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Thirty-First Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, July 21, 1932 8 Pages — All Home Print Number 7 July 1 Crop Report ACREAGE UNDER CULTIVATION IN THIS STATE IS OFF 2.5 PER CENT THIS YEAR SOUTH CAROLINA ACREAGE planted to all crops in South Carolina is about 2.5 per cent less than the total area planted last year, according to preliminary esti mates of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. For the sec ond year in succession acreage re duction in cash crops has mere than offset increases in food and feed crops. Compared with last July, cotton has been reduced 10 per cent; to bacco 35 per cent; soybeans grown alone, 24 per cent; and Irish pota toes 28 per cent. There is evid ence of some shift in acreage from tobacco to cotton anA from soy beans to cowpeas. The decrease in total Irish potato acreage is en tirely the influence of a marked reduction in the early commercial crop, since potatoes grown for home use show a slight increase. Crops with acreage increases are; Corn, 2 per cent; oats, 3 per cent; peanuts, 6 per cent; tame hay and sorghum sirup, 11 per cent each; rye, 12 per cent; sweet potatoes, 13 per cent; cowpeas grown alone, 20 per cent; and wheat, 40 per cent. The acreage of most of these crops was increased in 1931 also. In fact, the acreage trend for the past three years has been away from crops grown mostly for sale and toward those for food and feed purposes. CONDITION: Present condition of field crops is about the average of recent years and gives promise of fair to good yields. Tree fruits are unusually short, peaches, apples and pears being re ported as about one third of a full crop, whereas the usual production is about two thirds of a full crop.. Small grains harvested this sum mer were below last year’s excellent yields but due largely to increased acreage the total outturn was about 10 per cent above the average of the years 1924-1928. CORN: The reported condition of 75 per cent on July 1 compares with 70 per cent a year ago and 76 per cent for the 10 years prior to 1929. This condition indicates a crop cf 23,780,000 bushels, which compares with the final outturn of 22,994,000 bushels last year and the average production of 20,227,000 bushels for the years 1924-1928. OATS: The crop is estimated at 7,974,000 bushels, which is 16 per cent less than the unusually good outturn of 1931 but about 9 per cent above the average production for the years 1924-1928. The aver age yield per acre is reported as 20.5 bushels, which compares with the record yield of 25.0 last year and the ten-year average of 21.7 bushels. WHEAT: An increase of 2 per cent in wheat production this year is due to a 40 per cent increase in harvested acreage. The yield per acre of 9.5 bushels is about aver age but is 27 per cent less than the very good yield cf 13.0 bushels in 1931. The total outturn for 1932 is estimated at 703,000 bushels. TOBACCO: With acreage re duced 35 per cent and th6 report ed condition of 50 per cent on July 1, the indicated tobacco production To Clean Off Long Cane Cemetery Next IVlonday Ail interested parties are invited to meet at Lower Long Can; Church next Monday. July 25th. for the purpose of cleaning off the cemetery. Come by 8 o’clock, or earlier if possible, and let's get through work during the coolest, part of the day. Bring baskeis for picnic dinner. W. D. MORRAH, For Committee. X Campaign Notice There will be a campaign meet ing at Sullivan’s School House on July 28. The public is invited. Din ner will be served at 50 cents for men, 25 cents for ladies, and chil-| | dren according to age. The McCormick County candid- ' ates are invited to attend. The Con gressional candidates will be invited | to speak that day. Come and be with us. J. J. MAYSON. 4-H Club Girl Champions at White House W The four style-review winners in the 4-H Club show at Chicago last year arc now enjoying the national tour then awarded and are here shown with President Hoover at the White House. Left to right; Mary Markley, Mass., Annette Yonkelowitz, 111., President Hoover, Helen Thomas, Ohio and Louise Morgan, Ga. Off For Short Course At Winthrop College McCormick County will be repre sented at the State Short Course at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, by the following Home Demonstraticn women and 4-H girls: Mrs. T. A. Dcwtin, Mrs. W. L. Ridlehcover, Mrs. R. M. Winn, Misses Mildred ; Britt, Frances Strcrn, Gladys Price. Letty Mae South. Annie Laurie Sturkey and Mary Sue Wrenn. This group left McCormick by bus July 19 and will return July 27. Mrs. Nell A. Stallworth, Home Dem onstration Agent, is also attending this short course, and v/jU assist with the child welfare program which will be a part cl the work of the short course. Farmers’-Taxpayers’ League To Meet Here On Next Saturday Gave Program Of Sac red Music Here Last Night Enrollment Noth John D. Rockefeller, now 93 and within 7 years of his ambition to live to 100, says, "During my life depres sions have come and gone. Prosperity has always returned—and will again. is only 38,400,000 pounds or 45 per 1 cent below last year’s final estimate of 70,070.000. Should the final outturn approximate the July indi cation it will be the smallest crop grown in the State since 1916 when 20,280,000 pounds were made. SWEET POTATOES: An acre age increase of 13 per cent and a reported condition of 72 per cent indicates a sweet potato crop of 4.- 800,000 bushels or 51 per cent above the short crop of last year. TAME HAY: Prospects are fer about 202,000 tons of tame hay compared with 178,000 tons har vested last year. Condition of other crops on July 1 this year and last year, respec tively, follows: Alfalfa, 77 and 65; Pasture, 74 and 62; Grapes, 69 and 79; Pecans, 57 and 70. UNITED STATES The estimates released by the Crop Reporting Board show a marked readjustment of crop acre ages to the low prices of cash crops, to the loss of 5 million acres of winter wheat seeded last fall and to the more favorable moisture conditions in the spring wheat states. The total acreage of crops harvested this year is expected to be 1 or 2 per cent above that har vested last year but about one per cent less than in either 1929 or 1930. Present prospects point to yields of crops not far from the average of recent years. The general outlook at this time is for sharply lower production of wheat, beans and tobacco of which substantial sup plies have been carried over from last year’s crop, a materially in creased production of feed grains, a hay crop only slightly below av erage, a moderately light crop of fruits, a potato crop about the same as that of last year, and a supply of commercial vegetables be low that of last year chiefly be cause of reduced production of crops grown for canning. The greatest changes in acreage are shown by some leading crops grown for sale. The tobacco acre age has been reduced 29 per cent, beans 21 per cent, rice 13 per cent, and cotton, as previously reported, 9.5 per cent, leaving the acreage? of each of these crops the smallest in nine years or more. In the spring wheat states acreages are quite markedly above the very low acreages finally harvested last season, after heavy loss Ircm drought, but in comparison with the more normal acreages harvest ed two years ago spring wheat shows an increase of only 2 per cent, rye a decrease of 6 per cent and flaxseed a decrease of 28 1-2 per cent. In the country as a whole the de creases from last year in the acre ages of crops grown chiefly for sale are more than offset by prospects for a further increase of 5 per cent in the total harvested acreage cf the three feed grains, corn, cats, and barley. FRANK O. BLACK, Agricultural Statistician. R. C. LIGHT, Jr., Agricultural Statistician BOOKS CLOSE ON JULY 27TH On the last Tuesday in July, which is the 26th day of the month, the club books shall close. Only i six days remain to enter new names ; or transfers from one nrerinrt to another. Each club secretary is requested to transmit his book to the county chairman within three days after the closing aate txt Mrs. Strom Entertains Legion Auxiliary -IXT- Cotton Export Figures Show Big Increase DuPRE RHAME An unusually large crowd filled the auditorium of the First Bap tist Church of McCormick last night when DuPre Rhame, widely- known baritone, was heard in a program of sacred music. Mr. Rhame, who is director of the prize-winning Furman University glee club and director of music in .he city schools of Greenville, is well-known for his individual in terpretation of secular music. A. Elbert Adams, in addition to accompanying Mr. Rhame was fea tured in several piano solos. Mr. Adams is organist in one of the largest churches in South Caro- ina. The concert was sponsored by Funnan University as a matter of cultural co-operation between the university, the people and the church. Mrs. Walter T. Strom entertain- , ed the American Legion Auxiliary for their July meeting on last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. C. K. Epting presided and reports were read of the State convention in Aiken. After the business was con- ! eluded the hostess served block cream and pound cake. x Canning Goes On PRODUCTION AND CONSERVA TION OF VEGETABLES NOTE WORTHY OVER STATE -IXt- Poultrymen Of State Want Egg Law Enforced NEARLY TWO MILLION BALES AHEAD OF 1930-31 SEASON WASHINGTON. July 15.—Cotton exports for the ninth consecutive month showed a gain during June as compared with the same month last year. The department cf commerce an nounced yesterday that ccttcn ex- ; ports during June were 360,000 bales as compared with 255,000 bales in I June last year. The June exports I showed a seasonal decline as com pared w r ith May when 501,000 bales were exported. The seasonal decline occurred in shipments to practically all coun tries, the department said, with substantial reducticns in shipments to the United Kingdom, Italy and Canada. Exports to Greece, Swed en. Portugal and China were above those during May. Shipments for the eleven months of the cotton season from August to June inclusive aggregated 8,258,- 000 an increase of 1,575,000 over the shipments for the corresponding period of the 1930-31 season. SEVERAL GOOD SPEAKERS HAVC BEEN INVITED TO DELIVER ADDRESSES The McCormick County Unit nf the State Farmers’ and Taxpayers;’ League will hold a meeting in the court house here on Saturday. July 23rd, starting at 11 o’clock a. m. Several good speakers have been invited to deliver addresses at this meeting, and the general public is cordially invited to come out anti hear them. W. E. SHEPPARD, President. X First County Cam paign Meeting 29lii OPENS AT PLUM BRANCH OM« WEEK FROM TOMORROW CLEMSON COLLEGE. July 18.— The South Carolina Poultry Im provement Association, at its re cent annual meeting n Columbia, endorsed the present state law gov erning the sale of eggs, and, feel- 'nsr that rigid enforcement of the law would result in greater profit to producers and greater satisfac- ion to consumers, aopointed a committee to present the matter to h r proper committees of the next egislature. Officers elected for the following year were: F. T. Waddill. Cheraw, ^resident: R. P. Gillespie, Harts- ville. vice-president; H. G. Sea- wrieht. Pendleton, secretary; and R K. Frick, Spartanburg, treasurer. T. S. Ramsay, Calhoun, J. G. Wof ford. Hartsville, and Y. T. Dickert, Newberry, were elected on the oo- ard of directors. Miss Juanita Neely, poultry specialist, of Winthrop Col lege, was elected ex-officio member of ^he executive ooard. P. H. Gooding, extension poultry- man who helped with the program, reports a good attendance of poul try producers and hatcherymen and excellent discussions of various phases of the poultry industry. CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 18.— An important phase of the live-at- home movement reported by A. E. Schilletter, extension horticulturist who is giving special attention to home gardening, is the canning of vegetables and fruit in mill com munities, the mill authorities co operating with their operatives to can products at minimum cost by using equipment that can be ad apted at little or no cost. In Anderson, for example, the Gossett Mills are using dye vats for pressure canning; and the Orr Mills have rigged up a discarded vat for the same purpose. Canning is done only for the mill people, who have been encouraged and aided by the mill officials in the production of good home gardens on mill land. No charge is made except for cans bought at wholesale and for spec ial labor required. The county farm and home agents have been active in this production and con servation work. Mr. Schilletter reports that oth er mills are also operating impro vised canneries and that in Green ville and other places community canneries are being operated for the public, an important feature oi the movement being the use of equipment already at hand. Not only cotton mills but bottling plants and other concerns, he says, have vats or boilers that can be thus adapted to save food for win ter use. In this connection, Mr. Schillte- ter states, there is growing inter est in fall and winter gardens. At a recent meeting called by ehe su perintendent of the mill at La- France to offer land and assistance in preparing home gardens, 90 men were present and eager to grow vegetables for home use. In Green ville county over 1000 people have attended gardening meetings be ing held by the farm and home agents. Thousands of bulletins on gardening have been distributed i from Clemson College on requests j from every corner of th£ 'fvtflte 1X1 We suggest that one of the best ways to slow down the speeders is to make slower automobiles. -X- Increase In Deaths On Highways Of State COLUMBIA, July 16.—More peo ple were killed in accidents on South Carolina highways during the first half of 1932 than during the same period in 1931, although the number of accidents decreasea the state highway department re ported today. Twenty-four fatalities last month caused the total for the first six months of this year to mount to 90, compared with 36 deaths dur ing the same period in 1931. Traffic exacted a life every two days of the half-year. More motorists and pedestrians died in the rush of traffic this June than in any previous month of the year. The number was one-third more than in June, 1S31, when there were 16 mortalities. There were 101 accidents last month, in which five pedestrians were killed, 18 people injured, and 74 others slightly injured. Dur ing June a year ago, the report shows, 93 accidents took a death toll of seven pedestrians, seriously injured 18 persons, and hurt 69 slightly. txt Close Highways For Treatment The first campaign meeting for candidates seeking office in Mc Cormick County will be held at Plum Branch on Friday, July 29th, when the campaign makes its of ficial opening to fill six appoint ments made by the committee, as follows: Plum Branch July 29th Parksville Aug. 5th Willington Aug. I2th Young’s Aug. 19th Mt. Carmel Aug. 23rd McCormick Aug. 26th Mrs. Wootten Here Last Thursday INTEREST OF S. C. CHILDREN S BUREAU Mrs. C. T. Wootten, case-worker for the Children’s Bureau of South Carolina, was in McCormick last Thursday on business connected with the work of the bureau. This bureau has offices in Colum bia, and its main object is the plac ing of normal dependent children in private homes or in orphanago* or institutions, as the need of the child may indicate. A careful in vestigation is made of applications requesting aid and a study is made of each child accepted for place ment so that the best interest of the individual child may be safe guarded. In addition to the investigation of the needs and rqeuirements of children applying for care, a verr thorough study is made of the character and standing of people who apply for children. All chil dren are placed on probation and under supervision for at least one year before consent for adoption is given. Just now the bureau has 5 little boys who are in need of homes. Their ages range from 6 to 10 years. These children have all had thorough physical and mental ex aminations and have had good training. Applications may bo made to Mrs. W. C. Cathcart, Sup ervisor Children’s Bureau, 507 State Office Building, Columbia, S. C. -iXi- A Cherry Queen Two South Carolina highways, route No. 20 from Parksville to the Savannah river, and No. 19 from Saluda to Silver Street, are closed to traffic while sections of the roads are being surface treated, it was announced yesterday from the state highway department, Route No. 31, from Prosperity to the Saluda river, has been reopened following treatment recently, it was explained. Motorists traveling route 20. Au gusta to McCormick, are advised to use highways 25 and 43 by way of Edgefield, it was pointed out. Traffic on No. 19 is being detour ed over 392 and 22 by Chappells and Silver Street.—The State, of Sunday. M iss Carolyn Hazzard, Lansing. Mich., queen of the Michigan Cherry Festival at Traverse, Mich., is shown here with the huge cherry pic she haked and presented to President Hoover.