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Help Fifht Tl SOUTH CAROLINA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Bey Christinas Seals tvxt $4.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE GEORGETOWN, S, C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1950. VOLUME NO. 153. NO. 42 ing. But by leaving off candy and last year, but the advance in the price likely. It will go from areas where green, a lai'ge number attending. that second helping of other fatten will probably make ap the differ it is not best suited. But our feood Christmas Carols were sung and an ing things I liked. And, glory be, ence." cotton lands that can be machinized interesting program presented on the now I don't crave them! They grow a lot of grain ia Cal will likely be growing some, cotton theme, "Be still and know that I ana SEEN ALONG THE ROADSIDE I used to mnnch candy as I read at houn. Most of it is followed by soy God." By J. J4. Eleazer, Glemaon Extension Information Specialist night. Now I don't. And if I want beans. Combined off, they become a profitably as long as this world needs something to eat now, I get a raw second money crop on .that*, land and cotton. That's my guess. Hundreds The business session was presided After we finished the foot-and- and Baker. Hands were clearing his carrot. "Horrors!" you might say. leave a rich litter to turn 'under there of farmers who enter our cotton im over by Mrs. Inez Connelly, the min ditchbaaks witk a machete (long But I've learned to really like 'em. in the early fall. mouth disease eradication tour of provement contest yearly make rec utes read by Mrs. J. C. ackson, tha knife) aad were doing a good job. I Honest, And I feel better with less treasurer's report given by Mrs B_» Mexico, three of us went on another spread ia the middle. _ ____^ ords that tend to back that belief. one to see the joint U. S.-Mexican ef tried it, aad it wasn't bad. Next week About 1920 WM a}?ent 8t G. Macfarlan. Ia the absence of Mrs. fort at controlling; the black fly of we will wind this story up with a Saluda and went with Luke Wheeler Inabnit, (who is ill) the devotional little irrigation. citrus. Word from County Agent Evans down in Georgia where he purchased was given by Mrs. Jesse Smith and Citrus fruits are very important to Lexington in October was to this af the first Polled Herefords to come the Scripture lesson read by Mra_ Mexican life and health, and we saw About the best farm and home par fect: "More and more farmers are into the county. That herd still W. S. C. S. of Methodist A. J)." Brown. -L them growing in practically all parts ticipating in a fair that I have seen daily seeding a large portion of their flourishes. And I often see it graz Gifts were exchanged among ther " of the country we visited. It even was at the recent Anderson Negro cultivated land to small grain, cover, ing by the road to Columbia. Church Meets members present and a delicious grows wild at many places, thus mak fair. crops, pasture, and grazing crops." Their present county agent, F. M. salad course with hot tea was served ing eradication of a disease affecting Forty-six farm, home, group, and And McComb of Orangeburg says Kearse, is back with four farmers The W. S. C. S. met on the 11th by the hostess, who carried out tha it practically impossible. community booths! And six other their Pasture Development Commis from Virginia where they got 26 with Mrs. Frank Tarbox at Brook yuletide motif ia the decorations. So when the citrus black fly got ln group exhibits came but had to be sion, which has two large land-clear fine brood cows. And another group there some years ago, our Bureau of sent back. There was just no place ing machines, "continues to have went and brought back 36 more. Entomology N and Plant Quarantine in the big new building at the Ander more work ahead than can be done." Beef cattle and dairy cows are find was on the job to help the Mexican son county fair to hold them. ing their way to tha natural grass- Specializing In Plantations and Timber scientists fight H. Thia insect htm I asked George Stewart, their agri As we grow from aU row crops to lands of Saluda. And milk routes killed vast areas of citrus trees in cultural agent, who is also secretary more broadcast seedings of smaller traverse a considerable portion of the the infected areas and at one time was of the fair, how such interest was seed, the cultipacker and a suitable county, land found almost in right of our border, built ia a fair. He said the first thing seeder become important implements! ——— across which is the great Rio Grande he did when he came there a few that few yet have. Cotton will ultimately be grown years ago was to seek out local lead MID-COAST REALTY Valley citrus areas of Texas. But Bamberg county bought a combina- where it can be grown best. That the inspectors quickly eradicated ttet, ers over the county. He sought folks who were interested in helping others tion seeder and cultipacker. The first holds for any crop, except possibly as there waa no wild citrus there and of November County Agent Hubbard some perishables. & INVESTMENT CO. they could get to all of it. as well as themselves. And evidently he got "am. For I met a number of aaid, "It has been ia use every day I have ridden for days among the Colonial Building MYRTLE BEACH, S. G. Phone 389-J Our Dr. A. C. Baker has long been and the waiting ilst is still growing." far-flung cotton fields of the West. them there early that morning be Assuring Widest Opportunities—Brokers Protected. in Mexico aad has traveled extensive- fore tha fair opened oa Friday. "The County Agent Cain of Calhoun said | And they have many advantages. But far over the world keeping an eye olocan l leaders did the work," said in late October: "We are in the midst we have some too. It costs them 2 the fruit fly situation. Aad he of combining the largest acreage of cents a pound to get it to the cotton G. W. Bryan W. A. Kimbel George. "I could never have got far Stc 12-18 spearheaded the work there in Mexi by myself. And the business people soybeans ever planted in the county, j mills. Ours is grown in si Hit of 'em. NEW YORK REPRESENTATION. co. His assistant, who ia ia active and fair officials gave us the best co Yields are not as good as they were I WiU cotton go from the East ? Not charge of the black fly work there, ia operation too," he said. "Next year J. F. Cooper of Florence, who used to we will include livestock." work with Mr. Hall on boll weevil work down at our Florence Experi One booth in particular struck a ment Station. Witk them* we really new cord. It was labeled "Make saw a lot of Mexico very intimately. Grandmother A Welocme Family They have developed sprays for Member". It was a simple and com black fly that control it effectively fortable bedroom. A sign listed the with two applications par year. But following, most of which were to be by the very nature of the case, it seen in the room: must remain a control rather than an "Special Needs of The Aged": eradication campaign. Wild citrus 1. Warm Underwear. and other common plants ,'on which 2. Bedroom Commode. (Note— the fly lives and breeds in the brush made from an old chair). country make that so. 8. Her Own Room. •• • I was interested in the birds we 4. Simple Duties. * saw. Parrots were common in the 5: See Her Friends. groves. Deer were seen occasionally, G. Never Be Lonely. and we were told that turkeys abound. 7. Place far Her Things. We stopped for soft drinks under 8. Loose-Fitting Outer Garments. thatched shed by a swimming pool Tommie Cunningham won first on that was shaded by banana plants and farm booth. Mattie Blasingane had fad from a mountain spring. Indian this slogan on her attractive canning boys and girls there wore convention booth. "I Can and You Can". al bathing suits and jaguar hides ,;„__—'_' swung from th erafters. "We have three times as many seed Oa a large ranch where the dimplante d for our 'Blanket of Green' road ended we visited a well known now as ever beofre," says County politico and rancher. Black fly had Agent Bonnette of McCormick. "Much so damaged his vast citrus plantings of the P. M. A. earning was taken ap that trees had been taken out and he by farmers ordering seeds for winter was getting rich from- cotton. That, grazing," according to Bonnette. we were told, was a new cotton area Much of that area is natural grass Vou bet them's a Santa Claus! and tha only one ia Mexico where land, according to Clemson's E. C. they plant cotton in October and har Turner, former eounty agent in ad vest it ia April. We drank limeade joining Greenwood. OU may not see any fluffy What you pay for a ROADMASTER eager take-off—the willing rush with him there on his wide porch as white beards or gay ted buys tbe standout performer in we talked through our friends, Cooper I reduced 20 pounds.

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