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Thursday, June 14, 1951 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pafce Five Notes From The County Agent's Office By C. B. CANNON. Comity Agent Crop Condition Laurens County crops have suffer ed considerably due to a long dry period. There has been a few scat tered showers over small areas at the writing of this column. The cotton crop has suffered less from dry weather than other crops, but rain would do considerable good in setting the soil around the roots. As to insect damage, the cotton thrip is now doing considerable damage, sucking the tender buds and squares. Thrip, known as the harvest bug, is migrating from the' ripening small grain fields to the tender growing cotton plants. Thrips are worst dur ing hot dry weather as the farmer has his cotton field clean of^rass and weeds on which thrips feed also. Where damage of thrip is showing on cotton plants, an application of six pounds of B. H. C. or its equiv alent in other organic poisons, should be applied per acre at once. All of the so-called new organic poisons will control not only the thrip but boll weevil, hopper and lice. The 1-1-1 sweet mixture when applied will control only the boll weevil. In making, many checks for cotton insects over the county the past sev eral days, very few boll weevils have been found. Checking farms where BJH.C. has been applied for thrib cbntrol, it is clearly noted that cot ton is beginning to set squares free ly. Where no dusting applied to same age cotton, attacked by thrip, very few or no squares are found. It is important that the first squares be set early and protected. The red places in the field have little or no cotton up. The seed is sound and will come up when rain comes. Where cotton is up to a stand, the farmers have left the cotton thick in the drill which is for higher yield. If there is one cotton stalk each six inches in the drill and three foot rows, it wll require ap proximately 3.® bolls per stalk to produce a bale of cotton per acre. Some cotton has been dying from diseases known as sore shin and as- cochyta. Sore shin dries up or kills the stem of the seedling just under neath the surface of the ground and aschoyta affects the leaves, giving the appearance more or less as if nitrate of soda applied while leaves are damp, giving a burning appear ance. The leaves soon shed off and the stem dies. Also some cotton has been killed by cotton root aphids at tacking the roots of cotton plants. Where plants are affected, the plants become weak, yellowish in color.! Upon examination of the roots, aj bluish, soft bodied insect is found i and in most cases there will be seen a number of small brown ants dig ging near base of stalk. Frequent cultivation is helpful in ant control. The corn crop is very spotted in stands and many farmers with little acreage planted. There is time yet to make a corn crop, but the late com is subject to bud worm damage. As to hay crops such as lespedeza, the dry weather has greatly reduced the stand and the late seeded has not had a chance to come up due to lack of moisture. Little or no cowpeas seeded due to weather.. In the small grain, all barley has; been harvtsted with fair to good! yield. This week, oats and wheat will be underway in harvesting. Oats, as a whole, hre not very good due to winter damage and long dry spell. Wheat appears to be near normal in production than any of the other small grains. The new variety wheat known as the Atlas wheat looks good. In other crops, the commercial peach crop is suffering due to lack of moisture. It is feared that if and when rain does come, that the swell ing of the peach will be faster than the growth of the skin, thereby cracking the skin and making the peach unfit for shipment. A heavy shedding or dropping of peaches in all orchards due to late freezes and extended dry spells. The livestock producers are really in a tough spot as the pasture grasses are parching. Some producers are feeding silage and hay as if was mid winter. Only a few producers have irrigation outflits and some of them are now short on water supply for irrigation As Washington Sees It... IHE NATIONAL SCENE mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmum COMMERCIAL PRINTING N This completely equipped combi nation Newspaper-Commercial Print ing plant can serve you better. Our goal Is to give our customers the Uni of service they want—to give Clinton a BETTER NEWSPAPER. Hare's Your Coroor Opportunity! U. S. ARMY OR U. S. AIR FORCE Good pay, the finest of training, and the chance for unlimited advancement—all are offered to young men by the Army and Air Force. And, these same benefits and opportunities are open to America’s young women in the Women s Army Corps and the Women’s Air Force. For a future as bright as the future of your country choose Army or Air Force, WAC or WAF. 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Mr. Johnston points out that the threats of huge black markets which may result under beef ceil ing prices have yet to become true. He points out that black markets in the old OPA days resulted be cause there was lack of effective control over thousands of small livestock slaughterers who paid big prices for beef and so drained off supplies that would otherwise have gone into legitimate markets. But, Mr. Johnston says, the set up is different today. In the first place OPS has placed slaughterers | under a rigid system of licensing and has prohibited issuance of new licenses. Also all meats must be stamped as federally inspected, making it easier to trace meats to! their source. On top of this, Mr. I Johnston points out that even after the scheduled roll backs, which are to take place later in the summer or fall, cattle prices will still av erage 125 per cent of parity, which he maintains is high enough to in sure inceniWe for continued b-»avy production. It all remains to be seen. At a time when the civil defense administration was drumming up sentiment for a nation-wide pro-1 gram of training and educating the American public to “become a full partner with the military” in de-; fending the lives-of the country in ! case of aggression, this congress slashed the civil defense adminis tration requested appropriation from $403,000,000 to $31,750,000. Which leaves that agency sitting in Washington largely twiddling its thumbs. Said former governor Mil lard Caldwell of Florida, boss of CDA, *T have faith that in time—I hope that the time is not too late— the congress will recognize the fact that an informed, organized and trained public is a full co-partner with the military forces. Civil de fense is either necessary or it is not. Congress should make the de cision quickly. It’s time to stop fiddling” • * • And the same congressional ac tion was taken over another im portant appropriation. At a time when # the Crusade For Freedom, chairmaned by General Lucius Clay, was reaching fruition, when the National Committee for a Free Europe was spending huge sums of money to build radio broadcasting stations for a radio free Europe, 1 the congress slashed the funds of the Voice of America from a re quested $97,500,000 to a mere $9,- 533,939, which means that this im portant function of informing the free world will be cut to almost nothing. And all because, according to observers here, the congress is mad at Dean Acheson, secretary of state. * * * Congressional Quarterly an un-> biased newt reporting agency hasj compiled a record showing that dollar-a-year men are flocking back to Washington, some to work for the government without com- j pensation, and others at a compen sation up to $50 per day. There al-i ready are 450 such men from va-l rious civilian segments here serv ing as consultants, special assist-' ants, achrisors, industry analysts | and experts on special problems! and already a congressional spot; light is being beamed on their, activities. Testimony has been given before I a house committee studying mono poly problems that some of these employees with the National Pro duction Authority showed favorit ism to certain large business con cerns in allocation of scarce ma terials. Small business, too, has complained it is not getting a break j on government contracts. As a re sult, it is likely that a pool of ma terials will be set up for small' business, independent of any other' consideration, so that these smaller manufacturers will stand a better chance in the allocation and prior-1 ity process. Also defense agencies have .been ordered to even make' price differentials to aid small bus iness get contracts. 584 Drivers Lose Licenses In State During Past Month ' Columbia, June 10. — Driving while under the influence of in toxicants and driving recklessly were principal causes of withdraw al of driving licenses of 584 South Carolinians in May, Chief Commis sioner Claude R. McMillan, report ed today. In addition to actions taken against the South Carolina drivers, highway patrolmen also made cas es against 139 unregistered South Carolina drivers and 132 out of state drivers. The home states of out of state drivers were notified so that they could take action. Charleston county drivers lost 35 licenses. Driving under the influenre re sulted in loss of 557 licenses; sec ond convictions for reckless driv ing accounted for 20; six were can celled because the driver furnished false information, and one which had been erroneously issued was retracted. Only one driver 17 years of age lost a license. The 17-29 age groupc, > lost 217, the 30-39 group lost 209, and those over 40 lost 157. White men lost 382 of the li censes, Negro men lost 188, white women lost 12 and Negro women lost two. LETTER BOX FILES —The handy office item. Chronicle Publishing Co. Savings Accounts 3%—DIVIDEND—3% We invite savings accounts from the people of Gin ton and vicinity. You will like our friendly and efficient ser vice, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount — from $1 up — opens an account. Each account is insured up to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Two people may have up to $30,000 fully insured. Accounts by mail promptly acknowledged. Chartered and Supervised by the United States Government Laurens Federal Savings & Loan Association Telephone 22271 LAURENS’ LARGEST SAVINGS INSTITUTION 104 West Main Street Laurens, S. 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