The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, February 20, 1953, Image 7
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE SEVEN
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| THE BAFFLES By Mahoney |
NOW! BASKETBALL SEASON IS
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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
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MAYOR McGUP By John Jarvis
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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.
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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
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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.
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braces.
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