The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 31, 1950, Image 5

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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1950 THE NEWBERRY SUN Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 Your baby grows up fast. Preserve the memory of their fleeting express ions with some photographs by— 0 Nichols Studio FARMS ■ ■■X'- AND FOLKS sold as regular commercial seed after it is once treated with poison dusts. , By J. M. Eleazer JUST KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON • and come on down to PURCELLS for that money you need. You’ll have no cause to get your “dander” up when you do* business with us home folks. We know you and you know us. Isn’t there grounds here for mutual confidence? You just come straight here when you need money—we have helped thousands out of tight places and we can help you. PURCELLS YOUR PRIVATE BANKER Phone 197 > YOU CAN’T MISS WITH A SAVINGS ACCOUNT Sight as your target — education, business, travel, secur^y, a home — and you can’t miss, if you save for opportunity. Accounts here are insured and earn a worth-while return. _ NEWBERRY 7 Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY COUNTRY HAM and RED GRAVY!! Now, you can have both, for we are offering the finest COUNTRY style CURED HAMS in weights from 9 to 14 pounds. Call us for one of these tender, juicy hams. You’ll be delighted! FARMERS ICE & FUEL CO. • . PHONE 155 GEORGE MARTIN, Manager Cotton Then and Now There was a time, that the older folks can well remember, when this state lived from cot ton. And that was largely the production of cotton. As time went on the finishing or manu facturing of cotton grew in our midst too. Although we don’t now live by. cotton as we once did, it is still our major industry by quite a bit. In recent years the produc tion of cotton has declined quite a bit in keeping with a wise diversification that’s grow ing. But the importance of cot ton has not dwindled. For the other end, manufacturer, has •been growing here at rapid rate. There was a time when most of our cotton went out of the state for the next process that of making it into things the world needs. But to show how greatly this has changed, look at this. Last year our cotton mills used three times as much cotton as the state made. Of course that was a short crop. But normally now our mills use up twice as much cotton as the state makes. Manufacturing and agricul ture, where these two meet on friendly and understanding terms you have a strong situ ation. And it’s not just cotton man ufacturing that has grown here. The vast synthetic industry has dotted the state with large modernistic plants. They have no mill villages. Their work ers come from the farms and small towns near by. All of which is helping build a whole some situation and stronger state. And garment factories are to be found in many a small town. They too use lo cal workers from some miles around. In all of this we see that much desired goal of agricul ture and industry working to gether and building a better and stroner state. Planting Quail A number of our counties are trying to rebuild their game bird populations. I have told you of their work in Cherokee with quail and pheasants. If birds can be raised and then successfully planted out in the wilds, they will soon know it. For Assist ant County Agent Stone; their forest ranger, B. T. White; and their county delegation have sure aided farmers there in se curing game birds and putting them out on their lands. Sev eral thousand have thus reach ed the lands of Cherokee. And they are attempting to grow the needed food and cover too. Newberry too raised hun dreds of pairs of quail and put them out over the county. Their game warden, Herman Wise, was instrumental in raising close to 3,000. Farmers applied through County Agent Ezell for them, and they were scattered over the county. This Pays Too Our commercial hog-growing areas have long since found that it pays to have an early field of corn for hogging down If you are to have that sort, it should be planted now, if you have not already done so. And hogging off a field of oats and lespedeza will serve you well too until com comes in. County agents have conduct ed many demonstrations of this sort. They all show that you can make hogs a lot cheaper that way. J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. It Pays Judging from the sale of the seed-treating material, some years ago the bulk of the cot ton crop in the state was plant ed with treated seed. A check of the sale of these materials the past year or two indicates that we are not treat- in as much of our cotton plant ing seed as we once did. And here is where we are making a mistake, according to our insect and disease man, Carl Nettles. For field tests to no end have shown that we us ually get better stands of stronger plants that live and grow off better when the seed are properly treated before planting. A caution that Mr. Nettles throws out is to make sure the right aniount of the material is used, and that it gets thorough ly mixed with the seed to the point that every seed is coated with the dust. Seed keep all right after treat ing. But be careful that stock does not eat it nor that it is Checker Cab* TAXI 24 For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W Beauty Growing Myriads of camellias and azaleas were shedding their beautiful petals upon the ground when I was down in the Low Country in February. They got started with them first down there. But now we see them coming to the gar dens of the Mid-State and the Up-Country. And it is the same all over the Southeast. Southern Ala bama and Mississippi were sim ply out of this world with beau ty seven weeks ago when I wgs there. The unusual season caused a most unusual thing to happen this time. Both the camellias and the azaleas reach ed their peak at the same time and neither had suffered any cold damage. And what a wonderland of flowers resulted! With all the plantings of these and other flowering plants that are now being made yearly in the Southeast, the fu ture is pleasing to contemplate. Good Roads and Grass Good Roads! We have ’em in South Caro lina. I go around a lot. Have been impressed with the fact that good roads cover our state bet ter than any other that I have ridden about in. And now the so-called “farm- to-markqt roads” are rapidly coming out of the mud too. Many a dim by-road of a few years back now looks like main street. And others are booked for this renovation that will make farm life better along them. • Clemson was asked by our chief highway commissioner about a grass for holding the road shoulders that doesn’t have the bad features of Ber muda. Tall fescue was sug gested. And in each county of the state the county agent and local highway engineer selected a mile of road where this grass is being tried in its new role. I see these as I go about, and most of them look mighty good. These mile-stretches of just about . year-around green will likely attract stray stock in the winter when natural grazing is scarce. We will have to watch out about that. But similar greenery is fast finding its way to the prepared pas tures over the state. And many a farm is now getting some of its finest grazing during the winter months from fescue- and the clovers. So now maybe we won’t have so many cattle breaking out of the old winter exercising grounds that we used to call pastures to get to these green spots by the roadside. For hun dreds of farmers saw the won derful winter grazing that’s possible here on the recent state tour to six counties in different parts of the state. Ana many went on their coun ty tours too. To walk silently into lush greenery in midwin ter tells its own story. And that will carry good pastures to many additional farms by the time the days get short again. Oemson’s new Extension Cir- cular 345, “^all Fescue,” tells the story of how to have “June grazing in January.” It’s free at your county agent’s office. Boys Are That Way In riding across Georgia the other Sunday we saw kids at two places out riding on trac tors. In one case it was a small tractor with trailer going to Sunday school, I imagine. For they were dressed up and we passed the church down the way, with folks assembling at 10 a.m. The other case was that after noon in South Georgia. Three boys were on it, just riding for fun, it appeared. Kids will ride. We used to get the buggy or road cart. Some pulled and pushed while the others rode, and vice versa. And, if no buggy nor cart was available, we rode anyway. It was the bull yearling, if we had one down in the pasture. . If we didn’t, there was always pine saplings. We would estimate the size and try to get one I just right, climb to the top ofi it, start it swaying, and swing our bodies off at the end of the sway, holding on with our hands. That way we could us ually ride it to the ground. Sometimes we failed to size the sapling up correctly and it would leave us dangling in mid-air. And that’s where the others had fun, laughing at that one’s predicament. The remedy was to start swinging the body catch again until the legs could c&w^x hold of the trunk again and crawl down backwards. Or if an axe was at hand, one ot those on the ground could give it a resounding whack, weak ening it near the ground. It would then partly • split and bend on over. So country boys must ride. Yes, whether it’s a tractor or a pine tree makes little difference with them. _ DA VIS-WARREN Mr. and Mrs. Munson T. Davis of Newberry, announce the engagement of their daugh ter, Janie Ina, to Mr. N. B. Warren, Jx.» son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan B. Warren, also of Newberry, The wedding will take place May 7th .at Central Methodi Miss Davis is a Registei Nurse and at present is ployed at the Newberry Coun- Memorial Hospital. . =■: WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHICH COLA IS OF PROVEN HIGHEST QUALITY? Now you needn’t take anyone’s word for cola quality! Now you can biow the facts—ns scientifically reported for you by America’s leading research laboratory! 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