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/ E A A i Thursday, July 10, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pape Seven CONTENDERS FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFT GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information * Specialist Acreages Down and Productfon Up Science has come to the farms of this country in a big way in recent years. With some of the main crops, we now plant considerably less acreage but make more stuff than we did bn the larger acreage before. Look at corn. Years ago we got to over 100 million acres of it in this country. But in recent years that has been going down constantly. For the 10-year period 1^40-49 we averaged just under 88. million acres, and last year it was 81 million. Yet the total production has tended constantly up ward. On an average acreage of just about 100 million from 1925 to 1929 we averaged making just over 2Vi billion bushels. But for the past five years, 1947-52 we have averaged over 3 billion bushels on only 85 mil- "lidh acres. In that first period we made 26.4 bushels per acre. While for the past five years we have aver aged 36J bushels of corn per acre in this country. The 5-point Clemson plan is at work in the corn fields of South Carolina and watch our yields. Our story with cotton here is very similar to that. Far less acreage, andj the yield away up, that’s the story. Our cotton improvement contest has figured greatly in this. Science in the saddle! We-can’t ex pand acreages, for various reasons I won’t go into now. But every 24 hours we have over 7,000 more folks to feed. Over *2^ million more mouths to feed and bodies to clothe each year! One might ask, where, is the food and clothing coming from fo take care of these increasing millions? It looks like it can and will come from vertical farming for a long time yet. That is, higher yields on the acreages we do plant. Science is developing many ways of doing this. Irrigation is one pow erful factor that hasn’t been brought into the picture in much of the coun try yet. It carries a vast potential for the oncoming millions to harness. The science of plant breeding, fer tilizers, and the like are playing their part, too. The county agents damon- sbrate the " new things iTr The' field. They take hold there, soon most folks are using them, and we come up with more and more from fewer and fewer acres. Now this thing can’t go on forever. There must be some limit. But we have so far to go in ap plying even what’s known now that we don’t need to start worrying about that. And in the meantime ex periment and experience will be finding out still greater facts to ap- VOTE FOR John H. Wharton COUNTY COMMISSIONER COURTEOUS, DEPENDABLE SERVICE ply in the field. _ Farm Ponds They are getting ponds down in the Low Country too at places. They do not have as many natural sites for them as in the mid-state and Up Country. But at places down there I see them making a place by digging a big hole for seepage water to ac cumulate in. County Agent King of Marion told me they built 10 ponds in that county last year, and had already built 20 this year. Practically all of these folks have irrigation in mind, he said. Your local SCS man can helo you plan your pond. 4-H And Crops In Horry Assistant County Agent Benton of Horry told me they had 1,200 4-H club members in that county, about i equally divided between boys and j girls. And County Agent Johnston was enthusiastic about crop prospects there. Everything including their big tobacco crop, got off to a very good start and was looking good when I was there in early June. That’s a rich agricultural county, and rich in good small farmers. They have several thousand of ’em. And their crops are varied, tobacco being king. The sweet potato is a major crop on hundreds of their farms. Champion Cattle The 4-di youngsters have led the parade in bringing better cattle to South Carolina. We have seen that frbm the time of the earliest fat stodc shows. Cattle improvement is rapid in all sections. In Charleston the 4-H youngsters have had the grand champion at the Columbia show for the past five years, according to County Agent Carraway. And before that they were always in the running at the Walterboro shbw. Twenty-six farmers in McCormick have 50 acres of pinaiento peppers, according to County Agent Bonnette, who promoted this new project there. The contract price is $80 a ton, and they will be delivered once a week at McCormick for hauling to the Georgia cannery. Boys As* That Way Folks in the Dutch Fork have al ways grown a lot of truck to sell in Columbia. In fact, before refrigera tion became general and long ship ment of“perishabtes became-possible, the Dutchmen from Lexington oun- ty used to largely feed Columbia with fresh things. When I was a kid, they told this on one of them. I don’t know if it actually happened or not. The many other things I’ve told you under this heading were true. I experienced most of them myself. But I didn’t this one. This Dutchman took a load of produce to Columbia. He sold it 'home If you have to wrap linens or white clothing to put away, wrap in dark blue paper so they won’t turn yellow. If the paper is un available, dip an old sheet in strong bluing water, let dry and use that. If collars, cuffs or other parts of woolen apparel develop shiny | spots, especially from being pressed with too hot an iron, saturate a cloth in hot vinegar and wring out, I then while still damp, sponge the; material with this. Press on wrong side. If your dark cottons need to be starched, it’s a good idea to tint the starch you’re using. Add bluing, for black and blue cottons and tea to starch for brown cottons. Shirts and trousers which have become spattered with paint should be sponged liberally with turpen tine. Old paint can be softened first with Vsoft shortening rubbed into the paint to soften, then sponged with carbon tetrachloride. The best way to dry curtains is a stretcher. This eliminates uneven edges. If you don’t have a stretch er, use a line, hanging them over it, and do not use clothespins- Hanging in a strong wind may cause tearing.■ Cigarette Lighters Nationally Advertised at $14.50 9.67 For Limited Time Only > HAMILTON'S at the asylum. They assigned one of the harmless inmates to help him unload it. Just to start conversa tion as they worked, the farmer ask ed him if he had ever farmed. He said, “Yes, I farmed some.” Then he asked the farmer, "Have you ever been in the asylum?” The farmer said, “No.” The fellow replied, “It sure beats farming.” On the way home, the farmer thought about what that fellow had said. And the longer he thought about it the more he figured that: fellow might have been right. For he had on better clothes and nothing I to worry about. While the tire came off one of the wagon wheels on the! way home, the farmer had to leave the wagon and ride the mule home 1 that night in the rain, go back in the buggy next day and get the wheel, fixlng-rt-ate up produce had- brought, and then he had to go away 1 back down there with the wheel in the buggy and leading another mule! to pull the wagon back over the 15 miles of terrible roads. MASONS TO MEET Campbell Lodge will hold a regular communication Tuesday night, July 15, at 8 o’clock. The officers ask that all members be, present as it will be a very im- porant meeting. Cleaning Prices! 60c CASH and CARRY. PICK-UP and DEUVERY THESE ECONOMY PRICES BECOME EFFECTIVE JULY 7TH Bring us your Dry Cleaning and take advantage of these prices. 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