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/ / ♦ Thursday. May 17, 1951 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pa*e Fir* y s /mil ■ Farms & Folks * By J. M. ELEAZER. Clemson Collece Extension inf or- j mation Specialist Nineteen Vegetables for Market Ray M. Buck of Mount Pleasant grows 19 different vegetables for market, according to County Agent Carraway. Irrigation at places in that area .¥ is taking a lot of the gamble out of truck farming. Insuring Com In late May of last year I crossed Colleton county and saw one of the finest com prospects I had ever seen. It looked like the Com Belli sure enough. Then along in late June I passed back through there. A scorching drought had struck and parched that fine prospect into a sorry spectacle. This year at least two farmers there are planning to guard against that. They are equipped to irrigate their com. County Agent Alford tells me. . With an abundance of water ^ near many a field. I’m sure we are ^ going to see this supplementary ir- “ rigation thing grow. Not only in Colleton, but in every section of the state. Costs are too high, and our ability to make good crops is too well established, for us to idle along and let drought snatch the prospective harvest from our fields so often, as it surely does. And specially is this so when we can economically pluck the needed shower from the running stream right there by many a field. Brahman Cattle j Through East Texas I saw much, Brahman cattle blood in the vast herds. And on down in Mexico they have mostly native unimproved % range cattle. Such distinguishable blood as I saw there was mostly Brahman, too. And through most of Florida you see a strong and growing mixture oi this blood in the cattle. Surely this breed of cattle must have something for beef, or It ' wouldn't take on as it has. We have some of 'em in South Caro- p lina and folks here like 'em. too. A They are hard for our cattlemen * to accept at first For they violate just about everythin* we ve been * looking for in a good beef-type •animal. These things are said of them: They are good rustlers, stand heat and flies well, are smaller at birth and heavier at weaning time, have less trouble calving, and dress out a good carcass. A new breed of beef cattle has been developed from them crossed on Shorthorns in this country. It is called the Santa Gertrudas. They are big dark red cattle that con form beter to our established standards for a good beef type. • • • A Spring Night I was returning home the other night. A new moon lay clear and sharp in the road ahead. All of the crispness of spring was in the air. Soon the moon was down and it was very dark, with star-stud ded sky. My lights cut a tunnel through the darkness. And where they hit a dogwood tree, the blos- w soms built a mound of snowy white. Rounding a curve, a red fox was caught in the beam. Con- A fused,, it almost got run over. A gawky 'possum too was seen lum bering across a little farther on. And rabbits played at places. It was fine to be outside, and my foot lay lightly on.the throttle. The car too seemed to feel the in toxication of the spring night. It purred along like a kitten. And was very responsive to pressure from the foot. By sleeping farmsteads I rode. Few lights were on, as the work season is at hand. At one place cattle had gotten out and were standing in the road. They were slow to move as I approached. A| whistling swain had apparently left his girl’s house on the hill, where the lights still burned. And 1 he was taking long strides down the road home, for perhaps he had lingered a bit late. That whistling could have been for either or both of two purposes: To break the scary stillness of the night, or an expression of ecstasy that he could not resist. For he seemed to be walking on thin air. And so is a spring night. I like to be deep in the out of doors then. For the darkness makes you so alone. And the mind can conjure up such pleasant thoughts and imagination can paint such pleas ing pictures then.^ ^ * Boys Are Thai Way We made most of the things we had in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork when I was coming up. And this went all the way from clothes to wagons and grain cradles. No farm then could get along without a blacksmith shop. Home- burned charcoal was used m tne forge. Well can I remember the yearly coal-kiln we burned down in the pasture. Mostly green pine wood was used. Piled properly in a stack, covered over with dirt, and just a vent left, it would smoulder for a day or so until wood had turned into charcoal. Then the xlirt was shoveled off and there was the year’s charcoal supply: It not only fed the flaming forge, but it filled the old charcoal smooth-1 ing irons that were a luxury then. As soon as it cooled off good we | would sack it up and haul it to the shop. We did that for two reasons. It was very porous and would soak up water so as to make it useless.; And the stock would soon eat it all up if we left it down there in the 1 pasture. I remember how funny I thought that was, for stock to eat coal. But now I know it was the minerals they were craving. Enlightened husbandry of today takes care of that. It was harder to get steel hot enough to weld with charcoal and you had to keep feeding it. But it left no clinkers that bothered with welding like when natural, coal was used, we later found out.! But until I was perhaps a dozen years old, I had never seen any of! that natural coal that comes out of the ground. I'll tell you about that 1 next week. U. S. Codes Barely Mentioned During MacArthur Hearings Washington, May 12.—The sen ate committee hearings on the MacArthug case have produced bare references to one of the moat carefully guarded secrets of the military—its system of cryptogra phy. In war, or even in peace, “crack ing the code” of another nation can have value equal to the destruc tion of enemy armies or fleets. Because the United States learned Japan's communications code, it was ready when the Jap fleet made the costly and unsuccessful strike j at Midway island in World War H. The term “cryptography” really covers both the use of the code and of cipher transmission machines. Thus, a secret message can be transmitted by the use of a ma chine which transmits symbols or groups of symbols which are (as the military says) “de-crypto- graphed" mechanikally upon re ception of the message. Or cryptography may be merely the old but still useful system of using letters or groups of letters which have no meaning until a 1 “key*' is used to convert the mes sage into plain language. Of particular concern to tho.'e charged with maintaining the se curity of cryptography systems is the chance that a message sent by cipher may appear, by accident, at a later date in a public document. 1 This would be useful material for! an espionage agent who. having picked up from radio or other sour ces a copy of the coded message, could compare it with the plain- language text and thus “crack the code.” r- % Cryptographic messages sent in symbol could be as simple as the gadget used to run a player piano or could be much more intricate— which they are. The military places the tightest protection not only over the ma chines and codes but over copies of messages which have been trans mitted cryptographically. Regulations require, among oth er things, that cryptographic ma terial must be kept “in the most secure storage available and will never be left unattended except j when locked in a three-combina- tion safe or its equivalent.” Decod-! ed cryptographic messages may not even be kept in the same safes with the code used to decipher them. To prevent “code cracking,” ma terial sent cryptographically is paraphrased before being released for use by others than those to whonr the messages are directed. Regiflations specify that “routine rep<frts and messages which must be given wide distribution, or the contents of which have been or may gventually be furnished the press” should be transmitted when ever possible in plain language, but that if code transmission is re quired the text should be para phrased before being distrbiuted. Precise instructions for para phrasing also are set down. 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