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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1952
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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