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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE SEVEN
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEA2ER
Clemson Extension Information Speelallst
‘‘IRRIGATION THE ANSWER”
In the May 28th issue of ‘‘The
Press and Standard” of Waiter-
boro, Editor Smoak wrote an edi
torial headed, “Irrigation the
Answer.”
In it he said, “The extremely
hot and dry weather of the past
several weeks, and the adverse
effect on cucumbers and Irish po
tatoes, proves beyond any reason
able doubt that the farmer who
today depends entirely upon
nature to produce a crop is play
ing a poker game with cards stack
ed against him. Needed is irriga
tion.”
And he further states, “Progress
is costly, true, but crop yields in
creased by using intelligent pro
gressive steps will more than off
set increased cost.”
This summer, every summer, we
'have seen promising crops parch
and burn up, simply for the lack of
water that nature did not bring
in the form of showers. While in
many cases streams of life-giving,
yield-insuring water went to waste
right by those fields on its way
back to the sea. It is these cases
we should be concerned about
first, the fields that already have
abundant water in easy reach.
After that then we come to the
matters of conserving and storing
water by all manner of means.
Holding the precious stuff until
drought strikes, that’s the big
problem for the future here. For
water is pure gold when you need
it. And it is here at times. The
problem is to detain it until it is
needed.
Ours is not as great a problem,
not by a jugful, as theirs in many
another section where I have been.
There they have to spend fortunes
getting water from the ground or
from distant mountain ranges.
Here the stuff falls on every
acre. Our jdb is to work out ways
of holding a lot of it there. Then
when our average of six droughts
a year strike, we can do something
about them.
PICKING PEPPERS IN PICKENS
Although the past two dry sum
mers were hard on all crops,
specially truck, County Agent
Wood of Pickens was impressed
with pimiento peppers as a crop
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Conditioning
CAROLINA METAL WORKS
College Street Extension
A. G. McCaughrin, Pres. & Treas. Phone 115
“It happened when I ran into an old friend. Luckily
right in front of PURCELLS!”
These folks are so easy to do business with
I had cash for hospital and doctor bills be
fore the ambulance arrived!
PURCELLS
"Your Private Bankers"
1418 Main St. Newberry
SO GOOD
YOUR ENGINE CAN
OUTLAST YOUR CAR
Did I ever tell you about that
party we went to away down the
Kinley road?
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It was a very dark night. And
if the mule hadn’t known the road,
we’d never have gotten there.
All of the furniture had been
moved out of the modest living
room to make room for the square
dance. A lone fiddler ground out
the swaying tunes. A lamp on
the mantle and a lantern hanging
from a nail in back of the room
furnished the subdued light. We
got hot in there dancing. At in
termission we boys went out on
the porch to cool off and get a
drink of water from the well,
whose cribbing came up through
the floor. A faint stream of light
through a window hit the top of
two posts that held the porch up.
And everything else out there was
sooty black.
Ben was there, as usual. He
was about the most daring one in
our lot, you recall. He got his
swig of water from the bucket
first. If there was a dipper any
where out there, we couldn’t find
it. So each took his turn at thp
upraised well bucket, with chain
dangling from it.
We hadn’t cooled off yet, and it
wasn’t quite tim^ to go back in
anyway. So we lingered out
there a few minutes. Ben got
tired standing and eased over to
the edge of the porch between
those two posts where a banister
would ordinarily be.
Well, sir, he didn’t feel for the
banister, just assumed it was
there, and leaned back against
where it was supposed to be. Alas,
there was no banister there! He
fell backwards the 5 feet to the
hard red clay. Some pigs lay in
the shallow puddle there where
the wash water was thrown. They
squealed, and he almost killed two
of ’em. The hound dog lay asleep
there under the porch. The sudden
commotion scared him so he de
fended himself with vicious
screaming and barking.
We hardly had time to know
what had become of Ben. Some
one brought the lantern out. Ben
was getting up out of the mud
and shaking himself off. As we
broke into prolonged laughter, he
said, “That darn dog almost bit
me.” %
That fall might have hurt some
of the rest of us. But not that
Ben. He was as hard as nails. And
he joined us in enjoying the humor
of the situation. But there wasn’t
much more dancing that night.
The more we thought of Ben’s
escapade, the funnier it got.
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SociarSecurity
Do you know your rights under
the Social Security program?
The Sun, in cooperation with
Miss Martha Pressly, field office
manager. Greenwood, is publishing
a series of question and answer
columns explaining the new pro-1
gram.
The questions will be drawn
from those most frequently asked
by persons who have made inquir
ies at the field office.
If you have a question that you
would like answered, address your
letter to the Social. Security Of
fice, 18 Post Office Building,
Greenwood. That office will re
ply direct to you.
QUESTION: I have reported
only cash wages paid to our maid
though we also furnish all main
tenance. A friend of ours who
has a rooming house has told me
I should report the value of this
maintenance. Have I been wrong?
ANSWER: No, you are both
right. The value of room, board,
or other maintenance is reported
for an employee of a business
(such as a rooming house) but
only cash wages are reported for
an employee in a private home.
QUESTION: I am Self-Em
ployed, over 65, and earn more
than the maximum. However, my
business is seasonal and for 5
months each year I am totally un
employed and the same as re
tired. Would I be eligible for
part-time benefits?
ANSWER: Yes. Please con
sult our office for further informa
tion.
QUESTION: I am Self-Employ
ed part of the year and employed
part of the year. Do I get Social
Security credit, for both?
ANSWER: Yes—up to $3600
maximum total for a calendar
year.
QUESTION: I am Self-Employ
ed but do not net enough to pay
income tax; therefore, I did not
file a tax reurn. How can I get
Social Security credit for my earn
ings?
ANSWER: Get in touch with
the Bureau of Internal Revenue as
soon as possible and file a late
return. *
for the land of “Red Hills and
Cotton.” This summer had a bit
more even spread of moisture and
their expanded acreage of peppers
is confirming his belief in them.
At $100 a ton, most of the growers
are making some money on this
crop. That amounts to about a
cent apiece.
In County Agent Hopkins’ of
fice in Anderson I ran up on T.
J. Harper, the Pomona Products
Company’s field man in this area.
They are the folks from Grifin,
Georgia, who contract for this pep
per acreage in ^Vnderson, Green
ville, Laurens, Pickens, and Oco
nee counties. On delivery days,
the farmers bring the peppers in
and they are hauled to the cannery
; at Griffin in big trailer trucks,
after being weighed up and paid
' for on the spot by Mr. Harper. By
( the way, he told me that 7 grow
ers in this area are irrigating their
peppers. I asked how irrigation
looked on peppers. He said it
looked mighty good so far.
I asked Mr. Harper for an im
portant mid-season point about
growing peppers. Without hesita
tion he said, “Continue to culti
vate. A cultivation after each
weekly picking will add 200
pounds of peppers per acre each
time. Now, folks, that means $10.
And you can give it that cultiva
tion for a lot less than that. Then,
too,, you won’t have that grass and
weeds there in the middle to
bother you.
GERBER DAISY
While riding with County Agent
Hopkins of Anderson, as he Avas
answering farm calls, I saw a row
of beautiful flowers by a farm
home in early August. They were
Gerber daisies. Ever see ’em? They
come in varied colors, pastel
shades and all, and are very beau
tiful. I understand they are
simply tops for making flower ar
rangements in the house. The
lady told us she got those from
seed, a cent apiece. They bunch
out and make additional plants
like other daisies, she said. I
want some of ’em next summer.
GRAIN STORAGE AT
FLORENCE ,
The farmers’ cooperative grain
storage operation at Florence has
been a distinct success from the
start. It has been going several
years, has been enlarged, and is
still filled to capacity. District
Agent Lazar tells me that farmers
have profited greatly on grain
and corn storage there. Distress
Bible Comment:
Parables of Jesus
Dealt With Truths
That Are Timeless
r JT'HE use of stories to point or
illustrate truth is as old as
man’s efforts for expression. It
has been widely prevalent in
both ancient and modem times,
and it has been in secular, as
well as in sacred, literature.
The use of the parable was not
unique with Jesus. There were
many parables in the Old Testa
ment. The parable was a natural
incident of oriental imagery and
figure of speech.
What was unique in the para
bles of Jesus was their supreme
quality as stories and their ef
fectiveness in spreading the
teachings of the Master.
The parable is usually thought
of as an imaginary tale. That’s
how the dictionary defines it. But
the parable actually need not
concern itself with whether the
incidents described did or did not
happen in real life.
The parables of Jesus were
true to life, even though they
were imaginary. They told of
what might have happened and
what does happen.
Moreover, what the parables
of Jesus relate might happen in
any time or place. They are as
true to life today as they were
in the days when Jesus uttered
them.
The parable of the Good Sa
maritan still shows what a good
neighbor is like. And it still
shows that even a despised Sa
maritan acting as a good neigh
bor is nearer to God and his fel-
lowmen than a pretentiously’ re
ligious hypocrite who despises
his neighbor.
Probably the most famous
parables outside of the Bible are
the Fables of Aesop.” Aesop
wrote much of animals, but he
really had in mind people, to
whom he was offering wisdom
and counsel.
It is noticeable that the par
ables of Jesus were of people.
They were not of animals or im
aginary beings.
One thing about livin’ in Russia
. . . you’d never lose an election
bet.
Just about the time you think
you can make both ends meet,
somebody moves the ends.
prices usually prevail when these
crops come off. By storing them,
the farmers are able to feed them
on the market along as it needs
them. The way grain is coming,
we need more of that sort of thing
in South Carolina.
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have to pay for the service lines. This cost alone runs from $100.00
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