The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 23, 1953, Image 13
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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