Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1953 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Speelallst LIVE AND LEARN The usual way of packing water melons in a car has been length wise, tail to tip. Even with care ful packing that way, the railways h&ve suffered emormous claim losses on melons each year. So the marketing boys got to •work on the problem. Trial cars were loaded in various ways. One of the ways tried was the cross wise loading. That kept the hard stem ends from bruising the soft bloom ends of the melons during the starts and stops inherent in the normal haul to market. In a recent study the usual length wise loading showed five times the damage in Congo melons that the cross load showed. Two years ago an accident hap pened to help start all of this new way of loading melons. I am told. A farmer had just hurriedly un loaded some trucks of melons in a car until his special loading men could get to it and arrange them. A freight pulled this car out by mistake and it went to market. To their utter surprise, it showed far less damage than where the melons were carefully stacked lengthwise. Live and learn! Boys, don’t take anything as final. The fellow who thinks the way he is now doing a job is final had better take another look. For to morrow he will likely wake up and find there is a better way. And, my, how that does apply to agriculture now! CAMP DANIELS DAY With state and local help, the colored folks are developing an up-to-date 4-H camp at Elloree. It is named Camp Daniels, after the late Harry Daniels, leader of Negro Extension Work for many years. Back in June they staged a special day there, opening the summer camping season. Over 5,000 folks from 20 counties were there. Local 4-H club leaders were honored on this occasion for 5-,10,- and 25-year services to their local clubs. Ten w r ere included in the latter group, 5 of them being from Georgetown and the other five from Sumter county. NEW FLY POISON “Control Cattle External Para sites” is the name of the revised BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER ... and what’s more, Patsy’s over 97 % pure coal - - - practically no ash - - - which means next winter you’ll be making fewer trips to the basement. v? /£ PATSY c. TTUZSld The quality never varies. There is no finer coal than Patsy the outstanding East Kentucky Coal! FILL YOUR BIN NOW with dean, long-lasting, hlgh-heat, •conomical Patsy < Look for this seal on your dolivory ticket PHONE 155 FOR A LOAD TODAY Farmers Ice & Fuel Co. PtlNCISS COAL SALES COMPANY • HUNTINGTON, W. VA. SO GOOD YOUR ENGINE CAN OUTLAST YOUR CAR -AND SINCLAIR GUARANTEES IT ASK ABOUT SINCLAIR’S AMAZING 100,000 MILE ANTI-WEAR GUARANTEE City Filling Station Strother C. Paysinger, Distributor As a kid, I hated to see cotton start opening. To us a big crop of it was a near calamity. While to our parents it was the best of fortune. Back then it did not start open ing until well out in September. (To beat the boll weevil, the breeders have now given us vast ly superior cottons that open a month earlier.) By then the wild plenty from the woods had begun to ripen. And the autumnal equinox had brought abundant water to our streams that had been sluggish from the dry hot months of summer. So. all in all, we had business elsewhere then. But those in fernal cotton fields were calling, getting whiter every day. We dallied and delayed all we could. Usually we had some sores or stone bruises on our feet. And dew was thought to be bad on them. So we played that up tf the utmost, welcoming such af flictions of the feet. But when everything was right, we just had to get out there and pick cotton. Even then though, we still hafl our forts. A spring was a half mile back in the woods. We’d stop often and go there for water, rather than to the house, a few hundred yards away. And down there in a rich sag in the field, where the cotton got rank enough to hide us, we would sit in \the middles and make animals out of maypops and straws. Then under the bene*' volent shade of the old persimmon tree at the far end, we would lie on the honeysuckle vines and snooze and perhaps dream a bit. Yes, dream of the tumbling roof water in the shaded creek a mile down the path through the woods AYid, unless parental eyes were watching, we were likely to steal away to that pleasant haven for an hour that stretched into two be fore we returned. I didn’t like anything that re sembled work. But cotton picking was my pet abomination. It was so long to the other end of the row, and the open bolls so thick, as to look all but hopeless to me YOUR The only spot in the U. S. where a house could be built with each of its four corner^ in a different state is the common meeting point of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. The point is not in habited, however, for it is used as grazing land. Extension Information Card 78 gotten out by Clemson under date of June 1953.' The old one bears this same number but not the re vised date. It treats this subject fully. Of special interest is the very ef fective new poison, TEPP, for flies around the homes and barns. Farmers and county agents have told me of late that it is the last word in this respect. And flies that developed resistance to other poions in recent years fall prey to this one. It is a violent poison and Clemson urges that di rections for its use be followed carefully. In addition to flies, this circu lar gives the latest information on the control of other livestock pests like ticks, grubs, screwworms, mange, etc. Every livestock man would do well to keep a copy of this revised circular handy. It contains the very latest work that Clemson and other institutions have done on this subject. Your county agent has a supply. TREES A CROP It was over 25 years ago that the Clemson Extension Service brought the first resident forester to South Carolina. His name was Henry Tryon. Very few folks thought anything of trees then, except to cut ’em down and set fire to what was left. I was county agent at Sumter then. He visited me and talked of “trees as a crop.” I know I acted dumb to him. For we were just emerging from the dark age of forest slaughter into the neces sity for tree farming and didn’t know it yet. . A lot of improvement has come J since then. We even set out pine trees now! Yes, trees are fast be coming “a crop,” as Tryon said. We not only plant ’em now, as we do a crop. But we harvest them the same way, as they ma ture or need thinning. To encourage this, our state has been giving away millions of pine seedlings each winter. That served a purpose in getting us tree-conscious. Now it has been discontinued. But our state con tinues to grow its millions of seedlings there in the Wedgefield nursery. They are available to landowners at small cost. And the West Virginia Paper Company has bought a million of ’em to dis tribute through their woodyards located at Andrews, Camden, Greenwood, Lancaster, Laurens, Mullins, Rockton, Sharon, and Walterboro. Those interested ap ply there. 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 gram. The questions will be drawr from those most frequently ask ed by persons who have made in quiries at the field office. If you have a question that you would like answered, address youi letter to the Social Security Of fice, 18 Post Office Building, Greenwood. That office will reply direct to you. QUESTION: Do both husband and wife receive Social Security credit for income from a privatelj owned business? ANSWER: If a business is own ed by a bona fide partnership of husband and wife, each receives credit; otherwise only the actual owner of the business receives credit. ^ QUESTION: I employed a man in March as permanent manager of a farm I purchased but we did not begin operations until sometime in April. Will the sec ond quarter (April to June) serve as his qualifying quarter for agri cultural coverage? ANSWER: Yes, if your employ ment relationship existed from the time of your agreement in March. , QUESTION: I have been under Social Security continouslv hut be came totally disabled in April thi? year. I will no^ be 65 until May 1954. Will I be entitled to bene fits at that time? ANSWER: Yes, you will. Con sult our office a short time be fore your birthday. QUESTION: I have earned the maximum each year since Social Security started and will do so until I retire at 65 in Novembei 1953. What will-my benefit be? ANSWER: Approximately $85.06 per month. QUESTION: What is the period during which Social Security is given for military service? ANSWER: September 16, 1940 to December 31, 1953. So Watch for Our Kids SCHOOL time, like vacation, should be a happy time for our youngsters. When you drive in school zones observe all safety signs & rules — Protect the lives of our school kids - DRIVE CAREFULLY AT ALL TIMES. PURCELLS “Your Private Bankers 1418 Main Street Phone 197 DRIVE CAREFULLY - Protect Our Children WORLD’S ONLY VERTICAL VALVE You con tell in on instant eiy great yLT idling speed, the engine of this 1953 ./Y Buick is deceptively docile. All you hear is a silken whisper, a kitten purr, a smooth flow of air channeling quietly through metal passageways. Then—you want to go. You nudge the pedal. You go. That's when you discover that you're sitting behind an engine of electrifying response. That's when you begin to know how the poiver of the first Fireball. V8 can handle getaway, cruising, hill-climbing. That's when^you learn what Buick's highest-compression engine in fifty great years can mean in spirited and soul- satisfying road command. It’s an experience too wonderful to miss —the bossing of this brilliant new V8. Engine that powers every 1953 Buick Super and Roadmaster. , So we cordially invite you to come in and try it. We cordially invite you to hold rein on this truly advanced V8 — the world’s first V8 with vertical valves, with "T” type intake manifold, with zero-power- loss muffler — and the first standard- production American passenger-car engine to reach 8.5 to 1 compression ratio. Why not come in for a sampling? That way you can also try the other Buick gems—like Twin-Turbine Dynaflow*— and the Million Dollar Ride—and the room and visibility and handling ease, of the greatest Buicks yet. Can you make it this week? TYPICAL PRICES ON 1953 BUICKS, DELIVERED LOCALLY SPECIAL 2-Door 6-Passengor Sedan MODEL 48D ’2344” ’2775“ .36 SUPER 2-Door 6-Passenger Riviera MODEL 56R (illustrated) Whitewall tires optional at extra <;osl. ROADMASTER 4-Door 6-Passenger Riviera Sedan, MODEL 72R, with Twin-Turbine Dynaflow and Power Steering as standard equipment at no oxtra cost Optional equipment, accessories, state and local taxes. If any, additional. Prices may vary slightly in adjoining communities due to shipping charges. All prices subject to change without notice. 3442 *Standard on Roadmaster, optional at extra cost on other Series. THE GREATEST , BUICK IN SO GREAT YEARS WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD THEM GASQUE BUICK COMPANY 1305 Friend Street Newberry, S. C.