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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Thuraday, Augmt 20, lag
FARMS
AND FOLKS
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By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
"Irrigation The Answer"
In the May 28th issue of ‘The
Press and Standard” of Walterboro,
Editor Smoak wrote an editorial
.headed, ••Irrigation the Answer.”
! In it he said, "The extremely hot
[and dry weather of the past'sev-f vate ;, A cultivation ^ after each
eral weeks, and the adverse effect
I on cucumbers and Irish potatoes,
irigation looked on peppers. He
said it looked mighty good so far.
I asked Mr. Harper for an im
portant mid-season point about
growing peppers. Without hesita
tion, he said, ‘‘Continue to culti-
weekjy picking will add 200 pounds
Of peppers per acre. Now, folks,!
proves bevond any reasonable that means S 10 - And you can give
doubt that the farmer who today w,lt " rntmn fnr a w 1occ thim
it that cultivation for a lot less than
that. Then, too, you won’t have
that grass and weeds there 'in the
middles to bother you.
• « *
Gerber Daisy
While riding uyth County Agent
Hopkins of Anderson, as he was
answering farm calls, I saw a row
of beautiful flowers by a farm
home early in August. They were
Ever see ’em?
tiepends ehtirely upon nature to
produce a crop is playing a poker
game with cards stacked against
him. Needed is irrigation.”
A - d he further states, "Progress
i.istly, true but crop yields in-
v ■ i used by using intelligent, pro-
a -we steps will more than offset
m reased cost.”
This summer, every summer, we I Gerber^daisies
. VC soon promising crops Parch Th( , v come in varied , el
■ shades-and all. and are very beau-
" C. that riatuie did not bring t i tu ] j understand they are Sim
la, torn, of -hovers. While, in p]y , ops f#r making ilower ar .
Ait, 1 rangements in the house. The lady
V. ' ' rt , "'j ' . t " t .:toId us she got those from seed, a
An '’ v „ ,n0S ?., t‘ ( i.The! eaS “nf apiece. They bunch out and
, . e . | make additional plants like other
we should be concerned about -j t . t
'.rat. ,be fields that already have
ndant water in easy reach. ! em " e *‘ sum ™ r ; .
After that then we come to the Grain Storage At Florence
matters of conserving and storing farmers cooperative grain
water by all manner of means. • s f 0ra g e operation at Florence has
Holding the precious stuff until | b e e n a distinct success from the
drought strikes, that’s the big prob- s t ar t. It 'has been going several
wn tor the future here. lor water years, has been enlarged, and is
still filled
: pure goid when you need it. And
it is here at times. The problem
-m to detain it until it is needed.
Ours it not as great a problem,
net by a jugful, as theirs in many
another section where I have been.
There they have to spend fortunes
getting water from the ground or
from distant mountain ranges. Here
the stuff falls on every acre. Our
job is to work out ways of holding
a lot of it here. Then when our
average of six droughts a year
strike, we can do something about
them.
Although the past two dry sum
mers were hard on all crops, spec
ially truck. County Agent Wood of
Pickens, was impressed with pi-
miento peppers as a crop for the
land of "Red Hills and Cotton.”
This summer had a bit more even
to capacity. District
Agent Lazar tells me that farmers
have profited greatly in grain and
corn storage there. Distress prices
usually prevail when these crops
come off. By storing them, the
farmers are able to feed them on
the market along as it needs them.
The way grain is coming, ■we need
more of that sort of thing in South
Carolina.
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Boys Are That Way
Did I ever tell you about that
party we went to away down the
Kinley road?
It was a very dark night. And if
the mule hadn’t known the road,
we’d never have gotten there.
All of the furniture had been
moved out of the modest living
pandect acreage or peppers
firming his belief in them. At S1U0
a ton, most of the growers are mak
HOW TO FIND...
[spread of moisture and their ex- ™ a „'T ‘° r" 3 . 116 r " 0 J\, for ,he s 2 aure .
panded acreage of peppers is con- ., ' . [ ,n f f.ddler ground out
| r the swaying tunes. A lamp on
the mantle and a lantern hanging
ing some money on this crop. That u :n
amounts to about a cent apiece. r? Ued 1*
In Countv Agent Hopkins’ office 8 ot . n there dancing. At the
in Anderson I ran up on T. J. Har- ’Jtermission we boys went out on
per. the Pomona Products Com-I t0 t c ° o1 , off an ^ a
panv's field man in this area. They ? r £ nk ° f . " ater from the u wel »
are the folks from Griffin, Ga., who £?°ff * nbb A in ? ! . came , U P
contract for this pepper acreage in ,, . ‘ A faint stream of light
Anderson. Greenvill?, L a u r e n s, hrough a ^ the to P
Pickens and Oconee counties. On I t A W0 , posts ^ at h( ; ld the P orch U P-
delivery days, the farmers bring e ufP2 hmg else out there was
the peppers in and they are hauled s D acK '
to the canner\ r at Griffin in big ® en was there, as usual. He was
trailer trucks, after being weighed shout the most daring one in our
up and paid for on the spot by Mr. y° u recall. He got his swig of
Harper. By the way, he told me wa ter from the bucket first. If
that 7 growers in this area are irri- *h ere was a dipper anywhere out
gating their peppers. I asked how there, we couldn t find it. So each
— . _ - took his turn at the upraised w r ell
bucket, with chain dangling from
.it.
We hadn't cooled of yet, and it
wasn’t quite time to go back in
; anyway. So we lingered out there
I a few minutes. Ben got tired
[ standing and eased over to the
edge of the porch between those
, two posts where a banister would
i ordinarily be.
Well, sir, he didn’t feel for the
banister, just assumed it was there,
and leaned back against where it
was supposed to be. Alas, there was
no banister there! He fell back
wards the 5 feet to the hard red
clay. Some pigs lay in the shallow
puddle there where the wash water
was thrown. They squealed,, and
he almost killed two of tern. ’ The
hound dog lay asleep there under
the porch. The sudden commotion
scared him so he de{eijded him
self with vicious screaming and
} barking.
| We hardly had—thne-v to. -know
what had become of Ben. Some-
; one brought the lantern out. Ben
! was getting up out of the mud and
shaking himself off. As we broke
(into prolonged laughter, he said,
‘‘That darn dog almost bit me.”
That fall might have hurt some
of the rest of us. But not that Ben.
He was as hard as nails. And kfe
joined us in enjoying the humor
of the situation. But there wasn’t
much more dancing that night. The
more we thought of Ben’s escapade,
the funnier it got.
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FINAL SETTLEMENT
Take notice that on the 15th day
of Sept., 1953, I will render a final
account of my acts and doings as
Administrator of the estate of Kate
Talbert Moultrie in the office of the
Judge of Probate of Laurens Coun
ty, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the
same day will apply for a final dis
charge from my trust as Adminis
trator.
Any person indebted to said es
tate is notified and required to
make payment on or before that
date; and all persons having claims
against said estate will present
them on or before said date, duly
proven or be forever barred.
W. H. NICHOLSON, JR.,'
Admr. Estate Kate Tal
bert Moultrie.
Aug. 10, 1953. 4c-w-3
Hunt's Heavenly Peaches At A Down-To-Earth Price!
Hunt's Peaches
"Sweet" For Hot Weather Snacks Economical Carr
FIG BARS
Playmates
Sweet Mixed
Lb.
Pkg.
27
PICKLES
33c
Qt.
Jar
No. 303
Cans
46-Oz.
Can
White House Sliced
Dixie-Home Quality (With Glass)
23c Tea Bags
Qt.
Bat
For Refreshing Drinks (All Flavors)
J9c Kool-Aid . . s
S.yck Up Oh Hssless Early
June Peas . .2 No c<.n° 3 27c Pie Apples
Dixie-Home Florida
Grapefruit Juice .
Concentrated Liquid Laundry Starch
Texize Starch
Dixie-Home 14-Lb. Prints
Fresh Creamery
BUTTER
u 69c
Bayshore
CHEESE FOOD
2U.
Bax
^ No. 2
t Can
16-C
23c
Pkg. ^
it
69c
flrwttiw T 11 f ALaUa m L a *
IfVNhnj" I Mfffi Vi wi UIIOfDB UMMK BOvT
6 “s* 25c
Sliced American
CHEESE
£ 30c
get the BIST
Quality Tender — Fresh
Chefs Masterpiece
Pimiento
CHEESE
‘-35c
J.
Our Ohef Suggests
Half tar-B-Q
C Chicken , , -49c
Fresh
EggSalad , .29c
Fish D#pt. Values!
, - FISH USpt. V
Ground Veal - 29^ Fresh Shrimo
Marhoefer's Canned COOKED (4 to 6 lb. sises)
PICNICS -59 , i r «!
Lb.
c.
Lb.
69c
15c
C(overleaf Dry
SKIM MIU
17c
Vegetable Shortening
CRISCO
85c
3-Lb.
Can
Southern Gold !4's
MARGARINE
2 ^ 45c
Fine Shortening
SNOWDRIFT
85c
3-Lb.
Can
For Salads & Cooking
WESSON ON.
(Sc
Qt.
Dot.
VALUES FROM THE D IXIE-HOME GARDEN!
Delicious With Green Beans — New Crop Red Bliss
Potatoes 10'k49 <
Mountain Grown Green
Crisp Golden Heart
Large
Stalk
Beans 2»29cCelery
Crisp Green Mountain Fresh Sweet Golden Bantam
Cabbage % 11c Corn , 4 -
15c
27c
Frozen Food Values!
Serve Luscious Summer Desserts With PictSweet
Strawberries
10-Ox.
Pkg.
27
Buy A Supply PictSweet—Cuts
Broccoli o mi m ‘c*. <
PictSweet Milk-Rich Kernels!
Peanut Buffer
BEECH-NUT
’!? 37c
WILSON*
Maudiurgan A
m 15-Ox.
Waff ■ s Cm WOV
Tony
Has U-Ox. 4JBL.
9§f ■ ■ ■ Can *VOC
S MEATS
Smshh . 2 35c
1 RaaF
Nash. . .r; 29c
Deviled Ham
HH0ERW00D
21c
Toilet Tissue
CHARMIN
44.11 QC.
Pkg.
Paper Kitchen Towels
CHARMIH
7 — 33c
Facial Tissues
CHARMIH
17c
Paper Napkins
CHARMIH
am
For Easy Dishwashing
DREFTl
L »«- OQo
Rkg. 4wv
V r
Houeshold Cleanser
SPIC S SPAR
. 2 47 c
ih m ,W T "'
Concentrated Liquid Soap
JOY
^ 29c
White Lavndty Soap
P & C SOAP
2 & 13c