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t ♦ a ' 4 i P 1 Pace Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, October 4, 1951 9w#«ww *♦ • ♦♦W»V#*Vs'^W#^We%W# « ♦« »« ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦♦♦ •• ♦« • FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist :»^:n^a{:-a'»ttfflxnMin<8txK8<8tK>cwwtiKXX8<OTtH8mximHHuax{mcK?»^-: Water Comes High [season. Those who have it like it. They have just completed the $15 , 5l‘ VIan y oUi ers are planning for it. million-dollar Big Thompson Trans- j Tobacco Troubles Farmers who dont’ have tobacco hear of returns per acre and are lia- Mountain Water (Diversion Project out in Colorado. I saw it in July. It has been under construction for ^ t0 f f, el that the toba <*° grower's a number of years- It starts with a llfe 1S 3,1 roses 13.1-mile tunnel that brings a 9 foot column of water from the Pacific But tobacco has its troubles, too. In addition to insects that try to eat side of the Continental Divide under it up from the time it comes up until snow-caoped mountains to the east- it s sold, it also has a commanding ern ride of the Rockies. It goes array of diseases. Listen to County through several poyew houses, gen- Agent King of Marion when he re- erating a lot of current, and through cites the ills that beset tobacco this other smaller tunnels until it is fin- year. ally discharged in a large storage “Disease and insect control are be- basm that will feed water into a coming a major problem. Serious natural river on this side, as it is losses have occurred in several fields needed to extend irrigation from due to rootknot nematode, meadow that stream Granville wilt, fusarium wilt, mos- Watcr rights are what calry value nematode, soreshin, blackshank, out there, not land. Land with a aic, hollow’ stalk, and bacterial black high water priority is very valuable, stalk." Smiilar land nearby with a low’ And he goes on to say that certain water priority has far less value J varieties of tobacco carry resistance This new source of water will give 1 to one or more of these troubles. But vast areas of low priority land, or i with that many diseases to contend lands in range with no water priority with, the tobacco fanner has to be at all, a water priority that will en- ever vigilant to stay in the business, able them to bloom with abundant Clemson’s Florence Station does ex- crops. tensive work on tobacco varieties, Tolki, it really takes a lot of water <li~**es. curing methods, when you begin irrigation The past e * c And ** I^wis, our extension aunur.tr a few of our streams that specialist, works closely were pumped hard for irrigation wlt I 1 them and carries the latest practically dried up And I know of th ‘ n f* to f »* ld * nd demonstrates one case where a town objected to th «™ through the county agents on a farrrtr pumping out of a stream **** local farms. Thus the latest thing* of science reach the tobacco iron. W pow, dart lich its water cam a growing indi red for our seem; Stjf id arvt •u: tur. sea 1 IK * 4C here Improving Hogs grow more hogs on a farm. > satty for sanitation grows. ram internal and external ske a great toll. Often they u::. but they cause leas of ey. estensioo .ivrtt'Kk 4$ 'Aiti county agents ! fArm it~m«»rv*trA?»<»n» t’ior.t and geneta1 san- I. *as O eJ te produce nete u a t-i£ jo?» ahead, County Agent Jackson has two npar.An -aas wc in- tuch demonstrations under way on .* «n ihe Kngttsft are out of the farm* of W C Brown and J B en industry munhusaiities. Crooks A total of kS pigs are in- r. ul’ Are efe sun *utn< for ^ red In tr- • two dwnonttsuttens .’er ’hat ka« '-■ee-. ^ *ed to fAjrowed on clean ground, end car* ^M*ru*<e-! course to the rtod through en clean graaing. they ie the beginning of things w ,n be foUowed on to the packing « s .’.h many county agents in house where results can be observed r • a Timer and saw the our- Loss of livers and other parts of .hat irrigation has wrought the hogs caused by worms to in the .d there during the pest dry lest analysis, a farm leas. For w.iuto *ui i for e a a -of In the • - *• thinjs are reflected in the price that the packer pays. Our warm climate makes this more important here than further north. Boys Are Thai Way Slates were all we had to write on at the old one-teacher school in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork when I came along. We had no grades. Our position in school was deter mined by the reader we were in. About the time we got to the ‘ third reader", which was after wc had worn out the first two books in reading and were about nine years old, we got a “copy book”. It had a sentence written across the top of each page in a beautiful flowing hand. Under that we copied it clear to the bottom of the page. That was in pencil. About the time we put on long pants they put us on ink. My, that stuff was messy to write with at first. We had to carry an ink bot tle. If we left it at school it would freeze at night and ruin it. So we usually carried it home in our pock ets. And those bottles would often leak, I can well remember the first in-1 delible pencil I ever saw. Ben got it somewhere. No trinket fasci- ! nated me more. I wanted it so bad that I pestered him all day about a trade. And I would ask to speak to him as often as the teacher would let me during time of “books".' It was that pencil that I wanted to talk about every time. I offered him different assort ments of the varied trivial a boy al- J ways carriees in his pocket, treas ured to him. But he was adamant So I would borrow it, wet places in my book, and make those pretty, purple marks. We had never seen coloring crayons or anything that would make a colored mar other than black. When my treasured big piece of blue glass, snd small coil of fish hook, white Indian arrow head, copper wire wouldn't move him, I added the pocket trunmer Cousin 1 Rod had brought me from Washing ton. Well, now. that wa< him. For the pen *il been the envy tof school Ben had borrowed it often, played with it and fondled It, but was never so sanguine as to hope to own it some day. Now, there it was He had to make a fieriiion It was It or the pencil He labored over it. and it bothered him I gave him until ach »>i tumid gut at tour. He mode the iws^ stem awn. I lost the thing from my pocket. That was a night of gloom for me. Next morning down the path across the hills. I found it easily by the purple splotch there on the pine straw where it lay. The glue had melted, it had come apart, and the inside had all dissolved and spatter ed about there. That was a tragedy of the first order in my young life. Training Union Leadership School At Whitmire Church A mass meeting at the First Bap tist church, Whitmire, on Sunday afternoon, October 14, at 3:00 will launch the Training Union Central Leadership School of Reedy River Association. Miss Betty Thomas of Joanna, and the Male Chorus of Whitmire, will lead the worship period. John B. Lane, State Direc tor of Training Union, will lead the service. On Sunday evening, October 14, members of the State Training Union Department will visit the following churches: Bush River and Hunt Memorial, Kermit King: Fairview and Joanna, Mrs. James A. Howard; Glenn Street, John B. Lane; Whitmire First, Mrs. John B. Lane; Newberry First, Mrs. James T. Young; West End, Miss Louise Bracknell. Begnining Monday evening at 7:30 conferences will be led each evening by the State Conference leaders at the First Baptist church, Newberry. Conferences for adults. Young People. Intermediate lead ers and sponsors. Intermediates, j junior leaders and sponsors, juniors, workers with children, general of ficers. The story hour will be open each evening to take care of the children who attend. Mrs. James Mitchell. Associations! Director, urges the people of the churches to plan now for this week of train ing lntt«C8t»BBB»B»IC«Km»eit»BWItltmtl»»mn»imHI»ttll1tlWWBMMWMMBBMMI FOUR BROTHERS FLO UR SALE! October 4-5-6 10 lbs. .84 25 lbs. 1.99 50 lbs. 3.88 100 lbs. 7.65 COFFEE 1 lb. 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