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* . 9 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, July 23, 1953 Pace Five Ham Loaves Ideal For A Reunion If you’ve been delegated to pre pare dinner for a large group, a Family Reunion Ham Loaf is the solution to your problem. Accord ing to Reba Staggs, home econ omist, this loaf will make 10 to 20 generous servings. The combina tion of smoked ham and fresh pork is especially ideal for quantity serving because it is equally as tasty served hot or cold. 3 pounds ground smoked ham. 3 pounds ground qfresh pork. 3 eggs. 1 large can evaporated milk. 1 can condensed tomato soup. 1 cup cracker crumbs. Combine all ingredients and mix thoroughly. Pack into two 5x9 inch loaf pans. Bake in a mod erate even (350 degrees F.) for 2 hours. Serve hot or cold. Eigh teen to 20 servings. Allstate before yen bey Auto Insurance Allstate is nationally Cameos for its fast, fair dahn settle moots and savings to policy holders. 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ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist meat with your dinner vegetables, cover the remaining portions of the plank with tubed mashed po tatoes or fluffy boiled rice and your main course is practically com- For preparing in this manner have steak cut at least one inch plete. thick and chops cut at least 3-4 inch thick. Place the steak or chops on your broiler rack and adjust the pan so that the meat’s surface is 2 inches from the heat. When one side is nicely browned, season with salt and pepper, turn and cook on the second side. About ten minutes before the meat is done, remove it to your wooden plank or heat-proof platter side uppermost. Then arrange the with the incompletely browned vegetables around the meat. Use such vegetables as stuffed pepper cups, tomato halves, peas, boiled onions, of cauliflowers. Complete your arrangement with the border of potatoes ot rice, then return to the oven for the final cooking. When broiled, rush the planked meat to your dinner table! 8 Sons The Best for Over Fifty Years CLINTON, S.C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in * South Carolina All-American ^It has been called “America’s Number One Rural Community.” I speak of Harmony, down in Edgefield. How appropriately it Is named! For without real harmony It could not be where it is. You recall, the past year it won the $15,000 National Orange and Sears Roebuck prize for the rural community showing the most prog ress in the nation. The past spring they dedicated their new community building. Some communities tend to dry up when their local school goes by consolidation and their church goes by default. Not so with harmony. Their school went. But they did not sit and pine over that. Do nating 7,700 man-<hours of work, they built a fine new church and a communitg" house second to none. These, and many other things they did, won for them the coveted award. I attended the dedication of their community building. I wish you could have seen the fine, robust, in telligent country folks there. Large families, all taking part. And the younger generation is furnishing the dynamic action there. The older folks, like Mr. and Mrs. Henry Her- long, were there, to be sure, beaming over their community’s progress, while their crowd of big hefty boys, all Clemson graduates, are farming there around them and contributing to community accomplishment and leadership. One was Master of their local ‘Grange that spearheaded this community development. And those farming Smiths were there in pro fusion. One of their beautiful daughters came home from Win- throp to sing that night. They paid high praise to County Agent Lloyd for the big hjlp he had been to them in their community accom plishment. * • • Clear Water I was at Clifford Smith’s farm in Newberry after some heavy rains. His pond, built in a ravine below what had once been .red, eroding hills, was clear. He had lope since tied 'thaF soIFdown icfwlth sod that water ran off slow and clear into his pond. This grassland farming, that’s growing so in this state, is tying much of our once-bleeding soil down like that. And out that Bush River road, where Clifford lives, you see a lot of that sort of thing. Their ag teacher, Pete Harris, has been there in that community since he and Clifford finished at Clemson in 1928. And his tracks and influence are all over the place, as are those of their veteran county agent, Paul Ezell, and their SCS man “Dad” Amis. Clifford’s advice to the sev eral hundred farmers from all over the state who attended the field day there on his farm, when he was d- clared the grassland farming winner in the state for 1952, was this, “get all the help you can from all of your agricultural workers. They sure helped me.” What Counts A white fence and a sign don’t make a livestock farm. They help a lot though, if you have anything back of ’em. All too often in the past we have seen flashes in the pan like that. A fellow would travel a bit and see those white fences and neat signs, naming the farms. And that sure looks good, like you see in Ken tucky, up in the Valley of Virginia, and elsewhere. He would come home, get him some cattle, put an ornamental fence across the front of his place and the hungry cattle soon ate all the bushes and briers in there. That’s all they had. But that abortion does not happen so often now. No, our folks are covering cotton’s lost acres with grass, good grass, nutritious grass, grass the year round. And they are getting the grass first. This begins to bear the earmarks of perma nence. Cattle have taken a slump. That usually weeds out* the fly-by-nigbt fellows who never had any business with cattle in the first place. Then the real cattleman, the man with year-round grass, a breeding pro gram, and sense of management for both cattle and grazing, will grow serenely on into this needed live stock arm of his farming. As often pointed out by The Pro gressive Farmer, either crop or live stock farming alone is very uncer tain and hazardous. But tie them together properly to suit man, land and market, and you have a type of farming that best weathers the storms of time. That’s Ihe sort of farming aur agricultural colleges teach. And it’s the sort our county agents demonstrate in the field. And, my, how it has been taking hold of late! Boys Are That Way We always wore some sort of hat whenr we wree kids. The folks thought it was dangerous in the summertime specially to let the di rect sun shine on the top of your head. So, broken to a hat as we were, we never went without one. And I’m still that way. I just don’t feel properly clothed for the but of doors without some sort of a hat on. As a kid we had two sorts. For winter it was a cloth cap or wool hat. Our hats were of the cheap sort that sort of ran up to like a cone the first time they got wet and the band came off. From then on it was easy to blow off as it wouldn’t hold any sort of grip on your head. Some of our early summer hats were woven at home from. wtyeat straw. But soon after I came along, the country store would get in a lot of plain wide-brimmed rough straw hats that sold for a nickel and a dime, depending upon the size and quality. Those straw hats had wide brims and were in the rough. You couldn’t wear them without considerable doctoring. And to make them last longer, mothers would always line them with bright-colored calico. The under side would be covered with it and it would be folded up over the edge and sewed down on the ma chine. Then V cuts would be made from the center of the place you put your head in to the inside of the brim. These V-shaped ends were then sewed dow ninside the crown of the hat. That gave the soft cloth surface against your head and overcame the roughness and scratchy feeling of the woven straw. Thus reinforced one of those hats was supposed to last a kid a sum mer. But after being caught out in the first rain with one, it flopped doWn to your shoulders on each side, stayed that way, and was hot under there. But we seldom got a second one, and it was up to us to take care of the one we got in the spring. By fall they often looked like a bunch of straw though, they had become so tattered. But stfll the crown was usually good and it kept the sun off the lop of our head. And that was what mattered most. Planking Gives Meat Gala Touch Planked meats make any meal an occasion. Take your-choice of ground beef shaped to resemble. a steak, or sirloin lamb chops cut from the leg of lamb. Combine the IF You Want YOUR Customers • * To Keep Coming to YOUR Store Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Laurens, S. 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