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i¥ * 1 i M d V Thnmday. December 7, 1W0 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE -o- Par# FW# »»»»**>»»>»»*»»»»»*»*»»»»» By J. BL ELEAZEB. College Extension Infer* ■nation Specialist A Wood Fire I like a wood fire! It sings as it bums. It sheds a fra grance in the room and casts soft dancing shadows on the floors and walls at night. Surely it is in league with the god dess of sleep. For who can resist its mellow glow and gentle crackle when the hour is late! Yes, dreaming is easy when the embers glow and the flame flickers, as darkness and cold grip the out-of- doors. And what snugness there is by the warm and worn hearthstone when nights are long and the gales of win ter blow! Apples from the cellar, peanuts a- • oastin’ on the hearth, taters a-cook- in’ in the ashes, popcorn a-poppin’ in the skillet, pappy reading by the lamp, mother a-knittin* or darnin’ in the comer, kids playin’ on the floor, and a gentle fire bringing com fort and solace to all. The price for pulpwood has recent ly gone up. Farmers in the Georgetown area are getting more out of their wood, tad at the same time giving farm labor needed employment at off timea, by cutting their own pulp- wood and delivering it to the road side, according to Extension Forest er C W. Hall. This arrangement holds in George- town, Horry, liarion, Williamsburg. Berkeley. Charleston, Clarendon, and Florence counties. About 15,000 cords were thus handled by fanners in this ares in 1050, according to Wal ter Jaenicke, forester with the Georgetown mill At present the fanner gets $11 per cortf for pine and $0 50 for hardwood thus cut and piled in cord lota by the road Likes Grasing Riding with County Agent Kenrse of Saluda sometime ago, we saw milk > aas at many a mail boa. Near'one ’Jwre was the three-acre fescue and 1 ndlno clover pasture of Gray Crout out from Lresvilie 1 quoted Gray then as saying that this was the most important three acres on his small buyer can feel that he has the best information that human ingenuity has yet devised. Boys Are That Way A few weeks ago we spoke here of familiar odors that came to us from boyhood. From Arkansas comes a letter from J. S. Knox, who finished at Clemson in 1911, adding others to the list that I had forgotten. Said he read my stuff in the Tugoloo Tri bune of Westminster, his hometown newspaper. “That fragrance that comes from the pan when sorghum molasses is being made.” And I might add sugar cane too. “Muscadines ripening on the vine in the fall. And cotton has a pleasant aroma when first picked,” he adds. Kraut a-makin’ in the barrel is sweet perfume to a Dutchman’s nose. And chitterlings cooking for supper. The odor of the first ripe peach in May and apple in June. Even though there was usually a worm, the aroma was mouth-watering. And come with me to the barbecue in August! The odor from those browning shotes, as the basting was applied, is still one of earth’s most tempting odors to me. We can’t leave out the cottonseed oil mill either. For rare old coun try ham a-fryin’ can’t beat that od or, yhen the seed are cooking. Even the hog pen does not smell bad when you think of the good things that come from a hog proper ly butchered and cured on the farm. S. C. Cotton Insect Control Progrom For '51 Due Soon Clemson, Dec. 2—Recommenda tions of the Clemson college exten sion service cotton committee for cot ton production and insect control in South Carolina in 1951 are expected to be announced before the Christmas holidays. Committee members are busy as sembling, summarizing and evaluat ing research and farmer results from the 1950 cotton crop. They also have conferred with representatives of the experiment station and others in get ting their recommendations shaped up. A summary report of the results of the 1950 cotton program in this state and a tentative draft of 1951 recommendations have been prepar ed for use in a conference at Mem phis, Tenn., December 4-6. Entomologists and other specialists of the experiment stations and exten sion services of the cotton states and of the U. S. Department of Agricul ture will attend the conference. The state group going to Memphis also will attend a cotton control con ference, sponsored by the National Cotton Council, at Memphis Decem ber 7-8. The committee will confer Decem ber 12 with members of the state cot ton committee in Columbia. - Vinson Sees No Reason To Change Draft Washington, Dec. 2—Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) of the house armed services committee said today he saw no reason for nay change in the draft law this year to speed up expansion of the armed forces. President Truman has set a goal of a 2,771,000 defense force by June 30. • Vinson said there are enough men left in the 19 through 25 bracket to meet the army’s draft needs without changing the law this year. Neither the air force nor navy has utilized the draft so far. Mr. Truman is expected to ask congress next month for some form of universal military training and it is likely the draft will be revised and tightened then. An unpublished report on man power hearings held in October by an armed services subcommittee is understood to favor extension of service for draftees from 21 months to 24. The draftees would be used to build up the army toward its goal of 1,264,900 by next June. Although the exact figure is secret, unofficial estimates are that the army now about 1,000,000 men. MORE PEOPLE ARE READING THE CHRONICLE THAN EVER BEFORE! Stephen L Stetson Hots $7.50 L B. DILLARD FOR SALE! Beautiful Improved Corner Lot College View Facing Young's Circle. Lovely miniature Water Mill and Fish Pood Also Rock Garden Phone 341-R or 128 He writes me now -’ We have add- cd a little more pasture It's great »usff ead saves a lot of hay handling itetter feed too.’* We are putting fertility to paa- 1 arss and marvel at the results. There is one more potential are need to ex- ;’ore And that's tmgation Crop Reports Every manner of chock and bal- • r.ce is used in preparing the crop jeporti. They get the opinions of 'lousaads of tanners. Agents of the reporting service temper these scanst their own findings by riding many oads and checking frontages of rops on the same roads they have klden for years. And other checks :oo are applied before the crop re- •■orts are released And when they ire finally issued both farmer and JAPANESE FRUIT CAKE For Christmas Made On Special Orders TINMAN'S BAKERY Phone 334-W HEAR THE Choir Singing CONTEST ^Program EVERY SUNDAY WLBG 3:30 p.m. 860 kc A CREDIT TO SOUTH CAROLINA SETH THOMAS CLOCKS 11.94 up — including tax