The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 18, 1956, Image 9
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.
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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. - • <
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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.
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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
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