The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 07, 1952, Image 13
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Thursday," February 7, 1952 .
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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FARMS
AND FOLKS
, By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
1 Fire Wood
I had a lesson in firewood dur
ing (the past Christmas season.
We were all'at home, with little
to do but enjoy ourselves, and just
sit and soak before a good fir£
The hickory back-logs had been cut
the summer before and were dry.
And so were the sourwood thin
nings we had taken from our wood
ed lot. But the oak had been Cut
just before and was green.
That oak added greatly ( to the
charm of. the fire, for it sang as it
burned. And at late hour, when
the chunks had burned low and the
song had grown faint, it was still
bewitching, and we lingered. For
there was to be no early tomorrow
then.
That dry sourwood burned about
as briskly as pine,, and it helped
the oak, tl\at wduld not burn on
its own. And when we left it, the
blackened chunks of oak were still
there in the morning. But the dry
hickory was different. No matter if
a sizable log of it remained above
the embers there on the andirons
when we called it a day, it simmer
ed on, and had completely fallen
into ashes when we arose.
An open fire; Nothing can quite
take its place. Let the furnace mod
erate the whole house. But for real
coziness, it takes the open fire to
sit around, eat, and dream. I can’t
think. *f the. family circle around a
dead and impersonal radiator or
latticed vent in the wall.
“The open fire is a part of the
winter scene. It has personality and
can furnish companionship. It
grows, it sings, it whistles, it var
ies, it changes. It consumes accum
ulated debris. It quickly warms
chilled hands and toes when we
come in from the outside. And its
benevolent rays toast the ’taters
and peanuts that are laid on the
hearth.
Yes, the open fire has no very
satisfactory substitute.
Cotton Jnsact Control
The past year was favorable for
the use of insect poisons on cotton.
We experienced their most wide-
spread usie in bur fields. Every
county was well organized for it
and few fields were missed. All of
this surely* helped our state lead
the eastern states in cotton yield in
1951. This was our highest yield on
record, 394 pounds per acre.
Mac Sparks of the Clemson Ex
tension Service will again head up
the weevil fight in South Carolina.
The authorities have again formu
lated their up-to-date recommen
dations for the coming season. They
include directions for using a new
poison or two, that late experi
ments proved effective, as well as
the established ones. Your county
agent should have it shortly for
you, if not already.
Tobacco
Like everything else, the tobacco
time. It seems that winters back
40-odd years ago brought more of
them than now. And during and
after each one we bundled up and
went out into a new world that
had come to our familiar stone
snowflakes. The whiteness and
hills.
Even to this day. there is no
more charming spectacle .than to
watch the stillness of the out of
doors grow white with falling
and softness, with all of the rough
spots soon rubbed out and smooth
ed over, lends an eerie air to the
silence that is simply bewitching.
And it is then that the earth looks
more alluring to lecherous merf. 1
Then, with a reference to two
debtors, of whom the one who
owed a great amount would be j
more- grateful for . release, Jesus
declared the sinful woman, out of
her infinite need, had come to him
with overflowing prntitudp and true
repentance. He then freely forgave
the woman. His fellow guests said
within themselves. "Whrj is this
that even forgiveth sins?” Jesus
said to the woman, “Thy faith hath
saved-thee: go. in peace.”
This lesson shows *the need qf
sympathy toward the erring, and
rebukes the v hard attitude of the
spiritually pfoud toward gross sin- •
ners. While the lesson puts no pre
mium upon gross sin. it ampTSr
shows that the vilest can be made
clean through faith in Christ. Let
us join with our Lord in opening
the door of hope to the wayward.
picture changes constantly. And
most of this change in recent years
had been in our favor-.here in this
part of the country. new, after the fall ceases, a track
_ We grow bright flue-cured to- {meana juJiving thing is nearby. It
bacco. It goes mostly into cigarettes.; was then that we liked to hunt j
And there is where a vast increase
in consumption had occurred. »
Other major uses for tobacco
have not grown* in the past 30 years.
rabbits.
One of my, early recollections
carries me back to the time my
brother, who was odler, tqok me
In fact that going into cigars is on my first such hunt. I carried a
down 21 percent. And that going gun, too, but didn’t use it. He was
into smoking and chewing tobacco a sure shot, and I’d rather see him
is down 59 percent. But look at, bowl them over. We saw the tracks
cigarettes. They are up 800 percent j of 10 rabbits that day. And we
above the 1920 mark! And that fig-, came home with 10 in the bag. I
ure is still growing fast. There is | thought some of his shots were
where we come in. j miraculous. And after each one it
A.minor use, for snuff, is also up took him about 10 minutes to re-
a bit, 19 percent above 1920. But
that doesn’t add up to much.
And, as a crop in South Caro
lina, the importance of tobacco has
increased about as much as the use
of cigarettes has. Not only has our
acreage vastly expanded, but Clem-
son’s Pee Dee Station at Florence
has concentrated on tobacco re
search. The findings there, together
with the better varieties that the
breeders have brought forth, have
been taken to the field and demon
strated by the county agents on
many temu. And, with acreage
control during the past 18 yean,
farmers have been faster than usual
in adopting the very latest know
how in producing higher yields of
quality tobacco on their allotted
acres. Our early tobacco specialist,
H. A. McGee, was very instrumen
tal in this, as is our present man,
J. M. Lewis. He works out from
District Agent J. T. Lazar’s office
at Florence and is available to all
tobacco growers through their
county agents.
Patriotism
I was riding in Central Mexico
on their Independence Day back in
November. Every town, village,
and cross-road was bedecking it
self for a celebration that night.
Even away out in the parched cac
tus country, each little settlement
of mud huts by a water hole at
least had a flag on a crude pole
and some bnght crepe paper
stretched around. And that night in
the small town where I stopped
everyone for miles around turned
out on the square to parade around
and hear impassioned songs
speeches, and music and to see pa
triotic costume dances. It was over
about 9 o’clock and the hundreds
scattered again to the darkness of
the brush country or to their near
by town abodes from whence they
came at dusk.
After seeing this fervent celebra
tion I thought of our Independence
Day that we have grown to let pass
practioally unnoticed. And in no
country in the world should that
day mean more than to us here.
Boys Are Thai Way
Snow brought its thrill every
load his old muzzle loader again.
First he poured the powder in from
the measure he carried in powder
horn. Then a wad of paper was
tamped down hard on that with the
ramrod. Then the shot was meas
ured and poured in the barrel.
They, too, were then tamped down
hard with a wad of old newspaper.
A brass cap was slipped over the
fuse and the hammer let rest
against it, and we were off again.
Six-Inch Sermon
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A PHARISEE AJVD A REPENT
ANT WOMAN
Lesson for February 10: Luke 7:
38-50.
Golden Text: I John 1:8.
This lesson might better have the
caption, “Jesus and a Repentant
Woman.” It presents a striking con
trast between the attitude of the
Pharisee and that of Jesus toward
the erring.
Jesus remarked upon the differ
ence between the Pharisee and
himself. The Pharisee had given
Jesus no water to wash his feet, no j
kiss, no ointment for his head. The :
woman had wet his feet with her
tears, wiped them with the hair of
her head, and had kissed his feet;
and anointed them with, perhaps,
qintment that she had once intend- j
ed to use to make her own body i
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