hogs will mature.” x To raise a pound of grain, the farmer also produces about a pound and a half of other material —straw, stalks, and the like. Chem ists are trying to convert these “wastes” into farm by-products. txt The first cheese factory in the United States was erected in 1852 in Oneida County, New York. i - | If "Each Could Choose a Craft ' * ^ = By Albert T. Reid S. €. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record of industrial activity lists items showing invest ment of capital, employment of 1 a- bor and business activities and op- oortunities. Information from which the oaragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be con sidered generally correct. Columbia — Borden Co. v/ill erect large plant somewhere in » South Carolina at early date to manufac ture powdered milk. McCormick — Messrs. M. G. & T. J. Dorn, Inc., erecting $20,000 build ing and plant on site of their old ginnery. Bamberg — During recent week more than 30 carloads of melons shipped from Bamberg County. Completion of Route No. 78 from Charleston to Augusta being con sidered by Highway Commission. Dillon — Clyde Hatch 1 eased building next to Ritz Theatre and will open another restaurant. Lake City — Remodeling nearing completion on Truluck Hotel building. Central — Central Roller Mills resumed operations. Georgetown — Georgetown Fish Scrap and Oil Comoany started operations at thfeir plant five miles up Sampit River. Society Hill — Welsh Neck Bap tist Church edifice completed. Simons Mayrant Company pav ing Highway No. 30 from Harts- ville to Society Hill. Kingstree — Mrs. D. W. Cribb building on Academy Street re modeled. Grading oractically completed on newly relocated Highway No. 261 from Manning to Santee bridge. Greer — Window of Young Jew elry Store remodeled. Charleston — Three free county library branches for Negroes op ened. Greer — Greer Mill Company re sumed operations. Road between Grover and Edisto River opened to vraffic. Greer—New service station prac tically completed on Hill Street by R. D. Dobson and leased by Fayne Oil Co. X Oats Better For Hogs Without Coarser Hulls CLEMSON.COLLEGE. Aug. 4.— Recurring to a previously published statement that it pays to grind oats for hogs and that ground oats may be used to the extent of 25 per cent of the ccncentrates in the ration for fattening swine, Prof. L. V. Starkey, chief animal husband man, says that the only objection to oats for hogs, namely, the bulk or fiber, may be overcome. Prof. Starkey’s suggestion is that if the farmer has a few hogs and some cheap labor he can take a coarse sieve and .veve the coarsest hulls out. These coarse hulls, which will, of course, contain bits of the kernel, may be used in the ration for cattle, horses, or sheep. At the present price of cats this suggestion will doubtless prove practical because it will help to utilize the oat crop and conserve the corn. txt The Concrete Mix The quantity of water in the mix affects the strength of concrete. Too much water weakens the con crete and too little prevents thor ough mixing. Tests show that con crete, to be strong, should be mix ed considerably drier than is cus tomary. A rough estimate of the quantity of water required for gen eral work is 4 to 5 gallons to each sack of cement. The Bureau of Ag ricultural Engineering recommends a fairly wet mixture—one that can not be piled up and yet does not flow readily—for thin sections when reinforcement is closely plac ed. Use a dry mixture—one about like damp earth—when the forms are to be removed immediately; and a medium mixture—one be tween the wet and dry mixes—for general work. X A hog in medium condition, gain ing rapidly in weight, ordinarily yields the best quality meat. Do not kill a hog that is losing flesh. A reasonable amount of fat should add juiciness and flavor to the meat, but an over-finish produces a high proportion of lard. ’ .. THE EAMHY DOCTOR JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D. THE EVIDENCE My readers may possibly wonder why I am so frequently denouncing the six o clock dinner; this, when so many of our foremost citizens in dulge the feast as a sort of triumph cf civilization; and, when so many of our leading physicians and dieticians patronize it without saying anything about it. Here are some of my reasons: (1) Freni a study of aged men and women, I find the longest-lived to be those who are hearty breakfast-eaters, and who do not load the digestive tract at the evening meat (2) From a study of vital statistics, I find that, six o’clock dinner devotees succumb to “heart disease” or cerebral haemorrhage, never later fhan the middle sixties. These are city-dwellers, who are too busy to eat necessary meals until.the day’s business is done. (3) If I were to inject the.expressed juice of the average six o’clock dinner into a patient’s veins. I feel sure I would kill him instantly! Well—the six o’clock glutton gets those juices into his veins more slowly, hence he is slower about dying of “heart disease” than he’d be with my intravenous injection. (4) The tired body—the tired, half-exhausted nervous system can not supply the necessary gastric and pancreatic fluids to digest a heavy six o’clock feed; hence the juices of the “gorge” are taken into the system by absorption, and in a shape that cannot be utilized in the repair of bodily tire—not all, nor half of it can be said to be fit. (5) Hence, it is carried wifh the blood-current, an active poison, unfit for the human systemic repair. Hence the eater does not want break fast next morning—has a feeble appetite at nopn—but is ready for the disappointing over-feed at the following six o’clock. The very art eries of the heart become poisoned slowly. The vessels of the brain give way in their walls. Short breath and apoplectic sjmiptoms de velop slowly, insidiously. They finally kill. '■ ' —■'■I ■■ ■■■ - * Supply-Demand A GOOD CODE FOR anybody Fixes Price PUBLICATION OF PRODUCTION COSTS HAS NO DIRECT EFFECT CLEMSON COLLEGE, Aug. 1.— Prices of staple commodities are determined by the law of supply and demand and not by the cost of production, reminds O. M. Clark, extension economist, who insists that the cost of production will in fluence price only insofar as it modifies supply. “Frequently objections are rais ed,” says Mr. Clark, “to the pub lishing of the cost of producing certain farm commodities, on the grounds that if the cost of produc tion is known and it happens to be low relative to the selling price the purchasing side of the market will force the price down to about the cost of production. Doubtless there are individual markets (es pecially of those commodities that have a limited number of buyers) where producers are paid less than the market price, but in these cases thefcost of production has nothing to do with determining what the buyers will pay. “The average price of a commod ity over a number of years is not far from the average cost of pro duction for the same period, but the cost of production does not de termine the price any particular year. If the price is high compar ed with the average cost of pro duction, more of the commodity will be produced, thus increasing the* supply and thereby reducing the price. And if the price is low. less of the commodity will be pro duced, thereby reducing the supply and consequently raising the price. Therefore, the average price is fix- I ed near the average cost of pro- iduction but not by it. “An individual’s cost of produc tion may be twice the market price or half the market price, but that fact, even though well known, would be ineffective upon the price. To illustrate, if by some fortunate chance farmers were able during a particular year to produce cotton at an average of one cent a pound land this fact were well known to buyers, the price, other things be ing equal, would be the same as if the production cost had been 50 cents a oound. “The cost figures of which are objected to are not average costs but individual costs and during average years would be below the price of the particular commodity concerned, but however, much be low, they would have no influence upon the price. Such costs of pro duction are published,” Mr. Clark explains,” to show the economy of certain practices, which are readily recognized as not being average practices. The best measure of the merits of a particular practice is the degree to which it reduces the cost of production or increases the price of the commodity or both. For this information to be utilized by producers it must be published ” txt Mahatma Gandhi, the deader of the revolution against British rule in India, told newspaper men the other day the rules of conduct which have governed his own life. He would not presume to lay down rules for anybody else, he said, but he had a code which he had con sistently followed. These are the rules of life, as Gandhi observes them! Love. Truth. Chastity. Fearlessness. Service to others. , Control of appetites. * Belief in the equality of all man kind. Abstention from alcohol, tobacco i and drugs. Belief that all great religions are of equal worth. • Taking nothing that is not paid , for by one’s own work. Valuing possessions not for themselves but for their useful ness. It is not easy to live in# a world which professes, in the main, such a code, and to obey it literally. For while these rules of conduct as laid down by Gandhi differ in no im portant respect.from those laid down by Jesus Christ and before Him by Buddha and other great religious teachers, very few human beings have had the hardihood to even attempt to live up to them. Gandhi himself, even his enemies | admit, comes about as close to it as any man in modern times. It seems to us that one of the causes of the trouble in which the world finds itself today is that most people have forgotten these ancient rules of life, which have always been sound and still arc. We have been carried away, all of us, both in America and elsewhere, by the idea that there is - seme magic in material possessions which will make us happy in spite of ourselves. Noting was ever farther from the truth X - More com growers should plow corn land in the fall, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture, though it does not recommend this practice for all soils and locali ties. Turning under a cover crop or sod in the fall increases the amount of plant food available the next summer. Fall and winter plowing is a good way of combat ing grubworms, cutworms, and corn, rootworms. The surface of fall- plowed ground is drier in the spring, but there is usually more moisture in the subsoil. Where there is much rain in the winter, it is better not to harrow fall-plow ed land in the autumn, says the department, especially with fine clay soils. Tests of fall and'spri.ng plowing preceding a dry summer show that the fall-plowed fields usually yield better. txt U. S. highway engineers m Costa Rica, seeking a route for the proposed Inter-American highway, had to shoot tigers near their camps. They sometimes dined on monkey meat. Several thousand new locomo- IX! tives have been ordered by the Washed eggs deteriorate moie railroads. Another reason to stop, rapidly in summer than do un- jlobk and listen. ' ‘ ^washed eggs. > »