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FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer Clemson College Information SpeeUMat THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON By Clinton DiTidaon SAVE CHICKEN FEED Our poultry specialist, P. H. Gooding, points out that a lot of poultry feed can be saved by not filling the feeders too full. Checking on this, the University of Colorado found that almost half of the feed was wasted, where the feeders were filled brimful. Where they were filled only two-thirds full, the wastage was reduced to 15 per cent, half full 5 per cent, and when filled, on ly one-third full the wast age was only 2 per cent. To take advantage of this will take a little more labor and more feeders. But the feed saved will more than pay for this. Feed is the big item in poultry production and the poultryman can’t afford to over look a saving of this magnitude. • » * MEAT ANIMALS HEBE Even though we have made great progress in recent years from crop fanning to diversification, with crops plus livestoek, we still have pretty far to go with the latter be fore we are anything like snlef-sus- taining. Dean Farrar of Clemson, tolls me that a survey of our meat packer! shows that they are getitng only about 30 per cent of their hogs and 45 per ceat of their beef aniihals from within the state. Of course, some of our hogs and cattle are shipped out alive. But even with that, our production ef these two items still falls rather far short of our needs. We have packing plants in all parts of the state that are putting out finished meat products second to none, and local markets for live stock in rather easy reach of every farm. It has nbt always been so. All of this, and being right in the midst of our consumers, surely points to a place for more livestock on our farms. And it appears they are coming, as we perfect our know- tow and improve our feed produc tion If weeds are bothering in your pond, you can get the details for fighting them next spring from your local couny agent. » • • COMMUNITY CLUB IN PICKENS With cars, good roads, radio, tel evision, and the like many commu nities do not have the unity they used to. But efforts are being made in most counties to build back the old community spirit and interest that used to mean so much. For they feel the need for it in their everyday living- With the organization of their Twelve Mile Community back in the summer, County Agent Wood of Pickens tells me they now have eight such community organizations functioning. * + * BOYS ARE THAT WAY Each fall and spring I like to go back again for a while and walk the hallowed paths of childhood. I did that of late. In every stone there was a story. On every hill a happy recollection. And each path, hedge, gully, and ancient tree brought memories that Were dear. Thick and fast they came, as I started out, down through the pear orchard, where some of the gnarled trees have de fied both blight and time, and still yield their goodly harvest. And on down below the pasture, the spring had long since dried up, and its depression was marked only by the sweetgums its moisture had induced to come back before my time. The branch it fed, and in which we spent happy hours on end, was now but a dry depression through the valley, and its once tur A DOUBLE WURBEN A full study of the two-price plan, combined with revitalized research, can open new and more profitable large-scale mbarkets for farmers, In the opinion of two outstanding Sen ators from the Pacific Northwest. Too little is being done under pres ent farm programs to help etiher the farmer or the consumer, ^Sqp- Warren G. Magnuson and Henry M. Jackson, both of Washington Slate, told us in an interview on farm problems. Tire consumer-taxpayer, they agreed, today carries a double bur den. His tax bill includes subsidy payments intended to hold down production as well as more than $1 million a day in grain storage charges on excess production. Meanwhile, they said, farm in come continues to decline and farmers’ costs continue to climb. TWO-PRICE PLAN URGED Senators Magnuson and Jackson contended both farmers and con sumers would be far better off under a two-price system for wheat. That is the program which Con gress passed in 1958, bet which was vetoed. Such a system would return to growers a fair price for that por tion of their crop consumed do mestically for food, such as a loaf of bread, cake mix, etc. and permit open market sale of the remainder for export, livestock reed, or forj industrial uses. Actually, the Senators said, the price of wheat products would be increased very little since only about four cents worth of wheat now goes into a loaf of bread. The savings in taxes would more than offset the added cost. The Washington Senators urged that the Senate and House Agricul ture Committees give serious con sideration to find new and ex panded uses for farm produts SURPLUSES OVER EMPHASIZED Both of the Senators feel that too mounting oHje fflltntnn (Ehnmirl? Vd. 60 — No 42 Clinton, S. C. Thursday, October 15, 195? 19 County Clubs Seek Four-Lane Highway Stretching From Laurens, Clinton to Joanna Representative members of 19. clubs of Laurens County have adopt ed a resolution requesting the State Highway Department to build a four-lane highway from Laurens to Clinton to Joanna. The new highway would replace the present U. S. 76 by incorporating sections now in use where feasible, and rebuilding stretches that create traffic hazards, particularly be tween Clinton and Laurens. The action came at the annual meeting of clubs at the fair grounds on October 1. Introduced by Hugh S. Jacobs, of the Clinton Lions Club, the resolu tion was adopted unanimously Following is the resolution RESOLUTION Whereas, U. S. Highway 76, an an tiquated two-lane highway now con nects La urens-C Linton-Joann a, the three largest centers of population in Laurens County, and, Whereas, said two-lane highway present congested, narrow, tortuous and blind condition constitutes a de fect in our Highway System .and. Whereas, the greater portion of said traffic is local in origin and destination and will not find it prac tical to use the new multi-lane high way from Greenville to Columbia: Now, therefore, be it resolved by members of the service clubs of Laurens County in annual joint meeting assembled: 1. That the Highway Commission er for the 8th Judicial Circuit be urged and petitioned to lend his best efforts and influence to securing a four-lane highway to connect Lau- rens-Clinton-Joanna. 2. That the members of the House and the Senator from Laurens Coun ty be urged and petitioned to lend their best efforts and influence to securing a four-lane highway to con nect Laurens-Clinton-Joanna. 3. That a copy of this Resolution be forwarded forthwith to the South Lions Club of Joanna. Lioiw Club Professional Women’s Club, Lau- of Hickory Tavern, Lions Club of rens Busines and Professional Wom- Wattsville, Lions Club of Enoree, en’s Club, Lydia Woman's Club. Clinton Kiwanis Club, Laurens Ki- Joanna Woman’s Club, Clinton Jun- wanis Club, Laurens Rotary Club, ior Chamber of Commerce. Laurens Clinton Exchange Club. Laurens Ex- — change Club, Clinton Business and Junior Chamoer of Commerce, Clin ton Civi’an C’-ib. The Loyal Order of Moose OFFICE SUPPLIES At CHRONICLE PUB. CO. IF II S IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE TOU DO NT GET THE NEWS Pboa* 74 T ERMI« S • IN HMirc J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CLINTON. S. C. MIS answer is | was engineered and built at a time |Carolina Highway Commission; to when traffic was much less dense, the Highway Commissioner for the and when the average speed of mo- 8th Judicial Circuit; to each mem- tor vehicles was much lower than her of the House and {he Senator now prevails, and. from Laurens County, and that cop- Whereas, said two-lane highway 1 ies be furnished newspapers and ra- F«r Information Call: Efird’s Exterminating Co. 1311 Asheville Hwy. Telephone 4341 Spartanburg. S. C. is daily called upon to carry a load of local traffic far beyond the lim its of safety and convenience, so dio stations Members from these clubs par ticipated in the meeting: Lions Club that said section of highway in »ts of Clinton, Lions Club of Laurens. Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 794 Laurens, S. C. WANTED 300 NEW CUSTOMER LOANS S10 to $1,000 ^fcnanefi 110 PITTS ST. UT.INTON. S. C. SAM SEAM RIGHT. Mgr. — PH; 1913 bulent bottom was now covered with a soft mattress of pine needles blame is placed on Change, change, the constancy of Sl j r piuses” as the cause of every change! f arm output,” they said, Tepresent- There through the woods, where j n g only five to eight percent of an- the rail fence went, 1 could still dis-, nual production.” cern its winding trail, by the cedars * This compares. Sen Magnuson * * * that grew in its corners from seeds pointed out, with a 100 percent in- CONTROLLING POND WEEDS the birds dropped Along its once crease in egg and poulfry produc- Assistant County Agent Montgom- j fresh gnawed rails we had reaped a tion. a 300 percent increase in oil ANNOUNCING THE NEW STANDARD OF BASIC EXCELLENCE... NEW RAMBLER FOR’60 harvest of rabbits and an occasional ‘possum in our traps almost a half century ago. On up the steep and rocky ridge I walked where our first school house stood, I could find the overgrown I spot, there in the primeval woods, ery of Kershaw reports, “The four demonstrations of farm pond weed control using W’eed Rhap and Kuron the past season gave excellent re sults.” Weeds are a growing problem in the many ponds we are building. Science is making a determined only by the while flmt^rocks that a fight against them. Our man Sam sturdy generation rolled there as Williams tells me that W’eed Rhap , pillar^ for the old one-teacher school is a pelleted material that costs that went out after 1 had gone there about $30.00 per acre, but is sup- about three sessions And in the cen- posed to last about two and a half ter. between the rocks, a pine big years The other one, Kuron, is a enough for a saw log grew among liquid, costs less, but only kills the smaller trees As the generations current crop of weeds. i come and go, they make their scars. Fair Time! 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Both Senators agree that research into the development of new mar kets for our agricultural abundance “nowhere nearly matches our pro duction gains.” Only a small amount, compared with the total farm program costs, goes for re search to develop additional mar kets, they said A two-price program, when coupl ed with expanded research, is worth trying, the Senators told us. as a way of both raising farm income and getting the twin burdens of sub sidy and carrying charges on stor age off consumers’ backs. But nature soon heals them over and you can scarce find the spot. I've reached the limit for this column. But am'hot near through. Maybe we’ll travel those pleasant lanes a bit more next week IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Phoao 74 I960 HAMBLER CUSTOM CROSS COUNTRY oewwt edition of America’• compact station leader. Sit. Retvl V-8, Amhaaadur V-M. i or l-aeat FROM THE WORLD’S LARGEST BUILDER OF COMPACT CARS Now ice Rambler for ’60. 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