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tHE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Page Five
FARMS
AND FOLKS
B7J.IL ELEAZER
Clemaon Extension Information
Specialist
Irrigation Last Yaar
Irrigation sure paid where used
right last year.
At the Georgia Experiment Sta
tion they made 742 pounds of seed
cotton per acre without it and 2534
pounds of seed cotton per acre with
irrigation. For the past four years
their average gain from irrigation
has been 657 pounds of seed cotton.
Clemson’s Lynn had an irrigation
test with cotton on the farm of
Stewart Laney of Chesterfield
county. Two irrigations there, to
taling 3 inches of water, on July 2
and 9 gave over three times as
much cotton as where it was not ir
rigated there in a large uniform
field. The five acres irrigated made
10,560 pounds of seed cotton, while
the unirrigated 5 acres by it made
3,375 pounds of seed cotton.
On the W. D. Willis farm in
Florence county, irrigated sweet po
tatoes made 1271 bushels of No. 1 po
tatoes against ' 63 bushels made
without it. Those potatoes netted
$5.75 per bushel. Thus irrigation
made him $36 8per acre addition
al in potatoes.
And so the story goes.
Yes, last year was a very dry one.
But our average of about 6 drouths
a year hardly ever lets a crop get
by without a need for more water.
And, folks, this thing is spread
ing. I know the county agent out
at Springfield, Mo. He writes me,
“It is unbelievable some of the
things we are getting from irriga
tion. Three tons of hay per acre
in five weeks from seeding, over
100 bushels of com, and wonderful
grazing all summer through." I
plan to go out there and ride with
him in July. Will be telling you
about it.
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Improve Mail Box
The colored home demonstration
agent of Union county reports good
results from their campaign to “Im
prove Your Mail Box." Home dem
onstration women and 4-H club-
sters took part in it.
I see signs of that at other places
pver the state, too. Neat name
plates on the boxes, and flowers
growing around them; there are
some of the things I’ve noticed.
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Sericea Lespedesa
Clifford Smith, down in Newber
ry county, has built his farm up to |
a show place of good grassland
farming since he finished Clemson
in 1928.
He has a large herd of fine Jersey
cattle and also a beef cattle herd.
Says they w’ork all right on the
same farm. He always plans for
plenty of lush grazing for his dairy
herd. And when you have that,
'you will always have areas that get
tough and need cutting off, or low-
grade roughages not suited to high-
producing dairy cattle, but OK for
beef cattle, he says.
In addition to grazing, he also
feeds hay silage most of the time.
And he has just about all of the
types of grazing that are in the
book. In showing us his sericea
lespedeza, he said: “Here is the
most underrated plant we have.
And it is the poor man’s irrigation."
Then he told of how it carried his
stock during the record drought of
last summer. He said it had to be
managed right. And by that, he
said, “Don’t let it get tough." If
your cattle can’t keep it down, get
the mowing machine out and make
hay.
He believes in fertilizer to all
crops. ‘Tell him to use 600 pounds
and he’ll use 800,” County Agent
Ezell says.
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Beauty In Manning
On an early spring day, I know
of no tnore beautiful avenue than
the main street of Manning, coming
in from Sumter. The great oaks,
draped with wisteria, arch the wide
street. The substantial old South
ern homes are placed far enough
apart and back to give them indi
viduality and wide yards, in which
a profusion of azaleas, camellias
and dogwoods bloom. And not only
that, but in those homes live a kind
ly a nr cultured people that you
don’t find just anywhere
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Boys Aro Thai Way
They were not stilts to us. They
were “Tom Walkers.” And we
didn’t know what a stilt was.
We cut them frbm the dogwood.
Cured, they were tougher and
stronger and the stub of a limb left
for the foot wouldn't split off easy.
We cured ’em and valued ’em.
But for us, Tom Walkers were
playthings for the spring, summer
and fall Never for the winter. For
we hail shoes on then. And they
would ruin your shoes at the instep.
So our folks really read the law to
us about that We couldn’t get by
wth it either. For they left their
unmistakable marks on a shoe.
We would run races on them,
and walk through briars, thorns and
water with ’em. That was fun for
sure.
We tried tying the handles to our
legs so our hands would be free.
We thought diet’d be fun. Like rid
ing a bike without holding the han
dlebars, you know. But that never
worked for us. We’d fall off. Or
When we raised them to take a step,
the things would slip from our feet
It took that pull on the walker by
the hand to keep it secure against
the foot
We got profiicent in walking on
those things. We should. For hours
on end, we walked no other way.
We often had high ones. Some we
had to get on from the cellar or
well sheds. But they were rather
unwieldy and we didn’t use them
much. The sort we liked best and
could really cavort around on were
a foot to 18 inches high.
We liked short handles best too.
Some of the kids used long handles,
doubling their forearms back and
holding them by the top. But the
best way was to keep your arms
straight down, gripping the han
dles. In that way you could keep
them pulled tight aganst your feet
and control them best.
Most of us have high insteps still.
I wonder if those Tom Walkers
didn’t have something to do with
that. For they sure pressed up
right at that spot.
Watch Far East,
Eichelberger Says
Greenville. — Americans should
keep their eyes on the Far East says
Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger.
The former commander of the U.S.
Eighth Army, now retired and a res
ident of Asheville, N. C., said, “Your
liberties and the question of whether
or not your children and grandchil
dren will grow up in the land of lib
erty may be decided in the next two
years in the Far East.’
Eichelberger told a meeting of the
South Carolina chapter of the Society
of Professional Engineers last night
that the only Japan to fear would be
a Japan taken over by the Reds. He
asserted that the prevention of Red
domination in Japan is one of Amer.
lea’s greatest responsibilities.
Adams Says Truce
Would Still Leave
World In Danger
Canton, N. Y., June 7.—Sherman
Adams, No. t assistant to President
Eisenhower, declared today a Korean
truce would still leave the free world
in danger. He cautioned against any
defense let-down lest it invite an
atomic attack by Russia.
Adams, making his first important
public speech since taking over his
White House assignment, voiced the’
first public administration statement
that there seems to be a “promise"
of an early truce in the three-year-
old Korean War.
In an address prepared for deliv
ery at the commencement exercises
at St. Lawrence University the for
mer New Hampshire governor and
U. S. House member said:
“On the eve of what* appears to be
the promise of an early truce in Ko
rea it is well for us not to forget cer
tain things that happened in the year
1946.
Adams then went on to say that he
was a member of Congress at that
time and remembered the “terrific
pressure" brought upon every mem
ber to see that the World War II;
“boys got home at the earliest pos-,
sible moment.”
Mindful of this, Adams said that j
immediately after the last war ar
mistice a great feeling of relief
spread over the United States at first.
This was followed by a “pleasant
complacency about the future,” he
added.
“Yet the fact that we were at that
moment in danger," he said adding:
“At the moment of a Korean
truce we shall be in danger. There
will be nothing in the terms of such
a truce which will give any perma
nent relief in the ominous threat
which confronts the free world.
“Any such retard in carrying but
vigorously the policies already in
itiated to promote the security—ex
ternally and internally—of this na
tion will aggravate immeasurably
the threat which confronts us.
“Any such collapse as occurred in
1946 would actually beckon the
Soviets to come* and attack with the
forces—atomic and otherwise—they
have already mobilized.”
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Bids will be received at the Of
fice of Laurens County School Dis
trict No. 55, 426 West Main Street,
Laurens, South Carolina, at 11:00
o’clock A. M., EST, on June 25,
1953, for the construction of an ad
dition to the Hickory Tavern
School, Laurens County. Plans
and specifications may be inspected
without charge at the office of the
architect, W. E. Freeman, Jr, A. I.
A., 226 W. Washington Street,
Greenville, South Carolina, or the
Columbia, Greenville and Charlotte
SEE AND BUY
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FARM EQUIPMENT
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Dealer for Laurens County
Sales - Parts - Service
New and Used Equipment
Clinton Hwy.—\\ Mile Past
City Limits
Telephone 22396
Laurens, S. C.
offices of the Associated General
Contractors of America, or may be
secured upon a deposit of twenty-
five dollars per set. The entire
deposit on one set and half of the
deposit on additional sets will be
refunded upon return of plans and
specifications in good condition
within five days after bids are re
ceived. . The owner reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
Board of Trustees,
Laurens County School
District No. 55.
G. M. McCUEN.
Chairman.
THANKS!
LAURENS
COUNTY
For Your Fine
Support
On June 2nd
Charles C. Moore
Notice to Wheat Growers
TRADE YOUR WHEAT NOW FOR BIRDSEY’S FLOUR!
3 TRADING PLANS —Choose one that softs yoo:
1 TRADE FOR A BIRDSEY’S FLOUR DUE BILL—Get a Due
' Bill for the value of *he wheat you trade, then use the Due
Bill from Birdsey’s as you need flour.
2 TRADE FOR A BIRDSEY’S CREDIT MEMO—Get a Credit
Memo for the value of the wheat you trade, then use the
amount owed you to buy anything in the Birdsey Store,
anytime you want it.
Q TRADE EVEN FOR THE BIRDSeY PRODUCTS YOU
** NEED NOW—Bring in ] our wheat and take home Birdsey’s
Flour or any ciher line Birdsey Products.
Bring your Wheat to:
BIRDSEY FL0L*3 AKD FEED STORE
Musgrove Street Clinton, S. C.
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