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H \ \ 1 Thursday, August 16, 1956 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Eleven farms... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist BARLEY DOWN-STATE County Agent Cain of Calhoun tells me they had a good barley crop there this year along with their other small grain. Varieties looking especially good were Da vie and Marconee. v Some up-state counties have long grown barley. It is regard ed as their winter corn crop, having similar uses and feed value. And, with such frequent summer droughts, is is proving a safer crop than corn. For we do usually have moisture when the barley is' growing. Here’s one thingyto remember about barley. It Hires gopd land. On lighter lands, you will usual ly get more from oats. • • • TURKEYS IN CHESTERFIELD In just recent years, Chester field has sure come to the front with turkeys. It is now the lead ing turkey county, I understand. » County Agnt Willis was telling me of some of their advanced steps. Two growers have gotten 6,000 Shealy’s King White tur keys from Ohio for layers. And another grower has 2,000 hens of the Bronze Barlocker strain. They are supposed to be the non broody sort. Eggs for those were brought, in at $2.75 each and hatched and brooded there in the county. • * • WEED KILLER IN COTTON County Agent Livingston^ of Dillon, reports good results from pre-merge wed treatment on c6t- ton the past spring. On about 800 acres it worked fine. ^ This material, you know, is * sprayed on the ground in a band above the seed after planting. It kills gras and weed seed but does not hurt the cotton seed there. With that band thus kept clean of everything but cotton, folks arle getting by without hoeing cotton. They used two materials for this, CIPC and Karmex, with equal effects. * * • DAIRYING ON MARCH Farming is undergoing funda mental change all over South Carolina. I see it marked no plainer anywhere than in New berry county. That county used to be just about all cotton, like most of County Agent Ezell tells me, a South Carolina was. Last spring, series of 10 community dairy meetings was attended by 624 in terested folks. Across that county you see piercing the horizon at many a place. Nor does that tell the full story, for their rolling terrain makes a lot of pit silos possible, too. Summer droughts are so hard on C017V there, they use a lot of sweet ‘sorghum and small grain for silage. And, as-I’ve told you, they also use a lot of tall growing sweet sorghum for winter graz+ ing. .This is seeded on stubble land following grain in June. Then, two weeks after frost kills it, it is ready for grazing. This is used mostly for beef cattle, for they have a lot of them, too. • * • IRRIGATION THERE AND HERE In the eastern rainfall belt there are 31 states. These have in creased irrigation 73 per cent in the past four years to 2.6 million acres. In the west where irrigation has long been their life, it has in creased 10 per cent in that time to 26.9 /million acres. In our Johnstbn-Trenton area, of the season two years ago and I am told, two peach growers got used them effectively on their irrigation outfits towards the end Elbertas. That was the first irri gation there. Last year there THE PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY IT DOFS N’T ALWAYS PAY TO B F BRAVE... Adults too often will put on a show of courage with a “cold,” rather than retire and rest —and call the Doctor, Pneumonia sometimes attacks such stalwarts. Do not try to he brave with a "cold," however simple. Follow' the well-established guidance —rest,, eat a vwsll- balanccd diet, and drink plenty of water and fruit juices. If symptoms persist, call your Doctor promptly, while there is still tim<; for treatment of the.current illness and prevention of possible hazardous complications. If medicines arc indicated, we will be happy to render the best in Phar maceutical service in filling your Doctor’s prescriptions. HOWARD'S PHARMACY PHONE 101 \ SOLUTION Try saving where your money works harder and grows faster. . \ 3%and INSURED SAFETY Laurens Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION* THE SECURITY OF A NATION LIES IN THE HOMES OF ITS PEOPLE LAURENS; SOUTH CAROLINA were no peaches. This year, they tel] Me, over 75 per cent tof their peaches were irrigated. And the ag teacher, Fred Wise, down there says those who aren’t just don’t have any source of water in reach yet. And that man Walter Rawl in Lexington was continuing to make fine peaches on high, dry sandy land during very dry weather when I was by there in late June. Without that life-giv ing water, he’d have had mostly small culls instead of the fine peaches he was tree-ripening, chilling, and putting on distant markets in fine shaps. * • t BOYS ARE THAT WAY Memories of the country store continued: ' 1 Iron Brew was the first soft drink Dean remember coming to our country store there at the foot of the hill. It was rather poor compared with Coca-Cola that followed it. Then there was Cream Soda, a very tasty drink I liked a lot. Hadn't seen it for 45 years until recently I hit upon one with another name that tast ed just like it. No ice was kept for drinks then. Our storekeeper kept them in a sawed off barrel in water with a wet sack over them. The evaporation there was the same principle of the early home over the mouth of those bottled kids liked to hold our thumbs the “iceless refrigerator." We agents used in what they called drinks, shake them, and make them shoot into our mouths. Al though we often got more of it over us than in us. We didn’t often have a whole nickel to get a drink with. But when we did, every kid in the group would get a few' pulls on. that bottle. About the only patent medicine carried was Wine of Cardui. <*■ Early each year a batch of Ladies Birthday Almanacs came. They were carefully given out so each family got one of the coveted things. From a string in its top corner it hung from a nail on the mantel piece of every home. And it didn’t just hand there, but was much used along through the year. For then many folks plant ed, butchered, and cleared land by the signs it carried, and be lieved in its every prediction, weather and otherwise. The floor of the old country store w’as encrusted w’ith clay, walked in there on the brogans of the customers. The casual sw'eepings it occasionally got re moved only the loose parts and other debris that had accumulat ed. In addition to the dirt-filled crib around the stove that was not removed in the summer, old to bacco boxes served as spittoons in the corners. These were never cleaned out and refilled, but thrown away and replaced sev eral times a year, ing broken into. Windows and ; ing broken inot. Windows and doers were locked or latched and barred Both were made of dou ble boards crossed and heavily nailed together. Windows were latched on the inside and barred with an outside iron bar held there by long bolts wedged from the inside of the building The door was locked with a great key and barred on the inside with an oak 2 by 4 dropped in slots that held it firm. \ SUMMONS > The State of South Carolina, Conservation Notes By J. B. O' Conservationist The Laurens Board of Soi^ Con servation District supervisors at thcH- regular meeting on Tuesday night, August 7, voted to pur chase an additional tree planter to meet the increased demand forlpine tree d iant ing in the coitnty Last year 282,000 pine seedling*; were planted by the distrief’s tree planting service. To date district cooperators have al ready placed orders through the work unit office of the Soil Con servation Service for over 600.000 pine tree-’ seedlings for planting on their farms during the hex: 1 season. This is sufficient number of seedlings to plant over 600 acres. There are many times this number of acres in the countv that if put to the best use should go to pine trees. Many farmers are using their cost-sharing pay ments through thh local ASC of fice to help pay the cost of plant- ng trees. /This payment is $7 00 per thousand trees planted up to the soil building allowance for the farm. Any landowner is eli gible to order these seedlings from the South Carolina State Commission of Forestry at a cost of $3.50 pre thousand delivered. It is anticipated that the new soil bank program for next year will a^o increase the intreest in tree planting. The two planters which the district plans tp ope rate will be a big help to land owners in getting their tree* planted so as to take advantage of this program. • * ' * J. L. Adair. Sr, has just fin ished the construction of two farm ponds for stock watering Also W. L. Patterson, of Laurens, complete da stock watering pond on his farm last week. Each of these farmers utilized his cost- sharing payments through the ASGt-offiee in the construction of the dams. The uncertainty of a \ dependable supply of water in their pastures made these ponds eligible for cost-shqring assist ance. Irrigation Improves Harlan Peach Crop; Produces Larger Fruit H. B. Harlan, of the Laurens, County Soil Conservation District, built a farm pond for recreation about six years ago It cost about $4fK).00. In 1953 Mr. Harlan said: “I irri gated about 20 acres of peaches from'the pond. r - I was k> _well pleased that this year we irrigated again, using about 2 1-2 inches of Water per acre. This irrigation paid off so well that we didn’t ship any peaches less than 2” in diameter; in fact, we just ddin’t have any 1 3-4’’ peaches to speak of. Not only was my shipping peach excellent, but our culls were large and consequently very much in demand. I am well pleas ed with my pond and I am sure it has paid for itself several times. If I hda nto irrigated I believe 30 pe rcent or more of my> peaches would have been less than 2". I r J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CLINTON. S. C. Phone 3493 Ioanna *1 Use a winte^ cover crop of rye! grass and crimsibn clover which helps conserve soil and moisture", This is only a part of Mr Har lan’s soil and water conservation plan which includes '"rotations, cover crops,stubble mulching, con tour farming etc. , n Mr Hariar, oeheves that among the most important things to con sider when thinking of, irrigatir^c are good "oil, the crop to be ir- r.gaied, adequate water supiply and pumping distance These Uie soil conservation district technic ians can help with. thursday august IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE - YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS ■ r* thoughts Montag makes a paper for every personality ... Station ery that adds its own silent voice to your written message ... Often it speaks more clearly of humor, whimsy, dis tinction, romance or flair than the hurriedly written words themselves... 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TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served your Answer to the said com plaint bn the subscriber at his of- upon you, and to serve a copy of fice, Palmetto Bank Building Laurens, S. C., within t w e h t y days after the service hereof, ex clusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time afore said the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the re lief demanded in the complaint. O. L. LONG. Attorney for the Plaintiff DATED: July 25, 1956 NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT, ALVIN J. COTHRAN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: That the complaint in this action, to gether with the Summons, of g e t h e r with the Summons, of which the foregoing is a copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Laurens Coun ty, South Carolina, at the Court House, in the City of Laurens, S. C., on the 28th day of July, 1956. O. L. 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