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■■ - ^ 1— “V •7 Pat* Twelve / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE > v Jaw Mr 1966 • * Hot Peanut Butter Muffins USE ONE OF MONTH S BEST BUYS By NoOcy Carter TYiere are so many plentiful foods this month ■aakers should have no trouble planning thrifty meals with wide variety. Favorite meats such as beef, pork and poultry are in excel lent supiply and reasonably ^priced. As alternate protein dishes eggs, dairy products, peanut butter and tiina fish round out the abundant supply list. Rice, potatoes, cabbage, celery, grapefruit, oranges, dates, and canned cherries are economical buys also and will keep good com pany with the plentiful main dish items. In most homes a change in season brings a change in family appetites Sometimes the l>est way to cater to this change is t» serve the family favorite^ in a new way. There's scarcely a person who doesn't like peanut butter, so how about using this plentiful food in crusty, golden muffins served hot from the oven with plenty of butter and preserves. When I made the muffins for this picture I had a hard time keeping the men away until our photographer had fin ished The recipe makes a dozen muffins. For a small family I suggest you make the entire recipe: any muffins left over are mighty good split and toasted for breakfast the next day. Hot breads dress up any meal so if you would like more recipes for them, just write to me, Nancy Carter. P. Q. Box 4358, Atlanta, Ga. PEANUT BUTTER MUFFINS 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1,egg beaten 3 teaspoons baking powder 1/3 cup crunchy peanut butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk cup sugar 2 tablespoons salad oil Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Combine beaten egg with peanut buttei then stir in milk and salad oil. Add to dry ingredients Stir just enough to moisten dry ingredients—don’t beat. Batter should still be lumpy. Fill 1? greased large muffin pans two- thipds full Bake in hot oven, 400 degree^ mhini.w, Sarw umocd’ tetely. Makes 12 muffins. crop of cotton. Axki on the many years we don’t have anything like normal rainfall during the cotton growing season, the crop is really cut by insufficient water. And there’s where irrigation comes in. It irons out the spots that hurt. HOME CANNING -b~- * Have you gotten rusty on home canning? Has the cost of living revived your interest in putting up as much of yoiir food as you can economically? ~' If so, you’ll likely be interest ed in a copy of Clemson’s revised Extension Bulletin 112, “Home Canning of' Fruits, Vegetables, and Meats in South Carolina.” Your home agent has it for you. * * » COTTON USE Figures recently summarized by our Paul Williamson show j we are using about as much cot ton per person as ever in this country. Our increased use of fi bers has come with synthetics. And their use continues to in crease. Last year we averaged that home-1 using 26.5 pounds of cotton and FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist PINES AS A CROP Trees, pine trees, are fast as suming the stature of a crop here. Once we did nothing but cut ’em. and then stick fire to what was left - But now we protect and plant ’em And they not only tie the land down and improve it, but they are a paying money crop. County Agent Garvin of Green wood, tells me of an improvement cutting in a stand Of 18-year-old planted loblolly pines. Eight and a fourth cords of pulpwood thin nings were taken out per acre and 20 cords, comprising the best trees, were left to grow into and saw timber/ * * * WATCH OUT. BOYSI 112 pounds of synthetics. And wool about holds its own, 3 ot 4 pounds per person, whle silk is negligible. There is just no satisfactory substitute for.cotton in making a lot of things. But the synthetic products serve many purposes well, and some better than cot ton. And some of them also compete with wool in warmth. 0 0 0 BOYS ARE THAT WAY We were largely raised on the products of the cow, gardeh, and orchard. They formed the strong trinity of our fort in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. Among these, the cow was the most indispensable. For her prod ucts would not keep, like can ning, drying, pickling, brining, and preserving from garden and orchard. These things were sort of in terdependent. We enriched the garden and orchard from the cow’s droppings. Lush baskets of chopped turnips and chickweed from the ricj^ garden made the milk flow when the pasture was dear}.’ And burr clover came, early in the orchard. There we staked the cow. after she had cleaned up the honeysuckle vnes on hedge and ditch bank after frost. The finest cow we ever had 1 was a large HolstemT Boy, that ^ critter could sure.poUr the milk out the back if we poured the „ ^ . , feed in the front. We had to get was one of the best cotton years : larger milk jars to k ft in we ve had in the up-country in a down m the cellar And there long time Counties up in here averaged a bale or more per acre on all of their cotton for a record vreld — Irrigated cotton at Clemson in 1955 made 357 additional pounds of seed cotton per acre The year before, which was really-dry, ir rigation gave an increase of 1,212 pounds, and the year before, a moderately dry one, the increase was 655 pounds of seed cotton per acre. First consideration about irri gation is, do you have the water? Your county agent and SCS men can help you determine that. ‘ We normally have about 22 inches of rain, April-September, County Agent Martin of Spar-1 the growing season of cotton. Us- tanburg, tells me 660 head of cattle and 180 hogs came to their Spring Blue Ridge Fat Stock Show and Sale. Four-H club girls won grand championships with both cattle and hogs. Look out, and experience show boys! And a lot more of you were in that competition, too. than girls IRRIGATING COTTON Irrigation on cotton paid at Clemson even last year, which ually at least one fourth of that run^ off, maybe more. Ths leaves about. 16 inches to make a cot ton crop during a normal or av erage season. And experiment this will make a fair crop of cotton. But not a maximum one. For that, at least 20 inches of rain fairly even ly distributed is needed here. Therefore, on a normal season, we fall about 4 inches short of enough water for a maximum was no skimping with it then. We drank all the milk we could hold, sweet, buttermilk, and clabber One thing we ate a lot, special ly in the summer time when the milk would sour and clabber quick. That was what we called curd. You might know it as cot tage cheese We never knew that name then. Each morning the clabber that had formed was poured in a white floUr sack and hung on the back porch to drip. We caught the whey and gave it to cats, chickens, or pigs. 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