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■ - ’ um FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1952 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Speelallst POND WEED CONTROL For some years I've been tell ing you about the work County Agent Melette of Aiken has been doing on weed control in farm ponds. He says, “Six excellent demonstrations in pond weed con trol were given in May." The materials are sprayed light ly on the weeds from a boat. Then they just die and disappear like magic. With the building of more and more ponds over South Carolina, what Mellette . has been doing about those troublesome weeds is of growing importance. For they will surely choke a pond up if you let ’em. Your county agent has most oi the details in a new weed bulletin Clemson has put out. SOIL SAVING County Agent Hubbard of Bam berg ‘ had a soil conservation pro gram with all of his 4-H clubs in May. Soil saving and building is being taught the young folks in the 4-H clubs and FFA chapters. The agricultural agencies are di recting their efforts in that same direction. And the farmers serv ing as soil conservation district supervisors are adding the need ed practical farmers’ touch to it alL Our soil, the veritable keeper of us all! It is worthy of our most careful and devoted atten tion. And in late years it has been getting more of it than be fore. Ways are known to not only save it but to build it. On them earth’s ability to continue to feed and clothe growing mil lions depends. THIS AND THAT The first of June County Agent Cain said Calhoun County had an excellent corn prospect and that several farmers were planning to irrigate their corn if needed. 1 didn’t count ’em, but someone told me there were only 266 words in Lincoln’s famous Gettys burg address, 297 in the Ten Commandments, and even 300 in the Declaration of Independence. A few words can sure say a lot, if you know how to make ’em do it. County Agent Thompson of Hampton said boll worms appear ed on cotton before the weevil. Never heard of that beford. Several told me they saw more snakes this year than usual. And I’ve seen a lot run over in the roads. Yet our Mac Sparks hunt ed for them for days for a Farm ers' Week exhibit without finding even one. That’s the way of things. Things have sure changed. Some fellow has figured this out. Fifty-two years ago federal spend ing amounted to $6.85 per person. In 10 more years it had increased to $7.54, and in 10 more to $60.40. Frozen Food Supplies ALUMINUM FOIL POLYETHYLENE BAGS FROZEN FOOD CON TAINERS OAKEN BUCKET CON TAINERS ALL PLASTIC FREEZ- TAINERS STOCKINETTES PLASTIC POULTRY BAGS . . . AND OTHER SUP PLIES FOR THE FREEZER R. M. Lominack HARDWARE E bs y«* i"**”’ With just one grease, Sinclair Litholine, you can lubricate chassis, wheel bearings, water £>umps, universal joints... of your car, trucjt or tractor., winter or summer. Farmers find it does a better job at each lubrication point than the ’’specialized” greases they formerly used. FARM ADVANTACfS ct-a-glance: 1. * A finer grease at every point. 2. less danger of applying the wrong grease. 3. Quicker greasing operations. 4. ' Smaller grease stocks — on#* instead of 3 or 4. 5. Fewer grease guns. 6. Less waste. We dtlivr direct to forme. Phone or write us. Ktrotker C. Paysinger Suppliers of Sinclair Prod. Newberry, S. C. tMBpg? V-’ •f 1 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE Effip f pug IW iriBLnilia PLOW BEAM CLAMP ROD ^•WELDED mm m* ■. Wmim • < mMmk COLTER GUARDS ON TRACTOR PLOW . . . Prevent tractor plow from clogging in trashy fields by fitting eurved guards ahead of the rolling colters. Guards are made of two lengths of 34-in. rod welded together to form “wishbone" prongs. rts Afield. By TED KE8TING There are few Americans who know the story of George Gatlin. Yet Gatlin did for the American Indians exactly what Audubon did for our native birds. He painted their pictures on the spot and also left us written rec ords of the Indian way of life. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on July 26, 1796. He was a child of the wilderness and until the day he died the wilderness kept its hold on him. By the time he was nine he was an expert with the single-bar reled shotgun. His family want ed him to be a lawyer and he did pass his bar examinations but might as well have spared; himself the effort, according to biographer Moran Tudury. From 1819 to 1823 he was sup posed to be practicing law. Actually, most of his time was spent drawing pictures of courtr room characters. Finally he gave up law and enrolled in the Phila delphia Academy of Fine Arts. One day he visited Rembrandt Peale’s Museum and discovered several portraits of Indians that were part of the exhibition. From then on until his death in 1872 his life was to be devoted to one purpose alone. It was to live among the Indians and to make a pictorial record of their way of life before they vanished from the American scene. Everywhere he traveled he That was just after World War I. Then by 1930 it had dropped to $27.96. In 1940 it was $68.16. And the coming year it will be $548.38. I have a family of four. So my share is $2,193.52. Grac ious! I don’t know where it’s coming from. I must be rich and don’t know it. We grow more oats than any state east of the Mississippi River. Yet some are twice as big as we are. That has great meaning in diversification, live stock, dairy, and poultry produc tion. IN AND OUT I know two fellows who planted cabbage last- year. Both lost money. The things wouldn’t bring enough to pay for the harvest and sacks. So they left 'em in the field. I went back there in May. One of them had sworn he’d never plant them again, and didn’t The other one planted his usual three acres. He had sold over $2,000 worth when I was there and h« wasn’t through. Folks, that is the way It is with most farming, specially truck. If you have the lands, labor, and favorable situation for a certain system of crops and live stock, you had better stick to those things you can do best, and not be jumping around all the time. For almost invariably when something sells good and you decide to jump on It next year, it won't be doing so well- when you arrive at the market place. Good farm management shows that this in-and-out farming sel dom pays. You have to figure on averages. If you are suited for a crop, after a bad year is no time to stop with it. Try to hold costs down and do a better job next year, and you are likely to recoup your losses, as that cabbage man did last spring. found the strange details of a form of life unique on this earth. He was revolted by the Indian practice of scalping — but this revulsion didn’t prevent him from investigating it So far as the Indian was concerned, he was told, It was never wanton. A scalp was evidence that you had kill ed an enemy—proof, like a buck’s antlers for the hunter, that ypu had conquered. To be genuine, a scalp had to show the crown of the head.- This prevented a de ceitful warrior from taking two 1 scalps from the same head. The Indian horses and Goman- che horsemanship thrilled Gat lin. By gifts of pluf tobacco he persuaded one young warrior to demonstrate. Although armed with bow and arrow, this Coman che was able to hang securely on the side of his horse while going at breakneck speed. Com pletely screened from the enemy, he fired arrow after arrow under the horse’s neck. The secret of this eye-filling feat was due to two things. A short halter went around the horse’s neck, both ends of which were braided in to the animal’s mane near tie withers. This formed a loop which hung down under the horse’s neck. It was a kind of, sling into which the rider’s elbow rested, half-supporting his body. Then the Indian threw one leg over the horse’s back and clung to it with his heel. v These and many more were the things that George Gatlin saw—and that he set down in words and paint. He left us a living picture of the American Indian and the thunderous west ern scene. Examination For Physicists An examination for Physicist adn Electronic Scientist has been announced by USN Underwater Sound Reference Laboratory, Or lando, Florida. Salary $4206 to $8360 per annum. Applicants will be rated on the basis of their edu cation and experience. Those ap- pointed to these positions will plan, direct and also assist in conducting scientific . resea r c b work. For further details in the an nouncement No. 5-12-2(62) contact your local secretary or write the Director, Fifth U.S. Civil Region, Atlanta, Ga., or Board of Ex aminers, USN Underwater Sound Ref. Lab., Orlando, Fla. ■ ■■ ■" 1 ** WANTED TO BUY—Iron, Metal Batteries, Radiators and Rags. W. H. 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The village drunkard, as he came ripping and roaring down the road, beating jus horse some thing awful. The bell in the white church tower on the hilL They used to let me ring it on Sundays. The sprained ankle I got when I stepped from the back of a moving wagon and hit a loose rock. The rhythmic beat of the old watermill, as it started its grind for the community early on Fri days. • _» Daydreaming in March, wonder ing What made the wind blow, vhere it came from, and where it went. Pants half-soled on the seat They felt almost like a pilow when you sat down. A cold baked sweet potato off the apron of the stove when we got in from school. The time 1 put a hat on with a wasp in it. Didn’t get to sting me. But it buzzed, I could smell it, and 1 took the hat off so fast I tore the brim. Dewberries on those long vines ripening on the ditch banks in May. We made paths to them, and let none waste. 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