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McGORMlCK MESSENGER, McGORMlGR, SOUTH Thursday,' February 3, 1938 tlcCOKAUCK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 9, UM EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. Cm as mail matter of the second class. nUBSCKirTlON KATES: One Year $1.00 Blx Months .75 Three Months .50 gL , " ■■■- . ! Sunday School Lesson BY REV. CHARLES E. DUNN Challenging the Social Order. Lesson for February 6th. all capital. The records will also enable farmers to ascertain the strong and weak points in their business so that they can make 2hanges that will result in greater profits”, Abernathy concludes. -xx- Mark 2:13-22. Golden Text: Mark 2:17. Garden Work For February The need of tonics and other ledicines in the spring of the year 3 due largely to the lack of vege- •\bles in the winter diet. If more reens and leafy foods were eaten lily throughout the year less oney would be spent for medi- res and doctors’ bills and there ouid be less suffering from many •: the ills that are constantly with s. Green vegetables are valuable n the diet because they supply lineral substance and vitamins. HINTS One of the first things to do now 3 to take the new 1938 catalogs nd make out a list of the seed you itend to plant—then go right read and send in your order so We sometimes hear a plea for the preaching of the “simple gospel. 1 ’ The underlying assumption is that I 13 to have the seed on hand when the Christian message is spiritual ou S et ready to plant. This making and has nothing to say concerning at of your seed order helps you controversial social questions. A 3 P lan y° u r garden and decide just writer to the Cleveland Press hat and how much of each vege- .voices the following complaint, able y° u intend to plant “When I go to church on Sunday not depend on cheap seed I want food for my soul. Instead, ^r those that are easy to get. Or- I am reminded from the pulpit of l e * from a reliable seedsman, be- the injustices in the world and cause if you start out with poor even urged to assist in bettering all of your later efforts will conditions on the earth.” oe wasted. This naive point of view ignores it is late to mulch strawberries, the social passion of the Old Testa- but it is better to do it now than ment prophets, and the profound “° have sanded berries, ethical note sounded by Jesus. troubled with root knot or Consider the Lord’s Prayer. The wilt in tomatoes, set plants on land heart of it is the petition, “Thy where tomatoes have not been kingdom come, thy will be done 3rown before, on earth,” and there are profound It is well not to plant cabbage economic implications in “Give us 3r Irish potatoes on the same land this day our daily bread.” The lor many years in succession as plain truth is that active right- the soil will become infected with eousness is part and parcel of diseases that are difficult to eradi- God’s service. And right living must J cate. he social. However much we may Make Plantings of: No. 1 Aspara- admire the heroic patience and gus (crowns), Mary Wahhington. resourcefulness of Robinson Crusoe Plant six to eight inches deep, it is obvious that his morality rep- Cover two to three inches until resents a minimum pattern of it begins to grow, then gradually conduct. Man, in his normal state, fill trench. Plant in rows six feet is intensely gregarious. Hence the apart and 18 inches in the row. greatest of all arts is that of liv- As soon as ground will do to ing together. We are, as St. Paul work, plant the following vege- insists, “members of one another.” tables: Spinach, mustard, kale, let- fiocial action should, therefore, tuce, carrots, beets, turnips, onion not be considered a merely inci- sets, cabbage, cauliflower, English dental aspect of the Christian dis- peas, Irish potatoes, cipline. It belongs as its very cen- Transplant to open field: Cab- ter. And it must be definite. In bage, cauliflower, lettuce and onion euch a perilous world as ours, seedlings. seething with discontent, vague Make Plantings in Hotbeds: generalities will not do. We must February 1st to March 15th. follow some concrete plan, faulty Tomatoes—Penn. State Earliana, as it may prove to be in the light Bonny Best, Greater Baltimore; of actual experience. All plans re- wilt resistant—Pritchard and Mar- quire revision. They must be tested globe. Sow seed one-eighth inch by the method of trial and error, deep. Transplant seedlings 4 inches Jesus would be the first to insist apart each way in hotbeds as soon that his Church must cease to de- as large enough, or to 3 inch pots, fend existing practices that no Transplant to open field in rows longer represent the Christian 3 feet apart by 3 feet in a row; mind, and must move forward in if you plan to stake and prune, the advocacy of “new heavens and otherwise plant 4 x 4 as soon as a new earth, wherein dwelleth danger of frost is over, righteousness.” Peppers—Plant in hotbed March x to April 1st. California Wonder, Keeping Farm Record Ruby 10118 (sweet) ’ Red A ° v Cayenne (hot). Sow seed one- Real Value To Farmer ei 8 h th inch deep, one ounce of I seed, 1000 plants. Transplant in open field about May 1st. Clemson Jan 17.-A good many Egg plants _ P i ant in hotbed farm records were kept In 1937 h- March lst t0 April lst Black Beau- farmers and farm women in this state at the suggestion of the Ex tension Service farm management specialists, and most of these farm record keepers state that the rec ords are proving of real benefit, says W. L. Abernathy, Jr., assis tant extension economist. “If farming is to be conducted on a business basis”, Mr. Abernathy states, “a complete farm account should be kept, and now is the time to begin the records for 1938. “Farm and home account books in which farm records are easily kept may be obtained from county farm agents and county home agents. “Accounts of the entire farm business can be kept in these rec ord books designed by the Exten sion Service. These accounts con sist of four general parts: first, an inventory of the amount and value of all farm property at the beginning of the year; second, a record of all expenses incurred in the operation and maintenance of the farm during the year; third, a record of all receipts received from the sale of farm products during the year; fourth, an inven tory of what the farm has at the end of the year. “When summarized at the end of the year, the records show the labor income of the farmers, that is, what they derive from their year’s labor after paying all ex panses and allowing interest on ty. Sow seed one-fourth inch deep, transplant and handle like tomato and pepper. Rows 3 feet apart, plants two and one-half feet in the row. Write for information on how to prepare hotbed and coldframes. Plant Lice: Small grayisn green insect on underside of cabbage and turnip leaves. Treatment. Spray with nicotine sulphate solution, using two teaspoonsfuls of the sul phate (Black Leaf 40) and an inch cube of soap in one gallon of water. Yours very truly, A. E. Schilletter, Extension Horticulturist, and Dofa Dee Walker, Production Specialist. Poultry Wanted The Greenville Poultry Company will ship a car of poultry from the following towns: Greenwood, S. C., Wednesday, February 9th, McCormick, S. C., Thursday, February 10th, Abbeville, S. C., Friday, February 11th. We will pay top market prices. Look for our price cards in your mail boxes. j! VsW >w Hb 4 I DAVID R.COKER and j F Clyburn in a field of COKER’S 100 cot- ton at Hartsville,S.C# which received com plete fertilizer at planting and a nitro- gen-potash top- dresser. or qu acjtv TM* OU*.«A>«‘ reC 1 David R- CoKcr.Presidcnt Hartsville ♦ S .C. A balanced farm Market demands. A paiain-ov-i _ __«. + 0 me ex. maw^v and feed ^^on good seed and -ell balanced soil conservation, g - vears fertilization. k we began about 13 y In our seed breedi g a ' top «dresser along wi ag o to use extra potash^ a beU er balanced fertilizer ration. t th0 ex tra potash n For instance, we f °“ n ^ ave us larger yields a nitrogen-potash top-dress^^^.^ 00 tton rust of cotton by P revent ^L we noted that we obtal ^ nt Where rust was pre;e“te d -e with improvement tnTr^Va^er 0 ^. holis -ere lar.er and eaS is r a t general P^ c ^=^ ^ a ^ e t hen°top^reL -ith ■ izer for cotton at plant! ^ potash along -ith a ?.,r, ° r« r Pres!. Coker's Pedigreed Seed Co Plots of COKER’S cold and smut-resistant oats at Harts ville, S.C, top-dressed w,th a nitrogen-potash mixtu . IT WILL PAY YOU TO USE MORE NV POTASH. SELECT FERTILIZER CONTAINING 8 TO 10% NV POTASH, OR TOP-DRESS WITH NV MURIATE, OR NV KAINIT, OR A NITROGEN-POTASH TOP-DRESSER contain ing GENUINE NV POTASH. TOP'DRESS tm N. V. POTASH EXPORT MY., Inc., Hart Building, ATLANTA . Royster Building, NORFOLK Camp Modoc News of timber. 645 man-days were expended on construction of the Turkey Road, Camp Modoc, Jan. 29.—The cold during the month of January and weather has caused a good many R is expected that this road will be completed during February. 0*3f*VJT irm Prince points out that the Exten- snippmg oiigaryams i sion has aided in ma¥ng At Profitable Prices f ™°^ e important cash crop by (1) importing a car- load of improved Porto Ricos firbm Columbia, Jan. 29.—Around 100 Louisiana for seed; (2) advising some are even more careful by hoped that this bridge will be com placing fires in open clearings or upon rocks. The Forest Service is pleted at an early date. “The South Carolina potato The landscaping and mainte- growers are to be congratulated nance work at the Faulkner Moun- on t * le improvement made in the glad to see people becoming fire tain Tower has b8en com _ past two years”, says Mr. Prince. GREENVILLE POULTRY CO.. Greenville, S. C. Phone 4416. .. - hunters and other people to build Construction was started on the carloads of South Carolina sweet the best cultural, fertilizing, grad warming fires near and on for- Prescott Bridge dU ring January Potatoes have been shipped so far in g. and curing practices; (3) est land. It has been noticed that and 2605 man-days were* spent on this season, with sihpments run- recommending the best type of a good majority of the people are construction of the Prescott Road. nin g 15 to 20 cars per week dur- storage houses and containers; exercising care in raking straw and The pile driver has been secured in g January, according to Geo. E. j . . ^ CUn ^ P° a o c eaniitg ma- ” * * * * s " f0 r the Prescott Bridge and it is Prince, chief of the Extension Ser- chines; (5) copyrighting the litter from around their fires and for the Prescott Bridge and it ^ Division of Markets “Sugaryam” label to establish and protect quality. “At present three brokerage firms are buying Sugaryams in the state on a f. o. b. cash track basis”, says Mr. Prince, “and gro cery stores in many cities ft”? towns report increased consump tion since they began handling Sugaryam -quality sweets. The growers themselves have organized an educational association called The Sugaryam Shippers to promote demand and consumption.” conscious and building their fires in such a manner that there is not much danger of them spreading into the forests. One of the most essential things is to be sure your warminer fire is dead out before leaving it as a fire left burning, un- ’"ded. might very easily cause the loss of many thousands of feet I Georgia. pleted i “Market quotations show that in ,. ' aT . . .. 1935 the Carolina pack of sweet Lieutenant Loy Jordan ,s in the ^ ^ at a conaiderable University Hospital, at Augusta. under Loulslana sweets Georgia, recovering from an ap- whlle the nt marketin g S show pendix operation. | a difference of only a few cents Junior Forester M. E. Nixon bushel between the South Car- spent last week end in Athens,! lina and Louisiana products.” Explaining this improvement Mr.