Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday, November 12, 1953 sc THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pasre Five FARMS AND FOLKS , Bj J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist took us away from our wilder rou- of 50c per thousand is made for de tine of play through the hills and livering the trees. vales around honm They were ^, o ( j ate ^ farmers have ordered i always new and inviting to us. For each day brought its change to the 50,500 trees through the SCS ot- I paths and trails we traveled in our, t back country. And we didn’t like ! to have our routine messed up with I those singing lessons. But they were law, and we had to go, for about two weeks. We were just a bunch of kinnery 1 around there, and all the kids went Coastal Bermuda Grass i This is specially so when a lot of together, in a two-seated surry, I have yet to find a county agent grain, corn, soybeans and the like with a fringe around the top. It fice from this source. Those who their orders, now. Applications are are planning to set pines during also being taken by the County the coming season, ,which is Decern- Agent, County Forest Ranger and_ ber through February, should place Vocational Agricultural teachers. who does not think well of the cer-; are coming along. belonged to Cousin Chari. The tified Coastal Bermuda grass dem- On this all-important matter of mu i e . that pulled it alternated onstration. plantings that were storage, Estill leads by a wide mar-, ar °^ d i made in all counties last spring, gin. You recall, Clemson got all the cer- Old Kate was a big and ornery mule that Cousin Perry had used to a dray in Columbia. She got the swinnie", whatever that is. on the Harper and Bowers have one of tified stock the Tifton Experiment the finest grain elevators «in the en- Station could spare last winter.) tire country. The Capacity is over, hh , t f rn i.. rnhia am j t hf. v Sn h ed h ‘i S n Taw 700 ' 000 b “ Shel \ And , th T tho u b h, t0 rw?uld d U o her' g^d .o started in every county. So now concrete towers have been kept fill- h in thp rmint rv a while we have good clean runners avail^from' the very start. And they | se ^ e he ^ a f a in b ^^"'and had a able in every county for plantings have had to turn away grain that ™ whit leather this fell and winter. [was seeking storage, doing, and sh e fust ab“S did a^ site pS, Many of those plantings made cleaning. paying little attention to the reins phenomenal growth despite the dry, County Agent Thompson tells an d bit. And her hide was about summer they encountered. Some me that Otis Crapse there is put- as tough as her mouth. Such lash- few were not taken care of properly, ting in a 13,500-bushel grain dhying. c S we kids could give her hardly and didn t do much. But there are and storage outfit. And A. O. Bush, ■ caused her to even switch her tail, enough outstanding successes to in- also of Estill, is erecting foi^r con-: a nd she walked on leisurely as she dicate we have a great thing in this crete stave bins with a capacity of, liked. One day it was old Kate’s turn to take us to singing. By pulling hard new grass. Although only planted 10,000 bushels of grain and an ad- last April, many of the areas cov- j jacent drying unit. ered the ground knee deep the pastj g G> bats 0 ff tbe dynamig spirit on the right rein, Miller, the larg- summer, furnishing both good graz-, 0 f Estill! Those folks are doing est boy, could steer her to take the ing and good hay yields. j right much towards developing the right forks in the dim woods road. County Agent Cain of Calhoun, new production potentials that lie And when we got to Cousin Jake’s, assisted in judging the Coastal Ber- all around us here in South Caro- he stopped her by several of us muda plantings there that were en-:ljna. pulling as hard as we could on one tered in the contest sponsored by ; , * * * re * n anc l steering her head into a their Soil Conservation District Su- Grain Sorghum In Lexington large tree. There she stopped and pervisors. He says, “Even though' County Agent Evans of Lexing-j we kids got off from all over that they were set out only last spring, I ton, says that they had a lot more surry, about 10 or 12 of us. quite a few runners 8r feet long grain sorghum than ever the past] I’ll have to wait until next week WINS AGAIN SOUTH - AT THE 1953 CAROLIHA STATE FAIR were found, even under our dry conditions.” Rice Birds Rice is being revived along the rivers of our Low Country. County Agent Alford of Colleton tells me there was something over 2,000 ac res of it grown there the past sum mer, with yields from 18 to 75 bush els per acre. With the return of rice, the rice can birds have come back too, myriads er counties have seen their grain of ’em. They had to employ all manner of means to try *to keep them out during the few critical weeks that they do their damage. Rifles, shotguns and airplanes w used to scare them away. And they tried dropping firecrackers from planes. And with it all, the birds were quite a problem. • • • summer. It stood there through | to tell you what happened on the the drought, curled up, and waited way back home, for I don’t have for the rains, while corn was ruin- i room left here, ing. Late moisture came, most ^ fields of sorghum came out satis- _ _ . _ factorily, and “the heads were large CONSERVATION and heavy,” he says. “This good KJOTCC yield of grain sorghum is badly C j needed to supplement the short J* B. O'DELL. Conservationist t C 0° Eva’S? ° f the COUnty ” aCCOrd ‘ ng CONSERVATION NOTES Saluda, Newberry, and some oth- Pine Tree Seedlings _ ^—--La county cS? Twenty-eight county farmers sorghum acreage grow too in recent have ordered 122f000 loblolly pine years. It is a crop we need, for it j tre ® seedlings from the West Vir- lends itself to mechanization and ginia Pulp and Paper company for be planted following grain, planting this season. The company r where com can’t. It is the equal 1 making the seedlings available of com as a feed, and will usually make more than corn under the same conditions. The dwarf varie ties stand well and make good^graz- ing on out into the winter. 0 0 0 Boys Ar* That Way As kids, out at lay-by days in Au gust, we. had to go about 6 miles Estill Lgads There is special vitality and viru lence in the agriculture and leader ship down at Estill. f Having some of the finest lands j Through the Dutch Fork to Cousin in the state, they make good use Jake Haltiwanger’s for singing les- of ’em with a diverse agriculture. SO ns. Modem diversified farming calls! We boys didn’t like that, thought for a lot of storage, safe storage. I it was sissy, had to dr£ss up, and it SAVE MONEY! AND GET THE T3PPIM to farmers free of charge up to 5,- 000 to the farm through the Lau rens County Soil Conservation Dis- tric. Applications already have been approved to take up the sup ply of trees from this source this year. However, tree seedlings are still available from the South Carolina Commission of Forestry for $2:50 per thousand fob the nursery near Wedgefield. 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