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n, If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News flUinfcm (Elmmirle The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVI fp*. Clinton, S. C., Thursday, Norember 17, 1955 Number 45 FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist —rrrrrrr Jrrrrrr j-rjj COTTON ItoS TEAR Cotton promised well early. But summer rains in some sections, specially at places over the Low Country, messed it up a lot. But even there, where it was persist ently poisoned,.the county agents tell me that pretty good cotton was made. Many farmers started out well on a weevil control campaign and had their cotton in good shape. But some didn’t carry on through, due to rains or other causes. And in some cases these fiedds were eaten clear up. Listen to a few county agents on this. Linder of Lee: “Fields properly poisoned gave good cotton yields, but unpoisoned adorning fields suffered damage as high as 75 percent from the weevil.” Miley of Dorchester: “Farmers gelling good yields of cotton, with few exceptions, are those who fol lowed a good poisoning program.” Bowen of Sumter: "This year has again proven poison properly applied will save a cotton crop from the boll weevil. But it can’t be put on in just any odd way, and it must be followed through as long as there’s a threat, or the weevil can eat your crop up there at the least.” I saw a good fanner on good land in Orangeburg who got a few early shots of poison on his cotton. But rains and other things caused him to leave it off from there on out. He told me he was n’t picking a lock from his field of 34 acres. County Agent Grainger of Clarendon said their yields ran AT YOUR FRIENDLY REXALL DRUG STORE We Can Supply All Your Family And Household Needs From Carefully Com pounded Prescriptions To Sundries And Cosmetics. . HOWARD S PHARMACY PHONE 101 from nothing up to 500 pounds per acre. Folks, it looks like if we are to continue to grow cotton we must concentrate on that boll weevil thing. Cain of Calhoun says: “Our cotton yield has been in proportion to the poisoning pro- fram carried out.” STUDYING TOBACCO County Agent Rogers of Flor ence tells me he spent an interest ing day touring the farms and to bacco markets of the county with Senator Thurmond. It’s a fine thing to see a public official taking the time and go ing to the trouble to get out on the very soil with farmers to see and study their problems. That should put him in position for intelligent action when farm legislative mat ters come up. I 0 0 0 THAT COASTAL AGAIN Good reports continue to come about Coastal Bermuda grass. County Agent Livingston of Bil lion tells me R. E. Moody cut 17,- 364 pounds ef good hay from his acre and a half of Coastal this yefcr. • • • HOG KILLIN' TIME Fond, memory carries me back to butcherin’ time on the farm when I was a kid. That was al ways a big day for us. They let us stay home from school for it. For varied reasons, home butch ering is not as common as it used to be. And we won't go into them now. I just wanted to point out that, for me, good country cured ham is still tops in meets. But in late years they have been increas ingly hard* to get. And, as usual, buying one is to take a chance. For they are not all good. But you can tell a lot about one before you cure it by running a keen knife blade into it and then smell to see if it has the aroma. Clemson’s Extension Bulletin 77, originally written in 1926 by J. R. Hawkins and last revised this year by DiiRant and Wheeler, en titled “Pork for Carolina Farms,” is now available free from your county or home agent. It tells how to cure good meat. I have often wondered why someone didn’t make a business out of producing and curing good country hams. At least I’ve found one who is doing just that. It is Fred Henderson, Ninety Six, S. C. He cures a good many hundred and is expanding his business He won’t turn one loose until it’s at least 6 months old and just right. He learned the are from his dad, W N. Henderson, who has been winning the ham prizes at the State Fair for many years. BOYS ARE THAT WAY Another way we boys of the Stone Hills threw things was with a sling, not a sling-Shot. They are different, uite different. To make a sling we used two raw-hide strings about 3 feet long and a half inch wide. Then we cut a piece of raw leather about 8 inches long and 3 inches wide at the middle, sloping to about 2 niches at the beveled ends. One end of each string w<as made se cure in a small hole cut at each and o' this piece of leather. A slip knot was tied in the other end of one string so it could be securely looped around the wrist. The end of the other string would be held m the hand. Then a rock about the size of an egg would be carefully placed in that sling. We'd swing it around hard several times and then turn the string loose at the right time. We could really throw a rook hard that way. We could dent the barn or knock the bark off of a tree with it. It was hard to get proficient with that sling. And it was very dangerous for kids to be standing around the thrower. For, to turn the loose end free at the wrong time could really hurt somebody. We would use uneven, angular rocks, as we could make the hum when we threw them. We used those things so much that we got to where we could throw them rather accurately. That is, we could usually hit a Work Pants $2.50 to $4.95 By Fly, N & W, Headlight SNAG PROOF—$6.95 L B. DILLARD DISTlfMOTION ! Ok-h-h! 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Cose Settled Out Of Court Greenville, Nov 9—A settle ment out of court was reached yesterday in the breach of confi dence suit of R. L. Carroll against F. L. Regnery Corp. and Joanna- Western Mills Co. Federal Judge Ashton H. Wil liams, in dismissing the jury drawn for the trial in Federal Court at the case, announced that a settlement had been reached between the parties involved in the $75,000 suit. 14,843,000 Boles Is Cotton Estimate Washington, Nov. 8—The Agri culture department today estimat ed the 1956 cotton crop at a whop ping Mg figure—14,843,000 bales. This was 915,000 bales above the department’s estimate a month ago. It compared with a 1954 crop of 13,696,000 bales and the 1944-; 1953 10-year average of 12,952,000 bales. A 1965 cotton crop of 575,000 bales was predicted for South Car olina, 20,000 bales more than the prospective production a month ago The remarkable thing ^oout the 1955 crop, the report showed, is that the production per acre' has climbed to 431 pounds, which isj only 69 pounds less than a bale per acre This is a new high re.-ord. Marine Recruiter Here On Tuesdays * Sgt. Thomas G Shropshier, re cruiter for the Marine Corp, will be at the local post office every j Tuesday from 12 to l o’clock lot interview applicants for enlist-; ment. STUDIES NURSING Violet O. Burgess of RFD 3, Clinton, has enrolled at the Uni versity of Houston. Texas, as a junior student majoring in nurs ing. A co educational school, the University of Houston offers courses on both the undergrad uate and graduate levels. Wilkie Promoted Friends here will be interested to know that R. C. “Ci” Wilkie, son of Mrs. Missouri Wilkie, who; is serving in the navy, has been promoted to disbursing clerk, 3rd class. 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