McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, July 14, 1932, Image 4
Thursday, July 14, 1932
JkCORMICK MESSENGER
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER FOUR
Every Thursday
^Established June 5, 1902
W
EDMOND J. McCRACKEN,
Editor and Owner
CjDtered at the Post Office at Me-
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
Keep The Dairy Cows!
ECONOMIST URGES BUILDING
UP, NOT DECREASING HERDS
the next generation
The
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little children romping
• around will become the men and
’women of another generation.
T3aey will control the destiny of
‘this community then, as we con
trol it now.
Community betterment is always
the goal of every good citizen. It/
is the great lubricant which causes
the wheels of enlightenment to spin
noiselessly and to a purpose.
To insure a better community for
the future we must begin with the
children of today. .
If in their childhood they are
taught to differentiate between
~wisdom and foolishness, between
the good and the bad, between
xigbt and wrong, the lessons they
‘ learn will bear golden fruit in af
ter years, and the community we
love so well* will be brighter and
better because of the influence they
win exert upon the citizenry of
their day.
Remember the little children of
today, for tomorrow they will have
-children of their own, and the law
of heredity is strong with us all.
The sun shines brightly when we
push the clouds away, but the lit
tle child has not yet learned to
push.
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1 “Gospel” From
\ Kershaw
CAMDEN, July 9.—Good news
Tram Kershaw county is found in
.simple facts regarding the “greater
emphasis now being placed by Ker-
.ahaw farmers on greater diversifi
cation, food and feed, and soil
Building crops on the farms of the
county, so much so that not in the
remembrance of our oldest citizens
has as much attention been paid
by our farm people to an actual
and real live-at-home program.”
-This in a word is the “gospel,” or
good news, from Kershaw as re
ported by Henry D. Green, county
farm agent. Some specifications
and details of this good news will
illustrate how Kershaw is doing it.
“In anticipation of the lack of
money with which to purchase
•commercial fertilizer next year
hundreds of our farmers are plant
ing more and more cowpeas, soy
beans, and velvet beans and quite
a few have planted crotalaria. They
are also paying more and more at
tention to the production and sav
ing and intelligent use of lot and
stable manure. In fact cows have
taken on an aspect of value, hither
to neglected or forgotten, due to
the realixation by our farmers of
the need for animal manures. This
same general awakening has sim-
CLEMSON COLLEGE. July 9.—
“Even though the price of butter in
June on the principal markets was
the lowest in 28 years, it was high
er as compared with pre-war than
any other important agricultural
commodity except live poultry; and
regardless of market value a pound
of butter has as much food value
for home consumption as It ever
had,” says O. M. Clark, extension
economist.
The low prices for dairy products
are discouraging many producers,
who would do well to remember,
Mr. fclark thinks, that dairying is
not a short-time enterprise that
can be gone into one year and out
the next. The prices of dairy pro
ducts move in cycles of about 14 or
15 years from peak to peak, and
these prices are now in the decline
'tf the cvcle. While prices will in
all probability improve with an im
provement in the buying power of
consumers, the general trend of
dairy products prices will probably
be downward for a few years. But
heifer calves saved now ano’ during
the next few years will have their
major production period during the
rise of the price cycle. The far
sighted producer will plan to have
cows at their maximum production
when the peak of the price cycle
arrives.
Mr. Clark points out also that
South Carolina is a deficit area for
dairy products, giving producers an
advantage with respect to prices
over producers in surplus areas.
As evidence of this fact the price
of butter in South Carolina in June
was 30 per cent higher than in Min -
nesota.
“Furthermore,” he adds, “ as long
as we have the low average per
capita consumption of milk that we
have in South Carolina, we are jus
tified in increasing the number of
cows on farms. A gallon of milk
or a pound of butter may not
bring much on the market but
when it is produced for home con
sumption, the market price is ir
relevant.”
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Buyers Of Crops
Will Be Liable
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PURCHASERS MUST PAY FEDER
AL MORTGAGES IF FARMERS
UNABLE TO DO SO
CHARLESTON, July 5.—Purchas
ers of crops from farmers who have
not paid the federal crop mort
gages, will become liable, George
M. Magruder of Summerville, field
inspector for the department of ag
riculture, said Saturday.
Gagruder said buyers of farm
products will be furnished lists up
on requests of all crop production
loans made in counties in which
prospective anticipate doing busi
ness.
Crop inspections will be conduct
ed systematically throughout all
counties where crop loans are not
paid, he said, and sale of products
from such farms will be checked
and the purchasers will become
liable for the amount of the loan,
whether or not a false statement
was made by the seller as to right
ful owner of such products and
whether or not further action is to
be taken for disposing of crops un
der mortgage. '
Magruder has advised farmers
Helps Hill Children
It doesn’t' seem to matter much
where boys and girls live, if there
is any chance at all to carry on 4-H
club projects they do it in some way
or another. Take Kanawha coun
ty, West Virginia. It has the larg
est enrollment of any county in the
state,—some 1100 boys and girls. As
a farming section it has little to
recommend it. The county is most
ly embraced in the valley of the
Kanawha river. The country is
very rough and almost mountain
ous.
The young folks have to make
their own social life, and here is
where 4-H club work has come into
the picture. It has provided a
means of bringing the young folks
together in a social way and at the
same time made their diversion
count for something in keeping up
the home and appearances. In some
parts of the county there are min
ing settlements and here 4-H club
work is the only social diversion for
the young people.
Club work was started when some
business men in the county and in
Charleston made funds available to
the boys and girls for the purchase
of pigs, lambs, chickens and seed
for club projects. Club members
have many handicaps to contend
with in such a county, especially
in the case of livestock. Proper
feeds are not always available, nor
shelter, and predatory animals are
a nuisance. So the work is not up
to the average found in better ag
ricultural sections, but neverthe
less it is supplying a great need.
Where a little patch of land is
available it is used for garden stuff,
mostly, but sometimes a club mem
ber can manage to have a patch
turned over to him for com or po
tatoes. It is therefore all the more
important that the best culture fee
given the crops. The people are
appreciative when they see that
club work actually gets results.
A PASTORAL
(By Norman Gale)
Along the lane beside the mead
Where the cowslip-gold is in the
grass
E matched the milkmaid’s easy
speed,
A tall and springing country lass:
But though she had a merry plan
To shield her from my soft re
plies,
' Love played at Catch-me-if-you-
Can
In Mary’s eyes.
A mile or twain from Varley bridge
I plucked a dock-leaf for a fan,
And drove away the constant
midge,
And cooled her forehead’s strip
of tan.
But though the maiden would not
spare
My hand her pretty finger-tips,
Love played at Kiss-me-if-you-Dare
On Mary’s lips.
Since time was short and blood was
bold,
I drew me closer to her side.
And watched her freckles change
from gold
To pink beneath a blushing tide.
But though she turned her face
away,
How much her panting heart
.confessed!' |
Love played at Find-me-if-you-
May
In Mary’s breast.
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Abundant Legume
Crops Are Being
Seeded On Farms
Music Recital At Trov
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Friday Evening
The Literary and Music Club of
Troy will present a music and ex
pression recital at the Troy school
house Friday evening, July 15, at
3:00 o’clock. There will also be a
social afterwards. Everybody in
vited. No admission.
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Watch For The
League Canvassers
All your extra coat hangers shall
be greatly appreciated by the
League. Please get them together
and wait for a league canvasser.
RUCIA ABERCROMBIE.
Trade Balance
Favors America
that the government will insist on
alarly Increased the appreciation for j payment of the loans and that
forests, especially the farm j ^ i s advisable for those having
lot, because of the necessity | cr0 p production loan mortgages to
tnr litter in the making of stable
and lot manure.
' ( L. L Guion, Lugoff, who
-through years of practical experi
ence and success, recognizes the
great value of legume crops, has
planted 200 acres of crotalaria and
is highly pleased with its growth
and ability to choke out noxious
weeds. He plans 10 plant several
hundred acres cf Austrian winter
peas and vetch this fall. Many of
our farmers are this year produc
ing their crops chiefly from fert
ility gained by the use of previous
ly grown legume crops and from
lot and stable manures. For exam
ple, J. K. Goff, Camden, has splen
did crops this year grown almost
entirely from legume and animal
manures. Mr. Goff is steadily
building up his soil’s fertility and
productivity.
“It is most encouraging to note
the certain progress all over the
’-county in the matter of our farm
ers producing more food and feed
-crops, growing more and more leg
umes, and raising more cows, hogs,
and chickens.”
keep an accurate account of all
sales of farm products, at least un
til mortgages have been satisfied.
WASHINGTON, July 9.—The Uni
ted States continues to maintain a
favorable balance of trade, it be
ing $20,017,244 during May.
This was shown yesterday in a
commerce department announce
ment of total export and import
values.
May exports totaled $132,291,-
821 and imports were $112,274,477.
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Snow Child” Goes North
CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 11.—
Forage and soiling crops, mostly
legumes, are being seeded in
abundance on farms over the state,
according to reports from county
farm agents, indicating that live
stock and land will be much the
better off thereby.
Typical of the good news is the
statement from S. C. Stribling,
Cherokee, who says; “A large part
c-; the grain stubble has been
planted to either late corn, peas, or
soybeans, and the good seasons
have brought these crops to fairly
good stands.”
Other Piedmont instances include
those from P. B. Ezell, N^vberry—
“Practically all available land has
been planted to feed crops that are
up to a good stand”; R. H. Lem
mon, Fairfield—“More cowpeas are
being planted this year than usual
and the stands thus far are good”;
W. J. Tiller, Chesterfield—“With a
good supply of cheap legume seed
such as velvet beans, soybeans, and
peas, the acreage is apparently the
largest ever seeded in the county.”
From other sections come sim
ilar statements such as those from
J. R. Clark, Richland—“The farm
ers have planted more cowpeas,
soybeans, and velvet beans this
year than ever before, and the feed
crops look good”; from C. L. Mc-
Caslan, Calhoun—“Large acreages
of peas and soybeans are being put
in this year”; and from H. D.
Green, Kershaw—“All over the
county our farmers are growing
more and more legumes and pro
ducing more feed crops.”
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Retailers Warned
Of Price Increases
BEST MEATS-Ld
llavu installed electric refrigeration and
made other provisions to properly care for
and serve the best of fresh meats to our
customers at all times. Delivery made
in town at any lime. Phone 1420. Mar
ket open on upper Main Street every Sat-
.urday afternoon. Very best m^ats at
lowest prices.
JAMIE L. SMITH
This office has on hand a stock of
nice round and square cornered
candidates’ cards and suitable
type faces for printing them to
please the most fatidious.
Have a supply printed, Mr. Can
didate, before the campaign opens
and be prepared to pass them
around among your friends so
there may be no mistake as to
your name and for what office
you are aspiring.
Our printing is of best quality and
our prices are very reasonable.
raWK MESSEHR
McCORMICK, S. C.
Self-Help Advances
Cherokee Farmers
?AS
:SS.
Mr;. Howard Stafford (Peary),
filter *<f Admira! Peary, the fa-
•.>k*us ‘Y.now baby’* born in the Arctic
r .\c!e, is new returning to within 14
of the j-.le to unveil a stone
erected ihere to her noted
♦ai.i.er
WASHINGTON, July 9.—The Bu
reau of Internal Revenue warned
retailers Thursday that it is a crim
inal offense, subject to fine
and imprisonment, to increase
prices of taxable merchandise held
in stock prior to June 21, when the
new manufacturers excise taxes
| went into effect.
Any one who thus takes advant-
' age cf the competitive situation
arising out of the imposition of the
new taxes is liable to a fine of $1,-
000 or by imprisonment of not more
than one year or both.
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Death Of Colored Man
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A court has held a jay-walking
t ordinance as illegal, but neverthe
less it takes no court to prove that
I it might be fatal.
“Uncle” Tombs Murray, 60 years
of age, died at his home near Mc
Cormick on July 2nd, following a
short illness. Funeral services were
conducted and interment made at
McCain’s cemetery July 3rd. G. P.
McCain’s srevice in charge.
GAFFNEY, July 11.—Through ru
ral community clubs, Farmers’
Granges, a fire insurance associa
tion, and through co-operation
with bankers, Rotarians, the Cham
ber of Commerce, and others,
; Cherokee county farmers are find
ing forms of self-help that do much
to advance their economic and
social welfare.
Community clubs help make a
number of Cherokee areas better
to farm in and better to live in. I
Among these are Sunnyside, New
; Pleasant, Sarratt, Pleasant Grove,
Draytonville. Monthly meetings
with educational and social pro-1
grams are held except in the busy
season, the county agents and ag
ricultural and other teachers lend
ing encouragement. Some of these
community clubs are converting
themselves into units of the
Grange, this farmers’ organization
! having taken fairly strong root in
Cherokee soil, with quite a good
1 number of local Granges already
actively at work and a county
Pomona functioning.
Another self-help organization
among Cherokee farmers is the
| Cherokee Farmers Mutual Fire In
surance Association, which insures
j farm buildings and furniture
against losses from fire and storm.
This organization, old in service to
its members, gives cheap protection
to about 500 members, the rate,
once as low as 25 cents per hundred
dollars, now being around one dol
lar per hundred as against over
twice that in outside old-line com
panies.
Co-operative action of Cherokee
fanners with others towards bet
ter farming include:
1. The Cherokee county fair as
sociation, which has had a stimu
lating effect on diversification and
production of quality products.
2. The Gaffney banks, through
which the use of purebred cotton
seed has become much more pre
valent in the past few years.
3. The Gaffney Rotary Club, /
whose co-operation has been help
ful in holding community and
country-wide meetings on agricul
tural oroblems.
4. The Gaffney Chamber of Com
merce, whose secretary, W. E. John
son, is always active toward pro
motion of marketing and other
problems for diversified cash crops.
Another advantage of small town,
life is that you can rent a house
without owning a lap dog.
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At times we fear that whatever
killed the dead civilizations was
something Inheritable.