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~ i» •* McCORMICK V|h ORWH K so? >iiih im i i i — »*♦ CAROLINA Thursday, January-28, 1943 County FarmefS Have Taken •** * Real Interest Tn Cotton Improvement “All records were smashed in the r*ate 5-acre cotton improvement <'^ntest in 1942 when B. M. Dun- * nil of Pickens county came up wUh 7,505 pounds of lint on § rcres—or three good bales per *■ '•re of Coker 100 Wilt Resistant cotton puling a staple length of t-32 inches,” States H. A. Woodle, Extension Agronomist. Close b^r ? ind him .were L. R. Gilstrap with ”.140 pounds of lint on 5 acres and W. F, Merck with 7,005 pounds, both also from Pickens^ County. McCorinick comity farmers have < a ken an interest in the cotton improvement work all along, ac- -c ordlttg to' County A^ent G. W. Ponfiette, and marked progress is noted In the county. C. E’ Wilkie of this* county was first in : the district ln l93& with a 'production of C,535 poUnds of liht Oii hIS five : "res. . , , , v , .. “A'study of laiets ami" figures relating' to cotton production hi this state in recent years reveals i ome remarkable things*” accord ing to Director D. W. Watkins of the Clemibh College Ex^ei^ibn Servicfe. -4 And, as pointed oilt by a recent tdltorial in The State, “rhis peri od ’ coincides with that during which the state cotton improve ment contest has been conducted by the Clemson Extension Ser vice.’ ” This contest was started in 1926 when The State Company of Co lumbia furnished the $2,000 prize money, and since then, including j 5)43, it has been, financed by the otate T cotton mahtffaCturets’ as- i ociation every year except in 1932 and 1933 wheh there was no contest. During this time 12,000 5-acre fields of cotton in all counties of the state have been entered by farmers and yields carefully checked in each case by tl\e local county agent. The system used in checking has proven uncannily accurate when- checked against ~ctual picking records and addf to the confidence that all have in the basis of awards.' The greatest visible improve- inerits in T cbttdn production have been in yield and staple lehgHis; This is- reflected in records from the contest plots and in the state crop as a whole.' The average acreage In the state from 1922 to 1926 inclusive was 1,976,000 and * the average pro duction was 793,000" bales. Foj the past five years the aveVage acreage has been 1,205,000 and the average number of bales has been 719,000. Thus, On 39 per cent less acreage, the state has produced only 9.3 per cent less cotton. With better cotton seed and bet ter practices in producing the crop, the state is holding its own in cotton production and releasing about three quarters of a million acres of land for food, feeds, and soil building crops, which is a great strategic factor in this time of wa/. Without this adjustment which has been made since 1926, this state could not be measuring up to'the requirements of total war as it is and at the same time maintain its cotton production. But as- great as has been the improveihent in cotton fcrdduction, the improvement in quality ano stapfe his been even mpre spec tacular. Among the cotton con testants themselves in 1926 only 40.8 per cent grew a staple 15-16 inch or longer 1 , while for the past two years', 100 pet cent of the 5-acre plots have redched * that standard. And proof thajtrie lessons learned from these many contest records and from trie experiment station findings are reacrim# the stajU is reflected in figures re leased by trie Agricultural, Market ing service of trie U. . S. D. A. aiid cooperating state ’ experiment sta tions. Thege : show for 1930, ^ the first Vear for which sii’ch'facts are available, that $3.3 per cent bf the cotton in this state prilled 15-16 inch or bettter. While for' 1942. 99.5 per cent of trie SoUth Caro lina crop pullet! that much or bet ter, And .for cottori of ' inch or longer stapfe, this state leari its neighbors by a wide margin as follows: South Carolina 85.6 per cent. North Carolina 69.5 per cent. Georgia 50.9 per cent, and Ala bama 35.8 per cent. # “In all of this, points out Direc tor Watkins, “the cotton breeders of the state played a vital role by supplying us with better and better cotton. The experiment stations and all other agricultural agencies in the state have made their contributions to this re markable story of agricultural progress. Twenty years ago the boll weevil threatened the cotton industry here. Everyone girded to meet that challenge and in 1942 it took three bales per acre to win the state contest, where a bale to the acre was considered a high yield before the weevil came. This shows what can be done on the agricultural • front when all forces work together on v a prob lem/* concludes Director Watkins. T» ■- S "Meet the People . (Each week in this space will be presented a picture and word portrait of someone whose name Is news.) • Wiley Blount Rutledge, named to succeed James F. Byrnes, became the first justice of the U. S. Supreme court to be selected by President Roosevelt from the federal judici ary. He had served since 1939 as an associate justice of the Court of Appeals for the Dis trict of Columbia. • Little known outside of legal circles, the 48-year-old Kentucky-born jurist is a graduate of the University of Colorado law school. He practiced law in Boulder, Colo., then returned to the university to teach. He has also served as dean at Washington university in St. Louis and at the University of Iowa law school e Considered as a successor to the late Jus tice Cardozo, Justice Rutledge recommended that Felix Frankfurter be chosen instead. A Democrat, Justice Rutledge is in accord with the President’s social and political views. Wiley Blount Rutledge ' French Officers Honor War Dead at Dakar v;;: m w '■m m -to, S-.SM -<v wmi rzm UMf-ki Ipill i ■'* , ,\./- SMM French and Senegalese soldiers who died tn action in the First World war were honored recently at Dakar, French North Africa, by these French officials. They are, left to right. Gov. Gen. Pierre Boisson, ad ministrator of East Africa; General Giraud, Admiral Glassford, senior ’Timber of the special Amcimission at Dakar, and Gen. Jeai iiarrau, commander c." army, a!: . nr! naval forc co in Freft^h West Africa This is the first picture to ccaie out of Dakar in more than two years. Credit for Dependents i A taxpayer is entitled to a cred it for each person other than hus band or wife, whether related to him or not, and whether living with him or not, who during the taxable year was dependent upon and received his chief support from the taxpayer, provided the de pendent was either (a) under 18 years of age, or (b) incapable of self-support because mentally or physically defective. The credit for dependents is based upon ACTUAL FINANCIAL DEPENDENCY and not mere legal dependency. It’ is not necessary that the dependent be related to the taxpayer, but the ’ taxpayer must have provided more than one-half of the support, or there is no dependency. The term “mentally or physical ly defective’* includes not only those' who are mentally afflicted ind physically crippled, • but also persons who, by reason of old or mpaired health, are incapabe of ^elf-support. The state of mental ir physical defect need not be of a permanent nature, blit if it ex isted for only a portion of the vear, then the credit for depend ent can be claimed only for triat oortion of the year durihg which the dependent was supported by the taxpayer. A person may not acquire a credit for dependent by reason of support of a nerson oualifying a^ a dependent if, as a result of such support, he acquires a head of family exemption, but may ac quire a credit for dependent by reason of additional persons qual ifying as ’ dependents, whom he supports. Thus, if a person "laims head of a family exemp tion on account of support of an aged mother or father, incapable of self-support or a child, he would not be entitled to a credit for such dependent; but if he supported more than one such person he could claim credit for such additional persons provided they were under 18 years of age or incapable of self-support. Credits for dependents may not be divided between two persons filing separate returns, but must be taken by the one contributing the chief support. A credit for dependents may be claimed by a father who provides the support for his children living with his divorced wife, if the support is provided as a result of a court decree or as the result of an agreement between husband and wife. The credit for dependent, al lowable to a taxpayer filing on Form 1040, is $350, and is propor tionate with the number of months of dependency. Thus for a child bom on July 1, the credit allowable would be $17 r (for six months), and if a child became 18 years of age on July 1 the credit allowable would be $175. One-half a month or less is not counted as a month; more than one-half a month is counted as a month in calculating the credit. A credit of $385 for each depen dent on July 1 of the year i allowable to a taxpayer using Simplified Form 1040A. X Unrestricted Liver Extremely High In Food Essential? America’s Biggest War Plantir' It’s The American Farm Voluntary meat sharing and var-time restrictions of meat sun -lies offer a challenge to th^ homemaker’s ingenuity in marr- ’aining her health standard of a? least one meal of meat per day. At least one meal of meat ever’' day can be served with the aid of meat extenders, such as gravie' ->,nd stuffings, and through use of ■he variety meats which are un restricted, states Jessie Alice C r e. home economist. Among f me ariety meats, liver is a par i ’arly wise choice, she says. 'r beef, pork, lamb and veal 1 ver are high in food value. Long regarded as an impc '"t food in the treatment of r T i- tional anemia, liver is start T Iv high in the amounts of d ~ 'ry ssentials which an average ' v- ng provides. For example, ur >unces of liver provide the "al- * owing percentages of one <’ ay’s requirements for a moderately ac- *ive man: Protein, 28 per cent; calori s, 5 per cent; calcium, 1 per cent; phosphorus, 34 per cent; iron, 113 per cent; vitamin A, 462 per cent; th ! amine or vitamin B, 21 per cent; riboflavin or vitamin B2, 117 per cent; niacin, 102 per cent; If you wanted to see America’? biggest war plant, you wouldn’' look in some crowded industria city. Instead, you would find i outside any American town—out beyond the city limits in the oper country where the fields and pas tures are. You would find no belching smokestacks, nor armed guards at the factory gates. Bu? there it is—the biggest war plant of all—the American Farm! You never see much of the farm plant at one time. But imagine, if you can, a great bustling fac tory covering more than a million and a half square miles. That’s 56 per cent of all America’s land area. In one piece, without any space left for'towns arid cities, it would reach from Canada to Mexico, from the Rockies to the Appalachians. Field, farm wood lands, pasture—our land sown to crops albne is larger than all of Germany, Italy, and Japan com bined. * j This war plant is so large that i|s size fools most people. But it covers a billion acres of land, and it requires 30 million workers - fho pl*nt operating a< full capacity. It must be kept ope^aung, however, for it’s a vital part of the war effort—every bit as important as the plant that turns out munitions arid the im plements of war. Victory can’t b^ won without the food and fiber which the soil and the people produce together. Like all other war industries, agriculture is shooting at certain specific' targets th^Se 1 day&. The argets are the agricultural pro- luction goals for 1943. They are he most accurate measures • poS- ible of what America needs from he farm this year, plus the needs f our allies. The sufn of these ;eeds is an order for history’s reatest agricultural productivity. Let’s take a look at some of the 943 national goals: Nearly five billion eggs—enough o make 398,000' stacks of egg ases, each as high as the Wash- ngton monument. At least 122 billion pounds of milk. That’s 57 billion quarts, or an average of about 438 quarts or every person in the United States. More than 39 million cattle and waives for slaughter—enough to make a double line around the world at the equator. About 24 million sheep arid lambs. That would joe enough meat to fill a freight trafti of re frigerator cars with its locomotive *in Chicago and its caboose in New Orleans. Nearly four billion pounds of peanuts—enough' to' fill more' thdn 14,000 tank cars with peanut oil More than 17 billion potirids of pork and lard—enough to fill a ’procession of box cars ■ in • three lines, reaching from New York to 3an Francisco. And those are just ^ few of the needs. Farmers of McCormick County are being called upon to produce their share of this huge order. The call for the production of 4,511,000 pounds of milk and 237,- 270 dozen eggs, to mention only a a few of the goals. WANT ADV. LOST—High school ring. Class r >3S. Initials A. G. W. Reward. Write Mrs. Bernard Creswell, Parksville, S. C. AT FIRST SION OF A USE 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS READ THE AD$ Along With the News and vitamin C. 27 per cent. The figures for vitamins are for he cooked meat, and allow for vitamin loss due to cooking. As far as is now known, there is no loss of minerals in cooking. Other unrestricted variety meats which are highly nutritious are brains, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, | and tongue. It is both patriotic | and good judgment to supplement your regular meats by serving va- j riety meats at least twice each | week. ! Gen. Eichelberger Inspects Native Carriers rMm i’i ■m$ m I ‘ 0 4 £' : m f uSkiP'-m;** vV ? • ^ « i-'-l "■ "•')# 7,<; w? ?. v,, -r. ifM % V p* ^ >vi§s ’ ~ -mmmm H-.- -a WS\ 1 Gen/ Robert . Eichelberger, commander of the Ametfcan forces oa the Buna front fn New Gaines, to Shewn ss he inspected s group of native- oarHers who aid the AmerifMtn soldfers in transporting supplies. His ■ten have remonstrated witih him for the risks he takfcs In going right to thfe firltogTine, where he uses a tommy gun to Kichelberger was ooinmaiMfarit of the U. 8. As Long as It Isn’t a Pleasure in u ira m Hii IB * % ■ t t . Sfi-. - ■ t . • •• ~ - ;-y --.J, ' ? > v. 1 ■ - ■ ? • * ._ • - . • .4- 'i; :: r. X? a* * o- . - r ’im i If Sunday driving is a chore and no pleasure, then all right. A motorcycle patrolman examines the papers of a New Yorker after stop*; ping him on Pulasky Skyway. The driver was en route to'Kfearhy to work and was permitted to proceed. Police authorities and OPA agents worked together to enforce the ban on Sunday pleasure driving in'the Ekst. Supplies Arrive at Malta' ii ai - ■ (mm || •• • In spite of all that the Axis can do, the Brttfsh manage to IrooE their base at Malta supplied with food, ammunition, and other neccw*^ ties. Here native stevedores are shown carrying ashore supplies taint) from a convoy by a barge. , Testify in Hard Coal Strike r'- ■' lir 'M. . i ■ . .y . ■ : v - S k • • V . < 5 ^ tb#.' in > : xV- xi’-y : President John L. Lewis and other officials of the United Min* Workers union as they appeared before the War Labor board to explain why 15,000 anthracite miners struck. The matter was later placed in President Kooscvcit’s hands. Photo shows, left to right, Thomas Ken- nedv, secretary, UMW. Percy T-'.low, president of District 17, and Johi L. Lewis, in coaftrciice before the hearing opened. “We are indeed blessed that we are still able to till our fen 1 fields in safety. Let us resolve t3 share our blessings with our : .3 fortunate Allies by producing e - > y ounce of nourishment that • \r American earth will yield. C ar brand of ‘total war’ requires a three-way team: the armed forces, industry, and the farmers.”— —Major General William H. Cimpson, commanding Twelfth Army Corps. X Much farming literature that is of great price in its potential alue an be had literally “with out money and without price.”