The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, February 24, 1955, Image 6
PAGE SIX
THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1966
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemaon Extension Information Specialist
flUCE ALLOTMENT
County Agent Tate tells me Jas
per county has a rice allotment,
UtOO acres.
He says their trial planting of
commercial rice have done well
<be past few years, and there is
considerable interest in reviving
the dead industry there.
In Colleton, Charleston, and
Horry counties the agents showed
me some fine fields of rice growing
the past few years too.
Most of our rice stored in the
elevators at Estill and milled in
Walterboro. There they are en
riching it and putting it out in
neat cellophane packages.
FARM ANb HOME WEEK
You might want to mark it on
your calendar now. Farm and
Home Week at Clemson this year
4s August 15-19th.
COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT
In 1953 Oconee county started
a community improvement contest.
Znst year it was greatly enlarged
there and extended over the state.
“When they checked up last fall.
County Agent Morgan tells me,
they found 1240 of their 3,280
farms have done something defi
nite as their part in their com
munity farm and home improve
ment. And one who travels over
that county told me you could
really tell when you came into
one of those communities that
were in the contest. Improvements
showed on every side, from mail
boxes to landscaped homes.
Oconee has local prizes and the
Regressive Farmer offered prizes
fer this state-wide rural com
munity improvement contest. Com-
ruunities in many counties took
part in it in 1954. How about yours
tor this year? County agents have
ihe details.
WATER HOLES
During Christmas, I went by to
see Carlisle Goodman, a friend in
the Shiloh section of Sumter
county. I noticed mounds of white
earth (sand) at places along where
they had not been before. So I
asked him, "what of ’em?"
He said, “Man it looks like
everybody and his brother is dig
ging a water hole. There must be
25 or 30 in this community.”
I asked, "what for^”
"Irrigation," was the answer.
Carlisle had already dug two.
In that part of the state, those
reservoirs, in the low springy
places that abound, furnish con
siderable water. And even last
summer during the record drou
ght, County Agent Bryant of Lee
tells me some of them recovered
practically overnight when they
pumped them down.
This is a very constructive and
lasting use those farmers were
putting their farm allowance to.
In Sumter county, I was told, this
amounts to $1.60 per acre of tilled
land. As far as that allowance
reaches, the farm program pays
10 cents a cubic yand for building
such water holes. And they were
getting ’em dug for 15 cents a
cubic yard. So they only cost the
farmers 5 cents out-of-pocket
money a yard to build. And those
holes won’t get away from you
like most other practices will.
They should be there indefinitely,
furnishing stock water all year
through and some irrigation water
as needed. Maybe some fish too,
and surely swimming in that clear
water in the summertime.
MELON WARNING
For several years I’ve been tell
ing you about that wonderful new
watermelon Miss Universe (Mir
iam Steveson) named “Charles
ton Gray’’ at last year’s Clemson
Farm and Home Week. Now, this
year, for the first time, seed of it
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(Continued from page 3)
Sunday morning was Dr. S. W.
Hahn, of the Lutheran Seminary
in Columbia, and a former pastor
of the church. Dr. and Mrs. Hahn
were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. B. C. Bedenbaugh.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Furman Fulmer
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Carolyn Ruth, and Fran
cis M. Garner, son of Mr. and Mrs
F. M. Garner of Gaffney. The
wedding will take place February
26.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mr. and Mrs. George Elbert
Hipp announce the birth of a son,
at the Newberry County Memorial
Hospital, February 30th. The baby
weighed 8 pounds. Mrs. Hipp is
the former Minnie Kinard.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Epting an
nounce the birth of a son. Holmes
Harold, on February 20th, at the
Newberry County Memorial Hos
pital. The Eptlngs have a daugh
ter, Hope, two years old. Mrs. Ep
ting in the former Harriette Ear-
gle.
PERSONAL ITEMS *
Mrs. J. W. Taylor came home
Wednesday from the Newberry
Hospital, where she underwent
surgery.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hamm, Sr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Williams
have returned from a several
days’ visit in Charleston.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wise and
their three daughters, Judy, Pam,
and Freida, of Winnsboro spent
the weekend with Mrs. Wise’s
mother, Mrs. L. J. Fellers.
Dr. and Mrs. George W. Harmon
were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Gary Paschal, Columbia, last
Tuesday evening. They also at
tended the Ice Vogues at the
Township Auditorium.
Mrs. W. E. Hunter of Orange
burg spent Sunday with her dar
ughter, Mrs. Raymond W. Hipp.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Riley and
their son, Gene of Riley were sup
per guests of Mrs. A. B. Hunt and
Mrs. Frances Spotts, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Brissie and
their two sons, George and Robert,
of Woodruff spent Saturday with
Mrs. Brissie’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Mills.
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By J. M. ELEAZER
Syrup makin’ time brought
pleasant days to boyhood in the
Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork
when I was there.
We lived almost entirely from
our soil. And syrup tasking was a
regular thing. Ours was sorghum,
for sugar cane wasn’t exactly
suited there.
We planted sorghum for three
purposes. But it was all planted
at the same time and in the same
field. Part of it was thinned out
so it would grow larger for syrup.
The rest we let grow thick for
feed. Part of that was cut along
as it ripened and fed green to
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There is one dark cloud hang
ing over this great melon. Along
during the time it was being tested
out over the state for car-lot ship
ping quality, naturally some of the
seed were saved. Most of those
plantings were not isolated. There
fore much mixing took place,
sometimes even with citrons. So
many of those seed are unreliable,
and mixed melons are bound to
show up from most of them. But
fortunately a fairly good supply
of Certified Charleston Grays was
produced last summer. It will be
wise to plant nothing but those,
if you want insurance against dis
appointment.
Marion Connelly and Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Obenshain of Dahlgren.
Va. spent the weekend with Mr.
Connelly’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. P. Copnelly.
Mr. and Mrs. Birge Wise and
their little daughter, Mary of Co
lumbia were supper guests last
Friday of Mrs. J. Frank Browne.
Miss Martha Counts of Savan
nah, Ga., spent the weekend with
her mother, Mrs. H. E. Counts, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Wise of
Columbia were supper guests of
Mr. Wise’s sister, Mrs. L. W. Har
mon, Saturday night.
Miss Phyllis Wise spent the
weekend at Erskin College as the
guest of Miss Linda Hancock.
Mrs. W. D. Moore of Newberry
spent the weekend with Miss Susie
Langford.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Adams of
Saluda, N. C. spent the weekend
with Mr. Adam’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. F. Adams.
Mr. and Mrs. Mayo Creel of
Hemingway were weekend guests
of Mrs. Creel’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Perry.
June Jr. and Carol Campbell
of Greenville spent last Tuesday
with their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. S. Mills.
With Mrs. P. C. Singley for the
weekend were her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Cal
lahan of Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bedenbaugh
of Easley spent the weekend with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy
Bedenbaugh and Mrs. J. A Counts.
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hunt and
their daughters, Janet and Joan,
of Spartanburg were weekend
guests in the home of Mr. Hunt’s
mother, Mrs. A B. Hunt.
hogs, cattle, and work stock.
The rest was cut when ripe and
stored as dry forage.
But that part thinned concerned
us kids most. We started chewing
it as soon as the sap got the
least bit sweet. And when it was
ready for syrup it was really
good. You could trail us across
the hills by the cuds of fibre we
discarded.
Then when time came for strip
ping the fodder off preparatory
to syrup making, we didn’t like
It much. For that was work. The
long canes were then whacked
off at the ground with the cycle
or butcher-knife and piled across
the rows. These were loaded oh
t
the wagon and hauled to the syrup
mill, a press and crude open pan
under a great oak at a neighbor’s
house. Each farmer piled his as
near the press as he could and
awaited his turn.
The press was two steel rollers
geared together and turned by
a mule pulling a long beam round
and round. The mule would soon
get swimmy headed walking that
circle and had to be relieved. We
kids 'liked to feed the stalks of
cane into that press. But they
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Maybinton Community — Mrs.
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Strother Community —Mrs. Jeff
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Crooks Store, Homer Crqoks.
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Pomaria Community — Mrs. Bep
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