Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 ? I r ♦ t 4 Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE / By J. M. ELEAZER, Clemson College Extension Infor mation Specialist Free Winter Grazing County Agent King of Dorchester tells me that B. W. Rogers seeded 15 acres to rye grass for grazing last fail. It gave him fine grazing during the winter and spring. And then he combined an average of 300 pounds of seed per acre from R. This seed crop more than paid all the cost of that grazing. Our pasture men, Woodle and Craven, tell me that this isn’t unus ual. This is a case of sort of eating your cake and having it to. Now is the time to start seeding this and other winter grazing crops. You might do well to talk with your coun ty agent about what’s best in your case. Good winter grazing isn’t possible over much of this country. It is eas ily possible here. Now is the time to bestir yourself if your stock. is to have it. And our livestock lead er, A. L. DuRant; dairy leader, C. G. Cushman; and poultry leader, P. H. Gooding, all testify to its value in economically carrying healthy livestock and poultry. The slogan for South Carolina is “A Blanket of Green” for this win ter. And the way it looks now, we will come nearer having that than ever before. Historic Room 1 had seen that monument at a street fork in Abbeville. But never stopped to see what it was. When I was with County Agent Bull there recently, he took me to the home of a venerable citizen who had read my stuff and wanted to see me. It was J. S. Stark, who is mighty alert and active for his 90 years. And he lives in the house that- the monument marked. In that spacious old Southern home. I chatted very pleasantly for an hour with that grand old gentle man whose accurate memory is link ed with so much of our past. And we sat in the very room where Jefferson Davis on May 2, 1865, had held his last cabinet meeting. There it was decided, according to record, that it was useless to continue the conflict further And that's what the monu ment marks. He told me many of his interesting experiences, clear back to the t.me Sherman’s soldiers came to their door, and his mother was so afraid He can just remember that. 1 liked the one about the Negro tenant on his place. They had a bad crop year and most of the tenants could not pay out. This old fellow had been with him for many years. It was only him and his wife, no children. So on. the bad crop year they fell behind most on account of short labor. Mr. Stark said he fig ured he’d have to make a few changes; so he told this fellow he would have to go. He said no, he wasn’t going tq move that year. That sounded like imprudence, but was not, for then the old fellow said, “I didn’t* owe you anythin! when I came here and I ain’t gi owe you nuttin when I leave.” Well, that was different, and he let him stay. The next year he made a good crop and paid out everything. Then he asked Mr. Stark, “Do you still want me to leaves?” To which Mr. Stark replied, “H— no, man. Go on back home and get to work.” Boys Are That Way As a kid, I was always fascinated by insects. Specially ants. Where the cotton was high enough so the others couldn’t see me, I would stop picking and sit there in the middle and watch ants. You might interpret that more as laziness than interest in ants, and you might be right. But I did find them inter esting a lot more than picking cot ton. I would kill a grasshopper, lay it near their hill, and watch them work on it. What strength those lit tle things have. Five 'or six of them would get together and drag a grass hopper that must have weighed a hundred times as much as one of them. It was equal to that many men dragging a large elephant. And I would put a piece of trash in the opening of an ant hill. And there too I would see prodigious feats of strength displayed. One ant can carry a piece of leaf or small stick that must weigh many times what it does. Sometimes I got real mean and would level the ant hill. They really went to work then. And they work ed as systematically as well trained engineers. They would get the small lumps of dirt out of the way. Then they would team up on the larger ones and pieces of gravel and roll them clear back out of the way. And those trapped inside soon met those working from the outside. In a little while they had their mound back in order and things were normal but unlock the secrets of their or ganization, intelligence, and power. McMillan Hits Politics In Mobilization Washington, Sept. 4—Representa tive John L. McMillan, of the Sixth district, today blasted the adminis tration’s tendency to mix politics with mobilization. Usually soft-spo ken, the Florence veteran singled half-way mobilizers in the adminis tration, and called the railroad strike a “disgrace.” McMillan said bluntly that: “Poli tics is spread all over mobilization measures. We should forget the elec tion, and begin immediate mobiliza tion while we still have time.” The youngest member of the house, Paratrooper Veteran Hugo Sims, Jr., agreed with McMillan, in a separate statement: “We are fighting a police action in Korea with half our entire army. The other half is not ready. With Thursday, September 7, 1950 other moves expected in other parts of-the world, we are moving half heartedly toward mobilization. We’d better get ready fast.” McMillan said he favored imm*^ diate imposition of an excess prof its tax. He did not want to see any corporation getting rich on the war, he said. that time it was usually get- g^tate, and we would head for home in a little while. They hadn’t gotten much work out of me. 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