The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 24, 1951, Image 6
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, May 24, 1951
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Farms
&
Folks
Not all crops nor all livestock on
every farm, of course. But some
of each on every farm, the ones
best suited there.
knew. | it
ed with a colored man I
That was no further from home
than White Rock. A few miles
farther on we got to Chapin. Our
In writing a brief story of a farm mail came from there. But it was
success with one thing, we can’t'4 miles from home, and that was
take the space to put all of those about as far away as I was familiar
qualifications in. The writer as- with. There we took on water and
sumes that the reader has some unloaded about a dozen sacks of ice
common sense too, and will apply insulated with sawdust
it.
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By J. M. ELEAZER.
Clemson College Extension Infor
mation Specialist
Leaving Chapin, I felt like an ex
plorer for sure. Of course,
In fact there is no conflict be
tween cotton, cattle, and grass, or been to the next station, Little
some of the other elements going Mountain, a time or two, but that
into this diversified farming we was j n com p an y w ith my family on
are building in South Carolina. In j the first Fridays of August when
fact each of these things contribute' biggest event in the Fork took
something to the success of the pi ace> the Newberrv College reun-
stat* Farm i other ' For instance the meal from; ion But now it ‘was different,
aiaie cotton seed finishes off a livestock! xinw I wa* nn mv own Ac wp
South Carolina’s state fa 1 ™’! venture and tobacco erowefs swear i u a • . t * • ,
■nr, thp <;,imtpr Kcrchaw countv ; venture ana looacco growers swear rol ] ed into Little Mountain I saw
on the Sumter-iversnaw cou t. b jt as a fertJizer And the ma-' t he denot aecnt Mr Kpss nprrirk
line, is fast developing into a show ^ i;.j •* ine ae P° l a « eni - Mr - ,s ‘ ess tJemck,
place that all citizens can be proud
of. .
A few years ago the penal board
and Superintendent Manning ask
ed Director Watkins of Clemson to
make a study of the farm and rec-
o m m e n d procedure. Specialists
was necessary to reduce by ten
per cent the prices that slaughter
ers pay for beef cattle. Two fur
ther reductions in livestock whole
sale and retail prices are scheduled
by October 1. This means con
sumers will then be paying around
seven to ten cents a pound less for
beef, depending on grade and cut,
he said.
At that time, livestock prices
I had will still be around 125 per cent of
parity, or 25 per cent above the
figure considered fair to the farm
er in relation to the prices he has
to pay.
ding. The same to be applied to the!the same or some subsequent
purchase price upon his complying! Salesday on the same terms, at risk
with the terms of sale, otherwise! of the defaulting purchaser,
to be paid to Plaintiff for credit on The purchaser to pay for papers,
the indebtedness. In the event the stamps and recording
nure from livestock doesn’t hurt; a friend of my father’s. But I was
cotton a bit either. And so on
I’m for all of ’em, at the places
where they fit in.
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Fine Timber and Pleasant Villages
Just south of the little town of
Ruffin, down in Colleton, one can
i too bashful to speak, and looked
the other way. (Hold on, this thing
is getting too long. I’ll have to
tell you the rest next week.)
from thp college went th er f> see some uncommonly fine timber
their study, and presented their by tb e roadside for a goodly dis-
recommendations. And a hard-nit- ^ ance Long, straight, original
ting and practical graduate, Guy
pines, whispering in the lofty
Price Controls Soon
To Hove Effect
The OPS is undertaking to sta
bilize and control prices at all lev-
stock farming
to look at.
empire that’s good
Whetstone, was employed as f aI ™ breeze! With the interest we are
superintendent. Since then he ana now beginning f 0 i n trees, the els. from producer to retailer, and
his assistants have been building f u t ure w iij likely have more and I has recently issued a number of
that 5,436 acres into a vast live- more 0 f tb is. Four-H and FFA. regulations which, although not
will help see to that. ’ readily apparent to consumers,
And it strikes me that this little should soon have their effect on re-! of ^tith Carolina^ containing one
They have built three large up- jiiage and Smoaks near it
LAND SALE
The State of South Carolina,
County of Laurens.
In Court of Common Pleas.
M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers,
vs. Plaintiff.
W. T. Hill, Defendant.
Pursuant to a Decree of the
Court in the above stated case, I
will sell at public outcry to the
! highest bidder, either in or in front
j of the Court House at Laurens, S.
! C., on Salesday in June next, being
I Monday, the 4th day of the month,
] during the legal hours for such
sales, the following described prop
erty, to wit:
All that piece, parcel or lot of
land situate, lying and being in the
northwest section of the Town of
Clinton, in Laurens County, State
successful bidder should fail to
make such deposit, or should fail
to comply with the terms of sale,
the said lands shall be re-sold on
V. R. FLEMING,
C. C. C. P. & G. S.
Dated this 16th day erf May, 1951.
31-3e
tops
for
quality
tops
for
quality
to-date dairies on it with oyer 300 b ave most pleasing and restful ap-
cows each. Over a hundred brtxjd, pearanceSt as Qne ro jj s ^ through
sows are scientifically handled f° r ,them on a good highway. On a hot
high production of quality pigs. da y j tempted to stop and ling-
And a large beef cattle herd is be-] er on one Q f ^ broad cool-looking
ing developed. j porches.
The products from all this go to • • •
feed the state institutions m Co- Robert Burns
lumbia. Have you read any of Robert
They have 100 acres of beautiful Burns’ down-to-earth writing since
alfalfa. Last year they got 6 cut- you have been big enough to un-
tmgs and averaged 5 tons of hay derstand and appreciate it? I have,
per acre For the season. It was ir- just recently. As the spokesman
r.gated twice. This insured good for the downtrodden "hardy sons
cuttings during the droughts they of rustic toil” of his day, he penned
experienced. | many a classic.
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Don’t Forget
District OPS Director ^ six-tenths (16) acres, more or
James D. Griffin said yesterday. i ^ ess ’ an ^ being bounded on the
tt , northwest by lands now or former-
‘TJ? 11* o' James Gary, live hundred
an<i nii>«*y *590) leet thereon; on
HiU * ,ive hundred and twenty-five
(525 > *** thereon; and on the south
feC > lands now or formerly of Mat-
hundred and seven-
feet thereon. Said lot
l.. a. u . .i... ; I K a n.% Mi land is more fully de-
fn? lh y ^ ould I scribed according to a plat of sur-
ror oeei cuts. Ivey thereof made by S. T. Martin,
To establish these retail prices, ( Surveyor, under date of February
20, 1950, which plat was recorded
on February 23, 1950, in Plat Book
7, at page 46, in the office of the
tops
for
quality
I
lecx. neian ouicners are requirea . , ds (
to post their ceding prices on beef s ith t
by June 4, so that consumers can . .
see the prices and be sure of the ^•° t ^ ct (2 ' f 1) 1 ^ e
Boys At* Thai Way
ATHLETES FOOT GERM —HOW
TO KILL IT. IN ONE HOUR.
If not pleased, yaar 46c back from Cleric of Court for Laurens County,
any drarrist. T-4-L Is specially made South Carolina, and is a part of the
County Agent Alford of Colleton Up to the time I was about 12 we “7 mrHrovrFvVaT^v k ', T X T’ 18 * T
say.: The only rv.l ,ood winter m.do our own lurl tor Ihe tor*, in SlJK2^?E?22?222'«i5' T
marine we h»H the na«i severe a kiln nf ereen we K.irrvea ■*iat*4 alconol base gsvcs (Teat PEN- said W. T. Hill by Perry Pitts by
grazing we had the pa.t severe a kiln of green pine ue burned iTRATING sower. Kills IMRED- hi. Hee,i a«.;i _ 1077
winter was
planted by a
moved in
from Abruzzi rye.[down in the pasture about once a
farmer that has just year. Up to then the regular sorts
from Pennsylvania.”| of mined coal we know today had
Early last fall drought and cold not reached our Stone Hills. For
had killed or so retarded the usual ! us it was charcoal entirely,
things we have been planting for I saw my first piece of regular
winter use that little good was got- coal at Laurens. My father was
ten from them until spring. But the country doctor. He got passes
old Abruzzi rye came through in for the family on the C. N. & L.
fine shape. Railway that runs from Columbia
This reminds us again that, in to Laurens. To me, that was a
cur enthusiasm for other new graz- great adventure, 54 miles away.;
ing plants that usually do well for, Few folks around home had ever,
waiter use, we need to keep this been that far. and many thought!
old standby in mind. For it will my parents rather reckless to let
serve us well when the going is me go off that way to a strange
rough and the others fail us. land by myself. But I always liked
And the same can be said about to go around and caught our old
other old standbys like velvet coal burner for Laurens. White
beans, Bermuda grass. Dallas grass Rock was our station. Just above
and lespedeza. We need these too. there we stopped and all of the
along with the great new grasses men got out and heffped the crew
and clovers that have come to us. throw wood on the tender. Most
* * * trains stopped there, as there was
Don’t Get Us Wrong plenty of rich lightwood in our sec
Sometimes after I've written tion. The fireman liked that. Some
something about grassland farming of mine fell short, so they made,
I will run up on a cotton man who me stop, and the men soon had it
gets after me about losing sight of piled high with rich wood,
the importance of cotton. We took off, a mixed train, with
Again I will write of an out- about six cars, a flat or two, and
standing success somewhere with one passenger coach cut into five
dairying and then a beef cattle compartments. One was for bag-
grower will feel like I’ve eliminat- gage and express, one for mail, one
ed him, and vice versa. a smoker, one for whites and one
"Crops plus livestock for every for colored folks,
farm.’’ that’s what we are after, ac- Soon we got to Hilton. There I
cording to Director Watkins. hung out of the window and talk-
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LAKE CITY and TAMPA
ETRATING power. Kills
DED germs contact. NOW at Mc-
GEE’S DRUG STORE.
DR. L B. MARION
NATUROPATH
Jacobs Bldg.—Room 215
Phene 97
his deed dated April —, 1937, and
recorded in Deed Book 72, at page
24, in the office of the said Clerk
of Court for Laurens County, South
Carolina.
Terms of Sale: Cash. The suc
cessful bidder, other than the
Plaintiff herein, immediately upon
the conclusion of the bidding, shall
deposit with the Clerk of Court the
sum of five per centum (5%) of
the amount of the bid as a guar
antee of his good faith in the bid-
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