The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 17, 1951, Image 5
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Thursday. May 17, 1951
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Farms
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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. The
sequences of paragraphs and of
sentences in paragrahps must be
changed: positions of subject, pred-l
icate and modifiers must be alter
ed; synonyms should be used.
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ALWAYS BE CAtEEUl DIIVING
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F irst thing that people notice when
they take over a Boick is the sure
footed stance this fine automobile has on
the road.
\bu head into a curve and hold firm and
true. You travel a turnpike without sway
or wander.
While your wheels may dance when you
hit a stretch of washboard gravel—your
car holds its level course.
A lot of things account for this beauti
fully poised performance, but it starts
with stalwart structure and ample
weight—plenty of pounds where pounds
are needed.
Please don’t get us wrong. This isn’t
“deadweight.” Though a Buick like the
one pictured here tips the scales at more
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than two tons, it’s as nimble as an-ante
lope at play.
It has a generous hoodful of valve-in-
head Fireball power—packing a power
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It comes with the smooth magic of
Dynaflow Drive*—a lightness of steering
that’s gently responsive to a lady’s hand
—a front-end geometry that’s pure genius
—the finest brakes ever put on a Buick.
And every wheel rides on shock-eating
coil springs that are carefree and
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Y>u’ll also find—by a few moments of
simple arithmetic — that the pounds in
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way. On a cents-per-pound basis, it will
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Zarick Street
Laurens, S. C.