The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 05, 1950, Image 13
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Thursday, October 5, 1950
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Farms
&
Folks
By J. M. ELEAZER.
Clemson Collere Extension Infor
mation Specialist
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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-
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gen-
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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
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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.
Chairman Named For
Seal Campaign
Gordon Collins, superintendent of
the Laurens county hospital, has
been appointed county chairman for
the annual Christmas Seal Sale. The
announcement is made by Henry
Paris of Laurens, president of the
Laurens county Tuberculosis associ
ation, sponsor of the sale.
Committeemen in all parts of the
county will be named to direct the
annual sale during the pre-Christ*
mas season.
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