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Thursday, April 26, 1956 l r p THE CLINTON CHRONICLE > Page Nine FARMS... AND FOLKS 87 J. m. Rleazer Clemson College Infomation Specialist —****** rfrriiiimjjjjjjjj SUSIDIEg APLENTY , Farm Journal points out that just about every group has its government subsidy. So why should others whine when a lit- $ tie of it comes the fanner’s way? The government owns surplus es of manufeatured goods larger ,/than its holdings of farm sur- ' pluses, mostly military goods. Benefits from their purchase went mostly to industry, labor, and transportation. Each year about , two billion dollars worth of this stockpile will be brought out and sold as obsolete or stale at 5 to 7 cents on the dollar of what it cost the government, according to Farm Journal. Nor does the government have to give money or buy goods in order to subsidize. It advances > credit, guarantees loans, sets min imum wages, allows tax write offs, and the like. It subsidizes with “public works” when unem ployment appears. It subsidizes • foreign nations in billions of eco nomic and military aid. And oUr Social Security and retirement systems are forms of subsidy, as is, our tariff policy. Yes, subsidy is imbedded in our very American system that is the ehvy of the world. And I’m not criticizing it here. But I’m saying the fanner is due some of this . consideration, too. It wa s late in reaching him. And unthinking groups cry aloud for it, forgetting the similar pap on which they have fattened long. • • • COASTAL PLANTINGS The county agents tell of con- 4 tinued progress in planting Coast al Bermuda. Rogers of Allendale: “A lot more Coastal was planted this spring.” They already had a heap ot if. k Hubbard of Bamberg: “This year will aee our greatest acreage of Coastal sprigged in.” Shelley of Barnwell: “Our ac reage of Coastal will be more than doubled this year.” Tate of Jasper: “More interest than ever in Coastal Bermuda. Plantings this year far ahead of post years.” Bailey of Richland: “Farmers showing keen interest in Coastal Big growth in acreage here ” Searson of Saluda: “Several 4 hundred additional acres of ad ditional Coastal « planted . this spring.” All of these agents are in the Aiken district. Elsewhere over the state Coastal interest is simi lar, according to the agents. * * • BEAUTIFICATION Beautification of homes, schools and churches with native shrubs was a project of many of the Ne gro home demonstration clubs the past winter, according to Mrs. Marion B. Paul, their supervisor. Many plantings were made. And groups of women and girls from the different counties con tinue to cultivate the desire for better things in and around the home by visiting in Demonstra tion House in Williamsburg coun ty. s . • • • FARM CHANGE Change is something I speak of often, farm change here. But aU over the South it is the same. " , < 1 From 1945 to 1954 here are a few of ’em in the South: The number of farms dropped from 2,881,135 to 2,316,608. Their 1 size grew from an average of 131.1 acres to 166.8. While the farm population dropped from 12,228,339 to" 16^800, and hired workers from 1,014,000 to 885,000. The number of mechanized farms grew in this period from 411,263 to 911,039, or from 14 per cent in 1945 to 39.6 per cent in 1954, ac cording to The Progressive Farm er. \ Crops accounted for 64 per cent of'.our income and livestock 39.6 per cent in 1945. By 1954 those figures were 60 and 40, respec tively. Tradtors on farms of the South grew from 498,332 in 1945 to 1,- 290,825 in 1954. Washing ma chines from 476,660 to 1,200,000, 523,243, and farms with running water from 418,000 in 1945 to 1,- home freezers from 70.000 t j 060,714 in 1954. Rather revolutionary change in 9 years, wasn't it? And even greater change is indicated in the next 9! # t * BOYS ARE THAT WAY When I was a kid in the Stone Hills, we were plagued by two things dreaded, because they had economic angles. One was a chicken-eating, hog. And the other was an egg-suck ing dog. - And, as old-timers said, there was no breaking either from the habit. But we tried. It was usually the old sow that started the devilment in the first case. Both the hogs and the chick ens lived on a sort of catch-as- catd^oan basis back then. Both had to be rather fast afoot to sur vive. And we felt the Lord gave the hog a'snout to root for its liv ing and the chickens feet to scratch for it with. About all we fed the hogs was the slop from the kitchen. And in that was a lot of stuff the chick ens liked, too. So it was there in the feed trough the old half- starved sow would get her first taste of chicken. Eager to get as much of the slop herself as possible, the old sow made the hungrier by suckling her pigs, would toss her snout and pitch the eager hen out of her way. And eventually she would thus get a taste of blood. After that the jig was up. She’d go in quest of the feathered fowl. I've seen consternation h't mfcny a humble home when some- one’d yell, “The old sow has a chicken.” Everyone would light out for the lot to try and save the hen. But it seldom worked. For the old docile sow became some thing else then. She was a wild thing and ran fast and far, with the quarry in her mouth. She seemed to sense there was some thing wrong in that. Getting her distance, she’d stop quick, and with a few gouges into that flut tering feathery mass, in no time at all only feathers were left. After that, there was nothing to do but pen her up. For you couldn’t or wouldn’t think of pen ning the chickens up. They had to run grasshoppers for a living. So we’d make a rail pen, and cov er it with rails so small we thought a chicken couldn’t get in. But after we slopped the hog you’d be surprised how those hun gry chi ckens could wedge through. And the dumb things never sensed the danger. Or may be hunger drove them to it. But you couldn’t shut them out. And the upshot of it was. we’d have to butcher the old sow. And we’d do it soon. For folks always said “you can’t fatten a chicken-eatin’ hog.” Conservation Notes and ladino clover. And ode four- acre area has been planted to a mixture of behia grass and se- ricea lespedeza. Mr. Smith is es tablishing these meadow outlets in preparation for terracing these fields next fall. | (t All fWiners of the district who are in need of terraces, and where there are natural depressions in their fields, are encouraged to es tablish these outlets prior to ter racing. Not only does this system handle the water better but at the same time it will cut out numer ous short rows as well as reduce the amount of terrace breakage. It has been proven beyond a doubt that each small watershed, whether it be a few acres or ‘a large number of acres, has to be treated individually for maximum soil and water conservation and protection. As an inducement to establish more of these meadow outlets, the ASC progrom allows for cost sharing payments to farmers on this practice. Eight district co- poerators have already received approval from the local ASC of fice for cost-sharing on 40 acres of waterway development in this year’s program. • • • Ben and Maxie Hunter, of the Lanford community, planted ap proximately 12 acres of coastal Bermuda last week. This will give them a total of some 22 acres of coastal as they planted 10 acres of the new grass last year. The district’s Bermuda planted was used in planting the grass. As further insurance for sum mer grazing during droughts they plan to seed 35 acres of sericea lesdpedeza this week. The se- ricea will also be used for hay and seed production.- * • • M. M. Brown and J. E. Cliatt of Laurens; are doing a good job of fish, pond management of their two-acre pond six miles south of Laurens. They began fretilizing the pond around the first of March and have already put on the fourth application this spring. They plan to fertilize "again within about ten days and then as often , as necessary to keep the water colored so that a bright . object, such as a tin can lid, cannot be seen when 18 inches below' the surface. «.! * < Ponds should be fertilzeid from early spring to late fall, using 100 By J. B. ODELL Conservationist John Earle Smith, of the Kin- ards section of the county, has done a very fine job this spring of seeding approximately 14 acres of water management areas in his 120 acres of cultivated land. 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Our bi ologists tell us that unfertilized ponds can normally be expected to produce approximately 50 pounds of usable fish per acre per year, while fertilized ponds will yield from 250 to 300 pounds per acre'per year. • • • G* P, Copeland, of the Hopewell community, has a complete water disposal system established on all of his cultivated land. He has ap proximately 20 acres of meadow outlets established and all terrac es constructed. Mr. Copeland be lieves in protecting his Invest- planting up and down hill.” ment, for this Spring he has done a very good, job of terrace main tenance on ^all the land that he plans to put into row crops. He believes that soil and water con servation doesn’t cost—it pays. “It's poor business to spend mon ey for time and fertilizer and then lose most of it by plowing and J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CLINTON, 8. C. Featuring Our New Trim .. 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