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f A / i Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday. May 22. 1952 Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS «.«nnd ••• EMBALMERS Phores 41 and 399-J AMBULANCE SERVICE L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS .ADAIR, Gen. M*rs. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist i * State Drivers Are Still Mighty Fast Columbia.—A speed survey con ducted by .the State Highway De partment showed today that al-! though South Carolinians are slow-1 er drivers than they were a year; ago, they are still driving faster | than the average American. The survey shgwed the average speed of 3,729 state moroists dur- in March was an even 50 miles per hour, three-tenths of a mile slow er than last year’s recorded aver age. However, the Bureau of Public Road reports that the national speed average is 48.8 mph. NOTICE TO VOTERS The Boaru or i;egistra;ion will be at the following places to register voters for the primary elections. Anyone not having a certificate dated in 1948 or since should apply for certificate to be eligible to vote in this election. Lydia Mills Store—May 22. Wattsville—Mill Office, May 26. Gray Court — Abercrombie-Ow- ings Store, May'27. - L > - Cross Hill—Leaman’s Store, May 29. GLADYS COOK, H. C. SIMS, M. D. MILAM, Board Members. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLB 2*r<»ZfrL k «!i !trink« k r* \I nr«* N«»w Tr«‘<if m«-nf . l-«.»r AlfoholiKin Our clinically-proven method developed in twating more than 7300 men and women produce# positive result# every day. New medication removes all desire for alcoholic drink within 72 hours. No nausea, no long periods of nervousness. This is the quick, ef fective, safe method. We treat alcoholism exclusively, and every patient gets personal, individual care. Patients accepted day or night. / » ^ rite or telephone today. Abl Sanitarium 603 K. North St, Tel, 2-1483 Greenville, S. C. licensed by $.,C. State Board of Health Irrigation Survey The general agricultural agent’s office of the SAL Railway has i made a sort of study or survey of irrigation here in the Southeast. Their report concludes with this i statement: i “Irrigation is a MUST if farmers | are to produce profitable crops un i der present-day competition, and farmer and experimental results prove that irrigation PAYS.” Among other things the report : mentions irrigation of watermel ons, where the number of melons was increased from 225 to 625 per acre, and they came a week earlier where irrigated. And they point out where gains of close to two hundred dollars per acre were se cured on tobacco last year. And 58 per cent more grazing from La- dino-fescue pasture, and so on. These figures from other states run Very close along with our re- FOR CfllLLS & FEVER O DUE TO MALARIA ^ ^ madewith QUININE > ; $ 7 ^ suits over South Carolina from ir rigation in the past year or so. * * • Here and There . County Agent Bull of Abbeville, say& they have made several dem onsfrations of Coastal Bermuda grass this spring. That’s the im- ^proved sort that was developed at the Tifton. Ga., experiment sta tion, you know. And Clemson’s McKenzie helped them build a weed soraver that's being used on | always been a hand labor crop. • * * Boys Are Thai Way Last week we were talking about half-soleing our own shoes in the Stone Hills when I was a boy. And there was something else we haif- soled, too. That was the seat of our pants. Our clothes were mostly made of tough jeans cloth. But even that eventually wore thin on knees and seat. The frugality of the Fork de creed that these be half-soled as soon as they began to wear thin. And our mothers were past mast ers at reinforcing those spots of greater wear. The idea was never to let them wear through and make a hole. That would show too plain ly when fixed. 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NEW ORLEANS, LA CHICAGO, ILL. ..: DETROIT 1 , MICH. NEW YORK, N. Y WASHINGTON, D. C DALLAS, TEXAS DENVER, COLO $ .55 1.60 1.10 4.50 5.00 4.75 8.00 13.90 16.20 15.15 15.05 10.85 20.75 31.00 their pastures. Down in Allendale, too. County Agent Rogers reports their having planted 250 acres of Coastal Ber muda in demonstration pastures. This strain of Bermuda grass has produced far more hay and grazing in the Georgia tests than the com mon sort. In Bamberg County Agent Hub bard, too. speaks of ‘‘a large acre age of Coastal Bermuda being sprigged in.” And there most of the corn was treated with lindane | and had chlordane in the fertilizer i under it. Fighting underground TTTTsects lhere. They were the firsT ! ones I ever saw use poison in fer tilizer for wireworms. And it worked! In - Barnwell they were fighting 'field mice in the melon fields. ' County Agent Shelley put 960 lbs. I of strychnine-treated rolled oats with 50 farmers for that purpose. Mice eat the seed and ruip the .) stands- This poisoning has work ed well there for years. It looks like just about all farm work will finally be mechanized. One by one thf hand jobs go, as man builds a machine to do them. We long thought that chopping and picking cotton were two jobs that would always call for the hu man hand. But now’ we have two- row mechanical choppers, and two- row pickers. The latter machines do the work of 75 to 100 people! Of late I was in Florida. There I saw the ultimate in mechaniza tion. At one place I saw a farmer w’ith five great celery harvesters that w’ere simply packing houses moving across the field, taking a dozen or more rows at a time, cut ting, (Sorting grading. washing, and packing celery at a rate of 2.700 crates daily for each machine! Gracious me! That looked like en ough celery to supply the world. And for about an 8-month season that process never stops. The planting operation is equally mec hanized, setting out many rows at a time. Those machines require a batch of skilled labor. A lunch wagon visits them at noon, and privies follow’ them on sleds. And at another place I saw them harvesting sweet corn w’ith a similar monster that took 18 rows at a time. Men broke the ears and pitched them onto a_ belt that reached out from the machine- on long arms. It hustled them back and through the machine where it was sorted, trimmed and packed. In these operations a truck is chained to the back of the moving harvester. The crates or produce go right into these conveyors, and the stuff never ‘ stops moving from the time it is cut until it is pre cooled in an icy bath, crates and all, and iced down in cars or trucks ready to start movipg to markets. So folks, after seeing all of these and other similar cases where man has mastered power and tied it to machines that do such exacting work, I’m prepared for anything. And right now I can’t think of a cOmmon farm job that is beyond the pale of eventual mechanization. Powers at Clemson’s Edisto Sta tion has done a lot toward adapting the machine to cotton production. And he and Park of the USDA are well on their way there towards working out the mechanization of sweet potato production. This has A large patch of the same mate rial was basted to the inside of the seat of the pants. And a suitable one was likewise basted inside the knees. These were then so skil fully darned on that you could hardly, tell it. Then they T were thicker than before. And that’s the sort of pants the boys liked to have on when they got a beating at school. A hickory switch on a seat thus protected was hardly felt at all. Yet the victim yelled like it was killing him--so- as to make the The cost is low! Profitable results for you are quick! Practically every city, town and farm home in more than 12 counties surrounding Greenville subscribe to the Greenville News and Piedmont. Let a classified ad tell these 96,000 daily subscribers what you have to sell. 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