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HcCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMTCK, SOUTH CAROLINA TKlirsidlay, NotemLer 4, 1937
VcCOKMICK MESSENGER
Published Every Thursday
Established June 5, 1902
edmond j. McCracken,
Editor and Owner
Entered at the Post Office at Mc
Cormick, S. Cm as mail matter of
the second class.
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Sound Farm Program
Means Better Living
r i l«rn c 'nn, Nov. i.—Whatever farm
may be enacted it
should encourage and stimulate
rn~rl farming, says Director D. W.
Watkins of the Extension Service,
discussing the fundamentals of a
sound farm program.
“This means the production of
crops as economically as possible,
the production of quality crops,
the conservation of the soil, and
the production of the food and feed
required for a better standard of
living on the farm”, Mr. Watkins
explains.
“Our competitive position in the
production of cotton and tobacco
depends upon our making further
strides in good farming. The fed
eral program and policy should en
courage such good farming on the
part of landlords, tenants, and
share-croppers not only to their
mutual benefit but in the general
welfare.
“It is well understood in much
of the South that the food stand
ards of many small cotton growers
are low because their incomes from
cotton production are low; and
that they do not grow the food
stuffs that might serve to improve
health and efficiency because their
time is so fully taken up with com
petitive cotton production. Thus
they do not buy but go without
much of the desirable foodstuffs
that could be produced.
“If we have a control program
it would stimulate living at home
and living better than is possible
on the income of cotton alone. The
same principle applies to taking
care of the soil and other natural
resources. Any sound program must
put the responsibility on the bene
ficiaries of such a program, wheth
er owners or tenants, to improve
their own living standards and to
conserve the soil.”
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75th Anniversary
Land-Grant Colleges
Clemson Represented
Clemson, Nov. 1.—The 75th anni
versary of the land-grant college
system and the United States De
partment of Agriculture will be ob
served at the annual meeting of
the Association of Land-Orant Col
leges and Universities which takes
place in Washington November 15,
16, and 17.
Representatives from Clemson
College, South Carolina’s land-
grant college, will include Dr. E.
W. Sikes, president; D. W. Watkins,
director, and T. W. Morgan, assis
tant to the director of the Exten
sion Service; Dr. H. P. Cooper, dean
of the School of Agriculture and
director of the Experiment Station;
Prof. W. B. Aull, vice-dean of the
School of Agriculture; Prof. R. A.
McGinty, vice-director of the Ex
periment Station; Dr. S. B. Earle,
Cotton Ginnings
Given By South
Carolina Counties
COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO OC
TOBER IB 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
18, by counties, in South Carolina,
for the crops of 1937 and 1936. The
total for the State was made pub
lic on Monday, October 25.
(Quantities are in running bales.
Linter s are not included.)
County 1937
The State 629,678
Abbeville 9,267
Aiken 24,931
Allendale — 9,167
Anderson 41,610
Bamberg 11,574
Barnwell 17,051
Berkeley 3,030
Calhoun __ 16,725
Charleston 443
Cherokee 10,352
Chester 8,984
Chesterfield 22,506
Clarendon 19,674
Colleton 10,251
Darlington 16,538
Dillon 17,394
Dorchester
Edgefield __
Fairfield -- .
Florence __ .
Greenville --
Greenwood
7,884
11,898
4,505
14,830
26,077
5,715
Hampton 8,602
Horry 324
Jasper __ 1,313
Kershaw 10,113
Lancaster 6,332
Laurens 17,311
Lee 20,811
Lexington 12,821
McCormick 3,148
Marion 5,248
Marlboro 26,766
Newberry .. —10,234
Oconee 11,048
Orangeburg 55,850
Pickens — 15,273
Richland 6,094
Saluda 5,547
Spartanburg 34,564
Sumter 27,932
Union — 7,760
Williamsburg 15,431
York 15,073
All other 1,677
v t*X —
Winter Legumes Aid
Com, Cotton Yields
Says AAA Bulletin
1936
409,973
4,923
17,292
7,293
16,768
12,686
14.545
1,330
12,123
280
1,260
4,008
15,467
12,202
8,859
14,596
14,554
7,026
7,512
2,041
12,218
8,083
3,040
8,994
205
1,134
9,148
4,658
7,362
19,183-
8,949
2,058
4,376
19,005
6,756
3,223
54,007
5,767
3,728
3,879
6,564
23,871
2,642
12,522
2.545
1,294
ed and emptied about every three
months.
Studies made by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture show that
most foods can be held in the
freezer for the longer period, says
J. R. Hawkins, animal husband
man of the Clemson College Ex
tension Service. After three to six
months, however, pork fat tends
to become rancid. Any meat held
too long becomes dry on the ex
posed surface, developing the so-
called “freezer burn”.
In preparing meat for the freez
er the carcass of the hoe:, calf
aheep, or steer should be taken im
mediately to the chilling room,
with a temperature just above
freezing, and allowed to remain
about a week to age or ripen. Then
it should be cut into family-size
steaks or roasts, wrapped in mois
ture-proof paper, labeled aqd
spread out in the “sharp” freezing
room for prompt freezing. After
that it is piled in the owner’s lock
er.
Fruits and vegetables are washed
—or washed and blanched—pack- |
aged in glass, tin, or paper car
tons, with or without sirup or brine,
depending on the product. They
are taken to the “sharp” freezer
for quick freezing and likewise
stored in the ov/ner’s locker.
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Morgan Directs
Farm Tenancy
WILL BE IN CHARGE OF PRO
GRAM IN SEVERAL SOUTH
ERN STATES
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MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
CAME, SAW AND AGREED
“You’ll be ahead with
a Chevrolet!’’
Millions of enthusiastic visitors it
tho first twenty-four hours! Scores
of thousands of buying orders!
Thousands upon thousands of re.
quests for demonstrations! That’*
the way people are greeting the
new 1938 Chevrolet—the car that it
complete—the car that says to you,
the minute you see and drive it,
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I. W. Duggan, acting director of
the Southern Division, AAA, is
urging farmers of South Carolina
and other Southern states to plant
winter legumes and carry out ap
proved soil-conserving practices to
qualify for full payments under
the 1937 agricultural conservation
program.
Of timely interest in connection
with this program will be the new
bulletin, “Summary of Effects of
Legumes on Yields of Cotton and
Corn in the Southern Regions and
Nearby States”, just issued by the
Southern Division of the AAA,
summarizing the results of experi
mental work in various states over
a period of nearly 50 years.
Forty-one experiments to deter
mine the effects of winter soil-
conserving crops on yields of suc
ceeding cotton crops were carried
out between 1896 and 1935 in Ala-
H ama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louis
iana, and South Carolina. The
dean of the School of Engineering;
Dr. F. H. H. Calhoun, dean of the summary shows the average yield
School of Chemistry; Prof. W. H.! pgr acre without legumes to be
Washington, dean of the School of more than 800 pounds of seed cot-
Vocational Education.
Federal aid to agriculture began
in this country in 1839 with a
modest appropriation of $1,000 to
collect statistics and encourage col
lection and distribution of seeds
from plants in foreign countries
that gave promise for cultivation
in the United States.
The bill creating the Department
of Agriculture was signed by Pres
ident Lincoln May 15, 1862. The
Morrill Act, granting lands for the
endowment of state agricultural
colleges, was enacted in the same
year.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace and other nationally
known figures will be among the
principal speakers. The speakers
will review the accomplishments of
the Department and the land-grant
colleges and interpret their in
ton while the yield with legumes
was over 1250 pounds, an increase
of almost 60 per cent.
Thirty-one ' tests in Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Tennessee between 1908 and 1935
are cited to show the effects of
winter legumes on succeeding yields
of corn. Under these tests the av
erage yield per acre without the
previous use of legumes was 25
bushels while that with legumes
was 35 bushels, another increase
of over 40 per cent.
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Cold-Storage Lockers
For Preserving Foods
Clemson, Oct. 30.—Cold-storage
lockers with near-zero tempera
tures, of which more than 2,500
fluence on the agricultural life of units are now operating mostly in
the Nation. | the Corn Belt and Pacific North-
The principal talks will be broad- west, will preserve meats, vegeta-
cast over a nation-wide radio net- bles, and fruits in the fresh state
work each day during the National from six months to one year.
Farm and Home Hour from 12:30
to 1:30, Eastern Standard Time.
though the best food utilization
is obtained when the locker is fill-
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 26.—R. W.
Hudgens, Regional Director, Farm
Security Administration, announc
ed today that he has designated
E. S. Morgan, who is Assistant Re
gional Director in charge of Rural
Rehabilitation, to be responsible for
the administration of that section
of the Farm Tenancy Act which
provides for loans to worthy ten
ants, share-croppers or farm labor
ers to enable them to purchase
farms. Mr. Morgan will not relin
quish any of his present duties in
connection with the rehabilitation
loans that have been made to ap
proximately 35,000 low income farm
families in the States of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia and South Caro
lina by the Farm Security Admin
istration.
Mr. Hudgens indicated that plans
are being pushed as rapidly as pos
sible in order that the farm ten
ant program can be put into actual
operation in time for many ten
ants to cultivate next year the
lands which they intend to pur
chase. He emphasized, however,
that due to the very limited ap
propriation for the present fiscal
year, it will not be possible for
loans to be made in every county.
Counties in which loans will be
made will be selected on a basis
of the farm population and the
prevalence of tenancy.. It is ex
pected that not over three hun
dred counties will participate in
the tenant purchase program dur
ing the present fiscal year.
The present state, district and
county personnel of the Rural Re
habilitation Division of the Farm
Security Administration, in coop
eration with state and local ad
visory committees will be respon
sible for carrying out the provisions
of the tenant purchase program
in the various states and counties.
Until the state and county com
mittees have been appointed by the
Secretary of Agriculture, no appli
cations can actually be handled by
the county rehabilitation super
visors. It is expected that these
committees will be announced at
a very early date and that
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ing the day in order to let parents
be with their cadet sons. Hie fore
noon will be allotted to registra
tion, inspection of cadet quarters
and departmental exhibits, with a
review of the cadet regiment—the
largest in the history of the col
lege—at noon, followed by lunch
eon and a football game between
Citadel and Erskine College in the
afternoon. At a dance in Alumni
Hall that night, parents and
friends of cadets will be the guests
of the cadet corps.
Many parents come each year,
finding no monotony in doing so,
if for no other reason than because
of the progressive development of
the college plant. This year they
will have an opportunity to see
in operation additional facilitie.,
recently completed at a cost of
more than $600,000.00, with a new
project involving $572,000.00 about
to begin.
The outstanding addition to the
plant is the new cadet chapel, said
to be the only college chapel in
the United States constructed with
PWA aid. With its strikingly beau
tiful memorial windows, it forms a
focal point for visitors to historic
Charleston.
TO'BAKE’TlW CAKE!
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Save Stored Grains
From Injurious Pests
New Publication of Instructions Is
sued by Clemson Extension
Service
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of CLAUSSEN S Silver Label Cakes. They
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Heavy losses to stored grain and
peas from insects are suffered an
nually by South Carolina farmers,
Hays County Farm Agent R. D.
the Suber, suggesting that much of
counties in which loans can be such losses may be prevented by
made this year will be selected. | fumigating these products with
Mr. Hudgens announced that $1,- carbon disulfide.
“The grain weevil and the grain
718,322 have been allotted from the
$10,000,000 appropriation to be used
in the four states as follows: Ala
bama, $615,531; Georgia, $635,003;
South Carolina, $406,165; Florida,
$61,623. This region will recieve
more funds than any other Re
gion in the United States from
the present appropriation, due to
the very high percentage of ten
ancy in the states comprising Re
gion V.
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Parents’ Day At The
Citadel Nov. 20
Charleston, Oct. 28.—Following a
custom of several years’ standing,
and to permit interested persons
to make a full inspection of the
facilities and activities of the col
lege, the annual Parents’ Day pro
gram will be carried out at The
Citadel, the Military College of
South Carolina, on Saturday, No
vember 20.
All classes will be suspended dur-
moth infest corn before it is har
vested; hence the need to fumigate
stored corn after harvest”, the
agent explains. “Similarly the cow-
pea weevil infests peas, and these
should be fumigated as soon as
possible-after harvest.
“As a preventive measure it is
well to clean all old grain and peas
from the bins before storing the
new crops”, he advises.
To aid farmers in protecting
grains and peas the Extension Ser
vice has published Information
Card 48, F’umigating Stored Grains
and Peas, which was prepared by
W. C. Nettles, extension entomolo
gist. The card gives briefly the es
sential information and necessary
instructions about fumigating
grains and peas to prevent weevil
damage in storage.
Those who desire it may secure
Information Card 48 from the
county farm agent’s office or the
Publications Department at Clem
son.
JESTER’S CASH MARKET
Phone No. 25 We Deliver
Main Street McCormick, S. C.
When you are in town be sure and come by our
market and let us suggest your meat needs for you.
We will give you your choice of meats.
Prices are Reasonable, Meats the Best.
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.
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 ont of town
J. S. STROM
Main Street McCormick, S. C.