McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, June 29, 1939, Image 8
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, June 29, 1939
Green Soybeans For
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ijummer Hog Grazing
Clem son, June 24.—“The low
price of hogs makes it all the
more important that South Caro
lina farmers produce pork as
■cheap as possible”, says A. L. Du-
flant, extension livestock special
ist, who advises green soybeans
for valuable summer grazing.
^Experiments conducted by the
South Carolina Experiment Sta
tion show green soybeans to be
one of the best summer grazing
crops for hogs”, Mr. DuRant con
tinues. “Many farmers in this
state now have green soybeans
that they can use to advantage
for grazing. The pigs should he
turned on when the soybeans are
about one foot high.”
Mr. DuRant says that a full
ration of com and a protien sup
plement such as fish meal, tank
age, or a mixture of equal parts
cf cottonseed meal and fish meal
or tankage should be fed to pigs
while grazing on soybeans.
A self-feeder may be used where
the pigs can eat free-choice, or
each pig may be given one-half
pound per day of this protein
supplement and all the com it
witt eat. Barley or oats may be
substituted for part of the com
ration. Plenty of shade and an
abundance of fresh water should
be supplied at all times.
- “This method of feeding wil
get the pigs on the market as
early as possible, which should be
of particular advantage this year
since a heavy run of hogs is ex
pected on the market in the fall'
the specialist concludes.
Baseball Gaines
On Wednesday, June 14th, Mc
Cormick collected 8 hits, 11 walks,
and took advantage of 8 errors to
whip De la Howe 15 to 3. In turn
McCormick gave up only 4 hits,
1 walks, and made 7 errors.
McCormick AB H
Strom, R., cf, 4 0
Moore, 3b, 3 1
Harmon, W., c __ __—
iradley, D., p, -- -
Sanders, If, --
Strcm, O., ss, ---3
Yarborough, rf, __ __ --4
Harmon, B., lb, 4
Bradley, E., 2b, - -2
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Totals 30 8 15 7
De la Howe AB H R E
Emerson, 3b, -- — —'—4 111
Patterson, c, __ 3 1 1 1
Herndon, 2b, __ 3 0 13
Childers, lb, 3 1 0 0
Altman, If, — __ 3 0 0 0
Smith, rf, —--2 1 0
Faugurson, c, — — 2 0 0
Boatright, 3b, __ 2 0 0 2
DuPree, p, -- — 2 0 0 0
Totals 24 4 3 8
VACATION
SPECIALS IN
USED CARS
FIRST
GAME
McCormick
AB
Moore, 3b, 2b, __
5
Harmon, W., 3b,
ss, 2
Scruggs, p,
3
Bradley, D., c, __
4
Sanders, If, -- --
3
Walls, cf, — —
2
Corley, cf, __ __
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Strom, G., ss, __
3
Harmon, B., lb, _
4
Bradley, rf, 2b, __
3
Totals __ __ __
.29
1938 Plymouth
2-Door, Trunk (Del. Model)
Original Bl&ck Finish. Like
New. Good Tires. Motor
o. k. ftCO"7
Only ■
1937 Plymouth
4-Door Sedan. Good Tires.
Car Looks and Runs Like
New. Guaran
teed. See It
$447
1937 Plymouth
2-Door JSedan. Standard
Model. Good Tires. Clean
Inside and
Out
$417
1936 Plymouth
2-Door, Trunk.
Runs Like
New
Looks and
$353
$149
$263
1934 Plymouth
Coupe. A Good
Buy
1935 Chevrolet
2-Door Master Sedan. Good
Tires and
Motor
1937 Ford
4-Door Sedan, Trunk.
Good Tires, New Paint.
Motor
O. K.
1937 Ford
2-Door, Trunk. Radio. Good
Tires. Motor
Runs Perfect —
1936 Ford
2-Door, Trunk. Good Paint
and Tires.
Motor O. K.
In two games played in the
boiling hot sun, the McCormick
Junior Tigers downed the De la
Howe team by the score of 5-3
and 4-1 on June 16th.
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4 5 10
De la Howe AB H R E
Emerson, ss, __ 3 0 0 2
Clark, c, 3 0 0 0
Blackman, lb, __ 4 0 0 0
Droze, 2b, __ 3 2 1 0
Patterson, c, __ 3 0 0 1
Moore, 3b, __ 4 0 1 3
Altman, If, — __ 4 0 10
Boatright, rf, — — 4 0 0 0
Stephenson, p, 4 2 0 1
Totals 32 4 3 .7
SECOND
McCormick
GAME
AB H
Harmon, W., c, 3 1
Strom, G., ss, 2 0
Scruggs, 2b, 3 0
Bradley, p, — __ 3 2
Sanders, If, — -- 3 1
Moore, 3b, 2 0
Walls, rf, 3 0
Hadsock, cf, 2 0
Harmon, B., lb, 2 0
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$427
$417
$323
Totals —
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De la Howe
AB H
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Patterson, If, -- --
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Droze, p, -- __ —
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Blackman, lb, __ -
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Stephenson, rf,
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Emerson, 2b, __ __
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Moore, c, __ -- —
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Totals __ —
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1931 Ford
Model A. Touring. Runs
Perfect. Looks
Good
1935 Chevrolet
lV4-Ton Chassis and Cab.
Dual Wheels.
Truck Runs O. K.
$97
$167
1938 Reo
1%-Ton Panel.
New.
Only
Looks Like
$193
STARR SMITH
MOTOR CO.
521 Broad Phone 4500
Augusta, Ga.
DODGE, PLYMOUTH,
DODGE TRUCKS.
On June 20th McCormick made
it 6 straight over De la Howe by
beating them to the tune of 12 to
9. Bradley for McCormick allowed
5 hits, 4 walks and struck out 6
men. Stephenson for De la Howe
allowed only 2 hits, walked 7 and
struck out 9.
McCormick AB H
c, .
Harmon, W.,
Moore, ss, __ .
Sanders, 3b,
Bradley, D., p,
Hanvey, If, __
3
3
4
4
4
Harmon, B., lb, — 4
Bradley, E., 2b, 4
Strom, R., rf, -- — 2
Reedy, cf, __ __ 4
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2
2
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For Best Prices on Cattle,
Hogs, and Calves, see J. L.
Smith, McCormick, S. C.
Totals 28 2 12 7
De la Howe AB H R E
Clark, c, __ __ — 5 112
Blackman, lb, __ -- —6 111
Altman, ss, __ 5 10 0
Stephenson, p, __ -- —5 0 2 0
Patterson, R., 2b, __ —5 12 2
Culbreath, cf, — — 5 0 0 0
Boatright, 3b, __ — -‘-5 12 2
DuPree, If, __ __ 3 0 10
Patterson, rf, 3 0 0 0
Totals 41 5 9 7
Camp Modoc News
(Written For Last Week.)
Camp Modoc, June 17.—Super
intendent L. A. Bodie returned to
his official duties Friday morning
after being on annual leave for
seven days. Supt. Bodie reported
a pleasant trip to the beach and
points of interest in Florida.
Foreman John T. Forester and
family have moved into the Burk-
halter home on the Key Road.
This home was completely re
modeled and the grounds land
scaped before Foreman Forester
moved from his former home at
Plum Branch. We are very glad to
have Foreman Forester and Tamily
nearer to camp and we hope that
they will Uke their new home.
Several members of the person
nel enjoyed a chicken barbecue
at Price’s Mill Thursday night.
Several foremen from Camp F-7
at Bradley and a number of busi
ness men from McCormick were
also present.
Lt. Singleton, Jr. Officer at
Camp SC F-ll, will be relieved of
duty on the twenty third of June.
The personnel at SC F-ll extends
best wishes to Lt. Singleton as he
leaves army life for civilian life.
Captain Parker S. Day, Camp
Commander at Camp SC F-ll has
been in Atlanta for the past sev
eral days taking a required physi
cal examination for re-assignment
as camp commander for another
tour of duty.
Approximately eighteen miles
of motorways have been com
pleted by Camp SC F-ll in the
past sixty days. One motorway
will be completed next week from
the Prescott Road into the Lick-
folk Recreational Area.
The wood working shop at Camp
SC F-ll is turning out lawn
chairs and other outdoor furni
ture to be used in the camp beau
tification program.
Camp visitors during week: H.
W. Wagner, Forest Ranger of
Greenwood; J. E. Vernon, Asso
ciate C. E. of the Columbia Office;
M. E. Nixon, Asst. Tech, of Camp
SC F-7; I. W. Miller, Asst. Forester
of the Columbia Office.
• xx
TODAY and
STOCKBRIDGEl
DIESEL future
For a good many years I have
been making occasional predic
tions in this column of greater use
of the Diesel type engine for pur
poses for which gasoline engines
are generally used. For years
heavy power plants have been
using Diesels, but the problem of
building them for use in places
where weight has to be considered
is still not completely solved. ,
One of the big automobile mak
ers, however, has come out with a
Diesel-engined truck, and I am
sure the rest will fpllow suit. A
motor-car maker produced a
light-weight Diesel seme years
ago, which was put in an airplane
and flew the plane from Detroit
to Washington, but it was still too
heavy for high-speed flying.
We are going to come, some day,
to Diesel engines for flying and
for everything else we use power
for. They are simpler than gas
engines, need no electric sparks,
and run on heavy oil which is not
inflammable and which gives
much more pewer to the gallon
than gasoline does, besides costing
very much less. Young men of a
‘mechanical turn of mind ought to
begin to learn all about Diesel en
gines. They will have plenty of
chance to use their knowledge.
EDUCATION Danes
The more I talk with young men
and young women who are just
getting through high school or
college, the more I pity the vic
tims of the modern American sys
tem of education.
For we have set up a scheme of
keeping children in school until
they are too old to learn anything
fundamentally new about the
ways of the world and how thing
are done. The education they ge
is given them by professional edu
cators, who do not know an
trade or business but teachin;.
and most of what the students g
out of school or college tends t
make teachers of them, in turn.
There are too many scho
teachers trying to run public £
fairs, giving advice based c
theories of business and goven:
ment in which they have no prac
tical experience.
The best-governed and bes -
educated nation in the world i ]
Denmark. There children start
learn a trade at 14, but they are
taught in school to read the best
literature and to think. The re
sult is that every Dane is edu
cated, in the real sense of under
standing how people act and
think and how the work of the
world is done. Danes buy and
read more books than any other
people.
CHILDREN tolerance
As I grow older I am more
strongly convinced that the old
preach too much to the young.
Most- of us oldsters are so sure
that we know all about the way of
life and how to live it that we
think we owe it to our children to
lecture them about things which
do not seem wrong to the childish
mind.
Nothing is more pitiful, to me
than to see a child or a class o:
children wriggling impatiently
while a teacher or a parent tries
to impress them with truths which
everyone should know but for
which most children are not ready
until they are in their middle
’teens or older.
Children learn more from
chance remarks dropped by their
elders than they do from all the
lectures and sermons they ever
hear.
Nothing gjves youngsters such a
wrong slant on life as to hear
their parents constantly criticiz
ing neighbors,, acquaintances and
public men. One who hears no
good spoken of anyone in his
childhood is likely to grow up be
lieving there is no good in any
body.
I am thankful that I was reared
in a home where no careless criti
cisms or unfair judgments of
others were ever heard, a tolerant
home.
INTOLERANCE growth
The wide-spread anti-Jewish
feeling is a new thing since my
boyhood. I had Jewish boys and
girls as schoolmates, and I cannot
remember that any of them were
ever regarded as being different
from us Christian youngsters.
My father was a Christian min
ister. His truest friend in every
sense of the word was a Jewish
merchant. I remember my father
saying once that this old-clothes
dealer was the most honorable
man he had ever known. I think
that had something to do with
keeping me from ever sharing the
ridicule of Jews which I heard
later in life.
That tolerance of my father for
the beliefs, customs and point of
view of everybody else, whether he
shared it or not, has made me all
my life impatient with people who
go about proclaiming their per
sonal superiority to others who
happen to belong to a different
race or profess a different re
ligion. It also makes me certain
that the greatest danger to the
world is the teaching of racial
superiority as a national doctrine.
CHARACTER superiority
After all’s said and done, noth
ing counts in this life but person-'
al character. No race and no re
ligion has a monopoly on charac
ter.
I sat at a dinner not long ago
at which the host was a Chinese,
as were three of the other guests.
There was an Irishman, an Italian
and a Dane at the table, besides
my own American-English self.
The talk ran, naturally, on the
Japanese invasion of China. Sev
eral cf us expressed a poor opin
ion of the Japanese character.
Then my Chinese host spoke.
“We of China do not judge a
man by his race but by his per
sonal character,” he said. “The
great K’ung Fu-tse, whom you call
Confucius, taught us that there
are but two kinds of people, the
superior men and the inferior
men, and that we should try to be
superior men. The superior man
s the man of character, whether
he is Japanese, Chinese or Euro
pean. There are superior and in
ferior men everywhere. Some day
the superior men of Japan will re
gain control of their country and
we shall have no more war.”
There was a lesson for all of us.
Flashes From Afield
Caught From Recent Reports
County Farm Agents.
of
With cur 4-H club 12 or 14
steers are to be pastured during
the summer, then stall-fed during
the winter in preparation for the
Fat Stock Show next April.—Z. D.
Robertson, Abbeville.
Aiken county farmers are har
vesting one of the largest oat
crops ever produced. Many farm
ers are averaging 50 bushels cf
oats per acre.—H. A. Woodle,
Aiken.
Farmers have one of the best
stands of cotton ever seen in the
county. They believe this geed
stand is due largely to the use of
Ceresan-treated seed.—Frank W.
Corley, Aiken.
The county has practically com
pleted harvesting one of the best
grain crops in recent years» More
than the usual amount of soy
beans has been planted for hog
grazing.—J. M. Napier, Darlington.
We marketed in May 17 carloads
containing 1236 well finished hogs
which netted $15,446.69. Associa
tion records- show 109 cars moved
since December 1 netting shippers
$99,449.20.—G. C. Meares, Dor
chester.
Considerable wheat has been
harvested which ■will mean much
in the live-at-home program. J
L. Bracknell of Plum Branch har
vested 75 bushels per acre from
five acres of Fulgrain oats.—D.
Austin Shelley, McCormick.
We made a good crop of small
grain throughout the county,
probably the best we have had in
several years.—W. R. Wells, Jr.,
Marion.
O. H. Abrams of the Bush River
section secured over 900 pounds
of clean crimson clover seed from
a two-acre field with a combine.
Others are securing 300 and 400
pounds to the acre.—G. J. Mobley,
Newberry.
We have approximately 50
crimson clover seed patches in
the county on farms of SCS co-
operators. Our farmers are show
ing a great deal of interest in the
crop.
Most ensilage com looks good
and is well advanced. Most dairy--
men have been successful in get
ting early grazing from millet be
cause of heavy early rainfall.—
R. H. Lemmon, Jr., Richland.
Although hog prices are low, we
are still finding hogs our best
market for home-grown feeds.
Three things make our good
records possible: good blood, prop
er feeding, *and sanitation.—J.
M. Eleazer, Sumter.
Good crops of wheat and oats
are being harvested. The oats are
practically free of rust and smut,
but some wheat has been dam
aged by rust.—T. B. Lee, Union.
We believe that more milk is
being sold in York county than
has ever been sold before and
pastures are constantly being
improved and boarder cows cull
ed.—B. J. Funderburk, York.
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Secondary Cash
Crops Increasingly
Important
Clemson, June 17.—Secondary
cash crops through which South
Carolina farmers are securing
supplementary farm income of
real importance include sweet
potatoes, peaches, truck crops,
logs, and dairy cattle, as noted in
the annual report of the Exten
sion Service now being issued by
Director D. W. Watkins. Data on
the production and returns from
these sources show that real ad
vances are being made in diver
sification.
Commercial peach growers of
the Piedmont and Sandhill areas
of the state have developed a $!,-
500,000 peach industry, increasing
carlot shipments of high quality
oeaches from 23 cars in 1923 to
the equivalent of over 3,000 cars
n 1938. These farmers are main
taining their place in that field
by producing high yields per acre
of quality peaches.
Sweet potatoes, one of the old
est crops in the state, are being
successfully brought back as a
commercial crop. As a result of
demonstration work, over 400 cars
of improved Porto Rico potatoes
were shipped from the 1938 crop
at the top of the market prices.
Returns to growers from 6999
cars of fruits and vegetables re
ceiving shipping point inspection
under the supervision of the Ex
tension Division of Markets in
1938 amounted to over $2,500,000.
The number of hogs produced
on the farms of the state has
increased to over 600,000 head per
year, with an annual value of
over $10,000,000 including those
slaughtered on the farms for
home use. Sales of pork and pork
products in 1938 brought farmers
over $4,000,000. In comparatively
recent years South Carolina hogs
sold on the big eastern markets as
“soft hogs”, at one to two cents
below the market price. However,
as a result of feeding and market
ing demonstrations, the farmers
of the Coastal Plains marketed
over 1300 cars of surplus hogs i"
1938, which sold at top price
bringing these farmers over $!.
500,000.
The average milk production
all cows on South Carolina fan/
increased from 2347 pounds p
cow per year in 1919 to 32j
pounds in 1935, an increase of 105
gallons per cow. This increase,
the greatest made in any southern
state, places South Carolina sec
ond among the southern states in
the average annual milk produc
tion per cow. In addition, South
Carolina ranks third among all
the states in the number of cows
qualifying as advanced registry
class leaders with annual produc
tion records of 600 pounds of
butterfat or more per year.
Fall Gardens Pay
Good Divide]
Clemson, June 17.—“For the a^
mount of time and money spent,,
the home garden probably payst
greater dividends in value, satis
faction, and good health than any
other equal investment on the
farm”, says A. E. Schilletter, ex
tension horticulturist, reminding
farmers of the importance of the
fall garden. “A garden that costs
$15 or $20 a year besides labor
should return three or four times
that amount in vegetables, and
the labor—just a pleasant form
of exercise—is fully offset by re
sulting good health”, Schilletter
adds.
The fall garden spot should be
enriched with both stable manure
and commercial fertilizer, accord
ing to the horticulturist, for, the
vegetables should have an abun
dance of plant food at all times
so that they can grow rapidly to
maturity.
As helpful reminders in fall
gardening Mr. Schilletter says:
Give the fall garden thorough
and frequent shallow cultivation.
Watch for insects and stop
them promptly. They are easier
to handle before they have large
families and many friends.
For turnips and other root
crops, remember that thorough
preparation of the soil is very
necessary for good quality.
Keep the strawberry bed free
of weeds and grass and select the
best new plants for transplanting
additional rows during the fall.
Side applications of nitrate of
soda or other quickly available
ammonia should be given to any
plants not growing as rapidly as
they should grow.
Don’t let the asparagus bed
grow to weeds, but don’t cut away
the tops that have developed.
Weeds or injury to the asparagus
plants would result in weakened
plants and decreased production
next season.
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1-1-1 Gets Weevils
More early poisoning of cotton
against the boll weevil with the
1-1-1 mixture will be practiced
during the present season than
ever before, according to Coupty
Agent D. Austin Shelley, com
menting on the large supplies of
arsenate, and molasses that have
been bo\|gnt by McCormick county
farmers in preparing to fight the
pest.
If there are still farmers who
doubt the importance and value
of poisoning, says Mr. Shelley, let
them consider the profitable in
creases in cotton yields from .the
use of the 1-1-1 mixture in Rich
land county during 1938 as shown
in accurate records of David R.
Hopkins, Richland county agent.
According to figures from 491
Richland county farmers, four
applications of 1-1-1 poison gave,
an increased yield of 94 pounds of
lint cotton per acre over the. unr:
poisoned. Three applications gave
an increase of 57 pounds per acre
over no poison; two applications
gave an increase of 39 pounds of
lint over no poison; and one ap
plication gave an increase of 19
pounds over no poisoning.
X
Some AAA Shorts
We have a unified farm pro
gram which stands for American
Agriculture’s fair share of the
world markets.—Secretary of Ag
riculture Henry A. Wallace.
The AAA program gives the
farmer the power to adjust agri
culture so as to protect the soil
and the people who live on it, and
thereby the welfare of the Nation.
—R. M. Evans, Administrator,
AAA.
One reason the farm surplus
problem has been chronic ever
since the World War is the disap
pearance of markets overseas for
the products of 40 million acres.—
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace.
The AAA program is helping
farmers do conservation farming.
Farmers are resting the land with
grasses and legumes as they never
have before.—R. M. Evans, Ad-