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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1955
FARMS AND FOLKS
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
By J. M. ELEAZER
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Clemson Extension Information Specialist
COTTON THIS YEAR
Cotton promised well early. But
•summer rains in some sections,
specially at places over the Low
Country, messed it up a lot. But
even there, where it was persis
tently poisoned, the county agents
tell me that pretty good cotton
was made.
Many farmers started out well
on a weevil control campaign and
had their cotton in good shape.
Bu' some didn’t carry on through,
du' to rains or other causes. And
in some cases these fields were
eaten dear np.
Listen to a few county agents
on this:
Lindler of Lee: “Fields proper
ly poisoned gave good cotton
yields, but unpoisoned adjoining
fields suffered damage as high as
75 percent from the weevil.”
Mtley of Dorchester: "Farmers
getting good yields of cotton, with
few exceptions, are those who fol
lowed a good poisoning program.”
Bowen of Sumter: "This year
Turn again proven poison properly
applied will save a cotton crop
from the boll weevil. But it can’t
be put on in just any old way,
and it must be followed through
as long as there’s a threat, or the
weevil can eat your prop up there
at the last.”
I saw a good farmer on good
land in Orangeburg who got a
few early shois of poison on his
cotton. But rains and other things
caused him to leave it off from
there on out. He told me he
wasn’t picking a lock from his
field of 34 acres. County Agent
Grainger of Clarendon said their
yields ran from nothing up to 500
pounds per acre.
Polks, it looks like if we are
to continue to grow cotton we
must concentrate on that boll
weevil thing. Cain of Calhoun
says: “Our cotton yield, has been
in proportion to the poisoning pro
gram carried out.'
STUDYING TOBACCO
County Agent Rogers of Flor
ence tells me he spent an inter
esting day touring the farms and
tobacco markets of the county
with Senator Thurmond.
It’s a fine thing to see a public
official taking the time and go
ing to the trouble to get out on
the very soil with farmers to see
and stud£ their problems. That
should put him in position for in
telligent action when farm legis
lative matters come up.
THAT COASTAL AGAIN
Good reports continue to come
about Coastal Bermuda grass.
County Agent Livingston of Dil
lon tells me R. E. Moody cut 7,-
364 pounds of good hay from his
acre and a half of Coastal this
year.
HOG KILLIN’ TIME
Fond memory carries me back
to butcherin’ time on the farm
when I was a kid. That was al
ways a big day for us. They let us
stay home from school for it.
For varied reasons, home butch
ering is not as common as it used
to be. And we won’t go into them
now. I just wanted to point out
that, for me, good country cured
ham is still tops in meats. But in
late years they have been increas
ingly hard to get. And, us usual,
buying one is to take a chance.
For they are not all good. But
you can tell a lot about one before
you cut it by running a keen knife
blade into it and then smell to see
if it has the aroma.
Clemson’s Extension Bulletin
77, originally written in 1926 by J.
R. Hawkins and last revised this
year by DuRamt and Wheeler, en
titled “Pork for Carolina Farms,”
is now available free from your
county or home agent. It tells how
to cure good meat. ^
I have often wondered why
somebne didn’t make a business
out of producing and curing good
country hams. At last I’ve found
E VERY once in a while a show
comes along that makes tele
vision all seem worthwhile
All the blood and gore, the old
movies, the fuzzy kinescopes and
other objectionable features of
this fabulous medium are forgot
ten when a really sock program
comes up Such a show was
the 90-minute spectacle put on by
Mary Martin and Noel Coward
Everyone had their reserva
tions about the idea of two soli
tary persons putting on a full hour-
and-a-half show alone, with no
acrobats in the background, no
sharp comedians to fall back on.
not even a skit between the highly
distinguished personalities ’
But if anyone could do it, it
would be the gentleman from Eng
land and the little gal from Texas
who never fails to stand Broadway
and televiewers on their heads any
time she performs Just a lit
tle running continuity for dialog
and ah the rest plain, honest-to-
goodness music It certainly
doesn’t sound like a fascinating
00-minutes and probably no one
else in the world could get by
with it but these two Sophis
ticated, veddy. veddy English
Coward singing “Deep in the Heart
cf Texas” was. for us. the high
light of the show
PLATTER CHATTER
Capitol:—Tommy Leone tU con
tinues his fine work with “Some
time” and we hope “sometime”
soon this lad’s voice will be dis
covered Flip side has “Heart
less” MiekJ Mario does “Pet
Me, Poppa” from “Guys and
Dolls” with real conviction
Reverse has a ditty called “Like
I Loved Nobody Before”
“Until Death Do Us Part” serves
to introduce Margie Rayburn a
gal who shows some promise
It’s back by “That’s the Chance
I’ve Got to Take.”
one who is doing just that: It is
Fred Henderson, Ninety Six, S.
C. He cures a good many hundred
and is expanding his business.’ He
won’t tunn one loose until it’s at
least six months old and just
right. He learned the art from
his dad, W. N. Henderson, who
has been winning the ham prizes
at the State Fair for many years.
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
Another way we boys of the
Stone Hills threw things was with
a sling, not a sling-shot. They are
different, quite different.
To make a sling we used two
raw-hide strings about 3 feet long
and a half inch < wide. Then we
cut a piece of raw leather about
8 inches long and 3 inches wide at
the middle, sloping to about 2
inches at the beveled ends. One
end of each string was -made se
cure in a small hole cut at each
end of this piece of leather.
A slip knot was tied in the
other end of one string so it
could be securely looped around
the wrist. The end of the other
string would be held in the hand.
Then a rock about the size of an
egg would, be carefully placed In
that sHng. We’d swing it around
hard several times and then turn
the string loose at the right time.
We could really throw a rock
hard that way. We could dent the
barn or knock the bark off of a
tree with 1L
It was hard to get proficient
with that sHng. And it was very
dangerous for kids to be standing
around the thrower. For, to turn
the loose end free at the wrong
time could really hurt somebody.
We would use uneven, angular
rocks as we could make them hum
when we threw them.
We used those things so much
that we got to -n ^pre we could
throw them n. r accurately.
That is, we could usually hit a
large tree or sheaf of fodder hang
ing on a corn stalk.
That’s the thing, you recall, that
David killed Goliath with. And I
can well understand how he could
have done that. We threw those
flinty rocks so hard it would of
ten shatter them all to pieces,
specially if they struck some
thing that was hard too.
The restaurant industry’s new
slogan “Take The Family Out To
Eat” is being pushed in hopes it
will do for eating houses what
“Say It With Flowers did fo> the
florists.
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Evidence of Jesus's Power.
Lesson for November 20: Luke 7;
11-23.
Golden Text: Luke 7: 22.
The raising of the widow's son
to life was blessed relief in the
most distressing bereavement of
which we can conceive—that of
a widowed mother following her
only son to the grave. What joy
he must have brought to the sor
rowing mother’s heart when he
restored her only son to life?
The fame of Jesus going abroad
because of his mighty works,
even of raising the dead to life,
multitudes gathered to see and
hear Jesus. Then came a mes
sage from a gloomy dungeon in
a castle of Herod beyond the Dead
Sea. where John the Baptist was
imprisoned. As he languished in
his dungeon. John’s thoughts turned
to Jesus and he wondered if he
were really the long-promised
Messiah. HQs high regard for
Je*us led him to turn to him for an
answer, and ha sent two of his
disciples to Jesus to ask, “Art
thou he that should come, or look
we tor another?’’
In substance, the answer of
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of his divinity. The messengers
came at a time when Jesus was
working miracles of healing, and
Jesus unto them. “Go your way,
and tell John what things ye have
seen and heard—” He cited his
miraculous works, in an ascend
ing scale of importance, showing
that the final purpose of them
all was to bring the gospel to bear
upon the hearts of men—“the poor
have the gospel preached unto
them.” May we find the marvelous
works of our Lord assurance of
his divinity ~ and incentive to en
large our service for him.
Former Newberrian
Is Policewoman
A former Newberrian is now a
policewoman on the Sumter police
force. She is Mrs. Evelyn Mims,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. C.
Campbell of Newberry. Mrs. Mims
aflld Mrs. Peggy Hartgrove began
their duties as peace officers on
November 1st, according to a
news article in The Sumter Daily
Times, which continued as fol
lows:
“Their most important duty,
City Manager Wade S. Kolb said,
will be as goodwill ambassadors.
This will include assisting strang
ers in town, amd in general help
ing people who are not familiar
with the city.
“He said the policewomen are
expected to familiarise themselves
with the city, and services offer
ed by the city, in order to ,be of
assistance to citizens.
“Chief E. E. McIntosh said that
Mrs. Hartgrove and Mrs. Mims
have been in training for the past
few weeks. They will handle
traffic at school corners and
check parking meters. ^
“Mrs. Mims Is a native of New
berry and has lived In Sumter
for 14 years. She is married to K.
O. Mims, of the Fire Department.
They have three sons, all in
school.
“Mrs. Mims has been a cosmetis
consultant for the past 8 years.
She is a graduate of Newberry
high scHool. She is a member of
St. John’s Methodist church, PTA
and past member of the Nurses’
Aidee.”
The Mims children are David,
12, Kent 7 and Steve, 6 years of
age.
Vic Vet says
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SrmerSisioners-of-war
WHOSE DENTAL DISABILITIES
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-Miss Germany of 1955,” Margli Nuenke
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