The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 25, 1951, Image 8

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»«,4| 1 » Pair* Eight THE CUNTON CHRONICLE ThurWay, October 25, 1951 SHADOW ON Iffi WAIL W ♦♦♦#♦#*♦♦♦*«>• •#♦♦ ♦♦ *#*♦*#•#♦♦*#••**• •V»W»V*«W*«W#«'»«W#« ««*•«'»«• «w*« #%•♦#« ♦♦♦»#♦ ♦♦♦♦ ♦*♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦ « FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist MKxzxKKxxtexitmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmummm Sharecropping Turkey* ' and country in recent year*. The County Agent Willis of Chester- , home demonstration club* have field took me to see George Greg-, worked hard and long at it Garden ory of Jefferson who sharecrops, clubs and other groups have. too. turkeys with three men. Youth has been taught its rud;- He started it two years ago. He ments in 4-H and FFA work. And. likes it. and they like it. He furn* J as Dr. Tom Buie of the SCS says, ishes everything' and they do the. the lawn mower has taken the work Then they split the profits place of the yard brooms we used to cut from the dogwood Winter is the time to prepare years for and make basic beautification an. Nesbit. plantings Bulbs, shrub, and flower g‘**d exchanges then come along through the seasons in regular order Any one with a growing gardei thinning need the We went by to see one (4 these men, W A. Cato. He had never foi led w ith turkeys until t ag< But our turkey m tells me that he does a job of it. He “follows the book" on sanitation, feeding, and general hand ling Last year his sh are of the pr> fi t on 2.500 birds w as $2,300 Hr 1 ::t hr* . and when he drupped that $230 in it was likely the Urg- est < rontnbution ever t** bn if tKa»t nil Wads * Cl lin rtion plate. Th is y< car he again has 1500 birds . He has done so ’ well with that number that some f( ilka asked Likely you don't plants. But a neighta road or street might just that. In this wi can help spread the nas out s*ra <1 ■* n be the ling jr gardeners twenty they him whv he didn’t get a lot more * As It Works The other day I was riding with county agent through a good But he said that’s as many as he farming community Crops were can take care of properly His only * **• fields terraced, and cattle farming is the growing of grain for f r «*ed on much land that has of them He keeps the turkeys on been tied down with sod Ev- clean ground, moving them over on ery house was painted, except one a r.ew* *trip of grazing from once He told me that was the painter s to twice a week He uses Lespedeza hou **- sencea and soybeans for this. Likes Are That Way sencea best. * rn *> C k»ck had arrived before When we were there his hens my father yelled down the valley had reached the proper size and * or my title colored playmate. Zeke. had been sold at 22 weeks of age. * n< * m* to come home from the an- about two weeks under the average -restral big house. We had gone at And h:s gobblers were being push* ®isk to see them shoot new sorts ed to a 25-pound average The pros- fireworks. They had been pec*, was that they too would reach brought from afar bv market size a week or so under, c l an home for Christrr the average time usually needed Al. : th:« came as a result of hi tarefal handling and metr.' ds used. It looked a! the time like they u j.d awrage mere per bird prof it this time. If so. his net will ex ited that of last year. C mpared with other money ne half 1 the A waning moon was way up. Its mellow rays sanitary hill country with a hea and cast many shadow stillness lay on the c doors. This was our first alone. Our hearts beat faster as we passed The blaclcsrr.ith shop and A great up out-of- out crops, that is mighty good. He J 111 the dense cedars up the ravine, couldn’t have come near that W’lth | * ^ wouldn t look in the dark door cotton, with just his own labor and °* shop. But Beke did. He some help from his litle daughter.! wa -* e< * closer to me then, and I! Nor even with tobacco, for, re-1 cou ld see more of the white of his member, that is clear money, not t e * v ® s ' gross income. I mentioned above. fhe time we got to that criti- Mr. Grgeorv said the other two ca l mi odle stretch through the pas ture, we could see neither house, and were walking close on the oth er’s heels, for the path was too nar- ,row there to walk abreast. To keep from seeing “spooks,” I looked straight ahead. But Zeke didn’t. He wasn’t trusting the night. Back in a shaded gully, a shaft of moonlight hit on something start lingly white! In strained voice. Zeke said, “What’s dat?” “Where?” I quickly responded. He pointed! Nothing more was said. From then on, with one accord, we just 1 picked ’em up and laid ’em down, the faster the better. I happened _ 1 o to be ahead, and was giving it all I farmstead. An attractive shingle at j His toes were hitting on my the mail box named it “Peaceful j heels. He said, “Run faster or git Acres”, and told that the owners ou t de way.” men were getting along all right with it. too. So many folks attempt new things, know nothing about them, and fail to follow the best informa tion that’s available. Our extension turkey men, Nesbit and Thaxton, say that more beginners fail with turkeys for sanitary reasons than any other. That means dirty ground, dirty ranges, overcrowding, etc. Clemson’s turkey bulletin covers all of this. Your county agent has a supply. "Peaceful Acres" Out in the rugged red hills of Spartanburg we passed a beautiful were the West Brothers. Beautiful flowers were blooming there in the V of the road that led in, and well groomed shrubbery lined the avenue up the hill to the house. We stopped, backed up, and turned in. The yard and the house, too, told that lovers of the beautiful lived there. We . didn’t have time to stop, turned to the left there at the house, and went out another road to the highway. Good crops grew in he rolling fields that were well terraced. And we saw wood lands that looked like they had been recently selectively cut. I hope to get by there some time with County Agent Martin and get the full story. Soils, climate, adapted trees, shrubs, grasses, and flowers make beautification easily possible here. It |ust takes the desire to have it. Then the necessary plantings will be made, and the little bits of at tention will be given regularly to see that the harvest is beauty and not weeds. Much beauty has grown in town I sure didn’t want to be behind then. So I gave it that extra reserve a fellow can turn on at that critical moment when desperation has ar rived. When we reached our woodpile, we started turning off the steam and slowing up. We were all out of breath, for we hadn’t only been running at top speed, but it was up hill and rocky. I sneaked up stairs and went to bed as my mother said, I thought you had decided to stay all night.” Zeke went on down the familiar path to his house. He wasn t scared then, for he could see the glow from fading embers through cracks in the door. • Next morning we strutted around like men. For hadn’t we conquered the night. We went down the path o see what that thing was. And there it was, a frost-bejeweleid spi der web on a bush. OFFICE SUPPUES Complete line, all the Utile Items needed for the office. CHRONICLE^ PUBLISHING CO. ■1/ Y/y TOM s/ll/ms w vp mw&m zav/ngs/ H- TRUE SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY IS OUR RULE FOR COURTESY EVERY WOMAN KNOWS! “EVERY WOMAN KNOWS that It’s not what you save on a few items, but what you •avo In total that counts. That’s why so many women shop at Dixie-Home — where EVERYDAY LOW PRICES mean GREATER TOTAL SAVINGS!- The Nation's Most Fa mous Cleansing Tissue*! 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