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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, May 10, 1945 McCORMICK MEBSENG! fetored at the Past Office at Me- Oamlck, 8. C* m nil niter af the second elaaa. Pabllshed Beery Thanday f' BaUbliahed June $, ISM BDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor sad Owner BUBSOftimON RATES: One Tear $1.00 a lx Months .75 fhree Months .90 Another Big Farm Production Drive Starts By L. C. ELLIOTT, President La Salle Extension University. May 7. a • -4 A S ALLIED fighting men stamp out the last sparks of Nazi re sistance, another drive of vital im portance opens on the home front of American farms. The nee^ for vast quantities of food is more ur gent than ever. The farmers of this land are responding to that need with all die resources and ingenu ity at their disposal. Still de prived of adequate help and ample machinery, a “close - to - record" acreage will be seeded for most crops, and the outlook is good. Early prospects have improved although cold weather a month ago damaged fruit trees in some places and slowed down the first growth of crops in other places. Hay crops and pastures have had an excellent start and the indications are for a winter wheat crop that will break all records. In some sections farms have had to contend with serious floods but these have not greatly affected the major agricul tural regions. The 1945 farm production goal has been set for a total output some what greater than the record- breaking quantities of food that were produced in 1944. If that goal is reached, and current reports in- xiicate that it may be, this year will be the seventh consecutive one in which farmers have produced more than in the preceding year. During that period the annual in crease has been from 3 to 12 per cent in the total produced, although some individual crops or kinds of livestock have fallen off at times. Seldom in our history has there been such a long period of steady -advance without any interruption -because of poor crops. In achieving these remarkable results the farm youth have con tributed much, while their old er brothers and sisters were away on the far-flung battlefields in all parts of the world. Considerably .over 2,000,000 boys and girls on vie farms have been organized in 4-H clubs. Future Farmers of America, the Ford Farm Youth foundation, and similar groups whose aim is to provide excellent training for the young peoples and to help them prepare to become most efficient farmers. These boys and girls are active ly working on individual farm projects of their own in these or ganizations. Each year they have raised large quantities of produce of many kinds and large numbers of livestock. In their Victory gar- dens last year they produced over 5,000,000 bushels of vegetables; in poultry projects they had over 9,- ’000,000 birds; in animal raising projects they cared for 100,000 dairy cattle and close to 1,000,000 bead of livestock. These activities were in addition to their usual tasks of helping with the general work on the farm. Plans for this year call for still greater achievements by the farm youth who will do their part—and more—in carrying out the huge food production program. At the same time the young people, through their initiative on individual projects, are further training and equipping themselves for carrying greater re sponsibilities in the postwar world. They will help to make the future prospects for agriculture even more promising. The large increase per acre pro duction of food has been due to the improved seeds which farmers have been planting, an example is the use of hybrid corn which was planted last year on most of the com acreage, and in the leading corn producing states was planted over 90 per cent. As a result the total crop was larger than ever before but it was produced on several million fewer acres than were cultivated several years ago. Other examples are the new dis ease and rust-resistant varieties of wheat which are outproducing those varieties that were devel oped only a few years ago. These new varieties not only resist smut and rust better, but also are harmed less by insects and other crop hazards. Many of them stand up better in drouth. More farmers ’ are discovering each year that the use of the best obtainable seed, as well as im proving n ethods of tilling and har vesting, increases their incomes. The additional cost is a very profit able investment. Farmers are receiving larger in comes than ever before because they have more to sell, are reduc ing their costs in every way they can through more efficient manage ment, and are selling at prices far better than they could, get a few years ago. This larger income is helping to keep up business in rural areas where merchants are sell ing more goods, especially goods of better quality. Business condi tions in most small towns and coun try districts are more prosperous than they have been for many years. While conditions on farms and in towns throughout the farming re gions have been improving, the in dustries in the larger cities are also keeping up the high rate of pro duction. Government spending for war purposes is being main tained at close to $8,000,000,000 monthly, and this enormous de mand maintains employment at a high level. For farmers as for most city peo ple the trend is favorable and the accomplishments this year are like ly to surpass all records. Even the readjustments of the postwar period are looked forward to hope fully. They will be faced with the same confidence and courage that have already accomplished so much. Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrist Specialist in correcting Errors of Sight, Eye Headaches, and Crossed IggN Eyes. . Eyes Thoroughly Examined the Modern Way with out dangerous—Pupil Dialating Drops. Reference, ask your friends about my Reputation. Offices, 956-956 1-2 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. "Sure, I could use a new car as soon as the war is over." "But let’s face facts: I may not get a new car for 2 or 3 years after victory i It’s tough, but.. “After all, my Gulf man’s on my side! And he says if I treai my car regularly with Gulf- pride* and Guiflex**, it can last well beyond V-Day!” "What’s more, I believe him, because I know he gives the finest lubrication I can get anywhere! Yes, sir. I’m bet ting my car will last!” "GULFPRIDE FOR YOUR MOTOR An oil that’s TOUGH in capital letters ... protects against carbon and sludge! “GULFLiX FOR YOUR CHASSIS Knocks out friction at up to 39 vital chassis points! Protection plus! —Buy War Savings Stamps— SIPIIIS DISPOSAL POSES POST™ POOBll r HiGH RETURN, MARKET STABILITY SOUGHT IN SALE OF WAR GOODS } * By A1 Jedlicka When the U. S. treasury turned over disposal of its sur plus war property to the department of commerce, Secre tary Henry A. Wallace was entrusted with a task of grow ing importance in the nation’s economy. For the moment, of course, the^ - comparatively little surplus war property entering the market offers no problem in view of tha tremen dous pent-up demand for much of the material. But when industry swings back to peacetime produc tion in the postwar period, and sur plus war property begins to be come increasingly available, the task of realizing something dn it without disrupting normal trade will test the ingenuity of public of ficials. Against 6 billion dollars of sur plus from the last war, there is ex pected to be no less than 100 billion on V-Day, although perhaps no more than 10 billion of this will be in serviceable consumer goods. Seeking to avoid the haphazard dis posal of excess material of the first war with its attendant scandals, the Surplus Property board has formu lated an overall business-like pol icy aimed at sound merchandising of goods, after which the commerce department has patterned its opera tions. In handling the disposal of the bulk of surplus consumer and mis cellaneous goods, the commerce de partment has employed experi enced industry representatives to take charge of marketing the ma terial through analysis and proce dure best designed to command a respectable price. In this respect, much attention has been given to the adequate description of available merchan dise in catalogues covering furni ture. machinery, automotive equip ment. pap^r and office supplies, medical anff surgical goods, textiles and wearing apparel and hardware. Issued ’monthly upon application, these catalogues go to thousands of distributors, jobbers and dealers. Though there is more than a ready market for all these cate gories of goods right now. the sur plus merchandisers sometimes find their ingenuity taxed for the dis posal of odd pieces of material with particular war purposes. For in stance, there is a problem of cre ating a market for such nonde script items as wooden waterproof bomb containers, metal field radio boxes and grooved spools used for booby trap wires. That markets can be created, however, is evi denced by the recent sale of rub ber life rafts to a clothing house for sale to sportsmen, and the dis posal of paper gun targets to a toy manufacturer for a postwar game. Although the majority of sales of surplus goods have been disposed of through sealed bids based upon catalogue information, material also has been sold at open auc tions. In most cases, the goods have gone to the highest bidders, thus favoring jobbers or dealers with bigger ceilings than distribu tors; but in some instances where limited supplies of merchandise are available, distributors buying in larger lots have been preferred in conformance with sound business practice. The present system of disposing of goods is a far cry from the slip shod methods employed after the last war. Whereas collusion could prevail at isolated auctions or per sons could deliberately run up bids for profitable resale to competitors then, experienced business men now check upon the reliability of the prospective buyers, and the , wide distribution of catalogues and • other information assures a bigger market and resultant better price. • During March when sales totaled • S3.023.573. purchasers included the ; Elastic Stop Nut corporation of i Union. N. J.. 2.421 elastic stop nuts; the Railway Supply and Manufac turing company of Cincinnati. Ohio. ; 5.118 mattresses: Sears. Roebuck ’ and company of Chicago. 111.. 60.000 steel - drums: Acme Mills company of Detroit. Mich.. 20.700,000 first aid : dressings; Central Sales and Ma- • chinery of Milwaukee, Wis., 3 pav- • ers and spreaders; Bonita Ribbon Mills of Brewton. Ala., 62.2m bags ’ of cork stoppers; Held & McCoy of. * Denver. Colo.. 4 tractor compres- ! sor and grader attachments, and . Western Asbestos company of San Francisco. Calif., 8.601 yards of - fiberglass cloth. In discussing surplus property • disposal, Deputy Director Fred A. McLauchlan of the Chicago, 111., re- • gional office, declared that pur- ‘ chase of such goods was an under- • taking only for experienced mer- : chandisers. “This talk of surplus property • gets into the wind and looks good : to everybody,” he said. “In real- • ity, however, it is no business for ? inexperienced business people who ^ are unfamiliar with markets, for * unless there is a good demand for i merchandise which a buyer may ' purchase at a fair price now, he may find himself stuck with the | material on his hands at a time i when the same goods are put up for surplus sale at a lower price , later. , “At the same time, consumers ‘ should not expect to get surplus ; goods at bargain prices, either,” ! Mr. McLauchlan continued. “After ; all, what the government realizes ; on its sales of such goods goes to- • ward the erasure of some of the I high cost of the war. “The important thing is for con- • sumers to know that serviceable surplus goods are available so that they might' put pressure on the ■ local dealer for such merchandise i and he, in turn, might query his ‘ supplier about such stocks. In that > way, we get a good even distribu- ' tion of surplus property.” ; n BEne DIHRIBOnON GOAL OF !HT PROBLEM April 30. SEEK TO EVEN SUPPLY; CRUSH I BLACK MARKETS < T i Subsidies Are Increased to : Aid Packers. i ! — More even distribution of supplies throughout the coun try, a vigorous prosecution j of the black market and as surance of profitable pack ing operations are the goals of the new meat program developed by the Office of Economic Stabilization in conjunction with other gov- j ernment agencies. ; To net packers an additional ' $34,000,000 in revenue annually, the i new program will not necessarily increase the overall supply of ! meat, but in the words of OES Di- l rector William H. Davis: “It will • remove the last vestige of excuse for either the sale or purchase of meat at over-ceiling prices or without ration points.” ( In seeking to promote a more even distribution of meat, OES, . working with the Office of Price Administration, War Food admin istration and war department, de signed a three-point program to equalize operations between local non-federally inspected slaughter ers and federally inspected packers. 1 First of all, the government will control the amount of slaughter by local non-federally inspected plants in an effort to divert more meat from producing centers to federal ly inspected packers, who can ship ^across state lines, i Under the program, non-federal- —Aa. ly inspected slaughterers, whose kill is about 46 per cent of the total, will be given quotas for each of the 1945 accounting periods based upon a percentage for the corre sponding period last year for which they collected the required ration points. Because these quotas will be based upon percentages of sales for which ration points were collect ed, it was said, illegal slaughtering done on the side will be severely affected. Along with the effort to get more meat flowing to federally inspected plants, the war department plans to intensify its drive to get more non- federally inspected packers to ap ply for federal inspection, thus qualifying them to sell to the gov ernment. In attempting to obtain 10 per cent of its supplies this way, the army hopes to relieve present federally inspected plants of the burden of furnishing meat for the government, thus making more of their stocks available for civilians in the area they serve. The third point in the program to bring about a more even dis tribution of meat limits the amount that livestock farmers may slaugh ter to sell so as to increase the volume moving in regular commer cial channels. Applying to all those who sold not more than 6,000 pounds of farm-slaughtered meat in 1944, the new ruling requires such operators to register at local ration boards, and provides for strict enforcement of the regulation calling for the col lection of points for such sales. Following hard upon recent con gressional declarations that black market operations were responsi ble for an important part of the tight meat situation, the govern ment’s new program envisages a vigorous drive to stamp out ille gal trading. For such a drive, OPA will trans fer 500 persons from other depart ments to the investigating staff, and to assure punishment for vio lators it plans to intensify its use of suits for triple damages, injunc tions and suspension orders, can- veiling of slaughtering permits and the withholding of subsidies. In rounding out its overall meat program, the government sought to stabilize the packing industry by assurmg profitable operations and the continued existence of firms facing closure through wartime conditions. ' j Coming even cs the American Meat institute declared packers had a lower percentage of net in come in 1944 after taxes than any of 29 leading manufacturing indus tries, the government’s new pro gram figures to increase tbeir rev enues from subsidies $15,000,000,' $12,000,000 in canceilation of pro posed reductions in prices and sub sidies. and $7,000,000 from boosts in ceilings on beef sold to the army.! Amounting to $2.75 a hundred* pounds for choice grade, $2.70 for' good and $1.65 for commercial, the new subsidies seek to protect pack ers when cattle are selling at the top of the stabilization range, which is the $1.50 spread between floor and ceiling. As prices drop toward the bottom of the stabiliza tion range. p_.> ...e/ko u 11 be de creased 2 cents for every J cent de cline. Two other concessions included in the new government program cancel the scheduled 50 cent re duction per hundred pounds in the ceiling, price rang^ and subsidy on choice grade cattle, thus encourag ing the feeding of cattle to greater weight. Further, the new program continues the maximum additional payment of 50 cents a hundred pounds for all grades of cattle. To remain in effect only as long as huge military set-aside orders; and other emergency quota restric-| tions, the government has worked’ out a new subsidy to help dis- 1 tresdbd packers meet operating costs for any year and thus stay in business. . With the government guarantee ing the difference between loss and costs, it was said, packers will be; able to obtain short term bank loans to permit continued opera-: tions. J Future studies are designed t*! determine the need for readjust*-; ment in hog subsidies or ceilings, j FINAL SETTLEMENT STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. In The Court Of Probate. Notice is hereby given that Florence B. Wardlaw, Administra trix of the estate of D. M. Ward- law, deceased, has this day made application unto me for a final accounting and discharge as such Administratrix, and the 24th day of May, 1945, at 10 o’clock, A. M., has been fixed for the hearing of said petition. All persons holding claims a- gainst said estate are hereby no tified to present same on or by above date. J. W. CORLEY, Judge of Probate, McCormick Co., S. C. April 24th, 1945.—4t. mpmnmHmu! MORE WAR BONDS May Livestock Notes For busy farmers, County Agent G. W. Bonnette gives these timely reminders on the proper care of livestock for May. Dairying Flan for three tons of silage per cow. Plant Biloxi soybeans in row with corn. Where cane is used, Diant alternate rows of cane and Biloxi soybeans. Plan for one ton of good leg ume hay per cow with silage. If milage will not be available, plan for two or three tons of bright, green-cured, leafy legume hay. Sow one-half acre of pearl mil let for each cow for soiling or grazing purposes in July and Au gust. Do not graze permanent pas- .ures too closely. Clean out the barns and prem ies to save manure and destroy breeding places for flies. Animal Husbandry Breed sows for fall litters. Have all weanling pigs double- treated for hog cholera. See that the spring pigs are on territory not infested with inter nal parasites. Feed lambs in a creep. Use oats rather than corn for the workstock. Treat navels of newborn animals with pine tar to prevent screw worm infestation. Poultry Clean and disinfect the brooder house each week. Cull the non-laying hens and sell. Do not keep boarding hens. Remove males from laying flock when incubation season is over. Produce infertile eggs. Provide shade for growing pul lets.