The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 21, 1950, Image 16
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, September 21, 1950 i
By J. M. ELEAZER,
Clemson College Extension Infor*
mation Specialist
100-Day Flower
If I spoke in pompous phrase. I’d
say, before you dream of a lily or
rose, plant ye a crape myrtle.
Yes. the old Hundred-Day Flow
er! What brightness and beauty it
brings to the summer hedge and
hilllock! And what abuses it can
stand! You set it out once and it's
forever there. It will respond to
good treatment, but neglect does not
cause it to go. It is often the lone
sentinel that marks where a house
has been, after even the brick and
other rubble are overgrown f with
j wild verdure. *
! We settled a new place. Didh’t get
; one planted last winter. But hope to ;
the coming one. How- about a little ]
1 resolution. Let’s resolve to do that
! on every place where a beautiful
crape myrtle is not now growing. I
i like that gorgeous watermelon pink j
, best.
Likes New Melon
I '
1 In the past few years several new
| disease-resistant watermelons have j
i been developed at the U. S. Vege-,
we had no form of heat in our up
stairs sleeping abode. Yet childhood
memories carry recollection of dis
comforts from neither this nor from
the summer heat.
I guess kids are just that way.
New Car Licenses
Are Now On Sale
TAKE A LOW-COST TRIP
IN GOLDEN AUTUMN!
Time to travel-lime to »ave!
Year «|treate« teleutoo of trip*
and tours over glorious Autumn
high*ay*, including:
Bargains
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IN •ROUP TRIPS
TO RIO IVINT•
Have more fun on Ckaner Trip*
to big gam«. faira, fettivala.
convention*, reunion* . ..
Bargains
IN ROUNR TRIPS
IVIRT WM IRt
Save an t*tt* lOff or more
t*b ttmy on Round Trip* to
big (Kiev. »mall town*, retons,
everywhere . . .
Bargains
IN IIPINII-PAID
TOURS
See more on Amanng America'*
Tour*, to tcenic area*, big citie*,
hivtoric vpot». vacation play
ground* all nver the country!
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( linton Bu» Station
Phone 59
GREYHOUND
(t cost
41Q ooo
8 years tyo
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 facts. 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-ruined.
America Fore
• INSURANCE CROUP -
CLINTON REALTY
b INSURANCE CO.
B. Hubert Boyd. Agent
j table Breeding Laboratory near
Charleston. In cooperation with that j
laboratory, several of the county!
j agents have been trying them out in
five-acre plantings, enough to isure 1
. carlot shipments. The Congo special
ly showed up well. And the pa$t
| season was the first time enough
seed were available for rather wide-
! spread planting. The growers liked
' it very much.
I visited a large grower’s field in
j Allendale with County Agent Sear- j
son. Part of the field was planted to!
Congo and the rest to one of the I
j leading established varieties. The!
old sort had sunburned badly, most
of the vines were dead, and about
half of the melons were left in the
i field. That day they were picking
t the Congos for the fourth time, vines
j were beautiful, and it looked as
though they would continue making
melons for some time.
We asked the man how he liked
the Congo. He said he liked it very
much, that it was making at least
twice as many melons, and he was
able to market all of them. He
{ brought out too that it was a good
shipper. County agents down there
feel that it will be very widely plant
ed next year.
Planting Birds
Through the game department,!
many of our counties have been'
planting lespedeza bicolor for bird)
feed. With cleaner farming and!
wide terraces that we work over, itj
! is felt by game lovers that the lack!
of food is one of the chief causes of!
less game. So many thousands of
these bicolor shrubs are being plant-,
ed along hedge rows and the edges!
pf fields and in open woodland spots
Folks who have bicolor several i
^years old tell me that if you have)
j any quail on your place, you will
surely find them there in the vicin-
1 ity of this planted food during the
winter. It holds its seed pretty well
and birds can get it even if snow
1 is on the ground.
After this and other bird feeds are
planted around, then many countrie
are raising and planting quail there.
In Marlboro, 60.000 bicolor plants
were set last winter, 10.000 of these
by 4-H club boys. And many of I
these got quail from the Blenheim
The counter sales of 1950-51 auto
mobile license tags began September
18.
The State Highway, department
will mail out application cards to
motor vehicle owners beginning Sep
tember 15, however.
As in former years, tags may be
obtained from the Highway depart
ment office in Laurens.
The new tags good for the 12
months beginning November 1, will
be black with white numerals. These
colors are the reverse of the current
white tags with black numerals.
For the first time at the start of
sale of a new year’s tags, personal
checks will be accepted in payment.
in Laurens county during August,
the. motor vehicle division of the
State Highway Department reported
this week.
Nineteen drivers privileges were
withdrawn in the county for driving
I under the influence of alcohol, and
the reihaining license was withdrawn
for an unspecified reason. Sixteen
of the licenses withdrawn were those
of white men, and the other four
belonged to Negro men. Five of the
men who had their liceenses with
drawn were 17 to 29 years of age,
seven were 30 to 39 years of age,
and eight were forty years of age
and over.
Nineteen Drivers
Lose Licenses
Nineteen drivers licenses were sus
pended and one license was canceled
Dr. Felder Smith
Optometrist
Laurens, S. C.
126 EAST MAIN STREET
SoNth Side Public Square
HOURS FOR EYE
EXAMINATIONS:
9:66 to 5:26
Wednesdays 9:60 to 12:26
Phone 794 for Appointment
Neely's Toe Wins
Presbyterian college End Bud Nee
ly of Rock Hill, whose talented toe
provided the margin of victory in
PC’s stunning 13-12 upset of Furman
last Friday night, will be ready to go
against Clemson this week-end.
Neely’s extra point after the first
P.C. score was the deciding factor
against Furman. He also starred de
fensively and blocked a punt.
Goodyear Tires
and-Tubes
BATTERIES AND
ACCESSORIES
McMillan
Service Station
Sinclair Products
Phone No. 2
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COMMERCIAL
HOUSEHOLD WIRING
Electrical Appliance
Repairing and
Electrical Construction
Work
Floor Plugs A Specialty
ARNOLD M. CANNON
40« W. Maple St. TeL 312-XJ
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then *
arms 1
j hatchery, raised them, and
’ turned them loose on their
Grau In IHrkens
County Agent Wood tells me that
you see both permanent and tern-'
! porary grazing mixtures being seed- i
ed everywhere you turn in the red I
hills of Pickens. Far more than ever
before! And that means something:
else. Livestock.
From all reports it looks as though;
that "Blanket of Green” will clothe
I many a new acre in this state fre the
frosts of winter come. And what!
meaning that carries!
Leaching largely stopped, washing i
i too. and pasturage for stock around
the clock of seasons! Few spots of
earth are capable of all that.
, Will Oaks Go?
Something they call oak wilt is
killing all varieties of oak trees at
places in the upper Midwest. The
industries depending upon oak lum
ber have become alarmed and have
contributed fellowships and funds to
nid research towards finding a rem
edy. I am told that it has been found
as far down as northern Kentucky,
j Just how severe it will become, no
one knows. But it looks serious.
A similar scourge hit the chestnuts
i jp East years ago. It came down the
i country until not a chestnut was left
along the eastern range of that tree.
Boys Are That Way
I don’t remember ever getting cold
cr hot when I was a kid.
We slept in an upstairs half-story
that I know must have been torrid
on many a summer night. And the
feather bed must have added to the
temperature as we lay there. Yet I
never even paused when I hit those
sheets. Sleep was almost instant, and
I was dead until day. At dawn my
signal to get up was the scraping
of gravy from the frying pan. For
I knew that in a matter of moments
then the food would be on the table.
And it took me just no time at all
to bounce out, hop into my overalls
on the move, and take the steps two
at a time as I headed down to the
dining room. And I don’t think I
ever thought to wash my face. They
always had to make me go on the
back porch and do that after I reach
ed the table and tried to get by
without doing it.
And the heat of day never bothered
us either, unless they were trying to
make us work. And then, we would
soon be off to the creek, unless they
had laid the law down to us mighty
hard that day.
Cold didn’t bother us either. Those
brogan shoes with only a loose buck
le at the top must have let in the
cold something awful, just about like
a wooden shoe. But I don’t recall my
feet ever getting cold. And winters
appear to have been colder then. We
often walked the branch a part of the
way to school, the ice was so thick.
New that condition seldom exists.
And heating was very poor. In our
long one-room school there were
cracks in the floor and an open fire
place in one end; at home ceilings
were high and rooms were airy, and
JFS NEW.;;IT'S COMPLETE!
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THE RALSTON'PURINA COMPANY
ANNOUNCES THE OF
Blakely-Burton's Hardware & Seeds
As the PURINA DEALER in Clinton
MAKE THIS STORE YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL
YOUR FARM NEEDS...READY TO SERVE YOU NOW
The Checkerboard Sign on this store means it is now
ready to offer a complete one-stop farm supply service
designed to meet your every farm and home need.
Whether you raise poultry or livestock you'll find
Purina-trained men ready to help you solve any feeding,
sanitation and management problems you might have.
Purina’s complete programs of feeding, sanitation,
and management which have proved so valuable to
thousands of farmers year after year are now readily
available to you through this Purina Dealer.
You’ll find this store ready and anxious not only to
supply your farm needs but also to assist you in build
ing a profitable personal program to help you get top
production from your poultry and livestock.
Make it a point to visit this friendly store to see the
literature and services it has to offer you
A COMPLETE LINE OF PURINA PRODUCTS
LABORATORY TESTED;:;FARM PROVED
PUkiNA CHOWS
Whatever your feediog
problem, you’ll find the
answer in the Chows
that come in the famous
Checkerboard Bag.
Made of the finest in
gredients, Purina,
Chows are'sdentifically
blended for top produc
tion from each animal
or bird and backed by a'feeding pro
gram built to give you profitable returns.
SANITATION PRODUCTS
Purina Saniution Products
are built to help reduce
losses from disease and
parasites. They are pre
ventives that can help you
increase production and
make the best use of your
feed. Especially famous are
Purina Chek-R-Tabs, poul-
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water tablets; Purina
, . try vi „
Chek-R-Ton, flock wormer and appe
tizer; Purina DDT Fly Sprays. Ask abo
the hill line.
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FARM AND GARDEN SUPPLIES
Poultry, dairy and livestock
supplies bearing the Purina
Checkerboard trade-mark
have been thoroughly tested
right on the farm for prac
ticability and length of serv
ice. No inferior product will
/ever bear this trade-mark.
Purina Seeds, Plant Food
and garden insecticides are
also products of Purina’s thorough
research.
OTHER SERVICESJ)FFERED^BY+ THIS STORE
i 4 x , 1
Free Poultry Flock Culling Service.
Suggestions on Breeding, Sanitation, Management and
Feeding of Poultry and Livestock.
Recommendations on Rates of Seeding Pastures and
Crops.
Suggestions on Care and Upkeep of Gardens, Shrubbery
and Lawns.
Blakely-Burton’s Hardware & Seeds
THE STORE WITH THE CHECKERBOARD SIGN
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