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i / y> 'v-- U, tfM THE CLINTON CHRONICLE FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. Etoomr . ClemsoD College Information Specialist LOOKOUT HOUSE FLIES You know science seems to have finally eradicated the screw worm fly from the whole South east. Now wt are trying to work out an eradication process for the house fly. By spraying our little town of Clemson against mos quitos several times the past summer, it seems to have gotten the flies too, for we saw hardly any all summer. But spraying can’t be done everywhere. .What science is looking for is a way to make them become infertile, as they did with the screw worm. And that gets rid of them for %.% I A i J Santa's Always on Tine Mostly it’s a matter of planning ahead and saving ahead to have “what it takes” in the way of money wtten the occasion arises. He has a savings program well- launched that will provide what’s needed, when it’s needed. * Open a Savings Account Today! BANK OF CLINTON Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 3% Interest Paid On Savings Accounts Semi-Annually good and you don’t have to be fighting them each season. I note where the laboratory at Orlando, Fla., has found a substance which when fed to flies in very minute amounts makes the females infertile. It was the male that was made in fertile in the screw worm case. But it should work just as ef fectively to turn the thing around this way. This is still In the ex perimental stage, but surely is good news to everyone. Just think what it would_^mean to comfort and healtlf of man and beast to be rid of the pesky house fly! • * * BEST APPLES After an exhaustive study of apples, USDA feels that Jona thans and Staymans make the best apple sauce, Jonathans and Rome Beauties are tops for bak ing, and the Delicious stores best. They didn’t say which are pre ferred by most folks for eating fresh. New varieties are coming along that might displace some of these. A lot of them are being planted in that apple develop ment up at Long Creek in Oconee County, County Agent Morgan tells me. Clemson is planning some experimental work along this line up there, too. • * • READ AND GO BY THE LABELS We have all manner 'of effec tive sprays and dusts for Insect and disease control. Some are very powerful and can only be safely used in certain ways. So let’s read and go by the labels. Then no one will be hurt. Re member the cranberry disaster’ • • * SOYBEAN TRIUMPH Once we couldn’t do much growing soybeans for crushing here, as we did not have a suit- a b 1 e non-shattering sort. We could grow ’erp^But they’d just about ah Shatter out before we could harvest them. Now we grow a lot of ’em for crushing. A survey on 62 farms across the state showed that less than 1 per cent of the beans shat tered out before harvest. So the breeders have about whipped that. County Agent Cain has kept me in touch with the great work. John Wannamaker of St. Mat thews has done in this. Beans of his breeding predominate in our plantings now. His and those from USDA and other breeders HICKORY CURED • • • ? Folks used to think rheumatism could be cured bf carrying a hickory nut. Today, we laugh at these old wives’ remedies. We have so many reiabh, quick- acting medications now. Medical discoveries in recent years have eliminated or greatly eased untold pain and suffering. But, remember—most medicines should he used only upon the advice of your pbyacaask When you or a member of your family become H, see your doctor first. Then come to us for the medicine he prescribes. HOWARD’S PHARMACY YOUR REXALL DRUG STORE ‘On the Square” Phone 101 GIVE Your Family A HOME for Christmas! The “Corvette" i * MAKE THE WHO’.E FAMILY HAPPY! 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FIRST PAYMENT NOT DUE UNTIL MARCH 1, 1961 Clip and Moil Coupon for Free Illustrated Folder Send To: MODERN HOMES CONSTRUCTION CO. P.O. BOX 561. GREENVILLE, S. C 1 □ Hove Representative CoM On Me > □ I Own My Own Lot NAME ADDRESS I CITY STATE IM rural route. Owe Directions now ripen and await the com bines. Coker has a most promis ing new bean for release in 1962. They are now doing extensive work on this crop. But this survey showed har vesting losses to run a little over 9 per cent. Engineers Jf*ark and Webb at Clemson are working on means for lowering this harvest loss.—r— • * * BOYS ARE THAT WAY The gentle patter of rain on the roof in the fall had its meaning! too, just as that of summer. We talked of that last week here. To us kids it meant the cotton, would be too wet to pick next day. And that was just fine. And the hay would be too wet to haul, too. and the corn to break. So the ! patter of rain 0^1 the roof was just to our liking. School hadn’t opened yet. So the shower was ail that stood between us and work, ( a thing we hated. Talking about work, I wonder if ail kids were as lazy as I was? I'd think it was the chills and fever (malaria) we always had caused it but for one fact. When it came to building a dam down on the creek, chopping a large tree to get a little ’possum, build ing our railroad and trestle with old slabs from a saw mill, and so on, I never got tired. So I must have just been allergic to work that was not of my own choosing. For I hated it in the field. The shower made the leaves of autumn heavy, and they fell fast to the ground. Soon limbs were bare We could see the walnuts, scalybarks, and hickory nuts, and the remaining black, sweet, shriveled muscadines stood out on the vines. The black haws, too, were just right then, and the sandberries sparkled temptingly from the bared branches. As with the summer patter of rain on the roof, the fall showers had a different meaning to our parents, too. They meant the grain could be sown with assur ance it would come up. And they meant the fall garden of col- lards, turnips, and greens would grow fast, lush, and tender. They meant soil moisture and ground water, depleted by summer’s droughts, would be restored. And they meant the air was cleansed of dust or pollen that brought hay fever to some. The fall showers meant damp ness on the roof and woodlands, too. And that was security against fires. And the first one gave us a chance to bum out the chimneys so the dry soot from the winter before might not catch at some unsuspecting moment and set fire to the roof. Showers, showers! They meant a lot to us in the Stone Hills at all seasons. New* From The County Agent M. L. OUTZ, County Agent per cent. Farmers who planted more than 75 per cent of their allotment in 1960 will receive more than 11 per cent. In fact, I believe farmers will be able to plant all the acreage they will want, with the Increase and tho extra acreage they may request from those who turn in their cot ton allotment. It is very import ant that farmers plant a portion of their allotment at least one out of every three years. It doesn’t matter how little they plant provided they turn ia the remaining acres to tho ABC com mittee. Lot’s do our best to save the present cotton acreage for Laurens County. IF YOU DO NT READ THE CHRONICLE * >■» TOT) DO NT GET THE NEWS PHONF' 74 Thousands of pine trees will be planted In I^aurens County dur ing the next few months. Last winter too many seedlings died after being planted. This was due mostly to human errors. Every land owner should demand good fresh seedlings. These seed lings are available at several state nurseries. At the time they are pulled, they are as good as can be bought. A number of| farmers have tree planters avail able for custom work If anyone, would like to have a list of these, please call the county agent's of fice David Hughes and J. H. Pow er are new grape growers and have received their plants • • • Growers of cotton had an opportunity to vote on marketing quotas December 13 Cotton acreage has been increased for the 1961 season for Laurens County by a little more than 11 NOTICE TO CITIZENS OF CLINTON: All interested persons are advised that construction is being plan ned for 2.6 miles of Road S-308 from Routes 72 and 56 at Clinton to US Route 276 The tentative location of this road follows closely the centerline of the exist ing road, and plans for the con struction are available at the State Highway Department in Columbia. 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