Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 / / 4 i: ) Thursday. August 24, 1950 Sgt Lloyd Foster At Fort Bragg Air Bose 4 Master Sergeant Lloyd R. . Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Foster, of i this city, is now serving with Head quarters of the Ninth Air Force (Ttictical) at Pope Air Force Base, Fort Brass. North Carolina. Sgt. Foster is assigned to the In spector General’s Office as Chief Clerk. He is a veteran of over 11 years service and has spent 23 months in the Asiatic and South Pacific Theaters of Operations. Prior to being assigned to the Ninth, Sgt. Foster was stationed at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. Sgt. Foster is married to the for mer Miss Frances Passmore, of Clin ton. They made a visit here with relatives before going to his new as signment. , By J. M. ELEAZER, Clemson College Extension Infor mation Specialist Keys To Fertility '1 k 4 pi MORE PEOPLE ARE READING THE CHRONICLE THAN EVER BEFORE! MclNTOSH'S SHOE SHOP Send Your Shoes To Us tor Best Material- an* ' Workmanship Any type of Hand end Power LAWN MOWER Sharpened the factory way Brlnf !a year lawn and haea B our pmelgtan work dona quickly and ao> eurataly. Your mowar will cut like new. ▲ law utea hart will aava yon booni in Um COX SEED CLEANERS Phone 293 — Florida St. r\~ * CALL. TELEPHONE r 4 America Fore i iNSUHASCt CROUP r CLINTON REALTY & INSURANCE CO. B. Hubert Boyd. Agent i Just about everything on the farm depends upon soil fertility, j It determines if there will be paint on the house, and how well the folks - there can dress. It determines the size and model ]of the car that’s parked in the yard, and how far the book of knowledge will be opened to those who dwell there. Benjamin & Sons Export Workmanship CRANE Quality Materials FOR QUICK PLUM a I N G REPAIRS But how much would it cost to REPLACE IT? The average home owner to day carries only 40% enough fire insurance. He’s thinking backward to what his proper ty cost, instead of forward to what it would cost to RE PLACE IT. Face the fecta. Your home or place of business (and con tents) may burn tonight. Is your fire insurance big enough to enable you to start to re build and refurnish or restock tomorrow? Quit kidding yourself that you won’t have a fire or that you are fully protected. It’s no fun to be half-nUned. i It largely determines how bent the back of the operator is from unre sponsive toil, and whether his hair ! is gray from worry or years. If largely marks the reach of am bition’s lofty sweep, and a lack of it condemns men to a life of lean 1 penury and actual want. I Much of our land on which folks must try to live does not have this all-important fertility. But, thanks be, intelligent men can put it there! We have many crops that add fer tility. Two of the chief of these are crotalaria and lupines. The former is a luxurious summer grower and the latter is for winter. And each has the happy faculty of making good growth on poor land. We can’t say this for many of our soil building plants. Dave White of McBee is the daddy of giant striata crotalaria that has made productive lands out of so many acres of formerly poor sand- nills. He got it years ago from Clem- son’s Sandhill Station at Pontiac. County Agent Willis of Chesterfield says, “Seeded once and handled right, from then on you have if*. Dave White has a field he seeded 11 years ago. It still comet' there in perfect . stands. When I rode with him in; June I could see a full stand of it: coming in the grain stubble there. And in his cotton and corn fields a [ stand of it comes up after crops are , laid by, and there is his cover crop | in the middles' Lupines do not reseed, but they grow in the fall and early winter, I when we are not 'usually using the crop land anyway. And they will do their magic to the soil just like | crotalaria will. It has to be seeded each fall. County Agent Shelley of Barnwell told me they harvested 3,- 000 tons of Ipine seed the past June. And Allendale and Hampton each probably exceeded that figure. J. W. Sanders of KUne harvested 10,500 pounds of lupine seed from 5 acres. The loan value on them was M70 60. Not a bad money crop, on top of all ' of the soil building that roughage and roots carried. You might have poor land, but it doesn't have to stay I that way. Guernsey Festival Chester is staging its Guernsey i Festival Aug. 29-30. Show is on the : first day and sale on the second. Chester. “The Land of the Guern- 1 sey”, is surely growing wuth Guern- ! seys. The county agent estimates that i their annual sale of breeding stock is at least $100,000 And milk routes traverse the county. Seventy-one of their 4-H boys | ' and girls have Guernsey heifers. And j i what a show they put on when they | ! come to the Festival! Building for | the future there, with the farm young people interested in good cattle and learning their ways. Pig Chain Lancaster has a 4-H pig chain. A | good pig was furnished to 10 boys j scattered over the county. Each one turned b&ck a good pig raised from I that one. And then this pig went to | another 4-H club members according to County Agent Cannon. And so the thing rolls along, leaving good hogs in its wake, and leaving farm young sters with not only some good hogs, but with a knowledge of how to handle them and grow them out prof itably. Boys Are That Way Summer had been awful dry in our Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork that summer. We watched the stern blue skies longingly for the shower that was slow to come. The summer was wear ing away, precious weeks were pass ing, and our rocky creek bed parch ed there in the sun. Fish died in stagnant pools, and cranes came to eat them. At long last, about mid-August, the morning broke clear and hot as usual. But soon after noon some heartening thunderheads grew in the west. How we watched them! Soon they blotted out the sun, and we could hear distipet and growing rumblings. There was a crash overhead, and gusts of wind blew dust and debris about. And in no time the deluge came. It shifted and went on out to wards Hilton, where the headwaters of our creek lay, Before the shower was complete- over and was tapering off, we slip ped out the back way for the creek a mile away. When we got there it was a silent swift monster moving down its valley through the hills. We slipped shirts and overalls off before we got there and promptly waded in. THE CHRONICLE Completely Coven Clinton’s Trade Area for Advertisers There Is No Substitute for News- THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Tag:* Fivd 1 spent 5 minutes and saved *1000" Says Walter Boyd, Los Angeles, Calif. Come in ... see how you could pay $1,000 more and still not get all Dodge extra room... ease of handling... famous dependability nip • Ov—A/- — A. 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