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T / -/■ Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 13, 1952 u .-wm ■ -g'- ^ -• FARMS..... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist , Records Fall In '51 The South Carolina ARricultirral Committee has adopted a program i .uh year \of late. Last year you recall it covered 15 points. These were widely published and worked on by the county' agents, ag teach ers, farmers’ organizations, and others in the agricultural field. Now it is interesting to check and see how far we got. During the past year or so we es tablished new high records in all of these things: In milk per cow, total produc tion of milk in the state, dairy cat tle artificially bred to superior biills, beef bulls on the farms, eggs per hen, broiler^ produced, turkeys raised, percentage of cot ton one inch or over, yield of to bacco, total farm marketings, 4-H enrollment, wheat production, ’and capping it all a new record cotton yield, including what is a world’s record non-irrigated yield on five acres, as far as we have been able to learn! • / So there we have it, folks. Many records fell in 1951. And we are now headed .r^ght into 1952 with the will to heat those and set new ones. _ With all costs up. high yields be come necessary, if we are to come out and make anything. And it looks like we in South Carolina .ire sure pushing those yields up. With science in the saddle, we -haven't reachod cTui - 1 imits ~yet Irrigation Grows Each season brings new success es with irrigation in South Caro lina. And as we approach each new growing season we see other farmers putting it in. -- Last year the Clemson portable irrigation outfit irrigated a num ber of demonstration areas over the state. I have the records be fore me on two of them that were on tobacco. The one on the Priv- ette farm in Darlington showed a gain of $177.82 more per acre on the irrigated part. And on the one on the^Willis farm in Florence county showed increased yield of 256 and 523 pounds each on the two irrigated areas there. Our tobacco specialist, J. M. Lewis, says that something like 25 farmers tried irrigation on to bacco last year. All were pleased, and a good many others are get ting ready to thus insure their to bacco against the ravages of drought this year. In 1950 our tests on* tobacco didn’t pay for the simple reason that we had enough rain where they were. And now, folks, that tells the story on irrigation here. It is purely a supplement to rain fall. If and when we get enough rain at the right times, we won’t use this drought insurance. But with an average of six droughts a year for the past 50 years in South Carolina, there won’t be many years that the thing won’t be needed on some crop or sod. By rubbing out the effects of J drought on the crops we can reach with irrigation, we bring a whole i new production potential into play, and have a large measure of crop J insurance there that we did not have before. * * * Sumter 4-H'ers Shine Two state 4.-H . winners from Sumter county were outstanding at the National 4-H Club Congress at Chicago back in December. They were Jo Ann Myers and Betty Ann Green, both of the Sherwood club. Jtr-Ann was chosen fronr L^OO dele gates to preside at the opening session. And she did it with poise and grace. Betty Ann was chosen to give the response at a -big’sup- EGGS FRESH DAY-OLD EGGS FROM HEALTHY HENS. Raised under sanitary conditions. Packed in one-doren cartons. Brought from our farm each day. ' AVAILABLE AT JOE'S ESSO SERVICE STATION. You don't hove to get out of your car. We give curb service. Phone 128 Joe McDaniel We Deliver Three Dozen or More Office of LAURENS COUNTY AUDITOR MISS JENNIE V. CULBERTSON, Auditor ITINERARY FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAKING PROPERTY TAX RETURNS FOR 1952 For the convenience of taxpayers who have not made returns .or this i year, I will be at th^ following places, throughout the county on the dates listed below: Joanna Wednesday, March-12—9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Joanna ^ - Thursday, March 13—9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mtruntville Friday, March 14—10:00 a.m. to 12 noon Cross Hill ?r .... Friday, March 14—2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Fountain Inn (Henry Wood’s Store)— 4 Monday, March 17—10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. iberts Store .... Monday, March 17—11:00 a m. to 12 noon ?phens Store Monday, March 17—1:00 tovJ-30 p.m. X B. CoblCs^Z^T. Monday, March 17—1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Robert Harris Monday, March 17—3:00 to 5:00 p.m Owings Tuesday, March 18—10:00 a.m. to 12 noon Gray Court (W. T. Owings) Tuesday, March 28—1 to 5 p.m. Laurens Mill ... r Wednesday, March 19—0:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Waterloo Thursday, March 20—2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Clinton City f*.* Friday, March 21—9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m Lanford Monday, March 24—1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Ora Monday, March 24—4:00 to 5:00 p.m. J. R. Coker’s Tuesday, March 25—1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Mt. Olive (Cooper’s Store)....Tuesday, March 25—2:30 to 3:30 pjn. Martin’s Store Tuesday, March 25-^-3:30 to 5:00 p.m. This is not a “Land Year,” so real estate should not be re turned this year except in cases of newly acquired property or where new buildings have been erected. All who have acquired real estate and built new houses are especially urged to make returns. All personal property, except household goods and fur niture used in the home of the owner, which are not taxable, must be returned this year. You know more about your property than anyone else. By making your own return you avoid errors. If you have not made your return, meet me at the above places. _ ! | ‘“i MISS JENNIE V. CULBERTSON, County Auditor « * per party giveflP by a Chicago firm, and she won additional honors in thejlress review. Building farm and home leaders, that’s what 4-H is surely doing in our midst. One of the trustees in that school down there told me his greatest fear from proposed school consolidations was that they might lose iome of the effectiveness of their 4-H and women’s home dem onstration clubs in their commun ity, that centers there in the com munity school. Sweet Potatoes Luxury Due to the shortest crop since 1881, the sweet potato has been in the luxury class since the 1951 crop came in. Irish potatoes, too, have been higher than usual. But good sweet potatoes have been selling for over twice the price Irish potatoes. However, they should be higher, for yields are usually less and ex penses more. County agents and ag - teachers are again making up orders for good sweet potato seed stock from Clemson’s Edisto Station. And the station will also grow a lot of good plants that will be available, too, as far as they will go. They have made great progress there in mec- anizing the production of this crop that has required so much hand labor in the past. Growers are adopting these labor-saving prac tices and the sweet potato will likely take on life and grow as a major food crop under that impe tus. Boys Are That Way When I was growing up, the tail of a shirt was something never to be seen when you had it on. Not even mentioned in mixed com pany! We all wore galluses then. I re call quite clearly when I got my first pair of pants that had belt loops on them. And I didn’t. use them at first. Continued to play safe with suspenders. It was the' height of humiliation to be at play or anywhere else and have your shirttail come out. That occasionally happened, specially in games like running base and tag, where you had to catch the other fellow. Or after you lay down on the porch and took a nap and didn’t notice the thing had worked out. At school we often played tag, boys and girls together. Once a girl that I sort of secretly liked was chasing me. I didn’t run as fast as I could because I wanted her to touch me. She grabbed the back of my shirt, held on, and I came to a halt. That put me in their bull pen. As we walked hack I didn’t notice she had pulled my shirttail out. The first boy to notice it yelled out, “Goody, goody gout, your shirt- tail’s out!" That was our shibboleth Tor such occasions. Both the girl’s face and mine turned crimson and there was great embarrassment for us, as the others grew hilarious with laugh ter. And wouldn’t have thought of tucking it in there with mixed com pany around. I went behind the schoolhouse to do that. Now folks often wear their shirt- CENTERPOISE POWER Farmers Plan Increase In Lespedeza Acreage The Laurens County Soil Con servation district has set as a goal the planting of 1300 acres of loaf ing land to lespedeza sericea dur ing the next two months. Farmers cooperating with the district will be planting the sericea as a part of their soil and water conservation plan designed to put each acre to its best use. The district supervisors have made available over 16,000 pounds of sericea seed to assist in meeting the goal and to convert these acres to a more productive use in keep ing with land capability. Most of these seed are being ob tained by farmers on purchase or ders issued by the Production and Marketing administration as a part of their agricultural conservation program. Technical assistance to farmers in the form of soil conservation plans, selection of land and seeding recommendations are furnished by technicians of Soil Conservation Service. The long dry summer of las^ year made farmers realize as never be fore the importance of this too crop. C. C. Herbert, a beef cattle farm- much neglected hay and grazing i er of the Gray Court community, said: “My cows get more grazing from sericea last year than from other grazing crops.” Ralph Paldrop, dairyman of Rt. 2, Laurens, is planning to sow addi tional aerjeage to sericea this spring. Mr. Walpdrop made this statement: “I made a big mistake by plowing up part of my old seri cea last year. . What I had left was a life saver during the drought last summer. I need more of it.” Probably the first farmer in the county to- use sericea for grazing was Ben Hunter of the Lanford section. He has used it successful ly for j>ver 10 years. Mr.^Hunter said: '*Farmers“are finally believ ing that sericea will give more and better grazing during summer droughts than any other plant we have.” He now has over 65acres that he uses for grazing and will plant more this spring. “If you will properly fertilize, sericea and use the mowing machine when the growth tends to get ahead of the cattle, I’ll guarantee you will be pleased with the results,” Mr. Hun ter said. During the past few years the deep-rooted perennial has rapidly increased in favor with farmers as a soil conserving, land building and a hay and grazing crop. At the end of 1951, there were 7,260 acres of sericea on farms of district coope- ! rators in Laurens county. The ac- reage is expanding faster as pas- ture in the South than any other perennial legume, according to R Y. Bailey, regional agronomist of the Soil Conservation Service. In dications are that more will be planted this year than any previous year. 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