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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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FARMS
AND FOLKS
By I. M. Eleaxar
Clemton Collage
Information Spadalbt
BAD START, GOOD ENDING
“Our pimiento pepper growers
had a bad start but a good end
ing this year,” says County
Agent Bull of Abbeville. After a
poor start, the seasons improved,
the crop came out, and most of
the growers made some money,
he tells me. >'
Tms is one of the few crops I
know of that’s not overdone. In
fact, they bring more now than
they did a few years ago. And
they are grown on contract with
a Georgia firm at a fixed price.
Interested farmersin the up-
country get details from their
county agents in counties where
the project is undertaken.
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COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT
There’s a lot of community im
provement work going on over
the state. O. W. Lloyd, former
county agent at Edgefield, is now
state coordinator of that work
out from Ciemson. r
The Little Swamp Community
of Bamberg County has already
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State Total lJ5k,*61,000
done a lot to help itself. For the
coming year it has set these four
goals, according to County Agent
Hubbard: (1) Further improve
the community center, (2) assist
in improving their market shed,
(3) hold community affair, and
(4) develop a program to meet'j
the young people’s needs in the,
community.
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IRRIGATION IN GREENWOOD
County Agent Garvin tells me,
“Those who irrigated their corn
in Greenwood County the past
sumiaer were amply repaid in in
creasing yields.” He had six
farmers in the corn contest. Each
made the 100 bushel corn club.
COMBINING CORN
The first corn I saw combined
was some years ago in Hampton
County. County Agent Thompson
says at least 90 per cent of their
crop was thus harvested the past
fall. And he tells of Bernard Mc-
Alhaney’s treating a 9-acre field
with simizine at planting time,
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South Carolina cash income from farm mar- and livestock products for 1959 expressed In
ketings increased more than $24,000,000 last m ill* ons °f dollars, by counties. The informa
tion, compiled by the Crop Reporting Service,
year. Shown above is the total income from was prepared by economists of the Ciemson
crops, farm forest products, livestock, poultry College Extension Service.
never cultivating it at all and
making 90 bushels per acre.
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PUMPKINS IN RICHLAND
County Agent Bailey of Rich
land, tells this one: “Pumpkins
as a companion crop in corn paid
total cost of corn production,
plus land rent, on 13 acres of fer
tile bottom land for one Dutch
Fork farmer the past season.
And he points out that the corn
yield was not reduced at all by
the pumpkins.”
Growing pumpkins! Almost a
lost art now. They used to be
common.
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BOYS ARE THAT WAY
Every few years we used tb
make some wine at home. Not to
be drunk in the usual way. But
lor communion at church and
for occasional flavoring.
This wine was kept in 5-quart
brown bottles that my father, the
country doctor, got medicine in.
They were stored away back on
a shelf in the dark cellar, and be
came covered with cobwebs and
dauber nests in time.
We kids were never allowed to
taste this wine. Nor did we covet
it. We were too disgusted with
any sort of intoxicant, for we had
seen it so misused by a few un
fortunates in the Stone Hills.
One year the blackberries were
specially fine. So my mother
made up some wine, as her sup
ply was out. She let the berries
and sugar ferment in large
crocks with cheese cloth tied over
them to keep the gnats out. Then
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when it was right, one afternoon
she poured it up into the dark
bottles and stored it in the cel
lar.
A Colored boy that we raised
was helping her. He was an over
grown giant at about 15. She left
him to clean up and told him to
pour the dregs or skimmings
from the wine out back of the
woodpile there. He tasted the
stuff. Liked it. Drank his fill. And
poured the rest out in a hole back
of the woodpile there.
Soon the pigs and geese came
up to see what he had poured out.
They sniffed and tasted at it And
they found it to their liking
Quickly they filled up on the stuff
until it was all gone.
Soon there was a queer sight
back there around the woodpile.
The colored boy had watched the
critters lap it up. as his was tak
ing effect. He toppled over, dead
drunk And those pigs and geese
were the funniest things you ever
saw. Squawking, grunting,
squealing, and falling around out
there in the weeds, they were a
wierd sight Night came on, they
went to sleep, and we left the boy
out there with them. I don't re
call if they all showed signs of
headaches next day or not. Those
were the only drunk hogs and
geese I've ever seen But 1 learn
ed this, all drunks are a lot alike,
whether they be hogs, geese, or
men. In fact, it always seemed
to me, a drunk man is a combi r
nation of the other two, both a
hog and a goose.
Social Security
The 19ti0 Amendments to the
Social Security Act may be im
portant to you Here are some
facts about them.
1. Q. Does a retired worker
who goes back to work lose his
social security checks?
A. As in the past, a retired
worker who doesn't earn over
$1,200 annually will get all his
social security payments for the
year. A retired worker who
earns more than $1,200 a year
will lose $1 of his benefits for
each $2 that he earns from $1,-
200 to $1,500. For every $1 over
$1,500, $1 of benefits will be with
held.
2. Q. I am over 65 now but 1
am still working. Should I put in
for social security?
A. Many workers past retire
ment age who are still working
have never claimed social secur
ity. Many of them may now find
it to their advantage to apply.
For example, in 1961, a couple
entitled to a qionthly family
check of $180, would now get
some benefits if the husband
earns less than $3,510 in a year.
3. Q. My,-husband died Jan
uary 10. 1939. He had worked
under social security since it
started in 1937, but under the old
Social Security Law , I could not
get any payments I am 62 years
old. Can 1 now j*et any monthly
checks?
A. Yes. Survivors oi any work
ers who died before January 1,
1940 (after working under social
security for a year and a half)
may now get payments. 1 >
4 Q. When my first husbajid
died 1 tried to get social security
checks for his two children who
were living with and being sup
ported by my.new husband. The
social security office wouldn’t
pay checks to the children. They
said the children were dependent
on their stepfather and hot on
their own father That did not
seem fair to me. Under the 1960
changes in social security, can
the children now get checks'’
A. Yes. Payments can now be
made to a child on his father's
work record no matter who was
supporting the child when his
father died. If your children are
still under 18, go to the social
security office.
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