McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, April 07, 1932, Image 2
Thursday, April 7, 1932
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMiCK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER TWO
Planting Intentions
On March 1,1932
COLUMBIA, March 28.—Farmers
In the United States are planning
widespread further readjustments
of the acreages of Ihe principal
crops according to an analysis of
the plans of farmers on March 1 as
reported to the Crop Reportiiig
Board.
In general, fanners are continu
ing the adjustments begun last
year and are reducing acreages of
those crops that are selling at low
prices or that necessitate heavy
cash expenses, and they are in
creasing crops needed on their own
farms for food or feed.
According to the reports received,
farmers are planning to make sub
stantial increases in the acreages
devoted to sweet potatoes, peanuts,
'Cowpeas and feed grains, all of
which were planted on an increas
ed acreage last year and they are
planning decreases in tobacco and
beans, which were decreased last
year, and also in rice. )
If average loss of acreage occurs
in 1932, in contrast to'the very
heavy losses in 1931 the area of
wheat, rye, flax, and hay finally
harvested will be above the acre
ages of these crops actually har
vested last year but well below the
average acreages harvested during
the last ten years. The acreage of
potatoes planned shows sharp de
creases in a number of eastern
commercial producing States, es
pecially in some areas where fert
ilizer or seed costs are high but
these decreases are nearly offset by
plans to increase in many central
and western States.
Taken as a whole, the reports in
dicate that unless the weather at
planting time Is unusually favor
able a slight decrease in the to
tal acreage devoted to crops may be
expected but with no more than
average losses during the growing
season the total acreage harvested
is likely to exceed that harvested
last season. (This statement re
lates only to the crops covered by
this report, since intentions are
not reported for cotton.)
WHEAT: The intended acreage
of other spring wheat is reported
at 16,967,000 acres, an increase of
53.3 per cent over the acreage har
vested last year. There was a
heavy loss of acreage hi the Da
kotas and Montana in 1931 due to
drought and the present intentions
represent an increase of about 5
per Cent over the acreage seeded
last year. If present intentions
are carried out as reported and
there is no material abandonment,
>the acreage harvested this year will
be about 3 per cent greater than
that harvested in 1929 and about
the same as in 1930. In past years,
the acreage of spring wheat har
vested has usually been slightly in
excess of the acreage intended. If
the usual departure occurs this
year, the harvested acreage will be
37,156,,000 acres. Hie increase over
last year is shared by practically
all of the spring wheat producing
states, the greatest inpreases being
In the states where 1931 abandon-
ytient was greatest.* ’• 1 ' ' ,Avr/ '
The extent’'of winter injury to
fan-sown wheat is still undeterm
ined. Acreage sown last fall, as
estimated in December, was 38,682,-
890. Assuming average abandon
ment, this would mean 33,820,000
acres to be harvested in 1932.
CORN: An Increase in acreage
of com of 2.2 per cent over acre
age harvested last year is intended
by farmers, according to reports as
of March 1. This increase, if
carried out, would result in plant
ings of 107,278,000 acres. With
normal failure to carry out full in
tentions, there would be 106,486,000
acres for harvest, or 11-2 million
acres more than was harvested last
year and 5 3-4 million more than
in 1930.
Increases of slightly less than 1
per cent are intended in the North
Atlantic and South Atlantic States.
An increase of 3.2 per cent is in
dicated for the West North Central
States, 2.2 per cent for the South
Central States and 19.1 per cent for
the Western States, but a decrease
of 1.4 per cent is planned in the
East North Central group. Of im
portant producing States in the
Com Belt, only Ohio, Indiana, Ill
inois and Missouri plan smaller
acreages than were harvested last
year. '
OATS: The intended acreage
of oats shows an increase of 8.4
per cent over the harvested acre
age last year. The Western and
North Central States where feed
crops wege reduced by the 1931
drought, Report the greatest in
crease in acreage this year. If the
4icreage harvested in 1932 falls be
low intentions to about the same
extent as in recent years, the num
ber of acres for harvest will be
about 42,549,000 acres, 7 per cent
greater than the 39,722,000 acres
harvested in 1931, and 3.7 per cent
greater than the 41,016,000 acres
seeded in that year
TAME HAY: Farmers report an
intention to use 54,195,000 acres for
tame hay in 1932, which is 1.4 per
eent more than the acreage har
vested in 1931. * Slight decreases
are indicated in the North Atlantic
and North Central States, which
are the principal clover an A tim
)thy producing areas. Increases
3f 8.4 per cent in the South At
lantic States and 3.7 per cent in the
South Central States, are planned.
In those groups of States the tame
liay is mostly annual legume—soy
eean, cowpea and peanut. An in-
ereace of 3.9 per cent is intended
in the Western States, where last
year about 51 per cent of the nay
acreage was alfalfa and 29 per cent
CUt green. As intentions usually
exceed the acreage harvested, es
pecially in the South Atlantic and
South Central States, the acreage
to be cut in 1932 probably will be
about 53,834,000 acres, or only 0.7
of 1 per cent in excess of Jie acre
age cut for hay last year.
COWPEAS: An increased acre
age of cowpeas is planned for this
year in practically all States in
which the crop is important. The
intended acreage for the United
States is about 22 per cent greater
than the acreage grown last year,
.ranging from 10 per cent to 40 per
cent in the Southern. States. In
the North Central States in in
crease of about 7,per cent is plan
ned. Much of the intended in
crease in plantings is for hay.
SOYBEANS: The intended acre
age of soybeans this year in the
United States as a whole is about
the same as that grown in 1931. In
the North Central group of States,
intended decreases of 16 per cent
hi Illinois, and 8 per cent in In
diana, are shown.
generally indicated for most of the
eastern States and in most of the
southern States where heavy re
ductions have been made in the
commercial early potato plantings.
SWEET POTATOES: Growers,
on March 1, reported an intention
to plant a 15 per cent larger acre
age of sweet potatoes the coming
season, or 897,000 acres compared
with 778,000 acres estimated har
vested last year. Allowance for
usual loss of plantings and the in
ability of growers to fully carry out
their intentions on account of
weather conditions and other fac
tors reduces the acreage to approx
imately 820,000 acres as the prob
able acreage for harvest in 1932.
Increased acreages are expected in
most of the southern States while
acreage reductions are expected in
the commercial sections along the
Atlantic Coast.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Intentions
show increases over last year for
the important food and feed crops.
Compared with harvested acreage
of 1931 farmers report intended in
creases as follows: Corn, 1 per
cent; Oats,’12 per cent; Sweet Po
tatoes, 18 per cent; Tame Hay, 2
per cent; Soybeans, 10 per cent
Cowpeas, 10 cent; and peanuts,
5 per cent. Decreases of 30 per
cent in Tobacco and 24 per cent in
Irish Potatoes are shown. The
smaller acreage of the latter is due
to the reduction of Early Commer
cial Potatoes from 17,700 to 9,000
acres in 1932, for it is expected that
the acreage grown for home con
sumption will be increased.
FRANK O. BLACK,
Agricultural Statistician.
R. C. LIGHT,
Jr. Agricultural Statistician.
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MARY MARSHALL
Appointment of Dr. E. A.
Seneca, as chairman of the 1932
Plans are to j Earlt Diagnosis Campaign is an-
grow approximately the same acre
ages as last year in Missouri and
Ohio, while an increase of 12 per
cent is indicated in Iowa. The to
tal acreage indicated for the North
Central group of States is about 7
per cent below the 1931 acreage.
Increases ranging from 10 per
cent to 20 per cent are planned in
most Southern States. Tennessee
Is an exception with an intended
decrease of 5 per cent. The great
er portion of the increase planned
in Southern States is for hay.
TOBACCO: Drastic curtaUment
in the intended acreage of tobacco
is reported for all types except
Maryland and . Pennsylvania for
which slight increases are shown.
The total’ acreage intended to be
planted this year is 1,562,200 acres
which is a decrease of 22.6 per cent
from the acreage harvested in
1931. The infljcated acreage for
harvest in 1932 is the smallest acre
age since 1931 when 1,427,000 acres
were harvested.
A decrease of 27 per Cent is re
ported in the acreage of flue-cured
tobacco, with Georgia and Florida
showing over 40 per cent reduction.
This report does not reflect the ef
fect, if any, of the freezing weather
of the second week of March upon
the intended acreage. This is the
second successive year that flue-
cured tobacco acreage has been re
duced.
PEANUTS: Increases in the in
tended peanut acreage are shown
for most States, with heavy in
creases again planned by growers
of the Spanish and runner types
in the Southeast and Southwest. A
slight decrease in the intended
acreage is reported for Virginia,
North Carolina and Tennessee com
bined.
In Georgia and Alabama intend
ed increases of 10 per cent and 20
per cent, respectively, are shown.
The intended acreage in Texas and
Oklahoma is about 20 per cent
above the acreage grown in 1931.
If the acreage finally planted this
year should bear the usual rela
tion to the acreage intended, the
acreage planted in 1932 would be
about 7 per cent greater than the
acreage planted in 1931.
POTATOES: In their March 1
eports on planting plans for the
1932 season, potato growers express
an intention to increase their
acreage nearly two per cent over
the harvested acreage of 1931. With
average loss of plantings, due to
varying causes such as drouth,
floods and blight, the acreage for
harvest in 1932 would be about 3,-
350,000 acres, if the promised plans
are carried out. This would be
about one per cent less than the
acreage harvested in 1931 or about
two per cent less than the planted
acreage last year.
Decreases in acreage are quite
nounced’ by the South Carolina
Tuberculosis Association, which is
planning its fifth annual educa
tional drive for the early diagnosis
of tuberculosis. The slogan for
national, state and county associa
tions this year will be, “tuberculosis
causes tuberculosis” or “one case
comes from another.” The object
is not only to care for the known
case, but to find out where it came
from to check the further spread
of the disease.
Dr. Hines and a committee of
health chairmen from several state
wide organizations will meet short
ly and perfect plans for the state
program which will begin April 1st.
Dr. Hines is a logical chairman
for this campaign because of his
connection with the tuberculosis
problem as a private physician, as
secretary of the South Carolina
medical association and as a mem
ber of the state board of health
and of the board of directors of the
South Carolina tuberculosis asso
ciation.
There is an effect of sheerness
about most of the new dresses for
spring. This does not apply mere
ly to the dresses of chiffon and
other transparent materials, al
though all sorts of sheer and semi
sheer materials will be used ex
tensively. Dresses made of crepe
or satin also have a sheer touch
which is achieved in a variety of
ways. Sometimes there is a laco
or georgette yoke. Sleeves may be
of the same sheer material from
wrists to elbows. Sometimes there
are panels or inserts of net, and
sometimes the light touch is ach
ieved by faggoting. This is al
ways a favorite trimming device of
French dressmakers, and it is es
pecially smart at the present time.
The dress shown in the sketch
shows a new way of using faggot
ing. The V-neckline has a line of
faggoting an inch or more from the
edge and the slightly flaring short
sleeves are made of bands of the
material faggoted together—six
lines of faggoting on each sleeve.
The dress shown here was of crepe
de chine in the new bambino blue
with faggoting to match, but the
idea might be carried out in black,
white or any one of the new colors.
The detail shows how to work
some of the faggoting stitches. The
first at the left is the simplest.
Baste the edges of the material to
be faggoted on a stiff paper at the
proper distance from each other.
Bring the needle out of one edge,
carry it diagonally across and for
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Citadel News Letter
CHARLESTON, April 1.—The
Corps of Cadets returned to the
college Wednesday morning after a
week’s Easter furlough. All took
advantage of the leave to visit their
homes, except a few who live at
great distances from Charleston.
These remained in the city.
General Summerall addressed the
American Legion post of Rock Hill
on March 28. In his talk he dis
cussed the value of military train
ing.
Election of the officers of the col
lege Y. M. C. A. for the next year
was held at the last chapel service
preceding the furlough. Cadet J.
L. McComb, of Troy, S. C., was
elected as the new president; Cadet
J. W. Holliday, of Gallivants Ferry,
as vice-president; and Cadet S. H.
Hale, of Greenville, as secretary.
Major A. V. Rinearson, C. A. C.,
U .S. A., Assistant Professor of Mili
tary Science and Tactics at The
Citadel, will be relieved of duty at
the college during the coming sum
mer and will report to the Coast
Artillery school at Fortress Mon
roe, Va. During his four years’
duty at The Citadel, Major Rine
arson has been in charge of the
Coast Artillery unit of the ROTC.:
Practice for the Pass-in-Review,
the annual cadet theatrical pro
duction, is well advanced under the
direction of Captain C. F. Myers!
of the college faculty. The com- tlie cadet literary magazine, ap-
pany will make its initial appear- peared just prior to the furlough,
ance in Charleston on April 22. The principal contributions to the
Later it is planned to give per- issue were made by Cadet J. A.
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although the itinerary is not def- i Cadet Beach Langston, of Atlanta,
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ward to the other edge, put it in,
bring it back an eighth of an inch
or less on the same side, pull it out,
wrap the free thread once around
the thread already in place, carry
the needle diagonally across and
forward to the first edge, and re
peat.
The second stitch is laddering.
Two threads are placed, parallel to
each other, across the opening, and
then coarsely button-holed across.
The third stitch is simple and
effective. Two parallel stitches are
aken along the entire seam, less
han an eighth of an inch apart,
ith perhaps an interval of an
ich. The needle is then carried
at to the middle of the top be-
ween each pair of a quarter of
bread and is worked toward the
;wer, who takes a button hole
rtitch to hold the lower stitch
of a pair to the upper stitch of the
pair below.
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