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MeCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, October 7, 1937 MK3SENGI rablished Every Thursday established June S, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner latered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C.. as man matter of the second class. TORAV And K** point, in America, when there will football Game 111 I dairy specialist, the other three be- be a general demand for cheap ing the Upper Piedmont, the Low- alcohol as a motor fael in place Augusta Oct. 16 er Piedmont, and the Coastal Plains associations. of gasoline, or mixed with it, no one can tell. But that we will get ! "Dairy Herd Improvement Asso- , Carolina And Georgia Freshmen , . , , t.n tnat noinr, some nav. -iverv- eint.mn •a/orW- moinHoc q r>nrnT->iofo to that point some day, every body who has looked into the sub ject agrees. The chemists are get- 1 Meet In Augusta October 16 At 3 O’clock elation work includes a complete cost-account service on the man- agement of the dairy herd”, Mr. ting ready for it, with large-scale ' Cushman explains. “Each month a experiments In making alcohol SL ^7^?^ man cornea to the member’s farm from corn-stalks and other farm r '% S ’ . and weighs and tests the milk from • and South Carolina will center on . ° ' VaSteS - Augusta Saturdav October 16 each C0W ’ wei § hs a11 feed fed, and The tie-up between science and x g +ac.TnQ nf thP g ives the herd owner a financial iv, if. when the Freshmen teams of the * , „ V. VDRSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Etx Months .7!> Three Months .50 CHEMURGY Motoring around West Florida ... wucn me a little while ago, I encountered a S liculture is onl y in its infancy, University of Georgia and the Uni- stat;ement on each cow in the herd - - <!r “ and on the whole herd. Through dozens of farm motor trucks loaded 30 far jwith pine cordwood. The farmers ; were hauling logs to the paper mill at Panama City, where 600 tons FERTILIZER The world has been learning a versity of South Carolina engage here. The game will hold added inter- , , 3 t est this season, since the pro.eeds i£, ' dy hls management practices as this complete and detailed record the herd owner will be able to so October Busy Month source of income for owners of pine J land, if thev are careful not to cut of paper a day are made from pine lot about what makes P lants grow t0 „ 0 t0 ' the ..spec” Townes 10 » rMl ^ e mllk more «conomically. wood. It is a new and permanent ln «V°. yeara h sln rf ce my ? reat - SchoLhip fund at the University basis of this monthly and - . uncle, Levi Stockbndge, wrote the ^ ^ J , land, if they are careful not to cut flrst b02k on sclentltlc lertiUzers. practices as to place the produc- . uon of milk in South Carolina up- The game is to be played in the .. . ^ ^ a a more emcisnt basis.” xx gestions: Agronomy Start now saving stable manure South, for next year’s crops. The benefit is sponsored by the Augusta Alumni club of the Uni- Washed-Out Fertility Clemson, Oct. 2.—The old belief of Georgia, honoring the interna- yearly «*ord toe farm owner to- firmaiiv fnrv>r>ii<s vinrHi^r if thp gether with the Clemson College For The Alert Farmer 'than“new ° f American Olympics team who has » iu be abla “ srow. The “slash” pine of the South *| t ^ br ,?‘ on Manures "^is^ui bought fame to this section of ”° s ; udy and adj , ust management grows big enough for pulpwood in Stockbndge on Manures, is stu Clemson, Oct. 2 - Besides the , even sQ the owner who cuts the basic reference book on the • • nsual harvesting of the main crops one _ seventh of his wood every subject He found out, what every _ Richmond County there is plenty of important work . , H , farmer knows now, that crops need , y “ / . . year Jia^ a continuous source of , _ , . . . stadium and will begin at 3 o clock, to do in October, say extension spe- . , , , nitrogen, potash and phosphates, in ^ ° y W r * C *1 A/T cialists, making these timely sug- J erowln „ fas .‘‘ Four more^bia Proportions dependent on the kind ^ dalt t:cke£s W1 * 1 se ** for b1 ' an Woril-Out Soils Meail rbein^uiir™? d ‘ -P - d tha “ al con- studen t tickets for 5J cents. ida, a dozen more elsewhere in the tents of s0 ^- Modern agricultural chemists , _ u r. versity of Georgia, and committees t’Via Q/-knfhave found that crops need a lot ._ . . , ,« i , The dlscover 7 that Southern other flings which must be fed, of thls Sroup are in charge of t-ne that farms “wore out” because of Plant winter cover crops to re- pine makes gooa paper came out of them if thev are not in the SO iiJ P re P arations - James M. Hull, Jr.,; the removal of plant food from the duce loss of plant food and to add a chemical laboiatory. It is the Com) ' M‘’nuan°se a dozen| member of the Board of Managers so ji j^y growing crops isn’t even a Plant oats early for best results. Sow rye early for improvement of poor soils. Sow barley as a source of excel lent feed and sow wheat as a source pf food. Horticulture Select varieties adapted to your section, and place order for fruit trees with a reliable nursery. Cut out all dead branches on fruit trees before the leaves drop. Thin out young turnips, beets, kale, spinach, and lettuce, to hast en development. Gather green tomatoes just be fore frost and store in cool place; even half-grown ones will ripen. Agricultural Engineering Clean out grain drills and set to plant desired quantity of seed. Set grain drill furrow-openers to Heroes By LUCY TSIVOGLOU © McClure Newsnaper Syndicate. WNU Service. most important item, so far, m th , rts are necessary So of the University of Georgia! half truth, says E. C. Turner, Jr., ' Chemurey"tTm 1 mean" 'LTut m^TrtlLer manufacturers, Aldmnl f "■ * general chair-! extension soil conservationist. In- of products of the soU for todus- make “P their mlxtures t0 tadl *™ =1^ Vestigati0n has shown :. he . states ' trial purposes. jVidual prescriptions, to fit a par- Farming in the future will not, ticular situatlon - be centered on growing things I was in a corner, of Florida not George Hains, member of the Board that erosion removes 21 times as of Regents of the University sys tem, as chairman of the arrange ments committee. to be eaten, but on raising crops lon S a S° wher8 the tomato crop ^ _ __ to be converted by chemical in “ L H d t S ) ^ < i e ^ 1 ly eC l‘ U it<? ^ dent of the University of Georgia, dustry, into the materials of which ied tbe Soxl and ^ has been invited to address a thousand articles of commerce copper content had been exhausted. luncheon of Georgia alumni and visitors the day of the game. xx Camp Modoc News much plant food as growing plants take from the soil. The plant food can be restored by the use df leg are made. COTTOIi A new fertilizer was tried with just the right amount of copper, and the farmers got bigger and ■Way down upon the Suwannee better tomato cr °P s than ever be ' River fanners are picking cotton, y ° re which sells for 25, cents a pound. The old “rule of thumb” way is 7 All over the South cotton growers out of date in farmin S. as in every are in distress. A bumper crop, other occupation and the loss of important export markets have reduced the price of lVf* W o ordinary upland cotton. But the -T** 1111 i'C'Vy© market for Sea-Island cotton is growing faster than the supply. run three inches deep. This may Five thousand bales of it win go prevent some winter-killing. | to market from Madison county. Bright Spots Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell, presi- (U mes and fertilizer, but once the 'soil itself has been lost, it cannot a be restored. The Soil Conservation Service points out, Turner continues, that soils, like people, have different characters. This means that effec tive erosion control must vary with the type of soil, steepness of slope, degree of erosion, adaptable crops, and other factors. Three pertinent points in con- inection with the washing away of Camp Modoc, Oct. 2.—The past week has seen some extensive changes in the personnel at Camp F-ll. Mr. L. A. Bodie has taken Mr. Frank Reece’s place as Project' Superintendent for the Forest Service. Mr. Reece has been trans ferred to take charge of all ter racing work to be done on the Na tional Forest land in the Long 1. Erosion occurs wherever land has sufficient slope for rain water to flow over an unprotected sur face. 2. Erosion deals a double-edge Barnwell, Sept. 25. — Hugh A. Make arrangements to do more : Florida, in October, the first im- Bowers, assistant county agent, re- | cane Ranger District. Mr. Bodie ' bl o W ^to fertile "land Tt~~s!ashes terracing during fall and winter 1 portant shipment from xhe old iwts that in a campaign put on was transferred to Camp F-ll from j ste unnrotected slopes into gul- months. [sea Island cotton belt since the with the cantaloupe growers urg- the Witherbee Camp on the Francis lies and s trew s over bottom lands Check fireplaces, chimneys, and i boll-weevu got into it in 1917. They ing them to let the melons stay on '* • ■ - - flues for needed repairs before 1 found a way to kill the boll-weevil the vines until they became vine- before he reached the bon, and so ripened, the growers made an ex- revived a dead industry. Icellent response. Sugar tests made cold weather. Plant Diseases and Insects Treat small grain seed for smut, •r plant smut-resistant oats. fibre and a longer staple than any Select sweet potato seed from oilier cotton. It used to be used for disease-free vines. | spinning lisle thread for fine stock- Use paradichlorobenzene by Oc- | ings and underthings. Now its inland trucking area can grow p,s tober 10 in the Piedmont section Marion National Forest, he having , , , . , infertile subsoil washed from gul had several years experience in the . ^nisides Low Country. Both Mr. Bodie and 1 ' Sea Island cotton has a finer in the fields showed that vine- ripened cantaloupes had a sugar content of 12 which is considered very high. “This proves that the and October 20 in other sections to control peachtree borer. Harvest corn early to reduce weevil infestation. Fumigate stored grain with car bon bisulfide. Kill plant lice on fall vegetables with nicotine sulfate and soap spray. Requeen hives and feed bees where necessary. chief use is in automobile tires, high quality cantaloupes as any where the greatest strength and section in the United States”, says flexibility are needed. Tire makers Mr - Bowers, grow much of their own cotton in j St* Matthews, Sept. 25.—There is olina. Mr. Ollie McGee has been Arizona, but not as good as the a larger acreage of corn planted transferred from Camp F-ll to Mrs. Bodie are well known as for mer residents of Edgefield and Sa luda Counties and will be welcomed back to this section of the State by their many friends. Mr. St. Julien Melchers has been transfer red to Camp F-ll as Clerk from a CCC camp on the Croatan Na tional Forest in eastern North Car- Sugaryam Shippers Organized To Help Promote Potatoes Sea-Island cotton. That is another example of this year than usual and the crop camp F-7 to take charge of road condition is unusually good, and maintenance work on the Long chemurgy. There is more money xaosf °f this corn is interplanted cane Ranger District, for the farmer in growing the with soybeans and velvet beans, | The new regulations concerning things of which industry stands in both of which are making fine CCC enrollment which went into need than in growing things to eat. 3. Look at the color of the streams in your community and you can tell how rapidly erosion is progressing on the iarms aiong its course. 1XI Stockmen Warned Screw Worm Spreading * * TUNG One of the most interesting effect October 1 prohibited the re- enrollment of men over 24 years of Florence, Sept. 27. — Sugaryam growth, according to Colin, Mc- Laurin, county farm agent. The forage following small grain is also' age> This caused a large number good. The farmers are planting 0 f enrollees at Camp F-ll to be farms I have ever seen is a 2,000— more summer legumes than usual discharged last Thursday. However, acre grove of tung trees near order to take advantage of the these new regulations allowed for Gainsville, Florida. The tung tree 8011 Conservation Program, Mr. Mc- grows nuts which yield the most Laurin states. valuable oil for the manufacture I Winnsboro, Sept. 25.—Cotton is of fine ‘varnishes, lacquers and' showing up good following soil- paints. This “Chinawood oil” sells j building practice where manure in the world markets for 15 cents a was applied and 1936 summer leg- the retaining of three experienced men over twenty-four years of age and Frank Haskell, Alfred Terry, and Paul Parker are remaining at F-ll as semi-skilled laborers. . TXT To Improve Herds Shippers is the name adopted by pound or more, and the market 1 umes were left on the land, ac- p00 J)00 HtliryiTieil South Carolina sweet potato grow- ‘ ■* ' 15 — ^ f ” A " OT,f w T - era organized here Sept. 23 to keep growers better informed on the im proved methods of production and to strengthen the efforts of the South Carolina Sweet Potato Grow ers Association. T. L. Gramling of Orangeburg was elected president of the Sugaryam Shippers. Ralph Bell of Lee county was named vice-presi dent and A. E. Schilletter, Exten sion horticulturist, secretary and never gets all it wants. A few years 1 cording to County Agent R. L ago my friend David Fairchild, the Lemmon, who states that there plant explorer, brought tung nuts is some good looking corn follow- ; from China to America, and now ing legume vines turned. “I feel ] Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana that the majority of our coopera- ( Four Dairy Herd Improvement As- are producing a tenth of the tors in the Soil Conservation Pro- 1 sociations Now Operating In world’s supply. More chemurgy. j gram have plenty summer legumes j state The tung tree gets its name from planted to qualify for their full Clemson, Oct. 2.—The organiza tion of the Pee Dee Dairy Herd Im- the heart-shaped leaf, “tung” be- , diversion payment and many of ing Chinese for “heart.” The leaves them are counting on earning their are a glossy dark green and remain ! full soil-building allowance pay- i provement Association for the area on the trees the year around. The ment”, the agent says. j i nc i ud i ng clarendon, Darlington, wide-branching trees grow about Hampton. Sept. 25.—The corn Florence, Kershaw, and Sumter treasurer. Three executive commit- 25 feet high, and a great field of crop of Hampton county is far bet- counties is announced by the Dairy teemen selected were H. B. Har- them in blossom is one of the most ter than in any year during the J division of the Clemson College rington, Manning; Foster Meares,' beautiful sights I have ever seen, past nine seasons, and although Extension Service Nichols; W. H. Thomas, George- For many years to come grow- the acreage is reduced from that town. ling tung nuts for their oil is going of 1936, J. C. Anthony, county farm “Sugaryam Shippers will strive ^ b® one of most profitable agent, estimates there will be 60 to maintain a high quality of seed forms of agriculture in the South, per cent mc.e corn made. “There stock which will insure growers of * * * | will be a considerable surplus th;o a source of good seed”, declared Mr. CROPS fall and I am urging farmers uo Such crops as I have been talk- begin feeding it to their hogs at ing about can’t be grown by all once in order to have a good lot farmers, everywhere', of course. °f them ready for the September the Sugaryam brand of sweet po- They require conditions of soil and ancl October markets”, says Mr. tato”. iclimate which are to be found on- Anthony. “Many farmers are ai- The new organization, which in- ly in limited areas. But chemurgy rea dy feeding and will be ready to eidently includes some members of goes a lot farther. The Farm sel1 in September. the Sweet Potato association, will Chemurgic Council is at work all x attempt to maintain the high the time, encouraging chemists to Tw 0 North Poles standards set up by the Marketing find ways to use the staple farm There are two north poles, geo- Division of Clemson College Ex- c^-ona in tnr(u<^-v o» to new graphic and magnetic. When the Schilletter. “It will be an educa tional association which will for mulate the policies of marketing tension Service, according to crops, of industrial value, which can compass is over the geographiq George E. Prince, chief of the Ex- be grown on wheat land, corn land ^ e ^ 0 e n 1 0 t rt ^ iI1 ^ nt w S r is 7i tension Service Division of Mar- or potato land. degrees latitude north and 96 de- kets. j Wuen we are going to reach the grees longitude west. The present membership in cludes: H. B. Taylor, Kershaw; L. I. Guion, Jr., and N. P. Gettys, Lugoff; J. Irwin and H. F. L. Hoff- meyer, Darlington; A. W. McLaugh lin, Effingham; Mrs. M. D. Stack- ley, T. I. Birch, C. Edward Gregg, and J. T. Lazar, Florence; A. T. Reams, A. M. Brogdon, J. A. Stan ley, B. H. Goodson, R. C. Bradham, W. L. Currie, and J. M. Kolb, Sum ter. G. B. Eleazer, a recent graduate of Clemson College, will conduct the association’s record-keeping system. Mr. Eleazer will visit the herds once each month to super vise the system. There are now in the state four of these herd improvement groups, says C. G. Cushman, extension Clemson Sept 28.—The screw worm is on the increase in several sections of the state, according to reports from county farm agents to W. C. Nettles, extension ento mologist, who advises owners of livestock to take every precaution to prevent the screw worm from becoming more abundant, as se rious losses may occur if we have a late fall. Two hundred and eighty-seven cases of screw worm infestation have been reported to county agents during the present season, mainly since September 1, al though the first case occurred on July 8 in Jasper county, says Mr. Nettles. Eighty new cases were re ported during the past week. Many which occur are never reported, and the actual number must be several times greater than the above figures indicate. Recently the screw worm was found as far north as Calhoun county. The number of screw worm cases reported by county agents for the season is as follows: Colleton, 175; Jasper, 50; Beaufort, 22; Charles ton, 12; Dorchester, 10; Calhoun, 8; Orangeburg, Allendale, and Edgefield, 3 each. The state veteri narian reported one case from Berkeley county earlier in the sea son. Entomologists of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran tine have examined 10 lots of spe cimens removed from animal wounds and agree that the true screw worm is present. Mr. Nettles advises that wounds on animals be prevented in every way possible; that newly born ani mals be given watchful attention; that pine tar oil be used on all wounds, and that benzol be used for killing the maggots. xx Living Successfully Live so that your yesterdays may be blessings, your todays opportuni ties, and your tomorrows, rewards. C ARMELA TORELLI was ashamed of her father. And the tragedy was the greater because she also adored him. By sheer mental brilliance, Car- mela had risen from poverty to the competence of fifty-a-week, but when she stepped into the office each morning she was haunted by fear lest the mire of the squalid street in the section where she still dwelt might be clinging to the hem of her skirt. To all her entreaties that they move to some pretty suburb, Pas- quale Torelli stubbornly turned a deaf ear. He had saved a neat little sum in all these years, but ( he had known the days when hej i had been obliged to draw in his belt, and he refused to give up his work or move to more expensive quarters. So, of a morning, as Car- mela left their three rooms in the overcrowded tenement house and stepped warily over the rough cob blestones, striving to keep her dain ty footwear clean, old Pasquale often plodded close behind her, trundling his pushcart filled with fruit or vegetables. Carmela hated that pushcart, even while she admitted to herself that it had earned their daily bread and clothed her in fine muslins while the other children in her neighborhood had worn coarse cot tons. Carmela was in love. Yes, with “the boss,” Luigi Mangano, head of the big firm of Mangano & Cypri- ani, inaporters. She was his secre tary, and her desk faced his in the private office. He was handsome and distu»- guished-looking, was Luigi; she was sure he must be of noble ancestry. Who was she, Carmela Torelli, daughter of Pasquale-of-the-Push- cart, to long for the love of this man? Nevertheless, occasionally she would look up and find his eyes fixed on her, with an expression that made her tremble, even while she wondered at its sadness. There came an evening when they worked late together. When they were getting ready to leave, as Car mela crossed the office to the wash- stand, she tripped over a small rug, and nearly fell. Nearly, but only that, for Luigi jumped up and caught her in his arms. And he kissed her! The next second she was free, and he was saying miserably, “Car mela, I didn’t mean to do it. Please forgive me and forget about it. I love you, but I never meant you to know it. Our paths lie as far apart as the two poles.’’ “Do you suppose I don’t realize that?” she replied, all the more bit terly because her pride was strug gling with the tingling joy of his kiss. “You have everything and you live in comfort and luxury; I live in the dingiest street in the city, and my father wheels a pushcart. What have we in common?” “What, indeed!” he answered, with even greater bitterness. “Do you think that would hold me from loving you? You grew up in a dingy street, but you always had a roof ever your head. Many a night I crouched in an alley corner or hud dled in a doorway to keep from freezing. Sometimes I was so hun- grv I was tempted to steal. I edu cated myself, and I went to school in rags. And do you know what my father w^s? A crook! A gunman! Your father has a pushcart, but he’s honest. Honest, Carmela! Hon est! I’d give the world to have had a father like him. Do you think I’d ask any woman to marry me, the son of a crook?” Suddenly Carmela’s mental vision saw a glorified picture of old Pas quale: saw him as he had always toiled through the streets behind his cart, facing cold and sleet and rain, or wilting under a torrid sum mer sun; saw him, always smiling, shouting his wares in a cheerful bar itone, even while he shook with an ague. She remembered the years when, at the end of a hard day, he had en tered the tenement kitchen and poured his earnings into her moth er’s apron. And she realized that the little peddler father, of whom she had been ashamed, was one of that vast army of patient and un sung heroes, who go gladly forth to battle each day, that the ones they love may not know want. At the same moment she knew that the man before her, Luigi, who had been so hungry that he “was tempted to steal,” but who never theless had conquered temptation and probably crushed an inherited tendency to vice, was a hero of an other sort. For what greater foe can man have to battle than gnaw ing hunger? Her arms crept up about his neck, and of her own accord she kissed him, laughing a little hysterically. “If you won’t ask me to marry you, Luigi, then I’ll have to do the proposing myself. You’re a thou sand times more worthy of any woman than if you had been born in a castle, with a gold spoon in your mouth. Luigi, I love you.” “Carmela!” And when, somewhat later, they wended their way through the streets where she lived, Carmela glowed with pride over the antici pated joy of presenting her sweet heart to her father—real men, both; each capable of appreciating the other’s qualities.