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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, January 25, 1940 Timely Sugges tions From The County Agent 1. Send sample of cotton seed to J. Roy Jones, Commissioner of Agriculture, Columbia, S. C„ for germination test now. Select small quantity of seed from each r'rck or pile of seed and mix thoroughly. Then send composite sample for germination test. 2. After receiving favorable ger mination reoort on cotton seed, treat seed during spare time with Ceresan 3. Plant Kobe lespedeza by 20th February, Korean lespedeza by 15th. March. Be sure to sow r^ough seed to reduce weeds and ■Johnson grass and to insure good lipv crop. '■'"'wentv pounds pe 7 * acre is the minimum seeding allowed under the A.AA. 4. Plan 1940 farming operations row. Begin a complete farm ac count record to show leaks in year’s operations. 5. Provide for more pasture in 19*0 now. Plan to keep pastures —t stocked with livestock but ‘Hot overstocked. 6. Include in 1940 Farm land clans for increasing farm income l)" $50. $100, or $500. 7. Make plans to earn soil con- rervation payment on home gar den in 1940. 8. Get all plows sharpened, planters repaired and oiled, and r 7 i machinery in first class condi tion. 9. Clear up irregular field lines ro as to make cultivation easier Ttrd to improve looks of place. 10. Order garden seed now be fore seedsmen are out of desirable TP’Meties. 11. Begin seed com selection if not selected from the field last. fall. 12. Don’t overlook planting a fe^ fruit trees this winter. ^ 13. A noble service to your com- rrunity is to provide a purebred hoar and purebred bull for the >'"->efit of farmers in the commu nity. 14. Study fertilizer needs for ? n< q) and Plan to use not less than 30° pounds per acre on cotton. 15. Produce one or more good dairy cows for sale in 1940. -xx- Chevrolet- JANUARY FIRST 10-DAY SALES Detroit, Jan. 17.—In spite of un favorable weather conditions pre vailing over much of the country, retail sales of new cars and trucks by Chevrolet dealers in the first 10 d^vs of the new year totalled 21,- 998 units, as against 15,018 in the rame period in 1939, W. E. Holler, general sales manager, announced hare today. This represents a gain of 48.5 per cent, one of the largest, registered in any 10-day period ^ince announcement of the 1940 ncdels. Sales of trucks, Mr. Holler said, stalled 4,282. as compared with 3.323 in the first 10 days of last Used car sales in the first 10 days also showed gains over 1939, the figures indicate. In the first 10 days of January, 32,919 used rars were sold, as against 29,539 in the same period last year. XXX New Circular Tells Of Cotton Production McCormick County Agent Suggests Pas ture Improvements “One of the most important and also most neglected crops in Mc Cormick County is permanent pastures”, says D. Austin Shelley, '’ounty agent, who is making sug gestions for McCormick County farmers to consider in building permanent pastures. “Perhaps one of the most im portant things to remember in selecting land for permanent pas ture”, adds Mr. Shelley, “is that it makes returns in proportion to the fertility of the land that it is on.” It is worthy of good land. For work stock and dairy cattle it should be located close to the bams. For other livestock this is not so important. Areas which include running water or springs are very.desirable In McCormick County the most desirable areas are those which include the medium slopes and uplands that grade off into branch, creek, or river bottoms Since the bottom land is more fertile, more drought resistant and will give quicker returns it is advisable to build pasture on the bottom land first. An occasional shade tree is de sirable in a permanent pasture However, grass will not thrive in dense shade and all brush, briars and low-growing shrubs should be cleaned off. The basic soil treatments for improving permanent pastures are calcium and phosphate which may be applied in the form of lime stone and super-phosphate, basic slag, or a combination of these three materials. When sufficient farm manure is available to allow the application of five tons per acre, the use of limestone and manure as the soil treatment also gives excellent results. Best re sults will be secured when soil treatments are made in accord ance with the needs as shown by soil tests. Mr. Shelley states that his office v/ill be glad to get soil samples tested for McCormick County farmers who want to im prove their pastures. Preparation of the land for seeding will include terracing and contour furrowing the slopes which need it in order that all the moisture possible will be conserv ed. Seeding should be done in January or early February if it is to be done this spring. A small area on which a thor ough job of improving is done will give far greater returns than a arger area on which a poor job is done. JXX Poultry And Eggs Outlook Favorable Clemson, Jan. 13.—South Caro lina now holds the lead in the production of medium staple length cotton with the majority of farmers planting purebred seed; and the records show that 96 per cent of the state’s cotton crop in 1938 was of 15-16-inch staple or longer. This statement from the intro duction of Circular 179, “Cotton Production in South Carolina”, iust published by the Extension Cervice, points to an important Jesuit of the Five-Acre Cotton Contest which has been conducted for many years by the Extension Tcrvice. The circular was prepared by H. /. Woodle, extension agronomist, P. E. G. Prichard, assistant ex- 1 msion agronomist, and D. C. Sturgis, assistant extension econo mist, to summarize and make j c commendations on the results of Ire contest. The specific purpose of the fouth Carolina Five-Acre Cotton rontest was to demonstrate to '* rrhers that high yields of quality cotton with good staple length could be produced profitably when better production methods were rsed. Purebred seed, soil-building r rops, rotation, proper fertiliza- 1 ion, close spacing, insect control • - all improved practices were used by contestants. Thousands of farmers observed these demonstra- tions and profited from the re- rults. Breeders of better cotton * arieties have been indispensable to the program, and these breed ers have furnished a new impetus to cotton improvement. Circular 179 tabulates and dis- i cusses the vital factors in profit- ; ble cotton production as shown ! j the cotton contests; and gives briefly conclusions and recom mendations based on these. The publication may be had from TODAY and Clemson, Jan. 8.—The price out look for poultry and eggs appears to be less favorable in the early part of 1940 but perhaps more avorable during the last half of the year as compared with 1939, according to forecasts made by O. M. Clark, Clemson extension econ omist. “Poultry prices are expected to be less favorable than a year earlier for the early months of 940”, says Mr. Clark. “In the pring of 1940 the stronger de- nand may offset the effects of he expected larger marketings as compared with the year earlier, md the prices for poultry during ,he spring of 1940 may be as good 13 those during the spring of 1939 “The hatch during 1940 is ox ected to be smaller than that of 939. Consequently, the marketings f poultry will be less during th- ast half of 1940 than during the corresponding period of the year before. Therefore, poultry prices ire expected to increase during he last half of 1940 as compared vith 1939. “Because of the larger storage stocks of eggs of all kinds and larger current production, prices of eggs are expected to average lower during the early months of 1940 than during the correspond ing months of a year earlier”, Mr. Clark continues. “During the re mainder of 1940, however, the larger consumer income is ex pected to more than offset the effects of larger supplies of eggs and egg prices will average some what higher than during the cor responding period of a year earlier. “The laying flocks are expected to be somewhat larger during the greater part of 1940 than in 1939, the total egg production some what larger, and the number of eggs marketed somewhat greater.” county agents or from the Publi cations Department at Clemson. i i FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDOE SCHOOL crude The first school of which I have any clear memory was a one-room “district school” in a little New England village. I was five years old, but I had already learned to read and write, so I sat with much older boys and girls on the “third reader” benches. The pupils were traded from the “first reader” in fants down in front to Ahe “sixth reader” rows at the back, occupied by boys and girls of twelve or older. The “central heating” system consisted of a big pot-bellied cast- iron stove in the middle of the schoolroom. The older boys were detailed to stoke the fire with wood. It got red-hot in below- zero weather. There was a wooden water-bucket with a tin dipper from which everybody drank when thirsty. There was no such thing as plumbing, anywhere in the village. LEARNING books I suppose at least half of the men and women of my generation got all the “book-learning” they ever had in just such country schools. We were taught to write in ruled “copybooks” with such maxims as “honesty is the best policy” printed in flowing script at the top of each page. In our school we used the “Mon roe” readers, from first to sixth, filled with verses, short essays, ex tracts from the writing of great authors, which we had to re?.d aloud. Many boys and girls got a taste for good literature from those old “readers.” In arithmetic we were drilled in addition, sub- straction. multiplication and divi sion, with fractions and even deci mals for the older pupils. Snelliner was strongly empha sized, and we used to have “spell ing bees” much like those one can hear todav on the radio. We got a smattering of geograohy, from big. thin books with colored maps and pictures of strange animals and people, and we all had to learn to draw a map of our own state. School opened every day with a nrayer and reading from the Bible, followed by sing ing. We had, “singing books” with the words and music of patrotic and popular songs. The "song I remember best was “Not for Joe.” which ridiculed the Woman Suf frage movement to a catchy tune. It was a masculine world. TEACHING discipline Teaching school was a man’s oc cupation in my childhood. Manv of the rural teachers of the 1870’s were students earning money to nay their expenses at Harvard or Yale or the smaller colleges. One of the necessary qualifications for a country teacher was physical ability to maintain discipline. The farm boys were pretty husky and had no respect for a teacher who couldn’t lick them. A birch switch or a hickory stick always stood beside the teacher’s desk and was used on children who were unruly. The first teacher I remember, a red-mus- tached college man named Her bert Field, took a ruler to me once. I had caught the coat of the boy ahead of me with a fish-hook and pulled him down when he got up to recite. Later we had a woman teacher, widow of the village cigar-maker, whose father was a member of the school board. We all liked her be- ause she let us do as we pleased. Then my folks moved to Washing ton and I got into the city schools. I had woman teachers in the sev enth and eighth grades, and after +hat thev were all men. With most of them, teaching was a life career. EDUCATION cost Tn those old davs the idea of education as a function of the state was still a shadowv concept, ocal communities provided what ihey could afford for their children nd anything beyond that was a luxury which the student or his family had to pay for. Todav. towever, everybody realizes that the interests of the state and the o'— irvirrjived in the prob lem of education, as well as those of the community and the indi vidual. nvnidren of the poorest farmer or city slum-dweller now get a better education, under better sur- -'Hinprs with better-trained teachers, than anybody got when I o schoolbov. States contribute from tax funds to aid in main taining and improving local ~' , hools. because of the realization *hat only bv education can Amer ican standards of citizenship be implanted and maintained in ? changing and confusing civiliza tion. Modern education costs more It calls for better eauippe teachers at hieher pay. and mor of them to eouip the youth of to day to face the world on his own CHARACTER knowledg The final test of any education- scheme is whether or not it build character. Mere knowledge is no enough: though the head of - great business said to me lateb that he would take on any man o- woman who had a thorough knowledge of any one subiect whether it related to his business. or not: for to have mastered one thing thoroughly is evidence that one has learned to think. Mere vocational training is not enough. The object of education . is not to enable people to earn a living, but to teach them how to live. “Practical” folk sometimes scoff at the “frills” which have been added to the old-fashioned “Three R’s” by modern schools. But it is the so-called frills which broaden the intellectual outlook and help to build character and the culture which is founded on character. We have a long way to go be fore our public education system will turn out young men and women of uniformly high stan dards of character and culture Until we have built the system to that level nobody should begrudge the spending of any amount of money that it may take. Good citizens are more important than good roads, great navies or most of the other material things we tax ourselves to provide. -txi- Agronomist Looks To Increase In Soil Conservation Clemson. Jan. 15.—H. A. Woodle. Clemson Extension Service agron omist, is of the opinion that farm ers in South Carolina and throughout the South will carry out a more effective soil conserva tion program this year than ever before. Mr. Woodle has just returned from Washington, D. C., where he attended a three-day conference of southern extension agronomists and Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration officials. Discussions at the meeting cen tered on plans for assisting farm ers in carrying out those prac tices which experiments and farmer experience indicate are most worth while from the stand point of future returns. Also dis cussed was a method of achieving this objective by providing as a grant-of-aid. wherever necessary, the materials needed in carrying out approved soiLbuilding prac tices under the 1940 AAA program. Plans to aid in increasing the production and use of legume seed grown locally or within the region, also were discussed, the agrono mist said. He hailed the 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program as “another progressive step in the fight to conserve our soil resources”. The 1940 farm program places added emphasis on the conservation of soil, forestry, and human re sources. Rates of payments made to farmers for carrying out conserva tion practices under the AAA pro gram have been revised so as to encourage the use of desirable practices which normally are not. carried out on a large number of farms. As an outgrowth of the Wash ington conference, plans are under wav to aid farmers in determining their individual needs for improv ing their land. County agents and other agricultural workers will help in this undertaking. -xx- USD A Yearbook Tells Of Food And Life For Man And Beast “Fifty per cent of the people of the United States do not get enough in the way of dairy prod ucts, fruits, and vegetables to en able them to enjoy full vigor and health”, says Secretary of Agricul ture H. A. Wallace in the foreword of the U. S. Department of Agri culture’s 1939 Yearbook called “Food and Life”. “A large number of them do not get enough because they cannot afford it. It is the duty of the farmers, the Govern ment, and organized labor to co operate to see that the children of these people are better fed than their parents were.” Yet, the Secretary declares, “Food is fun damental to adequate training and decent opportunity.” The 1939 Yearbook, which bring up to date information on nutri tion, has just been issued from the press. The Yearbook combines a discussion of nutrition of human beings and farm livestock in c single volume. Gove Hambidge, yearbook editor, says: “Because of his acquaintance with livestock, the farmer should be the first to realize the impor tance of nutrition with human beings. Any livestock man knows that it costs more to feed an ani mal well than to let it starve -Jong. “A great many people in the Tnited States are starving along. Talf of them, according to recent irveys, do not have even fair diets, and only about 10 per cent lave' really good diets. The farm ers stand to gain if poor diets are corrected. The immense surplus of many farm products would be wiped out if enough people could be well nourished. In fact, farm ers would have to produce larger quantities of some of the very products that are now in surplus. ’ The 1939 yearbook is the fourth in a series of yearbooks dealing with major aspects of farming. In; 1940 the series will be continued in a book titled “Farmers in a Changing World.” FRESH SHIPMENT MULES AND MARES THIS WEEK This week I received a fresh ship ment of nice Tennessee mules and brood mares at my stables here. All guaranteed to give satisfaction. You are invited to come to my stables on Upper Main Street and look them over. j. L. SMITH McCORMICK, S. C. EXPERIENCE, SERVICE, FACILITIES Those are the important things m 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. 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Strom’s Drug Store Phone 95 McCormick, S. C. i suffer from Cokl«? WHY For quick relief from cold symptoms take 666 Liquid - Tablets - Salve - Nose Drops Auditor’s Notice FOR YEAR 1940. I will be at the different places on dates given below for the pur pose of taking tax returns on all personal property, except the kind that is returned to the tax commission. All owners, agents, guardians, administrators, attor neys, etc., please take notice and make returns: Office all of January and through February 13th. J. C. Talbert’s Store, Feb. 14th, 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Bordeaux, Cade’s Store, Feb. 14th, 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Mt. Carmel, Feb. 15th —Mrs. N. S. Scott’s Store. Feb. 15th, 9 a. m. *n 10 n m.: W. A. Scott’s Store. Feb. 15th. 10 a. m. to 11 a. m.; W. H. Horton’s Store, Feb. 15th, 11 a. m. to 12 noon. Willington. Feb. 15th—Wright Andrews’ Store. Feb. 15th. 3 p. m to 4 p m.: Mrs. L. F. McNair’ Store. Feb. 15th, 4 p. m. to 5 p. m Plum Branch, Feb. 16th—G. A. Talbert’s Store, Feb. 16th, 1 p. m. to 2 p. m.; J. L. Bracknell’s Store, Feb. 16th. 2 p. m. to 3 p. m.; J. J. Collier’s Store, Feb. 16th, 3 p. m. to 4 p. m.; T. W. Lanham’s Store, Feb. 16th, 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. Mrs. Joe J. Link’s Store, Feb. 20th, 10 a. m. to 12 noon. E. M. Morgan’s Store, Feb. 20th, 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Mrs. Mattie Hollingsworth’s Store, Feb. 21st, 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Vernon Church, Feb. 21st, 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Young’s School House, Feb. 22nd, 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Modoc, Feb. 22nd—C. T. Bussey’s Store, Feb. 22nd, 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Parksville, Feb. 23rd—J. P. Brun son’s Store. Feb. 23rd, 1 p. m. to 2 p. m.; W. T. Self’s Store, Feb. 23rd; 2 p. m. to 3 p. m.; J. H. Percival’S Store, F6b. 23td; 3 p. m. to 4 p. m.; D. M. Blackwell’s Store, Feb. 23rd, 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. Clarks Hill, Feb. 27th—Jeff Sharpton’s Store. Feb. 27th, 3 p. m. to 4 p. m.: W. W. Hammond’s Store. Feb. 27th. 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. Meriwether, Feb. 28th—J. O. Marshall’s Store, Feb. 28th, 3 p. m. 4 p. m.; J. M. Rich’s Store, Feb.. 33th. 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. After February 28th 10 per cent •enalty on all who failed or re fused to make returns. All male persons between 21 -nd 60 years are liable for poll ax. 21 to 50 years are liable for oad tax or street tax. C. W. PENNAL. Auditor.