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¥ r ' < r 1 . |f i I t -;r Page Eight i--- •yr^ ^== rT i ' ' FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Sourwood Sourwood has of late painted many a gorgeous picture in the Up Country.. And it grows some all across state through the Low Coun try. It is a very desirable \3ush or tree. Being one of the best of honey plants when it blooms along aru June, its rich green foliage and light trunks adds to the beailly of any woodland setting. Anijl then, to cap the climax, its leaves start coloring , early and stay late. r 'lt is largely the species that forms the awe-in spiring spangles of color that make a veritable wonderland of beauty out of many a mountain woodland in tne fall. And around some homes here at Clemson they are as bril liant and showy as an azalea. Once started, they are as tough as other forest trees. Folks have told me they tried to get sourwobds to transplant around their homes, but never could. Ev ery sprout they tried to dig from the woods was on an old 1 stump and large root system that defied moving. Our forester, Bill Barker, has just told me that a few nurseries have small sourwood sprouts for sale. They are principally at McMinville, Tenn. Two of them there that hisj reference showed as handling sour- woods, were Boyd Bros. Nursery and Forest Nurseries. They are priced reasonably. * r * That Coastal Bermuda It sounds like a fellow is in a tall tale telling contest when he talks about that new grass, Coastal Ber muda. _ J . if . j. Listen to County Agent Gray of Darlington tell about one of his demonstrations: ‘‘Mr. T. H. Ham has the^ outstanding new' summer pasture. This is Coastal Bermuda ^prigged last April. Grazed 24 cows on 4 1-2 acres twm w’eeks, 37 cattle for three weeks, and then c ut 3 tons of hay. This pasture will be cut for hay the first or second week in October and we expdct at least 1 1-2 tons of hay per acre at that time.” Records like this are not uncom mon with this grass, accprding to Hugh Woodle. our pasture man, when it gets adequate fertilizaiton, specially nitrogen. Such demonstration plantings were made in every county last -pr;ng with certified seed stock se cured direct from Dr. Burton, the riginator, down at the Titton, Ga„ experiment, station. Most of these,' plantings succeeded and now we have sources of pure stolons or, run ners available in most counties. Your county agent can tell you. This grass needs no seed. You set it out. * * *, Coker's Corn County Agent McCord of George- towns says: “The value of Coker’s Ml hybrid corn is again outstand-, mg, due to its ability of yield under dry weather conditions. As a re sult, many new farmers will plant it next year after again seeing the favorable results this season." Irrigated Tobacco Assistant County Agent Fleming of Florence, who supervised the ! tobacco irrigation demonstration on 1 W. D. Workman’s farm the past sea son, reports as follows: "On our _four-acre demonstration which Mr.l Workman irrigated four times, his| yield ave/aged 2,014 pounds per acre, brought 57.8 cents a pound, and grossed $1,164.16 per acre. On non-irrigated tobacco on similar land his yield was 1555 pounds peri acre, average 54.3 cents a pound,' and grossed $847.79 pej; acre.” According to my arithmetic, irri- r gation gave him 546 added pounds per acre, that sold 3.5 a pound high er, and it brought $319.37 more per acre. And remember this, that wasn’t on such a dry year there either. He made good tobacco where he didn’t irrigate. But a lot better where he did. ' Boys Are That Way We kids went barefooted from! early until late. | At a fixed date in early spring! we were permitted to liberate our feet from the brogans that had con fined them for the winter. We longed for that day, and pestered parents a lot about moving the time up a little. But they never! budged. On the appointed day they made us wait until noon. We counted the hours. Then, as the clock struck 12, we went out to the horse trough, pulled the shoes and stock ings off, soused our liberated feet under the cool water, and then we were ready for the first footrace. With those heavy shoes off, our feet felt so light we just wanted to run. But rocks and sharp gravel that abounded in our stone hills soon impressed thei? caution and we had to take it easy for a while.! Our feet toughened rapidly though, 1 and soon we were abfe to run with out specially looking. The barefoot days were glorious, from about April to November, as the first frosts of winter started bit- ‘.ng down, our numb feet were easy to bruise, for some reason. And then if we hit a rock specially hfesd, it w'ould easily cause a "stonT^ bruise" that was hard to heal. The place would turn dark and Fester under the hard hoof j like skin that had formed under the bottoms of our feet during summer. It would be a long time breaking through, and we wouldn't le tanyone touch :t with a pin. That skin was so tough it would hurt a lot to pick through it and let the thing drain. But, at long last, we would hit something with it. The pain liter ally knocked the hat off your head. It popped. And that was the end of it. Soon we could put our shoes on, as the others already had. IF YOU DON’T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS mnaoismnBBt 8! Pepsi-Cola Refreshes Without Filling l >» I 8 1 1 1 9 8 :: Pepsi-Cola is refreshment made to order. For Pepsi has kept in step with sensible changes in modern taste. Dry, never too sweet, reduced in calories, it goes with all the whole some way of living. 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