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^Thursday. August 25, 1932'
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER FOUR
McCORMICK MESSENGER
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Ten world record performances
which marked the Olympic track
and field championships have been
stamped with official approval and
put on the books by the Interna-
Tests Measure Effect
FROST . . . harnessed by industry— tional Amateur Athletic Federation
| I went to a luncheon in New York meeting in Los Angeles. Eight were
! the other day at which everything credited to Americans and one each
, that was served, except the celery J a P an an £* Great Britain.
and the coffee, had been frozen 77“ ^ ,
\\ eatliei /11 v^OltOll fresh by the new dry ice pro- record-breaking festival m
cess. Fish, steak, strawberries, ev- tile track and field events of the
Exposure of cotton in the field af- erything else on the table, had Olympic Games resulted in twentj -
ter the bolls first open tapidly low- been subjected to a temperature of three Olympic marks falling. In on
ers its grade, the United States De- fifty or more degrees below zero ^ t'ive events were the p.eviou>
partment of Agriculture has found and thawed out only just as the marks left intact the broad lump, (
after a series of color tests. meal was being prepared. high jump, 50,000 meter walk, .11.1-
Although every cotton farmer j Instantaneous freezing like this mer throw and 10,000 meter ^ un -
knows that exposure lowers the does not cause ice crystals to break The women broke all maiks m t en
grade of unpicked cotton, these the cells of meat, vegetables or events,
tests indicate just how rapidly this fruit, and so there is no change
lowering of grade takes place. ! whatever in the flavor, and they To set a new world’s record and 1
Newly opened bolls \vere tagged can be kept perfectly fresh for of course, a new Oylmpic record,
in a South Carolina cotton field, j years, as long as they are protected Eddie Tolan, of Detroit, ran 100
Ootton was picked from some each by dry ice. meters in 10.3 seconds. The previ-
A big corporation is spending mil- ous Olympic record was 10.6, held
lions to establish these “frosted by five athletes. The former world’s
tlay for a long period and tested for
change in color. During the first
two weeks all samples picked grad
ed strict good or good middling
"white or spotted. The last sample
ic grade in the white grades was
picked on the eighteenth day after
tagging. From that time on the
.samples graded
through good middling spotted,
good middling gray, strict middling
spotted, strict middling blue, strict
low, and low middling spotted, and
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foods” as a new industry. It is record of 10.4 seconds was held
quicker and cheaper than canning, jointly by Tolan and Charles
and ought to be of benefit to farm- Paddock,
ers and fishermen.
OXEN . . . again in service—
Henri Cochet, generally regarded
Up in my Berkshire country, far- as the world’s greatest tennis play-
progressively mers are beginning to swing back e r, amateur or professional, is com-
“ * to the use of oxen for heavy haul- i n g to America to participate in the
ing and plowing. The slow, sturdy, annual men’s national singles
reliable ybke of oxen has become championships at Forest Hills, New
a rare sight in recent years, even hi York,, opening September 3 and
finally became so low in color that 1 New England, where the hilly con- concluding September 10. Cochet
they could not be graded at all by tours make farming with tractors has hopes of meeting H. Ellsworth
more difficult th^n in the West and vines, Jr., in the final round. Vines,
South. Now we are beginning to present holder of * the American
see them hauling great loads of title, defeated Cochet during the
hay, dragging “stone boats” and Davis Cup matches in Paris,
doing many of the farm operations
During a field day at the Polo
Grounds in New York last year
the official color standards
— ixt—
Wet Year For
Dry Areas
The first half of 1932 was decid
edly “wet” for much of the dry
farming regions of the United
States.
Reports to the dry land agricul
ture division of the United States
Department of Agriculture from 19
.stations in States from North Da
kota to Texas show that these sta
tions as a whole have had relative
ly heavy rainfall for the first six
for which horses and tractors have
been used.
Oxen are cheaper than horses, Babe Ruth fungo^hit a ball 426 feet,
and easier to feed and take care of, 4 inches That’s said to be the
for one thing. A well-broken yoke greatest dr tfffe ^ver.
of two-year-old steers is worth |
about $200, while a good working , The {irst horse race was staged
part of the 23rd
team of horses brings almost double
that. The farmer who needs mo
tive po™e- can raise his own fuel
for the oxen, but he has to pay cash
for gasoline for his tractor. There
are very few farriers left who know
660 B. C. as a
Oylmpiad program in Athens. The
distance was four miles.
_____ Back in 1913 the Washington
months of the year, the average be- how to shoe an ox, but the art is Senators in a game the Boston
ing 24 per cent above the normal 'not entirely lost. Red Sox used eight pitchers an ye
tor those stations. | I think this return to “hay-burn- managed to win 10 to 9.
At some stations torrential rains ing motors” is one indication that j ———
Tell, washing out crops and wash-. our national economy is swinging' To set a new world’s record Will
ing soil over crops that had started back toward self-contained local iam Miller of the U. S. A., during
to grow. Although the 6-month community units. I find niy neigh- the recent Olympic Games, pole-
period shows a heavy increase in bors saying that the craze for mod- vaulted 14 feet, 1 7-8 inches. The
rainfall over the average for that ern improvements has been over- previous world record was 14 feet, 1
time, the excess was largely offset dene.
CHINA
worth knowing—
It was my week for dining out. I
was one of a couple of hundred in
vited to meet Pearl S. Buck, the au-
^>y the lack of water stored in the
soil, a result of the protracted
drought of the late summer and
Tail of 1931. Winter-wheat produc
tion was sharply reduced by this thor of the best selling book of the
condition. Yields at the Hays past five years, “The Good Earth.”
4l^ans.) station ranged from 2 to Mrs. Buck,.bom in China of mis-
55 bushels an acre. j sionary parents, got the Pulitzer
The average precipitation for the prize for the best American novel of
19 stations for the first six months 1931.
was 11.30 inches, while the average j The Chinese Consul General in
Tor that time in the years since the New York told us at the dinner that
•stations were established was 9.09. she has done more than all other
A£ost of the increase was at sta- influences to make America under-
tions in the Northern and Southern stand China and the Chinese peo-
JPlains, those in the central area ( pie. She sees them as human be
ll a ving about average amounts. At ings exactly like us, only living in a
Dig Spring, Tex., the rainfall was different environment. That is a
17.05 inches, 8.12 inches more than real service to the world, because
the average. At Belle Fourche, S. most international difficulties come
Dak., it was 13.66 inches, 5.26 from suspicions among people,
ircore than the average. \ The differences between the dif-
The dry land agriculture stations ferent kinds of people in the world
nr3 at Havre, Moccasin, and Hunt- are, after all, only differences in
Icy. Mont.; Sheridan and Archer, manners and customs. Funda-
■V,yo.; Dickinson and Mandan, N. mentally, we are all alike.
Dak.; Belle Fourche and Ardmore,
1-2 inches. The first pole vault
record made back in 1877 was 9 feet,
7 inches.
NEW
Indiana 4-H Club members fin
ished their lambs so well that after
the show at Indianapolis the lambs
sold to packers and butchers at
about 50 cents per cwt. over the
market. The highest price was $10
per cwt.
j There were 362 lambs shown from
! 14 counties, the largest and best ex
hibit ever made. They were
. brought to the yards by 75 boys and
1 girls who had raised and fed them.
i>. Dak.; North Platte, Nebr., Akron, 1 ^ PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO THE This exhibit is sponsored by , the
Cole.; Colby, Hays, and Garden ^ „„„ 'stock yards interests in co-opera
tion with Purdue University. Cash
-ix:
•City, Kans.; Tucumcari, N. Mex.;
Dalhar. and Big Springs, Tex.; and
OLLvzcn and Woodwaid, Okla.
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Unsigned Letters
MEMORY OF MY VERY DEAR
COUSIN, LUTHER G. BELL prizes to the sum of $310 are hung
up.
I want the family and other loved AH of the club lambs were sired
ones to know that they have a rela- by high grade or purebred mutton
tive in the far away State of Texas rams and out of selected mutton
TVrkt P*rint*=»rl who 13 sharin S a full measure of ewes. They were born in March
IvOI .rrinieu their sorrow, and I hereby extend to and all of them were docked and
them all the sympathy that is at the males unsexed at the proper
time.
On e of the surprises of the show
was that a county—Clay—which is
Notwithstanding the fact that m y command.
this paper has repeatedly stated To m >' mlnd 1 now offer 40 hls
that it does not publish unsigned memory the highest tribute that
communications, they ere frequent- can be ottered to mankind, which | known principally as a mining and
sent in to the office Three such is to sa y he was a ^ood man and'clay products region produced the
were received this week but could we can a11 rest assured that he has lambs which won first and second
not be published for lack'of the « one to hls heavenly home, there prizes in pens of three lambs and
authors name to 1oin the heavenly band of Just mndp the best county show of 15
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Card Of Thanks
to join the heavenly band of just made the best county show of
men made perfect, and I now say head,
not only to his immediate relatives,
but to all who knew him, that no
one who ever came in contact with
i him need fear making a mistake
We wish to thank each and every by patterning after his usafllfeand
<ine for their many acts of kind- well spent life.
ness shown us during our recent
TiflBr loss. ’ [
MR. and MRS. S. L. BRITT.
By^
Colorado, Te>
Most of the lambs brought to the
show had never seen a bit of grain
—were grown and fattened on their
mother’s milk and some good rich
pasture. Club instructions urge
lamb raisers to have a patch of
clover of some kind or alfalfa, or if
they are not possible some rye,
bluegrass or even timothy.
creating business.
Advertising is a prime mover in
It rouses
people out of lethargy, makes
them want to live more fully
and to possess the means of liv
ing more comfortably and en-
joyably.
When sales are hard to get, then
people who have things for sale
should double their efforts to
sell. The harder they try to
sell, the harder their competi
tors try to sell. But no amount
of selling effort—in the usual
‘ } ,'T.
sense of the word—can create
demand; it can only take ad
vantage of the demand that has
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been otherwise created.
We have copy and pictures
ready for use on any size adv.
or circular,
at the office.
’Phone 58 or call
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McCORMICK, S. C.
Advertising and Selling ought
• to be considered of equal im
portance. Advertising creates
the consumer demand. Selling
connects this demand with the
supply. Each needs the other
to make its work complete and
each is just as essential as the
other.