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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1956
THE-NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
BROILER BUSINESS GROWS
No other major food product
has grown like broilers in recent
years.
Georgia is now the giant in
this. It hasn’t been long since
Deleware, Maryland, and Cali
fornia led. But now Georgia pro
duces more broilers than all
three of them put together. Last
year it was over 177 million head!
This brought Georgia growers
$125,284,000.00.
Broiler production is growing
here in South Carolina, too. Last
year we .produced 10,020,000 head.
Processing plants dot the state,
mostly the middle and. up-state.
But County Agent Bowen of
Sumter tells me of new interest
down-state. The Harvin Packirvg
Company is building a poultry
processing unit there. And grow
ers are being organized to pro
duce broilers for sale through it.
Some thought we were saturat
ed with broilers long before we
reached the billion mark in this
country. Yet our present produc
tion means only about 6 broilers
a year per person. And who
couldn't eat more chicken than
that, if they could get ahold of
’em! Barbecued broiler has grown
into a popular and top dish. A
half chicken is usually served.
That wouldn’t take long for the
average person to eat up his 6.
As bo room for increasing
broilers, looks like there is plenty
yet. For who couldn’t eat a doz
en in a year without any trouble.
And that’s twice pur present pro
duction. But this will take pro
motion.
And while broilers have been
increasing so in numbers, the
scientist has been equally busy
improving their quality. This
comes about from improved feed
ing and management and better
breeding for meat. The broiler of
today is a changed bird from his
cousin of a few years back. Hy
brids have entered the picture,
and they have sure changed it.
It used to take 10 to 11 weeks
to produce a good 3 pound chick
en. Now it is being done in from
7 to 8 weeks! A far better bird
too. And on less feed!
Change, change, the constancy
of it! And usually for the better,
too.
LIQUID FERTILIZERS
County Agent Alford tells me
assistance was given the South
eastern Liquid Fertilizer Company
in getting set up in Colleton.
That’s something rather new
that will likely come generally
over the state. The main reason
for that is you get your nitrogen
some cheaper that way.
There are two general forms of
this material. One is anhydrous
ammonia. It is a liquid under
pressure. But forms a gas in the
soil as soon as it is released. It
has to be put down about 6
inches, so requires considerable
power and equipment to apply.
This makes it specially suited to
custom service, like the Colleton
plant will give.
Then there are some stable li
quids carrying nitrogen that you
spray on the ground or in the
furrow, and they will not evapo
rate away like the other, if left
exposed. Equipment for applying
these is in reach of the average
farmer, I understand.
"HOOIE”
I don’t find any such word as
“hooie” in the dictionary. But it
expressed what I have in mind
better than any word I know,
unless it is “baloney”.
And I’m thinking about all of
that hooie against the Coker 139
strain of tobacco the past winter.
The claim was, the companies
didn’t want it, and wouldn’t have
it. Therefore the Government
had to buy it. Which appears not
to have been true at all.
Back in the winter I was talk
ing w-ith one of three brothers,
all good farmers, who farm side
by side in Lee county. They are
on good land and usually make
about the same yields of the crops
they plant. Last year one planted
Coker 139 tobacco, and each of
the others another popular sort.
They had finished selling last
year’s crop and had gotten to
gether to compare results. The
man with the Coker 139 made
considerably more tobacco and
more dollars. The Government
bought far less of his tobacco
than of the others. And the county
agents and our tobacco specialist,
J. M. Lewis, told me of similar
By LYN CONNELLY
H AL MARCH, 35-year-old actor-
comedian, won the assign
ment of master of ceremonies for
“The $64,000 Question” after some
300 candidates had been screened
for the role, including top emcees
in radio and television, commen
tators, Broadway actors, screen
stars and others ... As it turned
out, he makes a wonderfully under
standing emcee who rejoices with
the victors and mourns with the
losers . . . You can’t imagine any
one else in the part.
The career of the personable
new pilot has ranged from ama
teur welterweight boxer on the
west coast during his late teens
to nightclub comedian and featured
performer on some of the most
popular radio and television shows
. . . Bom in San Francisco, he
joined a nightclub act following
his high school graduation .
He didn’t get rolling however,
until after his army stint ... He
was half of the team of Sweeney
and March, who were heard on
CBS stations for 80 weeks .
In 1947 he appeared frequently as
guest artist on the “Perry Como
Supper dub’' and did guest stints
on many of the comedy programs,
including those of Jack Benny and
Bob Hope.
He was the “next deer neighbor’*
mi the Borns and Allen radio
program, and when the pair went
en television he continaed in the
role . . . Subsequently, the Swee
ney and March combination was
reactivated and performed as a
disc jockey pair for a year . . .
Most recently Hal has been play
ing in the part of Imogen© Coca’s
husband on her ill-fated television
series . . . He was also one of
Marie Wilson’s boyfriend on “My
Friend Irma’* and teamed with
Tom D’Andrea in “The Soldiers.”
Up to this year, Hal was a bach
elor, but meeting lovely Candy
Toxton changed that status in
February . . . His immediate am
bition is to find some good acting
roles so he won’t be typed as an
emcee.
cases elsewhere.
Now that’s what I mean by
hooie, all of that idle talk about
that fine new variety not produc
ing what the trade wanted. Plenty
of fertilizer for its heavy yield
and let it ripen good before har
vest ao*e the thing's that need to
be watched, J. M. Lewis says.
Despite all of the hooie, this to
bacco is being widely planted this
year, I understand.
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Fanners can look for new and bettor chemical “hired hands” from
scientists like the above, at work in one of the greenhouse laboratories of
Monsanto Chemical Company’s agricultural chemicals research center at
Crave Coeur, Mo. Doctors Clyde L. Wilson (left), John M. Damming and
Ernest Jaworsld make bench testa of a new chemical killer for weedy
grasses which does not injure corn.
Cost-conscious farmers will be turning to a wider use of farm
chemicals this year to help bolster their income against sagging prices.
Their goal is not a larger yield of crops in surplus, but a bigger margin
of profit per unit of farm yield. And chemicals have proved to be
tho lowest-priced “hired hands.”
Weeds alone cost American farmers an estimated $4 billion (that’s
right, billion) each year: almost as much as tbs nation’s corn crop ia
worth. Farmers in the Corn Belt usually cultivate their corn three to
five times a season, mostly for weed control. At $1.25 or so per sera
per cultivation, that means a tillage coat of anywhere from $3.75 to
$6.25 par acre for the crop.
At a recent Weed Society of America meeting, a report of tests
conducted in Ohio showed that weeds in corn on many soils could be
controlled chemically at a cost of only $3.40 per acre. Yields from
the chemically-treated crops were about the same as from mechanical
<roltivation. Thus, the chemical weed control gave equal results at
considerably lower costa.
The same thing applies to pasture, too, where chemicals can heln
more palatable and nutritious forage plants take over without reseed
ing. Grass production was upped 75 per cent on permanent native
Nebraska pastures simply by using 2,4-D to control iron weed
and other broadleaves.
The big farm chemical producers such as Monsanto in St. Louis
are investing huge sums of money in research for new and even better
farm chemicals to do highly efficient and special farm jobs. Monsanto
reports that it screens more than 2,000 new compounds each year as
potential farm chemicals.
Meanwhile, the 2,4-D and others now available are made more
efficient by improved emulsifiers, anti-clogging agents and such.
They are better tools today—and better buys.
It all adds up to a strong indication that higher farm profits may
ha just around the corner; the corner that can be cut on production
costs by putting chemical “hired hands” to work.
Some 45,000 Oklahamans are
directly engaged in the production
of oil and natural gas, and many
thousands more are employed in
directly as a result of oil and
gas production.
LOOKING PRETTY . . . British
motion picture actress Valerie
French appears at London pre
miere of her latest film,
“JubaL”
By LYN CONNELLY
W ONDER where the movio tal
ent scouts are hiding when the
Bob Crosby show is on? If Joanle
O’Brien isn’t star material we nev
er saw any . . . The gal has a good
voice, warm personality and one
of the most beautiful faces these
tired eyes have seen in many years
. . . Supposedly the great Stone
Wall, Kim Novak (who is beauti
ful but has the personality and
warmth of a cigar store Indian),
was discovered while riding a bike
. . . Joanie may have to resort to
that before she is finally “discov
ered.”
Speaking of the Crosby show, this
continues to be one of the most
pleasant half-hours in daytime tele
vision ... It is unfortunate Bob
had to bask in his brother’s shadow
for so many years but he seems to
have emerged in typical Crosby
fashion, laughing at himself and
accepting his fate . . . Another good
daytime TV show is the Tennessee
Ernie program . . . Ernie is a ter
rific pea-pickin’ personality that has
taken the city folk by storm.
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