The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 27, 1950, Image 10
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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.
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,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
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More Beef
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o^ wore like a registered
Hi: tlord
owned by W. H. Shiver j
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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'
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« 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.
Memories, memories! ' It’s a woo
er count: y boys ever survive.
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