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-v-l - t - 4 Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, May 8, 1952 -A . FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist For hours on end I rode through na- ing his trade with a shoe shine box. 1 There I was really up yonder, per- tive grazing lands, the 13-pounds-of- While resting, I let him shine mine.! haps 25 feet. With great difficulty, beef-per-acre sort. Just here and In payment I gave him a peso, about Zeke, my colored playmate, and I there was an oasis where sicence had 12 cenls in our money. He started to carried odd boards up there. I still been applied. And there I saw sleek make change and I waved to him to; can’t see how we did It, climbing ord of the fat cattle and abundant S rass - While keep it all. He thanked me and with one hand and tpting with the m 'mnap; on the '' as t intervening expanses smiled. I told our guide to ask him other. Then holding and nailing the' thin cattle hunted the stray blades what he was going to do with it. He first foundation boards up there. But with which to build their 13 pounds replied and it was interpreted to me, we did. And the result was a plat« ! of annual gain per acre. |‘-Give it to mamma.” And as we form like the man had in the tree' In South* Carolina our grassland I were leaving he ran off through the, down there on HoMinshed creek. We! farming is well under way. Confi-, s P arse brus, h very happy and wav- spent a lot of time up-there playing, j dence has brought grass, good grass, b * s P® 50 n °te- to many a fertile field. And now! Boys Are That Way when the county agents arrange' . a I was thrilled by the idea tours to see these demonstrations,!^ § ot ^ rom a man about five miles _ o _ the crowds are so great as to be hard be l°w home on the road to grand- sure I was all broken up from the . a a —i ^* * . to handle effectively. Grass, livestock,' dairy, poultry, trees—these are rapidly added to crops to complete a more pleasing Change The cen.-us shows that years ago - ;*h Carolina had a good many cat- • They were mostly common stuff •mat eked out an existence in the tods, - -TV , - • W have no accurate re: . .ount of' beef those old ranges . uld produce. But surely it was .< .ail per acre. Down at the Ona Ex- ; t riment Station in Florida they f ;d -that native Florida range can nc counted upon to produce about 13 p-eunds of gain per acre on cattle per ,>tar. And I imagine that would ap ply pretty well here too on our un- . .".proved areas. But let science take a hand, and V Jt figure changes mightily. When ('ey improve their areas with lime, fulilizer, seeding, and management that gam in beef per acre jumps ;rcm 13 pounds to over 200 pounds; P^ure and a more satisfying life on oer acre. And then add a little bit tbe farms of our state, crore of advanced science to it ini Planting Bermuda Grass the form of the man-made showers; Bermuda grass is proving to be lh irrigation and Chat figure at! about the best grass we have. We 'a jumped up above 1,000 pounds have a number of good ones for j beef oer acre! ' varying conditions. But old Bermuda And’so the story goes on many a "stands high in fhe list for sheer rug- .-<ided area in our own state. Here 8® dness and cow-carrying ability. At '.3 pounds of beef have been made Clemson, with proper management i'T acre during the four months of! 11 ^mes a beef cattle herd for eight mm ter alone, and three and a half montbs °* the >** r - r'airy cattle per a^re have gotten But many farmers who plant con-i their fill once every day for a solid . ^derable row crops still fear it so as ?ar from the same fertilized and a P es t that they don t want this grass urigated pasture! , to come even near their places. And ■ You know, years ago an old phll- anyone who has tried to contend, i-opher predicted that this earth with it in-cultivated fields can un- 'was7~aestlhecr rbr''STafvatiph, Ss'TT derstand -that.. However, a lot of it is! ouidn't be able to feed its growing being planted. . r ...mbers much longer. However, The Allendale, Barnwell, and Ed- *. .ce then earth’‘s population has isto soil conservation districts have - rhaps doubled or more. And we—each, secured a Bermuda grass plan- e uetter fed now than then. His :er, and the Aiken anchOrangeburg -ror was that he -knew--nothing- of districts have each, secured two.; odern science. He had in mind that These are far setting out tne sprigs! 3 pounds of beef per acre. He could of grass, not scattering seed. They *-evc:. dream of 1,000 and more, are let out to farmers on a rental. Thi.' : tnlng p- science is just begin- basis. Down in Florida recently I a* .._Tu on :h.O-kiIZL custom planting with at $6 per acre, 1 Tree houses! Where is there a boy, FINAL SETTLEMENT ht doing e\cr\thing. ^ of the COUi :r y t: , at hasn’t built 'em! Take notice that bn the 19th day Indian Baby i had two. One was a sort of swing- of May, 1952, F will render a final Deep in the back country of Mex- j ing hammocK in the densy honey- account of my acts and doings as ico we passed a primitive mud hut suckle vines that took our scupper- Administrator of the estate of of an Indian every now and theninong arbor. It was only about six Claude Hawkins in the office of the ; along the rocky pa;h through the feet off the ground. But I felt like I Judge of Probate of Laurens Coun- 1 thorn bushes of the dry and hot cac tus country. Sitting on the >^round there in the door of one hut I saw a i small tot sucking its finger, just as our babies often do. At a shaded spot, w.iere the paths was up in the very sky when I hid at 10 o’clock, a. m., and on the there on hot summer days to get out same day will apply for a final dis- of work. And I often went to sleep, i char 8 e my trust as Administrator. There was no danger. Fgr you could not fall out. You had to climb out. Any person indebted to said es tate is notified and required to make payment on or before that' date: and all persons having claims against said estate wilt present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. DOC HAWKINS, * Administrator. April 17, 1952 4c-w-May 15 WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTINQ —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. other day I rode for 600 miles to Ona. crossed, a tiny little fellow was ply-: ver^ comb of 6 our' tw^-stoTv 'barm But I never let myself go to sleep for! fear of falling off. One night I dreamed I was falling from up there. And when I hit the floor I thought ma s. He had him a platform up in a tree where he took his noon nap. I passed there the other day. The house was still there. But the old oak tree that stood in the yard was gone. And strangers lived in the house. high fall I thought I had gotten. 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