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T 1.' Thursday, January 24, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Paj?e Five FARMS AND FOLKS By J* M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Making A Halter n* l We have a tradition with row crops. And we know how to handle and man age them. But with livestock it is different. We art getting into that. But it en tails many a detail about which we know little or nothing. The simple livestock chore of mak ing a halter would baffle mo^t of us. Yet the experienced livestock man, the man who was raised with it as we hiwe been with row crops, can take a piece of strong Manilla rope and in a few minutes fashion a hal ter out of it that really works. This job of making a halter has been taught to many of our groups by the county agents livestock specialists. During month of November Assistant Coun ty Agent Cousins of Richland county tells me he demonstrated halter mak ing to the 281 boys in his 13 4-H clubs over the county. And thus we learn the rudiments of * new branch of diversified farming. Killing Root Knot Root knots in many a garden and field often gets the soil to where it will make but puny crops at best. County Agent McCord of Georgetown reports excellent results from the use of DD on a badly infested tobacco field there the past year. Montgomery Williams treated his 5.§ field with this material previous to planting, j Root knot had held him down to a half crop there before. In 1951 he made a fine crop of tobacco there, averaging 1,698 pounds of leaf per acre. Full particulars for applying this material to field or garden can be se cured from your local county agent. Orderly Marketing In Marion county they conducted Orderly Marketing Program for cot- I . 1 * * li II a~ r'sv...**** late, checking on accomplishments of 1951 r and setting their stakes for 1952 in their long time program for farm growth and development. County Agent Jackson of Williajns- burg reports that their committees set three major goalg for 1952. They were—-organize an artificial breeding program, get rural telephones, and continue^ stress of the “Blanket of Green” program. Such planning by local farm folks was started in most counties about 20 years ago. I can well remember j; our first meeting then in Sumter' county, where I was agent. Most of the goals set down then*.after lonff and deliberate discussion, and auer ' digesting many figures on the agri culture of the county, as forked up by Clemson, have been largely at tained. 4-H and the ton last fall, according to County " ' ■’ ‘ ill Agent King. That meant that muc went into storage, and was not dumped on the market at one time. He states; “Some of this cotton has already been sold at a profit of $60 per bale above the market price at the time of storage.” When I was down there a couple of years ago King was busy helping push a local project for a cotton warehouse at Marion. They were hampered then by not being able to take advantage of the government loan due to lack of suitable storage. That was remedied then, and it has been serving them well since. Looking Ahead All counties have agricultural com mittees. They have been meeting of V- TAX RETURNS NOTICE! County Auditor's office will be open until March 1 to take tax returns for the ensuing year. Real Estate will not be re turned except in the cases of newly acquired property or new buildings which have been erected. PERSONAL PROPERTY including automobiles and cattle are due to be reported. The only property exempt from tax ation is household furniture used in the home of the owner. Jennie V. Culbertson Laurens County Auditor One was more com with which to build a livestock and poultry income. But that com was to be gotten by higher yields rather than more acres. In fact our plan really called for slightly fewer acres. During the in tervening year^ com acreage has re mained about steady, but production has been greatly expanded by prac- 1 tically doubling yields. And from very little commercial livestock, the coun ty now shares abundantly in the live stock'awakening that has come to our state. - % tops for quality tops for quality America’s Biggest Cola Value! i When you buy the big, BIG 12-ounce bottle of Pepsi-Cola, you get TWO FULL GLASSES in evety bottle—^t you ALSO get top quality in every drop. Ounce for ounce, no finer cola! So today tomorrow. >day tomoi ALWAYS — buy America's BIGGEST cola value: Pepsi-Cola! ' Whenever you shop, always take home six big, BIG 12-ounce bottles of Pepsi-Cola for the family! TWELVE full glasses — plenty for all! No Finer at Any Price! , i In Big 12-ounce Bottle ■ • -A PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. GREENVILLE, S. C. A * And with cotton, the leaders there then called for less acreage and higher yield per acre. That, Uw, has come to pass, and last year, County Agent Bowen tells me, they averaged very close to a bale per acre. Pastures and pine trees, too, were to take a lot of cotton’s lost acres in those early plans. That, too, has been rapidly coming to pass.^nd so it has worked out in many counties. It is good to see local farm people get together with their agency work ers and plan and work towards a bet ter future. For experience shows that this is the road to progress. Boys Are That Wky As a boy, two things used to bother me. One was eternity, as to time. And the other was infinity; as to distance. I could take omnipotence, as to power, school helped me there. But the very thought of endless time and boundless space bothered me. I was fascinated by flight. And often when I had stumped a toe or had a stone bruise on the bottom of my foot, I would envy the birds of the air, even the vultures, as they soared easily on high. Once our gang was headed down the dim path to an abandoned place about two miles back across the rug ged lands from home. It was midsum mer, and our purpose was fruit that grew in the abandoned orchard there. We hadn’t checked on it for some time, and we thought it was about time for the first wormy specimens to turn red and drop. I had a big pur ple stone bruise on one heel and had to walk- on that toe. They were hit ting it almost too fast for'me. I dis pensed with caution for a moment and ran to catch up. A piece of flint rock was big enough to strike that sore heel right on that stone bruise. It was like lightning striking me all over, the pain was so intense. I yelled and dropped out. As soon as the pain eased a bit, I hobbled down in the pasture and lay on the mossy ground to the north of some dense cedar, trees. It was cool and quiet there. And following the shock of that acute pain, I fell off to sleep. After some thing like an hour I was suddenly awakened when a biting fly popped me on the lip. With that, I started back home, and that lip had swollen to twice its size when I got there. Tribulations of country youngsters! They had ’em, too. When walnut furniture has been chipped it’s sometimes possible to restore most of the original color by rubbing some iodine into the spot and then going over it with furniture polish. < Those white spots on mahogany furniture can be removed if they are rubbed with vaseline which is allowed to stand for 48 hours; wipe it off then and the spots will dis appear. Finger marks on woodwork can be removed by rubbing with a cloth that has been dipped in kerosene. This prevents the gloss from being destroyed. Grease on furniture should be sprinkled with starch so that it can be absorbed, or blotted with a diluted ammonia water. Unfinished wood surfaces which have become soot laden can be cleaned by covering with dry oat meal or saw dust. Brush off and then wash with soap and water. Oilcloths can be renovated by washing with a mixture of skimmed milk and turpentine. If the cloth is turned frequently, it will not' wear in spots. ! —— Straw flowers can be freshened If ru^s" glue Let they’re dipped in and out_of warm, sudsy water. Then rinse by dipping in the same way in clear water and hang on a line to dry. Unsightly, frayed spots on can be treated with liquid rubbed into the frayed areas, dry so that the surface is flat. RECIRR OF THE WEEK Smothered Liver (Serves 6) 1 pound sliced beef liver 1-4 cup sifted flour 1-4, cup shortening To Relietx Mistry of r* ^ Z&m « WSim-MMNUI ttIMi 1 1-2 teaspoons salt 1-8 teaspoon pepper 1-4 cup chopped celery 1 ..cup canned tomatoes 3 medium sized sliced onions Pour boiling water over liver for a few minutes; drain and remove j and tomatoes, covering liver'with membrane from tho edges. Roll j vegetables. Add salt and pepper, each'piece-in flout and brown light-[Cover tightly and simmer until ten- ly on both sides in hot shortening, i ter, about 25 minutes. This may be Place liver to one side in-skillet and I served with noodles or mashed po- brown onions lightly. Add celery' tatoes. 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