The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 05, 1953, Image 11
Thursday, March 5, 1953
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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FARMS
AND FOLKS
By ). M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
^ Specialist
Lespedaza Now
Did you get your annual lespe-
deza sown in February?
Hugh Woodle says itfs still time
to seed it on your grain in early
March, 40 pounds per acre.
Anderson county is a large pro
ducer of lespedeza seed. County Ag
ent Hopkins tells me the crop was
short, due to drought, last year.
And that made prices higher.
On real dry springs and early
summers, like we have had for the
past two years, we often lose our
stands of lespedeza. Then and there
is where a little irrigation will work
wonders. Summer before last irri
gated lespedeza made a bumper
hay crop and then came back and
made a fine seed crop in the mid
state. The balance of it there made
neither hay nor a seed crop.
Lupines
I’ve been telling you about the
rapid spread of blue lupines in the
southern part of the state in recent
years..
This crop came to us as a winter
cover crop. It had the faculty of
making a big growth in the fall and
early winter, and was ready to turn
under in plenty time to prepare the
land for summer crops. And, being
a legume, it enriched the soil fast.
In the past few years we were
offered a guarantee on the seed
prize for lupines. This was designed
for a god purpose, to insure farm
ers who grew them for the vastly
expanding acreage from possible
losses. The price set seemed low-
But the yield potential was so great
that folks could afford to plant
great acreages for the guaranteed
price. The upshot of it was, a vast|
expansion took place, practically all
for seed, and very little for a cover
crop. The price broke and the gov
ernment had to take most of the
seed. Warehouses in that area are
still crammed with tons and tons
of them that were stored there by
the government several years ago.
Now there is no price support on
lupine seed, and the acreage has
shrunk greatly. But County Agents
Thompson and Rogers of Hampton
and Allendale counties respectively
tell me that the crop has gone back
to its original basis, that of winter
cover crop.
Recent years have seen a lot of
winter killing of lupines down
there, many of which were planted
a bit late on account of the land
not being ready earlier in the fall.
To get around that, the agents tell
me a few farmers this year tried
seeding them in cotton middles back
in August, like up-state farmers of-
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ten do grain. The cotton stalks
shade them when they need it, and
the agents tell me they have come
through fine. Even if early severe
cold had come, they would have
had a good cover crop growth there
already and their purpose would
have been accomplished.
So maybe on this new basis, this
great fall and winter soil builder
will find its place on many farms
of the Low Country yet.
Fertilizer
The fertilizer industry in this
country is 100 years old. It started
down here in our part of the coun
try. With mild winters, heavy rain- J
falls, and light soils, we needed it I
first.
Other richer areas thought for'
a long time they’d never need it.
But with heavy cropping and
straight rows that aided erosion,
they too are going to it fast.
Our fertilizer industry w’as a
giant already, but in the past five
years it has doubled. And it looks
like that growth will continue for
a long time yet.
Fertilizer properly used does not
mean a decadent soil and a dwind
ling agriculture. Used right, in ro
tations, and with good soil saving
and soil building practices, it in
sures a growing plenty for the fu
ture.
The Navajos
I was struck with the earnest
ness and inteligence of some Nav
ajo Indian boys helped guide us
along the rim of grand Canyon.
Having read a bit of the history of
our treatment of them in the early
days, I felt rather apologetic and
humble in their presence.
That once great tribe was never
warlike. Peaceful herdsmen, they
inhabited a lot of dry lands in that
region. But the white folks kept
pushing them back and back until
they at last found themselves rele
gated to a bit of rather barren
wastes northeast of the Canyon
there in Arizona, on which a jack-
rabbit could hardly survive. From
a tower they pointed out to me a
part of the rolling desert where
their race is slowly dying out.
Boys Are That Way
Axle grease had come into com-
fnon use when I was a kid in the
Dutch Fork. Before that our folks
had used the fresh resin that came
readily from any wound or cut on
a pine tree. That was rather dur-
able too, they told me.
Yes, axle grease was a necessity
then. - Both 'traggy antT wa^gri Tmir
their axles greased good regularly
and surely before any extended
trip of several miles.
But, as is usually the case, some
folks were a bit negligent in attend
ing to his chore. And before they
would get back, those squeaking
wheels could be heard marking
their course across hill and vale.
Those with any pride were ash
amed to let that happen, for it
meant heavy wear on the axle and
heavier draft for the critter that
pulled it. So, all in all, folks looked
on an improperly greased vehicle
as the mark of a rather sorry and
no-account owner.
But occasionally one would for
get and find himself embarrassed j
by a squeaking vehicle. He would
usually find some pine resin to rem
edy it with or stop and borrow a
greasin’ of axle grease from some
one in the event he could not find
either of these things he would
borrow a littte lard and that would
get him home usually without an
other squeak.
Eisenhower Asks
Nation To Support
Red Cross Drive ;
Augusta, Ga., March 1.—Presi
dent Eisenhower appealed to the
nation by television and radio to
day to support the American Red
Cross drive for funds and blood do
nations.
“This year,” said the President,
“the Red Cross needs 93 million
dollars to do its job. It also must
collect five million pints of blood—
for the armed services, for civil
defense, for civilian sick and in
jured—and for those most precious
civilians af all—our chilciwm.
“For now the Red Cross joins
in the fight against infantile pa
ralysis by providing gamma plob-
ulin, which helps prevent the crip
pling effect of polio.”
The President’s remarks were
recorded for television and radio
before he came to Augusta from
Washington la^t Thursday for a
week-end vacation. His message
was for use on all networks at
various times during the day and
evening.
Speaking in conection with the
official campaign by its national
chairman, E. Roland Harriman,
Eisenhower said:
“The American Red Cross is one
of the free institutions which has
helped make thus 'country great.
“What people do through the
Red Cross, they do in the spirit of
free men and women vountarily
giving of themselves to help their
neighbors in time of personal trag
edy, disaster or emergency.”
This year, the President, said,
the Red Cross is serving nearly
3,600,000 men and women in the
armed forces, and he added that
many of them are “still enduring
the rigors and dangers of Korean
combat.”
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