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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. He entered army as a
Chech with a three-months visa
in the U.S.
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The tax books are now open
for the collection of taxes
and a
Discount of
I per cent
will be allowed on taxes
paid during the month
of October 1952
J. RAY DAWKINS
County Treasurer
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