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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Speelallst
ALL-AMERICAN
It has been called “America’s
Nuntber One Rural Community.”
I speak of Harmony, down in
Edgefield.
How appropriately it is named!
For without real harmony it could
not be where it is.
You recall, the past year it won
the $15,000 National Grange and
Sears-Roebuck prize for the rural
community making the most pro
gress in the Nation.
The past spring they dedicated
their pew community building.
Some communities tend to dry up
■when their local school goes by
consolidation and their church
goes by default. Not so with
Harmony. Their school went. But
they did not sit and pine over that.
Donating 7,700 man-hours of work,
they built a fine new church and a
community house second to none.
These, and the many other things
they did, won for them the covet
ed award.
I attended the dedication of their
community building. I wish you
could have seen the fine, robust,
intelligent country folks there.
Large families, all taking part.
And the younger generation is
furnishing the dynamic action
there. The older folks, like Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Herlong, were
there, to be sure, beaming over
their community’s progress, while
their crowd of big hefty boys, sfll
Clemson graduates, are farming
there nd around them and con
tributing to community accom
plishment and leadership. One was
Master of their local Grange that
spearheaded this community de
velopment. And those farming
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Agent
Clemson Plans
Special Events
For Homemakers
CLEMSON.—Hundreds of home
makers from over the state are
expected to attend the annual
Farm and Home Week here Aug
ust 17-21. An interesting and prac
tical program of lectures, exhibits,
and demonstrations in the field of
home economics has been planned
for them. They will also have op
portunity to attend other features
of the week’s varied program, and
to see the exhibits of modern farm
and home equipment on display
under the exhibit tent and in the
open on Bowman Field.
The home economics program
was arranged by the Farm and
Home Week home economics com
mittee, of which Miss Juanita H.
Neely, state home demonstration
agent, Winthrop College, Rock
Hill, is chairman. Among topics
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MORE HUES for
IBS MOREY
Smiths were there in profusion.
One of their beautiful daughters
came home from Winthrop to sing
that night. They paid high pr-ise
to County Agent Lloyd for the
big help he had been to them in
their community accomplishment.
CLEAR WATER
I was at Clifford Smith’s farm
in Newberry after some heavy
rains. His pond, built in a raviije
below whai had once been red,
eroding hills, was clear. He hc.d
long since tied that soil down
so with sod that water ran off
slow and clear into his pond.
This grassland farming* that’s
growing so in this state, is tying
much of our once-bleeding soil
down like that. And out that Bush
River Road, where Clifford lives,
you see a lot of that sort of thing.
Their ag. teacher, Pete Harris,
has been there in that community
since he and Clifford finished
Clemson in 1928. And his tracks
and influence are all over the
place, as are those of their veteran
county agent, Paul Ezell, and their
SCS man, “Dad” Amis. Clifford’s
advice to the several hundred
farmers from all over the state>
who attended the field day there
on his farm, when he was de
clared the grassland farming win
ner in the state for 1952, was this,
“Ge\ all the help you can from all
of your agricultural workers. They
sure helped me.”
WHAT COUNTS
A white fence and a sign don’t
make a livestock farm. They help
a lot though, if you have anything
back of ’em.
All too often in the past we
have seen flashes in the pan
like that. A fellow would travel a
bit and see those white fences and
neat signs, naming the farms. And
that sure looks good, like you see
in Kentucky, up in the Valley of
Virginia, and elsewhere. He would
come home, get him some cattle
put an ornamental fence across
the front of his place and the
hungry cattle soon ate all of the
bushes and briers in there. For
that’s all they had.
But that abortion does not hap
pen so often now. No, our folks
are covering cotton’s lost acres
with grass, good grass, nutritious
grass, grass the year-around. And
they are getting the grass first.
This begins to bear the earmarks
of permanence.
Cattle have taken a slump. That
usually weeds out the fly-by-night
fellows who never had any busi
ness with cattle in the first place.
Then the real cattleman, the man
with year-around grass, a breed
ing program, and sense of manage
ment for both cattle and grazing,
will grow serenly on intq this
needed livestock arm of his farm
ing.
As often pointed out by The
Progressive Farmer, either crop
or livestock farming alone is very
uncertain and hazardous. But tie
them together properly to suit
man, land, and n^arkets, and you
have a type of farming that best
weathers the storms of time.
That’s the sort of farming our
agricultural colleges teach. And
it’s the sort our county agents
demonstrate in the field. And, my,
how it has been taking hold of
late!
ri REMEMBER"!
SY THE OLD TIMERS
From Mrs. William Watson, Ber
wick, Illinois: I remember well the
late spring ritual of straw mat
tresses being emptied and refilled
with clean and sweet straw after
oats harvesting. It was a tedious
process because my mother was
particular that only the finest
straw was used.
The “spare” bed, of course, had
a fine goose feather mattress on
top of the straw, as did one or
two of the other beds. One was
from geese she had plucked.
I remember, also, how we en
joyed fresh ground coffee for
breakfast, ground by our two-hand
grinders. And our small red and
white fringed napkins. •
I remember, too, my grand
father’s big, hollowed-out log that
grandmother used for storing her
lard during the first years of her
married life, as well as many of
the other household items she had.
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From Harmon C. Hall, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana: I remember
when I was a child that ox teams
were used altogether to supply
logs to the saw milU and that
men would walk as far as two
miles to work on a farm, go to
work before daylight and work all
day for 50 cents.
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From J. C. Galloway, Ponta
Gorda, Fla.: I remember when a
plug tobacco chopper stood on
every grocery counter, and barrels
of coffee and sugar stood open in
the back room. Small boys would
look longingly at the sugar and
hope the grocer would invite them
to have a lump, which he rarely
did.
(Send contributions to this colnmn to
The Old Timer, Community Press Serv
ice. Box 3!). Frankfort. Kentucky.)
included are: Spaces for the
home; let’s cook turkey—South
Carolina Turkey Association co
operating; know the foods you
buy; how good is frozen food—a
demonstration in preparing and
handling food for the freezer; see
for yourself and ask about it—an
exhibit of frozen foods, equipment
and packing materials; good buys
in fabrics and fashions—selection
of fabrics and pattern designs
suitable to various figure types;
and know your paint v and wall
paper.
Of special interest to the home
makers will be the Thursday noon
assembly address by Miss Margery
Wilson, lecturer and author of
N^w York. Special music for this
program will be by the choir of
the South Carolina Council of
Farm Women. State officers and
leaders of the council will be rec
ognized during the program.
TAX FIGHTER . . . Rep. Dan
iel Reed (R) of N. Y., chairman
of house ways and means com
mittee, continues battle to low
er income tax by 10 per cent and
remove excess profits tax.
Bedouins of the Arabian deserts
are being wooed from nomadic
ways they have followed for cen-
turies by model farm communi
ties and irrigation projects.
It is cheaper to move gasoline
from Baltimore to Washington, 38
miles apart by road, by. tankers.
This trip is 200 miles and takes
approximately 25 hours.
Chimpanzees can master sim
ple arithmetic, apparently recog
nize photographs of themselves,
and learn table manners includ
ing use of cup and saucer, knife
and fork.
TRUCE DEADLOCK . . . South Korean president Syngman Rhee
holds another conference with Walter S. Robertson, asst, secretary
of state (left) on Korean armistice terms, with which Rhee violently
disagrees.
Introducing a Shiny, Space-Saving Trio
Slicing a loaf of bread Is a simplified operation for this pretty
young homemaker. She uses a cutting board built into the lid
of the breadbox
BY EDNA MILES
A NEAT and efficient kitchen
is not always easy to attain.
The room may be so old and
poorly planned that it success
fully defies the daily clean-up
sessions. Yet, nearly any house
wife knows what a burden it is
to produce three meals a day in
a cluttered, inefficient kitchen.
One solution to this problem
is offered by a neat, space-saving
trio which includes a canister set,
breadbox and step-on refuse can.
All gleam with shiny chrome.
The breadbox, for instance,
has a cutting-board built into,
the lid to aid in slicing chores
and to eliminate the need for a
separate breadboard. It also has
a horizontal divider-shelf that is
removable to facilitate storage of
baked goods on two levels.
In the canister set, the lids
have counter-sunk, knobs to pre
vent rolling and the comers are
designed to allow stacking. This
saves space, thus giving a neater
look to the kitchen.
The cylindrical step-on dis
posal can has an inner pail oi
porcelain enamel to aid sanita
tion, and a chlorophyll defumer
built into the lid to reduce Un^
pleasant odors.
The housewife with a problem
kitchen may not be able to have
all the things she wants, but
products like these help greatly.
Waste odors are reduced by the
chlorophyll defumer built Into
the lid of this chrome disposal
unit. The porcelain-enamel in
ner pall aids sanitation.
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
We always wore some sort of
hat when we were kids. The folks
thought it was dangerous in the
summertime specially to let the
direct sun shine on the top of
your head.
So, broken to a hat as we were,
we never went without one. And
I’m still that way. I just don’t
feel properly clothed for the out-
of-doors without some sort of a
hat on.
As kids, we had two sorts.
For winter, it was a cloth or a
wool hat. Our hats were of the
cheap sort that sort of ran up to
seed like a cone the first time
they got wet and the band came
off. From then on it was easy to
blow off, as it wouldn’t hold any
sort of grip on your head.
Some of our early summer hats
were woven at home from wheat
straw. But soon after I came
along, the country store would get
in a lot of plain wide-brimmed
rough straw hats that sold for a
nickel and a dime, depending up
on the size and quality.
Those straw hats had wide
brims and were in the rough.
You couldn’t wear them without
considerable doctoring. And to
make them last longer, mothers
would always line them with a
bright-colored calico. The under
side would be covered with it and
it would be folded up over the
edge and sewed down on the ma
chine. The V cuts would be made
from the center of the place you
put your head in to the inside of
the brim. These V-shaped ends
were then sewed down inside the
crown of the hat. That gave the
soft cloth surface against your
head and overcn.me the rough
ness and scratchy feeling of the
woven straw.
Thus reinforced, one of those
hats was supposed to last a kid
STRICTLY FRESH
INTERNAL REVENUE men
caught a check-writing ma
chine making oversize income
tax refund checks. Probably just
a political machine trying to in
fluence a few votes.
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Police caught a Wisconsin bank
robber Carrying loot in his shoes.
At least he was well heeled!
a rrmmer. But after being caught
cut in the first rain with one, it
flopped down to your shoulders on
each side, stayed that way, and
was hot under there. But we sel
dom got a second one, and it was
up to us to take care of the one
we got in the spring. By fall they
often looked like a bunch of straw
though, they had become so tatter
ed. But still the crown was usual
ly good and it kept the sun off the
top of our head. And that was
what mattered most.
EVANGELIST . . . Renee Marts,
13, of Orlando, Fla., who has
preached since sge of 6 In 36
countries, prepares for flight to
Glasgow. Scotland, for series of
sermons.
There are approximately 2,500,-
000 Boy Scouta id America.
MAYOR McGUP By John Jarvis
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