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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1945
WANT AI>S
TRESSPASS NOTICE—All
or otherwise trespassing’
hunting
on the
lands of Mrs. Pat Mitchell or Mrs
Claude Summer is expressly for
bidden and will be prosecute under
the law. 31-3t
LOST—War Rationing Book No. 3
issued to C. A. Force. Finder
please return to the War Rationing
Board or C. A. Force at R. M.
Lominack Hardware on Main St.
WE WILL BUY—Your burlap sacks
or any kind of old rags, also scrap
iron and other metals. See W. H.
STERLING.
PECANS! PECANS!—We are still
buying Pecans. Any size, any
amount. R. Derrill Smith, Whole
sale Grocer, Phone 88, Newberry,
S. C.
Farm Leaders Meet to Discuss
Means of Increasing Yields
RABBITS WANTED—Will buy any
size, any color, any number. Bring
them to our warehouse. R. Der
rill Smith, Wholesale Grocer,
Phone 88, Newberry, S. C.
TRESPASS NOTICE — Trespassing
any form—hunting, hauling wood,
fishing—is strictly forbidden, on
the lands of the undersigned and
any violation will be prosecuted.
Signed: H. O. Long, B. O. Long, farm leaders urged upon farmers of
J. G. Long, A. P. Werts, T. Blair evey neighborhood the necessity for
(By P. B. EZELL, County Agent)
About 50 farm men and women
members of the county-wide neigh
borhood leadership organization met
at the Newberry County court house
for an all-day round table discussion
of problems farmers will have in
meeting their war production goals.
Discussion in which all had a part
was centered about the 10-POINT
1945 FOOD AND FEED PRODUC
TION PROGRAM.
Ways and means of holding farm
production to a high lefel during
1945 odcupied a prominent place in
the discussion. The shortage of
farm machinery and repair parts
was pointed out as an important fac
tor. This shortage was described by
those who entered the discussion as
the most serious of all the war years.
It was the opinion of the leaders
that agriculture was headed into a
period of a more diversified produc
tion, the use of more machinery and
the need for much less labor. In
order to surmount these problems
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ers, S. L. Porter.
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Cold Preparations as directed
AUDITOR S TAX NOTICE
Returns of personal property, new
buildings, transfer of real estate,
poll and road tax, are to be made at
the County Auditor’s office beginn
ing:
JANUARY J, 1945
THROUGH
greater cooperation • in 1945 among
neighbors in the use of labor and
machinery than ever before. Farm
ers were urged by thei Headers to
make definite plans early for their
Food and Feed production in 1945,
for such plans to include arrange
ments of cooperative use of all la
bor and machinery. Heavy top dres
sing of this year’s spring grain
crop was one method which would
lead to heavier production without
extra use of labor. This type of
fertilization would, it was declared,
increase the yield of lespedeza
per use of forests was described as
an urgent war measure. These farm
leaders pointed out the wasteful
practices of the first world war in
the use of land and forest as a mis
take to be avoided in World War II.
Building and maintaining terraces,
heavy fertilization to hold up fertil
ity level of the soil, wide use of lime,
selectiviely cutting of forest lands,
planting abandoned lands in peren
nial legumes, consisting if kudzu,
sericea and lespedeza was recom
mended. Making complete use of
the soil building of land under _ the
AAA program was described as land
and forest protective measures.
Another interesting part of the
afternoon’s program was agricultur
al production in Newberry county to
afford more livestock farming. This
was described as a wholesome trend
and one which would enable farmers
to make more complete use of land,
of labor, and machinery, thereby,
enabling farmers to be in better po
sition to continue cotton production
on less land in competition with
certain low prices in cotton and
from other areas of the cotton belts.
Several of the farm leaders present,
who have had experience in live
stock, expressed the importance of
the use of year-round grazing, such
a system, as it was firmly establish
ed uses much less labor and equip
ment, is a soil conservation system,
and leads to economy in livestosk
production.
The farm women brought out the
fact that housewives are employing
more household conveniences than
ever before thus, and this was elim
inating much of the drudgery. The
., - , ------ or, farm women urged upon all farm
other summer legume crops follow-1 families the importance of all the
mg small grain. It was emphasized families being well fed through a
that although some more fram ma
chinery and repair parts would be
available this year these still will be
a shortage. In the discussion it was
clearly • brought out that every farm-
er should make an inventory of ma
greater production of garden pro
ducts, meat and eggs. In this dis
cussion it was brought out that im
proved farm building, gardens, and
home impovement would not only be
a contribution to the war effort but
FEBRUARY 28, 1945
be-
and
all
All able-bodied male citizens
tween the ages of twenty-one
sixty are liable to $1 poll tax;
persons between the ages of twenty-
one and fifty outside of incorporated
towns are liable to pay commutation
tax of $1. All dogs are to be as
sessed at $1 each.
All returns are to be made by
School Districts. Your failure to
make a- return calls for penalty as
prescribed by law.
PINCKNEY N. ABIAMS,
County Auditor
chinery and repair parts needed and (continue to keep farm labor better
■place an order with dealers at once i satisfied
in order to avoid costly delays later.. The need fol . a cupb raarket for
U was pointed out that the price | Newberry enlisted a lively discus-
of fertilizer is lower in costs than \ sion in which a motion instructed
Agricultural
appoint a special com
—(Sion in which a motic
things farmers buy. Heavier J the chairman of the
committee to
food and feed
as one way to
other
fertilization of all
crops was stressed
increase production on less acres and
to that extent save on use of labor.
During the afternoon’s discussions
the proper use of land and the pro-
mittee to see what could be done in
the near future about a curb market
in Newberry' county.
A plate lunch was served in the
court room.
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THURSDAY FRIDAY
AND SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 22, 23 and 24
-"tWILD - LIFE
SOUTH CAPOLINA
with PROF FRANKLIN 5HERMAN
HEAD*CLEMSOH COIXCOE-MOT. OP ZOOLOGY
HOW MANY ANIMALS?
From the simplest to the most
complex (from “Amoeba to Man”),
we estimate about 16,000 species and
recognized subspecies to exist in S.
C. Here’s round-figure “break
down” into principal main groups:
Invertebrates, other
than true insects 3,000 species
Invertebrates, true in
sects 12,000 species
Vetebrates (backboned),
1,000 species as below:
Fishes
Amphibians (frogs,
salamanders)
Reptiles (snakes,
lizards, turtles) ....
Birds
Mammals (“beasts”,
mice, fox, deer) ...
420 species
60 species
75 species
350 species
95 species
Total 16,000 species
Very little survey work has been
done on our invertebrates other than
insects. Our estimate on that group
is the vaguets of all
Twelve thousand for the true in
sects is very conservative; we al
ready have more than half that num
ber on record. Some entomologists
would say that we probably have as
many as 20,000 species. It is quite, . „
likely that we have somewhat more crocodile which has narrower snout is
more teeth than any other S. C. mam
mal and is the only one which carries
the young in an abnormal pouch. . . .
Judged by the insect food which it
eats our common mole is considered
to be a beneficial; but because it bur- .
rows under the surface, roots up, dis
lodges, or causes drying of the roots
of plants, most gardeners consider it
distructive.
“Dragon-flies” are often called
“mosquito-hawks”. . . . There are
eight well-known species of wood
peckers found in S. C. . . .Those fine
large horns on the buck deer are shed
and re-grown again each year ....
Many so-called “eye-spots” on the
wings of many butterflies are not
eyes at all. ... A male cricket chirps
with his front wings, and the female
may hear it with her front legs.
The eels which are often caught in
our streams are true fish, and are
not even closely related to snakes.
. . . The eel is not the male (or fe
male) of a catfish; it is an entirely
separate species of true fish. . . .
The .passenger pigeon which used to
pass through S. C. in immense flocks,
is now ibelieved to be entirely extinct
from the earth. Last recorded in S.
C. in 1885. . . . We have only one
species of alligator in S. C., the
than 1,000 species of vertebrates, but
not many more.
Fishes. Dr. Burton of the Char
leston Museum probably knows more
not known in this state.
“Somebody’ has estimated that if
we average all known animals as to
size, that the average-size would be
about this group than any other per- about that of a housefly. . . . Among
son in the state. I doubt whether as
many as 400 species are known at
present, but who knows what sur
prising ones may yet be found espe
cially in our coastal and ocean wa
ters ?
Amphibians. Our present list is
63 but several are questionable, sure
ly we have as many as indicated and
a few more may yet be found. A
our wild birds each pair usually es
tablishes a “territory” about the nest
within which most other birds do not
intrude; or at least not for long. . . .
Solitary sandpiper which passes
through S. C. during the migrations,
does not build a nest of its own, but
uses old, abandoned, second-hand
nests of last-year’s birds. . . . Bald
eagle has the head fully feathered,
good group for somebody to go af-1 but white, which gave rise to the
ter* I term “bald”; but the head-feathers do
Reptiles. The uncertainty here is | not become white until adult age. The
' adult has the tail white also.
• ~ ^ I
with the turtles which have not been
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ON
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AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY
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AND REALTY CO.
NED PURCELL, Manager
TELEPHONE 197
Exchange Bank Building
thoroughly collected and identified in
S. C. Our species of lizards and
snakes are fairly well known .though
we do not know all about their dis
tribution in the state.
Birds. The species which occur at
all regularly are fairly well known
but there is always the chance of
adding stragglers which only occa
sionally come within our borders.
Mammals. Our actual count is now
about 92 and several of these are not
wholly distinct species. Perhaps we
have a hundred or more in total.
WILDLIFE MISCELLANY
Of the 47 species and subspecies
of snakes known in S. C., 24 repro
duce by the laying of eggs, while 23
give birth to living young. . . . Com
mon toads are valuable because they
devour many pesky insects. . . .
There are about 130 kinds of day
flying butterflies and skippers in
this state. . . . Thirty-nine species of
mosquitoes have been taken in S. C.,
and probably there are several more
.yet to be found. . . . Opossum has
Cottontail rabbit and bo-bwhite
quail, two very popular game ani
mals, have a tendency to live out
their lives close to where they were
born or hatched. . . . The egg of a
grasshopper hatches into a young
which you might always call a grass
hopper from its general resemblance
and similar habits, and this is true
of perhaps 25 per cent of all our in
sects; but the egg of a butterfly
hatches into a “caterpillar” (larva)
which bears no resemblance to its
parent until it gets grown and passes
through another state (the pupa) of
life. . . . The bird which we call
“house sparrow” or “English spar
row” is generally considered to oe
a miserable detestable nuisance (and
other bad names); yet it was pur
posely introduced into the United
States with care—but that was be
fore we knew better. . . . Among all
our best-loved song birds it is only
the males that sing; the cardinal is
our only notable exception to that
rule, an occasional female cardinal
will sing.
THE NEWBERRY sun
Home Demonstration
By ETHEL L. COUNTS
The year 1945 will likely be one of
the most critical of all the war years.
Our country will need the undivided
and aggressive support of all its
people and the efficient use of ail
its resources. We have adopted the
“South Carolina 1945 10-Point Food
and Feed Production Program” with
the slogan “Food Fights for Free
dom.” In adopting such a program,
we are fully aware that farm people
will have to face such unusual dif
ficulties as labor, equipment, and
transportation shortages. It is be
cause these difficulties exist that the
need for unusual effort is urgerftly
necessary.
You will be meeting your neigh
bors at church, at the store, in the
fields, and at neighborhood and fafni-
ly gatherings. Urge them to plan
carefully for 1945. Do they have all
the planting seed they need ... do
they have equipment that needs re
pair . . . have they ordered repair
parts . . . have they ordered their
fertilizers ... do they plan to fer
tilize this spring’s grain crop heavi
ly .. . how much hay do they need
and what kind . . . has a garden been
planned ... do they need a silo, if so,
what crops are they planning to plant
to fill it . . . how can neighbors trade
labor and equipment to get hay up,
silos filled, buildings repaired . .
are there sufficient equipment and
facilities available for storage and
conservation of all kinds of food and
feed? These and other ideas of your
own can be effectively used to make
the year 1945 our greatest wartime
effort and will be our part ’ in
shortening this war.
If you need any help call at the
Extension office bulletins on all sub
jects are for free distribution.
ACHING-STIFF
SORE MUSCLES
For PROMPT relief—rub on Mus-
terole! Massage with this wonderful
“counter-irritant” actually brings
fresh warm blood to aching muscles
to help break up painful local con
gestion. Better than an old-fashioned
mustard plaster! In 3 strengths.
SCOUTS GATHERING PAPER
The, Boy Scouts of Newberry are
joining in the General Eiaenhous
Waste Paper campaign during
March and April at the request of
the W. P. B.
In order to speed up the collection
of waste paper, they are offering a
medal bearing an inscription and a
picture of General Eisenhour to
each Scout who collects a thousand
pounds of paper during this cam
paign. They are also offering to
each troop which averages 1000
pounds of paper per member a 75mm
shel lease bearing an inscription and
picture of the general. >
All troops of the city are taking
part in the campaign and will make
residential collections on third Wed
nesdays of February, March, April.
MUSIEROIF
Effective WEDNESDAY,
February 21, 1945
we will close at 12 o’clock noon,
and each WEDNESDAY
thereafter, until
further notice.
S. C. National Bank
Newberry/ S. C.
1944
Tax Notice
After the close of
business on
February 28, a
3 per ct Penalty
will be added to all
unpaid 1944 State
and County taxes.
J. RAY DAWKINS
COUNTY TREASURER
For Sale
At last we have one piece
of machinery to sell:
One Tractor-drawn
Stalk Cutter
Be sure you have all needed repairs
before the work season begins.
C. B. PARR
JOHN DEERE DEALER
Newberry, S. C.
Mr.Farmer
We Have On Hand Now A
Large Stock Of
Nitrate of Soda
and can let you have any/amount you
want. We shall keep a good stock on
hand all during the season for your needs.
We Shall Also Have That Good
SCOCO Fertilizer
for you but would advise your coming
around and discussing your fertilizer busi
ness as to prices and analysis you will
want for the coming season.
The Southern
Cotton Oil Co.
R. A. FEAGLE, Cashier
R. C. FLOYD, Manager