The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, May 19, 1908, Page THREE, Image 3
TRtfjOK FARMING.
Growth of Industry in South?"What
.One County in South Carolina
is Doing.
Discussing
the Southern truck
growing industry as a factor in the
standardization of the nation's diet,
the Manufacturers' Record said last
week:
"Nineteen solid carloads of strawberries
passed through Rocky Mount,
N. C., one day last week on their way
to the Northern markets, seven of
them bound to New York, six to Philadelphia,
four to Boston, and one each
to Pittsburg and Syracuse. Atlanta
commission men calculate tliat, barring
accidents, Georgia will ship this
year at least 6,000 carloads of peaches
valued at $2,000,000, a rceorrt-rtreafcing
crop. Mr. J. M. Mallory, the industrial
agent of the Central of
Georgia Railroad, has recently made
public figures showing that in Georgia
there are now 0,498,15/) bearing peach
trees, 87(5,085 peach trees that will
come It) bearing this season, 00,345
bearing plum trees, 38,109 bearing
pear trees, .1,000 bearing fig trees, 2,000
bearing cherry trees, 3,015 bearing
pomegranate trees, 5)00 bearing
Japan plum trees, 4,002 acres planted
in watermelons, 4,122 acres in
cantaloupes and 521 ?u?res in potatoes
and other vegetables. From the coast
country of Texas tbere is now a
heavy movement of truck, one road
handling 01 carloads in two days last
week. The watermelon movement
from Texas is about beginning, and
from the territory south of San Antonio
it is expected that at least 1,-1
000 carloads of melons will move!
within the next two or three weeks.
"These facts are indications of the
steady expansion of the area in the
South that is rapidly becoming the
great market for the country and
from which thousands of cars are
annually carrying to Northern and
"Western market fruits and vegetables
approaching in value $100,000,000.
The trucking industry originated
in the Norfolk section of Virginia
about half a century ago has within
the past 20 or 25 years, and especially
during the past ten years, extended
down the coast to the Mexican
border, and is firmly planted in the
highlands of Arkansas, Tennessee
and Virginia. The procession of early
fruits and vegetables northward and
eastward now begins to swell its annual
volume from Texas and Florida
in January or February, and the
strawberries, watermelons, cantaloupes,
peaches, apples, cabbage, kale,
sprouts, tomatoes, yams and other
fruits and vegetables not only arc
striking evidences of the tendency to
diversification in Southern agriculture
but are potent contributors to the
standardization of the national
menu.
"The growth of tire industry has
bad almost dramatic ramifications. In
a comparatively small area near Wiimlnton,
X. C\. for instance, land that
10 years ago was worth hardly $5
an acre is now held at $250 an acre.
From it re shipped annually from
300,00 to 500,000 crates of berries the
net profits from 5,283 'acres in strawberries
in 1007 having amounted to
$353,873. Other net profits were: Lettuce.
one and one-half acres, $812.40:
radishes, one-lvalf acre, $54.05;
onions, two-fifths acre, $.">S.05; cauliflower.
one-ninth acre, $57.-10: beet*,
onehalf acre, $08.00; Turnips, onequarter
acre, $35.00; cabbage, one and
.one-half acres, $123.58; beans, one
S^jracre, $257.27; cucumbers, two-fifths
acre, $11-1.57: egg-plants, one-half
3 acre, $302.17: tomatoes, seven-eighths
acre, $80.37; peppers, one-eighth acre,
^ $10.80.
. "One county in South Carolina
wBf near Charleston yields each season $1,y
500,000 in cabbages or young cabR
lb age plants; $850,000 in Irish pota
toes; $500,000 in cucumbers; $200,000
9 in greens; $135,000 in strawberries;;
r $100,000 in asparagus; $50,000 in
green peas; $10,000 in sweet potatoes,
and $.'100,000 in beets, t lettuce, radishes,
etc. From the Chattanooga,
CTenn.) section increasing shipments
of strawberries are made annually;
Florida's fruits and early vegetables
are steadily increasing their variety
and volume; Mississippi and Louisiana
are becoming greater and greater
factors in the industry, with the
perfecting of rapid transit to the
Northern markets, and (he Texas
coast country produces such things
as 80 crates of carrots to the acre,
netting $250 an acre; between 400
and 500 crates of onions to the acre,
netting $250 an acre; 21 carloads of
watermelons from 05 acrrs. and cotton
grown on land after the truck
had been harvested.
"!n the Seaboard States tire trucking
industry has demonstrated on a
comparatively small scale the. value,
of drajTiaj-'C in bringing wH . < !- to
production, it has been furthered in
4,;0*Texas by irrigation. Only a beginning
has been made in tho utili/.alion
of such auxiliaries to farming in t'.ie
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ooutu, but whut can be done in
trucking and what can be done for
trucking by such methods arc the
strongest kind's of argument for the
reclamation of millions of acres of
waste lands in the South."
OUR SUFFRAGE LAW.
Case of Pink Franklin, of Orangeburg,
to Go to U. S. Supremo
Court.
Columbia, May 14.?South Carolina's
suffrage laws will be passed
upon finally by the United States supremo
court at the hearing upon a writ
of error in (he Pink Franklin case,
the records and papers in which were j
today certified to the country's highest
tribunal by Clerk U. K. Brooks, of J
the State supreme court, upon the request
of Jacob Moorer, of Orangeburg,
and .John Adams, of Columbia,
attorneys for Franklin.
One of the points in which the
courts oP this State are alleged to
have erred is in holding that the suftrage
clause of the constitution of
ISO.") does not conflict with the act of
congress of June IStiS, (lf>th statutes
as la rue, page 7.'U This Act readmitted
South Carolina to the Union
on condition that the new constitution
that might be adopted should
not have its sufirage clauses so changed
as that he who was qualified to j
vote under the constitution of 18(iS
should be denied (he right to vote.
LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY.
Source of Prosperity That is Neglected
in South Carolina.
At the Fanners' Union held in
Sumter. Mr. B. Harris, president of!
the Stale Farmers' Cnion delivered
the following interesting address on
the livestock industry:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Oentiemen:
It affords me t.he greatest of
pleasure, to meet with the representative
farmers of South Carolina, and
especially of Sumter county. I have
been assigned to talk lo you about
the livestock industry in our stale
and its needs. 1 find that the average
fanner in South Caioiina needs education
along ilie line of breeding, developing
and handling livestock, more
than in any other branch of agriculture.
And" I wish to say right here,
that a state cannot prosper, if it does
not make livestock o,ro of the leading
features of agriculture.
1 he first question f.Tiat arises in
the minds of our South Carolina
farmers, is whether or not the South
is adapted to the breeding and raising
of livestock. I hope that we will be
able to prove to yc, that the fault
it not with the conditions existing in
South Carolina, but that the fault
lies with the farmers themselves. If
you were to ask me what county was
the best adapted to slock raising in
this State. I would answer you Sumter
county. Then if were to ask
what kind of livestock would be the
most, profitable to raise in South
Carolina, I would answer dairy catlie,
horses, shciip. h-gs, and poultrv.
II you ask me why I say Sumter
county could foster stock raising with
such great profit. T would reply because
there is no section that offers
more natural advantages for the
breeding and raising of livestock. I
say this because you can raise such
a diversity of forage crops. Ten
months out of ihc twcltc* you can
have some kind of soiling crop to
feed to your cattle, horses, sheep and
hogs. I will not attempt to name the
kind of soiling crops for this within
itself would require too much lime.
(However, I will say thai the Bermuda
grass will do for the* South what
blue grass lias done for Kentucky. T
know of one place in particular where
one-quarter of an acre of Bermuda
grass, furnishes all the grazing that a
1,200 pound bull can eat for seven
months out of the year and it takes
an average of one acre of Kentucky
blue grass for a siecr. Bight here In
Sumter county, one acre of Bermuda
grass will furnish grazing for three
head. There is no country where feed
can be raised cheaper than in South
Carolina and where stock is freer from
disease. Healthy stock should bo expected.
for they can have outdoor
exercise every day of I he year, which
is very essential to the. health of
animals.
Now as to the necessity for raising
livestock in our southland. How are
we to reclaim our worn out soil? Can
we do it with commercial fertilizers?
The answer is no. We will have to do
it with livestock, f wish to make a
comparison of conditions along this
line as they e> ist in Town and in South
Carolina, In the state of Towa von
will find that this ratio exists?to
every inhabitant there afe one and
one-half milch cows and in South
Carolina lo every eleven inhabitants
there is only one milch cow. fn Iowa
there is one sheep to every inhabitant,
in South Carolina there is one to
every twenty-seven inhabitants. Con
tinning this oinpnrison, statistics
show:
Iowa has throe am] one-half hogs
| Jo each inhabitant, South Carolina
has one ho# to each inhabitant.
Iowa has one cow to every six and
one-half acres, South Carolina one
cow to every fifty-four and one half
acres*.
Iowa foaled 191,237 horses and
mules in 1900, South Carolina foaled
2,820 horses and mules in 1000.
Iowa value of farm products per
agricultural worker, $985, South Carolina
value of farm products per agricultural
worker, $174.
Iowa, horses and mules to every
to arricultural workers, seven,
South Carolina horses and mules to
every two agricultural workers, two.
Iowa value of dairy products, per
each agricultural worker, $74; South
< arolina value of dairy products, per
each agricultural woiTv'er, $.*{.
ttven the hens lay ten times as
many eggs in Iowa as ll.ey do in
South Carolina, not withstanding the
elimale in South Carolina, far surpasses
that of Iowa f.?r oiru- producing.
Xow why d'id I s.,v we must have
dairy cattle in South Carolina? Mo.
eause the quickest road j, dollar
s through the dairy cow. She pavs
her expanse account every I wentv four
hours and give* ycru a profit of
len per cent on her cost |\.r ihree
hundred and sixty-live days in (he
>ear, and besides she furnishes von
the most wholesome hood obtainable
for your table. She does not run on
a credit basis. It is all cash with her
iU,(l "" fulures in it. Soulli Carolina
buys annually $2,000,000 in dairv
products and there is no Slat,, in the
union I han can piv.ouce these products
cheaper than we can here in
'Soul)i Carolina.
Now let us see where our money
is -oil,.- every year. We send from
borne $13,100,000 annually for bacon.
Any good* fanner in our State can
raise bacon for three ceuls per
pound.
We send out of (he state for horses
and mules annually $1 I,.*{.">0,000, and
there is no country where you can
raise a horse or unit" an\- cheaper
than you can in South Carolina. T
fan raise a better one here for $100
j than our farmers are paying $2.~>0
for out of the State. 7 can raise all
o| tiie feed on one acre that a colt
will require until he is three years
old and at the end of that time will
have $50 in cash to the credit of the
land. Apply the manure the colt has
made in three years to the same acre
and you will increase the production
of that acre twenty per cent. Xow
why should we impoverish our country
by sending west for horses and" mules
and bacon.
'South Carolina spends annually
$20,000,000 for (loin .-.ml .f0.ooo.ooo
for corn. IIow are we to reclaim our
worn out lands. The answer is- -diversification
of crops and livestock rais[
ing. I have seen from the car window,
since I left, my home, comiuu* two
hundred miles, enough waMe land, if
il was used for sheep raising, to ?row
nioiv mutton than is now consumed
in South Carolina. As this "land stands
today, the taxes arc* a burden to the
owner, but if properly husbanded
with sheep raising, it would in ten
years be the most fertile land on tn,?
'arm. I can see some cause for a
machine or man to wear out. but
more men rust out than wear on!.
I lie re is no excuse for an acre oi
land lo wear out; il should be twenty
times more productive after beimr in
cultivation one hundred" years, I ban
il was the first two years. How is
this lo be done? Raise more live slok
nnd better live stockIt
requires intelligent effort to
breed and handle livestock. Xow it.
is not that we lack Hie brains, and
it is a bo a slander to say that we
have not the energy and application
necessary. We can grow cotton and
do the other things ron want to do,
nncT right successfully too?but you
have never wanted to grow live stock.
What has been the result of efforts
to grow live stock in Ibis and other
southern states in the .past? Xinetyninc!
out of ever honored men who
have engaged in il have made failuies.
Why? Heeause they were men
with money, but without knowledge
or experience in the Business and
they turned the work over to men
who knew but little more and usually
cared less. Any negro can raise cotton,
but wncn it comes to diversified
faiming, he is not in it. How are we
lo keep our boys on fhe farm? We
will have to educate them above a
cofton held and a mule. How can we
do this? My teaching them that by
diversified agricullui? and slock raising
they can make money on the farm
and can cope with men in any other
profession.
It isn't necessary to mention your
lawyer in your will; he's sure to get
his share.
NOTICE. a"
All persons holding demands
against the estate of "William C.
Tyrce, deceased, are hereby notified
to render an account of thir demands,
duly attested, to Mr. Joseph E. Norwood,
at the Newberry Savings Bank,
Newberry, S. C., on 01* before the 15th
day of June, 1908.
John P. Tyree,
Administrator &c., of William C. Tyree,
deceased.
5-15-11 a w-3t.
NOTICE.
All executors, administrators and
other fiduciaries of any estate i*emaining
in their care or custory are
urgently requested to make their annual
return 011 such estate, of the recepits
and expenditures the preceding
calendar year, as required by law, before
the first day of July of 'each
year.
Frank M. Schumpert,
May 31, 1908. J. I>. N. C.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT,
I will make final settlement on (ho | B
estate of Y. 0. Meyers, deceased, in
the probate court for Newberry connly.
on Monday. May 18. 1908, at 11
la. in., and immediately thereafter apj
ply for letters disniissary as executor
of said 'estate. All persons hold|
ing claims against said estate will
j present them duly attested on or be[
fore that date and all persons indebted
to said estate will make payment.
S. M. Meyers, Cj
Ex. K. C. Movers, deceased.
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Some say "No."
The resil question is, "What is
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those scaly 'eruptions, those diseases
which make (heir first appearance, not
at birth, but years afterward, and
perhaps not until middle age?then
there can no longer he any question
that these forms of Kejcema are curable.
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