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<V t \ \ A 1 Thursday, June 4, 1953 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Paere Three FARMS *4 i u--.'--, AND FOLKS By i. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Chang* While with County Agent Coch ran of Union, I was struck by the grass I saw. No scattered patches of it there. But large fields over hill and vale were tied down with sod on which cattle grazed. Looking up some old figures on that county, I saw what great change had taken pflace. Away back In 1897 Union county made 33,000 bales of cotton. In 1950 they made 3,500. Therefore, there' was great room for grass, or anything that cotton’s lost acres would grow profitably there. In addition to grass, I saw that trees, pine trees,“Ka3"neW meaning there. Folks were beginning to take care of their woodlands and manage them for a continuous har vest. The pulpwood business was booming, but little runious cutting was being done. So, with far less cotton, Union is meeting its future with the change that the time calls for. And with cotton, and grass, and trees, and the livestock, dairy and poultry that fit in with that system, that county seems surely header for bet ter days. • * • Crops Aplenty Out in the sandhills of, Lexington, County Agent Evans took me by to see a hustling 44-year-old farmer, N. O. Miller. Out there, on land that once looked like starvation, this hustling family of 12 has done well.—They grapes, scuppernongs, plums, pears and all manner of truck. I often marvel at the things you can grow here. It is not so else- 1 where. At most places it is rather restricted as to what soil and cli mate will permit you to grow profi tably. But here a goodly clime will permit you to grow just about anything that’s in the book, except citrus fruits. And nowhere else do I find that so. That’s th e reasqp I think more of this area every time I come back from a trijr tof distant shores. ~~ * • * Year-Round Grazing We have talked a lot about year- round grazing. We brag about it, and rightly so. But few folks yeti have it in abundance. But some do.! And they are pointing the way to pleasant scenes of sod and cattle on many of cotton’s lost acres. One farmer who really has it is H. O. Long of Newberry, and there are others. Despite droughts and hard winters, Mr. Long had plenty of good green grazing on his 510 acres of permanent pastures for his herd of 340 beef cattle. A sign hangs at the road by his place saying “Something to sell every day.’’ Some years ago a man stopped by there on Sunday for some cotton seed. He wouldn’t sell ’em on Sunday. The' man pointed to the sign, “every day”. Mr. Long told him he-thought ev eryone would know that Sunday was naturally excepted. Newberry really has grazing. Riding with County Agent Ezell, we were hardly ever out of sight of it. » • • Pioneering I read somewhere that a mistake is proof that somebody tried to do something. By trial and error we learn. And the experiment stations save us a lot of that grief. % In our changing 'agriculture, and a revolutionary change is 1 taking place now, we don’t know nearly all the answers yet. Grass itself still carries many riddles. Yet we are headed into it in a big way. We are learning as we go. Irrigation is right on our door step. And our ignorance of it is en ormous. But, by painstaking ex periment and rapid trial and error, we are learning. And it shows great promise in almost every field. We hav e gone far enough to know that a new frontier lies there, a vast new yield potential. It is call ing from every stream and pond. And it beckons from every pond site both dry land and watered. For our rainfall is heavy, and mixed in with many drouths. Catch, hold and then use that life-giving water for grop insurance is our immediate problem. And it can be done with profit. Some are already doing it. * * * Boys Are That Way Folks around home were awful saving. They had to be. For a liv ing came hard in the stone hills of th e Dutch Fork in our time. Our folks hated debt and .just didn’t make ’em. Farms were small and unemcumbered. Chickens, the old fashioned sort that largely} shifted for themselves, furnished most of the spending change we had. We never went to Chapin or White Rock without a basket of eggs and perhaps a chicken or two to get what we wanted with. They were our “legal tender” for the few [ things we had to have along. In the fall then, when we sold our bale or two of cotton, that was the only real money we had for the year. It was frugally spent, and a part of it saved. A bolt or two of cloth, a barrel of suger, and about 3 barrels of flour for the com ing year \yere always gotten. And perhaps a few pairs of shoes for the family. But if the ones from the winter before would stand another were gotten for that and the shoes us ually repaired around the first fire of fall at night. Clothes, specially overalls, were patched on top of patches until parts of ’em looked like a crazy quilt. Old stockings that had been darned so much the feet couldn’t be fixed again were saved and used as mittens by the ladies when at work in field or garden. W e never threw a thing away. No matter how badly knotted deft fingers straightened it out and wound it around the hand and tied it up securely like a plow’ line so it wouldn’t get tangled any more. These and paper sacks were kept in a kitchen drawer. It was a sin to throw away or burn anything to eat. So fruit peeUA| were always fed to the hogs BRtrown to the chickens, as were all scraps from the table, down to the smallest crumb. car owners can’t be wrong! One of America’s fastest- growing auto insurance companies, Allstate now serves over a million policyholders. Ask about Allstate’s • New easier-to-undentand policy • 14 added features at no extra cost • Fair, fast claim settlements • Special low rates for farmers^ John L. 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