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14 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday. May 21, 1959 FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer l lemson College Information Specialist SOYREANS i soybeans than cotton And the coun- Soybeans? arc fast replacing cot- t.v agents tell me the acreage is con- ton's lost acreage in South Carolina, statly growing. Some coiinUes\in the mid-state that were once our big cotton counties. Soybeans vary considerably in oil content, scientists have found It ap- and still are, now plant far more pears that the percentage of this valuable edible vegetable oil can be increased by breeding for it .Work is being done at places on that now. likely at some time in the future this oil content will be used as a measure of the price soybeans will bring It is heartening to this industry to see that a half-million dollar soybean processing plant is planped for Estill Harper and Bowers al ready have a million and a quarter bushels of modern elevator storage there. And there are also large new elevators at Allendale, Cameron, and Sumter. Good, safe, bankable storage is essential to this growth of this in- dustry And it's good to see it com- BRING A FRIEND TO CHURCH WITH YOU Thb* Series of Messages Is Published Each Week By the Following Clinton Firms in the Interest of Increasing Church Attendance IRBY'S MARKET 207 Musgrove St. Johnson Bros. Super Market South Broad St. CITIZENS FED. SAV. & LOAN 220 W. Main St. Austin-Jones Furniture Co. 105 South Broad St. DEES OIL CO. S. Broad St. c COOPER MOTOR CO. E. Carolina Are. IRBY’S MARKET 207 MusgTove St. GULF OIL CORP. J. A. Addison, Distributor C. & L. CONCRETE CO. 205 W. Carolina Are. JOANNA STORES Joanna, S. C. Clinton Realty & Insurance Co. Mrs. B. Hubert Boyd. Apt. 104 W. Pitts St. INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CO. 219 W. Main St. CHRONICLE PUB. CO. 109 Gary St. NEWBERRY COUNTY BANK Joanna T. E. JONES & Sons Furniture 200 W. Main St. McGEE’S DRUG STORE 100 W. Main St. WHITEFORD’S RESTAURANT 301 North Sloan St. HOWARD’S PHARMACY 10S E. Main St. YOUNG'S Gulf Service * 212 N. Broad SL YARBOROUGH OIL CO. til W. Mu. St. LARK’S Esso Station (It & Bna4 St. Carole & Doris Fabric and Variety Shop Wert Pitta SL ing to the soybean area. And, of course, we need it and will use it for other things, too. For we grow quite a bit of commercial grains, too. * • * ' APPLES IN OCONEE ° Riding over South Carolina, one sees new crops in all areas, or en- largemets of old ones that are tak ing on new life in the diversified scheme that follows all-cotton like we once had. In the Long Creek section of Ocon ec county it is apples That area has always grown some apples But up to late years they wore mainly the farm sort of apples for local use. In late years a group up there, mainly in the Long Creek section has been applying about all the scien tific know-how they could get from Clemson and elsewhere and coming up with first quality apples. Cqiunty Agent Morgan tells me the past winter 91 acres of new varieties of apples were set out. Our fruit man, Roy Ferree, feels that this area has a real opportunity with apples It comes in a little earlier than competing areas, and that us ually finds the market sort of apple hungry. For this reason, he feels that we might not. have to go into the storage of apples, as ^the other areas have to. The claim has been long made that our mountain apples have su perior quality to western apples of the same variety. I asked our Dr. H. P. Cooper about that He said it was true. Ours grow on soils that have an acid base. And some of this is passed on to the apple to give it that little tang that's delightfully different. While the western apples grow on basic soils that tend to blot out the bit of normal a^dity so many folks like in an apple. Theirs are blander of taste. * .» * WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? Wheat stored 33 years by the Unit ed States Department of Agricul ture-still made perfectly good bread But it wouldn't sprout. There is talk of possibly using the arctic regions to store foods in fhe future in times of plenty for dis tant years when shortages might come. The big thing about storage there is the safety of it. No insect, fire, water, humidity, drying out, fungicidal, or bacterial damage to guard against or contend with. • « * BOYS ARE niAT WAY Did you ever see a cotton gin like we had when I was a kid in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork.’ Vou’d have to be a sort of old-timer if you did For they went from most places before they did in our seclud ed and conservtavie nook. The gin house was a spreading two-story affair, with a flour null on the ground floor Upstairs was the gin. Yes, one little open-hopper gin at the back of that one big room. And the press was right at the door where we took the cotton in. Looks like those two things were just back wards Folks on the wagon would fill the w hite oak split baskets with the seed cotton, hoist them up on a platform, and from there others put them up to the door From there we toted ’em back to the gin and poured the seed cotton into the hopper The lint came out the back of the gin in a broad roll that piled up there When a double armful ac cumulated. a man would spread his arms and pick it up He'd take it clear back near the door, throw it down in the press, which appeared as a hole in 4he floor, with sides that were hooked up when all was m We kids would play in that preas and tamp the loose cotton down We had to be careful not to jump in until there was enough cotton in it to support us pretty well, or we'd sink out of sight in the fleecy staple It's a wonder some of us didn't get smothered in that stuff, for that press was 12 or 16 feet deep, clear to the ground. When the bale was to be pressed, the screw came up from the bottom and packed the cotton tight against the top -o^be press upstairs there, where tht^Bnng and ties were put on and released W'hen 1 see a modern gin now, turning out bales in a matter of min utes. and with very little hand work, I think of ours in the Dptch Fork a half century ago. I don’t recall how long it took to gin a bale, but I’d imagine several hours. And those bales were bigger, looser, than our bales now. Presses weren’t strong enough to pack ’em tight like now. It s sure a wonder we kids didn’t get hurt messing around down there during the ginning season. But we didn’t. IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS PHONE 74 Charles D. Yarborough — Agent — Calhoun Life Ins. Co. • Ordinary Life • Industrial Life • Health and Acddent • Family Group • Hospital and Life INSURE WITH US WE INVEST WITH YOU “Complete Protectios” 102 Oeveiaad St. P. a Box 221 11144 WINNER QUALITY Bacon % 49c REG 59c 1-LB. 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