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♦ ♦ ♦ # t Thursday, March 9, 1950 n INTON THRO FOREST FIRES BURN THOUSANDS OF ACRES IN SOUTH CAROLINA lyiru dt. Any Page Seven fnethod. Any fanners may send rens-Clinton highway near country C iw.ord, son of Roy CravSford, gave ab6ut a pint of cotton seed to the club, if weather permits. Land prep- instruction and demonstration ;a ■ommissioner of agriculture, Colum- aration, planting and false cultiva- fuel intake and carbeuretion service tVE DO AIX KINDS OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO, ONE OF WOODS FIRES—This picture taken from a national guard airplane by a forestry observer shows one of the many woods fires that burned in the state during the recent forest fire outbreak. . Farms & a tractor and killed its driver. Ev erything indicated that it was un- ■ avoidable.- But the- officer who ar rived soon alter the accident smell ed beer and asked the driver of the car if he hadn’t been drinking. He admitted ‘.‘one bottle.” That was enough. He got a year or so on the gang Folks Notes From The County Agent's Oftice C. B. CANNON. County Arem Seeding Tobacco Demonstrations Seeding tobacco demonstrations to week: This week similar meetings Alcohol doesn’t fit a fellow for the | be held Friday, March 10, at the fol-i are to be ’ eid at, Musgrove, Mt. roads. Everyone knows that. So the j lowing farms, provided weather per- Bethel, 1 ; r.icane, Mt. Gallagher and lellow who plays with it, even a; mits: Joe D. Allison, Hickory Tav- |_Shady G oveT The County agent’s I little bit, like .that man did, is lia-; ern community at 10:00 am:: L L. are discussing the outlook for 1950, ble to find its crimson stain on him j L an g s t oni Bethany community, l:30isoil bulding practices, boll weevil at some unfortunate point down the! p m t and A. F. Cook, Owings, 3:00 , control and other farm problems.' road. | p.m. G. D. Butler, special tobacco The Home Demonstration agents » Farm machinery too calls for a ( agent, to assist in the demonstra- are discussing the outlook with ref- sober - hand I was riding in the Low Country Where The Costs Arc na, and have germination test run tion will be included in the dempn- free: the only expense to the farmer j stration put on by all -the machinery afT7 ^ conservation practices. This - the nostage on the package. Many dealers in the county. The public was the i fourth demonstration meet- farmers will forward seed from all is. f .invited ta attend. ing for the tractor club members, over the state to the commissionerf Thp 4.^ tractor club boys are to The fifth and final meeting of for tests and it is suggested that 2 j ve a demonstration in handling the senes will be held at D. T Pitts’ farmers forward their p.anting seed . ra ctors during the machinery dem- c e-A very farm machinery place in at once in-order to have the germma- cihstrat. n C rorr, Thursday night. March 9, at Longest in time be.ore cotton p.an.- Tractor Club Meeting 7 15 p m. . Demonstratiops and in- ing ,:me. Laurens County 4-H Tractor '.ruction in engine lubrication and There is no hope of producing a c ; ub m et Friday night, March 3, at meral lubrication will be the topic ul. crop of cotton with poor stands Crawford’s John Deere’ place in .><r this meeting. „ under boll weevil conditions, so its Clinton with 25 club members and important to plant sound cotton seed. four parents present for the meet- Burning Woodlands to Control mg. Roy DeShieids .local leader, Weevil Poor Business assisted with the program. J. W. Radio and newspaper reports from all 'over the state give the startling j report of damage done to timber land I from forest fires. Some people have the idea that burning woodlands,will destroy the boll weevil. This is a false idea of weevil control. Here in Laurens county many acres of-wood- ' lands are being , burned over eaNv s week. - . ! All forestry authorities state that trees burned by forest fires will never recover from the damage. The young pine seedlings are killed also. There is a better way to kill boll weevils than by destroying valuable timber land, and that is by using the 1-1-1 sweet mixture and BHC-DDT dust. Meetings Well Attended The series of farm meetings held so far have been well attended. A total attendance of 251 people at meetings held at Warrior Creek School, Bethany, Long Branch, Princeton, and Bethel Grove last! By J. M. ELEAZER. Clemson College Extension Infor mation Specialist The other day one of the best peach growers in the state was asked what it cost him to grow a bushel tions. ■ erence to the family and home condi- The demonstrations will be the tions - pressure cooker clinics and seeding of tobacco seed, covering borne demonstration club work, the seed and bed ctvcr attached, as : Timely motion pictures shown such what it cost him to grow a Dusnei wel i as discussing tobacco produc- as T’Save That Soil-“This is Our r of i>CMlies ile figured a while andi tion _ The moetings are 0 pe n to the ^nd,” “Fire Call,” and ’’Spring said “About 75 cents assuming that - publi( . and aU tho$e farmers who Shows and Beef Cattle " Many ladies frost does not cut the crop 'have contracts of agreements to and children are attending these There we have an actual out of 1 grQw Turkish tobacco are requested' meetings. The school teachers of j pocket total cost of $2.75, based on ; tQ attend at least one of these plant 1 the various schools in which the his estimates. And assuming a nor- bed demonstrations- The other ^ farm meetings-are held are most mal crop, he only staits making demonstrations beld j a&t mont h were cooperative. . ' something after the price on the oth- i wo jj attended and much interest Pressure Cooker Clinic er end exceeds that $2. 5. see shown in the new crop production. All persons having pressure cook- ' that there just cant be any c eap Tobacco bed covers, plant bed fer- ers are asked to bring same to the peaches on the other end. tilizer and plant setters may be Agricultural Building Friday, March late at night. Near Summerville my way was blocked, for 9 bit at a cross ing by a long freight. It was what might be called the midnight pulp- wood train. Wish I had counted the cars of wood. There must have been 30 or more. Next day those cargoes would like ly be eaten up by great machines, and many more like them. And out would come other carloads of paper at the Charleston mill. At every station for miles on up 1 saw empties placed by that same train for loading next day. Thus a rather new phase of the economic life of the Low Country goes on. And trees have taken on new meaning. At first the cutting of pulpwood , .. — -— — —— - --«» all too often left wasteland. But in come muen cneaper on ine 01 f r |i nsure a g 0od s t an d. Seed test for- person owning a cooker the proper more recent years the voice of the en<1- T. y . are a m ^[ e ^ warded through the county agent’s method of checking and care of their forester has been bard. And we see proportion for containers, treig t an ; 0 ffi ce to J. Roy Jones, commission- cooker. This service is free. . pulpwood coming fro^n improve- handling charges than they aic to t e er q{ a g r i cu it urei Columbia, shows Machinery Demonstration ment thinnings and tops from log- farme r wh° S^ew the stun. as j ow as ^ cent g erm i na tj on Farmers are looking forward to the ging. Where the entire crop is har- , .1 'seed. There is no way to tell the vi- machinery demonstration on March vested, seed trees are being left in This illustrates the fallacy of a bought locally. ! 10, to have them checked over There lot of thinking, specially on the other, Test CoUon Seed PUnUng is only need of bringing the top of end. Industrial workera and city folks Due tQ weatber conditions last the cooker. Your name should be year during cotton harvesting sea- written on a piece of adhesive tape son, makes it important to have cot- ■ and stack to the cooker top. The ton seed tested on germination to Extension Agents wish to teach each want cheaper food, and they think the farmer is robbing them. He could give his stuff away, and it wouldn’t Boys Are That Way .vi. ... k as * wee ^ * didn t limsh those 0 [ seed by looking a t the seed. 1 15, beginning at 1:00 p:m ,-en the more and more cases so the trees P icnics at the country church. Just Germination test is the only safe! farm of P. F. Ramage on the Lau- cm come back. And more folks arc V*. *- hcrc '. he bl “ sme wa - s asked k- fighting fires. LOOK FOR QUALITY FIRST Tt* Preferred Watch for Every GIFT Occasion MYRTLE.. $60.50 i T4K natural or \ gold ftlleU cat*. Frkat tndud* F*d. tax OTHER HAMILTON WATCHES t« $5,000 is* ; DYSON ... $60.50 14K ooturat gold-filled case. J. C. THOMAS, JetoeU “It s Time That Counts* and the space here ran out. Clemsoo's extension foresters. Bill I .Then came the feast from a bount- Barker and Cliff Hall, tell me that; 1,ul . ta6 ] b - 1 f ot this tree harvest-can go on indefi- aga.nst the table and just waded n nltely and not shrink, provided in- from h" 0 , d ‘ dn l . ,0 “ 1 , w,th ord '- telligent practices are followed. And. nary food like fried chickem coun- nvy. What that can mean to the farm ‘'T ham. pies, and cakes much f income of the state! went for those open-faced pies, egg The State Forestry Commission cus > t ) ar<is we called them - And - s tick- maintains a service whereby you can. ies - . , .u . . j . . have your timber marked and esti- ’ * ate thore u . nt !i. they T St . art . e< i * a „ S . t " mated at cost. This way you can har- so J g ” od - ^ eaS I \e«;t vour trees inteTligently and not mg up and down the table, moving hurt the future there. And both the here and there, and grazing a bit, ( Clemson and the state foresters are Eventually I became simply founder- st your dismal for free advice was cleared When these things are done and up. aH went back in the church for intelligence applied to our wood- a short af , te p rno °|J Lat^For lands, that midnight train can con- went t0 sleep on a back seat For tmue serving as an artery of econ- ''' h * n y° u a ^ e lhat ful1 you can haid- omic life in our state. And other sec- ly stay awake. : tions have similar trains daily too. Great institutions,, these picnics at ; Just A Bottle Of Beer ' the country, church. May diey nevei I know of this case. “ S°‘ A group of workmen were return- ( ing from their jobs in another coun ty. One wanted to stop at a roadside joint to get a bottle of beer. The driver and owner of the car obliged. The others prevailed on him to have, a bottle too. He didn’t usually drink ; it. 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