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.7 » / Page Eight Thurafry, Augwt j 1^3 till mm *. -^ •-• • a^S5?^% ■. -ZjgH f • an,, SAVfi?fe °'*oo, t0 ™S* yal- i - - ^Jr ' L se ou r rn „ nar drobec afc^ar.^ corne nient j^' mm The 500,000th V-8 engine with Chrysler Corporation's hemispherical combustion chamber design was recently produced by Chrysler Divi sion. This engine, introduced by Chrysler in 1951, features built-in mechanical octanes designed to provide top performance on regular- C kde gasoline. Ed. C. Quinn, (right) president of Chrysler Division, pects the half-millionth V-8 with A. M. Fleming, manufacturing vice president, South Carolina Being Transformed, Writer Declares By WILLIAM D. POE Ra 1 .e:gh, N. C.—-South Carolina is a state with many faces. I stood recently in the swelter ing heat of a vast Calhoun county wheat field watching a giant self- propelied combine gobbling golden grain and I saw spread before me the fact of Kansas. I drove into the midst of 600 Sumter county Herefords and could have sworn I was on a Texas ranch. I saw 300 sleek Guernseys graz ing on Bamberg county clover, 200 graceful Jerseys near a Newberry county brook and the land that lay before me was Wisconsin. I view ed Camden’s sprawling DuPont plant and it had the look of Michi gan. think you’ll need,” in Dr. Tait But ler’s phrase, is becoming standard South Carolina practice. Poultry in the state is keeping pace with livestock. South Caro lina last year produced a new high of more than a million turkeys, compared with less than 200,000 ten years ago . . . and 15 million commercial broilers compared with less than one million 15 years ago. Poultry is proving a potent force in the drive to balance farnj in come. Nor should anyone think for a minute that new emphasis on live-1 stock and poultry has cut crop; production. In the last 20 years! per acre yield of flue cured tobacco; has been doubled from 650 pounds j to more than 1,300 pounds with a sharp increase in quality. Cotton! averaged 306 pounds lint per acre' in 1943-52, as compared with 276! pounds in 1933-42. In the last 10 yeasr oat yield has increased from 22 bushels per acre to 30 bushels: wheat, from 12 bushels to 20; and corn yields from 14 bushels to 20. | Acreage in soybeans produced for I strolled among the iris in a Sumter garden and to me it was oil has trebled during the last five Eden. I neared the entrance of Aiken's awesome H-bomb plant. I years. Last year the crop reached a record output of over one million 11 felt that I approached thi? Gates; bushels. And peaches continue to 0 f jj t ]j bring in income that ranks South It's no wonder that one finds ^- aro ^ na among the top peach strange new visages in the Soutn ! sta J es - . , Carolina of today. For the state Accompanying the state s move- is undergoing an amazing trans-i men t toward dnersified Farming formation as it finds a new and ^ as com c a heart-warming im- better wav of doing things. j Pavement m land management Take mechanization, for instance, and . s ° l1 conservation. Contour In one South Carolina county, a farming, strip cropping, drainage, single dealer sold 26 self-propelled tc rra cing these are healing the combines this spring for prices f ar s of a century of all-out cotton ranging from $3,000 to S6.000. Tom farming. Twenty-five million pmes Morgan, youngish assistant direc-! a > ear ar c being set on the states tor of the Clemson Extension Ser-| ldl f 4 acres. County forestry com-/ vice, tells how these machines t'pi- mittees vigilantly guard against fy progress: ‘‘When I was a farm °f f 11 ^ 1 Selective cutting of boy we cut grain with a hand era-1 and sa ^ e by competittiye ale which cut three acres a day. I bid s are proving their worth in coid A combine like-some of our farm-, c 35 !" 1 - ,J en daily pulpwood markets its are now using covers 50 acres make d as eas y f°r a farmer to sell a day. It does the work of many i 3 load of pulpwood as a dozen eggs. ( men—and makes it possible for us mucb f or statistics. Even a tc be a great grain state.” c asua ! visitor to South Carolina J W. Guess, Bamberg county, doesn f need th em to convince him used to work 150 mules. Today he t/ia t tbe state is marching double gets more work done better with i ^ toward a new and better day. 17 tractors. Other Palmetto farm-! ^ He sees it in Columbia s million t rs are doing likewise. The num- collar produce-market which is but ter of tractors in South Carolina “ ne several facilities provided has increased from 1,700 in 1920 b .y the State Marketing Commis-1 to over 40,000 today while the num-1 S10n , t0 4 , P marketing of farm ber of mules is dropping at a steady products keep pace with their pro late of about 5,000 a year. ‘‘My! duction. mules sure have it easv,” a mech-1 H e sees it m the disappearance, a fuzed Aiken countv 'farmer told!° f former tenant shacks that have me. I paid $700 for the pair of been bulldozed down to make way them a few years ago. Today I f ° r Pasture and their gradual re cant give them away.” placement by decent tenant' hous- Ccnudtr livestock. “In 1936,'' f* 6 s ® es ^ * n a network of says Sumter County Agent Tom- highways of which any state might my Owen: “I had to go outside the! we ih be proud.. countv to find 16 steers for a 4-H ! sees . d in hundreds of tele club project. I could count the vision aerials atop well landscaped livestock farms in this county on f arrn homes. He ffnds it in pros- my fingers—in fact, almost counti P ero u s small towns with tree-lined the- cattle on my fingers! Today streets. He sees it in scores of we have many farmers with more as 6 ood as those than 100 head of cattle each.” 1 tor whites. South Carolina had a near rec-L. ^ost clearly, perhaps the visitor ord total of 427,000 cattle on farms f !nds evidence of the states surge last vear. It is producing enough progress in the incerased vigor Grade A milk to meet the bottled- lts , P e °P le ‘ J m bursty for mild needs of all its people. Yet knowledge,’ a self-made Anderson only a few years ago the state was farmer told me. And he importing a large portion of the to °^ . me on a t® 111 °* b is prosper- milk its people drank.” ° us farm and /ome that would What about pasture? The state h ave convinced a cynic that this new has more area in improved f a 5 mei i v l a f- n ?.* on l y ^kmg know- permanent pasture and annual b u | ^ indl ”® lt- , not grazing than it has acres in cotton. f t md > n g k n , 0 ^. led g«' but converting Pastures that once were patches of d T in ^° healthier, happier living, weeds fenced in” are now produc- j. 11 Jf a ^ be who are chang ing ample grazing, hay and silage ^ (juic k enin ^ to meet basic feed needs. And with, tbe beat of the Jieart. ® xp T ei T * hvestock has com e i SLTBSCRIBE ^ CHRONICLE the hard earned lesson that farm- «T , h» p*n*r Fv#rviwt<iv ers must manage forage crops with The P i? < : r - EYCrybedy Re * d ^_ foresight and care to meet file rav- IF YOU DON’T READ ages of freezes and drouths. ‘‘Grow- THE CHRONICLE ing 25 per cent more feed than you YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS —SPECIAL— Whirlpool Washing Machine and Twin Tubs — $145.00 ANDERSON APPLIANCE CO. 104 W. Pitts St. Clinton, S. 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