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/ $ I \ \ i ^Thursday, October 15, 1953 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Five SPECIAL FFA STAMP ISSUED I Coker Heed To Speak The Clinton chapter of Future Farmers of America is carrying out special activities in connection with a postage stamp which has been is sued in commemoration of F. F. A.’s 25th anniversary. The first day of sale for the stamp was October 13 in Kansas City, Mo., where some 10,000 Future Farmers are attending the organiza tion’s annual national convention. On the following days, Wednesday, October 14, the F. F. A. stamp went on sale at local postoffices throughout the country. W. D. Adair, local postmaster, ordered a good supply of the stamps at the request of the Clinton F. F. A. chapter and they are now avail able at the local postoffice. The F. F- A. members are con tacting their friends and urging them to buy a supply of the com memoration stamps to use on their regular correspondence. Local busi ness firms are being asked to buy enough F. F. A. stamps to furnish their needs through the remainder of the year. Mr. Adair will be guest speaker at a special assembly program at the'high school on Friday morning when the stamps will be shown to the student body. “We feel that the FFA has been highly honored by the Post Office Department in issuing this special stamp,” said Bill Dobbins, -FFA chapter president, “and we want all our friends -to help spread the wori about FFA by buying the stamps and using them on their letters.” The* announcement that the FFA commemorative postage stamp would be issued was made by Post master General Arthur A. Summer- f:eid in Washington last spring. The design of the stamp shows a mem ber of FFA on a hill overlooking a modern farm,, with words calling attention to “25th Anniversary, Fu ture Farmers of 'America” in the lower part of the stamp. fFA was organized nationally at Kansas City in 1928. It is an organi zation for farm boys who are study ing Vocational Agriculture ih the public high schools and now has 363,369 members in some 8500 chap ters. E. B. Few, Vocational Agri culture teacher at Clinton high schol, is advisor of the local FFA chapter. The Clinton chapter has 26 mem bers and has been active since 1928. Officers this year are President, Bill Dobbins; Vice-President, Bob Franks, of Joanna; Secretary, Joe Cunningham, Rt. 1, Clinton; Treas urer, Jimmy Dutton, Clinton; Re porter, Sam Leaman, Jr., Cross Hill; and Sentinel, George Copeland, Rt. 1, Clinton. DR. JOFEPH C. ROBERT Dr..Joseph C. Robert, president of Coker college, will be the guest speaker at a Cokct A'umnae meet ing to be held Saturday (> October 17, at 3:90 p. m. The meeting will be held in the home of Miss Ruth Riddle in Laurens. FURNITURE i A cloth dipped in linseed oil and wiped over polished furniture will greatly improve it appear-1 a nee. NEW TINWARE First rub grease over the new tinware and keep it in a warm place for a few days. Then the utensil is less likely to rust. ENDS SATURDAY NIGHT! BUY NOW! FLOUR SALE! BIRDSEY’S BEST $ FLOUR 25 lb. bag only 50 lb. bag pnly $4.20 it. * 4 BROTHERS j FLOUR K «>. bag only 50 lb. bag only $3.80 BIRDSEY FLOUR ft FEED STORE Bfncrrre St — Clinton. S. C. T. F. Adrir, Mgr. r> OUR FORMULA FOR HOME LOANS , / One part principal, one part interest, one part taxes and insurance — equals one monthly pay ment, the same amount every month! When your home mortgage loan is paid off like this (like rent) you can pay for a home, and you can do «C. without financial strain. Ask about our home- 1 4 . ffnancing plan. £ JL JL ML llEDERAL ►AVINGS jAND LOAN ASSOCIATION A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 Telephone No. • i CONSERVATION NOTES By J. B. O'DELL. Conservationist The Thomason Brothers of the Trinity-Pidge community, have a good stand of coastal bermuda grass on a two and one-half acre nursery plot from which they plan to harvest stolons for planting ad ditional acreage. The Laurens County Soil Conser vation District supervisors allot- 1 ted 25 bushels of this grass to the Thomason Brothers for the purpose of increasing the acreage of l , r this new improved bermuda grass in, the county. In spite of the extreme dry weather, the grass has made excel-, lent growth. It is at present 12 to 15 inches in height with some of the runners as long as four feet from the original plant. The grass was cultivated two or three times during the summer to keep down weeds and competing grass. It also received a side ap- ! plication of ammonium nitrate at the rate of 200 pounds per acre. A few years ago, who would have thought the Thomason boys would be planting, cultivating and ferti lizing bermuda grass? “There is nothing so constant as change:”—*” * * * C. D. Waldrop of Laurens, had the district owned terracing ma chine to build seevral flat v-shaped drainage ditches on a bottom land pasture last week. The ditches are | built so as to enable him to plant grass right on over them and flat enough for a mowing machine and other farm implements to cross. Tile ditches were laid out by the SCS technicians. • • • T. P. and D. E. Brown, father and son dairymen of Bailey commun- J ity, are planting 30 acres of‘alfalfa this week. It is being planted on the old peach orchard field for merly owned by W. G. McDaniel, which was one of the first conruner- cial orchards in the county. The Browns are using the dis trict’s cultipacker seeder for plant ing the alfalfa and report that th?| machine is doing a fine job. The machine is designed so that the front packer wheels break up lumps and clods into well gran ulated mulch. Then the seeder at tachment accurately measures the j exact amount of seed to be plant ed and evenly distributes them be tween the two sets of rollers. The rear packer wheels split the ridges set up by the front wheels and bury i the seed at the right depth to give ; the best germination. Other dairymen of this commun ity who plan to use the machine for seeding alfalfa are: Ralph W. Wal- 1 drop, Brown Brothers Dairy and R. M. League. • • * 1 Lester Norton, manager of the | Creekland Farm of near Clinton, is over-seeding approximately 75 j acres of sericea with rye grass and crimson clover. This is being done on part of a 150 acre field of se-j ricea, which to our knowledge, is, the largest acreage of sericea ini the county in one body. 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