The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, April 26, 1932, Image 3
1932 AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM
FOR KERSHAW COUNTY FARMERS
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Henry D. Green, County Agent Stresses the Necessity
for Intelligent Planning of Farm Operation.
Newspaper. An Aid to Farmers.
Legumes and Livestock Ate Our
f Friends
OUR A I'M is for every Kershaw
County farm to be self-susitaining as
far as is practical; that the county
not 6nly be . self -sustaining but also
a surplus producing rather than a de
ficiency county; that by intelligent
and basic methods of farming our
people shall ahake off the shackles of
economic slavery and bondage and
become free and happy again.
The present acute agricultural de
pression emphasizes the necessity as
never before that every farm, wheth
er it be operated by tenant, resident
landlord i ' absentee landlord, be
operated v. : far less outlay in cash
for provisions for both man beast.
Farm operations in 1932 must have
closer supervision, be more thought
fully planned, and every possible
risk of failure eliminated.
Duq- to the fact that there is a
serious depression in prices every
few years, a one-crop system is haz
ardous to the extreme ? eispecially s? J
under present ? conditions. We can
entertain small hope of improving
our general conditions under the pre
vailing - farm system. In every
county we find individuals, although
all too "lew, who, by practicing a more
balanced system of farming have
weathered thes<e depressions without
much undue economic concern. (Don't
for git Legumes and Livestock.)
The pei-plexirn^i problems of the
moment are of such critical nature
that some .unified program of pro
cedure in 1932 and the future is im
perative. The program herewith pro
posed chas been arrived at only af
ter the moat mature thought and
judgment and has proven sound
wherever it has been consistently
employed either by communities or
individuals. It is not new. It is es
sentially the same program that has
been practiced by some of us for
years which, had it been followed by
all of our people, would have fore
stalled the acutenes? of the distress
ful and agricultural conditions we
new find ^ourselves in. It is a pro
pram just as fundamental in its ap
plication to the present emergency as
it. is a program which can bo and
must be the basis of our future de
velopment. The extent to which it
will bring immediate reJief will de
pend solely upon the extent of its im
mediate and* universal application.
(Legumes & Livestock.)
It is realized that there is no one
best program suitable' to every farm
in Kiersfoaw County and in order to
arrive at one beat suited to both farm
and farmer there must necessarily
follow a thoughtful planning for in
dividual conditions. In general, how
ever, a sound and safe program will
in votive the following factors:
THE PROGRAM
1. Farm /Must be flelf-Sustaining.
This applies not alone to the land
lord. Every farm family engaged in
INDIGESTION
"My work is confining,
and often I eat hurriedly,
causing me to have indi
gestion. Gas will form
and I will smother and
have pains in my chest.
"I had to be careful
what I ate, but after
someone had ; recom
mended Black-Draught
and I found a small
pinch after meals was so
helpful, X soon was eat
ing anything 1 wanted.
"Now when X feel the
least smothering or un
comfortable bloating, X
take a pinch of Black
Draught and get relief/'
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Or?ttwUl?, B. O.
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agriculture muU be self-supporting
as to food and feed for man and beast
"whether it be landlord or tenant.
Landlords should frequently visit the
tenants' or share-croppers' premises
to see that these things are carried
out. (Legumes and Livestock)
(a) Summer and winter gardens.
(b) Sufficient number of dairy
cows, hogs and poultry, fed and man
aged to supply home needs.
(c) Home orchards' of sufficient
size and varieties to meet the demand
for fresh fruit, canning and preserv
ing.
(d) Miscellaneous crops such as
Irish potatoees, sweet potatoes, sor
ghum, peanuts, etc., sflould be plant
ed abundantly for home consumption.
(e) Sufficient acreage in "corn,
oats, wheat, barley, forage crops,
hays an^ permanent pastures for
needs of man and beasts.
(f) Sufficient forage crops such
as sorghum, velvet beam*, soy beans,
cow peas, oats and vetch should be
sown. Adequate temporary and per
manent pastures should be provided.
(Legumes and Livestock)
2. Cash income.
(a) Tlhe farm should .have more
than one cash income. This is abso
lutely necessary to minimize risk, to
better balance farm business and op
erations and to increase the farm in
come. In addition to cotton as the
main cash crop more of our farmers
phould market milk, butterfat, poul
try, poultry products, hogs, sheep and
in some instances beef cattle, and
poats, and where markets are avail
able, fresh vegetables and fruits, also
vegetables for the Club market.
(b) The development of some
specialty such as:
1.. Good country sausage.
2. Bacon.
3. Hams.
4. Quality butter.
5. Sale of plants, high quality
seed, honey, preserves, soup mixtures,
etc.
3. Economic Production.
(a) Cotton should not be planted
on land unless it will produce one
half bale or more per acre in normal
years.
(b) Labor should be efficiently
utilized by the use of two-<horse culti
vators and other improved farm ma
chinery.
(c) The efficiency of labor can be
greatly increased by the proper ter
.racing and_ arrangement of the fields.
(d) Judicious use of commercial
fertilizers and proper handling of
barnyard manure.
(e) The use of the best seed ob
tainable of varieties of proven merit.
j (f) For profitable livestock pro
duction the use of pure-bred sires of
! improved breeding and the culling of
unprofitable female?.
(g) Preservation of the farm wood
lot by fire prevention and intelligent '
cutting of timber. Reforestation of
marginal or unproductive farm lands.
Cooperate closely with the Kershaw
County Forestry Association and our
county forester.
4. Soil Building.
(a) A defioite soil-building pro
gram should be followed. Rotation
of crops, planting summer and winter
legumes, rye and Oither cover crops,
and the use of farm manures all play
a vital part in increasing yields, there
by reducing the coplt of production,
resulting in greater profits.
(b) All corn should b? intercrop
pod with soybeans, velvet beans or
cowpeas.
(c) The continuance of the coun
ty's hog program.
5. Dairying
Kershaw County has 2,397 milk
cows. In order to prorhieo enough to
give every person in the county 1
quart of milk per day we need 5,574
more cows. It is readily obvious that
we are greatly deficient in milk cov .
.Therefore, it is urned that landlords
and tenants cooperate in getting an
adequate number of dairy cows. Also,
It is planned to have one good, out
standing dairy-type bull in every
community to be used in developing
higher -producing dairy progeny.
Furthermore, we must cpnsideT the
gfeat value of tlTe manure, the ?kim
milk for use in grotwing chickens,
pig# and calves1 and the value of the
cows' increase, which will he a heifer
ofct of every two calve* on an aver
>: age. , ' y " " ? I
6. More Livestock.
i. - , We have followed a one-crop sys
- -tern of farming a 'lor# time. It has
?helped lead on Into a oondition of ec
onomic bondage. A4I plant# compete
I with each other for soil fertility,
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moisture and attention. To ?w,
nee
this one-sick d program we must use
more Liveoock. livestock not only bal
ances our activities from the point of
variety of possbilities for an increas
ed income but also builds up our soil
fertility and productivity, more even
ly distributes farm labor over the
year and reduces the necessity for
spending cash for commei'cial ferti
lizers.
7. Orderly Marketing.
(a) Orderly marketing of hogs,
sweet potatoes and poultry thru co
operative carlot shipments to markets
which offer continuous market for
unlimited quantities, after home need
and home markets have been sup
plied.
(b) Orderly marketing of other
special crops or products grown gen
erally in the county should be taken
care of by community or county-wide
cooperative effort.
(c) The element of "Quality Pro
duction" should be rigidly adhered to
in order that markets may be more
easily gotten and held.
8. Study.
(a) Greater and broader study of
our agricultural problems especially
the future demand and price outlook
for the pixulucts we produce.
(b) Close cooperation with Clem
spn Extension Service aud Go. Agent.
(c) Securing?and studying more
Government Bulletins. Attend farm
meetings.
(d) Study so as to purchase, mix
and use commercial fertilizers most
efficiently.
9. 4-H.
(a) Greater development of the
county's 4-H- program.
(b) Close cooperation on the part
of parents.
(c) Help your children to become
better citizens through 4-H Club
work," wherein they leero self-reli
ance, ownership, cooperation, thrift
and how to think. What is the reason
your child is> not in a 4-H Clab, if of
proper age?
10. ? Forestry.
Timber, cross ties, etc. gave us our
{ first source of cash income; Much of
our land is unprofitable wheni put in
ordinary crop production and should
either be reforested or allowed to
reforest by natural process.
Fire is the worst enemy to fores
try and every citizen should do his
utmost to keep down forest fires.
| Forest fires not only kill young trees
but retard the growth of older trees,
kill game and birds and destroy lit- 1
ter which holds moisture for tree
growth, decays to fums-h humus and
plant food and is so necessary and
valuable in connection with livestock
production as regards the making
and saving and use of high quality
stable and lot manure which is now
very essential since we do not have
money with which to piirchase com
mercial fertilizers as formerly. -
11. ? Head Newspapers.
We cannot afford to take long
chanceis. We nm^t be up to date in
all of our operations. The three coun
ty papers have always cooperated to
the fullest in lending their columns
to carrying agricultural information
to our farm people. These newspa
pers desire to continue to so coop
erate. Your county agent iplans to
furnish the papers with timely farm
information and it is earnestly re
quested that our farm people lend
their continued and added cooperation
by reading the county papers each
week and encouraging their children
to read them and encourage their
non-subscribing neighbors to sub
scribe.
Also it should be remembered that
nctices of farm meetings, oi poulry
shipments and other items of "inter
est to farmers will be published in
these newspapers. v
Each farm family should also sub
scribe to at least one farm magazine
or journal.
12. ? Foresight and Courage.
Although we must honestly admit
th'at condition? are critical and rnlist
be mot with deliberate and immediate
planning, this is not the time to lose
heaxit, to assume a pessimistic atti
tude nor to become depressed in
thought and action. Rather does the
situation call for the greatest opti
mism for the future. Out of condi
tions just as these are will grow a
more sane and less hazardous agri
culure which should reflect itself in
the most substantial, permanently
independent and satisfying rival life
our country has ever known. This
is a time for deliberate planning,
close s>uper\ii?iion, conservative and
hard work.
[ 13. Sources of Authentic Informa
tion.
The following Government bulle
tines may be had by calling at the
I County Agent's office:
Vegetable Gardening.
The Farm Orchard. _
Sweet Potato Production.
Poultry Production.
Rat Control.
Hog Production.
Cream Production.
Better Pastures for South Carolina.
Pasture Top-dressing Wiih Fertii
iizer and Lime in the Hay and Pas
ture Belt.
Poultry Houses and Equipment.
The Fertilizer Problem in South
Carolina.
Home Mixing of Fertilize! s.
Soy Bean Forapie for Hogs.
Forests and Forestry in South
Carolina.
Feeding and Management of Dairy
Cattle.
Corn Production.
Bee Production.
And many others.
14. Ask your 4-H Club boy what
Legumes are and how they will help
you.
I FINAL DISCHARGE
I Notice is hereby given that one
j month from this date, on 16th day of
; May, 1932, at 11 o'clock A. M., I will
make to the Probate Court of Ker
shaw County my final return as Ad
ministratrix of the estate of A. M.
Christmas, deceased, and on the same
date I will apply to the said Court for
a final discharge as said Administra
trix.
Gussie Blackwell Christmas,
Administratrix of Estate of A. M.
Christ mas.
Camden, S. C.: April 1(5, 1932.
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