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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 15, 1950
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Number 24
By J. M. ELEAZER, #
Clemson College Extension Infor
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Likes Upland Pastures Best
When the Buzzard Roost power
project came it took all of the bot
tom lands where Harold Lumley had
grown pasturage for his dairy herd
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' B. Hubert Boyd, Agent .
in Greenwood county.
He says he thought for the time
that he’d have to go out of the dairy
business. But his SCS man, John
son Craig, and his county agent, P.,
M. Garvin, came by and got to talk
ing about up-land pastures.
He became interested, and went to
work towards getting ’em. Now he
would rather have them than the
bottom ones. The latter overflow
ed, and that was always bringing
diseases and feeding troubles to his
cattle. Now he has none of that on
his clean hills where good grasses
and clovers grow the year around.
And folks he thinks a lot of fertil
ized Bermuda grass too. It has served
him well. His 6 acres of alfalfa av
eraged 5 tons of hay per acre last
summer. —
In our enthusiasm for the new
grasses and clovers, we will do well
not to forget the old standbys. The
new ’things are high and we protect
that investment with high fertility.
And that’s all to the good. They are
fine ancf we need them. But let’s
remember that the old neglected
plants like Bermuda grass, Dallas
grass, lespedeza (both the annual
sorts and the Sericea), burr clover,
and even crab grass, likely have a
place in our year around grazing
program. And they too will respond
mightily to the good treatment we
are getting of a mind to give to
grazing crops.
Hard Hit
There are' hundreds o! small col
ored farmers over Char.eston coun
ty. When I was there in late April
their agent, Julius Amaker, told me
that at least half of the.r truck was
taken by the freeze of a few nights
before. He had worked with credit
agencies that had taken care of them
in pitching these crops. Now that
much of that acreage had been tak
en, they had slim finances with
which to seted other things. And
there were few cash crops that could
be planted then. They are putting
in some lima beans, and also some
grain sorghum with which they
planned to feed out a few hogs.
Sweet potatoes used to mean some
thing to them, but the sweet potato
weevil quarantine nips that idea now.
Grass And Livestock In York
The York county agricultural
workers sponsored 6 community
winter pasture tours. Of these,
Couny Agent Mitler says, “On the
tours excellent pastures of fescue
and ladino were observed and own
ers had deceived good grazing all
winter.”
A livestock sales facility has been
built there too by 135 farmers, who
each took $100 stock.
So gradually the livestock devel
opment covers the state. First comes
pastures, and some grazing and feed
ing demonstrations. Then a local
sales arrangement. And thus we see
the beginning of a new day in our
agriculture, with livestock along
with crops. That makes a stable and
enduring sort of farming.
Corn Interest In Berkeley
“Interest in the newer methods of
corn growing was stimulated greatly
by Mr. Woodle’s talk in early March
to 175 Berkeley county farmers,’’
according to County Agent Mason.
Boys Are That Wsy
As kids there was nothing we lik
ed better than ’possum hunting.
A neighbor had an old deaf dog
that was very good. We hunted her
a lot. There was just one disadvan
tage. 'Being deaf, we couldn’t call
nor direct her. She knew the woods
and liked to hunt. So she just went
and we followed. Often we would
hear her tree away across the hills,
we could just hear her. There was
no calling her off, and she would
stay until we got there. And when
we got through we had to just catch
her and bring her back with us, or
let her go and come home when
she would. But we didn’t like to do
that. We felt that she would thus
lose confidence in us.
One night she treed away down
back of the schoolhouse and we wept
to her. As we neared the spot,
someone said they believed she had
treed up that giant hickory tree that
grew down there near the spring.
And sure enough she had. As we
arrived, she really talkd to th ’pos
sum, barking and jumping up at the
trunk of that big tree.
It must have taken us an hour to
gnaw it down with the sort of chop
ping we did, taking turns. As us
ual, one of us held the dog as the
giant tree fell there with a resound
ing crash. As soon as it hit she was
rearing to get loose and into the top
of it after the ’possum. We didn’t
hear the usual scramble in there, but
soon got to her with torches in hand
for light And there she was, folding
a regular kitten of a ’possum. I think
she was as disgusted as we.
Going home one of the boys re
called the saying of old hunters that
the smallest ’possums go up the larg
est tr< . „
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As Washington Sees it ..
(HE NATIONAL SCENE
J here in Washington. President Tru-! the people with one or more of, these 1 their state and national leaders and
man’s cross-country tour, ^played ; similar trips between now and the that there‘is- a great ground-swell
: down” by the Republican leaders, is : fall elections.
Special to The Chronicle.
On the surface, there is just as
much doubt and confusion in the
minds of both Democratic and Re-
I giving them no satisfaction. They
| criticize everything the * President
I said, and at the' same time they can
not laugh off or criticize those huge
I crowds which greeted the chief ex- publican leaders on the position the
Washington, June 3—One impor- ecutive at every whistle stop and people are taking about the Brannan
tant measure pending before con- j culminated in a gigantic rally and agricultural program as is in the
gress, which would effect almost ev- parade in Chicago. i minds of the people themselves
ety household, is HR 6826, which j The Republican policy makers j about the plan. On the upper level
would extend provisions of the se- would like to believe the crowds, of farm leadership in Washington,
lective service act. It would re- were there out of mere curiosity there seems to be no doubt but that
quire the registration of all males to see the President, but then they every farm organifation with the
not exempt, between the ages of .look back on 1948 and remember the exception of the National Grange is
18 and 26 but would not actually in- same crowds on that now memor- dead set agninst the Brannan plan,
duct them into service. a ble junket of President Truman. , But there continues to be disquiet-
tof favorable opinion.
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The bill would require further ac
tion by congress, a concurrent reso
lution that a national emergency ex
ists, making compulsory military ser
vice a necessity. One feature of the
measure is that it recognizes the
importance of the reservists and pro
vides that they must be the immed
iate back-stoppers to the regular
forces and provides for their call to
the "colors before induction of draf
tees is effective. The measure, or a
similar one, is urged by President
Truman and was reported out by the
house armed services committee, 31
to 0.
The committee said: “The ordering
into service of reservists should pre
cede, not follow, the resorting to in
ductions of draftees,” and because of
this view 4 of the committee, many
thousands of reservists are expected
to be called into training within the
next few months or weeks at camps
and forts throughout the country.
The armed services are planning,
as a result of this decision, to aim at
a* pay-status corps of reservists, num- ,
bering approximately 367,000 by
1956. According to a recapitulation of'
the department of the army, the reg
ular army can count on a national
guard reserve of 315,921 officers and
men, and in addition the air nation
al guard can muster 6,791 officers
and 37,836 enlisted men. Both, how- ■
ever, are .below their ^ authorized
strength.
Plans are being set up for a new
army organized reserve corps to
bring about improvement in efific- j
iency and readiness, with three prin
cipal sections—active reserve, inacr !
I tive reserve and honorary reserve, j
The selective service bill, besides the
two provisions outlined, provides:
until a concurrent emergency reso
lution is passed, no reservist may be
| ordered on active duty without his '
consent; no 21-month ^enlistments
may be made in the regular army,!
arid other short term enlistments are
curtailed; exercise of power grant-
fed to the government by the 1948
law to compel American industry
to produce armed forces materials
would also be held in obeyance un
til the concurrent resolution is pas
sed.
With congress set to adjourn in
July or early August so the members
may get back to their fence mend
ing in their home districts, the po
litical pot, is really starting to boil
It is certain that the Democratic ing reports, at least disquieting to
leaders will take advantage of the opponents of the Brannan plan, that
Truman capacity of getting close to the rank and file are not following |
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