The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 06, 1959, Image 11
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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.
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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
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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 '
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