The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, February 06, 1953, Image 3
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
PICKENS PICKINGS
Up in “Red Hills and Cotton,”
old Pickens county is taking on a
different hue. Like the rest of the
state, it too was once all cotton.
But it too is changing, with cot
ton still king of crops.
County agent Wood tells me
that they now have two milk
routes. After the first one had
run a year and the other one three
months, they had netted the 112
shippers $39,500. And most of
that, he pointed out, is new mon
ey. The patrons just started feed
ing the few cows they had better
and selling the surplus that wasn't
needed at home.
They grew 120 acres of pimiento
peppers last summer. They aver
aged 3,093 pounds per ‘ acre, de
spite the severe drought. Farm
ers had one to 6 acres of ’em.
They got 4 cents a pound, for an
average of 123.72 per acre. High
man was R. E. Hinton who re
ceived 373.30 from his acre.
They like both their milk routes
and these peppers, according to
Wood. He looks for both to grow
in importance there. Peppers are
sold to a firm at Griffin, Georgia,
that comes for them on delivery
days. And the milk is collected by
trucks for the Borden plant at
Chester through its receiving sta
tion at Anderson.
ACREAGES AND CROPS
IRRIGATED
Irrigation is coming gradually
here. And that’s the way it
should come. For we know too
little about it. But we are now
getting to the point where it is
commencing to roll. Experiment
and experience are bringing some
of the answers to questions about
it. And results are talking so
loud th^it folks can’t help but
hear.
According to figures compiled
from the annual reports of the
county agents, acreages of crops
irrigated for 5 recent years are as
follows:
1947— 2,377 acres irrigated
1948— 3,340 acres irrigated
1949— 4,009 acres irrigated
1950— 4,458 acres irrigated
1951— 7,058 acres irrigated
At this writing, the 1952 figures
are being collected from the
agents’ reports. It will likely show
the biggest growth yet.
In 1951 pastures led in irrigated
acres in South Carolina with 3,-
286 acres. Peaches were next with
1,838 acres irrigated. Truck came
next with 1,120, and tobacco had
253 acres irrigated. That year
there were 393 portable irrigation
systems in use in the state.
Soon we will have the 1952 fig
ures, and I’ll give them to you.
IRRIGATION AND CORN
Irrigation looks good on any
crop I’ve seen it tried on. But on
corn it has given phenomenal re
sults the past two dry summers.
I’ve told you a lot about that at
times.
County Agent Bull of Abbeville
tells me that Wiliam Hannah
made 134 bushes where irrigated
and the rest wasn’t worth gather
ing.
Messrs. Law and Lund in their
experiments at Clemson made 91
bushels with 4 irrigations, 61 bush
els with two waterings, and 27
bushels where no water was add
ed in their corn irrigation experi
ment the past season. And the
year before the differences were
even wider than that.
Two farmers in Greenwood, W.
N. Henderson and J. J. Griffin,
made over 12 times more corn
where irrigated the past season.
This was on a considerable acre
age in each case.
The Clemson experiment, which
is not finished yet, indicated that
corn can stand a lot of drought
before it bunches for tassel. But
drought then and for some time
after that really cuts down on the
yield. It is points like that that
we need a lot of information on.
For. after all, w'hat we are seek
ing is the smallest number of ir
rigations that will do the most
good. And I’m thinking we need
to take extended weather for-
casts into account too in irrigat
ing. That way we can help avoid
getting too much water to crops,
and save on irrigation costs too.
SHIPPING POINT INSPECTION
Clemson’s Extension marketing
service handles the shipping point
inspection of fruits and vegetables
in South Carolina. The past sea
son these fellows inspected the
equivalent of 4,308 car-loads of
peaches alone. That helps sell the
stuff. For then the buyer any
where in the country can know
what he is getting and can there
fore buy FOB.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
UNDER SOCIAL SECURITY
Do you know your rights under
the Social Security program? The
Newberry Sun, in cooperation with
the Greenwood field office mana
ger, Miss Martha Pressly, is pub
lishing a series of question and
answer columns explaining the
new program.
The questions will be drawn
from those most frequently asked
by persons who have made in
quiries at the field office.
If you have a question that you
would like answered, address your
letter to the Social Security of
fice, Greenwood, South Carolina,
and that office will reply direct to
you.
QUESTION: I work for my son
in his store, regular hours, and
receive a regular salary, but he
says I cannot receive social se
curity credit for this and he does
not deduct social security tax
from my wages. Is he right?
ANSWER: Yes, he is. Parents
do not get social security credit
while working for their sons or
daughters.
QUESTION: I am an optician.
Am I covered by social security as
a self-employed person?
ANSWER: You are.
QUESTION: The overseer on
my farm says I should not report
the value of his living quarters.
I have an apartment house in
town and have always reported
the value of the manager’s apart
ment along with his salary. Which
is right?
ANSWER: Both! The value of
room and board is included for all
covered employees except do
mestic and agricultural employees.
QUESTION: I will be 65 in May
and have four years of social se
curity credit. I am now an em
ployee of the State and not under
social security. Will I be entitled
to any benefit?
ANSWER: Yes, you will. Please
call at our office before your birth
day.
ONLY THE EARTH ENDURES
All things belonging to the earth
will never change—the leaf, the
blade, the flower, the wind that
cries and sleeps and wakes again,
the trees whose stiff arms clash
and tremble in the dark, and the
dust of lovers long since buried
in the earth—all things proceeding
from the earth to season, all
things that lapse and change and
come again upon the earth—these
things will always be the same,
for they come up from the earth
that never changes, they go back
into the earth that lasts forever.
Only the earth endures, but it en
dures forever.—Thomas Wolfe.
1953
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College Extension Service and State Agricultural Com
mittee.
Point 4. Livestock, Dairying and Poultry: Produce
the meat, milk, eggs and other livestock products need
ed to feed our growing population. Practice closer
culling, improved breeding, better feeding, and effici
ent management to increase production and income
per animal and per man.
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SUPER BABY . . . Two-and-a-
half year old Adel Vito, son of
Philippine schoolteacher weighs
105. Father is five feet tail,
mother four feet, eight inches
and weighs 26 pounds less than
baby.
A total of 88 species of Arctic
lea worms, close relatives of ordi
nary earthworms and of the strik
ingly luminescent “moon worms”
of West Indian waters, have been
identified at the U. S. National
Museum.
There were 1,540,000 marriages in
the United States last year, a de
crease of about 4 per cent from the
1951 total. The all-time high was
set in 1946 when returning veterans
brought the ’number to 2,300,000.
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by designer Caral Caldwell. Flannel blouse un-
snaps and opens flat for ease in washing and
pressing. Skirt and jacket are of sanforlan flannel.
BY EDNA MILES
I N this age of miracle fab
rics, women are beginning
to expect a truly remarkable
performance from nearly any
fashion they buy. In wool
ens, it’s the washable wools
that are making fashion
news.
These new soap-and-water san
forlan woolens will not shrink out
of their original fit and therefore,
need no blocking or stretching.
The wool will not mat or felt,
washes easier and faster, looks
softer and has a more “downy”
feel after washing.
All of this means greater con
venience and less work for the
lady of the house. It also means
a saving in dry cleaning bills and
this, of course, is reflected in the
budget.
Washable woolens are now done
in stripes, checks, plaids and in
both dark and pastel solid colors.
They’re sold by the yard for home
sdwers or in ready-to-wear fash
ions, many of the latter are ideally
suited to the active life of a house
wife.
One New York sportswear house
has done a whole group of jer
seys in blouses and skirts that are
dressy but simple enough for home
washing. Blouses are coordinated
with accordion pleated, pleated,
or unpressed pleated skirts.
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Hip-huggy middy jacket is used to top a tulip-
flared skirt in this interesting design. Fabric is
sanforlan wool flannel, and is completely wash
able. Above all it will not shrink out of fit.
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