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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1956
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
UEAVE PLENTY COTTON
It’s a pity to have it and then
chop too much out.
I*m talking about cotton.
Both experiment and experience
show it pays to leave lot of cot
ton stalks on the land.
“Well, just how many” you
Jtsk.
Clemson says: “Leave 3 stalks
to the hill about 8 to 12 inches
apart.”
CHANGE
Before the Civil war the highest
Incomes in the nation were enjoy
ed by the folks living in South
Carolina, Arkansas and Mississ
ippi.
Since then they have been the
lowest.
From the ashes of that war, 90
years ago, these states have been
crawling the hard road back. But
the hell of that era left ills that
lingered long. And, though ran
sacked to the bone, for decades
we paid and paid, but did not re
ceive. It was rough, almost hope
less, going at times.
In our day we have gotten over
the great hump. With a phenom
enal industrial and diversified ag
ricultural growth, we are defi
nitely on our way back! And with
resources of soil, climate, and
citizenry that are real, our to
morrows promise to bring back
the glories of our distant yester
days.
Change, change, the constancy
of it-
CORN NOW
The year 1948 marks the be
ginning of a new era with corn
In this state. It was then we re
ceived our first adapted hybrids.
And it was then we started our
100 bushel Corn Club. Three
years before that the South Caro
lina Plant Food Educational So
ciety was organized. And it has
been furnishing the gold keys for
those making the 100 bushel club
and also the prize money for the
corn improvement contest. For
this year the prize money is $1,-
760.
In the past the corn contest
lias been on a one acre basis.
Hugh Woodle tells me beginning
this year it is on a 3 acre basis.
For the 20 year period before
this corn improvement work was
started in 1948 and the Clemson
Five Point Program for growing
was advanced, this state averag
ed 14.5 bushels per acre. Since
then, as more farmers adapted
hybrids and more and more of
them employed the Five Point
Program of corn production, the
state yield has constantly picked
up. The past year it was 28 bu
shels per acre, or just about
double what it averaged before.
And 126 new farmers made the
100 bushel club.
The South Carolina Five-<point
Corn Program is as follows:
1. Thorough soil preparation.
2. Plant recommended certi
fied hybrids.
3. Liberal fertilization, es
pecially nitrogen.
4. More plants per acre.
5. Only early, shallow cultiva
tion.
County Agents have the full
details.
LUCK OF LOUSY CALF
There’s an old farm saying,
“You can never tell the luck of
a lousy calf.” So it is with folks.
Often the early hardships serve
to bring out the metal that’s in
a fellow.
Dr. Collings of Clemson has
made a survey among his grad
uates in agronomy. He tells me
many of his students who had the
hardest time getting through
have made the best marks out in
life.
Many a poor devil has had lit-
tle opportunity and goes to col
lege ill prepared. And there he
finds the going rough for sure.
But if he is earnest and tries
hard, his teachers will usually
sense it and help him all they
can. Then the world can be his.
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
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Last week I started out talking
here about how we dreaded a
chicken eating hog and a suck-
egg dog in the Stone Hills of the
Dutch Fork when I was a kid. I
just finished with the hog. Now
this week it’ sthe dog.
Our folks hunted considerably.
So they valued their dogs. And
with us it was a dog and not dogs.
It took too much to feed a dog
for the thrifty Dutchman to have
more than one. And that one
wasn’t fed any too good. We had
an idea it took a lean dog to run
a race. So we kept them thin.
Those hungry dogs in the com
munity would occasionally find a
broken egg in a nest that some
old hen- had made away out in
the vines somewhere. Or some
careless housewife threww egg
shells out and gave the dog a
taste. But it was considered very
bad, and most housewives burned
them in the stove.
Once a dog got started sucking
eggs, he seemed to lose interest
in all else. He’d even leave the
hunt if he heard a guinea cackle
a quarter of a mile away.
Eggs wefe on his mind. And the
belief was strong that you could
never cure onq. Once my brother
tried.
Someone told him to boil an
egg, take it out of the hot water
show it to the dog, then put it
in his mouth and hold it shut for
about a minute. The idea was
this would scare him away from
eggs forever afterwards. But
the cruel remedy didn’t work. Old
Pup went right back to sucking
eggs. And you had to be good to
beat her to a nest, if she heard
the cackle first.
Like the chicken-eating hog, the
suck-egg dog just had to go. For
once started there was no getting
it off their mind. And no matter
where the nest was, likely that
dog could reach it. Even if it
meant climbing a ladder.
So my brother faced a crisis.
As much as he adored his dog,
and she was a dandy at birds, he
dispatched her with a load of
squirrel shot down in the pasture.
Like Ben Franklin says. “A man
who falls in love with himself
will have no rivals.
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There is a big difference in the oats where 32 pounds of nitrogen were applied
as compared to areas missed. The little girl is Ellen Williamson, granddaughter
of S. C. Paysinger, on whose farm the picture was taken.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Having been an affiliate member of the Newberry County Soil
Conservation District during the past year, we are proud to list, during
this Soil Conservation Week, some of the accomplishments of the SCS
District and Co-operators during 1955.
During the year, the acreage seeded to pasture reached 4788;
90 farmers joined the District, bringing the total of cooperators to
1233; 104 ponds were constructed, giving a total of 338 to date, and 69
were stocked with 106,000 blue-gill bream; terracing consisted of 124
miles, and there are five irrigation systems in the county. Conserva
tion was taught in the schools of the county. Work was begun to sur
vey and plan for the Bush River Watershed.
Newberry Packing Co.
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GOATS GET HER ... Janice
Revell, 16, hostess st zoo in Ches-
sington, England, cuddles two
baby goats.
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By -LYN CONNELLY
J ERRY LEWIS was perhaps the
best emcee the Academy Award
FV presentation had in many,
many years ... He was clever,
subdued, dignified and warm, a
iifflcult combination in any man’s
language . . . It was fortunate for
the Academy and the sponsor
that Jerry was so good else they
would have had no audience at
*11 for the first portion . . . This is
when people receive Oscars for
film splicing, sound effects, set
designing and other such trivia
(to the layman.)
The only really exciting part of
such a show is the last ten min
utes when the best director, actors
and actresses and best films are
announced . . . Then you can al
most feel the tension in the movie
audience . . Jerry’s brief con
versation with Grace Kelly was
in excellent taste . . . We know
emcees who could not have re
sisted the attempt to clown about
her forth-coming marriage to a
prince . Probably the high
light of the evening came when
Jimmy Cagney and Jerry ex
changed impersonations Mo
ments like this made the long,
drawn-out event worthwhile
Next year, we hope the movie
industry will sponsor the show and
cut down the commercial time
some.
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mental on the Main Theme from
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This song is coming up . . The
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like it . . . “Our Melody** is on the
flip side.
That wonderful couple, Mary
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JOHN T. NORRIS, Manager of the South Carolina National Bank at Newberry,
shows that the Bank is eager to cooperate in promoting Soil Conservation practices.
TODAY, TOWN PEOPLE, and especially those who live in towns supported by ru
ral areas, realize that they have a tremendous stake in how our lands are used.
The land is the source of a very large share of our basic wealth. Not only goods
and clothing, but a large part of the raw materials for our industries comes from
the soil. All of us, whether we are manufacturers, bankers, storekeepers, doc
tors, teachers, or ministers, are directly concerned with what happens to the land.
We are affected, basically, as consumers of goods, and our income likewise may
be determined by the kind and size of crops produced. So, the importance of pro
ductive land in our economy hardly can be over-emphasized.
The South Carolina National Bank
Newberry Branch
JOHN T. NORRIS, Manager
JOSEPH L. KEITT, Asst Manager - LEWIS SHEALY, Asst Manager
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