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Clinton, S. C., Thursday, Norember 17, 1955
Number 45
FARMS...
AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson College
Information Specialist
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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large tree or sheaf of fodder hang
ing on a corn stalk
That’s the thing, you recall, that
David killed Goliath with. And
I can well understand how he
could have done that. We threw
those flinty rocks so hard it would
often shatter them all to pieces,
specially if they struck something
that was hard too.
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.
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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. He is stationed aboard
the USS Catamount at San Di
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