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V Pare Eitrht )• . Pa«e Two Tharaday, March 11,1H4 rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn --“*••• •••*•■***********■***•++++**+»» FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College —^— Information Specialist Planting Time haps know most ot them. And We have about passed through then you can go by and brush up earth’s winter rest period. And on any rusty ones with your planting time for most things is county agent. His job it is to just ahead. keep attuned to experiment and More than usual planning was | experience, and he can likely needed this year, as pointed out help you. early by Clemson’s Dr. Rochest.- Arkansas Fish er. For, with a prospect of con- County Agent Shelley of Barn- tmued high costs and relatively i well went to summer school at low prices, the farmer has to do the University of Arkansas last a good job to stay in business. summer. Said he learned a lot Under this squeeze, it takes in that course. And he got out in high yields of quality stuff to the country some, as we old show any profit. That holds for country boys have to, or we are everything from grass to grapes not happy. He was most impress- and from melons to rftolasses. And you "rtart making that high yield of quality products even before you plant. Good seed, proper land selection' and preparation, liming tif needed), proper row width, fertilizer placement, depth of planting, ed with the trout farms. Said, “You can hardly see the water for the fish. You pay a dime for a loaf of stale bread to feed them. And you can fish all you want to, paying $1.15 a pound for any you don’t throw back.” Fish farming is really getting etc., these are some of the things to be quite the thing at many bearing on yield that you attend places. With proper handling, to before the seed are put into you can sure grow a lot of fish the ground. per acre. That has been worked I don’t have room to go in to all of those details. You per- out for this part of the country by the government at Auburn, FREE Hit IS Tun LUST A BABY CHICK (White Leghorn Cockerels) WITH PURCHASE OF EACH rOMD BIRDSEY’S CHICK STARTER At Hcgulir Price LIMITED SUPPLY-COME EARLY BIRDSEY FLOUR AND FETD STORE V. P. ADAIR, Mgr. MUSGROVE ST. . UNTON, S. C. "Your Dollar Buys More at a Birdsey Store" Alabama. Clemson^has it pretty well summarized for this area in Extension Circular 276 that is now being revised by the author, Sam Williams. Your county agent likely still has some copies of the original printing, and the revised version should be out a little later. However, there is not so much that’s new to go in it- Why Big Words? A traveler-at first hog killin’. He asked, “is that hog for home consumption?" The fanner replied, “No, we’re going to eat it” Some poor fellows seem to be educated into confusion, if not to them, surely to others, who must hear their bag words. I think we all like a speaker teacher, friend, or anyone who can make it plain. It’s bad to put the hay up where the horse can not reach it It will get dusty and not be taken in That fellow dicin’* “consume” a hog. He ate it. The Odor Divine The poet has often sung of the mellow odor that comes from the fresh furrow in springtime. My observations are usually a bit more materialistic and catch that watermelon odor that comes after the shower from a growing com field that’s been dry. Let’s hear one of the early writers, Pliny, on this: He speaks of drought, and then when rain comes to the thirsting earth as follows: “Then it is that earth exhales the divine odor that is so pecu liarly its own, and to which, im parted to it by the sun, there is no perfume however sweet that can possibly be compared.” We think of those old boys back about the time of Christ and before as backward and sort of cave men. But, if we read Their writings, we find we are wrong. They dreamed great dreams, just as men do today. And most of their agriculture was not crude, even when meas ured against ours today. Their implements were, but not their knowledge. Read Cato or Varro and you’ll see. They lived before Christ True, change is constant. But we are not always changing to the new. More often we are‘go ing back to the old that some bright mind of to day has redis covered or unproved upon a bit. Boys Are Thai Way There were just two things .... liked about fire-wood as a kid in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. One was the warmth it gave from the open fireplace. And the other was riding home on it from the woods where it was cut. We went down on the creek, where the tall hardwoods grew,) and there we cut our fire-wood by the wagon-load as we needed’ it. The wagon had the body off and we rode on the “hounds” and coupling pole. We liked rid ing on that stripped down ve hicles The sharp axe had its place wedged between one of the hounds and its metal brace. There it was held securely and and its sharp blade was kept down and out of dangerous posi tion. We liked ash and maple. They cut easy and made good burning wood, although green. It was cut in 12-to 15-foot lengths and loaded on the bolsters between the slanders The larger pieces Were heavy, and if too big, hpd^ to be split. We’d then put one end on the wagon at a time, al ways putting the larger end of the log up-front „ ~ When the slanders were full. „ t get wr top ef the load and rode to the house. It was alwgys hard to get out of those lowlands with the heavy load up to the house on the hill. Sometimes the team would stall, and we had to throw off some wood. With axe or saw, we cut it into fire lengths about four feet long to fit our fireplace. After that the pleasant task of sitting by the flickering and singing fire was ours, deep into the sleepy hours of the night. How cozy it was, after the dark ness of night and the frosts of winter bit down outside. 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