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Thursday, June 21, 19$6 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pajfe Nine FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist ' op—»e——wwmk 00000 »»»»#< KILLING POISON OAK Clemson’s Dr. Albert tells me poison oak can be really killed by spraying -with either 2, 4, 5-T or Ammate. But care must be exercised not to get the material on things you don’t want to kill. And’ that means watching closely about the drift, if any movement of air is ' stirring. Full directions and di lutions come on the container. • • • IRRIGATING COTTON Have you noticed how average cotton yields have been climbing in Texas, Arkansas, and Mississ ippi in recent years. Irrigation is largely making that difference. For large areas in those states have gone heavily to irrigation of cotton. Experimental results in Miss issippi show an average increase of 750 pounds of seed cotton*per ^ acre from irrigation over the "three-year period 1952-54. Here at Clemson we show a similar gain over a longer period. ' Experiment and experience show cotton, like most crops, needs water most during its fruiting period. Irrigated cotton proves best for - mechanical harvesting, according to the Louisiana folks, for it makes less second growth after defoliation. And they report al most negligible results from irri gation if cotton is allowed to wilt age has been done then. And I severly first. It seems the dam- note out west, where they have practically no rainfall, they never let their cotton wilt, resulting in very little shedding. • • • INCOME FROM BERMUDAS Last year on identical areas of Coastal and Common Bermuda grass at Clemson, the net income from Common was $15.60 per acre, while that from Coastal was $90.B6. Coastal not only made more beef, but got ahead of the cattle and a good hay crop was cut, too. County, agents tell me of a lot of acreage planted to Coastal the about the -old family cow, that was our main fort in the Stone Hills as kids. . We loved that old cow as one of the family. Bulls were not kept by our small one-cow farm ers, so we milked ’em long. The occasional calf went when kill our be^f past spring. These and the older plantngs have set the stage for county farm tours this summer to see this great grass growing Un- .... , . , der varied condition,. How Shout stirring up one in your county or community. For the best way to learn is to read the growing re sults there on the land. COUNTY AGENTS TAKE TRAINING The fourth batch of 25 South Carolina county agents is taking training at regional training schools this summer. A similar group has taken it each of* the past three years. Those special schools are held in Arkansas, Colorado, New York, Wisconsin and Texas. This advanced study for county workers Selected by Clemson is made possible by a grant of funds for that purpose by the Surtman Foundation. I’ve talked with many agents who have taken it and, to a man, they are high in praise of benefits secured from it. turn cam£ to kill for the club every other year, or we pck- ed up a yearling for that Our pasture was sorry; so we staked, out our cow most of the year. Frost after frost it was on honeytuckle vines by the road. She liked em then, and they made the milk really flow, along with the little cottonseed meal and hulls we swapped our seed for. Then, as cold weather set in for good, and she had about grazed off that and we staked her in the orchard where a little burr clover was getting big enough But it was scant until late win ter and growing sun wpke it up. In the interim there, we’d get a 'basket of chickweed and chopped turnips for her from the garden every day. Boy, that really brought the milk!.. Last week I told you of that finest cow we ever had, a large Holstein. We rode her when we tied her out. She was well brok en to that. But we always felt it was a bit wrong to ride or drive a milk cow. That was all right for dry cattle and yearlings. Blit to ride the milker-was an im position, really sort of sacrilege. But we’d do it anyway, when we got out of sight. One summer it-was awful dry. Our branch dried up, and so did our well, almost. So we’d take the cow to a distant spring for water, let her drink and tote her own. One afternoon it was late, and the colored boy we raised rode horseback, driving her to the spring for water. When he got below the cedar trees out of sight, he violated a rule by run ning the cow. That was never to be done, specially just before milking. While running her, the horse stepped on the dragging chain, wheeled her over, and broke her neck. That was a sad day for us in the Stone Hills. For we didn’t even have a heifer coming Japanese Competition Forces C “ In S. C. Mill Operations Chralotte, N. C., June 12—Jap anese textiles competition is be ginning to bite into the wage en velopes of thousands of textile mill employees of the south, as well as in other parts of the coun try. Curtailment of operaitons has been announced by several mills of the area within the past 10 days and all have blamed in creasing imports of Japanese, cloth and apparel. Latest to reduce operating schedules was Col. Elliott Springs, president of Springs Cot ton Mills at Lancaster, Kershaw, Fort Mill and Chester, S. C. Plac ing the blame on “Japanese mills had been reduced frbm six to five days a week, thus serious ly affecting the pay envelopes of 12,000 Springs employees. Post ponement of a $10. million ex pansion program for Springs mills was also announced at the same time, with the blame placed on the U. S. government’s benev olent attitude toward the Japa nese, who have been flooding the U. S. markets with ever greater amounts of low-wage goods. Other mills that have announc ed cutbacks in operations recent ly are: Kendall Cotton Mills, which re duced operations on broadcloth and poplin from six to five days a week at the Pelzer, S. C, plants, where a $5,000 weekly loss in pay for part of the mill’s 1,700 em ployees resulted , Reigel Textile Corporation, which laid off 82 employees of its Ware Shoals S C.. division as production of pillow cases was reduced. J. P. Stevens and Co, with many plants in the Carolinas and Georgia, cut gingham and broad cloth production from six to five days a week. At least two Massachusetts tex tile plants, are dosing because of Japanese-competition. ' Industry leaders, expressing growing concern, have appealed for negotiated or legislated quo tas on imports of textiles from Japan and other low-wage coun tries. OFF FARM WORK A Idrge sample of rural users of electricity in this state was in terviewed. Twenty years ago 98 per cent of them got all of their income from the farm. Last year | only 40 per cent of ’em did. Industry! Throught many parts of the state you are hardly out of sight of new industries that have come to rural areas and small towns of late. And I sel dom ride far in any direction that I don’t see ground being broken somewhere for another. Phenomenal, truly, is our pres ent industrial growth. The story is two-fold. Crops plus livestock are bringing a sys tem’of balanced farming and soil improvement that we haven’t had before. And then farming phis industry, scattered and in termingling one with the other,4 Summer was at hand and black- there we have a twosome strong. —— • • • BOYS ARE THAT WAY .Last week we talked on. that’s bqrries were ripening on the ter races and hedgerows. Well, what did that have to do with the cow, you wonder. No room for that now. Next week. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 6th day of July, 1956, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Administratrix of the estate of R. E. Wysor III, in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administratrix. Any person indebted to said es tate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate willj present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever, barred. . SARA JAMES BELL WYSOR. Administratrix May 3, 1956 4t-J-21 SCRATCH-ME-NOT WITH ITCH-ME-NOT! Apply ITCH-ME-NOT. In just 15 minutas, if you hare to scratch your itch, your 40c back at any drug stora. Uao instant-drying ITCH-ME-NOT day or night for acsazna. ringworm, inaaci bit as. foot itch, othar surface itchas. Now at Young's Pharmacy. 3c-28 A' I t would stand to reason that automobiles selling in the same league, so to speak, would be pretty dose in their engineeridg specifications. Like In “torque multiplication’*—the twisting force a transmission delivers to the drive shaft (The greater the torque multiplication, the greater the performance). But what do you find? You find that ant[ *56 Buick with advanced new Variable Pitch Dynofloip* delivers a higher torque ratio than ang standard-production car in America. And you find that this high-torque performance is one reason for Buick*s best-seller standing. For Buick is now more strongly positioned in the Top 3 of the nations bittaest-selline automobiles. ^ , > That’s news — and there’s plenty more where that came from. For the ’56 Buick is jam-packed with new engineering and styling advances to make it the best Buick yet, by far. That new Dynaflow, for example, brings you the world’s only switch-pitch performance in cars—plus a new part-throttle getaway response that’s swifter, surer, and a gas-saver to boot The new V8 engine is 322-cubic-inches big, and packed with the highest horsepowers, the high est compressions in all Buick annals. There’s a joyous new ride, too—a new steering magic—a new “sense of direction” in your every handling maneuver. Thing to do is come see for yourself. That way. you can also look at the prices that have helped move Buick to a new sales success—outselling all other cars in America except two of the well- known smaller ones. Will you do that, this week? *Nmv Advanced Variable Pitch DynaHow is the only Dynaflow Buick builds today. 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