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> * » t. Thursday, December 11, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Paj?e Five FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZKR Clemson Extension Information Specialist Siru Of Procrea* County ^gent Miller of York tells me that they held their first feeder calf sale back in October. The 438 head brought $29,789.38. With pas tures and cattle coming along up here, this will likely be an annual affair. / Fairfield county held its 15th an nual beef cattle sale in September. The 570 head of fat cattle and feed- brought the farmers and 4-H the others right there in your coun ty. It begins to look like when we need something better in the way of a crop variety here, Coker is not long in coming up with it. 37 County 4-H Club Members Honored At Meet I V. ’ 0- 1 Laurens, Dec. 6. — About 35 awards were presented to 4-H club members of Laurena county today at an Achievement Day program held at the Agriculture building. About 200 members were present. Those given awards were win ners in county 4-H projects covering a wide variety of sub jects. The program was opened by Herschel Gibbs, president of the see average farm prices slightly down and farm expenses slightly up. So it looks like we will be in a club members $77,000. There was a sort of squeeze, with costs up and demand for another feeder calf salel income down. That calls for c ose there. So County Agent-Lynn tells planning and hard hitting, sajs r. The Farm Squeeie After studying 311 ,‘ h '|Suntr''l-H"cour^irHighliiits'of looks to our economists like 1,53 w l Eluded a Christmas ers Carol Festival, talent £w>w and award presentations. Miss Myrtice Taylor, assistant Mattie Lee Wylie, State Training School, and Rebecca Finley, Mountville; dairy foods demonstra tion, Frances Cleveland and Ge neva Horne, both of the State Training School; food preparation, Frances Cleveland, State Training School; home improvement, Jane Watts, Mountville; ^nd Elaine ^el- son, Long Branch. * Also gardening, Beth Bailey, fcMountville; poultry, Jackie Living ston, Cross HUl; and Shirlene Stewart, Mountville; dress revue, Anita Silvers and Doris Mathis, both of the State Training School. The awards were made by Miss Hazel Dean, chunty home demon stration agent, and J. S. Boober, as sistant county agent. Mrs. Leroy Burns, county music director, led the group in the Christmas Carol Festival. The tal- , r ~ i Increased yields oi pracucany ev- — . s have been heavy again this I erythin g is all that * s k ept U s in the the honor from fivt counties, in- I gather from the county ag- s now . £„d there is! eluding Sumter, Chesterfield, Dar- Ive visited. ii ng ton and Abbeville The latter me it was held in October, with the 564 head bringing $42,300. Grass and cattle are adding up to new money for the farms in all parts of the state. And fall seedlings of both temporary and permanent pas tures time ents ^Crops Plus Livestock,” is fast be coming a reality here Where crops once ruled alone. And that makes a softer cushion for any farm, . Coker 811 We all know What Coker 100 means. It is the best cotton for our area, leading all others so consist- ■ ently that we have just about be come a one variety state. Not by law nor decree. But by choice. County agent Cannon of Lancas ter reported, “Checked our 7-variety corn demonstrations. Coker 811 led all others for the second year.” Others have told me the same thing. It not only stood drought bet ter and made more corn, but it stood up better when the storm struck. And, folks, all of those are mighty important things. Our man Woodle tells me that Coker has another hybrid corn they are releasing the coming year, Coker 911. But they have only a very lim ited supply of it. It will be included in the variety tests that the county agents put on in 1953. So you Will likely be able to see it growing by Rochester Cutting corners, where possible, | on expenses, and doing all we can to standing work by the county coun- home demonstration agent, pre- ent show was put on by members sented a gavel to Herscheb Gibbs, | of the State Trailing School, coun ty-wide, Hickory Tavern. Trinity Ridge and Gray Court-Owings clubs. who accepted it on behalf of the county club as first award for out increase yields, is our best way ou;. And we can do a lot there, specially on the latter item. Increased yields of practically ev- cil. The gaVel was given by Miss Juanfta Neely, state home demno- stration agent. Laurens county was selected for Goodyear Tires , an d Tubes BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES McMillan Service Station Sinclair Products Phtat Nth S , DISCOMFORTS ' r kuyi FROM US... TO OURSilViSI Isn’t it about time you gave youraelvet a real Christmas gift...a gift that proudly annouBcee. “It's from Ue to Ourselves”? The perfect answer is the perfect piano, the KImbalL See Hand you't /ore 8. Hear If, and youT want if. Price if and you'll buy Jf. Terms: 10% Down - 24 Months te Pay | CREWS MUSIC CO. LAURENS, S. C. still room in that direction. Better varieties and better methods are constantly coming from experiment and experfence. We adopt them and our harvests constantly improve. There is one great yield potential that we are just beginning to take told of. And that is irrigation 1 . It is already writing a new yield story on many a farm here. As experience grows with it, and we get our meth ods and varieties attuned to it, we will have a measure of crop insur ance that we have not known be fore. Fire Conscious Back in the early fall I was rid ing with a business man of Fresno to Yosemite Park in California. Soon we were out of the heavily farmed j San Joaquin Valley and climbing ini-: to the dry hills approaching the' mountains. They were covered by j golden grass. Limited winter rains i and snow cause it to come forth in j the spring. For a while it is beauti- [ ful and green. Then the searing! months of a rainless summer parch it dead. It is very nutritious, because there is no rain to leach it. And it supports a big cattle industry. Everything there would burn with a flash. But I saw no evidence of woods nor range fires. I learned why. Everyone but there is fire conscious. They have to be, or there wouldn’t be~anything left. As. we started out, our host showed us the ash recept-i acles in the car and asked that we 1 put match stems and stumps in them and not inadvertently throw any out of the window. We need more of that here. We are getting it some. And we see the re sults. But we stili have a long way to go before the average man here would caution visitors as this friend did out there. Boys Are That Way As a kid, I never cared much for dogs. Cats were more to my liking. But my brother always had to have his dogs, bird dogs. I well recall the fate of my first cat. She was about as old* as I was, and that was getting along in age for a cat. And along during her years she had literally littered that community with cats. She had got ten old and crippled up from some- | thing like rheumatism, and was an unsightly thing lying around the place. Since we had plenty cats besides her, my folks approached me for get ting rid qf her. And it seemed ithe older she got the faster she brought ' kittens, and larger litters. They pic- j tured how she must be suffering from her crippled condition and also some sort of mange was defoliating her. So I reluctantly agreed to let my brother shoot her. He had gotten a new muzzyle-loading gun, and a beautiful thing that belonged to Un cle Dr. Bouknight in Columbia. And he wanted to try it out. He put a big load of powder in, rammed it good with wadding, and then put some BB shot in and ram med that good with paper wadding. He thought he was really loaded for bears. He took the old cat out behind the woodpile there in the orchard and turned her loose there in the weeds. He stepped back about forty feet, put a cap on the fuse, aimed, and cracked down, ka-bing-yow! For a moment we could see noth ing for the smoke. But as it cleared, we saw that cat cutting double som ersaults forwards and backwards. He thought he hadn’t finished her off; so he rushed in with gun in hand to see. He couldn’t find a stick of any sort handy. So to get her out of her misery quick, he hit her back of the head with the gun stock. In the ex citement, he hit too hard against the ground, and the finely carved stock broke off there at the small part! Well, that was tragedy for sure! But the great old artisan, the village blacksmith at the foot of the hill there in the valley, inlaid some braces of brass and fixed it'so you could hardly tell it. And that’s the story of my cat. Next week I’ll tell you about his dogs. four counties were pesented ban ners. Individual awards went to the following boys and girls in, the Clinton area: Dairy achievement, Milton and Charles Nalley, Thornwell; .poul try, Bruce Kuykendall, Long Branch; tractor and maintenance, Milton Burns, Mountville; bread deononstraition, May Bell Spencer, State Training School; canning, Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Laurens, S. C. Phone 794 Dr. Fred E. 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