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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1959 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT County Agent Willis of Chest- «rfield says: “Three communities in the county are doing wonderful ■work in the Community Develop- jnent program.” This important work is state wide. In this changing agricul ture, and with the changing rural population, community develop ment came as a must. For the rur- a! church, the rural school, and the old rural communities were ^dwindling so. And to let them go would take the very bedrock from under our rural life and be a blow to the nation. This concerted action in all ^counties is headed up by Clem- «on’s M. H. Sutherland, who tells me of pleasing progress in many a county. I’ve met with some of the community groups and saw the potential leadership that’s be ing developed. These interested ^groups are revitalizing many a .community over the state and re building out there a lot of the tar nished, enduring values. The church, the school, the home, re -creation, and the like show the -difference when this transfusion of n6w ideas and rededications en ter a community. Not so much help from the outside either. Many a run-down community is pulling it- -.self up by its bootstraps and mak ing it again a place where proud people live. out to help grow more of its di verse needs. They need the pro ducts. The farmers need the new crops. GROWING BABY FOOD In our growing economy, there’s always something new coming a- long. Usually it makes a new call for workers, a new product is born, and we live better because of it. Listen to County Agent Martin of Spartanburg: “Indications are Spartanburg county farmers will 3?et several hundred acres to pears, peaches, and plums for sale to the Gerber Baby Food Com pany that’s locating across the line in North Carolina.” They have been shipping a lot of peaches up East for that pur pose some years. But now that this company is putting one of its canning plants down here, the •Spantanburg folks are branching LOOK OUT There used to be not many things that could hit you and hurt you. A cotton gin was the most dangerous thing we had. Not many folks were exposed to it. But a surprising number of those who were, lost a limb or their life. If fact, among the old-timers when I was coming along, you saw a good many men with one leg. Usually it had been lost in the war. And you saw a goodly num ber with one arm. Usually that had been lost in a gin. Many had been killed in both cases. But these are the ones that survived. Then to be kicked by a mule or horse was one of the old dangers. But we learned through tradition to stay away from their heels. So that danger didn’t take many lives nor leave many cripples. Cutting down trees was another danger of old. But there too we learned to look and keep out of the way. Those dangers have largely gone. But others have come with the new day. The machine is kill ing and maiming at an alarming rate. This is so unneccessary. They have their danger points. We need to learn and heed them, as we did the heels of the mule. Corn pickers are just coming in our state. They are perhaps greater potential killers than the gins were, for more folks have’em and work with’em. I know of one picker a farmer got in Sumter county last fall. Before the season was over it had taken an arm from the hired man and a foot from the farmer’s son. Machines are not necessarily dangerous. We just disregard their danger spots and get hurt. It should be written in boxcar letters all over a corn picker to never touch it without cutting off the power. And on the highway, my! To paraphrase a famous safety slo gan, a wag has said: “Slow down, the life you save might be mine.” BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER There was an old saying around in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork, where I was raised, to this effect: “The Lord takes care of fools and children.” Surely the last part of that must be true, or few of our crowd would have escaped. For 20 years now I’ve been telling you one of these true tales of boyhood every week. That figures over a thous and. And many of them were dan gerous, and could have easily tak en a life. But, thanks be, none ev er did. I have a few marks. But none of ’em ever got me. And ours was the average experience, when we were coming along, I would think. Many folks tell me of simi lar ones of theirs. Winter now reminds me of froz en trees. Occasionally we’d have a big freeze, with heavy ice all ov er everything. It is then we’d steal off down in the back pasture, where scattered pines were always coming up and strangling out what little grass might have come there. We’d sharpen the axe first. That was hard to do, as the water would freeze on the grindstone. But we’d pour hot water on it un til we got a razor edge on that axe. Those scattered pines were well limbed and would collect a great ing there increasingly! former nor fish in the latter. We apply lime to correct it in the soil. But so far we’ve known little about it in our ponds anc streams. Our Dr. H. P. Cooper tells me fish won’t do well and some of’em won’t even spawn in water where the pH is too low, too acid. He thinks that’s what has happenec in Lake Greenwood to the stripet sea bass (rockfish) introduces there. For the first time known in his tory, this sea fish got landlockec in the Santee-Cooper lake and is doing exceptionally well there. A few years ago they transfered lot of these up-state to Lake Greenwood. But so far they have found no signs of them reproduc ing there. Why this difference in the two lakes? Dr. Cooper tell us. Much of the Santee-Cooper bas in is in the Lancaster-Charlotte area of the Carolinas, where Ire dell, Mecklenberg, and Davidson soil abounds These are high in ba sic minerals, ‘specially sodium, giving them a rather high pH, or low acidity. Along the rivers that feed in there are many textile plants whose wastes contain con siderable sodium. And the Santee- Cooper basin itself sits in a foun dation that has many marl (lime) beds in it. All of which tend to create a high water pH reaction (low acidity), favorable for the growth and reproduction of fish. And look at the phenomenal catches of fine fish they are mak- Tax Notice AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON JANUARY 31, 1959 A 2% Penalty WILL BE ADDED TO ALL UNPAID 195$ STATE & COUNTY TAXES J. RAY DAWKINS County Treasurer burden of ice that made them bow their heads almost to the ground. A few of them snapped off. But the others are where we had our fun. One resounding whack with the axe and a 6 inch, 30 foot pine would pop almost like a pistol and crash to the ground. The frozen wood was brittle and most of the limbs shattered on the ground in a pile of ice. One day I whacked a bent and burdened pine that was either too big or I didn’t cut it deep enough. It popped all right, but didn’t snap off. The cut part of it peeled off and straightened out by my head, knocking my hat 30 or 40 feet in the air. If that thing had hit me there’d have been no head left. Sure, I believe the old saying quoted above. SEEN ALONG THE ROADSIDE Sour soils and sour water! We have’em both at places. Most crops don’t do well on the On the other hand, the waters of Lake Greenwood have little such mineralized origin or sur roundings. And, therefore, the striped sea bass (rockfish) they introduced there from the Santee- Cooper basin a few years ago have hardly been heard from since. Too acid to suit them, apparently Lacking in sodium and calcium, and perhaps some minor elements It is thought that all fish orig inally c^me from the sea, where sodium (in the salt) is one of the dominant elements. They gradual ly adapted themselves to less of this essential element. But still many of the best sorts don’t seem to thrive unless the fresh water to which they have adapted themsel ves has at least a fairly good sup ply of sodium in it. And that means rather slight acidity, or high pH. A few years ago County Agent Bob Bailey of Richland county found many of their fertilized ponds were not growing the fish CAROLINA Remnant Shop Main Street Newberry, S. G. NEW SPRING COTTONS Florals -Drip Dry—59c yd. Courtesy Prints—49c yd. New Pure Silk Shantung Print—2.98 yd. All Sewing Notions THE HOUSE OF PIECE GOODS AT INCOME TAX TIME... 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Epting of Leesville reports similar results from his sandhill pond from ap plying salt and basic slag for lime, minor elements, and control of the excess acidity. Basic slag is speci ally good for this as it carries a number of minor elements that might be lacking. They are now also getting so dium in their ponds by applying nitrate of soda, either as a source of nitrogen in their fish pond fer tilizer or as a straight top dress ing. Muddy or murky water isn’t good for fish either, as the sun can’t get through to promote the needed j)Jant of life, despite fer tilization. To remedy this, Dr. Cooper suggests applying some common form of lime, or dump a lot of old broken-up concrete in the water to precipitate the silt out. But let’s hear from Dr. Cooper on this whole subject briefly: “The unsatisfactory conditions in most fresh water fish ponds in the state can be easily corrected through the application of suffi cient lime to regulate the pH of the pond water or preferably the use of basic slag to control the pH of the water and also supply min or nutrients, and by the addition of required sodium in the form of nitrate soda or common and block salt in combination with recom mended mixed fertilizers. In low boron soil areas the occasional ad dition of a quarter to a half- pound pqr acre of pond of common household borax or preferably the equivalent in the less soluble col- emanite may be desirable. It is necessary to be very cautious and not add too much soluble boron to fish ponds. The inclusion of these essential nutrients in suitable pro portions to fish ponds with an ad equately balanced fish population should produce very satisfactory results in all sections of the state.” County Agent Miller of York tells me Boyd Brown of Clover produced 3,400 marketable canta loupes from his acre of Edistos the past fall. I ate some of them. You wouldn’t wish for a better cantaloupe. Likewise, in m i d-October I found a patch of these same Edis tos just playing out, after a suc cessful crop of them had been marketed, in upper Spartanburg county. They too were as good as I ever tasted. . The man said he al so planted Jumbos. But they were a total failure, due to disease. The Edistos were affected some too, 5Ut their inbred resistance car ried them through and they made a pretty good crop. Dr. Hughes, who produced this melon down at Clemson’s Edistos Station ,tells me he has several others, one or two that don’t get as big as this Edistos, they are thinking of releasing soon. I ask ed him if they were as good as Edistos. He said, “In all respects as good and in some better.” Well, we’ll look forward to them. Now there’s another bright youngster down there working on melons that we need to be watch ing. That’s Dr. D. F. Gaboon. Among other things, he’s working on the growing of honeydew me- ons for this area. He has about whipped the diseases that formerly made them too uncertain to risk lere and he produces them in great quantity And his melons run more sugar than those ship ped in from the west. But they don’t taste quite as good yet. He feels that is because of the gas sing process they put them through after harvesting and be fore shipping them out there. It is like with bananas, you know all of them are thus gassed to make ’em better to eat. He will likely try that out on his honeydews next summer. New things! science is always working out to where have ’em. Zone 3 Meets At Lewis Church The winter Zone meeting of the Woman’s Society of Christian Service was held at Lewis Metho dist Church Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. Mrs. E. A. Shinn, leader of Zone 3, presided. Rev. E. W. Gott gave the scrip ture reading and led in prayer. Mrs. Ray Gilliam gave an inspir ing devotional message. Special music was rendered by Mrs. Ber nice Turner, Ann Wood, Suth Mor ris, Mary Longshore and Myriad Mims. Excellent reports from the pre sidents were given by Mrs. L. E. Gatlin, Epting; Mrs. Richard Caldwell, Lebanon; Mrs. Ray Gil liam, Lewis; Mrs. R. R. Boulware, New Chapel; Mrs. B. A. Buddin, O’Neal, and Mrs. M. B. Hendricks, Trinity. Miss Louise Best, a retired mis sionary to Brazil, was guest speaker. While visiting in New berry, she was the guest of Mrs. Sudie Dennis. Mrs. Best talked informally about her experiences as a mis sionary for over 36 years to' Bra zil. She saw the first tree cut and the first stone turned for the building of a girls boarding school, Colegio Centerario, in Rio Grande do Sul. In this school she was a teacher and later principal. The school was opened in 1922 with three boarding students and four day students. Today the total enrollment is about 700. Miss Best said that the school and church work hand in hand. Many of the graduates from the school have become successful docters, teach ers, nurses, dentists, etc., Miss Best said. She stated that her “three loves” are Lander and Scaritt Colleges and Colegio Cen terario Boarding School. She dis played many articles she brought back from Brazil, among them a citation for her work at the school, presented to her on a na- | tion-wide broadcast from Rio Do Janeiro. Mrs. F. Scott Elliot, president of the Greenwood District, called attention to the annual district meeting to be held at McCormick Methodist Church on April 2, and the annual conference meeting to be at Shandon Methodist Church, Columbia on March 12 and 13. Mrs. Gatlin, district secretary of Spiritual Life, closed the meet ing with prav#»r. All present were invited,to the social hall where delicious saria- wiches, cake and coffee were ser ved by the ladies of Lewis Church. Building Permits Jan. 21: P. N. Bookman, re roof dwelling, 933 Gilder St* $100. Jan. 24: Olin and Susan Cop- pock, 6 room wood frame brick veneer dwelling on Springdal# Drive, $9,000. Jan. 26. Otis L. Whitaker, gen eral repairs and add one room to dwelling on Nance St., $3,000. Local Students Instrumentalists representing 45 South Carolina junior and sen ior high schools will take part in the clinic band to be formed at at Winthrop College for the State Band Clinic Friday and Saturday of this week. Participating in the clinic band will be Joev Pack, He len Robertson and Billy Vaughn of Newberry. Included in the 203 junior and senior high school students who will form the Junior and Senior All-State High School Bands for the band clinic will be Charles Cullum of Prosperity; Bobbie Vaughn, Mac Cobb, Van Anderson, Sue Corley and Leroy Adams of Newberry. Attend Golden Anniversary Mrs. Cecil Fellers, Mr. and Mrs. David Ringer and Mr. and Mrs. Alan Oxner attended the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Rev. and Mrs. Whitfield F. John son of Taylors. Rev. and Mrs. Johnson will be remembered in Newberry, where he was a former pastor of the Newberry Circuit when it was composed of Lebanon, Trinity, Bethei, New Chapel and Ebene*er churches. Receiving at the door were Mr. ^nd Mrs. Gardner Hendrix. Mr. Hendrix is a 'ormer Newberrian. Mr. and Mrs. Keister Willing ham and Mrs.Earl Taylor spent Sunday in Gaffney with the Will ingham’s daughter, Miss Joan Willingham, who is a member of the freshman class at Limestone- College. we can Out of almost five thousand Granges taking part in the Na tional Grange-Sears Community Service Contest, South Carolina has had one in the top 10 every year but one. And the Higgins Grange in Saluda county had been in the top 10 in the nation for the past 3 years. Only one oth er has that distinction, Cibilo Grange in Texas. These granges, through this work, literally make over the spirit and face of their communi ties. They tie together a lot of tangibles and intangibles and make their communities far better places to live in. Truly, they find that greatness lies within them selves. And talents, musical and otherwise, are harnessed and de veloped at unexpected places. If you want some real stirring chorus music, hear the Higgins Community Chorus. Or if you want a duct of organ and piano music that causes a shiver, a thrill, to run down your spine and tingle in your toes, get their two farmers, Mitchell and Price, to come play for you. Yes, what these communities have done is proof that greatness lie’s within a community. But it has to be harnessed, developed, The Grange organization and the financial assistance of Sears-Roe- buck Foundation offers the means and the incentive. And this is one contest in which you win if you lose. For the liberal prizes are not all of the gold that glitters there. Community service, and a oneness there, these are the enduring re sults. The South Carolina Jersey Cat tle Club is holding its annual meeting at the Community House on the square in Newberry at 10 A. M. on Jan. 29. G. E. 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