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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
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