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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, September 23, 1937
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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