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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
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PAIN
HEADACHES, NEURITIS
NEURALGIA, COLDS • •
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And let the
weevil WORRY
I OOXS like a mighty bad weevil year. We had
two bone-dry summers in 1930 and 1931 and
are about due for a wet one now. Owing to mild
weather^weevils had a picnic all winter and they
are just waiting for the squares to form.
It is going to be a race between the cotton
and the weevils. Cotton sure is going t^ have a
job keeping ahead of the weevils without a little
help from you. Not much, if any, fertilizer under
it, the crop is almost sure to be slow and sickly
by June. Just the way the weevils want it.
What they do to your crop depends largely
on what you do for your crop!
Side-dreSc!' Chilean Nitrate, 100 pounds per
acre (200 pounds would be much better) will set
the crop early, ahead of the weevil. Then you are
reasonably safe. But be sure you get Chilean.
Nothing takes its place for side-dressing cotton.
Your dealer has it or can get it on a moment’s
notice. See him now!
TWO KINDS
Both are natural
100 LB. BAGS
i AND
200 LB. BAGS
CHILEAN NITRATE
EDUCATIONAL
Columbia
BUREAU, INC.
South Carolina
SEND THE MESSENGER TOUR NEXT ORDER FOR JOB PRINTING.
WE DO IT RIGHT, AND AT REASONABLE PRICES.
MYffOME
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fcyB£RTHAfDSON LAY
Chemical Industry To
Aid The Farmer
(By Caleb Johnson)
Creairffed Salt Cod Fish on
3-4 cupful of salt cod fish
1 cupful of milk
2 tablespoonfuls of flour
2 tablespoonfuls of butter or oth
er fat
1 hard boiled egg
1 raw egg
seasoning
The codfish should be carefully
picked over and allowed to soak in
warm water for an hour.
An easy way to make cream sauce
is to heat the milk until nearly
boiling, then add flour which had
been mixed with a little cold milk
until smooth. This should be
poured slowly, stirring all the time.
When well blended, add the yolk of
the egg beaten, and cook again un
til the sauce begins to thicken. Beat
the white of the egg until fairly
stiff, and add to the hot mixture.
Beat this all thoroughly with a
Dover egg beater. Cooking and i
beating takes about fifteen min- I
utes. Add the well drained fish,
and cook until thoroughly hot. Pour
over toasted slices of bread. Spread
the cut up pieces of the hard cook
ed egg whites over, then, press the
yolks through a sieve over all, and
serve at once.
Some housekeepers think that it
is more economical to purchase
large prunes. I have not found it
so. A pound of 30s cost more than
twice as much as 70-80s but by act
ual weight there is about 2 1-2
ounces of pits in the large prunes
and only 3 1-2 ounces in the small
ones. You can readily see that
there is a saving which is. worth
trying for.
If it is necessary to store trunks
in the cellar, try having a local
carpenter make a slatted frame (if
the handyman-about-the-house
cannot make it) set upon pieces so
that the trunks will be six or eight,
inches from the floor.
How To Tell A
Quality Egg
To tell the quality of eggs break
two or three into a flat plate, and
note whether the white is thick
enough to stay near the yolk and
stand up around it like a layer of
clear, firm jelly. If the white
runs over the plate and appears
very watery the egg is poor in qual
ify or somewhat stale, according to
poultry specialists of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
The quality of an egg shows up in
cooking. It takes an egg with a
good firm white to poach well.
High-quality eggs make lighter
sponge cakes and omelets. For
making custards and for scrambled
eggs, those with slighly watery
whites will do very well. In the
spring practically all eggs are good
and most o*f them are strictly fresh.
Any off odor generally means off
flavor. The color of the yolk,
whether deep or pale yellow, de
pends chiefly on the feed of the
hens, and is not often an index of
quality.
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If Theodore Swann is right, the
ten-year period on which we are
now entering will be known as the
Toast chemical decade, as the ten years
ifrom 1920 to 1930 were the mech
anical decade. I had a visit the
other day with Mr. Swann, who is
the head of one of the most ex
tensive organizations manfacturing
chemical products and engaged in
chemical research and he told me
the direction in which the minds
of industrialists and investors are
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turning.
That direction is very strongly
toward the commercialization of
products of the chemical laboratory
to provide new materials and new
forms of finished products, better
and cheaper than the materials
and products whose place they will
take. And the most interesting
phase of this chemical revolution,
which is now well under way, is
that it promises to give a wider and
more profitable market for ihe
products of the land than the far
mer has ever had.
“Few people have any idea of the
extensive part which chemistry
plays in modern industry” said Mr.
Swann. “But if we look around
us we see many familiar things
which came originally out of the
chemist’s laboratory and which
illustrate what I mean. Take for
example the chemical compound
known as bakelite. Perhaps the
average person doesn’t know it by
that name but it is a chemical pro
duct which has almost entirely sup
planted the use of haird rubber and
of celluloid for almost all of the
purposes for which those products
were used.
“Everybody is more or less fam
iliar with the new kinds of build
ing materials and wall boards made
from sugar cane fibers, sawdust
and similar by-products. All of
those came out of the chemical lab
oratories. There are literally,
thousands of chemical . products
which will come into use in the
next ten years, which the chemists
already know how to produce, and
which only wait, upon either a suf
ficient supply of raw materials or
the perfection, of methods of .mak
ing theih in quantities cheaply to,
come into, general use.
“And almost every one of these
new products of the chemist must
depend upon the farmer for. its
raw material. The great problem
of the farmer today is how to dis
pose of his crops at prices above the
living level. Production has out
run the consumption demand for
farm products in the forms in
which they have customarily been
used. But chemistry is opening
new outlets by developing new
uses for farm products.
“Take the low-grade, fast grow
ing pine trees of the South, for ex
ample. They grow on waste land
and, except for a very limited de
mand for fuel purposes and in some
sections the production of turpen
tine and resin, they have produced
no income, whatever, for the far
mer on whose lands they grow. But
now chemical science has found a
way of making paper from the
fiber of these pine trees. Paper
mills have already been built to
utilize them. Chemists are work
ing with what seems to me a cer
tainty of success, on methods of im
proving the quality of this paper
until it can compete with paper
made from northern spruce. It
takes thirty years for spruce to
grow, while the pine reproduces it
self in fiften years.
“That is only one example of
what I mean by agricultural pro
ducts as raw material of chemical
industries. Cotton, of course, has
never been anything but a raw ma
terial for industry, but we have de
veloped through chemistry new
uses for cotton, in the manufac
ture of a wide range of products
w.iich come under the general head
oi cellulose. That includes such
things as artificial silk and trans
parent films for wrapping all sorts
c. commodities. The latest chem
ical industry based on cotton is the
p jduction of xylose, from cotton
seed hulls, which have heretofore
~.en a waste product. Xylose is a
1: nd of sugar which is not absorb
ed into the blood. Hospitals and
icdical schools are testing it now
o find out whether it has any
derible injurious effect on the hu-
aan system. If it has not, then
acre will be an enormous demand
or xylose, from people who are
Jor.d of sweets but who ought not
o cat ordinary sugar. Imagine
;andy that a lady can eat pounds !
, f every day without getting fat! j
One of the most prevalent diseases
in America is diabetes, which is the
effect of too much sugar in the
blood. Perhaps xylose, made from
cottonseed hulls, will provide all the
sweets that a diabetic patient de
sires, and even prevent the spread
of this disease.
“Another new kind of sugar is
levulose, which already has a very
wide use in industry, and chemists
have found a way of extracting
levulose from Jerusalem artichok s
giving a new value to that easily
grown crop. One of the ?argest
chemical industries is the manu
facture of paints and varnishes,
and one of the best oils for use in
that industry is the product of the
nut of the tung tree, which for
merly grew only in China. Now we
have introduced the tung tree into
the United States and a large in
dustry has already developed in the
oroduction of tung oil from the
product of American farm lands.”
One of the big industrial devel
opments close at hand, Mr. Swann
believes, is the use of plastic ma
terials instead of wood, plaster and
metal for the manufacture of all
sorts of furniture and interior dec
oration. The finest example of
the wood carver’s art can today be
reproduced to simulate the most
beautifully grained wood, and the
resulting product is not only fire
proof, but almost unbreakable. New
chemical methods have already
produced substitutes for china and
glass which are made in beautiful
colors and which are also almost
absolutely unbreakable. It is quite
possible that our grandchildren
may look back with commiseration
upon the primitive people of this
generation, who used such fragile
things as china and glass on their
dining tables.
I asked Mr. Swann whether he
agreed with Henry Ford that the
solution of our industrial-economic
problems is to be found in provid
ing every industrial worker with an
opportunity to obtain his living di
rect from the land.
“I think that is the soundest pro
gram possible,” said Mr. Swann.
“The man who has nothing to fall
back on in times of economic dis
tress is in a bad position, whether
he is a farmer or a factory worker.
The lesson that farmers are learn
ing that they cannot depend upon
a single cash crop, but must di
versify their farming operations so
that they can. at least get comfort
able living off the soil, whether
they sell any of their product for
cash or not. , . It seems certain that
the industrial , worker who has
enough land on which to keep a few
hens and a pig or two and perhaps
a cow, and. to grow enough food for
them and garden products for his
family does not need to worry much
whether, the, factory shuts down for
a while or. not. And the . time is,
bound to come when anybody with
a few acres of, land can grow some
kind of a cash crop which will find
a ready market in the great chem
ical industries that are now in their
infancy.”
SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE
EXAMINATION
NEW
The examination for the award
of vacant scholarships in Winthrop
College will be held at every Coun
ty Courthouse in the State on Wed
nesday, June 29th at 9 a. m. This
examination will be held whether
there are vacant scholarships or
not, as vacancies may occur after
the examination. Applicants for
scholarship should write to Presi
dent Kinard before the examina
tion for blanks. Scholarships are
worth $100.00 and free tuition.
Applicants for admission to Win-
tlirop College, who do not hold
State High School diplomas, may
stand entrance examination at ev
ery County Courthouse in the State
on Wednesday, June 29th and
Thursday, June 30th at 9 a. m.
Applicants for both examinations
must be not less than sixteen years
of age.
For further information and cat-
dog, also for information concern-
: ner Summer School, address Presi
dent James P. Kinard, Rock Hill,
S. C.
4-H . livestock club members
throughout the nation are eligible
to compete for more than $5,000
in county, state, sectional and na
tional prizes to be awarded in the
third annual National 4-H Meat.
Animal Livestock Project contests
These awards for America’s most
mtstanding junior animal hus-
Yandmcn are offered by Thomas E.
Wilson, livestock breeder, packer,
and chairman of the National Com
mittee on Boys and Girls Club
Work.
Any 4-H Club member regularly
enrolled in one or more meat ani
mal livestock projects; namely,
baby beef, purebred beef animal,
market pig, breeding hog, market
sheep or breeding sheep during 1932
under the supervision of their state
extension service is eligible to com
pete. The project records and the
general club record of contestants
will be the basis on which awards.
will be made.
A gold-filled medal of honor will
be awarded to the highest scoring
club member in each county of the
United States. From the records
of county winners, state club lead
ers will select their state winner.
Each state winner must have com
pleted three or more years work in
meat animal livestock club projects.
The state award is a $50 gold -
watch.
The winning 4-H livestock club
member in each of the four exten
sion divisions of the United States
will receive an educational prize
trip to the Eleventh National Boys
and Girls 4-H Club Congress, which
is held annually in conjunction
with the International Live Stock
Exposition at Chicago. Winner will
be selected from state winners-
within each division.
More than 90,000 farm boys and
girls will compete for the attrac
tive prizes being offered in this;
contest to encourage 4-H Club ac
tivities in meat animal livestock
club projects.
Hrs Part.
Officer—“Your horse seems very
familiar to me, Higgins.” Private— j
“I don’t wonder, sir, seeing the times
he brought you from the club. Why,
you’ve kissed Mm before you went ud
the steps.”
Going the Limit.
“Do ye drame of me, Moike?” whis
pered a girl to her lover as they
walked down a lonely glen- in Ireland,
of course. “Drame of ye, is it, Kate?
Sure ’tis the way wid me that I can’t
shl*pe noights dramin’ of ye, dai^
Irot! ” t
New Bicentennial
Quarter Coined
The new George Washington
quarter dollar, to be issued by the
United States Treasury as a fea
ture at the nation-wide George
Washington Bicentennial Celebra
tion, will be coined in large enough
quantities to satisfy a normal de
mand, officials of the Treasury
have informed the United States-
George., Washington Bicentennial
Commission. It is expected that the
quarter will be ready for distribu
tion before June 1.
The design of the new coin was
approved by Secretary of the
Treasury Ogden L. Mills from more
than a hundred models, many of
them submitted by leading Ameri
can artists. It was executed by'
John Flanagan, New York Sculptor
and the designer of the Department
of Agriculture World War Memor
ial.
The obverse of the new coin bears
the portrait of George Washington
in profile. Over the head appears
the word “Liberty,” and below it is
stamped the date “1932.” To one
side is the motto “In God We
Trust.”
The principal design of the oth-*^
er side is a spread eagle with the
inscription “United States of Am
erica” and “E Pluribus Unum’"
above, and “Quarter Dollar” below.
An olive branch also appears below
the eagle to complete a stately,,
dignified design. The new coin is
exactly the same size, weight anti
fineness as the present quarter dol
lar.
The George Washington quarter
is the first coin of regular issue
ever to bear the image of the First
President. It was authorized by
special act of Congress making it
possible for the Treasury to share
in the Bicentennial Celebration.
As a coin of regular issue the
George Washington quarter will re
place the twenty-five cent piece-
now in circulation. No other quart
er dollar will be coined for the next
twenty-five years unless authorized
by special act of Congress.
tinted at San Francisco, Denver
a:id Philadelphia the coins will be
p aced in circulation through the
r<r ular channels of the Federal
Reserve Banks, and will appear
simultaneously in all parts of the
country.
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