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1 ) p «ge Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE V? FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist Coastal Bermuda This grass has really been planted the past spring. Farm ers by the score, and on consider- erable acreages, have sprigged it in. The certified seed patches put out last year through county agents in every' county have proved a valuable source Of pure planting stock. Then many truck loads of stolons from other piaees have been planted too. We will soon know abut this grass in a big way. Earliest plantings have looked very' god When I dropped by to see Coimty Agent Lloyd in Edge- field' in March, he was out hold ing a 4-H club meeting. Talked with the SCS men, O’Dell and Floyd. They told me they had two machines for planting this grass. One was owned by the district supervisors and the other were doing custom work, and by four local farmers. Both had been,kept busy. In Jasper I saw a man from Georgia setting this grass on con tract for $15 per acre for 50 ac res or more at one place, and a little higher for smaller patches. The farmer got the land in order and this man came in and did the rest, furnishing tractor, panter, labor and roots. County Agent Tate said he was putting plenty of grass and seemed to be doing a good job. Custom work with these plant ing machines meets a need. Very "few if any farmers would be jus tified in owning one just for their own use. For when you finish planting that stuff you are really through, unless you get more land. It stays put. ■• • • Chester's 4-H Guernseys You can pretty well tell when you get in Chester county by the sort of cattle you see. They are HINTS FOR PROSPECTIVE HOME’ OWNERS Here’s how we can help you make your new home a pleasure to own.< We can arrange monthly mortgage payments that are complete — and easy on your budget. Everything can be included - principal, interest, insurance and taxes. 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And too often have good buys in good used equipmeo&l CLINTON IMPLEME|IT CO. MUSGROVE ROAD TELEPHONE 723-W truly the Guernsey county. And the 4-H clubs there have been not only in tune with it but spearheading the Guernsey de velopment for a long tone. A good many of their present cat tlemen learned the 4-H way, by doing. I asked County Agent Wylie how many 4-H Guernsey club members they have now, aAd it was 75. There we see a goodly number of dairymen in the mak ing. Over 2,000 Guernsey cows are artificially bredm fro their coun ty bull stud the past year. • » • Beat Two of 'Em 1 Back in March, as the crowd was leaving a baseball game that Clemson won 22 to 3, I he&rd a small boy enthusiast exulting to another, “And boy, just think, it was two of ’em, too,’’ v meaning Washington and Lee. 0 $ 0 Feet Burn f- Working here in the office, or riding highway and byway, on a summer day, my feet bum, and I kick my shoes off. Guess mine were just not made for shoes. Recollection carries me back to boyhood. On a set date in late Ap ril they let us pull our shoes off. The routine was to go to the horse trough at mid-day, pull shoes and stock ins off, souse our feet in -the cool water. And then, after that baptism, they were free for the summer, except when we went to Sunday school and church. And then shoes brought their torture in multi plied form to feet that had hard ened, spread, and outgrown them. • • • Commercial Feed The commercial, properly pro portioned feed business has grown mightily in recent years. Here in South Carolina, I’m told, poultry alone now eat over twice as much feed of this sort as was sold in the state 20 years ago for all purposes. Yes, sir, it’s no longer the old grasshopper chicken or turkey for us. He had to be fast to catch his keep. But the birds of to day, bred fo superior meat, can realy lay that choice meat on their carcasses with the well- balanced feeds we now have available at every cross-roads. With most forms of livestock, 1 we use a lot of home grown feeds. This is particularly true with turkeys, cattle, and hogs. We add starters and high protein supplements. But for chickens, specially broilers, it is a commer cially compounded feed all the way. The grower could hardly get, handle or mix all of the ele ments that go into the fine poul try rations of today. • • • — Boys Are That Way ....Across that forbidden creek away back of our place in the Stone Hils we found a treasure. It was a great cane brake, the biggest wild canes I’ve ever seen. Maybe they loom larger in mem ory now than they really were. But it seems they were at least 20 feet high and larger than your thumb. Before that we had canes, but they were much smaller. And we used them for many purpos es, like whistles, pop-guns, water squirtera, etc. But these great canes, my what a find! We could really make things out of them. It was tropically beautiful in there. The heavy stand of long green canes with their lacy tops shutting out the sky and making a canopy overhead, made a place that was simply bewitching. Tho dense shade subdued most growth on the ground and it was rather clean of verdure down there. I’m sure we would have played Tarzan in there if we had ever heard of him back then. We played for a while, but soon we got down to the job in hand. We needed those canes in our business; so we went into cutting iA some and cleaning the brandies from their tops to light en the load home. Most of us had knives, but only mine and, Ben’s were good enough to cut those tough canes. We loaned ’em around and soon eachw had about a half dozen pretty speci mens. The bark on hickories was still slipping pretty well; ao with that we tied them together in a fashion. You know, a batch Hipradiy, May 27,1984 I WeHSMaaBSSMBBHHWHMSBSaaSBtoS of slppery canes is hard to car ry or drag. They keep slipping out. In there it soon looked Idea late afternoon. We thought it had come awful quick. So we made ready to go. The broken twigs readily led us back to the creek. But getting across that fallen log, byt that big upright, limb, poised a problem. For we akin’t know how deep that water was under there, and none of us could swim much. Hold here. This has used up my space. We’ll have to take up here next week. " I Academy ’Street is still on top in the Little League although they lost their first game Mon day to Joanna who got to Little ton, the league’s leading pitcher, for nine hits. Littleton became the third Little Leaguer to hit one over the fence this season. Notice to all boys betweeh the ages of 7 and 12 that did not make the Small Fry or Little League teams: If you want to play baseball be at the Pony League park at 10:00 a m. Mon day morning. We want to form a new league if enough boys are interested in coming out each day. Small Fry schedule opens Monday at 10:00 a. m., in the Lit tle League park. Nine Leading LL Hitlers AB H Pet. Timmons (Thorn.) 13 8 .615 Littleton (Aca.) 17 10 .589 King (Fla.) 1.. 16 8 .500 White (Fla.) .. r 17 8 .471 Davis (Fla.) 18 8 .444 Whitman (Aca.) 18 8 .444 King (Joanna) 20 M. Bailey (Lydia) 23 Gaffney (Lydia) 18 6 .333 Leading LL Pitchers Littleton (Academy)—55. King (Joanna)—33. M. Bailey (Lydia)—28. Gaffney (Lydia)—22. Timmons (Thom.)—21. Crouch (Fla. St.)--19. < Lewis (Joanna)—18. LL Standings Through May 24 W L Academy 5 1 Joanna 4 2 Fla. St. , . 4 2 Thornwell 1 4 Lydia 1 6 Pony League Standings W L Thornwell 2 0 Fla. St 2 0 Joanna 2 1 Academy St. — 0 2 Lydia 0 3 Leading Pony League batters and pitchers will be given in next week’s paper. LL Home Rune White (Fla. St.)—1 Davis (Fla. St.)—1 Littleton Acad. St.)—1 Schedule For Next Woek All Pony games start at 3:00 p. m. Thursday—Joanna vs Thom- well. f Friday—Fla. St vs Academy. Monday—Lydia vs Thomwell. Tuesday—Fla. St. vs LydiA. Wednesday—Joanna vs .Lydia. Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. 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