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THURSDAY, .AUGUST 6, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
'T'HE oldest son is playing Littla
League baseball. In four games
he had but one hit. So, I took him
home and we had a practice ses
sion in the backyard.
At the next game, with two men
on. he comes up to bat. A hit would
drive in the winning run. There I
sit, nervous as an old hen and
keeping my fingers crossed, when
this fellow in front of me says.
“Too bad. That kid hasn’t had •
hit yet. He should still be playing
with dolls.”
With difficulty I kept a check on
my temper. “Why you stupid ape,”
says I, “it isn’t going to help the
kid by making remarks like that
when he can hear you.”
“Who’s stupid, stupid,” says he.
“You are, you ape,” says I.
With that he hit me in the eye.
I banged him on the nose. We
then sat down before the cop who
was crossing the field could reach
us.
He broke the sullen silence that
followed by snarling, “Five bucks
will get you ten he doesn’t get a
hit.”
“Done,” says L “Put up your
money.”
The oldest son just then let a
strike split the plate without taxing
the bat off his shoulders. “Dolls”,
sneered the guy in front of me.
The next pitch was shoulder high
and a little outside, but the oldest
son swung. He put his body weight
behind that swing. There was a
sharp crack and the ball went over
the centerfielder’s head. It was a
home run in any Little League
park.
“Pay up,” says I to the guy in
front of me.
He turned and held out the ten
spot. “Not bad at all,” he said.
“Who is that kid?”
“That,” saya I. “Is my boy.”
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FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemaon Extension Information Specialist
HAIL THE HEN
We have made great progress
with cattle and hogs in recent
t
years in South Carolina. Yet with
poultry we have done even more.
Our cash farm marketings of
chickens, eggs, and turkeys prac
tically equals the dollar value of
all cattle, calves, and hogs sold.
This income from poultry prac
tically doubles that from our grow
ing dairy industry. And it is con
siderably more than oui* total in
come from dairy products and all
cattle sales. So, all hail to the
hen!
Quietly, with just an occasional
cackle, she performs her great
purpose here. And from what 1
see as I ride with the county
agents, we are just entering our
greatest growth with poultry. I
see those long broiler and laying
houses going- up at new places
every time I pass. Every now
and then I see a great flock of
turkeys at a new place. We al
ready lead the Southeast, by a
wide margin, in this particular.
And here and there I see new
poultry dressing and storage
plants opening up, not only in
towns, but often out in the open
country where the stuff is grown.
Many years ago Mr. Barney
Baruch gave Clemson $25,000 for
a poultry plant. Since then it has
been more than doubled with its
own earnings. And it serves as a
teaching aid here at the college
and as a source of poultry in
formation for use over the state
The Extension Service has 3 poul
try specialists and two turkey
specialists who are constantly in
the field helping growers protect
and promote the industry in our
midst. And commercial companies
have experts in the field too who
help with certain phases of the
poultry busipess here. The 4-H
clubs have majored in poultry pro
jects for years. The 100 chicks
furnished by Sears-Roebuck to
hundreds of 4-H boys and girls
have been the foundation for many
a farm poultry business that now
thrives.
When you say “Chickens Busi
ness” in South Carolina, you are
not talking about anything that’s
small any more. And some of the
main parts of it are just getting
under way good here. Clemson has
valuable bulletins on all phases of
it. You will find free copies there
at your county or home agent’s
office.
FLY KILLER
Ed Young, Clemson graduate and
dynamic young dairyman of Flor
ence, tells me that TEPP really
works on flies, killing them in 30
seconds.
This material has been thorough
ly tested out at Clemson and very
satisfactory results have been se
cured. Almost instant killing re
sults, as Ed pointed out.
The entomologists at the col
lege have outlined how this dead
ly poison should be handled for
safety. Your county agent has the
printed directions on how to use
it against flies. Even though
It Is one of the most deadly
poisons, its effectiveness is too
great for us to shy from its use
on that account. Follow the
simple instructions and it can be
made to work for you against one
of your principal farm pests,
flies.
VALUES THE MULE
On many a farm, the mule has
completely gone. Yet, Thomas Lee,
mechanized farmer of Clarendon,
finds, “A mule is worth his year’s
feed for just one week’s work
when you need him.”
Mr. Lee is a hard-hitting young
farmer that the Farmers Home
Administration helped when he
got out of the army about 8 years
ago. He has bought more land
an<V now has a beautiful and pro
ductive farm.
“MECHANIZE OR QUIT”
Ed Baskin was assistant county
agent at Florence when he went
to war. When he came back he
heard the call of the farm. Now
he is one of the leading young
farmers of that state. Ed told me
he is going to fully mechanize
cotton or quit with it. Planting
and culture have already been
mechanized on his farm. He is
trying out preemerge weed killers,
flame weed control, and also has
a mechanical picker. He feels that
band work is out for him. He
will ‘mechanize it or quit with
cotton,” he said. And I’m believing
if anybody can do that job here,
Ed will.
THE BAFFLES By Mahoney
MAYOR McGUP By John Jarvis
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BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
Childhood’s little tragedies
often become some of our most
cherished memories. Like, for in
stance:
When I tried to fly by jumping
off the well shed with an out
stretched sheet, as the flying-
squirrel did, and spraining my
ankle bad.
Like when Green, our colored
boy, on horseback, was chasing
our prized milk cow to water, the
horse stepped on the chain of
the fast-running cow, tripping
her, and breaking her neck.
Or like w’hen Cousin Bob slid
into what he thought was second
base while playing ball down there
in the high weeds of the pasture,
as Zeke and I were mending the
break there in the old rail fence,
the ladies all blushed and talked
inh it
T HOUSANDS of South Car
olina boys and girls are
planning to enter college
this fall. Those of them who
realize their opportunity and
take advantage of it will in
years to come be the leaders in
our state in business, the pro
fessions and politics.
It might he inspiring to these
prospective college students to
quote figures recently compiled
as to the monetary value of an
education. It is shown that the
average annua) earnings of col
lege trained people are $3,400
higher than those of high school
training, and that high school
graduates earn $1,100 more
than those with only elementary
school training.
Thie study figures that the
total lifetime earnings of a Col
lege graduate are $160,000,
while the high school graduate’s
are $88,000, and the elementary
school graduate earns only
$64,000.
Thie dote not take into con
sideration the greatest value of
an education, the satisfaction in
one’s own mind and heart, and
the added pleasures that an
educated person will derive
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I REMEMBER"
BY THE OLD TIMERS
From M. S. Brenser. Middle-
town, Pa.: I remember when you
wore button shoes and how diffi
cult it was to put them on if the
buttonhook became lost We had
to borrow a hairpin to get them
through the holes.
• • •
From Mrs. 8. B. Pittman, Jack
sonville. Texas: I remember 77
years ago when my sister became
of school age There was no
other children near us for her to
go with So my father told the
school authorities he would send
her if they would let me go with
her. They consented.
We had to walk 2% miles through
deep woods. There wasn’t even a
road. Dad blazed a trail for us
In those days we wore long woolen
stockings and high shoes, with
skirts long enough to keep our legs
warm.
• • •
From 8. L McGinnis, Culloden,
W. Va. I can remember helping my
mother weave rag rugs during the
long winter nights when I was a
ooy. We made our dye to color
the rugs from bark. And I remem
ber sleeping under the eves of the
louse and the snow sifting under
die eves on to our beds It seems
he winters in those days were
nucb worse than they are now
in low tones, and the men laughed
so you could hear ’em a half mile.
And it was awful embarassing
when my cousin from the city
as^ed the girl sitting by her at
Sunday School who that funny
looking little country boy was
sitting across from them and she
replied, “That’s my brother.”
We were warned not to snicker
about the enormous nose of a visi
tor that was coming, and at the
first meal my sister, trying to be
so nice, passed him the rice and
then the gravy, saying, “Won’t
you have some gravy on your
nose-?”
And when my brother, being
asked to say grace, started out
on the Lord’s Prayer and never
could get on the right track.
Embarassed at first visiting a
city cousin, he put gravy in his
coffee, and they, seeing his mis
take, offered to empty it and give
him some more, but, embarassed
to kill, he said, “No, I like it *hat
way.”
Showing off on my bicycle, as I
passed the house where my first
girl was visiting, I took my hands
off the handle bars and was coast
ing gloriously along, when a
shote ran from the weeds clear in
front of me and I spilled all over
the path there in sight of the
whole family sitting there on the
porch.
And then there was the tragic
moment I tore the whole seat out
of my pants on a nail in the bench
at campaign meeting at Ballen-
tine, only to go down in the plum
thicket and pin it up in a fashion
with thorns and keep a hot rain
coat on the balance of the day
to hide the damage. And on and
on this thing could go, true tales
all, and fond memories now.
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