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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Thursday, May 11, 1950
fcton of Horry and their SCS man, O.'ical beauty. At many places they are arouncF the corn pile that wa^ 4im—was—shucked, the work was over.
S. Kirkpatrick, on their winter pa?-* inaccessible, are not fished out, and ly lit by a lantern hanging from a
By J, M. ELFAZER,
Clemson College Extension Infor
mation Specialist
Too Much Milk!
Many of the unproved pastures
over the stat- are on smail farms.
These have been making the tamily
cow and the old mule happy
] was with County .Agent John-
ture tour in March. On the farm of the lazy gator slides from a log with rafter. Shucks were thrown back of
E K. Lewis we saw three good acres a splash, as danger approaches. Cy- them, the ears of corn put in baskets
cf fescue and Ladino clover\ that press trees grow from the water near and empited in a clean corner. There
were seeded the east fall. It was their banks, and long streamers of was much good natured bantering
carrying his two milk cows and his moss .wave from the branches in the and joking. And the fellow who did
bu'l, and you could hardly tell it breeze. On a spring day I can think not keep his nubbins cleaned up was
was being grazed. Mr Lewis said, of no more enchanted place than to ridden hard.
“*Vc’re gettin’ so mu - 'h milk we do sit and fish by one of these beautiful An occasional red ear always ap-
n>'t know what to do with i: sii ce rivers, as eternity’s waters move ma- peared in the com we planted. These
we put ’em in here.” And only one jestically by. carried great significance. The fel-
of the cows was milking then. j County Agent Shelley of Barn- k>w who found one could kiss the
And that’s the familiar story I well says at last count it appeared lady of his choice. Most of the young
hear as I go about. And, folks, it that the eight tractor-drawn tree men and boys shucked frantically in
looks to me like that’s going to build planters in operation there planted quest of these. But I was not in that
a livestock industry here. close to three million trees the past group. The urge was there, but not
Our Beautiful Rivers winter. An the outlook is for even the nerve. I peeped in the ears I
We hive several of the most beau- rnore to ^ placed next winter. shucked before I bared them. And
tiful rivers I have ever seen. The With hel P l*e that, the woodlands when Lsaw a red one, I Quietly sUp-
EdLsto Black River and the Little °‘ the fuiure w*'! n °l be sparse. Fire ped it back under the shucks behind
Pee Dee ' - is th ^ ir main enemy, the foresters tell me
Then by torchlight there in the back
yard an improved table was loaded
with cakes, pies, stickies, etc.
Strawberry Time
Spring brings many delights. And
one of the chief of these is straw
berries.
I quite agree with the fellow who
said he knew the Lord’s power was
unlimited, and that jHe possibly
could have made something better
than a strawberry. But He never did.
How W you like ’em best?
For me, I’ll take ’em this way.
Pick ’em fresh and ripe from -the
patch. Wash and cap’em. Cut the
big ones in two and sprinkle neavy
with sugar. Add thick sweet cream.
Stir them and see that pink color
| come to the creamy aggregate. And
'then just stand back, and don’t bot
her me for a while! For I will be
otherwise employed for the time be
ing. ,
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, .. . us. And practically all of our woods
These clear streams run deep and j ires come us wtien we get of
silent through lowlands of rare trop- a mind that we don , t want we
won’t have many of ’em. And we
are getting of that mind rather fast
in South Carolina. And, as we do,
the future takes on rosier hues.
Boys Are That Way
When enough corn for winter use
104 PITTS STREET
CLINTON, S. C.
Last Rites Here For
M. L. Rivenback
Marian Luther Rivenback, 60, died
Friday in a Richmond, Va., hospital.
; I came along about the time the h 6 was a resident of this city for a
old-time corn shuckings were going number cf years. His wife, Mrs. Car-
out. But I got in on several I can r j e O’Brien Rivenback, died several
well remember. years ago.
There was much neighboriiness o ....
,, , Surviving are one son, Marion L.,
among the small farmers of our Rive nback. Jr., of Richmond; one
i Fork. " I step-son, Herman T. Perkins of
I^ As-soon as the corn harvest was in. R:chniund: Uir^ s i s ters, Mrs. C. A.:
the corn shuckin s started. The night Hughes of Savannah, Ga„ Mrs. Ru-
was set and neighbors invited. And
usually a few of the closest neigh
boring women would go that morn
ing and help with the cooking for
the feast that followed it. If the far
mer giving it <was a bit devilish, he
would havedemijohn of
Corn’
•One X
■ , ,K hi< !?' n »«• b « ck »' th 'i b - f. rn, :R e v. P. L, Bauknight. Burial
me utter disgust ot me ladies. | j ■
Most of the men did not drink. But
by Escott of Stuart, Fla., and Mrs.
Harvey Solomon of Norwafk. Conn.;
one brother, James V. Rivenback of
Savannah, and a step-grandson.
Funeral services were conducted
here from Broad Street Methodist
church last Monday at 4 p.m. by the
follOvV-
Rcsemont cemetery.
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