The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, April 05, 1905, Page 4, Image 4
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The Lexington Dispatch,
G. M. Harm ax, Editor and Publisher.
Circulation, 1,1)71.
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Wednesday, April 5, 1905.
Cotton Growers' Convention.
A small Dumber of the farmers of
the county met in the court house to
discuss the cotton situation and the
proposition to reduce the cotton sere
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age at lesBi twenty live per ucuu
Though the meeting was small in
point of numbers, yet it was a representative
one and each section of the
county was represented by its beet
and most progressive farmers.
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It had been advertised that the
President of the Cotton Grower's
Association, Mr. E. D. Smith, of
Magnolia, and Mr. F. H. Hyatt, of
Columbia, would be present to address
the meeting, but unfortunately
they had made a previous appointment
which conflicted with the Lexington
meeting and consequently
could not be present. Senator Richard
I. Manning, of Sumter, came
over, however, and made a plain,
practical and business talk which received
the undivided attention and
thoughtful consideration of his hearers.
He urged the necessity of a
reduction of cotton acreage and the |
curtailment in the use of commercial I
fertilizers. Much of his time was
given to an appeal to the farmers to
make the farms selfsustaining by increasing
the food crop acreage and
decreasing that of cotton, not knowing
that the farmers of Lexington,
more so, perhaps, than those of any
county in tl?e State, have for years
practiced the plan of diversified
crops, or in other words, they raise
their own corn, oats, wheat, potatoes,
etc, and make their own bacon and
lard, leaving the cotton as a surplus
crop, the consequence being that
they are today better off financially
than their less unfortunate brothers
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of other counties who have planted
all cotton and are compelled to look
to the West for their food supplies.
The farmers of Lexington not only
feed themselves, but they also, to a
verv lars^e extent, feed the people of
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Columbia, with field and garden
truck, beef, pork, mutton, butter,
eggs and poultry. We say this in
no boastful spirit, although it is a
condition that our people should, and
justly so, too, feel proud of, but as !
8n encouragement to the farmers of
the other sections of the State and
a* an example worthy to be
imitated. What the Lexington people
have done for themselves?come
out from under the ruinous rule of
King Cotton, and the policy of poverty
which characterize his subjects,
by first planting enough food crops
for home consumption and makiDg
cotton the surplus or money crop.
We are not advising the farmers how
to farm, because we know nothing
about farming but we are telling
them what Lexington people have
done, and are still doing to make
themselves independent, and if they
are prospering under the system of a
diversification of crops it naturally
follows that others can do the same
by adopting the same system.
Senator Manning's talk was a good
one because it was practical, hiB
reasons were logical because they
were sound, and his advice wholesome
because it was based upon
business principles.
The meeting was presided over by
Representative E. J. Etheredge cf
Leesville, President of the County
Cotton Growers' Association, and at
the conclusion of Senator Manning's
talk, Capt. J. H. Counts of Irmo,
gave his experience as a life long
farmer, and promised to reduce his
cotton acreage. Then Dr. J. L Shu
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ler ot oeiwooa. maae a snore iaia on
how to live live at home and board at
the same place. Dr. D. M. Croseon,
of Leesville, who is perhaps one of
the largest farmers in the Lexington
county, certainly one among the
largest, said that it was his purpose
to make his farm self sustaining and
also that he would reduce his cotton
acreage.
An organization was perfected and
pledges circulated for signatures.
It is safe to say that there will|nct be
as much cotton raised in Lexington
county this year as there was last
year by a great many bales.
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