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^Thursday, November 20, 1958 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE By M. L. OUTZ, County Agent 4-11 LEADERS TO BE RECOGNIZED Plans are underway for an Of ficers Leader training meeting and recognition program Friday mor ning, November 21. The training will start at 4:00 p. m., and the banquet at 6:00 p. m. All 4-H local leaders and officers are invited to attend. The banquet is sponsored by the Home Demonstration Coun cil and the County Agrciultural Committee. The meal is being pre pared by the Home Demonstration Council. artificial breeding • PROGRAM James Jacks is our new service man for Laurens County. James was substitute service man for a number of years and all dairymen are familiar with him and his work. The association is breeding more cows than it has since the asso ciation was organized. Dairymen realize that the only way to have good cows is to raise them, and it is absolutely impossible for the av erage dairyman to secure the type of sires that the association has on hand. There are grown bulls of each breed. In order to get the service of the asscoiation you only need to call 521 between the hours of 8:00 a. m. and 10:00 a. m.« JERSEY SALE The Spartanburg County Farm is holding a complete dispersion sale » on Friday, November 21. The sale will start at 12:00 noon. The farm is offering ninety (90) head of reg- sitered Jerseys. RAT CONTROL PROGRAM Letters are being sent out to all farm families in Laurens County concerning the rat control program. In each letter wiU be a list of mer chants throughout the county where farm families may buy rat bait We would like for every family in the county to take part in this pro-| gram. It is the only way to control rats since they travel from one farm to another. The bait will be pack-) aged ni four (4) pound bags and ready to use. Everyone should buy sufficient amount to kill all the rats at yuor farm. The bait will be purchased from the Fish and Wild life Service and sold at wholesale price. This, of course, is in com petition with merchants, so the offer will last for a short time. 4-H ACHIEVEMEhTT DAY The Laurens County 4-H Achieve ment Day was held Saturday, Nov. 15. More than 125 4-H members were present for the program State and county winners were recognized for their accomplishments during the year. LIVESTOCK TEAM LEAVES FOR CHICAGO Laurens County 4-H members will represent the state at the National Livestock Judging Contest in Chi cago November 28. The team will leave Saturday, November 22, for a training tour before the conetst. They will visit the University of Tennessee, University of Kentucky, Lenwood Farms and Purdue Uni versity before going on to the big contest. At each stop they will see the best beef cattle, hogs and sheep in the country. A. J. Bennett, assistant county agent, will accompany the group. Members of the team are Ben Crouch III, Randy Ott, and Jerry Morris. Farming Briefs Richland, R. W. Bailey—With the cooperation of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, four rat control demonstrations were conducted. We selected farms on which rats were numerous. Excellent results were obtained in each case. Warfarin and Pivalyn were used. Although the use of Warfarin has been standard practice for years, the demonstra tions stimulated much interest in rat control on a community basis. Saluda, W. H. Craven, Jr.—A heifer feeding demonstration was started in September with seven dairymen of the county. These dai rymen have agreed to follow iccom- mendations in feeding and caring for their replacement heifers. As these heifers grow and develop they will be measured and taped by the county agents to determine their rate of growth. Their growth will be followed through the first lacta tion. These properly managed heif ers. will be used at dairy meetings in the county to demonstrate to oth-1 er dairymen the advantages of proper care of heifers. York, J. D. Miller—The seventh annual York County Feeder Calf Sale was the best yet held All farm ers seem well pleased with the prices they received for their cat tle. There were more buyers than at previous sales and there was a good demand for feeder cattle Some of the cattle went to places far from York county, including Indi ana, Kentcky, and Baltimore. Md Everyone concerned with the cattle OHft’lxrRwn © THI UPP1* BOOM MASHVH.H TtNHmii THE. WORLD S MOST WIDELY USED DEVOTIONAL GUIDE Read Romans 1:1-10 The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philip- pians 4:7) Walter just could not go to sleep if there had been trouble between him and his father. One particular evening, while we were visiting in the home, little Walter had disobeyed and received a light reprimand from his father. His mother had then put him to bed for the night. Shortly afterwards I heard his mother say, “Daddy, may Walter see you for a minute.” His father stepped to Walter’s bedside and took him up in his arms. Walter threw his arms about his father’s neck, and his father hugged and kissed him and tucked him back in his bed. Neither one spoke a word. The little fellow was soon asleep. So it is with every true child of God. We are not happy and peaceful if there is any shadow of uncertanity between us and our Father. The most important thing is right relationship between God and ourselves. His children. PRAYER Our heavenly Father, how wonderful is the peace Thou giv- est! Help us to live this day that we may keep that peace, through our Lord, who taught us to pray, “Our Father who art in heaven . . Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY The peace that God gives every repentant soul is a priceless posses sion. Lillian A. Ward (Illinois) World-wide Bible Reading—Luke 7:39-80 WASHINGTON AND " r A A A I I SMALL BUSINESS” By C. WILSON HARDER Honored At Mors HiN Mars Hill, N. C.—Edgar Robert Yarborough, a 1952 graduate of Clin ton High School, has been named student library assistant of the E. R YARBOROUGH month at Mars Hill College, where barn continues to be surprised at the continued increase in sales from week to week. * * 1 l y V kf?\ YOU’D HATE TO WALK ALL DAY LIKE THIS WHY SLEEP ALL NIGHT LIKE THIS? STOP SOFT-BED BACKACHE! with the ORDERPEDIC You’re not saving any money by saving that sag-your-back mattress another month or another year. You’re wasting the most precious thing you know—YOU! Wake up and live—with the medically-approved healthful sleep you get on the genuine Orderpedic OrdetesL Help that troubled back... prevent back-trouble from this minute on. Decide now on an Orderpedic for yean of good healthful sleep I NEVER BEFORE—$15.00 for old mattress and spring 1 Lawson Furniture Co. PHONE Sill JOANNA. £. C. he is a second-year stulent. Married to the former Shirley Campbell, daughter of Mrs. Hallie Campbell of this city and the late Leroy Campbell, Yarborough is a ministerial student at the 103-year- old Baptist junior college. In addi tion to his studies, he works 13 hours per week at the main desk in the college’s spacious new Memor ial Library. He was named “assistant of the month” by a mapority of the 26 other students who work in the li brary. The honor goes each month to the student assistant who shows the greatest enthusiasm and profi ciency in his work in the library Shirley and Ed have three chil | dren: a girl, Terry, 5; a boy, Tim 3; anl another boy, Ken, 2 months. Ed’s parents. Mr. and Mts Rob ert Lee Yarborough, former resi dents of Clinton, now live in Wood ruff. His daughter, Mrs Keith Mc Gee, still resides here. After graduating from Clinton High School Yarborough entered the Army and served three years, in cluding a tour of duty m Germany before enrolling at Mars Hill. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. YORK FEEDER SALE From York to Yuhannah and Yemassee. and from Jocassee to Johnston and Jacksonboro. I see the steady growth of rattle every-) where I look To start with, our cattle were in | fenor. for we did the sensible thing But we are fast upgrading them with good bulls And now feeders from as far as Oklahoma. Indiana, and Pennsylvania attend our sales, take feeders back, and they tell us they like 'em A large handler of feeder cattle on the Baltimore market told me southern feeders were once not wanted and discontinued on his market. Now they are called for, in good demand, and top the mar ket Change, change, the constancy of it! County Agei^ Miller of York tells me the growers there sold 578 head for $61.561 09 in their York County Feeder Calf Sale in the early fall. They had buyers from Baltimore, Indiana and Kentucky, in addition to those from nearby points. Grass and cattle! They are mark ed for our future here. And we are just good started with ’em. We need to learn, and are learning, more and more of the old practical know-how about ’em. Miller says their weekly livestock sales there are constantly rising. This year he looks for them to top the million dollar mark Not bad for an old cotton county! * t t LINK IN HISTORY We are just a link in history, and it’s a long chain. I’ve been reading a rare book from the Clemson library, a transla tion from Columella, who wrote just a few years after Christ. 'Oiis book is on agriculture. It is amazing, the knowledge they nad back in that day. And he often refers to the fact that they got much of it “from the ancients”! Ye gods! • • • A SCOURGE CONTROLLED Billbugs have been a real pest, truly a scourge upon the land. But fortunately they were not wide spread until late. When I went to Sumter as county agent in 1923 the worst of ’em was across there in the edge of Lee coun ty. The USDA put an entomologist there to work on their control. He worked diligently for years, and about the only lead I recall he got was to just keep corn off the land except rarely in a rotation But like in many other cases, in recent year* powerful newr poisons have com** that give us the upper insects And the of late f alien m that One of the most Interesting battles in the fal! election cam paigns will be fought out in the State of Missouri. For there the voters of the “Show Me” state are being urged by big interests to uphold a new principle. • • • Briefly, the principle Is this. ‘What Is satire r for the goose, ! Is not neces sarily saure for the gan der.” * • • Through a backdoor ap proach, a move is on to throw the states open once again to c. w. Harder branch banking. • • • Missouri once had branch banking. The financial power of the state became pretty well con centrated in St. Louis. • • * And while Missourians pre sumably like fairly well the long time favorite song ‘‘Meet Me In St. Louis,” they found they didn’t relish the idea of going to St. Louis to meet their money. So branch banking was outlawed. • * • Now the Big Three of metro politan Missoari banking have got pnt onto the ballot one of the most fantastic pieces of proposed law that has ever been written. • • • If the law is passed, banks in metropolitan centers will be per mitted to open and operate branches In an area of 12 miles around the metropolis. • oo Only two cities would qualify for this, St. Louis and Kansas City. And by going out 12 miles in all directions from the eity limits, these banks could set op branches In other counties. @ Wltl—»l riterttUn of l»d«p«ndf I But now here is a most curious paradox in the proposed legisla tion. Outside of these two cities, other banks could also open branches, but not outside of their home counties. • • • Thus, the Big Three of Miv sourl banking want in effect, per mission to go practically where they please, while the more than 500 independent hanks In Mis souri would be pretty well cor ralled on their home reserva tions. • * * In 1832 General Andrew Jack son, then president, led the fight which knocked out the private banking monopoly known as the Bank of the United States Be cause of the power this group wielded over the economy, the nation had gone into a serious depression, with the rural areas brought to ruin. * • • But slnee 1832, the need for competition for money and t red- it has become even more press ing, because unlike those early days of the Republic, the nation al economy now practically runs on credit, whether it be harvest ing crops, or selling a new re frigerator. • * • If banking can be brought un der the Big Three domination in Missouri, there is literally bil lions o< profits to be made. Of course the Big Three of Mis souri Banking do not claim they want to drive out the indepen dent banks. But then, the wolf took some time before letting it be known to Little Red Riding Hood that he actually was not her sweet old granny. And It is quite probable, come election day. the Missouri voters will not be quite so naive as Little Red Riding Hood was for a while. “A. J toward used 2 pounds of j aldni, in 200 pounds of fertilizer j disked^in before plantmt, as rec ommended by Dr Kirk at the Pee Dee Expenment Station, on a large! acreage of corn for the past two years Mr Howard left a check plot each time Last year his comparison showed 65 bushels compared to 5 bushels per acre in favor of treat ! ment I estimate that this year it will he 75 bushels to 5 in favor of the treated area.” • • • BOYS ARE THAT WAY This Thanksgiving season re minds me of the one 50 years ago It had to do with my firsjt and last bout with smokinfe cigarettes I was 12 It had h«Tn a rough fall and roads were terrible, a veritable quag mire Aunt Vennie and those w^o lived in the ancestral 'home there in the valley below us had some tur keys to sell Columbia. 2ft miles away, was the only place they could do it The problem was getting them there Even two heavy mules to a normal 2-horse wagon would find the burden heavy If so happened we were one horse farmers. So our wagon was of that vintage, lighter, and rather new , For hard going like this, and when fertilizer was to be hauled over similar late winter roads, we had gotten it with interchangeable shafts for one animal and tongue for two So they borrowed this light wagon hitched the tongue on, and used their two best mules to take about 15 turkeys to town. Their youngest -A- boy. Holmes, about 18. wax assigned the job I begged to go with him and finally my folks consented We loaded the turkeys at dusk ate breakfast before day, and were off as dawn began sparkling on the frost crystals that spewed from the muddy road To keep warm we had wrapped hot rocks in old burlap hags to rest our feet on, and the lap robe from the buggy did the rest • Irmo was about half way and a hit off the beaten path Holmes had an idea; so we went by there He got two packs of cigarettes (Pied mnnLst and from there on I'm sure we showed signs of being a steam engine I hadn • h.id a chance at real cig arettes before, thought it looked big and so kept up a steady pulling all afternoon My ^pace is up So wil! have to finish this next week OFFICE SUPPLIES Chronicle pub. co. SPECIAL ON DOG FOOD 25 LBS. 50 LBS. $2.00 1.L95 C-W-S Guano Co. . Clinton have put on many demonstrations in the control of billbugs by apply ing 2 pounds of technical aldrin per acre either broadcast or in the ferti lizer. All results good, mostly spec tacular Couty Agent Livingston of Flo rence, told me of a test on the J R McClam farm One acre in a 3-acre field was treated with aldrin. Good stand maintained there Other two acres completely destroyed Listen to County Agent Gray of Darlington: “DIE FOR ALL YOU ARE WORTH” Hugh L. Eichelberger NEW YORK LIFE MAN 36 Years Experience PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE INFORMATION FURNISHED FREE Thrifty Shoppers Read The Chronicle BEFORE THEY BUY # Mr. Merchant Your Local Paper is Way Out in Front WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING YOU THE MOST FOR YOUR AD VERTISING MONEY—THATS US! SMART SHOPPERS MAKE IT THEIR THRIFTY RULE TO MARKET BY “T H E CHRONICLE” ADS. DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR YOU GET GREATER VALUE IN YOUR WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN TERMS OF: ^CIRCULATION ♦COVERAGE ♦READERSHIP ♦FLEXIBILITY ♦IMPACT ♦SALES The Clinton Chronicle