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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thunimy. May 7. 1»&» . FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer (.'lenwtn (ollecc Information SpedaHat DR. T. LAYTON FRASER THE HOLY LAND KrikW 19 soil. KERTn.lTY INTF REST where cohpemal neighbors can get To know the lime requirement of (together and u>e large efficient ma- chinery together, some of the smau- |er units'are still doing a and getting along Rut in most cases the efficient operations are running ; to the larger sorts, p ♦ * * AVOID CROTALARM SEED IN OIK KE NEEED - U! . .v 1 o u r poultry specialist. • P pushing the sampling sous the ^ your soil, and the fertilizer elements it needs, is the very basis for a pro gram to build jts fertility and pro ductiveness, say the Mill scientists of Clemson Based on this fundamental, county agents over the state have been tradtOonal home* of Mary and Jo- seph. but It must be remembered that they were poor, and also that a few families in Palestine still live in caves I was particularly inter ested in the cave hewn out of rock, ~~that is supposed to have been the Dr. Fraser, Professor of Bible at have dated all the way back to the home of the holy family. There are Presbyterian College, recently re ancient Ph»H>nician* Then we went places cut in the sides—Mime low turned from a tnp to Europe and 0 n our way ot the w'est. Traveling ;, nd some high—that seem to have the Middle East. through the plains of Asher. Zebulun been sleeping places, or possibly • • • and Napthali (all in Galilee) 1 was 1’lsces for storage There was also a From the industrial city of Haifa, impressed by the fact that these, round hole cut in the rock floor at the foot of Ml. Carmel, in Israel, tribes of the Hebrews were much about two feet in diameter and two we drove up the shore <»f the Midi more blessed with fertile territory ° r ihiee feet deep, that the guide uc-s...,.- terranean through the territory ( than some of their brethren in the S *nd4must have been their deep mod job," 1101, inhabited by the tribe of Ash south. In the area once inhabited by ; frwze - \ er. We went to the city of Acre, just the tribe of Napthali, the Israelis We were taken by a bazaar for a across the bay from Haifa, to a! now have a future hydro-electric. little while to buy souvenirs, and beautiful eating place built into an 1 project in which they plan to control then we went up on top of a hill on old crusader fortress Tables were the surplus water of Lake Hula tht\ edge of the city and spent the spread under a roof that proteeted : t north of the Sea of Galilee) and ir-| night at a Fransiscan Monastery, us from the sun, and right on the rigate the territory to the south. The next day. we had breakfasLat hore. We could watch the waves They have had trouble with the Sy- a restaurant in town and were taken H bea\ against the sea wall that has ruins, who hold the territory on to two more places of interest. One past winter Thousands of 'samples! Tn* ***" almost worn away during its the other side of the lake, but’they i was Mary’s Weil, that was some ly getting crotalaria seed mixed in . existence with grain that’s to be ground frtr sometimes flv chickens. About the only son of this would likely happen to crotalaria plants or carefully us He said .. native quarter- screening them out after h.cw, and he stopped and said. "Oh, no!’’ Crotalaria is a fine soil building. Later, I knew why, for as we walk plant And it does volunteer quite a ed through an old bazaar and mar- bit. But it’s not objectionable in ^et place in a part of the old fort- most crops, like cotton and corn re». we had to hold on to both our Imng and late cultivation of cotton breath and dinners. It would not be keeps it out until it is too late for it to bother there And in corn, that's laid by early, it often comes of its own accord, making a fine cover crop, and not hurting the corn have been senj to Clemson and test ed The findings were sent back and recommendations made as to lime and fertilizer needi for maximum economic crop production on the various fields. In regard to this,”County Agent Hubbard of Bamberg reported. ‘Tn\ terest in the soil fertility program has been high. Many farmers re quested assistance in taking soil samples to obtain recommenda tions.’' Chesterfield's Jake Willis said: "Fertilizer dealers are cooperating m promoting the soil fertility pro gram in the county." And in Lee County they have had a drive on to get all fields sampled and tested To this end a number of samplers were trained in January, working in cooperation with Clem- son and the National Plant Food In- ♦ stitute This is the second county in BOYS ARE THAT WAY which this intensive effort has been Memories are pleasant of boyhood launched. Edgefield was the first m the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork and it has just about completed its My. the joy* that laid around for a country boy. when he could get out of work and enjoy them And 1 was rather good at that But when we got up as yearlings there wa< work to do My father| was the country doctor, and my brother and 1 formed with one of, ikit two horses he wasn’t driving My bruthri* * as older than I St- the full rvwpoftMbdity keeping thing* moving along in the field* wa« his And he was naturally a j freer worker 'tun 1. or was older and liad more *ett*e <d By Anyway, »«*rh work as I he gel ■ owl «d am la the SUar KJL fMd oork aiadv for mm hot •* hod m I i to d» I cm o The spray would | hope to iron out their difficiulties "hat in the heart of things, and not high in the air, but We arrived at Nazareth late in far from her traditional home. It not quite reach us. It was a delight the aftefoAn, w here we spent the !* s highly possible that here she drew grain tnis wouici iikci> "apprn i- t(> Mt and watc h, an d some-of my night. The view from where we "a^r for her family. Another place is grain >orghum. where tht 1 !X> ’! best pictures of the sea were taken! stood-on a hill on the northern side interest that we were shown was laria volunteered w ith it in the tieki. j thm , (>f Lho t . jty was WO nderful. Here ^ hill from which it is thought the and the combine got both m to After lunch, we were soon to begin below us was the city of Jesus' boy- oioti of the city tried to throw Jesus, gether. However, this ran be avow ()ur tour 0 f the place, and 1 heard!hood and young manhood, mow a ln an attempt to destroy Him after ed by watching the sorg um ie s our suidt , rea dj n g aloud to himself city of approximately 30.000 inhab- ^* s sermon in the synagogue (Luke ind either pulling out the volunteer the pi aces to v hich he was to take itants. It is a city of closely-built, 4:16-30). You will recall that Jesus read a passage from the Prophecy of Isaiah and told them that this prophecy was being fulfilled before flat-roofed houses. We were to be there that night and a part of the next day. It was a short, but very' interesting visit. We went to the tra- t ^ ,em that day, but that a prophet ditional home of Mary's parents is "ithout honor in his own country, where the angel appeared to her. ex Pl3nation of this he cited the Then we went to the Church of St. experience of Elijah and Elisha the well to attempt description. It was Jo>eph. over the traditional home P r °Phets In anger, they took him to heart-sickening to see children play- of Joheph and Mary and their fam- 11 * 16 * >n> " ‘>f the lull and thought to mg in the midst of it. .After a bit ofjtly It is thought to stand also over ^ n>w ove r, but he must have walking, we returned to the bus and the spot of the carpenter shop of Jo- ^' ven a divine look and simply drove through more of the fortress seph All of these were caves, and " a lked through the midst of them that i> said to have been used by the lower than the present surface. In an< ^ " e **t on his way. cni'jders back in the eleventh to 2000 years the land has built up sev- The monastery where we spent thirteenth centuries, and later byleral feet by the shifting soil. It is the night was very clean and com- Napoleon A part of it is thought to strange to be show n caves a* the fort abb* We had a good supper that was sent up from a rwta town, for the monks dM n meal* to guests sock at wo. 1%# room that Dr. LaMotta and I occu pied had a balcony, and from H we had (a wonderful view of the town beneath us in the valley. As I sat out there alone early in the evening, looking at the lights, my mind went back to the time when the boy Jesus Hved somewhere out there Here 1 was in Nazareth, the home town of our Lord. It had not been easy to- get there, but there I wan. I wished that we conk! stay tonger. but wo were to move on the next day. The lights In the homes gradual? wert out. and only a few street lights could be seen. I took another look out over the town. Now, I could go to bed. The town was asleep, luwas Ifi^n 12:35 (5:35 at home). I tnought a “Good night'' to my family far away, and realized that in only a few more days I would fly west to them. After putting out the light. I went and aat for a whde ia» except for the light sf the Mart. Even thoae l lights that could stiB be not there to give light to our :<ord, but the stars abort ware ahninig from a clear sky—the same stars thst gave light to Mm long ago I was grateful to him for letting me be there then, even though many times in the past few weeks It had seemed unlikely. Th^re in the star^ light, 1 felt him very near. BOXED ESPECIALLY FOR MOTHERS’S DAY GIVING McGEE S DRUG STORE tub County Agent Lloyd there tells nu farmer* have shown £reat inter- cm m this soil testing and are now carrying out recommended prac tices to correct deficiencies shown by the test> Each -ample must be -ent to (Temaur. with the proper form and inform^?-on signed by the -oral county agent to avoid mixup* • • • RK.«.I R E ARM.*. 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