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1 * ;■ 1 * lilt hope yoirutt "sininGPRmy" RLLTHE yERR STANDARD SERVICE STATION Phone 9109 Durant, Miss. 1 I ' M ♦ 1 1 . 1 11 W. R. Sullivan, County Agent Cotton Seed As you know cotton seed is go ing to be scarcer this year thar ever before due to the wet seasor we had in harvesting cotton. Ii you have saved seed do not take it for granted that these seed art good. Sample after sample have been sent to State College for ger mination. Most of these sample: have returned running from 1( to 40 per cent germination. Be sure to have your seed tested im mediately so that you may know your germination. If your ger mination runs under 60 per cent it would be well for you to search for better planting seed. We are doing everything we possibly can <o locate good planting seed and il they can be found we will notify the farmers who are in need oi seed. Fruit Notes . Now is the time to prune up clean up and spray up your or chard. Fruit production practices for January and February in elude: (1) Planting new orchard: or making replacements and addi tions to fruit plantings. (2) Prun ing and training fruit trees anc vines. (3) Spraying fruit trees tr control scale. (4) Rooting cutting; of grapes. (5) Cleaning up or chard — removing and destroying material pruned from trees, mum mied fruits and material harboring insects and diseases. (6) Making or repairing trellises for grape; and berries and training vines or /rv\ n_4iu_i_._« « * t UlU,lllg ailU IXlUlVIl’ ing strawberries. Prune fruit trees and grape vine! this month. Although pruning may be done any time during th« dormant season January is con sidered the best time, especially for grapes. Peaches and Plums trained tc modified leader system instead ol the open center system make stronger, more vigorous and high er yielding trees. To train young trees to this system, space 3 to 5 scaffold limbs from 6 to 8 inches apart on the trunk with the low est limb about 18 inches above the ground. Small trees will rarely ever require any pruning when set out while larger trees should be headed at a height of 30 to 3f inches and lateral branches cut back to two buds. Pruning of ' and 2 year old trees during the dormant season consists mainly ol thinning out the smaller branches and moderately cutting back the larger branches just above a bud or branch. Apple and Peart are trained similarly to peaches except they are allowed to develop a more natural shape with 6 to 8 scaffold limbs left for the framework ol the tree. Bearing Trees which have beer properly trained to form the de sired shape and frame work will need only light annual pruning For the first few years after tht trees begin bearing the pruning should consist of a light thinning of the branches, removal of any dead, diseased or crossing bran ches, and a moderate heading back of the larger branches. Oldei trees will require heavier prun ing to stimulate the growth o Hew fruiting shoots and to main I 9 ♦ f*' , H Your jfc happiness iwill increase AMll* spirit of the season. iff ♦ •♦ i ~ i1 HENRY ICE AND COLD STORAGE COMPANY r HENRY dairy products company 'i i « f Lexington, Miss. phone jq Housewives Told How New Social Security Covering Maids Works Now the housewife who hires a maid can breathe more easily. Rumors of elaborate account keeping, report filling, and other time-consurrung obligations un der social security, are set at rest Today the Bureau of Internal Re venue and the Social Security Ad ministration unwrapped their plan for reporting regular house hold workers who come under social security on January first It was a small package. Mrs. Mary King emple, mana ger of the social security office [ in Greenwood, displayed a small envelope. In form and in size, it resembles those in use by private insurance companies, magazine circulation departments, and other commercial firms. It is a one-piece, pre-addressed return envelope. There is space on the inner flap for the essential but brief items on the employee’s wage, and a pocket for transmit ting the social security tax. That’s ! all! Under the new social security law, household workers who are paid as much as $50 by one em-j ployer in the three-month period, January through March (a calen dar quarter), and who have work ed for that one employer on 24 days or more in that quarter, or the preceding quarter, will have their wages count toward old-age and survivors insurance. The tax | to be remitted in the envelope form will be 3 per cent of the r worker’s cash wages for the three month period. The housewives r may deduct one half of this (1 '*r*) from her employee’s wages. One and one-half per cent is her share of the tax. To illustrate how the envelope report system will work, Mrs. ! Temple took the case of a house , wife who employs one maid on ; two days a week during the first three months of the coming year. At any time during April, the housewife, she explained, should , fill out the envelope from which tain a well balanced tree. Spray all fruit trees with 1 part oil emulsion to 20 parts of water to control scale. Fertilise and Mulch Sirawber j ries in February. An application I of fertilizer such as 6-8-4 should j be made before plants are mulch ed. Apply at rate of 4 to 6 pounds to the 100 feet of row when plants are dry to prevent burning leaves. Place pine straw, oat straw or other mulching material around plants and completely cover ground so as to protect fruit from dirt and. to prevent growth of grass and weeds which will take moisture and plant food from ber ry plants. I Have You ordered your fruit i trees and vines yet? DO NOT, DELAY. I she will receive in March. The inner flap of the envelope will be already imprinted with the em ployer’s name and address. On one line she will enter the work er’s name and social security num ber, together with the total a mount of cash wages paid dur ing the three months. If the wages were $10 per week, and since there are 13 weeks in the three-month period, the total would be $130. The three per cent social security tax would amount to $3.90. One-half of this ($1.95) is the worker’s share. The em ployer will match this amount. The total tax of $3.90 is entered on the last line of the form. A check or money order in that amount is put in the pocket of the envelope. With the envelope sealed, stamped, and dropped in the mailbox, the housewife’s so cial security report work is com pleted until July. No other re cords will be required. “We are confident that as the household employer and her worker come to realize the mu tual advantage of a more secure future for the employee, they will cooperate to make this simple procedure work,” declared Mrs. Temple. She feels that it will promote a more stable and lasting employer-employee relationship and believes that this provision of the new social security for the protection of the housemaid, the cook, the hired man, and the laundress is an important step in encouraging domestic employ ment. Before January 1, every regul arly employed household worker should have a social security ac count number card. The social security office is the place to get it. Right away, every housewife should read the booklet, “Do You Have A Maid?” The back page of this informative booklet is a postage-free post card addressed to the collector of internal reven ue. When mailed, it will place her on the list for the March mailing of the envelope report form. Sunday Guest H Mrs A. B. Holder of Lexington I spent Sunday with Mrs. T. S. Hjg Humphries. ^B With Parents ■ Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Derrick. Jr. H spent Christmas with his parents. H Mr. and Mrs. A A. Derrick in ■ Goodman. I Copies of “Do You Have A HI Maid?” may l e secured free of ^B charge from the Greenwood so- H cial security office. H RELIEF AT LAST For Your COUGH phlegm and aid nature to mme ana heal raw, tender. Inflamed nraarhial membranes. Guaranteed to pjwaa pa or money refunded. CieomnMoo non stood the test of millions of naan. GREOMUCSION nUm. Cm^t, Chwt CM, A««( OneriMi ' '4 Ve trtMira ■Mt tbs prhrltga «I smiag fta this taatag | • I 9 W. L. ELLIS AND SON Real Estate Phone 280 7 08 Wall Street Lexington ♦ ' Thanks to the Greatest Public Demand any Motor Cars and Trucks Have Ever Enjoyed, the Latest Million Chevrolets have been Produced in Less Than 6 Months . . . Compared to 12 Years for the First Million I We join all other Chevrolet dealers in thanking our cus tomers for making possible this 25 millionth Chevrolet. For the only reason anyone makes more products is because people want more of them. We Chevrolet dealers are able to deliver more passenger can and trucks than any other automobile dealen today because you prefer Chevrolet passenger can and trucks over any other make. So it is your overwhelming endorsement of the products and services we offer that is behind the pro duction of this 25 millionth Chevrolet less than six months sfter completion of the 24 millionth. We are sincerely grateful. And we believe the best way we can express our gratitude is to continue to offer you the very finest services and the very greatest values that we possibly canl MOftE PEOPLE BUY CHEVROLETS THAN ANY OTHER CARI MORE CHEVROLET TRUCKS IN USE THAN ANY OTHER MAKEI CLEMENTS CHEVROLET COMPANY _ Phone 219 Durant, Miss