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i . Pane Two / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE / Thursday, July 27, 1950 By J. M. ELEAZER, Clcmson Collrifc Extension Infor mation Specialist From the Change mule to the tractor is a 9,395 Automobiles Registered In County, July Reporf 5kows Special to The Chronicle. Columbia, July 25—The number of automobiles and trucks and trail ers registered in Laurens county in creased last month over the same period in 1949, while the number of motorcycles decreased in number, ac cording to a report this week from the State Highway Department. Automobiles registered in Laurens county at the beginning of July to taled 9,395, as compared to 8,405 in June 1949, and truck registrations for the county numbered 1,797, com pared to 1,500 in June 1949. Trailer registrations in June of this year amounted to 101 as com pared to 77 in 1949. Motorcycle reg-i istrations dropped from 141 last yeif to 115 last month. Automobile and truck registrations, increased while trailer and motor cycle registrations decreased in South Carolina last month from the past, year. Frojn June, 1949, to June, 1 1950, automobile registrations went! up from 367,948 to 410,706; truck registrations rose from 98,843 to 106,-i 984; trailers decreased from 10,548 to 10,469 and motorcycles went down from 6,677 to 5,807. wm : / : J bi.c jump. The tractor came quickly to many! ot of ■ 1 ■ i l ha ■ de.i '.VI ,i: farms. Each year we see more • m and fewer mules. lidn't take much intelligence ■.,.aing to hold up a pair of plow !t s. as the faithful mule plod- riown the furrow. But when there to the modern tractor ami its machines in one jump, boy v.t are in a new and strange world :or a while To aid in this. 4-H is taking a firm hand. Eighteen > 'unties now have 4-H . : Clemson’s extension i mince; .- as- t the county agents w th these T actor operation and ir...:ntenance a. e taught, with active ;.. t to woi k with. And some of them have held tractor driving con- 1 tt-t- at tlie end of their courses. 1 >k the form of field days, | considerable audiences at plae-! De.. e > co >[K*rated in all of I More Beef Tm -c I: . ■: o^ wore like a registered Hi: tlord owned by W. H. Shiver j i! Let- c ounty, it wouldn’t be long ( bt 'ore .i pair man could eat beef ugo.n. CVunty Agent Bryant tells me that [ old Be:' tha” has had and raised 14 calves si nee July 1941. That’s 14 calves in 9 years’ She has had 5 single heifers, a ■ .-.r.gle bu.l, twin heifers once, and tall and heifer twins 3 times. “All tahes lived and all twin calves were born on Monday," says Bryant, and ‘ .-ome <>f her daughters have also g.-en birth to twin calves '' There :s some feeling among the; experts that twmn.ng might be ini . runted trait If so. Mr Shiver has! something in old Bertha". It Happened Again M. ve laeen reported; this year of where eed and in June! i turned out to oe' ^ 1* « a. i'.i-t.ue men tell me tney have « \ rr.i; *• ’ rr. i'.y -ach pastures. And tit:*, i- .vaat napaened in most cases| »y h.t.e >ee He man got fescue; ..il : .rr. and .t is still there. But, t nan .. little rye grass in it, or , volunteer rye grass was there from, 1 ;n . i >u> -eed.ng.s, it came along ve-, fine on the good treatment put! ihe.-e for the fescue It makes ear- i.er growth, and being an annual, ni.ikes .( big seed crop the following spring. The fescue gets off a little .s i'wer there and makes a light seed crop the first year anyway But so' «. .ergrown by the rye grass, it makes; very :*-a seed heads there the first; year, and the field just looks like! ICO per cent rye grass at harvest l.mt Hugh Waodle tells me "you've got to get down on your knees to >:ra.ghten this thing out". He says it you will look close there now, since the rye grass has gone out for tne summer, you will likely find your intended fescue there that you thought you didn't have. Drought Struck County Agent Bull of A»ljbeviile say.- yields of reseeding crimson clo ver >eed were off due to the spring drougnt. ‘ Average yields will be less tnan 75 pounds to the acre," he says, “and our highest was 275 pounds." And this condition was pretty gen eral over the state. " t The >ame thing happened to the lespedeza, only more so. Drought so parched and burned the lespedeza out of many of our grain fields that U just simply is not there at all now. Yes, many a field was simply cry ing aloud for water that did not come the past spring. Crops were ruined, delayed, or hurt there, and the harvest was dwarfed. Irrigation is on its way to a good many of our fields that are near streams and ponds. Boys Are That Way Talking about that beef cow of Willie Shiver’s a while ago that has had all of those calves reminds me of a tale of boyhood he told me some years ago. On Sunday afternoon a bunch of - them sneaked off down in the pasture; to ride the cows, as usual. They had; some great times down there, and' had never found a yearling they! couldn't ride. One of the boys watching pro ceedings closely had a bright idea, or at least he though it was. He no ticed how the yearling threw its head down and its heels up. They got a sack and filled it half full of rocks. The idea was to lay that across the rump of the yearling to hold him down behind. They did that. They turned the yearling loose. At first leap, he kicked up ana pitched that sack of rocks forward. It caught the boys across the back of the neck, as it ground him into the dirt. The other boys thought it had kit ed him. But, after being a bit woozy or a while, he got the kinks out of lis neck and was soon all right. 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