The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, January 16, 1953, Image 7
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.
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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
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