The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 12, 1951, Image 4
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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*.
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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
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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
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The kudzu comes on out again
I after that and furnishes late sum
mer and fall grazing. It cones in
especially good when drought cuts
the other pastures. 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
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