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V 1 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 13, 1939 ■eCMMieK MESSENGER - Pvblished Every Thursday Wablished June 5, 199S i — — I bdmond j. McCracken, t~ Editor and Owner •Mere* at the Post Office at Mc- Cermick, S. C., as uaU matter of Ehe second class. r SCBSCRIPTION RATES: i One Year — $1.00 ■tz' Months .75 Months.50 Shows Late Pullets Are Not Profitable McCormick Farmers Should Profit By Hatching: Their Pullets Early. Hiat the mortality of late- maturing pullets is high and that only a small percentage of them have the ability to hold up in egg production are facts shown by records at the poultry plant of the South Carolina Experiment Station at Clemson, says P. H. Gooding, extension poultryman. Advising against the mistake which some farmers make of keeping all the pullets regardless of when they come into egg pro duction, Mr. Gooding suggests selling all light-breed pullets that are not laying by the time they are six and one-half months old and all heavy breeds not laying by the time they are seven months old. The wisdom of this method of culling is verified by the Exper iment Station records. In 1936 only 5 per cent of the White Leghorn pullets that came Into production after they were 200 days old were kept the entire year at the Experiment Station poultry plant. Fifty-nine per cent were culled during the year and 36 per cent died. In 1937 only 15 per cent were kept the entire year. Tdlrty-seven per cent were culled ‘before the year was out and 48 per cent died. Eji 1937 the records on Rhode Island Reds showed that 5 per cent of the birds that came into production after they were 220 days old were kept the entire year. FTfty-six per cent were culled during the year and 39 per cent died. X TODAY and FRANK PARKER SVOCKBRID6E SULFANILAMIDE panacea That’s a new word of which everybody will hear more and more. It is the new drug which comes nearer than any other yet discovered to being the panacea for which medical science has sought for centuries. “Panacea” means, literally, something which cures all diseases. Sulfanilamide doesn’t do that, but it has cured more different kinds of diseases than any medicine pre viously known. . , It literally kills disease germs by smothering them to death. Cer tain types of germs, when they in vade the human body, produce a chemical known as hydrogen per oxide. Withput that chemical the germs die, instead of multiplying and causing disease. Sulfanilamide acts upon sub stances in the blood-stream in such a way as to prevent the germs from extracting the oxygen necessary for them to produce the peroxide. Result, the germs die and the patient recovers. So many reports by physicians all over the world of almost mirac ulous cures of diseases formerly practically incurable or nearly al ways fatal, have been made about this new drug, that doctors every where are beginning to use it with confidence that it will save lives that otherwise would have been lost. POLIOMYELITIS paralysis That is the name of one disease for which no certain cure has been found yet. Its common name is infantile paralysis. Most of its victims catch it when they are children, but President Roosevelt was attacked by it when he was 41 years old, after he had been a candidate for Vice-President in 1920. \ Now another famous man has been found to be a victim of this same dreadful disease. Lou Gehrig, the “Iron Man” of base ball, whose record of 2,130 consec utive games, in which he. batted in more than 2,000 runs, 500 of them homers, has never been equalled, found himself unable to play his old game at the beginning of this season. For two years Gehrig had been complaining of pain and weakness in his arms. A week or two ago the doctors told him he had chronic poliomyelitis and could never play again. The research work into the causes and treatment of infantile paralysis, stimulated by the Presi dent, may yet, and probably will, discover why so many people are made cripples and how they can be cured. Nobody knows the answer yet. AUTOGIRO safety When Juan de Cierva, the Span ish inventor, brought out his “autogiro” ten years ago, it looked to many people like the answer to the problem of flying for every body. With its wings arranged so they look like a horizontal wind mill, it can rise or land in a space little larger than an ordinary back yard; it is practically foolproof in operation and if the engine stops it doesn’t crash. The main reason the autogiro hasn’t come into wider use is that it doesn’t fly fast enough for most people. Ninety miles an hour is about its limit, and people want to travel 150 or faster when they go up in the air. Besides, its “pay load” isn’t big enough. Now the autogiro is getting its first real commercial test. On July 6 the Post Office Department began flying mail across the Dela ware River, between the roof of the Camden, N. J., Post Office and the Philadelphia Post Office roof. If this plan works successfully, Uncle Sam plans to use autogiros between many other mail points. Maybe the Post Offices of ^ the World of Tomorrow will all be built with flat roofs for the flying postmen to land on. UNCERTAINTY predictions What’s going to happen in the stock market or the next election? Plenty of prophets will tell you, but will they tell you correctly? A couple of Harvard University in vestigators have been looking into this matter of predicting the fu ture, by getting a large number of people to nredict their own future actions and then checking up to see if they were right. If you can’t tell for sure what you are going to do tomorrow or next Sunday or a week from Tues day, how can you tell what any body is going to do some time in the future? The people whose predictions were checked with the occurrences were practically all wrong. Women were further wrong in their predictions of their own behavior than men were. SOBRIETY drinking The problem of how to drink liquor and still stay sober is one whiqh has perplexed many a man who finds himself in a drinking crowd and wants to be a “good fellow,” but at the same time has no desire to get drunk. British colonials on outpost duty where there isn’t much to do but irink have sometimes solved the oroblem by drinking half a pint of olive oil before going to a drinking party. The result is said to be reasonable sobriety and a stomach ache. Now a famous Vienna scientist has invented a method of making whiskey and other alcoholic bev erages absolutely non-intoxicating, or so he claims in his patent ap plication recently granted. A j compound derived from starch or < cellulose, by treating it with a| derivative of acetic acid, which is vinegar, is added to the contents of the bottle. From ten to 25 per cent is enough, it is claimed, to make it impossible for the drinker to ^ get drunk, yet the taste and aroma of the beverage are unchanged. But since most drinkers drink to get the “kick” of partial or complete intoxication, the general adoption cf this idea seems doubtful to me. The June 1939 Pig Survey * The up-swing in South Carolina hog production of the past few years continued through the six months ending June 1 of this year, and bids fair to culminate in the largest pig crop of recent years, according to report issued June 30th by Frank O. Black, Agricultural Statistician, Columbia. This year’s spring pig crop is estimated at 564,000 head, a 30 per cent increase over last spring, and if reported fall breeding in tentions materialize pigs raised in the State this year will likely ex ceed 900,000 head, which would compare with 776,000 pigs Raised last year and be the largest crop since the early 1920’s. UNITED STATES The 1939 pig crop is expected to be the third largest since 1923. The increase in hog production in prospect for 1939 is larger than that of any other year on record, according to the June pig crop re port of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. A 20 per cent larger spring pig crop this year than last is esti mated. And the number of sows to farrow in the fall season of 1939 is indicated as 16 per cent larger than the number farrowed in the fall season of 1938. 'The total number of sows to farrow in 1939—spring and fall—is indicated as about 22 per cent larger than in 1938, but the average number of pigs per litter in 1939 will be smaller. Indications are for a total pig crop about 16 per cent larger than the 10-year (1928-37) average and about 4 per cent above the 5-year (1929-33) aver age. The June Pig Crop Report is based upon information from more than 150,000 farmers ob tained in cooperation with the Post Office Department through the rural mail carriers. The number of pigs saved in the spring season of 1939 (December 1, 1938 to June 1, 1939) is esti mated at 52,314,000 head, which is 8,864,000 head or 20 per cent lar ger than the number saved in the spring season of 1938. This is the largest spring crop since 1933, and it is 13 per cent larger . than the 10-year (1929-37) average and 1 per cent larger than the 5-year (1929-33), pre-drought average. The spring pig crop this year was larger than last in all regions and in nearly all states. The largest percentage increase—29 per cent —occurred in the Western States, followed by a 25 per cent increase in the West North Central, 22 per cent in the South Central, 14 per cent in the East North Central, 11 per cent in the South Atlantic and 6 per cent in the North Atlantic. For three of these regions, the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and South Central the spring pig crop this year was the largest in 16 years of record. It was second largest in the East North Central, and fourth largest in the Western. In the West North Central it was still below the 10-year (1928-37) average. The sum of the estimated spring and indicated fall litters for 1939 gives a total of 13,640,000 for the vear. This is about 22 per cent larger than the total for 1938 and 13 per cent above the 10-year (1928-37) average. Assuming an average number of pigs per litter this fall equal to the 10-year av erage, the combined spring and fall pig crops would total 83,000,- 000 head. This number would ex ceed the total for last year by nearly 12,000,000 head, or 17 per cent. It would be about 16 per cent larger than the 10-year (1928-37) average and about 4 per cent larger than the 5-year (1929- 33) pre-drought average. The largest yearly pig crop since 1923 was 84,200,000 in 1933, the smallest was 55,086,000 in 1935. The number of hogs over 6 months of age on farms June 1 this year, according to the survey, was materially larger than on June 1 last year. For the United States the indicated increase this year was about 21 per cent, equiv alent to about 4,000,000 head. For the Corn Belt the indicated in crease was 24 per cent, equivalent to more than 2,500,000 head. The number of sows to farrow in the fall season of 1939 (June 1 to December 1) is indicated as 5,- 092,000 which is 720,000 or 16 per cent more than the number far rowed in the fall season of 1938. This increase over last year is based upon breeding intentions reported about June 1 and upon the assumption that the relation ship between breeding intentions and subsequent farrowings will be similar to the relationships in other years of abundant feed sup plies. txx Fireworks WE ARE NOW AT 811 ELLIS ST. SMOOTH TIRES ARE DANGEROUS RECAP THEM! New York.—The speed and pre cision required by the designers of the nightly pyrotechnic display at the New York World’s Fair make it necessary that the fireworks be discharged electrically. A total of 3,500 pieces are fired from six barges in Fountain Lake during the 20 minutes show, and they are so arranged as to form a definite pattern harmonizing with the fountain beneath. Do Not Compare COWART CAPPED TIRES with the ordinary retread or recapped tire. There is a big difference. POWART CAPO Cut Tire Costs In Half ^ Our recapping plant is equipped with the latest and most modern equipment. All materials used are the finest quality obtainable. Distributors for HOOD TIRES Cowart Recapping Co. CHAS. W. HOLLOWAY, Prop. 811 Ellis Street AUGUSTA, GA. , SAM A. COWART, Jr., Mgr. Phone 3187 P CHURCH ^NNOENCIMENty PLUM BRANCH BAPTIST CHURCH SCHEDULE PLUM BRANCH—Preaching 1st and 3rd Sundays at 11:30 o’clock a. m. Sunday school every Sun day at 10:30 a. m. B. T. U. every Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. TROY—Preaching 2nd Sunday at 11:00 a. m., and 4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Sunday school one hour before preaching. BETHLEHEM — Preaching 2nd Sunday at 3 o’clock p. m. Sunday school at 10:30 o’clock a. m., ex cept on preaching day, when at 2 o’clock p. m. PARKSVILLE — Preaching at 11:30 on 4th Sunday morning; Sunday school every Sunday at 10:30 a. m. MODOC — Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. every Sunday. Preach ing at 3:00 o’clock p. m., on the first Sunday. G. P. LANIER, Pastor. JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone No. 25 Main Street We Deliver McCormick, S. C. MT. CARMEL A. R. P. CHURCH Preaching, the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sabbaths at 11 a. m. Sabbath School every Sabbath at 10:15 a. m.. Miss Lennie Covin, superintendent. Rev. S. W. Reid, Pastor. PRESSLY MEMORIAL A. R. P. CHURCH, McCORMICK. Preaching, the 2nd and 4th Sab baths at 11 a. m. Sabbath School every Sabbath at 10:15 a. m., Marshall Creswell, Supt. Rev. S. W. Reid, Pastor. The Rev. R. E. Craig makes the following announcements concern ing the services at the churches in his charge: TROY A. R. P. CHURCH Morning service on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 11 o’clock. Afternoon service on the second and fourth Sabbaths at Sabbath School on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 10 o’clock and on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 2:30 o’clock. Y. P. C. U. on first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 7 o’clock. CEDAR SPRINGS A. R. P. CHURCH Morning service on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 11:15 o’clock Sabbath School on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 10:30 o’clock. _ _ BRADLEY A. R. P. CHURCH Afternoon service on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 3:45 P Sabbath School on first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 3:00 o’clock. You are invited to worship with 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. Best Steak Per pound Chuck Steak Per pound fcW Best Veal Steak Per pound OUU Beef Roast 1 7'1 Special prices on Pure Pork Sausage, per pound •■ww (Money Back Guarantee) Special prices on Mixed Sausage, 1 per pound ** ’ (Money Back Guarantee) Special on Armour’s Dexter Sliced Break- 9fif* fast Bacon, per pound fcWW Armour’s Best Star Boiled Ham, Special, per pound Fresh Fish on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them. us. Rev. R. E. Craig. Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH SCHEDULE McCormick Methodist Church— Sunday School every Sunday at 10:00 a. m.; Preaching at 11:00 a. m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sundays, and at 8:00 o’clock every Sunday evening. Prayer meeting Wednesday even ing at 8:00 o’clock. Intermediate League every Sun day evening at 6:30 o’clock, and Senior League at 7:15. Troy Methodist Church.—Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays; 2nd Sundays at 3:00 p. m.; preaching 2nd Sunday 4:00 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 out of town. J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. p. m.; 4th Sunday 11 a. m. The Epworth League meets 2nd and 4th Sundays at 8 o’clock. Rev. M. E. Derrick, Pastor. LONG CANE A. R. P. CHURCH Services at Long Cane on the First and Third Sabbaths of each month. Sabbath School at 3:00 P. M. Mr. Horace D. Brown, Superinten dent. Sermon by the pastor at 4:00 P. M. The public is cordially invited to these services. W. C. Kerr, Pastor. Without Laxatives—and You’ll Eat Everything from Soup to Nats The stomach should digest two pounds of food daily. When you eat heaty. greasy, coarse or rich foods or when you are nervous, hurried or chew poorly—your stomach often pours out too much fluid. Your food doesn't digest and you have gas. heartburn, nausea, pain or sour stomach. You feci sour, sick and upset all over. Doctors say never take a laxative for stomach pain. It is dangerous and foolish. It takes those little black tablets called BeU-ans for Indigestion to make the excess stomach fluids harmless. reUeve distress In no time and put you back on your feet. Relief Is so Quick K Is smaxtng and one 35o package proves it. Ask for BeU-ans far Indigestion. For Best Prices on Cattle, Hogs, and Calves, see J. L. Smith, McCormick, S. C.