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i "r Thursday, November 26, 1953 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE i Paee Five FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Informat im* Specialist L. W. Alford of Colleton, we saw them, threatening hordes of them. Laurens Dairy Procress. Busy Arent, and Irrcatlon County Agent Gannon told me they had recently completed 5 more Grade A dairy barns in Laurens county. • This gives them 50 such dairy establishments. His office is a spot that farmers sure use. I was there a half-hour. At' least a half dozen folks called him during that tme. All 'sought some thing diiferent. One had borers in his house and wanted the remedy.! Another called about PMA payments j for 195-1, as he was planning his op erations then. Carnon straightened | him out, as best he could at that | time. Another wanted to know some thing about planting crimson clover. While still another wanted to know the couny cotton acreage and yield for each of thef past 3 years. The seeding mixture and fertilization for a new pasture was asked by another. While still another one wanted to know how to kill off the liqe on his collards. Cannon did not falter in giving answers. The modern county agent has to become a veritable walking 1 encyclopedia. Cannon knew’ every | answer except one detail. And he quickly turned to a handy reference and got that. He told me T P. Brown and Son had saved an alfal a crop with ther sprinkler irrigation. And Robert Harris had made a fine crop with Opportu nities Unlimited . . . /-■f. Let s go down to the ‘Y ’!” is a familiar call each day for thousands of American girls. For the “Y”—the Y oung Women’s Christian Association—is a center of wholesome activity, recreation, and fun. The character building role of organizations like the Y'WCA is of major significanoe in the development of the nation’s youths. 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Food Makes Game They; have started growing some oommercial rice again in our Low Country. And with it, the rice birds have come back. Yes, great swarms of ’em. ^ While riding with county agent J. AHt , thre; Left alone, they cbuld clean up a whole field of rice in a while. This critical period with rice, thanks be, lasts only a very few weeks, I was told. So during that time they were resortng to everything from frecrack- ers to zooming airpanes to try to keep them scared away. I was just led to wonder where % all of those birds have been feeding before the rice started coming back there. Our wildlife folkis tell us that the food supply largely determines most game populations. And, of course, some sort of sensible pro tection, too, is needed. I told you abqut the 17,000 acre wild turkey refuge that was estab lished a few r years ago down in the heart of the great Francis Marion National Forest area near McClel- lanville. With protection and over 100 small foocl patches that have been established over it, the wild life population has become satu rated to the point that live trapping is now done to stock denuded areas Wild turkeys and deer are specially abundant there. And coons have be come so plentiful as to become a nuisanpe. Our game folks are making a sys tematic and intelligent effort to help our wildlife come back from the point of near-extmetion it was approaching. Success can come from this only to the extent that our landowners and hunters coop erate with them. Our 4-H clubs have projects in wildlife food pro duction' and management. Each winter many thousands of lespedeza bicolor plants are set by members on their home farms for birdfeed and shelter. These seedlings are furnished by our state wildlife de partment. Such Growth! I wonder if anything in our agri culture hak ever grown like broiler production has in quite recent years? In 1934 this country produced 35 million broilers. Last year it produced 886 million! That’s an-, increase of 2,531 per cent! And this year that figure will be even high er. Several things account for this phenomenal groMvth. Other meats have been so high as to make chickens a good buy. The “Chicken of Tomorrow Contest”, has encouraged breeders and pro ducers to put out better, nqeatier birds. Vast improvement has been noted here. And these superior birds are naturally in better de mand than the crow-like creatures that most broilers used to look like. Clemson has a major course in poultry. The Extension Service has many good bulletins on the dif ferent phases of poultry production that are free at your county agents’s office. The 4-H club boys and girls have many projects with poultry, and the Sears, Roebuck project puts the best chicks into many of their, hands. The FFA boys study and grow poultry. The feed people and poultry dressing plants have ex perts in the field to help and advise. With all working 1 together, poultry booms. Boys Are That Way Earliest recollection carries me back to the time I must have been about 5. That would make it about 1901. My folks carried me to Co- ; lumbia with them! I was sure in a strange world then. From the time the old wood burner rolled into White Rock, our flag stop, with a shower of hot cin ders, until we got back home that afternoon,-! was half scared all the' time. And I know I was a nui sance, hanging on to my mother's skirts all day. - Crossing that trestle into Colum bia scared me a lot. There were no sides to it, and it looked like we were just hanging away up there in the air, 20 feet or more. We got out down there on Gervais Street and walked up the hill toward Main. Our first stop was at thei Farmers’ Alliance store, run by Cousin Patil Haltiwanger. My Aunt Mat worked there. I had never, seen anything so big. They handled just about everything. Cousin l^aul patted me on the head and ;gave me a stick of candy. I always liked him after that. And Aunt Mat gave me a dime, the biggest piece of f money I had ever had. I never for got her for that and subsequent kindnesses. That day we had dinneq at Cous in Dick Keenan’s. TJhat first time I ever saw or’ tea. I liked it from the start. Cous in Paul lived just across the street,! Elmwood Avenue. We went over there after dinner to see Cousin Kate, his kindl wife. It was then I first met Ames and Deems, now prominent Columbia business men. Their sister, Laura, already was k favorite of mine. She had visited my sister. But I hadn’t met Carry before. With all of that kinery meeting on a rare visit, there wils an abun dance of talk. About 4 o’clock Cous in Dick sent his buggy by to take us to the 5 o’clock train. It took us back to the Stone Ijills, where I was a lot more comfortable. 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