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Thursday, July 9, 1953 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page FIv« «? 4 Notes From The County Agent's Office By C. B. CANNON, County Agon! Little League Baseball Watch Lirasiock For Screwworm* Crewworms reported in the coun ty last week. Farmers should keep close watch on all livestock for in festation of screwworms during summer months. •. One drop of blood exposed on an animal is sufficient amount for screwworm fly to deposit an egg to hatch a screwworm. There is a material on the market known as Smear 62 that is widely distributed in South Carolina, used in treating the place of infection on the animal. Screwworms do considerable dam age in‘a few hours. Extension cir cular 341 in the control of screw-J worm is free at the county agent s offjee. More Efficient Farming Six months of 1953 is almost his tory now, and it’s well that the 1953 agricultural program be reviewed for the greatest accomplishments lor the year. This program is sporr- ■sored by the State Agricultural Committee and Clemson College Extension Service. The keynote for farming in 1958 froduction per acre, per naimal and man. The following 10 points recommended for more efficient farming: 1. Balanced Farming: Make the farm an efficient operating unit by •careful planning for the best use of During the week of the Fourth the Laurens Little League defeated Clinton Little League three out of four games and the Clinton Pony League defeated Laurens Pony League four straight games. The Clinton Pony League will en ter the tournament at Laurens this season. The tournament will start at the new Stevens park in Laurens this Friday night to map out de tails for the tournament. The fol lowing teams will be represented in the tournament: Walhalla, And erson, Greenwood, Laurens, Union, and Clinton. The Little Leag:uers trying out for their All-Star team will not work out until their regular season is over. Schedule For All Leagues Thursday—Pony All-Stars 9 a. m. Friday—Thom well vs Joanna. Monday — Lydia vs Thom well; Academy St (afternoon game) G. P. Copeland* Believes In Sericea Meadow Outlets BACK INJURIES By DR. J. W. JONES. JR. Thousands of working melt know what Chirocpractk can do for back injuries. They know that when other methods failed to give them relief Chiropractic was successful Employees, compensation i n- surance carriers and the public in general should recognize this fact. Actual studies have been made of injured workers cared for by different systems of ther apy. Chiropractic brings the worker through with less chance of malingering, less cost to the insurance company, less oct for insurance company, less cost for ploy, as well as less interruption in the production line. Several large industrial firms are now employing Chiropractors on a full time basis to care for their injured workers. Investigate, learn if your in surance includes Chiopractic care. Then get the true facts concerning Chiropractic. (One of a series of articles pub lished in the public interest to explain and illustrate the prac tice of scientific Chiropractic, written by Dr. J. W. Jones, Jr., whose offices are located over Prather-Simpson Furniture Co., Clinton. Telephone 1023.) July 17. This wiU be a double J Academy vs Joanna, elimination affair. Clinton will, Tuesday—Florida St. vs Lydia, meet the winner of the Green-1 Wednesday—Florida St. vs Acad- wood-Laurens Pony League game! St (morning game). Lydia vs on Saturday, July 18 at 3 p. m. The following teams will be in the Pony League tournament at Laurens:'' Aiken, Graniteville, Sa luda, Greenwood, Laurens and Clin ton. The winner of this tournament will go to Florence to compete in the regional tournament with teams from Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. It is interest ing to know that South Carolina has more Pony League teams than any other state in the U. S. except Pennsylvania, the birthplace of Pony baseball. The Pony League boys trying out for tbe All-Star team are hard at work trying to make one of the fif teen players that \^ill represent Clinton in the district tournament at Laurens. A list of the All-Stars will appear in next week’s paper. Due to the fact that the Jdanna Mills and Clinton Mills gave dif ferent vacation weeks for the 4th, there will not be any betting aver ages, etc., in this week’s paper. The schedule had to be changed around to fit the different vacations. The Little League district two tournament will be held in Clinton this year starting August 3. This will be a single elimination affair. A meeting will be held in Clinton land, labor, machinery, cash and credit, for good farm family living 2. Crops: Use more lime, fertiliz er, good planting seed, and upto- date methods of efficient produc tion to obtain highest yields and returns per acre and per man. 3. Grassland Farming: Continue the wise expansion and sound man agement of grassland farming to support or growing livestock and poultry industry, and for the full use and conservation of soil, water and labor resources. 4. Livestock. Dairying and Poul try: Produce the meat, milk, eggs and other livestock products need ed to feed our -growing popula tion. Practice closer culling, im proved breeding, better feeding and efficient management to increase production and income per animal and per man. 5. Pests and Disease: Use approv ed methods and materials in fight ing crop and livestock insects, di seases and parasites, household in sects, rats, weeds and other pests. 6. Forestry: Give farm wood lands better management and fire protection. Do a better job of mar keting the timber crop. Reforest lands best suited to trees. 7. Marketing: Provide and use more processing and storage facili ties for farm products. Study con sumer demands and produce and prepare products to meet these de mands. Market products through most efficient channels. 8. The Farm Family: Build a good family life with attractive homes having adequate space and modern conveniences efficiently used. Keep the family healthy and happy by providing the proper foods, and op portunities for education, religious training and social life. 9. Rural Youth: Train rural youth in improved methods of farming, homemaking, health, citizenship and leadership. 10...Public Policies: Keep inform ed on agricultural policies and pro grams, and actively support local and national farmers organizations. By J. B. O'DELL Soil Conservation Service . G. P. Copeland of the Hopewell community prepared and planted two sericea meadow outlets on his farm recently. This makes a total of nine meadow outlets, con taining 15 acres of sericea, that have been established on his 800 acre farm since a district soil and water conservation plan was made several years ago. Terraces to drain into the newly planted outlets will be constructed after sericea is es tablished. The primary purpose of these outlets is to safely dispose of surf- plus terrace water and run-off from each individual row. However, in addition they are used for hay, grazing and seed production. Mr. Copeland said, “My meadow outlets sure work fine. They are the best arrangement for taking care of terace water I’ve seen. Also. j the sericea hay from these meadows' is mighty fine when cut tender.” Andrew Mitchell of Laurens, had this to say, “I harvested 1,500 lbs. i of sericea seed from my two-acre meadow strip last fall. The seed brought $225.00. I would have come out better if my whole farm had been in sericea.” Qther district , cooperators who recently have had outlets laid off for seeding to sericea are: Thoma son Brothers of the Trinity Ridge section; Creekland Farms, Lester Norton, manager, Clinton; H. J. Ptts, Chiton; and M. Y. Blakely, Ora. Soil Conservaton Service person nel will gladly help anyone with his teracing plans or with a com plete iand use program for his par ticular farm. IF YOU DON’T BEAD THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS Sericea Valuable, To Cattle Farmer By J. B. O'DELL Soil Conservation Service G. E. Brown, Rt. 2, Laurens, New Prospect community, likes sericea as a grazing crop. He has been us ing sericea for grazing for about five years. He said, “my has been a life saver during the droughts of the past two summers. And again it has come in mighty good during the dry weather of the past few weeks.” Mr. Brown’s cattle have access to sericea at all times, as it is not fenced out from the permanent summer pasture. He states that the cows on their own accord graze sericea as frequently as the perma nent pasture. However, he says, “you must keep it grazed down or clipped to where it stays tender.” Also to keep sericea in a vigorous growing condition, Mr. Brown ap plies lime and fertilizer. He recom mends an annual application of 300 to 600 pounds per acre of an 0-12-12 or similar fertilizer each spring. Last year he grazed eight head of cattle on six acres of sericea a good portion of the summer. He took the cattle off in time to allow sericea to make seed. He harvest ed $192.00 worth of seed from the field. Mr. Bown first planted the se ricea as a part of his district soil and water conservation plan designed to put each class of land on the farm to its proper use. During the past few years the deep rooted perennial has rapidly increased in favor with farmers of a hay, grazing, soil conserving and cash crop from the sale of seed. At the end of 1952 there were 8,962 acres planted on farms of district cooperators in Laurens county. Because it’s pretty. Because it’s a bargain. Just because. Lady Says Women Buy for 8 Reasons sericea I And 'Because' Ottawa, July 2.—Why do women buy? At the convention ct the Canadian Dietetic Association today, Mrs. W. R. Walton, Jr., national president of the Canadian Association of Con sumers, quoted a big retailer who gave nine reasons: .Because hubby says they musn’t. Because everybody has one. Because nobody has ohe like it. Because it makes them look thin. Because it’s imported—it must be good. Because it’s going to be scarce. Attendance Teacher Attends Work Shop Mrs. C. B. Patterson, of Laurens, county attendance teacher, attended a work shop for attendance teachers at the University of South Carolina last week. Dr. Benthrop, head of the school of Social Work was the in structor. Thirty-five attendance teachers from all over the state w^r^ present. SURVEYING J. R. CRAWFORD CLINTON, S. C. Phone 3493 J< SEE AND BUY \qVSND£E$£ J QUALITY FARM EQUIPMENT #• .at... Laurens Tractor & Implement Co. Your Authorized JOHN DEERE Dealer for Laurens County Sales • Parts - Service New and Used Equipment Clinton Hwy.—Vi Mile Past City Limits Telephone 22398 Laurens, S. C. Sflu&e /anting / Always beady to take advantage of popular fancy; un scrupulous organizations headed by high-pressure pro moters seem determined to exploit public health to the last degree. They are particularly active in the vitamin field. When you are tempted by wild advertising claims to buy and take vitamin preparations, remember that you probably do not need them at all. If you feel that you do; consult your physician. He alone knows the type of vita min you may need, if any. Rely on his advice. We are in position to fill promptly any prescription he may write. Write Your Congressman "NO” on Socialised M*dioiuo McGee’s Drug Store Phone No. 1. RM.B.1VRR.R.R P.r> r, r. ~ ~ '.f.rrrr.rr.wi, ENGRAVED WEDDING INVITATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS VISITING CARDS AND OTHER SOCIAL STATIONERY OUR ENGRAVING IS ACCEPTED BY THE DISCRIMINATING FOR SOCIAL CORRECTNESS We Will Be Pleased To Help You In Your Selection Chronicle Pub. Co. Stationery Department r-' SOMEBODY IMPORTANT IS READING ABOUT THE $48,899.83 DIVIDEND JUST PAID TO SAVERS IN Lanrens Federal Savings & Loan Assn. Who? You, of course. These big dividends are impor tant to you because you can have a future share in them-just like your neigh bors who save with us and are money ahead right now. When you open a sav ings account with this as sociation, YOU will be money ahead, too! Next December we’ll again add generous dividends to every account. Naturally, IPs convenient... pleasant to saMB here, but the big reason for choosing to place your funds here is that we offer a safe, profit able place to accumulate cash reserves. i T SOMETHING EXTRA . . . savings received by Friday, July 10th, will earn a full six months dividend next Dec. 31 . . . Current rate 3% per annum. Laurens Federal Savings & Loan Association LAURENS* LARGEST SAVINGS INSTITUTION 104 W. Main St. Telephone 22271 Laurens S. C.