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THE CUNTON CHRONICLE
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Thursday, August 2~^ 1952
FARMS
AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
'' The Difference
I attended a meeting of beef cat
tle growers in Greenwood in mid-
aJ vi . v. t I
.Most of - 'em were wondering
v. tn it would rain. ButTIve were
r t. They got their irrigation
working ua time to save their grass.
One said his 25 cows couldn't keep
his 16 acres of Bermuda and Dallis
grass down. It appeared that most
vi 'em were getting ponds ready
and making other .arrangements to
supply of water to their pastures,
too, when it is needed.
fight everybody but my mother.
For some reason he was very fond
of her. We got him from Mrs.
Sites, a neighbor, to replace our
old gander that as I recall, flew
away with some wilcUgeese the fall
before.
A few geese were kept by practi
cally every family. I never heard
of us eating one. We kept ’em
for their feathers. And the young
cockle-burrs, killed the goslings
so that we never accumulated
many.
Spring was goose-picking time,
County Agent Garvin told me just before they started losing their
that 10 fanners in Greenwood heavy coat of feathers by moult,
county now have irrigation outfits The women folks did it. We kids
ar.d many more are planning for it.
When I see the magic that irriga
tion has wrought in many a field,
orchard, and sod here in South
Carolina this summer,. I am le^ to
would catch the geese for them.
They had a special way for hold- i Wednesday.
Ike Tells Legion
United States
In Great Peril
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25—Dwight
D. Eisenhower said today the Soviet
threat has put the nation, “in greater
peril than at any time in our history.”
Calling for a strong warning to the
Russians from the American govern
ment, he said:
‘ We must tell the Soviets with
cold finality that never shall we rest
content until the tidal mud of aggres
sive Communism has decoded within
its own borders.” '
The Republican presidential nom
inee made the statements in a speech
prepared for delivery before fellow
American Legionnaires at their
national convention in New York’s
Madison Square Garden.
His Democratic opponent, Gov.
Adlai Stevenson, was in Springfield,
111., awaiting his turn on the Legion
rostrum. He addresses the convention
cleanse Jhe government of subversive
influences, he added: “You have done
your work without recklessly injur
ing the reputation of innocent
people.” He went on:
The assassins of character and the
promoters of witch hunts are danger
ous to our freedom at home and to
our world position of leadership” . ; .
Eisenhower named no names in his
speech, but at a news conference on
Friday, when asked about Sen. Jos-
! eph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, he
' said he would support McCarthy for
reelection "as a member of the Re
publican organization” but would
not give blanket endorsement to any
one who does anything I believe to
be un-American in methods or pro
cedures.”
SAT:
“I SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE”
THANK TOD
goes
with good times
ing them on their laps, with feet
and tail in the left hand and the
head buried down in the lap, as the
winder just how fast this thing is, goose was held there upside down.
|c;ng to grow here. I believe very I That left the right hand free to 1:
fast’ Hi [yank the breast feathers out. And
| with, every jerk the goose usually,
honked a bit. When the breast was
picked clan of feathers and noth-
ing but the new down remained.
I see situations fur easy—irriga-
_J-_ n_ eyety-where 4-go. Net all fields
r.Ljf all farms, ..bui at couutless-piae*
is I've seen crops parch and. burn A , ,, ^ .
Tv nothing. While, rivulets of lite ,, [hey would .set the goose upright
vivSg water course their ancient keeping the «n.e hold with left
..a... down thir channels to the sea hand and w,th ,he head and neck
r.uht
those fields, as they have
clamped under the left arm.
Today, Stevenson had a date with
Walter Reuther, president of the
CIO United Auto Workers Union, to
talk over plans for formally launch
ing the governor’s campaign for the
presidency. This will be done at a
Labor Day rally inr Detroit next
Monday.
Eisenhower's Legion speech bore
a non-political tag, but some passages
appeared to refer to charges the Re
publicans are making against the
Truman administration. For instance:
"Let . us bend ourselves to end [
i corruption in public office, at every
When you’re off for an outing,
remember that Coke adds life
and sparkle to the occasion.
Take enough along.
:ways dene. There the farmer fol- When the Pickers finished with
.. s the ancient way and looks into a S 0 ^ 86 " if looked like a scare-crow, level of government. In world opin-
o unresponsive skies for—show f° r sure. They—seemed to be ion and in world effectiveness, the
that do not come, while his ashamed of the way they looked' Lmted States Is no better, no more
epes lie ourmng there on the an< ^ hid ou f a l°i- Then that old efficient, no stronger than the moral
. arched fields. We' here, vvhre gander wouldn't bother us much, firmness of its public officials.”
: ,tre is some water, need to awak- But at other fi 1 ™? 8 w e httle kids: And he hit at Communists in gov-
Vn to what's economically .possible knew better than to go in the y arf l i ermnen t :
■'.gw. : withou a stick. And when we ,
w nut Mir land -mr fprtiii7P- wan-etd to play they shut him upi ° ugh we must ,8a y if in sad-
*Vt put our land, our fertilize!, _ • - , ness and shame, as.well as In anger,
c ur seed, our work, our work, and J they have succeeded in penetrating
< ur hopes in the soil. And we He caught us out a number of| our own ran]^ at times into
• now that the needed plenty can ti^ 5 - He would run after us, j our government.”
made to come forth. Yes, IF catc h on to our clothes or skin with Praising the Legion for helpin'*
i: GET THE WATER! Ah, theref his ^i 11 - and proceed to beat us un-;
the rub. ' mercifully with his great wings. A | Fo r a Dutchman just had to have
Throughout an ancient past, we scream ^'ould bring a parent run-M,j s ge{ i se In addition to the feath |
..ve been able to keep going in a nmg ' and we were s00n rescued ers,.they kept the grass out of that
gv, despite the dreadful toll that! ^ n d that thing went on for some
r, ughts took. But times have'y ears - But there was no relief un
handed now. Costs are so great til another gander could be found.
. .at we must do everything in our
rank cotton here near the house.
Next week I’ll tell you what we
did with those feathers.
wer to. insure the harvest. We'
v.vi the kndw-how for big yields.!
>: d ve can make ’ein, IF WE GET
THE WATER!
The Almight ha^ put-fairly abun
- —r—;—Ur-rrW—at our—diKposah—Not”
eundant, for sure, at many places, 1
Her tr. burning rays ot summe* -
...ve held sway for weeks. But the
“orrents that ran away were once
v fcundant. Stored in farm ponds
and reservoirs, those waters can be
made abundant when needed. And,
folks, thre’s our great problem for
the immediate future. Enough wat
er falls on our land in a year to
6Wi many where if it stayed there.
But most of it runs away. We are
not so dumb as not to know how to
keep a lot of it until we need it.
Hot, clear weather is growing
weather. It takes that sunlight,
fertility, and moisture to build
great crops. The Almighty gives
us the magic of the sunlight in
abundance here. Through soil
management and fertilization, wo
ore putting the, fertility there. But,
lo and benold, all too often the oth
er essential element of moisture is
Jacking. And when that is the case
the life-giving sunshine is divert-
ed from its purpose and burns the
crop. And the precious fertility
we have, through pain, put there
gose for naught. Use the ingenuity
the Almighty has given us, along
with our fairly abundant water,
and yours will usually be a splen
did harvest.
Clemson is digging in on this.
Le st year corn yield was upped 4
1-2 times by irrigation here at the
coliegn. And similar results are
apparent for this year. County
Agents in practically every county
I go tell me of the good results the
few farmers who have put in irri
gation there in their couneies are
getting.
So, folks, this whole great new
potential ,of irrigation begins to roll
on the oft dry lands of South Caro
lina!
Plant Greens Now
For both man and critter, now is
the time to plant winter greens.
Turnips, custard, rape, tender-
greens, kale and the like should be
planted __ in September. (I leave
.'pinaeh out because I don’t like it,
and modern nutritionists tell us it’s
not the full equal of turnip greens,
anyway. Hurrah for that!) And if
late hot, dry weather gets ’em plant
again. An irrigation at planting
time will bring them up. And you
can keep ’em growing if. you hav^
command of that water and can
annly it as needed.
Pro-Cooling
Pre-cooling of fruits and vege
tables before shipping is a coming
thing. I saw McLeod Brothers at
Seabrook down in Beaufort giving
fresh corn a 20-minute ice bath be
fore going into the car. At Gram-
ling in Spartanburg they tried out
the same thing for peaches, and our
Roy Ferree tells.me the trade liked
it, and there was not one com
plaint. ’’That way they can ship
riper peaches, which helps all along
the line.
Boys Arc That Way
We had an old gander that would
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