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FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1952
THB NEWBERRY BUN
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Ciemson Extension Information Specialist
LE8PEDEZA LIKES IT
Lespedeza hay and seed crops
are often very short or lost from
drought. But let a year of good
spring and summer rainfall come
along and you won’t see daylight
shining through the cracks of the
barn the following winter. Nor
will you see a season of short
lespedeza seed crops.
Rutledge Connor, Jr., from
down at Eutawville, Orangeburg
county, tells me they got excel
lent results from irrigation on
lespedeza last summer. Otherwise,
lespedeza there amounted to very
little, due to the drought.
By irrigating lespedeza there
they cut twc good hay crops.
They left a high stubble. It
came out a third time, and pro
duced a good seed crop too!
My, the yield potential that
irrigation holds!
And what an economic loss it
is to let drought continue to take
its dreadful toll so often here,
specially on those fields where
water is easily at hand!
CANNING AID
The past year the home dem
onstration agents over the state
helped 8,893 families with home
canning problems.
With high priced foods, interest
in canning will likely grow. The
home agents have many helps
along this line, and they are at
your service.
GRAZING TIP
Cattle like a little dry feed,
specially if they are on tender
green grazing. At the Florida
Experiment ' Station they showed
us cattle on good tender green oat
grazing that actually lost a little
weight while grazing there. On
an identical pasture, where some
rough dry hay was made avail
able to them, they made good
gains. And they didn't eat much
hay either. But that little seemed
to do them a lot of good. On the
tender green oats they scoured
rather badly. Where the dry
feed was available to them, they
didn’t.
CORN AND HOGS
Corn and hogs are two things
that just go together. Throw
some green grazing in and a little
protein feed and you have a
profitable business.
Experience shows that the best
way to feed corn is just as it is,
in the field preferably. But you
can’t feed it all that way, for
hogs have to eat at all seasons.
But it pays to hog off all you
can. I attended the hog sale of
Tom Moss at Cameron in early
February and noticed his fine
hogs were still living out on an
unharvested corn field.
After corn is gathered, the
best way to feed it is right in
the ear, unshucked. The hogs
won’t pay you for shucking and
shelling it. And if you happen
to have shelled corn, feed it that
way. They won’t pay for the
grinding. They will gain a lit
tle faster, according to tests at
the Ohio experiment station, but
they will eat more. So unless
you are in a hurry to move them,
there is no use grinding it.
And, by the way, now is about
time to plant an early field of
corn for hogging off this sum
mer. We can beat the Corn
Belt to that bjj about two months.
And the early fall hogs usually
sell best.
NEW TRACTOR JOB
County Agent Bull of Abbe
ville tells me that Hannah Bros.,
three hustling brothers there,
have no mules on their farms.
But they still make their own
syrup. They pull the old-time
syrup mill with a small tractor,
going round and round, as they
used to with a mule.
They also do considerable irri
gation of grazing crops for their
dairy herd. And droughts have
not been able to cheat them out
of needed grazing in recent years.
TRANQUIL BEAUTY
On yesterday I rode a beauti
ful, quiet rural road. Its arched
surface was smooth and hard.
A wonderful stand of pines just
about made an arch overhead.
And their needles lay soft and
brown on the ground. No fire
had ever violated that area and
the rough bark was gray-brown
and healthy at the ground. Spring
was breaking at every hand, and
two shaggy, shedding rabbits
played around the bend. I linger
ed there a while, as a gentle
breeze made faint whispers in
the slightly swaying treetops.
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Newberry, S. C.
Charleston Gardens Roaring Blaze Of Colors
LIKE ANOTHER WORLD—“Such white doves were paddling in the sunshine and the trees
were as bright as a shower of broken glass. I’ve an April blindness.” These lines from Chris*
topher Fry’s play, “The Lady’s Not For Burning,” are rehearsed in the gothic atmosphere of a
Spring day in Cypress Gardens of Charleston, S._C. by Emmett Robinson, Patricia Robinson and
Anne Weidner, members of Charleston’s oldest community theatre, the Footlight Players. At Cy
press, the garden season is in full swing. The latest camellias and the earliest azaleas are a roar
ing blaze of color along the edges of the black satin water.
Charleston, (Special) — Mid-
March sees Charleston's world-
famous gardens reaching peak
bloom, with azaleas aflame under
a drapery of Spanish moss, and
her finest private homes throwing
wide their doors to visitors in a
series of Tours sponsored by His
toric Charleston Foundation.
From March 16 through April
11, seventeen of the city’s finest
private homes, splendid examples
of the 18th Century architecture,
will be open, coinciding exactly
with the gardens’ most resplen
dent bloom. At this one time of
year, during a four-week period,
visitors will see the gardens and
the historic houses at their beat.
Owners of the world-renowned
Magnolia, Middleton and Cypress
predict that the gardens this year
will have an unusually fine bloom.
For some time, the azaleas and
flowering shrubs have been
blooming, and from mid-March on
into April, they will be at their
magnificent best.
In Cypress, century-old trees
tower above a riot of azalea
bloom, all reflected in the quiet
onyx water of the lagoon. In
Middleton, the oldest landscaped
garden in America, the butterfly
lakes and terraces are surround
ed by a profusion of white Magni-
ficas and Prince of Wales; a
thousand vistas of beauty on
every side. While at Magnolia,
acclaimed as the world’s most
beautiful garden, the trees are
covered with blooming Cherokee,
Lady Banksia roses, and wisteria,
and the massed bloom of a thou
sand azaleas stretches out in ua-
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Modern technology has brought us such an abundance of things that we take them for granted. We
forget that not so many years ago they were either non-existent or so scarce that blood was shed in
struggles for their control. a
Salt is such a product. Without it in your body, you would quickly die.
Yes, salt (sodium chloride or NaCl), has had a colorful history. References to it date all the way back
to 2700 B.C., indicating the vital role played by this now common compound. Marco Polo spoke of it. So
did the Bible. So did Plato and Homer and Shakespeare in their famous works.
in old China, salt was second
only to gold in value. Salt cakes,
bearing the stamp of the Great
Kahn, were used as money in
Tibet during the 13th Century.
Slaves were once sold in exchange
for salt on the Gold Coast of
Africa. And in the days of the
Roman legionnaires, soldiers re
ceived part of their pay in salt T>r
were given a “salarium” (allow
ance to buy their ration of salt).
Hence our present word “salary”
. . . that iodized salt helps In
the prevention of sob*rf
. that during excessively
weather, whenever you
hot
indul
lae in strenuous work or
exercise, it is essential that
you take extra salt to replace
salt lost by perspiring?
. . . that Europeans consume
twice as much salt per cap
ita as Americans? Americans
should not be afraid to be
generous in their use of salt
for salt heightens the zest for
eating.
. . . that if grapefruit is unu
sually sour, adding salt will
make it taste sweet?
It
. . . that cut flowers will kee|
longer when a pinch of
is added to the water?
. . . that a little moisU
salt rubbed on the outsid* of
your car windshield will pre
vent snow and ice from col
lecting on it?
. . . that cracked eggs can be
boiled without the contents
oozing out if a teaspoon of
salt Is added to the water?
. . . that cream will whip
much more rapidly with a
pinch of salt in it?
. . . that dentists claim there
is no better dentifrice than
pure, fine salt?
Salt deposits
and the expression, “He’s not
worth his salt.”
No article of food has been so
ruthlessly exploited by rulers to
keep down their people as salt
The most famous example is the
salt tax in France in the 18th
Century. A small, favored group
was given the right to refine and sell salt at prices too high for the poor to pay. When
the poor tried to produce salt by evaporating sea water, they were imprisoned, and
tortured, or in the event of a second offense, sent to their deaths by hanging. This
abuse helped to stir up the French Revolution.
Salt has played an important part in wars, too. Ono of the reasons why Napoleon
was forced to retreat from Moscow was because he ran out of salt for his troops.
This deficiency caused low -resistance to infection. Many of his soldiers’ wounds,
though not serious at first, proved fatal.
The early American pioneers, during their surge westward, fought the Indians over
valuable salt licks. Arid during the Civil War, the North successfully wagejd a cam
paign to cut off the South’s salt supply at the Saltville, Virginia works.
Vital to Diet
Why ic salt so important? Because if it were
left out of your diet, you would soon die. And
that goes for animals as well as humans. Salt is
present in your blood and tissue. It governs the
exchange of water in your tissues and maintains
the proper osmotic pressure. Your body is con
tinually throwing off salt through your kidneys
and glands, so it must be replaced. Every adult
needs two-thirds of an ounce of salt every day.
At the last count, there were more than 14,000
ways in which salt can be used. In the United
States, world’s'leading producer of salt, salt used
in the manufacture of chemicals is the chief use.
Dry salt for livestock ranks second, and salt for
household use is in third place.
In our country, most salt comes
from deposits underground, yield
ing a much finer grade than is
usually produced commercially
from other sources.
Two methods are used to reach
these deposits. One is to dig a
mine shaft down to the deposit,
blast it out, lift the chunks of salt
to the hurface in elevators, and
then crush the chunks and screen
the sale. The other method, yield
ing a far purer grade of salt, is to
dlijjfor it. This method is used by Diamond Crystal Salt Plant
Salt “catches birds too”
the Diamond Crystal-Colonial Salt
Division of General Poods Corpo
ration at SL Clair, Michigan, in
America’s greatest salt producing
state. Diamond Crystal operates
many salt wells, similar to oil
wells, often drilling 2,600 feet
(half a mile) straight down to
reach a salt deposit. O
Persistent, untiring research has
resulted in a new “weather-pruf”
salt developed by this same firm.
This salt will now even on the
dampest days. No more banging on
the dining room table.
University Bids
School People To
Guidance Day
The University of South Caro
lina has extended an invitation
to high school principals and
members of the senior classes of
Newberry county to participate in
Vocational Guidance Day at the
university on April 6.
A full day’s program will be
devoted to conferences, discussion
groups, exhibits and visits to
libraries and classrooms in order
to assist high school seniors in
making a wise decision in their
choice of future vocations. Other
events inclivle a picnic lunch on
the main campus, band concert,
military drill by units of the Uni
versity air and naval ROTC,
Carolina-Clemson baseball game,
motion pictures and a student
talent show.
Invitations have been mailed
to principals and senior classes of
Bush River, Little Mountain, New;-
berry, Pomaria, Prosperity, Silver-
street, and Whitmire high schools
in Newberry county.
imagined rainbows of color.
For the fifth successive year,
Historic Charleston Foundation
is opening private homes in a
series of fours. These homes
span 125 years of the best In
American architecture. Included
is the oldest house in the city,
built in 1712 by Colonel William
Rhett, Indian fighter, pirate
hunter, sailor, soldier, planter and
statesman. Shown are the homes
of men who have molded our
country from the earliest days of
the province, leaders in both the
Revolution and the Confederacy.
The houses are chosen as much
for their magnificent furnishings
as for their architectural merit
and historic significance. The
owmers of the houses lend them
to the Foundation for this short
time to raise funds towards pre
serving the splendid eighteenth
century architecture in the city.
The gardens are open seven
days a, week, from eight in the
morning until sundown, through
May 1. The homes are open
morning and afternoon, Monday
through Friday, and on Sunday
afternoons. There is also a home
open each Tuesday and Thurs
day evening. For further infor-
mation.write the joint office of
Charleston’s famous gardens and
Historic Charleston Foundation at
94 Church Street
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION -
Notice is hereby given that a
meeting of the stockholders of
Whitesides Friendly Shoe Store,
Inc., will be held at the office of
R. Aubrey Harley, Attorney-at-
Law, Exchange Building, Newber
ry, S. C., on April 16, 1962 at
10:00 A.M. The purpose of the
meeting is to consider a resolu
tion to liquidate the affairs of
the above earned corporation and
to apply to the Secretary of State
for a cancellation of Its charter,
all in accordance with Sections
7707 and 7708 of the Code of
Laws of South Carolina for 1942.
J. W. Whitesides,
45-4tc President
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
Notice is hereby given that a
meeting of the stockholders of
Whitesides Department Store,
Inc. will be held at the office of
R. Aubrey Harley, Attorney-at-
Law, Exchange Building, Newber
ry, S. C., on April 16, 1952 at
10:00 A.M. The purpose of the
meeting is to consider a resolu
tion to liquidate the affairs of
the above named corporation and
to apply to the Secretary of State
for a cancellation of Its charter,
all in accordance with Sections
7707 and 7708 of the Code of
Laws of South Carolina for 1942
J. W. Whitesides,
45-4tc President
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destruction.
Newberry Steam
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Phone 310 934 Alain St.
oear tt I always
R smaBsd and
Prom Prank Qertisee. Webb City,
Me.: I remember the first schools
that I attended were tax a log house,
about SO feet square, with large
fireplace that burned wood about
six feet long. There was no floor.
The benches were made from logs
split through the center and hewed
smooth. There were four holes
bored on the round side and wooden
pins used for legs in the holes.
There was a huge puncheon door.
The house had no rafters.
j Prom Mrs. C. B. Scott, Meadows of
Dan, Va.: I remember when I
was a little girl, mother and we
girls would card and spin yarn and
knk our winter stockings and
gloves. Women wore dresses to the
ground. Most everybody walked;
sometimes a young man would ride
horseback and take his best girl
on behind him to church and back.
From George A. Musmhenner,
Douglas, 111.: I can remember
when there was a death in the fam
ily, all the pictures were turned
with their faces to the wall, the
( clock was stopped, and no one
spoke above a whisper while the
body was in the house.
From William Shaner, Lake view,
Ohio: I remember when daddy
bent pins, fastened them to a piece
of string, tied on a nail for a sinker,
and sent us to the creek fishing.
~>h yes. we had a can of worms.
CARD OF THANKS
We, the family of the late
Ernest Benedict Wicker, wish to
express our appreciation for the
many nice things our friends and
neighbors did for us during his
illnes and death. These things
J will long be remembered by us
| and will help us bear our sorrow.
May God bless each and every
one of you is our earnest prayer.
'Mrs. Bessie Cromer Wicker
Walter Berlie (Bill) Wicker
Mrs. Luther Crumpton
* Earnest Boyd Wicker
Thomas Proctor Wicker
Mrs. Rutledge Kelly
Notice for Bids
Office of Newberry County
Board of Cimmissioners, Newber
ry, S. C. will receive sealed bids
by 10:00 o’clock A.M. April 1st,
1952 for the following;
One (l) one (1) ton 137” wheel
base truck with cab and chassis
(painted red). Rear tires 7:00
xl7-8 ply and front tires 7:00x17-
6 ply. , One spare tire 7:00x17-8
ply. Truck Is to be equipped with
best heater. The truck is to be
used by the Newberry-Saluda
Regional Library.
Price submitted will be the
difference in trade price for one
(1) 1948 Ford truck (3/4 T.)
chassis and cab *with motor No.
88RY-6134. This truck may be
seen at Coleman’s - Service Sta
tion on College street, Newberry,
S. C. This party awarded the
contract is to exchange body
from trade in vehicle to new
vehicle.
Also prices will be received on
lumber, nails, tires, concrete pipe,
repair parts, groceries, clothing,
supplies and equipment.
The right is reserved to reject
any and all bids.
Newberry County Board of
Commissioners
By: S. W. Shealy, Supervisor
Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions
CARTER’S
Day Phone 719 — Night 6212
Dr. James L. Biber
Announces the Opening of Offices
for the practice of
Optometry
Offices 304 Exchange Bank Building
Telephone 144
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