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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1955
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension information Specialist
AFTER THE GREAT FREEZE
The great freeze of the past
* March 26 will be long remember
ed. No one recalled anything
like it. So we had nothing from
which to Judge.
Now we can begin to set down
the results. •
It looked like our grain crop
was gone. Some of the yellowed
fields were cut promptly for hay.
Some of these sprouted out again
and made a fair yield of grain, or
another hay crop. Fields that
weren’t cut soon after the freeze
came out better than folks ex
pected and a fair grain crop was
made. Some grain was excellent,
when folks had wondered in early
April if it would make anything.
Some of it did not fill out very
well from the secondary shoots
that came out after the freeze,
and much of this was cut for hay.
The peach crop was a total loss.
And some young trees were kill
ed But the older trees grew new
foliage and made a luxuriant
growth this summer. Most apples
were killed.
Pecans, chinaberries, mimosas,
and many shrubs were badly dam
aged. And some large trees in the
woods were seriously damaged
also. I’m looking ' at a large
sycamore out of the window here
at Clemson now. Most of its top
is dead and sprouts are coming
out on the main trunk and big
gest limbs. And a giant red oak
out there was seriously damaged
in like manner. If these trees re
cover, for years there will be big
dead limbs to fall from their tops.
Wild plums and berries were all
hilled except blackberries. And
many oaks lost their acorns. Small
and sprouting pines in the state
nursery were mostly killed and
many of the beds were seeded
over.
’“MUST INCLUDE IRRIGATION’»
Assistant Secretary of Agricul
ture Ervin L. Peterson said re
cently:
“Competent authorities m a i n-
tain that any program to increase
per acre yields of crops in the
humid area of our country—that
part generally east of the Missis
sippi river—must include irriga
tion.’’
A lot of our folks are beginning
to think as he does. And from the
calls our engineers and the SCS
technicians are getting for aid in
making surveys for water sources,
and from ponds and wells I see
coming along in all parts of the
state, it begins to look like they
are starting to do something a-
bout it.
Farm production in this coun
try has increased 4-3 per cent
since 1943. That came mostly
from improved varieties and better
practices. Irrigation in the rain
fall belt hasn’t gotten in that very
big yet. But there lies our great
est unused tool for keeping pro
duction on the upgrade to meet
future needs.
Total production has been help
ed too in late years by the dis
appearance of 20 million head of
work stock, releasing the 75 mil
lion acres it used to take to feed
them, to other uses. And we are
told it used to take 60 million
acres of our land to raise our ex
ports of farm commodities. Now*,
with vastly increased yields, it
only takes 40 million acres to
grow our exports on. So there we
have picked up another 20 million
acres with which to help feed and
clothe our growing millions. That,
added to the work-stock saving,
gives us 40 million added acres
for food and fibre.
It is not likely that the future
will hold any such increased acre
age for ouf own food and fibre.
Therefore, we must get the need
ed stuff from the same acres.
Better fertilization, improved ve
rities, insect and disease control,
and the like will continue to help.
But the big push we still have to
put behind it, as needed, is this
irrigation.
We need to tamper with it,
study it, and master it.
EARLY GRAZING ~NOW
Have you had a chance to seed
any early grazing yet?
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Experience shows we need to
seed it early if it is to have time
to get established and make good
growth before cold weather sets
in. For after that you can .expect
little growth except from well es
tablished grazing. A has the root
system and stamina to make full
use of warm periods during the
winter. But grazing that does not
get up until early winter rains
come doesn’t give it to you when
you ned it most. And winter graz
ing is what we need.
Your county agent will be glad
to help you plan your year-around
grazing program. It can be gotten.
And some are doing it. On dry
falls, if irrigation is available it
is sure good to get it up.
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PRETTY SOFT
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
NO NEED TO WORK WHEN
AN AD IN THIS NEWSPAPER DOES
THE JOB FOR YOU WHIIE YOU
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Raw IN TOUR EAST CHAIR-
CAU OS TODAfl
Last year an estimated 150,000,001
frozen chicken pies were eaten Is
the United States. This year, con
sumption is expected to increase
to 250,000,000.
When 1 was a kid we kept the
beef form our beef club in a
bucket down in the well. That
bucket fell one day and this was
a real calamity. We not only lost
the beef, on which we depended,
but the water was made unfit for
use. So we had to tote water
from a neighbor’s well down the
hill.'
They put on old Bill and sent
me a mile down the road to bor
row the community well-hook
from Mr. George. It was a multi
ple hook he had made from an old
pitchfork. The prongs were all
bent like hooks in different di
rections. I had a Job carrying that
thing, for old Bill was so ticklish.
Once I lel^a prong of it touch him
add he almost Jumped from under
me.
When I got home with it, we
put all of our plowlines together
and started fishing for the sack
containing the bucket of beef. It
was hooked several times, but
dropped off. Once we got it with
in a few feet of the top of the well
and off it dropped, calunge, back
into the well. But finally my bro
ther succeeded in getting it. The
beef was still all right, for ( that
water was very cool.
But we didn’t drink any of that
water for over a week, until the
folks felt it had all cleared out
And in the meantime we had a
lot of it drawn off for the stock
and to wash clothes in.
Those * beef clubs were great
things. And some of them con
tinue until this day. Families pass
their shares down to succeeding
generations. Some of the clubs are
krown to be over 100 years old.
With refrig’eration, like we have,
looks like they might serve an
even greater purpose now. Or
does the handiness of the fresh
meat counter preclude them? I'd
thing not, for those handling and
retail costs are not attached to
the beef we get from our own
yearlings in our beef clubs. .
You might wonder about the
equity of them, where one kills a
beef that is heavier. All of that
is acurately kept. Those who get
more than they furnish pay the
difference, and vice versa.
Observance of
LABOR DAY
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All customers are asked to please anticipate their
needs before this weekend since these stations will not
be open on Monday, September 5th. '
Be sure your car is properly serviced for a pleasant
and safe holiday.
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BY THE 02.D TIMERS
From Mrs. Booth Pickett Brad
ley, Albion, Idaho: I Remember
back in 1917 when I was teaching
school in Southern Idaho in a dry
farming wheat district known as
Pocatello Valley. A number of
girls-from our southern California
college had been sent to this part
of the West to replace the girls
who had gone to Washington, D. C.,
to be Government secretaries. It
was all very primitive and ad
venturous to me.
I arrived at the wheat harvest
ing and a few of the farmers hpd
purchased combine hcgrse-drawn
harvesters. But in our corner of
the valley they had already used
a huge machine called a “header”
which simply cut the wheat and
piled it up to be threshed.
One evening after school an
enormous black smoke - belching
machine made a dramatic en
trance into the south end of the
valley, near my school house. It
resembled a train locomptive, and
to the children it represented the
big event of the year. It had a
crew of 18 men. The next, morning'
it was already eating into -the
wheat stacks on a nearby farm,
spewing wheat chaff and straw
out one side and wheat out* the
other.
At noon the farm women set
long tables outside and, including
their own men, set places for 27.
Huge platters of fried chicken,
and mashed potatoes, and all the
other foods vanished like magic.
Wedges of apple and lemon pie
were washed down with mugs of
coffee, and with little waste of
time the men were back at work
while the women prepared another
meal!
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Tips on Touring
>By Corot lent
Women's frovtf Authority
Did you drive the last mile home
from your vacation with the dis
heartening thought that it would
be another year before the next
one? Half of the pleasure you get
from a good vacation is in reliv
ing it after you’re home. So, don’t
tuck all the souvenirs away in a
deep dark closet — it’s a sure way
to get the post-vacation blues.
You can beat the blues by organ
izing family projects to make
your memories last.
Get the children busy pasting s
up post cards they collected to
hang in their rooms. Encourage
them to make a scrap book of
matchbook covers, menus, bro
chures and pic
tures they ac
cumulated. A
map, drawn in
the front of the
scrapbook, with
all the places
visited clearly
marked and col
ored, will add to
its attractive
ness. That extra
shelf in the bookcase can be used
to display the shells, rocks, pine
cones and other items children
love to bring back. Many schools
have “Show and Tell” classes
where each youngster relates
what he did on vacation. The
scrapbook wilLhelp your child to
become the best travel lecturer in
his class.
Telling fish stories will be easier
for dad if the big one that didn’t
get away is mounted and hung on
the wall as proof. The movie or
slide projector should be kept in
an accessible place, so it won’t be
a chore to show films taken on
youi^ vacation.
Your china closet will be the
envy of the bridge club if you
make part of it a show case for
cups, pottery, silver, and fig
urines you purchased. Make la
bels for your souvenirs by print
ing on place cards the name of
the shop and the city where yea
purchased each item.
A vacation enjoyed is a vaca
tion worth rememberime.
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