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t t V / > , If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LVII ■■w /• \ 4 V Kh The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean)News paper; Complete, Newsy and Reliable • * 1 r —r" ClintoHt S. C., Thursday, January 19,1956 Number 3 JHA Polio Fund Party Mmk ||p|| A rroap of yovns people of the eommanlty Is shown here enjoylnc s party given by the Junior Homemakers Association at Clinton high sehool daring the holidays. Hie party was a benefit affair for the polio fand, the national drive for which h now underway. A substantial sum of money was ramed. FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College ’ Information Specialist •^»**~“ “**“"»»***** r r r rrrf r r r r r r j j j J Back in 1800 it took 370 hours of man labor to produce 100 bushels of wheat. By 1900 they had dropped to 100 hours. In 1955 it took only 26 hours of man labor to make that 100 bushels of wheat. That carries a picture of farm ing progress aqd efficiency. Back in 1800 3.7 hours of man labor went into the making of a bush el of wheat. In 1900 it was one hour of labor to the bushel of wheat. And now it takes only about 15 minutes per bushel. And that, folks, is how fewer and fewer farmers are feeding this country better and better. V) lave science and mechaniza tion reached their limits yet. Some fellow breaks a produc tion record. Soon his achieve ment has become commonplace and farmers are' shooting for and hitting higher and higher goals. I can well remember when a bale of cotton per acre was con sidered an exceptional yield, and few made it. The past year we had counties here in South Caro lina that averaged a bale per acre. And many farmers made 2 tfeles, a few over that! I have seen much 3 bale per acre cotton at places in the Southwest and some in Mexi co. And in 1954 a Mississippi farmer made # bit over 4 bales per acre with irrgiation. In our contest here, we have had yields of over 3 bales per care even without irrigation on good years. So, in this world of change, we see it in crop yields, too. • • • Grain Sorghum And talking about yields, did you hear about that farm in Laurens (Thomason Brothers) that made 71.71, bushles of grain sorghum per acre on a 20-acre field? And County Agent Can non tells me that same field averaged 75 bushels of oats per acre ahead of that sorghum. New and improved varieties of gfain sorghum fit right into ..fol lowing grain, where corn won’t make. It has about the same feed value as com, and will us ually make more than com on thid same land. Ask your coun ty agent about the sorts best suited to your area. * • * . Butchering Guide Have you been having trouble killing, curing, and keeping good meat? If so, you had better drop by your county agent’s office and get a copy of Clemson’s Bulle tin 77, “Pork for Carolina Farm ers.” Those who use it tell me it keeps them on the right track and good products result. Dry'Wells On October 10 I passed a mule-drawn sled with a barrel on it in Anderson county. I ask ed the man what he was doing. Said hauling water. His well was still dry from the year be fore. There are a good many farms deeper wells. But still water is like that. Many have put down rather scarce at places. Kolks in all parts of the state are digging or damming water holes. I see ’em everywhere I go. For both cattle water and irrigation in many casse. A farm without water even for | stock is in a bad fix. With the rainfall we have at times, water hole are fairly satisfactory for this purpose. In digging them, slope the sides so as not to cre ate a dangeruos hazard. Roadside Parks .Roadside parks were started some years ago by the Garden clubs of South Carolina. We now have 125 of ’em placed at strate gic spots along our highways. I understand , the Garden clubs provided the places, had them cleared, and paid for the equip ment. The highway department* put in the wide shoulders and roads into them, placed the gar bage cans there and collected garbage. A fine service by both. I have had occasion to use such parks in other states. And they are a welcome sight to the trav eler, who carries a lunch and de sires to eat and rest at a cool, shady, and comfortable rural spot. More and more people are using them, too, in their trav els. At times we had to ride for miles before finding an empty table. Most folks appreciate these roadside parks. But apparently some do not. For they are much misused at times by some. Signs by the road telling of su6b parks ahead are a convenience, and they aid in traffic safety, too. • • • Boys Are That Way My brother and I just about fed our family on rsfbbits in the winter time. * We did not hunt ’em .except at Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the kinnery came from afar and wanted to hunt. We always felt a shot rabbit wasn’t any thing like as choice eating as one caught alive, killed, and dressed, without being all shot up. My brother was the older, and a pretty good carpenter. I’d help him make the “rabbit box es” we trapped ’em in. He used only old weathered boards. Said the rabbits were scared of new lumber. We generally had about a dozen traps. During the summer we stored them under the wood shed. A* soon as the first killing frost hit, we’d put ’em out; Figured the “Wolves” or grubs that often got in the backs of rabbits would have run their course then. And they seemed to fatten fast after cold weather set in. Our favorite spot to set a rab bit box was at a fresh gnaw on a rail fence. The rabbit path would lead to it. And a new gnaw was usually good for sev eral catches before we’d move it to another. Our traps were scattered along a winding path of about 2 miles.' We’d ride horseback to them, just as the first faint tint of dawn showed. To THE CHROmCLE PHONE 74 NIW row P-lOO 8-ft. Pickup, GVW 5,000 Ibl Chok* of 133-h.p. Six or H7-h.p. Y-t, both Short Strok*. Hi here... the new i ? ■ - Fordomatic Pickup for'56 * t Fordomatic in a Pickup saves money for you these seven new waysl % <* Y. ' The new Fordomatic Pickup takes 90% of the work out of driving, puts more pleasure in! And Fordomatic is a sound business investment that savn you money: i ' - 2 No more clutch expenses because the clutch is gone. O Fordomatic ends the costly trouble ** that can come from the shock loads on the drive line with a conventional transmisBion. 3. You save valuable, time, particularly * in stop-go work. 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