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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, February 12, 1953
FARMS
AND FOLKS
By J« M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
IViuiks | Agnew, president of the South Car-
It’s sort of personal like. But I got | olina Farm Bureau, tells me that
, 1 etter from a reader in Atlanta . cotton'for the past 14 years, that he
... .ng about Christmas that I think has figured it, averaged 35 P° r ^ nt | eai , lv Novem5er our foet were as {ree
hit from, higher in May than it was in Oc- ean > wo\emt>er our feet were as free
derly marketing. It will keep for
days or decades. No other great sta
ple crop will do that. So then why
not have a system of supports where
by the consumer will still get his
cotton at the current market price
along while the producer gets the
benefit of the rises that are inherenli
in the cotton market. Of course, it
has its low spots, too. But the trouble
has been that they usually frrHail
when the farmer has to shake loose
from his fleecy staple in the past.
Boys Are That Way
We didnt put on shoes until the
frosts of winter had bitten down
rather hard. From late March until
utes discretion caused me to slip
that eased foot back into that torture
chamber called a shoe. Then grad
ually I would untie the other and
repeat the process.
I *1 will tell you more about this
next week.
i i quote yoq a
It says in part, “l have taken the
Pi ess ant! Burner ever since I left
Aabcville forty-odd years ago. I get
great kick out of your articles
‘Boys Are That Way’. I have a friend
tlown the hall and every Friday
when I receive my Press and Bun-
ver I fake it down there to his office
nd we enjoy reading Bays Are That
Wav’ together. The past fall I vis-
a friend in Dallas. Texas, who
r. no from Winn Shore, South Caro-
- .1 asked him if he read your ar-
:. !es, and he said he did not. I told
n he was missing the best thing
tober.
That is in line with what I once
heard an old cotton planter say. He
said the market was usually down
when the farmer had it to sell. Bui
that it always went up in time to bait
him for a big acreage again about
planting time.
We have seen many periods of
cheap cotton in my time. And, as Naturally, our feet were growing,
implied above, it usually got that And wdien we pulled our jtfio*s off,
wav when the farmer had to sell it. they spread out in solid comfort.
For most of ’em had obligations to j Then when we corralled them for a
be met a: the harvest and could not; brief spell on Sundays for church,
hold it for the fetter price that us- J they cut up a lot.
as the birds of the air.
Spring saw them tender. But they
soon toughened from the flint rpeks
and briers of the Stone Hills of the
Dutch Fork Where we came up. They
spread out and grew naturally, un
hampered by shoes, except for two
hours on Sunday. And that two
hours was torture indeed.
85,303 In S. C.'
Get $2 Million In
Welfare Payments
Columbia, Feb. 9.—Public assist
ance payments totaling almost $2,-
000,000 were received toy 85,000
persons during December, a State
Public Welfare Department report
showed today.
The report said the $1,908,096
paid to 58,391 cases represented an
average payment of $32.69.
The largest group payment, $1,-
327,924, went to 48,015 persons for
old age assistance. The 42,222 cases
received an average payment of
$31.45. 1
Other December public assistance
payments included; aid to depend
ent children, $287,015; totally and
permanently disabled persons,
$173,596; aid to blind, $59,694; gen
eral assistance, $40,873; and assist
ance from local funds, $19,593.
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■his home paper. He read one then, I ually came in the spring.. And cheap j First, we could hardly get the
.1 tell* me/he hasn’t missed one | cotton was a vicious thing. The: s boes on. They w'ere what we had,
ce.’ cheaper it got, the more a fellow jtram winter. And they were get-j
Thanks a lot, friend. That made needed to meet his obligations. So, Naturally those spread feet with
ic ye. r sjart off go6d ; he planted more and more. And the tough calloused soles just didn’t fit ’
Sources Of Farm Monty* race was to the death for many, I * n those things then. But' they had to
In 1925 South Carolina farmers got economic death. ' 8° there, and we forced them on.
The teilow who was able to hold! We hobbled to church a few hun-
cotton usually came out all right.; dred yards down the road. By the
For it has always gone up in time. * ^ me we S°t there the irritations had
But- the tragedy of many holding, se * ^ n - Aud there would often be a
instances is a fellow’ would eventual-;
ly feel the pinch so that he was sold
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’percent of their dollars from
TTStion. The past year they got only
4*1.2 percent of them from cotton.
In 1925, 8.2 percent of our total
farm income was from tobacco. The
just year 21.3 per cent of the farm
<h>llars came from tobacco.
In 1925. livestock accounted for
T 1.4 percent of our farm income. The
; iSt year it accounted for 20.2 per-
f'nt of our income, according to our
I t. Rochester.
Thus w - see a bird’s eye picture ( market.
of a changing agriculture. Not that In late years the government loan
cotton is -»o much less. But the in- has been a godsend to
comes from other things are so much-Through it, they were able
out when it was near or at bottom.
That left him with an empty bag or
a debt carried over, while his self
same cotton often made others rich,
who could hold it a little longer un
til daylight showed again in the
more than they were back then. Di- needed moneyTri^the fall. Often that,
versification grows. The income is was as much and sometimes more;
i o. And there are fewer folks on than the stuff would bring them. But
•ce fai-ms/ to divide it with. That they retained title to it. And then in !
ikes better living for those who’the next year or so when cotton;
blister on the heel and that seam af
the bottom of the foot was kindling
a fire at that point.
First came Sunday school. It lasted
an hour, and I thought it would nev
er finish. While the good teacher
warned us about a fiery hereafter,
I w’as utterly consumed by the real
ity of a burning present. Really it
was like coals of 1 fire along that
many. seaiT i at the bottom of my foot. Oc-
to get! casionally it would get so bad, I’d
slip one shoe off at a time, and how
soothing the goodly air was for a
moment! When I did that I really!
feared my stocking would be smok-|
ing and attract attention. But I dared
find apply themselves there. went back up, as it always has, they ! no ^ anyone see my shoeless foot
me y*held demonstrations show got the pure gravy that their great j^ ere * n church! And, in a few min-
w things. Then the ounty agents product inherently carried. And that ' - =
;ange tours for folks to read the t was gravy that had not reached them ;
w lessons from the soil there. They before.
e gradually adopted. Agriculture Yes, that government loan has 1
Moves on to better times. And the' been a great thing. And to think, it |
,wWO&X-ia^liftter rlorthdiri ai»d 4>cltui' ho.w -the "government
fed from Mother Earth. either. In fact the government too
Agnew Says j has made a lot of rrfbney on that
My friend and classmate, Hugh cotton; Cotton is a natural for or-
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