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Agricultural ' South Carolina Farming. , r Twenty Years Ago and ' Twenty Years Hence: Re- t view and a Prospect. 1 /II 1 n .11.. .f 11 1 I ? vMiarit-N i ei,iy, 01 opananourg, m ^ the Progressive Farmer. During the last twenty live years Piedmont South Carolina has moved forward in all her industries. This is especially thei case on the farms. The ideal j farmer is the one who makes his: own supplies, improves Ins land every year, has a comfortable and attractive home, with good work animals, good schools and good ueighbors. Very few have reach ed a point where they can say that they have done their best But comparing present conditions with the past, there is room for congratulations. The first marked difference in the present and past is the increased intelligence of the farmers and their families. Twenty-five years ago the average | farmer knew little about nlantl _ ?- ( food and its application, lie , bought blindly and applied it in ( the same way. So it was guano ( with a popular brand on it he ( would buy regardless of the cost ] or value. Be has also learned how to judge agricultural imple ments. It is pretty difficult for 1 an agent, although a hypnotist to unload a lot of cultivators and I rights to make a fence and $100 lightning rods (ou $75 houses) on ^ the farmers as they did a quarter of a centry ago. They understand ] the elements of plant food in the i soil and the kind of ferii'izer to ( apply to this field or that. I Another great improvement is J harmony existing between all of f our business people. Formerly ' the farmers were taught to con- 1 older manufacturers, middlemen ' and bankers as their enemies. 1 That was the dav nf tho /.hoorv t .. ?- *--?J V* V*4V V> U V, 1% J / politician. Some of the same I ^ort are left. But the farmers ' have been at school. Tliey have * no enemies now except them selves. They feel and know that # geueral and lasting prosperity ' must depend on good fellowship f and harmony amongst all busi- ' ness classes. Every one who pro- s duces anything or handles the % products of the soil, or adds to the t country, is ilie farmer's friend, 1 and he knows it. ' \ Great progress has been made in the cultivation of ttie soil. Men are now using brains instead of brute force. They have been a seeking reasons for doing this r or that thine 'I urnrL inn. r e. ill intelligently. They have better o farm implements ami use them ? more skilfully than ever before b They are learning how to deepen ? the soil and bring into available t Condition the vast stores of potash and phosphoric acid locked t up in the red clay. They begin n to understand how to catch and I hold the nitrogen in the air and k turn it into plant food. With I improved implements they are f doing as much work now in one P day as they did in two in former t days. Another great improve- t ment is the increase in yield of 1 various cropp. Only a few years ' ago the yield of lint cotton was ' about 133 pounds to the acre, t They have increased that about 40 f per cent. Even the yield of corn t which receives too little atten c tion, has been slowly increased, f Another step forward is the ( raising of better cattle for beef Ib Department. md the dairy. Almust,any farmer now can own a cow that will nake a pound of butter a day, md many of them make tw< rounds a day. This^comes fiom proper selection of cows ano >roper feeding. Then beef cattb ire attracting the attention ? f inme of our farmers and they ar* beginning to raise the heav> ;attle. A good crop for a year or two s a good thing, but it may not >e the best thing. We consider lie greatest improvement raadi ey farmers is the increase o knowledge. They are beginnii g :o understand a little about theii business and they are anxious t< learn more. They are giving U| heir prejudices again.it "book farming" and they seek the aid >f chemists and other experte. I'hey read agricultural papers as they never did bet'ore. But our farmers are picking up only a few pebbles on the ihore. The* great sea of knowledge has to be explored yet. They are far below their highest ideals and "'they need the guiding hand }f wisest men to point out the way for them. We verily believe that this is to be the farmers' jentury. It will be, if he will 5nly use well thejf, brains his Maker has given him. A. Virginia Farmer Gives His Experience. From the Progressive Farmer. I have been farming iust fiftv fears and made a good living at t, and have raised sixteen chillren. It is an independent life, aut a slow way to make money. [ am called by my neighbors a i;ood farmer, especially forjcotion. While I have made cotton ny money crop, 1 have always tept plenty of hogs, milch cows, md large truck patches and garlen, and my wood-pile well supplied at all times?good stove vood for the boss, and have at all imes been under petticoat'govsrnment, liaving had three wives md always a baby to amuse and ceep me company. I have an trchard of over 350 fruit trees of lenrly every kind of fruit, good trawberrv patch, fifty grape Ones well assorted ; have sold 100 lounds of butter in the last sixty lays at 25 cents per pound ; keep ifty liens and sell eggs every veek ; also keep bees. A TEST WITH FERTILIZERS. Recently 1 have been subsoiling ,s an experiment. Lands very oiling, with hard red clay foruation, hard to get in and hard n team. I am not able as yet to ay whether it pays. I use hiIIide ditches; don't think terracng would do for my land : never ried any. 1 had tried every brand of ferilizers 1 could get hold of, but tone paid a profit; so last season got some high-grade Peruvian ;ukuo (have forgotten analysis), applied 500 pounds per acre: 1 icked and weighed correctly. 1 ;ot only 1.36 pounds seed cotton o pay $10, which it cost me; coton worth $5 14, including seed; oss per acre, $4 50. Some years >ack I took a square aero, perfect y level, applied 100 bushels cotonseed, 110 twohorsa loads of nanure and 2,000 pounds of ferilizers and got836 pounds of seed lotton and paid Davis Dixon $5 or (bushel of seed to plant it. Checked three feet each way, two talks to hill; land very poor to . \ impoverisHBd Soil Impoverished soil, like impoverished blood, needs a proper fertilizer. A chemist by analyzing tlie soil can tell you what fertilizer to use for different products. If your blood is impoverished your doctor will tell you what you need to fertilize it and give it the rich, red corpuscles that are lacking in it. It may be you need a tonic, but more likely you need a concentrated fat food, ami fat is the element lacking ia yout* system. There is no fat food that is so easily digested and assimilated as Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil It will nourish and strengthen the body when milk and cream fail to do it. Scott's Emulsion is always the same; ulways palatable and always beneficial where the body is wasting from any cause, either in children or adults. We will send you a sample free. Tin sure that this picwEgy K ture in ttao form of n tuiuvi is uu iuc wrapper of every bottle of Emulsion vou buy. SCOTT 4 BOWNE 409 Pead St., Hew YorK 50c. and $1.00. All Druggists. s'urt with. N-xt year, and foi three years, it made 1,600 pounds seed cotton per acre. UK OWNS A KKMARKARLK 11KN. f I I - * * i nave a nen eignt vears old that has just finished laying 152 eggs 011 a straight 6tretch, only missing a few days in time. The reason I kept her ho long I found she ate all the terrapin hugs off my cabbage and learned all her ha ch to do the same. She is ? mongrel. WILL PLANT F< lt 7 CKNT CoTTOIl. I expect in the next few weeks to see more advice to us farmers about acreage in cotton than a little; and nine times out of ten, if trom a farmer, if you will visit j Ins house you will find him doub ting his own acreage while advis ing others to reduce. 1 did re duce ntv cotton acreage last year l< r the simple reason 1 could not get any laboi to work it, and fear I shall have to still further redoes this season for the same reason VVhen it comes to white folks hav ing all the work to do, especially backbreaking picking, we need not fear any over production. But for Providen-e stepping in when most needed by adverse seasons, farmers would soon bankrupt themselves regardless of what the Southern <' ot t o n Association might say or do. The poor plant ing season last year and gloomy outlook in the entire season put cotton up and short crop has kept it up with good demand for manufactured goods. i shall plant for six and one half to seven cents' next fall to try and have enough hog and hominy to carry mo througn. W. W. liainey. Brunswick Co., Va. MONEY TO LOAN I am prepared, a* usual, to negotiate loan on I in proved eoitbn farms, In sums ol MiO. and upwards for tlvr years. Interest ai 7 pe cent on sums of 11,000 00 and over Under 11,000 0o. B per cent. Interest. No brokerage or commission charged?only a reasonable fee for abstract of title. R. i!L WYL1K, Attorneyat Law. i??mmmssmum i hi i ? 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