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0*0+0i+m0*0+0**+*++*+4 The Chronicle StrirM To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable fflltntot If Ym Don’t Hmi The Chronicle Tea Don’t Get the News Volume LY Clinton, S. G, Thursday, August 12,1954 Number 32 FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist rrrrrrifrrrrrrrrrrrfrrffr Who’d ever thought of pigeons as a business, yes a big business? Well, some folks at Sumter kept on its productiveness, qual ity, etc. ^ „ ,. . »® . There they have reduced the ** yean a?®; Now it is said to _ ^ ^wing to an be the worlds largest pigeon act i n cooperation i plant. • I stopped by there the other day and found an old 4-H club boy, Wilbur Bemshouse, active there with Harold Moise, who runs it, the Pahnetto Pigeon Plant. He told me they now produce 160,010 squabs a year from their 25,000 breeders. Each is pedi greed and a complete record cooperation with governmental and private re search agencies, they have done and are doing advanced breed- tec feeding, and management work with pigeons all along. Old pigeons are sent away mostly to research centers for clinical use. But their main purpose and chief business is raising of superior squabs that they pack and ship away by the thousands weekly. Many frontiers lay around. All we have to do is master them. About a block from this great pigeon plant I found another old boy I had known as a youth in Sumter, "Butch” Cuttino. He had built « good business there making fishing flies, employed a number of people, and was en larging his building. He calls it the Dragon Fly Company. All manner of materials are used in his cunning to foil the fish. Feathers from far plates and buck tails from Maine were piled there before us. The deft fing ers of ladies were fashioning lures from them by securing them to hidden hooks. And so it is with fanning. Ev ery now and then I’m telling you of some new idea that has taken root and is bearing fruit. At the experiment station I see much. And, as I ride with the county agents, I see the new things being demonstrated in the field. Then about all of this we talk in th4 columns. On Sun days it reaches you in daily pa pers. On Thursdays it reaches you again in your weekly and afternoon papers. And then on YOU* MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENT It's no secret that buying a home cakes money—Iocs of it! And for most folks, it’s the most important investment of a lifetime. That’s why it’s so important to find an economical, convenient home mortgage plan. When you’re ready for financing, come in and talk over your needs. We offer America’s most popular financing plan. EDERAL SAVINGS iND LOAN ASSOCIATION A Clinton InstittUoa Serving Oiaton People Since 1ft* No. • Saturdays at 12:36 p m. on “The Vo.ce o, Clemson'' ra<i,o Tm ™ ly there in your living room squawking about the great story of change that’s taking place on our farms that once knew but cotton. Cotton is still thtre. But in a new and better role. Irrigation In Lee County Agent Bryant told me they had a dozen irrigation out fits on the farms of Lee county. A number of them get their wa- thing is easily possible. I’ve told you about Olin Helms up in Lan caster. He thus irrigated 12 ac res of truck and field crops be low his pond. And last Septem ber, when I was there with County Agent Cannon, he had an abundance of turnips larger than eggs while neighbors hadn’t got ten theirs up yet. And his pas ture was very good, while others were as parched and dead as winter. * • • Farmer Responsibility There was a time when just j about everybody in this country] farmed. That started dwindling as industrialization came. The percentage of farmers has gone down, down, while production has gone up, up. It is well that this was so, or somebody would have gone hungry and naked. Popuktion experts say this trend hasn’t stopped yet. The percentage of our folks on the farms now is 14. They say it will continue to drop until it has reached about 8 per cent. And with modem methods, machines, and technology, they feel it will be stabilized there. They figure that progress has gone so far more room for advancement in what man can do. So they expect this thing to start leveling off and be final when about 8 folks out of every 100 are on the farms. That will put a lot of responsibil ity on a few folks. But with sci ence in the saddle, they say 8 per cent of ’em will do the job that’s needed. Big Changes Planned For 1955 Autos ter out of holes they dug in little a. bays that abound In the are: TT»ere the water just seeps in. And they recover rather quickly after hard pumping. He showed me a cute gravity irrigation arrangement that Gene McLendon has. As it us ually is the case, some arable land lies below the dam to his beautiful farm pond. There he irrigates pasture through a 4 inch pipe that’s buried in the side of the dam. A little wood door over the intake shuts the water off as needed. Raise that and a good batch of water goes through and fans out down there insuring abundant lush grass during the severest droughts. And this arrangement doesn't quite take all of the normal over flow from his pond, either. Therefore, he can irrigate indefi nitely there without lowering the water level in his pond. Below many a pond such a By DAVID J. WILKIE Associated Press Automotive Editor Detroit, Mich., August 7—Most of the 1955 model autos will boast major styling changes. It has become something of a tradition in automotive opera tions that once an entirely hew model is presented Its basic lines are good for at least three years. Some experts have said it takes about that long to cash in on the changes. These normally repre sent millions of dollars of the manufacturers’ working capital. Right now the experts are fig uring major styling changes are coming in the entire Chrysler line; GM’s Chevrolet and Ponti ac models; Packard and Stude- baker and American Motors’ Nash and Hudson lines. All the other makers introd- duced far reaching changes in their 1954 models. For that rea son their styling changes probab ly will be less extensive- Some, however, have engineering ad vances to be incorporated in the 1955 vehicles. It is now pretty well accepted that Chevrolet, Pontiac and Packard will have V-8 engines. Along with several other makes they also will have the newest panoramic or wrap-around wind shields. One industry observer has figured that with the intro duction of all the 1955 models the V-8 engine will appear in almost every’ maker’s cars. Several, of course, plan to re tain sixes for competitive rea sons. are among- 4he things undergoing refinement for 1955 and 1956 models. Packard reportedly has a new feature ready for adaption to its Ultra- malic unit. It is said to be a re vised geared-starting arrange ment that provides quick get away And still another company will introduce an entirely new auto matic transmission in the torque converter field. However, industry talk has Ford planning to introduce its Thunderbtrd sports model at about the same time Chevrolet brings out ite regular 1955 line. Final Week-End of THE BOOTERY’S Summer Shoe Come get these great buys in fine dress and casual shoes-only three more days, so hurry! One Group Dress $7. 00 Shoes • Values to 15.95 One Group Casual & Dress Shoes • Values to 10.95 Close-Out Specials! 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And that, with coun try ham, red gravy, and a soft fried egg mixed in it to make it look like gold wasn't far from the real stuff. That sort of hominy we ground from our own com at the water mill down on the creek bn Fri days. That was mill day. And we also made big hominy from our com. We’d soak the white kernels until they had swollen to more than double their normal size. Then we cooked them in lye water to make the tough bran coat slip oft And the lye for that came from hardwood ashes we saved from the fire place. They were just dumped in the pot and the stuff cooked. Ttan the inert matter and lye water were washed from the cooked-soft. This we stored in gleaming white kernels that had the smokehouse in a tub of clear water. In the winter it kept there for a good while until we could eat it up. To prepare the big hominy to eat, we’d put a frying pan of it on the stove, stir and heat it well, and then put a browned milk gravy made of the fryings from home-cured side meat over it and let it simmer in. A plate of that, along with some of the same meat from which the gravy was made, is good eating for sure. And it has substance in it. You could work in that stuff. We kids would go to the smoke house and get handsful of that cooked com to eat between meals. But it wasn’t much good then as the salt and seasoning weren’t put on and cooked in until ready to serve. More about this next week. IF YOU DONT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Phone 74 FALL TERM... 7 Connes offered: Complete Bos- inem Btonsgraghle, Secretarial. Ju4cr and Advanced Aeeoant- iag. and Office help ef all kinds le at an aB-ttea ENROLL NOW1 GREENWOOD COLLEGE OF COMMERCE B. 0. 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