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\ v Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 4, 1952 TRINITY RIDGE MAN FINDS IRRIGATION IS PROFITABLE Laurens, Dec. 1.—J. Scott George, of the Trinity Ridge community, finds irrigation pays as a good in vestment on his farm. Mr. George purchased a small irrigation outfit for $800 a few years ago. The outfit uses a seven and a half horsepower gas motor, pumps 50 gallons of water per minute from a half-acre pond he built for $275. The pond is fed from a large spring located at the head of the pond. Mr. George purchased 600 feet of aluminum pipe, of which 540 feet is three inches in diameter and 60 feet of it is two inches, all equipped with six sprinklers, which will cover ap proximately one-half acre of land at one setting. The motor uses one gallon of gas oline per hour. In other words, Mr George says, to cover an acre of land with one inch of water it will require approx imately nine and a half gallons of gasoline and approximately nine and one-half hours of operation. It re quires 28,000.gallons of water to put one inch of water on a acre of land. In the spring of 1952, Mr. George sold S500 of turnip greens on the lo cal market from one acre of land. His yield was attributed to the re- sultjLjQf applying- water when -need ed. He said, “I would not have made one-half the yield on truck if I had not used irrigation.” He added: “Furthermore, I planted an acre of late cantaloupes this spring and sold $396 worth of canta loupes, but would have made a com plete failure if I had not had irri gation. “Drought hurts a truck farmer more than insects or poor land, be cause you can apply a liberal amount of fertilizer and increase production if you have the water situation un der your control.” Mr. George also tried irrigation on cotton. He irrigated four acres out of five with good results. On November 13, Mr. George started his irrigation system, apply ing the second application to four acres of temporary grazing, seeded to 2 M bushels of barley and 25 pounds of reseeding crimson clover per acre, that was coming up to a good stand. Mr. George has 1,000 laying hens from which he sells eggs on the local market and will use the compost from the birds and other livestock on his farm o'h acreage where irrigation is to be applied in order to obtain the maximum production for the least possible man labor require ment. This is what Mr. George has done and is planning for the future. Discussing irrigation, the long Hry spell just ended was a wonderful op portunity to prove the value of irri gation not only here in Laurens 1952 County Soil Program Reaches All-Time High With the year’s end still weeks away, 1952 has already rung the bell as a banner year-ia soil conservation in Laurens county, J. B. O’Dell, work unit conservationist of the Soil Con servation service, reports. As of November 30, a total of 124 new cooperators, representing 20,619 acres, had joined the soil conserva tion district program during 1952, which brings the total to 1432 farm plans, covering 231,574 acres since the beginning of the district 12 years ago. By December 31, at the present rate, O’Dell estimated that 1344 farmers, representing 21,290 acres, this year will have started conserva- j tion farming in the district program I —an all-time high. In addition, the^ Soil Conservation service has assist-! ed 23 PMA participants in planning j and applying permanent-type soil ■ conservation practices on their! farms. One of the factors in the increased number of district cooperators has ‘ be^n the new system of progressive planning, set up in the Laurens County Soil Conservation district with the approval of' the board of supervisors, of which Ryan F. Law- son, of Clinton, is chairman. This new system enables a farmer to start the initial phase of a soil conservation district program imme diately with one or two practices and go on from there to the advanced stage, and fiinally the basic stage of farm planning in which a soil and water conservation program is de veloped for the entire farm Another factor which is expected to have an increasing effect in speed ing up conservation f ork on the land is the recent realignment of SCS per sonnel. The former district conser vationists have been replaced by a smaller number of area conserva tionists with supervision over a larg er territory, thus making it possible to have additional personnel for technical on-site assistance to farm ers on the land. county, but throughout the Piedmont j area There are f at least nine irriga tion outfits in Laurens county, of which three are small machines and the other six are what is spoken of as large outfits. Nationwide Plan For Safe Christmas Announced By Council ♦ The National Safety Council has, announced a nation-wide Christ-; mas saving plan to stop accidents. “If every American will join this | savings plan before the. Christmas holidays, a real yuletide bonus— human life—will be paid,” said Ned H. Dearborn, the council president. The campaign has been joined by more thah 160 national organiza tions and by city and state public officials and civic leaders. They will unite in creating an awareness of the special holiday hazards, and will en list voluntary cooperation from ev ery American to hold accidents to a minimum this Christmas. The year-end holiday season is the most dangerous period of the year, Mr. Dearborn said, and accidents an nually mar the celebration in thou sands of homes. Traffic accident deaths on both Christmas eve and Christmas day are about twice as high as the annual daily average. This year, with the holiday con sisting of four days for many per sons, the toll could be even higher than the 351 traffic deaths reported during the four - day Christmas weekend last year, Mr. Dearborn warned. “Travel is especially heavy over long holidays, which encourage tra ditional family get-togethers even when the members must drive con siderable distance. The festive spirit of the season, plus the normal win ter hazards of bad weather, slippery roads and longer periods of darkness create added danger.” For a safe and merry Christmas, the National Safety Council suggests these precautions: 1. Driving or walking, put the Christmas spirit of “good will to ward men” into practical use by being extra courteous to others. And take your time! 2. If streets are icy or slippery, keep your speed down and your caution up. 3. If you imbibe Christmas spirit in liquid form, stay away from the steering wheel of a car. 4. Avoid home hazards, too. 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