The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, May 08, 1908, Page TWO, Image 2

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GOOD MARKET FOR STOCK. South Carolina Has Great Possibilities Within Its Grasp for Such Business. Washington, April 27.?AVith the wonderful development of agriculture throughout the South which is now in progress, the question of getting the animals needed for working the farms and hauling the produce either to market or to the shipping points, is of almost as much importance as the labor problem. In fact they run hand in hand, and' one without the other is of no use. The South now has all I lie animals needed, but from the following extract from a report of the department of agriculture it will he seen that we are paying high prices for animals and also feed for th.'in. both of which we could raise in the S.Milii ami vet a higher grade of hot !i: "It certainly -.ccrns anomalous to contemplate a vasj section of our country spending millions annually I or hordes ami mules, lor beet' and pork, aim' for commercial fertilizers, ami s<' 11 i11hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of fertility as cotton seed meal ami cake, when we realize that the condition of soil and climate generally throughout the South are c.\e'llent for animal production. This condition is si ill moiv surprising wli ii we know thai, properly fed, colIon seed meal i- probably the most valuable proleinbraring feed the country produces and thai its ferli-l li/.ing value after having gone through ! an animals' body is almost as great as it- teed value. It is al.-o more than I?a--iuu -l range that a southern farmer will buy hay shipped from the \\e-i ;li from to per ton when hi- own land will often yield more hay per acre than the land wleu'e thI western hay was produced and of as good a quality." According to figures of the bureau o| > | a I isl ics o I tin1 de.pa rt men I of agriculture, there were S.'{,OlM> horses in Soiitli Carolina on .lanuary I, l!M)7. I'he>e horses had a tolal farm valuation of $10. ld7.lSJ, an average of $I'J(? a head. ()n the same dale there were l.'M.OOO mules in the Stale with a total farm value of .^JO.oOS,I'JI ami an average of $ 1a head. (leorge M. liommel, of the bureau of animal industry, has studied the situation in South Carolina, and by iiis calculations, the average life of a horse in South Carolina from I ho time lie i> mature may be estimated at eight'years and that of a mule at len years. The slock of horses and mules must lie replaced oiice ill eight or ten years, respectively; or, to express it different Iy, 10.00(1 horses ami lo.OOO mules must be raiseil or brought into the State annually. I here are three reasons why Smith Carolina farmers shouhr raise their own horses ami mules," says Mr. Uoiiimcl. "The lirsl is to keep wit hiu the Slate the great sum which is paid annually for stock shipped in from the North and West. It is estimated that probably about two thousand of the horses and one thousand of the mules used annually are raised in the Stale. Kstiinaling the cost of the lior-.es delivered to the South Carolina farmer at +IL'") each and the mules at $l7.~i each, the amount of money sent out of the Slate annually is $1.000,000 lor horses and I,!)!?."),000 for mules $."{.(100,000 in round numbers, which could be retained in the Stale to god advantage. "The second reason is thai by producing its own horses and mules the South lias slock already adapted to its use. No time is lost in getting an animal to do his best under Southern conditions. Furthermore, they would be produced at cost, without having to include in the expense bill a profit to another producer or middleman. Not only thai, but, after a horse or mule is two years old he will earn his way. and a moderate amount of work is good for him. In this way the animal has been raised to live years of age at a minimum cost.'' Mr. Kominel also points oul in detail the great importance of knowing all about the breeding of an animal. The third reason why I he South Carolina farmers should breed horses and mules i> that the Slate nas ex- j eel len I possibilities for stork raising, and that when the supply is increased beyond Hie local needs I lie demands of outside markets can be filled. "The greatest horse raising Stale in the country is Iowa and live greatest horse market for the number handled is Chicago. However, it is estimated that at least half of these horses are sent from Chicago lo other points, some for final sale, others for further fitting for market. The highest class of horses will generally be found in the cast, in New York and Boston, and the highest, prices for good horses are to be. had in these cities. Dos Moines, Iowa, and Columbia, S. C., are quite near the geographical centers of their respective States. Co Ilumbia is over 400 miles nearer New York nnd Boston than is Des Moines. Columbia is just that much nearer the country's best horse market, and there are three large cities and great ports 011 the Atlantic seaboard between Columbia and Now York, all of them on a direct lino from Columbia. "So far as the markets are concerned, tho South Carolina farmer has as ?ood advantages as tho Iowa farmer. These advantages arc not developed, it is true, but the conditions are full of latent possibilities. If good horses are bred in the South the buyers will soon find it out and there need be no fear that good prices will not be obtained for good products. W. W. Price. A Famous Poem. liungdnn Smith , the well-known war correspondent., and all-round newspaper man, died in Xew York recent ly. j Mr. Smith was remarkably versalib'. even for ;i metropolitan journalist, j,;n' always did vigorous and acceptable and often some very exceli lent. work. The following poem,, entitled " Involution," has been quoted and publish,m1 all over the Knglish-speaking lands: When you were a Tadpole and I was a Fish, In the Palcoxonic lime, A ml siile by side nil lire ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, ' Or skittered with many a caudal flip Throuu'li the depths of the Cambrian fen, M'v heart was life with th 1 joy of life, l**i?r I loveil you, even then. Mindless we lived and mindless we loved. And mindless at last we died; And deep in a rift of the Caradoc ' r ^11' ^ W e slunibcrede side by side. The world turned on in the lathe of I ime, The hot lands heaved amain, Till we caught our breath from the womb of death. Ami' vcrept into light again. We were Amphibians, scaled and tailed, And drab as a dead man's hand; We coiled at ease 'neath the dripping ; I rtes, Or trailed through the mud and sand, CroaU'ii*; .ind blind, wiih i ur tliree(daweti feet Writing a language dumb, With never a spark in the empty dark To hint at a life to come. Ye! happy we lived, and happy we loved," I And happy we died once more; Our forms were rolled in the clinging mold Of a Xeocoinian shore. The eons came, and the eons fled. And the sleep (hat wrapped us fast Was riven away in a newer day, And the night of death was past. Then light and swift throuj^h the junc trees We swung in our airy flights, Or breathed in the blams of the fronded palms, In the hush of the moonless nights. And oil! what beautiful years were I licse. When our hearts (dung each to each, When life was tilled, and our senses In the tirst faint dawn of speech. I Thus life by life, and love by love, We passed through the cycles < si range. And breath by breath, and death by I death, We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of 1 i f e When over the nursing sod The shadows broke, and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of Clod. I was thcwed like an Auroch bull, And tusked like the great. Cave I'ear; And yor.. my sweet, from head to feet, , Were gowned in your glorious hair. Deep in the gloom of a fireless cave, When the night fell o'er tho river bed. We mumbled the bones of the slain. I flaked a flint to a cutting edge, And shaped it with brutish craft; I broke a shank from the woodland bank, And fitted it, head and haft. Then t hid mo close to the reedy tarn, Where tho mammoth came lo drink Through brawn and bone T dravc the stone, And slew him upon tho brink. Loud 1 howled through the moonlit wastes, Loud answers our kith and kin; From west and cast to (ho rirnso feast llio clan camo trooping1 in. O'er joint and gristle and padded hoc AVe tought and clawed and tore, w !?nk hvy ,JOWl' with many a grov J We talked the marvel o'er. 'leanrcd that fight on a reindeer hon WjUi rude and hairy hand, I pictured his fall on ?I0 W(|. J hat men might understand. ' ? lived by blood, and the rig;, of might, ? Kre human laws were drawn, m.? a"? of sin di<1 not begin ull our brutal (usks were gone. And that was a million years ago, In a time that no man knows: let hero tonight in the mellow lig? ?? e sit at Delmonico's V""1 CP? are deep as the Devoi springs, r V""r ''air is as dark as jet; Vour years are few, your iife' is new ' "tir soul untried, and yet <>tir trial is <?n the Kimmeridge clav And the scarp of H,0 l?m.|)eek flan's e '"ive left our bones in the Bag shot stones, And deep in the Coraline era-?, " * love is old, our lives are old, And death shall come amain. M.onld it come today, what man max say We shall not live again? ''""I wrought our souls from the Tremadop beds And furnished them wings to f|vHo smviMl our spawn in I ho world's dim dawn. And I know that ii shall not die. " liavt? sprung' above the graves "'hero I he crook.honed men made a-a r, And the ox-wain creaks o'er the buried caves Wliero the mummied mammotha re. I lien as we linger at luncheon here, or many a dainty dish, I*' "s drink anew to the time wliei you Were a tadpole and I was a fish. ' Mileage Books. 500 Mfile State Family Tickets $11. io.~Good over the Atlantic Coas 1,1 State for the head or de pendent members of a family. Limit JONES' ( S, B. Jone, DBA STAPLE & FANCY Oi Confectioneries, Fru, Phone 2J2. Newb Dear Madam Housekeep V tention to our stock c groceries and solicit your potronage during Wo feel safe in sayi the most complete thai that we can serve you tier. We will ever keep in portant points: qualii vice modorate prices. If you are not alrea we would be pleased t< list of satisfied cUs1 We wish 1908 to be c you join us in making Yours fc . . , r ?JU#?X 4I.A1Jur iJl ed to one year from date of sale. 11 1000 Mile Interchangeable Indi dual Ticket $'20.00.?Good over in the Southeast aggregating 30,1 >f miles. Limited to one year from d of sule. ,1 2000 Mile Firm Ticket $40.00 Good over the Atlantic Coast L and 30 other lines in the Southe e aggregating 30,000 miles; for a m agcr or head of firm and employes 11 | lines in the Southeast aggregating 4 j mited to five, but good for only c t of such persons at a time. Limited Atlantic Coast Line and 30 other lii one year from date of sale. 1000 Mile Southern Inte'rchangca Individual Ticket $25.00.?Good oi the Atlantic Coast Line and 75 otl 000 miles. Limited to one year fr< I data ->f sale. j All mileage tickets sold on and ! tor April 1st, 100S, will not be horn '1 | > . eu lor passage on trains, nor I checking baggage (except from nc agency stations and stations i open for llie sal oof tickets) but mi be presented at ticket oflices and the exchanged for continuous tickets. 1 15 cents saved in passage fare . purchasing local ticket from o i agents. Atlantic Coast Line. T. C. White, General Passenger Agent. - W. J. 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