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THURSDAY, MAY 24. 1956 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE FIVE FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES This is the season of thunder storms. When lightning strikes, you’re in danger, says the Farm Safety Review, on a tractor, near wire fences, under a lone tree, on hill tops, and other open spaces. It is suggested that you seek shelter in rodded buildings, thick timber, automobiles, ravine, or ditch. And, if in the home, keep away from screen doors, fireplaces, open windows, and metal objects. Don’t attach metal fences di rect to barns and ground the post every 150 feet, adds Clemson’s W. A. Jones. LIME CORRECTLY County Agent King of Dorches ter says oveprliming showed up on a number of grain fields the past apring. And several other agents told me of the same thing on tobacco. As bad as our soils generally have needed lime, we never thought we’d come to that. Lime to land is a lot like salt in your bread. The right amount is wonderfully good. But leave it off, an{j you hurt a lot. Like that salt too, it needs to be used with care and scattered evenly. Then it can have its de sired effect. Clemson offers a complete soil testing service that can help you keep straight on both the lime and fertilizer requirements for your various fields. County agents can show you about taking the soil samples and getting them to Clemson. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT South Carolina has never be fore seen the concerted efforts towards rural community devel opment that we now have in all parts of the state. In fact, extra extension workers have been put on to help with it. And in most of the counties I go, it is one of the livest subjects I meet. County Agent King of Marion tells me of satisfactory progress in the two communities they are working closely in, Rains and Scotch. Nine families have nam ed their farms. Three church grounds improved and one rec reational building erected. Ceme teries have been cleaned up, roads improved, and two com munity building grounds improve ed. A community-wide, clean-up campaign conducted in each, and remodeling and repair of build ings done. And the number of improved livestock and crop dem onstrations was increased. FOLLOWING GRAIN? The grain harvest is right on us now. That doesn’t mean we are through with that land for the year. But in much of the finest farming area of this country it does. Yes, with them it is either grain or soybeans and sorghum. With us, it is grain and one of these other summer crops. And there is a mighty farming difference in that little “or” and “and.” For, with us, it is two crops in a year. With them, one. Soybeans and sorghums are the crops we have to select from for that stubble land now. And sweet potatoes go well there too. Shatter-resistant soybeans are claiming most of our stubble land now. And grain sorghum is a growing acreage there too. In Newberry, County Agent Ezell showed me a lot of sweet sorghum there too last fall. They make silage out of some of it. But most of it is left there for winter grazing. A :« — llilLv. half acre of this good cane per cow will carry them t hrough to grass, he tells me. And Wm. Senn and H. T. Lake told me it not only carried their beef cattle through the winter, but they t gained on it. It is ready for grazing two weeks after frost kills it. The cattle clean it up completely. Mr. Senn also put up silage from his sweet sorghum, getting as high as 22 tons per acre. Some is planted broadcast, but most of it is rn rows, and is fertilized and worked a few times. 1/ /AuD* E vr WIDE, WONDERFUL '(cT" c WORLD By FRANKLIN J. MEINE Editor, The Americas Peoploa Encyclopedia The human being and the as provide the basis of most land measurements. The foot came from the length of a human foot; the yard was the expression of the distance from the nose to the tips of the fingers, with the arm extended; the inch was the length of the central section of the thumb. A mile was a thousand paces, and the rod was the width of four oxen abreast. A midget can’t ex tend his arms as far as a giant, so such units have had to be standardized. • • • Cowboys, pioneers, and early settlers should be interested to know that the historic Oregon Trail, main route for early west ward migrants, was ground five foot deop in solid limestone near Guernsey, in eastern Wyoming. • • • Nautical note: A yacht is a •ailing vessel of any length over 90 feet used tor racing or for pleasure. Tbe word “yacht” is de rived firem the Dutch “jaght,” a purcuit ahip. Yachts rang# from motorboat cruisers to such ves sels as the presidential yacht, 1 ‘Williamsburg, ” of 1.T99 tons. Soma yachts have been built in excess ef 1000 tons. SPEEDY FIGHTER . . . Leek- heed's XF-104 Starfighter Jet, protetype ef F-104A Starfighter, is called world’! fastest lighter plane. Summer time calls for play clothes!, Denims in stripes and solids, 69c and 79c per yard. New shipment of cotton and nylon iace. WEEK END SPECIAL 1 Table PRINTS 25c per yd. Carolina Remnant Shop Newberry, S. C. Main Street BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER When I came along, outside visitors were few in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. Roads were mere trails. And the clay lowlands and springy spots be tween the rocky knolls became quagmires early. So those who came picked their time, usually late spring or summer. First in my recollection was the covered wagon of Mr. Goolsby. I think he came from North Carolina, or maybe it was Tennessee. Both meant about the same to me then, a far-away place. He brought tobacco, mostly plug for chewing. Also some twist, for both chewing and smoking. They’d shred tobac co from the twist as needed with the ever-present pocket- knife. Most of it was a bit hard to burn. But a live coal from the fireplace laid on top of it in the corn-cob or clay pipe would dry it out and keep it go ing. Everyone knew about when he would come. Usually the willow would be in bloom. And when his heavy wagon rumbled in through the hills, the word wasn’t long getting around. He usually put up for a couple of days at Eleazer’s Tavern, our ancestral home down the hill from our house, where the stagecoaches used to stop. He drove two of the finest horses we had ever seen, and led an extra one for relief. We only had mules and light horses. These were draft horses, very strong. And we kids liked the glamor of that big wagon. It had brakes on it! Everyone looked forward to Mr. Goolsby’s coming. And the men laid in a year’s supply of tobacco then. As I recall, he grew it and processed it him self, and the men of the Stone Hills thought there was none like it. I hung around to hear him talk. Have to this day been keenly interested in the far places. I never learned where he went from there. But he head ed on down the Fork towards Columbia. An oldtimer near Eastover tells me he recalls his visits there. Next week we’ll talk of a few other rare visitors to our Stone Hills when I was a kid. Information Given On Farm Sales The value of products sold in 1954 by operators of 2223 farms in Newberry county was $3,337,- 610, according to a preliminary report of the 1954 Census of Ag riculture published by the Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce. The value of all crops sold was $1,147,354 and included $1,107,436 for field crops, $2135 for vegeta bles, $20,556 for fruit and nuts, and $17,225 for horticultural pro ducts. The value of all livestock and livestock products sold was $2,- 048,051 and included $895,486 for dairy products, $708,724 for poul try products, and $443,841 for livestock and livestock products. The value of forest products sold from the county’s farms was $142,205. Information on the value o f products sold is presented for each county in a preliminary State report, copies of which may be purchased from the Bureau of the Census, Washington, D. C. at 10 cents each. Be Honored ' - ' f ' i m % m wm ; x V ; " MM MRS. MOOSE iXyXXSyX-: /.. ^ Mma- mmmm ■ ilii l hi in ro.--- V ^ .-nor... ‘ - v'X: Y- .rr- o-. v * ‘ First' grade students of Speers Street school took a ti ip last week to Lynchs’ woods i nconnectio:: wkh t »e.. otjuy of science. They were accompanied by Mrs. Beale Cromer, back row left, Mr. Homer Schumpert, back row center, and Mrs. Dick Boulware, right. (Sunphoto.) Prosperity News MRS. B. T. YOUNG, Correapon cTant MR. CAUGHMAN QIVE ... WEAR The New Bulova For 1956 Hew Miracle of Thin, Thin Watch Design PRESIDENT “A" 17 jewels Shock resistant Unbreakable mainspring <etso Miteble with durcoal dial) Note clean-swept dial... Utterly new modem beauty ... unbelievable thinness! V* Yours only $4-9.50 CREDIT TERMS FENNELL’S Jewelry Store 1505 Main St. Phone 35-W MR. CLARKSON Pictures above are the per sons to be honored with Dist- tinguished Service Awards by Newberry College at Commerce- ment Exercsiea on June 3. They are: Mrs. John B. Moose of Leesville, Mr. John F. Clarkson of Newberry, and Mr. Ansel Caughman of Leesville. The exercises will be held in Mac- Lean Gymnasium beginning at 3:30 p. m. Vic Vet says W WORLD WAR II VfTS WITH ^ FIVE-YEAR TEfiN 61 INSURANCE , WILL PAY HI6HER premium* i AND RECEIVE LOWER DIVI DENDS FDR EVERY it's time to consider CONVERSION TO permanent plans Mrs. Woodrow Bedenbaugh was hostess to the Iris Garden Club Wednesday afternoon, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Leroy Pugh. Mrs. Tommy Harmon, pro gram leader, gave an informative and interesting talk on trees and lawns. Mrs. Isadore Ruff gave glean ings. The hostess conducted two con tests with Mrs. W. L. Mathis, Jr. and Mrs. Wofford Cooper win ning prizes. After the business session the hostess served a sweet course. Mr. and Mr. G. C. Wise of Washington, D. C. and Miss Mar guerite of Columbia are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Young and Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wise. With the Wises Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Wise of Greenville and Miss Mae Johnson and J. W. Johnson of Columbia. Rev. A. D. Woodle of McRae, Ga. is visiting in the homes of his daughters, Mrs. A. R. Chappell and Mrs. C. E. Hendrix. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Barnes and their daughter, Susan Marie, of Columbia spent Sunday with Mr. Barnes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Barnes. Mrs. J. E. Ross of Atlanta, Ga. is spending several weeks in her apartment here. The members of the third grade of the Prosperity school spent Friday in Columbia. The trip was made in a school bus driven by Grady Lee Halfacre and Randal Epting. The students visited the State House, The State newspaper of fice, the Farmer’s Market and the Pet Milk plant. ‘Mrs. Lucile G. Metts is the teacher and the following moth ers made the trip: Mesdames W. L. Mathis, Jr., Leon She&ly, John Schumpert, Leroy Pugh, Charles Hartman, Grady Halfacre, H. O. Bedenbaugh, Ruth Martin, Peggy Pitts, -Betty Long, Edna Earle Fant, Walter Pitts, Russell Moore, Ronald Bowers, Ronnie Davenport, Etta Martin, Gene Sheppard and seventh and eighth grade chorus. This prdgram constituted the entertainment feature of the final meeting of the Parent- Teachers Association. At this meeting, the installation of the newly - elected officers for the 1956-57 school year was held. The monthly programs of this organization have been varied, informative and entertaining. Newman, Gene Abrams. The group had picnic lunch at Lake Murray on their way home. if AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING it A W. RODGERS, 422 Washington Avenue, Jersey Shore, Pennsyl- • vanla, gives us a story to lift the morale of anyone carrying » burden. . _ Late In the summer of 1890 he and his wife were informed that their two and a half year old daughter, and only child, was blind in one eye. He tried to console his heartbroken wife by telling her that perhaps it would not be so bad as they thought, though deep in his heart he could not feel optimism. They had built thejr lives around that child who possibly was to face total blindness. After all types of tests and examinations were taken, the doctor informed them that the condition caused at birth would not be likely to spread to the other eye. There was jtist one thing to do, trust in God and keep their daughter cheerful and happy, and on pARTVEGIE this they concentrated, and the day came when their daughter married and in due time presented them with two normal grandchildren of whom they are proud, and shortly after the doctor told them their daughter’s eye condiUon was showing im provement. Par fall tafanaatlMi t—tart, raar l ' VKTEKANS ADMINISTRATION PRINTING: The Sun is well equip ped to handle all your printing orders. We specialise la letter heads, envelopes, billheads and statements, Invoices. We print any kind of receipt book, numb bered or plain. Ruled forms, vou chers, and many, many other items. Try us for quality print ing with prompt service. Phone No. 1. Well be glad to call. &!!!!!»« Mrs. O. O. Copeland, Mrs. Hugh Foster, Mrs. Hugh Senn and Mrs. Senn’s sister, Mrs. Agnew, o f Greenwood, left Wednesday for a ten day tour of Florida. Seniors Present Class Program The seniors of Silverstreet high school presented a class night program entitled “The Cruise of the Dixie Belle” on Wednesday night, May 2. The program was under the direction of Mrs. Sadie McLeod with Mrs. B. O. Long in charge of the music. Students participating in the program were Sandra Adams, Mary Bedenbaugh, Peggy Bow ers, Winnie Davenport, Mary Hendrix, Mildred Long, Garrett The 'William Pitt statue, in Charleston’s City Hall Park, was erected by the colony prior to the Revolution in gratitude for Pitt’s defending the freedom of Americans. A portion of the inscription reads: “Time shall sooner destroy this mark of their esteem than erase from their minds their just sense of his patriotic virtues.” In South Carolina, a state eternally grateful for her liberty, the United States Brewers Foundation works constantly to encourage maintenance of whole some conditions wherever beer and ale are sold. 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