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9QWWOOOOW&WC^X«X»X«X«C»: ALEXANDER'S Inc. Before You Buy Shop & Compare Quality & Prices 6 BEAUTIFUL SHOW ROOMS TO SERVE YOU! Greenville, Laurens, Greenwood, S. C., and Gastonia, N. C. LAY-AWAY NOW ONLY 10% DEPOSIT BUY AT LOW CATALOG PRICES Save Money On The Following DIAMONDS, JEWEL RY, WATCHES, CAM ERAS, TOYS, RADIO, T.V., SMALL APPLI ANCES, SPORTING GOODS, SCHOOL SUP PLIES. And Thousands of Oth er Items All Nationally Advertised Brands. Wouldn’t You Really Rather Save Money 0 ? SHOWROOM HOURS 9 A.M. to 9 P.M Monday Thru Friday Saturday 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. ALEXANDER'S, INC. POTATO DIGGING Shown above is R. L. Wickham together with Ellis Belue, Phil Smith and Fred Smith. They have just plowed up several rows of potatoes and are gathering these to go to storage. It looks as if Thomwell will have a yam good time this winter. Sweet Potatoes Reaching Peak BY HELEN C. CAMP Extension Homo Economist With autumn leaves of yellow, orange, gold, russet, and brown come autumn fruits and vegeta bles -- pumpkins, popcorn, per simmons, red peppers, apples, and sweet potatoes’ Since sweet potatoes are reaching their peak in South Carolina, now is a good time to use them. They are ex tremely high in vitamin A and furnish some vitamin C. Many feel that sweet potatoes are too high in calories but this is not necessarily true. One me dium-size sweet potato, baked and peeled, has 155 calories. In comparison, two medium-size apples, raw, have 140 calories. Methods of preparation and add ed ingredients cause sweet po- tati>es calories to “mount up". If this same medium-size sweet potato was candied, it would con tain 295 calories. Ttiere are two general types of sweet potatoes. One, the yam, has soft, moist flesh when cooked and has a high sugar content. The other has a firm, dry, mealy flesh. Varieties of each type vary considerably in color and shape but good quality is uniform. Best quality sweet potatoes are clean, smooth, well-shaped, firm and bright in appearance. Avoid miss-shapen sweet pota toes as much waste will entail in preparation. A damp appear ance may indicate decay in ad jacent potatoes. Decay in sweet p itatoes us ually progresses and spreads ra pidly and imparts a disagreeable flavor to apparently unaffected flesh -- even if the decayed por tion is rem-wed before cooking. Fresh sweet potatoes have a relatively short life tiecause of injuries endured m harvesting. Buy only small quantities of these and use within a few days. Curing sweet potaties gives them a longer life and, as some feel, brings out the flavor. In curing, the potatoes are held at 85 degrees with 85 percent hu midity for ten days. This pro cess in essence, heals the in jured areas of the tender skin. Sweet potatoes may be pre pared in many ways that will please and be nutritionally cor rect for your family. Use them now while you can enjoy the local crops for qua lity and savings. SWEET POTATO CUSTARD 1/4 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 tea spoon grated orange rind, 1-3/4 cups milk, 2 eggs, beaten, 2-1/? cups finely shredded raw sweet potatoes (shred just before using) 1 tablespoon melted table fat. Add sugar, salt, nutmeg, orange rind, and milk to the eggs. Mix thoroughly. Add sweet potato and fat. Bake in greased custard cups in a pan of hot water at 350 degrees F. for about 30 minutes or until set. Six servings. SWEET POTATO CUSTARD PIE Pour custard into 9-inch un baked pastry shell and bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes; re duce temperature to 350 degrees and continue baking for 30 min utes longer. Timely Tips Feeder Pig Sale - The area feeder pig sale is scheduled for November 3 at Saluda Livestock Barn. Anyone interested be sure and let us know so that we can get them properly entered. Since Cholera has become a serious problem farmers are now asked to have their pigs inspected be fore going to the feeder sales. So let us know and we will be glad to get the inspector out for you. Production Credit Annual Meeting - I have received work from R.A. Suggs, General Man ager of Production Credit, of the annual meeting to be held Oct 31 at the American Legion Hut in Greenwood. Dr. R.C. Edwards, Clemson President, will be the speaker. All members are urged to attend. 4-H Pullet Sale - 110, 25 week old, Herco Red Pullets will be sold at auction this Saturday morning, Nov. 1 at 10:00 a.m. in the cattle barn at the Laurens County Fairgrounds. There will be no admission charge Saturday morning. Rat Bait Is Available An additional supply of rat bait has been purchased and Is available at various locations through Laurens County. Rats destroy thousands of dollars of property each year as well as contaminate food supplies and spread disease and filth. Home owners can rid their premises of rats and mice for one dollar, the price of 5 pounds of the bait. If everyone will par ticipate the rat population will be drastically reduced. Call or come by the County Agent’s Of fice If you need further informa tion. * * * Smokey Soya: 2-C—THE CHRONICLE. Clinton. S. C.. Oct. 30, 1969 County 4-H Members Shine At Cattle Show LOBLOLLY STAND—B. R. Abercrombie looks at seed cones from a natural stand of Loblolly pines which are about 25 years old. The sericea border which surrounds this stand has been planted for wildlife. Good Borders Help Prevent Soil Erosion Soil doesn’t leave the field wlien District will be given to any land- you have good field border’s ex- owner interested in establishing tablished like the one shown here, a field border. Be careful with it—*-fore»t fire* •tart with one match! BY M. L. OUTZ County Agent Laurens County 4-H’ers stole the beef cattle show at the State Fair in Columbia, according to Thad Reeves, Assistant County Agent, who accompanied 4-H members to the Fair. Billy Hun ter, son of Mr. & Mrs. Billy Hunter of Ora, showed the Junior Champion of the Open Show and also received a trophy for ex hibiting the Grand Champion of the Junior Show. His brother, Steve, placed 3rd in the Open Show. RudneyOsborne, son ofMr. and Mrs. Harold Osborne of Gray Court, hadReserveJuniorCham pion of the Open Show. These young men were showing in the Angus division. In the Hereford show Thornwell Orphanage had second and third places in the Junior show and Allen Finley of Mountville, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jemme Finley, had Reserve Champion in the Open Show and Grand Champion in the Junior Show. We want to extend our congratulations to these boys and wish them luck in their livestock projects. I also want to congratulate Roby Wallin for having won a trip at the Piedmont Interstate Fair for showing his beef calf. Two other young men that did the same at the Upper State Fair were Allen Finley and Ellis Belue. These youngsters will take the trip to the International Live stock Show in Chicago in the later part of November. Congra tulations to these young men. Johnny Simpson, Shoals, has been carrying light calves through the winter and selling them at Spring Feeder Sales. Johnny usually buys ap proximately 100 calves weighing from 300-350 pounds. His calves are fed a small amount of grain, a little hay and are on fescue pastures. Mr. Simpson has about 100 acres of pasture. All of it is planted to fescue. The calves us ually gain about 100 to 150 pounds during the winter. They are worm- ed, vacinnated, and are good healthy calves. Johnny says that he makes a pretty good return, in his own words. He bought one truck load at the York Feeder Sale and will purchase the re Young marricds: 837,000 in life insurance tor 50 t a dag? If you're 25 or younger, your man from Nationwide will say, Yes!" B«MM by V«pd-C«l« ••MO.tf C*., trim MPSICO, H. Y„ N. Y. JOHN C. HARMON N. Broad — 833-3472 mainder of his calves at the weekly sales throughout the area. This project might be worthy of consideration by a number of <>ur farmers who are able to grow feed and grazing. In the past, I have known some farmers to buy young bull calves, astrate them and carry them through to the spring feeder sales and do well with them. I never fail to get highly en thused on my visits to Thornwell and watching Bob Wickham and the boys at their usual task of growing food and taking care of their dairy and beef cattle. Re cently I caught Bob and a crowd of boys taking up potatoes. Bob says that he is taking up his best crop of sweet potatoes and at the rate of 500 bushels per acre. The children at Thornwell will usually consume about 500 bushels an nually. Mr. Wickham says that they have their own potato curing facilities and do an excellent job of curing the potatoes. Congra tulations to Bob and the boys for a job well done. Every farmer in the Laurens County Soil and Water Conser vation District would benefit from field borders. Even where fields are terraced, water running out of the end of the rows wash off many tons of soil every year. Strips of fescue established now, or sericea next spring, would catch and hold this soil. Bicolor lespedeza next to woods and sericea between bi color strip and crop land to pre vent erosion, make use of land ilormally sapped and shaded by the trees. This practice also pro vides cover and feed for quail. Field borders provide a good turning area for machinery that will make your work quicker and easier. Ryan Lawson, Chairman of the Laurens County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervi sors, says that consultive or technical assistance by the Soil Conservation Service through the Planting Time! We Hove The Following In Stock: • Rye Grass and Fescue • Pennington Green • Clover • Full Line of Fertilizer Johnson Enterprises Hampton Avenue :—: Dial 833-2640 LAURENS COUNTY \ \ i 2 r \ 7 ONLY 3 MORE DAYS *FUN tGAMES +RIDES +PRIZES GALORE! OVER $6,000 IN PRIZES BICYCLES WILL BE GIVEN AWAY ON SCHOOL DAYS-TUES AND THURS. 1970 FORD ON FRIDAY NIGHT PONY, SADDLE AND BRIDLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON - FEATURING - DELL AND TRAVERS SHOWS PLAYING THE MIDWAY HOUSE OF FLOWERS SPONSORED BY THE LAURENS COUNTY GARDEN CLUBS i LIVESTOCK EXHIBITS • 4-H EXHIBITS wm ’5?