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r m A McCbttMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SO« T Tf • M.UNA Thursday, January 21, 1937 Purebred Sire Sale Greenwood, Jan, 29 • _ * Greenwood, -Tan. 13.—Tne lar<iost combination better sire sale ever he’d in the scutheast will be con ducted at Greenwood on January 29. The sale include! ?0 purebred Guernsey and Jersey bulls, 13 pure bred Hereford and Aungus bulls. S3 purebred boars of different breeds, 15 purebred gilts, five s+andardbred Barred Rock and Rhode Island Red roosters, and five standardbred Bronre gobblers. The sale io being conducted un der the suspires cf the G’emson Cc'lege Extension Service to serve the teniiorv of Abbeville. McCor mick, Edgefield, Saluda, Newberry. Laurens, and Greenwood. It is a cooperative consignment sale, the rtock being consigned by breeders all over South Carolina. This is the fifth combination sale to be held in South Carolina and Extension Service officials declare * that the continuance of this policy of disseminating good breeding stock should place South Carolina right up at the top cf the list in livestock improvement. The com bination sale has the advantage of emphasing diversity in livestock and therefore appeals to a wider group of farmers. It also gives farmers an opportunity to make their selections and buy the ani mals at prices set at auction by farmers themselves. The sale has the backing of the livestock association, the county agricultural committees, the civic clubs, and the Chamber of Com merce of Greenwood. The counties the sale will serve are in the well known grass belt of South Caro lina where livestock is most adapt able and compose the most con centrated dairy section of the state. Agricultural Leaders To Meet At Nashville Clemson Extension and Research Workers to Join in Discussion of Better Farming Problems Clemson, Jan. 11.—With 16 mem bers of the staffs of the Extension Service and the Experiment Sta tion on the program and others of the two staffs attending and enter ing into the activities, Clemson’s agricultural leaders will be well represented at the 38th convention of the Association of Southern Ag ricultural Workers meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, Feb. 3-5. Those from Clemson scheduled on the program include Miss Lonny I. Landrum, state home demonstra • tion agent; George E. Prince, ex tension marketing agent; P. H Gooding, extension poultryman; Dr. H. P. Cooper, director of the Experiment Station, E. D. Kyzer, superintendent of the Coast Sta tion; G. H. Aull, professor of agri cultural economics; B. O. Williams, professor of rural sociology; Dr W. R. Paden, station agronomist; J. P. LaMaster, head of the dairy department; Dr. G. W. Anderson, animal pathologist; F. S. Andrews and Dr. J. B. Edmonds, associate horticulturists; Miss Mary E. Fray- ser, home economist; J. M. Jenkins, Jr., Truck Station; Dr. G. M. Arm strong, botanist and plant patholo gist; and C. L. Morgan, head of the poultry department. Soil and water conservation, land use, rural sociology, agricultural economics, agronomy, and livestock are some of the major problems to be considered at the three-day convention, according to L. R. Neel, editor of the Southern Agricultur ist, who is president of the Asso ciation. There will be general ses sions and sectional meetings of a dozen or more units forming the organization. Outstanding speakers at the gen eral sessions will include Edward O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation; J. J. W ley, president of the Association of American Railroads; F. A. Silcox. chief forester, U. S. Forest Service; W. I. Myers, governor. Farm Crean Administration; and Dr. W. W. Alexander, acting administrator. Resettlement Administration. txi Soil Conservation In Traveling SKow Clemson, Jan. 11. — Farmers in the vicinity of five South Carolina towns will have an opportunity to Fee in sound moving pictures, color light displays, film strips, model farms, and other exhibits how soil conservation methods and other good farming practices can be put into effect on their farms. In cooperation with the Soil Con servation Service and the South * ■ WW This cotton at Aulander, N. C., got 400 lbs. 4-10-4 per acre and 100 lbs. Nitrate of Soda top-dressing. Where 100 lbs. Muriate of Potash was added to the top-dressing at left the yield was 1260 lbs. seed cotton per acre. Without extra potash af r/g/if the yield was 1070 lbs. This com at Callison, S. C., got 200 lbs. 3-8-5 per acre and 100 lbs. Nitrate of Soda top-dressing. Where 200 lbs. of Kainit was added at left the yield was 29.3 bushels per acre. Without Kainit at right the yield was 12.6 bushels per acre. i ' a a • ^-< ^ I? r* - y • * ' * i f! 1 1 '• i* THESE SUCCESSFUL FARMERS I- «*> sT SSst w •’pRori’** Each year thousands more farmers discover that they can make a lot more money from cotton by using a lot more potash than the average fertilizer contains. Once they put extra potash on trial, they find it just the thing their cotton needs to pay them extra cash. For instance, there is V. S. BICKLEY, of Lexington, S. C., who writes: “Last year I planted cotton on two plots of sandy land which formerly had shown severe Rust. Both received the same fertilizer and top-dresser, except that one plot got 100 pounds of NV Muriate of Potash per acre. On this plot the yield was 2,444 pounds of seed cotton per acre, while the other plot yielded only 778 pounds. “My private gin showed 39% lint for the potash-top-dressed cotton as against 33% lint for the other cotton. The staples were 1 1/16 inches as compared to 15/16 inch. Before the cotton opened I weighed 50 green bolls from each plot taken from the same positions on the stalks. The potash bolls weighed 96 ounces and the rusty bolls 66 ounces. I just about broke even on the rusty cotton and made a profit of $76.24 per acre from the potash-top-dressed cotton.” Then there is MRS. PEARL POLLARD, of Wedowee, Ala., who writes: “For three years our cotton was ruined by Rust. One acre, where the old house and bam stood, was completely eaten up in 1935. Rust struck before a boll matured and what little cotton we did get was so terrible to pick, that we named it ‘the old rusty acre.’ “My husband swore he’d never try this spot in cotton again. After it was planted in Austrian peas for com, I asked to use it as a test plot. He and the two boys hooted at me but finally agreed. April 20 it was planted with the same variety of cotton seed it gre*w before, using 200 pounds of 6-8-4 in with planting. In June, after chopping out, we top-dressed with 200 pounds of NV Kainit. Our first rain came the 28th of July. “In 1935, a goed season, we made 500 pounds of seed cotton on this acre. In 1936, we picked 1,700 pounds of seed cotton and didn’t find a speck of Rust, except on the four rows which we left as a check in the middle of the without NV Kainit. We are convinced about NV Kainit for Rust.” W. A. GAINEY, of Dunn, N. C., wanted to plant a 9-acre field in cotton, but his children begged him not to. They said it would produce a lot of knotty, half-open bolls which nobody could pick, because it had always done this before. Mr. Gainey writes: “At an evening school our new agricultural teacher told us that plenty of potash would prevent Rust, so I decided to plant the 9-acre field. I used 500 pounds of fertilizer per acre and top-dressed with 100 pounds of Muriate of Potash and Nitrate of Soda. “Where I used to get short, inferior staple from small, knotty bolls, I got a good s aple cotton from wide-open bolls that were easy to pick. My field remained 1 > . * 4*. healthy and produced large well-matured bolls to the top of the stalk. “Where I used to get about 200 to 250 pounds of low-grade lint per acre, I made slightly better than a bale of high-grade lint and I am satisfied that the 100 pounds of Muriate of Potash made the difference.” > , y •< *4 ••• . ' ' ■S- x DANA A. WHITFIELD, of Ty Ty, Georgia, beat his Father growing cotton last year and NV Kainit was the difference. Mr. Whitfield writes: “My Father and I planted our cotton on April 1 with the seed bed in just fair condition. We planted my field first and then his field, using the same planter, same fertilizer distributor, same seed and same fertilizer. Everything was exactly alike, the fields being about the same, except that I top-dressed with 200 pounds of Kainit per acre right after chopping out and he didn’t. My Father’s cotton was practically dead from Rust by the 1st of August, but mine remained healthy right on through picking. There was no Rust or Wilt in my cotton. About one-third of the fruit on his cotton reached maturity, while all of mine was well matured. Our land was almost identical. We plowed and fer tilized alike, except that I used Kainit and he didn’t. I made 456 pounds of seed cotton per acre more than he did and extra Kainit was the difference. ” _____ ^ _____ Thousands of fanners throughout the South have found that the small extra cost of extra potash returns big dividends in in- i creased yields of better quality cotton. Plenty of NV POTASH in your fertilizer or top-dresser PREVENTS RUST, helps control Wilt and produces vigorous, healthy plants, with less shedding, larger bolls that are easier to pick, and better yields of uniform, high-quality lint. When you buy your fertiliser and top-dresser, tell your fertiliser man you want more NV POTASH. Plan now to top-dress with 100 pounds of NV MURIATE or 200 pounds of NV KAINIT per acre,or use a nitrogen- potash mixed-goods top-dresser containing 10 to 25% NV POTASH. If you prefer to use your extra potash at planting, select a fertilizer containing 8 to 10% NV POTASH. Where Rust has been very sever* you may need both high-potash fertilizer at planting and potash top dressing to STOP RUST and START PROFITS. N. V. POTASH EXPORT MY., Inc., Hurt Building, ATLANTA Royster Building, NORFOLK A-M lit f-.V.W <: mm XvX-x.v.v:-:*:-: mrnrn T«Apf M ARK ftF.GiSlERfc-0 OR NV KAUflt ■urn truck crops for market are told by O. M. Clark, extension agricultural Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service oat of town S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. prices. There are certain other fac tors in addition to improved con year.’ Carolina Extension Service, the Seaboard Air Line Railway is send ing an exhibit car to Calhoun Falls, anuary 26; Abbeville, January 27; ireenwood, January 28; Clinton, anuary 29; and Chester, January economist, that they may expect j sumer demand which will tend to prices for truck crops to be about! hold up prices of truck crops: [ the same in 1937 as they were in namely, slightly higher price level! 1936. for foods; smaller than usual stor- j Discussing matters of supply and ed supplies of Irish potatoes, sweet demand forming the basis of his potatoes, and cabbage; and a total forecast, Mr. Clark says: | supply of canned vegetables some- ‘ In the United States as a whole what less than that of the previous the acreage and production of truck crops for fresh market ship ment were in 1936 the largest on record, acreage being about six per cent larger than that of the year before and production a little less tt an seven per cent larger. In spite of the larger production, p ices of truck crops as a whole v ;r re approximately 10 per cent The McCormick 8th and nth* h.gher in 1936 than they were the g ra( je 4-H clubs have been organiz- previous year. ■ ed 26 members adopting the “The present indications are that clothing project for the year. Three strations and discuss the exhibits the truck crops acreage in 1937 project lessons have been given. servation Service and the Exten sion Service and Seaboard Air Line Railway agricultural agents will accompany the car to give demon- Clothing Project Adopted By Mc Cormick Chibs in the car, which will be at each stop from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m., ex cept Calhoun Falls where the car will be on display from 2:30 to 5:00 p. m. * The public is invited to see the ee moving picture and other ex- !bits, which will include woodland Tnagement, wildlife, livestock, over crops, terracing, reforestation, rri i r\ i our cultivation, 8 and contour j Truck ( TOpS Gilt look arrowing, and other displays in .cograph, film strips, slides and .her forms of presentation. Summarized For 1937 vember 6th. The lesson for the month was on “Cutting Garment by Patterns.” The first garment to he made by the girls will be ar apron. The agent showed the girl: aprons made out of suitable mate-j rials to be used. She also demon-| strated how to cut their aprons and how to use commercial pat terns. The December lesson was or “Standards in Underwear.” We learned that the best, most service able, comfortable and useful un derwear are made from cotton ma terials such as seersucker, bleachc or unbleached muslin, longclot nainsook, prints, crepe, or ever sacks. We also learned that cottoi was not only more serviceable but easier to sew and lAunder. Reporter. v ’ll as a whole be larger than that The first meeting was held on -P dives cf the Soil Con- cf 1936. Ordinarily, increasing pro duction will lower prices, but it is expected that improvement in consumer demand will about offset the effect of a greater production. “The average yield of all truck crops taken together in 1936 was about in line with the expected. If average yields in 1937 are ma- terially higher than in 1936, pro- Clemson, Jan. 16. — Growers of duction may be such as to reduce October 2nd in the High School auditorium with twenty six mem bers present. The lesson was on “Equipment for Sewing.” The girls were shown the right kind of eouipment to use, such as needles, different types of needles to be used for different types of sewing, also kinds of thread and scissors that should be used. The next lesson was held on- No.- DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. 956 Broad Street Augusta,