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f 4 14—THE CHRONTCLE, Cfinton, S. C., Sept. 19, 1968 FARMS and FOLKS CASH CROP—Sweet potatoes have become quite a cash enterprise to a number of Laurens County farmers. Prices run from $4-$6 depending upon the quality of the potatoes. Eusa Luster of Gray Court has about one-half acre and says that the demand good for potatoes. He plans to plant many more next vear. He sells to local grocers. Shown abo\e is Albert Williams, Assistant County A? ent _E«? a Luster, owner of the sweet potatoes .Allen Talle Luster’s grandson: also shown are Bobby Joe B> rd. Barrv Howard. Ricky Thompson and Alvin Luster. Fall, Winter Grazing Crops Are Being Sown BY M. L. OITZ C«’unt>' Agent Tail and winter grazing crops are teing sown at this time. Same were dusted in before the rain. Also farmers will soon be planting their small grain crops. Plant good clean seed. I’m sure some farmers will say that the best very often is not good enough. On the other hand, most farmers are guilty ofplanting dirty, weedy seed at one time or another. Some of our good land is so contaminated with weeds until it is very near impossible to grow good'grain. Disease will surely cfimo in when grain follows grain, (specially oats. So rotating is a Timely M. L. (H'T7. County Agent Ef5f LAURENS COUNTY AGENTS EXTENSION :n HOME ECONOMIST - The 23rd annual 4-H paltry sale will be Tuesday, September 17, at 5:30 p.m. in th^ Sears Roebuck parking lot in Grenville. ?he Laurens County 4-H poul try sale will be F riday, Octo ber 11, at 4:30 at the Laurens Co&ity Fair Grounds. Make plans no* to attend. A^EA FAIRS - The Laurens Cofiity Fair will be held Octo- ber=l4-19 this year. The premium boc#s are out if you need one. Stogi by the office for a copy. Alaathe Greenville Fair is sche dule for September 30 - Oct ober 5. It’s that special time of yeaf: again, so get in the fair spidt and participate as much as possible. C%3P VARITIES- A new pam phlet “Crop Vanities for 1969 for Sou® Carolina” is now avail- ableTat this office. Call the of fice ^)r stop by for your copy. S\§5NE SALE - Saint York shire sale, Saturday, September 21, 31 1 p.m, in Blackstock, S.C. VSON SALE - The Lawson Brothers sale is set for October 2 at3he farm. This is a polled Herej|)rd sale and will begin at 1 p.tf. They will sell 20 bulls and H females. |ER SALES - Polled Here ford Sale in Spartanburg, Octo ber % The Lay-Kellett Angus Disposal Sale will be Septem ber 0 at the farm of Sam Lay. BATHTUB RINGS are no longer a prAlem when you have soft watei& However, if you don’t have soft vdter, put a capful of mild liqultf detergent into the tub be fore adding water. I PERSPIRATION STAINS can be remold with a half cup of salt in a q|art of water.Soak the stain ed gatment for about an hour. m CLOTHESPIN AID - Keep a clip clothespin on your sewing table. \ It’s handy to keep pat tern pieces in place until you can retarthem to their envelopes. necessity! Some will say 'ats shouldn’t be planted '>n the same land but once every three years. Plant disease resistant vari- ties. TheStateSelectionCummit- tee makes every effort to select disease resistant varities. Some times when sacrificing yield to keep down disease. So following the recommended list is very- important. V.’hen a farmer plants his wn v saatpt is most important that * tfley^be cleaned and treated. The seed cleaner will do this job. The cost is very little. The Se lection Committee who deter mines the varities of grain re commended to be planted in South Carolina has as its chairman Dr. U. S. Jones at Clemson University. Other committee / members are extension and re-f search people along with the head of the seed certification depart ment. Varities of oats for the Pied mont are: Bruce, Moregrain 211, and Sumter 3. Bruce is recom mended where soil diseases are known to exist. Varities of bar ley recommended are: Early Marconee and Keowee. The Keo- wee ordered for the county. The seed supply is exhausted and there is no seed available. Rye varities recommended are: Elbon, Weser and Wren’s Abruzzi. There are a number of approved strains on the market and I’m sure from reports of farmers who haye planted the seed that it furnished a lot of grazing. It appears to me that all crops, including cotton, corn, soybeans, small grains, as well as pas tures, will have to use some type of chemical to combat the weed situation. Small grain pro ducers must use 2-4D to turn back the army of weeds. So many will say the weather wasn’t suitable to spray and etc. Well, I doubt if we do very many things under ideal conditions. Usually the crop is planted un der something other than ideal conditions. So, it may be too cold to spray. It simply means the per cent of kill will not be as high. It doesn’t mean there won’t be any kill at all. If we produce small grain pro fitably then we must plant good seed and the soil must be pro perly prepared, fertilized and sprayed properly. BY HAROLD ROGERS Assistant Extension Editor CLEMSON - South .Carolina’s intensified farming operations, out where they’re mechani zing and automating at an as tonishing pace, might at first glance appear to be far removed from the world of today’s mam moth commercial cereal market ing. But are they? Gathering age and dust in the files of Clemson University’s College of Agriculture and Bio logical Sciences are papers which point out that a one-time facul ty member was the man who de veloped the process for puffing cereals. This created new markets for corn, wheat, and rice crops, aenefitting the farmer immeasu- ibly -- not to mention today’s hurrying housewife. The man credited with the dis covery was the late Dr. Alex ander Pierce Anderson. Actual development didn’t come until after he had left Clemson, but basic research apparently was done here where Dr. Anderson was botanist of the S. C. Ex periment Station. “His work,” says agricultural economist Dr. James F. Miles, “influenced breakfast eating habits of the whole world. It broadened the use of cereals and greatly enhanced their prices.” The native of Minnesota joined Clemson in January, 1897, after receiving undergraduate and master’s degrees from the Uni versity of Minnesota and his PH. D in Botany from the University of Munich in Germany. Except for the year 1899, which he spent at his alma mater as associate professor of botany, he remained here until 1901. In Aug ust of that year, he became cura tor of the herbarium at Colum bia University, resuming his in vestigations in the laboratories of the New York Botanical Gar den. It was there he made his im portant discovery in December, 1901. In May, 1902, he wrote: “As a result of almost continuous work during the past year, I have been so fortunate as to develop a method by which, with the appli cation of heat to starch grains and to air dry starch in many forms, the granules or particles are expanded to many times their original dimensions, being frac tured into innumerable fragments during the process. . . * The originator of the puffing prx:ess quickly became wealthy, according to Dr. Miles. His re search resulted in such com mercial products as Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat and finally Qua ker Crackles. The former Clem son professor also designed the elaborate machinery to produce his products. For more than40 years, he was associated with the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago, manufact urers of cereals and grain feeds. In December, 1933, he gave Clemson University $10,000 to establish the Anderson Fellow ship for Clemson graduates. In January, 1942, he gave an addi tional $2,500. A like sum of $12,500 was given to the New York Botanical Garden, where he had made his discovery. In 1943, at the age of 80, Dr. Anderson died while spending the season in Florida. But his contribution to the cereal indus try had set off a tidal wave which continues to ripple throughout the economy and agri culture of this land. Farm Bureau Opens Annul Membership Drive The annual “kick-off* meeting for the membership drive for Laurens County Farm Bureau was held recently at the Lau rens Dining Club in Laurens. J. Herman Power, newly ap pointed membership chairman, gave his report that the county was only 20 away from the quota of 402 for 1968, and that he ex pected to go over that number. Each officer and director was given a list of persons to con tact. Attending from the South Caro lina Farm Bureau office were E. W. Brooks and Roy Bryant, Safety Director. Brooks compli mented the Laurens County bu reau on its continued progress in membership and all other pro grams that are being offered to Farm Bureau members in the county. Present from Laurens were Mr. T. J. Copeland, Mr. and Mrs. J. Herman Power, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pitts, Mr. and Mrs. James Wasson, Mr. Robert Burns and Mrs. Agnes Bailey; from Clinton - Mr. Hugh B. Workman, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Ramage, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Wickham; from Cross Hill - Mr. and Mrs. W. Hance Finley, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Adair and Mr. Richard Tate; from Waterloo - Mr. Niles C. Clark; fromOwtngs - Mr. and Mrs. Milton S. Woods; and from Ware Shoals - Mr. Henry Odell. Overseas Visitors Top 200.000 Business and pleasure visi tors from overseas to the United States topped the 200,- 000 mark in July, the second largest volume ever for a sin gle month, the Commerce De partment reported. The total number of visitors to the U. S. for the first seven months of 1968 ran 6.9 per cent above the same period last vear. JUST ARRIVED! BOOKS BY — Peter Pauper Press, Inc. — AND CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. 109 Gary St. 833-0541 A Wit* Man Learnt from hi* own •xporhnco. But » (till wltor man taarrn from onporionca of ottos. Amoricww ara wiaa anoufA to mim ovor 1550 billion dotlora worth of Mo inauranc#' and tha amount is Incraasing avory day. Hava you laarnad from tha American axpartanaa? REPRESENTATIVES SIDNEY HARTZOG—-833-2333 FRANK LYDA—833-1784 9U/ REPRESENTATIVES FRED BRAGG—Stt-IMS JACOBS OLIN USE CHRONICLE WANT ADS SOYBEAN CROP—Shown above is Albert Terry of Greenpond looking over his soybeans. Mr. Terry says that the recent rain has greatly increased his chances of making a soybean crop. The young beans seem to be filling out and it is hoped that an average crop will come on to mature. Mr. Terry is retired but plants a few soybeans to keep himself occupied. He also has 14 head of cattle. i iA ■ii^ School District 56 Week of Sept. 23-27 MONDAY - Milk; country-fried steak; cantaloupe slices; rice w/ gravy; English peas; hot biscuit; butter. TUESDAY - Milk; hot dogs with chili, mustard, onion; lettuce and tomato salad; potato sticks; hot dog buns; butter, chocolate cake. WEDNESDAY - Milk; chili con carne w/beans; cole slaw; car rot strips, celery sticks; hot rolls; butter; chilled peaches. THURSDAY - Milk; fish squares w/tartar sauce; orange juice; creamed potatoes; corn- bread squares; butter; apple pie w/cheese. 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