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Thursday, October 18, 1956 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pace FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Glemson College Information Specialist OVER-IRRIGATION Our tobacco specialst, J. M. Lewis, tells me it is easy to over- irrigate tobacco. And some farm ers have been doing that. As dry as the past summer was in Lee county, he saw tobacco that was watered two and three times that was much better than that watered five and six times under similar conditions. And, since it costs money to put water on a crop, he points out that it is important to use it right. He saw some similar results at other places, too. Much tobacco is now being irrigated and generally the county agents report good to ex cellent results. At the proper time next season Mr. Lewis will give pointers about irrigating tobacco. He tells , me tobacco has two critical times with water. First is at trans planting time to get a stand. If it’s dry then, irrigation can be' a god-send. Then, after it gets caught good, it can stand consid erable drought. That makes it root deep, which it won’t do if you continue to sprinkue it with irrigation. And then the final critical period comes when it starts stretching up several weeks before ripening. If water does not come naturally thne, irriga tion will be most beneficial. But never a heavy watering, for rains are liable to come and give you too much. Roy Ferree, our peach man, doesn’t find that peach growers are over-irrigating so much as they are not watching the water penetration rates on their rolling lands and so. much of the water is running away rather than soaking in. . They need to work organic matter in to the middles, keep contour beds up, perhaps subsoil a bit in the middles, and then supply the water slow en ough so it can soak in. He tells me of growers who pride them selves on an inch of water an hour on tight land that simply won’t take it that fast. Torrents were noted running out of the ends bf their fields. And, folks, that’s not doing any good fast. We have so much to learn about irrigation. But there is one thng we do know. A n tl. that is, you have to get the water down in the soil for it to do any good. On the sandy lands, they are not bothered with this. But on the clays it is a real problem. That’s one thing that keeps our ‘ live. It runs away, not into the rainfall from being more effec- soil. Litter on and in the land to loosen it up, will sure help. Con tour farming, too. * • • A FIG FOR EVERY FARM “A Fig for Every Farm” is a good slogan. This is one crop that is both ered by few if any insects and diseases, and every farm can have it. The brown Turkey seems to be the favorite variety* - and the Celestia is also common in this state. Folks sledom buy* fig bushes. They get rooted sprouts from around neighbors’ bushes. Figs are occasionally injured by cold. But they usually sprout right back out the next spring and you have them soon again. They bear several crops a year. If the first crop is killed by cold, as* they of ten are, you have later ones to come right on. In semi-protected places they do best and have least winter in jury. In chimney and fence cor ners and on the south side of outbuildings, protected a bit from the north, they do best. They root shallow and do best if kept clean around and mulched with any sort of leaves or litter. • * • CREPE MYRTLES. TOO Dean Farrar joins me again in urging that every home have a few beautiful southern crepe myrtles planted around it. After frost, while they are odrmant, is the time to set them. Like figs, folks often get their crepe myrtle sprouts from around old trees in the neighborhood. But better stocky plants can be gotten rather cheaply from local nurseries. They come in a variety of shades from p u r p 1 i s,h pink through true qniks, down to a creamy white. This hardy shrub is truly Southern. And visitors .here dur ing its long hundred day bloom ing season are immediately at tracted by it. I assisted with a tour in this area for the agricul tural college editors who met at Clemson a few’years ago in July. More of them asked about this plant, in full bloom then, than anything else we saw. So, if we don’t already have them, let’s add to the beauty of our place with a few crepe myr tles thsi winter. • * * BOYS ARE THAT WAY As a kid in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork, we knew where all the wild plum thickets were for a mile or so around. AruT those things vary a lot, you know. Hardly any two of ’em are just alike. Guess each started from a stray seed being dropped. And all that came from that bush to make the thicket alike. We had yellow ones, red one, and one' thicket of a sort of or chid or purplish plums. This last one was our favorite. It was later and came after the others wera, social security purposes either his actual net or 2-3 of his gross farm income. If his gross fki income .is more than $1,800.00 in a year but his net farm earnings are less than $1,200.00 he may use either his net or $1,200 00, If his gross farm income is more than $1,800.00 and his net farm earnings are $1,200 00 or more, he or share-cropper as a self-em- must use the amount of his actual j the employer of farm workers or V farm earnings. j6f tcrew leader or row boss” as, he revised law contains other ploj/ed farmer, and the status 6f provisions which serve to qlear the employee of the farmer for up uncertainties about farm self- whom he supplies seasonal farm employment in relation to the help I shall describe provisions social security law. For instance, m the new law in my next ar the definition of a share-farmer tide. - • < Jarman & Edgerton Oxfords, $8.95 to $14.95 L. B. DILLARD ^abseribe to THE CHRONTCUt Ch«/Upp«rR<»om C TMl UW* ROOM NASHVtUI TfNNESSft THE. WORLD S MOST WIDELY USED DEVOTIONAL CUIDE Behold, God is my salration; I will trust, and not be afraid. (Isaiah 12:2.) Fear and superstition caused Indians of Southeast Venezuela to believe that their gods lived on top of a certain mountain. During thunderstorms, lightining would strike this mountain. Later, engin eers discovered^that where the Indian gods weYE siippdsed to tree was a mountain of iron ore. Today, steel companies have large min ing operations at this mountain. The Indians have had to transfer their gods to another place. Fear and superstition can cause us to look just as unsoundly upon what we cannot understand as the Venezuelan Indians looked upon that mountain. However, as Christians we can be spared such fears and doubts and superstitions, for we place our trust in God who re vealed Himself in Jesus Christ. He is gracious. It is He who can give us the courage and strength we need in order to erase the fears of things we do not understand. PRAYER Dear God, we thank Thee that we can be spared foolish fears and superstitions as we place our t rust in Thee. Use us. our Father, to show others thy love that they, too, may not fear those things they do not under stand. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen. “As we realize the presence of the Lord, fear gives place to faith ” Ruth Ann Burke (Venezuela) Changes In Your Social Security By EDWARD G. COPESTAKE (Field Representative of the Greenwood Social Security Of fice) Since they were brought under the old age and survivors insur ance program beginning in 1955, about gone. And it was far bet ter eating than the rest. So w-e let none 6f them go to waste. One June day I ventured back there across the hills to see how that favorite, clump was coming along. Much to my surprise, they were ripening, and I was hungry for plums. So I lit in on ’em. The first juicy one I bit into started a tooth hurting. But I ate right on until the pain overcame my appe tite and I headed home, holding my jaw. I found the remedy for tooth ache there on the medicine shelf, carbolic acid! I wonder now about our using that dangerous stuff. But it was qur standard remedy. We’d dip a small swab of cotton on a straw in it, and then pack that down in the de cayed aud hurting tooth. The pain would usually ease right off, and mouth, the skin would later peel it. did that time. Anywhere a off But what was that compared with toothache? I left that cot ton in there, returned next day and feasted on that delicacy of the Stone Hills. I’ve never seen a wild plum just like it, before or since. ' It should have been preserved. some self-employed farmers and ranchers have had an optional method of figuring their earn ings for social security purposes. This optional method, however, was restricted to individual farm ‘ers who reported their income on a cash basis. Under the 1956 amendmbnts to the law, this optional method of figuring farm income has been revised so that more low-income farmers can build protection tor themselves and their families under Social Security. It now applies not only to individual farmers and ranchers but also to members of farm partnerships. Moreover, farmers who figune their earnings on an accrual rath er than a cash basis c«n now use the optional method. This extension of the optional method was made by Congress in recognition of the fact that members of farm partnerships and accrual-basis farmers are, in the same way as other farmers, subject to the risks that are pe* culiar to farming in general— risks that make farm income sub ject to sharp fluctuations and ofi ten result in years of low income or actual net loss. Extending farm income to farm partners ths optional method of fguring and accrual-basis farmers gives them the same opportunty as other farmers and ranchers to keep up their protection under old-age and survivors insurance during bad years. For taxable years ending on or after December 31, 1956, a self- employed farmer or rancher whose gross income from agricul- | tural self-employment is not mdre than $1,800 00, may use*' for. HERE Friday ...THE CAR WITH ALL THE“NEWS"I S' SWEET, SMOOTH AND SASSY! Stale, of South Carolina, County of Laurens COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Margaret S h e a I y Clements, Plaintiff, vs Joe L. Clements, De- 1 fendant. TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED, Joe L. Clements: YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served up>on you, and to serve a copy of your answer to said complaint on. ‘the subscriber at his office,. 203 West Pitts Street, Clinton, South Carolina, within twenty days af ter the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the com plaint within the time aforesaid.' the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief uemanded in the complaint. TENCH P OWENS, , Plantiff’s Attorney October 1, 1956 Notice TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED, Joe k. Clements: TAKE NOJICE that the com plaint in the above entitled ac tion, together with the summons, of which the foregoing* is a copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Laurens County, South Caro lina, on the 10th dav of October, 1956 TENCH P OW’ENS, Plaintiff’s Attorney October 10, 1956 3cO-25 IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Phone 74 Just out and just wonderful — the longer, lower, sparkling new ’57 Chevrolet! 20 glamorous new models . . . thrilling new styling . . . exciting new colors. New high-compression horsejxiwer and sensational Ramjet fuel injection* for smoother performance than ever liefore! We’re showing thq smart new ’57 Task-Force Trucks, too. So come into our showroom today and see these great new Ohevrolets for 1957! *Hxt ra -c«Vi opt«>n J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CLINTON. 8. C. Phone 3493 Joanna Giles Chevrolet Company W. MAIN ST. PHONE 26 CIJNTON, S. C. 4 Sport Shirts S1.95 to $4.95 L B. 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