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/ 9 i Thursday, October 9, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pafe TEnt FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Food and Folks The Irish potato is native to this country. In the early days it was taken to other lands. It thrived so in Ireland that it has been called the Irish potato ever since. With the new food staple. Ire land thrived for decades and its population grew. Then came the great “Potato Famine” there. Di seases struck. Their population of 8 million soon shrung to 4, 2 mil lion starving and 2 million migrat ing, mostly to this country. And even to this good day, their popu lation stoll hovers around that 4 million mark that the potato de bacle left many years ago. Food and populations, they go STOP RUSTY RED WATER MICROMET together. This applies to both folks and animals. We are now the fast est growing country on earth. Ap plied science largely accounts for the food that makes this posible. Experiment stations and private research find out new things. The county agents and cooperating farmers demonstrate them in the field. Soon they are a part of our agriculture, and we go on to great er and greater production. This has been called “vertical farming.” For a long time we got the need ed increase for national growth by expanding acres. The good acres are about taken now. So from here op it will be more and more from the same acres, “vertical firming.’’ -Science is constantly showing that we have nowhere nearly reached the top production that our lands are capable of, with good management. Better varieties, in creased knowledge and use of fer tilizers, soil building and conserv ing, new processing, irrigation, and so on are all fields that carry un told riches yet. In fact, they are just about inexhaustible. And, as our millions grow, folks will con tinue to look to these vast poten tials for their sustenance here. The noted Dr. Firman Bear of Rutgers, who spoke at Clemson’s recent FFar mand Home week, said Stomach Trouble! “I have a choking in my throat which seems to be caused by gas bubbling up from my stomach. Most everything I eat causes gas and a burning sensation. I am nervous, bothered with constipation and take some thing every day in an effort to get some relief. i . 1 , ■ “Can you help me get well, Doctor Hart?” This is what a 26-year old woman recently said in an interview in our office. After the examination, we advised the patient that the cause of her stomach trouble had been located and could be removed. Excellent results followed shortly after correction was made. One bjr one, the symptoms disappeared and she declares that she is now able to eat without stom ach distress, constipation has cleared up and the ner vousness has improved. If you have a. stubborn case of stomach trouble or other illness and wish to get well, consult— DR. CHARLES J. HART 254 WEST MAIN ST. — LAURENS. S. 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And science can be counted upon to uncover more, as time goes on. So folks, it doesn’t look like we face starvation in this good land for a long time yet. That is, if we do well by our soils. ... Better Living Our home demonstration agents continue to spearhead much rural improvements. This holds true of both white and colored agents. Here are a few items from the lat ter: As a result of her good poultry project* Mary Sanders of the Unity 4-H club in York county put her 68 fryers in cold storage for her family to use. She also froze 36 quarts of berries and 20 quarts of vegetables. In July the folks in Florence were busy with the tobacco har vest. So the agent arranged night meetings for her 4-H club .and j women’s groups. Despite the fact! that they had worked all day with j tobacco, the attendance at these I meetings was 245. Demonstrations! in the canning of fruits and vege-j tables were given. In Williamsburg the Negro agent reports that club members of the Hewitt Branch school, donated and! renovated garments and shoes for! 15 underpriviliged children who! had nothing to wear tq^ church. The some demonstration club! members in Andqrson county were given stain removal demonstra tions at their July meetings. Three different kinds of stain removal demonstrated and discussed by the Negro home agent, and she says the members contributed practical ideas they themselves had developed along this line. 4 • * * Farming Here Various organizations and indi viduals over South Carolina are getting rather frequent inquiries about farming conditions here. Folks in other regions are hearing of our long growing season and opportunities with grass and live stock; Such inquiries are usually rath er hard to answer in the brief span of a letter. Clemson’s extension economist, Dr. H. C. Rochester, has recently gotten out Extension Cir cular 376 entitled, “Opportunities for Farming in South Carolina.” It just about answers many letters like chambers of commerce, boards of trade, county agents, and others get rather frequently now. It is a 22-page pamphlet with maps and graphs and easy reading type. bur cdunty tfgfent 'has a supply" cm hand. It, along with one of Wood ies’ grassland bulletins, will give the stranger a pretty good intro duction to South Carolina. ... Boys Are Thai Way A cousin down the road from us had a big mule with the tougest mouth I ever saw. She did just about as she pleased, for there was no guiding her with reins. She was well trained to plow and would follow the furrow without direc tion from the reins. For road work like hauling wood or cotton to market, the other mule did the responding and she follow ed. In the spring after school closed a group of us kids had to take sing ing lessons from Cousin Jake, who lived about 4 miles down and off 1 the Kinley road. One day the roads were so bad they felt the little mule couldn’t pull that two-seated surry with about 8 of us kids in it down through the quagmire. So they hitched old tough-mouth up to the surry, headed her in the right direction, and we said “giddap.” When there was a fork in the road my brother and I would final ly get her headed right by giving that rein all we had, with one foot braced against the top of the dash board, and to stop her down at Cousin Jake’s, we similarly head ed her into a fence and tied her. Then we wondered how we would get her to back away when we wanted to leave. Fearing that this wouldn’t work, we unhitched her, pulled the buggy around ourselves, headed it home, hitched her back up, and off we went at about 3 miles an hour. The buggy whip made ho impression on her at all, just knocking a little dust out of her hips, ash she poked on. Just before we got to her home, we tried to stop to let some kids out. But that was futile. She went right on down to my cousin’s and stopped there at his lot gate. We never drove that mule any more. Parents saw the danger. She could have struck a tree going through that woods road a*d brok en the carriage up. For she didn’t know her strength, and she took very little guiding from us. HOUSEHOLD HELPS Poached eggs wiii not spread if you stir the water vigorously in one direction, to create a whirl pool before you drop in the eggs. To insure cream puff shells which are high, drop them into muffin tins instead of cookie sheets. An avocado dressing will give a new taste treat to a mixed green salad. Simply combine 3-4 cup sieved avocado with 1 tablespoon vinegar, 2 tablespoons cream, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon prepared mustard and 1-2 teaspoon dill seed. Use the pastry blender for mash ing eggs for egg salad or sand wich mixtures. It works easily to make the eggs coarse or fine, as you like. Animal crackers and candy canes are a nice decoration for a youngster’s birthday cake. The canes may have ribbon bows on them and are placed in the center, with the ribbons coming out to at tach to the animal crackers which ar^-p^iced around the edge of the cake. When making custard in individ ual cups, drop a teaspoon of brown sugar into the bottom of a Cup be fore pouring in the egg-milk mix ture. >—-——j-- IF YOU DON’T MAD YOU DONT GBT IBB MBBS Goodyear Tiret and Tubes \ BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES McMillan Service Station Sinefeir Proteta WHO ts your choice? or Adlai We Like Ike: And, we also like to give our reasons in plain and simple language, bocked up by cold facts. Every day our editors hove some thing to soy on the big issues . . . FEPC . . . civil rights . . . Korea . . . taxes ... all the problems that each of us face today. 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