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I V FARMS... AND FOLKS By j. m. eleazer Clemson College Information Specialist (jjj-fi-crrri ... .««« ««»»«■«. Farm Enrin«erinr Needed In this age of mechanization, the farm needs good engineers. One of Ed Guiledge’s boys, Lu- ous, of Wedgefjeld, took agricul tural engineering at Clemson. Now he rassles with machinery on Ed’s farm. When I was there with County Agent Bowen back in the summer Lucius had taken the cot ton picker off of its high-clear ance tractor, and rgged up an 8- row weevil control spray outfit on it. It worked tine, and was .the best spray outfit I’ve seen. That high tractor could get through the cotton good, without damaging it. All of the spray rigging was there in front of the driver, where he could watch it. A 250-gallon tank was mounted up there on the trac tor. This carried enough poison for the 60 acres of cotton covered in a half day. He w-as using 4 gallons of the spray per acre. The poison used was a mixture of DDT for boll worm and Toxaphane for the weevil. He had them well under control. Spraying has one main advan tage over dusting. It can be done all day long, while you have to pick your time for effective dust ing, as County Agent Bowen pointed out. Irrigation For Sure Wallace Reed and son King, of Chesterfield county, really mean business about this irrigation thing. I visited them with County Agent Willis back in the summer. They have a 25-mill\ion-gallon pond into which they can pump more water constantly from a nearby stream as desired. From that^ they pump by electricity through a 10-inch underground pipe for 4,000 feet across their farm. At 500-foot intervals they have surface outlets from this pipe. Each outlet serves the pur pose of another pond or source of water there. The big pipe leads under the highway and a good ways on the other side. There it terminates in a 1,900-foot ditch that’s 30 feet wide at the top to prevent caving, 5 feet wide at the bottom, and $ feet deep This ditch holds 1,400,000 gallons of water and has 175 acres of level irrigatable land around it. A 12- inch main serves as overflow from its far end. This leads 100 yards to a permanent drainage ditch that carries irrigation water on to 200 additional a«res of land BIGGEST EVER THE ORIGINAL BLUE RIDGE ALL NMUT SINW ELMO FAGG, MASTER OF CEREMONIES FEATURING CHUCK WAGON GANG of Fort Worth, Toxot KLAUDT INDIAN FAMILY of North Dokoto STAMP’S MELODY BOYS (WMi JOE ROPER) of Litrto Rock, Ark. BLUE RIDGE QUARTET NO INCREASE IN PRICES BUY IN ADVANCE AND SAVE SAT. - DEC. 3 - 8 P.M. Admission: Adults $1.00 (advanctl—$1.25 (Door)—Child run 50c SPARTANBURG MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM A Burma Shave sign says, “Substitutes can do more harm than city folks on a farm.” You know, a fellow just about has to he born on a farm and raised, there to absorb the common touch and practical know-how needed. Some do get it after long trial and error. But they have a big handicap to overcome. For the fel low on the farm has to be ail sorts of a man, out there jockeying with the whims of nature, the caprices of weather, the uncer tainties of insect and disease, and the urvpredictables of price. The thing that keeps all of this from running him crazy, I guess, is the fact that it comes on him gradually. These things were his dad’s worries at first. And he is hardened to them as they grad ually come to him. But farm life does have satis faction for those born to it that nothing else has. The farmer loves the smell of the fresh furrow. A growing crop is a thrill to him. A sunrise, which he sees regularly, and a sunset marking the end of his day, both carry thrills and sat isfaction that are hard to explain to others. A frosty morning’, a shower on growing corn, the buzz of the cicada on a summer day, the rooster crowing at midnight, cattle lowing in the lane, fresh clothes on and to church on Sun day, these and many other things mark every day with interest. And, denied them, we folks from the soil become restless and discon tented. Crops coming up. New things ever being born. Frosts of winter and droughts of summer laying 'em low. Death at every hand. Re births tomorrow. Preparing, plant ing, weeding, cultivating, spray* ing, dusting, harvesting — that's the merry-go-round that sustains life on this land. The farmer! Surely a many- sided man. Milk Vending Machines Clemson has an experiment un der way with coin-operated milk vending machines. The machines were placed strategically in the buildings here Three sorts of milk are used in them, sweet, chocolate and buttermilk. The objects are to determine (1) the ecomonic feasibility of selling milk through vending machines in the South, (2) their effect upon sales of milk, (3) requirements of profitable lo cations, (4) preferred size of milk containers ior different locations, (5) preferred milk products at different locations, and (6) effect of price upon sales. Boys Are That Way We’ve been talking here of how boys like to throw things. Not on ly with their arm, but with all manner of make-shift guns, like we’ve told of here for the past three weeks. There was still another sort of gun we made in addition to slings, slingshots, etc. It was a corn-stalk gun. We’d get a good strong, dry com stalk and clean the leaves off. Then we’d cut it off a little above where the ears came out, there where it starts to getting weaker. It would be cut off about two inches above a Joint, on sliced off, and the pitch in there reamed out In that cavity we’d wedge the right size rock. Then we could give that a swish, like hitting at a bail with a bat, and sling that rock out. With eU of that leverage, we could sure throw it far. This sort of gun was rather un reliable though. It was hard to sling it just right so the rock would leave it at the right time. There fore, there was not much aiming it. You just threw blindly. But It was fun. You could throw so far! And every now and then you put too much effort behind your heave and broke the gun. Then it was all to do over again. We kids of the Stone Hills made our fun as we found it. There was never a dull moment, and days were never long enough. PUBLIC RECORDS The following public records were filed last week in the office of the Clerk of Court of Laurens County: Property Transfers J. A. Nickols to James L. Sum- eral, lot on Lake Greenwood, for $50.00. Rosabelle F. League to James C. League, 10 acres near Poplar Springs AME chunch, for $5.00, love and affection. M. H. Hunter, Jr., to H. L. Nel son, 3 lots on Hance St., Lau rens, for $5,500.00. Elma C. Coats, et al, to How ard A. Schofield and Sarah L. Taverfl-Ekom road, for $2,500.00. Schofield, 4 acres on Hickory Joe H. Bonds to John R. Fraz ier, 55 1-4 acres in Jacks Town ship, for $1,800.00. Mlidred T. Rice to Walter J. Rice, lot in Joanna, for $10.00. love and affection. Odell Wilson to R. I. Chandler, 8.10 acres in Seuffletown Town ship, for $75.00. Geneva Johnson, et al, to Sad ie Johnson, lot on Russell St., Laurens, for $3.00 and gift. Roy P. Stephenson, et al, to Trustees of Reedy Grove Pen- teooDtal Holiw—t church, two ac res in Waterloo Township, for $2,500.00. Robert A. Harris to H. B. Cos set, 3.26 acres in Youngs Town ship, for $672.00. Robert A. Harris to Leroy Knight and Gloria Knigh, 2t.31 acres in Youngs Township, for $462.00. Robert A. Harris to Willard B. Gossett and Hazel W. Gossett, 1.98 acres in Youngs Township, for $306.00. Robert A. Harris to J. Frank and Helen A. Gossett, 2.27 acres in Youngs Township, for $454.00. Arthur A. Baker, et al, to Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association, lot on Conway Ave., Laurens, for $5.00 and sat isfaction of mortgage. Will Watson to Willie C. Wat son, 1 acre in City of Laurens, for $5.00, love and affection. American Insurance and Real Estate to Dieter R. Fligeel-Phil- ippi, lot on Lake Greenwood, for $235.00. American Insurance and Real Estate to Dorothy M. Pitts, lot on Lake Greenwood, for $250.00. American Insurance and Real Estate to T. B. Jennings, lot on Lake Greenwood, for $238.00. Joe H. Bondi to Virginia Nor ris Puckett, lot In Hunter Town ship, for $8,800.06. Clifford Henry Roscoe, Lau rens, and Amelia Bernice Steele, El Cijon, Calif. Eugene Scott, Fountain Inn, and Juanita Poole, Enoree. J. T. Garrett, Pelzer, and Ruth Pearl Allen, Pelzer. Oliver Anthony Humphrey, Clinton, and Hazel Williams, Clinton. Otis Royal Eidson, Laurens, and Marion Elizbaeth Leonhardt, Laurens. 1 Houston Chorice, Gray Court, and 113111a Ann Sullivan, Foun tain Inn. Fred Mars, Waterloo, and Mar gie Ree Williams, Laurens. Linder William Wade, Union, and Joyce Ann Sailors, Union. William Pirece Brown, Wood ruff, and Robbie Nell Bums, Woodruff November is a good time to plant strawberries in home gar dens. Varieties recommended for South Carolina are Blakemore, Tennessee Supreme, and Klon- dyke. • Work Plaits $150 to $4.95 By Fly, N ft W, HwEEfkt SNAG PROOF—W.95 LB. DILLARD NO EXTRAS ON PENNEY’S AY-AWAY NOTICE FOR PAYMENT OF 1955 CITY TAXES Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the Town of CMnton are due and collectible from October 15th to December 31st for the year 1965. The tax books are now open at the office of the Town Clerk and Treas urer and will remain open up to and through Decem ber 31. A penalty of ten (10%) shall be added if said taxes are not paid on or before January 1, 1956. 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