Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1949 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE FIVE MISS PLAMPIN MEMBER OF WINTHROP ORCHESTRA Miss Angelyn Plampin, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Plampin is a member this year of The Swanks, the Winthrop College dance orchestra. The Swanks is under the di rection of John William Baker of the Music department. Miss Plampin, a member of the junior class, will be a sen ior after Christmas and will graduate from Wintrop next summer. She plays the tenor- saxophone in the orchestra. YOU CAN’T MISS WITH A SAVINGS ACCOUNT Sight as your target — education, business, travel, security, a home — and you can't miss, if you save for opportunity. Accounts here are insured and earn a worth-while return. NE WBERRY Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. smith s CUT RRTE DRUG STORE- Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 Starting At The Bottom A couple got married in a diving bell at the bottom of the ocean at Atlantic City the other day. That’s really starting at the bottom! If you are still on your way up in the world and need financially boosting let us make an auto loan ;o you. PURCELLS “YOUR PRIVATE BANKER” Phone 197 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer IT PAYS Driversification has proved its case again in our fields this year! ' We started out with *a very heavy boll weevil carry-over, following a very mild winter. We knew that from the begin ning and fought them. Results were good, and we just about had a good cotton crop in the bag. But, following some ra ther unusual weather condi tions, we had a very hot week. It did something to the bolls we had saved from the weevil. And at opening time, many of them did not open. They rot ted. The unseasonable hot week at midseason caused them to scald and crack at the seams. Subsequent rains made it favorable for boll rots to develop. And what had looked like a good crop turned out to be right much of a disaster. But those same conditions that were bad for cotton were good for grass and corn. And the farmer who had turned some of his acres to grass and who had taken care of his corn _is able to cash in on the various forms of livestock and livestock and poultry products that these abundant feeds mean. So there again we have a practical demonstration of the full meaning of this thing we call Diversification. The all cotton farmer will remember 1949 as a year he’d like to for get. The man with cotton and some grass and corn, and the livestock that go with those things, will remember it as a year in which cotton failed him, but his grass and corn and livestock held him up. “Diversification!” That word has been misun derstood by many. We know that this is an age of specialization. In fact, a farmer has to be a pretty good specialist with a thing, if he hopes to make anything out of it. And some have interpreted that to mean “stay with one thing.” But look at our cot ton this year and see what one crop can do for you. Diversification means not just a little bit of everything either. But it means at least more than one ordinarily dependable mon ey crop. And in most instanc es it calls for both a crop and a livestock income. And the ones best suited to a particular farm, its set-up, and its market outlets are the right ones. County agents cans help folks arrive at that. New Land Just before he left for the army back about 1943, County Agent Shelley of Barnwell was asked by a local farmer what to do with a thin sandy field he had. Shelley looked the field over carefully and just couldn’t see any prospect for a profitable crop there unless the land was improved in some way. He suggested crotalaria. The man got enough seed to plant half of it. It made fair growth. And since then has been farmed continuously. The crotalaria comes up there in the rain stubble and makes a good cover crop. And when cotton or corn go there in the rotation, it volunteers in them too, after they are laid by, and makes a rich cover to turn in. It so happened that crotalar ia was never put in the balance of that field. Otherwise, it has been handled just alike all along. This year that field went to corn. The part where the cro talaria is made 41.1 bushels per acre. The balance of it made 21.5 bushels. All treated alike. Yes, seeded once, this great soil builder usually continues to 'come. And it hurts nothing there on the land except sum mer hay. It just keeps coming up and you kill it along with grass and weeds with cultiva tion until lay-by time. Then it comes on and makes you a good soil builder after the planted crop there is largely made. Winter hay crops can be grown all right on crotalaria land, but not summer ones. Lupines too are improving a lot of land in the extreme southern part of the state, where they are adopted, each winter. The other day I turned from the roaring highway to the pleasant rural lanes that lead to grandpa’s house, where Uncle Jim lives. As usual, before I left we walked down to the lot to see the hogs he is fattening out for his year’s meat. There I could tell that plenty would contin ue to abide in his smokehouse. Below the hogpen there on the branch the old locust tree hung heavy with ripening pods. I remarked about them, and he said they were almost ready to eat, and that he-would make his usilal keg of "beer as the persimmons were ready too. Locust and persimmon beer! That was always a part of our autumn in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. And I still think it is a mighty good drink, specialy on a cold frosty morn ing, or when you come in from a ’possum hunt late at night and sit around a fire. Weatherbeaten picnic tables in the grove by country church es—how I like to see ’em! Saw one the other day down in Ban. berg county that they had erected a neat metal-cover ed shed over. They are not going to let a shower ruin one of their great festivals. We al ways feared the shower at home. But I don’t recall but once that the ladies and all had to grab pies, and cakes, and platters of fried chicken, coun try ham, and the like and run in the church. Picnics at the church were a part of our life in the Stone Hills. They usually came along out in the summer, about lav- by time. We kids showed o- f in two ways. They corralled us and taught us little speeches and group songs. They were called "Childen’s Days,” and we showed off before the ad miring friends and “kirmery.” And then we showed off again out there at that bounti ful table at about one o'clock. We were used to having din ner at noon, and that extra hour just served tt further whet out appetites. And as soon as the blessing was ask ed. we waded in. As I got larger and was not too timid, I grazed from one end of that long table to the other. I spe cially liked “stickies,” a su perb little concoction for which each Dutch Fork woman has her own recipe. I liked ’em all, and ate my fill mostly of “stickies.” So I was specially glad to see that church in lower Bam berg giving its picnic table permanent status with a perm anent shed over it and large enough to hold the folks under there too. CARD OF THANKS As it will be impossible for me to see each one of you, 1 take this means of expressing sincere thanks to my many friends for their kindness, and for the many beautiful card and flowers sent me my recent illness and hospitalization. JOHN WILSON By 2W tLutmg Many a good shot who knows his ducks one from another as for as he can see them in flight, never troubles to distinguish between the helpful and the harmful hawks. At the sight of a “hawk” he bangs away and nine times out of ten it’s a bene ficial hanging on a ience. Donald Culross Peattie, this country’s best known nature writer, reports that he has never yet seen a Cooper’s hawk or a goshawk punished for its depredations. And these are your poultry and game bird killers. It’s true that sometimes indi vidual uhas among the bene ficial kinds of hawks will ac quire an appetite for poultry. Such antisocial individuals can be dealt with when they start killing birds. But the man — farmer or sportsman — who shoots every marshawk and red- tail is destroying birds that nake rats and mice 22 and 55 per cent, respectively, of their total diet. So it is of economic importance to the country at large to learn to distinguish the hawks. There are some 32 kinds of birds of prey (not all of them hawks) in North America. It might seem to be asking a lot of the nimrod to know them all, but that wouldn’t be neces sary. Only a few of these make game birds and poultry a smuch as 20 per cent of their diet, and of these the commonest is the chicken hawk, the big blue dar ter, or Cooper’s hawk. 'Let’s get to know this fellow. He is a little smaller than a crow, and the female is crow- size or'' a bit more—18 to 20 inches from the short curved beak to the tail tip. Coopers are slim and trim compared to any other hawks. In perching they have a curious, ugly look — hump - shouldered, with neck hanging and beady red eyes watching. When they fly they don’t fly like the benefical hawks, go soaring up in wide circles, or shoot in a long glide on the wind while whistling boldly. Its flight is business-like and per formed in stolid silence. The bird flaps a few strokes, then glides, then flaps again, in a crow-like fashion. The important thing is to be able to tell the Cooper from the innocent hawks when, gun in hand, you see it from beneath BAKERY TO MOVE TO MAIN STREET LOCATION The Quality Bakery will move into the building on Main street formerly occupied by the | A & P Tea Company, from Caldwell street, where it has been located since opening for business about two years ago. Mr. Hottell, Manager of the Bakery says that the Bakery has enjoyed a very good busi ness since coming to Newberry and that he hopes to be able to serve the public much better when they get located in larger quarters. The building on Main street is owned by Mrs. H. M. Bry son, and quite a bit of remodel ing will be done before the Bakery moves there in about three weeks. as it hangs In me sKy. The Cooper has short, round wings, but a long, slender tail. Most other hawks have either (a) short, round wings and short, broad tails, or (b) long, pointed wings and long slender tails. Only a few other hawks have the Cooper’s combination of short, broad wings and long, slim tail, and one of them is the much bigger bird, 22 to 24 inches in over-all length; he further differs from the Cooper in having a squared-off tail tip, not rounded. HALTIWANCER WITH KEMPER MOTOR CO. L. L. Haltiwanger, who h*« i been bookkeeper for the Hayes I Motor Company, has accepted a position with the Kemper Motor Company, formerly Davis Motor Company, and as sumed his new duties Monday morning, October 24th. Mr. Haltiwanger was book keeper for the Davis Motor Company nine years, prior to accepting similar work with the Patterson Motor Company in Union in 1942, where he was employed until returning to Newberry with the Hayes Mo tor Company in February ot this year. Mr. Haltiwanger, who has continued to make his home in Newberry on Brown street with his wife and daughter, Letitia. says that he is glad to get back into the “family fold” with the employes at Kemper Motor Company. BIRTH OF A SON Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Daw kins announce the birth of a son, Benjamin Lament, bom in the Newberry Hospital, Thurs day October 27. Mrs. Dawkins and infant son returned to their home on Main street Monday. The Dawkinses have another son Mike, who celebrated his second birthday in September. 5c Plus Tax Pepsi Cola Co., Long Island City Franchise Bottler Pepsi Cola Bot. Co. of Columbia i’S A TRUCK IN THIS PICTURE THAT FITS YOUR NEEDS! 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