The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, January 23, 1958, Image 7
Thursday,'January 23, 1958
*'*> . THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Page Seven
FARMS
AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
demson College
Information Specialist
COTTON HERE
One is led to wonder about the fu-
utre of cotton here. Our acreage in
South Carolina has shrunk to less
than 20 per cent of what it once was.
And it seems still headed^down.
In states in the Far West it is just
the. opposite. Frorji practically no
acreage at all, three states out
there have built up sizeable acre
ages of cotton in our time. And their
yields per acre are twice to three
times what burs are. * ^
Look at Arizona. Last year on
350,000 acres they made more cot
ton than both Georgia and South
Carolina put together did on a com
bined 1,078,000 acres. Ttey aver
aged 1,108 pounds of good lint per
acre. We averaged 327 pounds of
mostly weather damaged lint per
acre.
California; alone, a comparatively
new state with cotton, last year
made 75,000 bales more on its 716,-
000 acres than the four old cotton
states of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee
did together on their combined ac
reage of 1,908,000. And New
co, smallest cotton growing
state opt there, piade more on its
181,000 acres of cotton than North
Carolina did on its 355,000 across
Yes, 10,000 bales more.
These three Far Western states
planted 1,2*7,000 acres of cotton the
past y^ar, from which they har
vested 2,550,000 bales. The five old
cotton states nearest and including
us (S. C., N. C. f Ga., Tenn., and
Ala.) last year planted 2,640,000
acres of cotton and made 1,960,000
bales. They averaged a bit over 2
bales per acre, and our group about
three quarters of a bale.
Those western yields are made
with irrigation. Mississippi, Texas,
and Arkansas are moving rapidly to
irrigation. And their yields already
show it. It is getting started in our
states over here, too. Most results
from both experiment and exper
ience have been good on fotton, as
on other crops.
If cotton is to stay with us, it
looks like we are going to have to
make more of it per acre. Irrigation
is the one practice that promises
most in this case. It, along with
good farming, appear* to be our
main hope, not only with cotton, but
with all crops.
LAURENS COUNTY
Auditor's Itinerary
FOR 1958
DaVid Gtenn’s Store, Thur., Jan. 23, 1:30 p. m.-2:30 p.m.
Whitten Village, Thur., Jan. 23, 3 p. m.-5 p. m.
Clinton City, Fri., Jan. 24, 10 a. m.-5 p. m.
For the convenience of property owners, I or one of
my representatives will be at the above places on the
dates and hours listed to accept tax returns for the pres
ent year. This being a “real estate” year, returns will
be taken on all type property, including real estate.
Those unable to make their returns on the above dates
and places may do so at the auditor’s office in tjie court
house at any time before March 1 without penalty.
JENNIE V. CULBERTSON, County Auditor
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always took some top rails from
the pasture fence for th^ hog to lie
on during this process.
From there two to four of the
strongest men, depending upon the
size of the hog, locked an arm un-,
der the hog and carried it to the old
apple tree and hung it from a limb.
The '‘gambling stick” held it by
the leaders of its hind legs. There
Jobs Will Come Harder
For 1958 Graduates
By ROGER W. BARSON
Babson Park, Mass., Jan .16—The
big-paying, easy-to-get first job out
they poured more hot water oyer of college is something we shall see
the hog and scraped it down until it less of this year. Company recruit-
was clean and white. We stood iment officers are saying that "this
year for the first time in a long
Mexi- RAIN DELAYS
GRAIN PLANTING
A rainy fall delayed grain seed-
ings greatly, County Agent Cannon
of Laurens, reported. But that
which was gotten in on time looks
good. And Ezell of Newberry, tells
of a similar situation there.
Grain is of growing Importance in
our changing agriculture. With
many, it is their “winter corn
crop,” escaping the usual summer
droughts that afflict corn so. If we
are to have our intended acreage of
it, a lot will have to be seeded this
winter and out until early spring.
This is not usually as dependable as
fall seedings. But sometimes it hits
and makes fine grain.
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John L. Mimnaugh
about this question:
“Fire gutted our store, and it will be six months
before we can resume business. Would Business
Interruption Insurance have paid fixed overhead,
employees salaries, and my own living expenses
for the entire six months of non-operation?"
Wm. J. Bailey li)s. Agency
M. S. Bailey & Son Bankers Bldg.
PHONE 1246
INTERET IN
TURKISH TOBACCO
G. D. Butler, special assistant
county agent handling Turkish to
bacco demonstrations in the Green
ville area, tells me cottoii’s future
the past year has served to bolster
interest in aromatic tobacco grow
ing.
This is a high money value crop
that lends Rself well to a lot of fam
ily labor. Some farmers who started
with it a good many years ago and
stuck to it have found it to be a
profitable crop. Grown under the
close supervision of Mr. Butler and
our other special tobacco assistant
county agent, D. P.'“Matheson, of
Walhalla, a few tenths of an acre of
this crop usually brings more than
several acres of cotton. Interested
farmers in the up-country are ask
ed, through their county agents, to
get in, touch with the one of UJese
two men nearest them. It will soon
be time to seed plant beds.
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BOYS ARE THAT WAY
Last week I started to tell you
something about country ham and
got off on butcherin’, a prelude to
it. Let’s continue from there.
By the time we got hog scalded,
morning was beginning to streak
across the frosted fields to the east.
And. as I told you last week, they
always let us stay home from school
on butcherin’ day.
Everyone, including us kids, who
could get around the hog, lit in
scraping the hair off 35,5000 as it
came from its scalding bath. We
around and waited for the opening,
for one of us had spoken for the
bladder. It was washed out and
blown up like a baloon. We’d put a
few peas in it and let it dry. Then
it would rattle when we shook it.
As soon as the intestines were out,
they made a tubful, the women
folks took them down below a
clump of plum trees back of the
woodpile and cleaned them for
many uses. The fat was reclaimed
for lard. The small intestines were
cleaned for stuffin’ sausage and the
large ones for sliver puddin’. The
gall was carefully taken from the
liver and the tips of the lungs
(“lights” we called ’em) cut off to
drain. These, the liver, and ‘melt”
were put in a pot wjth the head and
some of the other trimmings and
cooked for liver puddin’. Just before
that good smelling stuff got done,
we’d drop a cotton sack with some
rice in it in the boiling water. We
ate some of this along with the
cooked meat awl baked sweet pota
toes for dinner. I liked the liver
best. Man, that stuff was good. And
all along, as the butchering pro
gressed, we were roasting small
bits of meat on pointed sticks held
over the fire. *
The fat was ground and cooked
out, for lard. And the lean, other
than shoulders, hams, and sides that
were cured, were ground for sau
sage. In that the Dutchman put all
manner of seasoning like sage, gar
lic, onions, etc., that made them
quite distinctive and to the liking of
all of us.
' Here I am at the end of the page
and haven’t told you what I started
out to two weeks ago about country
ham yet. Well, more of it next
week.
while we shall find plenty of J
gradual as around at prices we Want
to pay.”
Babson studies of business activ
ity have for some months now re
vealed a mi Id "softening in both em
ployment and payrolls. The cause
of this slowdown in the cycle can be
attributed to a nujnber of things;
among these are rising productivity,
through technological advances, au
tomation, and declines in govern
ment spending.
The reason I am writing this ar
ticle now instead of in the spring is
to try to make both young people
and their parents aware of this
changed condition If 9 college edu
cation teaches nothing else, it S|hould
make individuals aware that survi
val of the fittest is a law of nature
not likely to be repealed in a hurry
by any congress, soviet, or college
placement officer!
Unemployed College Graduates
You may be surprised to know
that there are a number of last
June’s graduates who have not yet
never
CREDITORS' NOTICE
All persons having claims against
the estate of Richard E Ferguson, \
deceased, are hereby notified to
somewhat atypical, it does,
thele&s, point Tip^a trend.
Did you know, too, that U fair
sprinkling of last June’s graduates
who did get jobs have already been
“excessed" by their employers'’
s word “excess’' is a lovely new
personnel,, word which means “you
are a"nice enough individual; you steps of thls
have done v^ell on the job; We would
like to have you around, hut we just
don’t need you any more.” In short,
he has tw-en fired 1
Slant Job Hunting Now
One well known college placement
officer has stated he expects the
number of campus visits by com
panics this year to be cut by 50%.
I cannot agree with this. but. I do
say there w|H be some shrinkage
If, therefore, you expect to grad
uate. from school or college this
year, and want a job, start hunting
now Include these thin'gs in your
preparation <li Make ah appraisal
of yourself Know your vocational
interests, strengths, and weakness
es (2) Find out what kinds of jobs
can best use your abilities, educa
tion, and experience: working with
^people, with numbers, or with mate
rials and things’’ (3) Investigate
your college library to find out what
companies offer \vh.it kinds of jobs
general way why you are interested
in his particular industry and his
company. (7) Set up a contact sche
dule for yourself, and send a re
sume a day to companies you think!
you would like to work for, asking the same duly verified, with the
for the privilege of an interview (8) undersigned, and thoee indebted U>
When interview time comes,-be s ^'d estate will please make £ay.
able to talk inteligently about your nnent likewise
self, indicating again, in a general - FLORENCE J FERGUSON,
way, the kinds of things you think Executrix-
you might be able to do on the job January 3 1958 ' 3c-J'-27
ii send'a follow up letter after the ,
interview.
Sure, this is a lot of work, and it
takes a good deal of time! But
person who fails to take minima
sort is mentally lazy
Time spent now in griting ready for
interviews is far better employed
than time waited in inferviews froW
which you will obviously be ’ wash
ed out” because of your lack of
preparation It i- also far better
tha/i time spent later on the job for
hich you have neither the interest
nohsthe aptitudes Job hunting is so
nous ousmess, more so this year
than at a^yjtme since the war
Dr. David T. Mixon
—Optometrist^—
201 N. Broad Street
* PHONE 1308
Office Hours; 9-5:30
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been able to‘£ind full time employ- Go to a good financial
ment of the kind they want. I learn
ed from one large eastern univer
sity recently that better than 20%
of its last June graduates bad fail
ed to find employment to their lik
ing by Labor Day. Some are still
source
check sfwwafic companies*
book and
for growjh-potentiSl and product di
versification.
Siudy Companies To Be Visited
(51 Have 3 general knowledge,
before you go into the interview, of
working at part time jobs; some each company as well as of the in-
have gone back to college for grad dustry it represents. (6j Be able to
uate work. While this figure may be'tell a prospective employer in a
Gospel Singing
At Sacred Acres
There will be a gospel singing at
Sacred Acres Prayer Ground locat
ed on the Ware Shoals-Waterloo
highway on Sunday, January 26,
from 2:30 until 4; 15 p. m.
The program will feature the Sun
shine string band for shut-ib*. under
the direction of Marion Davenport
and Ed Saylors, both of Greenwood^
The public i£ invited to attend and
all singers and musicians have a
special invitation.
G. M. Davenport' is president of
Sacred Acres.
The Sacred Acres Prayer Band
will meet Friday, January 24, at
7:30 p. m. Mrs. Fannie Belle Dav
enport of the Sacred Acres vicinity,
will conduct the service.
ANNOUNCEMENT
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The James E. Wolfe Insurance Agency is
pleased to announce^the promotion of Mr. Jano s R.
Bryan to Agency and Office Manager.
Mr. Bryan has been associated with the Jam* >
E. Wolfe Agency for five years and is experienced
in all phases-of insurance work. He resides at ?»<''>
Cypress Street, and is pastor'df the Pentecostal
Holiness Church of Lydia.
James E. Wolfe Insurance Agency
200 N. Broad St.
Phone 610 f Clinton, S. < .
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