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I ( / • Thursday, April 24, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page FIt# FARMS..... AND FOLKS By J. H. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Colton Now If you have a good stand of cot ton, don’t chop too much of it out And don’t chop until most chance -for its dying out has passed. Then cultivate shallow and only often enough to control weeds and grass. The above, is a digest of conclu sions carried in Circular 366, The 1951 Cotton Contest, that’s free at your county agent’s office. This publication is by our cotton Special ist, Harry Boylston, who has brought in it the vast store of suc cessful cotton farmer experience, since the cotton contest was started in 1926, up to date. As to just how thick to leave cot ton for best yields, he says: “Leave 3 stalks per hill about 8 12 inches 3 stalks per hill about 8 to 12 inches apart.” And then he admonishes, “Do not destroy a good stand by Washable! careless chopping.’’ Protection Noodod In the sparse country of the Southwest and on down deep in Mexico I was impressed by the birds of prey I saw. Owls, hawks, and eagles aplenty. Over the dry, parched expanses they skimmed, flying, flying, ever flying. Evident ly the open landscape offered them the protection that accounts for their numbers. Once they were more plentiful here, too. But guns by the millions have been out for anything that would run or fly, and they are becoming scarce. I wonder if these great birds, too, are marked for extinction, as we inhabit the land more quickly. Re member, tiie Carolina parakeet, the Heath hen, the passenger pigeon, and the Arizona elk, once inhab ited this country. But the last one of these has long since fallen to the hunter’s aim, and their chap ter is finished on this earth. Naturalists tell us that birds of prey were put here for a purpose. Without them, rodents are liable to build up to very destructive pro portions, as the balance that Na ture placed here is broken. Our Tommy has had-just about every wild creature that walks, jumps, or flies in captivity at some time during the past 8 or 10 years that he has been big enough to gratify his interest in them. Re cently someone gave him a great homed owl they had caught in a trap without hurting it. He sat in the pen and studied it for hours. Finally I prevailed on him to turn it loose, as suitable food was so hard la get He did. And now wSL go out into the night to hear its eerie hoots, as they echo across the hills bafk from our place. How fretting in a jail-like pen! ‘ Barn owls were once common. Now they are very scarce. They bothered nobody, and only ate mice. Yet they fell, easy targets, as, wish like, they floated noiselessly The CED describes itself as about toe'' bam-lo^5ter'dmk d£ non-profit, non-political. Urania, discovering new riches at many places. One of these is in a doubled grain acreage, whose yield is up over half, and which is followed the same season by another crop of lespedeza, sorghum, soybeana, sweet potatoes, or the like. This, translated in terms of livestock, poultry, and dairy products, adds new power to the soils of the state. Mark This! Farmers’ Week, Clemson, August 11-16. See, learn, have a good time, and at very moderate cost. Boys Are That Way One summer day my mother, brother, sister, and I were return ing from grandmothers, 6 miles down the Kinley road. In a horse and buggy and over very bad roads, that was quite a distance. In fact it was about as far as we ever went, and took two hours. A thundercloud was building up in the west, and we kids grew quite afraid, for there were few houses along that road. As we neared a Colored friend’s house, we figured we had better stop, for there was not another house in a mile of lonely pine woods. No one was home. We hitched to the garden fence and went up on the porch. I passed there the other day. The house is just as it was. The pillars reach to the ground beyond the edge of the porch, thus giving a considerable over-hanging shelter to the porch. We huddled there in Group Declares Federal Budget Can Be Balanced the center by the door, as lightning crashed and gusts of wind blew dust and debris about. I was awful ly frightened, for at such times I had always been deep in the house, where I could hide from the storm. Now I was all but in it, and it was terrifying. Soon the deluge came. and I cried, thinking we would never get home. It blew all under there and we got pretty wet. I was frantic, and they did all they could to console me. I don’t think my mother was frightened at all. Soon the sound and fury passed. And, as we were leaving, the bright sun came out. Our clothes dried, as we jogged the four miles home. But to this day I look back on that as one of my most horrifying ex periences. For a kid to be out in the storm away from home the first time is really something to remem ber. SLEEP WAKE JMaxed jtefreslw) Washington, April 21. — The Committee for Economic Develop ment (CED) declared today the federal budget acn be balanced in the coming fiscal year without in creasing taxes or impairing the ef fectiveness of the nation’s security program. But if Congress doesn’t see fit to pare spending in line with the Income expected fttrfn the present revenue laws, the businessmens group recommended bringing the budget into balance anyhow by “a temporary tax on retail sales, except sales of food, housing and items already subject to direct fed eral excise taxes. 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