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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C^ October 31, 196&—13 FARMS and FOLKS LAYING FACILITY — Robert Mer chant shown above has one of the more modern types of laying facili ties. A double deck of wire cages are attached to each side of a 10-foot wide building. This building extends to more than 20ty £eet and will ac commodate about 2500 layers- A feed cart rides down the alley and augers feed to the layers on either side. Mr. Merchant has five such laying houses that are equipped with an egg room and cooler. Lomas And Merchant Dedicated Poultry men JOE CELY Cely Assigned As Assistant County Agent M. L. Outz, County Agent, has announced that Joe Cely has been assigned to Laurens County as Assistant County Agent. Joe, a native of the Powder- ville Community in Anderson County, is a graduate of Wrenn High School and received a BS degree in Animal Science from the University of Georgia. For the past two years he has served as Executive Officer in the 3rd Battalion, 62nd Division in-El Paso, Texas. Married to the former Bar bara Farrell of Piedmont, he the father ofan 10-months-old daugh ter, Ellen. Joe is a Methodist and resides on Young Drive in Clinton. Cely began work with the Lau rens Office October 1 and will work primarily with 4-H Club work. He will work with the Jun ior Livestock Development Pro gram and also do general Ex tension work. Only twice has a presidential election been thrown into the House of Representatives be cause no candidate received a majority of electoral votes. That was in 1800, when Jefferson won, and in 1824, when John Quincy Adams was elected, reports World Book Encyclopedia. * * * CREDITOR’S NOTICE All persons having claims a- gainst the estate of UlyssesSimp- son Gray, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same duly verified, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said es tate will please make payment likewise. William Kenneth Gray Administrator 115 Miriam St. Columbia, S. C. BY M. L. OUTZ County Agent The supply of good quality eggs available to the consumer is the result of the work of dedicated Poultrymen. Laurens County has its share of good producers in all phases of production. The results are showing up as increased poul try profits as well as a quality product. The egg production cycle starts long before the first egg is pro duced. Mr. W. D. Lomas of the Youngs community is involved in the initial phase of egg produc tion, started pullet rearing. Mr. Lomas raises about 40,000 pullets a year. His operation con sists of brooding day old chicks and caring for them until they are 20 weeks of age. The baby chicks require constant care and atten tion. Mr. Lomas said his birds consume about 16* of feed each during the 20 weeks growing period but do not produce any eggs. The birds develop their egg laying ability during this time and at 20 weeks are moved into laying houses. They are fed for egg production for the next 12 to 13 months. ..The poultry b^siness has been divided into specialty areas. Pullet producers rarely keep birds through the laying period. Mr. Lomas produces pullets on contract and the birds are moved out of his house at about 20 weeks of age. The egg produc tion potential of these birds must be managed well if it is to re turn a profit. There are a number of new egg production facilities in Laurens County. Robert Merchant of the Hopewell Community has one such operation housing 10,000 layers. He recently completed one year of operation and has a new flock of 28 weeks old pul lets in his houses. This second phase of the industry consists of caring for the birds, picking up eggs, and maintaining egg quality until they are delivered to the processor. Mr. Merchant spends about five or six hours with his birds each day, seven days a week. Most of this time is spent picking up eggs but the most im portant job is care of the birds. The birds have to be fed at least once a day, waterers have to be cleaned and a fresh supply of water made available at all times. Merchant said it was a con fining, time consuming job but his returns on 10,000 birds for the year were worth it. Merchant is producing eggs on contract with Waldrop Brothers of Newberry. He didn’t feel the impact of low prices like some independent producers. He feels that contract production provided a stable in come without risk of large a- mounts of capital. CREDITOR’S NOTICE All persons having claims a- gainst the estate of Loomis Rice, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same duly verified, with the undersigned, and those in debted to said estate will please make payment likewise. Benjamin Thompson 235 S. Bell Street Clinton, S. C. Administrator October 22, 1968 031-3c-N14 BY HAROLD ROGERS Assistant Extension Editor CHESTER - “It seemed a little strange to turn on the TV and hear Hoss Cartwright speaking Spanish.” This is one of the lighter- vein memories a Chester Coun ty farm youth has packed away after a two-week flying trip to Chile. There were many other ex periences he’ll long remember. There were the visits to the farming areas, “much like our own.” There was the first ex posure to the latin foods. There was a stop by vineyards and wine -making operations --at least one of which offered “samples.” There was a visit to a fan tastic mining operation, an out ing at a professional soccer game, “futbol,” to the natives. And there were the girls, where the mini-skirts were even minnier. The trip was chalked up by John Porter Gaston III, the South Carolina 4-H winner in a pro gram sponsored by the Chilean Nitrate Educational Bureau, Inc. He was one of six youths from the southeast awarded the tour this year. One of the adult ad visors accompanying them was George Baker of Clemson, asso ciate state 4-H club agent. The Chester 4-H youth re ceived the trip on the basis of a winning 20-page report he com piled on Chile after an exten sive study of the country. He and Baker joined the others in Miami, flying by commercial airliner to Santiago by way of Panama and Lima, Peru. There two weeks in the host country were spent in the capi tal of Santiago, and the coastal city of Valpariso, with side trips and tours to attractions in each area. Highlights 0 “Just about everything was a highlight," says the husky son of Mr. and Mrs. John Porter Gas ton Jr. He found it a country of con trasts and outstanding scenery, from desert to swampland, from coastal areas to spectacular mountain climbs. In agriculture, he saw a lot of similarities to the U.S. ‘We are pretty well advanced in some areas, but they are improv ing rapidly,” the visitor noted. The Gastons are dairymen in Chester County, farming some 1,200 acres with 210 cows. One of ttie points John Porter and the others visited was a planta tion where the dairy farm had 185 holsteins. Operations weren’t too unlike those bark >n his Ches ter County farm. “One of the big differer -es is in the marketing,” Gaston says. “They don’t have central distri bution, the processors we have. Each farmer markets his wn milk.” Although there is a compre hensive land reform program underway in the country, the plan tation was operated on the ten ant farm plan. Labor was made up of 40 farm families. The own er supplies the individual homes and garden plots, and also pro vides a school building. The plan tation had over 1,000 acres in crops. The “Nitrate Company’s min ing operations, on the touring agenda, could only l»e described as fantastic,’ " the youth says. The visitors spent a day there. The facilities are in the Ata cama desert, called the “driest spot on earth.” It hasn’t rained there in 40 years. It takes 16 tons of ore to pro duce one ton of nitrate, visitors found. The crushing plant pro cesses 400,000 tons per month. Ore is blasted out with ammon ium nitrate and fuel oil. Charges are placed every seven feet, with each blast opening up 4,000 tons. “The plant cost $120 million, and would cost $550 million to replace,” Gaston says his group was told. "They maintain$13 mil lion in spare parts." Another facet of the trip that impressed the youngster was the cordial and curious reception of the people. “They are much more friendly than we are in the U.S. and eager to talk with strangers,” he says. jy Whenever the Americans walked into the town square, peo ple would gather around and want to talk. They were chiefly in terested m U.S. politics, ask ing about the presidential can- dates. About the food: One seafood lunch included sea urchin, ‘cOpus, sawfish, 'r steak. I-or lunch i\ a farm at one of the vineyards, they were treat ed to a menu of: roast lamb, roast beef, tomato and onion salad, avacoda and celery salad, mils, wine, coffee, cake, bana nas, oranges, pears and apples. These were only some features of the trip, some of the meni' - ries the Chester youth will long have. He considers himself for tunate. First he was able to “study up” on the ways and the people of another nation. Then he was able to go and see for him self some of the things he had read. Participation in the 4-H pro gram paved the way. - CREDITOR’S NOTICE All persons having claims a- gainst the estateofErnestBlack- well, deceased, are hereby noti fied to file the same duly veri fied, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will-' please mako payment likewise. Agnes G. Blackwell Executrix Route *5 Clinton* South Carolina '* Oct. 17. 1968 024-3c-N7 Oct. 16, 1968 024-3C-N7 (i • t How much insurance did he have? "Too bad about Brown." wc say. 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