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Thursday, June IS, 19S7 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE FARMS... AND By J. M. ELEAZER CMemson Collets Information Specialist Water, water! The demand for it ever grows. Once we had no thought of it It looked inexhaustible, as the recurring showers came, and countless streams murmured their way back to the sea with the sur plus. But today it is different! Where the individual used to require but a few quarts a day, now his daily needs call for many gallons of water. Industry, too, lives on incred ible quantities of good fresh wa ter. And now comes the greatest potential user of all, irrigation! Yes, supplemental irrigation in the rainfall belt. On top of this phenomenal and growing need for water, we ac tually have no more. For that is fixed by rainfall. In fact, we ac tually have less of it held back for beneficial use in our time than our forefathers knew, before the forests were cut and steep lands put to the plow. For they absorb ed and held it back for even flow. In late years much of our rain fall swished away in red water to the sea, both leaving and car rying harm with it. But, thanks be, in late years we have started remedying that. And many streams do not now run as red with the blood of the land. Water, good fresh water, the most critical necessity in our country today! And the acute ness of this is growing. True, we are beginning to do something about it. The hills are being clothed with verdure. And the runoff is being stored in thou sands of reservoirs, ponds, and water holes. The county work ers reported 13,200 in South Caro lina at the end of last year. And the bulldozers and draglines are still booked ahead. Fortunately for us here, our rainfall is adequate, If we can Just hold it. But the main trouble is, so much of it has been running quickly from the land and moving on back to the aea, leaving us a veritable desert when recurring droughts come. Yes, we need to become more and more water conscious. And some sort of workable water law is needed. Our legislature has worked long on this, and the solu tion seems not yet in sight. We must keep the problem before us, for it will nob go, but grow. A solution must come. • • • Henry Blanding, enterprising colored farmer of Clarendon, started out 27 years ago as a ten ant with only his determination, a good wife, an ox, and a pig. To day he owns a nice farm, has a tractor and the usual equipment, has won county and district priz es in the State 5-Acre Cotton Im provement Contest, and is one of the leading farmers of his com munity. Henry combines good crop farming with livestock. Tobac co and cotton are his main crops, plus corn and grain that go into the making of the 175 to 200 hogs -he markets each year. And now proof! See attual road-test D0D6ETRUCKS m«t powerful of low-priced 3 ' he is working some beef cattle, too, into his operation. This is a family farm. In the true sense of the word. Each of the nine children has been made to feel a part of it As soon as each became old enough to work in the field they were given an acre of cotton as their very own. This money was put in the bank by each for his dr her education. Three have already finished col lege, and it appears that most of the rest are on their way. The Standings have made >a specialty of growing tarly toma toes. By producing their plants in hot beds, they beat neighbors to the field with them, and like wise with tomatoes to the good early market. Yes, Henry Blanding is proof of the saying, “Where there is a will there is a way." And County Agent Grainger says of him: "He has a good reputation from the standpoint of honesty and the im provement of his race from edu cational and religious stand points.” 0 0 0 In a few weeks now the new Edisto cantaloupe that Clemson’s Blackville station developed will be on the market. The limited amount of certified seed avail able was pro-rated among the commercial growers who applied in time for them. County Agent Shelley, of Bafhwell, says a num ber of growers in that area got enough seed for sizeable plant ings from which commercial ship ments can be made. And County Agent Willis, of Chesterfield, tells me the same. We have two cantaluope areas. The early one is in the Blackville- Bamwell sectien. Then this is followed by the Chesterfield area, giving us local cantaloupes over a rather extended period. 0 0 0' “Getting the Most Out of Your Sewihg Machine’’ is a major 4-H project among girls in the state this year. The home agents were called together in groups for special training. Then they call ed in their''local leaders for simi lar purposes. : These leaders then met with their local clubs and jiciped teach the girls .. * Dodge matches reserve power against truck “C” and truck “F” in this test for safer passing ability. All three are comparably equipped and loaded with 1000 lbs. A skilled test oriver is behind each wheel. Here’s the flag, they’re off! local department store to use in thedr spring fabric display, for which riie received fabrics from which she made her ' own 4-H garments. • • • I often speak of change. No where is it more in evidence than in Newberry. From bare lands and cotton they have gone to cattle, grass, grain and pines. Dairying is big business in Newberry, and they have a lot of beef cattle, too. County Agent Ezell tells me the past year 401 of their farmers bred 1,780 dairy cattle artificially. Milk cans by the roadside is a common sight along highway and byway there. Last winter we rode about three out the Hartford road from Newberry. Those good red lands once knew but cotton. We didn’t see any cotton stalks nor bare fields. Winter verdure blanketed the rolling hills. White fences, beautiful farm homes, cattle and turkeys on fine grazing, and, be lieve it or not, orchids being raised by the thousands there! Change! Yes, new things, in great variety. Our soil, climate, and ingenious people make it so. • * ■--«' - Maybe I’m funny. But a pet peeve of mine is the shooting of big game. The other day I heard a fellow over radio who said he was leav ing on a big game hunt in Africa. He had been there before and brought back trophies. But he had never killed a big-tusked ele phant. And that was what he was seeking this time. I thought, “Why kill an ele phant.’’ The Lord placed ’em there in their wild haunts. And that land is not even now needed by man. They do no harm, and the abundance of nature feeds ’em. To take a high-powered rifle and bring one down, to r*t there in the jungle, seems like , a de praved sort of cowardice or im becility to me. It might be mean to say it, but in cases like that I’ve always felt it is a pity the gun doesn’t fire backwards. —•———jjj—f— v BOYS ARE THAT WAY Now about that clock that col lected the money and paid divi dends at Colonel Frick’s country drug store up there in our stone hills of the Dutch Fork at Chapin. It waa a kw black marble-look ing clock like some folks bought for thedr homes back then. It was about twice as wide as it was high and had a sweet melodious tone to it. But it did not strike the hour. It struck when you dropped a nickel in a slot there and threw you out a token good for 5 cents. And that is what you paid for your stuff with. The main point about that dock was that every so often it would strike twice for a nickel and shoot out two tokens good for a nickel each. And on rare occas ions it did it three times for a nickel. We hung around that place on so many Saturday afternoons that we learned its timing. Every sev enth time it would give two. But if it failed to do that, you knew that the ninth one then would bring three. We would go in there and wait until the first per son got a jackpot Then we would count Others just put their mon ey in, got their check, paid their bill with it and went on. But club girls. "They put on dress re views, wearing garments they make. Patricia Rhea, of Charles ton county, made garments for a Orangeburg Your Sewing Machine. The art of sewing has always , A , been a part of the work with 4-H|/ rec J ent Orangeburg fat stock show Jimmy Way was weigher at the and sale. Quite appropriate. He is an old friend of m/y Clem- son days and a good farmer of remember her (drop in occasions) with Montags Touch of Elegance The ftstfottery that tells her you’ra thinking of her in terms of the smartness, the distinctive design*/and the flne quality of a fashion accessory that expresses her true personality— Montag** high-fashion stationery. It carries the compliment of individual selection. It says because she appreciates the latest in fashion, she deserves the last word on paper! CHRONICLE PUB CO. Publishers — Printers — Stationers we didn’t. Three of us would go together. Then if the seventh coin didn't give but one token, we knew that the two nickels the other two boys had would get that jackpot of three. Then the three of us would have 5 tokens for the three nickels that were our spending money for the week. That went on for some years, until the clock wore out. But in the .meantime, it had served us well. We had been enriched by much candy that we otherwise would not have had. For then that extra dime would buy a pound or more of candy. I’ve told you this storfc had a lot of penny candy, the tint I had ever seen. It took on various imitations. Next week I must tell you about a few. Dr. Fred E. 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