Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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iAIKBN'ON AGRIOULTUI&AL BILL. Vrges More Liberal Support of the Agriculturaa Department-Helps to Secure Appropriations for Experiments in Dairying in the South. Mr. Aiken. Mr. Chairman, while I am not a member of the Agrieul tural committee, I feel fhie deepest in terest in all that pertains to agricul ture and to any legislation looking to its advanicement. I desire to direct speeial attention to a certain provision of tihe agricul tural bill, and incidentally to refer to the general matter of appropria tions for agricultural purposes. The item of the agricultural appro priation bill which authorizes the ex penditure of $20,000 ''to further de Velop the dairy industry of the South ern states by conducting experiments, holding institutes, and giving object lessons in dairying, ''a separate prOp ositionl incorporated in the bill at the instance of my colleague (Mr. Lever), is a good measure, and I wish to ex press my heartiest indorseient of it. The only objection that I have to the measure is that, the amount appropri ated is too small. But many Incas ures which prove to be (of the greatest importance have had just such a small beginning and so this one, once its ad vantages have been impressed upon the public mind, may find more liberal support, in Congress. There are many advantages which peculiarly recommend the south as a dairying section; and that this is not one of its chief industries today is due more to the lack of information on the subject than to any other cause. Perhaps one of the greatest advan tages that the south offers as a dairy ing section is the cheapness of land and the sparseness of its population. Pasture lands are necessary for profi table dairying and pasture . lands come pretty high at forty or fifty dollars per aere, the conimon price in popllous sectionls. In South Carolina we have some 19,000,000 alcres (if land. of which only about 6.000.000 acres are inl cil tivation, and Southii Carolina perhaps, iffers little advantage over other Southern states in this particular. More than two-thirds of our land is idle, in a measure unprofitable, for the lack of 'laiieient farming popula tion. A large per cent of this land is well adapted to pastUring for beef and dairying pm-poses. If only our farm ers could be brought to realize the profits of dairying as an independent industry these lands, now unprofi table would furnish a new source of wealth to that section: or if dairy ing could be carried on more exten sively or moresystematically as an ad junet to the well-conducted farm, tile advantage to the farmer in land building as well as in receipts from (dairy produlcts would make it well worth is while. Most of tihe Sout hern states have a luxuriant groiwthI of nat urali grass thait is greenl nine or teni monthus of the yecar ; anid inl my own state Bermu- 1 da and1( many ot her introduced grass-I es grow in perfection. The hay from this Bermunda grass is uniexcelled in1 tile world. This I can personlally - vouichi for. While grass alone caninot be relied on for pirofitable dairying it is an es sential, and properly used, with cot-i toll seed hulls1 and meal p)rodlucesi splendid results. Thie natural grass os of South Carolina would fu:-n'.sh amtple az.t 'n ge for great herd4 of cattle tena n "nths inl the year.'* No e tensive effort hlas ever been made to grow wuinter grasses, but inl thousands of yards and lawns may be seen a practical demionlstraltionl of the fact thtblue grass andt lawn grass both gr ow thIere beaut ifully under proper cond(itionRs. The great ditliculty with our south ern1 people hlas b)een thle one crop idea; anid so profitable hams bieen this crop for the past few years that they have not felt the necessity for dliversitiea tion. The man wuho is doing wvell -aismig cotton never tinks that he mighit (10 better raisinlg somnethiing else. .' Even tile local demand for dairy Sproduets in tile soulth far exceeds tile Ssubply, to say nothing of the demand at;most profitable prices, comning from our large cities. It woiuld be hlard to lld small town in the soulth that huas not had its periodical blitter famine, Sand yet nature has made this a favor - 4 spot for 'the production of that ar -t ele. "-Mueh in the way of object lessons dbeen~ done by Clemson Agrienitur Scollege, which lhas resulted in high.. i~rgrades of cattle in the counties 'trroundJing the college, and in bet ti'more profitable use of tile bflets. In some of tile counties of - district, for Instance, ind~ividuals d corporations are siecessfully -nmtfacturing ch,eese, for which they - 4l a ready market. Dairying is a growing industiy. The proceeds from this sou'ce during the year 1905, were, in- rouid-nuifbers, P650,000,000, and the demand far ex ,eeds the supply. With the possible )xception of the corn drop, no single Carm product reaches this stupendous .mount. The south could easily add At least 30 per cent to this amount without the loss of a single dollar ri-om its present sources of revenue. Phe government could not spend mon ay to better advantage than in en -ouraging this industry there, and in instructing the people inl its proper management. For agriciltural piurposes I favor the most liberal appropriations. The prodticts of the soil, and that which oes with the ordinary farm, consti lute the basis of our wealth; all else is but so much margin on the crude products. Wbat blood is, coursing [hrongh the veins and arteries of the human system, that the farm pro luet is distributed through the great railroad lines of this country. Each -arrier in its composition the life-sus taining essence. The various farm products of the ,,nitcd States last year aggiegated the ittupendouts sum of $6,415,000,000, mdi each year brings an increase of Wer $250,000,000. Literally we feed und clothe the world, furnisLinix, as re do, more than 30 per cent. of the train, a still larger per cernt of the neat, and fully 80 per cent of the cot on of the world. In the past six re-ars the farmers have secure.1 a bal tnee of trade amounting to $5,635, 100,000. The government is year by year 'lengthening its cords and strength ning its stakes." Is it not the part >f wisdom to lend every encourage nent to that which constitutes the )asiA of its strength, if not its very ife? Surely. ''there is a giving that nricheth and a withholding that im Overishet h.' Although agriculture stands incom omparably first inl the produiction of vealth, it occupies the lowest place in lie seale of appropriations. A state nent prepaire by Senator Allison, overing tile average annual appropri itions as well as the aggregate appro >riations for various puriposes for the )ast six years, will doubtless prove of uterest, and hence I give it here: Purposes of Appropriation. Total Six yrs. kp. for all purposes .. $4.594,225,982 P. 0. Department .. .. 882,966,168 P'ensions 846,791,090 krmy........... 545,746,106 nVy .......502,317,683 ;undry Civil Exp. 327,401,735 legislative Exp. .... 159,456,711 liver and harbor 115,743,786 udlians .......... 52,777,576 iortiflcations .. .. .. 43,501,095 \griculturai...... 32,545,080 Annual Av. \pl. for all plurposes .. $749,637,663 ~. 0. Department . 4,6,2 enslionIs.. .. ......4 384 \ rmy .. ..........9,3,8 Cavy .... ........3,161 eundry Civil Exp.......6,5 aegislat ive Exp...... .. 26,576,118 liver andl harbor .. .. 19,290,636 nudians.. ...........8,766,262 'ortifications .. ........7,250,182 Xgricultural .... ......5,424,180 Occupying the position of the first iation of the world as a p)roducing people, we are almost parsimonious .1n the applrop)riations which go to 'uilId up farming interests. With farming interests more ex tensive than those of benighted Rus sia, we spend less than one-third the amount expended by that country for agricultural purposes. A compara live statement of the amounts spent by the leading powers shows this gov e'rnmnent up in v'ery had light. Russia spmends $25,000,000 annually; France, $9,(00,000; Austria, $9,?75,000; Hun gary, $9,400,000); while the United States, with its vast; area and diversi fled1 tfarming, calling for the most sei ent ilie umet hods, spends less than $7, 900,000. Such has been the yield of ourll virgin soil, no matter how un scientifle our methods, that the gov ernent for ma ny years overlooked the necessity of establishing an ag ricultural dlepartment wvorthy of the name. From~ tihe formation of the govern mnt the demands of agriculture have been forced, inch by inch, upon the unwilling ears of congress. There was not 6ven an agricultural bureau' until 1839; and after that time, even to the year 1889, owing to inadequate applropriat ions, it wvas little more than a bureau. In 1889 the real life of the agricultural department began, and with it began a new era in 'American farming. It is a mistake to consider the agri multural arpropriation a gift to the rarmers. It is, in fact, but a loan, for wich the nation is indirectly re mbursed a hundredfold. Retitrning to the proposition rof lairying in the South, let me say that the govermpent has here -h, portunity to -open up a v'ast.*.* e f wealth. It is to be hoped t, t e amount appropriated as an experi ment in this line %vill be passed with out opposition. It is too smal'but it may serve to demonstrate t ne cessity -for. even more extensive' work along this 'line in the future. (Ap plause.) The clerk read as follows: For bureau of Animal Industry: To enable the secretary of agriculture to undertake experimental wi-k. in the co-operation with state authori ties in eradicating the ticks transmit ting southern cattle fever, $65,000, of which sum $20,000 shall be immediate ly available. Take Money Says Martin. Columbia, May 10.-S.upt. 0. B. Martin has written an open letter on tihe refusal of the Willis school in MAarlboro county to receive dispensary profits. le holds that money can be returned to tihe state. Ile writes the authorities: ''Referring to your re cent request to be advised on differ ent points as to the refusal of the trustees of Willis school district to ac cept dispensary school funds, it seems to mie that those requests were rath er previous. I did not know at first that. these trustees had spent all of their three mill tax, poll tax, local tax and dispensary funds and made nll Overdraft of $23 before they re fused to accept the said dispensary funds. In view of the fact that-they had an overdraft, which is contrary to law, and in view of the fact also that I think such collections are al ways in order, I thoroughly approve of the action of the trustees in taking ill) a collection. I think that money can very well be received undeir see tion 1178, code of laws, of South Car olina, 1902, which provides for a ''Grant, devise, gift or bequeath.'' It looks rather silly to have had such a commotion over a hypothetical case, but I hope tie dispensary authorities will soon make such a handsome ap propriationl as will give us a real ease. ''Sincerely yours, "0. . Martin. "State Sult. Education. Case of Sad Disappointment. .The 'phone in the office of a down town establishment devoted to dry goods and various articles of fen-inine apparel rang sharply and the head bookkeeper responded. The voice hg heard was a feminine voice. It was somewhat indignant and it begam conversation without preliminaries. "Those bones you sent up are alto gether too large," said the voice. "I told you I wanted small bones. This is my little dog's birthday, and I wanted to give her some nice, dointy little bones as a special treat. And here you have sent up sonie great enormous things, only fit for a St. Bernard. My poor Flossie, with her dainty little teeth, never e muld man age them in the world, and she and [ are both awfully disappointed.'' "'I beg your pardon, madam,'' said lhe bookkeeper in astonishmna. ' 'but I am afraid you have rimg up the wrong lace. This is not a mnarket, and the only b)ones we ever senda out are the kind that conme in cormr. '" Prov'idence Journal. Arithmetic Races. In the recent great athletic meeting at Cant ,n, China, am ithmentic races w,-re a ?enum.re. Pup'.9 from the "ch.<m. :ned slate 'm.nl pencil. an-d in thme t 'se of the r'. tney eu 'ounitered a blackboar'! containing a -um to l,.e solved. The boy< were lined in,. .-s they reached the~ goal, nuid thm.<e whose .-aIea la ions we ' r -n-' w"r - "en e . . m' cd. The fn'.m three h.-P .n the line 'vi rc counte * .nners. Long Hair and Insanity. Attention was called to physical manifestations oif insanity by Pr'ofes sor A. RI. Loren, of the UniverAity of Berlin, in a clinic before the students of Jeffer'son Medical College. ''Insanity,'' he said, ''the careful student of physical manifestations will often notice, is productive of a luxuriant growth of hair. In some cases of the female insane this growth is' so abundant that a muistache and beard develop. Another peculiarity sometimes noted is an abnormal growth of the ears; very often they stand out almost at right angles from the head. The eyes take on an un usual gljitter. "We cannot account for these pe culiarities,'' continued thme professor, "but they are so apparent that I do not believe anf) student of insanity can afford to negleet them.'' Dr. Loren is one of the greatest spe ciliusts in the study of insanity in the world. lHe is on a tour -of America and obligingly accepted the Invitation extended by: Jeff4rson colloge to stop over long enough to litture before the studentse.h laIdelphia Record, HAVE YOUR.,W..A. Repaired ftI ht. W.. Rikard jeweler Newberry..C. W. B. RIKARD is now in The Herald anc News Office where 'he will d< your work promptly and undei GUARANTEE. Give him a trial. NEW STORE, I am now opening up a nic( stock of goods In the store oom formerly occupied by E M. Evans & Co., on Main St. opposite the court house. An asking now the pub'ic general ly come in and inspect m3 stock before making their pur chases. My stock consists of Dr3 Goods, Groceries, etc. Cal in to see. Will be delighted t< make you close prices on every thing-and satisfaction guaran teed. Yours for business, W. R. REID. Prepared to furnish every thingi n the way of supplies. Real Estate and Insurance Do you have Real Estate to sell 01 rent which you do not care to have advertised to the general public? Ii so, place it in our hands and we will give it our personal study and atten tion. We have standing buyers for cer tain kinds of land.. Do you want to buy Real Estate' If you mean business come to see ui for we have some property for sa4 that might greatly surprise you ai well as interest you. If you don 't pliean business com< to see us anyway and we will tell yot all we know about the weather We undertake to sell no property before we have inspected it and ap proveA the price. Loans negotiated on approve~ .security. Rents and accounts collected. We are agents for the Aetna Lif< Insurance Company. It will pay yoi to see wvhat this old reliable and con servative company has to offer befor< placing your Insurance. More and more men are beginninj to understand what this statemen means. Oveice over the.Commercial Bank. W. K. SLIGH & GOMPANI Brick! Brick! For Sale by C. H. CAN NON. IsuAA dt~4~ 163 tn MakingEighteen Huf CHOICE TNNESSEE and While it .ast to C Best Patent $5OC Best half Pat. $4., Best Meal 75o. bi Best Grits $1.75 S Don't pay any,more, don't be swit along, save money and buy from us. Our immense stock .of spring goods ties and fancy goods and staples, our ing novelties in millinery. Come and right thing ii prices, style, quality, . ply cannot beat us, we don't make : you up on balance; people getting and looking out more for No. x. Coi Forty years experience counts somel don't you forget it, PROSPERIO STATEP Of the condition of the Exchange the close of business May 4th, RE8OURCk8. Loans and discounts.. . $127,779.52 Overdrafts....... 3.80.93 Furniture and Fixtures .. 3,863.15 Due from Banks & bankers 10,881.48 Currency .......4,217 00 Silver, Nickles and pennies 1,748.34 Checks and cash items. . 5,031.85 $156,822.27 Before me came M. L. Spearman Ca being duly sworn says that the above sta tej edge and belief. Sworn to and subscribed before me this Correct attest: J. D. Davenport, Edw. R. Hipp, Directors. Geo. B. Cromer, STATEP Of the condition of The Commei at the Close of business, March Resources. Notes Discounted .. .. ..$377447 64 C Furniture & Fixtures.. 3051 93 P Due from Banks .. .. .. 51531 70 D Overdrafts .............2807 42 D Cash and Cash Items .. . . 13934 12 11 -I| $448812 81) State of South Carolina, 1 County of Newberry. I I, J. Y. McFall, Cashier of the above statement is true to the beat of my knowi Sworn to befo Attest. Z F. Wright,. Jno. M. Kinard, W. H. Hur,t. Spec For. the Pex4 WE OF 50OBa ::OF Straigh' 'AT $4.00, PE WOAR, idred Barrels of that FLOU R Just Received o at {Everybbl. 1Of guaranteed. ishel. ack. ched off by argument, come right arriving embracing all the novel Mrs. Moseley in the North select. see us, we are prepared .to do the :c., for an all round bill you sim. . cut price on one thing and. burn educated and 6pening their eyes ne and see us and be convinced. :hing, we will treat you right and ry, s. c. AENT. Bank of Newberry, S. C., at 1906. LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in . . . $50,000.00 Undivided profits less ex penses and taxes paid . 4,605.89 Due to banks and bankers 698.51 Individual deposits subject to checks...-..-.. 71,441.87 Cashier's checks -.-.-.-.-.76.00 Bills payable .. . . . . . 30,000.00 $156,822.27 shier of The Exchange Bank, who nent is correct to the best of his knowl M. L. Spearman, Cashier. the 12th day of May, 1906. W. B. Wallace N. P. for E. C. AENT. 'cial Bank of Newberry, S. C. 1st, 1906. Liabilities. apital Stock ...... $50000 00 rofits less all exp. paid .. 42645 72 ue Bnnks -...... 4339 89 ividends Unpaid.......707 00) e Discounts-.......70000 00 idividual Deposits .. .. 281120 20 448812 81 named Bank, swear that the above adge and belief. J. Y. McFall, Cashier. re me this 2nd day of April, 1906. H. T. Renwiek, N. P. of S. C. Ten Days FER Lrrels t Flour R BARREL 'ge Co