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\ \ ! McCormick messenger, HcCormick, sooth Carolina Thursday, OdoW 21,193? UcCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Me* t jOnrmlck, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 Cotton Ginnings Given By South Carolina Counties COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO OC TOBER 1 IN SOUTH CARO LINA: CROPS OF 1937 AND 1936 The Department of Commerce, through the Bureau of the Census announces the preliminary report on cotton ginned prior to October 1, by counties, in South Carolina, for the crops of 1937 and 1936. The total for the State was made public on Friday, October 8. (Quantities are in running bales. Linters are not included.) County 1937 1936 The State 414,898 278,347 Abbeville 5,839 2,316 Aiken 17,425 11,518 Allendale 7,441 6,173 Anderson 25,669 7,752 Bamberg 9,392 10,646 Barnwell 13,507 10,544 Berkeley 2,032 954 Calhoun 12,218 9,038 Charleston 320 186 Cherokee 5,895 419 Chester 5,205 2,038 Chesterfield 15,197 10,499 Increased Interest In Hogs Being Shown Clemson, Oct. 16.—That there is renewed interest ki hogs among farmers is evident in reports from many county farm agents. A good corn crop and high prices for hogs are stimulating this interest. R. A. Jackson, Williamsburg county agent, states that hog ship ments are beginning to increase with the advent of new corn. “We are gratified over the results of cur efforts to have farmers full- feed hogs in order to profit by the high fall market”, he says. “It is gram. During September we ship ped 425 hogs weighing 69 ; per pound.” “The Georgetown Livestock As sociation started the marketin; work by handling four cars of dem stration-fed hogs in September’ says M. M. McCord, Georgetowi county agent. “With a good corn crop generally throughout 1 county many farmers who have never before fed out hogs are planning to utilize this crop by feeding hogs which will return a much better profit than they would receive from com sales.” From Jasper county J. P. Graham, farm agent, reports that 225 hogs sold for 12 farmers brought $3,175.31. Many of these hogs were finished and brought the tops of the market. More hogs are now on feed in Jasper county than for many years at the same sea son, he states. W. C. McCarley, Kershaw county agent, says: “We shipped one car of hogs Sept. 15 and another Oct. 6. Farmers who had top hogs re ceived 13.10 cents per pound in Bal timore. R. B. Elliott of Cassatt re ceived $411.03 for 17 head. People who are hogging down corn report that they are pleased with the re sults.” in Marlboro county there is an was compared with the “Dus: increased interest in hog feeding 3 0W i»> 0 f the middle west because of the roads under construction nearby. During this past week it again began to look like the “Dust Bowl” around here but it rained Wednesday night and_ settled things a little. During the course of the week we have had quite a few visitors at F-ll, both Forest and Army personnel. Among the visitors were Mr. Ed Veinon and Mr. R. I. Purvis, both from the Forest Supervisor’s office in Columbia. The Army’s visitors were Captain Van R. White, Sub-District Inspector, District 6, Mr. N. N. Coney, CCC Inspector, Washington, D. C., and Lieutenant Clarendon 14,860 9,095 Colleton _ _ 7,250 7,181 Darlington _ __ __ 11,127 9,965 } Dillon 11,086 9,824 Dorchester 5,845 6,109 Edgefield 8,002 4,309 Fairfield 2,561 916 Florence _ v _ 7,982 7,898 Greenville _ 13,913 2,875 Greenwood _ _ 3,510 1,264 Hampton 6,714 7,886 Jasper 1,174 1,013 jKershaw 6,420 6,430 j Lancaster _ 3,321 1,927 ^ Laurens 10,652 3,534 Lee 14,287 15,298 (Lexington 9,370 5,839 i McCormick 2,167 1,057 Marion _ 2,598 2,154 Marlboro _ _ _ 19,504 12,283 Newberry 6,085 3,472 Oconee _ _ 5,957 1,308 i Orangeburg __ _ _ 41,103 42,364 Pickens _ _ 8,068 2,443 Richland - __ _ 4,340 2,483 Saluda 3,155 2,130 i Spartanburg 18,644 2,609 Sumter 20,739 19,255 | Union __ _ 4,558 1,165 'Williamsburg 10,058 9,239 York 8,190 1,060 All other 1,518 1,018 Camp Modoc News Camp Modoc, Oct. 16.—Here :.s Camp F-tl in the limelight again. About two weeks ago this camp due to a supply of corn on many farms in excess of the usual feed requirements”, says County Agent W. D. Wood; and similarly from Charleston county C. W. Carraway, farm agent, reports: “The .excellent com crop with low local corn prices has created much interest among the farmers in feeding pigs their surplus com.” -xx Weekly Cotton Grade And Staple Reports For Southeastern States For Week Winston, District Dentist. Ending Oct. 14, 1937 ] "Have you ever heard of a “Rabbit I Box”? Well we have one here. One of the enrollees, English Taylor, has a musical contraption which Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 16.—According to weekly cotton grade and staple reports issued by the Atlanta of- he invented and named “Rabbit flee of the Bureau of Agricultural Box”. The box is about 6” x 2’ and Economics for States in the South- j ^ as approximately 15 to 20 piece, east, grades have been lower this rubber inner-tube stretch ove: season from the very first week of ^ a tin can at tJie bottom o. the ginning season up to now than section that has a bass sound ef- for the corresponding period of j fect - He has lear ned to play quh.e last season. For the present season a * ew tunes on it. I don t know ’uo to date the higli grades, including how to compare it with any other Strict Middling and higher grades. musical instrument, but it is in have been found in relatively small hne with string music. It is quite proportions, with North Carolina a unif l ue •nstrument. leading with 22 per cent Strict The Key Road is fast reaching Middling and above, followed by completion, in spite of the fact Alabama with 20 per cent, Georgia of our having lost approximately 16 per cent, South Carolina 10 per one hundred men September 31. cent, Florida 4 per cent, and Vir- Replacements for same are expect- ginia 3 per cent. The average staple length this season, generally, has been shorter than for the comparable period last season. Georgia is the only State in the Southeastern group whose reports do not reflect short er staple lengths this season, as compared with those for last sea son. The proportions representing the longer lengths, 1 inch and long er, are as follows: North Carolina 58 per cent; South Carolina 55 per cent; Georgia 28 per cent; Virginia 15 per cent; Alabama 12 per cent, and Florida 4 per cent. ed next week. 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