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/ Thursday, October 8, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO ■V-- ■ OCTOBER Farm Calendar CLEMSON COLLEGE, Oct. 1.— To help guide busy farmers the Clemson specialists call attention to the following as being most im portant October jobs. Agronomy Plant winter cover crops to re duce loss of plant food and to add nitrogen. Plant oats early for best results. Sow rye early for improvement of poor soils. Sow barley as a source of excell ent feed. Horticulture Select varieties adapted to your section, and place order for fruit trees with a reliable nursery. Cut out all dead branches on fruit trees before the leaves drop. Set out strawberry plants in Oc tober. Thin out young turnips, beets, Irale, spinach and lettuce, to hast en development. Gather green tomatoes just be fore frost and store in a cool place; even half-grown ones will ripen. Plant Diseases and Insects Treat small grain seed for smut. Select sweet potato seed from disease-free vines. Use paradichlorobenzine by Octo ber 15 to control peachtree borer. Harvest corn early to reduce wee vil infestation. Fumigate stored grain with car bon bisulphide. Kill plant lice on fall vegetables with nicotine sulphate and soap Agricultural Engineering Clean out grain drills and set to plant desired quantity of seed. Set grain drill furrow-openers to run three inches deep. This may prevent some winter killing. Use three-mule riding turn plows and four-mule disc harrows for fall plowing if tractors are not available. Use corn husker and shredder or ensilage cutter to convert corn fod der into desirable roughage. Animal Husbandry Sow, as soon as possible, winter forage crops—barley, rye, oats or rape. Provide winter shelter for all ■livestock. Cull and market unproductive animals. Remove the ram from the ewe flock. Carry beef cattle on permanent pasture so long as they maintain weight. Attend livestock shows to get correct idea of type. Dairying Run cows on hay and corn fields to clean up after harvest. Feed each cow grain in propor tion to milk yield shown by milk records. Cull low producing cows to avoid wintering them. Increase hay and silage as pas tures lie. Secure service of good purebred bull to make calves more valuable. Poultry Move pullets to laying house be fore they come into full produc tion. Clean and spray the laying house and delouse the pullets be fore putting them in it. Keep com before Leghorns and thus save labor without reducing egg production. Select and sell non-layers. X m ■m-- Vy-y. m m 3 RULES big help to BOWELS What a joy to have the bowels move like clockwork, every dayl It’s easy, if you mind these simple rules of a famous old doctor: 1. Drink a big tumblerful of water before breakfast, and several times a day. 2. Get plenty of outdoor exercise with out unduly fatiguing yourself. 3. Try. for a bowel movement at exactly the same hour every day. Everyone’s bowels need help at times, but the thing t* use is Dr. Caldwells’ Syrup Pepsin. You’ll get a thorough cleaning-out, and it won’t leave your insides weak and watery. This family doctor’s prescription is just fresh laxa tive herbs, pure pepsin, and other helpful ingredients that couldn’t hurt a child. But how it wakes up those lazy bowclsl How good you feel with your system rid of all that poisonous waste matter. Dr. W. B. Caldwell's SYRUP PEPSIN A Doctor's Family Laxative r | Gen Pershing at 71 Mmz Wm m mi This picture of the man who commanded America’s greatest was taken at Hot Springs. Va., I*** after his birthday. Fire may not wait. Better airangfe for insurance—now! You never know when fire may damage or destroy your home—and wipe away your savings. It may be today or tomorrow. NOW is the time to secure adequate protection with a policy issued by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. Your investment is then safe ly fortified with both sound indemnity and plenty of dependable assets. Delay may be costly insure today. Paul J. Robinson Insurance Agency PHONE 66 McCormick A pillow may be washed just as it is, but a better method is as fol lows: Transfer the feathers to a larger cotton bag by sewing the edges of its opening to the opening of the tick. Shake the feathers from one to the other. Sew up the opening and wash in lukewarm water, using a neutral soap. Rinse well. Press as much of the water out as possible and place on a cloth in the sun. Turn often and beat up from time to time. Wash the tick separately, and starch it on the inside with a stiff starch mixture, applied with a brush or sponge. Transfer the feathers again when dry. tXt To make corn custard, mix 1 can, or 2 cups of fresh corn, 2 table spoons butter, 11-2 teaspoons sc’t. 3 eggs, 11-2 cups milk, and 1 table spoon sugar as for baked custard. Pour into a casserole or earthen ware baking dish and set in a pan of boiling water. Bake in a mod erate oven (350 degrees Fahren heit) until set, or about 1 1-4 lours. X Lumbermen in Louisiana recent- ArfiiOAMGf By ERNEST CAMO JB Methodists To Honor Woman— The first woman ever to become a Methodist is to have a chapel named after her. She was Barbara Heck, a cousin of Philip Embury, the first Methodist parson in the United States. She came from Limerick, Ireland, with her cousin in 1760 and aided in founding the John Street Church in this city, the oldest Methodist church in America. The Barbara Heck Chapel will be located nineteen stories above the street level, on top of a sky scraper to be built on the side of the old John Street Church, soon to be torn down. A Costly Site— The John Street Church, which is the third structure on the pres ent plot of ground, is 90 years old. Had it been the original building, some attempt to preserve it might have been made, but the cost of saving it was beyond any benefit possible. Instead, its architecture and furnishings will be reproduced in the first two floors of the new building, in which will repose its priceless relics of the early days of the Methodist Church in America. Among these relics are “The Charterhouse Boy,” a picture of John Wesley at the age of 13. He is shown with his chestnut curls falling to his shoulders. Another historical souvenir is an old clock given the first church by Rev. Philip Embury that still tells the hours and warns all, on its face, “Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man eometh.” Transit Guests— Most hotels along Broadway cater to transient guests. The last word in temporary occupation oc curred the other day at the Victoria Hotel. It seems the hotel bought a lot of furniture on “time.” Some hitch came up and payment was demanded and refused. Thereupon judgment was ob tained and the sheriff’s men start ed carting out the stuff. As fast as they carried out the old furni ture, new movers brought in other stuff to take its place, the guests meanwhile sitting around and wondering if they were going to have a bed to sleep in. Finally the warring parties got together and the guests resumed their more permanent transient form. In other words, they were privileged to stay as long as they paid their bills—the regular hotel custom even in o* '* city of deadbeats and live ones. Eagle-Eye Gus— More automobiles roll over Queensboro Bridge, the most northerly of the four East River bridges, than any other structure in the world, nearly 100,000 cross ing the bridge every day in the year. Among them are a lot of stolen cars, naturally, and out of that fact has come fame to a mod- -est German-American policeman. He is Gus Schalkham, now dubbed “Ea&le Eye Gus.” The oth er day he captured thieves in his 208th stolen car—all authenticated cases. He carries a little note book which he brings up to date each morning. In it is the list of all stolen New York cars. As he writes down the new numbers they photograph on his brain—and, cur iously, enough when they are rec orded found, he chalks them off mentally. So far he has never arrested any man for driving his own recovered car. To us, that is the greatest part of his work. A Contented Cop— One would think Eagle Eye would jump when he was offered a sergeancy by Police Commis sioner Mulrooney. But he did not turn a hair when he refused, with a grin. Instead, he asked for a car of his own to cruise around town and raise his batting average. And that’s what he got and his average did mount. Everybody is happy, except the thieves. Nobody knows why he turned down all the extra coin he would get as a sergeant but there’s a lot of insiders who claim to know that pleased owners slip him enough reward money to make his job a cinch. He refuses to say anything himself. Other cops would leave Lindbergh to get a smile from him. X- Wrapping papers impregnated ly cut a tree approximately 1,300 with copper salts have proved /ears old. It was sound through- ; highly effective in preventing some jut and had a stump diameter of of the storage rots affecting pears )2 inches. grown in the Northwest. STANDING TOGETHER HE VILE HEATHER THIS STORM (A Personal Word to the Customers of This Bank and Particularly to Farmers) There is no denying that we have come upon very trying times. We thought conditions were bad a year ago, hut they are in some respects worse now. It looks like prices of tobacco, cotton and maybe other cash crops will be lower than any of us expected. Though our farm ers borrowed less money than usual this year, bought less fertilizer than usual and made one of the cheapest crops they have made in years, it is very probable that some of them will he unable to pay out. We are sending out this message to our friends to urge them to keep their courage and fighting spirit. Nothing is so bad that it could not be worse. Never has the world had a period of hard times that it did not get through it and into better times. We will weather this storm if we stick together. If we keep our fighting spirit, use conservative judgment and press on. The Greatest Misfortune That Can Come To A Man Comes When He Loses Hope Therefore we ask you tA look conditions and those you owe in the face with courage, and look to the future with confidence. Help al ways comes to the fighter and to the man who presses on. There is np- thing that can be done for a quitter. This Bank has a reputation for co-working with farmers. It has never deserted its friends. It has never turned down a meritorious customer who had a feasible plan for going forward, and was willing to put forth all that was within him to make good. We have not chang ed. We want to be of assistance to farmers this fall and winter, and to be able to help them the coming year. We shall do all in our power to prevent any man from being carried down and out by the undertow of this low tide. We Can Only Help Those Who Will Help Themselves Jt is a time* for full understanding between debtor and creditor. We therefore urge those who may feel that they will have difficulties of paying out this fall to come in and talk with us at once. It is important that we shall see things alike and work to the same end. It is important that those who cannot pay out in full shall pay as near out as possible. Remember that your credit next year is in your own hands now. You can make it good or you can destroy it. We want to help you to preserve it. We think next year will be an im portant year. We will then begin to regain that which we lost last year and this year. But credit will be needed. Those who are loyal to us this fall will find us loyal to them next spring. No bank and no friend could say more than that in a time like this. We Will Win If We Stand Together This Bank was born in a time of financial depression. It was cradled in adversity. It developed a fighting spirit, and it learned early in life the value of co-operation, and the dependence of one class upon another. The Bank was conservaiive from the beginning. It has never been profligate in lending money, and maybe has been rigid in making collections, but it has been this policy that has kept us ever able to give help in times of greatest need. We have everything to as sure us that we shall be amply able the coming spring to take care of all of our customers. Ability, however, is not all that is necessary. Our customers alone, have it in their power to keep their banking affairs in such shape as that their applications for loans will be favorably passed on. Again, we counsel frankness and co-operation through this mar keting season, and again, we invite you to come in and talk with us— heart to heart. THE PEOPLES BANK McCormick, S. C.