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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, August 3, 1939 IcCORMICK MESSENGER ^ mulshed Every Thursday Established June 5, 190* JRS EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, W” Editor and Owner i 7 at the Post Office at Me- Cermick, s. C. t as mail matter of Em second class. / EUBSCR1PTION RATES: . i One Year i $1.00 Ebt Months .75 Three Months .50 TODAY «»d More Dollars For The Cotton Crop Clemson, July 24.—A loss of half million dollars a year from rough-ginned cotton has started South Carolina farmers to think ing. How can this big loss be pre vented? Better methods of har vesting, handling and ginning cot ton is the answer, according to C. V. Phagan, extension agricultural engineer. “Rough ginning is usually caused by excessive moisture re sulting from improper handling of green picked or damp cotton, says Mr. Phagan. “No matter how careful the ginner may be, nor how good his equipment may be, green or wet cotton - cannot be made to produce a good sample. The farmer is the only person who can really stop the annual average loss of five dollars a bale caused from rough-ginned cotton. “A farmer can use good seed, fertilize and cultivate properly, and produce high yields per acre, and yet he can easily lose much of the value of an entire year’s work in a few hour’s time when he neglects to use proper care in harvesting and handling his seed cotton.” A few important points suggest ed for consideration by Mr. Pha gan are: 1. Pick only wide open bolls. 2. Pick cotton only when free from moisture. 3. Use sheets instead of baskets so that cotton will be spread out in the sun. 4. Store in a dry place. /5. Gin with a ginner who is striving to give a quality bale. The agronomists and agricultur al engineers of the Extension Service have scheduled 53 farmer- ginner meetings for August and September in 36 counties in the state. A feature of each farmer- ginner meeting will be the opera tion of a model gin so that farm ers can actually see what happens when different samples of seed cotton are ginned. -xx- Livestock Guide For Late Summer Proper attention to their live stock enterprises in late summer vill pay farmers well, says County Hgent D. Austin Shelley who gives these important reminders: . Animal Husbandry Full-feed all hogs intended for September market. Turn hogs on corn when it is in the glazed stage. "Remove the bull from the cow pasture. Give sheep a fresh pasture to cohtrol parasites and encourage early breeders. See that all classes of livestock have shade and fresh water. Reserve enough permanent pas-j ture to carry the beef cattle until' November or December. Observe the herds for screw worm infestation and give treat ment if necessary. Dairying Mow pastures to keep grasses tender and to kill weeds. Maintain milk flow by tempo rary grazing of Sudan grass or pearl millet or by cutting green feed. Prepare for heavy fall seeding of barley, oats, and rye for both grazing and winter grain to make up for corn shortage. Seed liberal acreage of oats and vetch for roughage. Keep milk products clean and cool and deliver promptly. Plan for trench silo construc tion. Watch corn for silage and cut it proper stage. Poultry Do not force the pullets into production too early. Clean and disinfect the laying louses before putting the new pul- ets hi them. Free pullets from internal and •Kternal parasites before housing Cull the non-laying hens. nals are what make a good driver. FLYING jobs The Government is beginning a program of training college stu dents for flying. It takes plenty of time to make a good flyer. More than half the college men who be gin training in the Army and Navy flying schools are dropped before they finish the course Some men just can’t learn to fly expertly. It takes even longer to train competent airplane mechanics, and more of them are needed than flyers. It takes five or. six men on the ground for every one in the air, to service the planes. That opens a great opportunity ^for American youth. With the prospect that in three or four years there will be thirty thousand military and commercia: planes in the American sky, there seems to be one of the greatest opportunities open to boys of me chanical tastes, in learning to be skilled airplane mechanics. Jobs are close ahead for 150,000 such ^trained workers, at good wages, and the big airlines are be ginning to set up schools for ap prentices in which high school to learn after maturity can fully graduates can learn, in four years, master a new skill, especially one there is to know about taking which calls for such complete co- a pi ane apart and putting it to- ordination of body and mind as g e ther again, and get paid while driving a car. The best and safest driver is the one who learned to drive while still in his or her 'teens, and who has been driving long enough to have absorbed the importance of expecting the fellow in the other car to drive badly. That and quick reaction to traffic signs and sig- .TESTER’S CASH MARKET DRIVERS women Whether women are better drivers than ipen, or vice-versa, is a question to which nobody has an entirely satisfactory answer. I think it depends upon the age and experience of the driver more than upon any other factor. In my family the best driver, by all odds, is my daughter. I began to teach her to drive when she was fifteen. She has driven more than half a million miles in twen ty-years, without an accident or a ticket for traffic violations, and only one bumped fender. I can never drive as well as she, for I started too old. I was past thirty before automobiles came into general use, thirty-five before I ever drove. Nobody who starts USED CARS Priced to Sell Now! 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The best chance for happy married life comes to those who marry young enough to get a family under way while the parents are still youth ful. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, presi dent of Stanford University, ad vises his students to marry young. He says that the reason fewer European marriages fail than in America is our tendency to wait until our incomes are larger. The European system of provid ing a dowry for the bride, by her parents, might well be adopted in this country, too. The happiest marriages I have ever known a- bout have been between youths of twenty and girls of eighteen. CIVILIZATION food According to Dr. Elmer Drew Merrill, professor of botany at Harvard University, there were no food plants grown in America which were also grown elsewhere in the world, before the white men settled here, and only one domes tic animal was common to both hemispheres. The Indians and the peoples across the Atlantic both had dogs. With no cattle, sheep, or swine, no horses, no crops except Indian corn in North America and pota toes in the western part of South America, there was no civilization. Dr. Merrill points out that civili zation begins with permanent set tlements and that all permanent settlement and community life is based upon agriculture. Whole tribes had to migrate from season to season in search of food that grew wild, fish they could catch and game they could kill. They could not live other wise. Therefore they could build no permanent homes and develop none of the arts and crafts which are the foundation of civilized life. They could own no property but what they could carry on their backs, for they might never come back to the place they started from. It was a free life, but not a very comfortable one. 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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, 3. C. m I 33 and the old one means that books can be sold more cheaply and so more people can and will buy ;hem. A Late Summer Farming Guide Some of the many phases of arm work important for atten tion in late summer are listed be- ow by County Agent D. Austin Shelley. Agronomy Plan now for abundant winter egumes for soil improvement, the most economical way to increase soil fertility. Do not pull fodder; it is ex tremely disagreeable, an expensive practice, and reduces the yield of com. Clean up weeds everywhere to prevent seeding. Give cotton harvesting consider ation and determine not to pick green or wet cotton. Horticulture Beans planted in late August often bring a good price. After peach harvest cut out all broken limbs, as a preventive for shot-hole borers. Clean up ground where vegeta bles have matured, to lessen in sect and disease damage next season. Plant the fall garden. Be sure to plant a large turnip patch, enough for the entire farm. Insects and Diseases Plow under old plants soon after harvest to destroy insects. Be prepared to fight the fall army worm with poison and bar riers. Begin cleaning up the orchard and destroy all fallen fruit. Clean up all fly-breeding places and use formaldehyde poison and traps. Clean corn cribs of all weevil- infested refuse. Agricultural Engineering Get the mower and rake in good running condition for hay har vest. Use August leisure time to con struct and repair farm buildings. Make grain storage buildings rat-proof and tight enough for effective weevil fumigation. Investigate the possibilities of installing running water in the house by using a hand pump, a hydraulic ram, or other low-cost system. For Best Prices on Cattle, Hogs, and Calves, see J. L. Smith, McCormick, S. C. FINAL SETTLEMENT STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. In The Court Of Probate. Notice is hereby given that Mrs. Eula S. Scott. Administratrix of the Estate of N. S. Scott, deceased, has this day made application unto me for a final accounting and discharge as Administratrix of the Estate of N. S. Scott, and the 21st day of August, 1939, at 10 o’clock has been fixed for the hearing of said petition. All persons holding claims against said estate are hereby notified to present same on or by above date. J. FRANK MATTTSON, Judge of Probate, McCormick Co., S. C. July 21, 1939.—4t. FINAL SETTLEMENT STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. In The Court Of Probate. Notice is hereby given that James M. Gibert, John A. Gibert and Catherine G. Peurifoy, Exec utors and Executrix of the estate ‘■'f A’bert Gibert. deceased, have this day made application unto me for a final accounting and Hisoharge as Executors and Exec utrix of the estate of Albert Gibert, and the 22nd day of August, 1939, at 10 o’clock has been fixed for the hearing of said petition. All persons holding claims a- erainst said estate are hereby noti fied to present same on or by above date. J. FRANK MATTISON, Judge of Probate, McCormick Co., S. C. July 22, 1939.—4t. MASTER’S SALE By virtue of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of McCormick, S. C.. here tofore made and entered in the case of Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff, Vs. Mrs. Frances W. Minor et al. Defen dants, I will sell on Salesday in August, 1939, being the 7th day of said month, between the legal hours of sale, before the Court House Door in the Town of Mc Cormick, S. C., to the highest bid der, the following described prop erty. to wit: All that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Hibler Township, McCormick County, South Carolina, contain ing Seventy-Four (74) acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands of Mrs. Rosa Minor and Mrs. Mattie Sue Corley; on the East by lands of Mrs. Mattie Sue Corley and Road leading to Liberty Hill, separating it from land of L. J. Williams and H. N. Coleman; on the South by road to McCormick, separating it from land of H. N. Coleman; on the Northwest by lands of M. G. and J. J. Dorn. TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Purchaser is to pay for the preparation and recording of all papers, including the required revenue stamps. If the highest bidder should fail to immediately comply with his bid. in accordance with the terms of the Decree, the premises will thereafter be resold upon the same terms and at such bidder’s risk. As no personal or deficiency' judgment is demanded in the action, the same being expressly waived, the bidding will close at the sale and will not remain open for thirty days. The property will be sold sub ject to the unpaid taxes as fol lows: 1937 taxes—$12.57, 1938 taxes—$11.00. J. FRANK MATTISON, Master for McCormick County, s c July’17, 1939.—3t. 666 Liquid, Tablets Salve, Nose Drops checks MALARIA in 7 days and relieves COLDS symptoms first day Try “Rub-My-Tism” a Wonderful Liniment For Best Prices on Cattle, Hogs, and Calves, see J. L. Smith, McCormick, S. C. WANT ADV. We buy cattle and hogs. Will pay market price for same. D. C. Talbert, McCormick. S. C. Come in and see how we can re pair your Crepe Bottom Shoes on short notice. Prices very reason able. Arrington’s Shoe Shop, Mc Cormick, S. C. For Best Prices on Cattle, Hogs, and Calves, see J. L. Smith. McCormick, S. C. TO sell i : ’EM, TELL 1 i ’EM- ’ With An Ad