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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE FIVE OIL PROGRESS PACTS ! Almost half as. enersv ! TOPAV 'Tractor use up/ In 1900...0IU ANP NATURAL SAS 9UAPLIEP 8*/i TOTAL ENERSV. VoPAV, provipe ALMOST HALF. IfooAy 3/15^000 OIL POWEREtT TRACTORS. SN 1941, 1,500,000 ®c&So USE MORE DIESELS, (jJlESEL LOCOMOTIVES WAV—6,495 1941 1,517 MORE @AS AND ®IL FDR MOTOR VEHICLES. topav—41,038, 035 1941 34,853,974 FOR SALE The entire estate of the late Berry M. D. Livingston located on Dewalt Ave. in Prosperity, S. C., consisting of a six room home with modern conveniences, garage, several outbuildings on an acre lot. If interested, contact Mrs. J. F. Ruff, Prosperity, S. C. TAX NOTICE The tax books will be open for the collection of 1949 taxes on and after October 1, 1949. The following is the general levy for all except special purposes: Ordinary County 3% Mills Bonds, Notes and Interest 8 Mills Hospital % Mill County Board of Education 2V4 Mills x County Schools (Special) 1 Mill I ————— TOTAL : 15 Mills The following are the authorized special levies for the various school districts of the County together with the general levy: General School School TOTAL Tax Special Bonds Levy DISTRICT NO Levy Levy U & - MILLS MILLS MILLS MILLS 1. NEWBERRY 15 32 47 2. Mt. BETHEL-GARMANY 15 6 21 3. MAYBINTON 15 6 21 4. LONG LANE 15 3 18 5. McCullough 15 6 21 6. CROMER 15 0 15 8. REAGIN 15 18 2 35 9. DEADFALL 15 18 2 35 10 UTOPIA 15 18 2 35 11. HARTFORD 15 8 23 12. JOHNSTONE 15 5 20 13. STONEY HILL 15 15 30 14. PROSPERITY 15 20 5 40 15. O’NEAL 15 13 28 18. FAIR VIEW 15 8 23 19. MIDWAY 15 4 • 19 21. CENTRAL 15 4 19 22. ST. PHILIPS 15 8 23 23. RUTHERFORD 15 7 22 24. BROAD RIVER 15 6 21 25. NEW HOPE ZION 15 6 21 26. POM ARIA 15 8 23 27. RED KNOLL 15 6 21 28. HELENA 15 4 19 29. MT. PLEASANT 15 8 23 30. LITTLE MOUNTAIN 15 16 31 31. WHEELAND 15 3 18 32. UNION 15 6 21 33. JOLLY STREET 15 8 23 34. ST. PAUL’S 15 6 21 35. PEAKE 15 3 18 37. MUDLIC 15 6 21 38 VAUGHNVILLE 15 6 21 39. CHAPPELLS 15 " 6 21 40. OLD TOWN 15 18 2 35 41. DOMINICK 15 20 35 42. REEDERVILLE 15 20 35 43. BUSH RIVER 15 20 35 44. SMYRNA 15 20 35 45. TRINITY 15 18 2 35 46. BURTON 15 18 2 35 47. TRANWOOD 15 20 35 48. JALAPA 15 8 23 49. KIN ARDS 15 2 17 50. TABERNACLE 15 20 35 51. TRILBY 15 4 19 52. WHITMIRE 15 20 5 40 53. MOLLOHON 15 4 19 54. BETH EDEN ' 15 3 18 55. FORK 15 8 23 57. BELFAST 15 6 21 58. SILVEERSTREET 15 18 2 35 59. PRESSLEY 15 4 19 60. ST. JOHN’S 15 3 18 There will be a discount of 1 per cent allowed on taxes paid ^ on or before October 31, 1949. On and after January 1st, 1950, the penalties prescribed by law will be imposed on unpaid taxes. You are requested to call for your taxes by school districts in which the property is located. Those who had their dogs vacinated for rabies during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1949 by a licensed Veterinarian, and expect to be exempted from dog tax will please bring their certificate of vaccination when appearing to pay taxes. J. RAY DAWKINS, i Treasurer of Newberry Co. -' ' .. . • FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer A Belter Future While making the rounds with County Agent Martin ot Spartanburg, I saw a sign by the road and asked him to back us so 1 could read it all. It said, “Entering Poplar Springs Community. Organized to build a permanent agricul ture.” • It so happened that I had an engagement on my calendar to address the /arm folks of that community just a week later. Beginning right at that sign, the once gullied hillside was tied down with sod and kudzu, and beautiful Hereford cattle grazed. And a few places that had not fully healed over were carpeted with brush and olo cane pumice from a near-bj syrup mill. And on we rode into this community of rugged land that only a few years ago was about washed out. But you see few reminders of that era of ero sion there now. Good terraces, strip cropping, meadow strips, improved forestry, fish ponds, and the like are in evidence everywhere you turn. We had one of the most beau tiful and best farm dinners that I have ever eaten. It was with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bridwell. He is the head of the organized community for soil saving and soil building. And he takes a personal interest in every one of the 5,000 acres in 81, tracts that comprise it. Some of his machinery was that day at work for a neighbor, who didn’t have what it took for that soil improvement job. I learned that Mrs. Bridwell has been a home demonstration club woman from the start. And she asked about “Mother” Walker, South Carolina’s pion eer in girls’ 4-H club and farm women’s work. And she spoke in. kindest terms of Miss Kate Hooper, long-time home dem onstration agent for Spartan burg. A week later I met with tltem. Just about everyone in the community turned out, men and women. They are intent upon building and holding their soil. And that brings a diversi fication that’s serving them well. The future can be nothing but bright for a community that gets a vision of that sort, and then goes everlastingly at it. I Saw 17,000 turkeys on the W. V. Hursey farms at Pageland. 180 acres of watermelons in one field in Chesterfield be longing to Oaten and Nichol son. A goodly part of the 1,710 acres of hybrid seed corn that the John F. McNair farms pro duced at Laurinburg just across the line in North Carolina, this year. The oleanders swaying in the sea-breezes and blooming in our coast country, the jessa mine spraying its gold along hedgerow and highway in. the mid-state, and the rhododen dron planting its beauty at re mote places in our mountains in early summer. Many farm fish ponds in Lancaster. County Agent Can non said they had over 200. And their SCS man is kept busy supervising the building of more. Recreation and irri gation values being created there! A good friend had become a . onfirmed tobacco addict. The doctor told him he must stop smoking. He did. But took up chewing. I asked him how come. He said, “I’ve just got to do something, or go crazy.” Wlhat a pity to get one’s ner vous system so fickle by mess ing with it! Why not go forth into the woods and study the marvels that lie there, if one has “Just got to do something?” Or perchance, stroll out into the night and contemplate in finite space and the millions of worlds that twinkle at you there? But maybe I don’t know what 1 am talking about. For, fortunately, I have never been in the clutches of that man’s master, nicotine. A million dollars worth of up-to-date farm equipment on display at Clemson during Farmer’s Week. Farm land on Long Island For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE 1014 Main Street Oppocite Memorial Square 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W that rents for $65 an acre, and the tax is $12 an acre. It’£ ir rigated and makes great crops of cauliflower, cabbage, and po tatoes. It costs ’em $300 per acre to grow potatoes. They usually make above 400 bush els. Six farmers called during the hour and a half I was in Coun ty Agent Bowen’s office in Sumter in September. All wanted final instructions for seeding their new pastures. And then he had to leave to make two farm calls, both about pas tures too. From there I went to see Grainger in Clarendon. His office too was busy on the subject of winter grazing. They were delivering inoculation. 170 white and colored farmers had just attended their forage school, where Clemson special ists Craven, DuRant and Lazar brought the latest know-how. BOYS ARE THAT WAY As a kid I hated to run er rands across the hills to neigh bor’s houses. That was quite natural for me, as I hated any thing that looked like work. Recalling now how lazy I was, I try to think that the malaria we had caused it. Yet I can’t take much stock in that when I recall that I could run all day playing fox, or dig all day building a dam down on the branch. But there was one place I always liked to run errands to. And that was down to Aunt Vinnie’s, about a quarter of a mile away. The reason for that was, she was so good to kids. And she cooked that delicious treat to a Dutchman, mixed bread, every day. I liked to arrive about 11:30 in the morning. At that time she had taken fragrant brown loaves from the oven, and they were cooling off for dinner. She would cut the crust piece from the end. That was the choicest of all, for we prized that tough pully crust. And she Bty Tad Xt***"^ Few sportsmen realize that the entire $12 million a year Great Lakes fisheries, the na tion’s richest source of fresh water fish for sportsmen and commerce, is threatened with extinction by an invader from salt water — the sea lamprey. Not only has the lampprey be come a deadly peril to the fish life of the Great Lakes but it appears that all waters that can be reached from the Lakes will eventually be taken over by this parasite. To understand the magnitude of the problem, remember that Lake Huron was once the great est producer of lake trout com mercially of any of the Great Lakes. In 1937 it produced 1,- 399,901 pounds for the markets. Then year by year the catch fell off until the take on the United States side was less than 5,000 last year; the story is the same on the Canadian side. Lake Michigan trout face the same peril: the 1948 catch dropped tp one sixth of its had usually just finished churn ing. With that fresh butter, she would plaster shut all of the holes in that v/arm piece of bread, and the crust side kept it from running through. Then on top of that she would spread blackberry jelly. And as she handed me what I had come to borrow, she would give me this piece of pure heaven. Now, if you have ever seen contentment on this earth, it was there, as I strolled slowly up the lane eating that slab of mixed bread that Aunt Vinnie had so glorified for me. Next week I will give you a mordern version of this. norman figure. It was thought that Lake Superior was iih- mune, but the lamprey was dis covered there in 1946. And it is moving on. In Michigan alone investigation shows that in 108 streams and rivers now have spawning runs of the lamprey. How did this salt-water scourge get into the Great Lakes in the first place? Rob ert Page Lincoln reports that the lamprey, which is distrib uted along the shores of the North Atlantic, first moved up the St. Lawrence but was stopped by the Niagra Falls. Then the Welland Canal open ed up all the Lakes west of the Falls. Not every fish attacked by a lamprey will die, although many no doubt do after even a single attack. The lamprey has a suctorial apparatus in its disklike mouth which fastens immovably to the fish’s side. Then the flattened tongue, pos sessed of exceedingly sharp and fine teeth cuts through the scales and flesh, reaching the blood stream. It sucks blood until its hunger is satisfied. If the fish is beig enough, it sur vives. Lake trout are the most vul nerable because their small and relatively soft scales are easily cut into by the lamprey. But other game fish are also vic tims — “coaster” rainbows, northern pike, smallmouth bass, walleyes, and even whitefish, suckers, herring and carp are prey. Attemppts to solve the sea lamprey problem are still in a highly experimental stage. At the moment it appears that the most feasible method of at tempting to control the lamprey is by rapping and destroying the spawning runs. But many investigators feel that the lam prey will never be wholly erad icated. As the situation stands now, there seems little to com fort the fisherman. HELP AVAILABLE TO TIMBERLAND OWNERS Do you have a patch of tim ber that you don’t know what to do with? Is it too small to thin? Is it large enough for pulpwood or sawtimber? Are you thinking of setting out the open field in pines? How much should you thin? All these questions and many more can be answered by the technical personnel of the Newberry dis trict office of the State Com mission of Forestry, according to Harry Avedisian, assistant forester. . All that is needed to be done is to drop a penny postcard addressed to the District For ester, Newberry, S.* C. Upon receipt of the request, a train ed forester from this office will come out and examine your timberland, free of charge. Based on his examination, a report will be written, com plete with recommendations. These recommendations are for the present action, as well as the future care of the woods. If marking is recommended for puplpwood or sawtimber, this service is also given by 4he forester. There is a charge of 35c per thousand board feet for sawtimber, and 13c per cord for pulpwood marked. With the marking service, you will be given an estimate of the total amount of timber marked. You will also be aided in finding a sale for your product. . Last year, the Newberry dis trict office personnel examined 121 tracts of timber. It marked a total of 4,668,486 board feet of sawtimber and 696 cords of pulpwood. 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