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<* ♦fc*- * Thursday, October 5, 1950 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Fire 4 > -v# /# Farms & Folks By J. M. ELEAZER. Clemson Collere Extension Infor mation Specialist * ******* Oconee Doinfs A half day spent with County Agent Griffin of Oconee brought me into the living presence of many sure signs of progress. When I arrived I met Bill Boozer, a Fellow Dutch Forker, who is their able SCS man, in there talking things over with Griffin. Bill told me they had made complete soil-saving and water-conserving plans for 1,329 farms in Oconee county. And his records showed that these plans had been over 90 per cent carried out to date. For instance, they called for 41 fish ponds, 38 have been complet ed, and the others are in process. They called for a planned crop rota- FALL -up Special Let us cheek your car for a season of carefree, trou ble-free motoring. Includes complete lubrication, brake adjustment, change of oil, fan belt adjustment, car buretor, distributor, erator and tire check. gen- Timmerman Motor Co. Phone 119 tion on 38,592 acres. To date 24,898 acres of that have been accomplish ed. A bit over 28 thousand acres were to be terraced, of which almost 26 thousand hav been finished. Later we saw these things as w rode. Griffin said, “This county is really going to grass.” We saw fine pastur age at places everywhere we went. And new sedings were being made on an unprecedented scale. He showd me boll weevil poisoning demonstrations where good cotton was being made, while across the road unpoisoned cotton would hard ly make enough to pick. And Brown Swiss cattle were seen here and there. Many of them were brought in as a basis for a dairy and family cow business there in the near-moun tain area. And we stopped to see the finest little apple orchard I’ve ever seen. J. C. Lee and son do that fine job on 6 acres. They give that orchard expert care, and I’m sure it is good to them. When we were there the trees were loaded with perfect fruit, as many as 25 bushels to the tree. And they had size, too, the sort you’ll pay a dime apiece for. They had packed out their first apples that morning, fancy packs in boxes. I examined their thhow-outs and there was a handful! No rot and not a worm to be found! While many have put out apple or chards in the upper Piedmont, only to be half-handled, neglected and eventually abandoned, these folks have, shown that not even famed Washington state can grow any finer apples than will come from this soil of ours when diligence and intelli gence are applied. They sprayed 12 times, for good apples are hard to grow, according to Clemson’s Roy Ferree. But, grown right, they yay off well, as proven by this expe- j rience for the Lees. They said Para- : thion had killed their worms and Fer- mate had taken care of the diseases. While in Griffin’s office I also had a chat with their Triple-A man, J. E. Smith. Those boys all work together and the result is a good job for the county. Smith told be the farmers of the county have used up all of their soil-building allowance of $62,- 000, and an additional allotment of $5,000 was secured. It practically all went for lime, phosphate, and lag for pastures! Nb wonder you see fine grazing bursting from the ground at so many places in Oconee. Significant things! Yes, that’s what I saw at every turn in Oconee. Corn In Kershaw and Anderson It’s the best corn crop in many years for Kershaw, according to County Agent McCarley. Farmers generally are well pleased with re sults from the Clemson plan for growing com. It’s more com on the land, better seed, higher fertility, and less cultivation. “Com on the red uplands of And erson looks like river bottoms,” says ^ Vt* Ml* /.I *«*» • Savings Accounts 3%—DIVIDEND—3% We invite savings accounts from the people of Clinton and vicinity. You will like our friendly and efficient ser vice, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount — from $1 up — opens an account. Each account is insured up to $5000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Two people may have up to $15,000 fully insured. Accounts by mail promptly acknowledged. Chartered and Supervised by the United States Government Laurens Federal Savings & Loan Association Telephone 22271 LAURENS’ LARGEST SAVINGS INSTITUTION 104 West Main Street Laurens, S. C. * — — ■— — their agent, Hopkins. “The improv ed or Clemson method of producing corn is sure bringing results,” ‘he says. And from most other counties come similar reports. This com awakening has great meaning when translated into livestock. Drought got a lot of the early corn in the Low Country. Hubbard says they'put a lot of that in the silos in Bamberg. Livestock Reaches The Mountains The boll weevil wrought its early havoc in the Low Country. So live stock got underway there first. But it has gradually eased on up-state. A big livestock market recently op ened at York. Greenville and And erson have had ’em for a good while, and so has Greenwood. County | Agent Martin tells me that Spartan-, burg county recently formed a j County Livestock Producers’ asso-1 elation. These things were in the dream; stage a few years ago. Night Livestock Judging At the Greenwood fair this year they are to judge Angus cattle on the night of Oct. 10, and Jerseys on the night of the 12th. That’s a new thing. Usually they are judged in the daytime, when few folks are there. Fairs have resolved them selves mostly into night affairs. This! change will be watched with interest. 1 Boys Are That Way There’s still a lot of boy in all of us. And I can see me every day in our boy, Tommy. Bet you can too. We like most things as they are when we were boys. Nothing ever tastes any better than it did then. Seldom as good. One of them, with me, has been ice cream. But in that case I am sure it is the ice cream that’s changed, not me. A few years ago I went by Ryan Whte’s in Sumter county. They had just made a great churn full of ice cream as it usde to be. Eggs, cream, and good makin’s went into that. No Powders, gelatin, com starch, nor the like. Mrs. White set a great saucer piled with a mountain of that delight before each of us on that hot afternoon. The following moments were pure bliss.' We finished, and Ran called for a second. I demurred a bit, but not for long, and she piled it up again. Then she brought out a Jar of homemade strawberry pre serves and said they liked that on it at times. So we piled iton the peak and let it cascade down the sides in irresistible pink streaks. When we finished, it still tasted good. But we just couldn’t hold any more. The past spring I thought about that experience. And I had tired of much of the bought sort that’s so puffed up and propped up with sub stitutes that it won’t even melt. So we bought us an old-time hand freezer. We made the divine stuff and put several freezings each time in our home freezer, where it kpt without gtting icy. Soon I weighed. Had gone to exactly 200 pounds, And, folks, that’s the weight of a sack of ing around. My breath got short and guano. That’s toom uch to be carry ing around. My breath got short and my clothes wouldn’t fit. So I went on a mild diet, starved myself away from so much of that real icre cream, and now I’m down to my usual 182. Gracious, I- had started outo tell you an ice cream tale of boyhood, and look where I’ve strayed. I’ll tell you that next week. 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