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r Pate Nine FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist •'We have a good many advan tages in this area. I speak of than often here. With milk, for instance, I notice South Carolina’s average whole sale price for December was $6.00 per 100 pounds, and the average retail price 21.7 cents a quart. Contrasted with this, in the country sa a whole, during De cember the wholesale price of milk averaged $4.35 per 100 puonds. Since that average in cluded our higher figure, some states must have averaged less than $4.35. And in the country as a whole the retail price aver aged 21.2 cents a quart. Looks like out milk handlers must be doing a pretty good job. Uiey pay our farmers consid erably more for their milk yet sell it for about the same price as the country average. This December crop report shows us to have some advantages in price with all poultry products, too, especially eggs. Our retail egg price for that month was 57 cents a dozen, while for the whole country it was 47.1. With cotton faltering, and in dustrialization growing, we need to master these important food crops. For the growing mrakets are right at hand for quality foods. Remember, in staritng with something new, try to grow it good or not at all. Your local county agent and the specialists of Clemson can help you with this. And there are all sorts of helpful bulletins available, too. They carry a lot Of the know-how that will help you develop your own. • • • Important Mow There is one thing the aver age family can do about the cost of living. Have a garden, a real producing one. There is no time better to start than right now, early March. The most important thing about a garden is for it not to be too big. Too many folks get enthused at this season, get 4 batch of all sorts of seed, and stretch them over too much poorly fertilized and half prepared ground. Soon then droughts come and it’s too big to water, or rain sets in and grass takes it. But if neith er of these usual things happen, you mkae a lot of poor quality stuff scattered over a lot of hun gry land there. It’s simply amazing the amount of fine quality vegetables you can make on a small fertile spot that you can mulch, keep clean, and water when needed. And as Boon as one crop starts to fade, take it out and plant something else, or have it coming already there in the middles. I know a fellow who says he makes 100 pounds of tomatoes per plant. I saw his 3 plants, and don’t doubt him. That is an ex treme case of what I'm talking about. We don’t intensify quite sa much as he does. But from a dozen plants we usually make all of the tomatoes we can use, and they usually last amost until frost. Two hills of cucumbers make make more than we can eat usual ly, and three bell pepper plants do the same. A row of snap beans 30 feet long picked a half bushel at the peak, and we harvested them twice a week for ^Imost a month. A good plastering of manure is the best treatment for a garden I know. .Cover the ground well with it. We fumigate our small plot each year against nematodes. That’s not a big job when we spade it up, and it costs littl.e Thin some good garden fertilizer mixed in the row before you plant, and the soil is ready. We treat the seed, too. That’s very cheap, easy, and often does a lot of good. As soon as things are up good, we mulch thme by covering with some sort of litter. We use short leaf pine straw, this does all sorts of good. It shades the soil, thus prveenting crusting, drying out, or washing. And that litter helps the soil as it rots. A garden like this is both a pleasure and profitable. If you are rusty on any angles of it, your county and home agents have published garden helps from Clemson. they will be glad to furnish them to you. * • • ' Boys Are That Way The other dky an old timer from Alabama sent me a new horseshoe nail and asked if I knew what country boys used to use them for other than shoe horses. Do I? They were a part of my past, and of every boy in our Stone Hills. And one could be found in the plunder that was in every boy’s pocket. They were used as nut picks, of course. And I was sure glad to get this shiny one for old times sake. To keep the sharp point from sticking us, each boy had a choice bit of com cob he had whittled down to the right size. His horse shoe nail had its point firmly im bedded in the pith of that Mb. And then it was safe there with your other valuables in your pocket. Boys always had ^something to eat. I don’t mean just at meal time. The average lean and lank country boy in our time could be eating something just about all the time. Of course, much of the time it wsa sort of slim eatin’, like the first wormy green apples in the spring, wild plums, blackber ries, honey locusts, sand berries black haws that were almost 4h seed, and so on. Our Stone Hills abounded in nuts, hickory nuts, walnuts, and scaly barks. But, except for scaly barks and they were scarce, you could eat all day and not get very much from them. We didn’t just count upon them in the fcll when they fell either. We’d gather them by the bushels and store them in the smokehouse. Then when we went on a jaunt to the woods, if we knew the pickin’ would 0 be light, at that time, we’d take a pocket full of them along. Then, as the urge to eat hit us, we’d stop, crack a few on a rock, and go merrily on our way, pickin’ them out with our horseshoe nail. Thanks for sending me that nail, my friend. It brought many pleasant memories. Ad, by the way, come to think of it, modem ingenuity hasn’t improved much on a common old horseshoe nail as a nut picker, either. PUBLIC RECORDS Marjorie M. Kinard to E. L. Thompson, Jr., lot on Joanna to Whitmire highway, $1.00 and as sumption of mortgage. Joe H. Bonds to A. Roy Sexton, lot on Browning avenue, Joanna, $«,000. Joe H. Bonds to James A. Arm strong, lot on Davidson street, CUnton, $8,000. H. P. McGee to Gerline Mildred Threatt, 150 acres in Waterloo township, $5,7150. W. E. Dunlap, clerk of court, to J. T. Hollingsworth, 150 acres known as the Louisa Milam place, $5,500. Robert Lee Thompson to Charles Otis Wharton, lot in Dials town ship, $260. Broad us A. Brownlee to Leon ard and Margaret Cooper, 2.72 acres in Waterloo township, $300. E. L. Thompson, Jr., and Alice V. Thompson to George F. Shock- ley and Betty Jean S. Shockley, lot of land known as “Old Mad den property,” $50.00 and assump tion of mortgage- Floyd Grubbs to Ed Grubbs, 29 acres in Youngs township,JI3M J. P. Brown, Jr., and R. L. WTr-* 0 ^Knight, lot in Sullivan township. son, Jr., to Jimmy L. Williams and Mary Ann Williams, lot inf- Forest Hills subdivision, Laurens, $1,000 and other considerations. Joe H. Bonds to Joe R. Koon, Sr., lot on Joanna to Whitmire highway, $1,000-and assumption 'of mortgage. Mariegene G. Boyd, et al to James E. Simmons and Lois B. Simmons, lot in the City of Laur ens $700. Charles Bratcher James Claude A. i Fowler Stanley, lot in Cross ship, $600 i- to Hubert mil town- T TIME TO BUY A 1956 Tirttfon* 3 h.p. 3-SHIFT OUTBOARD only IF YOU DOHT READ THE CHRONICLE 'OU DON'T GET THE NEWS We Carry a Complete line. Prices Start Law as $114.95 COX HOME & AUTO SUPPLY “Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed” 205 N. Broad St Phone 12 sso.po. Andrew J. Jones to James A. Knight, lot on northwest side of State Highway No 63, $50 00. Board of trustees of Presbyte rian college to Joe H. Bonds, lot on Caldwell street, Clinton, $1,- 500 Mamie K. Thomas and Sudie K. 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