The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 21, 1951, Image 8
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Pise Eight
By J. M. ELEAZER,
Clemson College Extension Infor
mation Specialist
Kill Weeds in Ponds
When I dropped in on County
Agent Mellette of Aiken, he and
his assistant, Mr. Beasley, were j
discussing their plan for a small
motor compressor to be mounted!
in a boat for spraying weeds in
ponds.
They have pioneered with weed!
killing in fish ponds there in Aik-j
en. Mellette tells me that some-j
thing under $5 worth of weed
killer in crude oil is enough to kill
the weeds on an acre of pond. With
a small motor to give the pressure,
he plans to fix up a rig that wtH
do it rapidly and thoroughly. Up
to now he has used an ordinary
spray pump in a boat.
Weeds usually get to be quite
a pest in a farm pond. Now that,
we have a remedy for them, ponds
should contain less weeds and j
more fish. Full details may be se-j
cured by writing county agent i
R. R. Mellette at Aiken or Samj
Williams in care of Extension
Service at Clemson.
You Can Tall 'Em
A fellow down-state told me the
other day that you could readily!
tell a city raised person out in the
country at gnat season. He would
fight them away with his hands
and be much annoyed. While the
fellow who was raised out there
simply blew out of the corners of|
his mouth, shoving them away, and
worked right on unperturbed.
Soil Saving and Building
Spartanburg county has 27 com- 1
munities that have entered their
soil consenation contest. The;
newspaper there offered substan
tial annual prizes, and the thing
has been going several years.
I met the other night with the:
folks of the Green Pond commun
ity. They are striving hard for the
main prize this year, which is a
power hay baler. W. P. Gaston
heads that group. The 15 farmers
who are in it are really remaking
their small farms. I saw gullies be
ing filled, trees planted, terraces
being built, meadow strips being
constructed, and in fact very few
sore spots remain on the land
there. Their SCS man Skardon
showed me over the community.
His explanations showed me that
he had a finger in the beautiful
job they are doing there. The
group meets monthly in their
abandoned schoolhouse. The month
before that County Agent Martin
had talked with them about work
ing the needed cotton program and
weevil control into their commun
ity effort.
Such an awakening of commun
ity interest in taking care of the
land is unique in this country.
And. my, what meaning it has for
the future! And not only for the
future, the folks who are there
now kre seeing new -things come
from their soil. •
"Company"
Why dp we make folks feel
cramped when they visit us by
jnaking company out of ’em?
I’ve ahvays been too plain for
much of that. I usually drive on
around 'to the back door and go in 1
through the kitchen. That’s the,
way I do at home.
And I like to find towels in the!
bathroom that I <;an use, not the!
stiffly ironed, monogrammed and i
embroidered sort arranged so beau
tifully on the rack that it’s a shame,
to touch ’em. I hate to mess that
sort up, and often use my hand
kerchief to keep from doing so.
Biit good housekeeping seems to!
demand a sort of stiffness in try-j
ing to give the visitor the best, and
I guess I can’t do anything about
it.
4-H Field Day
Cherokee county varied its
spring 4-H rally by having a group
of field events for both boys and
girls. County Agents Lee and Stone j
tell me that a lot of interest was'
shown. The agents from another!
county came to see how it worked
cut, with an eye to enlivening
theirs with a similar event.
South Carolina Film
Have you seen that w'onderful
film on ‘‘South Carolina” that the
Esso folks made? If not, you have
a treat coming. I’ve seen it three
times and wouldn’t mind seeing it
again.
I talk and write of the glories of j
this section. That film has caught;
much of our potential and beauties,
and filmed them in color. See it.
You will then think even more of
our state.
Boy* Are That Way
As a kid I sought the flaming
red that came to the maple, as win
ter showed its first signs of leaving.
But it was aw’fully hard to get,
too high and at inaccessbile places.
Once they were cutting timber near
home. A big pine crushed a bloom
ing maple to the ground and I
thought I had found a gold mine.
But they were not as pretty as
they looked on the standing tree.
Another thing I treasured was
the catkins that grew from the
beech bushes along the streams in
late winter. "Tags” we called ’em.
They were usually out of reach for
a small child. They seemed to grow
Hilton. And Louie would walk the
frozen creek and pick us bunches
longer back in the ravines toward
on his way to school from back in
there. Just what we wanted with
them, I don’t know’. But we treas
ured them highly and would trade
tobacco tags, slingshot rubbers, In-j
dian arrowheads, and the like for!
them.
Another thing we always wanted
was the bright red and the blue-
black berries that brambles hung
at impossible places. I never saw|
any that a kid could get to. If
there wa* a marshy spot they;
would be draped from a blackgum
in the middle of it. Or if. there was
a brier patch impossible of pene-;
tration, in the middle of it we
1 would see them hanging from a
rustic elm, as secure from our
grasp as if they were in the clouds.
As a kid I often wondered why
such treasures had to be so out of
reach. Now I can see it as the wis
dom of Providence. For otherwise
there would not have been any of
’em.’For w’e kids w’ould have easily
cleaned them out of our stone hilis
for sure.
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