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Thursday, February 8, 1951 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pate Flrt Farms & Folks By J. M. ELEAZER. Clemson College Extension Infor mation Specialist 100 Bushel Corn ter carried golden potentials that Ggorne SoVS Cotton haven’t been fully realized yet. Z" % 7 .7 Dr. Poole has a working committee rNC6 rFBCZG Moy at Clemson that's developing the ed- ci. PrArlurfinn ucational opportuniUes for a better rrgUUClwn use and conservation of our great re* sources of water and soil In South Washington, D. C., F«fc. 2—Sena- Carolina. tor George (D^Ga) said today the Of these three God-^given elements price freeze on cotton may discour- for abundant living, we can’t do any- a g C production this year for the de- thirvg about the first, the climate. , It’s delightful, and all right just f ' P * . ... . * it is anyway. But the other too, we 1 agreed with spokesmen for the can do something to facilitate their effectiveness and use. Much is being done towards build ing and saving the soil. We know and f(>tton t-ade practice a good bit of what’s known about that. But the matter of use cotton industry that the general price freeze has caused “a very con fused condition” in all levels of the You can make 100 tiushels of corn and conservation of our water re sources hasn t received so much at tention. It is a great and rather un wieldy and somewhat intangible per acre That’s what County Agent Cannon of Lancaster told his folks, after add- thing that’s hard to get a hold on, ing up the results of their Farm Bu- , ® ut * ts importance is such that we George is chairman of the senate finance committee and his comments came during hearings on a house- passed bill to broaden the govern ment's authority to renegotiate de fense contracts in an effort to re capture any undue profits. W. D. Lawson, appearing for the National Cotton council and the American Cotton Shippers associa tion, testiAed that until the freeze order "cotton was worth about $223 a bale but now nobody knows what it’s worth today.” “The price situation is so confused l that nobody is able to operate under it," he said, explaining that differ ent sellers have different price lev els frozen. Lawson and other witnesses con tended that there was no good rea son to have a frozen price on cot ton because consumers are protected by fixed prices at their level. reau sponsored corn contest for 1950. must begin to dig into it. For those are not just rivulets of water, as we Hive of their farmers made more have known them in the past, that than that. And 16 of ’em averaged i course down the channels in every 98.1 bushels per acre! | valley of our state. Those are riv- . Now that’s as much corn as many j ulets of golden potentials, largely folks used to ^nake on ten times that; unused potentials, of many kinds, acreage. The know-how contained in And they spell out many things for the S^point Clemson method of grow ing corn is receiving wider applica tion in the field each year. And the average yield of corn is constantly j call it. Industrial potentials of great upward. With all that goes into a magnitude. For large quantities of a better future here. Irrigation, and crop yields we have only dreamed of before! Crop insurance, we might crop, as high as everything is, we can’t afford to piddle along "with those extremely low yields of corn anf more. We will have to bear down on that land and get more com from it, or stop fooling with it. The Clem son plan embodies the information we have on that subject. Talk with your county agent about it. Clhnete, Sell, and Water We have three elements that dis tinguish South Carolina. And they are more or less common to several states down here in the Southeast. But South Carolina seems to be right in the heart of ’em. They are a climate that hits the happy medium, just right for abun dant living. A soil, though depleted, that responds to the hand of husban dry on a year-around basis and where a very wide diversification is possible. And our abundance of wa- When Your Doctor Calls Don’t let minor accidents stump you. Our aid kits are planned for all needs. Come in today . . . play safe! McGEE’S DRUG STORE Phone No. 1 Special Stamps made to your precise needs. All ‘‘Cushion-mounted” on hea vy sponge rubber. Prompt service. Stamp Pads—and Inks, All Colors. good fresh water are getting harder and harder to find in our expanding industrial age. And what power lies in that water, as it works its way back to the sea, after incessant show ers spill it the year around across state and in our mountains to the west! Better Melons When I was in County Agent Wil lis’s office in Chesterfield he had received batches of several new sorts of watermelons for testing out under farm conditions. They were from Dr. Anders down at the U. S. Vegetable Breeding Laboratory near Charles ton. Last summer I told you of the 4- acre planting of another new sort that Willis had put out with one of his melon growers, Smith Oliver of Ruby. Wilt resistance is what Dr. Anders is working for. On old melon land there those did well. Mr. Smith harvested 4,700 marketbale melons from the 4 acres ,and that’s a good melon yield in anybody’s language. The eating and shipping quality of that one was also good. It hasn’t been released yet and simply carries the number 48-13. Dr. Ankers and the USDA’S work along this line in this and other co operating states is bringing great im provement in the field of watermel ons. Boys Are That Way Last week I told you of the com ing of our first show in a covered wagon. And we finished talking about that monkey dissolving Che cracker in the water and drinking it. We played around out there at the wagon until the lengthening shadows faded out and it was night. Fromj all directions we could see folks com- j Ing through the woods, with burning i torches marking their course up the paths that lead to the schoolhouse. A few came in carts, buggies, and wagons. But most walked, as it was not thought well to work a mule all day and then drive him at night too. The one-room school was packed for this, our first show. Two lanterns hung from the rafters down front i furnished the light. And that was a plenty, for we were not accustomed to much light. The man did a few slight of hand tricks that mystified us no end. Next day some of the folks said they bet that fellow was a con- purer and that he would J>e danger ous to have around. Then he had the monkey do a few tricks that delighted everyone. I’ convulsed the house when it trien to find fleas in the long white beard of one of the men. And one of the women screamed so loud when it went towards her that it scared me stiff. The next act was looked forward to with much misgiving. It was to be the “talking machine.” We had heard of it. But no one had seen it. And few believed there was not some sort of trick to it. After elaborate introductory re marks, he announced we would now see and hear the most startling in vention of the age, the talking ma chine; He wound the thing up, put a new needle in, set it to turning, placed the needle on the cylinder, and we could hear a grating sound like the static we know on radio to day A perfect quiet filled the room. Then the far-away sounding squea ky strains of an old hymn came. We thought that wonderful. But that was not all. Then a shrill voice chimed in and sang it! Well, that was the last word. 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