The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 10, 1955, Image 6
PAGE SIX
THE NEWBERRY SUN
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
. Early June still carries for me
many thrills of childhood.
In memory it seems those were
oar fullest hours in the stone hills
of the Dutch Fork.
Feet had been liberated from
shoes long enough to toughen a-
gainst the gravel. Water in the
creek had warmed to where it did
not raise pijnples. Day came
early and lingered late. So there
was a lot of time, and we could
piddle afar.
The wild harvest had started
coming to hill and hedge. Plums
aplenty, and of varied sorts, rip
ened red and yellow in the thorny
thickets. Dewberries marked their
running paths with lush goodies.
And tops of all was the wild
strawberry that reddened at se
cluded places in old abandoned
fields.
And down in the orchard, too
‘was interest to be remembered.
Ftor the first blush came there
then to the peach. And the tasty
Apples with a worm started to
drop.
We let little of such things
waste in our wild domain. We
made the rounds regularly, and
had paths to the ficher spots. Our
visits started early, and we watch
ed the ripening processes with
eager interest. My, it seemed they
would never ripen! And many a
stomach, ache resulted from our
indiscretions on the range.
As our kids came along, I made
such rounds with them. And, al
though they too are now grown,
we still revel in these excursions
out there amid the wild plenty of
the June woods and wastelands. '
And an automobile! Old Bill
couldn’t have been more scared
of the devil himself. Fortunately
these things were few in the stone
hills in his day. But the occas
ional one that did come brought
terror to him. And if we heard one
coming, we got out of that road
and as far away as we could, even
if it meant crossing ditches, gull
ies and bushes with the buggy or
wagon. Several times we didn’t
hear the thing popping along in
time or couldn’t get up the banks
or across the ditches there. That
always meant a run-away Old
Bill went from there, tearing off
the shafts, wrapping a wheel a-
round a tree, or busting the sin
gle-tree or harness and leaving us
behind.
More about Old Bill and Frank
next week.
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clerrson Extension Information Specialist
When I was a kid we didn’t
have a mule. My father was the
country doctor; and kept two
horses. When he was driving one
my brother, who was older;, and
I farmed with the other. But
when I got up in my teens, we
got a mule too.
Old Bill was our gray horse and
Frank was a bay. Frank was the
younger and perfectly trustworthy
even around his heels. Bill was
too, but of a very different dispo
sition. He was never as docile as
Frank, even though much older.
I said) he was gray. In fact, he
was almost white, he was so old.
But he never lost his fire.
Bill was afraid of more things!
A spider web with dew on it by
the road was a spook for sure.
And you just couldn’t ge't him by
it until you went there and tore
it up. A small crack between the
boards on a bridge was a barrier
you couldn’t get him across with
out filling it with dirt. And for a
rabbit to jump from the weeds by
the path caused him to bolt and
usually throw you. For that reason
(bey wouldn’t let us ride Old Bill
until we got up some size.
There is nothing else on the
calendar. like a June day. That
impression was gained in child
hood in the stone hills of the
Dutch Fork where I came up. And
it has never left me.
The blithesome, vibrant, and
growing out-of-doors has not
been stilled, seared, and stagna
ted yet by the heat and doldrums
of summer. It has thrown off the
serenity of winter. There is still
a crispness in the morning air.
-The dews are heavy, the soil is
ready, and growth is fast. Dew
berries have ripened on the run
ning vine, and blackberries are
reddening on the ditch bank.
Running water has assumed its
greatest lure, specially for kids.
For now it does not bite your toe
when you first touch it before
plunging in. And you can play
long there without getting the
shivvers, blue around the gills,
and pimply all over.
There is but one disturbing fac
tor now. With school out "and all,
it would be just right but for this
one fact Grass is growing at a
feverish pace in crop and garden.
And it bothers kids ao much to
have to be fooling with that stuff
now. My, what we would have
given for some of this pre-merge
stuff then!
I wonder now if parents didn’t
earn, well earn, the work they
got out of us, specially in June.
If they were not around, for the
least flimsy excuse we’d leave
our task. To go get water was
always a good one. We had a well
at the house and a spring on the
back of the place. We always
went to the one that was the
farther. And we’d piddle and
play along, killing as much time
as possible, eating wild plums,
mulberries, and blackberries on
hedge-rows and ditch banks. And
rather frequently, about 3 p. m.
when we were at the far end of
the rows around on the other side
of the hill, we’d stand our hoes
up there in the field and light out
to the creek a half-mile away. It
was down hill, and our speed wa
good. By the time we got there,
we had come out of overalls and
shirt, and were ready to plunge
in.
Cattle Feeding
“More of our farmers need to
feed their cattle out after taking
them off of grass” says Extension
Livestock Specialist L. F. Cato.
Back in March County Agent
Shelley of, Barnwell told me, “R.
D. Dyches of Blackville recently
sold 8 home-raised steers for an
average of almost 22.5 cents per
pound, which netted him $1580.00.
This was just like having 9 bales
of cotton to sell in March.”
So far we have been developing
into a grass-cattle area. Well,
that’s right, asfar as- it goes. But
everything indicates we need to
add another step. And that is to
feed them out on grain a while
before we market them. The
usual spread between grass cat
tle and grain finished cattle on
local markets |s too great for
the growers to be losing the dif
ference.
We are growing more grain,
corn, sorghum, and the like. And
we are often hunting markets for
it. Usually good markets for it
just don’t exist, for we are not
in a grain marketing area. But
we do have a good 'outlet for it
through growing cattle numbers.
Finishing them off with grain
usually pays a good price for the
grain and some profit besides.
For, remember, you already have
a lot of cheap grass weight on
the animal when you put him up
for a spell of feeding. And the
gain In price per pound attaches
itself to all of the pounds, not
just the ones you put on with the
grain feeding.
Emergency Hay Program
From what the county agents
tell me, the emergency hay pro
gram of the past winter helped
distressed livestock farmers a lot.
County Agent Alford of Colleton
says they had so many small or
ders that they had to handle it
on a sort of t cooperative basis.
They had to weigh the bales out
in less than car batches to each
man mostly. The total saving to
farmers amounted to $19 per
ton, or $5700 on the 300 tons used.
That experience, following the
great drought of last year, re
minds us that we should at all
times have a goodly reserve of
feed stored for just such emerg
encies. For, remember, we have
a good many droughts that often
take our pasturage, and most
folks are not yet equipped to res
cue them with irrigation, although
that’s coming.
Right now we are In the grain*
harvest. Many folks have been
burning the straw in the fields in
preparation for planting soya
beans there. . We. should think
twice before doing that again.
That straw baled up and stored
would have been a godsend to
many a lean livestock farm the
past fall and winter. It would be
well to fill some old abandoned
tenant house or shed there on
the farm with baled straw right
now. Then you can forget it for
a while. But, rest assured, a
drought will remind you if its
being there sooner than you
think. And you’ll be glad.
And a little dry stuff like that
often comes in good when pas
tures are most lushsln the spring
and bloat is likely. The livestock
folks tell ns that sonut dry rough
age fed the cattle on lush pas
tures tends to prevent bloat. And
they like it too, along with abun
dant greenery.
Lambs In Williamsburg
County Agent Jackson of Wil
liamsburg told me in April: “W.
B. Graham of Indi&ntown has had
good luck with his lamb cfrop.
Thirty-two of the 35 ewes pur
chased at the Johnsonville plant
last winter have dropped forty-
one lambs. By good management
he has been successful in saving
all the lambs.”
The great new woolen mill at
Johnsonville is interested in a
revived sheep industry for the
State. We used to have a lot of
sheep. But the industry has
dwindled to practically nothing
in our time. Dogs and, markets
have been two of the main prob
lems. A market for the wool is
now assured right in our midst.
And with sheep handled the new
way, on prepared pastures near
the house, rather than on the
range, as of old, it is thought the
dog situation can be handled too.
A number of county agents
have told me of sheep in their
counties. And the field meeting
on the sheep project there at the
Johnsonville plant, in which
Clemson is cooperating, was
largely attended by farmers and
agricultural walrkers from over
the state last winter. There they
saw a lot of sheep per acre on
fine pastures that were made
possible by fall irrigation.
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Manssseb’s Sin and Repentance
Lesson for June 5: II Chronicles
33: 9-20
Golden Text: Psalms 143: 10
Though a son of the man known
as the “good king Hezekiah,”
Manasseh did not walk in the steps
of his good father but choose
rather to live and act in a sadly
different manner. He gave himself
to lewdness and drinking. He also
restored the idol worship that his
father had put down. And his in-
4 fluence for evil was very great
over the people. It is said that he
“seduced Judah and the inhabi
tants of Jerusalem.”
But the sins of Manasseh soon
found him out—he was. taken cap
tive by the terrible Assyrians,
loaded with chains, and carried to
Babylon. There Manasseh cried
unto God, and he wax restored to
his country and h^s throne. With
this change, this reversal of con
ditions, there came a great change
in the character of Manasseh. He
now looked well to the defences of
the country. He built an outer wall
on the west side of Jerusalem, and
he set garrisons in all the chief
cities of Judah. Better than these
military measures, he cleansed
the temple of idols and com
manded the worship of God every
where.
Thus did Manasseh repent and
undo much of the harm he had
done as a profligate, wicked young
man who ran all the paces of evil
before he was token to Babylon*
But, as young men can find now
who go into the ways of evil,
Manasseh found that not all his
evil deeds could be atoned for.
The safe rule. Hie best rule, is
never to commence in evil, to be
temperate and righteous at all
times.
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