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— m THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thur^ay, July U t I»ft9 ' »m*m0 »»»» free from your county B()Y s ARE THAT WAY The first woman teacher we had FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer Clem son College Information SpedaHat SOIL TESTING Most counties had demonstrations Soil testing is on the increase in of it. County Agent Jones of Green- ( practically all counues. Properly ville, tells me Smith and Brooks of t"ken samples are gotten and sent Fountain Inn. had an outstanding to Clemson "niey are tested and demonstration of it, too. reported back. Based on the infor- The past wet spring was one on mation thus secured, the county which this treatment could really agent can intelligently advise about show its stuff. On a dry spring it liming and fertilizing those fields shows little result, for grass just Clemson's ervised Circular 459 gives does not come. But on a wet year detailed instructions about all of is when it will save your crop, this It is agent County Agent Hubbard of Bam- at our 0 jd 0 ne-teacher school away berg says: • More and more farmers back in the Stone mils was when I are coming to depend on these tests was about ei g ht an d had been in as a basis for their soil fertility school two years. I thought she was programs There is a great deal of ^ prettiest and nices tthing I had interest building up for organizing a ever Her gentle nature was campaign to have every farm in the ^ different to the stern, rod-wield- county tested j n g m en we had before that it stoood out, like pleasant sunshine. CHEAPEST PEED she boarded near our house, so I heard an expert say recently: j she wa]ked our path home x was a ‘•The cheapest feed a farmer can bit bashful but used ^ walk along buy is fertilized to grass. her a lots. She was friendly, \es. both experiment and expe- an( j w ou id laugh and talk with us. r.ence show every doUar you spend ^ was the {irst teaehcr (he older on fertilizer for grass usually re- students cou id remember that they turns several dollars in livestock were not afraid of And she had no ^ row ^ 1 , problems of discipline, for we liked I wa.' in the county agent s office ht>r i at Laurens a few years ago in the Qne day> late in ^ scboo i year spring A farmer came in and asked , was waIking with heri and the oth- how much fertilizer to put to the er kids had faIlen Her sli p. Costal Bermuda grass he had put per string became untied Having out hte year before Another farmer ^ arm f u i 0 f jjoofcs an d papers, she was sitting there who had had con- { ber on a anc | aske d siderable exjienence along that line^ me to tie u for her! He interrupted by asking how mDch Now folks< rve had my normal grazing the man wanted. share of thrills in life, the same as Now folks, with a grass like Coast- you And I count back tlttough them al. that was a very important point now as j write But in golden mem- that man made For it has the abil- ory - none stand out anywhere near ity to use heavy fertilization prof- tb j s crowning event that happened itably back there on a pine ridge in the So generally, if you need more stone Hills of the Dutch Fork a half forage from your pastures, consider ce ntury ago For, for me then, that putting more fertilizer, specially W as surely the golden slipper that nitrogen, to it. For then you not my princess was wearing. And to only get a lot more but a lot richer t* ab j e ^ touc h it w as glory indeet}! grazing from it. And heavily fer- y es glory that set every nerve ni tilized grass develops a better root my bo dy to tingling. Every emotion system and seems to stand drouths [ n my to soaring. And every better reach of my imagination to building air castles of grandeur. What a WHEAT’E DILEMMA thrill! All crops have their problems The other kids never teased me. 1 And wheat is no exception. Look at However, 1 was too happy to even it We had enough wheat on hand to think of that danger then. I think do us if we hadn t planted any this they too, liked her so much they year Now another bumper crop j us t didn’t think of doing that, piles up on that. ; And loot at what's happened to SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE the consumption of wheat in this country Back in 1910 we averaged CREDITORS’ NOTICE using 315 pounds of wheat per cap- All persons having claims against ita. By 1945 that had dropped to the estate of MaryLouiseDendy.de- 230. And last year they tell me it was only 167 pounds’ On top of this declining use' of ceased, are hereby notified to file the same duly verified, with the un dersigned, and those indebted to said wheat in our diet, look what has please make payment happened to the yield. In the mid- likewise thirities we were averaging about 10 bushels per acre in this country Last year we averaged 26 bushels of wheat per acre ! Thrs sure makes a farm problem. But, as a Cornell economist points out. having a ‘farm problem - ’ is better than having a “food prob lem. - ’ as many countries have. And he says we should all be grateful for oi^- abundance But it should not be permitted to ruin the farmer. And our farm programs have been aim ed at remedying just that. * * • RILED EARLY GRASS County Agent Lloyd of Edgfeield says: “Maurice Smith used pre emerge weed control on more than 100 acres of cotton wit h excellent results ’’ DAVID E. DENDY. Executor, 110 N. Adair St., Clinton, S. C. 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