The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 30, 1953, Image 20
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, July 30, 1953
FARMS.....
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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 * ]
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Plus Thirteen Other
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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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