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"t f Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, July 30, 1953 FARMS..... i AND FOLKS By 1. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Hard Reading The Other day I picked up a xr.uch-heralded book. It was one of the modern novels rated as very fine. Well it swamped me the time I opened it. To start with, it had long and involved sentences and paragraphs covered almost a page. It was in small cnrwded print. And to cap the climax, there were 900 pages in it! v Now I can't see how any book on any subject should be that long. Life is too short for a slow reader; Lke I am to wade through a thing like that. My memory of the first could hardly last until I labored through to the end of that mon strosity. And to think, that book was re quired reading for a bunch of kids! Somebody needs to be hung. I glory in the easy reading of an Ernie Pyle, a Will Rogers, or-an O. O. McIntyre, all dead now. Those boys had interest and vitality in every word. And great meaning in every line. Years ago there was a columnist by the pen name of Savoyard who had it too. And, by the way, what has become of that fellow McElmore. To me he turned out very readable stuff, that spark led with personality. ' And then there was Raymond Clapper, lost in the war. That boy could take you with him too. Seems like the top ones are about all dead. At least, according to my puny estimate. I can’t think of a living writer now that I yearn for, cne whose vivid personality is on .every page, whose name on the by line insures quality and whose ev ery production you anticipate and Say— “I SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE’ Thank Yoa Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 200 South Broad St. Phone 658 * ] Office Hoars 9:00 to 5:30 SEE AND BUY \0V\N D££ft£ J QUALITY FARM EQUIPMENT •••cit••• Laurens Tractor & Implement Co. Your Authorized JOHN DEERE Dealer for Laurens County Sales - Parts - Service New and Used Equipment Clinton Hwy.—U Mile Past City Limits " Telephone 22396 Laurens, S. C. FINE FURNITURE Down Through the Years t7e. Jones & Sons The Best for Over Fifty Years CLINTON, S. C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in South Carolina consume as a precious morsel, wishing there were more. I d on * think a 900 peage book of fine print and long sentences could ever do that. Not to me. * • • Weevil Fight We are nearing the end of the 1953 weevil fight, But some of thei most important days of the fight are just ahead now, according to Mac Sparks, our boll 'weevil man. July bolls are not safe yet. We must hold the weevil down to pro tect them. We now have effective poisons for doing that. Your coun ty agent can advise you. * • ♦ Farm and Home Week Clemson is being readied for Farm and Home Week August 17- 21. No matter what your main inter est is on the farm or in the home, you will likely find it on this year's program. Room for the week in barracks is a dollar. And meals are served reasonably in the mess hall. Bring sheets, pollow, towels, etc. It smarts Monday night with a reception for visitors in the mdin exhibit tent, and closes with the' progranij Friday evening. County and home agents have full details. * * * We have just in quite recent years started growing in the com mercial poultry business in South Carolina. And that growth has been rapid.) Now our poultry business, in- cludings eggs and turkeys, is al most double our dairy business in dollar income. It is almost three times all cattle and calves sold. And the poultry dollars are a bit over 50 per cent greater than the hog dollars. So “chicken change" now means real money. Clemson has many helps in the way of bulletins and plans for feeding, management and housing poultry on the farm. They are free at your county agent’s office. Much of our poultry develop ment ties back to 4-H club work with poultry in the local clubs. The Sears-Roebuck chick revol ving fund in most counties has been a big factor in this. * * • * That Coastal Bermuda Have you seen arty of that certi fied Coastal Bermuda grass grow ing there in your county yet? Your county agent can direct you to the foundation plantings there. In addition to its other virtues, the Georgia Coastal Plain Experi ment Station that developed it says: “Coastal Bermuda is immune to the root knot nematode, gnd as a result rot knot susceptible le gumes like the annual lespedezas have grown better in association with it than nematode susceptible common Bermuda.’’ * * * Boys Are That Way We looked forward to syrup making time in the Stone Hills when I was a boy. Ours w'as made from sorghum. And I still like that sort best. After that, it was rather plenti ful, and we could get it often for candy making. And candy pullin’s were the principal parties we had. Young folks would get together for a pender parchin’ and a candy pullin’. And, my, what wonderful) times \*e had. The old folks would help parch | the peanuts. And cooking the mo- lases properly was cjuite an art. j It had to “string" off the paddle soon as this was reached, just right when you held r it--qp.^As they took it cff the frre'and semt; out on the back porch to cool a bit: While that was happening, we sat around eating peanuts and shelling some to put in the candy. Then when it had cooled enough to handle each couple buttered their hands so it wouldn’t stick, and started pulling a bktch of it. At first you had to pull fast, for two reasons, it was so hot and so soft it would otherwise get away from you. There was quite an art to pulling it. .And you’d get to touch the girl’s hand, too! We specially liked that. And it’s the worst stuff you ever saw to blister your hands The heat must have something to do with that. You wouldn’t know it at all until it had happened. Once a big one rose on my finger and burst before I knew it. I wouldn’t eat any of that candy. Another time a girl I secretly liked was pulling with me. We saw a fly for an instant there where our hands were going it witn the ambering candy. She said, “Where did that fly go?" I said, “I dunno.” That’s another time we didn’t eat any of that batch of candy we pulled. Pulling that hot candy sure would get the dirt out of the creas es of our hands. Although I balked at that fly and the busted blister this ordinary hand dirt didn’t both er any of us. I guess they some times for similar reasons flailed to eat their pullin’, too, when I did. usually we hadn’t had any candy for a good while. So we really ate that stuff, yes, until it got to where it didn’t taste good any more. Then thirst overtook ue and we drank out of the branch on the way home. 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