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PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN INDIANS VISIT CAPITAL . . . Sen. Arthur Watkins <R) of Utah, chairman of senate interior sub committee on Indian affairs, confers with Yakima, Wash., Indian chiefs on disposition of inherited in terests of deceased Indians. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist THERE AND HERE i clothe more and more folks I read that the Iowa farmer pro- | through the magic of mechaniza- duces 6 times as much stuff as the German farmer in Bavaria. But the Bavarian farmer produces 7 times as much stuff per acre in the course of a year as does the man in Iowa. There we have typical cases of the two extreYnes of farming that the world has seen for a long time, intensive and extensive. In Bavaria the folks are heavy up'on the land. And it has been that way for a long time. So they spare no labor in bringing large successive harvests from every inch of it. Self preservation de mands it. Here we have the other ex treme. Labor is the item here. And we spread ^ it wide and thin through full mechanization. The production per man is thus made great. While the total production per acre is not so great. When folks get to populating the land very heavily, the land be comes the important item. But when folks are rather thin on the land, the, man becomes the im portant item. And, in our time, we have seen a great miovement from the land to town, where in dustry thrives and beckons. That has served to keep our farming on an extensive basis. And fewer folks are made able to feed and tion. For years our youth have been learning to ride the machine with effectiveness at their summer 4-H camps. There the men of Clemson teach the ways of the iron mule. Their dads learn the same les sons in the farm machinery schools the county agents have been holding for years. First, few farmers came. But in late years, as the pinch of scarcer and higher labor began to hurt, they came to the machinery schools and clinics in greatly increased numbers. And now, a tractor with compli cated machine is about as com mon in our fields as is the mule and plowlboy. And the latter is di minishing fast. Extensive farming! Yes, it looks like that is what destiny has dished out for us. It’s more stuff per man here, while on many dis tant and crowded lands it must be the utmost production per acre, regardless of the manpower re quired. APRIL April, early April! It’s the finest time of the year, seems to me. Earth is awakening from its long winter night. Roots and buds have renewed their vigor with rest. And now they awake with leaf and flower to again make a verdant and fruitful land. We play with that magic in field and furrow. And beauty, food, and raiment will come forth. My, my, but one can do a lot of living now! COTTON Now is the time with cotton. The seed should be good and treated. The land well prepared and fertilized. Row's should be as close as the land will stand, rang ing mostly from 30 to 42 inches. If tractor handled and mechanical ly picked, row spacings are in the top of that range. A weeder or harrow will break the crust and help it come up if dry. And this also helps kill early weeds and grass. Every effort should be bent on getting a good stand. Then don’t thin too much, leave about 3 stalks to the hill 8 to 12 inches apart, according to experiment and experience. Pre-emerge chemicals to con trol weeds and grass are very promising. I saw some farmers who used it with entire satisfac tion last year, and a few who didn’t. So there are still things to learn about it. But we have gone far enough to know that we will soon be controlling grass that way in cotton. And that will break the hoeing bottleneck with the crop. Another new thing with cotton is to do the chopping job me chanically by going across the rows with scrapes of discs that block it out. I saw a rig that County Agent Bowen of Sumter got up that was doing a good job on a large acreage last year. After that they only bunched through it with hoes to get the occasional weed or break up the occasional cluster of cotton it had left. OF THE PEOPLE By Jean de la Moite O LD Si Bates had always wanted to be a politician. So when the yaflmad pensioned him off several years ago, he started looking around for alliances. At first the organization boys re fused to take Si seriously. But the old man was persistent. Real poli ticians are made that way, he had once heard, so every meeting found him sitting there on the front row seconding motions. That’s how he happened to be around when it occurred one day to the fellows who ran the show that they could use just such an old fum-1 bleb rain as Si. The old railroader was exactly what they needed to put up against Bill Miggins. Running against Mig- fins added up to outright political suicide—everyone in the district realized that, of course—everyone except old Si. So they endorsed him. Si was grateful. And he was proud, so almighty proud that not erven his best friends had the heart to tell him he didn’t have a chance. But he won. Everybody on the ticket won. The election turned out io be one of those landslides not even the most active precinct scufflers had dared to hope for. Af ter it was all over but the official count, every member of the party was glad they had filled the slate, even down to old Si’s place. The retired railroader had been mo busy shaking hands and taking down to the roundhouse to show them old faithful No. 78— queen of an engine, he would tell them, while passing out his cam paign cards through the cab win dow—he had been so busy running he hadn’t had any time to even con sider the possible cost of holding public office. Living in Washington might turn out to be expensive. Si thought. He confided that apprehension to the county captain. The boss smiled and told the old man in a kind way that he hadn’t been running for Congress anyway, but for the state assembly. It hurt Si’s pride, but the boss pointed out that*he could afford Capital City. The assembly moved rapidly. Si went to all the lobby dinners and sat around watching the other law makers doing this and that and talking about all sorts of things he didn’t realize he understood until they told him so. And he voted, too. His single vote defeated one measure the caucus had decided to support. It wasn’t that Si was dis loyal, because he had promised to back it, too, but he hadn’t recog nized the bill when it came up on the floor for a vote. “Oh, well,’’ he told the chairman, “it probably wasn’t a very good bill, anyway.’’ It was only two weeks until ad journment when old Si woke up to the fact that he hadn’t introduced a bill of his own yet. So he began looking around for something which could still stand some more legis lation. The others hadn’t left much. But old Si found one thing. It turned out to be the little handcars which had always been the source of such irritation during all those years he had spent on the railroad. Every handcar should be equipped with tail lights, the old engineer was convinced. Senator Waters drafted the bill for him, and the next day there was old Si’s name on the official record. He collected 300 copies and mailed them to all his relatives, friends on the railroad, and other constituents. Adjournment day arrived and the sess^pn ended. Old Si had forgotten about his bill in the excitement of those closing days. But after the frenzy subsided, he began to won der what had happened. Finding its number amonjj those killed, the old railroader fumed with indignation. He read through the roll call to find the names of those who had voted against his bill. Anderson . . Appleton . . . At well . . Bates He had voted ’’No.” % this week's: / patterns BY AUDREY LANE z 2446 12 - 46 2043 SIZES No. 2446 Is cat In slses 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 36. 38, 40. 42. 44, 46. Slse 18: 3% yds. 39-In. No. 2043 Is cat In sizes 1. 2, 3. 4. Size ?: Dress, 1T« yds. 33-In. Slip, 1 yd. 3!Mn. Send 30c for EACH pattern with name, address, style number and sice to AU DREY LANE BUREAU. Box 3«9. Madi son Square Station, New York 10. N. Y. The new SPRING-SUMMER FASH ION BOOK with scores of other styles, #>vrtrA THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1954 Commissioner of Agriculture Praises Newberry Farmers By J. ROY JONES, Commissioner of Agriculture * Farmers of the Newberry Soil Conservation District are to be commended for the accomplish ments made In the field of soil and water conservation. It is most timely for you to call to the at tention of others the progress being made in Newberry County by observing “Soil Conservation District Week.’’ It helps to review the progress of the past and estab lish worthwhile aims for the fu ture. In my twenty-odd years, as Commissioner of Agriculture, 1 know of few factors contributing so much to the general welfare of farmers in the state as the Soil Conservation Districts program. It is gratifying to see District Supervisors—just regular farmers, giving their time, effort, and lead ership to help guide a program in which farm people can cooperate to make the best use of the soils they have. In observing the many new uses for land that Districts have help ed put into effect, it seems that for a long time, conservation meant just the construction of ter races and rows on the contour, and a little strip-cropping here and there. Todays conservation meaning includes a host of methods to keep land good. By your leadership, you are striking at the very heart of the problem in puttig each acre of land to its best use, whether it be trees, cot ton, pasture, corn, hay, or orchard. Likewise, in the field of water management, you first worked on the problem of too much water, for it had a destructive force that carried with it a great deal of top soil. Now, you are building farm ponds and developing small water sheds with the idea of putting ex cess water to good use during times of drought. This is remark able progress in the agriculture of South Carolina. It has been my pleasure to serve on the Advisory Committee to your State Soil Conservation Com mittee. I have noted that a great amount of undertakings of this committee are from problems that arise in the Districts on the land. District Supervisors have a way of finding the problems in the field, thus providing the leadership to encourage cooperation among larger groupst o get the job done on the ’ land. When conservation leaves the “talk stage’’ and gets on the land, people begin to bene fit. None of these jobs have been an easy undertaking, but the net results are being spelled out on the farms of South Carolina. These results now vividly meet the eye of evan a casual observer. Another good feature of the Districts pro gram is that these things are done voluntarily. In observing Soil Conservation District week, new opportunities are presented in which many of your non-farm friends and neigh bors can understand the important contribution that a conservation program in effect on the lands of Newberry County contributes to the well-being of the whole com munity. All these things mark pro gress and lend encouragement to the youth who very shortly will have to undertake the same prob lems with which you are now working. Doubtless, these pro blems will be reduced In magni tude by your efforts, but a con tinuous program in the field of conservation will always be im portant to keep our farm lands at highest productive use. GUERNSEY COW SETS STATE CHAMPION RECORD T. P. Mills, Prosperity, S. C., has made a Guernsey State Champion record with his registered Guern sey cow, Kimbrough’s Saluda Rose. Her production of 11,225 pounds of milk and 547 pounds of butter- fat is the highest Advanced Regis try record in the state of South Carolina, made by a nine year-old, in the 365 day division. The sire of this cow, Klondike Kimbrough, owned by Nichols & Longshore, Saluda, has 17 tested daughters in the Performance Register of The American Guern sey Cattle Club. American women bought 679 million pairs of nylons last year, and the industry can prove that they bought more for glamor than for durability. In 1947 only 21% of the production was of the sheer variety. Now it approaches 80% There is nothing like a spell of frosty Brazilian weather to whet one’s appetite for a nice cup ot tea. SPARE-TIME JOBS FOR HIGH SCHOOL KIDS When your youngster comes to you and asks to he allowed to take a spare-time job remember that this is a mechanized, technologi cal age. Getting a job now is a matter of pushing out into the world, learning skills quickly, working against tough competi tion. Tools and jobs have changed. No longer are there many safe jobs for kids; machines have taken over most of those chores. Yet the number of high-school ers with spare-time jobs continue to increase. In October 1953 one in every seven youngsters 14 and 15 years of age was at work. One in every three youngsters 16 and 17 had jobs. So when your teen-ager decides that the only solution to his pro blem is to go to work during the schol year, don’t, answer without serious thought. NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of the estate of Pauline G. Kinard in the Probate Court for Newber ry County, S. C., on Friday the 14th day of May, 1954, at 10 o’ clock in the forenoon, and will im mediately thereafter ask for my discharge as Executor of said estate. All persons having claims against the estate of Pauline G. Kinard deceased, are hereby noti fied to file the same, duly verified with the udersigned, and those in debted to said estate will please make payment likewise. Marvin O. Summer, Executor April 2, 1954. 49-4tc. THE MONTHS AHEAD What happens ia, April will de cide the course ot business in September and October. So watch these signs carefully. Note how the stores do. Keep an eye on em ployment reports and on trends In the auto and construction industr ies. These are some of the signs that forecast the business weath er. If the figures this month look sickly, then some worsening of the situation can be expected later on. Keeping 5core ■ HE best baseball innovation in many a day is the newspaper box score. This jumble of figures and abbreviations makes it possi ble for fans who didn’t see or hear the game, or who live away from Big League areas to reconstruct yesterday's game and see why one team won and the other lost . r . Reading a box score is not toe dif ficult a task. Take abbreviations: “AB” means "at bat" . . . "R" means “runs’’ (scored) . . , "H" means hits ... "O" or "PO** means “patents” . . . "A" means "as sists’’ . . . "E” means "errors" committed ... A quick glance tells what each player contributed toward winning or losing the game . . . When an opponent Is retired, every man who handled the ban gets credit for aa assist . . . Only the man who completed the out gets tee patent ... Summary of tee box score tells shoot extra base hits, raw batted in, double plays, stolca bases, sacrifices . . . Aise given Is tee number of men Left on base, which explains why tee team getting tee most hits doesn't always win. Let’s play ‘Tm afraid we’re gonna lose our happv home. Miran- dy. Mr. Popshingle just phoned Purcells for an auto loan to buy a new roofl” No fuss and feathers about getting an auto loan here. Just give a call, then stop by and pick up your money, that’s all. PURCELLS “Your ^rlvavo Bankers” 1418 Main St Newberry The new 200-horsepower Buick CtNTutr Convertible—sleek, smart, spirited—and available In gorgeous new summer colon. life Have a line the gals go for Y ou can’t fool the ladies when it comes to styling. From clothes and hemlines, to cars and color schemes—they insist on a fresh new look and a fresh new change—and anything else won’t do. So it’s easy to see why the gals — bless ’em! — have been going for Buick in a great big way—going for the glamorous modernity of these new-day automobiles ever since the first public showing a few short months ago. From the beginning, they’ve been going for the decker, longer, lower lines—the futuristic shaping of the new windshields — the stunning decor of the striking new fabrics — the clean simplicity of the new instrument panels. MILTON BERLE STARS FOR BUICK—See the Buick-Berle Show Tuesday Evening* But you ought to see how they go for the gay new car models in Buick’s Spring Fashion Show! Fresh new Convertibles, Rivieras and Estate Wagons never before available — and in gorgeous new summer colors never shown before! And you ought to see how they go— as the men certainly do—for the BUCK the beautiful buy thrilling new V8 power, the buoy ant new ride, the superb new con trol, and the almost effortless handling ease that are all part and parcel of every new 1954 Buick. Why not visit our Spring Fashion Show and see for yourself the fresh new tomorrow that’s here now — in today’s Buick? Then we can show you the prices ihat make this beauty the buy of the year. THE COMPLETE LIN E-UP OF BUICK BEAUTIES FOR 1954 includes stun ning new all-steel Estate Wagons ana ‘'hardtop" Rivieras, as well as gay new Convertibles, in both the low-priced V8 SreciAi Series and in the high-powered Ccntusy Series. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD THEM: CASQUE BUICK COMPANY 1305 Friend Street Newberry, S. C