The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 26, 1956, Image 9
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FARMS...
AND FOLKS
87 J. m. Rleazer
Clemson College
Infomation Specialist
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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!
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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. These
areas have been seeded to fescue
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such as 8-8-4, per surface acre per
application. Most ponds require
800 to 1,000 pouxafe of fertilizer
for each acre per year. 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
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ment, for this Spring he has done
a very good, job of terrace main
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plans to put into row crops. He
believes that soil and water con
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“It's poor business to spend mon
ey for time and fertilizer and then
lose most of it by plowing and
J. R. Crawford
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