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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, October It, 1961 FARMS AND FOLKS By U C HAMILTON CoDete Extension Information Specialist Tobacco has taken the lead among Sooth Carolina crops, bat cotton is not far behind. In mne counties, in fact, cot ton is still king of farm crops You'll hear it spoken of with a great deal of respect. That’s be cause the local economy depend* upon the crop for whatever de gree of prosperity K expects to have. Cotton is that way down in Orangeburg. County Agent J C. King says he expects more than 50,000 bales this year. In value, that will run well above 6 million dollars. Most of the cotton around Or angeburg has been picked over son for higher yields. But I’ll give a good bit of credit to pre emerging ” • • • Folks who live around the his toric site of old Ninety Six will vouch for the fine fertility of the en County Agent J. H. Evans says 30 mechanical pickers are helping pick Aiken’s cotton out in almost record time. ■The crop was late this year, but we may get through picking on schedule—-with the aid of the 20 machine pickers." • • • “Some of our pimiento pepper demonstrations are yielding with great abundance." William H. Craven, Jr., Saluda county agent, says. “Up until the end of last month, Jack Oxner of the Delmar soil . . Some say the name Ninety Six community, had sold up to 6V4 was given because any way you ”96'' they tons an acre from his two-acre crop.” The state average is about one look at the figures read the same. The sub-soil around old Ninety j ton arrf ‘ Six was supposed to be about as fertile as the top-soil. Several agricultural scholar- W. N. Henderson, a member of ^ have just been announced Greenwood County’s Historical * y the Agricultural Scholarships Societv, lives Just a litUe piece Comrn,tlee at Clemson considerations. E. B. Copeland to Lewis F. and Gladys H. Barnes, lot in Laurens County for $10.00 and other con siderations. Continental Land Co. to Ruth Simpson, lot in Lakewood for $100.00. Continental Land Co. to .! L. Johnson, lot in Lakewood for $100.00. Louise E. Wright to James R Turner and Linda W. Turner, lot on Blalock Drive, Joanna, for $10.00, love and affection. J. H. Cooper to Southerii Foods, nc., lot in Cfosi Hill Township for $8,000.00 Jobie Shelton to Mary E. Welch, lot in Hunter School District No. 5 for $10.00. L. L. Long to Lloyd H. Smith, lot in Cross Hill Township for $10.00 and good and valuable con siderations. A. E. Holton to Mrs. Ethel Cannon, lot in Greenacres for $90.00. A. E. Holton to I -eonard T. Gar rett and Susie W. Garrett, lot in Greenacres. Waterloo Township, for $149 00 J. D Robins to George Casper- son. lot in Laurens County for $10 00 and other valuable consid erations Sara B Copeland to Joe H. Bonds, lots in Lakewood Develop ment Section for $10.00 and other valuable considerations. Alberta B. Draugbon to Clifton T. Thomason, lot in Hunter Town ship for $10.00 and other consid erations. Harvey L. Burns to M. H. Hunt er, Jr., lot on Whaley St., Lau rens, for $10.00. Verne Roberts and Cora Lee Roberts to William H. Burdette and Joan S. Burdette, lot near Wattsville for $350.00. J. L. Johnson to Robert M. Johnson and Ideller R. Johnson, lots in Lakewood Subdivision for $5.00, love and affection. Annie E. Carrington to T. A. Gilstrap and Mary M. Gilstrap, lot in Cross Hill Township for $700.00. W. E. Dunlap, Clerk of Court, to Albert B. Wingo, 103 acres in Youngs Township for $2,060.00. Willie Floyd Choice and Lillie Choice to Future Homeowners, Inc., .50 of an acre tor $10.00 and other valuable considerations. Niles C. Clark and Agnes A. Clark to James A. Davis, 1.61 acres on Laurens - Greenwood Highway for $10.00 and other valuable considerations. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Wallace Marion Leroy of Gray Court and Reba Nell Nabors of Watts ville. Eddie Harper and Carrie Dar lene Mae Motes of Clinton. J. W. Brown and Frances Grant of Cross Hill. James Vernon Woods and Lena Mae Armstrong of Gray Court. Earl Connell, Sale City, Ga., and Lottie Mae Burnett, Joanna. Willie Allen Fuller and Willie Mae Nance of Gray Court Willie Lee Boyd and SalUe Jean Glenn of Clinton. Cole Livingston Hunnicutt of Greenville, and Helen Steven Wad* dell of Fountain Inn. John Emerson Smart and Mari lyn Windale Dorn of Laurens. Lander Boyd Stoddard, Jr., of Owings, and Sara Catherine Jor dan of Clinton. Horace Gaines Mann and Bar bara Ruth Payton of Clinton. Charles Fuller and Betty Jean Grant of Cross Hill. up the rood from the site of the once. With this year’s late ma- Up Country's first settlement. He luring crop, some growers might have been in trouble were It not for the importing of mechanical cotton pickers. Earlier in the year I heard that a 100-car train completely loaded with machine pickers was headed toward Orangeburg. They must about half of showed me the good Davidson soil at the Old Star Fort built by the British during the Revolu tion. I can tell you that the soil does not erode easily. The earthern breastworks pushed up by tbe Red Coats was still as high as have unloaded! .vour head It is perhaps the best them there, be- preserved Up Country fort in ex cause Mr. King told me there istence was a 100% increase in the use Old Ninety Six is believed to of mechanical pickers this fall started about 1730 The All told, there s about a hundred i "If* town site is about 2V, miles in the county now. I south of the present town The All these mechanical pickers, together rdth the human pick- old Cherokee path from Keowee ran right into the old village. It era, are getting the late crop out • s P |i, there, one path going toward in record time. Fort Moore on the Savannah, and “Farmers are bringing the cot- the other to the Indian town of ton in so fast." Dick Crooks, tho the Congaree located near the local ginner told me, “that we’re town of Cayce. From staying up half the night trying there the path went down the to keep up.” W'ith all the rain we’ve had this year, you wouldn’t expect a very good crop Rain favors the boll weevil That's why I was really sur prised when R. L. Ziegler, Jr., of the Four Holes community, told me he’d picked over his cotton once and already had picked a bale and a half per acre. “Regular poisoning is the rea south bank of the Congaree river on to Charleston Miss Ijouise M. Watson of Greenwood, published an inter esting and well documented ac count of Ninety Six and the Star Fort last year. 0 0 0 Southeastern cotton, at least, is becoming totally mechanized I've heard reports from all over the state to that effect Aik- Vi Price MONTAG’S BOXED STATIONERY POUND PAPER AND ENVEIA)PES ALSO REDUCED! CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 109 G4RY ST. If you're interested, you may obtain, fill out. and submit an application form which the com mittee can supply. Then you’ll have to take the college entrance examination by next January 13 The scholarship committees address is Room 128, Plant tnd Animal Science Building, Clemson. . * * Bottom defoliation of cotton is a refinement of earlier total de foliation. More recently, farmers have attempted to save the late-form ing bolls at the top of the stalk. That way farmers make larger yields. But once a grower defoli ates cotton, boll growth stops and the top crop is lost Now, farmers defoliate the bot tom portion of the stalk first. Near the bottom, the bolls are mature Early defoliation aids disease control. Wilda Gray, Darlington county agent, says farmers in that sec tion had good success with the new procedure this fall Public Records PROPERTY TRANSFERS Joe H. Bonds to Tony I^e Ben son, lot on Sunset Boulevard, Hunter Township, for $10 00 and other considerations. John F. 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