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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.
You saved to make your dream.
come true but are all the
savings you invested in it
protected with sufficient
dependable insurance?
will get only eight cents a pound.
“September and early October
are usually the high months in the
fall, while March and April are
high in the spring. If farmers *lo
not have their hogs up tjo weight
; when the high market comes, they
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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.”
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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.
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The first cheese factory in the
United States was erected in 1852
in Oneida County, New York.
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- | 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ”
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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
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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.
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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. >
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