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: 4-B—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., January 30,1969 Liquid Fertilizer? Life With The Rimples County Farm Bureau Committes Announced The officers and directors of the Laurens County Farm Bureau met at the Laurens Dining Club, Tuesday evening to make plans for the new years work. Twenty- six were present Livestock - G. chairman; Robert A. Ramage, Jr. P. Copeland, E. Burns; A. Emory Bishop, District I Field Representative was present. He challenged the county to accept as their 1969 membership goal 465 Farm Bureau family mem berships. This is an increase of sixty-three members over last year’s quota. President T. J. Copeland ap pointed the following committees to serve for the new year: Legislative - R. L. Wickham, chairman; James Wasson; Niles C. Clark. 'lot Service Committee - W. Hance Finely, chairman; R. L. Wick ham; W. D. Lomas. Membership - J. Herman Pow er, chairman, and the entire board of directors serving with him. Information - R. L. Wickham, chairman; T. J. Copeland, Mrs. Agnes Bailey. Dairy - W. Hance Finley, chairman; Boyd Stoddard; Milton S. Woods. Eggs - Fred Pitts, chairman; W. D. Lomas. Cotton - Hugh B. Workman, chairman; L. N. Cook, Jr.; Niles Clark. Safety - chairman; Mahon. J. L. Fennell, Herchel Gibbs; \ GETTING READY FOR WHATS AHEAD Bookkeeping, records, inventories, long walks and long talks go into planning for the coming farm year. Questions must be answered about buying livestock, seed and fertilizer, perhaps a new tractor or truck, or an addition to the barn or house. Today's agri-businessman realizes the importance of com plete farm planning, and that includes planning for the wise use of farm credit. The men at your local PlpDUCTION CREDIT *3SQCIAT!QN er« farm fiance specialists-vVith dgrfcultural backgrounds who can provide expert assistance in helping farmers and their families plan for the coming year. As you bogin getting ready for what's ahead, call or visit your local RCA representative His business is making your business more productive and profitable BY M. L. OUTZ County Agent What about liquid fertilizer? This question is coming to the office regularly these days. Ac cording to Dt, Harvey of Clem- son they are equal to dry fer tilizer on a pound for pound basis. That is, a 100 lbs. of 20% liquid nitrogen is equal to 100 lbs. of 20% solid material, and so on. However: before the true story on either material can be told the contents must be known. Questions are also being asked if liquid fertilizer is more acid forming than the solid material. This also depends on the make up of the total material. It should be said though that solid mater ials often carry lime as a filler. This would imply that liquids are more acid forming. Soils should be limed regularly, if not, tested to see when needed. Farmers who use a lot of fer tilizer and remove a great deal of forage such as corn silage, will find the soil needing lime very often. Regardless of which material, dry or liquid, you use the con tents should be known. If doubt exists call our office and we can get the fertilizer inspector to check the material. Black birds have become a tremendous pest to grain fields. I suppose this problem is wide spread because I hear people everywhere talking about it. The U. S. Wildlife Service is making a study to locate black bird roosting places. If you know of any places they are roosting call our office and we will pass the word on. I’m sure you will agree something must be done to get rid of this pest There are millions of them. Meetings of Your Choice: A great many state-wide meetings are being held in the next few weeks. Coming up are the State Soybean Association, State Cot ton Meeting, State Poultry, and others. The State Cotton Meeting will be held January 29th at the Sims Office Building, Columbia. The meeting will get under way at 10:00 A.M. and will end by noon. Everyone interested in cotton production should attend. How ever, those who can’t attend the state meeting will have an op portunity to attend the same meeting in Anderson on Febru ary 6. The same speakers" will attend all meetings. The State All Breed Bull Sale has also been scheduled for Jan uary 29. It will be held in Orange burg at the fair grounds. 120 Mod*I LWJX1 >> vm New Hotpoint Duo-Load washer. Does two different kinds of loads at the same time. Separately. Automatically. Each in Its own tub, its own water temperature, its own rinse, its own agitation, its own spin. Do duo-loads of colors and white, dellcates and sturdy, heavy and light soil. Or single, aU-of-a-kind loads, small or large. Pbplar Street 833-0631 ML L. OUTZ, County Agent bulls are being offered. Bulls must grade low choice or better to enter the sales ring. 34 Angus, 77 Hereford and 9 Shorthorn will be offered. Keep this sale in mind if you need a good bull. The State Poultry Health and Management Short Course will be held February 11-12, attheClem- son House, Clemson. For further information call County Agent’s Office. Forestry Assistance Is Available NEWBERRY - Technical for estry personnel of the South Car olina State Commission of For estry offer forest management assistance to any landowner in the state upon request, accord ing to Legare M. Duke, Dis trict Forester of the Newberry District. This assistance consists of an examination of the landowner’s woodland area, after which the forester gives the landowner, in writing, recommendations cov ering the work that should be done to improve the stand, main tain it in a productive condition, harvest timber products or any reforestation work necessary on the idle or understocked areas. Also included are recommenda tions for protection from fire, insects and disease. No charge is made for this service. Where cutting of timber is re commended, a forester of the State Commission of Forestry will, at the request of the land- owner, mark the timber to be cut, provide the landowner with an estimate of the volume mark ed for cutting and furnish a list of prospective buyers, a sug gested form of advertisement, and a sample timber sales a- greement. The charge for this service is 75<? per thousand board feet of sawtimber and/or 25? per standard cord of pulpwood marked and tallied. Woodland owners in Lau rens County who would like this free examination and/or marking assistance should contact the Newberry District Office, S. C. State Commission of Forestry, P.O. Box 129, Newberry, S. C., or County Ranger Tom Hill in Laurens. BIG TREES - A search is un derway for big trees in South Carolina. Anyone having an un usually large tree of any species get in touch with the County A- gent’s Office. Call 984 - 3021 or write 219 Laurens Street, Lau rens, S. C. 29360. I h*0 A Twin ©ROTHER. UKt YOU HAVe.,TAMI I T IT5 LONESOME ) BEING AN y MY FOL-Kfc BOUGHT ME A MONKEY.' '■rW. cc~ By Les Carroll 'WANNA TRADE t How To Frame, Hang Pictures BY HELEN C. CAMP Extension Home Economist There are a number of basic rules about framing, matting, and hanging pictures, but with these out of the way, adventurous spirits can go in any direction with good results. Pictures need not be original works of art. As a matter of fact anything that pleases you will do - reproductions of much loved paintings, unusual embroidery, a flower or bird print from an old book, collections of interestingly shaped keys, buttons, or other small objects, photographs, etc. Here are some tips on hanging and framing pictures. CHOOSING THE FRAME - The frame is meant to enhance the picture and should never all at tention to itself. Actually it should be the liaison between picture and surroundings. There are a few rules of thumb and it pays to study them before you start. First of all, the frame should lead the eye to the focal point of the picture. Color and weight of the frame should be attuned to the subject of the picture. The frame should add perspective and importance to the composition that it surrounds. Naturally, the style of the pic ture should dictate the type and style of the frame. Highly de tailed paintings are best set off by frames done in soft quiet colors. On the other hand, pic tures with broad, restful sur faces can take highly ornamented, textured, or carved frames. The finish and color of the frame should tie in with the color in the picture. A safe guide is to choose a shade slightly lighter than the darkest tones in your picture. Generally, the frame should be done in a neutral tone, then perhaps rubbed or glazed with either a color used in the picture or a harmonizing color. A frame should always be wide enough to balance the picture. As a guide, you would need a frame at least one inch wide for an 8x10-inch picture. After a while you will be able to judge the cor rect size just by looking at the picture. And be sure to examine your picture carefully before de ciding on the frame. STYLES OF FRAMES - There are three broad classifications of frames from which you can choose. Under the heading tra ditional comes the period frames of elaborately carved wood or plaster. Usually those with overall decorations are finished in gold, silver, or metal leaf. The most formal types used to frame portraits, still lifes, or landscapes may be finished in deep mahogany or walnut. Provincial frames of maple, oak, or chestnut are best suited to botanical prints, simple still lifes, and primitive art. The wood may be left natural or treated with wax, a light stain, or an tique finish. The simple, squared-off lines of modern frames make them most suitable for encompassing the large area of bold color and the forceful shapes of con temporary art. These frames (which may be plain wood mold ing boxes or shadow boxes) may be finished in solid tones or patterned gesso (a plaster sur facing). Frames of wormy or weathered chestnut are often used for modern landscape paintings and still lifes. * * * FARMS and FOLKS BY HAROLD ROGERS Assistant Extension Editor CLEMSON - It may be January on the calendars, but Clemson Extension specialists say it’s a good time for some “June think ing” by vegetable gardeners. And the starting place for good gardeners, they say, is with good seed. Many vegetable problems which plague the gardener in sea son would probably never come along if proper varieties were used and seed purchased from a reputable source. This is the opinion of Dr. Dan O. Ezell, assistant Extension specialist in horticulture, and Fred H. Smith, associate Ex tension specialist in pathology. They fronts; through plants. advise caution on three saving seed, ordering mail, and buying trans- the mail order seeds, through such a source necessarily a bad prac- The porcelain-finish Duo-Load, | only from Hotpoint... Clinton & Lydia Mills Store £ Will You Be 6 Years Old In FEB.? Get Your FREE Pepsi Forty Pockoge THURSDAY, FEB. 6 Baldwin Motor Co. Broad St., Clinton, S. C. LOOK FOR ™ THIS TRUCK! Pepsi Party Package If you live in Greenville or Laurens Counties and will be six (6) years old any time in Feb. here’s all you have to do to get your free Pepsi Happy Birth day Party Package. Have Mom or Dad, or your guardian take you to the Truck to Pepsi-Party Truck to help you carry your big Pepsi-Party Package home. You must bring your birth certificate and 36c for bottle deposit (this will be returned to you . . . remember, a bottle returned is money earned!) Now you can have your own Birthday Party and invite your own friends! MORE THAN 66 PEPSI-PARTY ITEMS 12 BIG Bottles of Pepsi Cola 12 Cups of Pet Ice Cream* with spoons A 2-lb. Birthday Cake* from Bost Bakery, the people who bake Bost Bread Pepsi-Party Napkins Pepsi-Party Birthday Certificate Pepsi-Party Strati Birthday Part, Game Sheet This Toy ohest for your Treasure WILL YOU BE 6 YEARS OLD IN MARCH Watch Papers For Yaar Pepsi-Party Packago Locations PEPSICOU Birthday Cake Candles Pepsi-Party Balloons •Ice cream and cake may be frosen until actual date birthday. Bottled by Pepti-Ooia Bottling Co., 706 Poinsett Hwy., Under Appointment From other commonly-grown vege tables, the specialists say. Some gardeners prefer the Windsor or tree type because of its mild acid flavor, but most of these tomatoes are highly sus ceptible to Fusarium wilt, a soil- borne fungus disease, Smith points out. Timely Tips BY COUNTY AGENTS Extension Home Economist CHANGE THE CHILDREN’S COOKIE snack into a fresh fruit snack and you will be on your way to pleasing not only the doc tor but the dentist, too! PRUNING ORNAMENTAL Ho suggests that gardeners who SHRUBS and small trees is done want to stick plant them on tomatoes have with these types new land where not been grown. Take Buying is not tice, says Dr. Ezell, but often seed are bought from locations which have different climates. “Some vegetables which perform well in other locations will not set fruit or yield well inS.C.,” he says. The person ordering seed by mail must know the varieties, he adds. Horticulturists at Clemson University periodically test varieties to determine which will perform best in this state, and recommendations are published in Circular 477. It’s available through county agents. Tomatoes, the universal gar dening favorite, probably offer more disease problems than Tomato growers also are ad vised to always include some of the Marion variety. “It’s resist ant to Fusarium wilt and gray leafspot, a serious leaf disease,” Smith notes, “The Marion will practically always insure a sup ply of tomatoes." The suggestion not to save seed may sound like a lot of poppy cock to the old-time gardener, but the Extension pathologist says many diseases are transmitted this way. “The price of new seed each year from a reputable dealer is a small price to help insure a disease-free garden,” he feels. On transplants, the pathologist says gardeners planning to buy tomato, pepper, eggplant, or others should be on guard not to buy disease and nematodes a- long with the plants. “Look for tiny galls on the roots, they may mean root-knot nematodes,” he says. “Small, dark circular spots on leaves and stems, particularly on tomato plants, may mean the presence of disease.” It’s best, lie says, to buy only from trusted sources. “Some people are only too glad to sell diseased transplants at what seems like a bargain price--but they may turn out to be a head ache instead.” In a study of the problems involved in utilizing military ex perience in civilian jobs, the La bor Department found that 85 percent of all enlisted men’s ca reer jobs have counterparts in civilian occupations. The hun dreds of Armed Forces training courses studied have a direct re lationship to at least 1,500 civi lian jobs. mainly in two periods: 1. When shrubs are dormant - before growth begins in the spring. 2. In the case of spring flowering shrubs they should be pruned after they bloom. USE A SQUEEZE OF FRESH LEMON instead of butter to sea son and perk up canned, frozen, or fresh vegetables. FEED COSTS REPRESENT 70 to 80 percent of the total cost of producing pork. So one of the best ways to cut down on the cost of pork production is to reduce feed cost. You can lower feed costs by feeding properly bal anced rations; selecting only high quality, .healthy feeder pigs; and using sound management and sanitation practices. NEVER THROW AWAY ANY FOOD, save old TV dinner alumi num plates and make your own frozen TV dinners. THERE IS NO gETTER TIME THAN THE PRESENT to begin looking for the herd bull if you need a new one. Examine your cow herd before looking for a bull and then try to find one that will correct the weak points of the herd. WHAT ARE THE BEST TEM PERATURES FOR READY TO SERVE FOOD? They should be kept at a temperature above 140 degrees. If you intend to keep for awhile and reheat for serv ing, be sure to hold it under 45 degrees. This is especially true for meats and fish to pre vent intestinal disturbances. WHAT IS “FILLEDMILK”? It’s skim milk with vegetable fat add ed to replace the natural butter- fat. The base may be fresh skim milk or reconstituted dry skim milk. Vegetable fat is less ex pensive than butterfat, so filled milk sells for less than whole milk but more than skim milk. • i ''.I World's best-tasting health and beauty aid Slimming is delicious with Pet Skim Milk. Ife N* •*«