The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 31, 1955, Image 6
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-
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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.
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NON-FICTION
Spies for the Buie and Gray —
Harnett Kane.
A History of the Southern Con
federacy ,— Clement Eaton.
History of Sumter County, S. C.
— Anne K. Gregorie.
Homeowner’s Guide to Land
scaping — Amelia Hill.
Fireside Book of Love Songs —
Margaret Boni.
Ceramics — Harry Zarchy.
Science the Super Sleuth—Lynn
Poole.
My One Hundred Children —
Bernard Bain.
The Wilder Shores of Love .—
Lesley Blench.
Mutual Baseball Almanac —
Roger Kahn, ed.
The Enjoyment of Study—John
Somerville.
Conserving Soil Resources—Paul
W. Chapman.
Robert Louis Stevenson—Gladys
Stern.
Treasury of American Garden
ing — John R. Whiting.
Royaf Mother — Jennifer Ellis.
The Challenge of Being A Worn
an — Helen Sherman.
Freedom from Fear — Lester
Coleman.
Cavalcade of American Horses
— Pers Crowell.
It’s Your Law — Charlees P
Curtis.
The Rise and Fall of Maya Ci
vilization — John E. Thompson.
Our Plundered Planet — Fair-
field Osborn.
A Treasury of Irish Folklore —
Padriac Colum.
The World of Albert Schweitzer
— Erica Anderson.
Prehistoric Animals — William
E. Scheele.
FICTION
The Four Winds—David Beaty.
The Golden Wildcat — Margaret
Widdemer.
I Take This Man—Emilie Loring.
The Forest Lord—Noel Gerson.
Catch the Gold Ring —• John
Strange.
The Healer — Frank Slaughter.
Three . by Tey — Elizabeth
Mackintosh.
The Tortoise and the Hare —
Elizabeth Jenkins.
The Hero of Saint Roger —
Jerrald Tickell.
The Dear Old Gentleman —
George Goodchild.
Long Lope to Lander — Allen
Elston.
The Violent Land — Wayne
Overholser. /
The Last Gamble — Winston
Graham.
Miss Harriett Townshend—Kath
leen Norris.
Solomon and the Qneen of Sheba
— Czenzi Ormonde.
The Mouse that Roared—Leon
ard Wibberley.
Jonathan Blair: Bounty Lands
Lawyer —■ William D. Ellis.
The Singing and the Gold — A.
B. Matthiessen.
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.
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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.
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