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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1953 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEN CITIES CALL 155 FOR PROMPT FUEL OIL DELIVERIES! SERVICE Yes, we’re eager and ready to serve you at any and all times. And you’ll find a full tank of Cities Service fuel oil will relieve all your worries of the cold weath er. Won’t you let us serve you ? Farmers Ice Fuel Co. GEORGE W. MARTIN, Manager Wholesale Distributor CITIES SERVICE Petroleum Products 618 Drayton St. Phone 155 Newberry, S. C. | THE BAFFLES By Mahoney | NOW! BASKETBALL SEASON IS —7 NEARLV OVER — ^ I THE BAFFLES By Mahoney AW-BONNIE. I CAN'T EAT THAT FOR SUPPER.YOU KNOW I HAVE A WEAK STOMACH. SMOKED SAUSAGE JUST NEVER AGREES WITH ME & WOULD I LIKE SHRIMP CREOLE*? BONNIE-1 JUST CAN'T BAT THAT t HIGHLY SEASONED FOOD. I TELL YA- I'LL TAKE YOU OUT FOR SUPPER AND YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT AND I'LL HAVE SOME BLANP FOOD. MAYOR McGUP By John Jarvis * MAYOR McGUP By John Jarvis if ^ ^ : TO SLOCK OFF ELM STREET SO THEY CAN SLIDE DOWN THE HILL ON THEIR SLEDS LOTS OF CARS USE ELM STREET. | HATE TO BARRICADE IT... BUT I GUESS IT'LL BE ALL RIGHT. THIS ROAD MEANDERS ABOUT SIX MILES, THEN IT TURNS INTO A NARROW TRAIL, THEN BECOMES A COW PATH. AFTER ABOUT 700 YARDS IT RUNS UP AN FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist LOCAL MARKETING “Marketing starts right on the farm,” says our marketing man Jimmy Youngblood. Dorchester county has proved the truth of that in building a hog industry during the past 20-odd years. That was one of the early places where the county agent started demonstration feeding of hogs. There was then no way fpr selling hogs but to consign them to dis tant markets. x This didn’t prove too satisfactory. So they organiz ed the Dorchester Marketing As sociation. And along through the years it has handled their hogs in weekly shipments that have grown until this day. , County Agent King, tells rae that they thus sold 14,999 hogs the past year for 652 farmers. This amounted to 214 cars and brought $598,543.17. A charge of one per cent is made for handling the hogs. Out of this they pay ex penses and have accumulated as sets of $22,057.64, of which prac tically all is cash. At first they had to borrow money against the hogs In order to pay cash for them at time of delivery. But now for some years their cash balance has been such that they do not have to borrow money for this purpose any more. Grow the right sort of quality stuff and you can usually sell it all right. And that’s what the Dor chester farmers have done with hogs. Theirs run a very high percentage of number one hogs, and there is always a ready de mand for Dorchester hogs. At first their county agent largely handled the work of assembling, grading, and marketing their week ly shipments. But it gradually got on its own feet, and for years now the association of growers has handled the marketing entire ly, enabling the agent to give his time to production problems in the field and only come in in an ad visory way as needed on their marketing work. SWEET POTATO CHAMPIONS j the line in North Carolina at j Tabor City. The Extension Ser vice got in several carloads of im proved seed stock from Louisiana, and Clemson’s Edisto at Blackville did a lot of work improving sweet potato production methods and varieties. In the past few years sweet po tatoes have slipped a lot as a mon ey crop here. In fact census rec ords show that we are not produc ing any more now than we did 75 years ago. Some points that grew a lot of ’em, produce prac tically none for market now, Lee county, for instance. I asked County Agent Bryant there what caused this. He said it was two fold. First, unrestricted cotton acreage with the prospect of fair prices caused farmers there to go back to cotton. And, second, the labor shortage also caused them to give up potatoes on many farms, they requiring more hand labor at times than cotton. A bit of commercial sweet po tato interest is being kept alive by our state 4-H sweet potato con test. The past year the Darling ton county team of 6 4-H club boys was the winning group. The re ward, other than their fine po tatoes, was a trip with their coun ty agent to New York with their car of potatoes to follow the crop through the marketing channels, after the potatoes had been pack ed and loaded out right at their local shipping point. This was made possible by the A&P Tea Company. In this 4-H contest, future grow ers of this great food crop are being , trained. So, if the future wants more sweet potatoes, we will have a nucleus of trained growers, as these youngsters grow up. Clemson is working on the mechanization of sweet potato pro duction at its Blackville station. In the past few years they have registered some big strides in that direction. It is likely that a fuller mechanization will bring this crop into its own as a source of human food and as a major money crop here. Most farms grow what sweet potatoes they need. But the crop has been a rather spotty com mercial one for South Carolina. Not many years back, when the going was tough for cotton, it looked for a while as if we were getting under way with sweet po tatoes as a money crop. Orange burg, a sort of center of this de velopment, put on a very credit able Sweet Potato Festival, and the same thing was done across CONTROL NEMATODES IN TOBACCO AND GARDENS Tho soil nematode is a sly work er beneath the soil that takes a mighty toll from many plantings of tobacco and from truck crops in the home garden. In the past few years folks over the state have gotten good results from treating tobacco and garden soils for the control of the pest. Your coun ty agent, has the details. — f BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER I never hear of “breaking” shoes now. When I was. a kid that was a well known term and it had great meaning. • Shoes must be made more near ly like your feet now, for they feel good from the start. Not so when I was a kid. A shoe, or the sort we got, was a thing of torture until it got “broke” to your foot. And breaking in one was a fixed routine, like breaking a young mule to work. Often a younger brother was called upon to help break ’em in and limber them up a little. And then you’d Just wear ’em a little while when you felt like taking a little punishment They hurt your feet just about everywhere they touched them. And they were as stiff and unyielding as heavy cardboard. Those shoes that just came in a few numbers, no lasts or widths, were called brogans. And we got ’em for about a dollar at the coun try store and blacksmith shop at the foot of the hill. They had no laces. But were held together in front by a buckle with three slots for adjustment to your ankle. And they did not fit tight around the leg either. That would have, hurt. They stood open a bit around your leg. But not enough for your foot to come out without unbuckling rl REMEMBER” > BY THE OLD TIMERS t From Florence Berry, 227 Wash ington, Oildale, California: I re member when my father bought the Irst cream separator in our coun ty in a mid-western state. People same for miles to see ft. Several were disappointed at what they thought was the lack of efficiency of this machine. They thought it turned fresh milk to butter. From James H. Clough, Mon trose, Pennsylvania: I remember when I was a boy (I’m over 80 aow) how in the fall, after a few frosts, we would gather chestnuts. We would dry them and put them in a paper sack and hang them in the cellarway so they would not get too dry. Somehow a hole al ways got torn in the sack, just large enough for our hands, and every trip to the cellar we would get a handful of chestnuts. They never lasted the entire winter. From W. E. Ding ham, Honeoye Falls, N. Y.: I remember 75 years ago, on the farm in Pennsylvania, the boys were provided with high top leather boots at the beginning of winter. When the snow ' came heavy, two or three times each week we had to give those boots a coat of tallow to make them resist water. It was an evening job around the old wood stove. On cold winter mornings we used an old tin lantern, three sides were glass and the other tin, made to slide up and down, to light our way to the bam. We would put a candle inside, push down the tin side and wade through the snow to feed the stock. it. Once you got those brogans broken right / to your feet, they wore good. And that raw leather would last a long time, if you keep ’em greased. We used tallow and lard for that, which helped make ’em waterproof too. For we had no rubber overshoes then. And the stone hills were tied together with sticky red clay. Once I was snoozing by the open fire on a winter day, with my feet poked out on the hearth. A coal of fire popped out and went down the side of my open top shoe. I must have broken a record in waking up, loosing that buckle, and getting that shoe off. For, you can work fast in times like that. From Mrs. G. H. Morris, 3231 Cleburne Road, Fort Worth, Texas: I remember when we lived in South Chicago and my father, H. J. Thompson, was one of the first plumbers in the city. There was no city water, just punq>s. The plumbers job was cleaning out rain water vats and putting in pumpe. Rain water was used entirely. New Delhi, known as the Garden City of India and its capital, has 17 million square yards of parks, gardens and open lawns, 200 miles ef hedges and 80,000 trees. One of the strangest vests ever seen In Washington was worn by Sam Houston, United States senator from Toxas before the Civil War. It was made from a panther skin. }**! : »F its* m in r iiP« w* *■ r|1 , if" p? Msrgwfiss# w if im □□ f I I 1 11 t i 1 1 111 I f nlirl fiiiJ— FARM GAS TANK . . . Two 50-gallon oil drums welded together make an ideal 100-gallon gasoline tank for farm use. Many farms have scrap Iron available to build the angle-iron legs and cross braces. PREPARE FOR TOMORROW! On tomorrow's horizon there will be ample oppor tunities for everyone. The best way to grasp these opportunities will be to use the ready cash you have accumulated. Start saving now for this bright future. Open an account here and add to it regularly. All accounts /insured up to $10,000.00. 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