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\ i**Naia!p t^age Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE ~4- FARMS AND FOLKS Bj J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist / I Thursday, April 30,195f Droughts In the past 42 years we have had 265 droughts of 2 weeks’ duration or longer. That’s a little over six a year. These were divided as follows: 117 were from 14 days to 21 days in duration. 79 were from 21 to 27 days in duration, and 69 of them were over 27 days long. I The toll that droughts take from! all crops here is staggering. We of- ten build up a high yield potential, with good seed, fertilizer, etc., only' to see it nullified by drought. Experiment and experience arei working out the details for irriga-j tion here. Each county already has some, and a few counties have quite a bit. Clemson’s irrigation man. Lynn, is kept busy surveying irrigation prospects for farmers over the state. And the SCS men, too. help in that field. They are aiding in the building of many ponds. We need to hold a lot of water if we are to have it when drought strikes. Irrigation, our next great farm ing frontier! * ♦ * _ Weeders *^weeder is a good implement to run over crops like cotton and pea nuts just as they are coming up. It breaks tha crust, helping the young plants get through. And it I also kills a lot of tiny grass' and weeds there in the crop. # Used right, a weeder often saves at least none - .hoeing.—Amt—with high la- bor, that’s something. I’ve seen two other sorts of weed ers. They are not farm machines, but geese and sheep. The geese are used extensively in cotton on the rich lands of Eastern Arkansas. A goose to the acre, put in soon after the cotton is planted, will keep it clean of grass. I was told by a farmer where I stopped to ask about all of those geese I saw. And down in the Cajun country of Louisiana I saw them using a lot of sheep to keep the cane fields clean. They let the cane get up a pieceTplowing it to hold grass and weeds down then. Then, when it is up a few feet high they turn the sheep in. I was told they wouldn’t bother the cane leaves much that had gotten tough by then. But they were very effective in holding down the young weeds and grass in the cane middles. * * * * ■ Change Recently I visited what had been a rather famous old plantation in the mid-state. The county agent took me there to see the livestock awakening that’s come. The gnarled and battered old mansion and neglected yard told of a glory that had faded. And only a few of the tenant houses re mained. We saw cattle eating dryj straw from the broken-out win-! dows in one, hogs were sleeping un- j der the dry porch, and good grass J. c. THOMAS Jeweler announces Hie new GORHAM STERLING pattern: blanketed cotton’s lost acres around it. , There, where a dozen or more families once required, the man’s college graduate son was on horse back seeing about the cattle. He said they had enough grass tq ^et through the winter, but always put up some straw or coarse hay clipped from the pastures for winter. The cattle just liked a little dry feed too. And they looked good. He said he handled the whole thing, with a little help at times. k And, folks, that’s what’s happen ing at many places in the cotton country. That .and was> rather rough and cold-natured, not suited to modern cotton culture. So it has gone to a better use. At other places, where fields are right and the land suits cotton, I see this great crop still very much in the running. But there is change, much change, going on in the fields of this state. Floods Back in the late winter we at long last had some abundant rains. The muddy flood waters left their banks, flowed through the alder bushes and covered the bottom lands along many a creek and river. This helped replenish the water j in our great power developments. I And it filled .many a rather new farm pond for the first time. Uus-i ually we have enough rainfall toj do that several times a year. BuL of "Tate we have had -few-—heavy; ©i A luxuriant pattern . . . xulptured, massive, bold in its rKyrhmicdesTgnvyef essentially feminine. Gorham Sterling * "Decor" with piercmg of its tip is made with a one-piece knife handle — which resists denting, won't rattle . . . An exclusive Gorham featuse. foi/tarri. rainfalls. The consequence is our reservoirs have been low and our ground water has got mighty low, too. That made summer droughts specially destructive. * * * Boys Are That Way As a kid, I dreamed of flying. Not only night dreaming. But day dreaming, too. Our house ^|d two stories. Once I climbed frornfhe cellar shed on to the kitchen. And from there I crawled on up to the top of the hous£. I went to the very end of the comb, held on to the lightning rod, and looked down on the ap ple tree that grew just out of the parlor window. A mocking bird flew from it, and I wished so that I could do that, toe. But it made me dizzy and I had to crawl back down. I contemplated jumping from the kitchen roof, which was lower. But my heart failed me there, too. From there I descended to the cellar shed.I That looked reasonable. I was about 6 feet high. I got up my nerve, spread my arms like wings, and stepped off. It seemed like that ground flew up and hit me. But it didn’t hurt. Then I looked at the well shed. In height, it was sort of between the cellar and the kitchen, some 10 to 12 feet high. But after I got up there it looked a far away to the ground. I figured I needed some help for that. So I got a sheet off the cljrthes line there, sort of tied it to my feet and held two of the other corners in my hands. I had seen flying squirrels jump from high trees that way. Soon. I had my nerve up for my first flight on wings. Off I went. The sheet did little if any good at all. My, how that ground did come up and hit me! I’d have been all right though but for the fact that rpiy foot hit a rock about the size of an egg. That turned my ankle. And with the great impact, it really hurt it. I was in bed for several days from that. I thought of that sometime ago when I flew to the West Coast be- tween dinner and slipper nnp Hay. And then I was a lot higher even than on top of the house. For we were flying the 3-mile level that afternoon. Competent Chiropractic Health Care THE R. C. BOLEN CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC Edward Arms Apartment Bldg. Greenwood, S. C. Phone 9-6210 An indmduol ** ^ six-piec* ploce- setting, (knife, fork, teospoon, solod fork, soup spoon, and * hollow-handle butter spreader) costs only $42.50 Including Fed Tax •Trade Mark J. C. THOMAS JEWELER “It’s Time That Counts” Wasson for Congress ‘IIP Join the ff Club We Want Wasson w in ASHINGTON Win With W ASSON Famous Boneless Steak! Quality-Tender U.S. Choice Beef Delmonico Steak \ • . For That Tasty Favorite-Liver V Onions! Selected Sliced LB. 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