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Thursday. April 3, 195# a THE CLINTON CHRONICLE I’affc Kk« FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER CJtmson College Information Specialist INTEREST IN TREES I can well remember when in terest in trees, pine trees, was practically zero. We found ’em here in greatest abundance, we cut the choice ones as needed, and annually set fire to what was left. But in our time we have seen that change. Trees have taken on new meaning, new. value, as a crop. We not only take care of ’em and try to keep fire out, but we set out multiplied millions each year# Yes, our state forestry de partment grows many millions each year at the Wedgefield nur sery, and the county agents take orders for far more trees than-can be filled. .SO this year the sta’e is increasing its nursery operations a lot, and private agencies are also producing many millions of pine seedlings, too. As an indication of the interest in trees, County Agent Benton of Dillon, tells me over 100 interested farmers attended the forestry field day held in the Minturn commu nity back in the winter Th> re all field phases of good tree manage ment were gone intp by our fores ters and the farmers showed keen interest in every angle of it. Change, change, nothing Ls so constant as change' And most of it is for the better, too SWEET POTATOES IN DARLINGTON County Agent Gray of Darlington sort of seems to take good 'taters with him Back when he was as sistant agent in Horry, the 4-H boys of that county were pretty constantly hitting the bulfs eye w ith sweet potatoes. And now since he has been in Darlington we have started hearing from 'ta ters there, too In fact, for the past certain poisons that have been used a lot. Our man Nettlee tells me certain other poisons are show ing up well in these areas. In one of these, County Agent Livingston of Florence reports, ‘Three or four applications of methyl para- thion were used towards the last of the season with amazing results.” And at some of these places, Mr, Nettles tells me, they are going back to calcium arsenate as a cot ton dust against weevils, too. * * * HOGS BITING TAILS OFF I was in a Com Belt meeting sorme time ago and thye brought up the problem of hogs biting each other’s tails off. I had never heard of it in this state. They brought out that it often -happened where ihey had them closely penned and were fattening them out. I told ’em we did very tittle of that. With our open weather, the real hog grower tried to have his out on the land hogging down or grazing off a crop all the time. Maybe that accounts for the difference. 1 asked our hog man, Gus DuRant, about this. He had never heard of it here, either Out there, they said, it didn’t stop with just the tail, but that once a hog’s tail was bitten off, the others would continue biting until it killed or largely ruined the hog ♦ * BOYS ARK THAT WAY We sort of hated to see the thrasher go. For we kids enjoyed it, and its coming again was far Inoger off than Christmas. And it seemed that would never come. When the thrasher pulled out for the next place down the road, it left memories. One was the pile of charcoal and ashes from the en gine there in the lot I remember how the hogs cleaned that up, hun- seven years straight the 4-H club -ry for minerals they did not. get boys in that county have won the And that straw plie' That was a state contest I treasure for us But not for long For various rea>or.i. sweet po-|We played on that mountain of tato production in this country has 'oftness. roiled down its sides, and been shrinking for years It is now, built dangerous tunnels clear lower than any time since we through i*. .And then at night we started keeping such figures about 1 wondered why we itched so That a hundred years ago. Looks like chaff was really bad for that it's about time (or H to stop slip- But Ihe worst time soon came ping and start picking up a bit. if That was when we had to take they are not to vanish as a crop (t} rks and put all of that straw in Maybe, ta this area it might be re- 'he bam Later thrashers had sumed with the new variety Clem j*'raw chutes hat would blow it, son has developed and released rghl where >ou wanted iL But not this year the CaroGold It has a, those old machines They just lot ta the way of yield and non pushed the straw out back, and cracking that the others haven't. >ne man had to stay th^re and And ita quality ta high, wo ! keep it away from the machine • • • | -lo«t of the chaff tilted out there WH VIE RESISTANCE | the ground and there waaa t TO POISON oo much of it left in the straw We aerm to have unimstakabh- And after the thrasher went the eMdmre that the boil weevil at bickena had a good time, too places baa developed reasdancr to For. be as careful as we could. y - — ■ I considerable grain was lost there rruund the bam ui the handling Gray Funeral Home ( ImUo. 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C. aad thrashing process As much of this as possible was caught on sheets placed under and around Uw thrasher, but some gut by It wae> '.hen our chickens h asted and agg production immediately went up Fbr oqrs were the "gra.*shoper” type of chickens They had to work fur their living Only orcasumally did they get a few stray kernels of gram .And we made our stables •ight, m they couldn't rob the work stock W*e kids would often slip off and follow the ibrasher down the road WTe liked to see that machinery ran, specially the engine But the fireman was always watching to catch us off guard Then he’d blow that w'hislle It scared us and hurt our ears If we saw him in time we always held our hands tight . over our ears. Soon the thrasher moved o n down the road, out of reach, and we couldn’t even hear ita whistle any more And that ended our fes tival of thrashing in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork for the season It was a great one for us kids. 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