The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 09, 1923, Image 5
FARM SUCCESS
v, MADE CERTAIN 1
<By G. A. Cardwell)
The most disturbing features of a
forced change in the agricultural system
of a county, section, or state,
such as Is being brought about by the I
cotton boll weevil are first, the enormous
loss in time and money caused
by our failure oftentimes, to get our
information from conservative, reli- j
able sources, and second, from our
failure to adopt a definite, constructs
tive program, and then stick to it until
we put it across.
Many of us are too prone to take
the gossip of some inexperienced person
as the gospel truth, instead of
putting the method or system suggested,
to the acid test of scrutiny by
, the leaders of agricultural work and
V thought in the section or state. Then
\ again, we often partially exhaust our
financial resources, by following the
lead of some ambitious, would-be
Moses, who is seeking to put over
some spectacular accomplishment; and
who pilots us around the country in
search of the pot of gold at the end of
tho I'ftinhftw* in nthnv wnivls wV?n
shows us the accomplishment of some
far off community, which may or may
not be the thing for us to do, and
which may or may not he as profitable
as it appears to be, on the surface.
I do not wish to be critical of indepnedent
leadership, for I am engaged
in agricultural development work myself,
but I do desire to bring to the
attention of those farmers, and others
interested in farming along the Atlantic
Coast Line, the fact that we have
ready access to the most thoroughly
organized and competent agricultural
system in the world, from which we
can get expert information, and cheerful
cooperation for the asking. No nation
hn^ as competent a force of agricultural
leaders as is employed by the
United States Department of Agriculture,
the State Departments of Agriculture,
and the State Agricultural
(Colleges, and Agricultural Extension
Departments. Those members of these
) splendid, well trained forces with
whom we are in almost daily contact
are the men and women serving as
county agents and home demonstration
agents. In agricultural circles in
your community consult with those
1 <1 /\ tin (I it /I fiAAlr f V* A1 t)/l
uim DCCI\ tULU a\i > IVV un\4 w
operation,?you will find it worth
while.
Now, referring to the subject of this
article, I am going to plead guilty of.a
s? * ing inconsistency in quoting from
ft booklet issued by the Agricultural
Extension Department of the International
Harvester Company, an independent
agricultural extension service
similar in many respects to the service
rendered by the trained staffs main%
tained by many of the railroads for
the unbuilding of the territory served.
One of the mpst interesting little
booklets that has come under my observation
in a long time, "Farm Prosperity
Guaranteed," was prepared by
Ralph A. Hayne, of the International
Harvester Company, Agricultural Extension
Department.
The doctrine preached by Mr.
Hayne is not new, it is the old, safefarming
program advocated by hundreds,
yea thousands of agricultural
leaders for generations past; to which
so little attention has been paid by the
cotton-belt states, the wheat-belt and
corn-belt farmers, and by the other
*^0ne money-crop farming people.
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xvi i. nuynt: s auvicc i> k|V^" 1,1
py style, and the booklet is profusely
illustrated. Some of the advice follows:
"Let's feed ourselves and sell something
every week.
"We must feed ourselves and have
something to sell every week.
"The way to be prosperous farming,
is to first grow a year-round supply <f
food for the family; then grow plenty
of feed for the live-stock, and have
livestock to eat it; then if possible
have something to sell every week of
the year. This is just good business.
"If we do this we can pay off our
debts; pay cash for supplies, and put
money in the bank.
"If we do this hard times can't put
us out of business.
"The farmer who buys all his living
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and the farmer who has something to
sell only once or twice a year will be
hard up and sore about eight years
>ut of ten.
"Let's begin right now to .grow a
living for 365 days of the year and to
have something to sell every week.
"Remember, we can sell something
to ourselves every week if we can't
sell something every week to somebody
else. The most profit may be on
\'hat we sell to ourselves.
"A farm is more than a business?
\ farm is a business and a home combined.
"No real business can run long
without a profit. There can be no profit
in any business until all expenses
are paid.
How 'Can We Be Sure of Our Living
On a Farm?
"First?Grow a garden. A good
garden will furnish most of our food
'.11 summer and about half of our food
all winter. If we don't grow a real
garden we will do without a lot of the
best tasting, most healthful food anybody
ever ate.
"Second?Raise some poultry. Who
should eat more fresh eggs and fried
hicken than our farm families?
Where will we get them if we don't
aise them ? And what can we buy
that will take the place of them ?
"Third?Have some pigs. Folks who
>re doing hard work need good meat
o eat. How are we going to have
fresh pork, cured pork, ham or sausage
when we want it, and ought to
'iave it, if we don't raise pigs.
"Fourth?Keep some cows. No wovt
n can cook u irood meal without
milk and butter. No farmer will ever
buy all the milk and butter his fartiilv
should have. The way to have milk
and butter is to have cows of our own
to supply us the year 'round.
"Nine times out of ten, the farmer
who doesn't raise these things hasn't
the money to fcuv them and wouldn't
huv them if he had the money.
"The farmer who raises these things
will have money to buy anything else
he needs."
The program suggested for farm
" osperitv is nlonc the lines of the
"Cow, Hog and Hen Tandem," about
wbirh so much is being talked and
printed of late.
All that has been said of the prosof
individuals, communities and
counties following the adoption of
some safe-farming program is all?frht.
but don't expect any easy money,
for the kind of farming suggested
is not for lazy people, and the people
who are safely combatting the boll
Weevil are workers, not talkers. There
no cf?sv road to success in farming,
it's the hard road.
If '*ou ;ire ready to change your
weevil, join with your neighbors in
cropping system, or if you are being
<* fm rhawre because of the boll
holding a conference with your agri"Hurnl
leaders. Together, a program
suitable to your conditions can be
worked out, and when this is done, tie
to the program and stay with it to the
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thought, or irresponsible suggestions
o dioturb or distract you from follow
in# the advice of your accredited agricultural
leaders.
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RAIN HURTS ROAD
The heavy rains of last Friday aw'
Saturday caused trouble on a short
section of the road to Myrtle Beac1
not far beyond the veneer factory
Long strings of cars had to be turned
into a detour by way of Bucksville and
Peachtree Ferry. Only Fords could
negotiate the dee}) ruts caused by tW
softening of the new soil filled in re
contly and it was hard going even for
a Ford.
O" the prlviVe of an engineer frov
the State highway department recently
sent here before the new fills were
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gravel and red sandy loam from the
1 mm "-!>,? used in making these fills,
it is said. It has been found that in
case of repeated rains this mixture
vill not stand up. It seems to fail in
packing down process which usually
gets the right mixture of clay and
sand into a very hard surface.
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Druggists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails
to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding
Plies. Instantly relieves Itching Pi'-s, and you
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THE HORRY HERALD
HORRVS TREES
THING OF PAST
Owners Were Careless and
Gave Away What
They Had
ORDERS FROM ENGLAND
Sold to Small Sizes. Long
Terms For Cutting
Timber
The resources of Horry County in
the matter of staves, cord wood and
big- timber have been sadly depleted
within the last twenty years. Twenty
.years ago almost any,order for almost
any dimensions of scantling could be
filled from the surrounding woods in
the neighborhood of any saw mill.
The tracts of timber which extended
not only in the big swamps but
over the ridges as well were put under
option by Marthinson & Hopkins
about the year 1808. Marthinson &
.Hopkins were not owners of any saw
mill. They bought for speculation.
Their holdings were turned at an immense
profit to companies of saw mill
men. These saw mill men have cut out
.the virgin forests to such an extent
that only the remnants are now left,
and in many instances we can today
find small saw mills moving about
from place to place in this county
cutting the young timber that has
grown up on cut over lands.
It is interesting to compare the way
that it is today with the way that it
was about twenty years ago. Just before
the civil war Capt. Henry Buck
received an order from the Bank of
England for a shipload of lumber, or
ton timber. Each of the sticks was to
.measure eighty-three feet long and
square fifteen inches at the small end.
1 1 was SCMlfl flint T}ll/?lr filled Hiit;
order in a week from the woods in the
vicinity of Buckpville. Such an order
could not he filled from the entire
South in this day.
The pity of it is that our hip: timber
has not only been used up, but the
fact is that it has been wasted. Those
who sold to the timber buyers were
not careful to limit the sizes sold to
the larger trees, so that a pood growth
of smaller trees would be left on the
land to make more in a short space of
Col4s Cause drip and Influenza
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove
the cause. There is only one "Bromo Quinine." '
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Care!
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The propeller, x
motor, has to be
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"Standard", the
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that skilled refir
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time. The owners of the timber tracts
in those days and the days that followed
were careless about the length
of time they would give for cutting
and removing the timber. The timber
buyer got the advantage of the
growth of the timber on the land for
long periods, in some instances for as
long a time as thirty years and on
down, so that all the timber which
would measure up to the size when
the cutting began was the property of
the grantee in the timber deed or his
assignee.
It could have been managed and
used with care and thus we would still
have plenty of the large trees that
used to mark the virgin forest. Some
men who owned large tracts in those
days failed to place the correct value
uopn it. They did not look uopn the
swamp tracts they owned as useful
lands for the growing of timber but
only as means of getting a few dollars
at the time and by signing timber
deeds for long periods, they gave
away to the timber buyers all of the
increase and profits of many years.
The only consolation in this matter
is the thought that much of the land
which formerly supported the large
timber has now been cleared up and is
standing in fields of corn and tobacco.
More and more the people of this section
will have to turn to the crops that
they can produce on this land, for turpentine,
timber, staves, and cordwood
have all become, you might say, things
of the tiast. Thpv dn not form the rp
sources that they once did.
Lets conserve what little we have
.left.
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HELP US DO IT
Beginning with the last issue of
July the Herald has been going out in
.ten pages instead of the usual eight.
Whether we can keep this up depends
entirely on the advertising patronage
we can get from the good business
men and progressive people of the
town and county. We want to make
A TONIC
drove's Tasteless chill Tonic restores
Energy and Vitality by Purifying and
Enriching the Blood. When you feel its
strengthening, invigorating effect, see how
it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So
pleasant even children like it. The blood
needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to
Enrich it. * Destroys Malarial germs and
Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigor*
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NEWS GETS IN
A WRONG NAME
Becausc of an error it was stated in '
the Herald last week that B. I. Livingston
had been accused of breaking '
the prohibition laws. The information 1
now reaches the office that it was
S. P. Livingston and not B. 1. Livingston
whose premises were raided some
weeks ago.
The information for publication in 1
Jast week's issue was obtained from
one of the rural policemen of the '
county and the name was published
exactly as given in. It now appears
that he was mistaken in regard to the
initials of the n?an whose premises
were raided in the enforcement of the '
prohibition law.
There are no charges against B. I.
Livingston, and the paper hastens to
correct this mistake that was made.
the paper as large as it can be made
each week. We wish we could print it
in sixteen pages, full to the brim of
local news each week.
"aspirinSay
"Bayer" and Insist!
I *11 loss you soo the name "TCayer" on
package or on tablets you are not getting
the genuine Bayer j ?:<> ! u?-t presoril>ed
by phvsieians over twenty-two
roars ami proved safe by miliLoiih for
Colds Headache
Toothache Lumbago
Earache Rheumatism
Neuralgia Pain, Pain
Accept "RajKT Tablets of Aspirin"
only. Enoli unbroken package contains
proper directions. Handy boxes of
twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists
also ?ell lw>tt.lcs of 24 an<l 100.
Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer
Manufacture of Moiioaeoticac.idostcr of [
Salicylicaxrid,
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CHEERFUL WORDS
For Many a Conway Household
u..y.n p \infi and aches of a
bad back removed?to be entirely free
from annoying, dangerous urinary
disorders, is enough to make any
kidney sufferer grateful. The following
advice of one who has suffered
will prove helpful to hundreds of Consvay
readers.
Mrs. W. J.- Oliver, Race Path St.,.
Conway, says: "I had a lot of trouble
with my back hurting me. which
came from disordered condition of my
kidneys. When I bent over stitches
caught me in the small of my back
and nearly took my breath aWay. I
had headaches which made me sick
and faint, and my kidneys didn't act
right either. I bought a box of
Doan's Kidney Pills at Piatt's Pharmacy
and they soon relieved me. The
headaches left, my back became
strong and well and my kidneys were
regulated."
Price f>Oc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy?get
Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that
Mrs. Oliver had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.?Adv.
How to build up your
weignt
TO be under weight often proves
low fighting-power in the body.
It often means you are minus nervepower,
minus red-cells in your blood,
minus health,
/ minus vitality.
/ 55T? W\ i ** *s scr*ous to
I / 5^^ J ke minus, but
\ L r-> k A I t^ie moment you
\ r wJ increase the
Y I w number of your
VV red-blood-cells,
yS you begin to become
plus.
That's why S. S. S., since 1826, has
meant to thousands of underweight
men and women, a plus in their
strength. Your body fills to tho
point of power, your flesh becomes
firmer, the age lines that come from
thinness disappear. You loolr
younger, firmer, happier, and you.
feel it, too, all over your body..
More red-blood-cells! S. S. S. will
build them.
M S. S. S. is sold at all food drujf
M stores in two sixes. The larger siis
is more economics].
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