The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 30, 1953, Image 16
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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FARMS
AND FOLKS
Bj J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist /
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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!
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_ 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.
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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;
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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.
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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.
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Long Grain Rice
MAHATMA
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Paper Napkins
MARCAL
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Flour
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Real Maple Flavor—
Log Cabin Syrup ^ 25c
Hunt’s Rich
tomato c a t S up, 2 't® 1 35c
Armour Star
Pure Lard . .
Effective Household
Bot.
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Libby’s Twice-Rich
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Qt.
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45c
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27c
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1.77
Hostess Cream Golden
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Standard Pack
Tomatoes. .2
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Strained Baby Foods
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Gerber’s .
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^ I Raspberry Fruit Cocktail
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Orange and Peach
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CABBAGE310
Fresh Sweet Golden Bantam
New Crop Red Bliss
Potatoes . 5 u ” 30c Corn*. .4 Eon 25c
Fancy Tender New Crop Yellow
Green Betas 2 29c Oniom > e
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Libby’s Frozen Fresh
Cut Corn, 2
Libby's Frozen Fresh
35c Green Pens 2
Toilet Tissue
HORTHERM
3 25c
Effective Insect Spray
FLIT
27c
Pint
Can
Greenwood Home Style
PICKLED BEETS
20c
16-Oz.
Jar
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Stokely’s Party Pack
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For Fine Washables
LUX FLAKES
X. 27c
Soap Of The Stars
LUX SOAP
3 Reg
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DREFT
p’V 29c
Complexion Soap
LIFEBUOY
Health Soap
LIFEBUOY
3 23c
A Bath AA^
L Size AUlf
Fine Bath Soap
Mild Pure
IUX SOAP
SWAH SOAP
223c
2 27c
Liquid Soap
Household Cleanser
JOY
SPIC&SPAN
»* 29c
2 47c
For Family Wash
RIHSO
fc 27c
To(let Soap
SWAN SOAP
3 T. 23c
White Laundry Soap*
PAR SOAP
2&15c
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