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- : ji« i-v.y -;. m i^x ■/mi THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE *111 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER damson Extension Information Special lot What Next? USDA scientists at the Illinois Experiment Station found that corn kernels planted point down and with flat sides to the mid- <iles made more corn, 3 to 23 bushels more per acre, than corn planted in the usual way. Leaves come out from the flat -eides of the grains. So placing the grains of corn in the soil ■with flat sides to the middles caused the leaves to hang in that direction. They figured that this caused 90 percent less sunlight to strike the ground. Thus a lot of soilmoisture was saved through better shading. And the leaves got more sunlight by not being shaded by others as much as in random planting. This is purely in the experimen tal stage and the work is being continued. The main problem is going to be how to^get the ker nels placed that way under field conditions. Existing planters might be altered in some way to do the job, the scientists think, or fas tening the kernels in proper po- Homeowners Policies i WHY PAY MORE? Get 1. Dwelling Coverage 2. Contents Coverage 3. Theft Coverage 4. Comprehensive Personal Liability All in 1 Homeowners Policy One Agent, One Company, One Low Premium CALL 197 TODAY! r c e 11 “Your PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main St. Newberry sition in a continuous tape, like is now done with some vegetable and flower seed, is another possibility they are exploring. These tests are being continued And listen to this. Similar co operative experiments in Wash ington State are taking the heat from milk, as it is cooled, and us ing it to heat water or the milk ing room. This too is still highly experimental. But early results show promise. So sure enough. “What next?” 4-H Forestry The 4-H Clubs are incorporat ing a lot of forestry in their pro grams. This is in keeping with their tradition. They worked early with corn, hogs, beef cat tle, tomatoes, dairying, etc. when these needed a better foothold in our farming. And now they also work with trees, that seems to have a great destiny here. Assistant County Agent Good year of Berkeley tells me 31 mem bers of one of his 4-H Clubs were taken on a gukted tour of the Francis Marion National Forest back in the late winter. “They saw prescribed burning, a lookout tower in operation, and fire lanes being plowed,” he said. Fewer and Bigger Everywhere we look farms seem to be getting fewer and bigger. As their numbers decrease in the nation, they are increasing in size at about 5 acres a year. We see the same thing in what County Agent King of Orange burg says: “Dairying c^itinues to increase in Orangeburg county, although the number of dairies has decreased slightly. Herds are getting larger and management is receiving more attention.” Farm and Home Week See and hear what’s new in ag riculture and in the home at Clemson’s Farm and Home Week August 17-21. There will be four days of continuous programs of instruction, demonstration, obser vation, and entertainment suited to practically every need of farm and home. Your county or home agent likely has a program by now that you can see. Then you can pick yours up when you reg ister here. Cotton Still Moves West Everything continues to indi- 1 cate that the farms of the West want more cotton acreage worse than we do over here in the East. This is indicated by the fact that very few farms in our area took Choice “B,” which allowed a material increase in acreage this year, while in the West a high percentage of them took that choice. The larger mechanized opera tions mainly are sticking to cot ton. Even here in our Piedmont section, from which cotton has dwindled so, those who ^till plant cotton Are mainly those with the larger acreages. County Agent Bull of Abbeville tells me they have about 7,000 acres of cotton this year. “It is drifting to the larger acreages,” he said. Folks, there is nothing specially exceptional about this. It seems that all farming, and just about all business too, is headed in that general direction. Thus fewer and fewer farmers are producing our needs, and producing many .of them in excess. \ Portable Water Systems Clemson’s Extension Engineers have designed and built a complet ely portable hot and cold watpr system, even including the sink. It was designed for tenants and others who can’t afford to install waterworks that they might have to soon move away and lose. For “firmly attached” improvements' must stay with a house. But this whole installation, including pump, tank, water heater, motor, sink and all are neatly inclosed in a .cabinet that sits in the kitchen and can be moved easily as a refrig erator or stove. It has an outside connection that goes to the well. To move it all, all you have to do is disconnect that and the electri city. Back in the early spring the first model was demonstrated in Fairfield county to 1,651 people, according to County Agent lynn. He says several such systems have already been put in and others are in prospect. If your county agent does not have the plans for ’installing such a system, he can get them for you from Clem- son. Farm and Home Week Have you marked your calendar yet? Farm and Home Week at Clemson! It’s not far off, Aug 17-21. Does Sparky Live in Ourlown 4 ? Of course you know the famous SPARKY by now! You know he is the symbol of fire pre vention and, most likely, you already know some or all of his rules. But does the spirit of this nationally famous symbol really live in our town? Does each of us know as much as we should about protecting our homes and families from fire? Do we cooperate with our Fire Depart ment in its fire prevention programs? Are our childrep being fully educated to both the uses and the dangers of fire? Scientific advances on so many fronts today stagger our powers of belief. Yet in some ways we are not keeping pace. We have to be urged to vote. We have to be urged to visit our doctor and dentist. We have to be urged to drive safely. And, yes, we even have to be urged to learn how to be careful of one of our oldest tools—fire. For farm folks, this is the greatest show anywhere around. No matter what your interest is on the farm or in the home, you’ll likely find events dealing with’it here during those four busy days and nights. Boys Are That Way Zeke and I got warts over our feet one summer. We had been told not to play with frogs. Folks in our Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork believed firmly that they would make warts come on you. Or we kids thought they did, they impressed it on us so. But in later years I’ve wond ered if that wasn’t just a way they had of trying to get us kids to let those useful creatures alone. Anyway, we believed it. But the lure to play with the frogs that you could see jumping around the farmyard at dusk was too great for us. Late one afternoon we caught about a half dozen and put ’em in fruit jars so we’d have ’em next morning. We didn’t put the tops on. So they were all right next morning. We took our treasure away down in the pasture and got down in a deep ditch where no one coud see us. There in the clean, hard red clay we played with those frog all morning. We’4 got oppo site each other facing, so they couldn’t get by, and make them Itry to climb steep banks. They couldn’t get but so far. And then they’d slip back. Eventually they got tired of being tormented, they just wouldn’t try, and lay there panting heavy. Eventually the farm bell, toll ing across the hills, called the noon hour of dinner. We left them there and went home. Returning in the afternoon, they were gone. It was later that we had those warts *to come on our feet, quite by coincidence, I’m sure. But we just knew those frogs caused it. Zeke’s mother be«.t him, Even though he stoutly held out that he had not played with frogs, his mother just knew he had and gave it to him. Then she took him and me down to old Aunt Liza’s. She was the old Colored conjure wo man, and she “used for them.” That constituted a few secret mumblings and rubbing the black bottom of a frying pan over the warts. And, as they would have- done anway, I guess, they went away gradually after that. Zeke and I were then more strongly rooted in the belief than ever. And we let frogs alone from then on. Mrs. Howard Dies In Duncan Mrs. Elvie Burgess Howard, 84, mother of Mrs. R. J. Willingham and E. A. Howard of Newberry, died Sunday at 3:45 p.m. at her home on Main Street in Duncan after an illness of 10 months. The widow of Perry A. How ard, Mrs. Howard was born and reared in Pickens County and was a daughter of the late George and Nancy Barker Burgess. She lived at Lyman for 25 years and was a men^ber of the First Bap tist Church of Lyman. She had lived at Duncan for the past 12 years. . . Surviving besides her son and daughter, are two other daugh ters,* Mrs. W. H. Lovern of An derson and Mrs. Inez Morrell of Lyman; three other sons, J. L. Howard of Atlanta, Ga., Fred P Howard of Greenville, and George M. Howard of Duncan; 16 grandchildren; nine great-grand children, and two great-great grandchildren. ^ Brother Of Buddin Dies PERSONAL MENTION Mrs. Lewis Davis and two chil dren, Susan and Edward Cousins, and Mrs. C. A. Reeder, spent sev eral days last week at Lutheridge, i^rden, N. C. with Mrs. Davis’ daughter, Miss Linda Cousins, who is employed , at the Book Store at Lutheridge this summer. This week, Mrs. Davis and Edward and Mrs. Davis’ parents, Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Kester of Columbia are in Lutheridge for a visit. Misses Sue Half acre, Betty Maude Setzler and Sydnor Patrick and Miss Mary Shealy of Colum bia, recently spent their vacation on a tour of Miami, Florida and on a boat trip to Nassau. Emerson Jones, Owen Holmes and Billy Carter are attending the Florist Convention which is being held in Charleston Tuesday through Friday of this week. Miss Grace Ringer of the Co lumbia Hospital School of Nurs ing spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer L. Ringer on Boundary St. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hutto Jr. and son, Bubber of Greenville spent Sunday with Mrs. Hutto’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Halfacre on Rosalyn Drive. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hodges, Miss Mary Gene Hires of Jessup, Ga^ and Miss Virginia Margaret Far row, were Sunday visitors in the home of their aunts, Mrs. M. L. Duckett and Mrs. L. W. Beden- baugh on Fair St. VISIT MOTHER ON BIRTHDAY Children of Mrs. M. W. Clary visited with her on Sunday; her birthday. The members of the family who enjoyed the day to gether were Mr. and Mrs. James Clary and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Clary of Greenville, also Mrs. Wilson Clary’s mother, Mrs. Lola Anderson and her grandson of Monticello; Mr. and Mrs. B. Owen Clary of Columbia, and Mrs. O. D. Glenn and children, Dallas and Elaine of Greenwood, and Mr. and Mrs. James Price and two children of Newberry. , > 4 itM Mrs. Walter Lovett of Lovett, Ga. and Mr. and Mrs. John Smith and four children of Marietta, Ga. spent the weekend in the home of Mrs. D. J. Williams on Harper St. Weekend and Sunday visitors in the home of Mrs. E. A. Carpenter on Calhoun St. were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cunningham, Mrs. Ray mond Bateman and son, Randy of Winston Salem, N. C.; Mrs. Clyde Culler and daughter, Leslie of Asheville, N. C.; Miss Alta Cun ningham of Greer and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Fischer and two chil- John Alga Buddin, 47, of New Zion, a brother of B. A. Buddin of Newberry, died unexpectedly early last Wednesday. Funeral services were conduct ed Thursday from the New Zion Methodist Church by the Rev. J. F. Manning. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mr. Buddin was a life long resi dent of the New Zion community and was a member of the New Zion Methodist Church. He was a Marine Corps veteran. Surviving besides his brother are his wife, the former Miss Jane Bingham; and two sons, John Pat rick Buddin and David Algo Bud din, all of the home; two sis ters, Mrs. Wright Bibbons and Mrs. Edgar DuBose, both of New Zion; two other brothers, L. Henly Buddin of Spartanburg and Ralph E. 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