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Pace Six THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Leaders In Trade Bill Agreements liljs Thursday, Jane 30,1955 Stnitftr Harry Byrd (D-Va.). Chairman of tha Sanata Finance Commlilaa. shows Senators Strom Thurmond (D-SC). right, and Waltar George (D-Ga.). left tha free conference report on the Reciprocal Trade Agreements bill as finally approeed by the Con gress. June 15. Byrd is pointing out that Thurmond’s amend ments providing protection to South Carolina textile and other industries have been retained in the new bill despite criticism that they offered too much protection to domestic industries. George advocated the amendments in committee. Thurmond stated his prevent any further tariff cuts for three years on textile and other items that suffered "drastic’' cuts at the recent GATT Conference at Geneva. The bill also provides continued world markets for American farm and manufactured products. rrrrrrtrrrrrcrm FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist Beautify South Carolina A delightful letter came from a lady of Abbeville. She points out that South Carolina is get ting a lot of due publicity and is growing fast. But we have a lot of ugly and eroded spots by the roadsides, and here and there old abandoned and tumbling-down houses mar the landscape. How much “more cheerful” the scene would be if owners would do something about these signs of decay, she points out. Fix up and paint some of the fences, too, she urges And of roadside parks she speaks, after having seen and used them on a trip last summer, ‘Oh, if South Carolina had them, too!” If we would all just pick up trash and beautify a bit. what a beautiful state we would have. Planting crepe myrtles along the highways, she urges, to make “life more beautiful” for those who have to travel much. She will be glad to know that our state is building roadside parks now. ‘Riey are marked on the new highway map. I no tice there are 8 between Oconee state park and the state line. And quite a few dotted at other stra tegic places over the state. I, too, have traveled quite a bit in re- ant roadside spots in other states cent years and used these pleas- to stop, picnic, and rest. Some states mark them, “Picnic Area : Blank Miles Ahead.” Then you can be prepared to stop before when the highway departments essential. That’s why they click you run by it. Maintenance is put them in. I have known local groups to put them in. But lack of maintenance caused them to fall into decay and become snaky places. • • • Getting Information Out In this day and time, almost every day brings something new on the farm front. It is the job of the county agent to get that out to his farmers. This is done in varied ways. Practically all of our agents have weekly news paper columns. They have radio and television programs, and they hold many meetings. Talking about radio, County Agent Rogers of Florence tells me they have 12 fifteen minute programs a week. Now, folks, that’s 3 hours a week on the air. And they just don’t get on and gab either. Each program takes time to prepare. But their job is to reach the folks. And it pays, just like when they sit down and prepare their weekly newspaper columns. I know quite a number of our editorial folks over the country who have been sent for a year or more to many different countries of the world to help them set up a system for getting information out to their folks. Some coun tries have up to date research work and results. But their weakness has been getting it out to the farms. It slumbers in musty reports and sees little of the light of day out in the fields where it could mean something. And these fellows tell me there are still other countries that don't have the information to start with. Columbia; September 24 — Greenville; September 27—Wal- terboro; September 28 —Lydia; and September 30—Orangeburg. Many of our cattle growers are not equipped to feed their young cattle out and they go from grass to the sale at that time. But more of our folks are beginning to feed their cattle out and get the extra profit that usually comes from a little grain feed ing. The local markets usually get sort of glutted with grass cattle in the fall, when so many are benig sold. Feeding these out on grain for 60 to 100 days usually pays. Americas agricultural great ness is largely attributable to the speed with which the findings of science are carried to the farm. * * * Feeder Calf Sales Coming Louis Cato, our livestock spec ialist, tells me the following feed er calf sales have been arranged for the early fall: September 20—York; Septem ber 21—Winns boro; September 22—Greenwood; September 23— For those of our time it is hard to realize we were once a rather important sheep state. Away back in 1850 the census shows us to have had 285,551 sheep in South Carolina. \ They dwindled to prcatically nothing in our time, about 4,000 head in the whole state. I often apeak of change change, the constancy of change. And this applies to just about ev erything, including sheep. For they, too, now show signs of coming back. We have, for the first time, 4-H sheep clubs being started. Clemson is working with the big woolen mill at Johnsonville jn conducting a sheep experiment or demonstra tion. County agents take farm ers there to see it and they are impressed. Our man Gus Du- Rant told me the other day he had orders for over 3,000 ewes from interested fanners. That order alone will almost double the state’s sheep population. Boys Are That Way # * * l*st week I told you a bit about Colonel Frick’s drug store, that haven of delight, at Chapin, when I was a kid in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. Now a little more. He had a black clock there on the counter with a slot in top. TTiis clock had no blanks. You put your nickel in. It would strike and out would come a check. The check then paid tor a 5-cent purchase of any sort. Every now and then the clock would strike twice when you put your nickel in and out would drop two 5-cent checks. And on rare occasions it would give three. But never a blank. Mer chandising was sure honest then. Well, several of us kids made a study of that fascinating clock. Soon we learned its cycle or se cret. On the sixth nickel it would always give two, except on rare occasions. And then it would give three checks on the eighth nickel. We used this knowledge to great profit after that We’d usually have our baths, put on clean overalls and shirt and go to Chapin on Saturday afternoons. And just about ev erybody else did, too. So that clock at Colonel Frick’s drug store was kept busy. We’d sit around nonchalantly and keep a I count As soon as 5 nickels had been put in, if the customer fin ished there and walked away, we’d move in and drop our nick el. Usually two checks would come out, and we had doubled our purchasing power. But, alas, sometimes the clock only gonged once. Then we knew the second nickel from that would get 3 for sure. And we wouldn’t let any one else in. Three of us had al ready pooled the 3 nickels we had to spend that day and promptly fed the other two in. The last one always brought three strikes of the clock and 3 checks worth a nickel each. Each got his one check to spend as he saw fit. We had mutual agreement on what we’d get with the extra ones. And that was divided equally out be hind the store. Thus we three country boys had our first experience in high financing. And we thus multi plied our nickels for some years. But there was no accumulation 1 of wealth from this fruitful ope ration. For we ate the whole proceeds up right that afternoon. Tree Transplants Mav "Drawn" If Overwateret} Water is good for your trees, but if you give them too much you can drown them. Danger of over-watering is most frequent in poorly drained soil. Too much water forces air out of the soil, and as a result the roots actually suffocate. People are most apt to give small trees too much water. It is difficult to over-water large established trees, however, be cause of their huge requirements and this is sepecially true during hot dry weather. Amount and frequency of wa ter to be given newly planted trees depend on soil, grade and kind of tree. To determine whether the balled area is re ceiving sufficient moisture, dig down eight or ten inches and check the soil for moisture. Newly transplanted trees must get their water requirements from a relatively small amount of soil And it must serve as their water lifeline for at least a month after leafing, depending on the species of tree. Warm tempreatures also help root growth. If a newly planted spring tree still has its mulch covering, the covering should be pulled back to let the soil warm up until mid-summer. Then re place the covering to conserve moisture. nr YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE 1 YOU DON'T GET THE NEWL Protect Stored Grain Against Insect Damage Clemson, June 25 — Farmers who have grain stored on their farms should put forth every ef fort to protect it against insects, rodents, and birds. The Clemson Extension Grain Committee points out that these pests cause heavy losses each year. Growers are reminded that in sects can spread into sound grain when it is stored in infested or unprotected bins, when it is mix ed with contaminated grain, stored near feed supplies, or not treated at the proper time to halt infestations. One truck load of insect-infested grain can con taminate the entire storage ca pacity of a large elevator and make the grain stored there suit able only for livestock feed. The committee suggests clean storage; keeping the grain whole, dry, and free from dust; protec tion with insecticides; and fre quent inspection and fumigation when necessary as means of pro tecting stored wheat and other grains from insects. Bins should be tight enough to keep out all rain or snow. Insects are attracted to high moisture grain and breed in it much faster than in dry grain. A tight bin is essential also for effective fumi gation. Grain free of grain dust and broken kernels is safer from insects than dirty, cracked grain. A protective spray should be applied to the grain before it is stored, or as it goes into the bin, or the grain should be fumigated after it is in the bin. ffc ihe new kind of hardtop- TH& 4 m Door ftit/Niltl I Y ou drop the side window s dow'n on this airy beauty of a Buick with the solid steel roof—and it’s as wide open as a Convert ible, w ith no center posts to mar your view. That’s what makes it a hardtop. 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