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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, January 15, 1953
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FARMS.....
AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
Tragedy Walks
Truly, tragedy vralks with every'
drought! •
We see it practically every year.
We saw it last year.
If what drought took from every]
county were put in a pile, you’d
have a mountain in every one. A;
mountain of valuable produce that
you did everything to make, yes,
everything except put some water
there when it was needed.
Some did supply that needed
water. For two farmers in Green
wood it increased their com yield
12 times. For William Hannah of
Abbeville irrigation gave him 130-
odd bushels per acre against prac
tically nothing where the water
did not reach. At Clemson last
year irrigated com made 61 bush
els per acre compared with. 27
without. The year before the ir
rigated made 72 bushels per acre
compared with 16 bushels where it
was not irrigated.
Our irrigation man. Lynn, took!
on a tobacco irrigation demonstra
tion in 1952 with the oprtable out- ;
fit that the Camp Irrigation Fund
furnished the Extension Service
for demonstration purposes. This
was on the farm of W. D. Workman 1
at Timmonsville. Lynn tried to do;
that as nearly as right as possible, j
giving it water as needed. Four,
acres were irrigated and the re-]
maining 3 1-2 were not. The ir-!
ngated part made 1,225.5 pounds;
per acre and the rest made 726.8
pounds per acre. The irrigated to
bacco averaged 54.2c per pound,
while the other .averaged 40.5c. The
irrigated tobacco brough $664.22
per acre, while the other brought
$304.35. Thus, it can be seen the
irrigated tobacco in this case net
ted over twice the dollars per acre
that the drought-stricken tobacco
did. And so it goes.
Yes, tragedy walks with every
drought. And remember, we av
erage a bit over 6 droughts a year.
They do not always ruin a crop.
But they take a mighty toll. Look
at that tobacco of Mr. Workman’s.
• Drought there- -eh&n-'t take ■ 'h»
whole crop from him. But it took
over half of it. Drought did not]
take all of the com at Clemson;
last year. But it took well over;
half of it. It did take just about
all of William Hannah’s com in]
Abbeville oh the part wftere he di<T
not irrigate.
durable fence. Ask for them at
your county agent’s office.
Now is the time to build fences,
while the hedge-row is dead,
snakes are not out, and you have
some time.
* * *
Dod You Know—
That the word “corn” means the
seed of the principal cereal of grass
of a country used as a food. Here
the word is therefore applied to
Indian Maze. In England they ap
ply it to wheat* In Scotland and
Ireland to oats, In Russia it is ap
plied to barley, and so on.
So “com” is not always corn, as
we know it. For when the Eng
lishman says it he is talking about
wheat. When the Irishman or
Scotchman says "corn” he is talk
ing about oats, the Russian, barley,
and we are talking about Maize
when we say com.
So “corn” is a sort of universal
word, with different meanings.
i With us maize (corn) is truly the
staff of life. We make about 3
billion bushels of it annually. That’s
20 busjiels for every one of our
people. Of wheat we produce about
one-third of that. Corn, already
serving many of our needs, is serv
ing them better now than ever,
since hybrids came, and science is
being applied better to its produc
tion.
* * *
Boys Are That Way
Our neighbor across the road had
the only apricot tree I ever saw
around home in the stone hills of
the Dutcl) Fork. It was a large tree
and bore- heavily. They were very
generous with them, and when
they were ripe, we all had apri
cots to eat.
Eating the delightful fruit was
not at all there was to them. We
saved every seed, valuing them
about as much as the meat of the
thing itself. We would dry them
good in the sun, and then the al
mond-like meat out of these seed
wa s^good _ eating. - We- never let -a-
seed waste. A good many of the
on me tree
by June bugs or started rotting
before picked and dropped off. We
gathered up every one of these
and tried to keep the hogs from
beating us to them.
—These seed -were.. kept- for. .winter.
Tall Tales From Texas I
You can’t beat those Texans for;
tall tales. My friend Thurmand,;
their extension irrgiation man out (
there, told the cotton mechaniza-i
t:on conference in California the'
other week that they were in a 5-!
year drought. He said in fact it
was so dry that what little rain]
they did get had only about 20 per
cent mosure in i.
* * *
Fencing Now
It doesn’t pay to build a sorry
fence. Labor is one of the main it
ems. And it is bad business to
have to be repeating that every
few' years. To say nothing of mess
ing your wire up and not having a
satisfactory fence in the meantime.
Back in our old crop days w’e didn’t
have much need for fences. But
now we do.
Clemson’s McKenzie has worked
up the simple specifications and
plans for the construction of good
use, as pecans now. And the few
chinqepins that grew in that re
gion were all carefully harvested.
None of them were within our
range. So we swapped apricot
seed for them at school with kids
that came from across the creek
where some chinquepins grew.
One family in there had what
they called a Christmas apple. The
tree w'as in the garden there by
the gate. And it bore abundalntly.
They covered them under straw
on the dirt floor of the cellar and
they kept away out through the
wdnter. Those kids brought them
in the bucket with thier dinner to
school. And they would spread
their fragrant odor , all. over the
school room, making our hungry
mouths water. Then when we were
turned out at noon for dinner, we
did some astute trading -with these
kids, apricot seed and chinquepins
for apples. Each wanted what he
didn't have. And by the exchang
es made, all were delighted.
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