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PAGE EIGHT THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1965 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist CATTLE PRICES Most of our cattle business is rather new here. Most of our pastures and cattle have come in the last 20 years, during which we've experienced nothing much but rising prices. Wars wiped out the expected low spots. During a time like that, it was hard to lose on cattle. And many beginners did well. Those who study history know that cattle prices, like other farm prices, bobble up and down rather regularly along through the years during anything like normal times. But the times have not been nor mal since we started developing the cattle business in earnest here. And now we see the first serious dip in prices in 20 years. That’s a new experience for us. We must learn to cope with it. Let’s look at cattle prices back a piece. In 1924 they averaged 5.84c a pound. In 5 years, to 1929, they had gone up 62 percent to 8.47c. Then in the following 5 years they had dropped 53 percent to 4.13c. In 5 more years they had rebounded 75 percent to 7.14c In 1939. And from 1934 the spiral upward has been almost steady. By 1944 they had advanced 43 per cent from that 1939 figure to 10.80c. And by 1949 they had ad vanced 83 percent from that to an average price of 19.80c. Then by 1951 they had gone up 45 percent from that to 28.70c. It’s important to remember this; somebody’s going to grow the cat tle needs of this country. We are sure we have some advantages here. The fellows who have the natural advantages and who do the best job are sure to be the ones who will continue to grow the cattle we need. UTTLE THINGS GROW BIG Some folks with the know-how from the Georgia Experiment Sta tion saw possibilities in a new crop some years ago. They start ed the Cherokee Products Co. at Haddoc, Ga. They have developed a pimiento pepper canning busi ness from a mere apron full to a big business. A group of counties of our Up Country here now grow these pep pers on contract for them. # Large trailer trucks come weekly through the season to each county on de livery day, get the peppers, pay for them, and haul them to the Haddoc plant. The county agents tell me their folks like this crop, even though it has been awful dry for the past 3 summers we’ve been growing them. The past summer about a half dozen farmers irrigated them. Results were excellent, the agents tell me. New crops! we need ’em. And a goodly soil and climate make a lot of ’em possible here too. WILD GEESE AT CLEMSON I’ve told you often of the wild geese at the Gaddy pond at An- sonville, North Carolina. Now I’m delighted to tell you that a refuge for wild ducks and geese has been established on Clemson property at Lake Issa- queena. This was done over a year ago, and last winter several hundred ducks and a number of wild geese found this safe sanctu ary and made it home. Waddy McFall, Clemson gradu ate and wildlife expert, is in charge of it under cooperative ar rangement with the U. S. and State Wildlife folks. He tells me the migratory waterfowl are mak ing use of it again this winter. In that same area the State and Federal folks released a batch of wild turkeys a year ago that seem to be thriving. It is well to remember that 20 years ago Mr. Gaddy at Ansonville had 9 wild geese to come to his farm pond. Rather than shoot ’em, he fed and protected ’em. They have kept coming back each win ter and now there are over 12,000 there! Such a possibility has Clemson in the making. A feast for the eyes! Over 29,000 went to see them intimately there at the Gaddy pond the past winter. More are streaming there now. I wonder if there are not others who will, with sincerity and with out guile, furnish these beautiful wild creatures a safe spot to light, rest, and feed? They need it down here in the temperate zone, when their far-northern haunts are locked in winter. If you in vite them and never break their faith, you can likely have a won derland made out of your pond area too. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER When they opened the hog up at butchering time, we were right there, getting in the way, trying to see everything. As soon as the insides came out in a tub, some of the women folks took them down behind the plum thicket. There they cleaned the in testines for stuffing sausage and puddin’ in. And the stomach and larger parts .went for chitterlings. * My, how we liked them! Creamed like chicken and served with grits, they were wonderful. And to this day, I know of nothing better. We spoke in turns for the blad der. It was highly treasured. 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The best axe men bragged about being able to split the narrow all the way down the backbone, as the hog hung from the limb of the old apple tree there in our back yard. It was really getting interesting to us then, for it was nearing the eating stage. They would cut thin strips of the light tender loin and give it to us to cook over the coals there on sharp sticks. Frequently we would hold It too close and it or the stick would catch fire. If it dropped off, jve'd scrape i,t out of the ashes and try again. With a little salt sprinkl ed on, we thought that roasted pork was grand. Head, liver, skins, and scraps were all put in a pot, with a bag ot rice to boil for liver puddin’. Trimmings of lean were ground for sausage, and the fat was ground for lard. The trimmed hams, shoulders, and sides were salted heavy and placed on papers on a shelf in the smoke house. And next week now we will finish this butchering up. LATIMER-SCHMIDT Word has -been received in New berry of the marriage of T/Sgt. John David Latimer of Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas and Miss Sally Ann Schmidt, of Chicago, 111. The wed ding took place on November 13th. Sergeant Latimer is the son of Mrs. Lillian Latimer of Bishop- ville, and the late Mr. and Mrs. David E. Werts of Newberry. CPL. GILL SERVING IN KOREA 24TH DIV., KOREA—CpI Joe A. Gill, 21, son of Carrie Clark, Hel ena, S. C., is serving in Korea with the 24th Infantry Division. First American division to fight under the UN flag, the 24th In fantry returned to Korea shortly before the cease fire. The division, which originally landed in Korea during July 1950, spent 19 months at the front before going back to Japan for security duty. Corporal Gill, an ambulance driver in the 24th Medical Bat talion’s Ambulance Company, en tered the Army in June 1952, ? WEST END SCHOpL TO BROADCAST FRIDAY , The West End School will broadcast the program over the local radio station WKDK on Fri day, December 18th, from 9:15 to 9:30 a.m. , COMPLETES SIX MONTH'S TOUR OF DUTY NORFOLK, Va. (FHTNC)—The USS Franklin D. Roosevelt re turned here Dec. 3rd completing a six month tour of duty with the sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Serving aboard the attack air craft carrier with Fighter Squad ron 101 is Gary W. Rister, aviation structural mechanic first class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Rister of 402 Green St., New berry, and husband of Mrs. Dolores A. Rister of Key West, Fla. Fighter Squadron 101 and At tack Squadron 15 teamed with forces from NATO nations to test the ability of the combined naval strength in the Mediterranean. During the six month period visits were made to Barcelona, Spain; Marseille, the French Riviera; Athens, Greece; Beirute, Lebanon; Naples and Genoa, Italy. Marriage Licenses Issued Recently Wade Padgett and Willie Wick er, Newberry. Albert E. Roland and Sheila Heap, Tampa, Fla. James M. Wicker and Ruth Howell, Newberry. Richard P. Stepp, New Ellenton and Peggie Joyce Brown, Prosper ity. James B. Fulmer, Prosperity and Jeanette Metts, Little Mountain. Carlos H. Able and Blanche Yar borough, Saluda. Thomas Jefferson Longshore, Newberry and Mildred Amick, Prosperity. Jacob John Waites and Gilda Harriet Cromer, Pomaria. Harry W. Halfacre and Betty Catherine Stone, Newberry. Harry O. Anderson and Patricia J. Dickerson, Columbia. Guerry Alvin Fulmer and June O. Moore, Newberry. PVT. LONGSHORE ON DUTY IN KOREA WITH INFANTRY Pvt James R. Longshore, eon of Mrs. Mary Longshore, Route t, Newberry, recently arrived i® Korea for duty with the 45th In fantry Division. 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