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Thursday, October 11, 1956 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Niue FARMS... AND FOLKS r By J. M. ELEAZER Oiemson College Information Specialist * rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ORCHARD IRRIGATION HINTS ~ Much of our orchard irrigation ‘ is amounting to very little, our orchard man, Roy Ferree, tells me. Not that it doesn’t pay abund antly when used right. But here’s the main fault he has noted. On rolling clay lands, where most of the orchards are, they are simply not getting the water in to the soil! He has seen cases where al most as much water was running out of the field as they were put ting on. The land was so hard and unprepared for the water that it ran off before hardly any of it soaked in. The remedy for this, he says is first to set trees on the contour. Then keep the beds so they will delay and hold considerable wa ter. Get organic matter, litter, in the soil to lossen it up and maybe a bit of sub-soiling in the • middle to open up water passages down into the soil. He finds many growers trying to put the water on loo fast. On many soils an inch of water an hour is just more than it will take in. Twice that time might be needed, he says. We need to study this thing of penetration if we are to get desired results from irrigation in orchards, he says. I’m sure Roy’s sane observa tions apply to field crops and pas tures, the same as to orchards. • • • COTTON SEED MEAL' FOR HOGS At Clemson they have been experimenting with the use of 4 cotton seed meal as a protein sup plement for hogs. In the past we haven’t been able to use this abundant locally grown protein feed for hogs on account of an in gredient in it that proved poison ous to hogs. But now science has found a way of taking that * out of it and adding Vitamin B- 12 as an antibiotic that makes it a good cheap protein for feeding hogs. Professor B. G. Godbey con ducted experiments in feeding hogs this altered and reinforced cotton seed meal at Clemson. The hogs made 5 per cent faster gains with 6.4 pier cent less feed where the cotton seed meal mixture was^ used. This is encouraging news to hog growers. For in recent y ears the animal protein supple- ^nents have been considerably higher than cotton seed meal, and at times hard to get. • • • HOGGING OFF CROPS Com fields are now full ready for the hogs. When we started with hogs as a money crop about 30 years ago, folks thought the first farmers to turn hogs in «n a good field of corn were crazy. But know-how comes with experience. We found the labor thus saved made it a paying practice. And there was not the wastage of com in the field that we feared. Hogs stayed cleaner and general sani tation was better, too, with the hogs roaming the field. Their rich droppings, cobs, shocks, and all were left right out there on the ground to be turned under. ■* After the soybean harvest there is often enough beans on the ground to make it profitable to run hogs there awhile. For glean ing up such waste is almost all profit. Many farmers now leave most of their com in the field and car ry their hogs on it until well out in the late winter. They make ’em clean one field up before turning them into another. Keep protein supplement there in a self-feeder and water handy, and the hogs can then take pretty good care of themselves until you pull ’em out for market. 0 0 9 PLANT THESE Clemson suggests that every farm home' 1 should have at least three things growing near it; a few fig bushes, scuppernongs, and a patch of strawberries. Set figs and scupp>emongs dur ing the winter. The brown Tur key is about the best fig, with Celestia coming second. Strawberries are best set in March in the up-country and in the fall in the down-state. Good varieties are Pocahontas and Dixieland. * • • BOYC ARE THAT WAY Years before I started to school the well at our schoolhouse away back in the woods had caved in. So water was brought in a bucket from the nearest house a quarter of a mile away. We coveted that privilege of going for water. Dbring the long school day from 8 a. m until 4 p. m., we used up a lot of watef. Not drinking so much of it as throwing it away so we could get another bucketful. In that way the lucky pair who went could use up about a half hour in the great outdoors that we liked a lot better than school. Only the me dium to larger boys were permit- tde to go for water. And that was the constant envy of the smaller ones and the girls. One day Louis and Ben got permission to go for water. The teacher forgot he had already promised Louis a whipping, or he WASHINGTON AND SMALL BUSINESS” While It ti beyond the prov ince of this column to even at tempt to predict who will win control of Congress in the Nov ember election, it seems reason ably certain that one prediction can be made now. e • e That prediction is this. Who ever wins, one of the first jobs will be over hauling pres ent tax laws. • • * Coleman An drews. former head of the in come tax bu reau in the present admin- istration has 3. W.Hardsr come out for repeal of the in- comi tax law. There is an or ganization that seems to be gaining strength that is promot ing the same objective, s * * This is a movement, which un checked, could be whipped up by demagoguery into a prairie fire. And while a prairie ftre undoubt edly cleanses, It also destroys, so * Rep. Dan Reed. (N.Y.) is in the forefront of those who feel that some action must be taken soon. He senses that a rebellion at the ballot boxes could wipe out the entire income tax structure, leading to very distressing tax abuses, unless present inequities in the laws are remedied. • so There Is also another inter esting note to the current situa tion. While since Biblical times the tax collector has been a per sonally unpopular person, there seems to be a general feeling that the collectors of the income tax are doing their best to per form an honest Job. The big ques tion Is whether the job can ever be done equitably on the basis of present laws. • • o On the other hand, Rep. Reed fears a popular uprising against the income tax law might suc ceed. That would still not solve (cf Ncfloril rrV’MLu; of Jwj»3on*e-»» }*^\U000 By C. WILSON HARDER the need of government for mon ey, and he expresses possibility a national sales tax would be sub stituted. Not only does he feel this would be bad, but the na tion's independent businessmen, voting through the National Fed eration of Independent Business, have taken the stand such a tax set-up would be unwise, see But likewise, these same busi nessmen have voted in favor of a tax modification that would pre vent taxes from strangling young business enterprises. * ' • • In the recent session of Cong ress bills which would remedy this situation were introduced by Rep. Frank Thompson, Rep. Wright Patman. Sen. John Spark man, and others. • *o The entire problem Is perhaps best summed up by Rep. Thomp son, who in commenting on the measure he introduced, says "This would greatly aid the small businessman, who facep increas ingly severe competition from the large corporations. This Is particularly true because of the fact that the small corporations are almost totafiy dependent on year-to-year profits for expan sion and research.” • • • Due to provisions of the pres ent tax laws, many mergers have been made necessary and profitable. For example, it is possible for a huge corporation faced with a heavy tax, to es cape a big share of this tax by absorbing a smaller firm which has been showing losses and this has built up a tax credit. • oo While thousands of words could be written on how present tax laws harm the free enterprise system, one simple fact seems to stand out tersely. Unless re sponsible leaders in the next Congress take action to remedy the situation, Irresponsible lead ership is quite apt, with the sup port of masses of people, to take action that would be most un wise as is feared by Rep. Reed. Less than 200 hours away! wouldn’t have let him go. The old switch was about worn to a stub; so he told them to stop by the thicket ; there at the foot of the hill and bring him one on the way back. Louis had a bright idea Know ing that the switch they were to bring would likely be used to dust the seat of his own pants, he said he would fix that. With his sharp knife he seamed the switch around about halfway up. Ben and Louis passed the word around. So, after school some of us peeped through’ the cracks from the outside and watched. The teacher took Louis by the left hand and let him have it. At the first stroke, the switch snapped in the middle. The teacher look ed sternly at.Uie stub a moment, and then proceeded to finish Louis off with it. And he gave him more than ever. Next day Ben got his, too, for just being along when Louis schemed it. And his was with a five-foot switch that wasn't weakened in the middle That experience was written up by all as a good idea that didn't work. -• FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 25th day of October, 1956, I will ren der a final account of my acts and doings as Executrix of the estate of Samuel Gary Dillard, in the office of the Judge of Pro bate of Laurens County, at 16 o’clock a. m. and on the same day will apply for a final dis charge from my trust as Execu trix. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate*will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. LILLIAN SALTERS DILLARD, . Executrix Sept. 22, 1956. . 4c-0-18 OFFICE SyPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO Phono 74 IF YOTI DONT READ THE CHKONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS Phono 74 i CREDITOR’S NOTICE ' All persons having claims against the estate of Nannie B. Blakely, deceased, are hereby no tified to file the same duly veri fied, with the undersigned, and all those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. WILLIAM M. BLAKELY 100 Oak St., Clinton, S. C. Executor of Estate. • Date Sept. 26, 1956. . Symptom of Dtstrooo Artonp from STOMACH ULCERS duito EXCESS ACID QUICK RELIEF OR NO COST Ast About 15-Day Trial Offer! BOYS' Flannel Paiits $6.95 L. B. DILLARD > Otct million pnekacw al Um WILLARD TREATMtHT hart bees esU for relief of eymplomi of di«tre« arlOnf from Stomach end Duodenal Ulcere due to Ki- •oae Arid Pear Digestion, Sour or Upeot Stomach, Qaselness, Heartburn, Sleep lessness, etc., due to Cicese Arid. Ask for “Willard's Massage” which fully explaina his home treatment -tree—at McGEE’S DRl'G STORE YOUNG’S PHARMACY Gray Funeral Home Clinton. S. C. 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