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Thursday, June Id, IMS THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Thrw FARMS... ■ AND. FOLKS 4 ■# I By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist ■* * ^rrffxxjffrfrrr Hail, Freeie, And No Hanreot “The tornado-like hailstorm on March 13 and the severe freeze of March 27 got the peach crop in the county,” says County Agent Kearse of Saluda, M and also severely damaged many of the trees. So there will be no fruit or nut crops at all this season,” he concludes. I asked him what these farm ers were doing. Said, “The best they can with more feedstuffs, sweet potatoes, and some aromatic tobacco.” Now extend that to the down- state area of recent orchards, on up Chesterfield way, across York and Cherokee, and into the world’s greatest fresh peach Ship ping section in the Spartanburg section, and you have disaster that was truly colossal. iLivestook and poultry and summer crops are being worked to the limit in these areas. But you can’t completely adjust quick to other things when your mainstay is gone. County agents called their leaders together and much emergency planning was done Summer will go and the harvest season will come. And here’s hoping it will be good, specially for those who were hit and had to quickly change their course in mid-stream. # a a .. Saybeans, a New Crap Much of our expanding grain acreage is now followed im mediately by soybeans. That’s a combination that’s to hard to beat. Two money crops on the same land in a year and two rich residues turned under, not bad. In fact most farming sec tions of this country can’t do that, season’s too short. One of our main advantages here is that climate permits year- around farming. And another is that every major crop produced in the United States, except citrus, .not only can be grown here, but folks are growing it successfully. My, what other re gions would give for that! That and our great water potential the Almighty sends here in a 48- inch rainfall are endowments of transcendent value. And it is just in recent years we have started rousing from our age-long one crop lethargy and have started realizing on this great potential. On that, we have barely started. I recently heard the emminent Dr. Harold Clark of Columbia Unversity openly and unqualified ly predict that this area right here would in the next century grow to lead the nation in per capita income. You recall it once did. But a devastating war reduced it to the foot of the list. And it is from the havbc of war and the ashes Sherman left that we have been slowly building since. On top of our other advantag es, Dr. Clark pointed out that the line for lowest cost of heat ing and tooling in this country runs right through the middle of South Carolina. And that’s a big factor in good living any where on this earth. I started out to say something about soybeans. And, my, look where I’ve drifted! Til write a whole piece on this latter subject some day. For we have too long faltered in a veritable wilder ness of unusued potentials that no spot I know of on earth can match. Nitrogen For Corn Our state corn contest has served to further prove what ex periments have shown. It takes a lot of stalks, a lot of water, and a lot of nitrogen to make a lot of corn. As low as our state corn yield has been (it’s been rising since more and more are using the 5 Point Clemson Plan for growing it), fanners here and there are consistently making good com. One of these is W. K. Sharp of Anderson county. I saw him again at the banquet in Columbia last winter where the lt)0-<Bushel Com Club members receive their awards fbr the year. I spoke of having seen him there before and asked how many times he had been there. He said every year but the first. He didn’t hear of the contest in time that year. The next year his son, too, start ed in the contest, and he has been down there ever year since, too. Making 100 bushels per acre is not hard for those fel lows. Others can do it, too, as Hugh Woodle points out. Fbr many have land just as good or better than some of these 100-Bushel club fellows. It takes mainly plenty of stalks, fertilizer, and water on average or better land. And more and more are learn ing to supply the only uncertain element in that, the water, by irrigation as needed. • • • Boys Are Thai Way Our critters were a part of our life in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork in my day as a kid. The soil was rough, rocky, and unyielding, and we got our all from it. And the faithful critter was the lever we used in making our existence possible there. Last week we talked about Old Bill and Frank, the two hors es that were our fort. Frank, too was deathly afraid of auto mobiles, as I told you last week Bill was. Bill got so old he couldn’t eat com from the ear, and wasn’t much good for anything. But he still retained his fire when we sold him for little or nothing to an itinerant horse trader. And le broke his bridle rein and came back home from a mile down the road when a rabbit jumped from the weeds and scared him. We lived some miles from the railroad and our horses seldom saw a train. Both were afraid of the train, but Bill wasn’t un controllably so. He’d quiver and shake and snort a bit. But cahn talk and patting on the neck would enable him to con trol himself. Boy Frank, as utterly docile and dependable as he was other wise, just couldn’t tolerate a train or automobile. Along the lonely road he would be jogging alnog, hal fasleep. Let that dis tant popping sound come all so faintly across the hills and he in stantly perked up, looked wild, and started quivering all over. And he wanted to get from that road, seeming to know it travel- ecf' there. And, folks, I want to tell you, we got off that road, one way or the other. A few times there was no convenient place to turn off. Frank made one and tore up a buggy each time. When we sold Old Bill, we got our first mule. Later my father died and we kept Old Frank just for old times sake. Just turned him put in the pasture. And I can see him now, come to life down there in the pasture, snort a few times, and run for .the dense cedars in the back every time he heard one of those de mon car# popping and kicking up the dust out there in the old Appalachian , Trail that went through our front yard. And he was that way as long as he lived. Sheep Day Program Planned For Farm And Home Week Clemson, June 13—A “sheep! day” program will be held at Clemson Tuesday, August 16. This will be a special feature on the opening day of the annual Farm and Home Week to be held here during the period August 15-19. The principal speaker on the sheep day program will be Rich ard C. Miller, sheep specialist of the Kentucky Extension Service. Mr. Miller has been sheep spec ialist in Kentucky for 35 years. During this time he has visited the leading sheep producing countries of the world. He has imported sheep from England and other foreign countries and has frequently made purchases from the King’s flock in Eng land. L. V. Starkey, head, Clemson Animal Husbandry Department, and chairman of the Farm and Home Animal Husbandry Com mittee, points out that Mr. Miller is an excellent speaker'and has the answers to many sheep prob lems. He says the tentative pro gram fbr the day calls for talks by, Mr. Miller on systems of sheep production from 8:45 to 9:30, and on problems in sheep production from 9:45 to 10:25 a. m. In the afternoon he will lead a program on breed comparisons between the hours of 2:30 and 4:30. * Because of the growing inter est in sheep production in the state, the program is expected to be well attended. j The animal husbandry com mittee is completing plans for programs on other phases of ani mal husbandry for the other days during Farm and Home Week and will announce details of these programs soon. In addition to Mrs Starkey oth er members of the committee are J. R. Cook, A. L. DuRant, E. O. Godbey, Vernon Grant, and R. R. Ritchie. ATHLETES FOOT GERM HOW TO KILL IT IN ONE HOUR If not pleased, your 40c back. I This STRONG fungacidel SLOUGHS OFF the outer skin tol expose buried fuhgi. Kills it on| contact. Get greaseless, instant drying T-4-L at any drug store. I Today at McGee’s Drug Store.! ^ : 4c-June23j IF YOU DONT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DONT GET THE NEWS Gray Funeral Home C linton. S C FI N KR \I, DIRM TORS ...and KMBAf.MFRS Phonrs 1! and I NMTHf.WCf I P. J "SI I I GP \ V and V. PARKS \I)\IR, G*n M,r This is life eternal, that they might knew Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sont. (John 17:3.) Road John 17:1-5. As we survey conditions in which men lived at the time of the birth of Jesus, we become aware of the great changes fbr the better which have taken place since then. We sed changes in education, culture, care of the sick and aged, in the growth of democratic pro cedures, in improved economic life. The guiding force behind these inspiring develpoments is God, as revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. Civilization reaches its fin est heights in those nations whose people live by the eternal truths revealed in Christ’s life and gospel. Deep within each of us is a yearning for the fine, noble things of life. These desires are strengthened as we study the Christian gos pel and in the sprit of Jesus Christ apply His teachings to our daily living. 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