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/ * * . •• 1.: ( • Thursday, February 5, 1953 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pa?e Seven w .,3: '-Mf.-i-y.. . . JXXPi* ■*< FARMS..... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER . Clemson Extension Information Specialist Polio patient, Rheba Turnage, 6, of Spartanburg, has a firm hold on the doll that has accompanied her on the road back to health. Like thou sands of youngsters and adults. Rheba is still depending on the March of Dimes help to further her recovery from polio. Your contribution makes this aid possible. Give generously to the 1953 March of Dimes. UN REPORTS THE WHOLE WORLD JUST KEEPS ON AGGLOMERATING United Nations, N. Y., Jan. 24.— The United Nations reported to<tey ■the whole world just keeps on ag glomerating all the time, New York ■ most of all, and Tokyo coming up I tast. Cities and their suburbs make up agglomerations to U. N. statistic-j ums. They brought out in the 1952 edi-j Tion of the U. N. Population (demo graphic) Yearbook that people keep moving from farms to cities, the cities keep getting bigger, and, they gfet filled with more women than melt. “3 ^ The bigger the city, the more women there are as-compared to men, the yearbook says. It adds that this isn’t necessarily_ so for —Russ ia - and- -other- -Easter countries, but admits it doesn’t have very recent data from them. In almost every country on v/hich the percentage of urbaji population was reported, most of the population lives in cities of 50,- fiflO or more. The yearbook considers this a natural follow-up of industrial de- veloprrient since 1900 and said even Russia was moving that way in 3 939. Without making any fuss over the point, the yearbook clases New York as the largest city in he world and London second, although To kyo might dispute London’s place in one category. Based on a U. S. census in 1950 " and a British census in 1951, here are the figures it gives: New York City proper, 7,891,957. London, city proper, provisional figure, 3,348,336. This includes the administrative county of London which is the city of London and the 28 metropolitan boroughs. Nejv York, urban agglomeration, 12,296,117. London, urban agglomeration, provisional figure, 8,346,137. This includes the administrative County of London plus the “outer ring” in- MIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE eluding Middlesex and parts of Surrey, Kent, Hertfordshire, and Essex. Moscow’s city proper is figured at 4,137,018 and Leningrad 3,191,304; the only Russian cities in 1939 fig-' ured at more than one million in habitants. Japan has four cities with more than a million population. Tokyo leading with 5,385,071 for its city, proper. That would make Tokyo) second only to New York arfd, ahead of London and Moscow for; city proper populations. No figure was given for the Tokyo urban ag glomeration nor for Moscow’s. Women outnumber men in the urban areas of West Europe, America, Australia and New Zea- rural..areas,, but, in the countries-of Africa, Asia and some in ^Eastern Europe, the dif ference is in the opposite direction. Birth rates are lower in industri al than in agricultural countries and lower in urban areas of coun tries than in their rural areas. But the demographers confessed' they were unable to figure on the data they had whether the death rate is higher in urban or rural areas. They did conclude that the evi dence is clear that urban-rural dif ferences in mortality are of only minor importance in modem in dustrial society. Thursday February 5 THEY GOT ME COVERED Bob Hope, Dorothy Laraour TWO CARTOONS Friday-Saturday Feb. 6-7 DRUMS OF THE DEEP SOUTH (Super dnecolor) James Craig, Barbara Payton, Guy Madison COMEDY — CARTOON Snnday-Monday Feb. 8-9 SOMEBODY LOVES ME (Technicolor) Betty Hutton, Ralph Meeker CARTOON Tues.-Wed. Feb. 10-11 CARIBBEAN v (Technicolor) John Payne, Arlene Dahl CARTOON AND •HOME Picture glass is easily cleaned with a cloth wrung out of hot wat er and then dipped in alcohol. Pol ish the glass immediately with a chamois until dry and glossy. Corks in glue bottles won’t stick if you coat the cork in melted par affin and let dry evenly before in serting into the bottle. If your shoes have a .-tendency to-get wet soles easily, try coating them with several coats of shellac. This will wateproof them fairly well. It’s also a good trick to try on children who won’t wear rub bers. Clocks can be oiled easily and safely by taking a piece of cotton and soaking it 'in kerosene. Place the cotton inside the dock case. Tazle pads will not leave lint on' a well polished table if one side of the pad, that with the felt on it, is covered with a piece of muslin. Exposed water pipes will not freeze if they’re coated with a mix ture of equalpart&pf^melted par affin and eiycerine/^) Ink spdts on the fingers from a leaky pen? Remove th«n easily by rubbing with a mixture of vinegar and salt If casters drop out of the legs of furniture, fill the holes with melted paraffin wax and insert the casters again. This fills the hole and holds the caster. Glass on windows, electric bulbs and headlights is easily frosted by dissolving three tablespoons of Ep som salts ip a glass of water. Add one teaspoon liquid glue, stir thor oughly and apply with a brush. Wear decorative flowers with your clothes? Dye them to match or con trast properly with your color scheme. You can immerse white flowers in liquid flower dye, shake off the excess and rinse in clear water. Sequined dresses, blouses, scarfs, etc., can be pressed easily thus: turn all sequins in the same direction, place garment side down on board, pad with a soft cloth, cover with a tissue paper and press with a warm iron. Pickens Pickings Up in “Hed Hills and Cotton”, old Pickens county is taking on a differ ent hue. Like the rest of the state, it too was once all cotton. But it too is changing, with cotton still king of crops. County agent Wood tells me that they now have two milk routes. Af ter the first one had run a year and the other one three months, they had netted the 112 shippers $39,500. And most of that, he pointed out, is new money. The patrons just started feeding the few cows they had bet ter and selling the surplus that was not needed at home. They grew 120 acres of pimiento peppers las tsummer. They averaged 3,093 pounds per acre, despite the severe drought. Farmers had one to six acres of ’em. They got four cents a pound, for an average of $123.72 per acre. High man was R. E. Hinton who received $373.30 from his acre. They like both their milk ruotes "and these peppers, according to Wood. He looks for both to grow in importance there. Peppers are sold to a firm at Griffin, Georgia, that 'comes for them on delivery days. And the milk is collected by trucks for the Borden plant at Chester through its receiving station at An derson. - Acreages And Crops Irrigated Irrigation is coming gradually here. And that’s the way it should come. For we knew too little about it. But we are now getting to the point where it is commencing to roll. Experiment and experience are bringing some of the answers to questions about it. And results are talking so loud that folks cant help but hear. According to figures compiled from the annual reports of the county agents, acreages of crops ir rigated for five recent years are as follows: 1947 .' 2,377 1948 3,340 1949 4,009 1950 4,458 1951 7,058 At this writing, the 1952 figures are being collected from the agents’ reports. It WillJikely.-sliaw--tli£ gest growth yet. In 1951 pastures led in Irrigated acres in South Carolina with 3,286 acres. Peaches were next with 1,838 acres irrigated. Truck came next with 1,120, and tobacco had 253 acres irrigated. That year there were 393 portable irrigation systems in use in the state. Soon we will have the 1952 fig ures, and I’ll give them to you. Irrigation And Corn Irrigation looks good on any crop I’ve seen it tried pn. But on com it has given phenomenal r.:..esults the past two dry summers. I’ve told you a lot about that at times County Agent Bull of Abbeville tells me that William Hannah made 134 bushels where irrigated and the rest wdsn’t worth gathering. Messers. Law and Lund in their experiments at Clemson made 91 bushels with four irrigations, 61 bushels with two waterings, and 27 bushels where no water was added in their corn irrigation experiment the past season. And the year before the differences were even wider than that. Two farmers in Greenwood — W. N. Henderson and J. J. Griffin— made over 12 times more corn where irrigated the past season. This was on a considerable acreage in each case. The Clemson experiment, which is *not finished yet, indicated that corn can stand a lot of drough before it bunches for tassel. But drought then and for some time after that really cuts down on the yield. It is points like that hat we^ need a lot of infor mation on. For, after all, what we are seeking is the smallest number of irrigations that will do the most good. And I’m thinking we need to take extended weather forcasts into account too in irrigating. That way we can help avoid getting too much water to crops, and save on irriga tion costs, too. Shipping Point Inspection Clemson’s Extension marketing service handles the shipping point inspection of fruits and vegetables in South Carolina. The past season these fellows inspected the equiva lent of 4,308 carlotfds of peaches alone. That helps sell the stuff. For then the buyer anywhere in the country can know what he is getting and can buy F.O.B. Boys Are That Way I always liked the winter woods. There is an eerie softness there. And the biting frosts lay low the spooky are going. * places and you can see where you, It is then that we used to explore the snaky spots and the swamp areas that were frightening in their jungle barb of summer. We usually had a good snow or two back then. We looked forward longingly for them. If it was during daylight hours, we got out in it. My favorite place was the deep woods. There to look up into the dark and infinite mists out of which beautiful falling snow crystals came was fairy land indeed. And, as the flakes came faster and faster, a growing stillness enveloped the whole out of doors. When it got heavy upon the ground, I hated to mar it by walking on the gleaming carpet. As soon as the snowfall had fin ished, we were ready for the hunt, for right after that, a track meant a rabbit. For he hadn’t had time to go far. ' We would spend anxious moments getting ready. We didn’t have any- standard remedy was to wrap our thing like boots or leggins. So our feet and legs in strips of burlap, much as the wrappbd leggins of cure: against the snow, and out we wo jkl go. But the frayed strings of burlap immediately started catching snow and it would become impacted there. Soon a small ball of it was dangling from each frayed part, as it froze into solid ice there. So every now and then we would have to sit down and cut those things loose, for ; some of ’em would form underfoot and make walking hard . Before ; long the wrapping would start com- iug loose, and we’d just let ; t go, for there was no satisfaction fixing the cold, wet, icy stuff. Then we were down to our bare brogans. They were shoes of rough unglazed leather and; leaked rather much. But that mat-! j tered little, as long as the hunt was 1 I good. Finally we finished and went home with a batch of rabbits, and the parental scolding was ready for not. having come home *sooner, with our wet feet. But we never had the sensation of their being cold, for in- , terest in the hunt, the snow, and the | great out o fdoors was too great for | us to think about that. World War I. Then we felt a bit se-j Colds, sore throats, and often the Mid-Winter Dance Teen Age Canteen A mid-winter dance will be held for the Teen Age canteen on Friday evening, February 20, from eight to l *. t fen o'clock at the LegionTbuilding. Luke Chaney, and his orchestra will play for the occasion. Chaperones stated, that canteen ‘r- 4 tickets must be presented at the door. Those not having season tick ets may obtain them from Miss Nancy Griffin at school or at the door the night of the dance. Sponsors have emphasized and are asking the cooperation of parents in seeing that the young people have transportation promptly at 10 o’clock when the dance ends. croop was our penalty. But that im pressed us little. When the first fleecy stuff started falling from the heavens again, we were as eager and anxious as ever, and the process was repeated. LEFT ON HIS DOORSTEP You Want YOUR Customers To Keep Coming to YOUR Store You Better Keep YOUR Store Coming to YOUR Customers ★ ★ ★ Th e Ch ron * MR. MERCHANT What your customers read and see makes the most lasting impression.