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4 Paffe Twelve THE CLINTON CHRONICLE FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist Tobacco HarvMtan Those strange monsters you likely see crawling across tobacco fields, if you w r ere in that part of the state at the right time, were tobacco harvesters. One is led to winder, “What will mechanization do next?” Our tobacco man, J. M. Lewis, tells me there w T ere over 500 of them in operation here this year. And more than that in North Carolina. They cut the harvest labor re quirements to less than half. And folks w’ork there in the shade. Lewis tells me each machine can handle about 20 acres of to bacco, covering about 5 acres a day. With these machines, less handling of the tobacco is re quired. The result is less bruis ing and damaging the leaves. I’ll bet there is one farm job that will never be machanized, picking okra. But I’m not too sure about that. I saw great ma chines harvesting tender green butterbeans, and shelling them, up on the Eastern shore of Vir ginia. Not only that, but it sort ed the shelled beans out into three grades. And in Florida, I saw a whole packing house moving through the fields, harvesting, ■washing, grading, and packing celery as it went. Even rest rooms moved along with it. And a cafeteria came to the field at meal times! said even during past very dry summers it was almost unbeliev able the hay and grazing this grass made, where handled right, while others were practical fail ures. So it looks like Hugh Woodle, our grass man and Coastal’s greatest enthusiast, was plumb right when he said, “It ^is the grass you can’t lie about'’. Dr. Burton, its originator, has spoken of it as "the triple-threat grass,” for it is equally good for grazing, hay, and silage. • • • Early Grazing To have early fall and winter grazing, it should have already been planted, and should be up and growing now, the experts say. And now is the time to put the nitrogen to it to get big growth before cold weather sets in. For after that, growth is in termittent, coming only with the warm spells. Wildlife Refuge I like the sound and meaning of those words, “Wildlife Ref uge.” As our growing millions sub due the earth, our wildlife has a chance for survival with these protected areas as a base. I rode again for a day with the men at the vast Cape Remain Wildlife Refuge that stretches for miles along our shoreline • * • from McClellanville toward Coastal Bermuda Grass Charleston. That is always a “Under-Rated" thrilling experience. In that great You have likely read and heard and secluded sweep of marshes, stories about Coastal Bermuda salt rivers, sand dunes, and is- grass that you thought were just lands, birds, creatures, and ani- tall tales from Texas. mals of land and sea find things I asked one of our oldest, best, j just to their liking. Even the and more conservative county' w’ild turkey and stately deer agents. M M McCord, of George-1 abound on Bulls Island, the larg- town. if he thought this grass had est land mass in the refuge. And been over-sold. He said, “No. If they trotted from our paths, as anything, it has been underrat- we traversed the siland’s tropical ed.” ' splendor, 5,000 acres of it. There, And he went on to explain that j in a distant solitary pine, the it has a phenomenal ability to re- 1 Bald Eagle nested high, and spond to good treatment. But along the shelly shores the oys- unless you are going to take care ter-catcher fed at ebb-tide, of it and feed it well, it will not A spacious lodge is maintained measure up to its high rating He on the island. Nature study groups go there to observe, study and relax. Audobon tours from all parts of the country go there, principally in the winter, to study wildlife. A telephone reaches there, and contact with the mainland is kept by boat. A picturesque 25-minute boat ride on winding rivers through vast marshlgnds takes you there from the landing. * * # Boys Ara That Way Memory lingers with the par lor, we have talked about for the past two weeks here. It was a part of every home, humble or pretentious. But has now largely gone.. Ours had a little-used lamp, a fancy one, that hung by a chain from the center of the room. Counter-weights enabled you to pull it down for cleaning and re filling. But we never used it much. It smoked so. It was mostly an ornament. And we’d set another lamp on the mantel for light on the rare nights when company caused us to go in there. On the mantel were two fancy glass vases. They call ’em figur ines now, I believe, and they are rather valuable. In these we had several stalks of sea oats my mother brought back the time she went to Sullivan’s Island and saw the ocean. They conjured the imagination a lot. For we thought if there were sea oats there surely must be something like sea-cows or sea-horses that came out to feed on it. Enlarged pictures of departed relatives covered the walls in most parlors, depending upon how well-off the family was. We had only one and it was on an easel in the comer opposite the what-not in the back of the ^Off like the wind... TBXACO FIRE CHIEF too* CUMATC-CONTROI ‘ You get lively going— with Fire'Chief gaso line in your tank! Fire Chief is 100% Climate- Controlled lor here and in each one of 25 weather areas of the U.S.A. What’s more, it sells at rcffular gasoline prices. STOP IN AND SEE YOUR TEXACO DEALER SOON H. D. Payne & Co. Your Texaco Distributor Laurens County We're Rolling Up the Biggest September Ever with the Greatest Deals in Buick History Stupendous Savings! Colossal Trades! AND PRESENTING FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE AT SUCH LOW PRICES— THOSE STERLING. 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But the folks always said one side of the face was identi cally like him, while the other was not And they told every one who came about it. But I never could see any difference. I thought he must have been a strange sort of man, for the sides of his face to look different We had four fireplaces. All threw out heat but this one. It was a cold critter. Or maybe it was that fire so seldom went in it it just never got heated up. For, you remember, the old par lors were used only for company; and in that stiff, formal, cold room, they never stayed long. Subscribe To THE CHRONICLE Phone 74 Employ Handicapped Week Observed Stating that an individual’s ability—not his dfaafattHp-sfaould be the first consMersUon in deter - mining his capacity for employ ment, Mayor Hugh L. Eactiedber- ger has proclaimed the week be ginning October fi as “Employ the PhyskjoHy Handicapped Week” in Clinton. 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