The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 16, 1959, Image 14
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By J. M. Eleazer
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Information SpiriaMpI
roMis. \\ Oil) ACTIDF.NTS poas by farmers is mcreasinj: rapid
I'unds are cominn by the thou- ly The number of pt*s saved per lit-
sands to our southeast Constructed ter increases 2S to 35 psT cent under
rinht. like most of them are. they the farrowm* pen plan."
carry a lot of values. Each county agent's office has a
Their greatest potential is for sup- book of plans for these farrowing
plemental irrigation For. as our pens and other hog equipment
crop acreages shrink, yields have • • •
to go up. if we are to continue to BOYS ARE THAT WAY
eat abundantly and be clothed from- i t wasn’t called “juvenile delin-
ihese diminishing tilled acres. quency" in our day as kids in the
The average man knows how to Stone Hills in the Dutch Fork It was
make good yields And he usually regarded t as "devilment among
gets them, tf he gets the water! boys."
When a farmer learns to protect his i don’t recall our crowd ever doing
good yield potential with the needed anything really vicious. But we
water when drought strikes, he has were up to devilment aplenty. About
gone a long way towards insuring the worst thing I did was coveting a
Ins harvest new hammer the, blacksmith got
Ponds have others uses, too Many down there at the foot of the hill be-
value them highly for fishing, rec- low our house 1 wanted that thing
reation. and stock water, too. so bad. it was on my mind all the
But. as beneficial as they are. time So one Sunday, when the shop
ponds also carry a danger And that closed, my colored playmate,
is from drowning Some of their Zeke. and 1 were messing around k
hazards are largely avoided at con- down there late in the afternoon, i
struction time with properly sloping The door of the shop was a rather’
banks, shallow edges, etc. crude affair and stood 6 to 8 inches
As a safety measure, it would not above the ground I tried and
be amiss to keep aa.old inflated in- couldn't get under H. as I was rath-i
ner tube with a long piece of twine *?r hefty. So I pushed Zeke under
tied to it there at the pond Or even and made him hand me that ham-i
a few large dry gourds You could mer
throw i>ne of them to a person An We took it into a pine thicket down
trouble there in the water and it below our house and played with it
could keep him afloat With this in awhile Soon dusk was descending
mmd a few years ago a friend gave and we had to go home 1 wondered
me a lot of gourd seed that I dis *-hat to do with th^t telltale ham
tribute* over the Mate by pres* and mer Don’t know why I didn t take
radio Well over a thousand folks it back to the shop, but 1 didn't. To
-r.4r for them I suggested they get nd of the evidence. I threw g
might do we*: right there on the dam m a bner patch down there and pro
«*r *m1 bank of the pood and then cevdrd to forget about M And I
«jyd have plenty em lymg know that handle ha* long since
s ound for emergency nar 11 don t retted etd end the bright shiny ham
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