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r # M Thur*4a>. Ocl^ber 30. I0SM (Eltnlmt (Ehnintrk Mrs. J. H. Yarborough Dies In Spartanburg Lanha mand Ted Yarborough, all of (iaha Burial * a* in ( edar Shoals Laurens Hill FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER demson College Information Specialist WITCHWEED This summer the field men , of the USDA have about completed the county surveys for witchweed in festations. Through August they had found it on 114 farms in Marion County, County Agent King was telling me. In Dillon Don Benton saiij it had been found on 400 farms. And*County Agent Johnston of Hor ry said ft had been found on 178 farms there. Those are our heaviest infestations. Some was found on few er farms in several other counties in that area, but I did not get a re port from those agents. They have to work fast on these farm surveys. The best time to spot this pest is when it’s in bloom, and that’s rather limited during the summer. It has beautiful little flame colored flowers about the size of a five-cent piece, and a little ferny plant is attractive, too. It gets about 6 to 10 inches high usually. Not knowing what it was, folks have been known to want it in their flow, er gardens. Last year I asked the county agent at Lumberton, N. C., where they have a lot of H, Just how bad this wi|e£weed was He said you just doe? make any com where the infestation is heavy. Then this year I saw the truth of that borne out in Dillon County Agent Benton show- de me a field of corn they said was getting started promising early. Then came the witchweed that germinated on its LIME plant is native, describes it as the world’s worst weed. We are prepar ing for a real fight against the foot holds it has gotten here on this con tinent. They are in several counties down in that area on both sides of the Carolinas state line. I( you’d like to know more about? it, get a copy of Clemson’s witchweed bulletin from your county agent’s office. * * • * COASTAL MANAGEMENT Coastal Bermuda continues to write new stories of prodigious grazing and hay yields. But County Agent Bowen of Sumter points out we need to learn and practice prop er management, if we are to get the most out of it. The spittle bug has developed into quite a pest on H at places. But these are where it was allowed to get way ahead of the cows or die mower and bed down. More cattle or the mowing machine in time is the prevention of that, Bowen tells us. But where the thing gets ahead of you and the bugs have riddled the field, the best thing is to stick fire to tt and burn rt off, he says When this great grass gets up to about 8 to 12 inches, it’s time for more cattle quick, or start the mow er. That holds it down, keeping it tendA and more nutritious, and avoids the likelihood of spittle bugs with little or no lime But look what cotton takes out of the soil, very lit tle. Lint U made mostly from air and water, and the whole stalk, leaves and stem went back to the soil. Not so with our diversified grass land farming now Take Coastal Bermuda. With it we take a lot of elements from the land. And we arc going to have to put them back, or eventually we will use up the re serve and run into real trouble. And, as Dr. Cooper points out, calcium, which lime carries, most Conservation Notes By J. B. O'DELL, C Enoree. t'wo daughters. Mrs Evaiwn^ry Bragg of Rl 1 Enoree; and Mrs ev- la *>• Enoree—Mrs Mary Yarborough, LjUij. Casey of Spartanburg, two Mon DlCS 87. died at « Spartanburg hospital br(> ,hers. Fr’ed Cogd.ll of Laurens From Gunshot Wound at 11:45 p m , Sautrday, after a and Blake Cogdill of Cross Anchor, few weeks of illness one sister. Mrs. Annie Sherbert of Mrs Yarborough was Funeral services (Dolph) F for 78. Adolphus who died | Cogdill of Fair View. N C ; one r * Enoree; one half brother, Steve Satur<i »y a * "““n his homg, resident of Spartanburg county and h<|lf . sl , t< , r Mrs Corrie Church 0 < r, , from a guIuho( wa sa daughter of the late Robert i- ireonv j|| P 28 grandchildren and wound of the head, were conducted and Ann DOvis Cogdill She was a 27 greatgrandchildren Monday at Gray Funeral Home in noember of the Enoree Baptist ^ Funeral services were conducted j Clinton by the R< \ W A Bald • Church. Monday at 4:00 p m. at the Enoree win, the Rev Wingard Derry and E. P. Alexander, of Mountvillc. Surviving are her husband, John Baptist Church by the Rev Ralph : the Rev Maqley Campbell Burial was assisted last week in timber H. Yarborough, three sons, I^ester, Hammett and the Rev Lewis Me- was in City View cemetery at Sheriff Wier said the shooting was believed accidental, but an investigation is being continued l_ __ ___ZZ if YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS stand improvement work on his farm. He used the district's tree girdling machine in killing undesir able hardwoods in order to release and permit the growth of pines u- one of the 12 ' 4 ' 5 T poison was applied to the serious shortages our lands sma B er trees to prevent sprouting J. R. Crawford SURVEYING ’ CLINTON, A C Phone 34?I1 Ioanna are likely to show, unless we used a sort of balanced fertilization And Mr. Alexander has received ap^ proval from the local ASC office that means put back what we take cost-sharing in carrying out this roots after the soil warmed up sod that corn was a complete fail ure. Aa expert in Africa, where this When have you limed your land? That's mighty important. Clem- •oa’s Dr H P. Cooper tells us When cotton was king, we got by out. Lime is a great soil conditioner, making other elements available, in addition to furnishing direct plant food in the form of calcium. • * • BOYS ARE THAT WAY Boys have a lot of craziness going for which there is no rime nor rea son. Or we did in the Stone Hills when I came up. Maybe we just didn’t have much else to distract or attract and had to make up our fun. For years we had a saying going, utterly devoid of meaning. Whether alone or in company of other boys, if there was nothing to say or do right at the moment we would out with it. The thing has never been spelled out. But it sounded like this: “Topeka-leeka genuell cankwell bone.” I've said it a thousand times, specially when feeling good, with nothing on my mind but my old homemade straw hat and no work marred the path ahead was good to me then practice. He was also given tech nical assistance by Phil Hadaway of the South Carolina State Com mission of Forestry in selective marking of trees to be cut for pulp wood. Removing these cull trees allows the remaining trees room to grow, permits sufficient sunshine and soil moisture and increases both the quality and quantity of the mer chantable timber. Landowners who have placed ap plications for pine seedlings are now being notified by the S. C. State Commission of Forestry as to how many seedlings they will get and are being billed for the cost of the seedlings at the same time Appli cants are to forward their payment direct to the State Commission of Forestry within three weeks from the date of their letter or forfeit their trees. The demand for seed- The world 1 lingj ^ gtill greater than the supply at the nuresries. Larger orders are For years we had another case of | being cut approximately 50 per cent, craziness M>ing. And tt caused us to ^ 5malJer .ppUcations ar being listen keenly to what others said. filled in fuU If anyone wbo ha£ For there was no repeating placed an order for seedlings thru It worked this way. If another boy ^ locaJ Work Unit of ^ told you something you Adnt hetf ^ ^oneervation Service and now or understand, and you said ‘whaC Ife* u* ,» CMUlot use the seed his invariable answer would be, ... _ ■tv.i-. swu.Mn't R®**- P 1 **** notify us There are get anything more out of him You ^ could What" him all you pleased. ^ ^ ■•••■* and that's the only answer you’d . _ . „ . | get, "'nut's what’" Eventually, if Jooepb Sprouse, of the Hickao you pestered him long enough, he Tav "" StcUoa might ten you what he said But tf »««* » the surveying and con he did it wee quite a (aver, for •tHKt** of 4 880 feet of terrace* | which you were very grateful For ** 8pr<*me had previously planted he thde t have te da it at all. under • meadow outlet within thei th* rod*- Reid te take care of the surplus, I fttraa evvy generation uf kids eator from the terraces and rows of nan- The terraces were constructed with Ours did. tea I remember the dlotnrt s malar grader Mr tine They d saying they had was Sprouse wtt receive "Heat- ustafter from the local AST la carrying out thu practice office Sweet Pototo Seed Stock Should Be Hilt Selected D illard Bolanl) — <•* t«J E. 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Laurens Federal Savings AN* LOAN A990C1AI1QN 201 West 25012 The seed saved from thcar hills will be the foundation seed stock from which wiD be grown all of the •red stock for next year. Enough seed may be selected to produce the plants, "cut sprouts, ” or vine cut tings for the 1959 crop The selected or foundation seed should be stored in clean containers marked "foun- storage house where they can be gotten easily at bedding time “Remember, you will want to cut the foundation seed stock at bedding tinve for interior color Therefore save a few more baskets of this seed than you will actually need,” Mr. Bowers states. "Do not let any thing prevent you from making hill selections this' fall. If all growers will ‘hill select’ their seed, the per acre yield of quality sweet potatoes will be considerably (increased within the next few years,” he adds. 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