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McCORMICK MESSENGER. M.-< UKMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 15, 1943 Commissioner Loans Continue Available To Farmers Land Bank Commissioner loans, ““’hich are made to farmers by the federal land banks as agents for n ie Land Bank Commissioner, will continue to be availablet to farmers according to T. G. Duckett, Secre tary-Treasurer of the national farm loan associations serving Abbeville, Greenwood, Edgefield, r nd McCormick Counties through their joint office at Greenwood, South Carolina. “Applications for these loans are handled by our associations just as applications for loans made by the Federal Land Bank of Columbia are handled”, Mr. Duckett said. Tlie Act authorizing the making of these loans for an additional period of two years has been rigned by President Roosevelt. Commissioner loans were orginal- anthorized in 1933 and are usually made to farmers upon the '.ecurity of first and second mort gages on farms. According to Mr. Duckett, most of these loans are made as second mortgage loans in connection with land bank loans and are permitted up to 75 per cent of the appraised normal agricultural value of the farm where that much credit is needed, and is justified by the security. Loans to any one farm er may not exceed $7,500.00. Or dinarily, they are made for 10 to 20 years with annual or semi-an nual payments on the principal retiring the loan by the end of the period. “Commissioner loans fill a real need in farm financing”, Mr. Duckett said. “They have enabled hundreds of farmers in the terri tory served by the Greenwood of fice to consolidate their indebted ness at lower rates of interest and begin getting out of debt. They have also helped tenants BUY AT BELK’S — IN AUGUSTA — JULY CLEARANCE NOW GOING ON Solve all your shopping problems at Belk’s. Save time, money and a lot of trouble in trying to find what you want. Belk’s big $400,000 stock affords you a wide range of choice. We have everything you need. DISHES AND NOVELTY POTTERY Values up to $1.50 Do you own a Truck? That’s all you need to get into this vital war industry. O 3c and 5c With purchase of other merchandise 40,000 dishes and pottery in stock to select from. / BELK WHITtfW* 845 Broad St. I 4 * NE of the things Uncle Sam needs most i right now is pulpwood. Pulpwood has many wartime uses. Many that you think of right away, like paper containers for food, supplies and am-1 munition. Many more m you wouldn’t think of, like rayon parachutes, smokeless powder and ^cellulose surgical dress- ings. ( r £ jj? Production of pulp- . wood is now recognized ■ as an essential war in- A Message from Donald M. Nelson r Chairman, War Production Board «... "If every one of the more then 3,800,000 formers in the 27 pulpwood producing states were to devote three extra days in 1943 to cutting pulpwood, we/ could overcome the threatened 2,500,000 cord shortage with wood to spare/! dustry. If you can help, your government urges you to do so. Cut pulpwood on your own land, or make an arrangement with one of your neighbors who may have woodland and not be able to cut it. Get in touch with the dealer listed below. He will give you prices and specifications. If you need help in getting an increased gasoline ration \ to handle this work, or draft deferment for yourself or one of your men, he will tell you how to go about it. See him today. Get ? started as soon as you f can. Undo Sam needs Rabon-Gap Nacoochee Junior College Offers Courses in Secretarial Science Home Economics ; v "Teacher Training Agriculture For WORK SCHOLARSHIPS covering entire expense write now Address: Registrar, Rabun Gap, Ga. FOR REAL BARGAINS IN * MEMORIAL WORK write ELBERTON CITY GRANITE CO. P. 6. Box 521 Elberton, Georgia WE SPECIALIZE IN MARKERS, MONU MENTS AND COPING CM Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. *•' McCormick, S. C. J^fccrt pulpwood.j we PAY OUR DEALERS TOP PISE PULPWOOD CEIUN<TPRICES R. M. WINN, PLUM BRANCH, S. C WEST VIRGINIA PULP AND PAPER COM PANY, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA to become farm owners and dur ing the lean years made it possi ble for many other farmers to keep farms they would have lost had such loans not been avail able.” July Livestock Notes In midsummer livestock need careful attention, says County A- gent G. W. Bonnette, who makes these timely suggestions for July. Animal Husbandry 1. Keep hogs grazing on green forage. 2. Arrange to turn hogs on corn when it is in the glazed stage. 3. Reserve some perma nent pasture to be grazed by beef cattle in late fall and early win ter. 4.- Creep-feed the beef calves, using threshed oats and other home-raised grains. 5. Feed the workstock three times a day. 6. Change pastures for livestock if possible. 7. Provide shade and fresh water for all classes of live stock. 8. Observe the livestock for screwworm infestation and give treatment, if necessary. Dairying 1. Mow pastures frequently. 2. Destroy breeding places for f ies, and use skimmilk-formaldeliyde poison (1 gallon of skimmir, 1 pint of 40 pet cent formalin, 1 pint of molasses) in shallow pans to kill flies. 3. As milk produc tion falls off, supplement pas ture with hay or silage ano al- anced grain mixture. 4. Fe ri up to two pounds of grain dai y to growing stock to maintain n rnal growth. 5. Keep milk or cream sold for manufacturing pu:ses in barrel or tub of cold we.i or spring water. 6. Get Extension Circular 157, The Family I airy Cow, for use in production of home milk supply. Poultry 1. Keep mash before laying hens; it helps to keep their bodies cool and stimulates egg produc tion. 2. Reduce feed cost by culling non-layers and not by re ducing feed. 3. Keep a grain feed before the pullets and don’t start feeding a laying mash until the birds are at least five months old. 4. If troubled with roup or chicken pox in past years, vac cinate pullets when two to four months old. X Card Of Thanks We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to our many friends who were so kind to us during our recent bereavement. Mrs. W. S. Arrington, And Children. -X- Card Of Thanks Please allow me space in your valuable columns to extend my heartfelt thanks to my relatives, friends and neighbors for the many kindnesses shown me dur ing my recent illness. I also want to thank Dr. Fuller and nurses for their faith fulness and kindness to me while in hospital. T. M. Dorn, And Family. People Here Holding On To War Bonds The purchasers of War Bonds in this county and all over the nation are holding on to them, a report to the County War Savings Committee discloses. Only 4 per cent of the amount of money invested in War Bonds between May 1, 1941, and May 31, 1943, has been redeemed by the holders, meaning that 96 per cent of the money remains in vested. This report, from the United States Treasury, was forwarded to the committee here by W. P. Bowers, State War Bond Admini strator. The Treasury’s report shows that from May, 1941, through May, 1943, the people of the U- nited States invested IT 1-2 bil lions of dollars in Series E, F and G bonds. They have asked only 700 millions of it back in the form of redemptions. The record on Series E—thp people’s bond—is almost as good. Between May, 1941, and May, 1943, sales of these bonds a- mounted to 11 3-10 billions of dollars, cf which only 623 mil lions, or 5.5 per cent, have been cashed in. Mr. Bowers points out that the Treasury’s report to him is its refutation of reports that the cashing-in of bends had been on a large scale. “These figures show that such reports are entirely without foundation,” the administrator said. “The cashing-in of bonds has been extremely small in re lation to the total purchases.” X The 1-1-1 Mixture Kills Vetch Worm Clemson. July 10.—Many farm ers who like to grow vetch and crimson clover for soil building, seed, or livestock feed, will wel come an announcement from Pickens county with reference to the successful use of the 1-1-1 mixture to control vetch worms. The announcement comes in a letter from T. A. Bowen, veteran ' Pickens county agent, to W. C. | Nettles, extension entomologist, and reads in part: “I went out to Mr. Looper’s y^s- ! terday afternoon to check on t he poisoning of the army worm (c-rn earworm with marching haM-). His opinion is that the 1-1-1 p i r ' n ; mixture we made up did thr ; >b of killing the worms. He f ur.d as .>< three dead worme un der m '-otton stalk in runy ir • 'he field. He also ap- nr-on to his corn field rn hardly tell now that the corn was attacked. The 1-1-1 poison was more effective than anything else used. We have had another outbreak and I recom mended the same treatment but have not checked on the result yet.” , T “For years the Extension Service has acfvised that vetch or crimson clover should not be grown adja cent to crops which might be in fested,” says Mr. Nettles. “The average person growing vetch for seed rarely runs into serious worm damage and this should not deter persons from growing vetch. Vetch and crimson clover plowed under for soil building early have never been known to produce serious earworm damage. “Special recommendations may be found for tobacco growers in the 55th Annual report of the South Carolina Experiment Sta tion. It should be pointed out that the 1-1-1 mixture was not included i in these experiments to control j earworms on tobacco as they came ! from vetch.” X “Those who loyally stay on the farm must be given a price for their commodities that will per mit them to compete with w r ages paid to labor in war plants. This would enable the farmer to main tain a just relationship between the commodities he sells and those he must purchase. He would also be in a position to hold on to the skilled farm help.” —Edward A. O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau. pi’- mf: “Peace, both internal aad in ternational, has its best hope where all can have enough to eat.”—Walter Locke in Atlanta Journal. Put every dollar above the ^ necessities of life into War 'Bonds. Payroll Savings is the best means of doing your best in helping your sons and friends on the fighting fronts. Fig ure it out yourself.