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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 194ft
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Pa are Seven
Seen Along the Roadside
By J. M. ELEAZER, Clemaon Extension Information Specialist
When I was county < agent! inj
Sumter the colored folks of the[
Congruity section used to have to 1
meet me in wagon or buggy out on|
the paced road in winter when I
went there to Inoculate their hogs 1
against >cholera. It was a primitive
and backward section with no im-|
provements of any sort.
Some weeks ago I went back there
with James Reames to the annual
meeting of his Negro FHA farm
ownership borrowers. He has 88 of|
them, and 14 have paid out in full.'
Most of the rest are ahead on their;
payments.
The other day they didn’t have to
meet us in a wagon out on the pav
ed »road. Two good allweather roads
fork at their community center at
the Church and school. . Electric j
lines traverse the roads in there. 1
The weatherbeaten church of old
had been renovated and lighted. A
nice school had replaced the shack
that I knpw. The yard, of church
and school had been bulldozed of I
stumps, filled in and drained so
that water did not stand there any
more. There* were over 400 folks
there to partake of a good barbecue. |
And there was not a buggy nor wa
gon on the yard, but an acre of
+ good automobiles.
< I had heard many groups of co
lored folks sing before, and I love it.
But I had been told not to feel that
I had heard the best until I had
heard the folks of Congruity sing.
Well, I heard them, and my infor
mant was right.
The church was packed and all
was quiet. Without ado, Hubert San
ders, wham I have known for many
years, started humming and then
singing. Gradually the others joined
in. Like a snowball rolling down
hill, the melody grew. Soon, with
eyes closed, one could imagine he
was in heaven, such heavenly music
filled the place. And they sang on
and on. Not just a little bit. That’s
what I liked so much about it. The
rapturous moments lasted. And there
was more later on the program. I
spoke and had planned to leave. But
learning that there would be more
of this great singing after dinner, I
tarried on. And I was well repaid.
The deepest natural bass I have ever
heard was coming from a small black
man named William Illery. I had
known him too Ijt many years, but
never knew that he nor Hubert;
Sanders could sing as they can. Wil-;
liam pats both feet when he sings.!
All of that bass he has calls for that,
I suppose. He paid for his farm in
5 years, Mr. Reams told me. 1
passed his nice iann layout as I
drove in there. j
Lawrence Washington, the Negro
representative with the FHA in.
Washington and former county*
agent in Louisiana, made a good
talk. He exhorted them to take
pride in their farms and their:
homes, and not to be of the shiftless
sort “that had nothing but a birth
day and an appetite”.
As I was leaving, the school boys
had started a basketball game out
there in the yard. And the girls'
were taking up a collection to buy
uniforms with. As I rode out of
there, with no fear of getting stuck,'
I thought of the vast progress that
is being made in what used to be
the back place. For surely the spots
of hard living in this land are being
rubbed out. Yes, and rapidly. We;
must watch to make ourselves
worthy of this great change.
Fighting Bugs
County Agent Hubbard of Bram-
berg tells me that five fertilizer
companies are putting that poison in
fertilizer that they tried out so sue-,
cess.'ully against wireworms down
there last summer..
They put 5 pounds of chlordane
per ton and then apply 400 pounds
of that per acre under corn. That
gives just one pound of the poison
per acre. I saw bad wireworm fields
down there last summer where thigi
made the difference between a good
corn crop and practically none at
all.
This year it is to be triad out un
der many other crops. Clemson’s
station at BlackviQe has many tests
under wgy with various poisons at
various rates different crops on
wireworm land. , i
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This opens up a whole new ap
proach to underground insect con
trol. We are wondering now how
about it for root lice that ruin so
many stands of cotton and corn at
places. And how about it for bud-
worms that blast corn stands on
certain low spots.
There is never a dull moment on
the farm front. For there is always
something new and interesting
coming up.
Boys Are That Way
A man was coming to see us who
had an enormous nose. Parents cau
tioned us about not paying any not
iceable attention to it.
He came and we made out pretty
well. We went out behind the wood
pile where we could laugh after we
first saw him. But while in % the
house, we were perfectly solemn.
Things went on all right on the
surface, but we were ever conscious
of that nose and were careful to
stay away from it in every way. But
next day at the dinner table the
whole thing exploded. That is, the
tension, not the nose.
My sister, self-conscious, yet try
ing to be so nice, was passing the
gravy around when she came to this
man she said, “Won’t you have
some gravy on your nose?”. Mean
ing rice, of course!
Well, sir, the jig was up. My
brother was drinking water. He
strangled and lit out for the back.
I followed him, about to pop wide
open. He ran clear down in the
orchard and rolled in the broom
straw until the convulsion of laugh
ter abated a bit and we could catch
our breath again.
We left the others to their fate
there at the table. I don’t recall-
hearing them say how they man
aged things. But I do know there
must have been some awfully em
barrassing moments there for a
while. We were fortunate in that
the man left that afternoon and we
didn’t have to face him again. For
I just don’t think we could have
dont it and kept straight faces.
Old Prices
Just eight years ago we were
making a shipment of poultry from
Sumter county. I have just run
across the old notice about it. Co
lored hens brought 14 cents a
pound. Leghorns 10 cents, turkey
hens 10 cents and toms 13 cents,
cocks, stags, ducks, geese brought
7 cents a pound.
We thought those prices were
good. And we had a big shipment
Aty, how times have
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