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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, June 8, 1939
The 1-1-1 Mixture
For Saving Cotton
' “The McCormick county fanner
who would protect his investment
and labor in this year’s cotton
crop needs to apply without delay
the 1-1-1 poison”* says County
Agerft D. Austin Shelley. “This
mixture will do much to reduce
the toll which, according to all in
dications, the boll weeVil may be
expected to take this year..”
The 1-1-1 mixture, the county
agent explains, consists of one
gallon of molasses, one gallon of
water, and one pound of calcium
arsenate and is applied with a
hand ‘mop or with a machine.
Three to five applications of the
1-1-1 mixture may be applied;
but three is the maximum number
which can be conveniently applied
on most South Carolina farms.
•The first application is made just
before the earliest squares are
kirge enough for weevils to punc
ture, the other applications at in-
tervals of five to seven days.
It is best to make a paste of the
calcium arsenate with a little
water, add the full amount of
water to the paste, and then stir
in the syrup. It is essential to
keep the mixture thoroughly stir
red at all times to prevent set
tling.
It is essential also that only the
amount sufficient for one day’s
application be mixed, as at times
damage to cotton foliage has been
reported from the use of material
more than one day old.
How 4-H Club Mem
bers May Observe
National Flag Day
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14
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stomach ahould dicast two pound* of food
Slater. When you sat boavy, greasy, coarse or
risk Sands or when you are nervous, hurried or
chew poorly your stomach often pours sut too
sauah Said. Tour food doesn't digest and you
haws flM, heartburn, nausea, pain ar sour
atamacfiTYeu feel sour, sick and upset ail over.
Sucton say naver take a laxative far stomach
■alSL It is dangerous and foolish. It takes those
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te make the eseess stomach fluids harmless, rafleva
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flaakaae proves U. Ask for BeU-aa* tar Indigestion.
When our flag is mentioned we
immediately see, or imagine we
see, the red, white and blue wav
ing softly in some high open
space, or recall the lovely picture
of Betsy Ross making the first
flag.
Most people should really see
the U. S. A. flag at anytime or
certainly in traveling through the
local communities. This would be
true if every school house (as do
government buildings) could place
a flag. This helps to Inspire bet
ter citizenship.
There are many lovely flags
which can be seen. One of these
waves over the lake at the state
4-H camp near Aiken, Camp Long
when campers are there. This
flag represents allegiance and loy
alty for groups there. That par
ticular flag represents the life of
a farm youth, a Clemson lieuten
ant, who pledged allegiance to his
flag and voluntarily gave his life
for his country. Every flag, like
wise, stands fot the importance
and fine things in the life and
death of America’s loyal citizens.
Unfortunately, 4-H groups will
not be at Camp Long on June 14,
or at any camps, due to coopera
tion with the health department.
This, however, is just a good op
portunity for 4-H club members
to practice cooperation and care
of health even with keen disap
pointment to themselves.
Something which every member
can do is to display a small U. S.
flag and state flag, if available,
on their porch or elsewhere at
home. Of course, none will let the
least flag touch, the ground, but
treat it always as a possession of
devotion and reverence.
Many will recall the beautiful
picture of a colonial home on the
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a longer visit and more fun at the
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STROM’S DRUG STORE Rd. Trip
Phone 95 McCormick, S. C.
NEW FURNITURE FOR OID!
Not Aladdin's lamp •but DAVIS
ZAHZLAC QuickDyinglWAll
or Varnish Sfains!
cover of a farm magazine of May,
a year ago. It has the flag dis
played on the balcony with the
Confederate soldier, the World
War soldier, and the 4-H club boy.
The latter is a young man with
determination evident that he will
keep step with the others in
service to his flag.
Let us hope and pray that his
service and the services of all 4-H
girls and boys will be that of liv
ing their lives happily and well
and in building always in peace
toward a greater loyalty to our
flag and the great country for
which it stands.
By Harriet F. Johnson,
State Girls’ Club Leader.
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An old kitchen chair be-
i comes a gay Chinese Red for
the Sun Porch! A battered
and scarred table from the
attic gets a coat of mahogany
varnish stain—and all your
friends admire it!
Every home has several
pieces of furniture that can
be rescued from the scrap pile.
Zan-Z-Lac Enamels are bril
liant in color and lustre—
quick drying—easy to apply.
Zan-Z-Lac Varnish Stains
stain and varnish at a single
operation—and dry with a
beautiful waterproof finish!.
And there are al
ways plenty of small $3.50
articles around to
use up leftovers. ; ^ GALLON
DAVIS
OP BALTIMORI
SCREEN
ENAMEL
‘ Made expressly for
painting and pre
serving wirescrecns.
It will not dog the
mesh.
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DAVIS '
OP BALTIMORI
PICCANINNY
BLACK
A black enamel
that serves equally
well for interior or
exterior—for wood,
metal, concrete and
all other surfaces.
DAVIS
OP BALTIMORI
JACK RABBIT
PAINT REMOVER
Makes it easy to re
move old paint and
varnish, and secure
a clean, smooth sur
face. Will penetrate
several coats.
M. G. & J. J. DORN, Inc.
McCORMICK, S. C.
Cotton, 1938 Esti
mates, Revised
Revised estimates of the 1938
cotton cron for South Carolina
show final production as 648,000
bales of 500 pounds gross weight,
1.243,000 acres harvested, and a
yield of 249 pounds lint per har
vested acre, according to report
issued by Frank O. Black. Agricul
tural Statistician, Columbia, May
29.
This is the smallest crop since
1922 when 492,000 five hundred
pound bales were made, the sec
ond smallest in 50 years, and com
pares with the maximum produc
tion of 1,649,000 bales in 1911.
The harvested acreage was 27 ner
cent below that of 1937 and the
smallest in 60 years. AJtho onlv 3
per cent smaller than the acreage
of 1934 it was 13 per cent
average for the years 1933-1937
and less than half the all-time
high of 2,821,000 acres harvested
in 1918.
On the other hand the vield per
acre of 249 pounds lint compares
favorably with previous years,
being six pounds above the aver
age of the past ten years altho 18
pounds below the relatively high
average of the five year period
1933-1937.
It is estimated that 1.263.000
acres were in cultivation on July
I and that 1.6 per cent or 20.000
acres were r»inw*»d im fit Abandon
ed from natural causes.
Revised production figures are
based on Census ginnings adiusted
for cross-state movement of seed
cotton for ginning, and considera
tion was given the measured acre
age of the Agricultural Adlust-
ment Administration in revising
acreage.
The 1938 cotton growing season
was considerably less favorable
than the 1937 season but above
average. Correspondents estimate
that weather, insects, and plant
diseases caused a 31 per cent loss
from a full or normal yield, which
comperes with 23 per cent in 1937
and the average of 33.5 ner cent
for the ten years 1927-1936. Boll
weevil damage of 16 per cent con
stituted the largest single loss and
climatic conditions accounted for
II per cent loss.
Assuming 65 nounds of • cotton
seed for each 35 pounds of lint,
cottonseed production is placed at
288,000 tons in 1938. Of this a-
mount it is estimated that 163,000
ons have been or will be sold:
73,000 tons used for seed, feed,
and fertilizer, and 52,000 tons ex
changed for meal.
Based on the seasonal farm
price of 8.84 cents per pound, the
estimated lint production of 323,-
885,000 pounds had a value of
$28,631,000. The total value of
cottonseed production is placed at
$6,633,000 and the amount of cash
snlfcs is estimated as $3,754,000.
Thus the cash income from lint
and seed was $32,385,000 for 1938.
which compares with $49,299,000
“rom the crop of 1937.
No information on the 1939 crop
will be published until July 8
when an estimate of the acreage
in cultivation on July 1 will be an
nounced. The first production
forecast will be as of August 1,
made public on the 8th.
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Apply Poison To
Underside Of Leaf
Garden Work
For June
The following suggestions should
be helpful to interested McCor
mick County gardeners:
1. Secure seed of Lookout Moun
tain Irish Potatoes for planting in
July. Prepare the soil as early as
possible, so as to conserve mois
ture.
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2. By mulching tomato plants
with straw, leaves, or litter, mois
ture will be conserved resulting in
a longer fruiting season.
3. Deep planted tomato plants
will stand the drouth much better.
4. Make successive plantings of:
Corn: Stowell’s Evergreen or
Country Gentlemen.
•Beans: (snap) (bunch) Bounti
ful and Stringless Green Pod.
Beans: (Pole) Kentucky Wonder
and McCaslan.
5. Transplant tomatoes, sweet
potatoes, egg plant, and pepper.
6. Make plantings of seed for
later transplanting for the fall
and winter crop:
Collard: Georgia or Georgia
Southern is a good variety. One
ounce of seed gives about 1500
plants. Sow in early June for fall
crop.
Cabbage: Succession and Late
Flat Dutch are good varieties.
One ounce Of seed gives about 1500
plants. Sow in June and early
July for late fall and winter.
Tomatoes: New Stone, Greater
Baltimore and Marglobe (wilt re
sistant) are recommended varie
ties. One ounce of seed gives
1500-2000 plants. Sow seed now
for transplanting in July.
7. Watch for insects and dis
eases:
Striped Cucumber Beetle: Spray
with six level teaspoonfuls lead
arsenate in one gallon of water or
Bordeaux mixture or dust with
one part calcium arsenate and 20
parts hydrated lime.
Tomato Fruit Worm: Spray with
six level teaspoonfuls lead arsen
ate in one gallon of water or
Bordeaux mixture. If water is
used, add 2 teaspoonfuls Kayso or
6 teaspoonfuls hydrated lime.
Dust with 1 part Calcium Arsenate
and 6 parts hydrated lime.
Tomato Leaf Spot and Late
Blight: Spray with 4-4-50 Bor
deaux mixture to control fungus
leaf spots of tomato, and late
blight of Irish potatoes and toma
toes.
D. Austin Shelley,
County Agent.
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June Farm Calendar
the farm is that much cash saved.
Did you ever stop to think that
you may make the most profit on
what you sell to yourself?
Poor tenants are usually found
with poor landlords.
Soil Conservation doesn’t con
sist entirely of building terraces,
not by any means.
It’s a mistake to have livestock
without growing plenty of feed—
it’s a mistake to grow feed with
out having livestock.
Do you know how valuable a
good pasture can be?
Don’t eat the permanent pas
ture to death.
If grass grows best in the field
when fertilized, why not fertilize
the pasture.
Better farming means better
living.
Keep the soil in the right place,
on the farm.
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TODAY and
FRANK PARKER
STOCK BRIDGE I
HATS beavers
When the first colonists of New
England began to explore the na
tural resources of the New World,
they found the most valuable 11
thing for export was beaver skins.
There were plenty of beavers,
they were easy to catch, and their
furs brought high prices in Ehg-
land, for the beaver fur turned
out to be the very best fur from
which to make felt hats.
A good beaver hat would last a
lifetime or longer. It would shed
water and was much lighter than
hats made of rabbit or cheaper
furs.
I haven’t been able to find out
when or by whom the shape of
the hats worn by Englishmen was
changed from the peaked crown
to the flat-topped hat with out-
curved sides, but it was some time
in the 1700’s.
Then a Frenchman, in 1760, in
vented the silk hat, which is no
good at all as a hat except for
show. It spoils in the rain and it’s
a lot heavier than a good felt hat.
But by the early 1800’s every
body who had the price was wear
ing silk hats. No politician’s out
fit is complete without a silk hat.
Every “stuffed shirt” wears one.
There are more silk hats sold in
Washington than any other place
in America.
“Farmers applying the 1-1-1
liquid poison to cotton as a means
of combating the boll weevil
should be careful to apply the
mixture to the under side of the
leaf,” says D. Austin Shelley.
County Agent.
Most neople have gotten the
idea that the. molasses is used be
cause it is sweet and attracts the
weevil. This is not the case. The
true reason for using molasses is
because it sticks to the plant. The
weevil is attracted by the mois
ture in the liquid poison, which
evaporates much more slowly
•*'hen placed on the underside c
the leaf.
Emphasizing further the impor
tance of applying liquid poise
correctly and at the right tirr
the Agent states that a second a-
plication should be made as sor
as weather conditions perm
when the noison is washed c
within 24 hours after applicatie
At least three applications shou
be made at 5 to 7 day intervals 1
more effectively control the la'
emerging weevils and those thr
may hatch out in the first brooc’
As a further precaution the Agen
points out that all farmers should
make plans to pick up and burn
all fallen squares, especially dur
ing the first three weeks of
blooming.
Brief reminders by County Agent
D. Austin Shelley for busy farm
ers show much important work
for early summer.
Agronomy
As soon as moisture conditions
permit, plant cowpeas, soybeans,
velvet beans, or crotalaria in all
com middles and stubble land.
Such acreage of legumes will aid
in meeting the conditions of the
new farm program, will produce
food and feed, and will conserve
and build up the soil.
Horticulture
Apply quickly available nitrogen
to garden crops if not growing
well.
Cultivate crops shallow but
frequently to save moisture.
Mulch tomato plants heavily
with straw or leaves to hold mois
ture and prolong fruiting season.
Pack vegetables and fruits in
:he right kind of attractive pack
age and get better prices.
Plant a few tomato seed for a
late crop.
Order celery plants for late
July or early August delivery.
Insects and Diseases
Get the boll weevil early with
pre-square poison.
Examine banded apple trees
every ten days and kill codling
moth larvae.
Stop the spread of red spiders
by burning weeds and badly in
fested plants and applying super
fine dusting sulphur.
Spray or dust beans with derris
to control Mexican bean beetles.
Refrain from planting main
crop of corn late to avoid “shatter
worm” damage.
Spray or dust peaches to control
orown rot and curculio.
Transfer and requeen bees.
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Around The Farm”
(By D. Austin Shelley, County
Agent.)
Cows and hens are rainy day
cash registers.
A year-around garden should
not have-to-be prescribed by the
family doctor.
Just as a penny saved is a penny
made, goods sold to yourself from
WILSON dignity
Shortly after Woodrow Wilson
had become Governor of New
Jersey I was talking with him a-
bout the troubles of being a Gov
ernor. He said that he had been
notified by the head of the New
Jersey National Guard that one of
his duties was to review the state
militia, riding a horse and wear
ing a silk hat.
“There’s no position I look
worse in than on horseback.” Mr.
Wilson complained, “and no kind
of headgear I despise as I do a
silk hat. I tried to get the Adju
tant General to let me review the
troops riding a bicycle and wear
ing an old soft hat I’ve had for
ten years, but he said that would
not be dignified enough.”
By the turn of the wheel of
fate, Woodrow Wilson became
President, and had to pose and be
photographed wearing a silk hat
oftener than any president before
or since.
He never was really happy in
the stiff, uncomfortable topper.
He stuck to his old, brown soft
hat, however, whenever he could
get away from public view and
wear something really comfortable.
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PRESIDENTS pomp
I have known, or at least met in
the White House, every President
in the past sixty-odd years, begin
ning with President Hayes. Most
of them cared very little for the
pomp and circumstance
in my time were Arthur and Hard
ing. President Arthur took great
pride in being well-dressed. He
was a very handsome man, and
knew how to wear good clothes
properly.
Warren Harding always spent a
lot of money on clothes, ever since
I first knew him, when he was a
small-town editor in Ohio. He
also wore his clothes well. The
first thing he did after toeing
elected President was to give an
order to his tailor for thirty new
suits.
President McKinley told me,
soon after he came to the White
House, that to him the greatest
satisfaction he got out of his new
job was being able to afford a
pair of suspenders for every pair
of trousers. “I’ve never owned
more than one pair of suspenders
at once,” he said.
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COMFORT emancipation
Most of us ordinary Americans,
unless we have to dress in stiff,
formal clothes for special occa
sions, wear much more comfortable
attire than we used to. We men
haven’t yet got our Summer
clothing down to the few ounces
which the ladies wear, but we
don’t wear such heavy clothes or
as many of them as our fathers
did.
Men in the South dress for hot
weather more sensibly than those
in the North, though it can and
does get as hot in July and Au
gust in New England as in Texas.
Most of us wear ready-made
clothes, and I suppose there isn’t
as much profit for the makers
and dealers in cotton goods as in
the wool they still try to clothe us
in in Summer.
We men have, however, achiev
ed a considerable degree of eman
cipation by the general adoption
of the soft, unstarched shirt with
attached collar as proper wear for
all but the most formal occasions.
We still wear too many folds of
cloth around our necks in hot
weather, but give us time. We
may yet be as free as the girls.
PAJAMAS nightshirts
I don’t know what proportion of
American men stick to the old-
fashioned nightshirt; probably
more than one would imagine if
he tried to buy one in a store.
Pajamas are a very modern in
novation for sleeping wear in this
country. I never saw or even
heard of them until I was in my
thirties.
Pajamas, which are pronounced
“pyamas” in the Hindu tongue
whence we get the name, origi
nated in the hot lands of India,
where two simple cotton garments,
tied in the middle with a string,
are about all that anyone can
stand, even for dress-up.
The English administrators of
the Indian government adopted
pajamas as semi-formal lounge
clothes for strictly “stag” affairs
in the not Indian nights. They
came to America from England.
I don’t know why any man
should prefer pajamas to the more
comfortable long night shirt, cot
ton in summer, cotton-flannel or
wool in winter. I suspect that a
very high percentage of American
men feel the way I do; uncom
fortable in bed with a string tied
around the middle. I suspect, in
fact, that many men still stick to
nightshirts.
Huge Winter Village
New York—Sun Valley, the win
ter wonderland at the New York
World’s Fair 1939 will hold 7,000
persons at one time. The village
will cluster around a frozen mill
pond where 30 to 40 minute
skating shows will be performed
12 times daily in open air. Be
tween performances the rink will
be carried beneath buildings by
a 100-foot steel turntable.
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Super-Chorus To Sing
New York—The largest number
of trained male voices ever assem-
.... bled into a chorus in this country,
or their CO nsisting of between 4,500 and
official position, and preferred to 5,000 men will be heard in two free
wear old clothes and old hats concerts in the Court of Peace at
when not on display.
the New York World’s Fair 1939.
The Associated Glee Clubs of
The two best-dressed Presidents America will present the program
INSION $1.25
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