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. < ' v -u V • 'Us 1 . I Thursday, January 24 t 1952 THE CXINTON CHRONICLE Pa^e Thre« Conservation... (Continued from page two) j4‘ 4 Farmers of America, DAR groups Laurens, Mountville Grange, dhd the Daffodil Garden Club in Laurens Foreign 'Visiters: my abjective in farming,” says B> P. Watts of Mountville, a cooperator with the District. This conservation farmer has not quite reached his, but he and the other farmers cooperating with the District are well On their iway. ACP-SCS Cooperation: SCS technicians helped farmers to the land to increase farm Income is funds are needed to employ seasonal ^ ff il^r 0 !^m Ck RSrtVSfl nS S^th build 457 ^ linear feet of terraces i s ! during the * year for which they re- «« Cou'Sy Sdl ^ A ,^ p trict, studying our methods of soil| and water conservation and was greatly impressed with the planning of land use according to capability classes of land and the way the con servation measures that have been to SCS* to help pay terrace linemen to survey these terraces and help with their construction. SOS and PMA are cooperating to carry out the Secretary of Agricul- * / applied are conserving soil and'i u . re ’ s me,norandum 1278 by me€ti . ng water and making for better farming end better living. .Soil Conservation Contest: Fifteen communities with a total of 368 farmers in the district com peted for awards in the Piedmont Communities Soil Conservation Contest which closed on June 30. This contest was sponsored by su pervisors of five soil conservation districts, within ihe trade area of Spartanburg, S. C., one of which was our District. Each farmer participat ing was applying a whole-farm soil and i water conservation plan pre pared for his farm with the help of technicians of the Soil Conservation Service. Awards were made in Spar tanburg on September 5. U. S. Sec retary of Agriculture Charles F. j.eed for saving soil, the advantage firannan was the speaker. jof so doing, and how, through the Bailey Community with D. Eu-!soil conservation district, they may geneyBrown as leader took the $650- J receive much valuable help from the employees to help with terracing, farm pond surveys, pasture seeding, and the applicatibn of other conser vations jobs done on a seasonal ba sis. During 1951, the District was handicapped since Congress reduced SCS funds for the fiscal year 1951-52 Which made it impossible to^ employ sufficient part-time employees to meet the demands for technical as sistance with the application of con- servation practices JEfcaeak seasons. Help From OtM^Vgencies: The South' Carolina Game «and Fish Department furnished 75,000 lespedeza bicolor plants to cooper ators of Laurens County Soil Con servation District. The Federal Fish and Wildlife Service furnished them with 45,000 bream and 27,000 bass to stock 27 ponds. The South Carolina Commission of Forestry furnished district coop^rators 67,000 trees; The SCS Nursery furnished them* with 20,000 multiflora rose plants and 110 pounds of fescue gras sseed. The Trend: Generally, farmers of the District are more conservation-minded and have a better understanding of the Soil Conservation District program than ever before. The trend is to ward grassland farming. More re position to apply conservation meas-, quests for assistance on growing ures as rapidly as needed. Absentee grass have been received during the land owners and tenants are not as | year than any previous year, interested in -soil popservation asf The District Objective: they should be. More education is; Our objective is to get more con- needed to acquaintj,people with the! servation practices applied to the Lhd; to use each acre within its ca pabilities and to treat each acre in with PMA county and community committees for recommendations on practices and payments for PMA for the 1952 program. ( The District acted as vendor for terracing, sericea, and kudzu crowns. We also assisted PMA to furnish fes cue and clover seed on purchase or ders for the convenience of farmers. -— Problems: Laurens Couqty Soil Conservation District has- its problems, of course. Many farmers are not in financial •'Vx/y-.Vv vv v-v. i-v V<v ,00 first prize in Laurens County Soil Conservation District for the best community. Second prize of $300.00 was worn by Ora Community, with Milton Y. Blakeley as leader. Trinity Ridge took the third place award of $200.00. J. W. Tinsley, dis trict supervisor, is leader of the Trinity Ridge group. Hopewell Community, with W. P. Dickson, district supervisor, as leader, won fourth place. Richard Buford, - Clinton, was judged as having the best job of whole-farm soil conservation on his farm. • x individual farmers for various soil and water conservation programs. These awards were furnished by forty business firms and were val ued in excess of $3,000.00. The don ors realized that the loss of topsoil by erosion ipeans improverished ■fields, and fhal irppoverished fields mean impoverished families. They recognized‘that^with the topsoil, goes potential buying, power and affects the welfare of everyone. Therefore, they supported this contest to en courage soil conservation.- Supervis ors of this District appreciate the cooperation of business men in this contest. Likewise, we owe a vote of thanks to newspapers which pub lished many news articles and other publicity relative to the work of the ; Distfcit and cooperators within it. ( Farmers Speak: Machen H. Monroe, a cooperator with the District, says: “I would ad vise anyone who has cattle to have enough sericea to graze during dry periods, which we always have sometime during the spring or sum mer. If it is not needed for grazing, it can always be used for hay, and i f ’s a mighty good crop to improve the land.” Mrs. Yates T. Songer, of “Oak Hill ranch” in Laurens County Soil Con servation District, says of.conserva tion farming: “I am glad we have weather-proof . pastures. The winds blow, but our grass doesn’t blow down like corn. Our goal is grassland farming.” “Rehewed productive strength in agencies mainly engaged in conserv ing soil and water. Lack of technical assistance is a big problem to the District. More accordance with its needs; an<4 to complete and ppt into operation our Program /or Greater Service. It is also oiif' hope to get more soil con servation taught in the schools. RYAN F. LAWSON, Chairman. A t W A Y S H R W Q U A t I HURRY! * -£ •• SAvt! SUPER BARGAIN DAYS! Six-Inch Sermon By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER NICODEMUS, A HESITANT FOL LOWER Lesson for January 27: John 3:1- 10; 45-52. Golden Text: John 3:3. The name of Nicodemus is famil iar to readers of the New Testament and doubtless he is always recalled as one who came to Jesus by night. Did he come by night because he was afraicl to come openly? No one knows and, in view of the uncertain ty, let us be slow to condemn him as cowardly. The inquiry of Nicodemus led Jesus to speak to him of the new birth as so necessary that without it no man can enter the kingdom of God. Education, the law, and the resolutions of a man’s will cannot make him good. Only through faiUi in Christ can a man pass from sin unto life. For only the power of God can cleanse the human heart. Months after the visit of Nico- demus to Jesus, the Sanhedrin sent * officers to arrest Jesus, and bring him to them. But the officers re turned without Jesus and said, * “Never man spake like this man.” Hearing this, the rulers vowed that the people who tffere hearing Jesus were accursed. Then Nicodemus spoke boldly and said. “Doth our law judge any man before it hear him?” Thus he intimated that the rulers were guilty of breaking a faw they claimed to uphold. Cer tainly at that time Nicodemus did not betray any fear. Let every man be true to his own soul and give Jesus a chance to be heard. 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