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% M1 II. . , McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, September 23, 1937 Sr, m § UcCOUMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 TODAY and EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner ntered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. Clemson, Sept. 18.—The vitamins that must be given special con sideration by the poultryman in feeding are A, D, and G, the others being contained in the poultry ra tion usually in sufficient quantity, said Prof. C. L. Morgan, head of the Poultry Department, speaking at the recent poultry short course here on vitamin requirements of the poultry rations. The important sources of vita min A for poultry are yellow corn, green feed (or a green feed sub stitute such as alfalfa leaf meal), and cod liver oil, Prof. Morgan ex plained. Vitamin D is supplied by direct sunshine, cod liver oil, and certain other fish oils. The best sources of vitamin G are milk products and green feed, or a green feed substitute. Small quantities of vitamin G are supplied by meat scraps and fish meal, but for start ing rations for chicks and rations of hens producing hatching eggs, milk or green feed, or both, must be included. *Tf the ration of either chicks or hens contains as much as 50 per cent of yellow com, and green feed is available, the requirements for vitamin A are supplied,” the specialist stated. ‘‘Direct sunshine can usually be depended upon the pear round to supply the require ments of vitamin D for chickens in this section. For confined birds cod liver oil should be added to the ration. “The vitamin G requirements for • chicks and breeders are provided if the ration contains 5 per cent of dried milk or its equivalent in liquid or condensed form, or whey, plus green feed. For hens produc ing market eggs the vitamin G re quirement is somewhat less. Three to 5 per cent of alfalfa leaf meal will take the place of green feed in supplying vitamins A and G.” -rxi- Guernseys Win Honors In Advanced Registry Clemson, Sept. 20. — Guernsey herds won nine of the ten high places among South Carolina cows on advanced registry tests in Au gust, according to the report of K. L. Steer, in charge of advanced registry testing for the South Car olina Experiment Station. Highest individual honor was won by a Holstein, Boast Ormsby Ann Artis, in the herd of the South Carolina State Hospital in Colum bia, whose record was 79.28 pounds of birtterfat. Herd honors for the month were as follows: 9 Guernseys in the herd of W. E. Verdery and Son, Orange burg, average 52.30 pounds of but- ferfat; second, 19 Guernseys, Pedi greed Seed Company, Hartsville. average 48.58 pounds; third, 18 Jerseys, Wheeler Brothers, Saluda, overage 47.71 pounds; fourth, 11 Guernseys, W. C. King, Bishopville, overage 47.06 pounds; fifth, 19 Guernseys, J. B. Guess, Denmark, overage 46.84 pounds; sixth, 9 Guernseys, L. E. Stroud, Great Falls, average 46.21 pounds; sev enth, 22 Guernseys, N. G. Roose velt, Moncks Corner, average 45.63 pounds; eighth, 7 Guernseys, S. H. Zimmerman, Columbia, average, 4S4.75 pounds; ninth, 6 Guernseys, J. F. Hav/kins, Edgefield, average 44.05; tenth, 8 Guernseys, Bureau of Dairy Industry, Columbia, aver age 43.92. Second highest individual honor went to Francis of Verdery Farm, W, E. Verdery and Son, Orange burg, with ,75.60 pounds of butter- fat; third to Ormsby Colantha Hero Dee, Clemson Agricultural College, <9.4.5 pounds; fourth Supreme’s Fancy, J. B. Guess, Jr., Denmark, <0.15 pounds; fifth, Zimalcrest linple Glen Peggy, S. H. Zimmer man, Cwi-.n-wia, C^.G) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 g " - "T"— Vitamins A, D, And G Needed For Poultry SALT .... vital necessity I visited a locomotive factory not long ago. It was a hot day, and the sweaty workers made frequent trips to the watercoolers for a drink. Be side each cobler was a box labelled “salt,” and I noticed most of the men took a little tablet out of the box and swallowed it with their cupful of cold water. I asked why. “It staves off fatigue and heat prostration,” the foreman told me. “When a man sweats he loses salt as well as water. We thought it was silly when the company doctor first told us to take salt in hot weather, jut ndw we see he was right. Seems ;;ou can’t be well if you lose too much salt.” I checked up on that with my iwn doctor. “That’s right,” he told me. “Human life, like animal life, began in the sea, and we’re still fish inside. We must have salt to be healthy, and when we lose salt too rapidly, by perspiration, we must replace it. Sea salt is the best, be cause it contains other minerals, but it’s hard to get. That’s why sea bathing is better than fresh water swimming. every year. I don’t like it, much, myself, but for those v/ho do I’m glad to pass along the good news that ^ frozen spinach and canned spinach are just as wholesome as the fresh vegetable. The Massachusetts Agriculture Experiment Station found that out. It also has discovered that spinach contains the essential vitamins, “A” and “C” which ward off infections, strengthen the bones and prevent rheumatism. Go ahead, children; eat your spinach! SALARY .... salt money What the doctor said about salt set me to thinking. I rememtoered from my school days that the Latin for salt is “sal.” I went to my dic tionary to see how many common English words are derived from “sal,” and the first one I found was “salary.” It meant, originally, “salt money,” for salt was the most pre cious commodity in early times. Salt was universally used as money by primitive peoples, and still is in some parts of Africa and Asia. The world’s great trade routes follow the trails of the salt-cara vans over which this precious com modity was brought to the people of the inland towns. Today the traffic of the camel-trains of the Sahara desert is principally the trade in salt. The word for “health” used by the old Romans was “salus.” When we “salute” anybody we are wish ing him or her good health. We still call a healthy climate “salu brious,” and keep a box of salt or a chunk of rock salt in the cattle shed for the cows, who can’t range around and find for themselves a salty piece of ground, such as the “deer licks” to which the wild crea tures have access. To call a man “the salt of the earth” is to pay him a high com pliment. f , SUGAR stimulant When I was a boy we used to keep our horses looking “slick” by feeding them sugar. I suppose horse fanciers still use that method of giving the horse’s coat a glossy ap pearance, and putting “pep” into the animal. I often see mounted policemen in New York and other cities giving lumps of sugar to their mounts. Doctors have told me, and I have found it true from experience, that the best quick “pick-up” when one feels fatigued is a lump or two of pure cane sugar. It is the most efficient stimulant. We all have a sugar factory inside ourselves, in the liver,* and when the body is called on for sudden severe exertion the liver pours more sugar into the blood to provide the needed energy. When you drop in at a soda-foun tain for a dish of ice-cream or a sweet drink you are responding to Nature’s demand for a stimulant. It’s easy to take in more sugar than is good for the health, but it’s the most convenient source of extra energy. WATEk . . . chemical tricks In a big industrial laboratory lately I was shown a new chemical for waterproofing fabrics. It can be used on cotton, rayon, silk or wool, and renders them absolutely imper vious to water. It does not fill up the space between the threads of woven fabrics, so one wearing a suit thus treated can go out in the rain without getting his clothes wet, and at the same time get his skin thoroughly wet. A chemist friend tells me of another new trick, to make water wetter. The time and difficulty of getting some kinds of materials watersoaked is one of the industry’s tough problems; wool, cotton, many other things, have to be soaked for dyeing. A new chemical called “tergitol,” a synthetic alcohol, mix ed with water in the proportion Oi one ounce to ten gallons, makes the water so wet that it “soaks in” at once. One use of this new “wet ter water” is washing poison spray residue off apples. Another is re moving old wall paper. It struck me this treatment of water ought to make it easier to wash clothes in “hard” water. I suggested that to my friend. He tried it out and said I had guessed right. Camp Modoc News Camp Modoc, Sept. 18.—The Commanding Officer of Camp F-ll, First Lieutenant R. B. Bush, has been ill for several days. We hope that Lieutenant Bush will soon be well and back with us. Mr. A. S. Herbert, now working in the Supervisor’s office, is to be transferred in a short time to this camp as the Forest Service Clerk to take over Mr. Leon Hall’s duties wrho left to enter the University of Georgia Forestry School. We are very proud of the fact that we have had no forest fires on the Long Cane District during the past month and it is hoped that all of the residents of the Dis trict and the transients will con tinue to cooperate so that we may have a even better record on fires during the coming year than was had this year. A great many of the enrollees who thought that they would be discharged on October 1 were very glad to learn that only those 24 years old or more would have to seek employment elsewhere. —TXI- Improve Farm Flocks By Culling Poor Hens Revised Extension Circular On How To Tell Laying Hens Palmetto Tree Buttons Restored To Uniforms Of Citadel Cadets Charleston, Sept. 10.—By recent action of the Board of Visitors of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, the “palmetto tree” buttons have been restored to the full dress coat and overcoa f , and the cap and shako device worn by many generations of Citadel men has been placed again on he cadet headgear. For the past four years a special seal, depicting heraldically the history of The Citadel, has been in vogue both caps and shakos, and as the but ton design; but because cf many requests of alumni groups and in dividuals, who protested that the substituted device was not charac teristic of this State institution, it has been abandoned. The revised insignia shows a con ventional palmetto tree, with the seal of the State of South Carolina at its base, and the words “The Citadel” just above the base de vice. Although it was not adopted by the Board of Visitors in its pres ent form until 1919, a generally similar design was in use at least as far back as the early 1850’s as part of the cadet uniform. Th° “palmetto tree” buttons go back beyond the memory of living men as typical cf cadets and troops of South Carolina. With the simultaneous adoption of the flag of South Carolina as the regimental colors of the corps of State cadets, a trend toward origins is indicated, The Citadel always having been a State college, though it has invariably welcomed students from other parts of the country, and includes in its cadet corps hundreds of young men from many States. -txt- Flashes From Afield Caught From County Farm Agents’ Recent Reports SPINACH . . . growing demand A couple of miles from my coun try home is the largest truck farm I know anything about. They culti vate 6,000 acres, in only half a dozen vegetable crops. This year they had nearly a thousand acres in spinach alone, and they plan to grow more next year, the spinach demand is growing so fast. The people of the United States ate 116,000 tons of spinach last year, whether they liked it or not. Parents began feeding their chil dren spinach a few years ago be cause doctors agreed that it con tains iron and other minerals in easily assimilated form. So many of the grown-ups of today were raised on spinach and grew to like it that they continue to eat it, while a new Clemson, Sept. 18.—“South Car- t olina farmers make a mistake in keeping and feeding too many non laying hens in their flocks through the fall and winter months,” says P. H. Gooding, extension poultry specialist, who states that returns from the poultry flock are directly related to egg production per hen. “When a hen goes out of produc tion, unless she is desirable as a breeder, she should be marketed,” Mr. Gooding advises, adding that the better poultrymen cull and market the non-layers regardless of the season. To help poultrymen solve this important problem of higher aver age egg production per hen, the Extension Service of Clemson Col lege has published a revised edi- j tion of Circular 113, How To Tell ' Laying Hens, by Mr. Gooding. This | circular discusses when to cull, how to know poor layers, mistakes to avoid in culling, catching aids in culling, and other phases of cull ing. The publication is free to citi zens of the state and may be had from county farm agents and coun ty home agents, or from the Pub lications Department at Clemson. xx Work and Growth Work is the only means of growth. Instead of being a curse, as some would have us believe, work is a means of measureless good. Not to work is to keep always an undevel oped hand, or heart, or brain. The things which work may achieve are not half so important as that whicn work does in us. Since the organization of a live stock association for cooperative marketing, a good many farmers who have not been producing hogs are now planning to finish some out.—Georgetown, M. M. McCord. Indications are now that with \;he unusually good corn crop in the county we will ship considerably more hogs during the coming sea son than we did during the past season.—Horry, V. M. Johnston. One school superintendent has remarked that the boys who made the trip to Camp Long last sum mer were 100 per cent better in school last year from the viewpoint of discipline.—Kershaw, W. C. Mc- Carley. To date between 1000 and. 1500 pounds of cotton seed have been listed with the county agent for purchasing of the latest varieties.— Laurens, C. B. Cannon. The com crop is the best, by gen eral county opinion, in 10 to 15 years, and more peas and beans are planted than ever before.—Lex ington, R. R. Mellette. K. Dowtin has produced cotton a bale to the acre by applying basic slag and stable manure. Cotton following vetch turned under ha. given substantial increases in yields. —McCormick, R. D. Suber. We have the largest apple crop that we have thus far produced in the county, and I believe our apples are as free from insects and dis ease injury as they have ever been. — Oconee, G. H. Griffin, Our leading apple growers, after advising with us regarding equip ment for washing and packing ap ples, have formed a stock company and purchased up-to-date equip ment.—Spartanburg, W. H. Stall- worth. In our county bull project order, have been placed for one Jersey and six Guernsey bulls. Young bulls, having ancestors with good records of production, were se lected.—Union, T. B. Lee. J. N. Guess, Lanes, who built a new type sweet potato curing house last year, contemplates building another this year, and T. W. Boyle, Greenville, will rebuild an old house to Louisiana type.—Williamsburg, R. A. Jackson. Peach orchardists were advised to sow Austrian winter peas or vetch as a cover crop and to get the soil-building payment to which their orchards are entitled.—York, L. W. Johnson. Anderson’s Department Store 5th Anniversary and Fall Opening Sale Now going on. Everything in New Fall Goods. v Every Department is complete with the Newest Merchandise at New Low Prices. Don’t Miss This Sale. Anderson’s Department Store Greenwood, S. C. Special Sale On Miracle Whip Salad Dressing Miracle Whip Salad Dressing, A Kraft Product, is on sale at my store now at the following prices: A Quarl 40C Pint 25c Half Pint __ . 15c * / C. H. BRENNAN Main Street McCormick, S. C. JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone No. 25 Main Street , We Deliver McCormick, S. C. General Wallace in Two Wars Gen. Lewis Wallace, author of the famous novel “Ben Hur,” served with distinction during the Mexican and Civil wars. He died February 15. 1905. We have purchased from J. L. Smith his Meat Market on Main Street and are now located at that stand and ready for business. We carry a full line of Fresh Meats at all times and are always ready to be at your service. Fresh Fish and Norfolk Oysters, Thursday. Fri day and Saturday. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them. IMA NEW WOMAN THANKS ID PURSANG r Yes, Pursangcontains, in properly balanced proportions, such proven elements as organic copper and iron. | Quickly stimulates appetite and aids nature in building rich, red blood even in cases of simple anemia. When this happens, energy and strength usually return. You feel like new. Get Pursang from your druggist. r 1