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V Thursday. April 10. 1958 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Nim ++****++ FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER demson College Information Spedaiiat FARM IMPROVEMENT In 1910 a third of our people farm ed. In 1935 only a fourth of ’em did. And now less than 12 per cent farm. Yet we are fed and clothed better now than then. Efficiency is the only word that can explain this. The harnessing of more power per man, better va rieties, improced methods, and so on account for this. And the trend of farmers is still downward. How low can it go be fore there won’t be enough stuff to go around. Economists think, con siderably lower, maybe down to 5 per cent. For there is still a lot of room for much more efficiency in production and distribution than what we’ve had. It has been figured out that im proved Jarm practices give us the equivalent of 5 million more tilled acres each year. And that is what has been keeping production up, while acres of most things and num bers of farmers have been going steadily down. Surely there must be a limit to this. But it appears that we haven’t nearly reached it yet. Fewer acres, fewer farmers, yet more and more stuff. That’s the mi racle of modern farm production Who has benefitted most from this? Surely it is the handlers, haul ers, processors, distributors, and retailers. For the grower has been getting less and less of the retail food and clothing dollar Bu.l wait a moment' I’m getting into a deep subject, and don’t have room here to develop it properly So, let me get back to my by-ways over South Carolina • • • WE NEED MORE MflJt IN DIET NutnUonists tell us we need more milk in our diet. How to get folks to produce and drink more of it has long been a project of the home demonstration agents, county coun cils of farm women, the school lunch folks, and vinous other At Clemaon the milk vending ms chines put out a lot of nulk la the momiag and afternoon breaks that would have otherwise gone to soft drinks or water To make milk easy to get seems to help a lot la Idaho they made a milk study Only a per cent of the folks drank milk if they had to Mk for tt Half of them took * when asked if they wasted ft. But tt per cent drank ft where M was put on the table ahead of time At the last Iwe meetings sf the ag rtcuhural eollege editors (la Coto- rado last year and Pennsylvania the year before) instead of having “Cef- foe Breaks" on the schedule, they had "Milk Breaks" at imdmonun. and at msd afternoon And we really soaked up the cold milk both plain sad chocolate Maybe this great food product Gray Funeral Home (Ttaloa. 4. C. FI VERAL DIRECTORS .and LMBAI.MERS Phone* II AMBl LANCE SERVICE needs a lot more promoting, needs to be made easier to get, and drink ing it the logical thing to do v * * • COASTAL BERMUDA NOW Hugh Woodle says spring is the best time to plant Coastal Bermuda. It has been successfully sprigged in at all seasons of the year. But spring plantings have usually been best. Thousands of farms now have some of this grass, and many farm ers know from experience that it’s very good. We have a lot to learn about its fertilization and manage ment, like with all new things. It has shown for sure that it can use a lot of fertilizer profitably, special ly nitrogen. So we need to keep that in mind with it. In some counties farmers have suitable machinery for planting it. In some, the counties own such equipment. If you are in need of any such service, your county agent can tell you what’s available there. BOYS ARE THAT WAY Favorite goods from childhood! I touched on three last week; the first, wild plums, June apples, and chittertmg hash. And there are oth ers. Strangely, my taste hasn’t changed much, and foods that rank ed high back then are still right up there in my estimation. Watermelon! If I was listing them in order, it would be first. My. the gastronomic thrill of a cool, lush watermelon on a summer day! They don’t agree with some, but they always did with me I can eat some of the things I tike until they don’t taste good But not so with a water melon It tastes good right up to the very time 1 can't swallow any more. This state has had a part in develop ing the four beat there are, the Congo. Charleston Gray, the Gar rison, and the Blackstone And cantaloupe*, they vary so But a real good one must come In my list of favorite foods At last a high quality one has been brad for our conditions here It w the Edisto, bred by Dr M B Hughes at Clem son's Ediato Station From childhood, too. came the liking for good country ham To me. it's tops m meats But like the can taloupe of the past, they vary to Some are not much account, a dts- apouitmmt But I've found a source ta this state from which you eon get good ones (W N sod Fred Hoodeo son. Ninety-Sts S C.). Not ooty (heir taste, put their aroma! To «metl ft afryia when you pass a is like a magnet toyin' la pud For it surely ahods Us oo the air Common eld rowpoas sad bread, a lowly dish, is fit for Tito lads and I ofton ask for a meal of nothing else We want our fill of it. unencumbered by other I'm not much fur the streaked ooked with vegetables But cooked w«h pens is greet, a Mt with each mouthful And collards. too. after frost (added Us savor They coa we hunger, like a cow. for greenery I Kraut too. at that season We al ways made a barrel of it each wia | <en when 1 was comm along Easy I un the stomach, and good for what | ails you. wo always thought And I like it. too, with sweet ‘talers a] ways On and on this could go But this I is lone enough —In Washington THIS WEEK By Clinton Davidson Washington military, diplomatic and congressional leaders are mea suring the relative U. S. and Rus sian military potentials in prepara tion for a firm stand at the forth coming summit talks. The yardstick .being used is strik ing power, measured both in total force and ability to move rapidly to counter attack once the first blow has been delivered. The opinion of military experts we’ve talked with is that neither nation could deliver an initial knockout blow. Japan, they recall, delivered an all-out sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that crippled otir Navy. Our su periority in the movement of men and material to distant parts of the world proved, in the end, to be de cisive. Russia undoubtedly has, or will soon have, the ability to strike an even more punishing first blow through the use of long-range mis siles. But we now have the ability to move fully equipped armies thou sands of miles in a matter of hours, and to keep them supplied through an aerial pipeline. Secretary of the Air Force, James H. Douglas, pointed out that, in addition to an undisclosed number of military planes, the U. S. has on a standby basis some 2,500 civilian cargo and passenger planes in a Civil Reserve Air Fleet that would dwarf the famous Berlin ailrift Except for the availability of the CRAF, the military budget now before Congress might be appreci ably larger. Secretary Douglas rec ognized this when he told a congre* sional military appropriation* com mittee; "We have not ordered any turbo- jet transport aircraft for the Mili tary Air Transport Service, such as the airlines have on order in large numbers, and which we count on the airlines making a part of CRAF. Tins fleet is an essential part of our wartime airlift ability.” These views are shared by Con gressmen with whom we have talk ed Rep Prince H. Preston, (D ,- OFFICE SUPPLIES CHHONICLE PUB. CO. J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CLINTON, S. C Phone 3493 Joanna \ ORR ANIMAL CLINIC Whitmire Highway Honrs: 8-12 A. M.-1-6 P. M. Evening 7-8 • Office Ph. 1623- Res. 1501 DANIEL E. ORK, D. V. M. Ga ), Chairman of the House Appro priations Subcommittee for the Air Force, 4 told us in an interview: "Our not so«*ecrrt weapon, more significant than ail the sputniks, Is the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. It should be maintained and strength- enH to give us unmatched ability to shift and concentrate our strik ing power tn a matter of hours, not days or weeks ''The bulding of a strong civilian air fleet through government as sistance not only is good sense, R also is good economy The Rerlin airlift demonstrated the value of our ability to move people and supplies safely and speedily '- Rep. Albeit Thomas . fD, Tex ). | another member of the subcom mittee. told us that "if and when the j next war starts, the -initial move- men of men and uspplios must be I done by air This can be done only if we maintain and strengthen 'our air ower, both military and civilian An adequate reserve throutfi the commercial airlines is of the utmost z importance ’’ Kep John J. 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