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• r I * * « * 1 * By J. M. ELEAZEB, Clemson Collere Extension Infers i motion Specialist Thursday, June 7, 1951 vale from our country storei w hcre we had gone to get Vienna saus age, large sweet crackers, and soft drinks. The path led through Cou sin Paul’s pasture. And our pulses always quickened there, for a bad bull was reputed to roam in that pasture. We worked our way alert ly a quarter of a mile through it, always keeping fairly near an easy climbing tree. As we climbed over the rail fence on the other side, our usual peace of mind returned. ^We played on along the pathway by Cousin Paul’s spring. The damp mossy path felt good to our bare _ _ . yj-.fi.ui fe€t > and we tarried at the beauty rm. T ^* ® , , spot there by the spring. The wash Tlie Smiths °f Edgefield h pot, with its bed of dead embers, tablished quite a record as cotton was near by The wash with growers. ; inverted tubs, was there on the Since the state cotton improve-. fern-covered bank of the spring ment contest was started by Clem- drain. And the clothes paddle lay son in 1926, Edgefield county has on the block that was set firmly had 9 state winners. Six of these, in the ground. Overalls from the ■were Smiths. I field, with much ingrained dirt, And during that time Edgefield were lathered and pounded clean county has had 10 district winners, there. of which 4 were Smiths. j Fringing the spring, great ferns Begining in 1945 county prizes, shot fro mthe verdure, and wild THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Flvt of them and were making greater plans as we heard someone com ing down {he steep path. We lit out. For the unwritten law was for '“younguns” never to play in the spring. The path soon curved and we were never seen. But I’m sure whoever that was wondered what had muddied the Hornsby Groduotes At Infantry School Pvt Lional L. Homjfcy, son of Mr. J and Mrs. Lional L. Hornsby of this, city, was recently graduated from the! basic aiiborne course of the Infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga., as a> qualified parachutist, according to an announcement by Major General John H. Church, commandant. too, were offered. Since 'then Smiths have won 5 of the 12 coun ty prizes, too. And this is all the more remark able when you consider that the same man or same land can’t win the same prize twice and each is disqualified for anything lower than he has already won. After winning, he can only shoot at any thing that’s higher. So now, a good many of these Smiths have only the grand sweepstakes prize to shoot at. It is now $1,500 to the one who beats the existing record ( made by J. Harvey Neely of Ches ter county in 1946 when he pro-, duced 8,275 pounds of lint cotton on 5 acres. Now, scores of other farmers have been in that competition there, too. The Herlongs and thej Holmeses for instance each have three winners. But they can’t hold a light wiJn those Smiths who have | 15! All of them are good farmers. There are just more Smiths. County agents are now taking applications for the 1951 cotton' improvement contest. Signs of Our Times Over S. C. County Agent Kinard of Jasper says marketing centers have been established in 3 communities in the county for cucumbers for the Denmark plant. Each community ist producing 150 acres of pickling cukes. i Peach plantings in the sandhills of Lexington were extended by many thousand trees that were planted the past winter, according, to County Agent Evans. Lexington; orchards have been rather free of, frost damage during the past few | bad years that got most of 'em in other areas. | Due to prices and need, the cot-J ton acreage will be up and that of| sweet potatoes down some in > Orangeburg this year is the way' County Agent McComb sees it ( there. Many farmers of Richland se cured their boll weevil poison be-] fore .hey planted the cotton this time, a-coniing to County Agent | Bob Bailey. They were running no | chances on getting it. It looks like 1 all of their cotton will be poisoned this time, says Bob. J. D. Powers of Georgetown was unable to sell his sweet potatoes profitably at digging time; so he cured ’em in his tobacco bam. Then on out through the season he wasj able to sell them profitably, ac-j cording to County Agent McCord. Cattle farmers in Clarendon are planting some velvet beans for winter use. County Agent Grainger tells me. We used to plant a lot of, ’em. Now, that cattle are on the increase, they can serve a very | useful purpose for winter feed from the field. Assistant County Agent Fleming of Florence told me that over 200 farmers attended the two fence construction and fence post treat ment demonstrations that Clem son specialists put on there in the county the past winter. Fences are coming fast with our livestock de velopment. We need to use posts that last and to build ’em right, says our engineer McKenzie, for labor is the big thing now. We can’t afford to be doing it over so often. Down in Kershaw 18 farmers are planting Turkish tobacco, says County Agent McCarley. Last year there were nine. A good crop for small farmers. In the 4-H wildlife conservation work in Lancaster county, Agent Cannon tells me that 72,00U lespedeza bicolor plants were se along ditch banks and hedgerows the past winter. . 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