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The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable ®he (Clinton (Cljrontrl? If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LIU Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 5, 1952 Number 23 farms AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Record 4-H Rally Florence recently had what looks like a record 4-H rally for these parts. From every community of the county they came with their local leaders, 1,400 strong! Levon Godwin, president of their 4-H council, presided well over the in spirational program put on by the clubs. They had to sit two deep where they met. There were tears tn irrany eyes when—County Agent McLendon announced that their ; beloved assistant county agent, Archi^ Odom, was leaving for oth- er work. But he promised to, come back and help them with their summer camp and booth at the fall fair. A berbecue dinner was served at the fair grounds, from which sev eral hundred dollars were netted for the state 4-H camp improve ment fund, according to J. T. Rog ers, district 4-H club leader. Small Things Count Nothing looks much sorrier than an automobile with a hub cap off. Or a good crop growing with an bccasiohal h!gfT "weed“ "Sticking Tip out there in it. Wrinkled hose on a beautiful woman, or a gate that drags and won’t latch. An expensive combine left out l in the weather for the 11. months good many plantings of it on oth er farms this spring. And, of! course, it likes good land too. # * • They had 57 head of nice fat steers at the Greenwood area 4-H show and sale back in April. Prices were off, and net rejturns were dis appointing. But' that, too, teaches the youngsters a valuable lesson. For when they get on their own as farmers they need to know the hard fact that disappaointments he in that road too, as well as in all others. We must just do the best job we possibly can. And then when prices are low, maybe we can still come out. When the price break is good, then we can rack up some profits. The counties of _ Greenwood, Newberry and Laurens took part in this show. The 4-H fat stock shows have done a lot to blaze that i way for the cattle development we now.see- grawing aver .the state. For there is where many a farmer saw his first really fat beef cattle. -j| .y. t ■ Boys Are That Way New things were a bit slow' to get back in our stone hills. So I it isp’t in use* or. the fellow- who- -gSIhS- along there before- the muz- drags a plow down the hill and z f un 8 or >e. starts a gully. 7116 old long-barreled, big-ham- Fertilizer sacks thrown around meiec ! gun stood on the floor in a and allowed to rot, or a garden ( ‘ orner behind the clothes closet door to the left of the fireplace. where weeds crowd the vegetables out. The fellow who has money for Kqyor and smokes but none for a washing machine nor to paint his house.' j A critter suffering with a sack ! for a muzzle when a dime or quar- | ter would get one that lets it breathe. A running stream by a field where crops are parching up. A rural church that's allowed to starve amid plenty. A balding man like me, need ing a haircut. Enough of that for now'. - - HARRY C. LAYTON Vote For LAYTON ••• for • • •* Alderman Word 3 Your Vote and Influence Will Be Appreciated I County Agent Shelley of Bam- 1 well tells me that last year the lo- cal PMA office there paid 174 farmers $40,110.48 in practice pay- ments"for building 140 miles of woven wire fence and 26.8 miles of barbed wire fence. And he says there was a lot of fencing in addi tion to this. ' It strikes me that this is a mighty constructive way for a j farm to spend its PMA allowance. ; Good fences carry their dividends I on through the years in the live stock development that’s growing. For PMA assistance, a fence must be built right. Consult your local committeeman and get Clem son Agricultural Engineering Leaf let No. 71, Better Fencing for Bet ter Pastures, fro myour county agent before you build yours. Coastal Bermuda grass is giving good results even on light sandy lands. Cal Peeples, who used to be our soils man, tells me that it is tops on light sandy land for cat tle in Beaufort. And County Agent Cain of Calhoun, says it has done well on light land for Dr. Raysor there. They have made a And above it from a nail hung ’he powder horn, shot flask, paper wadcling, and box of caps in the hunting sack. The gun w’as kept loaded for emergencies, for it took time to do that. And the hammer was pulled back till it clicked once. It was on safety there. But tw’o clicks meant it was fully cocked for busi ness. My brother was an expert shot with that gun. He loaded it to suit the job. Squirrel in high trees called for larger shot and more powder, while birds on the w’ing called for finer shot that .would --{-scatter. Sometimes those old guns wniild f :i11 f,r< ‘i j 11 -'- 1 ^ cap on the fuse that stuck out about a half-inch. It was hollow and led down in the barrel to the powder. To make sure, we would usually pack a little fine powder down in that fuse. In the earlier days our folks got | their shot from across the creek t piece, where a venerable old man of the back country ran a crude store. He had heard in his youth ( that “a pint is a pound the world around,” and believed it implicitly. He had no Scales. So he used a | pint measure for the few thin- that needed measuring or weigh ing. He applied that to shot too. That made it a big bargain, for a pint of shot weighed several pounds. 4 The thrifty men -of the stone hills were not long in put ting him out of the shot business. He said somehov/ or other they just wouldn’t measure out, and it puzzled him. % • 4. Give tlie'B’uifc-to-Sft a iflNE SI", oi*< c . "■■■"I* tHISl I ** S Mom Gl* tS / C < • : ; N - V'- —y-w , - v . ■ r j I n I s? No. 265 i— DitiinctiV* modern ' W iif blonde oak-Trar lift* with hfc lid. Same deiif n in ulvec-ftra/ j* walnut $i9$i No.2593—Streamlined Waterfall In' walnut and paldao. Self-rising tray. •59.95 ♦ No. 2601 — Period Mahof any* SeU miaf tray. $59 9>. T. E. Jones & Sons FURNITURE Officers, Committees Classroom Teachers The following are the officers J and committee members of the Clinton Classroom Teachers asso ciation for 1952-1953: President, Mrs. Nene D. Work-! man. Vice-President, Miss Agne Davis. Secretary, Mrs. Lewis Wallace. Treasurer, Mrs. Minna Irby. -Welfare: Mrs. Raymond Pitts, Miss Nancy Owens, Mrs. Marian* Neighbors, Mrs. Essie Workman, Mrs. Ayliffe Jacobs, Mrs, Minna Irby. Public Relations: Miss Clyde; Smith, Mrs. Ayliffe Jacobs, Miss | Julia Porter. Program Committee: Miss Rose Lee, Mrs. Eloise Ellis, Mrs. Hugh Buford. Social Committee: Mrs. Irene C. Little, Miss Ella Little McCrary, Mrs. Fannie Wade. Citizenship: Miss Irene Work man, Florida Street school; Miss Mary Johnson, Providence school; Miss Elizabeth Boland, high school; Mrs. Margaret Blakely, Academy Street school; Mrs. Margaret Sease, S|ate Training school; one to be supplied from Thornwell school. N. E. A. Committees Citizenship: Miss Irene Work- f man. Credit Unions: Miss Odetta Mau- ney. International Relatibns: Mrs. Ay liffe Jacobs. Professional Ethics: Miss Clyde 1 Smith. Tax Education and School Fi nance: Mrs. Frank Boland. Tenure and Academic Freedom: Mrs. Claude Lawson. Defense Commission: Mrs. Minna Irby. Legislative Commission: Miss Kate Milam. National Commission on Teach er Education and Professional Standards: Mrs. Nene D. Workman. State Committees: Miss Clyde Smith, Mrs. George D. Ellis, Jr, Mrs. Hugh Buford, Mr$. Mollie Donnan, Miss Kate Milam. Membership: Miss Elizabeth Copeland, Mrs. Evelyn H. Law, Mrs. Polly E. Hierfc. 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