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Thursday, November 17,1955 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Fifteen By C. B. CANNON. County Agent Seed Small Grain Throughout Laurens county farmers are busy seeding small grain and in many csaes oats and barley are up to a good stand. Annual grazing is taking on new life after the rains. Those of you who have not seeded small grain should rush this farm operation. Barley is subject to mildew more when planted late than if planted early in the season. The time is at hand for seed ing wheat. Recommended varie ties of wheat are: Anderson, Coker 47-27, Taylor, and Chan cellor for the Piedmont area. The seeding date ranging from Nov. 1-30. Wheat should be seeded at the rate of six pecks of clean treated seed per acre on a well prepared seed bed. Fertilize with a 3-12. 6 or 4-12-8 or a 5-10-5 at the rate of 400 to 800 pounds per acre at seeding time. Topdress next spring with nitrogen at the rate of 200 to 300 pounds of nitrate of soda or its equivalent. Buy nitrogen based on price per unit instead of price per ton. Under the farm ABC program, each fanner with a work sheet may plant 15 acres of wheat without penalty except he would not be eligible for government support price if the 15 acres ex ceeded his wheat allotted acre age for the farm. In other words if for example, a farmer had a six-acre wheat allotment, and he wanted to get support price, but planted above the six acres of wheat, nus farmer could not get support price on his wheat He could, however, use or sell the wheat without penalty—at least this is the present regula tions. ' Foray* Field Day A district forage field day will be held on the farm of J. F. Hawkins, commercial dairyman, Hartford community, Newberry county, November 30, at 10:30 a. m. Mr. Hawkins was the state “Grassland Fanner” winner in 1954, having received the award at Farm and Home Week in Au gust this year. He is one of the pioneers in annual grazing in grassland farming of South Carolina. T. P, and D. Eugene Brown, commercial dairymen of the Bailey Community of Laurens County, were winners of the award from Laurens county in the grassland contest, and a close follow-up to Mr. Hawkins as state winner. During the noon hour pro gram at the Hawkins farm, awards for the Piedmont District Green Pasture (Coastal Bermu da) demonstrations will be pre sented. E. Brock Coggins, son of E. F. Coggins, Madden Sta tion conununity, is the winner of the award from Laurens coun ty. He will attend the field day meeting with the county agent on November 30. Livestock producers, especially dairymen, are invited to attend, and are requested to notify the county agent’s office by Novem ber 18 if they plant to attend, in order that their name may be reported for “turkey stew” plate serving. This is important. Rats Have you rats for sale? Can you sell them? Then why are you keeping them? They must eat, and they eat what is valu able. This beginning statement sounds foolish, doesn’t it? It is no more foolish than keeping and feeding rats and getting no money nor pleasure return from keeping them. Did you know that one female and one male rat in three years time can produce 350,000,000 rats? Well, that’s what rat ex perts say. The figures quoted ab6ve includes normal death rates. Not many people these days car. afford to keep rats or mice on their farms at $10 a head for food and lodging, to say noth ing of the annoyance. It has been estimated by authorities that each rat destroys 40 pounds of food yearly; contaminates 80 pounds of food yearly; damages property; and is a carrier of dis ease. How can clean flour and com meal be produced for our food on the table when rats are al lowed to contaminate the grain. In fact, the Federal Food, Drug and Cometics act is being en forced on wheat stored by pro ducers who are receiving gov ernment support price. With ref erence to rats this is the quali fication Of wheat. “The wheat shall contain not more than two rodent (rat) pellets per pint, nor comparable ^amounts of other filth, and shall contain less than two per cent by weight of ker- nles visibly damaged by wee vils.” There are three important times to kill rats, namely: sum mer, fall and winter, and spring. Rats are now coming in from fileds and hedge rows to stay over winter in bams and build ings. In fact, to be most success ful in controlling rats, they should be poisoned .trapped and caught by cat* throughout the year. There are a number of rat poisoning baits on the market today, and in many cases war farin is the basis of the kill in the baits. Warfarin is an anti, coagulant poison and must be eaten over a period of time. It kills all kinds of rats and mice. Warfarin is usually mixed with freshly ground yellow corn meal or dissolved in drinking water. Other coagulant poisons are be ing developed. Warfarin can be be bought in commercial pellet product, ready for placing in fruited Eggnog Pic For Holidays A holiday dinner progresMa to ita dessert climax with wonderful eggnog chiffon pie. The pie filling calls for commercial eggnog and fruit cocktail, and gains height and airiness with unflavored gelatin*. Trimmed with houy wreath gaiety, thia dessert ends the meal on a light note. Commercial eggnox, a rich blending of eggs and milk, yields a ready-made custard base for chiffon pie fillings. _ Heavy cream for velvety smoothness and the fruit cocktail interest of diced peaches, pears, pineapple, grapes and cherry are then added. The fhiit and custard filling gain lightness of texture through the use of unflavored gelatine. This holiday chiffon pie, despite ita beautiful appearance, can be simply made. The crust is easy, too, when one uses a packaged mix. frail Cark (all Eggnog Pt* 1 envelope unflavored 1 cup whipping cream, . whipped Ibi teaspoons vanilla M teaspoon almond extract 1 can (29 ounces) fruit cocktail, thoroughly drained 1 baked 9-inch pi* shell Mix gelatine, sugar and salt. Gradually stir in eggnog. Warm over direct low heat until gelatine is dissolved. Chill untU mixture mounds when dropped from spoon. Fold in whipped cream, flavorings, 1 ^ cups drained fruit cocktail. Chill again until mixture mounds. Heap into baked pie shell. Decorate with remaining fruit cocktail. Chill 2 to 4 hours. • gelatine cup sugar teaspoon salt cups commercially prepared eggnog small containers located in places where rats usualy stay. For most 'successful rat con trol, communities should work together in the project. 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