The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 17, 1953, Image 8
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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. We
would insert a cane in it and blow
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it up. That was the only sort of
balloon we ever had. We would
put a few cowpeas in it, let it dry
inflated, and then it would rattle
like a drum when we agitated it.
About that time they had split
the hog down the back with a
sharp axe. We hadn’t heard of
meat saws then. 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
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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.
The first National Guard divi
sion to see combat since World
War II, the 45th Infantry was fed
eralized in 1950 and arrived In
Korea during December 196L It 1»
now receiving intensive post-truce
training.
Private Longshore, who entered
the Army in May, was formerly
stationed at Fort Jackson.
Bobby Jack Jessie, High Pointy
N. C. and Lucille Pardue, New
berry.
Eric Carson Koon, Pomaria and
Frances Carolyn Mitchell, Union.
Robert Wheeler Barnes and
Dorothy Jean Werts, Prosperity.
Robert Harold Lake, Newber
ry and Reba Mae Waites, Pomsria,
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