Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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•’■.'WB'tVlJ'*; .We will.sell to the highest bidder at public auction, on OCTOBER the 14th, and 15th, the following des cribed real estate, formerly owned by JUDSON E. HAIR, Deceased. J The town property consisting of Store, Dwelling and Several Valuable Lots Suitable for Residents, in thfe town of BLACKVILLE, and the farm which is only about one mile from Blackville, S. C., known as theTave O . , f •- A. > _ ^ ace ’ near Reynolds Station, containing about 210 acres. The town property and this farm wfepropose to sell^oW-OtTOBER^ 14th Now, on OCTOBER 15th, we will sell to the highest bidder at public auction the rest of our father’s lands* which consist of about T,000 acres, known as the Carroll Place, Graham Place, Boone PlaCf^Reed Place and Home.Place, with other small tracts. All of these lands will be CUT UP IN SMALL TRACTS of 50 or more acres. The terms of sale will be-ONE HALF CASH AND BALANCE TO SUIT PURCHASES with mertg*ge-*f property at J per cent, interest annually Hour of Sale or Shine Executors And Borrow Money From US The ^Government Reports a Short Cotton Crop Which? If you borrow cash 1 on your improvedTarm land now to put in live stock principally cattle hogs, Poultry etc., which the Boll ^eevil cannot destroy,, the cash proceeds of the loan will enable you to hold your corton crop off the market until q reasonable price is offered for it. CATTLE AND PROSPERITY OR COTTON AND POVERTY DISGUISED BLESSINGS Farm demonstration agents working in the boll weevil infested counties of South Carolina under the direction of Clemson Col lege and the United States Department of Agriculture have launched a fencing campaign which will be the forerunner of a livestock indnstry in this State, says the Columbia, S. C., Daily Record.—— . . 1 • “The farm fence, it is realized, must be the beginning of live stock raising if the industry is to prove successful. Since a change has been made imperative and the farmer in the infested area must turn away from cotton, the time for experiment has passed. If the farmer is to beat the boll weevil, he must make the change in his faijming operations demanded by the exigencies of the situation. Tutning away .from cotton he will naturally turn to livestock and the growth of food crops, arid following this new program he must adopt the methods which will insure success from the start. *E*' J , x . - “The farm fence is a primary requisite and among the first essentials- > - — * - Get it now. The farmer vVho he tales too long'always finds he is the biggest looser A strand of wire will nor fence out the boll Weevil, “butTf it fences in battle and food crops on land that has heretofore been devoted to the growing of cotton, it will help tp starve out the pest, and during the period of time required to Intake the trans formation from a cotton country to a livestock country Jthe bene fits accruing to the farmer will more tl»an offset the expense in volved-** making the change. In a few years the farmer who now deplores the coming of i the weevil will, if he meets the sit uation in the,only way 1 that the weevil has ever been beaten any where they have appeared,find that the pest is a blessing in dis guise. . ’ “Already,M a nyJfairTners jb the lower part of the State are recognizing the blessing through its disguise. They have hesi tated to change their Agricultural program even though they have known that it would be to their advantage To dd g». Now they have no choice in the matter, but^driven to make the change in self-pre&ervation, they are welcoming it and looking forward with confidence to the'future.” .s* </■ v ' * - . 1 w * 1 r