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'' FRIDAY/ SEPTEMBER 26, 1952 1 — — -• ■■» -■ -• — -*• .^aMr-Mf.-»«• -»■ jr?%r -m- *■'*■. THB KBTOKEItaY SITN PAGE JWJ5 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist ANDERSON FARM DOINGS QDiveriafication grows in the farming empire of Anderson. At Clemson’s recent Farm and Home Week, County Agent Hop kins came forward and received the Grassland Farming trophy * that was presented Anderson coun ty by the National Fertilizer As sociation. And Hopkins tells me that the Borden Milk Station at Ander son is receiving from 23 to 25 tons of milk a day. This far exceeds their early expectations When the station was built and the milk routes started a year or two ago. NEMATODE CONTROL WORKS County Agent McCord tells me that the treated areas in tobacco fields matured normally during the past dry hot summer whil£ adjoining areas not treated against nematode fired and burned and much of the leaf was lost. King of -Marion reports excellent re sults on tobacco too. And County Agent Johnson of Beaufort reports similar good re sults on tomatoes. This treatment is put down in the furrow at fertilizing time and costs from about $10 to $15 per ^ acre for material. Cbunty agents have the full instructions about its use. You can get them there late next winter, when you might wish to get ready to use this material under valuable crops that are affected by this under ground pest. Remarkable results have been secured in home gardens also. FOLKS TO FEED The statistician figures there are two and a half billion folks in the world. And earth’s popula tion is increasing by 25 million each year. We have 155 million folks in this country, or just a little over 6 percent of the earth’s total. For every person we have there are 15 to 16 others somewhere in the world also hunting something to eat. Our population increase is now the fastest of any country on earth. It amounts to 7,000 a day, or 2% million a year! When we came here, there were 8004)00 Indians inhabiting the land. They had an average of 2400 acres per person. Now we have 12 acres of land, all told, per person. In the world there is an average of 14 acres per per son. But ours averages better land than the world as a whole. And we are in the most produc tive zone. Holland * has 10 million people and 6% million acres of land. That’s only two-thirds of an acre per person. Yet they have a high NOW! IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO GET YOUR LIABILITY INSURANCE From An Old-Line Company State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Company George E. Tyson, Agt. Phone 1141 Exchange Bank Bldg. Newberry standard of living. Much of their land was reclaimed from the rich ocean bed, and it is farmed very intensively. g, These facts were brought but by the famous Dr. Bear df Rutgera at Clems cm’s y Recent Farm and Home Week. They help frame a picture of earth’s future. They show us where we are headed. There are few fertile areas to add to our present totals, except rich | dry deserts. All deserts of earth I are not fertile. But most of ours are. We have 150 million acres if that parched land. We now irrigate 25 million of those acres and a vast production comes from them. Dr. Bear says we have water enough to eventually ir rigate perhaps 20 million ad ditional acres of desert. And likely the future holds the secret for reclaiming sea water so that man’s available fresh usable water might eventually be unlimited. Over the non-desert portions of our country we have a vast yield potential to add to our pro duction with supplementary ir rigation. We must feed our grow ing millions mostly by vertical farming, not by lateral expansion. That is, yields must be pushed up rather than acreages out. And both experiment and experience show us that a vast frontier lies there. Clemson is experimenting and the county agents are demon strating the new facts in the field. FALL The cicades are buzzing their last tunes of summer. Soon they will be heard no more. The night call of the katydid and the criket will be silenced by the frosts of winter. The leaves will stage a riot of color, turn brown, and fall, leaving bare trees to stand against the cold winds that blow. Growth will cease from the soil, and all of Nature will take its rest. As these things aer happening, it’s time to burn out the chim neys, clean and ready stoves and furnaces, lay in the fuel supply, and see to the fall grain acre age. 24 Hour Plant Service ■ • •• - FOR ICE-crushed or block ICE COLD WATERMELONS- ICE CREAM FREEZERS (Electric or hand) PICNIC CHESTS GASOLINE AND OIL Farmers Ice & Fuel Co. Phone 155 FARM ORGANIZATIONS LEAN TO GOP The “Big Three” farm organi zations do npt, as a rule, take sides in Presidential elections — but they make their positions clear to their members. This year two of them—the American Farm Bureau Federa tion, headed by Allan B. Kline, and the National Grange, led by Herschel Newsom — are leaning perceptibly toward Ike. The AFBF has about 1,500,000 family members and the Grange has about 850,000 individual mem bers. The smaller National Farmers Union—the only one of the three that favors fixed price supports— is stringing along with Stevenson. This year neither the farm or ganizations nor the politicians are predicting an avalanche on either side. But Republican analysts claim and Democrat pulse feelers privately concede, that as of to day, Stevenson probably couldn’t hold as much of the farm vote as Truman won in 1948. They think some of the states Truman car ried by narrow margins, notably Iowa, are headed Republican. And this week George Gallup released figures.on his poll of the 12 farm states. It showed: Republican 58 per cent Democrat 34 per cent Undecided 8 per cent Of the 5 to 3 preference for Eisenhower, Gallup said: “Eisen hower is at present getting sub stantially more support from Mid west than Dewey did four years ago.”—From Newsweek Mag. For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio and Television —To—— f GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Television Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOUR SERVICE Telephone 811 Sales .... BUICK Service Casque AT Buick Company u ‘Authorized Dealer” Factory Engineered Parts and Accessories Factory Trained Mechanics “The Post Office Is Across From Us” Phone 1576 1305 Friend St. Newberry STOCK CAR RACER DIES IN CRASH . . . Shown lying on race track at Milwaukee is Albert Christian sen of Racine. He was thrown from his car as it went out of control and spun end over end five times during a 100-mile stock car time trials. He died an hour later. r—r-TFTT-riBE-Br-.r-'rR-rBnBB!! laa • ” mm r iiBn sis !fv p 'tr 'hbbh ibb * 'r\¥ ^ **.# ^ * a IP IPP-I «ilV fill SHIELD TO PROTECT HANDS . . . Strips of tape or thin rubber wrapped around a pump handle will prevent your hands from sticking to the metal on cold days. Cord wrapped around the handle and fastened with tape could also be used. KNOW SOUTH CAROLINA By GEORGE MacNABB CHIEF OF PUBLIC RELATIONS SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD The Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross in Stateburg, one of the oldest South Carolina churches, which still honors the traditions of bygone days. THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, STATEBURG The Church of the Holy Cross, Stateburg, is one of the most beauti ful of the older South Carolina churches. Ancestral traditions are still carried on by the old families. On Easter Sunday, the congregation traditionally gathers flowers and evergreens from the surrounding hills to decorate the church. Various family pews are also used by the descendants of these old families. Designed by Edward C. Jones, the church is built of pise de terre, a composition made by tamping earth, pebbles, and clay between wooden molds and allowing to dry. The church itself is made in the snape of a cross, hence the name, “Church of the Holy Cross.” The inside has tile floors, carved walnut woodwork, and rich stained glass windows. The main group is a picture of Christ standing with folded arms, and a halo around His head. To His right is a smaller window of St. Peter with his bunch of keys, and to His left is St. John holding a book. Formerly the church was adorned by a gilded cross on the tower, but it was blown away by a hurricane in 1886. This cross was replaced, but in 1903, both the spire and cross were wrecked by a storm. The Church of the Holy Cross is the second church to be built on this site beside old “Kings’ Highway.” The first church, a frame building erected in 1788, was known as the Claremont Episcopal Church, or the “Church of Ease.” Later, citizens petitioned the Assembly to approp riate mrney for the construction of a new church. The Church of the Holy Cross was built with this money in 1850. Beside the church is a grave yard where many prominent South Carolinians are buried. Notable is Joel Poinsett, who introduced the poinsettia to America. On his grave is a simple tablet reading, “Sacred to the memory of Joel Poinsett who departed this life 12th of December, 1851, in the 73rd year of his life. A pure patroit, an honest man, and a good Christian.” In the corner of the graveyard is an old sundial which is still used for keeping time. YOi/X 1. The word “par” Is more suggestive of a man with which in his hands (a) racket, (b) bat, (e) niblick? 2. Which is a good example for advertisers: (a) hen, (b) goose, (c) duck, (d) quail? 3. Which should bring to mind a Plymouth Rock: (a) ravioli, (b) spaghetti, (c) noodles, (d) macaroni? 4. Land areas in Canada corresponding to our states are which: (a) provinces, (b) cantons, (c) districts? 5. “Finite” means which: (a) endless, (b) having limits, (c) unique, (d) dishonest? ANSWERS •■Main JaiA«H <q>—fl 'saauiAOjj («)—t *(aaqo|i;3) cajpooN (a)—* ('atftjaAp* o| cai^ava) uau <«)—g •(«•*) qofiqiN <®)—I BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Kids often develop funny habits. One in our crowd in the Stone Hills always smelled every bite of food before he took it. De spit our kidding him, he would mess around, delay a bit, and then slyly take a quick whiff from it before it went into his mouth. It didn’t matter what he was eating. If it was a wormy apple from a ditch bank back in an old field, sandberries just picked from the bush over on a rocky ridge, or food at the table he never failed to smell it first. The colored folks told us it was bad luck to turn around and That’sonly two-thirds of an acre That is, unless you made a circle in the path with your right big toe and spit in it. Then the “spell” was off and it was OK to go back. We didn’t brag about good health or good luck, for that was thought to make it change. And many of our folks would not mfeiterial under valuable crops what they were going to do or what they promised to do. It was thought that this was taking too much authority in their own earthly hands, our future being with a Higher Power. Such state ments were usually prefaced by a phrase like this, “Lord being willing,” I will do so and so. FACES DEPORTATION . . . P.F.C. Ernest Ebner, Ridgeway, N.J., serving with C.S. signal corps in Rosea, faces deportation from America upon his dis charge. 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