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Thursday. June 17,1954 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Tfcr— Clinton High Wins doss A State Title Shown •boro to iho Clinton High Rod Dorlls loom which roconily dofoolod BbhopriUo 14*2 thoro in iho final gamo of iho floriao to win iho Siaio Class A baaoball championship. Malpass. iho win ning piichor. struck out nino. and allowod only four hits. , FARMS... AND FOLKS 87 J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist Cotton Still Recent years have seen a vast development in synthetic fibers. These have many specialized uses that they serve well. Yet through it ell, the majesty of cot ton has stood. Our Dr. Rochester has com piled figures that show the aver age American to be using just about the same amount of cotton he used to. In 193S this amount ed to 27.91 pounds of cotton per person, while back in 1913, be fore the advent of synthetics as a factor, we used 27.48 pounds of cotton per person. In 1913, to look at it another way, we used on an average 30.44 pounds of all fibers per person, of which 27.48 pounds were cot ton. Last year we used 40.41 pounds of fiber per person, of which 27.91 pounds were cotton. So our increase in the use of all fibers has been in synthetics, from practically nothing in 1913 to 9.4 pounds per person last year. Wool has remained rather steady, around 3 pounds, and flax and silk almost negligible. With a growing population, it* the consumption of cotton is growing, even though the. indi vidual continues to use about the same. * ' There are many, many sub stantial uses for cotton for which no satisfactory substitute has ever been developed. Take a shirt, for instance. When a fel low wants to dress up, there is no substitute for a well-launder ed, snow-white cotton shirt. And this applies in many other cast So hail cotton, one of earth’s great crops! It is worthy of the state-wide improvement contest Clemson has conducted with it for many years. ious hour. * That night it rained, and there was therefore no field, work a- cailin’. So we met early next day down among the dense ced ars in our pasture. Each boy had sharpened his knife by then. That consisted of first taking it to the grind stone to get any gaps out. Then to the finer whetrock to get the wire edge off. And finally to the side of an old shoe to hone a razor-sharp edge on it. With sharp knives, we were ready and eager to get started making things out of our treas ured canes, bigger ones than we had ever had before. Water from the night’s rain was all dbout So water equirt- ers claimed our interest first. Soon each had one, and it must have looked like a sprinkler irri gation outfit was in operation down there. The best of ’em could shoot that water some thing like 5 Ofeet. We shot at targets, and, as the day wanned up, we had water battles. The old farm bell proclaimed the hour of noon all too soon. Reluctantly, we lay our treas ures aside and headed up our respective paths to dinner. But that we would return early, not before assuring each other not go home. He was afraid his Zeke, my colored playmate, did folks would have something for him to do that afternoon. So I got him somethin^ to eat at our house. * We hadn’t dried off good yet from our water fights and they asked us why we were sprinkled a bit We answered, “Aw, nuthin,” and it passed off. That afternoon was glorious. It for next week. Collage Field Force The county and home agents are truly the servants of every citizen. Originally they served rural people. But in late years they carry science to farm and home, no matter where that home is. In fact the agents in counties with large city and ur ban populations spend a goodly portion of their time serving them too. Home improvement and beautificatin, nutrition, care of tree and sod, control of house hold pests and the like are prob lems in town as well as in the country. And many of our town folks own farms too. To serve these and others in towns, spec ial meetings, radio, television, and newspaper features are car ried by the agents. To, aid in serving city men with farms. County Agent Bailey of Richland or ^ has his rural-uri>an dub that 1 jneets monthly. There he is able to serve many m short time. 8. Abandoned sheds and build ings. 9. Unguarded construction pro jects. 10. Unprotected chemicals and building materials. Controlling or getting rid of these ten leading , community trouble makers should be the ob jective of every parent with young chidlren. Youngsters love to explore and have little real sense of danger. Warning them about unsafe places to play is not enough, the Institute paints uot. The flrst step fer parents is to list all such danger sources in the vicinity of their homes then de ride what can be done about them. If any are found on your prop erty, you should correct them yourself without delay. When the hazards are located on another's property, parents should not hes itate to seek the owner’s coopera tion. Should the owner refuse to grant this cooperation the dangers should be painted out to the po lice or other town authorities. Chances are your efforts in crusading for a safer community will not go unrewarded. Others will join you once they realize the importance of eliminating lo cal child death tarps. kins get fish from the Depart ment of Interior, Fish and Wild life Service, for stocking the pond. The following District cooperatr ors are planting kudzu seed direct in the field this season: T. P. and D. E. Brown, Rt. 3, Laurens, Ralph Waldrep, Rt. 3, Laurens, W. W. Robertson, Rt. 2, Climton, J. M. Oeland, W. W. Thompeon, Ware Shoals, John F. Phillips, Rt. 3, Laurens, Medford Strange, Lau rens, and Earl White, Fountain Inn. The first five listed above are dairy fanners and plan to use kudzu grazing to keep up milk production during periods of droughts or late summer when other grazing crops are low. This is the third year that T. P. and D. E. Browr^have planted kudzu seed - in the field. They have around 60 acres of kudzu planted by this method. Their stands have been very and they like the seed method of planting kudzu much better than crown or seedlings. J. B. O’Dell and W. H. Fleming of the local Soil Conservation Service office will attend the state meeting of the Soil Conser vation Service at Clemson College on June 9, 10, and 11th. SUBSCRIBE TO ~ THE CHRONICLE Community Death Traps For Clinton Now is the time that youngsters begin a long season of play out doors. Will your children be safe from Injury while they are out of your sight, or will they be heeded for tragedy? The Institute for Safer Living of the American Mutual Liability Insurance Company warns that there are ten common hazards to be found in nearly every com munity in the country. These haz ards are responsible for hundreds of tragic child deaths each year. The most serious community child hzaards listed by the Insti tute are as follows: 1. Water filled holes, pits and ditches; also unprotected natural itruama, _ 2. Old ice boxes and refrigerab Certain Self- ZreatMcnt Should Worry you, Zoo... Powerful and effective, stony new drugs con produce v::-:-: III use or overdose. Dangerous develop, fermanenl injury can be done endangered* are restrictions on the use Chloromycetin, certain sulfa compounds without the core and prescription m your health requires it, conselt prescribe bese new and potent McGee’S drug store N* 1 — m ms DRUG STORE / The modem agent is a walking encyclopedia and more. For they have to renew their knowledge every season, in this fast moving world. They are the farmer and homemaker’s clearing house from which latest methods and ideas come. The average indi vidual can’t keep up with all of the changes that a growing sci ence brings. But your agents try to keep up on what’s happen ing and what applies there, and you can, as thousands do, go to them for clearance on new things. The field force of your College and USDA cooperating, that’s what they are. • •—•———- Four Migrations Change, change, the constancy of it We see a lot of cotton going west and cattle coming east We also see a lot of yankees coming south and Negroes going north, as someone has put it. Maybe all of these are for the good. You con have too much or many of anything at one place. Cotton then has room for able adds here. Our grass relieves the western range. We profit by the hustle of the yankee. And the Negro finds opportunity there and leaves room here for those that stay. • • • To Kill Bamboo . Some have bamboo at places where they would like to get rid of it It has defied many who tried. There is one secret to getting rid of it. I learned it at the bamboo testing gardens of the USDA below Savannah the oth er year. And that is to cut it off ait the ground in early July or August Now, folks, that really works. I saw it tried on some very vigorous cjumpe °* tt here at Clemson And it cleared it up completely. The next spring you might have a puny sprout or so come up. But cut it off and that’s usually the last of it. The big roots die in the ground. • • • Boys Are Thai Way As we approached home, with our burdens of bamboo from the forbidden land across the creek, the sun had sat and the cattle were waiting up at the gate. We kids stopped down there in our pasture below the house for a conference. We knew our excursion of the afternoon, down through Cousin Jake’s back pasture, where the bad bull stayed, and across that dangerous creek for canes, would have been frowned hard upon. And to .take oar trophies to the house then would havfe been too tell-tale. So, reluctantly, we parted temporarily from them by hiding them down there in the dense cedars until a more auspic- 3. Steep cut sand banks, par ticularly sand banka 4. Community junk heaps. 5. ’tlunked autos and unused machinery. 6. Accessible electric wires. 7. Unsafe outside stairways and ladders left standing against buildings. CONSERVATION NOTES 1 By J. B. ODELL Sail Conmrvatiaa Service John W. Finney of Clinton, a cooperator with the Laurens County Soil Conservation District, planted approximately 16 acres of seficea lespedeza last week. It was planted on land that was used for winter and spring grazing of a small grain mixture. Mr. Finney has grown sericea for a number of years and h very enthusiastic over this crop. He said that many acres of land in Laurens county should go into sericea for grazing, hay or a .cash crop in the form of seed produc tion. While serving in the above manner sericea is also an excel lent land builder and erosion con trol crop. Arthur D. Armstrong, Rt. 3, Laurens, was assisted last week in the laying out and building of 3,000 feet of terraces on which he is to receive cost-sharing bene fit through the local ASC office. The terraces were constructed with the District’s motor grader, operated by J. B. Wilson, Rt. 3, Laurens. Mr. Wilson is the new operator of this machine having started work for the District on June 1st. Howard Watkins of Clinton, a cooperator of the Laurens District, was assisted this past week in surveying a farm pond. John Adair, a local contractor and farmer, has already com menced construction on the dam. Mr. Watkins plans to use the pond for fish production, stock watering and probably irrigation later on. 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