The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 17, 1952, Image 13
Thursday, April 17, 1952
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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FARMS
AND FOLKS
By J. H. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
Irrigation Paid
Last summer I told you about my
vieit to the small farm of Olin
Heims up in Lancaster conuty, with
County Agent Cannon.
You recall he has 12 acres of land
below his pond that he irrigates by
gravity. There he had a profusion
of very fine vegetables when we
visited him in mid-summer. Other
gardens in the county, were burned
into nothing.
But one of the things tha inter
ested me most there was his corn.
It was the finest prospect I had
ever seen. He had made some 130
odd bushels to the acre there the
year before, and Cannon said this
locked considerably better.
So I naturally looked forward to
the final yield he got there. Re
cently Cannon told me he made
185.4 bushels per acre! That’s more
on an acre than we used to make
on our whole farm. But then we
did not have the new concept in
corn growing that’s called the
Clemson 5-Point plan. Nor did we
have the life-giving water we could
give it when it got thirsty.
Irrigation! Each season brings
new evidence of its value. And
each season more farmers are try
ing it So far as I’ve heard, they
all like it from the very first. We
f know so little about it yet. That is.
the timing, the amount, the critical
times for it with varied crops and
so on. Clemson is digging into
those things, and the best we know
is being demonstrated here and
there on varied crops with the
portable outfit furnished by the Ex
tension Service by the Camp Irri
gation Fund.
Welcome Jimmy
J. E. Youngblood was long with
us in marketing work out of Tom
Cole’s office in Columbia. A few
years ago, when our State Agricul
tural Marketing Commission was
formed they got him as director.
There he has done a good job and
worked very closely with Clemson
and the other agricultural agencies
in the state. Tom Cole retired re
cently. Now Jimmy Youngblood
has been appointed to direct both
the Clemson Extension Division of
Markets and the State Marketing
commission.
This looks like *a sensible move
to me. There is no duplication in
the work of these two groups. In
fact, the work of each complements
the other, they go hand in hand.
Where the work of Clemson stops
that of the commission begins. And
with the affable and competent
Jimmy Youngblood in charge, the
farmers of the state are assured of
continued good work from their
marketing agencies.
Make Light Soil* Dark .
The cheapest, easiest and most
practical way I’ve ever seen for
making poor, light sandy soils dark
and fertile is to turn Giant Striate
Crotalaria loose there. •
In doing this, you do not have t>>
sacrifice money crops on the land.
In fact the Crotalaria itself makes
a money crop if you let.it go to seed
and harvest it.
A part of this seed was first got
ten out in the state by Dave White,
of McBee. He saw its possibilities
and -multiplied- it. —Then-he-and his
county agent, Jake Willis -of Ches
terfield, proceeded to put it all over
that county, and it has spread to
others over there and across the
line into North Carolina.
Just last summer I was
with C. S. McLeod of McBee, and
he showed me some very fine fileds
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of watermelons he had on high sand
hills. I said, “You must have real
ly poured the fertilizer to them,”
they looked so good. He said, 1 No,
not so much. That’s mostly the re
sult of Crotalaria you seee there.”
And he went on to say, “You know,
Crotalaria is a great thing for us on
these light sandy lands.”
As I’ve often said, this crop has
sure changed many a poor white
sandy field into a dark fertile one.
Willis tells me it is seeded any time
from May to the middle of July, 15
to 20 pounds per acre harrowed in
lightly. For strictly soil building,
it is usually turned under green.
Once planted it continues to come
volunteer, even though you might
not let it reseed every year. It
comes up in crops and is destroy
ed during cultivation. After that
it comes and makes a fair growth
in the middle of summer crops. Its
growth starts slow. But in late
summer and fall it really makes re
markable growth even on the poor
est land, where it Is most needed.
Those interested in further par
ticulars can get them from County
Agent Jake Willis, Chesterfield, S.
C. .
Boy* Are That Way
Earliest recollection, carries me
back to about 1901 when a great
crowd came to our house. It was
the occasion of our favorite son
from the Stone Hills being elected
to Congress. He was a little scrap
of brains, from an humble home,
by the name of A. F. Lever.
He later {old me that my father,
the country doctor, had been his ad
visor, or sort of campaign manager.
His mother had died when he was
a baby and in his teen years he had
spent much time in our home with
my Uncle Robert, his age, who
stayed with us and went to school.
Nothing about that campaign im
pressed me much. But that cele
bration there in front of our house
on the night after he was "elected
did. It^ was the most folks I had
eveF seen. ’pefrraps tv/cr Ur—fhTee
hundred. And the Colored folks'
were there too, with their band
from Hopewell church. The play
ing of that shiny brass band was
rirtine simply out of his world for me.
That day Mr. Lever had bought
a new buggy, upon the insistence
of my mother. She told him, “You
are our congressman now, you must
fix up a little.” He came a dim
road up the back way, hitcted
down in our orchard, and came in
the back of the house unseen by
the crowd. After the band played
a while, my father introduced him,
and he appeared from the front
door on our porch. He was quite
an orator. And they say he made
one of his greatest speeches there
in the soft light of lanterns and
torches that night. The cheers at
the end frightened me and I held
tighter to my omther’s skirt. And
I noticed his oJd aunt Kizzie, who
sat there in a rocker, was crying,
and some of the ohers were too.
wondered about that, for I thought
they should be happy. I hadn’t
heard of crying with joy.
Well, our little champion of the
Stone Hills went on to a long and
fruitful service in Congress, spe
cially fruitful to agriculture. His
name is on the enabling act that
brought about the Extension Serv
ice. And what we now know as the
Farm Credit Administration had its
origin in the Land Banks that he
fostered in Congress. And President
Wilson gave him the pen with
which he signed that act.
Sciatica Sufferer
Throws Cane Away
After Treatment
“I began to get relief from the ex
cruciating pain almost immediately
following the first adjustment, said
Mr. A. L. Harrison, Rt. 3, Laurens,
S. C. “The following week I discard
ed the walking cane and returned to
my job.
“Before consulting Dr. C. J. Hart,
I was suffering with severe pains m
my left hip, which radiated into my
leg. I was having severe headaches
and cramping spells in my legs every
day. These cramping spells had been
coming on for years and causing me
no end of trouble.
“After receiving Chiropractic ad
justments from Dr. Hart I obtained
relief from pains in my left’Trip, the
headaches cleared up and the cramp
ing spells finally disappeared.”—ad /.
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