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Thursday, December 13, 1956
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‘ 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
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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.
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