The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 31, 1955, Image 14
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IHE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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