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( I V. Page Fout THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, September 18, 1952 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist . , Irrigation In The Southeast | vineyards, groves, and winery I often tell you here of tfye where Tinner Bros, are bringing' benefits I see ' from irrigation i^^ridies from soils once thought I I go about over South Caroliniif. all but worthless. S i far. I have yet to find a farm- And in every county I go the! or who has tried it that didn't tennis agents show me their grassland! d paid. And practically' every demonstrations, where a new lus- weck I tell you of results I’ve seen, ter comes from cotton’s lost acres Other states in the Southeast are through grass and cattle, beginning to awaken to this great Green pastures, yes! They sure- untapped resource too. iy ]j e a )i about us on these lands —Overgia Experiment Station ^t cotton for so long, gof paying results from irrigation q Ui . Experiment stations point to on both early and late sweet P () ^ a ' anc t better varieties that the agents toes for the past thieo >ears. But new cr0 p s anc i now ways. Our the difference was much greater p] an j breeders come up with new 1 on the late crop, from which the ]n fh e field. And our best commercial^ potatoes come. nios ^ progressive farmers seize all On tie early Mother Patch pot a- 0 f ^his, apply it, add their great the average increased fieid for C( -, n -. m0I -, g^nse to the whole thing, tws pniod v as 44 1 bushels per coirit: i; p w it:i things we never acre .Oil for the sane tnree vein-- before thought practical t. e ;<•.ei.i.-a tncrea,-e on the late ? ible here crop w.:- 131.7 bushels from irriga- ! * ttoh'...' • 1%ar^omp^es\ : vrith^Tlgur?s^~ , ''^T^ mw ' ' ! —. XottC44-ha-; .goiae 01 at in< \ ra: urg county by Rut- "Ti rfT i :h tha, b .Cor.*: r of Eutawvill'e. .iiid W nnoa Watts Of the Virgin ia Truck■ Experiment Stations- says, ■ F r - vc ra years We have been advocatinu- more But it looks like it will our acres. Iwdd its own: as far as we can see.j on the better lands and larger ( fields suited to mechanization. 4 ' No plant on earth has so manv irrgiation for Vir- uses as cotton.. lint and seed, it; . >■ tai o crops. We fully fills a multitude of our needs. And •mat we do rot heed irri-Tlhe great plywoods plant at Hamp- ' on t very vear on every crop ton that Westinghoiise recently L :u\v. There are, however,' took over is making a most useful .ft w wars in which additional new product, from cotton cloth.; m u vi not pay on at least j Micarta it is called. It is a sort ot f the crops we grow. 1> And hff bayd substance that has f | pointed out the past season where : wt ■. - of equal merit who irri gated harve-ted between 200 and : no bags of potatoes per acre while their neighbors without irrigation came up with about 60 bags. And a mvri.Vt of houst hold and iltdUS*i trial uses. New’ uses for cotton! Research j is finding them all along. Boys Are That Way It was a hard year in the Stone ; Hills. I think ft was 1911. The] summer sun bore down, the show*- j ers did not come, and weeds gre\v| in the parched channel of our; creek. There w-as moisture to bring j crops up. and that was about aU,i. JLittle hoeing had to be done. We) kids liked that. Impending crop*; That | then he points to the money this ran into, with Irish potatoes selling as they did. And so the story goes. We have never tried it on cotton. But this year at Clemson's Pontiac Station, where a pipe that crossed a cotton field leaked just a little bit. they had a •-p >t of good cotton in a field that otherwise burned . up. "IwhiI The«r plots of cotton that were irri-j diaster meant little to us. gated held up we'll. Lastutfar irn- \vas somethin;: for^narcmL: hj-.lhmilu gated corn at Clemson made al-1 about. And I ndw know they wor- most five times as much as the ried aplenty other right by it. , That year the drought lasted on So we don't know how far this i through, and the harvest was so thing will' go. I'm beginning to j meager that you could hardly see believe that any crop we grow will i it in the barn. The usually abun- .pistify irrigation where drought; dant gardens and truck patches, strikes. We put a lot of money in that largely-sustained us. were sor- it to get ; t up to that point. Why ry spectacles not spend a little more and insure j More than the harvest? that yielded litt! usual patching of clothes was done that winter, and the thrifty • Dutchman's housewife applied her skill in the kitchen to ! the utmost. We *pliUe<r through at! right. Green Pastures ("id*: r m the sandhills! - - - WVd ever expected it there? Yet Walter Raw! had it at his Parents perhaps grew 'gray hairs] •read.-icie stand ..near Lexngtpn a little faster. But it didn t both-: and h..vi -mid 69 gallons of it the nr us younguns much.! We missed; clay before. our old swimming hole that dried Walter is a man who bears down up to dust. .And our wild harvest] on sandhill and rolling clay lands from the woods was meager too. j and makes new things come forth. The hickory nuts were small and) Cot toms lost acres in this state hardr. and even the black, wa'.-' have a let of hidden capabilities of npts down on the creek were sor- thaf sort. A cotton culture died on ry. The bullice and wild grapes much of it. And now pioneering shriveled and dried early, and the farmers here and there bring a honey locusts were shrunken ana new glorv from it with the new dry- Black haws were all seea^ knowledge they apply. land the sparkleberries on the ridge In the deep, heavy sandhills of tasted like sand. Chesterfield I rode of late with In all of that year’s disappoint- County Agent Willis through vast ments, we got consolation from the j saying of an old man across the creek He said, ‘The weather al ways pays its debts.” And I guess it did, for the next year brought IF YOU DON’T READ YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS THE CHRONICLE BARBECUE PORK & HASH FOR SALE SATURDAY SKIT. 20 — 10 A. M. J. Lee Willard bounteous rains. We had wet spells aplenty, when we could not get in the fields. Then we reveled in our swollen creek. At flood stage we , would ride its wild, rampaging waters. 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