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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1950 THE NEWBERRY SUN BIG! SQUARE & ROUND DANCE Saturday Dec. 23 SATURDAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS And Every Saturday Night 9 ’til 12 American Legion Hut INSIDE FAIR GROUNDS MUSIC BY Rufus Suit & Orch, Adm. Men $1.2.5 Ladies FREE ii. CLASSIFIED The farmer who advertised for a wife—"woman about 30 who owns tractor, please send picture of rector" ain't nothing but practical! Practically everybody knows that when you handle your insurance with us, you get the best coverage and the most efficient service - and - we don't need a picture. PURCELLS 'YOUR PRIVATE BANKER” Phone 197 SHAPE YOUR FUTURE WITH TODAY’S SAVINGS The action you take now — setting aside part of every paycheck — will help decide your future. Let us help, with an insured savings account that earns for you, he-e. NEWBERRY^) Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY A 3 WANT ADS WANTED at once an upholster, man or woman. Apply at Perk ins Mattress works, P. O. Box 218 or phone 657-R. 31-2-tc. FOR SALE—1000 loads of hard wood fire wood in pole lengths free for the moving. H. O. Long and Sons, Silverstreet. 30-tf. FOR SALE—Upright Steinway piano, solid mahogany case, recently repaired. Call 414-J 28-th. Christmas Candy—Big stock on hand and shipments coming in every day—Hersheys, Peter Paul Mounds and Almond Joys—Milky Ways. R. Derrill Smith and Son Inc. Wholesale Grocers — Newberry, S C. 30-4-tc. Cigars in Christmas Wrappers— 25 or 50 to box—Tampa Nug- getts—King Edwards — General Knox—Cinco—Elmoro— R. Derrill Smith and Son Inc. Wholesale Grocers — Newberry, S C. 30-4-tc. Pecans—Pecans—Pecans—We are buying Pecans every day— Bring them to our warehouse. R. Derrill Smith and Son Inc. Wholesale Grocers — Newberry, S C. 30-4-tc. FARMS AND FOLKS SAVING BACKWARDS WANTED TO BUY—Iron, Metal Batteries, Radiators and Rags. W. H, Sterling, 1708 Vincent street. Phone 731-W 28-th J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. FOR SALE—Seed oats $1.26 per bushel. Feed oats $1.00 Seed wheat $3.00 per bushel. H. O. Long and Sons, Silverstreet, S. C. POS1TIVILY no tresspassing or hunting of any kind on lands of B. O., J. G. and H. O. Long. We really mean what we say. H. O. Long, Mgr. 26-tc. MOTHERS—I Am ready to do your sewing—Alterations—Baby Smocking. Call 552-W 28-tn TAXI 2 For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W MAGICIAN COMING TO BUSH RIVER Dr. Albert Meiburg, a magician from Clemson, will give a per-* formance at Bush River High School at 7:30 P.M. on Decem ber 15. Dr. Meiberg’s perform ance with added attractions will be sponsored by the P. T. A. Choir Singing CONTEST, ^Program A farmer told me the other day he had learned how to save a lot on the cost of making a cot ton crop. Said . he had tried it and it worked. It was quite simple, he said. You go about it in the usual way. Put it on your best land, use good seed, fertilize it well, and work it fast. And then don’t poison. Thus you save the cost , of poison, and that of applying It. And that’s not all. You will usudly cut away down on your nicking costs too. And that’s not to be sneezed at! For picking costs are high. But the main thing that’a wrong with that, he pointed out, is that it won’t keep the sheriff from coming to see you. And then when spring rolls around again you might still have the urge to plant. But you can’t. DIVIDE GRAZING “Year-around grazing doesn’t mean on the same land,” says County Agent Ezell of Newberry. And he sure spoke an impor tant truth there. Pasture c^n't do its best with cattle on it all the time. Experiment and ex perience have shown this. If you sow a combination of grasses and clovers that will give year- around growth, it Is best not to graze it all the time. Our past ure men, Woodle and Craven, suggest having at least three areas of grazing. If you only have one big one, cut it up into at least three. Then you can control graze It, letting one or two of the areas rest and grow all the time while the cattle are on the other. In this manner you will get a lot better sod and more grazing from the same areas. NEW PASTURES Seventy farmers in Dillon got County Agent Goodyear to secure grass and clover seed for them for seeding 650 acres of new* improved pastures the past fall. And a good many got their own seed. CURING POTATOES Sweet potato prices were low at digging time the past fall. So a great many of them went into storage. There was not enough commercial storage space at some places. So farmers improv ised all sorts of storage. When I was in County Agent Johnston’s Office in Conway in the fall a farmer came In to find out about curing and keeping ’em in his tobacco barn. And that was done quite a bit over the Low Coun try. A large potato handler told me that it took cold weather to move many sweet potatoes. Last winter we didn’t have any, and cured potatoes moved slowly clear through. Now maybe if we can have a normal winter this time, the country will go back to eating sweet potatoes in ernest. Then the cured crop could move easily. ... i INSURANCE A diversified farm naturally has a sort of insurance on the harvest. ■ - '.---V , - i *”> -I jsgmu? "■ ?■" ■ I visited a farm in the Pee Dee. Crops had looked good in June. But a dash of hail came and they went. The rains that followed only served to make his pasture better. And in the c all his returns from cattle were good. Compare that with the cotton f arm where the boll weevil struck hard. Or with the tobacco farm, vhere hail came. f yfe .s- Now I’m not talking against cotton and tobacco. For another vear something might hit the pastures and they might not be rood. The thing is that with a sensible variety of things, you von’t likely lose on all of ‘em at once. Crops and livestock Hack up a lot better than either \lone as a source of cash. And that’s the story that Clem- '©n has taught for years. It is ♦he story that the county agents have taken to the filed and demonstrated. And the thing works! ■ .-.,■311 At dusk I sat by the Gulf at Biloxi. How languid it lay and was lost in the graying distance. Yes, like a lion it slumbered’. The great oaks that remained were stripped of moss and lean ed inward. For they had of.late felt the fury of the sleeping giant that lay out there. And the strongest sea wall that man could build was broken as pieces of taffy. On that calm evening it was hard to realize the fury of that peaceful water when the storm king blows. I’d like to see It then. But from a safe distance. There was a time that I was awed by the fellow who could > roll his r’s. And we have a' sort of feeling that learning came from north of the Ohio. Yes, all too long we had a feeling of inferiority, that we didn't quite belong, that green pastures were yonder. •And I guess that was quite natural, as we grew from the ashes of a conquered province. But in recent years that thing has been changing. Good roads and two wars (and maybe now, the third) have served to make one great and united country out of us. And now we do not feel as strangers when we go abroad in the land. Good folks everywhere, I find. WORLD SALUTES FAMED TERRACES IN SOUTH The 200th anniversary of the world-renowned terraces at Mid dleton Gardens in Charleston, S. C., is drawing international atten tion this year. The vast project —pictured here for the first time in an exclusive aerial view—was undertaken in 1741 under the sup* ervision of Hemy Middleton, President of the Continental Congress. His crew of 100 com pleted the Herculean task in 1750. The other famous gardens in Charleston are also preparing for their busiest season—Mag* MIDDLETON CE LEG RATION IS I CHARLESTON GARDENS' FEATURE Wild ducks came and stayed a while with painted ducks on a painted river! Some weeks ago I told you of the realism of one of Carew Rice’s silhouettes as projected on the back of the outdoor theater screen at Walterboro. Yes, the water, trees, and ducks are so realistic there that I am told wild ducks actually came and stayed there a while, And what greater testimonial could there be to this man’s art than for it to even fool the wild ducks. Man has already acclaimed it. The 200th anniversary of the completion of the vast terraces at Middleton Gardens is a feature of international interest for the thousands of visitors to Charles ton’s world-famous gardens, open this season from Thanksgiving to May. ‘‘We are exnecting to be joined in this,” according to J. J. Pringle Smith, owner of Middleton, ‘‘by distinguishied representatives of the British side of the Middleton family—and many suitable com- memoriations are being planned to link Charleston not only with’ Britain, but with France, which sent its outstanding botanist to help develop the estate. ‘‘Henry Middleton, whose early leadership in the Colonies won for him the Presidency of the Continental Congress, was an in spired planner and a great build er; and the mansion he conceived for Middleton Place was the talk of the New World. Only one small wing remains today, after the Low Country destruction in the War Between the States. “From the meager records, we gather that, using what he neto of the great gardens of Europe. Henry Middleton set out to create not only America’s first landscaped garden, but the gar den show place of the world. “Accordingly, he set a crew of 100 men to work, in 1741, laying out and molding the broad sweeping terraces. This small army of workers completed the Herculean task in 1760, with the finishing touches being added the next spring. So we now are cel ebrating the world’s outstanding rd garden achievement.” nolia and Cypress Gardens, well as Middleton, being from Thanksgiving to May. Last year. Magnolia Gal registered visitors from 26 eign countries, as well as every state in the Union from Alaska, Hawaii, and Rico. Magnolia Gardens, int ally acclaimed the “world’s i beautiful garden,” is also ing for its busiest season, year,says C. Norwood 1 Jr., “the throngs of eluded tourists from ei of the Union and from Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, dition, during a check three weeks, visitors w« tered at Magnolia from 26 countries: “Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican public, England, Finland, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Luxembourg, : Norway, Scotland, South Sweden and Switzerland.” New developments are nounced at Cypress where the visitor can relax boat and be carried throi otherwordly water garden. ard of Jasper says a farmer there had a quarter of an acre last year that made valuable crop! This year he planted 4 acres that , were looking fine just be fore the harvest, according to Kinard. They require irrigation, he says. I’ll find out more about ‘em when I go down there again, and tell you about it. CROPS COME AND GO Here is something I never heard of before, Chinese Hazel Water Nuts. County Agent Kin- It looks like asparagus as a crop in South Carolina is rapidly on its way out, according to a study by C. L. Crenshaw of Clemson experiment station*. Reasons seem to be these. Twenty years ago it cost $57 per acre to grow asparagus. Now it costs $106. Yields per acre back then averaged 47 crates. Now 32. Costs of growing a crate has risen from $1.22 then to $3.54 now. Cost of growing it is up 190 percent, while the returns per crate are up only 46 percent. BOYS ARE THAT WAY We still hear of “breaking” a horse or mule. But not of “breaking” shoes. That was always a painful process for us country kids. We went barefooted from the last frost of spring to the first one in the- fall. So during that long spring, summer, and early fall, our' feet just had their up- impeded way. We either got shoes that did not fit, or feet had spread so that no normal shoe would. When we got a new pair of shoes, we had to conquer them to com fort. At first they rubbed and hurt our feet. And the coarse thread of my homemade stock ings made their print where the shoe fit tightest. A seam would come under the sole of my foot and it would burn like fire when I had on new shoes. If there were old folks with the same size foot, they would offer to “break” our shoes for What a service that was! I o had that good fortune once, he wore my stiff shoes a days they felt all right on then. And, unfortunately, at was where we suffered from breaking in new pair .was always our Shoes” for a good while old every-day ones wore out. , So our feet gave us peace at church, winter or mer. During the winter the shoes hurt. And in the any sort of shoe caused a of fire to strike down the of the sole of the foot that seam formed when foot crowded into a shoe. And was made worse by shoes fast growing boys just Vine too small. A Sunday will last a good while, and If fit at first, it didn’t long. 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