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V Thursday, October 9, 1958 THE CLiNTON CHRONICLE I*a*e Eleven IS... FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER UsEifK Oiemson College Information Sped alia t —p—eexeenweemenen—uoneoenneapien—e»—esOeeneexo—ee—oe— SEEING THINGS Did your county have a farm tour the past summer? Marlboro did. And what a tour. At the 12 stops and 18 other ob servation points where they just rode slowly by new things in farm ing, they saw just about every angle of this, changing agriculture. From better methods with cotton to bulg ing fields of Coastal Bermuda, from soybean verieties to milo for sum mer grain, and from 4-row planters to farming with hogs and cattle, they saw it. County Agent Abrams told me the local farmers and agricultural workers ganged up to make this big day click. The experts tell us we learn about 85 per cent of what we know by see ing. TTiat being the case, such see- and-learn tours are bound to be valuable for any farming county. • * * MARKETING COSTS The past season was bad on peaches, marketing, that is. We made a fine crop. But from there on it was rough. J. W Gaston. Jr., of Spartan burg, told me he preferred selling his peaches for (1.25 a bushel bulk to packing them out and shipping for $3.00. The labor and other ex pense of packing, the baskets, the freight, the commissions, retailing costs and profits, all add up enough to make peaches bring a pretty stiff price on the other end even if the farmer gets nothing for them. It is a hard fact; those others Bet theirs They must have it to stay in business, or we'd have no outlets The farmer alone stands as the cushion. Sometime he gets his But sometimes he doesn't. What a pity, to have to grow anything as good as a peach and then get noth mg out of tt. la fact, maybe loee money, as some did the past season Just fussing a little on something I can’t do anything about Maybe • • • I WONDER WMV la August I spent a few days an the campus of the Cat versify of Wieraasin at NaAsoa It was rather hat, as I’ve sa aftea found R in the Midwest Aa air rsadWisnsd build mg m which we met had the air. very dry and crops were sorry. That is a country of lakes, beau tiful, clear, deep lakes of life-giv ing water. I wondered that 'they didn't have enough of the usable sort in their city system, and that they did not tap the lakes and bring abundance to their fields with irrigation. * * * BULLETIN 77 “Pork for Carolina Farmers” is the name of one of Clemson’s bulle tins that some of you will soon be needing. Specially if you haven’t butchered a hog in a long time and intend to. It carries the whole story, from selecting the hog to the good things you can make from it. And curing the meat, too. It is free from your county or home agent. * • • BOYS ARE THAT WAY We always kept a few geese. Most folks in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork did when I came along, as they had for generations before. Their main purpose was for fea thers. We seldom ate one, and geese live for many years. They’d always make a nest out back of the wood- pile somewhere, build it well, with a lot of small sticks and branches. And when they’d leave the nest, they’d always cover the eggs with litter. It took ’em four weeks to hatch. We kids thought that an aw ful long time, for we liked the gos lings so. They were the cutest things! But we couldn't do much playing with them, for the old ones were mean then, specially the gan ders They gave their young all of the fatherly protection they could. And this was sufficient against such things as hawks, dogs, and the like But there was one enemy of gos lings that got a lot of 'em That was cockle burrs. It seems the little cockle burr, just as it comes up with two sma!! leaves, is deadly poison Most things have more sense than to eat them But goslings don't The goslings usually hatched out in Jane, and bum are slow to up Usually a good ram would about then, following some hot dry weather, and the first grssnsry In or mnM af Feathers were the thing! Each spring, before the molt set in, we’d catch up the geese and pick the feathers. That was done by turning the goose upside down, with its head and neck between your knees and both feet in your left hand. Then with the right hand you would yank the feathers out. The old goose would usually give a muffled squawk with every yank. When you got through with him, he was a fun ny sight, and only had its wing and tail feathers, with light down all over the rest of the body. And that’s where the saying came from that something “looked like a picked goose.” Those feathers were used for, piliows and feather beds. And they are some of the first things relatives and friends would try to supply newlyweds with. EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Dr. Herbert Bps ugh There was never a time in this century when social drinking was more universally practiced than now. The pressure put on young pepole to drink is terrific. Beautiful but lying advertisements beckon. The example of their elders leads them on. No one tells them or shows them what can be and often is the bitter end, when men of distinction become men of extinction. Young married couples are under the same pressure They are told that social drinking is necessary for business advancement, and if they are to have any social life. DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT*! I have talked to too many peo ple who have walked this path, and stopped. Only a few weeks ago a friend of mine who is a succesful business man and who stopped drinking en tirely eight years ago was elected president of the southern associa tion of executives in his field. He attends many conventions and has repeatedly told me that the fact that he doesn’t drink alcoholic bev erages is an asset rather than a handicap. The other evening I was sitting in the lovely and luxurious home of another friend, a successful pro- j fessional man. I asked him the '.same question. He replied: “Tw;o years ago my wife and I, ! entirely of our own volition, decid ed to stop drinking intoxicating bev erages of any type, on any scale. We made this decesion, on a trial basis, after ,we had for the previous five years stopped drinking except on ‘special occasions,’ such as con ventions, a beach trip, and the like. “We don’t miss drinking at all. The illusion that people would ‘stop inviting us’ has been replaced by the fact that we now attend more social functions and have a more complete social agenda than at any period during our lives. “The added respect instead of criticism for our position is terrific, even from our former ‘drinking pals.' “The fact that we are living without any feeling on any occasion of the necessity or desirability of intoxicants in any manner is a very wholesome feeling “But the real pay-off came the other day when our 18-year-old son came down to breakfast and told us he had been to a party the pre vious evening where many of the teen-agers were having a high ball, j They invited him to join, but he declined. They twitted him, saying, \ j‘You’re 18, aren't you? That’s old enough to have a drink.’ He replied, T know it is, but my mother and father are more than 18. They don’t drink at all, and, therefore, I think it would be very unbecoming of me to have a drink just to be soci able’.” . The father’s face beamed as he told me this. Then he said he would give me his definition of a social drinker: “A person who is brushed and combed, richly dressed and quite expensively embalmed.” Baptist Church His parents were the late Sidney and" Polly Babb Armstrong Funeral services were conducted Thursday at 4 00 p m. at Rabun Creek Baptist Church by the Rei Wingard Berry and the Rev W A. Baldwin. Burial was in the church cemetery. dikcharge from my trust as Guard ian Any pervfn indebted to said es late is notified and required to make payment on or before that date, and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date duly proven, or be forever barred FINAL SETTLEMENT LEAH RK HARDSON Take notice that on the 5th day of t Guardian, November, 1958, I will render a Clinton, S (' final account of my acts and doings Oct 2. 1958 4e-O-30 as Guardian of the estate of Sam- mie J Richardson, Jr. in the office of.the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a m , and on the same day will apply for a final CREDITORS’ NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Butler Hubert Boyd, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make pay ment likewise CATHERINE J BOYD, Executrix, 2iH W. Walnut St , Clinton. 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