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\ Thursday, April 19, 1956 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE I FARMS.'.. FOLKS By J. m. eleazer Clemson CoDsc* lafornathm SpsdaUst WITH THE COUNTY AGENTS Shelley of Bornvell: ‘The acre- ace of Qoaatal and Suwanee Ber muda crass was extended by the planting of over 1,000 acres in the county this spring.” Cain of Calhoun: “Most of our grain has been sprayed with 2,4-D for weed control”■ And that’s a big grain county. Mustard and thistle once took many of their fields. Now you seldom see either there. Spraying got ’em. • Willis of Che»te(rfield: “Every farmer using Certified watermel on seed last yea^ produced a su perior crop compacted with other seed. There has been a big de mand for those seed this year, specially of the Charleston Gray variety.” * Garvin of Greenwood: “Our 13 high farmers in last years corn improvement contest averaged 137 bushels per acre. Farmers generally followed the Clemson 5-point com production program, and. with a good season, came up with the best com yields the county ever produced.” Lander of Lee: “More samples of cotton seed were sent off for testing this spring than ever be fore. Many of our seed were bad, and this saved a lot of broken or lost stands.” Evans of Lexington: “Demon strations in weed and brush con trol with chemicals have been, given. Bitter weed in pastures was one of our targets. This weed came back a lot during the dry summers we have had and now we must clean our pastures of it again.” Jackson of Williamsburg: “Test ing of tobacco soils by Clemson has become a winter routine on most farms. Most samples show too high pH for tobacco and farm ers help correct this with the fer tilizers they buy.” • | • • •* POULTRY CHANGE We can well remember when just about all of our poultry came from faim flocks. By as late as 1940 they supplied 76 per cent of it. But last year only 35 per cent •of our poultry meat came from the farm flock. And the figure is estimated at 35 per cent for 1956. And just about all of the chick ens used to be raised by the hen. Now very few are. In my rounds all last summer I saw one lone old hen crossing the road with a batch of biddies. Just that one, no more.^si wished for a camera to take a picture of the once com mon sight that has become so rare. Yes, setting a hen has gone from most farms; like the mule, the garden, the orchard, the smokehouse, the buggy, the wag on, the gear shed, the water buck et, the kraut barrel, the open well, the baigk, axle grease, horseshde nails, brogan shoes, home-cooked bread, lightwood knots, jeans cloth and homespun, quilting parties, and Sunday vis iting. All of these are missed by old- timers. But none more than the little fluffy biddies that came with spring ! They were so ap pealing ana cute, and surely taught tenderness and love to the kids who cherished them so. We hated to see ’em grow up, even if that did mean fried- chicken. And if there was a crippled one, it became our very own. Yes, science has taken hold of the old hen. And what a job it is- doing! No longer does the house wife have to run out and get the biddies in every time a shower threatens. Nor is there the con stant fear of varmints gettin’ ’em. Modem assembly lines turn vast ly improved fryers out by the mil lions, where the old hens used to tend their small batches that took almost twice the time to grow. Our Southeast here has taken leaving the old regions far be- the lead in broiler production, hind. If you are thinking of en tering it, Clemson has many helpful bulletins that are free from your county or home'agent. • * * WATER Man, agriculture takes water! Did you know it requires about 500 pounds of water to produce a pound of dry matter in moat plants? Multiply that by the yields you get, stalk and all, and you’ll see an ocean of water goes into any successful crpo. Deny it the water, and you cut your yield. The soil is a wonderful store house for water, or we’d starve. But it seldom has enough, even here in the rainfall belt. And there is where irrigation comes in. It adds the needed water for maximum yields. Where to get that water is the problem for most farms. But there are ways of getting it at many places, some water at least. And folks are fast finding that out * t • BOYS ARE THAT WAY Last week I told you of my brother keeping his old bird dog alive with cooked pumpkin one winter when drought had made going rough even for the folks in the- Stone Hills, to say nothing of the dogs. Although as thin as a rail, that was a good bird dog, and she mustered the strength to hunt pretty well. That was specially so after we found a persimmon tree and khook down plenty for us and her, too. I had a single barrel gun. Didn’t shoot much. And didn’t usually touch a feather then. Those things always scared me when they got up. But my brother really knock ed ’em down, and we had a pretty good bag full one day. On the way home, I spied a rabbit under a low pine bush there in an old eroded field, i called to him to come shoot it. He wouldn’t. Said, "Go on and shoot it yourself.” I looked at it hunch ed there in a sort of bed it had made there in the needles. It looked big to me, and I wanted it. I wasn’t trusting that gun, though. Was so close I feared I’d miss it or tear it up. Rocks lay all around. In fact they all 1 but covered the ground. I picked out a flat one about the size of a saucer, hurled it in there, and just covered that rabbit with it. It stunned him and he lay there quivering. I got him and in a moment he came ^>ack to life. But my brother dispatched it with a whack behind the ears with the side of his hanjJ, as he always did when we caught ’em in our traps - I got home and in. my eagerness to tell of my luck on the hunt, blurted out, “The only bird I shot was a rabbit, and I killed it with a rock.” It was a good while, after hear ing gales of laughter, before I realized what I had said. PUBLIC RECORDS The following public records were filed last week in the office of the Clerk of Court of Laurens County: Tallulah C. Garrison to West Virginia Pulp and Paper com pany, 875 acres in Mountville sec tion for $10.00 and other valuable considerations. . J. L. Holman to William C. White, Jr., and Bertha Mae White, lot on Lucas Avenue, Watts Mill Laurens, for $7,500.00. E. F. Coggins to E. B. Coggins, 2 acres bounded by other lands of E. F. Coggins, for $10.00 and other considerations. Maybelle G. Mims to Elizabeth Senn Ratchford, 4$,7. acres on the Luarens-Yarborough Mill Road, for $776.90. Ernest W. Garrett to Mrs. Eliz abeth Senn Ratchford, 46.8 acres on old Yarbrouogh Mill Road, for $795.60. » George Grappa to Ruth P. Crapps, 40.45 acres in Laurens Township, for $10.00, love and af fection. George F. Crapps and Ruth P. Crapps to Shirley Hodges, lot on Stevens street. Watts Mill, for $10, love and affection. Adger King add Leila King to Joe H. Bonds, T3 acres of the Dor- roh lands sub-division for $10.00 and other considerations. J. D. Robins to J. N. Capri, lot on Lake Greenwood, Waterloo, Township, for $200.00. James O. Sanders and Gladys S. Sanders to A. T. Crawford, Sr., 1.95 acres on Leesville church road, for $300.00 and assumption of mortgage. Lillie R. Young to Canal Wood I Corporation, *33 1-3 acres in Hunt er Township, tor $555.00. J. R. Sims to Pete Pleicones, lot on Lake Greenwood, Waterloo Township, for $1,600.00. Mrs. Ruby Haynes May to Flo- rie P. Snider, 1.5 acres on South Carolina Highway No. 56, for $250.00. William P. Dagnall and Ruby Dagnall to Richard T Cox and Ruth C. Cox, lot in Dagnall Cir cle, Laurens, for $800.00. Hoyt Martin, Atlanta, G«., and Mary Ann Smith, Laurenjr. John Clark Buchanan, Joanna, and Betty Ann Thomas, Joanna. Furman Alvin Bolt, Laurens, and Flossie Crowder Pennington, Laurens. Vernon Glenn Adams, Joanna and Betty Ann Lindley, Laurens. Johnson Sails To 9:5 Dash Mark In PC Win Macon, Ga., April 14—With a sprinter nartied Delane Johnson running the fastest hundred yard wash ever recorded at Porter Sta dium here, the Presbyterian Col lege Blue Stockings trounced the Mercer Bears 91-40 in a dual track meet today. Johnson, who holds the unof ficial South Carolina collegiate record at 9:6, had a slight tail wind working for him as he streaked across the tape in 9*.5.5. Johnson also won the 220 in the near-record time of 21:6.5. Triple winner for Presbyterian in the meet was Wyatt Aiken, who won the javelin with a throw of 160 tet, 5 in., and came out ahead on the high hurdles with a 15:51 clocking. He also won the low hurdles in the time of 26.2. Three Mercer thinckds won first places in the meet. Still ORIGINAL a # m -J Available T H ■ ft —^ gg. R FfTk atf Ms? TO COMPLETt YOUR SET This beautiful dinnerware has an unconditional life time guarantee . . . the patt DINNERWARE em will never wear oft, fade IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE rOU DON'T GET THE NEWS PHONE 74 J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CUNTON, 8. C. Phene S49S Jennas %■( r t at a price that th I f you’re in the market for a real buy, take a good look at this one. It’s a 1956 Buick Special—which means, of course it’s a big car. But look again at the price news it carries. It tells you this big Buick Special can be yours for only a few dollars more than the price of the well-known smaller cars—for even less than some models of those very same cars. 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