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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Sept. 9, 1971—PAGE 3 COUNTY AGENT 1971 FALL PLANTING GUIDE When to plant? What variety? How much fertilizer and seed? These and other answers to fall planted crops are given in Clemson’s 1971 Fall Planting Guide for South Carolina Field Crops. Information for small grains, annual grazing, winter pas tures and alfalfa seeding are all outlined on this helpful guide. Your copy may be obtained at the County Agents Office. FERTILIZE PASTURES Fertilize Fescue pastures now, if you haven’t already done so. Be sure to use a complete fertilizer such as 19-10-10 now and apply more nitrogen later if extra grazing is needed. FERTILIZE LAWNS TOO: Fescue lawns need fertilizer too. Applied now, late summer and early fall rains can carry nutrients into the soil and pro mote growth before cold wea ther begins. For a really pretty fescue lawn this winter, fertilize now with 20 pounds of 10-10-10 per 1,000 square feet and then in November topdress with 2 lbs. of actual nitrogen per 1,000 square feet. Of course you’ll have to keep mowing grass during the winter but your fescue lawn will surely look good. CHECK YOUR SOYBEANS Com earworms are causing drastic damage to soybeans from Columbia to the coast. Thus Newberry soybean farm ers are forewarned. The ear- worm threat could begin moving upstate any day now. Clemson’s Dr. Charlie Tho mas says three (3) worms per foot of row is the danger signal and controls should begin. Se- vin applied at the rate of IV2 pounds of active ingredient per acre is the safest insecticide to use. Soybean fields should be checked at least weekly until the threat of worm damage has passed. BUMPER CORN CROP South Carolina’s 1971 corn crop is now estimated to yield one and one-half times as much as last year’s crop. A record yield of 58 bushels per acre is in prospect. The previous re cord was 57 bushels per acre in 1967. Last year’s drought ^stricken yield was only 27 bu shels per acre. Grain sorghum also shows promise of a record bumper crop. This year’s estimated yield is set at 375 percent more than last year’s milo crop. For the U.S. corn yields are expected to be 30 percent great er than last year while grain sorghum is also up 30 percent over last year’s yield. This means that more storage facilities will be needed on our farms. Farmers forced to sell crops at harvest usually receive less for them than later in the season. Hopefully this bumper crop will mean lower feed prices for Newberry’s Livestock, Dairy and Poultry farmers. “From the beginning as man has gone along day by day, year by year, throughout history he has continued to change and to build for himself a syn thetic environment—his cloth ing, his housing, his food; in . ct, almost everything about him is a result of converting natural elements into products of use to him. “Man departed from natural processes when he domesticat ed his first animal and later when he planted a seed.”—re port from the Committee on Ap propriations of the House on Department of Agriculture—En vironmental and Consumer Pro tection 1972. “Pesticides are a major rea son why a farmer is able to feed and clothe 46 persons today, compared with 25 persons in 1960 and only 4 persons in 1850. In our present era of the ma naged ecology of monocultures, farm mechanization, and com plex system of food harvesting, processing, distribution, and sto rage, the use of pesticides of ten represents the slender mar gin between crop production and crop failure and between economic profit and economic loss. In developing countries, where food supplies are margi nal, pesticide use may repre sent the difference between sur vival and starvation.”—Robert L. Metcalf, professor and head, Department of Zoology, Univer sity of Illinois.” PATIENTS Mrs. Frances Bowers, Pros perity Sam Boyd, City Hogan Caldwell, City John H. Cook, Sr., City Miss Christine Davis, City Mrs. Mary Dehart, City Mrs. Anita Dominick, City Gary Epps, Ridgeway, S.C. John Free, City Mrs. Kathryn Hamm, City Jesse F. Hawkins, City Mrs. Sula Hawkins, City Mrs. Willie Henderson, City Mrs. Zella Hill, Whitmire Mrs. Verdell Holmes, City Mrs. Rosa Huneycutt, Whitmire Mrs. Claudia Jones, City Mrs. Janie Jones, City Mrs. Sara Jones, City Mrs. Susie Lee, Whitmire Mrs. Jessie Lee Lindsay,. Pros perity Leland Lively, City Mrs. Mamie Long, Little Moun tain Robert Lukens, Whitmire Mrs. Ludie Lybrand, City James Mack, City Baby Ray Maybin, City Mrs. Jessie Mae Means & Baby Boy, City Mrs. Bernice Miller, Little Mountain Mrs. Floy Mills, City Mrs. Easter Morgan, Whitmire Mrs. Bessie Neal & Baby Boy, City Mrs. Rosa Ringer, City Charles Rhodes, Cross Hill, S. C. Thomas Robertson, III, Whit mire Mrs. Mamie Ruff, City James Shope, City Mrs. Lenora Sparks, Whitmire Edmonds Wilson, City Mrs. Maggie Counts, Prosperity Highway Dept, erecting signs Signs warning pedestrians and drivers of slow-moving vehicles that they are prohibited from using Interstate system free ways and controlled-access high ways are soon to be erected by the State Highway Depart ment. The signs are being erected under authority of a law pass ed by the 1971 General Assem bly. It places freeways “off li mits” to pedestrians, animals, bicycles, farm machinery, and motorcycles of under five horse power. Freeways in South Carolina are the five Interstate high ways, 1-20, 1-26, 1-77, 1-85, and 1-95; and three other highways with full control of access, U.S. 378 By-Pass at Sumter, U.S. 276 from near Clinton to Mauldin (near Greenville), and U.S. 123 from Clemson to Easley. The Highway Department ex pects to begin erecting the warn ing signs within a month. The signs measure 36 by 30 inches, with black letters on a white background. Wording on the sign is: “Pro hibited, Pedestrians, Bicycles, Motorcycles (Less than 5 H.P.), Farm Machinery, Animals.” Violation of the new law is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum $100 fine or 30 days imprisonment. Fred C. Gilbert dies in N. C. Frederick Charles Gilbert, Sr., of 2400 Main Street, died Tues day night in Hendersonville, N. C. Mr. Gilbert was born in Heath Springs, the son of the late Rev. Alan A. and Mary Anne Buz- hardt Gilbert. He was Office Manager for Suber & Co. and an accountant. He was a mem ber of Central United Metho dist Church. He attended Clem son College and graduated from Draughon’s Business College in Nashville, Tenn. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Vivian McNeill Gilbert; one son, Fred C. Gilbert, Jr., of Salud; 1 , N. C.; one daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Ann G. Turner, of Gulfport, Fla.; one sister, Mrs B. M. Scurry of Newberry; se ven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral was conducted at 3 p.m. from the Whitaker Funeral Home by Rev. James Martin and Rev. Anderson Bass. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. E. D. Williamson ington County, a daughter of the late Noah and Emmaline Schumpert Lucas. She was a member of Bethel Independent Bible Church. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Nettie Kyzer of Newberry. Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Thursday in West Co lumbia. died Wednesday Elliott D. Williamson, 62, of Columbia, died Wednesday in Columbia Hospital. A son of Mrs. Daisy Hoover Williamson and the late Ed Williamson, he was born in Ai ken County. He was a retired carpenter. Funeral services were Friday at 2 p.m. in Alphine Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. C. A. Fleming. Burial was in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Survivors include a brother, Guy Williamson of Newberry. Mrs. Kyzer’s sister dies Mrs. Tallitha “Tallie” C. Smith, 80, of 1533 Beckman St., West Columbia, died Tuesday in Columbia Hospital after a pe riod of declining health. 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