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Jbge Two McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, April 18, 1935 McCORMICK MESSENGER • ■ _ Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 jEdmond j. McCracken, Editor and Owner fButered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C. t as mail matter of (he second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 FOREST RANGER WRITES LETTER ON FOREST SERVICE (Continued from 1st page.) consideration for small immature trees and reproduction while drag ging logs out of the woods are not at all conducive to securing the ‘highest possible immediate finan cial returns from a logging opera tion—and so they are not done! Destructive lumbering with no thought of perpetuating the forest for others to use, may rightly be thought of as making economic orphans of our posterity. . The second Fury, and one no less scourging, is the removal of the restraining forces exerted by a for- dust storms in the West: this could never happen in a forested country Perhaps one of the Furies that would have been most felt by the ancients is the destruction and dis appearance of game and fish that attend a removal of the forests. Game needs shelter, the protection and cover of woodlands in which to breed and to live; fish cannot exist in streams and creeks that dry up during the summer months or that become so clogged with silt and clay from washed-in soils that life is an impossibility. A Fury that would be felt now mere than in earlier days is the effect that forest-removal has on towns and population. Towns that depend in whole or in part upon trees to supply them with the raw materials necessary for the susten ance of wood-using industries have all too many times in the past few decades been forced to a state of ruin cr made poor when the lum bermen had cut out. Shifting and transient population is an attend ing evil upon this logging policy of cutting out and then getting out. People that depend upon forest and wood-using industries as a means of securing a livelihood can never attain a very high standard of liv ing and economic and social secur ity when the supply of saw logs is ever and again becoming depleted and they are always on the move, as it were. The seventh Fury is the absence «st cover in preventing floods and ^ soil washing. It is surprising how °* opportunities to hunt and much effect an oak leaf -or a pine to go camping, to enjoy the needle has in checking the force of s P iri t of good fellowship afforded rain, gravity-driven to the ground, i b y even a short s P ace of tim f spent stopping It and then letting it down I in the woodlands; in short, the lack ttnreh more softly. Nor is all of !°f the recreational advantages the rain water deposited at any one time, for a tree canopy tends to distribute more evenly the fall of rain, instead of its being all con centrated within a small space of time. The soil-binding' powers of the roots of trcleg* and forest vege tation need no discussion here. Ev eryone knows hdw they hbld to gether the soil, tehlch ab&orbs the 'faitihg rain water and releases It gradually by seepage, rather than flowing it ah tb rush off; fcell men, to the nearest stream, to the xie&t- creek, and thence to the near- est'irtver, there creating and giving ^-^tus to floods* and flood con- 'N-. JMt!: . / t.i * v v *i. * beneflfc^eht influence of for ests in tend$ij2r to maintain and create more mddetate temperature is well recognized. An area that supports no growth of trees knbws the third Fury, and knows, too, greater extremes of temperature than does its more fortunate neigh bors. ' And a fourth one is the absence accrue with forest destruction. The beauty of trees, the inspiration of a quiet walk down, the leafy aisles, the sublimity of God that in these busy, crowded days is seldom found, save in churches—all these go when the trees go! Someone has well written that the carpeted paths df a forest could be likened to the Walks of God— indeed, for quite a long time it ap peared as if an act of God’s would be necessary in order to protect His walks! Since no one else would or could do It, *the United States Forest Service was charged with the'safeguarding of the nation’s forests and - the proper care of them. Much impetus has been given the cause of forest conservation by the far-sighted policies of this pres ent admin.stration; however, it was another Roosevelt that gave for estry in this country its first great step forward, creatihg many new national forests out of the public domain by presidential proclama tion. It has been only within a of the effect exerted by forests in relatively recent period of time checking wind movements. Much that the Forest Service has begun lias been written of late about the the purchasing and administration LVC6AGE COMPARTMENT BUILT IN jibs P VAV.V F ORD built many extra dollars of value in the 1935 Ford V- S and then reduced the price. Take safety-glass* for instance. Surely you want this additional protection for your family. You get it in the Ford V-8 at no extra cost. Your wife and children ride often in the hack seat. You wa^t them to be comfortable. w Front seat riding comfort” for every passenger in the bar is a basic pkrt of the Ford V-8 design. The long* soft transverse springs mounted beyond the axl&s give the luxury 6Fa 123 inch springhase. * Seats are wider and more comfortable. There is plenty of elbow room and leg room and a spacious luggage com partment is built in hack of the rear seat. 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However, problems have 2ver been the lot of the Service, both in the West and in the East; indeed, from its very inception the Forest Serv ice has encountered a certain amount of opposition from the very people who were being bem- fited: from cattlemen, from sheep men, from lumbsrmen, and from farmers, as well as from local gov ernmental units and from othe* good folk v/hose suspicions includ" a complete lack of trust in any form of altruism in the United States Government'. Altruism in a government is cer tainly a quality that cannot be valued too hnhlv. and the altruistic motives of the Forest Service are well-evidenced by the fact that the one-time bitterest enemies cf the national forest system in the West have now become its greatest friends. The cattlemen and the sheepmen no longer howl because they are forced to pay for grazing privileges and because thev are restricted as to the number of .ani mals that are permitted to feed on a given area: they feel that with the wise management policies of the Forest Service at the helm they have seme assurance of a perpetun! .supply of range lands and food for their cattle and for their sheep: many lumbermen and loggers have found their supply of raw material undiminished over a period of many years because the trees came from forest lands administered by the Forest Service, and many more are becoming converted to the guiding thesis of national forest management: never cut more than is grown or sustained yield. Units cf municipal government, as well as of county government, find that much of the taxes that contribute to the support and maintenance of the government are derived from levies on the income received from forest and wood-using industries; many county governments have found their greatest source of sup port to be the 25 per cent of the proceeds from national forest sales that is given by the Forest Service to the county in which the sales take place. Thinking farmers will readily take sides with the Forest Service when they consider that the wisest form of land retirement is one that embraces the principle of substituting forrst-crop produc tion for agricultural-crop produc tion cn areas that are sub-marginal from an agricultural point of view. Sub-marginal agricultural land is usually marginal forest-producing ’and and finds its highest social and economic service expressed i.i growing trees. However, the”"* will always be m^e people who ore unsympa thetic in their attitude toward the policies of the Forest Service, as well as the basic principles upon which these policies are based: and it is inevitable that there will be a certain amount’cf misunderstand ing, even amongst thinking men. regarding the application of the Service policies. The United States Forest Service does not wish to censure those who fail to concur in its point of view, nor does it de sire to make the mistake of plac ing any stigma of blame whatso ever fer a lack of co-operation. The Forest Service is honestly trying to be a good neighbor and to do some thing, not for the advancement of the interests of any one particular person or group, but for the public as a whole—in short, the greatest possible good to the greatest pos sible number. In the evolution that marks the progress of any section in this civilized world, there can be no greater help than a spirit of co- I operation; and there can be no | finer ideals of citizenship than j those inspired by a love for fair- j mindedness and unselfishness and ! good will. Since Adam’s first excursion to jthe apple tree, man has ever been prone to accept as inviolate certain , privileges of land use that he has, J willy nilly, taken as his own. ' A peculiar distortion of logical think ing, it is true, but then man is man for a’ that and a’ that .... A characteristic human quality it is —and perhaps at times hecessarily so—that the individual thinks al- ! most entirely in terms of his own interests and cf the immediate present. Only a few philanthropic millionaires are able at any time to afford the investment and carrying changes essential as the basis for a program of forest conservation, the : purchasing of large areas of for es’ lands, and the unselfish man aging of them in perpetuity for the public good. We have sem how necessary and essential it is that ; this eho.uld be done, and what with this country using timber many I times faster than it is being grown, it is imperative that something- should be done; it is very much in favor of the United States Govern ment that something has already been done, that something is being done. But more must be accom plished; the whole is an obligation that we owe to ourselves and to our posterity; and there is scarcely any need to point out that the only agent capable of managing this public trust and able to assume it is the United States Forest Service. WM. P. DAVID, District Forest Ranger. Greenwood. S. C.. Eox 56. April 15, # 1335. tXT Dan Bickley Is •A Awarded Prize LEXINGTON BOY TELLS HOW HE MADE BIG COTTON YIELD J COLUMBIA. Annl 1.—Dan. Lewis State 4-H Boys Club Leader at Clemson College, today announced , that Dan Bickley. cf Lexington, had ; won the $100.00 prize given by the Chilean Nitrate Eudcaticnal Bu reau. Inc., for his achievement in cotton production in 1934. I Mr. Lewis also announced the winners of the district ' prizes awarded to 4-H Cotton Club mem bers by the Chilean Nitrate Educa tional Bureau, Inc., as follows: Piedmont District: John Brown, Piedmont; Robert Welbom, Pick ens; Donald Jordan, Chesterfield; and Melrow Sloan, Inman. Pee Dee District: Sam Garwood, Sum ter; Samuel Chandler, Minturn; Robert McIntyre, Marion; and Mar ion Rhode, Cottageville. Aiken Dis trict: Dan Bickley, Lexington; T. B. Heape, Fort Motte; and Agile Ayer, Olar, S. C. Dan Bickley, winner of the State '*-ide prize, had a yield of 2945 pounds cf seed cotton or 1115 nounds of lint cotton of excellent staple on his acre. T n a letter to his county agen* ^oiling how he made his yield, young Bickley said, “I attribute my success mainly to the following "actors: Good seed, close spacing, and the right use cf fertilizer. I have never found any source of nitrogen that will equal Chilean Nitrate, and much of my success is clue to the 253 pounds of Chilean Nitrate, applied as side-dressing per acre in two applications after chop ping.” Bickley said he planted his cot ton on April 20, using 500 pounds 3-4-4 before pdanting and in addif tion he broadcasted 12 two-horse loads of stable manure. His rows were 39 inches in width. He plant ed Wannamaker’s Improved Dixie Wonder Seed. He secured a good stand and left plants thick in the drill. After chopping young Bickley says he applied 250 pounds of Chil-' ean Nitrate per acre as a side dressing in two applications. He used sweetened poison to keep down weevils and also made three light dustings with calcium arsen ate. Young Bickley said his profit on this acre amounted to $117.62 after deducting cost of $63.36. Bickley has been a 4-H Club member for ten years and has been, a consistent prize winner. The $100.00 which he won in this con- itest bringing his total winnings in the ten years up to $489.00 and his returns from his club acres during the ten year period have amounted to $2,399.95.