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FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1953 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEN FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clem«on Extension Information Specialist RURAL ELECTRICITY Electrified farms! Just about all of ’em have it, or could have it, now, if they want ed it. i Nothing has meant more to farm life either. Well do I remember back just 13 years ago when most of our farms were still in darkness. I Notice! At the close of business on January 31, 1953 A TWO PER CENT PENALTY will be added to all unpaid 1952 State and County Taxes J. RAY DAWKINS Treasurer was county agent in Sumter then. Governor Maybank was fired up on the subject. And that was just to the liking of Clemson’s G. H. Stewart, extension rural electri fication specialist then. He came to our county, as well as to all others, and showed us how to get electricity for our farms. There were many obstacles. But he and the governor stayed true to their course, and the blessing of elec tricity reached our farms faster than we had even dreamed it could. Power companies and REA cooperatives built lines in every direction. And there was rejoic ing in many an isolated home when the benediction of good light flashed on there for the first time. County agent Cannon of Lan caster tells me that their electric cooperative held its 12th annual meeting the other day. They start ed out in the spring of 1939 with 500 members. Now it has 5,675 members receiving electricity in the counties it serves, Lancaster, Chesterfield, and Kershaw. And that is now a familiar story. Similar organizations serve every county. And the growth of each has been phenomenal. LAURENS CATTLE County Agent Charlie Cannon of Laurens, brother of the one in Lancaster, and both good’uns, tells me that three of his beef cattle growers put on a sale of breeding stock back in the fall. The 8 bulls and 44 females averaged $613 a piece. I didn’t see these exact cattle. But I’ll bet you one thing. They had had plenty to eat. For Laur ens takes second place to no coun ty in the quality and all-year abundance of its grazing. Many have had fheir eyes opened by going there and riding with Char lie a bit. Not all farms have it yet. But many of ’em do. “A PINE BARREN” When George Washington pass ed through South Carolina, he spent a night at Pine House, that still stands near Trenton. He wrote in his diary describing the country there as a “pine barren of the worst sort.” Yet that is near the spot in South Carolina where the Smiths and Herlongs of Edgefield have won more cotton improvement con test prizes than any other com munity. And just recently the Harmony community there was awarded the National Grange prize of $15,000 for community improve ment! So we see even “The Father of Our Country” could be wrong. There is some awfully good land there that our President PLENTY OF WINTER AHEAD, TIME TO RE-ORDER % COAL! At this time of year we can expect sud den cold blasts and blizzards. Be pre pared! Keep your coal bin filled. We recommend It’s purified. Impurities have been re moved at the mine. You get clean, long-burning coal with very little ash. You have less work, more leisure. It’s economical, too! Phone for a Toad today! Insist on PATSY! IT’S SPECIALLY TREATED FOR DUSTLESS DELIVERY Look for the Patsy seal oft your Delivery Ticket. Farmers Ice <5h Fuel Co. Phone 155 Sports Afield Dr. Edwin Cooper is a Ph.D. in fisheries biology who works for Michigan’s Institute for Fish eries Research. He bosses trout research on the Pigeon River. He reigns as absolute monarch on about five miles of this stream set apart as experimental water. Anglers must have permits to fish there and must report back to Cooper who measures and weighs each fish, keeps a record of when how and on what they were caught, how long the angler fish ed; the weather, barometer read ing, stream conditions and var ious moon phases hre also tabu lated. Cooper’s project was primarily set up to answer important ques tions about the rate of trout growth, spawning success, popula tion, survival of legal-sized planted trout, and what happens to those that don’t get fooled by the hook. Buy Byron Dalrymple, sports man-turned writer, tells me that while all this was going qn, so many side lights turned up that the project ran off on several interesting tangents. There’s the barometer matter, for instance. Cooper has facts and figures tak en from thousands of correlated day-to-day records. The anglers who fished when the barometer didn’t properly appraise. But there is also some poor land there too that they make behave like it too is good. It’s not all in the land, you know. I’ve spoken often here of the thrif ty yeomen of the sandhills and rock-ridges of Lexington County. There they hew out a good living on lands where a less strudy folk would starve. Yes, we are often prone to curse our fate. When likely the main trouble is within ourselves. GOOD WINTER GRAZING County Agent Garvin of Green wood told me that J. J. Griffin had two big beef cattle to the acre on his rye grass and crimson clover in November. It - was 14 inches high and looked like it could well stand more cattle. Irrigation had brought it up promptly when it was seeded the last of August. And additional waterings had kept it growing during the dry fall. When cold weather arrived, it had formed a fine turf and had a sur plus of growth to carry into win ter. We need more of that sort of thing, insurance against the drought Then we can really do business in the right way with both livestock and crops. was down caught just as many trout as the fellow who fished when the barometer was up. Like wise, those on the stream when the barometer was falling were just as successful as those who fished when it was rising. Only on one point could the barometer fishermen score. When the baro meter was steady, either low or high, fishermen made better catch es than when it was moving in either direction. But only a lit tle better. But here’s the shocker: Coop er’s statistics prove without ques tion that it is know-how, the ex pertness, that produces most fish in the creel. He says: “We tried stocking certain sec tions periodically during the sea son so heavily that we actually doubled, temporarily^ the trout population. We found later that the same fishermen who had prev iously gotten skunked but came back for more, still got skunked. The experts, however, caught many more fish.” Thus, fishing ability is what pays off; and legal-sized trout planting does not, according to this study, automatically make better fishing for everybody. It merely makes better fishing for the fellow who, because *of his ability, has it pretty good already. Here's another bit of informa tion turned out during the first season that the number of fish ermen who had fished with worms and the number who had fished with flies were very nearly identi cal. Not only did each group take the same number, but the take per fishing hour was almost the same. So was the number in each group that went fishless. There goes the old worm-vs.-fly battle, snowed un der by a sheaf of statistics. W: I H&i mm FRENCH CHECK INDO-CHINESE . . , French troops are shown searching for communist soldier* among villagers In the south delta of Indo-Chlna. Reds frequenty hide out with the natives. AND ALL END HAPPILY Memphis, Tenn.—The telephone Romeo who got Donald Clark’s number by mistake was distress ed because he had no more dimes for the pay phone, but that didn’t interfere with his quick thinking. He asked Clark to call the girl and tell her to phone him at the pay station. Clark did. Tier walls a honey CHAPEL HILL, N. C. — Mrs. Hugh Cole keeps bees in the wall of her home. When she wants her annual supply of honey, she has a neighbor rip a board or two from the living room wall and cut out a new white comb. Time Short For Making Applications “Only five more weeks to get your application in for a State Park family vacation cabin* is the word from State Park Direc tor C. West Jacocks. Each summer some 750 South Carolina families enjoy a week at the . family vacation cabins lo cated at seven of South Carolina’s State Park^. However, because about 1,000 families apply for cabins for use during June, July, and August the State Commission of Forestry has found it necessary to make assignments by means of a public drawing. Each year all applications received before March 1 are put in a box, and a public drawing is held. Beginning with the first name drawn, cab ins are assigned until each of the cabins has been assigned for the summer. Cabins are located dt the fol lowing State Parks: Cheraw; Edis- to Beach; Givhans Ferry; Myrtle Belcli; Oconee; Poinsett; and Table Rock. All cabins have elec tric lights, electric stoves, elec tric refrigerators and bathrooms with running water. They .are equipped with beds, mattresses, pillows, furniture, cooking utensils and china. The weekly rental for cabins during the summer ranges from $15.00 to $36.00 per w^eek de pending on size and location of cabin. Most cabins will accom modate 6 persons but there are al so several smaller cabins and two larger ones. If you and your family want to spend a week’s vacation at one of the state park family cabins, you should send your application to the S. C. State Commission of Forestry, Box ^357, Columbia, be fore March 1. If possible, give several choices of parks and per iods of time you wish to attend. Do not send money with your ap plication. Mr. Jacocks pointed out that the assignment of cabins by public drawing applies only for the per iod June 1st through Labor Day. Cabins are also available during the other months of the year at reduced rates, and arrangements for renting cabins during this per iod are made by the park super intendents. Recently six cabins at Table Rock State Park and one at Edisto Beach State Park have been, “winterized” by adding panel ling,**heat, and electric hot water units. It is expected that these improvements will greatly ' in crease the popularity of these cabins particularly during the spring and fall months. Additional information on fam ily vacation cabins and other state park facilities can be obtained |t» — am. ■tor, was eaka of IDS*” European edition of Stripes. from the S. C. State Comi J of Forestry, Box 367, Columbit World's newest with a million miles behindit H ere, in literal fact, is the most advanced V8 engine-ever placed in a standard-production American automobile. 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