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t / Thursday, October 2b, 1M0 i r THE CLINTON CHRONICLE FARMS... ItAND FOLKS By I. M. Eleazer Clemson College Information Specialist >7 m FERTILIZER BEST BUY Of all the supplies going into making a crop, fertilizer remains the best buy, according to the USDA. Since the 1947-49 period, fertilizers had risen only 6 per cent by the past spring, according to a digest gotten up by our farm man agement specialist, P. S. William son. But during that time taxes had gone up 94 per cent, farm machin ery 59 per cent, wages 51 per cent, motor vehicles 47 per cent, building and fencing materials 33 per cent, and motor supplies 24 per cent. The only things that had gone down were the two the farmer produces, feed and seed. Relatively cheap fertilizers have helped the farmer stay in the run ning, under these conditions. For they have helped bring higher and higher yields. As pointed out by Clenuon’s Woodle, the farmer needs to be as economical as he can. But cutting on fertilizer is poor business now For it is the cheapest element going into crop production and it helps pay for the others that are higher. Only with high yields can farming prosper now. And when it comes to fertilizers, we are not using ai much as both experiment and ex perienre show pays best. # • * HIGHER HOG PRICES LIKELY Our economists have studied the hog situation and have come to this conclusion: “Marketing during the latter half of 1960 will be below a year earlier and-prices during this period are likely to average sub stantially higher.” So, our hog man, Gus DuRant. says take good care of those shoats. as things are looking better. GRAIN PLANTING TIME Grain for grazing should have already been planted, according to Hugh Woodle, our extension agrono mist. And it’s now getting time to get the oats and barley in. Then out in November is wheat seeding time. Did you know little South Caro lina produces more grain than any other southeastern state? Well, it does. Our acreage is the largest and our production is the highest, too. It pays to fertilize grain at plant ing time with a complete fertilizer. And then follow that up with nitro gen top-dressing out in February or March. Some of our land needs lime, too, for grain, just like for many other crops. Grain does best on soils with a pH running from 5.5 to 6.5. The use of good treated seed pays, too. Full details about this crop are carried in Circular 463 en titled ‘‘Small Grains for South Caro lina." It is free from your county agent's office • • • t.RAPKS IN GREENWOOD They have 500 acres of commer cial vineyards in Greenwood coun ty. County Agent Garvin says they are doing a good job^ with every ' thing except spraying. Many have acreages just too small to invest in the proper equipment to do the best job with. The remedy will likely be larger acreages or custom spray ing. For, in this climate, spraying is too important in grape culture to play along with, says our grape man, Roy Ferree. * * • BOYS ARE THAT WAY As kids, my, how we would have treasured many of the throw-aways of today! A wide-mouthed gallon jar, one you could get your hand into, we could have kept our things away from the rats and flies in there. And these sealed containers like oil and anti-freeze come in, boy, what we would have given for a few of them! We wouki have made boilers that would have blown the whistles we made from canes that grew down on the creek. Yes. and incidentally, one would have likely been stopped up too tight and blown up, scalding us. But kids never bother their minds with such un pleasant subjects. We did a get a friction type molasses bucket once. It was a rare treasure. We built a furnace around it as a boiler and the steam blew our whistles for hours on end, sounding like an old- time peanut pareher. The handle was lost from that one is the only reason we got it. For buckets were scarce and money was too. Strings, wire, rubber bands, pa per sacks, cardboard cartons, and the like of today would have each been a useful and treasured items to us And all sorts of abandoned wheels of today would have been prized indeed. The only sort we had were sawed from the trunks of trees, and they creaked when they dried. And occasionally the country store there got a cheese box with solid top and bottom We watched for those with the eye of an eagle And they were spoken for time they arrived. Then when the cheese was all gone, the treasure was ours. We nailed them to the end of push sticks, making “grasshoppers” that worked back and forth like the rockers of a locomotive. An ojd automobile tire was an un- ——! ——■■— —— known then We would have treas ured one of them for sure And an old innter tube would have supplied the whole community with slingshot rubbers Empty shells, crates, bat Uesrfmd jug* that we throw away now would have all found a place with us. Change, change, the constancy of it! Clinton Davidson This Week in Washington - Campaign Promises and satellite country might never have happened. A Freedom Academy should be on the “muot” legislative list of Congress next year. The country needs trained professionals to help break the power Of the communists j and their fellow-travelers who hope to subvert America, the stronghold of freedom. CARD OF THANKS - We wish to ' thank our friends, neighbors. Sunday school class, and employees of the H. B Newton Company for their many expres- siom of symapthy shown at the death of our mother, Mrs. John P Anderson The cards, floral offer ings, food and every deed were deeply appreciated May God bless each of you is our prayer V -MR* AND MRS H W STATON CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our deep ap preciation for the many acts of kindness shown during the illness and at the death of our mother, Mrs Lula B Gruber Especially do we thank Dr. Macdonald, the nurses at Joanna Memorial hos pital, friends and --r.gr.bafs from Joanna. Long Branch. Bellview. and surrounding areas, members of St. John's Lutheran Church May God Ness each and everyone for their thoughts and deeds. -THE FAMILY LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! BELKS Proudly Presents , DAN YARBOROUGH Well Known Local Photographer 3 Days Only - Thursday, Friday, Saturday OCTOBER 27-28-29 Children's Portraits - 8 x 10 - $1.00 Bring all the children to our Youth Center and have a beautiful, quality-made Portrait of your child. Remem ber the dates. Come early to avoid the rush if possible. ALL WORK GUARANTEED! CHILDREN OF-ALL AGES— It’s Time Now To Buy Your Christmas Portrait! Several Proofs To Choose From! Voters with a long memory know that campaign promises, however, sincerely they may be made, can not always be carried out The country is fortunate that some of them cannot. I attended both Presidential nomi nating conventions four years ago Many promises were made by both parties which were not carried out, partly because Congress refused to vote them ( ' Similar promises were made at the national conventions this year and are being repeated by the can didates in the campiaigning for votes. We are hearing a great deal q# talk about “government pro grams” involving huge outlays of public funds to “strengthen our economy.” Federal regulations and controls follow excessive Federal spending I have called attention in previous columas to the fact that there are more than 3,000 Federal Bureaus, commissions, and agencies in Washington with administrative au- 1 thority over private business More | than half of them have been created in the past 25 years. DANGER FROM WITHIN A large number of those agen cies, with a total of many thousands of employees in all parts of the world are spending billions of the U. S taxpayers' money in both cash grants and technical aid, to build up foreign competition to private busi ness m this country Many of these competitors are government-owned and controlled. Through use of U S. financing and cheap labor at home, those countries can undersell us in many markets including those in our own country This not only weakens our privately owned industry and' agri culture but has caused many of the larger corporations to form subsid iary corporations in Europe which provide jobs for thousands of Euro pean laborers, while reducing em ployment within the United States CONSERVATIVE AGRICULTURE TTiis situation is not too bad at present but it would have become very serious if all of these so-called ‘liberal spending programs” had been put into effect. Many spending projects were pushed by Congressmen from the large industrial cities. During re cent years our country has been saved from inflation and disaster that would i have followed such lib eral spending, simply because the agricultural areas are conserva tive. The liberals have complained bit terly that the Congressmen in the Southern agriculture sections voted with the Northern conservatives and thereby prevented the enact ment of the so-called •liberal” plans to spend many billions of dol lars of the taxpayers’ money They are right about this. The moral socialism at the heart of these spending programs has not appealed to Southern representa tives in Congress The South is a ba-uc agricultural section, in which there is a high proportion of farm ers. e>pecially small farmers Sou thern farmers generally, are con servative in their politics and eco nomic beliefs Far sighted editors of thousands of weekly newspapers have con tributed immeaaurably to defeat of wasteful and dangerous spend ing by keeping their readers ac curately informed NEEDED: A FREEDOM ACADEMY Rt THURMAN SENSING. Executive Vke Errswlrat Sauthem States Industrial Csont i| Mlule the Ciuted States is spend Representatives A S Merlon*, o! tng vast sums on complex weapons Florida and Walter H Judd of systems, and even larger amounts Minnesota, in the House of Rem- on utterly wasteful foreign aid. tribune*, and See Ka-! Murwit of neither type of expenditure is prov South t ik ’a. in Senate, fought mg itself effective in checking the hard n . u la*’ -.e** n <4 Congress advance of world communism to wm approval fur a Freedom Red Cuba's totalitarian exce»M» Academy Thi- would be a Cold continue to grow in number Only War training school in which recently, that island's communist American official- agent- and government seized three American tary men wftuld ge» instructioa in owned banks On ibr African con- the methods used by communist’) tment. Reds dominate the govern and how they can best be checked ment of Guinea In North Africa. All that American ronaervabve- taking up key posiuon* in the Alge have learned about communism rum rebel army that is warring on would be taught in this "West Point France. Against communism's of political warfare ” technique- of war by subversion. Graduate* of this school would the United Slate* is almost help know how to organize counter gue- less nllaa, how to expose the fradu ■Hie truth is that covert method.* l.-nce of Red propaganda, and how are the mcehotfc- of communism s to ureak up rooimuiust fronts in war planner* They expect to win remote lands They would be the World War 111 not with giant spearhead of free capitalism s re bomba or fleets of submarines but sisunce to Red totalitarianism with saboteurs, political agents They would understand the mean* and propagandists To the Red. the of cracking student nots such m propaganda was the heart of the prevented President Eisenhower's battle. trip to Japan They would be in a Tragically. the United States has position to help restore a free pro little with which to fight the Reds American government to t'uba. on this front Instead of concen Academy bill, trating on building political war Kad the support of leading forces to resist communism, it has American conservative.*. won ap squandered btibons on economic p ro val in the U. 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