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a x. / "L Thursday, February 25, 1960 T i ii / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE FARMS... AND FOLKS By T. M. Eleazer Clemson College ^ Information Specialist / - HOME-MADE GOODIES Just how to make a lot of good things at home is carried in Bulletin 134 entitled “South Carolina Home made Pickles, Preserves, Jams, and Jellies.” This valuable bulletin was originally written by that pion- neer in this field, the late Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, long with the Extension Service in this state, and it was later revised by her present suc cessor, Miss Margaret Martin. Another valuable bulletin along this line for the homemaker is num ber 112, “Home Canning of Fruits, Vegetables, and Meats in South Carolina.” It, too is by Miss Mar tin . These publications are available free from your local home demon stration agent or from the Publica tions Department at Clemson. • • • MARKETING Marketing is surely one of the fanner’s greatest problems. We have a State Agricultural Market ing Commission that helps with this. Our Clemson Extension Marketing chief, J. E. Youngblood, ii Ha ex ecutive director. They have aided in surveying and establishing need, ed marketing facilities at a number of places over the state. One of these was in Pageland. County Agent Willis tells me i toutgrew its space there and is being moved to the western edge of town. That mar ket handles most of the big melon crop of that area. • • • SOIL,TESTING IN NEWBERRY Late last year they had a drive on ,to get the soils sampled in New- bory county and tested by Clem son. County Agent Busby says 7,424 samples were gotten from about a thousand farms, tooted, and ferti lizer and liming recommendations made. Ihus a lot of farmers there are in position to do more intelligent lim ing and to get better results from fertilization than before. This ser vice is available inwall counties, but special drives have been put on in some. County agents have the neces sary containers, send the samples to Clemson, and then interpret the results when they come bade. COASTAL-SCORES AGAIN Coastal Bermuda grass continues to prove its value and make friends Where handled right. County Agent McCord of George town has often told me how they liked it down there. And last fall he said, “It was outstanding, not only producing a lot of grazing, but giv ing us the only hay we made. We cured it between rains.” Coastal nay does cure quick. You can usually have it housed while other hays are still exposed to weather, curing. Our Coastal man, Hugh Woodle, tells me you can sprig this grass in at all seasons. But spring i$ usually the best time. And that’s not far off now. There are various ways of planting the sprigs. Your county ageih can give you some good ideas on this. « *. * WEATHER! Weather is a powerful factor in farming. It can undo your best ef forts. County Agent Linder of Lee says they had a lot of cotton not worth taking out of the field last fall. Livingston of Florence said Jt ruined most of their Ijaryest, ex cept tobacco, that was already in. Johnston of Beaufort said it took their fall truck crop just is it was getting ready for the harvest. And so the story went. Some sort of crop insurance! We sure need that. BOYS ARE THAT WAY No one else is quite Idee a pal of boyhood. And we had ’em for sure in the Stone Hills where I came up. Yes, folks meant a lot then. For that's about all we had. The rest was the untamed and rugged hills •and vales forming the V madefy the cofluence of the two rivers, Broad and Saluda. “We always had two or three spec ial buddies, some white and some black. And they didn’t change much', except when one moved away across the creek or somewhere. But that was very seldom, as the Dutch Forker stayed pretty well to his brier patch. I recall with fondest memory my [Colored playmates. Most kids were J rather good then, but they were J genuinely so. TTiey would do any thing for us and we for them. They ! have largely drifted from my kriow- ledge now and gone from the Fork I’d sure like to see Ze^e, (my fa vorite )and Chike, and Fawly, and Green. And then there was Henry He^was from a large family. One day^ I asked him where they all ( slept. He said, “Us got five a cradle, and a crotch (me) cot.)” And then among my white bud dies was, first and foremost, Mar vin. He liter lived in Columbia, did all right, and died a few years ago. My, the happy hours, weeks, and years we had together during the carefree days of boyhood. I could write a book about me and Zeke and Marvin. And then there were Mike and Wilbur and Jack and Case, and Harold and Louie, too, who came to our school from across the creek. If we could get together, I’H bet we would never quit talking. In the after years we male new friends as we go along, adylt friends. And they, too, are good. Biit they are never quite'like those we had back in our shirt-tail days, when we swam naked in the creek, feasted on the wild bounty of- the woods, beaj out of everything we could that resembled wofk, and suffered together with starched blouses and shoes on at church on hot Sundays. EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Bishop Herbert Spaugh Many people stay in trouble be cause they refuse to move out of it. Some are unhappy in their^work, when a change, which they can make, will correct it. Others are unhappy in their home life, when there is always something they can do about it. Still others are unhappy in their personal lives because they have never made peace with God They can also correct that if they desire to do it . Some years ago while visiting the tovely Cypress Gardens in Flori da near Lake Worth, the following , inscription fastened to an old Cy press tree attracted m^ attention: 'And what do you expect, old Bearded One, But gnarled and swol len-joints? And why comptain, In soft whispers of your rheumatism, When every day in sunshine and in . rain, You persist in standing in the water, And twisting your great toes I in beds of fern? No wonder you are grey and gnarled, Old One! But then I suppose you’ll never Jearn.” While the authorship of these,, lines was not given, yet I must pay trib ute to the writer and the thoughts which these lines suggest. That which used to be galled rheumatism is now called arthritis, or some oth er modern name. One of the in structions invariably 4(fiven .to such sufferers is to avoid fear and worry, to learn to relax, to avoid things which irritate and upset the emo tional balance. - • , How many we meet who are fum ing and. complaining about wrongs done to them by other people! Yet they do nothing about them but complain. They make no real effort to improve their situation Ther^ is an interesting story in the life of Jesus concerning an expe rience He and His disciples had with some very disagreeable peo ple. They were journeying down from Galilee into Judea and passed through Samaria. There was deep enmity between the Jews and the Samaritans, so when they reached Samaritan village and attempted to spend the night there, permission was refused. The disciples became furious, and asked Jesus to call down a fire from heaven to destroy these churlish people. 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