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THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1956
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
LAFF OF THE WEEK
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windshield? ... take yen to lunch?**
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemcon Extension Information Specialist
SHEEP PROGRESS
Many years ago there were over a quarter of a million
sheep on the farms of South Carolina. Through the years,
as most other things grew, these dwindled almost to ex
tinction in our time. The census showed some three or
four thousand. But those who go about a lot even wond
ered where those few were.
WORDS
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LAFF OF THE WEEK
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paTittou is (a) a kiosk; (b) kipper; (e) Kirmaa.
ord is the (a) para; (b) parang; (c) battue,
refers to (a) humans; (b) birds; (e) snakes.
ANSWERS
With the coming of the woolen
mills, interest in sheep was kind
led anew. Last year our sheep
more than doubled in South Caro
lina! And our livestock men
Cato and DuRant, tell me there
has been no let-up in this.
Our youngsters have taken
sheep production up in their 4-H
clubs. And, we might recall, this
is where hogs, cattle, better
corn yields, and the like got most
of their early impetus here. Yes,
from the 4-H demonstration of
the youngsters many new ways
have gone to the fields and pas-
tues of the fathers.
County Agent Thompson of
Hampton tells me they brought in
250 Rambouillet ewes for farm
ers around Estill. These are be
ing bred to Hampshire rams.
And County Agent Cannon of
Laurens told me of 112 ewes be
ing brought in for a sheep dem
onstration project there. He says,
“This farm has ample well man
aged pasture sod. Proper cross
fencing has been erected, and if
sheep raising can be made to
'succeed in Laurens county this
farm should demonstrate the
fact.”
E, WONDERFUL
WORLD
S MALL children probably are
not much interested in hearing
THIS wide wondreful world
about orange juice as a rich
source of Vitamin C. They might
be more interested if you tell
them that oranges, like themselves,
are highly susceptible to cold,
being unable to withstand any
but the lightest frosts. Orange
trees are very prolific—or fruit
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HOGS IN DORCHESTER
Soon after Gary Meares went
to St. George as county agent in
January 1935 he started putting
on hog feeding demonstrations. It
was a good corn county, so he
saw hogs as a natural, to supple
ment their crop farming.
After the hogs were finished
out, the farmers brought them in,
he marked the lots and shipped
them to distant markets. For over
two years this continued, and it
grew. In March 1937 he called in
8 key farmers and appropriate
extension specialists under Dist
rict Agent J. T. Lazar and or
ganized the Dorchester Marketing
Association. Since then it has op
erated successfully under farmer
management and operation. And
hogs have grown into a depend
able year-around money crop of
importance there. The present
county agent, J. L. King, tells me
the past April saw the heaviest
weekly shipments they have ever
had. That month they shipped
3,107 head that brought $93,076.-
34.
Real money for April, when
money is usually onfy going out
from crop farms. And spring did
not bring money like that from
hogs at first. Fall and winter
shipments were the heavy ones,
and out in the spring there were
hardly enough to ship. But those
folks down there have studied
markets and have a lot on out
when prices are usually better.
Through the years they have
continued to improve their hogs.
Now practically all of theirs are
topg, except, of course, the nec
essary sows and stags..
Good going, folks of Dorches
ter!
fuL A yield of from 3,000 to 4,000
oranges per tree each year is not
unusuaL Individual trees have
been known to bear 10,600 oranges
In a single season. The trees be
gin to bear fruit three years after
planting, and may live 100 to 180
years.
The women who wear a Per
sian lamb coat, made from the fur of
the karakul or Arab! sheep of
Bokhara, may be somewhat un
happy to know, that for the fur
riers’ purposes, the lambs must
be killed when not older than 10
days. After that, the lustrous wool
closely curled, opens up. The
practice of using the skin of the
unborn lamb, which necessitated
killing both lamb and mother, no
longer prevails.
Even the inveterate gambler
doesn’t know when the first deck
of playing cards was manufac
tured. The origin of playing cards
Is cloaked in uncertainty, bat
some contend with the Chinese in
the 12th Century. Odd facts: There
are 52 weeks in the year as there
ere 82 cards in the deck. There
are IS cards in a suit as
ere IS loner months In the
Any Hour of the Day—It’s Good
Listening
on WKDK!
6:00 Hillbilly Harmony
12:46 Weather Forecast
7:00 World News
12:60 Farm, Home Program
7:06 Woke Up and Sin^
1:06 Market Report
7:26 Weather Forecast
1:10 Moments of Meditation
7:80 Garonne Nows
1:15 Mutual Music Box
7:86 World of Sports
1:65 Game of The £>ay
7:40 Wake Up end Sing
1:30 Steve Hood Show
8:00 World News
4:30 Let’s Get Together
8:06 Wake Up end Sing
6:30 Bob and Ray
8:46 Morning Devotions
6:00 Supper Serenade
8:66 S. C. News
6:26 Carolina News /
8:00 Robt F. Burleigh
6:30 Sports
916: Story Time
6:46 Storyland
9:46 Homemaker Harmony
7:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr.
10:00 Music For Mom
10:30 Music for Mom
7:16 Weather
7‘20 Mnslcale
11:00 News
7:30 Gabriel Heater ' r
11:06 Fiddlin’ Hound
7:46 Les Paul
11:16 Mr. 9V>od
7:60 Here’s Hayes
11:80 Queen for a Day
Mystery |
12:00 Cotton Today
9:00 Dance Party
12:06 A Public Service
10:00 Nelson Eddy Party
12:10 World News
10:80 Passport to Dreams
12:16 Obituary Column
L0:66 Sports
12:20 Carolina News
11:00 Nows t
12:26 Funeral Aims.
15 Music of Manhattan. *
12:80 Farm, Home Service
W K
D K
FEW GARDENS
Through suburban areas, where
there is plenty room, I see few
good vegetable gardens. Back
during the war it was different.
And even on farms, I don’t see
the productive, year-around gar
den of yore.
There are many reasons for
this. The going of the mule is
one thing. For a tractor is out
of place in a small garden there
back of the house. Another thing,
cheap labor has gone, and folks
feel they can buy the stuff
cheaper than they can raise it.
And freezers have come, wherein
they can store a year’s supply
that they grew in the field or
buy when the commercial truck
movement is on.
But nothing quite takes the
place of the garden. Aside from
the pleasure one can get from
growing one, no vegetable can
reach you in as good a state as
the one picked fresh and crisp
from your garden there a few
steps from your kitchen.
With the mule about gone, and
the field tractor unsuited to the
small garden, we need to revise
our idea about the size of a gar
den. You can spade up a small
place, make it very fertile, watfer
it as needed, and grow all of the
vegetables a family can use. And
one like that can be handled by
hand clear through and never let
a weed or stalk of grass gain
headway in it, just lush vege
tables.
If you have become rusty on
gardening, Clemson has many
helps in the form of leaflets and
bulletins you can get from your
county or home agent.
know your State
v
k.
For more than a century and a
quarter, Camden’s town hall has
been topped by the weathervane
honoring Chief Haiglar, the Ca
tawba chief who befriended pre-
Revolutionary residents when the
settlement was known as Pine
Tree Hill. The effigy remains on
the fourth dty hall and a replica
graces the new municipal build
ing recently occupied.
In South Carolina, a state
rich in historical curiosities, the
United States Brewers Founda
tion works constantly to encour
age maintenance of wholesome
conditions wherever beer and ale
are sold. As in other states, the
program calls for close coopera
tion between law-enforcement
officials and beer licensees
throughout South Carolina.
Beer belongs . . . enjoy it.
United States Brewers Foundation
South Carolina Div., Columbia, S.C
The beverage
of moderation
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THOUGHTS
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RED EXIT . . . Russian soldiers
seem happy as they start jour
ney back to homeland from
Weimar in East Germany.
PRINTING: The Sun la wen equip
ped to handle all your printing
orders. We specialise In letter
heads, envelopes, billheads and
statements, invoices. We print
apy kind of receipt book, numb
bored or plain. Ruled forms, vou
chers, and many, many other
items. Try ns for quality print
ing with prompt service- Phene
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Condensed Statement
Of Condition
The
9
National Bank
As of. June 30, 1956
RESOURCES
Cash and Due from Banks
U. S. Government Securities
State and Municipal Securities
Other Bonds,Notes and Debentuures
Federal Reserve Bank Stock
Loans and Discounts '
Banking- Houses (17)
Furniture and Fixtures —
Other Assets
$ 54,147,942.70
69,339,113.74
2,428,873.84
1,098,693.75
270,000.00
66,004,653.56
1,466,525.00
413,974.21
63,198.39
$195,232,975.19
Capital — Common $
' Surplus
Undivided Profits .*. —
Reserve — Div. Payable July 2,1956
Reserve — Under Sec. 166 (Int. Rev. Code)
Reserve — Federal Income Taxes
Reserve — Other
Deposits
3,000,000.00
6,000,000.00
1,449,325.10
300,000.00
1,250,000.00
700,000.00
207,347.64
182,326,302.45
- $195,232,975.19
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