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Thursday, Auguat 6. 1»59 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE 11 ffllmtnn (El|rmttrk FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer Clemson College Information Specialist WHAT NEXT? USDA scientists at the Illinois Ex periment station found corn ker nels planted point down and with flat isides to the middles made com, 3 toj 23 bushels more per acre than corn planted in the usual way. Leaves come out from the flat sides of the grains. So placing the grains of corn in the soil with flat sides to the middles caused the leaves to hang in that direction. They figured that this caused 90 per cent less sunlight to strike the ground. Thus a lot of soil moisture was saved through better shading. And the leaves got more sunlight by not being shaded by others as much as in random planting. This is purely in the exeprimental stage and the work is being contin ued. The main problem is going to be how to get the kernels placed that way under field conditions. Ex-,, . . . . . isting planters might be altered in ^ and management is recemng some way to do the job, the scien- more attenllon ^ lists think, or fastening the kernels in proper position on a continuous tape, like is now done with some vegetable and flower seed, is an other poMibility they are exploring. These tests are being continued they also work with trees, that seem to have a great destiny here. Assistant County Agent Goodyear of Berkeley, tells me 31 members of one of his 4- Hclubs were taken on a guided tour of the Francis Ma rion National Forest back in the late winter. “They saw prescribed burn ing, a lookout tower in operation, and fire lanes being flowed,” he said. * * * FEWER AND BIGGER Everywhere we look farms seem to be getting fewer and bigger. As their numbers decrease in the na tion, they are increasing in size at about 5 acres a year. We see the same thing in what County Agent King of Orangeburg says: “Dairying continues to in crease in Orangeburg County, al though the number of dairies has de creased slightly. Herds are getting FARM AND HOME WEEK See and hear what’s new in agri culture and in the home at Clem- son’s Farm and Home Week August 17-21 There will be four days of And listen to this. Similar coope- cofUimKH 15 programs of instruction, rative experiments in Washington demonstrations, observation, and en- State are taking the heat from milk, tertainment suited to practicallyt ev as it is cooled, and using it to beat er y ne * d °* Jir,n aIK * home -Youf water or the milking room. This, county o: home agent likely has a too. is still highly experimental. But program by now that you can see. Then you can pick yours up when you register here • • • BOVS ARE THAT WAY /eke and I got warts over our feet We had been toM not to play with frogs Folks ta our Sloee Hill* of the Dutch Felt firmly bstmed that a hotter they would make earta eesee on us our farming Aad new Or we kids thought they did. they early results show promise So. sure enough. “What next?” • • • t H FORESTRY The 4-H Clubs are tnrorporaUag a lot of forestry ie their programs This io m keeping with their t: *ee They worked early with impressed it on us so. But in later years I’ve wondered if that wasn’t just a way they had of trying to get us kids to let those useful creatures alone. Anyway, we belived it. But the lure to play with the frogs that you could see jumping around the farmyard at dusk was too great for us. Late one afternoon we caught about a half dozen and put ’em in fruit jrs so we’d have ’em next mor ning. We didn't put the tops on. So they were all right next morning. We took our treasure away down in the pasture and got down in a deep ditch where no one could see us. There in the clean, hard clay we played with these frogs all mor ning. We’d get opposite each other facing, so they couldn’t get by, and make them try to climb steep banks. They couldnt’ get but so far. And then they’d slip back. Eventually they got so tired of being tormented, they just wouldn’t try, and lay there panting heavily. Eventually the farm bell, tolling across the hills, called the noon hour of dinner. We left them there and went home. Returning in the after noon, they were gone. It was later that we had these warts to come on our feet, quite by coincidence, I’m sure. But we just knew those frogs caused it. Zeke’s mother beat him. Even though he stoutly held out that he had not play ed with frogs, his mother just knew he had and gave it to him. Then she took him and me down to old Aunt Liza’s. She was the old Colored con jure woman, and she “used for them ’’ That constituted a few secret mumblings and nibbing the black bottom of a frying pan over the warts. And, as they would have done anyway, I guess, they went away gradually after that. Zeke and I were then more strong ly rooted in the belief than ever. And we let frogs alone from then on OFFICE SI PPI.IES CHRONICLE PVR. CO. 74 EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Dr. Herbert Bpeegh “The most useful virtue is pa tience,” said John Dewey. The older I grow the more convinced I am of the truth of this observation. There was never a time when pa tience Was more needed Life grows more and more complex. We have to deal with more and more people and things. There are more and more people traveling now than ever before. All of our means of transpor tation are taxed. We think of the words of Daniel, the prophet, that in the latter days “many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be in creased.” Walter Piktin, teacher and author of the well known book, “Life Begins at Forty,” writes, “This is the high speed age, with many choices; but the faster we move the surer it is that haste makes waste.” He urges us to “teach the young to be pa tient. Then shall we have around us fewer failures and fewer frus trated who have overlooked the best in their haste to win some quick and trifling pleasure.” The surest way we can teach the young to be patient is by example. One of the best places to do it is on the telephone and in the automobile. We seem to have completely for gotten the ancient proverb, “Haste makes waste.” More and more ^tragedies are en tering our lives because of our lack of patience. I remember reading something to this effect, that there were “too many people in too many cars in too much of a hurry, going in too many directions to nowhere for nothing.” It is no longer possible to go out and safely and comfortably take a ride in the automobile We encounter too many people who are the oppo site of quiet in spirit. At the least provocation they sound off irritably When we read the background of many of these teen age fights we Find, they started by one or a group making provoking remarks to an other person or group Then instead of exercising patience, there is a blow up of irritation, and soon the fight is on. We. their.elders, often are not much better. We growl irritably at passing drivers and if there is the slightest scraping of fenders or a minor accident, we are out In a rage. I know it is not easy to pass by provoking remarks. But remember that the one who displays irritation to you has something wrong with him He is either tired, sick, discour aged, frustrated, emotionally con fused, or spiritually lost I have always had the conviction that he who responds to irritation with irritation climbs down to a lower level. Instead of patiently lift ing up the one who is irritated and distressed, we do the opposite. Life is a struggle between oppos ing influences for good and evil, love and hate. The struggle meets us within and without, in our homes, business, on the streets. High on the list of Christian vir tues is patience. St. Peter writes, “Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to know ledge, temperance; and to temper ance, patience; and to patience, god liness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love." Patience is one of the necessary steps to the plateau of love. Conservation Notes By 1. B. O’DELL. ( MtervaUoatet The Laurens County soil conserva tion district is one of more than 2.800 such districts throughout the coun try being honored by issuance of the world’s first soil conservation stamp by the post office department, ac cording to Ryan F Lawson, chair men of the Board of Supervisors. I “The stamp will be issued August 26 at Rapid CKy, S. D., at the an nual meeting of the Soil Conserva tion Society of America, and will go on sale at local post offices the following day,” Mr Lawson said The stamp, in 3 colors, depicts a modem conservation farm, and is of 4-cent demnommation The Laurens County Soil Conser-' vation District was organized by local farmers in May I, 1940 The district now has 1.576 rooperators. of whom 1,456 have basic conservation plans The district is governed by a board of supervisors eonsistinfe of W P Dickson. Rt 3. Clinton; S B Fleming. Ora. Ryan F Lawson. Rt 3, Clinton; and J W Tinsley and James D 'Wasson of Rt 3, Laurens Technical assistance is provided by the .Soil Conservation Service J. B O'Dei], work unit conservationist, is in charge Other SCS men working with the district include W. H Fleming. M Y Blakely, and W. J Wallace Here are some of the accomplish ments made by the district and its cooperators 73.100 acres of conser vation crop rotations established. 26.530 arres of pastures planted 17.500 acres of loblolly pine trees planted. 2.168 miles of terraces ceo structed 350 farm poods built. 1JC acres of waterways developed. These and many other conservation accom plishments are Helping to hold sod, control water flow, protect die sod again rain drops, wind and other erosion agents “The Soil Conservation stamp,” Mr Lawson said, “is a salute to progre-- in oifr awn di.->tnct and, other such districts across the coun- iry ' OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 794 Laurens, S. C. 4 J. R. 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