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Tfewsiaj, Oettfccr 22,191$ THE CLINTON CWIDMCLE FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleozer CUm—m CoUecc UUrKation Spftalll * t ♦•* WBAT 4-H*ERS DO AT CAMP Reflecting back on their very auc- cessful summer 4-H camp that had an attendance of 285 from all parts of Lexington county, Assistant County Agent Hipp recalls: “While recreation was one of the most im portant phases of camp life, mem bers also received instruction in citizenship, good manners, water safety, tractor operation and care, beautification of home grounds, use of power tools, and tree and nature study.” GRAPES AS A CROP County Agents tell me of growing interest in grapes as a crop, spec ially in the upper part of th^etate. • Long experience at Ciyjisdn has shown we can grow good ones. Now the growers have formed their as sociation for promoting the crop. A juice plant is to be built, and leased to the New York firm that has been processing our grapes that we trucked up to them the past two summers. County Agent Morgan of Oconee says: “We are well pleased with the livability and growth, of the 8,- 500 vines planted last season. More will be set out this winter.” Wood of Pickens says: “The grape program is well underway here.” Martin of Spartanburg reports: “All farmers who set out new grape vines the past season and signed up twith the Palmetto Grape Marketing Association were visited during the growing season. Most of them have good stands and the vines are doing well. Considerable additional plant ings will be made this winter.” Cochran of Union: “Our new vineyards are in excellent condi tion.” Some agents report trouble with black rot on many of their grapes the past summer.. Our grape man, Roy Ferree, points to this as em phasizing the need for good spray equipment and for following a rigid disease control (>rogram. A lot of know-how has to be de veloped in establishing any new crop. We can get that best by fol lowing the written instructions un til we have developed that inherent know-how from experience. Good spray equipment, like the peach growers use, is needed for grapes, too, Roy tells me. DEHYDRATING AND PELLETING FORAGE Clemson has had a pilot dehydra tion and pelleting plant for the past two seasons. The pelleted forages have been used in feeding tests with poultry, hogs and cattle. The past summer a commercial size plant was put in at Clemson’s Edisto Station near Blackville. Expanded experimental feeding of dehydrated and pelleted roughages will result from this installation. And inter ested farm groups can go there and see a commercial plant in opera tion. A large plant of this sort has been built at Estill, County Agent Thompson tells me. And Willis of Chesterfield says interest is strong among farmers for the erection of one, too With our usual high humidity and rainfall during the haying season, this new way of saving forage in its very prime best is being thor oughly investigated. For forage cut at just the right time, regardless of weather, and quickly cured re tains values that are normally lost in tht sun and shawm inherent in natural curing. • • • BOYS ARK THAT WAY Last week we started through the paths of childhood. I didn’t have room to finish, I saw so much along those hallowed paths when I went there of late. So let’s tarry there a bit more today. From the wooded spot, where the old school house stood, I walked on to the back of the place. The early leaves of autumn were gently fall ing yellow and crimson in the dim path. I thought of the two score and ten seasons that had passed since. 1 walked there as a dreaming bare foot boy. The honey locust was rip ening on the self same tree, but the old persimmon was marked only by its rotting stump. Away back there, where the field we called the New round, young timber had come across the old cot ton beds that you could still see there, padded with a soft cushion of straw. And the same pile of rocks we had put in a terrace break, when that was a field, made a mound there and was overgrown with vines. From clean culture, and what not, the spring has long ago dried up. There I had lingered often as a kid, getting out of work in the fields. And on back across the Sites place I went. The old log house was gone and a wilderness of briers and bushes was all that marked ■he fruitful old homestead of lonj, ago. I walked on down where a wonderful scaly bark tree used to grow on a terrace. The field had come to pines, and had been cut. And I couldn’t even find where the fine scaly bark tree had been. Along through childhood's delightful years, we never let any of those nuts go to waste. I swung back through the bottom lands that border our creek. Sap lings had become great trees there and been cut. And a new growth was dense. The creek had about dried up, as it did once when I was a kid, and I thought I could see a rough line of rocks across the chan nel where we once built a crude dam. Back up to where we had lived didn’t aeem as far nor steep. And what used to b* “the big field’ 7 didn’t lock big at all then. Memories, memories! I like to travel back through them at timas. EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Dr. It is amazing what the physically handicapped achieve and accom plish. Some of our great leaders have been such, as the late Pres ident Franklin D. Roosevelt, and now our Secretary of State Herter. So often I have noticed that when a man or woman is handicapped in one area, he is heightened in an other. This is National Employ-the-Phy- sically - Handicapped Week It prompts us to look about at exam ples of men and women who are making great contribution to their fellowmen. We find them in every walk of life, Mrs. Nan Killough is an outstand ing example of this in my home town of Charlotte, N. C. She is a special teacher of physically handi capped children in the Charlotte Public Schools. But she has not al ways worked in this specialized field. She came into it by the way of suffering. For a number of years she was a successful teacher in Oakhurst School. Then in 1949 she was a vic tim of a serious automobile acci dent She suffered a broken neck as well as other injuries which kept her confined to the hospital for six months. There followed a protracted period of convalescence. In 1950 she went to the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Belleview Hospital in New York, headed by the internationally fa mous Dr. Howard Rusk, who did so much for physically handicapped veterans of World Wad II. She was greatly helped there, but said that much of what she learned there which helped her to help others she could have found at home if she had searched for it. After she returned to Charlotte, she took an Extension Course at the University of North Carolina at Chartatte C«ltaf«, To giv* her • lift.” During (Mr time Kw met a teacher who was working in the Hospital and Home-bound teaching program for victims of polio of the Charlotte Schools. She commenced to help in this work. Near the end of the school year, this teacher came to her and asked if she would like to take her place, as she was resigning to be married This teach er took her to see H. J. Hikes, su pervisor of special training. He em ployed her forthwith, and now speaks in glowing terms of her work Mrs Killough now is teacher of the Orthopedic Class at Elizabeth School and is doing a magnificent piece of work. Thirteen of her chil dren are in wheel chairs % "This is the most satisfying work I have ever done I look forward to each day with joy. The children are so cooperative and appreciative,” said Mrs Killough. My conversation with her revealed why the children were cooperative. Her spirit of joy' and love were infectious In spite of her crippled condition, which makes walking dificult, she does about her work with enthu siasm She even drives her own au tomobile. She is following the rule given by Jesus Christ. “Whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it” There are many tasks which the pBjuif >llj baadicappud can 4a batter than those who arc endowed with all thjir facuMar So few of oi really put our talents to fullest use. 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