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‘ 4 I t Thursday, December 4, 1958 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER demson College Information SpeciaUnt COTTON DWINDLES Our cotton crop had started dwindling before 1951. But that year the crop brought this state 169 mil lion dollars. Last year it brought only 62 million dollars. And this year it will be still less. It’s sure a good thing we have had a heavy influx otindustry in that time. Thousands onlfrm folks have found work there, commuting back and forth each day. While cotton income has been rapidly downward, most other crop incomes have held their own or gain ed a bit. Our biggest gain has been with dairy products and cattle in general. Our growth in the latter has been the best in the nation for the past seven years. And that means one other thing, grass. Live stock and its products once figured rather small here. But now it ac. counts to almost a third of our farm income. 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And what meaning that has for our future! .* a • TREE UTILIZATION I’ve reported to you from time time of seeing former of the Alliance Store that our to wastes products being used. The first I saw was when E. E. Dargan started debarking his slabs and chipping them up for pulpwood at his plant near Conway some 5 or 6 years ago. Since then this has pro. gressed at several places, notably Prosperity and Ritter, where slabs are bought, debarked, chipped, and shipped to the paper mills. Our forester, Bill Barker, tells me the equivalent to 38,000 cords of pulpwood was thus salvaged and sold in 1956. Last year this had grown to 88,000 cords And it’s still growing. And most of the tops, where saw timber is-cut, are now being worked up into pulpwood, too, I note as I go about the state We are fast growing into a state of trees and grass. Many millions of pines will be set this winter, and fires are being more and more ef fectively controlled. • * • TURKISH TOBACCO Our two special assistant county agents, Don Matheson of Walhalla, and G. D. Butler of Greenville, who handle Turkish tobacco demonstra tions in those and other counties, tee me we had a pretty good pro duction of this new crop this year. It’s hard to pick a new crop that’s not already in good to heavy supply in this country. But this Turkish or aromatic tobacco is one that we could use a lot of. This type tobacco is a necessary part of the popular cigarette blends. And up to now most of it has been imported. For a good many years Clemson, in cooperation with Duke University, the other states in this immediate area, the USDA, and the tobacco companies has been pro moting supervised demonstrations of its growing here. And Clemson is doing extensive breeding work de signed to get varieties better suited here, and to improve on the curing methods for this tobacco. We have been importing many millions of pounds of this leaf annually and it sells for close to a dollar a pound normally. So, if this whole thing can be worked out, we have the prospect for a real new money crop here • • • BOYS ARE THAT WAY Last week I told of our taking a load of turkeys to Columbia 20 miles away, over a quagmire called a road, 50 years ago And of our stopping at Irmo, getting two packs of cigarettes, and puffing our way on to Columbia that afternoon. This was my first smoking, and I thought it looked big. I was 12. It didn’t make me sick-. But what it did to my tongue was enough. It was getting sore by the time we got there at dusk. And I couldn’t taste anything much, except the lin gering acrid flavor of those cigar ettes. We unloaded our turkeys there in Cousin Paul Haltiwanger ran for the Farmers’ Alliance or Farmer’s Union. My aunt Mat worked there. 1 wouldn’t go very close to her, fear ing she’d smell the cigarettes on me. She gave me a half dollar, which was a chunk of money then, yes, to spend as I saw fit! We put our mules up at Sam Sweeny’s livery stable, and we our selves at Cousin Perry’s. They had a fine supper for us But it could have all been beans, as far as I was concerned. My tongue burned and everything tasted alike, that is, like cigarettes. Man, that taste did ling er with me And my tongue burned, too. Dead tired, we had a good night. At breakfast my tongue still.bother ed me, and the taste of cigarettes hadn’t entirely gone. It had become a bit sickening by then, but not quite, I held it. I ate what they had.'It, too, all tasted alike. , Cousin Perry drove us down to the livery stable in his buggy. We hitched up, went by the store and got pay for the turkeys. Eight cents a pound it was, making ’em FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 15th day of December, 1958, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Administratrix, D.B.N, C.T A., of the estate of Mary Bailey Owens, in the office of the Judge of Pro bate of Laurens County at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administratrix, D. B N„ C. T. A. Any person indebted to said es tate 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. •JULIA O. SADER. Administratrix, D B. N., C. T. A Nov. 13. 1958 4C-D-11 Gray Funeral Home Clinton, 8. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS • • • and • • • EMBALMERS Phone 41 AMBULANCE SERVICE bring about a dollar api<*ce Turkeys weren't large then, or the grass hopper sort we raised weren't. But that was real money back then A dollar really bought something Holmes and I had about talked out, were tired, and didn’t have so much to say on the way back. I sort of dreaded that long covered bridge over Broad' iFtiver, as the mules were quite nervous about it on the way down Holmes let 'em trot there, as it was the only place aloqg the whole 20 miles that they could, in the quagmire The keeper on the other end got after him for that, as teams were supposed to walk across TYiere was danger of trotting setting up vibrations that might become serious On the way home that day I had time to do a lot of thinking It was mostly about my sore tongue And it was then and there I resolved something that has stayed with me. If those smokes were to cause such discomfort, why fool with 'em in the first place, I thought So I haven't since And I don t believe I've misled a thing, except the re grets that otherwise would have likely been my lot WPCCunoHAS GONE ABC ABC RADIO NEWS HEAR Paul Harvey 1:00-1:15 P. M. Sponsored By Holman Motor . Of Laurens Citizens Federal Of Clinton irs ABC RADIO for NEWS £ tke WORLD i with Bill Shadel 8:00-8:15 am ... . % Monday-Friday Local Sponser Smith Motor Co. 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