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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, June 15, 1967—PAGE 7 PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 James 0. Cook to J. Ray Holliday and Mildred K. Holli day, one lot and one building, 916 Glenn St., $5. Perry Bennie Harmon and Mozelle Ruby Harmon to Hal Kohn Sr., one lot and one building on Drayton St., $5. Bloomer Frank Hawkins to George R. Owens, one lot and one building, 2019 Nance St., $5.00. B. J. Jackson to Clifton H. Hattaway, one lot and one building, 310 Werts St., $5. Albert J. McCaughrrin to Eugene C. Griffith, one lot Digby St., $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside E. B. Purcell, Thomas H. Pope and Pinckney N. Abrams as executors of the estate of J. Dave Caldwell, to J. Ed. Young, one lot $850. Thomas HL Pope and Pinck ney N. Abrams, executors of the estate of J. Dave Caldwell, to B. M. Davis, one lot on Pris cilla St., $1000. Richard Coleman to Nath aniel Pitts Jr., 1.79 acres $5. Richland Enterprises, Inc. to Thurston Motor Lines, Inc. two lots and one building, $5 and assumption of a mortgage. Silverstreet No. 2 Effie B. Hendrix to James Winston Hendrix, five acres and six buildings, $5 love and affection. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Lunette Boyd and Azilee Reed, one lot $10. Prosperity No. 7 S. C. Electric & Gas Co. to Thelma Rawl, .99 acre $1. A. S. Shealy to Gene K. Shealy, 2.02 acres, $5 love and affection. James Lindsay to James H. Lindsay, one lot $1 love and affection. W. M. Harris to Suburbia Water System, Inc., two lots, $5.00. Pay Ahead Without Penalty ENJOY THIS MONEY-SAVING FEATURE OF OUR HOME LOAN! The Prepayment Privilege in our home loan allows you to increase home loan payments any time you like. And with each increased payment, you cut interest cost. Be cause the interest on your loan is figured on the princi pal balance—the less principal you owe, the less inter est you pay. Choose our financing—it’s to your advan tage! Building & Loan Association 1117 Boyce Street Newberry, S. C. Dial 276-5660 Ralph B. Baker Pinckney N. Abrams Louis C. Floyd Thomas H. Pope R. Aubrey Harley County Agent reviews local dairy far lllh g (by A1 Bushy) Income from Dairying con tinues to lead the parade of products of Agriculture for which Newberry County is noted. Last year Newberry County Dairy farmers sold 38,1-2 million pounds of milk or approximately 4, 1-2 million gallons. This amount to a daily production of two quarts of milk for every man, woman and child living in Newberry Coun ty. For this volume of milk pro duced last year, Newberry farmers received $2,346,000. Newberry County now ranks first in South Carolina in commerical egg production and second in total milk produced. In recent years, income from eggs has climbed past the two million dollar mark and now stands almost equal to Dairy ing as a big income for our County’s farmers; Few counties in Piedmont South Carolina have income from tv/o Agri cultural products of over two million dollars. A drastic reduction in number of Dairy farms has occured in Newberry County in recent years. Unstable marketing con ditions and rising costs of pro duction are mostly blamed for this decline in dairy farms. The important fact is that we are now producing more milk than ever before. Our 60 remaining , dairy farms have increased pro duction by adding more cows, and improving their feeding and management practices. A Dairy Specialist from Clemson remarked recently, “We’ve made more change in Dairying in South Carolina during the past five years than we have ever made before.” This change is perhaps most illustrated by silos now evident On many dairy farms there are small silos standing along side much bigger ones. The small silos represent the past on practically all dairy farms, in Dairying, while the big ones represent the modem trend. Not only does Dairy farming today require much bigger and more expensive silos. New milk ing systems, free-stall housing barns, concrete feed lots, and automatic feeding equipment have come to be regarded as necessity on today’s Dairy farm. All this adds up to tremendous investment. Our 60 Dairy farms can be regarded as 60 small to medium -sized business firms scattered over Newberry County. These milk production business firms have investments ranging generally from $50,000 to $200, 000 each. Some will exceed this figure. These Dairy firms hire labor, purchase machinery, make capital improvements, pay for repairs, buy trucks, autos, tires, fuel and oil, and many many other farm supplies. They pay taxes, buy insurance, electricity, borrow money and pay interest. In fact, they buy goods and services from just about everybody in business. Our best estimates of total cash operating costs of our Newberry Dairy farmers is two jmid one-half million dollars annually. At the present time this figure for expenses exceeds total income, due to high operating costs and big expen ses for modern improvements. Dairying farming these days is a high risk business. Cows don’t take vacations—they must C0LDEU CftOUm* W TRUSS W »7V$? luxurious into 'U' Ooubl. RUPTURE COMFORT NEWBERRY DRUG CO. 944 Main St., Newberry, S. C. be milked every day and this creates labor problems. Milk marketing is still beset with instability. Dairy farmers don’t sell milk—they ship it to their distributor on consignment. The usage the distributor makes of the milk finally determines the price the farmers receives for his total supply of milk. Milk price wars disrupt usage and thereby lower the price of milk to the dairy farmers. Our Newberry Dairy farmers suff ered loss of thousands of dollars income during milk price wars of recent years. Newberry County Dairy farming boasts a proud history. A few of these historic high lights are worthy to mention here. Newberry farmers were among the first in South Carolina to turn from cotton farming to livestock and poul try, including Dairying. Pion eers of Dairying including Wright Dennis, J. F. Hawkins and T. Collier Neel were in strumental in obtaining a Dairy Specialists to work with Dairy farmers. R. D. Steer was em ployed as the first County Dairy Specialists, followed by Tom Cooley. These two promot ed grassland farming, including the first annual grazing crops to be used by Dairy farmers in South Carolina. Newberry farmers were among the first in this State to use silo and to plant extensive acreage of forage crops, such as Alfalfa. Artificial Breeding was quickly accepted by Newberry Dairy farmers who by now were used to looking toward new methods of increasing production and efficiency. More recent notable Dairy achievements would have to in clude these items of local in terest. The Guernsey herd at Myrtledale Farm, developed by J. F. Hawkins and now owned by Marvin Hamm and Sons is one of the top Guernsey herds of the entire state. It has been said that New berry County has more register ed, production tested Jerseys than any other county in the Nation. Several of these Jersey herds have made notable achievements. Headspring Farm has the highest production of any Jersey herd in the Nation for its size—over 250 milking cows. C. T. Smith’s Jersey herd has for two consecutive years attained the highest butterfat production of any dairy in the State. A registered Jersey cow at the Dave Waldrop Farm set a World’s record for Butterfat production three years ago. As a producer of milk—nat ure’s most nearly perfect food —Newberry County stands tall. Nearly every major milk mar ket in South Carolina as well as the large milk market of Charlotte, North Carolina, is dependent upon Newberry pro duced milk. We are proud to join in a salute to our Dairy farm families during June Dairy Month. We believe that for many years to come, dairy farming will have a significant impact on the economy GIFTS FOR... on SUNDAY, JUNE 18th Men’s Brush & Comb Sets..$l to $6.00 Old Spice Sets $1 up to $10 STAG Sets $2.75, $3.00, $3.50, $4.50 and $5.50 Mennen Sets $1.30 up to $3.50 Mister L Shave Lotion. _...$4.00 Mister L Cologne — $5.00 Shoe Shine Kits $4.95 and $5.95 Men’s Billfolds $3.95 to $10.00 Good Assortment of Mens Pipes and Pouches Shave Kits.. $1.29, $1.98, $2.98 to $7.55 Remington Elec. Razors....$23.95, Remington Electric Razors— $23.95 and $24.95 Shave Sets by Yardley — $1.25 up Sets in Currier & Ives, Spanish Galleon, Russian Leather, Sportsman, Woodbury & Gillette MEN’S CIARETTE LIGHTERS— Zippo, Vue Lighters and Butane Lighters $3.50 to $7.95 TEL 276-3412 Main Street Newberry, S. C.