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t* .p' ••••■ > . - V \ a Thursday, January 14, I960 THE CLINTON chronicle — 1 11 FARMS.. AND FOLKS By J. M. Qeazer Clemson Collefe ^ i Information Specialist , « THEN AND NOW Some folks now living can well re member when a farmer needed a fence he cut rails and built it. Or if it was a house,, he cut poles, his neighbors came, and he "raised” it And when a building needed cover* ing, he split shingles and did it. Yes, and when he needed more power, he bred the mare and raised it. And his fertilizer came mainly from the “new' ground” that was always being cleared as the old fields were turned out, and from the compost heap that was always a making down there in the lot. And when be wanted something to eat, it came from his cellar, pan try, garden, orchard, smokehouse, barn lot, poultry lot, or truck patch. My, my, how that has changed in my time! Just about everybody specializes now, A man learns to do a job or grow a crop, and he does it well. And this principle has built Amer ica into greatness. Nowhere has it been more pronounced than on our farms. Research and extension are the keys in this. < -Yes, research. What is R? To me it is seeking and finding new and useful knowledge. And extension? Extension is the taking of the new findings of research (science) and demonstrating them in the fields of the farm. For there the new lessons can be read by all. For seeing is be lieving. 1 . / 4 4 4 PEANUT PROGRESS Sumter is our leading peanut growing county. And there you witl find the most up to date methods being employed with the crop. County Agent Bowen and several of. his growers went down to the Tifton Experiment Station in South Georgia the past summer to see experiments in combining and forced-air drying of peanuts. And they put a lot og wlifct.they sap into practice thb past fgl). These ne%Jdeas in harvesting peanuts not only save a lot on labor, but they also get around a lot of the weather hazard that has usually bothered a lot-tit peanut harvesting time. I ■' * * * BANGS ERADICATION - ' Dr. Carter, in charge of the Clem- son College Livestock Sanitary Of fice at Pontiac, tells me the aim in the present fight against brucellosis (Bangs disease) in cattle is not only control but complete eradication. This is a troublesome disease of cattle (and sometimes affects hogs, too, I understand) and is dangerous to human beings in the form of un- dulant fever. ' In Colleton County, Associate County Agent White has been work ing with the local and state veteri nary authorities in mapping out the county and scheduling the test ing of the cattle in the different areas. When they were a little over half through there, he tells me they had tested 7,06^ cattle on 792 farms. They found 96 reactors on 24 farms and 123 suspects. Reactors were disposed of and suspects are sub ject to a re-test. And if they show up again as suspects, they, too, arc then disposed of. Our dairy specialist, C. G. Cush man, tells me all dairy herds from whiph milk is sold commercially in South Carolina are now free of this disease. Handled right otherwise, this gives us a fine, wholesome local milk supply. For, of course, these herds are tuberculosis free, top. BOYS ARE THAT WAY 1, We, looked forward to syrup mak ing time in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork when I was a boy. We were out of the sugar cane region, so ours was made from sorghum. And I still like that sort best. t Candy pullings were then in or der, and'they were the main sort of parties we had. The ybung folks would get together Jor a pender parchin’ and candy pullin’. And, my, the wonderful times we had! Parents would help us parch the peanuts And cooking the- molasses properly was quite an art. We didn't have a thermometer then to test it with, so when it would “string” properly off the spoon it was ready. It was then set outside to cool quick to the point we could handle it. Dur ing that interim, we ate peanuts and shelled some for the candy. As soon as the molasses had cool ed enough, each couple buttered their hand^) got a^ball of it, and started pulling it. We’d pull fast for two reasons. It was still rather hot to hold and it wouldn't pull good after it got cool. There was quite an art to pulling it, to get the air in it, and keep THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON By Clinton Davidson PAYOLA EVERYWHERE Fifteen years ago a prominent publicist talked to me about a method which she said beat all oth er forms of advertising and pub- from'dropping it. And we’d get to touch the girl’s hand, too! We liked that. It’s the worst thing to blister your hands you ever saw. You wouldn't know it until it had hap pened. Once one arose on.my fin ger and burst.before I knew it. I didn’t eat any of that pullin’ ef candy. Another time our hands were really pulling and folding that am- bering° candy. We glimpsed a fly and she asked me did it go. I said, “I dunno.” We didn’t eat any of that batch^of candy either. Pulling that hot candy would sure clean our creased hands. Although I balked at that busted blister and fly, that ordinary hand dirt didn't phase me. Bought candy was scarce in the Stone Hills, so we really feasted at these pullings. Yes, we ate until R didn't taste good any longer. Then thirst was intense, and we often drank out of the branch on the way home. licity, both as to effectiveness and low cost. —- He said that various people en gaged in the production of motion pictures such as camera men, as sistant directors, directors, etc., were being paid under the table by people interested in promoting .the sale of cigarettes and liquor } . At large ^ercentag*;^ of young girls did not that time a women and smoke So, accorcfing to, this publicist: the motion picture people were paid to photograph aS much smok ing as possible by women portrayed as social leaders, in due time, it was reasoned, girls would think that if they did not smoke, too. they would be looked upon as being no bodies. * 1 LIQUOR PROMOTION Likewise he'saui the same people> were paid to get as much social drinking into the scenes as possible so that people of both sexes would think that if you did not engage in social drinking ypu had no stand ing whatsoever. He said that this plan Had been even more effective than the millions of dollars spent in true advertising. Just about that time I took i trip to fmholulu on the Lurlme steam ship. I noticed that during the danc ing after dinner, the' Captain re fused to accept any drinks He said that he was not permitted to drink even water while sitting at the ta ble; some passengers might think that he was drinking (in dnd would object to the man in whose care the ship rested drinking liquor. Soon after returning I saw a mo tion picture in which a well known movie star played the,role of Gap- tain of this same ship. A young qouple cam^intq his cabin to visit and he immediately got out the liquor and began mixing cocktails. I asked myoelf, the question, “how much was somebody paid to get this liquor scene in” which was ab solutely contrary to what actually happens on the Hawaiian bound steamships. CONGRESSIONAL INVESTI GATION Just recently we learned that a department store owner in. 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