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4 ■ rp ••A THursday/Marcli 31, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA vaCeTvumber FOUR / McCORMICK MESSENGER meat Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: —- Strictly Cash In Advance -— One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 SPRING IS HERE AGAIN public at large. |tion for their bfcst work in It is as foolish for the individual animal production. There was nev- to get impatient over the delay in er a better year than this one in getting his share as it would be for which to emphasize the production the farmer to get impatient for his of food, and competition in this crop to ripen. ' Once the rain be- work will make better livestock at gins to fall, his crop is assured if lower cost, more well-fed farm he gives his fields their proper at- families, and at least 46 lucky club tention. The economic rain has boys who can receive suitable re begun to fall and those who will cognition for their championship reap the best and earliest crops of efforts in carrying on meat animal prosperity will be the ones who demonstrations.” give the closest attention to their business and their jobs right now instead of sitting around grumbling because they haven’t yet got their share. X -t tt- community FARMING (From The Atlanta Constitution) Control Com Billbug By Rotation Of Crops CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 26.— Control of corn billbug by rotation is effective and cheap, but the de gree of control will depend upon the distance from previous corn fields and the degree of infestation in the locality, the greater the list- Every year about this time we be gin to feel that life is worth living after all. There is something about the return of Spring that fills the human spirit with new courage, thdt compels the human soul to a new realization of the . wonders of this wonderful world we live in. It is no wonder that humankind, . drom the earliest times, has cele brated the return of Spring as its greatest religious festival. The, dead world has come to life. The ! * sun has come back to us. The bare branches are clothing them selves with green. The birds have returned from their Winter retreats and are building their nests i among us. The beasts of the field : and the forests are bringing forth j their young. A new life cycle is beginning, after a cycle of darkness and death. can take it as symbolic, or be- As a broadened application of the “back-to-the-farm” movement, communitj- farming is new pro : ance f rom previously infested fields posed in Minnesota on a ~ ca e th e i ess danger, according to Al- which would insure t e * ar ® r if re d Lutken, extension entflhiolog- against want for the lack of che ! f\ . : . Menu she m m \ * -4K Ni m . v v necessities of life, whatever night be the economic conditions outside their respective communities. The project being considered in Minneapolis in connection with the unemployment situation in that heavily infested city, contemplates the placing of . some 230 selected families as a self-sustaining colony on a co-cp- erative farm of 20,000 acres. The plan would entail the pur ist. At distances of 500 yards and over the infestation is so slight as II to be negligible, the degree of in festation increasing as this dist ance is reduced, with complete fail ure if corn follows com that was The effectiveness of this method of control is easily understood when it is known that the billbugs travel mainly by crawling and rarely spread then* wings in flight. In- Senorita Didi Caillet, elected “Queen of Students” of Brazil, in her costume at the Mardi Gras carni val at Rio de Janeiro. chase on a 25->ear contract se cticides, barriers and other neth- Kt7 oqoVi f nrm i v iirst - land occupied by each family, payments to start as soon as t:ie family is on its feet. The com munity would be supplied with schools and such manufacturing plants co produce such commodities ; as are necessary. Ii< ly^tjn: the. resurrection of If such a plan meets with suc cess in Minnesota, with its severe climate and its short growing sea son, the millions of fertile and idle ods of control have proven of little value against billbugs. The maize billbug, which is the most prevalent and destructive in the state, occurs over a broad area from Lexington to Marlboro coun ty, Mr. Lutken states. The adult beetle is shiny black, about one- half inch long and two-fifths as wide. . The snout or bill is about one-third the length of the body e body, but In every land all peo- ’ ^^“iaond^^/opportunity The beetles may be found feeding pies of the earth have, from time immemorial, celebrated this season as the return of their gods from exile, as the promise of a new life hereafter when this one shall have, been finished. x PATIENCE IS NEEDED NOW the unemployed of the cities. Such recolonization of the desert ed farms of the country would re quire considerably more money than is now being spent for relief, but what we are now giving for charity is gone, with -only cempor- ary benefit to those receiving it, while the dollars spent in sending People are hearing so much about' starving and shelterless families to the steps which are being taken in the safety and security of the farm Washington and elsewhere to re- 1 are almost certain to come back. \ lieve the business depression by lib eralizing the banking laws, by lend ing money to the railroads and oth er big financial interests, that it is natural for the man in the street to ask: ““What good does that do me?” Directly it doesn’t do the average person any more immediate good than the spring rains do the far mer. The immediate effect of rain is to- give everybody who goes out in it a good wetting. But the farmer who has gone through one or two seasons of drought knows that a season of rain at the right time is going to do him a lot of good in the course of a few weeks or months. Under our capitalist financial system, the tendency of money and credit is to concentrate in the hands of a comparatively few trustees, the large banking and in surance companies, the big indus tries and the like. It flows out from’ them through the nation, in the form of loans for the purchase of goods, the financing of industry and business. It percolates through those channels into the hands of the mass in the form of salaries and wages and the price materials, produced on the farm, in the forests and mines. As these final recipients spend it, it flows back through —— , channels to its sources. In normal mittee Of all che reconstruction propo sitions yet devised, none is more sound and more calculated to build better citizens and enhance the fu ture prosperity of localities and states than che “back-to-the-farm” movement. It is at least worth a trial. 3 Meat Animal Prizes For 4-H Clubsters CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 26.— Announcement has been received in the state boys’ club office of the third annual offer of Thomas E. Wilson, Chicago, of prizes for 4-H club members conducting projects in meat animal livestock work, says Dan Lewis, acting state boys’ club agent. Any bona fide 4-H club member who is in good stand ing with records up-to-date and who is enrolled in one or more meat animal livestock clubs (baby beef, purebred beef animal, market hog, breeding hog, market sheep, or breeding sheep) during the year 1932 is eligible to compete. State winning candidates shall have head down near the soil surface on the stalks of corn. Plants are thus injured until they are eight or ten inches high. Injury by the larva is more severe than that by the adult. The young larva bores into the center of the plant and tunnels up and down the stalk, rapidly increasing in size, Mr. Lutken continues. Plants that are not killed are so stunted that they seldom produce good ears of corn. The newly hatched larva is a small bluish white footless grub with a light brown head and darker mouth parts. It grows rapidly, soon as sumes a characteristic curved pear shape, and when full grown is one- half to five-eighths of an inch long. Detailed information of the life history and habits of the maize billbug is given in Experiment Sta tion Bulletin 257, The Maize Billbug in Sduth Carolina. x Tells Growing Kudzu For Hay And Pasture Produces Big Hens Wins On Big Eggs of raw completed at least three years’ work in meat animal livestock pro jects. Record's of all state and county winners shall be submitted other but similar, to the offices of the National Com- on Boys’ and Girls’ Club times this process of outflow and Work, Chicago, not later than No inflow is continuous and the move- , vember 1, 1932. ment in both directions is equal in The offer includes county, state, volume and speed. But in^ the sectional, and national prizes, so times we have been going through, that each county in South Carolina some of the larger channels of in- would be entitled to submit a win- flow have been blocked and there ner who would receive a gold-filled has not been enough left in the medal of honor and who would main reservoirs to maintain the further be eligible to compete for normal outflow. the higher awards. Each state That is the way our financial champion will receive a handsome system works. It may not be the $50 gold watch; four sectional win- ideal system; we are not arguing ners will receive trips to the Na- about that. It is the existing tional 4-H Club Congress in Chi- system, which, on the whole, works cago; and three national winners better than anything else that has are to be awarded scholarships of been tried, and it is not likely to be $300, $200, and $100 respectively to CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 26.— Kudzo, a perennial of the legume family, which has for many years been used as an ornamental plant to produce shade, has come into use in recent years as a pasture and hay plant among farmers of the Southeastern States, says S. L. Jef fords, extension agronomist. As a forage plant, Mr. Jeffords states, Kudzu is apparently relished by all classes of livestock in both the green stage and the cured or hay stage. While it will grow on the poorest clay and sandy soils of South Carolina, yet it will produce the greatest amount of grazing and hay when planted on fertile soil. It has proved itself drought-resistant as compared with other legumes. It has been successfully used by some farmers when planted on rough land to fill gullies and rough spots in the field. Kudzu is generally propagated by the use of crowns of the plant, though vine cuttings and rooted i nodes or sections of the vine and in a few cases seed are used also to propagate this plant. It has not been grown for hay production be cause it was feared by the farmers CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 21.— Early hatching and proper feeding of his White Rock flock of hens has won for S. R. Crick, Pineopolis, Berkeley county, a reputation for superior birds which produce extra large eggs, as shown* by the fact that Mr. Crick has recently won first prize of $10 in a contest spon sored by a chain store in Philadel phia on size of eggs. “The manager of this chain of grocery stores having received numerous complaints from cus tomers about small eggs, offered prizes for the largest two dozen eggs,” says P. H. Gooding, extension poultryman, telling of Mr. Crick’s experience. “Mr. Crick learning of the contest and realizing that he was getting large uniform eggs, de cided to go after the money. In three days’ time he selected from his 10 White Rock hens two dozen eggs which weighed 63 1-2 ounces. These were the largest eggs enter ed in the contest and not any of them had double yolks. “In addition to laying large eggs Mr. Crick’s birds are high produc ers and also exhibition birds,” Mr. Gooding continues. “His egg pro duction is 75 per cent at present and his birds averaged 180 eggs each last year. He entered ten birds in the Charleston Poultry Show and won nine premiums: four first, three seconds, and two thirds. One of his male birds won first in his class for three years in suc cession at the State Fair. “Mr. Crick says that his birds grow large because he hatches early, uses an all-mash system of feeding, and grows out the pullets well.” Complete Stock of Guano and tlic following Fertilizer Materials on Hand 16% Acid 25% Sulphate of Ammonia 7% Cotton Seed Meal 20% Manure Salts Agricultural Lime. See us for rock bottom prices. 1000 Bushels Good Sound Home raised Ear Corn in shuck, 60 cents per bushel. Heavy Red home grown Oats, 45 cents per bushel. Whether you need Groceries, Hard ware, Dry Goods or Shoes, Fertilizer, or Feed, we are ready and anxious to serve you. Plum Branch, S. C. McCormick County’s Leading Farm Supply Store These Women Will Run Their Town \w f 4 stem v t f Ml The municipal election at Duvall, Washington, resulted in putting Mrs. A. S. Bourke into the mayor's chair after July 1st niext, and a female majority in the Council. Mrs. Bourke (center), is discussing policies witlij Mrs. Cora L. M. Roney and Mrs. J. I. Miller. Councilwomen.^ sowed thickly, a bushel or more per acre, on fertile and well drained land, it will make a good hay crop provided the season is favorable as regards moisture. The seed weighs 25 pounds per bushel. Tennessee 76 is an improved sel- Nitrogen Hurry Call For Peach Orchards CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 26.— The immediate application of at ectionorthe'common'variety, de- least one potmd of sulphate of am- changed very soon. But our point is that every meas- attend the college of their choice. “In 1931 six counties in South ure for easing credit and replen- Carolina took advantage of Mr. ishing the supply of money must j Wilson’s offer, and from these six necessarily begin at the top. The county winners Joe Hall of Fair- main reservoirs must be filled first. 1 field was selected as state champ- And if that is done—and the re- ion and received the $50 gold ports we hear indicate that there | watch,” Mr. Lewis states. “However, is already a great improvement— many other counties might have funds and credit will begin to re- won medals, and this year county syme their old. rate, and volume J agents and club members are urged of outflow into industry and busi- ( to keep these prizes in mind and ness and so into the pockets of the work toward receiving this recognl- CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 21.— “The common lespedeza, some times called old field clover, native on most of the soils in South Car olina, is an annual legume that re seeds in permanent pastures and fallow land, and is recommended for permanent pastures and for sowing on small grain in the spring for grazing with livestock after the grain is cut off,” says S. L. Jef fords, extension agronomist, an swering inquiries from interested farmers about lespedeza varieties. This variety adapts itself to a greater variety of soil types and will stand more adverse weather conditions than any other variety. It is naturally a low growing or re- _ cumbent plant if sowed thinly will that it might prove to be a serious not produce a desirable and abund pest. The Alabama Experiment Station issued a circular under date veloped by Professor S. H. Eassary n ‘ trate ot *> da of the University of Tennessee. Like equivalent of some other suitable the Kobe, this variety is late ma- 1 « u ‘ekly avaUable nitrogen per tree . turing as compared with the com- “ suggested by E. H. RawL exten- Lespedeza Varieties mon lespedeza, but if planted thick “"ffrom Unavailable * 25 pounds of seed per acre, it f 6 ” 1 ” 8 “ Ir “ lt Ir ° m available Discussed for Farmers Will produce an erect growing plant u s - ta ater date the remam- and If the land is fertile and the de _ r ° f the annual a PPUuatlon of mositure during the season plenti- fertilizer may be applied he says ful, a fair hay crop will be pro- ’ ^ ^ commercial peach duced The seed weighs 25 pounds orchards in this State,” Mr. Rawl ... i explains, “there has been produced Korean lespedeza differs from the a comparatively light crop of strong other three varieties, mainly in the buds through one or more of the of January, 1931, in which it is stated that close grazing followed by plowing will eradicate Kudzu. Since soil and climatic conditions in parts of Alabama are very sim ilar to those in South Carolina, it is reasonable to suppose that the same methods of control would be effective in South Carolina. Addi tional information may be secured from Alabama Experiment Station Circular 57. 1 ant grazing; but if sowed 25 pounds or more seed per acre the plants will be crowded and will thereby grow erect and give satisfactory grazing. The seed weighs 25 pounds per bushel. Regarding other varieties Mr. Jeffords states briefly; Kobe lespedeza, first grown in South Carolina from seed secured near Kobe, Japan, is a selection of the common lespedeza. Like the common, it is naturally recumbent and grows erect only when in a thick stand. It generally starts The borough of Manhattan' grojyth earlier in the spring than (New York) has 84,383 persons to the common variety. and remains* the square mile. 1 green longer in the fall. When fact that it is a larger and coarser growing plant, has larger leaves, and mature earlier. If planted on fertile, well drained soil and mois ture is plentiful, a hay crop and a seed crop may be produced. The seed may not be harvested with a pan attachment to the mower cut ter bar. They have to be thrashed in a grain thrasher. The seed weighs about 35 pounds per bushel in the hull or about 43 pounds per bushel minus the hulls. Lespedeza Sericea is a perennial lespedeza being tested out by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and a few of the Southern Agricul tural Experiment Stations, and a few individuals have secured a small supply of seed which they are offering for sale at a very high price. The Department of Agri culture is not yet in position to ad vise as to its agricultural value. Un til the supply of seed is great enough to bring down to a reason able limit, it is not advisable for any South Carolina farmer to at tempt to grow this variety. TXT There are about 4,500 fur farms ih the United States, while Canada has 7,000. following factors: (1) heavy crop of fruit in 1931, (2) unusually dry season during the summer and es pecially during late summer, (3) insufficient plant food, and (4) poor cultivation. During che re cent cold weather these light crops of buds have been further decreas ed through killing of buds by low temperatures. Hence the advis ability of doing everything possible now to secure the setting of fruit.” Mr. Rawl points out that experi mentally it has been determined in apple sections that an application of quickly available nitrogen just before blooming increases the per centage of fruit set, the increases in some cases ranging from 100 to 300 per cent, and in practice peaches have been seen to respond similarly. When we wash your car we also clean the inside with vacuum cleaner at no extra cost. McGrath Motor Co., Inc., McCormick, S. C.