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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
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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. As in other
states, the program calls for close
cooperation between law-enforce
ment officials and beer licensees
throughout South Carolina.
Beer belongs . . . enjoy it.
United States Brewers Foundation
South Carolina Div., Columbia, S.C
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