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MeCOBMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, September 18, 1941 vlt * * . % \ network Report On McCor mick Water Supply >/ v A ■ jffijbZ?. Charleston, S. C„ September 13, 1941. Sanitary Water Analysis No. 16241, Rec’d. Sep.Jl, 1941, From: Water Supply, McCormick, S. C. Parts per million Color - 5.00 Chloride 15.00 could lift the roof off of Free Ammonia 0.01 up a few feet of ^ Albuminoid Ammonia 0.02 and see what is going on ! Nitrogen as Nitrites 0.00 i, we would discover a Nitrogen as Nitrates 0.00 of transportation which Total Solids. ’ 151.00 us. * Bacterial Analysis: thought .much about ' B. Coli, Negative, except when a water Gas forming organisms, Absent, iled to work or when I Remarks: Analyses indicate digging a ditch on the water to be of good quality and oMk road, but since all .the . free from contamination, talk started about building a pipe j Respectfully submitted, transport oil to the East- F. L. Parker, M. D. I got interested in how r * T . to now done with pipe lines. Better Farming And 0 figures are amazing. From # # ” 11 could find out about it. Farm l iving Progress handle 50 per cent more of T ,, , W7 - , . ition in the united Indicated By Watkins than do the 4,500,300 trucks 1 stream day and night over I ciemson. Sept. 15.—Asked to what highways, tt is hard to extent South Carolina farmers are more transportation ac- j making progress in developing on under the ground j diversification and new sources of on all the highways above it, income as well as producing need ’s what the figures show. e d foods and feeds, Director D. W large cities, the pipe lines Watkins of the Ciemson CoUege and water to practically Extension Service says that and then there are through sound leadership agricul- pe lines carrying oil from j ture is gradually being remade in te to another. To most of I the state. To support this claim talk about building a pipe he cites these facts. the oil fields of the West “in June farmers harvested the States sounded like most widely distributed and prob undertaking, but to ably the largest wheat crop ever i wm have buUt the pipe lines ma de in this state; and 22,705 entwine underground farm families, who in .1940 grew this assignment is proba-1 less than a half enough foodstuffs, pledged themselves this spring to grow large additional acreages of Ti . . , , ^ .crops and of livestock to feed j^lft.jhave beeh used for themselves, these including, corn, for thousands I g ar£ jens, sweet potatoes, syrup, improved pastures, hogs, milk cows, and poultry . . “It is not an accident that South rusalem the Temple w« Carollna duces more oatS| with water through | whlch , s a good llvestock feed , than any other state east of the Mississippi river. Corn has in creased in this state by over 3,- \\ all in the day’s work. ITION . . _ . . . iave\b ig liquids years. Back 4,000 years before the Babylonians used crude for transporting water pipes enclosed in stone As early as the First cen- \.ury/A. D. lead piping was used to ^fltiact water for household use p , j&oc ▼ • j 000,000 bushels, and hay and for- Rome. In 1685 Louis XIV had ’ . ’ . . in zkTF .•*'ZFriai£8r. _ I age have doubled in 10 years. Naturally these things lead to a cast i|t>n pipe laid in Paris. irtation by pipes is by no 7, but never has a na- f. been so dependent on pipes America is today. Millions of concentrated in city areas mterfere ^ vhe service of the pipe lines. With uninterrupted service, the pipe lines constitute probably our most efficient means of trans porting oil, water and gas. It is estimated that they handle 12 per cent of out 1 national transportation problem, while 8 per cent is han dled by truck, 18 per cent by ships and barges and 62 per cent by the .ailroads. As our transportation needs in- large increase in hogs and cattle. Sales of hogs and cattle now run into millions of dollars per year. “It is not an accident but the result of expert farming that the proved sweet potatoes were sold from this state last year. In the soil improvement pro gram over 200,000 acres of farm 1 and have been terraced with power equipment and 30,000 acres with farm equipment in five years. “The use of limestone to sweeten our naturally acid soils is growing yearly. “And we must not overlook the 10,000 miles of rural electric lines Everywhere in this land you see ice-cold Coca-Cola doing its job, too... bringing workers refreshment... quick refreshment ...complete refreshment. Thirst asks nothing more. In offices, factories and workshops ice-cold Coca-Cola is making little minutes long enough for a big rest...bringing busy people the pause that refreshes* BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY * ♦*., ■*.* Ja - GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.. Greenwood, S. C. T ° U trUSt * tS 9 Ual, iy p/us tax General Crop Report ! * ere ln good to excellent condi- duced about 2 per cent by dry, hot * tion and several points above both weather in the Corn Belt in early - — - - ^ As Of Sept. 1, 1941 last year and average. August, the yield of corn is Milk and egg production are at expected to average 29.4 bushels " the highest levels in more than a per acre which would equal the ^ Prospects for final production decade, according to output from yield in 1939 and exceed the yield $ still | Lessons in Health By artie McGovern South Carolina crops com-| herds and flecks of crop reporters, in other years since 1920. This bined w r ere a shade better on An average of 11.8 pounds per cow high yield on the reduced acreage k-eptember^ l than a month earlier on September 1 was 5 per cent is expected to result in a corn the i above last September and 11 per ; crop of 2,524,000,000 bushels which i but still 13 per cent below heavy production of 1940, altho only 4 per cent down from average outturn for the ten years 1930-39. | 32.2 eggs per 100 hens was 14 per according to report issued by cent above both a year ago and Frank O. Black, agricultural sta- j average production, tistician, Columbia, Sept. 12th. The decline in crop volume this year is due almost entirely to shorter crops of cotton, tobacco, and corn, as the forecasts for ^ . ... , serving approximately 37,000 farm crease for the moving of defense families equipment, erfmustlve studies are is bei , earned about being made ot our nation's facili- , om , iW Renorts indicate that we I marketing farm products starting / Big with quality as a basis of com peting in the market place, and .« ^ , , ,. _ ... ■ ^teps are being taken to see that worth _°f t . r . a .?. S , POT ,! (aClli ' | South Carolina products are in demand by consumers. Thus through these better farming and better living meas- ires agriculture is being gradually needn’t fear any transportation problems if all of our $80,000,000,- » 00 ties are used efficiently. RAILROADS movement During the World war we had a lot of railroad transportation. „ ... problems and from them learned remade throughout the state,” one important lesson: mass trans- portation depends on the move ment rather than the number of freight cars. , „ a J ^ ^ ^ J , If freight cars are used , or ”vings Bends and Stamps today! . storage, as they often were during | -Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps- the last war, it wouldn’t matter how many cars were available— j -ars available for shipping oil. director Watkins concludes. x For personal security and finan- ial independence—buy Defense we’d still be short. At the present time there are over a million and a half freight cars in serviceable condition. But useless the transportation problem is handled efficiently, many of those cars will be standing on ridings when they could be mov ing goods. This same need also applies to r>ll other means of transportation. If a truck or a ship spends half of its time waiting to be unloaded or loaded, it actually requires two trucks or ships to do the work which one might be doing. WASTE oil One of the most amazing exam ples of potential waste in trans portation has been brought out in the recent discussions of the oil shortage in the East. After apparently making a study of the situation, Ralph K. Davies, acting petroleum co-ordinator un der Secretary of Interior Ickes, made public a statement to the ef- 'ollowing his statement, John J. Pelley, president of the Associa- ion of American Railroads, said that 20,000 tank cars were not in ise—lay waiting to transport oil 'xi the Eastern seaboard. Further check-up showed Mr. Pelley’s figures were correct and these cars now are being put into use. The 20,000 cars are capable of moving from six to eight mil lion barrels of oil per month from Texas to the Atlantic seaboard. Yet, If Mr. Pelley had not brought this situation to the public’s at tention, 16 Eastern states would have faced a serious shortage in oil this winter. Most of the 20,000 extra cars discovered by Mr. Pelley were standing at sidings in the private United States crop prospects were reduced only slightly by drought in August and are still outstandingly favorable. Aggre- 4. gate cr °P production is expected tame hay and sweet potatoes are »... vi,, o , , ^ , . , “ i t0 be nearly 2 per cent above pro duction last year and substantial ly larger than in any previous season except 1937. Conditions cent above average for the ten would be 3 per cent above pro years 1930-39. Egg production of ducticn last year. The production of oats will be about 9 per cent less than last year but there will be bumper crops of barley and ( grain sorghums. Adding together larger and heavier crops of winter grains were harvested earlier in the season. However, the 8 per cent increase in grains and the outlook for a 3 per cent larger potato crop and 14 per cent more hay, does not offset the drastic reduction of 57 per cent in cotton prospects, and moderate declines of 14 per cent in tobacco and 6 per cent in corn. The outlook for 22,964,000 bush els of corn is the same as a month ago but 6 per cent below produc tion in 1940 altho slightly above average outturn. Early com is generally good but later plantings are poor to fair only. The estimate of 70,550,000 pounds of tobacco compares with 82,215,000 pounds produced last year and the average of 83,656,000 pounds for the years 1930-39. A somewhat larger acreage was planted this year but growing conditions were less favorable and the estimate of 830 pounds per acre is 185 pounds below the record yield of 1940 but about the aver age yield. Favorable August weather im proved hay prospects and the 'orecast of 613,000 tons is 14 per cent above production in 1940 and substantially above average. Sweet potatoes also improved during the month, and the out look for 5,200,000 bushels is 3 >er cent above production in 1940 but 4 per cent below average. The estimate of 3,471,000 b- *i- els of peaches made this yea: s by far the largest crop ever o- duced in the State, being 61 ’r cent above production in 1940 and nearly three times average t- turn for the years 19C -19. However, this heavy produ on coupled with large crops in nher competing States caused low j oes and the season was generally as- appointing to commercial gre nrs. The outlook is for 1,57 000 yards of refineries. Many of the cars had not been moved for a ' pounds of pecans which wou.’d be month or more because of lack of 16 per cent above the crop of i940 cn September 1 showed prospects for crop yields per acre 18.1 per cent above the 1923-32 or “pre drought” average. This would be less than 1 per cent below the record high average of yields se cured last season, and the total acreage of crops harvested is ex pected to show an increase over last year of 1 or 2 per cent. The aggregate production of livestock and livestock products will also be large, probably larger than in any past year. This year’s crops of barley, rice, grain sorghums, dry beans, dry peas, soybeans and total commer cial vegetables are each expected to exceed production in any pre vious season. Fruit production will be close to previous high -eccrds and may exceed them. Flaxseed production is expected to 3e larger than in other years ex cept 1902 and the peanut crop will be second to the record crop of a /ear ago. The crops of wheat, hay, and tree nuts are all very large altho below previous peaks. The crops of corn, oats, rye, sugar cane and sugar beets will be a- bove average but not unusual. Allowing for the effect of the early September rains in the Com Belt prospects for fall pas tures and ranges now seem the best since 1928 and present mois ture conditions are unusually favorable for fall seeding in most of the winter wheat belt. Several crops show relatively low production but no shortage of supplies. The cotton crop is un usually small, tobacco production these 4 crops, the production of feed grains is expected to be sightly over 101 million tons com pared with crops of 101. 98, 97, and 99 million tons during the four seasons since the period of droughts ending in 1936. With production as now indicated and the expected 5 to 6 per cent in crease in livestock as compared with last year, the production of feed grain per unit of livestock would be about equal to the pre drought average. However, farm ers will probably continue to feed milk cows, hens and perhaps other livestock a little more grain per head than usual so they will prob ably use some of their reserve sup ply. On July 1 farm stocks of feed grains (excluding wheat) were equal to a little more than one- fourth of the quantity produced last year. The national hay crop is expected to be the largest since 1927 and with a normal winter it should be sufficient to feed the increased number of livestock at about the usual rate without drawing on reserves. Reports on milk and egg pro duction continue to show new high records for most of the crincipal producing areas and for the country as a whole. On Sep tember 1 milk production per cow averaged about 2 per cent higher than a year ago and, with more cows on the farms, daily produc tion was about 5 per cent above the high production at this time last year. The September 1 re ports on egg production showed 3 per cent more eggs per 100 hens than were reported a year ago. The crop of citrus fruits pro duced from this year’s bloom is now expected to be slightly smaller than the crop from the bloom of 1940 but this year’s production of the principal deciduous fruits (in cluding peaches, pears, grapes. Three Types of Underweight The job of putting on weight has i never been very widely publicized, probably because the thin man or woman isn’t nearly so much noticed as his or her fat friend . . . and also because results obtained from the addition of weight aren’t nearly so spectacular as those de rived from a reducing orgy. It has been my consistent observation, however, that the thin man has a far more difficult time putting on weight than his fat brother has in taking it off. % Granted that your problem is one of increasing your weight, you must first decide which of three types of leanness has you in its clutches: f hereditary leanness, functional leanness, or careless leanness. If you consistently remain at the same weight year in and year cut, and if you have been unable to put on weight through rational methods, your thinness is un doubtedly hereditary. It is, there fore, completely normal and you have no cause for worry. Your thinness may be caused by ill health or some functional dis turbance. If you are underweight and continue to lose over a period of months, see your doctor and your dentist. They can determine whether or not your thinness is due to your teeth, your tonsils a glandular disturbance or some other infection which requires professional treatment. Your condition, like that of most ^hin people, may be the result of careless habits in the matter of diet, exercise, relaxation, and ileep. The addition of weight in your case is the result of com- oining the proper elements of these four all-important factors. I believe that fully 50 per cent of all underweight persons can cor rect their condition. The remain ing 50 per cent are naturally slender and will remain that way. will be less than in most recent cherries, plums, prunes, apricots years and the production of pota- i and commercial apples) is expec- toes and sweetpotatoes will barely ted to be about 12 per cent abo* e exceed the ten-year average. the rather light production last The production of feed grains year. The total fruit crop i?, this year will be above average but therefore, expected to show i hardly equal to prospective feed- record or near-record tonnag \ demand for tank cars. While all and 46 per cent greater than av- ing requirements and some fur- The prospective productior the discussion of shortage in the erage production for the ten years East was going on, if those cars 1930-39. M ther progress may be made in commercial vegetables for mai : utilizing the large stocks accum- ing during the early fall is new WANT ADV. LOST—On 18th of August, one blue tick male hound name Drive, part of right ear missing, wearing a collar with name of W. H. Beau- ford, 26 Parker Street, Abbeville, S. C., on it. Reward for informa tion leading to recovery. Raymond Clinkscales. Mt. Carmel, S. C. FALL CLASSES in Business Training. Enroll any Monday for classes in day cr night school. had been moving they could have * Cowpeas at 75 per cent of ulated since the drought years, dicated to be 3 per cent less than Free Employment Bureau. Grecn- *ect that he couldn’t find any! transported millions of barrels of .normal on September 1, soybeans Altho the exceedingly favorable in 1940 but 13 per cent above che wood College of Commerce, Greon- ^iaable number of railroad tank oil. and pastures at 78 per cent each, early prospects for corn were re- 10-year (1930-39) average* 1 i i * wood, S. C.