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V " • \ Thursday, February 18, I960 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE FARMS... AND FOLKS ’i* By J. M. Eleazer . Clemton College Information Specialist BETTER COWS ( “What most of our dairymen need is more milk, not more cows,” is the way our dairy specialist, C. G. Cushman, puts it. And the USD A backs this up when they report that one cow giving 10,- 000 pounds of 4 per cent milk re turns as much, profit above feed cost as 3 cows giving 5,000 pounds of 4 per cent milk. As often reported here, through artificial insemniation, which brings far better bun service to the aver- age dairyman, we are getting bet ter milking cows. County Agent Craven of 'Saluda, tells me they bred almost twice as many cows ar- tifically the past year as the year before. Watch that Saluda County! | It’s really coming with dairying,-! and with the pastures and other things that go with it. * * #• -\ COTTON HERE . Cotton has sure dwindled in the Southeast of late. I can well remem- .ber when we had 140,000 growers. In 1958 only 77,000 farms nad cotton allotments. And, look, at this, .only 44,218 of these planted any cotton! Looks Uljp we don’t want it. But some. farms do, those best suited to it and mechanization. But these haven’t been able to get enough acreage to operate most efficient-, ly. I undersand the new farm pro gram has provisions for letting some additional cotton allotment go to farms where it is wanted. OFFICE SUPPLIES At CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Phone 74 That’s in line with a suggestion Clemson's Dr. G. H. Aull made a good, many years hgo, and that the Sumter County group, through County Agent Bowen, made at the state cotton meeting in Colombia two years ago. • • » FERTILIZERS South Carolina was one of the early states to start using fertiliz ers, and the state started its inspec tion service in 1888. By 1905 we were using a bit over a half million tons/ and exceeded a million tons for the first time in 1911. The past' fiscal year w'e used 890,302 tons But the higher analysis goods of recent years give us more plant food than the heavier tonnages of former years carried. In 1888 the fertilizer used averaged carrying 11.45 per cent plant food, while that of the past year carried 25.3 per cent. Less filler now, and more substance. Clemson is charged with the re sponsibility of fertilizer inspection and analysis in South Carolina. Thi.s is for the protection of both maker and user of fertilizers. The past fiscal year 5,656 samples’ were se cured by the inspectors, some of which came from every fertilizer plant doing business in the state. Of these, 241 showed deficiencies, and prompt adjustments were made. And the balance, 5,415, measured up to or exceeded their guaranteed an alysis. This important work is under the supervision of B. D. Cloaninger. A full report on it for the past fiscal year is carried in Bulletin 473 that is free at your county agent’s office or from Agricultural Information Services at Clemson. ^ • • • , • BOYS ARE THAT WAY I was impressed early with the importance of water. I think it was the summer of 1911 that it just about never rained. That was a tragedy ’in several ways. Gardens burned up and we made practically no forage. But those were parents’ worries. Ours had to do with the creek. For it dried up until only a few stagnant holes were left. We would steal off and go "washin” in those until the chills and fever struck. Then par ents really read the law down tb us. But what a dismal summer that was for us country kids until out in August the cloudburst came! I’ve told you of riding its mad current before. From hill to hill it spread And down it came logs and all sorts of debris Although We couldn’t swim, except a little dog fashion, we rode those logs time and again for long distances down that mad current Dangcrmis? ft ; s- a wonder EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Bishop Herbert Spaufh we survived to tell about it. And a lot of the wells went dl-y that summer, too But not ours. It got low. But yftu could always get a partial bucket of water from a drawing. There was a spring about a half mile on the back of the place. While working in the cotton patch right back of the house, we would go away over there for water, just to get out of work and kill time. We knew the spring was dry. Or it was when we saw it the day before. But we’d go again, with the pretense of seeing if water had returned to it. Even though it hadn’t rained a bit yet. At long last that rain did come in August. It -was too late to help crops. And the harvest was meager Things had to be tight that winter, and old‘clothes w^re patched anew. But the thrifty Dutchman, with that August water, soon had his truck patches at work again. And the old compost heap was made to grow larger that winter than before. For losses had to be recouped the fol lowing year, and it w'as needed more. » where God is not.' Sen^e that hour I have never been lonely, never afraid of death. My body may be dreading the process of dying, but not ray spirit . . . Since then I have doubted the doubts of men, We don’t learn to know God by 1,1,4 1,04 4 ** eir 1 j rationalization. b«t by oapononco haye bn „ a , happy aa I Those who try to ratior.«iuiC God was when I fell in love with God never seem to fin'’. Him. Their and knew that He loved me. Again search ohly brings more discontent. an< l again, through the years, a I’m just having the charming ex- * ense 04 ^ near neighborliness and perience of reading the autobiogra- far i 1 ’ 1 ^ 1 * 1 *** God, ineffable' ph'y of Dr Joseph Fort Newton, a nd satisfying, hps returned to me. "River of Years.” As writer, lectur- , ‘ Some may say that it is all an il- er, and preacher extraordinary, Dr. luslon ' 11 ^ delusion It does not Newton taveled the length and , rnat4er; ^ is the one thing that I breadth of America, England, and ^ now as ^ • t ® ow nothing else, with other countries proclaiming the gos- ^ ar more assurance than anything pel of love in experimental religion | 4 ' an 1 ^ ^ nown by science or law or For a number of years he wrote Philosophy. Since that day,, its joy a column called “Everyday Liv- rt! Peated and renewed, I have never doubted God nor have I tried Jo ‘prove’ Him. Why should I try, when He proves Himself by the ... ... u u » n * warmth, add astonishment of my ” ^ *or ha-ve 1 ever had that gnawing anxiety about spiritual reality which has tortured so many men far better and wiser than I can ever be. The peril of dealing with the idea of -God is that is is apt to IT YOU DON’T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DONT GET THE NEWS Phon* 74 become just an idea. Yes, I know— I was later to learn—all the great is to prove that there ought to be a God—oot that there is a God. much less what God is.” .Like Dr Newton, we all ao need to heed the words of the Psalmist, | i know "Be still, and that I am God.” JJillard BolanM M Dr.~ “".Mixon I —Olptometriat— ' . . i 201 N. Broad Street i* PHONE 1308 Office Hours: 9-5:30 Gray Funeral Home Cllntoa, S. C. FUNERAL directors . . . and . . . EMBALMERS , Phone 41 AMBULANCE SERVICE (/em/tt' 103 E. Pitta St. EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING Frankoma Pottery Silver - Watches (irAKimberly Diamond* Phone 1699 ing,” which was syndicated in news papers throughout the country. He had a tremertdous audience. his first great’heart-warming expe rience with God. It happened as a result of bereavement in his home. He went out for a walk, climbed a hill near his home and sat down for meditation He writes, "Suddenly all niy„JLcouble, all my fear, left me. Life itself seemed to speak to my spirit. God became very near, ven? real, not awful, but gentle as a friend; Jesus infinitely enlarged in every w-ay-^jut something more. My whole being was aware of Him, with an intense stillness. There was no voice, no vision, but old Bible words came into my mind, aim as if someone had spoken them into my ear: ‘Fear not; underneath are the everlasting arms.’ At last—how long I do not know—sunset touched the scene with glory. -It was not; merely an idea of God needed to explain life—I was not thinking of Him No, it was God Himself, He without whom we cannot live., He _ / ... OSt“ ■* J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CLINTON, S. C Phone 3493 Joanna CASH TODAY for S 31 ” a month RIAOY CASH WHIN YOU NIIO IT* IS MorftHf upon Whom we rely, unconsciously,!' £ when a)i else fails; ‘We cannot go‘ ; 'iXUlfi 521 75 5105 7* V 75 161 11 11 75 420 51 ‘ 15 75 _ 4 75 51 17 75 ... i 507 15 IfUriranr* a' .>nee in ke^p-.ng -in th our {Ays' eral credit policy ... re-pay ra low monthly payments, just a* you pay for electricity and phone nerviee. 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