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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist CAMELLIAS “Growing Camellias as a Hob by” is the name of the Circular 377 that Clemson’s John Napier got out a little over a year ago. That first printing was used up in a lit tle while. The past year it was revised and reprinted. It is avail able free to camellia lovers from the offices of your local county or home agent there in your county or from Clemson. This beautiful and exotic winter bloomer grows pretty well in all parts of this state and thrives in many. At least a little know how is needed for best success with it. In this Circular 377 Mr. Napier gives the essentials for success with camellias. MAN FROM AFAR Back in December a young man from Thailand spent a half day with me. When he left it was mid day here. He said it was mid-night there. He was head of the agricultural cooperatives that the government fosters there. Most of their farms arfe small and primative methods are used. The cooperatives there largely finance the growers and assemble and sell most of the pro ducts. They grow most crops, in cluding cotton. But tea, rubber, and coconuts are the leading crops. Most of the farms are op erated by owners and are small. Their government is a consti tutional monarchy. Their young king was born here in Massa chusetts. My visitor told me the meaning of the- name of their country. Thai, in their language, means Freedom. So Thailand is Freedom-land. Their king is about 25 years old. His name is Phumi- phol Aduldcj and the queen’s name Is Sirikit. They have a boy and a girl. All officials act as guards on public occasions. My visitor’s station at such times is at a post not far from the king. His name is Narong Silpasukhoom. Very interesting, these friends from the far places. I’d like to go there. I might. They irrigate. TURKEYS Through the testing program under Clemson, all of the breeding flocks of turkeys in South Caro lina have been rated as “Pullorum Clean.” "This has been made possible by the constant vigilance and co operation of the breeders and hatcherymen. The disease once took a costly toll of young turk eys. It still pops up at times, and we have to be very watchful for it. But with “Clean” breeding herds, the losses from it have been great ly reduced. The turkey business has grown enormously in South Carolina in the last 20 years. Once we had only the old grasshopper turkeys, raised on the range, and not much for eating. But the turkeys of to day is a vastly improved meat bird, grown in confinement with balanced food and sanitary condi tions. Our turkey growers have done well for themselves with their fine organization. The South Carolina Turkey Federation. At their last meeting at Pageland they were high in praise of extension poul try specialist, Jim Thaxton, who lives with them and works out from York. He has been their active secretary for some years, and they showed their apprecia tion for his efforts by presenting him with a handsome set of leath er luggage. Growing turkeys is quite an art. The essential details are car ried }n Clemson’s turkey bulle tins, which your county agent has for you. POTATO MARKET Developing a market for a farm product is a rather difficult thing. You can’s have a market before you have a sufficient volume of the product. And it’s hard to get enough of the product so long as no visible market exists. So there you are. But we see that riddle being solved at places as we go about. A good many years ago, H. W. Walters and his boys of St. George started buying, grading, washing, waxing, and packing out good sweet * potatoes. They operated there under the depot shed. Last year that old depot was torn down. They bought the shed and moved it over the way a piece. And wlien I was by there in the fall, they were operating under that same old shed, but on a new foundation. They had stored 30,000 bushels of potatoes and sold many. With that local market fchere, the sweet po tato industry thrives. And County Agent King assured me that this ready market accounts for most of those potatoes being planted. Dodge to Pace Indianapolis 500-Mile Race m 1 -< ' :••• 1 INDIANAPOLIS—A 1954 Dodge V-8 convertible will set the pace for 33 of the fastest race cars in the world in the May 31st 500-Mile Race at Indianapolis. William C. Newberg, Dodge president (left), who will drive the car is shown with Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis Speedway president and three-time winner of the event. Shaw announced selection of the Dodge as this year’s Pace Car at a dinner in Indianapolis for representatives of the press, radio and television. Shaw will ride with Newberg on the 2%-mile pace lap on race day. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Flowers and-Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 Bar Remarkable Chemical RO-MFhelps yea get MORE MIIIS for LESS MONEY Our blacksmith at the foot of the hill was as sturdy as the steel and rugged as the oak with which he worked. He was a man of very few words, practically none at all. You’d outline what you wanted fix ed or made. He’d sort of pay at tention out of the corner of his eyes, look long, and say little. If he didn’t thoroughly understand you, he’d at length sort of grunt out an impatient question, work ing right on at what he was doing. And about all he’d ever promise was, “Leave it and I’ll see.” But that was enough. He did everything himself. Only oecassionally did he have someone bold something for him. But that was all. He was too much of a perfectionist to put up with the work of others in his shop. He had many horses and mules to shoe. Some were very fractious, and they had to put a twitch on their lip to control them. But no matter how bad they were, if he ever got the proper hold on one of their legs, they were his meat. As they’d try to rear and pitch, the other foot would some times come off the ground and he was holding up that whole ei\d. I was usually up in a chinaberry tree then, out of danger. I liked to see him fashion the iron shoe to fit their hoof. He could really make an anvil talk and the hammer did just what he wanted it to. The shoes were al ways too long and a lump of red- hot metal was always cut off of each side and the remaining part bent down about a half inch as a cleet to keep the animal from slipping. One day I went there to the an vil to tap it a few times with the hammer just as he had finished fixing a horse shoe. I didn’t see that sizzling hot piece of metal from the shoe that had dropped off Mare MHas efCarUfa-lass Menay far Repairs! 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The dam, which when built was the largest earthen dam in the world, is 211 feet high and about 1% miles long. It is more than a fifth of a mile thick at its base. Built entirely of ma terial found at or close to the site, it contains more than 11,- 000,000 cubic yards of material. The project, owned and op erated by the S. C. Electric & Gas Company, furnishes elec tricity to Columbia and many other cities ana towns in the central, southern and western sections of the state. PRESIDE CAPITAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ’Founded on Foith—Dedicated te Service” Government Needs Agriculture Men The Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Atlanta, Georgia, an nounces an examination for Stu dent Trainee positions of Soil Con servationist, Soil Scientist, and Agricultural Engineer at various locations in the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mis sissippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, V i r g i n i,a Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Is lands. These Student Trainee positions are designed to give interested persons an opportunity to gain practical work experience during school vacation periods in con junction with their college train ing. Salaries are at the rate of $2750 to $3175 a year, depending on the qualifications of the candi date. Applicants will be required to take a written examination de signed to test their general ability to learn. Students who have completed one year or more of college study toward a bachelor’s degree in Soil Conservation, Soils, Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering, Animal Husbandry, Botany, Forestry, Range Management, Biology, or other agricultural sciences, are eligible to file for these positions. For complete information and forms to file, see Examination An nouncement No. 5-83-1-1954, or the Commission’s Local Secretary at most first and second-class post offices; the U. S. Civil Service Regional Office at Atlanta, Ga., Washington, D. C., Cincinnati, Ohio, or the Executive Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Ex aminers for the Department of Ag riculture, 322 Peachtree — 7th Building, 7th Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia, with whom applications must be filed not later than the close of business February 24, 1954. there in the black dust of the ground floor. I planted my bare foot right on it. It was but mo ments before it burned through the thick callous there and hit the quick. And with that, I let up a yell, and lit out for the ditch down the way. There I soused it in the cool water and it felt a lit tle better. But I had to walk on tiptoe for a week or more after that. Watch And Jewelry Repairs BR0ADUS LIPSCQMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstone Street » I Piyii . ..P.i iii i. ii'.. PET PEEVE 70. Scott N^OW, YOU take my young son. ^ At twenty months he was quite a conversationalist, not widely versed, but capable of vocally de fending his position when caught in any minor act of malfeasance Whenever caught, in the red, or post facto, he quickly said he was sorry and, as far as he was con cemed, that ended the matter com pletely. That’s the panacea. If you've done something wrong, be sorry, and do it in a “cute” way A good example happened one day while we were visiting my sister. Sue. The grown-ups were in the parlor, the kids at play— when the dike broke. From be neath the closed kitchen door came a powerful stream of water, fan ning across the living room into the parlor, wetting rugs, feet, everything. When we opened the door of the kitchen, we found him, still on tiptoes, turning contrqjs on the automatic dishwater. The machine, with top up, without dishes, sprayed ceiling, walls and intruders gen erously. But the culprit was master of the situation. Nonchalantly repeat- ing-^he great panacea, “Me sorry, me sorry,” he walked across the room to determine if there was anything about the stove that might be worth investigating. It’s a favorite story for Sue, and she tells it with flourish, describ ing her wild dash down the base ment stairs in successful flight with a giggling child, pursued by a man who couldn’t run well with a belt in one hand and the other busy holding up his trousers. Major punishment in the whole affair was inflicted on U-know-who, tripped by a trouser cuff on the bottom step. % C EAGLES ON WAGON... “Jocko, bald eagle captured in upper Michigan with halt of rabbit meat and whiskey, seowla at “dry” diet la Washington, D. C.. too I REMEMBER"! BY THE OLD TIMERS From 1VI D. Murry, Hudson, Wis consin: I have been much inter ested in the bits “I remember” as I find them in different papers and they bring back memories of my childhood and of homestead life in Montana. I aun eighty-five years young and was born in a log cabin in Western Wisconsin where life was rugged and money scarce. We. too, made our own soap. When I was six I started school in the small log building a mile from our house. The furniture was hewed from logs, two small win dows furnished the light, and a pot-bellied stove supplied the heat. The stove was fed by grubs from the trees cut down in clearing the schooj site. The* books were furnished by the eight pupils who had brought them from other schools. Some of them had one or two, while my proud possession was a Sandeis Primer that Pa had traded eggs for at the local store. When I entered school my trou bles really began. Big Bill was then twelve and he kept all of us in an uproar. He told us that when sausage broke open in the frying pan, it had been made of dog. Ma had made our sausage and when I refused to eat a broken one, she had to take me to the stove and show what heat would dr in cooking. We always shed our shoes at the first waim spell in spring and did not find them again until it froze up. The skin on our feet became as tough as leather, though occa sionally we got bruises which re quired that we “baby” our feet for a long time. (Send contributions to this column to The Old Timer, Community Press Serv ice, Box 39, Frankfort, Ky.) Prosperity Items There’s more hard work than luck in most success stories. WHITAKER FUNERAL HOME AMBULANCE PHONE 270 The Prosperity Garden club will meet Monday afternoon, Feb. 1, with Mrs. P. E. Wise, at 3:30. D. H. Hamm, Jr., was taken to the Columbia Hospital Sunday and is undergoing treatment. The Dogwood Garden club will meet with Mrs. Walter Hamm, Monday, Feb. 1, at 3:30. Miss Dorothy Agatha Bodie of Newberry and Drayton M. Counts of Prosperity were married Satur day afternoon at 5 o’clock at the Methodist parsonage by the Rev. Ray P. Hook, pastor of the groom. Two of the bride’s friends ac companied them. Mrs. Counts wore a two piece navy suit with ratvy accessories. The * couple will stay with Mr. Cook’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. Fred Cook. Mr. Cook is employed by the Coca Cola Bottling Company in Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Day of Mt. Airy, Md. visited Mr. Day’s sister, Mrs. C. K. Wheeler and Dr. Wheel er, for several days last week. Mrs. P. C. Singley is touring Florida this week with her son-in- law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W T . O. Callahan of Columbia. • Mrs. J. S. Wheeler spent last week with her sister, Mrs. John Little, in Clinton. Miss Pat Wise, student at the University of Ga., spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wise. Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Singley and their daughter, Denby, of Co lumbia, were guests. Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Luther. Mrs. J. E. Ross and Richard Ross spent the weekend with rel-* atives in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wise and their three daughters of Winns- boro were Sunday guests of Mrs. Wise’s mother, Mrs. L. J. Fellers. Mrs. P. E. 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