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Thursday, August 4, 1932
McCOhulICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER SEVEN
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Tty this as something different
for luncheon. Served as the “meat”
dish with almost any green vege
table, it is delicious.
1 cupful of canned or green corn
cut from the cob,
1 beaten egg, flour, salt and pep
per.
Put the corn in a bowl, add the
well beaten egg, and just enough
sifted flour to make rather thick.
Season, and if too thick to drop
easily from a spoon, add a little
milk.
soon as one side is brown.
NEW
August Work
Important For Good
Fall Gardens
Club Work For Older Youth
Club leaders are giving a good
deal of thought these days to inter
est the older rural boys and girls in
farm or home projects. These
range in age from 16 up to as high
as 25 and 30 years.
Minnesota club leaders are doing
a fine piece of work in this line.
They have what is called a partner
ship between the child and the par
ent. It may be either parent. This
Fry in^hot fat, turning as p ro j ec t has been carried on for sev
eral years. Over 500 boys and girls
are in such partnerships this sea
son.
A good furniture polish may be
made by mixing equal parts of lin
seed oh and vinegar. Shake well,
and apply with soft cloth, then rub
dry with a clean soft cloth.
When marking household linen,
try writing, or printing, if that is
the manner of marking one prefers
—with a lead pencil, then tracing
directly over the pencil marks with
a pen and marking ink. I am told
that the ink will not “run” making
that blotty looking mark we so of
ten see qn linen.
Do you know that to get the best
results, a nutmeg should be grated
from the blossom end?
A tablespoonful of vinegar mixed
with the basting water placed in the
roasting pan with meat or fowl will
tend to make the roast more tend
er.
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Four cities, New York, Chicago,
Boston and Philadelphia are said to
be the market for half the oranges
sold in America. Wonder who gets
the most lemons?
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Everything that we have has a
tendency to wear out unless it is
taken care of—especially is this
true with our reputation.
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One reason why it is difficult to
stabilize things is that the stables
have all been converted into gar
ages.
The projects are much the same
as for the regular club members,
but in some instances they take on
rather large proportions. For in
stance, a dairyman in Brown coun
ty this spring effected a partner
ship with his four sons. In this
deal the profits will be divided ac
cording to contract.
In Georgia a special effort is be
ing made by Miss Lurline Collier,
state girls club agent, to enroll girls
of 16 to 25 years who may have had
some primary club work, but who
do not expect to go away to school.
She is also working to enroll young
married women on farms in pro
jects which can be . fitted into the
home program to improve the life
of the family.
The Utopia clubs of Kentucky
have come through the first year of
their program in fine shape. About
.350 young men and women in a
dozen counties were enrolled, and
all are enthusiactically carrying on
this year.
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There are two sides to everything
except a mirror and the other per
son’s argument.
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Most of us would rather have
friends than look like a collar ad
vertisement.
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Once upon a time there were two
thermometers that registered ohe
same.
CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 30.—
The success of the fall and winter
garden depends largely on import
ant work to be done in August, says
A. E. Schilletter, extension horti
culturist, pointing out the needs as
to planting, fertilizing, and care of
the numerous vegetables that may
be had from now until mid-winter.
The planting schedule needing
August attention Mr. Schilletter
lists as follows:
Plant Irish potatoes at once—
Lookout Mountain, Irish Cobbler.
• Plant rutabaga turnips at once;
other turnips up to September 15.
Extra Early Purpletop, White egg.
Plant beans up to September 10—
Bountiful, Stringless Greenpod.
Plant beets now—Crosby’s Egyp
tian, Detroit Dark Red; and car
rots—Chanteney, Coreless.
Plant corn at once—Stowell’s
Evergreen, Trucker’s Favorite.
Plant lettuce for fall transplant
ing—New York, Mignonette.
Transplant tomatoes, collard,
cabbage, and celery for fall and
winter.
Regarding fertility for late crops
Mr. Schilletter says:
“Like animals, plants must be fed
continuously, if good results are to
be obtained, and a late crop can
not feed on fertility that has been
used up earlier in the season. Well
decomposed stable manure applied
between the rows in August and
September will make a wonderful
difference in the late growth of
plants. Where this is not avail
able or is not convenient to use, a
side dressing of some quickly avail
able form of nitrogen should be
used.
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Marriages And Di
vorces In The United
States For 1930-31
Suttdify
SdmtLessor
By Rev. Charles E. Dunn, D. D.
Lesson for August 7:
The Ten Commandments. I. Exodus 20:1-11
The Ten Commandments, hammered by Moses into tables of stone
at Mt. Sinai, according to the familiar narrative of Exodus, comprise the
basic moral law of the Hebrew people, and of Christian civilization.
Our lesson deals with the first four of these pithy laws, which out
line man’s fundamental obligation to God. The remaining six laws in
the Decalogue treat of man’s duty to his fellows.
Note that the first Commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods
before me,’*’ does not deny the existence of many dieties. It was a long
time before the Hebrews arrived at that sublime conviction of the un
known prophet of the exile that there is one God only, “the God of tho
whole earth.” What the Commandment means is that the God of
Israel must be given the preference over rival gods. Today it might be
paraphrased to-read, “Thou shalt have at least one God.” For our
danger is not that we are tempted to worship many gods, but to repudi
ate God and worship altogether.
The Second Commandment, a sweeping prohibition of the carving of
idols, was necessary in Moses’ day, when the making of images was
carried to excess. For our own time, however, it is far too drastic. Wc
are lovers of art, and appreciate its immense contribution to the relig
ious impulse. For us the Commandment means a protest not against
artistic symbols of God, but against gods purely man-made, constructed
after our own pattern. Our God is pure Spirit, mightier and grander
than any picture, mental or material, we may draw of Him.
The Third Commandment protects the sanctity of oaths. In this
day of slipshod talk, falsehood and perjury, we need to take it much
to heart. As Jesus insisted, our Yea should be precisely Yea, and our
Nay exactly Nay. It is also a protest against profanity, an inevitable
sign of feeble vocabulary and impoverished thWking.
The Fourth Commandment was never more needed. The trend of
our day is to make Sunday a holiday rather than a holy day. Now
Sunday presents a splendid opportunity for rest, worship, the home life,
and the personal life. Are we not in danger of losing these values
through our lust for pleasure and speed on the Lord’s Day?
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2.—
According to the returns received
by the Bureau of Census, there were
1,060,095 marriages performed in
the United States during the year
1931, as compared with 1,128.572 in
1930—a decrease of 68,477 or 6.1 per
cent. There was a decrease of 8.4
per cent from 1929 to 1930, accord
ing to the same report.
For the year 1931 there were 183,-
695 divorces granted in the United
States. During 1930 there were
191,591—a decrease of 7,896, or 4.1
per cent, as against a decrease of
4.9 per cent from 1929 to 1930. The
marriages annulled in 1931 were
4,338, as compared with 4,370 in
1930.
The population of continental
United States on July 1, 1931, was
estimated at 124,070,000, and on
July 1, 1930, 123,191,000. Based on
these estimates the number of mar
riages per 1,000 of the population
was 8.5 per cent in 1931, as against
9.2 per cent in 1930. On the same
basis the number of divorces per 1,-
000 of population was 1.49 in 1931,
as against 1.56 in 1930. >
For the United States as a whole,
there were 5.8 marriages for each
divorce reported, as against 5.9 in
1930. The District of Columbia and
New York State each has but one
cause for absolute divorce. They
reported 24.7 and 22.4 marriages,
respectively, for each divorce. The
rates in the other states ranged
from 12.6 marriages to each divorce
in Louisiana to 1.5 to each divorce
in Nevada.
The Census Bureau has received
many requests for this information.
The preliminary reports, according
to states and groups cf states, have
been released in mimeographed
form.
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Farm Population
Gains
Treat Bees With Care
During Hot Weather
CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 30.—
If bees are out in the sun and no
shade reaches them, it is a good
idea in hot summer weather to put
some shade boards on the top of
each hive, cutting them long
enough to extend one foot in front
and one foot in the back, says Ned
Prevost, state apiarist, explaining
that this will break a good deal of
the direct sun off the hives and
make the bees more comfortable
while in the hives.
When the weather is so dry and
hot there is not any honey coming
in and since the bees cannot find
i honey in the field, they are very apt
to start robbing, and Mr. Prevos'
advises those who go through hives
be very careful not to break any
honey or drop any near the hives,
for that would more than Ikiely
start robbing.
If by chance the bees do start
robbing, he suggests closing the en
trance down to the size that the
guards probably can take care of
and watching to see that they do
take care of the hive. Should rob
bers get very bad it might be a
good idea to move this hive to a
new location, using great care so
as to lose only a minimum of the
field workers.
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Deposits Give Nation
Potash Independence
Enough potash lies in the huge
rock deposits of Wyoming and
greensand deposits of New Jersey
to make the United States inde
pendent of any foreign supply of
this fertilizer, says the United
States Deparmtent of Agriculture.
This potash needs only commer
cially profitable methods of extrac
tion to make it readily available to
the American farmer. Experi
mental blast furnace trials by the
department have shown that the
Wyoming rock will yield 10 to 11
per cent potash and the New Jersey
greensand from 5 to 7 per cent.
Cheap fuel in Wyoming should
make possible a commercial furn
ace plant there that could produce
potash to compete with other pot
ash on the market, the department
believes. The Wyoming potash is
easier to extract than that from
the greensand, but it is farther
from the fertilizer market.
Experiments with both deposits
are under way by the Bureau of
Chemistry and Soils of the depart
ment and promising results have
been obtained with both.
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Timber Strength
The strongest lumber in the red
wood tree is near the bottom, says
the Forest Service of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
In testing both virgin and sec
ond-growth redwoods, the depart
ment found that the difference in
the specific gravity between the
wood at the top of the tree and the
bottom was about 15 per cent, with
the greater specific gravity for the
lower part. Lumber with this
greater specific gravity is stronger.
This knowledge is useful to lum
ber users seeking structural mater
ial, because they can select the
lower logs for their purposes.
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The increase in farm population
in 1931 was the largest and most
significant in the 10 years in which
the United States Department of
Agriculture has been estimating
changes in population. For seven
years of this period annual de
creases were reported and only
during 1930 and 1931 were appreci
able gains indicated. On January
1, 1932, the farm population was
31,260,000 persons as compared with
30,612,000 on January 1, 1931, a gain
of 648,000, according tc department
estimates.
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An omelet made from the egg of
an ostrich would feed eight per
sons, according to a recipe, but who
would want to eat the cmelet?
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Most of us talk the most about
the things we know the least about.
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James H. Maurer, Socialist can
didate for Vice-President, with Nor
man Thomas, is waging a vigorous
campaign which was launched at
Washington last week. He addressed
a mass meeting at the Auditorium
and later the Bonus Army in camp.
To beautify their faces, Mayas
of Yucatan used to have their
teeth drilled out with a sharp stone
turned by a bow string, in order to
insert inlays of jade.
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One seasonal occupation in New 7 !
Hampshire is collecting evergreen I
cones in late summer and autumn, |
to be sold to seed-extracting plants ;
and used for tree seed.
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