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i'lmrsday, January 12, 1933 •Vlr-MlRM ' Vi ER, Mcf ORMlCK, SOWH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWW VtVQWKLCim! extent by South Carolina farmers w ho experienced considerable loss «very Ttmrsday /established lane 5, 1902 VDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and .Owner VnAered at the Post Office at Me* Omnick, S. C., as mail matter of Che second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 t9bc Months .75 Tliree Months .50 Feeding The Family of home-killed meat during the mild weather of 1931-32. This has been accomplished by *the use of a home-made meat-curing ice-box which in effect enables farmers to make" their own hog-killing weath er. The box was designed by J. T. McAlister, extension agricultural engineer, and several of these box es have been built and tried out with success. In November, 1932, Boyd Atkin son of Marion county built a box and cured out 800 pounds of meat successfully, using only 600 pounds of ice costing $2.50. The total cost of the materials used in con structing the box amounted to only $13.00 Mr. Atkinson kept an ac curate. record of the temperatures during the curing period. The box was charged with 600 pounds of ice a day before the hogs were killed in order to have the box chilled when the meat was put in. After but- Chering, the meat was salted and VBlrector, South Carolina Food placed in the box, the outside tem- J Dr. Roe. E. Remington A Queer Passenger By CLARISSA MACKIE ixch Laboratory, Charleston.) IThis is the fourth of a series t-T articles appearing weekly in tftoe Messenger on the general ^ob ject of complete and adequ- ate nutrition. : j,. In previous articles cf this sr ries we have called your attention tr» th? five requisites for a perfect namely t5a£ it shall provide which produce energy, which knuld muscle, furnish vitamins and elraaents, and water, and all in adequate amount. ‘ , This week we discuss more in paxticular the muscle building ao necessary for growth in the ®nd to maintain the body in Foodq of this class contain frcrc&an—and muscles are largely made up of protein. Farmers are wary familiar With the word, and Jbsve long been known to pay par- tseidar attention to the protein content of the ration of their cows «r pigs, but, alas, too little to that cf ttheir children. Unfortunately, tiis word protein is not just the jot one substance, but of a, class of substances, more or similar in composition, hut dif- in make-up, according to source from which it comes. /< ~;v,t The proteins of com are not, chem- tesiSy, exactly the same as those of wisest, and* still more different Tram those of milk. All proteins sons made up from about twenty ^compounds, which the calls “amino acids.” Not aH proteins contain all of them, proportions of those that is quite variable in dif- proteins. Muscles contain these amino acids or “building In a certain fixed propor- and most interesting and sur- if one of them is abssnt in food, the body, instead of mak- » different kind of muscle, leaving out the missing element, Jiiasrrply builds.no muscle at all. It •an artist who starts cut to a beautiful mosaic, using tiles cf twenty different shapes and colons. If he doesn't have enough Of itaae particular kind, his work is 2 is what we mean when we of proteins of “good” or r* quality.-"’ The nearest food human muscle is naturally the muscles of animals—lean meat. But Ftriis us more eTcpemive than-protein Irani 'gram,: so that it is well to know that a variety of grains will give practically all the needed am- isMO acids, especially if supplement ed tor milk. Neither a pig nor a ctefid yflll do well on com alone, or «r*. wheat alone. You can feed your child all the crsrn bread and molasses it will eat, without some other muscle- krcSdlng food, it will starve to 4*eath. T he best muscle-building foods are lean meat, fish, eggs, and xnOk. Nqts, peas, beans, wheat, xyu, cats, and other grains are perature being 60, the temperature in the box 40, and the temperature inside the meat 58 degrees. After the fifth day the temperatures were as follows: outside 65, inside the box 44, inside the meat 44. The meat was salted three times at six- day intervals. The ice lasted about 19 days, after which the meat was found to be satisfactorily cured. The box has six-inch insulated walls. T & G flooring is nailed to 2x4 studding, inside and out. Heavy tar building, paper is used under the flooring and tjie four- inch space is filled with dry wood shavings. In outside dimensions the box is seven feet long, five feet wide, and four feet high. Special ice racks are provided at each end of the box for holding a 300-pound block of ice. Meat racks are pro vided in the center, which allow the meat to be placed so that the cold air can circulate around each piece. The capacity of the box is approxi mately 1000 pounds of tiimmed meat, and two 300-pound blocks of ice should be sufficient to cure out such a quantity of meat. A limit ed number of blueprint plans which show construction details is now available through county agents. Four Points Of Compass To Guide Our Farmers CLEMSON COLLEGE, Jan, 7.— Better utilization of land, further steps toward “subsistence” fanning, more livestock in the farming scheme, and co-operation in buying and selling are four of the cardinal points given by Dr. W. W. Long, di rector of the Extension Service, to direct farmers along the road to better success in farming in 1933. On these several points Dr. Long says briefly: A rearrangement of the present ayout on most farms is urgent. En- arging and reshaping fields will ave 10 to 20 per cent in labor; and using enterprises that do not de- nand labor too heavily at the same ime will bring more effective dis tribution of labor over the year. Transfer of lands net best for eco nomic crop production to pasturage and growing of trees must also be considered. The production of a large part of the family living at home is of first importance. The vegetables, fruit, and meat products needed for the table and the feeds needed for the livestock may be grown largely on each farm. While many farm ers are now on a live-at-home basis, there are thousands of others who can and should thus avoid the necessity of cash purchasing of such needs. More livestock in the farming system will first of all mean better utilization of land, give a better distribution of labor, and build up ge/sd but should be used in combin- ! soil productivity. Though the im- with one another. Roots and mediate outlook for livestock is not greens contain very little protein. | bright, the far-seeing farmer will BCnst persons should have around begin now to establish herds and tbre* to four ounces of protein a flocks at low cost against the time day, but that’s a hard standard for when livestock will bring better the mother of the family to apply. ‘ prices; and of course he will grow If:* necessary to tell you something all home and farm needs of pork, about proteins, and how they act, poultry, and other meats. Mean- because a little later we are going while it is the best way to make our to sihow you how to dombine dif- soils more productive. Terent foods to make a good, nour- irfcxng diet, and at low cost. -TXt- Some form of co-operative buy ing and co-operative selling will go far towards eliminating much of the coftly middleman service be tween producer and consumer. The joint buying of such things as fertilizer, seeds, feeds, and imple ments would save farmers much icash; and co-operative selling of — farm products should result in se- CLEMSON COLLEGE, Jan. 7.-r- curing better advantages in the Mark Twain’s famous remark that markets through uniform quality xintortng is ever done about the of products, direct dealing with waaJther has boon modified to some avge buy.-s, e;c, Farmers Can ■ Make Own Hog- S.C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL 2 VIEW .The following record of Industrial activity lists items showing invest ment of capital, employment of la bor and business activities and op portunities. Information from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be con sidered generally correct. Voorhees — St. James building for girls’ industries and Wright Hall dedicated. Allendale — Contract let for re building two schools for negroes in Jasper County. About 2,000 men given work on county roads recently.—George town Times. Greer — New quarters nearing completion, to house Smith & James Mens’ furnishing establish ment. Hartsville—Ten thousand pounds of cotton seed shipped from here by Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Co. to S. P. Clark, director of. cotton improve ment station at Adana, Turkey. Georgetown — Farm Women’s Club Market opened here. McCormick — Plans being con- oidered for building toll bridge over Savannah River between Lincoln- ton, Ga., and this place. Walterboro — W. J. Moore, Jr., recently purchased Green’s Service Station and will operate it under name of Moore’s Service Station. Columbia — Crazy Crystal Co., Mineral Well, Texas, opened store here at 1613 Main St. © by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service VjISS ANN RICHLAND locked the back door of her small house, and went out to the tumble-down old barn which had become a shelter for the ancient automobile that she vain- glorlously called “the car.” She had dusted and washed it that very morn ing. There was a minute or two of hesitation on the part of the car, after Ann had stepped on the “gas,” and then kn excitidg thrill shuddered through the vehicle, and it rolled im portantly through the open door and down the Incline to the grassy yard, where it rattled and snorted while all the hens craned their necks curiously. “Now, glddap !” commanded Ann Rich land imperiously, as they reached the road, and soon they were spinning madly along toward the cross road that led straight to* the railroad sta tion. Since she had acquired the car Ann had made It her business to meet every Important train that stopped at Little River. If the day was a stormy one, the car was buttoned up snugly in black rubber curtains and the passen gers were kept warm and dry in return for the 25-cent fare. But this morn ing was a cool, delicious spring one. The big “stage” that always met the trains was already there when Ann reached the station. Dan Mills was the appointed carrier of mail hags to and from the trains, and he grinned at Ann and touched his cap. “How’s she goin*?” he wanted to know. “Like a bird!” laughed Ann hap pily. “Humph,” grunted old Benjamin Brown, who had come to the station to meet his ne# hired man. “Like a crow-bird—that old rattle trap humps along. Here comes the train, I win der what kind of a poor tramp they’re sending me this time?” Ann’s car was filled soon after the train stopped, and she turned to run to the village. But Benjamin Brown, who had just taken on a single pas senger, had cut in ahead of Ann's car. She wnltqd uqtil he had passed, telling herself that the passenger did not look like a regular farmhand. After she had left her passengers in the village she went slowly homeward. Just as she was turning Into her gate, Dan Mills came jogging along, his empty stage stretching behind him. “W«U a minute, Ann,” he sang out. Dan emerged from the stage fih(I came over to/ talk to her. “Say, Ann,” he said in a low tone, “did you see the queer party that went home with Ben Brown?’’ . ' - H “I thought that he was to well dressed for a farm hand,” admitted Ann. “You acjL queer, Dan—-suspicious, avefrt ' At For an answer he thrust a hand into an Inside coat pocket and brought out a {taper—it contained pictures and descriptions of several wanted crim inals, and issued warnings against them. “Why!” Ann Richland pointed to ward a familiar picture. “Benjamin/ Brown’s farmhand?” “That’s what I want to know! You see the hank has a registered bag com ing along on the evening train—they’re keeping the hank open after hours to receive it and lock It up In the vaults— and I’m wondering about that queer character that went to Ben Brown’s.” Ann locked her car in the old barn and walked over to the house. She was feeling very lonesome, and rather, up set About what Dan Mills had told her, for Brown’s land adjoined Ann’s on the south ! She went around to the south porch now. and started back aghast at the sight of the strange “farm-hand.” “The same Ann Richland,!’ he said in a vibrant voice that thrilled Ann. “Why—” stammered Ann, “I do not remember you—you have made a mis take! And all the time she was wish ing that Dan would come along so that she might appeal to him for help. Then (conditions, a sudden shocked expression came to 1 more 0 ii » her charming face. “It must be Everett j Lewis.” she said softly. { Th e tremendous heat genera.e: “Of course it is—I know I look years ' in the automobile engine at high older than you; but there was the war, {speeds, according to Mr. Gilreath and it rather battered me up; since J causes motor oil to oxidize, formin, then. I’ve been back at my old job j kludge and interfering with prope. teaching school—until I was bitten with a longing to come back to//Little River and see the old place. Then I saw an advertisement of old Ben Brown’s place bpen for summer board ers, ko I telegraphed that I would be here on the two-thirty train today. Old Ben was there, hustled me into his wagon and ran me out to his place. First-thing he said—something about my being too dressed up for a hired man—brought forth an explanation, and he was so mad because he had probably mislaid the real farmhand at the station, that he put me off his place—I’m on my way to the village hotel. 1 stopped here, Ann, for the sake of old times—you know what I mean?” Ann blushed beautifully and nodded and offered to drive him to the village hotel. In five minutes the old car had become a wonderful chariot In which two people rode once more through the scenes of happy youth and relived an old love story. Leaving Everett at the village hotel, Ann drove happily back home again. That all happened years ago—and the Little River bank has never yet been robbed; while Ann Richland has married Everett Lewis t And they live a very happy, almost idyllic life in the old house. Everett teaches the vil lage school and Ann still drives the old car to the station every day for nagaenzers. How Old? i - Facts On Motor Oil Cbnsumption “The average car running forty miles an hour consumes oil twice as fast as the same car at thirty miles an hour. When yoti step On the gas and run at fifty miles an hour, you use four times as much oil as at thirty miles an hour. At sixty miles an hour, oil is consumed nine times as fast.” These facts, according to Mr. S. L. Gilreath, General Salesman of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, are known to comparatively few motorists. “If you drive fast” says Mr. Gil reath, “You can’t avoid high oil consumption. . Of course some oils consume much faster than others just as some oils are more affected by the heat of the engine and ox idize faster. The speed at which you drive has a lot more to do with the amount of oil used than the miles you travel. Thousands of miles of carefully controlled tests have established these facts. “How often to change the oil in t crankcase is a problem each drivei must decide for his own car. Nc hard and fast rules can be laid down. Regarding the recommenda tions for changing given by the ca manufacturer, it is well to bear li mind that these oil suggestions ar«. for new motors and motors in firs class mechanical condition, anc even then are modified by driving Old cars always us circulation and lubrication. Oxi dation is also responsible for for mation of carbon. With some oils this may be negligible while wit., others the condition is exaggerated “To be on the safe side, “Mr. Gil reath, says, “It is seldom wise run more than a thousand mile^ between oil changes. Not only has oxidation lowered the lubricating and protective qualities of the aver age oil by that time, but in spite of air filters, oil filters, and other de vices, enough fine road dust has come in through the breather tubes and the carburetor to cause dangerous friction and wear—and higher consumption of oil. The faster one drives the more often the oil should be changed.” “If your crankcase holds five quarts of oil and one quart of oil is consumed every two hundred miles, your total oil bill for a year would be less than $18.00, with motor oil at 25 cents a quart, providing it is changed every thousand miles. If you put off changing for two thou sand miles, yo!u save only about $3.00 a year, the lovugst premium you could possibly pay on insur ance against big repair bills. He doesn’t look a day over fifty. And feels like forty. At the age of 62. That’s the happy state of health and pep a man enjoys when he gives his vital organs a little stimulant! When your system is stagnant and you feel sluggish, headachy, half-alive—don’t waste money on “tonics” or “regulators” or similar f >atent medicines. Stimulate the iver and bowels. Use a famous physician’s prescription every drug store keeps. Just ask them for Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin. This. appetizing syrup is made from fresh laxative herbs, active senna, and pure pepsin. One dose will clear up almost any case of headache, biliousness, constipation. But. if you want to keep ia fine shape, feel fit the year ’round, take a spoonful of Dr. Caldwell’* syrup pepsia every few days. You’ll eat better, sleep better and feel better. You will never need another laxative. Give the children a little of this delicious syrup two or three times a*- week. A gentle, natural stimulant that makes them eat and keeps the bowels from clogging. And saves them from so many sick spells and colds. Have a sound stomach, active liver and strong bowel muscles that expel every bit of waste and poison every day l Just keep a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin on hand; take a stimulating spoonful every now and then. See if yon don’t feel new vigor in every uray. Turns Now To National Problems Relieved of hi* duties as governor of the state of New York at the beghh- •mg of the new year, President-elect Roosevelt is now giving his full — to national problems, to the selection of men .for his cabinet in eonffcr- ence with Democratic leaders mapping out a definite program to be pnfc Mito effect when he takes office, March 4. According to plans, Mr. Roeesvelh will go again to Warm Springs, Ga., for a short vacation during Fehroar*. V They Will Stage Inaugural Show March 4