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Thursday, May 12, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO Don’t let the weevils take your crop I T wash’t much uce to plant cotton if the boll weevils are going to get most of it. All reports indicate that the weevils mean business this * year. The warm winter, the late damp spring, the possibility of a wet summer, all point to a very heavy infestation. A late crop won’t stand much chance. If you. can set-your crop ahead of the weevils, you will be reasonably safe. If there is one thing that will pick your cotton up and push it right past the v/eevils, it is Chilean Nitrate. Nothing takes its place for side-dressing cotton. While 200 pounds would be better, put on 100 pounds per acre right after chopping. That may prove enough. If not you can come along with 50 to 100 pounds more later in the summer. Be sure you get Chilean. Specify Chilean to your dealer..He has it or can get it immediately. See him now! TWO KINDS Both are natural 100 LB. BAGS AND 200 LB. BAGS CHILEAN NITRATE EDUCATIONAL Columbia, BUREAU, INC. South Carolina Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM ✓ I Main Street McCormick, S. C. The Hog Is The Livestock King ———■ i * (By Caleb Johnson) The people of the United States are eating less beef and more veal, lamb and pork, and this change in meat consumption habits has been going on steadily for more than 'thirty years. We eat a million pounds more beef a year than we did in 1900, but the population has increased at a faster rate than that, so that the average amount of beef eaten by each individual is down from sixty-seven pounds a year to less than fifty pounds. But in the same period which our beef consumption has increased by a million pounds a year, the increase in pork con sumption has mounted by nearly four billion pounds. We eat more pork than any other nation, an average of nearly seventy pounds a year per person, but we eat less lamb and mutton than any other country in the wqrld. Those are some facts developed by the National Livestock Market ing Association, which was organ ized in 1930 and which is trying to find ways and means of helping livestock growers establish the meat producing industry oh a pro fitable basis. When it is consid ered that more than half of the to tal income of the farmers is from the sale of livestock, running to five and one-half billion dollars a year, and ,that the meat packing in dustry is the second largest indus try in America, only the manufac ture of motor cars being larger, the importance of the meat business is apparent. And it is not only( the largest branch of agriculture, but it is probably the most completely or ganized in the processing and mar keting ends. Only the production end is still run largely on a hap hazard basis. The distribution systems of the large packing companies, which handle, on the average, moVe than 45,000,000 pounds of meat daily, are probably more extensive and effi cient than those maintained by any other industry. Their equipment includes thousands jof refrigerator cars, numerous branch warehouses, fleets of motor trucks and large selling organizations which reach .the smallest villages as well as the large cities. Nearly every one of the country’s six million farms contributes in some way to the production of raw material for the livestock industry., As a rule, more than one-half of the gross farm income is derived from livestock and livestock pro ducts, principal among which are cattle, sheep and lambs, hogs, lard and wool. Iowa ranks first among the states in gross income frgm livestock products, and Illinois sec ond.- Co-operative marketing of live stock through producer-owned as sociations has effected noticeable economies in livestock marketing. While the idea of co-operation in agriculture is not new, it is only recently that it has taken practical form in livestock marketing. In 1931, about thirty co-operative agencies handled • approximately 13,000,000 head of livestock, while ten years earlier, in 1921, there were only five associations in existence and these handled ress than 1,500,- 000 head. In addition to realizing large sav ings in marketing costs, co-opera tive associations provide machinery for stabilizing livestock produc tion to a greater extent and for regulating the movement of sup plies into distributive channels on a more orderly basis. To co-or dinate this work on a national scale and make it of the greatest pos sible effectiveness, the National Livestock Marketing Association was organized in 1930. For the first time in the history of the Ameri can livestock and meat industry, producers were provided with a nationwide organization, owned and controlled by themselves, through which to market their pro ducts. The Association is developing a sales advisory service to assist its member agencies in co-ordinating the marketing and distribution of livestock. Information concern ing various classes and grades of livestock in the principal breeding and feeding areas of the country will be used to develop an orderly production and marketing progam for the country as a whole. The Association is also co-operating ;with meat packers, Department of Agriculture officials and others, in establishing uniform grade stand- #rds pf livestock so that (producers and buyers may have comparable market information for determin ing values. Included in the Department of Agriculture's figures of income re ceived by farmers from livestock are the receipts from poultry and eggs, dairy products and wool. Cat tle, hogs and sheep last year brought in $2,455,000,000; poultry and eggs ran to $1,037,000,000; dairy products to $1,796,000,000 and wool to $66,000,000. One reason why people in America eat less lamb and mutton than in Europe is that we grow proportionately fewer sheep. We eat only seven pounds a year per person as against twenty-three pounds a year of Iamb and mutton in Great Britain, and fifty-four pounds a year in Australia. . Great Britain and Aus tralia are great sheep growing countries, but sheep farming has never become as popular in Amer ica as in Europe. One important reason for the lag in the development of sheep farm ing in America has been the labor cost. Sheep take a great more personal attention than cattle do, and in an undeveloped country fac ing a labor shortage the most at tractive branch of any industry is that which requires the least la bor. There has been a revival of interest in sheep and wool produc tion in the East in recent years, and there are many more large flocks in the West than there were a few years ago, but the fact re mains that American livestock growers are not sheep-minded to any great extent. They are fam iliar with cattle and hogs, but the sheep industry is entirely different from either of these. A part of the program of the Livestock Marketing Association is to co-operate with the Department of Agriculture in the effort to de velop a type of sheep adapted to American conditions which will yield a high quantity, as well as high quality, of both meat and wool. But when all is said and done, the backbone of the livestock in dustry in the United States is the great American hog. :—x Waiter—Haven’t they given you a menu yet, sir? Diner (wearily)—Yes, but I fin ished that an hour ago. MY+fOME YOURS BERTHA fDSON LAY Put half of a small cabbage through the food chopper, mix with French dressing to which a few drops of onion juice has been add ed. Cut large green peppers through length-wise, remove membrane and seeds, wash, and fill ? with the cab bage mixture. Place strips of pi- mentoes over the top and serve on lettuce leaves. If one desires, the top may be covered with mayon naise before the pimento is put on it. If you live in a small aparttnent, and it is not possible for your child to have a live pet try making scrap books of pictures of animals and such stories as may be found in magazines or newspapers. As the child grows older he or she may make the scrap book and in that manner learn not only about the animals but how to use the little fingers in a skillful way. Do you feel that asking a few friends in for “tea” is too great an effort? It need not be an effort, but a real pleasure to you as well as to your friends or neighbors. A tea cart is a great help, for on it in the kitchen, the housekeeper may arrange the tray, tea things, small napkins and at the last mom ent, the little cakes, or the sand wiches or the crackers, what ever it is, she plans to serve. Place the tea in a tea ball, scald the pot, put the tea in the pot and pour the water over and allow to stand three minutes, remove the tea ball, and wheel the cart into the living room or the porch and enjoy yourself. If your friends do not feel that you are having a good time, they will not. If the water in which the dishes are to toe washed is “hard” add a tablespoonful of sal soda, and, note the difference. SHORTHAND— If I had a son with intelligence enough to take advantage of oppor tunities, I would see to it that he became an expert stenographer while still a boy, whatever else he might study. I was Reminded of this field of opportunity the other day when I sat on a platform in New York where “Al” Smith and Mayor “Jim- mx” Walker were the principal speakers, and George B. Cortelyou was chairman of the local centen nial celebration in Union Square. George Cortelyou started life as a stenographer. He was a young man of unusual intelligence. Mr. Cleve land wanted another stenogaphei at the White House and young Cortelyou was sent to' him. He was promoted to executive clerk by Mr. Cleveland, then President McKinley made him first assistant’secretary, and then secretary, and Presiden; Roosevelt continued him as his sec retary. When the Department of Commerce and Labor was created. George Cortelyou was the first man to hold a cabinet position as its head. Then he was Postmas ter-General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chairman of the Re publican National Committee. And ior the last twenty-three years he nas been President of the Consoli dated Gas Companies of New York, and one of the city’s most influen tial and respected citizens. And he is only one of many suc cessful men I know who started .ife as stenographers. JOBS— The “War Against Depression” Campaign, backed by the American Legion, the Federation of Labor and the Association of National Ad vertisers, has got more than half way toward its goal. These ener getic people started out in Febru ary to put a million men back at work. They have already found jobs for over half a million. Another thing that they’ve ::ound, which a good many wise people ex pected they would find, is that there are about as many men out of work who don’t want jobs as there are who really need them. We are learning for the first time the true extent of America’s leisure class. SPEED— Thirty years ago, on June 15, 1902, I travelled from New York to Chicago on the first regular train that ever made that trip in twenty hours. The Pennsylvania and the New York Central started twenty- hour trains on the same day. I went out on the first Pennsylvania train and came back on the New York Central’s new speeder, as £ newspaper reporter. Later, the running time between these two cities was cut to eighteen hours but the twenty-hour schedule was restored during the war. Now they have got it shortened again, and the other day I saw the start of the new eighteen-hour train out of the Pennsylvania Terminal in New York. I think, and I found some rail road officials who agreed with ;ne. that one of the next big things we get back to normal economic con ditions will be such an improve ment in road beds, rolling stock and motive power chat a fifteen hour schedule between New York and Chicago will be possible. Many trains on short stretches of perfect track now go at ninety miles a: hour. It is only a matter of monej to maintain such a schedule for the 990 miles that separate Lake Michi gan and the Atlantic. •; jws— My country neighbors who sell milk are having the blues. They n:e only getting about three cents a quart now, which is less than it costs to produce the milk. The explanation is that dairying b .is been, in many regions, the most profitable farm operation for the past few years, so everybody is go ing into it and there are too many dairy cows. Farmers who depend on dairy products alone are find ing themselves in the same position as those who depend on wheat, or cotton, or tobacco alone. The only j formprs I know who are not in LIFE IS AT STAKE and a prescription is needed, then the careful and accurate filling of that prescription means every thing. Just the right drugs must be used and the right amounts of each. The drugs must be fresh ^^id pure, and everything must be just right, or life may be lost We fill prescriptions correctly and at very moderate prices. Bring them to us day or night.. STROMS’ DRUG STORE MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. PUT PERSONAL AFFAIRS A Your personal affairs should no more be run in a haphazard manner than a business should be. You should have a record of every transac tion, especially of every bill that yon pay. ARGUMENT PROOF \ A checking account at this bank is argument proof in every way and be sides is fire proof and bandit proof. It provides you with an accurate record of your income and outgo. Each cancelled check becomes a valid receipt when paid. With these many advantages and the protection it offers, you cannot af ford to be without a personal check ing account. THE PEOPLES BANK McCORMICK, S. C trouble are the ones who grow a lit tle of this and a little of that, who keep a few cows, a few pigs, a small flock of hens, a small orch ard and a small berry patch, and approach the agricultural problem from the point of view that the first thing they must get off the farm is their own living, and then if they can get any cash for their surplus they are that much ahead. There are exceptions, of course, but they are mostly, so far as I know anything about them, farm ers who haven’t had to borrow money on their land or their live stock and so don’t have any inter est to pay. MAY (By Henry Sylvester Cornwell) -txi- llTtt So AAANY FOLKS out o' WORX # NOBODY CARES WHETHER TWE 4LASM clocks BRoKE or not. Come walk with me along this willowed lane, Where, like lost coinage fromi some miser’s store, The golden dandelions more anct more Glow, as the warm sun kisses them again! For this is May! who with a daisy chain Leads on the laughing Hours; foi? now is o’er Long winter’s trance. No longer rise and roar His forest-wrenching blasts. Tb3 hopeful swain, Along the furrow, sings behind his! team; Loud pipes the red breast— troubadour of spring, And vocal all the morning copses! ring; More blue the skies in lucent lakelets ring; And the glad earth, caressed by murmuring showers, Wakes like a bride, to deck her self with flowers!