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rr FARMER'S SA IN PEA South Carolina Produced Ov? With Culture on IncreaseVirginia Institution, R< Registered Hogs The way of salvation for the South | Carolina farmer during the era of the : boll weevil lies in the substitution of some other crop for cotton, says B. Harris, state commissioner of agri culture, commerce and industries, in his annual report of the department's work. Chief among the crops recommended by Mr. Harris is peanuts which, Commissioner Harris thinks, will satisfactorily replace cotton seed in manufacture of oil. The South | Carolina mills, it is estimated, will | need 500,000 tons to maintain full | time operation. Live stock raising | and varied grain culture are also recommended as anti boll weevil measures. South Carolina, the commissioner says, can produce any crop of temperate climate and has already made remarkable records in corn pro- j duct ion. Commissioner Harris's report fol- j lows in full: It is estimated that South Carolina this year produced 698,000 bushels of peanuts. That is quite an increase! over former years and will still be j further increased in 1920. The cot-' ton seed oil mills, realizing that the crush of next season will be greatly reduced on account of the boll weevil cutting down the crop, see the necessity of having a substitute for cotton seed.' Three years ago the oil mills advocated very widely the planting of soy beans. This department warmly indorsed the idea. It is stated that the planting of soy beans was greatly interfered with because of the lack of proper harvesting machinery. The department deplores that fact, for there is no doubt but that the soy bean would be better for the farmer. For while it might not produce as much oil, and therefore would not immediately become as desirable a cash getter, yet the soy bean puts back into the- soil, while the peanut constantly takes the soil and must be fallowed with commercial fertilizer. It is obvious, therefore, that it is easier to get oil mills and fertilizer makers to interest themselves in peanuts. The soy bean is not only a remarkable soil enricher, hut it is a great forage crop. Added Million Bushels. The South added a million bushels to the peanut crop in 1919. Alabama leads as a producer, but her crop is reported to show a decrease of 1,700,000 bushels this year. But the states west of the Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, show great increase. Texas alone has an increase of 5,000,000 bushels. The estimated production by states is as follows: Virginia, 4,795,000 bushels; North Carolina, 5,493,000; South Carolina, 629,000; Georgia, 9,S79.000: Florida. 5.336.000: Tennes see, 400,000; Alabama, 14,708,000; Mississippi, 117,000; Louisiana, 81,000; Texas, 18,478,000; Oklahoma, - 556,000; Arkansas, 936,000. The commissioner while in Texas attending the national good roads convention, gathered quite a lot of information about peanuts which he intended to give to the people of the State, in the way of talks at county fairs and such gatherings, but he was prevented from doing so by the severe and prolonged illness, which practically incapacitated him for more than two months. The oil mills in South Carolina need 500,000 tons of them to keep running all the year and are willing to pay good prices for them at all times. The average price during the last three years for farmers' stock was over $100 per ton, and today they are worth $200. The commissioner observes that the farmers of the State must organize foV self protection in marketing peanuts just as they would have to do.in marketing cotton, tobacco or cotton seed. While, no doubt, there is great and universal interest in the welfare of the farmer, vet it Is the nature of any individual or enterprise, no matter how altruistic, to look out for his own interests when , the farmer is being given a little friendly turn. Peanut meal has proved to be a satisfactory and profitable food for | finishing beef cattle. The North j Carolina experiment station at Edge- ] combe determined this in 1917. Since j peanuts can be grown as easily in j South Carolina, the value of peanut \ meal, the by produdt, is very evident.! A North Carolina farmer fed 25 cat,- ; tie, made a profit of $71.26 in 120. days and gathered 75 tons of ma- j nure. Peanut meal is recommended j as a complement to corn silage in fin- j ishing beef cattle. None Out of State. Not a single pound of cotton seed j $ LVATION NUT RAISING :r 600,000 Bushels of Peanuts -Peanut Bank, Similar to ;commended by Harris, in Weevil Fight. or peanut meal will be shipped out of any of our Southern states in which it is produced when our farmers realize its worth for feeding animals and plants. Yet at present only a fraction of the supply is used here. By far the larger portion of it goes to the North and West as cotton seed meal, or across the ocean in the form of cotton seed meal and cake. If those feeders chn afford to pay the high prices, which include the extra freight, handling and commissions, how much more can our Southern farmers afford to use it? Live stock and dairy should consume here all our cotton byproducts and make enough manure to restore our lands to full yields. This way leads to prosperity. Those who are considering the peanut as a substitute in part for cotton may he interested to know that already the 3,000,000 acreage given to peanuts is nearly one-tenth of that given to cotton. The return from the peanuts alone is $60,000,000 and this leaves the hay crop as surplus. Thus it will be seen that peanut growing in the South is no new industry. In fact, it got its real start in the territory around Suffolk, Va. The most remarkable banking institution in the United States is located at Suffolk. It is known as the Peanut bank. It was started with a capital of $20,000, which has never been increased. But the reports show that it has a surplus of $500,000 and undivided profits of $200,000. It is rare for the bank to declare less than 100 per cent, dividend. The owners and managers of this bank soon after the Confederate war encouraged the farmers in that section to plant peanuts. As a result the people have become wealthy and the bank is a marvel. There is a field and an opportunity in South Caro- . lina. The boys' corn and pig clubs in this state are flourishing under the earnest direction of the state manager, L. L. Baker, of Bishopville. This is another forward work started by th?= state department in 1912. The commissioner learns- that this branch of service has grown to such proportions . that Mr. Baker may be given a full time assistant next year. Nothing, no one thing, has done the state more good that starting the boys to compete in corn growing and live stock raising. Mr. Baker has proved to be the ideal man for the place. What I say of the boys' clubs I intend, of course, for the girls' domestic science clubs, only much more so. I believe we will have better cooks ih the next generation, and without good cooks there is no use to preach "Back to the Farm." Berkeley County to Front. It is a matter of almost daily chronicle to observe in the newspapers where some enterprising South Carolina farmer has shipped a car load of hogs to Richmond and other markets. The Boykin farms near Camden have been notably successful this year. But it is unusual to consider that Berkeley county is coming to the front as an exporter of hogs. Some years ago this rich section of the State was regarded as the Valhalla of the mule foot hog and the razorback. The great swamp of the county contains hundreds, perhaps thousands of 1 hogs, in a more or less wild state. But some of the most progressive farmers of the State are pushing Berkeley to the front. John W. Hart on December 20 received $2,800 for a car load of hogs of his own raising, shipped to Richmond from his farm at Holly Hill. J. Fred Shuler has a Poland-China, two years old, weighing 800 pounds, for which he refused $2,500 at the State fair. People thought that a big sum to refuse, until he announced that he sold $2,000 worth of his offsprings while at the State and Orangeburg fairs. The South has had and has proclaimed her monopoly of cotton, but the entire South can produce any crop, except citrate fruits, that any other temperate country can grow, and he finds that oranges are grown in a Southern state. In corn the South has made remarkable development. In 1900 the average yield per acre of corn in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina was less than ten bushels to the acre planted. In 1918 i the American acreage in corn production was 20.4 bushels per acre while the Southern states beat that average, and the average for the South was around 20 bushels. South Carolina's average was 1 9 bushels. The farmers in South Carolina have not been accustomed to giving their best lands to corn, and the average in this r State is lower than it could be made. The commissioner has never believed that the agriculture of a state is truly illustrated by enormous yield- in contests, but this State lias taken prizes with such a regularity that we must believe that there is something in the prize winnings. Jerry .Moore's feat of 228.75 bushels of corn per acre was the cause of the greatest amount of favorable publicity that the State ever received. When his record was lowered two years later, not much attention was given to the later fact?for a South Caro1 ? ?? i-- i?i.i- ~ ?? una ooy naa oruheii me humus iccord. There is one world's record that nas never been lowered, and that is the production of Capt. Z. J. Drake, of Marlboro, of 258 3-4 bushels of corn on one acre. Best material and workmanship, light running, requires little power; simple, eaay to handle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial money-making machines down to the smallest size. Write for catolog showing Engines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. 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