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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1959 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist . ORDER PINE SEEDLINGS Pines are growing into quite a *crop in South Carolina. Thousands of our old tilled acres have gone to them. And many more will. Our .State Forestry Department is now growing out its seasonal crop of many millions of these seedlings. In recent years all they could pro duce have been readily bought ■and set out by landowners. In fact they have had more orders than they could fill on most years. This year they started taking orders for them March 1st and •will continue until July 31st, our Forester Bill Barker tells me. Orders for these pine seedlings for delivery next winter at trans planting time can be placed with county agents, SCS men, ASC of fices, ag teachers, county rangers, district foresters, or directly with the State Commission of Forestry, Box 357, Columbia. WEEVIL RESEARCH NEEDED “Improvement in methods of controlling boll w'eevils is one of the most important present re search needs,” reports the USDA’s Cotton and Cottonseed Research and Marketing Advisory Commit tee. Our own Robert Coker of Harts- ville has been spearheading this idea now for some time. He shows that, in proportion to its impor tance, there has been far too little basic research on the con trol of this most destructive insect .pest. Research has and is being done, but it needs to be vastly speeded up to the end that this great economic loss caused by the boll weevil, mainly in the old cot ton belt, may be eliminated or greatly lessened. -In fact, this boll weevil is one of the main things that’s driving cotton from most parts of the Southeast. It adds so to costs of production and cuts yields so as to take most of, and sometimes all of, the profit from the crop. % LAFF OF THE WEEK “IT’S WHITER THAN WHITE!” SAYS ATHEY'S FAMOUS LITTLE PAINTER \ 1 On« coot covers—and gees farther Brushes on easily—smooths itself out as easily a$ trie rill not turn yellow Inmi on AJHfY’5 Jto am't hart aa Athay. surfoct! jJlpu-yfuov*^ /Vthey’s Manufactured bv THE CNLATHEY PAINT CO. BALTIMORE 30, MO. 0NE-DAR-GL0SS ENAMEL LOMINACKS HARDWARE Inc. 1409 E. Main Street Phone 13 “I sit up until after midnight for your silly poker game to end, and then I have to spend another hoar sorting this stuff out!*' Dr. Coker and other authorities feel that the boll weevil surely has some vunerable spots not yet explored that a stepped up re search program might find. COTTON STAND Just what is the right thickness to leave cotton ? We speak of a “good stand.” Just what is it? An old friend who farmed in Sumter in the early twenties when I was agent therereminds me of a test he put on in his cotton field about 1924. This was a careful man, and he did it right. He accurately laid off acre strips through his cotton field. One was not thinned at all, one to 6 inches, one to 12, and one to 18 inches apart. He refreshed my memory with the fact that the un thinned acre made the most cot ton. It was about that time that Hall’ work at Clemson’s Florence Sta tion was showing the same thing. “It takes a lot of cotton stalks to make a good yield under weevil conditions,” has been a truism ever ?ince. And for many years now our State 5-Acre Cotton Improvement Contest has borne it out. That group of contestants with the most stalks on the lahd have in variably made the most cotton. Out west many farmers don’t thin their cotton at all, and look what they make! Clemson recom mends 3 to 4 stalks per hill 8 to 12 inches apart. BOYS ARE THAT WAY Last week here we took a stroll back through the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork and saw a bit of how time had changed things there / that memory holds. Now let’s g\ a little further. Along a field road that led back in the woods to our school- house when I was a kid were four lone persimmon trees about as far apart as ordinary telephone poles. In our day, those trees were in valuable. For they bore abundant crops of the best persimmons in the area. And not only that, these would hold on the trees clear out into early winter and become can died like raisins. Now I’m sure the rocks are thicker there, for to and from school each day we knocked down handfuls with good throwing rocks that abounded in those hills. And the little kids who couldn’t throw got their toll for picking the fallen persimmons up for us. But alas, on my recent visit I found that time had taken these trees. The road was widened. But a resident there said the old trees had pretty well fallen into decay before they were removed. And they could not renew themselves with sprouts, like the honey locust we spoke of here last week did. Another purpose those persim mon trees served there in the open ing was a shade for us to rest un der when working in those fields in the summer. And I remember early in thespring, when they were in bloom, how the bees swarmed over them. One time this was im pressed on me when I stepped on a bee that had fallen to the ground with one of the small blooms that were then shedding. I never was very hot for work, And that shade appealed to me more, I believe than the fruit from CONVERT NOW TO NATURAL GAS Clean - Safe - Convenient - Economical FREE LABOR For Converting Water Heaters And Ranges JUNE 1st - SEPTEMBER 1st CONVERT NOW Natural Gas costs only one-third as much as electricity for heating water. A 30- gal. natural gas heater equals a 100-gal. electric water heater (the recovery rate is greater.) SEE OR PHONE US RIGHT AWAY Clinton-Newberry Natural Gas Authority Phone 911 Newberry, S. C. 1207 McKibben St. H. D. AGENT SCHEDULE The County Home Agents Mrs. Margie D. Freeman and Miss Do- ney Crain announce the following schedule for the week of June 8th through June 13th: Monday, June 8th: Office. Tuesday, June 9th: County Home Demonstration Club Program meeting at 9:30 a. m. at the Ag riculture building. Tranwood, Bush River and Ja- lapa home demonstration clubs at 3:30 p..m. at Bush River school. Pomaria HDC at 3:00 p.m. with Mrs. E. S. Sheeley as hostess. Wednesday, June 10th: 4-H Club Program Planning meeting at 9:30 a.m., at the agricilture building. Vaughnville HDC at 3:00 p.m. with Mrs. J. H. Austin as hostess. Mt. Bethel Garmany HDC at 3:30 p.m. with Mrs. Vivian Cook, Mrs. Charles Price, Mrs. Ruth Gilliam and Mrs. Robert Singleton as hos tesses. Thursday, June 11: Office; O’ Neal HDC at 3:00 p.m. with Mrs. Ryan Fellers as hostess. Friday, June 12: Office. Saturday, June 13: Office. Make Cut Flowers Last Longer It pays to condition your freshly cut flowers by standing them in a solution overnight before arrang ing them in cool fresh water. Here are a few tips for some of the more familiar flowers used in arrange ments: Cut roses, in the bud and let them stand in a deep container of cold water to which has been add ed 1 teaspoon of alunf per quart. Put asters, calendular, zinnias, marigolds and snapdragons in a solution made of 1 teaspoon of sugar per quart of water. Poinsettias, milkweed, holly hocks, poppies, and lupines are all bleeders. Burn their stems about 2 inches deep and leave them in ice water overnight. You might try adding 2 drop of alcohol to the conditioning water for forget-me-nots, lillies of the valley and corabells. Add 1 tablespoon of molasses to each quart of conditioning water for peonies. Condition violets by bunching them and turning and immersing the bunches upside down in water —the flowers drink from the flow er heads as well as the stem ends. Iris and tulips last longer when picked in the tight bud and wrap ped immediately in wet newspap er. Plunge these wrapped bunches into deep containers which allow them did in the fall. In fact I used it so much when I was supposed to be hoeing cotton down there that my brother threatened to get my daddy on me about it. Man, that felt good to lie on the cool grass under them, watch buzzards soaring on high, and just let the sleepy world go by. But my bro ther, who was older, had a more realistic outlook. He knew that grass had to be gotten out of that cotton before it got big or the rains came. And he wouldn’t let me use know your State Disewerad Near teienle How did a New England village, developed in South Carolina in 1796, look and how did its people live? These and othor questions may be answered now that the site of Old Dorchester, established by the hardy Massachussetts set- tkrs, is being excavated. The illustration shows a remnant of a tabby wall where clearing work is being done near Summerville. In today’s South Carolina, with its emphasis on progress, 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 oi- ficials and beer licensees through out South Carolina. Beer belongs... enjoy it. United States Brewers Foundation South Carolina Division Cornell Arms, Columbia, S. C. that shade nearly as much as I wanted to. water to reach the blooms. Branch materials such as for- sythia apple blossoms, quince, pear, and sumac all do best when cut in the bud. Put them in keep water to which has been added one drop of hydrochloric acid. Pound the stems with a hammer to allow them to take up more water. G. L. Brooks Dies Tuesday George L. Brooks, 79, of Rt. 3, Newberry, died early Tuesday morning.at the hom^ of his son on tne Spearman Rd. near Newberry following an illness of several years. Mr. Brooks was born and reared in Newberry County, a son of the late Preston S. and Henrietta Boozer Brooks. He had spent most of his life in the Trinity section of Newberry County where he op erated a farm and was a member of Trinity Methodist Church. His wife, Mrs. Emma Crumpton Brooks died in 1953. Surviving are five sons, George B. and William M. Brooks, both of Kinards and Thomas Luther, Frank C. and Charlie L. Brooks, all of Newberry; and 15 grandchil dren. He was the last surviving mem ber of his immediate family. Funeral services will be con ducted at 3:30 p. m. today (Thurs day) at McSwain Funeral Home by the Rev. Phil Jones and the Rev. Leland Rinehart. Burial will be in Enoree Baptist Church Cemetery, Keitt’s Cross Roads near Newber ry. Hiller Rites On Wednesday James W. (Jim) Hiller, 57, died Monday night at his home on Sinclair Ave. in Whitmire after an illness of several months. ( Mr. Hiller was born and rear ed in Newberry County, a son of Mrs. Corrie Shealy Hiller and the late Hampton Hiller. He had made his home in Newberry for the past 35 years where he was employed by Aragon Baldwin Mills of J. P. Stevens Co. He was a member of St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Whitmire. Surviving besides his mother are his wife, Mrs. Vinnie Dickert Hit ler; one son, William H. Hiller of Greenville; two sisters, Mrs. Lu cille Dickert and Mrs. Mary Ruff, both of Newberry; and two broth ers, Leland Hiller of Newberry and Jesse Floyd Hiller of Prosperity. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3 p. m. Wednesday at St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Whit mire by the Rev. N. D. Yount and the Rev. Dan Montgomery. Burial was in Springdale Cemtery in Newberry. MARRIAGE Glenn Smith of New London, N. C., and Linda L6u Nell Rn*b- ing of Monroe, N. C., were mar ried at Newberry on May 31st by Probate Judge E. Maxcy Stone. BUILDING PERMITS May 27-Mrs. W. R. Parks, re pairs to dwelling, 1810 Harper street, $1000. May 29-Bulah M. Walker, re pairs to porch, 400 Caldwell street, $90. June 1-Paul K. Fuller, one five room wood frame dwelling on Wheeler street, $10,000; V. ® ar " mon, repairs to small out building: 2312 College street,$65; A. H- Counts, repairs to dwelling 1704 Evans street, $700. Fire! Fire! Fire! If this were YOU would you have adequate insurance to... REPLACE YOUR HOME? \ PERSONAL BELONGINGS? GET THE BEST.. .at Pu r c e n \ “Your Private Bankers” 1418 Main St. Newberry FIRST TO SCN-THEN OFF ON MONEY? Sure—Get a personal loan at bank rotes from SCN. i VALUABLE PAPERS AND JEWELRY? Safe in her lock-box at SCN. 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