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I ts Pajte Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE /■ • * Thursday, November 19, 1953 FARMS AND FOLKS VJ By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Informalii>». Specialist Mechanical Cotlon Picking Getting the crop harvested is still pretty much the bottleneck with cotton here in the Southeast. Each year now we are seeing heroic efforts towards mechanizing it. In the Far West that has already been largely done. I have seen vast areas of cotton out there that are lompletely mechanized. A man never went into those fields except cm some great machine. The drop planting of delinted seed, just the. right number, makes thinning un necessary. Pre-merge chemicals fol lowed by flame weeders make hoe ing unnecessary. Four-row outfits do all of the cultivation. And then they come along with fleets of me chanical pickers and harvest the i c rpps. v Yes, that’s the sort of streamlined competition ve must lear* -•ieet, if we are to continue to grow our part of the cotton crop. Clemson’s Blackville Station has been working on the full mechani sation of cotton under our condi tions here for a good many years. Considerable progress has been made. I believe they still find crab grass to be the main obstacle. It often springs up after the cotton is laid by and makes mechanical pick ing ail but impossible. The ma- i chariies will pick it, but they get j grass in it. And that is the one sort of trash that the cleaning mechan- | \ ism at the gins has never been able to get out very well, The saws cut the grass up and the particles of itj mingle with the cotton fibers and i cause endless trouble in the mnau-1 factoring process. So it looks like we will just have to conquer crab! grass in our cotton before it can be satisfactorily picked by a machine. County agents tell me that many | machines were in operation in the state the past season, as many as ."iO or more to some counties. Rather general satisfaction is reported from their use. Much custom work was done after owners finished picking their own. The charge was usually $30 per bale, which was only about two-thirds the cost ot hand picking. Many of our gins have the latest in cleaning equipment, our gin man 1 Sam Williams, .tells me ,and were able to turn out good samples frorr machine harvested cotton. So, when it comes to mechani zation* of cotton, it looks like we are on our way. Pimienlos In Oconee A group of cuonties in the T ''. Country is finding a pretty good thing in their contracted pimiento pepper, acreage this year. County Agent Morgan of Oconee, said on the first of October: “A few farmers have already marketed - much as 3 1-2 tons of peppers per acre. The average yield per acre should run from 2 1-3 to 3 tons. This year’s crop is the best we have ever had in this county.’’ At $100 a ton, that makes ’em a good money crop. But blight bothered bad at places They will sure have to watch out about that. The agents in the other counties where pimientos were grown talked about the same way when I was with them recently. liar 3> ,; , ats pnri rt ’voui The Remedy For Rats Clemson's Extension Circular 3; entitled “Warfarin Kills RS Mice,” is now available a county agent’s office. It is the lat-, est thing by our Mr. fettles on this important subject. Warfarin has proven to be our most effective and least dangerous material for killing rats and mice. Full particulars for its use are car ried in the above circular that’s free for the asking from your coun- i ty agent. Money for Research Carol Laney of Chesterfield has, practically mechanized his cotton production. He got good results | from pre-merge weed applications,) kept his cotton clean with sizz- i weeders, and then picked it with a 1 machine. He feels that we must mechanize cotton or quit with it eventually. He advanced an idea 1 hadn't heard. Said growers should get to- : gether and pay 25 cents a bale for cotton research. That would bring in three to four million dollars. And with that, he felt, essential re search work with cotton could be greatly stepped up, to the great benefit of the grower. A simimlar idea has already done) cotton a lot of good. It is the 10 cents a bale many ginners pay to the National Cotton Council for support of its essential work in ad vancing and glamorizing cotton goods. Boys Are Thai Way Last week I told you of driving old Kate, the tough-mouthed mule, I to the Iwo-seated surry down to Cousin Jake’s for singing lessons in the summertime. But I didn’t get to finish with that and tell you about the rip back home. A whip made litle impression on old Kate’s tough hide. So it was slow going all of the 6 miles down there through the deep woods. But on the way back, Miller had an| idea. He tied one of the Sunday school papers he found there in the surry to the end of the buggy whip. The whip piade no impression on! old Kate. So he thought he might be able to scare her into a trot with tha paper on the end of the whip. We wer^. over half w^ay home when he got it ready. We had en tered the big opening down there) where Dr. Eargle’s field started. * Miller dangled that loose paper just to the side of the blinds on old Kate's bridle. She immediately came to life,_shied a little, and trot ted a piece. That tickled us. Then Miller gave it a good shake, touch ed one of her ears with the paper. Well, sir, that set her on fire! Her sluggish nature changed. She lit out across the ditch bank, right across Dr. Eargle’s corn field. As that surry bounced across those corn rows, she scattered young’uns,! boys and girls, on every side. They were yelling and screaming, and Miller was vainly trying to tame her with the reins and calm talk. Eventually she stopped and went to eating green com. But it look ed like a hurricane had gone through that silking com field. 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