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< \ l vi /. r • 4 Thursday,, May 4, 1950 THE CUNTON CHRONICLE HC/HE t Delecate materials are more easily ironed if they have been damaged evenly. Instead of sprinkling the material itself, sprinkle a heavy tow el and roll the garment in this. If you do not have a special chest for strong blankets, wrap them in heavy paper and seal carefully with 1 gummed tape after blankets have been cleaned and moth-proofed. • j Counties To Moke Vigorous Fight i f Against Boll Weevils Clemson, April 25. — In all cotton counties in South Carolina commit tees, representing all agricultural ag encies and farm organizations are getting ready to combat another heavy crop of boll weevils expected in 1950, according to D. W. Watkins, director, Clemson Extension Service By J. ML ELEAZER, Clemson College Extension Infor mation Specialist ♦ • half price salol - V u ] TUSSY CREAM DEODORANT odar.i tare, gives] tion. Fragrant 1 is gentle to dda and < Stays creamy smooth last bit is gone! YOUNG’S PHARMACY “The Old Reliable” -Phone 19 ~ and chairman of the South Carolina Cotton Committee. s “Everybody expects probably the ! largest number of weevils in history I +*+++++***++++*++++++++++++++***•*+** t 0 SU rvive the past mild winter and A new contagion is abroad in the to be ready for young cotton at the l an{ l! ' j appearance of the first square,” Di- , I have good friends who have been Sector Watkins says. “The best au- struck by it. .thorities agree that then is the time It is severe, and one does not re- to start the fight. cover ^ “Probably no more important mat- In fact, irgets worse; but, fortun- ter affecting the economic life of the sately, is not fatal. (state is before the people right now,! » Like polio, it strikes at the most he adds. ‘Cotton growers and their unexpected places. I business associates who supply them I speak of the bite of a bug, the with poisons, fertilizer, farm equip- camellia bug! 7 Iment, and credit are all parties to I' recall one good friend right now. this important business of getting He never showed the least interest the right start for a successful cot- ; in flowers until just three months .ton crop for 1950. a g 0 | “The poor crop of last year, due On a trip with his wife, she made mainly to the abnormal weather in him stop her to see some camellias. August, must not be taken to mean He was half mad, and wouldn’t even; that this state is out of the cotton growing business,” he emphasizes. “In spite of. the abnormal weather,' directing efforts toward an all-out fight on the weevil and other things that cut cotton yields. Each interest is urged to assume its full and pro per part in the fight,” he continues. “Dealers should get adequate stocks of poisons and equipment; cotton growers should take out to thf farm at least 25 pounds of poison for each acre of cotton to be grown; and many schoolhouse and field meetings should be arranged to teach proper methods of using equipment and ma terials beicre the actual fight begins in the fields. ' “In these latter activities County and district extension agents and vocational agriculture teachers are already ill action backed by Clem son specialists,” he states. “All other agricultural organizations and agen cies are ready to take a hand in this effort. Newspapers and radio sta- Page Five tions have already shown most val uable cooperation in the movement. In shprt, this year is the time for ev erybody to pull together for a nor mal high acreage yield of cotton,” he concludes. We buy, sell and trade Horses, Mules and Cows. H. J. PITTS' I i ♦V go in. While waiting there, he looked in and saw a few bushes blooming there near the gate. Then he heard the last year it was definitely proved that whole organized communities man tell his wife the history of these j can profitably poison the weevil to- varieties too. It caught his fancy and gether. This year every cotton coun- he got out, said he just hadn’t been | ty is organizing to fight the weevil feeling very well when they arrived., together with the county as a unit The man then had to show him just as truly as is possible with the through the nursery too, explaining community as a unit. Everybody in- \ — terested in cotton is urged to take a hand in this enormous effort.” he Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 200 South Broad St. Office Hoars 9:t0 to 5:3« Phone 638 :: : \ii ft ♦ * 1 * f ft ft AF HOME While You Pcy For It ^ mL wmmrOiC*- I rZrvHlllto4? OUR LOAN PLAN MAKES iT POSSIBLE Ask about our profitable home-ownership plan without obligation the many sorts at camellias bloom ing there. He bought >70 worth of plant's $10. c and a book on the subject for And this was just the begin ning. Now he has little new stakes driv en all about his place where he has planted this first batch and many others. He has gotten other books on declares. Director Watkins points out that the importance of a full-fledged ef fort is plain when it is recalled that the short crop of last year brought to the farmers of the state and thus to business interests and to the tax camellias and will talk as long on j base of this state some 50 milion [ the subject as anyone will listen. And' dollars less than would have been j COMMERCIAL HOUSEHOLD WIRING Electrical Appliance Repairing; and Electrical Construction Work i - - Floor Plugs A Specialty ARNOLD M. CANNON 406 W. 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It costs so little and means so | much. I saw two batches of, good germin- j | ating cotton seed that Dr. Arndt plan- 1 ted here at Clemson recently. Part of each was treated,and planted by; the untreated ones. All came up fine. But in two weeks, the untreated ones i had started dying off, while the treated ones held a perfect stand. Proper seed treatment controls an- thracnose, the disease that kills so much cotton soon after it comes up^ There are Things that kill cotton later on, but seed treatment is not a com plete control of that. However, the death of young seedlings from an- thracnose is what causes poor cotton stands on many an acre, according to Clemson’s Carl Netties. Years ago yir. Nettles demonstrated simple seed treatment with a barrel on a windlass that he carried to all coun ties and demonstrated before farm groups that the county agents got together. And soon most of the cot ton planting seed in the state were treated by this method. Did you hear of the Scotchman who required his daughter to leave by the back door when she got married? He said there would likely be some rice thrown, and the chickens could get it there. I recall this: We made no apples that year. A neighbor sent us about a bushel. We prized them highly and went through them to get the rotten spotted ones out. We ate and made pies with them. Then we went through them again and again, and the process was repeated. And at the end we had used nothing but rotten spotted apples for the two weeks they lasted. Aunt Liza gave eke. my colored playmate, a backhanded wallop that he didn’t forget and said, “Ain’t your mouth big enough to say thanky!" when my mother jgave him, along with us, a piece of fresh warm mixed bread with butter and jelly on it. Manners! A' priceless thing that costs so little. I wonder if we are neglecting it today? The 4-H boys and girls are getting it in an organized way. They have lessons of etiquette and manners at their monthly club meetings in their schools and at their summer camps. Don’t think it is sissy, as boys are prone to do. Manners mark the man, i and they will make your other assets count for more. | Young folks, you will find good manners to be as great, or greater, an asset when you get out in the world as what you know or what you can do. | -»• This completely equipped combi-; nation Newspaper-Commercial Print ing plant can serve you better. 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