McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, January 28, 1943, Image 4
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»*♦ CAROLINA Thursday, January-28, 1943
County FarmefS
Have Taken
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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.
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"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
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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
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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.
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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
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Write Mrs. Bernard Creswell,
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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
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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.
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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'
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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
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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.
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Much farming literature that is
of great price in its potential
alue an be had literally “with
out money and without price.”