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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.
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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.
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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
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YOUR STATE AND MINE
L AKE MURRAY, on the Sa
luda River, is the largest
body of water in the world
impounded by an earthen dam
for the production of electric
power. This lake, named in
honor of William S. Murray,
one of the first men to recognize
the possibilities of the power
project, has a capacity of 92,-
000,000,000 cubic feet of water.
Forty-one miles long and 14
miles across at its widest point,
the lake covers about 50,000
acres of land, and has a shore
line of more than 500 miles.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Wise visited Mrs. J.
C. Taylor in Charleston from Mon
day till Thursday of last week.
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