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% ■ l McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, October 15, 1942 •cGORHDCK MESSENGER fc, VwM t ** Mbllshed Every Thuredey .bllshed Jane S. ItM U- ■DMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor mad Owner at the Pest Oftiee at Mc- Oarmlck, S. C M as uaU matter of fhe second class. * DESCRIPHOtC RA" jSS: ■jut Year mm. Months .75 Three Months — M Garden Work For October Shogoin turnip is an excellent ^getable and all gardeners are wrged to try it this fall. Do not forget to plant Tendergreen or amstard spinach. Both of these vegetables will stand lots of hot, fry weather and are very vigor- •srs growers when the season is srf all favorable. Experiences of srmie gardeners indicate that they are also resistant to plant lice. Gather the mature lima beans every week and store them away for winter use. Continue cultivation in the gar den to promote continuous ten- SBrt* growth, which is so desirable. Are you growing,your own cab- ftage plants for early spring set- EtaB? Seed should be sown by the end of September or early October in open furrow. Do not ■he a fertilizer having an excess «f nitrogen, which will develop ■cry tender plants. Work out the strawberry patch M this has not already been done. Ctesivate thoroughly and ferti- fise immediately with a 5-7-5 fertilizer. Street potatoes should be dug first frost. The prevalent that the vines should be before the potatoes are dbg is unsound. Make plans to •aefeet your seed at digging time. Lettuce sown in Cold frames will ftee a late fall crop. Kale is one of the hardiest crops we have for greens. Seed sown wow will supply the kitchen from Mcrvember until well into the spring. ' Mature green tomatoes properly just before the frost kills leaves will furnish slicing to matoes far into the winter. Cul tivate and fertilize the vines now and keep them healthy until frost. Nitrate of soda may be desirable. Make Plantings of the Follow ing: Onions (seed)—Yellow Globe Danvers, Prizetaker, White Pearl, Australian Brown. Onions (sets)—Yellow Globe Danvers, Prizetaker, White Pearl, Australian Brown. Cabbage (seed)—Charleston i Wakefield vr.rtety for frostproof plants. Kale—Siberian Curled. Sow seed one-half inch deep; one ounce to 100 feet, rows 2 1-2 feet; thin plants three to five inches apart in drill. Transplant lettuce to frame and garden—Big Boston, Migonette, and New York are good varieties. Radishes—Scarlet Globe and Rapid Forcing. Parsley—Moss Curled. Mustard—Giant Southern Curl ed. Turnip—Seven top and Shogoin (for salad). Spinach—Aragon, Virginia Sav oy, and Bloomdale. Matilda Bell, Co. Home Dem. Agent. X Plowing Down Wee vils Pays Many Times Over stalks stand until after frost. “When you figure that one pair of boll weevils that live through the winter can—under favorable conditions—add 12 million weevils to the weevil population by next fall any simple farming practice that kills 18 out of 19 weevils pays for itself many times over,” Mr. Nettles declares. “And what those specialists found out at the Pee Dee Experi ment Station is borne out by practical experience. Those farm ers who destroy cotton stalks in the fall, especially where there is community action in the mat ter, have less trouble with weevils the next season. “So, with the prospect of some handicaps as to poison and pois oning equipment in controlling the boll weevil next summer, de stroy your cotton stalks now, as soon as you finish picking cotton.” X Cottonseed Pool Can Aid Farmers, Ginners ‘You Don’t Know Nothin’ Yet’ Clemson, Oct. 10.—For many years, some cotton farmers have plowed under cotton stalks right after cotton picking to help keep down weevil damage the next year. Now that there’s an uncertainty about calcium arsenate, dusting machinery, and labor for next year, other cotton farmers may be interested in the facts about how effective destruction of stalks is in keeping down weevils, says W. C. Nettles, entomologist of the Clemson College Extension Ser vice. At the Pee Dee Experiment Sta tion at Florence, cotton insect specialists of the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station and the United States Department of Agriculture checked the num ber of weevils that lived through last winter under various condi tions. C:i fields where they cut the st&lks before October 15, they found ionly one weevil to every 19 weevils where they let the Clemson, Oct. 3.—The present method of cottonseed grading, made mandatory by the President and the War Production Board, may cause either the farmer or the ginner to lose money on seed transactions, H. A. White, of the South Carolina Experiment Sta tion at Clemson, said here today. Everything would be well if the grade of seed could be determined when the farmer brings his cotton to the gin, but the seed must be sent to a licensed chemist for analysis, taking about a week for their value to be known. So gin ners base their prices on grade averages for the previous week. The oil mill price is fixed at $50 per ton for carload lots of seed grading 100; seed deviating in quality therefrom must be bought accordingly. Ginners are allowed a spread of $3 per ton, which means that the base price to farmers for wagonload lots is $47. If excess moisture or other un desirable qualities caused seed handled last week to average only 90 per cent in grade, ginners would now be paying $42 a ton, or $3 less than 90 per cent of the basic oil mill price. Should such seed later prove to be worth $47 at oil mills, their price at the gin should have been $44. Thus the farmer loses $2 per ton, yet the The Automotive Mechanic of Yesterday Is the VICTORY SERVICE MAN of Today Help him to help you ."SAVE THE WHEELS THAT SERVE AMERICA” by getting a skilled service check-up regularly Take the word of millions: MORE PEOPLE GO TO CHEVROLET DEALERS FOR SERVICE than to any other dealer organisation Just how important the auto motive mechanic’s work is to the nation will be clear to all who consider the following facts*: # Automobiles and trucks form the sole practicable means of transpor tation for war workers and war materials in many communities throughout America. O In some sections, 78% to 100% of the workers drive by automobile to vital war plants. # 2,314 U. S. cities, with a popu lation of 12,524,000, depend on private cars for transportation; 54,000 communities depend en tirely on motor vehicles. e Six out of every ten farms use one car or more; 67% of farm car mileage is necessity driving. • More than 65.2% of all war plants reporting in Michigan (a typical war production state) depend on trucks to haul their incoming and outgoing freight. • Trucks haul nearly 100% of the milk supply of most large cities— and 58% of all livestock marketed in the U. S. • Trucks are the sole transportation system serving our 54,000 com munities not reached by railroads. The automotive mechanic—the trained Chevrolet Victory Service Man—is the lifeguard of America’s millions of cars and trucks. Help him to help you and America by getting a skilled service check-up at regular intervals. *AII itatements bated on reporfi compHod by the Michigan State 1 Highway Department and the Statistical Department of A. M. A. HEADQUARTERS FOR VICTORY SERVICE ON ALL MAKES OF CARS AND TRUCKS McGRATH MOTOR CO.. INC THE HOUSE OF HAZARDS —by Mac Arthur V McCORMICK. S. C v-a ginner is afraid to give him a rebate for fear that next time the situation may be reversed. Often it does work the other way to such an extent that some ginners threaten to stop buying cottonseed. Such a thing happen ing would make it hard for farm ers to market their seed. To avoid losses from grade dif ferences, it is suggested that pa trons of cotton gins put their cottonseed in a weekly pool, not asking for a settlement until the ginner has received a return on their seed grade. If the need for cash makes this impossible, the ginner might work out a plan whereby he would pay only a safe portion of the theoretical price, say 80 or 90 per cent, ac cording to his previous experience during the season. Certainly this would be better than buying hap hazardly and would insure against losses to either the farmer or the ginner, Mr. White concludes. xx Six Inch Sermon THINK VOU'ftt SMART? Take your pencil in hand and try your skill at either or both of ifco simple tasks outlined above. For Figure Folk, take a number from 1 tc 4 ? and draw anything around it. For the Thin Man, just draw hi™ dole®, anything you please—running, walking, working, playing, etc. BY REV. ROBERT H. HARPER Growth in Christ. Lesson for October 18: Luke 2:- 40, 52; II Peter 1:1-8. Golden Text: II Peter 3:18. The hour when man first be lieves must be followed by the good things that spring from faith. Growth is a law of life. And there is abundant assurance of growth in Christ. For growth is the order of things, not only in things without us but also in things spiritual within us. The lesson begins with the ex ample of a child, no less a child than Jesus of Nazareth. Think! of the blessed growth of that Child and of what he became. Then we have Peter’s words to others of like faith concerning the possibility of spiritual growth. Having the foundation of “all things that pertain unto life and godliness,” which the divine pow er has granted, also great prom ises through which those who have escaped from the corruption of the world may become par takers of the divine nature, men are admonished to add to faith virtue, and on through the log ical sequence of growth in grace, which Peter traces. “For if these things are yours and abound,” Peter writes, “they make you to be not idle nor un fruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” > ' Let us then use every means of grace that we may confirm and strengthen our faith and daily “grow in grace” toward the per fect man, and ministering to our growth by ministering unto others. Primitive Methods Need Not Be Followed in Advertising Be Modem ADVERTISE HEREM