The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 14, 1951, Image 13
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
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Washington, June 12,—Economic
Stabilizer Eric Johnston told the
house agriculture committee that
the cattlemen of the country can
prove that rollbacks of cattle prices
will not work, he will be the first
to recommend a change in the OPS
rollback order.
Admitting that economists in his
office disagree as to whether thesp
rollbacks will result. in beef short
ages, he asks that in the meantime
the OPS order be given a fair
chance to work.
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.
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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
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and already a congressional spot;
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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
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Driving under the influenre re
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White men lost 382 of the li
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