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/ I Thursday, December 13, 1956 ME CLINTON?CHRONICLF The Best Gift Of All... YOUR LIFE! ■ r 9 • » , 'Dwz Co^uKij DURR’S TiSE HOLIDAYS 5 C Hiohwav Dept - Columbia FARMS... AND FOLKS ‘ By J. M. ELEAZER Oiemson College Information Specialist Hybrid' Sorghums Dr. Paden tells me they are test ing hybrid sorghums at Clemson. Dr. John H. Martin, eminent sor ghum breeder and authority with the United States Department of Agriculture, says the coming hy brids should increase sorghum yields 20 to 40 per cent. . This whole field of hybridiza tion is a fascinating one. Through it and the fine points of plant breeding, the future is assured of a continuing abundance. These grain sorghums hold an important .place in our future. Strongly resistant to drought, dis eases and insects, yielding a bit better than corn usually, and with about the same feed value, their domain is increasing and will like ly continue to. * ^ And down in this part of- the country they have another ^virtue. They can be grown following grain, where corn can’t. This gives us a small grain crop and another good carbohydrate feed crop from the same land the same year. Grain sorghum is usually com bined, dried and then fed. But the county agents tell me it is also grazed off considerably. County Agent Ezell of Newberry showed me turkeys grazing it off there a few winters ago ^nd the growers .like it in that role. Dairy Cattle Improvement Our fall dairy cattle sales aver aged higher than last year, our dairy specialist, C. G. Cushman tells me. The James B. Guess Guernsey sale at Denmark aver aged $440, the State Holstein sale S438, and the State Guernsey sale S338 per head. Cattle numbers have reached a * new high in this country. But the increase has been in beef cattle. Dairy cattle are really down a bit, but their production is up. This is a tribute to the improved breed ing and feeding the dairymen are doing. Another tendenqy i n the dairy business. Cushman says, is | that the herds-are getting fewer but larger. And that is the ten dency with all farTning, larger 'units. Mechanization and the need lor larger per man labor income | account for this. Barnwell Market The county of Barnwell, with the aid of the State Marketing Authority, built a modern produce market at Bla'ckville the past spring. It was finished just .in time to handle the cucumber 'and melon crops. County Agent Shelley has this to say. about it now: "The Barn well County Farmers Market at Blackville ended .a very successful first season. The volume of prod ucts handled was equivalent to more than 1,600 carloads of water melons and 22$ carloads of canta loupes. This is one of the mosit suc cessful programs we have ever been able to put over in Barnwell county.” More About Coastal Coastal Bermuda, like irrigation, keeps bobbing up. Despite the very dry summer just passed, County Agent Mellette of Aiken reports, "Farmers were well pleased with Coastal Bermu da hay yields. Craven of Edgefield: “Coastal Bermuda was a life-saver to cat tlemen the past summer.” Down in Jasper, Hayden reports: “Many farmers harvested Coastal Bermuda hay the past summer. Yields per cutting ran from 1 1-2 to 2 tons per acre. v Ajid in Lexington, Evans says: ■’Most new Coastal Bermuda pas tures were good the past dry sum mer, especially where good culti vation and fertilization practices were carried out." ' Boys Are That Way We got passes on the Southern Railway by virtue of my father being a country doctor wfco served it. I really rode those passes, while the rest of the family cared little | about roaming. And neighbors thought my folks rather reckless in letting me go about as I did. By the time I was 15 1 had been to Washington three times, Jack sonville. Knoxville and Norfolk. And 1 want to tell you that was getting .around for a kid of the stone hills. Very few of my friends had ever been out of the'county. And they asked me many questions about the far-away places. I traveled light, very light, of ten taking nothing but a paper sack with-a^lot qft lunch in it. Funds wen' limited.'So I usually traveled at niglht., Afriving early in the morning, I would put in a full day seeing things, catch a train back that night, thus saving the cost of lodging. On the trip to Jacksonville the schedules were such that I had to spend the night if I was to have time to see anything much. I saw the ostrich and alligator farms, among other things. A tin-type photographer got me concerned and took several pictures before I knew it. I started off and he called me back in a rather threatening way and said I had to take the pictures. I protested mildly, but he squelched me, and I took 'em. That took 60 cents out of my to tal SI.65. With $1.05 in my pocket and the bag of sardines, crackers, and Vienna sausage used up. I faced the night and next day home with a dollar and a nickel in my pocket. I found a cheap upstairs rooming place across from the de pot. I paid the 50 cents for it and went to bed Something was bit ing, so 1 couldn’t go to sleep. The .igln was tu n-d on, and 1 never saw so many bedbugs before. I shook the (blanket out and got on the floor. In no time they were down there too. I got -up. dressed, and -went and sat in the depot un til the train left a little betore day. At Jessup about mid-morning 1 ran to a nearby store, got 3 large bananas for a nickel, a tin of pot ted ham, and a box of crackers. And after a change in Columbia, I arrived at White Rock about sun down with 40 cents in my pocket and a great adventure under my belt. EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Dr. Herbert Spaugh * Rearing children to manhood and womanhood is an expensive business. It costs not only jn money, but also in nervous en ergy, patience and time. This being so, parents should take proper steps to protect their in vestment, especially during the most dangeruos period, the teens. Here more tragedy develops than at any other age, particularly in the modern day of automobiles. The automobile has not been an unmixads blessing. Our chil dren are brought up in them from childhood, and naturally they want to drive them before they are old enough to secure a driv er’s license. Many of them do this, often with parental con sent, and targedy often results. It is my studied opinion, and that of many safety experts, that the parental investment in the child and also in the automobile should be protected by having the child taught driving by a trained in structor. not by the parents nor ether members of the family. The coct is relatively small compared to the potential loss, perhaps both of the child and the car. Parents 1 who think they can’t afford to pay for' driving lessons, or that it is too unimportant, have no busi ness in owning a car. In my more than thirty years’ ministry I have witnessed too much tragedy brought about, by carelessness and shortsightedness of parents in this respect. The next greatest danger also involves the autoomobile to an , I'ajje Sim FOR YOUR OWN FUTURE t . INDEPENDENCE SAVE! Put your money in an insured savings account here. When the time for your retirement comes, life will be more pleasant if you have a healthy savings reserve. Open an insured savings account with a convenient amount and save regularly > You’ll get a worthwhile return on your savings. IZEHQ AVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Sinee 1909 TelephaM No. • Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce , BUSES DAILY TO Greenville .. .. $1.25 Columbia 1.80 Atlanta 5.60 Augusta 3.80 Charlotte 4.05 Knoxville ...... 5.40 Asheville.. .. 5.50 Phm u.S. Taa GREYHOUND TERMINAL- PHONE 18 extent. It is the matter of train ing in proper boy-girl relation ships. The time was when a boy and a girl did their dating either in a horse » n d buggy, on the^ street car, or in the girl’s home. Now the automobile takes them wherever their whims may lead them, and where there ■ is no supervision. This greatly muti- plies -the dangers of illicit rela tionships; and runaway mar- riagesr Here’s an area of training where the parents have an im portant job to do. While par ents are perfectly willing to teach their, own children to drive auto- moblies. they are just as unwill ing to train their children in preparation for marriage. Many not only won’t, but feel it is the right boy-girl relationships, in responsibiliy of the school, the church, or other sources outside the home - •- There is no substitute for home training in this area Mother? should talk frankly with their daughters, and fathers equally so with their sons. This is not easy, especially when the parents have neglected to take the time to share companionship with their children before they reach the teen-age. There needs to be a new emphasis upon family un ity, and it should commence when the children are small. This is the time parents should take the time, not only to play with their children, but also to teach them how to work together in family unity. Ties built herd'carry over into the teen-age Mothers can do much bettor in sharing with their teen-age daughters the problems which face them while | they are working together. Like wise, fathers will find their sons much more receptive to advice while they are together on the golf course, hunting or fishing, than by sitting down in a chair and giving him a lecture Parents, you have a tremen dous investment in those chil dren. They deserve better pro tection than many of you are giving. Subicribe To THE CHRONICLE Phono 74 Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. 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