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UcCORMICK MESSENGER Planting Time Affects Bonds Used For Sweet Potato Yields 1 Closing Loans Are Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 edmond j. mccracken, Editor and Owner entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 ~—- ■ • — ' l FARM INCOME ON THE RISE Farm income in 1933 was $1,240,- *000,000 greater than in 1932—a jump of 24 per cent. The chief reasons for this, ac cording to the Department of Ag riculture press service, were in creased prices for crops, and bene fit and rental payments by the Ag ricultural Adjustment Administra tion. And it should likewise oe re membered that the farmer's great allies in raising and stabilizing prices, and in framing govern mental farm legislation, ware ohe lorm co-operatives. The co-ops entered 1933 after one of the worst years in agricul tural history—a year in which farm income was at, the bottom. They went forward courageously and undismayed. They fought th farmer’s battles with the middle: man—they brought his point of view before the public and won its sympathy — they conferred with governmental officials on all mat ters directly and indirectly affect ing agriculture. They, were steadying factor when the farm strikes broke out, and they stood solidly on the side of law and or- der and reasoned action as distinct from violence. The co-operatives deserve a world of credit. They did much in 1933^ And now, with the new year well started, they are going on to greater, more permanent achieve ments. .;•/ x / COTTON INSECT CONTROL VI TAL ON CUT ACREAGE Being Well Received “Why,” the United States De partment of Agriculture is Often asked, “do you recommend reduc tions in cottoh acreage and at the same time seek new ways to con trol insect pests? Why not let the insects corttrol the crop? Li the first place, the depart-' ment entomologists reply, crop de struction by insects means a total loss of the time and money the farmer has spent in planting and cultivating his cotton. No farmer can afford such a sacrifice of time, effort and money. In the second place, the * entomologists continue, insects cannot be depended on to destroy the cotton surplus in an orderly manner. Left to their own devices, the boll -weevil and other serious pests might destroy all of one farmer’s planting or ail the cotton in one section, leaving other plantings and other sections prac tically untouched. The cotton acre age reduction program is designed not only to reduce the number of bales produced in 1934, but to con trol production so that every farm er may expect to make a fair profit on his crop. Thus it is necessary to control both production and in sects. Some growers have expressed concern over the added damage to be expected from insect pests con centrated in smaller cotton acre ages. Any tendency to such con-! Clemson College, March 31. — That certain times of planting I * sweet potatoes result in larger Columbia, April 2. — Word re yields other things being equal has ce * ved ^ rcm Carolinas, Georgia been shown by the sweet potato and Florida indicates that bonds contests in this State and by re- cf the Federal Farm Mortgage Cor- sults in Louisiana, says A. M. Mus- P° ration now being used by the ser, horticulturist of the South Federal Land Bank of Columbia for j jf all the dairy cattle owned by Carolina Experiment Station, who closin S loans are being well re- present and former 4-H club mem- is directing experiments in time of ceived - bers were rounded up it would planting potatoes at the Truck Re P° rts President Daniel of make a herd of some over 100,000 Station near Charleston, the Sand- Land Bank from some 25 rep- head. Or one animal to every farm hill Station near Columbia, and at resentatives wh o are visiting sec- i n SO me of our medium sized Clemson College. . retar y-treasurers of National Farm states, or one to half the farms of “Louisiana potatoes have been Loan Associations, attorneys repre- a state like Indiana or Nebraska. bringing a considerably better ^ ntiag , the bank and bank3rs in It is a wonderfully efficient herd, price on the northern markets the ' lllird District express unam- too, for the animals have been than South Carolina potatoes,” Mr. mous ^y ^Le willingness on Jie part Musser says. “One reason for this of tbose contacted to accept bonds difference in price is that the and the of eo-operation Louisiana growers produce a high- handling the new closing pro cedure. President Daniel explained that for all future loanb made by the Rrv. CLarles E. Diftfunu THE CHILD AND THE KINGDOM Lesson for April 8th Matthew 18:1-14; 19:13-15 er percentage of No. 1’s of the right size and shape. One of the chief means of accomplishing this cf the Land Bank Commissioner bonds of the Federal Farm Mort is by setting the plants in the field j Bank itself or as agent at the proper time. The commer cial crop in that State, which is not grown over such a wide terri- Corporation will be tendered. tbry as is the case in this State, I Bonds he said also wo - uld be ten - is planted in the field between s dered on a h loans on which die June 1 and 15. If planted muchj bank has commitments outstand- earlier, there are too many jumbos mg or turnip-shaped potatoes, and if much later, too many small and long potatoes. “In the sweet potato contests of 1929 and 1930, those contestants producing the largest yields plant ed at various times, but as a gen eral rule, for the various sections of the State certain times of plant ing produce the largest yields of marketable potatoes. These con tests indicate that plants should be set during May or the first half of June. In counties of the 'coastal area planting can be done later than through the middle section or in the Piedmont region. “Specific advice as to the correct time of planting for every farmer cannot be given, but by learning the best planting date for his sec tion and adjusting this by previous experience, each grower should be able to ^determine for himself the proper time of planting. Of course, weather conditions cannot be fore told, so about all the grower can do is prepare for a normal season, and if an abnormal season occurs, make whatever adjustments are possible in the way of fertilization and cultivation.” * - ■ x— April Farm Calendar Clemson College, April 2.—Close- space the cotton plants, says R. W. Hamilton, extension agronomist, whose April farm reminders are limited to the importance of a good stand of cotton. About 2D,000 plants per acre are necessary, he says, to obtain maximum results from and, labor and fertilizer. To ob tain a good stand, Mr. Hamilton suggests further: 1. Prepare for a finely pulverized seedbed. 2. Mix ertilizer thoroughly with the soil. 3. Plant 1.5 to 2 bushels of good seed. 4. Cover seed well at uniform depth. 5. Pray for good weather. Horticulture 1. Bed sweet potatoes if not al ready bedded. 2. Sow tomato seed [or midseason and late crops. 3. Sow asparagus seed if not already sown for plants next season. 4. Plant tender vegetables. 5. Trans plant tomatoes, pepper, etc., in coldframe and gradually harden for setting later. 6. Fertilize fruit trees and start cultivation. Other conditions of obtaining a loan from the Land Bank or the Land Bank Commissioner' will be unaltered, as interest and all other charges remain the same. The new bonds will be issued in denominations cf $100, $500 and $1,000 and will hear interest at the rate of 3 1-4 per cent. Interest will be payable semi-annually and the bonds will mature in 1964 but may be called at any time after 1944. Fractional amounts of $100 in volved in closing a loan will be paid in cash as will be some debts such as taxes which cannot be paid in bonds. According to Mr. Daniel, Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation bonds are unconditionally guaranteed as to principal and interest by the federal government and have be hind them the capital of the Fed eral Farm Mortgage Corporation of $200,000,000 and all other assets of the corporation which include the consolidated bonds of the Federal Land Banks taken in exchange for the corporation’s bonds and the farm mortgages accepted by the Land Bank Commissioner. These tax exempt bonds will be readily marketable and holders who wish to dispose of their bonds are advised to determine the mar ket value either through the news papers or through local banks be fore offering their holdings upon the market. r-X Acreage Reduction As Aid To Pest Control carefully selected, reared well and are from parents of known produc tion. That is, the sires have begat daughters which made profitable yields of milk and butter-fat when put under official test, and the sons of these sires likewise be gat daughters of high production. The dairy cattle registry associa tions which keep records of all these things watch the work of 4-H club members very closely, be cause they want to encourage it for general good of dairy cattle breeders and consumers. The more economically dairy products are produced the more profit there is for the farmer and the more the consumer receives for his money. So among other encouragements given club members by dairy regis try associations is the awarding of state championship and a national championship title by the Holstein register. The records of these state and national champions show how much more a boy or girl can do in dairy herd building than most peo ple have any idea. The Iowa State champion Holstein boy named for this year is John H. Whaley of Marshall County. Starting 6 years ago with a dairy calf the boy today has 16 head. In the time he has made 25 exhibits, winning $154 in prizes. One of his heifers made 445 pounds of fat in a State contest; another 388 pounds. Edwin Crumb has been named New York champion. He is a Chenango County boy and has a herd 4 years old which he started with a calf. The herd is valued at $675. The boy raised the money for his first calf from projects in other lines. A calf of his own breeding which he showed at the State fair last year won fourth place in a long string of palves. Records like these two boys are not uncommon, and a few can be cited for girls. x APRIL FOOL ! been among men, or ever will be.” Here again the child is our best exemplar. God is* very real to him. In the second place, the child is the embodiment of humility. This I is a rare virtue in a mature person. Golden Text: Matthew 19:14 ,1 But you do find it in those thor- oughly imbued with the scientific Why did Jesus insist that the spirit. “The first and last step in kingdom of heaven is composed of the education of the scientific those who manifest a child-like judgment,” said Faraday, “is hu- spirit? First of all, the child is the mility.” Now the child, although incarnation of reverence. The he lacks the patience of the scien- child’s eyes are full of wonder. In tist, does possess his teachable Goethe’s great masterpiece, “Wil-^ spirit. Huxley knew this, expressing helm Meister’s Travels,” the chief his creed in a memorable sentence, of three wise men says to Wilhelm, “Sit down before facts as a little “There is one thing which no child child, be prepared to give up every brings into the world with him, preconceived notion, follow hum- and without which all other things bly wherever and to whatever are of no use.” “And what is that?” asks Wilhelm. “It is reverence!” answers the chief. Now reverence means respect. abysses nature leads or you shall learn nothing.” Finally, the child is an exponent of simplicity. He is the world’s best As Carlyle says, it involves “honour | interpreter of how to be happy done to those who are greater and i with a few homely joys. Give him better than ourselves.” The child instinctively manifests such defer ence. And reverence also means the hush of the human spirit in the presence ’ of the Eternal. It is, to quote again from Carlyle, “the soul of all religion that has ever a box of inexpensive blocks, or a pair of scissors and a cheap cut out book, and he can easily amuse himself for hours. The child, then, in this three-fold fashion, is indeed a citizen of God’s Realm. Dear Customers and Prospects: The seventh shipment of nice, smooth, sound, young TENNESSEE MULES arrived Wednesday. Ail WELL BROKEN and priced as CHEAP as the market permits. We are making every effort to serve the farmers faithfully, honestly, efficiently, and cheaply. We shall appreciate your coming to select Mules early, while we have a large variety. D. P. McCAIN Agricultural Engineering 1. Recondition fertilizer distrib- centration, the entomologists point ■ utor s and planters to insure uni- out, will be at least counter-i form distribution of fertilizer and balanced by the better opportunity for control. Farmers this year can seed. 2. Two-horse cultivators can be equipped and adjusted to open select for planting the fields that: farrow, distribute fertilizer and bed are farthest from woods and other! at one operation. 3. Rearrange hibernation grounds of the boll ff e ^ ds and combine small patches weevil. With less land to care for, ■ * or l° n g er rows and more efficient they can give more time to its use machinery. preparation and cultivation and can produce an earlier crop of cot- insects And Diseases Put spray equipment in good Clemson College, March 31. — More satisfactory p6st control in garden and field crops may npw be attained through extensive crop rotation, thinks W. C. Nettles, ex tension entomologist, who says that this desirable condition will be brought about by a reduction in cotton acreage which lends added significance to the importance of crop rotation—a practice long ad vocated by agricultural scientists. Two-year rotations are often val uable in insect control, but longer rotations are desirable for the con trol of plant diseases, Mr. Nettles advises. Root knot or nematode control may be accomplished by planting resistant crops on the soil for two years or by clean culture for the same period of time. Corn, small grains and grasses tend to reduce nematode populations ip the soil. A cultivated crop, such as corn, is to be desired since grass New Outboard King Last Sunday was four days in one, all day long. It. was Easter and Sunday and All Fool’s Day and April 1st. I knew it was Easter and Sunday and April 1st, but I forgot it was All Fool’s Day until nearly sundown when it soaked into my dome that the friend I was wait ing for was playing a fool’s trick on me. About neon he called me on the ’phone and invited me to ride with him in his new auto over to a naboring town. Of course not suspecting any foolishness I fell for it good and hard. He told mo to meet him at the edge of town and sit on a rock fence and wait till he came. It was half a mile Farm Record Book , Furnishes Needed Data For Contract PALM BEACH . . . Outboard speedboat drivers from many lands came here for the international championship races only to lose to Horace Tennes (above), of Chicago who finished a mile in front of his field in his “Hootnanny VI.” Young Tennes is a student at North- ' t-stern University; Clemson College, March 31. — “Fanners who keep the new record books which are being distributed by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to producers who take part in the various adjust ment programs will be fortified with valuable ‘contract’ informa tion,” says O. M. Clark, extension farm management specialist. “They will be able to establish past pro duction claims when they apply for contracts, and they will be in po sition to prove compliance with the contract terms after they are in effect, and will have valuable pro duction data which may be useful in making applications for loans.” Many farmers have had trouble in getting together the necessary evidence of production in applyin; for cotton, tobacco, corn-hog or other adjustment contracts during the past year. They have not saved sales slips, warehouse receipts, or other records of sales, and in many g- ton, all of which reduces damage working order and have materials and small grains permit garden but I walked out to the meeting, . weeds to increase the nematode place and, wore my red and blue and had gone. I remembered being cases they have kept no systematic population. [necktie and spats. Of course it’s [called to the telephone, but no one m ' ord oi their own. Many gardens are so severely in- understood I wore a shirt and other; an swered. Wrong number I sup-j “Lack of this ‘evidence’ has fre- fested with nematodes and infected clothes also and . my walking cane, ip° sed - I also remembered receiv-j quently lesulted in delay in the with plant diseases that vegetables and—er I waited. Waited one hour, * ing a letter stuffed full of blank , P'cpaiation and acceptance of con- cannot be grown successfully. In two hours, three hours. I got real paper, but of course whoever sent t:acts, Mr. Clark states, for “it keeping with the spirit of the Ag- uneasy about my friend. Thought ^t was absent-minded and forgot has been difficult to satisfy local ricultural Adjustment Administra- maybe he had been held up, kid- to write on the paper. I remem- production control associations on pests. by the boll weevil and other insect in readiness for summer sprays on tion( food for home consumption' naped, or maybe turned up-side- bered finding a bulging pocketbook the production figures for the base may be produced on acres removed down in a side ditch and burned lying on the sidewalk but just as period. The same situation is likely from production. In many in- up. But I didn’t see any smoke, I stopped to pick it up, it followed | to develop when farmers find it stances a portion of the land might' though I knew he wouldn’t make a string through a fence crack.; necessary to prove compliance with well be designated as a garden spot much smoke as he is rather small Lots of prizes in this world have contract terms at the end of the as a means of reducing the pests for his size. Well I sat there on strings tied to them, so said I to marketing years, unless some accu- of the vegetable garden. The old that rock pile looking for him un- myself. I often talk to myself that rate and reliable records are kept, garden spot would usually be well til my eyes were sore; and that way and when I do I always feel i The farm record books, which suited for chickens which thrive wasn’t all that was getting sore, that I am talking to my equals, are simple and easy to keep, are best on soil free from poultry para- And then I got a flash of dim light That night my fool friend called designed primarily to meet these and I started thinking real hard, nre up and with a silly snicker needs. Two million of them have 666 LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS Checks Malaria in 3 days, Colds first day, Headaches or Neuralgia ease. 6. Plant wilt-resistant cotton where loss from this disease has apples and peaches. 2. Remove and burn rough bark and codling moth bands from apple trees and secure new bands for use in May. 3. Dis infect seed of watermelons and cu cumbers with a one to 1,000 solu tion of corrosive sublimate to con trol anthracnose. 4. In setting out plants, discard any that are af fected by disease or root knot. 5. Spray with Bordeaux mixture or lime sulphur to control fungus dis- in 30 minutes. FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC % Most Speedy Remedies Fnown occurred. The United States has one den tist to 1,700 persons. sites. Rotations for specific crops based on a knowledge of the pests to be controlled will be furnished by Mr. Nettles upon request. x Fishhooks and knives are made from shells by natives of Pacific islands. The sun seemed to be making faces at me as it eased down behind the hill tops and I started singing, The end of a perfect all fool’s day. asked how long I waited for him. I said: You concentrated, com pound, pluperfect idiot, I am still waiting for you and when I see Then I remembered being sent to you, you will head straight for a the front door that morning to see i hospital instead of to a naboring someone who was in too much of town. a hurry to wait until I got there j Ima D. Halfwit. been printed by the Adjustment Administration and are being dis tributed. Farmers who sign ad justment contracts will get the record books, free of charge, from their local county agricultural agents or production control asso ciations.