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* **■ Iffc Eifht IHE CLINTON CHRONICLE Tjwnwtoy, Mardi SI, IMS * FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist Wkal To Irrigate Folks often ask the question, ‘•What crops will it pay to irri gate?” Well, from results coming from the experiment stations and from farm demonstrations of it, I’m thinking it will pay on any crop we grow when drought threat ens. That is, provided we do everything else toward building a big yield potential there. Some folks thought cotton, a somewhat drought resistant crop, wiuld not respond. Yet it does. At Clemson in 1953 it added 655 pounds of seed cotton per acre, and last year it added a good bale (1490 lbs. of seed cotton) per acre. And our irrigation man. Law, secured reports from 15 nearby experiment stations and farmers who irrigated cotton since 1949. Their average in- irease was just a fraction over a half bale per acre from irriga tion. Irrigation on early peaches at Clemson showed only a small profit But on later varieties, notably Elbertas, it showed good profit, adding from 1 to 2 1-2 bushels per tree. Since it does not increase the number of fruit, this increase was all in size, which adds considerably to their per bushel value, too.' Irrgated fall tomatoes at Clem son in 1953 made 103 bushels pe' acre against 9 bushels where not irrigated. Soybeans last year made 32.7 bushels per acre with irrigation at Clemson and 7.3 bushels with out it. And unirrigated corn mdae nothing at all, while the ir rigated part made 91 bushels per acre. Last year even Bermuda grass and pearl millet made very little without it, while irrigation add ed from 2 to 4 5 tons of air-dry matter (hay) per acre. Water, w-ater. is the big item You need to look to that first. And if competent engineers can’t dope it out for you, forget about irrgation until some way is de vised for assuring the needed w’ater. But if water is available, you have better days ahead Your county agent and SCS man can help you weigh your water prospects there. • V , Notification Burning Law County Agent Alford tells me Colleton county has a law re quiring folks to notify their county forest fire control organi zation when they plan to do any woods or hedge row burning. Convenient stations for report ing such intentions are designat ed over the county. These are promptly phoned in to the cbn- trol offce and the lookout towers notified. Then the fire fighters do not have to wear themselves out running to controlled fires. Looks like this is a good idea. And Alford said it was working satisfactorily. Rampant fires are the main enemy of our forests Control them, and an empire of timber will come back to our vast cut-over areas. For our state forester, Mr. Flory, tells me that about 90 per cent of these lands will come back to timber if we let ’em. • * * Potatoes Important, Outlook A large distributor in New York told me 65 per cent of the produce business was potatoes (Irish potatoes). I hadn't realized spuds were that important We don't use that many down here. Bu the lest of the country really eats ’em, frequently three times a day. The county agents tell me we planted about the same acreage to Irish potatoes this spring that we had last year. But in the country as a whole, the potato folks fear the 15 per cent in crease over last year means a rough road ahead for early pota toes this tme. • • • Change. Change. But Always Savings Accounts 3% — DIVIDEND — 3% We invite savings accounts from the people of Gin- ton and vicinity. You will like our friendly and efficient service, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount—from $1 up—opens an account. Each account is insured up to $10,000 by the Fed eral Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Two people may have up to $30,000 fully insured. Accounts by mail promptly acknowledged. Chartered and Supervised by the United States Government LAURENS FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION Laurens’ Largest Savings Institution 104 W. Main Street Laurens, S~ C. Telephone 22271 Enjoy the modern, the Light refreshment A Smith Change is constant in practi cally everything. But there is just about always a Smith from Edgefield among the state cotton improvement contests. Those Smths are great farm ers, great cotton producers. Gen eration after generation, they are just that way. Maurice set what we thing is a world’s record for non-irrigated cotton with a bit over 3 1-2 bales per acre on 5 ares in 1951. And this past year a younger generation Smith was second in the state with 11.5 bales on 5 acres. Good land and good farmers. When those two get together, you're bound to see the records fall. * • • Boy* Are Thai Way For some weeks now we have been talking sweet here. That was about sorghum syrup, a home-made staff of life for us kids when we were comng up in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. We not only topped just about every meal off with it, but it made our candy, too. That stuff, cooked just right cn the old outfit down in the pasture under that big oak tree, mixed into a creamy consistency with fresh-churned butter, and swabbed up with hot biscuits was goot eatin' for sure. And I still regard it as one of the best things there is. But, you know, the making of sorghum syrup is now all but a lost art. Just last fall the old hunger for it returned, and I sought it in my rounds. Away up near Long Creek in the pic turesque near-mountain area of Oconee county I saw a small pile of spent cane by an old syruo mill. I stopped to inquire. The man said he had made just a few gallons of sorghum syrup for his own use. Passing folks had no ticed that pile of pumice and stopped so much to inquire for some sorghum syrup that he' thought he'd have to haul the stuff away so th>‘e’d quit both erin' him. He didn’t have any to spare I^ter I spied a half gallon jar i in a filling station near Belton i and asked the man what was in it He Said SORGHUM SYRUP (The capitals are mine). I got the half gallon for SI.50. It used to be 30 cents a gallon when I was a kid But it seldom sdld then If yours ran out before the new crop came in, a neighbor generally loaned you some until yours came in. That man told me a neighbor had made 71 gal lons of that syrup and brought a- few jars there to the station to see if it would sell. That wasn’t many days before, and I luckily got the last jar. Since then my meals have been perfect, topped off with a little syrup, butter, and bread, as of yore. And all during Christ mas no pies, cakes, nor other ueserts ranked anywhere near my sorghum syrup for finishing a meal with. And the nutriton- ists tell me it is simply loaded with minerals and vitamins, too! No wonder our Stone Hills grew such sturdy and rugged folks. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 26th day of April, 1955, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Administrator C. T. A. of the estate of Toccoa M. Bailey in the office of the Judge of Pro bate of Laurens County, at 2:30 , P M., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administrator, C. T. A. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. ROBERT M. VANCE, Clinton, S. C., Surviving Adm. C. T. A. of Estate of Toccoa M Bailey. March 11, 1955 4c-w-A-14 IF YOU DON’T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS The Light Refreshment No Finer at Any PEPSI COLA BOTTLING CO. GREENVILLE, 8. C. NNMnopiimmmmtimmHBBtim FINE FURNITURE Down Through the Years T. E. Jones & Sons The Beet for Over Fifty Yi CLINTON, S.C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in South Carotina mmtmmmmmmmmmmtmtd Bring a Friend To Church With You % ' . QptuA/iq 16 A MIRACLE V* v* few . ***** ^ Spring it to much more than just a season. It is a miracle, enacted against a backdrop of perfect days. It is the time of rebirth... of reaffirmation. Spring is Christ’s story, beautifully illustrated by nature. It is all the teach ings of the Church, brought to reality, spread out gloriously for you to see. Nature, in her sweet, ne># loveliness, touches the world, touches you with the Christ-like spirit If your vision has been dulled, she gives you the chance to see again more brightly than ever. K • Palm Sunday is here again. Never before have the doors of the Church seemed to stand quite so open ... so ready to receive you. Never has the lesson of everlasting life . . . Christ's lesson ... been so poignant. There will be new richness in your life if you will trust in the Church. In your soul there can be eternal spring, and all the bleak ness, questioning and doubt can be erased from your heart forever. THE CHURCH FOR ALL ... ALL FOR THE .CHURCH Tb« Church is tb* grartMt factor on north for the building of character and g«od dtfzomhfp. It is a storehouse of spiritual values. Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civilisation can survive. There are four sound reasons why every person should attend services regularly and support the Church. They arc: (1) For his own sake. (2) For his children's sake. (3) For the sake of his community and nation. (4) For the sale of the Church itself, which needs his moral and material support Plan to go to oburch regu larly and read your Bible dally. Seek Chester Tetees Sunday Late u a-a Monday Late m 1S-M Tucaday t..4«... . Late >i 1- t Wednaaday Lute a 16-Z7 Thursday Late a 18-46 Friday Saturday. • ••••• .Late Late s 13-26 a-4f ) This Series Of Messages Is Being Published Each Week By the Following Clinton Firms In the Interest Of Increasing Church Attendance TIMMERMAN MOTOR CO. Phone 119 Bank Of Clinton Phone 121 Howard’s Pharmacy Phone 101 Giles Chevrolet Co. Phone 26 Farmers Feed & Seed Store Phone 1025 » Burriss-Harrison Co. Phone 435 Clinton Tire & Recap. Co. PImmIZM The Country Market Phone 98 Carolina Service Station Phone 814 Gray Funeral Home Phone 41 Timmerman Motor Co. PhoarlM Young’s Pharmacy 1 r | Phone 19 ^ Pitts Service Sta. & Coal Co. Phone 75 ox Home & Auto Supply Phone 12 T. E. Jones & Sons Phone 131 Geo. A. Copeland & Son. Phone 61 j. I McGee’s Drug Store . Phone 1 ^ I Gulf Oil Corp. Pirate 21 Cooper Motor Co. 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