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Thursday, August 9, 1951
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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FARMS
AND FOLKS
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By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
A Let Down
I make brief notes of things of
interest as I go along. And then
when writing time comes, it is easy.
On a wonderful, cool, dewy
morning recently I was riding ear
ly. And I was prompted to make
this notation in my book: “Skies
clear. Open road ahead. Feeling
fine. Summer it at hand. No trou
bles in sight. Who could ask for
more?”
That very day, as I backed out
from the parking place at Fairfax,
1 noticed a slight clicking in the
motor. It cost $306.30 to fix it! And
life had suddenly lost its rosy hew.
I’lly be down-at-the-heel financial
ly for a few months from that. But
I’ve weathered storms before.
Th# Bomb Area
Not only Aiken and Barnwell
counties, but other portions of the
state down that way, are feeling
the effect of the atomic plant de
velopment. Cars and busses carry
workers in there from as far away
as Savannah and Walterboro.
This has had its effect on agri
culture. County Agent Mellette of
Aiken tells me that ten fanners
there secured beef bulls the p^st
spring, in preparation for a sort of
faming that does not call for much
labor. And the other agents speak
of the same drift.
And the superintendent of the
ATTENTION,
FARMERS!
Insure Your
Cotton Crop
AGAINST DAMAGE
BY HAIL.
Rates for Laurens County
$25.00 per $1,000
Insurance
...See...
B. Hubert Boyd
Agent
treated effectively la hundreds
ef coses, with soving of time
ond money by the
FAMOUS AB-DETOX
7-DAY METHOD
Stops the wonting
ond croving for drink!
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and each step is checked
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McGEE’S
DRUG STORE
Phone No. 1
Aiken state park told me that the
10 picnic tables they had up to this
year had not proved to be enough.
Now they have 42, and that’s no
where near enough to take care of
the crowds. The increase had been
from the newcomers to the area
seeking a pleasant week-end out
ing.
And so it is with every facility
in a vast area down there. I know
school authorities must be in about
the worst predicament. Hundreds
of additional children with no
equal increase in school income!
Coming Event
Next week’s the time — Farmers
Week at Clemson, August 13-17.
Just about every angle of this
changing agriculture will be dealt
with. Lectures, demonstrations, and
field events will deal with what’s
new in farm and home methods,
j Your county and home agents have
I the details.
Life's Complications
As machines come to farm and
home, folks need to develop a turn
for such things.
Farm machinery schools of all
sorts have been held in many coun
ties. Increased attendance of late
indicates the growing interest.
And the home demonstration
agents too have been holding din
ics for household gadgets that have
come in recent years. Just recently
| in Richland county 45 farm women
brought their pressure cookers to
! the clinic held there for adjusting
j them. And fifty did likewise in
Lexington.
Who Will Get It?
! This year our mills are expected
i to use close to 11 million bales of
I cotton. And exports are expected
to be something over 4 million
; bales.
Our authorities state that it was
for the good of the country that a
’ price ceiling was put on our cotton,
i while the world price for it is much
i higher. Our leaders should know,
and we accept what is done.
But there is one thing I’ve been
wondering about. Surely that 4
million bales that we export will
bring the world price, which is
much higher than ours. Why can’t
| some way be worked out whereby
the farmer could get that large pre
mium for that portion of his crop?
For surely a fabulous fortune lies
there in the difference between
what the farmer will get here un
der controlled price and what that
cotton will net that goes into the
world markets. We have a govem-
! ment loan on cotton. That cotton is
finally sold and settlement made
with the fanners. Why couldn’t this
same agency handle the farmers’
cotton and take care of this lucra
tive export business right at this
critical juncture?
Maybe I am far afield here. It
might be best for me to get back to
my familiar byways.
Carolina Cement
The cement company at Hariey-
, ville has bought 50 acres of Csd-
I houn county red clay. It is just the
sort needed in the manufacture of
cement. County Agent Cain told
me. A railroad spur goes into it,
and they were moving it in quan
tity when we were there.
Boys Ax# That Way
We had little in the way of
bought toys and things back in our
! stone hills of the Dutch Fork when
| I was a kid. But we made the most
j of what we had, and that was
ienough.
The chinaberry tree had a lot of
meaning for us.. Some good, some
bad.
The bad part was that it would
sprout up so on the ditch banks
and hedge rows, and w r e had to be
everlastingly cutting ’em down.
And when it bloomed we held our
] noses in passing it. For the Colored
| folks had taught us that the smell-
i ing of those blooms would give us
I dysentery. Where there was just a
tree or two, we would hold our
noses and run by them. But if the
path was by a whole row of ’em,
we would take a detour out through
the field. Other than for these two
reasons, we liked those trees.
The main thing we liked about
them was the berries they furnish
ed in such abundance for our pop
guns.
We made our guns from cane
joints that grew on the creek. The
ramrod was whittled from an easy-
cutting piece of pine. It was a bit
shorter than the barrel, so as to not
quite push the berry through. That
one then furnished the bullet when
the next one was forced in from
the other end. And it would leave
the barrel with quite a pop.
We had all sizes of popguns. This
enabled us to start when the ber
ries were quite small. As they
grew, we used a little bigger gun.
And that continued until, alas, the
seed got hard in the berries and
would split our guns when forced
into them. That was a sad day.
But for about a month we had
a merry time. And our pockets
were never empty of ammunition.
We fought our wars with those
guns. And a chinaberry shot hard,
just before the seed matured, and
could really sting you. Parents pro
tested, on account of the danger to
eyes. But that got little result, for
we had too much room to be
cramped. •
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