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f# s McCORMICK MKsafMIfiK. McCORMK K SUi (H CAROLINA Thursday, March 5, 1942 ;’s really nothing mysteri ous about this thing called “prun ing," rather it’s a definitely com mon sense procedure that is done at stated seasons—spring and fall. Here are four good reasons for pruning shrubs and plants and first you prune to obtain de sired shape, size and, form. Second you prune to rejuvenate old* over-grown plants; third, to thin out growth that has become too dense and fourth to obtain larger blossoms or to produce more flowers or fruit. f As a general rule shape should be left according to the natural habit of the plant. It's a mistake to plant large varieties in small spaces and then attempt by prim ing to keep them dwarfed. How ever, you can control the growth and symmetry of any plant by judicious pruning. 1 Rejuvenation of old plants is ac complished by severe pruning to gether with feeding and cultiva- lion. Overgrown, bushy plants need the removal of the oldest ’ bod right to the ground and the shortening of other branches to encourage new shoots from the ; oots. Pruning to thin out growth that has become too dense is combined with the removal of injured, dis eased and dead branches. If you want lots of flowers or a few very large ones you prune Heavy top pruning encourages the growth of more leaves and branches. On the other har root pruning lessens vegetative growth but increases production of fruit and flowers. Allowing many flower buds to develop means av erage size blooms whereby limiting their number those remaining be come larger because of the abund ance of food available. Be sure to remove wild shoots and sucker growth from below the union on grafted plants. Otherwise they will eventually overcome the more desirable grafted top. When to prune depends largely on the flowering habit of the plant. Shrubs and ornamental trees divide themselves into two general groups—those which bloom in the spring and early summer and those blooming later on wood of the current season The early flowering varieties should be pruned just after their blossoms fade. This insures both the finest show of flowers and the best growth for next year’s bloom ing. Practically all fruit trees are pruned in the spring. In order to promote fine fruit careful pruning is necessary. As bearing trees reach maturity the amount of pruning may be in creased to maintain regular and efficient production of quality fruit. —Buy Defense Bonds— SMART MONEY KNOWS WHERE TO /m GO AFTER READING THE ADS , IN THIS ^ NEWSPAPER, HEALTH ARTlfe MlOOVCtN Select Your Foods With Care The business woman who de pends upon restaurant food for her daily diet must exercise con siderable care in the selection of her foods if she would avoid di gestive disturbances and the dan ger of becoming overweight. Most modern restaurants employ train ed dieticians and offer the best of food, but they are also quite apt to cater to their patrons’ weaknesses for tempting dishes which may be too rich to be wholesome. An occasional spree in the way of a restaurant dinner with all the frills does no one any particular harm, but habitual overindulgence can play havoc with the digestive apparatus, the complexion, and the figure. Select the foods you eat when dining out with the same care the housewife uses when she plans meals for her family. Don’t order the “blue plate special” just be cause it will save you a little time. A cooked-to-order meal may take ten or fifteen minutes for prepa ration but it’s worth it. Stick to the simple basic foods—broiled lean meats, fish, fresh vegetables, milk, eggs and fruits. Avoid the goulashes and a-la-Newburgs that must be heated and re-heated over the steam table. An ounce of caution in the choice of food is far better than a pound of soda bicarbonate or weeks of reducing workouts. Wooodlands Can Aid In Nation’s War Effori NEW SHIPMENT DISHfS and POTTERY A. JUST RECEIVED Mostly large Pieces 4 « Values to $1.50 for only Buy Your Dishes and Pottery As You Buy Your Merchandise BEL# WHITE LUKE CO AUGUSTA GEORGIA i m FRESH MEATS, OYSTERS AND FISH Call on us for Fresh Oysters-Extra Standards and Extra Selects-Pork, Beef, Lamb, Veal and Fish of All Kinds. \ We grind sausage for the public at any time. We deliver. JESTER’S CASH MARKET PHONE 25 McCORMICK, S. C. -r- Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. Encourage Good Eating Habits Early A recent survey by public health officials throughout the country has brought out the fact that the majority of college students are addicted to the worst possible eat ing habits. Freshmen especially, once they have left home cooked meals, seem bent on breaking eve ry known rule of dietetics. Milk, fruits and vegetables are shunned. Soft drinks, sweets and soda foun tain concoctions are consumed in amazing quantities. Meals are gobbled at irregular hours and in- between-time snacks destroy ap petites for plain wholesome food. Much is being done in the class rooms toward pointing out the dangers in these dietary indis cretions. However, I feel that the starting point is not in college but in the home. Well-balanced meals served at regular hours should be an unbroken rule in every home and for every member of the fam ily. The children will eat what is set before them and will look for ward to their meals at the proper time. Thus, regularity and prop er selection of foods become al most instinctive. Good habits es tablished during childhood will re main not only in college, but all through life. —Buy Defense Bonds— X Stop Cannibalism Among The Chicks Salt in the chick ration is a re cently discovered preventive of cannibalism among the chicks, ^ays County Agent M. A. Bouk- night. Cannibalism is a habit which is most likely to occur to some ex tent among closely confined -'hicks, the agent points out. In- iuries usually cause chicks to start picking one another. The blood from injuries attracts their attention, and once they get the taste of blood they seem to ers/ve more. Cannibalism can be avoider' to some extent by giving the c 1 :s nlenty of range and separatir i- jured chicks from the bnr is soon as possible. In b~“ ry brooders it may be necessr to use a fairly dark room to ^ :-id toe-picking and feather-puT ’. Recent evidence indicates 1 lat cannibalism can be preventer by feeding additional salt. In r ing starting mashes, 1 or 1 1-2 p. ids I of salt may be used to eacb 100 'pounds of mash. If cannib ism ! starts, this amount may be in creased to 3 pounds per 100 pounds of mash but this quantity should not be fed more than one week. The salt should then be re duced to 1 1-2 or 2 pounds per ICO pounds of mash. Clemson, Feb. 28—Home-grov; lumber and fuel can aid in Amer ica’s all-out war effort, says M. H Bruner, forester of the Clemsor College Extension Service. Using home-grown lumber fo T repairs and for new buildings or farms to house increased pro duction under the Food for Free dom program helps reduce thp transportation load of lumber and other forest products. One of the largest uses of freight cars and trucks is for such transportation, says the U. S. Forest Service. Bruner warns farmers, however that home-grown timber should be well-seasoned before it is used in new construction. Warping and shrinking of green lumber may result in serious defects in the finished structure. Seasoning for about a year is recommended, and the lumber pile should be well stacked, with stickers or slats be tween freshly sawed boards and timbers so that air can circulate easily. Raising the lumber pile off the ground six inches or more with one end elevated aids in ven tilating and keeping the pile dry. In cutting, good practices call for taking out mature trees to give the young straight poles and saplings a chance to grow. Old trees often grow very slowly and may be unprofitable in a high- producing woods, because they use so much soil moisture and crowd younger and thriftier tre^s around them. Runty trees, wolf trees, deform ed trees, and trees showing fire scars, decay, disease, or insect damage should be cut for fuel, fence posts, or other products. Such practice will improve rather than harm the woods. x WOMEN in the NEWS POLICE TRAINING NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY is offering a new course for wom en in police administration. In struction includes work in crimi nal identification, traffic control, modern police methods and the training of police personnel. Of ficials of the university believe that many intelligent and far- sighted women will enroll for the course. * * * BLITZ BABIES IN NEW YORK, the Maternity Center association has devised a means to aid old man stork during air raids. It consists of one small kit, scarcely larger than an ordi nary suitcase, which can even be converted into an incubator when necessary. * * * # *. V-MINDED CLOTHES THE VICTORY-MINDED wom an will probably have to learn to wear slacks whether she likes them or not. That is the opinion of Ruth Hutton, fashion design instructor in New York’s Cooper Union art schools. “Femininity is necessarily one of. the first casual- j ties of war,” says Miss Hutton, | who believes that more women j would like* slacks if they fit prop- i eyly. j ABOVE ^HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL Lieutenant Douglas Fairbanks On 'Mail From Home’ In a very touching interview in a New York paper, Douglas Fair banks, Jr.—as he is affectionately known to us all—recently told of the joys and sorrows attendant upon the arrival of the mail at some far-away station, or for some homesick crew on naval patrol. Lieutenant Fairbanks, of the United States navy, had just re turned from duty “somewhere at sea” and spoke feelingly to mothers, wives and friends of men vho are serving their country in ,hese distant—and often lonely— stations. He told a moving story of the happiness of those whose names were called when the mail arrived—and a distressing tale of the poor homesick kids who wait ed until the last letter had been landed out—only to turn away empty-handed with a sob in theii throats. The writer was so impressed by the interview that he wrote a let ter asking for an answer which he might reproduce in this column. Here it is. Dear Lytle: Your very flattering letter arrived and nothing would please me more than to give you what material I can for a column on “letters to the boys.” The mail problem is a real and serious one. The boys serving in these bleak and desolate outposts receive every attention and consideration, which a nation at war *can give them. Their health and welfare is supervised by experts and their training the best a- vailable. But, too often, the strictly personal and intimate stimulant is missing—and this can only come from “the folks back home.” In this war, great units in the front line spend long periods of inactiv ity, and action is intermittent —-violent and complete when it comes. The Issues at stake this time are greater than at any other period In the world’s history, and the war takes on a sort of “Holy Cru sade” appearance. Consequent ly, the men need at all times, to feel that the home front is carrying on. Over and above this they want homely con tacts—they feel so far away— so isolated—they starve for details of every bit of home news. One young lad I know was without mail for several weeks. Finally he received news that he was the father of a baby girl. This man had an added incentive for doing his job> Others get news of much less importance but it means al most as much to them. None of the services are “profes sional” in the old military sense—despite the fact that many are Regulars. They are all citizens—they are all very home-minded. When a mail ship comes in to a post away from home the first question which the signal lights blink out to the newcomer is “have you any mail for us?” If there is, the ship’s work is done with added vigor, and spirits soar. These men are doing a job of work—that it is in their line of duty and must be done goes without saying. We take it for granted that they should make sacrifices—which is as it should be—but we can help them to do their job by letting them know we are thinking of them and “keeping the home fires burning.” And, dear Lytle, if your column can help in getting this thought across to their families and friends, it will be a great thing. As ever, Doug. —Buy Defense Bonds— Better Farming Notes Brief Stories Of Progress From County Farm Agents GOOD CARE MORE AND MORE attention is being given to the proper care of I clothing, as designers, manufac-1 turers and chemists begin the dif- l ficult task of making women’s j clothes attractive without drawing on the materials now limited or unobtainable because of war de mands. * * * PARACHUTISTS TRAINING OF AMERICAN women for duty with parachute troops has begun, according to a story from New York describing Marion Blessing as the first girl to register for parachute training at the Bronx County building. ibmmi.** Primitive Methods Need Not Be Followed in Advertising Be Modern ft ADVERTISE HERE!! i Laurens, C. B. Cannon.—Poultry truck schedules are gathering each Thursday approximately 1000 pounds of poultry. Farmers are well pleased with this system of marketing and are beginning to show interest in baby chicks to increase the flocks. Marion, W. R. Wells, Jr.—Most striking result in the 1941 better arm living program was that 93 arm families established home gardens who showed no gardens in 1940. Marlboro, Colin McLaurin.—The necessary tomato acreage has been subscribed to take care of the Mc- Coll cannery, and applications are being taken to take care of the cannery at Ta<:um. Newberry, P. B. Ezell.—Building of the Borden milk receiving sta tion is well under way, and we will hold 24 milk marketing edu cational meetings in this and ad joining counties. Orangeburg, R. D. Suber.—The County Delegation set up a re volving fund of $10,000 to pur chase cotton seed for farmers for planting purposes. The average germination of cotton seed in the county on tests already run is on ly 45 percent. Pickens, T. A. Bowen.— Our new terracing outfit recently purchas ed by the County Delegation was moved to the field during January and we anticipate a more efficient terracing program in the county since we have this new equipment. Richland, David R. Hopkins.— Farmers are looking ahead pre paring for increased numbers of livestock through which increased grain crops will be market ..l. Hogs, beef cattle, poultry, r. ’ i dairying will all be substantn / increased as a result. Saluda, Claude Rothell.—Fa'•••'- ers with improved pastures i plenty of hay are beginning o accumulate young beef 'S cattle which they willg... :e through the summer. ‘ Sv.mt.er- J. M. Elcazcr.—In our better farm living work we are continuing all that has been stressed in the past—gardens,, whole wheat, poultry, dairy pro ducts, etc., and we are specially stressing two things—rice and syrup. , Williamsburg, R. A. Jackson.— Sweet potatoes that have been cured in tobacco barns converted to curing houses are keeping nice ly. Arrangements have been made to dispose of most of the stock locally. York, L. W. Johnson.—Farmers have shown a very responsive at titude toward producing the sur plus crops for war and the type of cotton needed for war uses. Anderson, T. A. Stallworth.— Cattlemen are wintering their cattle more satisfactorily this year than last. More of them are feeding silage and using a more economical feeding program. Sev eral are planning calf creeps for this spring and summer. Allendale, H. A. Bowers.—During January 2218 bushels of sweet potatoes were sold by farmers for $2466.55 , making an average of $1.11 f. o. b. Allendale county points. Greenwood, T. M. Clyburn.—The local co-op sent members to Sa luda county to study their method of pulpwood sales. Several of our farmers are interested and arfe making plans to supply a “trial” carload shipment. \ V/HAT? W LETTERHEADS OUT! ? WHEN THIS HAPPENS, PHONE US and We’ll Print Some For You In A Hurry!!