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THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1958 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEy FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER CSemsor. Extension Information Specialist IRRIGATION PAID AGAIN Irrigation, in the corn experi ment at Clemson, last year was again the difference between suc cess and failure. This was a field of corn, handled mechanically. The irrigated part made exactly 100 bushels per acre. The un irrigated part right by it made exactly 3 bushels per acre! And in another field the figures were 94 and 20 bushels respectively. On cotton too, it paid. Four tests at Clemson showed gains from irrigation of 604 to 1,854 pounds of seed cotton per acre. That’s increased yields, mind you, not the total yield. The best irr igated one made 3,173 pounds of seed cotton against 1,318 pounds not irrigated. And the staple on the irrigated part was three thir ty seconds of an inch better. The gross value per acre there was $483.88, and on the unirrigated part it was $184.42. At the Pontiac station the irr igated cotton made 1,750 pounds of seed cotton per acre against 897 on the unirrigated part. And the staple there was better on the irrigated too. BROILERS GALORE I wonder if any other major food product has ever grown like broilers of late? In 1934 this country produced just 34 million broilers. And folks then thought that a good many. After that, the business started booming, specially in Georgia. And now Georgia alone produces al most 10 times what the whole country did back then. And little South Carolina, not considered big in the broiler business, now grows about half as many as the whole country did back there in 1934. Yes, against that 34 million head in 1934, last year this coun try produced 1,425 million broilers. And this year that figure will likely reach 1,500 million. That will be only 8 per person. And who couldn’t eat more of these •delicious broilers than that, if he can just get a-hold of ’em? This broiler business has re built whole rural areas that the boll weevil left in ruins. It has created countless off-the-farm jobs too. For processing and hand ling all of this poultry and the 6 million tons of feed it requires all adds up to jobs aplenty in all parts of the nation. Here in South Carolina we share in all of this Dressing plants dot the state. New broiler houses are seen atmany places. Dressed chickens can be had, even at the crossroads store. And the feed, chick, and equip ment business has grown into something big. EGGS TOO In this state we fall far short of filling our local needs with eggs most of the year. A year or two ago the Chesterfield county agricultural committee was look ing around for a new money crop. They saw the need for eggs, good eggs. So it was adopted as a goal. Now they have made substan tial progress and are still grow ing. County Agent Willis tells me they are selling $2,500 worth of eggs a week, and that figure will be up the coming year. The production of anything now calls for high quality stuff. With so much cash and carry buying, things rtnust be'good, or they will stay there on the shelf. And it is quality eggs those Chesterfield farmers have been aiming at and getting, Willis tells me. Results— they bring a premium. SCIENCE AND THE CHICKEN The chicken lends itself to rat her rapid improvement, as its gen erations don’t take long, and you have the advantage of numbers. And the breeders have sure been busy and productive in this field in late years. Look what has hap pened. The broiler has been vastly im proved in quality. And you can grow him in less time and on less feed than before. Good feeders with good chicks are getting close to a pound of meat with 2 pounds of feed. And experimentally it has been done on less. And in egg production, the hen has been vastly improved too. In the past 20-odd years, eggs per hen have picked up 45 percent! Science at work has given us many good things. And in no field is that more evident than with poultry. For the broiler and the egg hit our everyday living. They would not be anything like they are without the painstaking work of science. And in this we can see even better things ahead. Our experiment stations, 4-H poultry club members, breeders, and dealers are a part of this. Clemson has various bulletins dealing with different angles of poultry. They are free from your county agent or us here at the college. A “MESS OF FOOD” If a neighbor came to your house with a pan in hand and said they had you “a mess of fresh”, wouk you know what they meant? Well, where I was raised, we would. It would be a family serving of the fresh pork products they had just made from butchering a hog. Or “a mess of beans”, would you know what that meant? It would be enough fresh beans from their garden for your family. Yes, different areas have pe culiarities of speech. To us a “mess” of food was enough to cook for the family. And folks were always thus sharing things with you. And I think it is still that way all around, specially where folks grow the stuff. I see that, as I go about, in all sections of the state. My car sometimes looks like a produce wagon when I get back from a swing over the state, specially in the spring and sum mer, when things are really com ing in. PINES IN CHESTERFIELD 9,727,000 pine seedlings for de livery the past winter, County Agent Willis tells me. But the state forestry folks had to scale these orders down in line with their supply, as they had to do for all counties But Willis says this left Chesterfield planting more pines than in any other year on record. Most of Chesterfield’s lands are natural tree lands, our fores ter Bill Barker tells ,me. They were in pines originally. The pines were cut and scrub oaks came. Now they are getting rid of the oaks, planting a crop of water melons, and then they ^o to pine trees. And pine trees grow fast, even on the white sandy lands. They must thrive on something beside fertility. County agents are now taking pine tree orders for next winter. URM0ND Cadter . . . The Picture Season Begins To be sure you g*et good snapshots, let us check your camera and load it with Kodacolor or Verichrome film. We do expert finishing—every print an enlargement—good serv ice, too. J'Sficholj Studio Newberry, S. C. Recession Remedies The past ten days have been a period of overtime work on the floor of the Senate. We have been concerned with tak ing immediate steps to stimulate business activity, as the economic recession continues to deepen. The latest figures supplied me by the Department of La bor show that almost 24,000 South Carolinians—5.7 per cent of the workers covered by the unemployment compen sation laws—are claiming unemployment compensation. The figure for the comparable week of 1957 was 3.8 per cent, in dicating that unemployment in South Carolina has risen by 66 percent in the last 12 months. The unemployment compensation figures for the nation as a whole are even worse. The Labor Department reports that 7.9 per cent of all workers covered by unemployment com pensation have filed claims. In South Carolina, we have a large number of small busi nessmen and farmers who are not eligible for unemployment compensation benefits. These citizens are especially hard- hit by the decline in business activity. The Senate has taken several steps to help remedy the re cession. The Farm Problem In 1951, the total net income of farmers was $16.1 bil lion. In 1957, it had fallen to $11.6 billion—a $4 1-2 billion loss. Since 1951, prices received by farmers have gone down 20 per cent. But farm operation costs have gone up 15 per cent. In other words, it cost the farmer more to make less money. The farm problem is too complex to solve with any single piece of legislation. The Senate did the best one thing that could be done in passing the joint resolution calling for no cuts in price supports or acreage allotments below 1957 evels. Every major depression this country has ever had began with a depression among the farmers, and we cannot have true prosperity unless the small farmers of this country are able to make a decent living. SWEET CORN IN HAMPTON A group of farmers in Hampton have shown interest in trying sw'et corn as a cash crop to sup plement their other farm income. County Agent Thompson got the' We have won the battle to secure Soil Bank payments for horticulturist from Clemson’s Ed- isto Station down there to talk with them about it. “They found that the production of sweet corn has many problems,” Thompson says. All crops have their problems, specially new crops, with which we are not familiar. Those fellows in Hampton were wise to get someone who knows to come tel them. Then they can make an in telligent decision. Good sweet corn is tedious to grow. Not so much to grow though as to keep the worms out of it. saw a field of it once that lookec perfect, no worms, and almost ready to harvest on Friday. But the next Wednesday, when it was ready, almost every ear had worm in it. That fellow didn’t keep an eagle eye on ’em. Yes, as Thompson • said, “The production of sweet corn has many problems. BIRTHDAYS Are MILESTONES Birthdays are important events in family life ... especially those of the children. Each brings a year closer the time when they will have grown up to college age . . . reminds you to keep your savings account growing, too ... so that you’ll have what’s needed when the time comes! Bank Of Commerce PROSPERITY, S. C. I REMEMBER" BY THE OLD TIMERS c rom Mrs. W. J. Arterburn, V ; ebb City, Missouri: I remember when I went to a one-room country school which had about 80 pupils in all the grades—with one teach er. Many received county graduate diplomas. Our playground was outside and we played ball, prison base, King William and other old games. I remember McKinley and Roos evelt and the lapel pins with the full dinner pail and pictures on it. I still have one. We walked two miles and took our own lunches and apples. We had a cellar full of apples with names that are never heard any more. These were Ben Davis, Genetains, Willow Twig. Roman- ites, Bell Flower and many others ... all with such good flavors. I remember how we kids had chores to do when we got home from school and how we could never get by with “no” when fath er said “yes.” * * * From M. M. Reese, Cincinnati, Ohio: I remember, as a child out in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the bliz zards that would drift snow over our house and snow us in. We dug tunnels through the drifts after the snow hardened. I remember “tame” Indians coming to our door to sell bead- work. and that our main diversion was to walk down to the depot to get a penny’s worth of gum from a machine and watch the Union Pacific trains come in. Once a yeaj- we had a rodeo called “Frontier Days.” Cowboys came from surrounding ranches, rod'e bucking bronchos, roped and oulldogged steers. The calvary from Fort Russell staged sham battles on the prairie. Indians danced their war dances and everything ended with a stage coach holdup. This was the high spot of our year. (Send contribution to this column to 'it> Old Timer, Community Press Serv- Box 39, Frankfort, Kentucky.) our farmers. I was glad to play a part in gaining a supple mental appropriation of $250,000,000 so that the govern ment can fulfill its obligation to the cotton growers. Public Works The Administration, with the consent and urging of Con gress, will speed action on a number of Federal projects. Before new schemes, some of which may be inadvisable, are rushed into action, I favor going forward with projects that have already had the careful consideration of Congress and which have been deferred by the Executive Branch. One example is the Fort Jackson Hospital, for which Congress ap propriated money in 1955. Not a penny of this money has been released by the Budget Bureau. I am urging the prompt allocation of funds for this and other deferred pro jects in South Carolina. Home Building The Senate has approved the extension of the housing provisions of the G. I. Bill in very nearly the form propos ed by Senator Sparkman and me. Direct loans to veterans in rural areas and small towns and insured mortgage fin ancing will both be available through July 25, 1960, if the bill gains final approval. In recent months, it has been very difficult for veterans to secure G. I. financing. The Housing Bill, as passed by the Senate, has several features designed to make it easier for veterans to secure loans. Even though our population is in creasing rapidly, we have experienced a serious lag in hous ing construction, and a stimulus is badly needed. PIGGY-BACK . . . Gallant Frenchman carries wife through flooded streets of Coulomuier, as blizzards and floods bring worst weather in many years to France, Belgium, Holland and Britain. Dorn To Rim For Congress Statement by W. J. Bryan Dorn: The economy and national welfare of our country is suffer ing today because of a falacious national and international policy. Faulty administration of the Re ciprocal Trade Program has re- j suited in unemployment, curtail ment and depression. Some of our greatest industries are being un dermined by the One—Worlders and Internationalists who are will ing to sacrifice American Labor. This policy will wreck our maxi mum hours, minimum wages, so cial security and unemployment benefits by placing the American working man in direct competition with slave labor in countries with no legislative protecting workers. “America is growing weak and bankrupt through foreign aid. Our military strength has been dissi pated and thrown to the winds iri order to buy false allies. High taxes to support foreign aid and other waste has brought havoc toj the small businessman. He needs tax relief so that he can expand his business and employ people. There is little wonder that we have five and one-half million unem ployed, when more than that num ber of foreigners have been ad mitted to the United States in the last few years. To support these programs, the Federal govern ment has usurped the taxing pow ers of our local and state govern ments, thus cutting off revenue that should go into school and road construction. “We are presently engaged in an around-the-clock effort to pro tect our essential industries, agri culture and labor from unfah com petition. I will definitely be a candidate for Congress from the Third District. I am grateful for the support and cooperation of the people in my efforts to protect them from the sinister forces now undermining Constitutional gov ernment, States’ Rights and indi vidual liberty.” • Visitor Exams To Be Held The Merit System council, South Carolina Department of Public Welfare, announces examination for the position of Visitor. The examination is scheduled to be held on April 19, 1958. Centers for the examination will be determin ed by the number and geographi cal distribution of applicants. Application? to be considered for this examination should be fil ed in the office of the Merit Sys tem Supervisor not later than Ap ril 4, 1958. Mr. and Mrs. William Plett of* Baltimore, Md., arriyed im Hi# city Monday and spent the nigflit in the home of Mrs. J. W. Whit# on Caldwell St. They were ac companied back to Baltimore Tuesday by Mrs. Ailfrie S. Kinard who had been on a two week's visit here with her sister, Mrs. WhitO^ Mrs. Kinard makes her home ill Baltimore with the Pletts. PRINTING: The Sun is well equip ped to handle all your printing orders. We specialise in letter- ■i: Tfe' heads, envelopes, billheads statements, also invoices, print any kind of receipt — 'i* PURCELLS for an auto loan ^ buy a new carpet!’ See, dear? I’ve been after you and after you to see The friendly Purcell people roll out the carpet for folks who need cash for new furnishings. Just phone; then trip in for your money. (f'urcells “Your Private Bankers” 1418 Main St Newberry DOBBIN NEARS 50 . . . 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