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V » t Thursday, November 21,1957 / THE CLINTOSf CHRONICLE farms::. AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER demsoa CoDege Information SpedaHol NEW PESTS As new crops come, new appear These pests are not always new in the true sense, but adapt them selves to new crops, that become generally planted. A typical case of this is with soy beans. I well recall, as county agent 30 to 40 years ago, when this crop was just being introduced. Common insect pests didn’t seem to bother it then. Only the army worm would occasionally damage a field of it. Along through the years, soy beans have gained, in favor. This has been very rapid in recent years, since the breeders have given us high-yielding, non-shat tering strains suited to this area. And now some counties have sev eral tinaes the acreage of soys they do of cotton. As bugs find soybeans on so many of the fields where they used to feed on other crops, they some times adapt themselves to the soy bean, too. And, thus, nisects never before considered a pest on this crop become of prime importance. For instance, 4 never heard of "the old Mexican bean beetle that ruins your snap and butter beans so, being a pest on soybeans be fore. But this year the agents in all parts of the state listed it'as a major pest that had ot be fought no soys. - . Likewise the com earworm did not bother soys early. But a few years ago it started insidiously slip ping in lush bean fields and eating the tender beans out of the pod. And soon the farmer waked up to the fact that he had only forage there, no beans. So |ow the county agents teach their farmers to de tect this pest early, whhen it can be controlled in time. And now the common old looper, or measuring worm, has taken to soys, too, and has to be dealt with, as has the blister beetle. So, all of tl^s must leave the farmer wondering, “What next?” I saw county agents wet to the knees examining lush bean fields over their counties in early August look ing for the first elusive signs of these pests in soybean fields. And, finding them, they then went on the air ,in the papers, and out through circular letters to their growers, giving the situation and the reme dy. The farmer can’t slumber now. There’s always something new. land, lots on the Laurens to -Green ville highway $900. Canal Wood Corporation to Wade H. Orr, 2 acres in Cross Hill town ship $800. Sarah Fowler to Willis Fotvler, Kf lot on W. Hampton Street, Laurj $1.00. B. V.' Hedrick Gravel and Sand Company to Campbell Limestone Company, 68 acres two miles east of the town of Gray Court. $10 and other valuable considerations. James Earl Jackson to John B. Arnold, lot on Airport Drive, Laur ens, $10 and other considerations. Bill H. Allen and Elizabeth L. Allen to Sammie M. Pinson and Frances B Pinson, lot on Elm St 1 ,, and Peggy Sue Willard, Clinton Ginton $10 and other considera tions. '•s'. Marriage licenses issued in Laur ens County: Vernon Richard Ginn. ' Clinton, | N' C Ralph Dean HflwaTdrGinton, and Elizabeth Frost, Clinton James Sloan Norris. Clinton, and Gazzie M. Underwood. Waynesville. __ Page Nine — ^^Kefmeth R.ay Kelley. Clinton, and Cacol^ Grace Martin, Clinton Xohn Allen Harris, Fountain Inn, and Arrie Mills., Gray Court. -Horace -Huckahy, Woodruff, and Jessie Carlton, Woodruff SCREW WORMS BAD This is one year the coming of frost was eagerly welcomed. For it 'fmarks the end of the screw worm scourge that has plagued us this time. Starting early in the summer, this' pest built up such numbers as to reach epidemic form by late summer and fall. Back in August County Ager# McCord of Georgetown, told me: “Screw worms have shown up in horses, hogs, and are a serious problem in the deer population. One man said he counted 25 deer dead with screw worms and sev eral others affected in a small area he saw in one day.” This insect does not normally live through the* winter here. But due to The rn/ildpwinter, it likely lived over further north than usual in Florida or South Geirgia and there by arrived here earlier, too. That gave it time to build up extra gen erations before frost this fall and much damage was done to game and livestock. A fascinating attempt to eradi cate this pest from the mainland is being tried It worked on an is land of Florida. It consists of rais ing male flies ny the millions, ex posing them to special radium rays so as to destroy their fertility, and then turning them loose over their limited wintering areas farther south. Females bred to these then lay only infertile eggs. The scien tists have great hope this will work here as it did on that Island. * * * SWITCHING POISONS County Agent Bowen of Sumter, says: “Our Cotton crop was gen erally good. This, we think, can be attributed to a good poisoning and fertilizing program. Almost to a man, farmers have switched from one poison to the other this year and it apparently paid big divi dends”. That changing poisons along w'as designed to get around any resistance weevils might have built up against any one poison. • » • OCONEE APPLES The Long Creek community of Oconee is building soundly with ap ples. A light set of fruit this year gave them only a half crop of 50,- 000 bushels, according to Coupty Agent Morgan. They are extending their acreage a little each year. * * * BOYS ARE THAT WAY We still occasionally hear of “breaking” a horse or mule. But not of “breaking” shoes. That was always a painful pro cess for us country kids. W'e went barefooted from the last frost of spring to the first one jn the fall. So, during that long spring, summer, and early fall, our feet just had their unimpeded way. We either got snoes that did not fit, or feet that spread so that ho normal shoe would fit. When we got a new pair of shoes, we had to conquer them to comfort. At first they rubbed and hurt everywhere they touched. And the coarse thread of my home-made stockings made their print where the shie fit tightest. A sea pi would come un der the sole of my foot and it would burn like fire there when I had on new shoes: \ . If there were old folks with the same foot, they would offer to “break” our shoes for us. What a service that was! I only had that good fortune once. After he wore my stiff shbes a few days they felt all right on me. And, unfortunately, at church was where we suffered most from breaking in new shoes. A new pair was always our “Sunday shoes” for a good while until the old every day ones were worn out. So our feet gave ’us little peace at church, winter or summer. During the winter the new shoes hurt. And in the summer any sort of shoe* caused a streak of fire to strike down the middle of the sole of the foot where that seam formed when the foot was crowded into a shoe And this was made worse by shoes for fast growing boys just about al ways being foo §maH. A Sunday shoe will last a good while, and if it fit at first, it didn’t long. But we had to wear ’em until they wore" out, unless there was_ a smaller ehild> in the family to hand them down to. I was youngest; so I couldn't do that. Guess that's why the thing impressed jne so. , County Records Mrs. Mildred Scarborough to T. David Sloan, Jr., lot on Fleming Street extension, Laurens, $800 and assumption of mortgage. Niles C. Gark and Agnes A. Clark to Claude F. Hughes, Jr., lot on Lake Greenwood, $10 and other val uable considerations. Niles C. Clark and Agnes A. Clark to Carl R. Rogers, lot on Lake Greenwood. $10 and other valuable considerations. Mrs. Grace C. McGowan to James M. Watson and Elizabeth L. Watson, lot on the corner of Manning Street and South Harper Street, $10 and other considerations. Otis Mahaffey to Mrs. Nora Ma- haffey, 32 acres bounded by lands of L. J. Blakely, $5, love and affec tion. Furman E Ott to Vivian Long Bo- IF YOU DON’T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS Phone 74 -V* Save or Invest WITH PROFIT, SAFETY \ AND CONVENIENCE • ' ' • Current Dividend Rate 3V2% Per Annum Pla&e your funds with us today _. i r j ■ j ■« Laurens Federal Smms AND LOAN A 8SOCIATION LAURENS. SOUTH CAROLINA Green Stamps HENS ■rSRS PriRSisS !• Is 21 MP. #tv«raa« TOM TURKEYS Burt Portion ■ nevwvjPp ■ wvww Long Island DUCKS ib 49 < SuparferaMl Cranberries I-LB. 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