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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1952 — mi - ■ ■ ' ■ ■ - Gimssamm m mmaMSMsm THE NEWBERRY SUN FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist BARBECUED TURKEY Our turkey business in South Carolina is a rapidly expanding one. Our growers are organized into the state turkey federation. It not only aims at better methods for growing 'em, but better meth ods of disposing of them and cre ating new demands for this fine meat. At the recent state fair they had a telling exhibit there in the main building. One of our Extension turkey men, 3. E. Thaxton, who is station ed at York, tells of a pioneering bit of work Jay Brown and Charles Whitesides of York county are doing with turkeys. At present they are barbecuing 16 turkeys a day and freezing them for the trade. Mr. Brown has developed a patented process for barbecuing the whole turkey so as to get a very fine product. New machines are now being built will increase their capacity to 100 birds a day. Charles Whiteside, who grows turkeys and also runs a large dressing plant on his farm near Sharon, is freezing them. They are trying them out on the restau rant, hotel, and home trades. All you have to do is thaw it out, warm it, and it is ready to serve, I understand. Thaxton says it is taking well with the trade. New outlets for turkeys, outlets that make them easy for the housewife to get and serve, will help our expanding industry a lot. I haven’t eaten the York barbe cued turkey yet. But hope to soon and will tell you about it. I did eat it once at Sumter, barbe cued by a local man, and it was simply delicious. We live and learn. Yes, and have better things to eat. Turkey, once a Thanksgiving treat, is now becoming an everyday meat. And why not? They are good and use feed efficiently. “Maggie’s changing it to ‘Bless Purcell’s ’cause they lent us the down payment for our house!” “We’re not embroidering the facts . . . Purcell’s lends money for any purpose!” Purcells VYour Private Bankers” 1418 Main St. Newberry BREAKING RECORD& In the past 10 years South Carolina farmers have broken 116 crop and livestock yield and pro duction records! These facts were assembled by Director Watkins. Some records have been broken as many as 7 times. That applies to turkeys produced and purebred beef bulls in use. That means that each time we broke the old record we of course set a new one. And they the next year or so we in turn broke that, and so on. Records that we have broken 6 times in the last 10 years are, percent of rough ginned cotton (only about 1 percent this year), sybean production, and milk cows artificially bred. Existing records that we have broken 6 times in the past 10 years are, corn production, oat production, tobacco yield per acre, soybean yield per acre, and average number of eggs laid per hen. Records that have been brok en 4 times in these 10 years are, corn yield per acre, milk produc tion per cow, and commerical broilers produced. Those records that have been broken 3 times in 10 years are, oat yield per acre, percent of cot ton pulling inch or longer, total tobacco production, and total milk production. Records twice broken during that time are, wheat production, cotton yield per acre, barley pro duction, peanut production, lespe- deza seed per acre, total cattle on farms, total milk cows on farms, and hogs on farms. So folks, with fewer and fewer people on the land, our farmers are not doing bad at all. They are multiplying their efforts with power and machinery, and break ing records at every turn. As I ride with the county agents I see all of this. And I see their field demonstrations of the new things and methods yet to come. With science in the saddle, our agriculture will never stop. For our experiment stations are ever digging into the unknowns in search of something that is bet ter, as are our plant breeders and industrial scientists in the agri cultural field. MULES TO TRACTORS The mule hasn’t gone from South Carolina farms yet. But he has lost a lot of ground in re cent years. In 1920 we had very close to 300,000 head of work stock. .Now we have just under half that. In 1920 we had about a thousand tractors on the farms of the state. Now “we have about BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER As kids, we reveled in the wild flowers of the woods in the spring time. And the hot days of summer were made merry with play down on our creek that led to the river. Fall brought its great bounty of wild things that we gathered and ate or stored as they ripened. Now that leaves but winter. Cold, stark winter, when the woods are naked and bare, and a great stillness comes to the wild out-of-doors. But we liked that too. And 1 don’t remember ever getting cold. Do you, when you were a kid? It was then that we explored the damp jungle areas that the frosts of winter had laid now. In summer they were a bit too 'snaky, and we feared that mon sters were in there where we could not see. We saw paths lean ing in those places and that fasci nated us. But in winter, we con- quered that realm too. When it was frozen hard, and frosts were heavy upon the ground, we would go all through those wild places of summer, for we had shoes on then, and could see where we were going too. We never found the monsters we could conjure up in there in the sum mertime. We would find rat nests. But no rats. And occasionally bones and feathers where the wary fox, owl, or hawk had consumed its prey in that seclusion. Although nothing more excit ing than a swamp rabbit was ever found in those hard places to get, we got a thrill / of adventure out of conquering ’em in the winter time. Red berries grew on brambles there and often some very. fine green holly full of red berries too was found.- These served their purposes at Christ mas time. KNOW SOUTH CAROLINA ly GEORGE MocNABB MV or PUBLIC RBLATIONS SOUTH CAROUNA RESEARCH, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD £te**FUEL 0IL/fc<*/ vmr/T*, CITIES SERVICE And let your friendly CITIES SERVICE man deliver you a load of the best fuel oil money can buy. 0 CITIES SERVICE fuel oil is economical, clean and you are guaranteed of accurate measure with our special metered delivery service. So, don’t let the cold weather catch you with out having your oil tanks full... Phone 155 Today Fanners Ice & Fuel Co. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR 618 Drayton St. Phone 155 Newberry, S. C. Pretty Girl (to fireman)—“It must have taken a lot of courage to rescue me as you did.” Fireman—“Yeah. I had to knpek down three other guys that want ed to do it.” 35,000. Change, change, it is constant. One is led to wonder if the crit ter will eventually go entirely. I’ve ridden for many miles at a time through the busy Corn Belt in June and seldom ever saw a team at work .in the fields. And I’ve ridden for endless miles through the dry-land farming areas of the Far West and I still have my first team to see work ing in the fields there! It is like ly that the type of our farming here will keep some of the old faithful critters with us for a long time to come yet. Watch And Jewelry Repairs BR0ADUS LIPSCOMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstone Street Local & Long Distance Moving All Furniture Insured & Carefully Wrapped Office Phone 1002 Residence Phone: 402-J Lollis Truck Line Clinton, 8. C. * ■ For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio and Television GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Television Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOUR SERVICE Telephone 311 AT LOMINICK’S DRUG STORE PRISCIPTIONS ARE CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PRESCDPTIONS FILLED BY LICENSED DRUGGIST RHONE 981 tN... • “ ■, •• ' f * * ■ PROTECT TOP OF POSTS ... .To keep sharpened posts and stakes from splitting at the top wheif they are driven Into hard ground with a sledge, sUp a ring clamp of heavy flat Iron over the post and tighten with wing nut. Tamcraee School for mountain cWldron U operated by the DA.R. for the young people of the Southern mountains. It b now 33 years old. TAMASSEE SCHOOL “My dear Mrs. Jones: Our school began February twenty-fourth with an enrollment of i. Some of the natrons were present at our informal twenty-three. Some of the patrons were present at our infer opening, and Miss Sallie Stribling came that day and helped until Thursday. me With that letter a vision became a reality in the establishment of Tam- assee School for mountain children, one of the two industrial schools in the United States owned and op erated by the D.A.R. Starting with a vision and the burning ambition- to improve edu cational facilities for mountain chil dren, the ladies of D.A.R. in 1914 resolved to open a school. Tamassee School, located about 16 miles north of Walhalla, now has an enrollment of nearly 460 boys and girls from elementary age through high school. Almost every State in the Union has contributed to the school’s sup port. From an humble beginning of one unfinished building and 110 acres of land,* Tamassee has grown to 27 buildings on 767 acres of land with a valuation of» nearly a half million dollars. Children from 80 mountain districts attend the School. Every child at Tamassee comes Very sincerely your. Sue Annie Todd" from a rural, mountain community. The School’s gardens, orchard and farm are laboratories where they are taught the best agricultural prac tices adapted to their environment. They maintain their own live stock for milk, butter and meat. Fruits and vegetables frem the gar dens supply their tables and sur pluses are canned by the students for winter use. The name Tamassee (Indian: Sunlight of God) is derived from the legend of a Cherokee fire proph et, who attributed his power of healing-to a large ruby. From far and near Indians came to the vil lage with their ailments and wounds. When the prophet died, the hill where he was buried, now part of the School area, was called Tamassee. On or near the campus are many interesting places that students glad ly show to visitors, and accommoda tions are available in the summer months. ';.v3 BROTHERS IN KOREA Two brothers have come over seas together and have been as signed as platoon leaders in the 3rd Battalion of the 36th Infantry Regiment now in Korea. They are 2nd Lieutenants Gon- salve C. and Silas C. Pratt of Newberry, S. C. Gonsalvo, the elder, is a pla toon leader in Item Company. He entered the Army in September, 1961. He took officer’s training at Fort Benning, Ga., and was then assigned as the unit training of ficer of Item Company, 506th Regi ment, 101st Airborne Division at Camp Beckenridge, Ky. Silas Is a Love Company platoon leader. He also went through the officer’s training at Benning, hav ing entered the Army in October of ’61. He followed his brother to Brockenridge where he became a part of the officer faculty of the 516th Regiment, 101st Air borne Division. The brothers left the States and arrived in the Regiment at the same time, making the trip across together. HAWKINS SERVES WITH THE NATO ARMY Cpl. Colin R. Hawkins Jr., whose parents live in Prosperity, recent ly qualified as an expert rifleman while serving with the 2nd Armor ed Division. Part of westerh Europe’s NATO Army, his unit is conducting train ing maneuvers in the U.S. Occupa tion Zone of eGrmany. Called the “Hell on Wheels” Division, it was the first American outfit to enter Berlin as World War II neared its end. Corporal Hawkins, who arrived in Europe in October 1951, has been serving as a driver In Com pany B of the 12th Armored In fantry Battalion. POSTED SIGNS Mortgage Forms, Real Estate Deeds. THE SUN OFFICE They both had received ROTC at South Carolina State A&M at Orangeburg, S. C., before enter ing the service. (This item was taken from “Cacti News” of Oct 25, 1952, a 35th Regiment publication.) mni$! Get the jump on unexpected emergencies! Open a savings account here now! This is one time it will pay you to put all your “nest eggs” in one basket—because all accounts are insured up to $10,000.00. Any amount will open your account . . and once it is open, you can save by mail each week, if it is not convenient to come in. NEWBERRY J? 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