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Pape Four THE CLINTON CHROftiCLE Thursday, July 12, 1951 this. Next year came along nad the the new sales tax. “■ i urge was just as strong. We feared A m jid Hurry of new* registrations | those switchings. But we had a n (h due t0 I idea. W* would turn the melons lover and plug them from the bot-! , v tom, and then turn them back so FARMS AND FOLKS motorists’ purchases of new automo- bles before the sales tax became ef fective. CALL 74 FOR TOUR PRINTING AND OFFICE SUPPLY NEEDS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist no one could see. But the melons promptly rotted and the examina tion by parents told the tale. 1 Switchings! This urge to plug was so persist-1 ent that we seldom had a good ripe melon. We did find a few ripe ones though. They were the vol-j unteers in the cotton patch that ——-- came up there after the crop was Ddlon Pastures | grass in South Carolina. And, my, i a jd picking cotton then, out The Dillon pasture tour visited how it begins to adorn our acres! during cool weather, it was a rare 70 farms. Most of them were not It has great meaning for our fu- i treat to find a little knot of a wat-i stops, but just slow-ups, and plac ards mounted there told the story. It covered 140 miles of Dillon high ture. , ermelon there in the grassy mid- Weed Control dies that was red and ripe char Weeds have always been a pest through. way and by-way, according to in field and sod. And they have ( A wa termelon is one thing that County Agent Goodyear. Areas m been very bothersome^m plantbeds, hasn , t lost the charm of ^ to improved pasture varied from one especially tobacco plantbeds. And j stiU thrill t eVtry cut ting acre to 339 on the different farms.-for that reason it has been custom- And its lush goodness is \ s stj £Z A new dignity is fast coming to ary to put plantbeds on new land as ever It seems ag we olde ® piling^wood „ j nmne tn 4a* +rrm% an*. Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALMERS Phones 41 and 399-J AMBULANCE SERVIC* L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mrrs. trtattd •Ifedively in hundreds of coses, with saving of time and money by the FAMOUS AO-DETOX 7-DAY METHOD Steps the wanting and craving fer drinkl IT nit *»u for frtt imformalitm in flmm rntt b* Abt Sanitarium *0)1 NOlfH >T III 2 44l>} OtilNVIiK S. C and to bum them by P h^b and are prone tQ get fat ^. om eat . and brush heavily on them and ing too muc j 1 o{ the good setting it afire. In that way weeds a wa t e rmelon stands alone. , were held down a lot But tnat is For it carries all of the | ^Pensive and not fully effective^ al of the best fattenin thin g In recent years the scientist has we know Yet one can ^ be - j ° klI i g v n° r » m ° re rt eLeCt ;r fiU o£ its lush goodness as often as methods of killing weeds in the he likes and t v ]itle f * ^ field and in the plantbed Accord- that wiU add ^ wh mg to County Agent Jackson of don . t want . em ^ y J Williamsburg, they have succeeded So watenneloa the chi( , f of sum . at least in the latter. — 1-mer delight, I salute you? — After checking his demonstra- tions the past spring he says, A * T ‘ Weed control was perfect in our Jiv. AUiO I QQS treated beds.” C ni , 10C7 T/\ I w'on’t bother you with th? de- or ' tails of the treatment here now. Yellow and Black It is ouf of season, and you can get; — * it at ,tbe right time from your For the first time since World War county t agent. South Carolina’s automobile li- ^ . Pasture Beeeoiiu cense plates will be changed from the Returning to Clemson from the black and whlte combination, I f"^ 1 0Untry ‘^ e othe ,r ^turday ‘ Claude R. McMillan, chief commis- stopped a while in the mid-state sion „ 0( the w h dcpartmen , ene'e nai wa', ^.d down to let ?he “‘ d The 1952 I ce that a. la d do n to let t which will go on sale in October have | h0 M^ra d seaT„n ! a ,n rocl, there unj^ de L*J re ^’ . Wher f, severa L. farm ? rS be no delay in supplying the tag^to with fresh overalls on, were also seated on boulders whittling. We Over For a Restful, Enjoyable Week-End or Vacation • • • STAY AT CHARLESTON'S FINEST BEACH HOTEL f The Hotel Wayne FOLLY BEACH, S. C. E. Cooper Street Phone 2506. Folly Bench • Delicious Meals • Reasonable Rates WRITE OR PHONE FOR RESERVATIONS NOW! all motorists, Mr. McMillan said. talked and watched Two;^ 1 ^ 3 ^ ° fflcia ^ 4 a “ ured had boys playing. One had a pock- " e highway department that neces-: etful of parched peanuts. I had al- sary s ! ee ' ls availa ble for manufac- ready smelled ’em before he passed ure °‘ tbe P lates - ’em around. I took some. They were The order for the plates should be stained with the red clay of the lar *er than any past year, the high- times Those three- and four-joint- way chief said. If a third world war 1 ed ones that are grown in red clay does not develop, about 50,000 tags just taste better to me than any over and above the 1960 license year other sort. , should be sold. This year’s highway I had to leave about the seventh total had reached 590,897 registra- mning. Several of them did, too. tions by June 30, and the highway I had to be getting on up the road, department is reasonably confident ’ They had to get home in time to that registrations will reach 600,000 feed the stock and milk the cow. by October. I The simple everyday ways of the Motorists will not have to pay a deep country, how I like ’em! sales tax on their license plates, Mr. Oats On Kudxu | McMillan said. He explained that the Hugh Perrow of Calhoun county plates are not actually sold to motor- plants oats for hay on his kudzu uts, but are given them to display as f>eM Whew the oats is just right p ro o; that they have'rcglslered their to make good hay, the kudzu is up automobiles and paid the license fee. there running around in it, too. they may toe retracted at the discre- The mixture of grain and legume tion of highway officials. Since the makes mighty fine hay. he told pi a t«p therefore are not personal property, they will not come under MOOUCT or GMCBAL AOTOtS Time-proved! Rood-proved! Owner-proved! That’s Old*mobile’s ’’Rocket’’—and 700,000 "Rocket” owners can tell you what a difference true high- eompreMion power makes! Amazing action—excep tional economy! Silken amoathnezs—aolid depend- ability! 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Then in the fall he just discs it and seeds the oats there. That doesn't sesm to hurt the kudzu at all. How Much Assistant County Agent Fleming of Florence was talking about the fine fescue and Ladino clover pas ture of C. E. Smith of Olanta. “Knee-deep with lush growth,” is the way he described it. And he said Mr. Smith's 4dea about a pas ture was this—if you want a lot of grazing use a lot of fertilizer, and if you don’t want much grazing don’t use much fertilizer. That’s the way I hear most folks with good pastures talking. And the good part about it is, they are pay ing off. Our pasture men, WooUlc and Craven, tell me that liberal fer tilization not only produces more grazing, but the cattle like it better and it has more “suction” to it. And you don’t have to tell the cat tle where the properly fertilized part is. They will find it and graze it harder than the rest. And it stands drought better, too. Boys Are That Way Of all the delights of summer, none quite equalled a watermelon to us country kids. Dewberries, blackberries, mulberries, wild plums, and the like were all right in their season. But out in July the supreme bounty of summer reached us in the form of watermelons! How we watched them from the time the seed were planted! And when the little stalks came up, we grew with anticipation. Soon the vines began to run on the ground, blooms came, and little green mel ons could be seen. We would never point at ’em, for the colored folks told us that would make ’em jirop off. We fcnade paths to the ones that hung on early. And even though it is only about 30 days from the bloom to the ripe melon, that seemed like an endless age to us. At about the end of three weeks we were becoming more and more eager and could hardly wait. Parents had threatened dire things if we plugged ’em. But that’s one thing we just couldn’t resist. So just* before anticipation reached the breaking point, we would take our knives and cut an inch square plug from the older melons. This urge was quite vicious. Plug the first one, and it was green. Then we felt that surely the next one would show red and we could have a realization of our dreams. And it would be maybe slightly pink, no good at all to eat On and on it went At first we got whippings for OUR FRIENDS IN CLINTON and VICINITY , /Jte QoJulialbf 9 nutted to- Ou/i GRAND RE-OPENING South Side of Square — Laurens, S. C. — Site of Former Store Friday and Saturday—July 13-14 LOTS OF FREE PRIZES FOR THE LADIES FOR THE MEN • One 71.50 Hamilton Watch • One 71.50 Hamilton Watch • One 45.00 Elgin Watch • One 45.00 Elgin Watch • One 33.75 Bulova Watch • One 33.75 Bulova Watch •^One 35.00 Towle Sterling Bowl i • One 46.95 Sunbeam Mixmaster • One 8.75 Sheaffer's Pen and Pencil Set \ • One 12.00 Meeker Billfold Simply come in IN PERSON and register your name and address. No other obligation! You need not be present to win. Registration only on July 13 and 14. Drawing will be held at 6:00 pan. July 14. WILBUR RIDDLE, Jeweler Sterling By: TOWLE KIRK REED & BARTON “GIFTS THAT LAST’ LAURENS, S. C. Sterling By: LUNT HEIRLOOM INTERNATIONAL