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THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
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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-
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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. ,
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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. Buddin of St. Peters
burg, Fla., and a number of nieces
and nephews.
dren of Orangeburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles West of
St. Louis, Mo. spent a few days
last week in the home of Mr.
West’s sister, Mrs. Lucile Foster
on Johnstone S$.
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