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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, February 1,1940 UcCORMICK MESSENGER! ,aU t permlt ^ d use cf stal ^ fields . v i nast.nrps and rancrpj; mnrh later /{ ied Every Thursday a*u.Lushed June 0, IMS EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner ^s. the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of Che second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Biz Months T .75 Three Months.50 January 1, 1940, Crop Report SOUTH CAROLINA: Acreage sown to winter wheat in the fall 1939 is estimated at 225,000 production "and “egg pro- pastures and ranges much later than usual. Hay supplies appear to be rather low in parts of the northeast where prices are sharply higher than a year ago and there are some local shortages from Wyoming south to Oklahoma, but supplies are above average in pro portion to livestock numbers in most other parts of the country and the average price is still ab normally low in comparison with the prices of cattle and sheep. In North Dakota the average price received by farmers for hay has recently been reported as $3.30 per ton, almost the lowest State av erage on record except for a few years in the late 90’s. The unusually mild weather that prevailed over most of the country during December favored the pro duction of both milk and eggs. On the farms reporting on January 1 acres, according to report issued January 24th by Frank O. Black, Agricultural Statistician, Columbia. This compares with 216,000 acres I duction per 100 hens were the , highest on record for . that date, i With 1 per cent • more milk per „„„„ „„„ „„„ cow reported than a year ago and the .. f „ a1 ' 0f 1938 - “iWith the number of cows ap- in 1937, and 118,000 acres average for the ten years 1927-36. If the usual relationship between acreage sown and harvested is experienced with this crop the area harvested next summer will be about 216,000 acres. This would be the. largest acreage in 55 years and only 7 per cent below the high point of wheat acreage reached in 1884. Wheat records begin in 1866, in which year 101,000 acres were harvested. Land devoted to this crop remained well above this figure until 1905, but during the succeeding 25 years averaged only about 60,000 acres annually, reach ing a low of 38,000 acres in 1930 from which point rapid expansion fin acreage and enhanced yield per acre culminated in the record pro duction of 2,415,000 bushels in 1939, which was 36 per cent larger flian any previous'crop. Acreage seeded to rye for all purposes last fall is estimated at 41,000 acres, which compares with 29,000 sown in the fall of 1938 and 27,000 the average sown acreage during the years 1930-36. Reported stocks of 435,000 bush els of wheat; 17,239,000 bushels of corn; and 2,418,000 bushels of oats on South Carolina farms January 1 are 9 per cent below the large stocks of last January, but 19 per cent above the 10-year, 1929-1938, average. The wheat supply was 36 per cent above last January, but supplies of corn • and oats were down 10 and 9 per cent respec tively. Milk production in herds of South Carolina crop reporters av eraged 1.2 gallons or 9.9 pounds per cow on January 1, which is about the same as on January 1 ©f the two previous years but 5 per cent above average for the jears 1929-1938. Egg production on farms of crop reporters averaged 28.7 eggs per 100 hens about January 1, which compares with 25.2 last January and 26.8 in January of 1938. Reported farm wage rates of $12.60 per month including board, and $18.60 without board, are slightly above last January, re flecting some increase in the de- ®and *for farm labor. UNITED STATER: On January^ farm stocks of com, including com sealed Under Government loans, were much pbove the 1929- 38 average, and stocks of wheat were somewhat above average. Due to low production, stocks of cats were a little below average. If the estimated stocks of com and oats are combined and allow ance is made for probable sup plies of barley and grain sor ghums, the total stocks of feed grains on farms on January 1 ap pear to have been only about two per cent larger than at this season last year and about 2 per cent less than at the beginning of 1933 but substantially heavier than in other recent years. Due in part to the larger numbers of livestock than a year ago and to liberal feeding during the fall the grain has been fed or moved from the farms at about a normal rate for a year of large supplies. The dis appearance of feed grains from farms between October 1 and Jan uary 1 was nearly 17 per cent greater than during the same period a year ago, but this disap pearance included the com which was delivered to the Government during this period under corn loan provisions. Reports from individual farms showing the quantities of hay pro duced last year and supplies still on hand appear to show about a narently increasing, milk produc tion on January 1 appears to have been about 2 per cent abpve the high level, of production at that time last year indicating slightly ! more than the average winter sup ply per capita. Egg production on January 1 was about 9 per cent over the exceptionally high pro duction a year ago and as the trend during recent years has been towards increased egg production during the winter months, the production indicated for January 1 this year is about 40 per cent over the 1929-38 average for this date. Production has been so heavy that the average price which farmers received for eggs in December was-the lowest for that season in more than 30 years. FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDOE FOOD greed About r. hundred and fifty years ago a young man named Malthus wrote a book which profoundly affected the thinking of the world for nearly a century. He demon strated that the population of the world was increasing so much faster than human ability to grow food that it would be only a short time before people every where would be starving. That theory of the pressure of population upon the means of sub- istence held good until the devel opment of modern agricultural machinery, modern fertilizing methods, and the opening to agri culture of the great unexplored areas of the Americas. The whole picture is changed. The world’s population has doubled, as Malthus predicted, but the world’s food problem is how to get rid of the surplus food stuffs. The trouble is not with how to produce enough food, but how to get it distributed so that everybody can eat when he is hungry. The principal barrier to world-wide distribution of all the food everybody wants is nation alistic greed, which sets up artifi cial barriers to keep food from other countries from getting to the mouths of those who need it. in WAR bunk The problem of food distribution lies at the root of war. The nationalistic philosophy says that a country must not be willing to exchange its own products for the food which it can get from other countries in abundance, but must control its own sources of food supply, if it has to make war on its neighbors to get more agricultural land. Much of the political argument of that nature is pure bunk. Ger many has been wailing about its lost colonies ever since the World War, pretending that it was rob bed of its main source of food sup ply. The fact is that the German colonies never provided the nation with any food at all. In 1914 Ger many expected to get great food supplies from the Russian Ukraine, but it turned out that there wasn’t enough grown there to make a surplus worth fighting for. There never was a time when Germany couldn’t get all the food it needed in exchange for the goods produced by its metal and chemical industries, as England is to bring about a shortage of food, by the efforts of each beUig- erent nation to starve the other into surrender. The Prussians won a victory over France in 1870 by cutting off the food supplies of Paris. After six weeks of living on dogs, cats and even rats the French capital surrendered and France paid Prussia a billion dol lars in gold, which set the German Empire on its feet and provided a war chest for 1914. Japan invaded China on the pretense that it could not support its own people on its own land and needed more room. Nobody was preventing Japan from swap ping its products in the world markets for all the food its people could eat, and the Chinese wel comed Japanese settlers. Musso lini seized Ethiopia on a similar pretext, but hasn’t got enough fresh food supply from that source to be worth mentioninf;. The plain fact seems to me to be that the peoples of all the na tions are perfectly willing to trade with the peoples of all the other nations, and the only thing that stands between them and the food they need is the ambition of rulers and politicians for power and glory. RATIONS . Germany The first effect of war is to de prive people of some or most of their accustomed food supplies. England has rationed sugar, bacon, ham and butter. The French, the most completely self- supporting nation in the world, still get all they want to eat, but nobody eats in Germany without express permission. The only foods • not yet rationed in the Reich are fish, greens and wild game, for those who can get them. Different classes of Germans have different rules applied to them. Those engaged in the heaviest work are allowed more food than others. Substitutes for coffee, cream and other luxuries are being made in chemical factories. Italians are short of coffee, a real deprivation to the people. They are eating rabbit meat as never before, but are using cotton seed oil instead of olive oil. Food has been scarce and hard to buy at any price in Russia ever since the Communists began to “liquidate” the farm owners. Mil lions of Russians died of starvation a few years ago because of govern ment interference with the food supply. Now food is scarcer yet in Moscow and other Russian centers. ABSURDITY justice ""Nothing could be more absurd than such situations in a world where there is food enough for everybody. It just doesn’t make sense. I’m only one of a very large number of persons who have been trying for years to figure out the answer. The most obvious reason why everybody can’t eat is that rulers and statesmen stand in their way. They are more con cerned with their power and glory than they are with the welfare of the people. I find myself in entire agree ment with the King of Brobding- nag in “Gulliver’s Travels” who said that the man who makes two blades of grass or two stalks of corn grow where only one grew before deserves better of humanity than the whole tribe of politicians put together. I can’t see any hope for the world until politics and govern ment are based upon human jus tice and love of humanity as a whole. There will be no end to war, and people will starve in the midst of plenty, so long as self- seeking, greedy and heartless men govern the destines of nations. normal rate of disappearance *ii has done for more a ce ntury. the Northeast but rather light feeding in the central and western States where the mild and open SHORTAGE ambition The first effect of a modern war LET US HELP YOU LOOK YOUR BEST! 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PURSUANt TO ORDER OF THE COURT in the above entitled matter, I will sell before the Court House door in the Town of McCor mick, County of McCormick, State of South Carolina, on Sales Day in February, the same being the 5th day of February, 1940, in the usual hours of sale, the following described property: ! “All that certain piece, parcel, or tract of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Parksville, County of McCormick, State of South Carolina, containing four (4). Acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Drennan, Albert Wood. Gary Trammel, Mrs. Hamilton and known as the ‘Chris tian Homeplace’.” j The bidding will be held open, 1 as required by law, for a period of thirty days. j TERMS OF SALE CASH, pur chaser to pay extra for deed and stamps. A deposit of ten per cent will be required of the highest i bidder. J. FRANK MATTISON, 'Master For McCormick County, j . g C • 7 S - ’ ! V. January 16th, 1940.—3t. 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 The Federal Land Bank of Columbia, Plaintiff, Vs. J. E. Bell, Defendant, I will sell on Salesday in February, 1940, being the 5th day of said month, between the legal hours of sale, before the Court House Door in the Town of McCormick, S. C., to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land containing One Hundred Twenty-Two and Sixty- Eight One-Hundredths (122.68) acres, more or less, situate, lying and being on Public Road, about three miles West from the Town of McCormick, in Bordeaux Town ship, County of McCormick, State of South Carolina, having such shapes, metes, courses and (dis tances as will more fully appear by reference to a plat thereof, made by S. E. Rosenswike, Sur veyor, 11th of April, 1922, and being bounded on the North by lands of Brown and Price and P. C. Dorn, on the East by lands of John Z. Edmunds, on the South by lands of L. Edmunds, and on the West by lands of J. P. Holloway and Brown and Price. This being the same tract of land heretofore conveyed to the said Mrs. E. B. Edmunds by S. L. Edmunds bv his deed dated October 25th, 1920, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for McCormick County in Book of Deeds No. 4, page 522. TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The purchaser is to pav 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 uoon the same terms and at such bidder’s risk. As no personal or deficiency judgment is demanded in this action, the same being expressly waived, the bidding will close at the sale and will not remain open for thirty days. J. FRANK MATTISON, Master for McCormick County, s c Jan.'15, 1940.—3t. FINAL SETTLEMENT 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. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. In The Court Of Probate. Notice is hereby given that J,* Talbert, Administrator of the tate of Wilson Warren Fowler, Administrator cum testamento annexe of the estate of Mary Amelia Cooke Fowler, deceased, has this day made application unto me for a final accounting and discharge as such Adminis trator and the 16th day of Feb ruary, 1940, at 10 o’clock has been fixed for the hearing of said peti tion. All persons holding claims a- gainst the estate of the above named are hereby notified to pre sent same on or by above date. J. FRANK MATTISON, Judge of Probate, McCormick County, S. C. January 16, 1940.—4t. DR. 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