The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 28, 1953, Image 12
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, May 28, 1953
FARMS
AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
Soil Testing
In modern farming, the soil test
has an important place.
Clemson’s laboratory has been
expanded and made strictly up to
o;.te. ^The personnel has been in
creased to Rive farmers of the state
the best possible service in this.
County Agents and others take
soil samples in fields where crops
haven't been doing just right, -or-
£>t ki> the farmer ; wants—to know
more about before going to the ex- r
pense of putting certain crops
tnere. These are properly taken,
properly marked and packed, and
• nt to Clemson for testing. The
r. port they get back gives them a
^ . od idea of any shortages or ex-
t.^ses that should be corrected for
'he intended crop.
fhe past winter County Agerit
Johnston of Horry sent many sam
ples from tobacco fields of that
county. Most of them showed
sods too sweet for best tobacco pro
duction. So he got fertilizer mix
ers to compound some acid-forming
tobacco mixtures for them on these
lands.
The agents over the state have
similar tests quick? for most fields
now on which they place crop and
grazing demonstrations. This is
especially true with pastures. It
costs a s good bit to put a pasture in
properly. An accurate soil test will
help in warding off failures and in
suring success. County agents can
show anyone how to take a repre
sentative soil sample for testing.
total in the past five years. This
was reclaimed from the rich
swamps by the two land-clearing
outfits their Pasture Development
Commission has. County Agent
McComb is secretary of this group,
and he tells me their two big bull
dozer outfits are booked about a
year ahead with work. And there
are nine privately owned machines
working there too.
taken on all of tfte demonstrations
they can well handle. During the
summer, county agents and agricul
tural teachers plan to take groups
of farmers fb see these demonstra
tions so that by next year a greater
number can go ahead growing it.
Up to the time we started working
with this type tobacco in this sec
tion, in cooperation with Duke Uni
versity and the tobacco companies,
all of it had to be imported. It is a
necessary part of what goes into the
American cigarette, adding aroma
and burning quality. We import
close to 100 million pounds of it a
year. And it’s worth close to a dol
lar a pound. So, in this tobacco
Clemson sges the possibility of a
great new money crop for the Pied
mont area, where it is best suited.
Last year our total production on
thesp demonstrations averaged 91
wagons and buggies. Others had
not. But it made little difference.
Such a neighing, whinniying, kick
ing and cavorting you never heard!
And mixed in with it all was the
able a man to do, and closes with
the eternity of love.
Though a man should, speak with
the eloquence of angels, should
have the gift of prophecy, and un-
oocasional crashing of a pair of i derstand all mysteries, he would
shafts or vehicle being wrapped
around a tree, as the tormented ani-
be nothing without love. Though
he should reach all benevolence,
addition to land clearing for
pastures, they are building ponds,-
too, for both fish and irrigation, 19
having already been built.
cents a pound. And a market for
Aromatic Acreage Up
The aromatic or Turkish tobacco
acreage in Oconee county has more
than doubled this year, according
to County Agent Morgan.
I asked our man, Don Matheson.
in charge of that new crop up
there, what accounted for that. He
said it was due to a revolutionary
saving they and Clemson had
worked otit on curing it. Up to
now, curing has been the bottle
neck. In fact, it was so tedious
that a family could grow only a
small patch of this high-priced to
bacco. The old way was to string
the small leaves and cure them in
it has been established at Anderson.
Clemson’s J'. A. Martin is doing
experimental work with the crop
here at the college and the needed
breeding work to improve the va
rieties.
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mals fled in all directions. One land even give his body to be bum
mule was tied securely with ai) j ed, it would profit him nothing
inch “grass rope” that he could not without love.
break. He almost hung himself be- Love will enable a man to bear
fore his owner got there to cut him all things and to do all good things,
loose. i and inspire him with a hope that
They forgot all about the lost j nothing can take away. And love
ball then, could not find it later, will never fail, 1 though the boasted
and the game was over, for that knowledge of men shall pas and
was the only one they had. j ail their achievements perish.
We all ran up there to see what] Love is an illuminating experi-
the commotion was all about. I hid^ence and some day all the myster-
behind a tree to watch the show, ies of life will be known when re-
while the older boys waded into, deemed men through love see
the melee to try to rescue their pos-' things as they are, _ When . that
which is perfect is come, when
hope shall be no longer because it
is realized in heaven and when
faith shall 4>e no longer because
men shall see God face to face,
love will be the atmosphere of
heavejv-*nd the theme of the an
gels lay. If you know what love
is, the book tells us that God is
love. When you come to know God
through faith in Christ, the love of
which the apostle writes will be
your daily portion and experience.
Dr. Felder Smith
> OPTOMETRIST
Lcfriiteris, S. C.
Phone 794
Boys Are Thai Way
Did I ever tell you about that
devilish old mule knocking the bee
hive over. It is one of my most in
delible memories.
the sun. The new method uses heat
Orangeburg has had 5,000 acres
of new tillable land added to its
and the leaves do not have to be
strung. Don kept accurate records;
on this with his demonstrator last!
year. And they were able to cut |
harvesting labor to less than a j
fourth.
This year he and G. D. Butler of
Greenville, assistant county agents
who handle this tobacco work over
the upper Piedmont section, have
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It was about the seventh inning
of our ball game on Saturday af
ternoon there back of Mr. Ed
Shealy’s place at White Rock. Bill
Metze had just knocked a needed
home run for our side that got lost
deep in left field under Mr. Ed’s
potato vines. There was a wild
scene of joy as he trotted across the
plate.
Just as the crowd was quieting
down, we heard a great commotion
among the mules and horses hiteted
in M!r. John Richardson’s grove
about 300 yards from there. At
first we thought they were
brating Bill’s home run too.
alas, they weren’t.
A mule had been hitched to a
limb of an oak tree there near Mr.
cele-
But,
zoomed around my head and pop -
ped me on the ear. . That was all j B
for me. I lit out, describing a I»
wide circle down through Rev. Bal-
lentine’s cane patch. A few of theJS
ether small boys followed me. But 8
they couldn’t keep up. They didn’t !il
have the urge I had, and the few
mad bees that followed us were
back there with them. Down the
patlf~T heard on e * yell, “Ouch, he
got me‘” And that boy soon caught
up with me.
We ran about a mile“lcTCdiusin
Paul’s spring. There we sat down
and cooled off. My ear felt numb,
was hot to the hand, and twice its
usual size.
I don’t think that ball game ever
counted in the records.
Six-Inch Sermon
REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
13.
THE WAY OF CHRISTIAN
LOVE
Lesson for Mby 31: 1 Corinthians
had reached across the picket fence t
and tilted a bee hive over!
Right then pandemonium broke
loose up there. Some of the critters
had been unhitched from carts.
Golden Text: I Corinthians 13:13.
There is no more familiar chapetr
in the New Testament than the
irteenth of I Corinthians. In the
chapter Paul writes of the great
est things in the world—love. By a
series of comparisons he illustrates
the supremacy of love, proves it
worth by showing what it will en-
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