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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Feb. 25, 1971 Nruibrrnj 1101 Boyce Street, Newberry, South Carolina 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $3.00 per year in advance; six months, $2.00. The County Agents Column TAX HELP Are you having trouble gett ing all your records together to complete your tax returns? Start now to solve this problem next year. Stop by the County Agents office for your Farm Record Book and have your tax information in one place for 1972 tax returns. HOME GARDEN It will soon be garden time in Newberry County. A successful home garden comes with careful planning and con stant attention! For success with your garden—select care fully the site, plant at the right time, use right amount of fertilizer and adapted varie ties, and control pests. SITE—Select a site exposed to full sun for your garden. Too many gardeners try to grow vegetables in competition with trees, shade from buildings, or fences. The soil should be well drained and free of harmful chemicals (oil, ashes, mortar). SOIL MANAGEMENT-You can improve your garden soil by adding organic matter- compost, leaf mold or well rott ed sawdust. Work the organic matter into the soil in the late fall. The best soil pH for most vegetables is 6.0-6.5. Before planting, test the soil first to determine how much lime and fertilizer you’ll need. Then test every 2-3 years thereafter. The ccunty agent’s office will for ward samples to the soil labo ratory at Clemson. When we get the results, we will recom mend to you the amount of lime and fertilizer to use. Add limestone, if needed, 2-3 months before planting to be more effective. FERTILIZER—Broadcast and work fertilizer into the soil— around 1,000 pounds per acre of a complete fertilizer such as 5-10-10. This is applied at the rate of 25 pounds per 1,000 square feet or 2^ pounds per 100 square feet. On a row ba sis, this is V/z pounds per 100 feet of a 3-foot row. If fertili zer is applied in the row, ap ply several days ahead of plant ing and mix thoroughly with the soil. Do not let seed or plants come in contact with a heavy concentration of fertili zer or else they will be da maged. Most crops will benefit by sidedressing with a nitrogen fertilizer soon afer they come up or after transplanting. Po tatoes, cabbage, and tomatoes are heavy feeding crops. Side- dress them with a complete fertilizer — apply around 5 pounds per 100 foot of row within 3-4 weeks after trans planting or after plants come up. Experience and close obser vation are your best guides as to further applications of fer ■*> About ariy type of insurance you might have in mind. We can take care of your needs promptly and would consider it a privilege to be helpful. “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 tilizers. SEED — Seed are rather in expensive. So make every ef fort to get the best available. Don’t seed too thickly.. Plant small seed about one-fourth to one-half inch deep. Plant lar ger seed, such as beans, cu cumbers, and peas, about 1 in. deep. Treat seed before planting with a seed protectant such as thiram (Arasan), or chloranil (Spergon). Use these according to the manufacturer’s direc tions. CULTIVATION - To control weeds cultivate often but shal low. Deep cultivation after the plants are older will do more damage than good. Chemical weed killers are not usually recommended for home garden use. Before you use a weed killer, get full information on how to use it and on what crop it should be used. IRRIGATION — Irrigation is usually essential for a top-notch garden. During prolonged dry periods, soak the garden tho roughly once a week; don’t just sprinkle daily. Light frequent irrigation is helpful only dur ing the period of seed germi nation. Overhead irrigation, especial ly late in the afternoon, is likely to result in spread of certain foliage diseases. Therefore, if you use overhead irrigation, do so earlier in the day so the plants can dry before night. DISEASE CONTROL - Ro tation, clean seed, resistant va rieties (when available), early planting, quick plowing under of old crop debris, and seed treatment are the best prac tices in disease control for the home garden. Chemical fungi cides, such as zineb and maneb, may be used to control certain common leaf diseases of to matoes, squash, cucumbers, and cantaloupes. If the garden is heavily infested with nema todes, either move the garden or treat the soil with a recom mended chemical. INSECT CONTROL - For a successful garden, you must control insects. Early planting will miss some insects, but u- sually insecticides must be us ed. A few well-chofcen insecti cides will be sufficient for most gardeners. Malathion is a good all-round material for most worms, aphids, and red spiders. Sevin is another good material especially for bean beetles, to mato and corn earworms, cu cumber beetles, and pickle- worms. Some gardeners use these insecticides alternately with good success. Toxaphene is the best insecticide to con trol worms in southern peas. HARVESTING - The main reason for a home garden is to produce high quality vegetables. To get this quality, harvest of ten to get vegetables at the proper stage of maturity. Early- morning harvest is good for many vegetables. Freeze and- or can the surplus if you want to enjoy your garden all year. We have available in the County Agent’s office Circular 389 “Home Gardens for Pied mont South Carolina” which has a vegetable planting chart giving varieties, planting dates, seeding rates and spacing. Come by or call for your copy. Self-employed must file return Persons with net earnings of $400 or more from self-employ ment must file Federal income tax returns and pay a self employment tax, H.M. McLeod, District Director of Internal Re venue for South Carolina, said today. The Tax Reform Act of 1969 liberalized filing requirements for many taxpayers so that, for example, a single person without self-employment income is not required to file a tax return unless he had income of $1,700 or more in 1970. How- t/er, an individual must file a return if his self-employment income was $400 or more, even if a return would not have been required based on his total in come. By filing a return and pay ing a self-employment tax on part or all of his income, each self-employed person helps fi nance Social Security benefits that are payable to self-employ ed persons as well as wage earners. Besides filing an individual income tax return, a self-em ployed individual must com plete Schedule SE (Form 1040), Computation of Social Security Self-Employment Tax. Copies of Schedule SE (Form 1040) are available at IRS offices, Mc Leod said. Drinker arrests up 165 percent Convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol were up 165 per cent for January, 1971 as compared to January 1970, according to the South Carolina Highway Department. Members of the Highway Patrol made 870 cases which ended in convictions during Ja nuary of this year. For January, 1970, the month immediately preceding the implementation of the State’s Implied Consent Law, the Patrol recorded 328 convictions. With the enforcement of the state’s one-year-old implied con sent law, the number of arrests and convictions for driving un der the influence of alcohol have steadily increased. Traf fic law enforcement officials expressed the belief that the new law which, in effect, says that when a person applies for and accepts a driver’s li cense he automatically implies his consent to take a chemi cal test to determine the alco hol content of his blood when requested by a law enforce ment officer, has proven to be the most effective tools to date in dealing with the drinking driver. “The implied consent law gives the officer a feeling of security when he arrests some one he believes to be guilty of driving under the influence,” Colonel P.F. Thompson, head of the Highway Department’s Traffic Law Enforcement Divi sion said. “The results of the required chemical test is an impartial witness to the con dition of the driver. No one can question the impartiality since it is a chemical test rather than a human test. An officer, intent on performing his duty impartially, in the interest of the traveling public, can ask for no better witness.” S. S. services are tailor made A tailor-made suit gives a man or woman new confidence. They know they look their best with a tailor-made suit. Social Security now offers tailor-made service to persons who will reach retirement age within the next twelve months, said Mr. H.M. Spiller, Field Representative of the Green wood Social Security Office. He added that people who take ad vantage of this tailor-made ser vice can have new confidence in making their retirement plans. They know what to ex pect from social security months before they are ready to retire. For example, people within 12 months of retirement age can find out now how much their social security check will be. They can also find out what evidence will be needed to prove their age. Mr. Spiller closed by saying, ‘Take the guessing out of your retirement plans. Find out now how much your social security check will be and decide if you really want to retire. You can get the answer by calling the Greenwood Social Security Office. The telephone number is 223-1711”. • Letter to Editor Mr. Frank Armfield, Editor The Sun Newberry, S. C. Dear Frank: Please allow me space in your paper to pay tribute to my beloved teacher and dear friend, Miss Gertrude Reeder. She was a true Christian lady who was dedicated to her pro fession and knew how to teach children without punishment or harshness and could draw them close to her heart with love and kindness. One could truly say with the poet that she was a “teacher so blessed with a patience so rare, a voice soft and gentle, a heart sweet and fair; she lent of her knowledge that each child might see—the reason for learning and accept graciously.” I never knew a pupil of hers who did not love and respect her. All who were priviledged to sit in her room were richer for the experience and well blessed. Miss Gertrude touched the lives of scores of children for good and enriched them with the knowledge of the Great Lov er of children as she followed in His Steps. Very truly yours, Herman S. Langford HEAR DR. CARL McINTIRE Standing Up For God and Country Daily at 8:30 a.m.—(Mon.-Fri.) Over WKMG 1520 On Your Radio Dial Here In Newberry AUDITOR'S 1971 TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICE Returns of personal property, (vehicles, boats, motors, trail ers, mobile homes, farm mach inery, livestock, etc.), new buildings and poll tax are to be made at the County Audi tor’s Office beginning: January 2nd. 1971 through February 27th, 1971 All males between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except those incapable of earn ing a support from being maim ed or from any other cause, shall be deemed taxable polls, per Section 65-151, 1962 Code of Laws of South Carolina. All returns are to be made by Tax Districts. Your failure to make return calls for pe nalty as prescribed by law.. The books will be closed for making returns after February 27th, 1971. Jeanette K. Hamm Auditor Newberry County