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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Laurens, S. C.
Phone 794
Dr. Fred E. Holcombe
OPTOMETRIST
Offices at
200 South Broad St.
Phone 658
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