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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK.. SOUTH CARULIINA Thursday, January 6, 1938 ticCOKMICK MESSENGER Livestock Guide For Published Every Thursday Established Jane 5, 19M EDMOND J. MoCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Putered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as maU matter of the second class. BITBSCRimON RATES: One Year $100 Blx Months .75 Three Montfas .50 Sunday School Lesson P.V REV. CHARLES E. DUNN Preparing for a Life of Sendee. 000. Production was 45 per cent ax' < ' aiue 53 per cent above 1936. January Attention Corn production of 24,945,000 ^ J bushels is 13 per cent above the ^x. 1 1936 crop but due to a much lower To start the new year right with price the yalue of $18 709 000 ^ 16 livestock, County Farm Agent R. per cent the 1936 value It D. Suber suggests these ideas for is estimated that cash income from January. - com sold this year, amounted to Animal Husbandry $1,375,000 compared with $825,000 Balance corn for hogs with fish in 193g meal, skimmilk, or tankage. The hay crop of 502,000 tons is Allow beef cattle ample c eap ^ per cen t above production in roughage. jggg and almost double the aver- For fall calves turn bull with ^ outturn for the years 1928-32. cevs about January 15. This year’s crop is valued at $6,- Give idle mules free access to 928 000 compar ed with $6,360,000 as roughage, but cut the grain to a thg ig36 value The pecan crop is estimated at 1,160,000 pounds which is 23 per cent below production in 1936. The price per pound was lower also lweekly bulletin S.c.Game ^Rsh Association T/fnu Siaiewide Gopcralion Game, Jish 4 Joresican be Materially* increased for tkcTSenefit of An. air" ration. See that all classes of livestock have shelter, with extra bedding during cold nights. Make use of barley, rye, and oats the yalue of $16 2 > q 0 q is 33 . p . r Lesson for January 9th. Mark 1:1-13. , Golden Text: Mark 1:3. for hog and cattle grazing. Repair the pasture fences. Dairying Make inventory of livestock, feed, and equipment. Decide now whether you will esti- ccnt below that of last year. Sweet potato production, mated at 5,130,000 bushels is 6 per c:nt above last year and 10 per cent above average. Jesus said that there has never wllere you can improve in manage- lived a greater prophet than John ment and Ceding, the Baptist. Yet he is strangely Repair pasture fences, clean out ignored. Of course he suffers by his under g rowth> a nd stop washes in close intimacy with the Master. pas tures John was primarily a herald, and p lan now for improving per- a herald steps into the background manent past ures and for summer when the king appears. His min- g to suppleme nt permanent istry .was only about a year in ^ ^ . . The apple crop was Larger but have silage next fall and plan tor producti - n cf peaches and pears .ts production . J ,.as loss than last year. Analyze herd records and decide JX1 dnd TOM length, and then it was all over, for he was- chained in a dark prison, and finally put to death. But what a true hero he was! Of athletic, rugged build, fiery in speech, he was, as Jesus said, “a burning and a shining light.” And note that there was no playing to the galleries with John, no clever bid for applause. John had con victions, the fire of intense faith, the fire of God. With fierce hon esty he raged against sin, flatter ing no man. No wonder he encoun tered trouble. But with all his outspoken earnestness how humble he was! When the Master presented him self for baptism, John objected, saying, “I have need to be bap tized of thee.” And we can appre ciate the self-effacing magnani mity of that confession of the Baptist, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” It took a gracious heart to say that, for John had a following, some of whom looked up on him as the chosen Messiah. The deference of John to Jesus is beau tiful. One of the finest testimonies to John is the fourth gospel. “John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.” Yes, John was not a wonder-work er. He was simply a voice, as our Golden Text says, crying “Pre pare!” He came not to be a light, but “to bear witness of that light” we call the Christ. His message of denunciation and doom, however, dark as it is, and too much allied with fear, is a type of preaching we cannot afford to dismiss. For there is stem truth at its heart. XXX—— P. G A. To Meet 1 In Greenwood January 13th FRANK PARKER STOCKBRID6E m pastures. Start the New Year right by keeping daily milk and feed rec ords on each cow.^ AGE a mystery Mate breeders for hatching eggs.! un f 1 ' red mystenesof Make special breeding pen of ls ^ Jf 0 P le erow^d. what best hens and pedigreed male to causes the tissues of the body to produce cockerels for next year’s , wear out when there is n0 s P eclflc matings. breeders with green disease? If science could find the answer to that question, it is pos- j sible that a way would then be ' found to prolong human life, per- ' Provide range. Get ready for baby chicks. 0 Move brooder houses to new ha P s to an average of a hundred ground before starting chicks. xx A large attendance is expected at the annual stockholders meet ing of the Greenwood Production Credit Association, which will be held on January 13 at Greenwood in the Court House at 10 o’clock, according to Mr. J. C. Smith, sec retary of the association, who said that arrangements for the meeting are complete. The Greenwood Production Cred it Association serves McCormick, Abbeville, Saluda and Greenwood counties and furnishes short-term credit for general agricultural pur poses to its members. The associa tion now has a membership of 951 _ ears or more Dr. Alexis Carrel, one of the most famous men engaged in medical 1 research, proposes the establish ment of an institute for the sole purpose of studying the process of aging. This is, as he points out, an South Carolina Annual Crop -pj • 1 00*7 aixis i£>, eu> ne pumto uuu, an i\6V10W, -LVO 4 uncharted field for research. But he warns that even if it were pos- Measured by yield per acre and ^suddenly to lengthen every- total quantity produced. 1937 was ^ Uts ^ ten years that would the best c:oo year in South Caro- ^ ° va “ e unless tne quahty lina since 1920. Total production ° f ule , as well as its duration, were was 17 per cent better than in 1936 unproved. and 31 per cent above average | Me™ physical existence means for the 5-year period 1928-32. Yield nothin 8; U 18 * hat a maa d ° es per acre was 10 per cent higher hl8 lengthened years that than last year and 17 per cent C!: > unts - above average for the 10 years, 1927-36, according to Frank O. Black, Agricultural Statistician, Columbia. The year witnessed a record to- . , , i_ J .. icv-rrocf nat’ listened to. Youth is always de- fa acco crop, the second largest oatj *' . .. .. . ^ x manding the floor with its “new” production, the largest cotton crop recognizes as the since 1920, the largest edm crop ldeas ’ A ° e ^cognizes as tn in 14 years, a hay crop well above sa ™ old ^ re tried that of any recent year, and pro- and found wanting when those now duction of minor crops well above ^ * eie them f el v e . s y ° ung ' Old age is not in itself a guaran tee of wisdom. Imbeciles often live THE THIRD NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE CONFERENCE The 3rd annual North American Wildlife Conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland, February 14 to 17, with headquarters at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Wednesday, February 16, will be General Wildlife Federation Day. Also overlapping the conference will be the North American Out door Life show lasting throughout the week, and held in the 5th regi mental armory. The Program Committee is busy putting together what lii»e the best program of its kind evex assembled under a wildlife banner. In fact, there are to be staxtLng changes from the programs cf former years and we can teL ycu confidentially that they will be in teresting and dramatic. Those South Carolinians who plan to attend this Conference will be treated to surprises and will re turn home with a different story to tell—one which we believe wib be of vast benefit to the future bf our national wildlife resources. There will be the usual general sessions with unusual features— speakers of national reputation and intimate knowledge of wildlife problems. Then too, there will be the special or technical sessions which have grown in the past few years into sounding boards fox wildlife research experts where ail phases of technical knowledge is brought out in the open and given a hearing. These discussions are not dry and technical. They are intensely human and extremely important. After all, most of our progress in wildlife knowledge has come from those men who devote their lives to the intimate study of wildlife and its enviroment. We can’t tell you all about the conference in this column. We will have to give you the program ana other details in a later issue. There will be a banquet as usual—but you have a real treat in store there when you learn who will talk oo you that night. Federation Day will be observed on Wednesday with President “Ding” Darling wielding the gavel. Baltimore is noted for its hos pitality. For this event it is going to go a little farther than usual. The Maryland Wildlife Federation is staging a great Outdoor Wildlife Show, at the armory. It will start three days before our Conference, continuing throughout and closing on Saturday, February 19th. You will ti.ink you have been transported to some wilderness area when you enter this huge armory, for there will be the moose, bear, deer, birds, fish, ponds, log gers and logs and a thousand and one other things belonging to the great out-of-doors staring you in the face. Fred Jordan, Director of National Wildlife Restoration Week, will be there to thrill you with the progress . i/xiis movement. The conference is again being sponsored by the American Wild life Institute of which Henry P. Davis is Secretary. His office 822 Investment Building, Washington, D. C. Better make your reservations early. Headquarters and meetings will be at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. There are many good hotels in Baltimore. A list of them win be included in a later bulletin. Columbia, S. C., December 20, 1937. WISDOM .... and years By the time a man has learned the difference between truth and fantasy he is usually too old to be average. The high yields this season were ^ J ^ , .. due largely to very favorable ^ f a hundred, a ndmany of the weather conditions, but also in part world’s wisest men died young. But to an upward trend in yields of a li ”; t ' ra *? mln .d acqul ln ‘ several crops as a result of improv- “eased wisdom vrith the years, and ed seed, better cultivation methods. “ the physical body In which it is ^ 7,7=7 ^ 8011 C ° n ~i UbMnT*is^no*gain-saying**tlreTu “ouVmo^to toe low price of Perior wisdom of sound old age. cotton, total value bf crops pro-| ^ human experience has recog- duced in 1937 is 5 per cent below n zf>d th ® su P®rtor wisdom of toe that of 1936, but well above crop old - ‘' old m ® n for c °i u 'f e1 ’ yOUn! f values for any year since 1929. f °r war ’ is oae “ ‘f ancient Based on seaLnal prices the ag- proverbs common to all languages. gregate value of all principal field In the church ln whlch 1 was rear ' and commercial truck crops is placed at $125,771,000 which corn ed the control is vested in the Elders or “Presbyters.” And in pares with $132,248,000 for the same everyday affairs. It Is the counsel crops in 1938, and the average value older men of active minds. of $85,823,000 for the 5-year pe-1 which Is most eagerly soug t. , riod ‘»V 35 =rLlme C d° n ;; i GENETICS .... limited mercial truck crops amounted to $5,513,000 which is 5 per cent be- I The science of genetics, which is low the 1936 value but well above the study of heredity, has made average. great strides, but nobody has yet Crop values given above repre- discovered how to tell whether any sent the value of total production particular child is going to grow up und Mr «irrdth that it whether sold or used on the farm to be a valuable citizen or a men- that 7c7m77 7? 177*7 but ln addition estimates of cash ace to society. ! ^ P t i ucumes f rom sales have been pre- It is easy enough to fill a bright pared. These show a total cash m- child’s mind with knowledge, but come of $103,172,009 received from impossible to predict what use he the sale of crops, livestock and will make of that knowledge. Mere livestock products, and government knowledge is not wisdom. I have payments during the calendar year known men who were veritable 1937 as compared with $104,935,000 walking cyclopedias, whose judg- cash income from the same sources ment and understanding of human in 1936. relations and conduct were nearly Based on the December 1 es- always wrong, timate of 1,025,000 bales and the, The idea has often been ad- seasonal price to date, lint cotton vanced that human beings should meeting, Mr. Smith said and much a value of $44,588,000 and cot- be bred by scientific selection of tonseed a value of $9,555,000. This their parents, to confirm to bet- compares with $52,836,000- for lint ter physical and mental standards, and $12,138,000 for seed in 1936. But such a system would not have The tobacco crop broke all pre- produced Shakespeare, perhaps the President; J. H. Watson, vice presi- | vious records as to size, yield per greatest mind that ever lived. No dent; J. L. Bracknell, S. F. Sherard, acre, and amount of cash income, one could have predicted his gen- J. H. Watson and V. L. Warner, Production is estimated at 106,275,- ius by any qualities which his par- directors, and J. C. Smith, secre- 000 pounds, the yield at 975 pounds ents showed. I doubt if the world tary-treasurer. |per acre, and the value at $22,318,- would be happier if we attempted at the annual meeting. Attending the meeting by special invitation of the association will be Mr. Sam J. Overstreet, Assistant to the Vice President of the Pro duction Credit Corporation of Co lumbia, who will make a brief ad dress at the conclusion of the busi ness session. A very interesting program has been arranged for the annual interest is being manifested by the members. The officers and directors of the association are; W. H. Stuckey, to regulate everybody’s lives. * * * HEALTH .... and mind The idea that many disoases have their origin in the mental attitude of the patient is a very old and widespread belief. It forms the basis for numerous “healing” cults, which, far from being modern, are revivals of practices which have been prevalent almost from the beginnings of mankind’s social life. The incantations of the “medicine men” of primitive tribes have the same basis and are about as ef ficacious as many of the present- day “faith-healing” practices, ac cording to up-to-date psychologists. It is true, however, eminent psy chologists say, that many forms of emotional strain, while not ac tually causing disease, do set up physiological disturbances, par ticularly in the digestive and cir culatory systems. And many phy sical diseases, in turn, cause pro found mental disturbances. Neither medicine alone nor psy chology alone can insure the “sound mind in a sound body” which everybody ought to have. The two working together can work wonders. SHIPS for war Many people still do not realize how necessary it is for our coun try to build up a great fleet of merchant ships. The real purpose behind the plans for expansion o. the merchant fleet is to provide an auxiliary supply fleet for the Navy. The Government is preparing to build several new oil-tankers, hav ing three times the speed of any now afloat. Oil is essential to the Navy. Oil ships which can keep pace with the fleet, bringing fresh supplies of fuel, will be invaluable in case of a foreign war. Fast pas senger ships which can carry troops, fast freighters to transport food and munitions, may not earn their keep in peace time but might pay their costs by winning a war. So, too, with great airUners, capa ble of carrying heavy loads at high i speed. Their justification for being subsidized by Government is their possible use as bomb-carriers in war time. With nations running wild, like mad dogs, it seems to me that it is money well spent to put ourselves in a position where we can fight if we have to. -txt- Forward Farming FOUR STORIES OF BETTER RE SULTS FROM BETTER PRAC TICES Manning, Dec. 18.—“We complet- in this eountv 33 record demon strations in the five-acre cotton contest”, says County Agent F. M. Rast, “and a remarkable record was produced. These 33 men produced an average of 1989 pounds of seed cotton per acre, which is consider ably over a bale of lint. The total profit based cn 10-cent cotton am. $20 cotton seed, was $5768.43. Thir ty of these men planted cotton seed that pulled 1 1-16, and thre planted seed that pulled 1 1-32 Over 50 per cent of them ordered seed direct from the seed breeder.” * * * Newberry, Dec. 18.—J. C. King, assistant county agent, reports fine success among farmers in silage production. From 15 acres of Texas ribbon cane, Wm. E. Senn cut and placed in silos 226 tons of silage, sold another dairyman 4 tons, anc stacked in the field approximate ly 10 tons, at an average cost in cluding man, horse and tracto" labor, fertilizer, and seed, of $1.05 per ton. Z. W. Dennis producec 145 tons of corn silage at an aver age of $1.43. On eight acres follow ing crimson clover, J. F. Hawkins produced 80 tons of corn and Biloxi soybean silage at an average cost of $1.76 per ton. * ♦ * Columbia, Dec. 18.—Alvin Riley 4-H club member of the Dentsville High School club, planted 3 1-2 acres to crotalaria last April and gathered 1550 pounds of seed this fall, says O. Romaine Smith, assis tant county agent. The total cost amounted to $60.76. Figuring the price of seed next spring at 15 cents a pound, Alvin will have a ne. profit of $171.74 on 3 1-2 acres, or $49.06 per acre. Says jtoung Riley: “I used one-half an acre for ex perimental purposes. I planted a cover crop, rye, and turned it un der in the spring. On this half-acre I harvested 1000 pounds of crota laria seed in the hull which thrash ed out 50 per cent.” * * * Conway, Dec. 18.—Horry farmers who followed recommendations of the Extension Service as to cul tivation and fertilization of to bacco made 1290 pounds per acre, which sold at 25.3 cents per pound, while those who followed the sweep method using regular fertilizer made 1082 pounds per acre which sold at 19.9 cents per pound. Those who used low-sulphur fertilizer (as recommended) averaged 1206 pounds per acre which sold for 23.7 cents per pound as compared with 1204 pounds per acre averag ing 21.1 cents per pound from regu lar fertilizer. Those who used the Dixie method and low-sulphur fer tilizer averaged 1290 pounds per acre which sold for 26.3 cents per nound Card Of Thanks This is to acknowledge our sin cere appreciation for the kindness and sympathy manifested during the illness of our little son. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Schumpert. Registration Board In Session All persons are required to Reg ister and secure their Registration Certificate this year. The Regis tration Board will remain open each day from 9 to 12 o’clock un til January 18th, at the Court House to take your application for Registration Certificates. You can also secure your Registration Cer tificate any first Monday as the Board is in session on these dates. J. A. Christian, Chm., McCormick County Registration Board. CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRxAJTON STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. By Hon. J. Frank Mattison, Pro bate Judge: WHEREAS, Mrs. Sallie E. Price made suit to me to grant Ruth P. Duncan Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of T. J. Price; THESE ARE THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said T. J. Price, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at McCormick on January 19, 1938, Next, after publication hereof, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have why the said Administration should not be granted. GIVEN under my hand, this 5th day of January Anno Domini 1938. J. FRANK MATTISON, Probate Judge. 2t. Notice Of Election STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, Town of McCormick. In accordance with the provi sions of an ordinance of the Town of McCormick, a Primary Election will be held on the Second Tues day in February, 1938, (being the 8th day of February), at the Court House in said Town of McCormick for the purpose of nominating can didates for the office of Mayor and Six Aldermen for the said Town cf McCormick, S. C., for the term commencing April 5th, 1938, and said terms of office to be for two years, and also for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the office of Commissioner of Public vVorks cf the Town of McCormick for the term commencing April jin, to succeed Commissioner G. J. Sanders, Jr., whose term of of fice expires on said date, said Commissioner of Public Works to be elected for a term of six years. T. H. Remsen, Jack Connor, J. L. Self and Austin Abercrombie are appointed to act as managers of said election. A second Primary will be held on Tuesday, February 22zk1, 1938, if same $hall be necessary. Managers of said election shall open the polls at 8 o’clock A. M., and close them at 4 o’clock P. M. All candidates for the above named offices of the Town of Mc Cormick shall file witii the Clerk of the said Town a pledge in writ ing to abide the results of the Primary and to support the nomi nees thereof. Ail candidates Tor Mayor shall at the time at filing said pledge pay an assessment of $5.00 each; all candidates for Aldermen and Commissioner of Public Works shall at the time of filing their pledges pay an assess ment of $2.00 each. Ail pledges and assessments. of candidates must be filed and paid on or before 12 o’clock Meridian of the last Tues day in January next, preceding the Primary Election. No vote for any candidate who has not paid his assessment nor complied with the rules shall be counted. G. C. Patterson is the duly ap pointed Supervisor of Registration of the Town of McCormick and the place for enrollment of voters for said Primary Election and for Reg istration of Voters of the Town of McCormick is hereby designated as the store of Patterson’s Clothing Company on Main Street in Che Town of McCormick. T. J. SIBERT, Mayor. C. R. STROM, JNO. T. FAULKNER. jno. t. mcgrath, C. H. HUGC3JEY, DAN A. BELL, Town Council of the Town of Mc Cormick, S. C. ATTEST: J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk. ^