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PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1965 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist WHAT TO IRRIGATE Folks often ask the questionr -, Wl»at crops will it pay to irri- Well, from results I see coming from the experiment stations and from farm demonstrations of it, Tm thinking it will pay on. any crop we grow when drought threatens. That is, provided we do mrerything else towards building M big yield potential there. Some folks thought cotton, a somewhat drought resistant crop, would not respond. Yet it does. At Clemson in 1953 it added 655 jioimds of seed cotton per acre, mnd last year it added a good jbaie (1490 lbs. of seed cotton) acre. And our irrigation man, secuned reports from 15 r-by experiment stations and framers who irrigated cotton since 1949. Their average increases was -fust a fraction over a half bale jper acre from irrigation. Irrigation on early peaches at •Clemson showed only a small profit. But on later varieties, no tably Elbertas, it showed good profit, adding from 1 to 2% bush els per tree. -Since it does not in crease the number of fruit, this Increase was all in size, which jMlds considerably to their per 4>ushel value too. Irrigated fall tomatoes at Clem- IWHITAKER FUNERAL HOME AMBULANCE PHONE 270 Per Expert Repair Bring Yeur Radio and Television GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Television BALES and SERVICE 1309 MAIN STREET 24 HOUR SERVICE Talaphona S11 Call us for your dry cleaning needs. You will like our mod em, supercareful methods that actually add months to the life | of your clothes! You will like our prompt delivery,our cour tesy, and our reasonable prices. ROYAL DRY CLEANERS Phone IP 1107 Caldwell Newberry, S. C. son in 1953 made 103 bushels per acre against 9 bushels where not irrigated. Soy beans last year made 32.7 bushels per acre with irrigation at Clemson and 7.3 bushels with out it. And unirrigated corn made nothing at all, while the irrigated part made 91 bushels per acre. Last year even Bermuda grass and pearl millet made very little without it, while irrigation added from 2 to 4.5 tons of air-dry matter (hay) per acre. Water, water is the big item! You need to look to that first. And if competent engineers can’t dope it out for you, forget about irrigation until some way is de vised for assuring the needed water. But if water is available, you have better days ahead. Your county agent and SCS man can help you weigh your water pros pects there. NOTIFICATION BURNING LAW County Agent Alford tells me Colleton county has a law re quiring folks to notify their coun ty forest fire control organization when they plan to do any woods or hedge-row burning. Convenient stations for reporting such intent ions are designed over the county. These are promptly phoned in to the central control office and the lookout tow r ers notified. Then the fire fighters do not have to wear themselves out running to con trolled fires. Looks like this is a good idea. And Alford said it was working satisfactorily. Rampant fires are the main enemy of our forests. Control them, and an empire of timber will come back to our vast cut-over areas. For our state for ester, Mr. Flory, tells me that about 90 percent of these lands will come back to timber, if we let ’em. POTATOES Important, Outlook A large distributor in New York told me 65 percent of the produce business was potatoes (Irish po tatoes). I hadn’t realized spuds were that important. We don’t use that many down here. But the rest of the country really eats *em, frequently three times a day. The county agents tell me we planted about the same acreage to Irish potatoes this spring that we had last year. But in the coun try as a whole, the potatoe folks fear the 15 percent increase^ over last year means a rough road ahead for early potatoes this time. CHANGE, CHANGE, BUT ALWAYS A SMITH Change is constant in practically everything. But there is just about always a Smith from Edgefield among the state cotton improve ment contest wynners Those Smiths are great farmers, great cotton producers. Generation after generation, they are just that way. Maurice set what we think is a world’s record for non- irrigated cotton with a bit over 3% bales per acre on 5 acres in 1951. And this past year a younger generation Smith was second in the state with 11.5 bales on 5 acres. Good land and good farmers. When those two get together, you’re bound to see the records fall. Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phones 719 & 76—Night 513-R l ONLY NEW 5-D i PREMIUM GASOLENE HAS ALL 52 1 ANTI-CARBON 5 EXTRA-HIGH OCTANE I ANTI-RUST UPPER- CYLINDER LUBRICANT i ANTI- STALLING Some gasolenes have of these features! Some gasolenes have some of these features! 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Pray for a Brave Heart —Helen Mclnnes. The Magician and The Widow— Georges Simenon. Old Mrs. Ommanney is Dead — Margaret Erskine. The Man in the Green Hat — Manning Coles. Unfinished Crime — Helen McCloy. YOUTH FICTION Prom Trouble — James Sum mers. 6 on Easy Street—Betty Cavan- na. Three Stuffed Owls — Keith Robertson. Banners at Shenandoah — Bruce Catton. Eagle of Niagara—John Brick. The Red Car — Don Stanford. t JUVENILE Who Built the Bridge? — Nor man Bate. • Tom Bean and Blackboard the Pirate — LeGrand Henderson. Hurry, Skurry, and Flurry — Mary Buff. Johnny and the Monarch — Margaret Friskey. Little Fat Gretchen — Emma L. Brock. Girl’s Book_ of Embroidery — Jane Chapman. Real Book about Gold — Harold Coy. Turkey — Vernon Ives. Newberry Men In Service At The World W/O JOE W. MAYER PARRIS ISLAND, S. C.—'Marine Reserve Commissioned Warrant Officer Joe W. Mayer, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Mayer of Pomaria, half years after Leathernecks were committed to the defense of the Asian peninsula. During this perioa, the division participated in all 10 major en gagements of the Korean conflict and was awarded two Presidential Unit Citations. Personal decorat ions to 1st Division Marines totaled 24,034, including 42 Medals of Honor and 214 Navy Crosses. The returning troops are aboard four LSTs and two Navy trans ports, the USS Walker and the USS Lenawee. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER and husband of the former Miss Janie Epting of Little Mountain, completed a two-week course in personnel administration at the Marine Corps (Recruit Depot here March 4. Entering the service in 1931, he was recalled to active duty in 1942 and again in 1950. He is presently employed by the U. S. Department of Agricul ture Soil and Conservation Service as an auto mechanic inspector in Columbia, S. C. PVT. DELMAS C. RICHARDSON CAMP GORDON, Ga. — Army Pvt. Delmas C. Richardson, 23, son of Mrs. W. O. Richardson, 509 Main st. Newberry, recently was graduated from the Military Police Training Center, at Camp Gordon, Ga. Private Richardson was taught unarmed defense, .traffic control and other law enforcement duties. He entered the Army in' Novem ber 1954. ROBERT E. GEIGER PENSACOLA, Fla. — Robert E. Geiger, airman,, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Geiger of 2037 Piedmont st., dewberry, is Serving Pfc. MARION D. HOFF MEYER, Jr. AND CP1-. JAMES A. WILSON AND PFC. PAUL A. STOUDEMIRE SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Marine Pfc. Marion D. Hoffmeyer, Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Hoff meyer of 1935 Harrington street, Cpl. James A. Wilson, son of Mrs. Mattie M. Suber, Newberry, and Pfc. Paul A. Stoudemire, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Stoudemire of Silverstreet are scheduled to arrive here the latter part of March with the second group of the 1st Marine Division which has been ordered from Korea to Camp Pendleton, Calif. Composed of about 4,800 Ma rines and 82 Navy personnel, the group sailed from Inchon haibor March 10, more than four and a with- Helicopter Training Unit 1 at the Ellyson U. S. Naval Auxili ary Landing Field here. Prior to entering the Navy in October, 1954, Geiger attended Newberry High School. Phosphorescence in the ocean is often caused by animal plank ton such as tiny jellyfish and sea squirts.—Sports Afield. For some weeks now we have been talking sweet here. That was about sorghum syrup, a home-made staff of life for us kids when we were coming up in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. We not only topped just about every meal off with it, but it made our candy too. That stuff, cooked just right on the old outfit down in the pasture under that big oak tree, mixed into a creamy consistency with fresh-churned butter, and swabbed up with hot biscuits was good eat- in' for sure. And I still regard it as one of the best things there is. But you know; the making of sorghum syrup is now all but a lost art. Just Fast fall the old hunger for it returned, and I sought it in my rounds. Away up near Long Creek in the picturesque near-mountain area of Oconee county I saw a small pile of spent cane by an old syrup mill. I stopped to inquire. The man said he had made just a few gallons of sorghum syrup for his own use. Passing folks had noticed that pile of pumice and stopped so much to inquire for some sor ghum that he thought he’d have to haul the stuff away so they'd quit botherin’ him. He didn’t have any to spare. * Later I spied a half gallon jar in a filling station near Belton and asked the man what was in it. He said SORGHUM SYRUP (The capitals are mine). I got the half gallon for ll.SO. It used to he 30 cents a gallon when I was a kid. But it seldom sold then. If yours ran out before the new crop came in, a neighbor generally loaned you some until yours came in. That man told me a eighbor had made 71 gallons of that syrup and brought a few jars there to the station to see if it would sell. That wasn’t many days before, and I luckily got the last jar? Since then my meals have been perfect, topped off with a little syrup, butter, and bread, as of yore. And all during Christmas no pies, cakes, nor other deserts ranked anywhere near my sor ghum syrup for finishing a meal with. And the nutritionists tell me ft is simply loaded with minerals and vitamines too! No wonder our Stone Hills grew such sturdy and rugged folks. -- -v £*y.v * -j. ■ ,> * (Continued from Page 3) * GROUND OBSERVER CORPS bert, Janette Wicker, George Mar tin, Wava Billingsley, O. C. Phil lips, and Irma Perry. The follow ing additional members participat ed: Harry Stone, Willene Shealy, Pope Wicker, Russell Addy, Jim my Kyzer, James Perry, Gerald O’Quinn, and Johnny Billingsley. In keeping with the increasing Importance of the Civil Defense, it is expected that more exercises of this nature will be held in the future. For this reason it is necessary that the local post have more volunteers for this very im portant work, since in a case of emergency the civilians will act ually have to take over this job. All members are urged to partici pate in each exercise in order to keep familiar with the system of making Aircraft reports. Anyone who will help out on this pro gram as a Ground Observer should phone John C. Billingsley, 1660. At least twenty more volunteers are needed. "'Ti;, t- ; v'"- ^ * • •- on 'V \5 tv- 1%. -AM, * the new-car values When you compare automobile values, one / plain and easily proved truth becomes evident —Pontiac gives you more for your money than any other car in America! Keeping in mind that Pontiac is priced within the reqch of any new-car buyer, consider these three very important facts: Pontiac is a big car! 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