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■ V w-w* "' rWBW Wi ; ‘0$?- 'THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1954 CHOU IN INDIA . . . Communist China’s Chou En-lal (in black) grins at New Delhi conference with India’s premier Nehru (left). Pres. Prasad (right) and vice president Radhakrishanan. ’VfOU’LL be serving seconds and 1 thirds, perhaps, of waffles for •dessert if you fold some chocolate (melted) into the batter and serve •with whipped cream to which has been added crushed per>n<=>*-rrnnt candy. Gingerbretc can oe use-. .1. aev- •cral ways. Make an upside down cake with it using apple or pear slices in brown sugar and butter at the bottom of the skillet. It may also be used as a shortcake base with strawberries or bananas. Muffins will make a nice main dish if you add bits of ham to the RECIPE OF THE WEEK Piquant Cheese Loaf 2% ounces Blue or Rouquefort cheese 5 ounces Cheddar cheese 3 ounces cream cheese Vz teaspoon Worcestershire sauce % cup chopped nuts Blend all ingredients except nuts until well blended. Form into loaf and roll in chopped nuts. Wrap in waxed paper and let stand in refrigerator until firm. Serve with fresh pears and crisp crackers for dessert. batter and serve split when baked with creamed pimiento and peas. Cranberry jelly added to pot roast gravy makes it rich, flpvorful and tart. Stir through thr • v until the jelly melts. Potato salad is more to id nourishing if you add some diced frankfurters to it, and they’re a good meaty touch to ^’ ‘o mqc- aroni salad, too. * Pork chops are v>.-i wnen • dipped in milk, cornflake crumbs and paprika, then browned. Com plete the cooking by adding water to which catsup has been added. Simple butter cakes can be iced very simply if you mix brown sugar and nuts and sprinkle over the batter before baking. Cole Slaw makes a pretty p- when served in a jellied beet n.,,.. .made with shredded cooked beets Annie Hnrkleroad, Eureka, California: < I remember back in 1894 I taught the first public school in Kay County, Oklahoma, in a sod school house—-built by the men in 4he neighborhood. The men plowed the sod with breaking plows, then cut it into 14 inch squares. They marked off the spot for the school house, dug down two feet and then began to lay the sod, much as one would stone set The roof was a ridge pole, green cotton wood boards over that with tarred paper tacked on. I had 22 pupils, from the first to the eighth grades, and received $25 a month in script It was six months before the county had «i|ough money to pay me. • • * From Olive Colson, Mankato, Kansas: My father was a G.A.R. man, having gone to war in 1863 with the 29th Iowa Regiment. He was Quartermaster of the Post at Iona, Kansas. In 1885 a soldiers reunion was held at Iona, a year later one was held at Burr Oak. My brother-in-law ran the dance platform at the week-long affair and I was allowed to go along—a .highlight of my young life, at 16. • • • From Maggie Kent Exevea, Chi sago, Illinois: I remember how the neighbors gathered to help, father butcher and how they threw away the heart, lungs, kidneys, brains, even necks which were considered non-edibles. We pay a good price for these things now-a-days. Live juid learn. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist PEPPER. IN PICKENS County Agent Wood of Pickens had just delivered a million and a half pimiento pepper plants to his farmers when I was there the first of May. More were expected in a few days. They planted 500 acres, a few acres to the farm. Pickens and several other counties in the area have been growing this crop some now for several years, and they like it. The peppers are all taken at a fixed price by a cannery in Georgia. The folks in Pickens have built a re ceiving shed there in town. There the peppers are received and paid for once a week during the long summer and fall bearing season. SUMTER TRUCK AND CHANGE Truck is being tried in a rather big way on some of the heavy lowlands of Sumter that have been drained. I went with County Agent Bowen to the Barnett farm where cucumbers, bell peppers, and tomatoes were being grown in quantity. A large hole was dug for irrigation water. There seepage puts a lot of water in a hole like that. And three wells have been hooked up to one pump that will run continuously or so long as needed to keep the reservoir full. New things! .'We find them at every turn in South Carolina. In this way we will find those that are suited. I often speak of “this chang ing agriculture.” And, man, it’s sure changing now. Experiment and experience are fast bringing it about. A whole new pattern of farming is being laid over the state. Cotton is still there, yes, 1 HAVE never been able to go along with the so-called office reformers who periodically cam paign for abolishment of Monday mornings and Friday afternoons. Any elected substitutes would be just as disagreeable. Monday morning, merely be cause it follows Sunday on the calendar, has long been maligned, despised and conspired again. How many times has the joy of a restful, or a busy and active* Sunday afternoon been shattered by the mighty wail of the time- clock slave: “If I just didn’t have to face Monday morning!’’ So, were we to reshuffle the days of the week—could he face Tuesday morning any easier if it followed on the heels of a Sunday? And then there is the office “Porky” who comes in staggering under the weight of a Friday lunoh that would have made tfiree meals for a normal human being. He plops himself down with a thud audible for miles and announces to the world: “If I can live through this afternoon, I should live to be a hundred!” If he’s a gambling man, offer 10-to-one, because he will never make it . . . even if we abolished Friday afternoons and saved ’em until we had enough to make another leap year. The plain truth is that Monday a.m. and Friday p.m. are nothing more or less than that which we allow them to be. If you wake up with lumps on your head one Mon day morning, they are not there merely because it’s Monday mom— something happened on Sunday. You either rubbed noggins with a hornet’s nest or got in the way of a baseball bat. voj-ite announcers. The boys must have “fine” music on their program. • * A 20-year-old robber was soundly whipped by a 78-year- old jewelry shop manager in New York City. * He found the truth of the old saying, “age be fore booty.** * * £ Slight hitch in solving the dairy surplus problem has been noted. Milk-vending machine outside Agriculture Secretary Benson’s office recently had an “out of order" sign on it. v spel THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEW County Farmers Favor Modern Breeding Plan 'iw BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER as King, but not an absolute one, as of yore. But perhaps a stronger one since sod, and cattle, and poultry,' and truck, and forestry, and other things have come in strength to help out. WE MIGHT LET THIS SOAK IN In County Agent Bowen’s* office in Sumter I read this statement on the wall: “I had no shoes and I complained until I met a mam who had no feet.” CABBAGE, THEN AND NOW I have long known cabbage as a healthful food. And I like it, all the way from sauerkraut to cole slaw. But I didn’t know it had medicinal qualities. Dr. McKinlay of UCLA points out that some doctors now recom mend its juice as a treatment for certain ulcers. And his research shows that ancient people used it as a hangover preventive, as re ported fh the little readable publi cation “American Cyanagrams.” They used the whole caibbage, not just the juice. “It is recorded,” he states, “that the Egyptians ate both the cab bage and its seed to keep from being intoxicated. And the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, counseled i his readers to dine well on cab bage just before starting out for a big evening.” And Cato, the Roman, gave his high-living countrymen the fol lowing advice: “If you wish to drink much at a banquet, before dinner dip cab bage in vinegar and eat much as you wish. When you have dined, eat five leaves.' The cabbage will make you as fit as if you had nothing and you can drink as much as you will.” And Dr. McKinlay points out that Athenians grew cabbage among their grape vines, believing this would make the wine milder. But what I like is the more use ful aspect of cabbage, as a sub stantial human food. One of our uses of it in the Dutch Fork, where STRICTLY FRESH QARDENER in Sydney, Me., harvested a pocketbook he lost in 1953 containing $600. Seed companies could make a fortune if they’d bring out a strain of 1 “cabbage” like that. * * * Fellow in Somerville, N. J., let his younger brother run him down with a car on a dare, to prove he wasn’t yellow. But now he’s sure black and blue. * * * Houston, Tex., police paid $5 parking fees for two of their fa- 60 MIXES-** Early one summer our sorghum syrup gave out. The country store there had just gotten in the first we had ever seen in friction top gallon buckets. So we took a hen or two and swapped for a bucket of it. That bucket, with the tight fit ting top, looked good to us. But they wouldn’t let us have-it. After being emptied, it was kept on the kitchen shelf with flower seeds in it. But before the new crop of syrup came in that fall, we had emptied several of those buckets of syrup. For it was a part of our daily ration. We topped most meals off with bread sopped in a delightful mixture of it and fresh-churned butter. After other needs for buckets had been filled, they let us have one of them. The folks were cur ious to know what we wanted with it. But we wouldn’t tell. We were afraid they wouldn’t let us have it if we did. What we had seen in that tight bucket from the very first was a steam boiler, Hke the one that came with the thrasher each year. We figured we could insert a whistle In it, build a fire under it, and blow the whistle with steam! So the outfit was rigged up back there behind the woodpile I was raised, as kraut ha:s a sort of medical angle though too. We firmly believed “it was good for us, raw or cooked, and was easy on the stomach. We made it in a barrel. Every time our moth er went to the barrel to get a pan ful to cook for dinner, wen went there too. She would squeeze the juice from a handful and give us a ball of it about the* size of a base ball. I never heard of it disagree ing even with the smallest chil dren. And tlyre was one family that always liked to keep a barrel of kraut on hand for “just in case someone got puny.” I wonder if home kraut making hasn’t become largely lost as of late. Directions are carried in Ex tension Circular 237, “Brining at Home,” that you can get from you^ home agent or from us here at Clemson. Someone has said that artificial insemination of dairy cattle is growing faster than television. As proof of that, in a few short years of its growth, one out of every five of America’s dairy farmers are using the service. Why is this modern breeding method growing so fast? P. B. Ezell, Newberry County Agent, ex plains it this way. Oyer 15,000 cows were bred artifically to the Clemson bull stud in 1953. Ob- and an easy blowing whistle was made from a cane we had gotten down on the creek. The neighbor ing kids all came for the great event and we fired it up with lightwood splinters for quick re sults. It took a good while to heat the water. But eventually a little steam started coming from the whistle. We stopped it up with cotton as to get up enough pres sure. In just a little while the pressure blew the stopper out and that whistle sounded like a thrasher engine. Boy, we were in our glory then! Ben suggested we build an even bigger fire under it and really make that whistle scream. We did. But th$ water boiled up into the whistle and we only got a garbled, gurgling sound from it. So after that, we built the fire in moderation, and for days on end it sounded like an old-time peanut parcher was at work viously a much higher class animal can be kept in the bull stud than is possible for the individual farm er to own. As an example of that he sites the following: Two young Guernsey bulls now in service at the Clemson stud are? known as “Bounty” and “Brag.” They are sired by Yellow Creek Meadow King. He has 34 daughters which have averaged 10,018 pounds of milk per year on official test. And, Mr. Ezell adds, this was twice per day milking and 305 days on test. This sire has a four year old daughter, which is a half sister to Bounty and Brag, now making a sensation al record. She milked 92.7 pounds of milk in one day in April which is the highest one day’s milking ever recorded for a Guernsey Cow. She averaged 89.2 pounds of milk per day for the whole month of April, which is the highest month’s production record ever recorded for a Guernsey cow. She is headed for a World’s record. Then there is Klondike Fore most, a proven bull whose 12 test- eld daughters have averaged 9,477 pounds of milk per year. He is in use at the Clemson Stud. - ‘ v These are three examples of the ten Guernsey bulls in the Clemson stud from which semen is being shipped to' Newberry County for use by Newberry county farmers. The Brown Swiss bull stud at | . • j , J Clemson is recognized ^ one of the outstanding in the nation, ac cording to Mr. Ezell. As an ex ample, he calls attention to a couple of the elite sires in that stud. Lee’s Hill Lucky Strike, known as “Lucky” has 11 daugh ters tested that averaged 14,125 pounds of milk per year which was an increase over their own mothers of 3,072 pounds of milk per year. “At our present blended milk price,” observes Mr. Ezell, “that would be better than $150 worth of milk extra per year.” Then there Is Lee’s Hill Country Gentleman, named Country Gentle man after the Clemson Cotton Bowl Champion football team. His half sister was a world’s record 1 producer with a production of 673 pounds of milk In one year. “Gentleman’s” grandmother, “Jan« of Vermont," is recognized as tho greatest dairy cow of all breeds that ever lived. Mr. Ezell concludes from these facts that Newberry dairy farm ers cannot afford “not” to use the service ot such herd improtftn# sires. All the farmer has to do is calf phone 994 or 248, Newberry Coun ty Agents office and Newberry Cooperative Breeding Association, by 10:30 a.m. for service to bulla of this character. It makes no dif ference whether the farmer ow»* one cow or hundreds, grade or purebred. The service is available to everybody who owns a cow. Sheet Metal Contractor—Heatings—Air Conditioning’ Licensed Gas Fitters CAROLINA METAL WORKS College Street Extension A. G. McCaughrin, Pres. & Treas. Phone 115 REAL ESTATE LOANS 1 To Purchase * To Remodel ’ To Build * To Refinance "Save Where Hundreds Save Millions" _ TATE s’ BUILDING and LOAN / ASSOCIATION I ^ >,C % \ jS I 1 \ , > PINCKNEY N. ABRAM' f 1117 BOrCE STREFT THE BE . cmQ : / MsS NEWBERRY, SOUTH “The bill collectors are all gone, sir—but I suggest you get an auto loan from Purcells soon.” - * , ■, , . - !■ - — If one, has lots of small nagging debts, Ife silly to try to evade the issue, when it’s ao easy to call these friendly Purcell folks for help. 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