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FARMER'S SA
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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