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4 Thursday, July 26, 1951 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pa sre Sevea FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist aCK**aX*XSIItatt* About midnight we would call the dogs in, build a good fire, and roast ’talers, eat peanuts, or sugar cane we had taken along. Winter carried other high points for us country boys, too, although it did not quite rank with the other seasons. Around the lamp’s mellow glow on the long nights, while winter winds whistled around the corners of the house and some of it through the cracks in the floor, we sat around the fire, often roasting sweet potatoes and peanuts there The Goodly Soil The goodly soil is grateful for anything we do for it. rain in the area covered by the on hearth. forecast. Eventually it was bedtime. Up Chance for showers or thunder- st .^. ep fairway we trod to bed, All too often we have farmed the | storms” 1 means that from none up ^ lth the step j c ^ a . c , k u ing . un 1 of me^area^ 1 ^** 80 col<1 - Wlthout a h g ht or back. Just let Vetch, for instance, catch a hold on a faltering field that has might expect rain. Widely scattered much hesitation, we were soon , ., snug and warm, half buried in that * * oa 3 h 0 w e r8 S0ft_ featherbed that our geese means from 15 to 30 per cent of made possible n turned out! It puts something the area will likely get rain. j Morning came too soon. I was at s needed back in that soil and “Scatterea showers" means 30 the last to hit the floor. And I only soon it has life again. Or just turn, to 45 per cent will likely get them, did that as I heard the gravy being the old field out and let it alone. When just “Showers” are pre- scraped from the frying pan down dieted, that covers 45 to 70 per cent j n the kitchen. With an absolute of the area. ! minimum of clothes on, shoes and And when “General showers”; stockings in hand, I bounded down are predicted the outlook is that the frosty steps, taking three at a Likely as not a few briers will spring up, broom straw will come, and perhaps pine trees, too. And soon the old field has been restored a bit Likewise, it will respond in stantly to the hand of husbandry. Turn under some litter there. Grow a rich residue with crota- laria or the like. Then lime it and time, and finished by the fire. It was barely first dawn then. A quick breakfast of country ham school then and be there from 8 until 4. St BSCKIBE TO THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Eveerybedr Read*" Dr. Fred E. Holcombe Office Hears »:N to S:M 200 South Broad SL OPTOMETRIST Office* at Phone 658 T5 to 100 per cent of the raea will receive rain. I find farmers using weather re ports more and more in planning’ with red gravy, and grits, and my farm operations. The above will) brother and I were off on horse- help us interpret these reports back to the rabbit traps, supply a bit of needed minerals, i better. Some county agents give The horses seemed to delight in Soon you have power, productive the extended weather report in' that as much as we. as they gal- power, in that soil again. I their weekly broadcasts and news loped through the frosty mom Under the old system of row- columns, along with appropriate across hill and vale. It was getting # crop farming, our soils were pro- suggestions. Some farmers have j good light when we got back, and ducing only part-time. While we told me that they look forward to usually we had a rabbit or two. now know that this climate has these. Forecasts for some time But it was there that our enjoy- them at work all the time. When ahead are now available. They! ment ended, for we had to hustle crops are not there, they work carry a fair degree of accuracy a mile back through the woods to right on and lose through leaching and farmers can often use them to and washing. advantage in such operations as Utter is what soils like. It helps haying, spraying, dusting, etc. them in every way. It is Nature's Boys Are Thai Way way of building and maintaining Last week I started telling you ’em. Then we add minerals that about a ‘possum hunt when I was have washed out or that were na- • kid. but didn’t get through, turally short in the rocks from We held the dogs as the tree which the soils come. was being cut Time it hit the You can sure tell where crota- ground we would turn them loose lana has grown in Chesterfield. *nd they would bound into the And likewise where lupines have top as it was settling on the 'grown in Allendale. Barnwell, and ground. In no • time they located] Hampton counties. Last year Coun- the possum and we soon had it ty Agent Searson of Allendale re- from them and in a bag. And then ( ported 100 bushel-to-the-acre com we were off again, boys thrilled] i following lupines with no addi- *nd the dogs in high spirits. tional nitrogen applied. And Coun- On Friday nights, no school next | ty Agents Shelley of Barnwell and day. we hunted into the wee hours, i Thompson of Hampton showed me light lands that had been made productive too with this crop And in Chesterfield Jake Willis showed me many fields that were once al-j most white and poor that were then dark and fertile from crota- 1 lana And these crops are grown in a yearly rotation along with reg ular money crops. So a year’s use of the area is not lost to them. > Yes, this goodly soil of ours pays back in full measure for anything we do for it And therein lies our, present prosperity and future wel fare. They Make Tm The art of sewing is taught many girls over South Carolina in their 4-H*clubs. In Cherokee county 87 of them modeled skirts that they had made in their regular 4-H work And a dress review was held in each of the senior 4-H clubs of Bamberg. The winner from each then entered the county dress re view. These dresses were made by the girls modeling them. The Mayo 4-H Club of Spartan burg entertained their parents with a typical club meeting. In addition there were several skits. One of which was a fashion show put on by the girls with dresses they had 1 made themselves in their 4-H work. The boys and girls served refreshments to the 108 folks at tending. Inierprettng Weather Reports Mr. Merchant of the Columbia Weather Bureau office explains just what the terms used in weather reports mean. “Fair to partly cloudy” means no MID-SUMMER CLEARANCE! 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