The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 31, 1952, Image 6
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H. O. Long of the Sllverstreet community is
pictured with part of his herd of 350 short horn-
er Herefords. Year-round grazing is provided the
cattle from the cover and grain crops of the
farm. Only natural protection is afforded the cat
tle, and Mr. Long says that they seem to do bet
ter when left out all the year. (Photo courtesy
The Anderson Independent.)
. O. Long Gives Up Cotton
or Cover And Small Grains
By MRS. A. H. COUNTS
It took a long time—about 17
years for H. O. Long of near Sil-
verstreet, one of Newberry Coun
ty’s most successful farmers to
change over from the planting of
cotton and row crops on the steep
hillsides of his large farm to
cover and small grain crops.
Mr. Long, who observed his
75th birthday Aug. 28 is delighted
with the changeover which will be
completed when he gins his last
bale of cotton this fall.
This change in his method of
farming was suggested to Mr.
Long by T. B. Amis who was
supervising the building of ter
races and waterways on the Long
farm under the soil conservation
service along about 1935. Mr.
Amis’ suggestion was that cover
crops and grain would be more
adaptable over most of Mr. Long’s
farm in place of row cropping
since his land was of a rolling
nature. Cotton and other row
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crops on the steep hillside tended
to cause considerable erosion and
the washing away of the good
top soil, Mr. Amis pointed out.
Mr. Long was the first farmer in
Newberry County to have his farm
terraced.
Then began a series of soil-
type studies and of crop rotation
suitable to the farm by Mr. Amis,
who is one of the county’s tech
nicians of the soil conservation
service. Mr. Long followed along
on the suggestion and soon the
gullies began to fill and the soil
was held intact by the roots of
the clovers and other land build
ing crops. However, he continued
to plant a sizeable acreage of
cotton, but is now planning to dis
continue it this year.
Today Mr. Long has a perma
nent 12-month pasture program,
one in which the cattle receive
their entire feed from grazing lus
cious clovers and native grasses.
Mr. , Long sold a number of cat
tle during the year and still has
a herd of around 350 head of
short horned Herefords which he
intends wintering on rye, fescue,
corn and Biloxi beans. In fact he
is planning to turn them loose
on a 65-acre bottom land on the
! banks of the Saluda River which
is now covered with Ladino clover
from six inches to a foot or more
in height.
Mr. Long, who owns approxi
mately 1,500 acres with around
800 acres in cultivation, has prac
tically his entire farm fenced.
This open land is divided into a
dozen or more sections in which
the cattle are allowed to graze
on several different clovers and
grasses. In fact following the les-
pedeza, clover and other grasses
could easily at the present take
care of a great many more cat
tle than he now has. The ex
tended dry spell of the summer
has not been a drawback to the
grazing of his herd for they are
as fat as can be with no feed
being fed during the entire year,
except on rare occasions in the
winter when there is snow or
ice on the ground.
Mr. Long has been a raiser of
hogs for market for many years
but has now reduced the number
considerably and on the other hand\
has increased his cattle and grows
out about 200 per year. At pres
ent his 50 odd head of hogs are
busy grazing on a 60 acre field of
corn and Biloxi beans. When the
hogs finish with the corn and
beans the cows are ready to fol
low with the parts of the stalks
that are left.
For 75 years Mr. Long has lived
and farmed on the same farm. In
his younger days he remembers
when fine corn grew on his fath
er’s river bottom land. However,
when cotton became king in this
section, the river bottoms were ov
erlooked and trees of great size
grew up.
In furthering his year-around
grazing program Mr. Long decided
to clear 65 acres of river bottom
land and plant' it in Ladino clover
and fescue grass. The cost of re
moving the trees and preparing
the land amounted to around sev
en thousand dollars. The land is
smooth and there isn’t a stump or
root to be seen. In fact it is so
smooth that riding over the thick
growth of clover is comparable to
an excellent country road.
On this lush bottom land, Mr.
Long expects to pasture his cattle
at times this winter. The cows re?
main outside the entire year.
There are many trees in each sec
tion where the cows spend the
nights in the woods when winter
arrives. Mr. Long believes that
they do better on the outside the
entire year and therefore has no
sheds to shelter them regardless
of the weather. He states that they
seem to like the woods as it offers
them protection in all kinds of
weather.
Mr. Long has provided plenty of
drinking water for his animals and
through the soil conservation ser
vice has built five large ponds
over his land. The pools besides
furnishing water for the animals
are stocked with brim and trout.
Since the cattle and hogs graze
for themselves, what other means
of a livelihood has this progressive
farmer? He is a raiser of grain
crops and hay. In one huge barn
he has around 250 tons of hay,
consisting of alfalfa, lespedeza, oat
and straw with a large amount yet
to be harvested. He produced
around 4,000 bushels of oats; 1,-
500 bushels of wheat and 1,000 of
barley. Much of this is used for
seed for his farm and large quan
tities are placed on the market He
also harvested alfalfa, ladino, fes
cue, crttnson clover, rye and les
pedeza seed, which is one of nice
sources of income.
At one time Mr. Long was one.
of the largest cotton farmers of
this section and for many years
sold around 250 bales per year.
Turning to your correspondent,
Mr. Long said: “This is my last
year with cotton. I have told my
ginner when my truck leaves to
see that every seed is swept from
the truck as I do not want a seed
back on my farm. I consider cot
ton the most troublesome thing
you can fool with.”
Mr. Long told of the year 1920
when he produced 250 bales of
cotton and the next year when the
boll weevil struck he made only
20 odd bales. He said he told his
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JOHN C. WALKER
Candidate For
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CLERK OF COURT
of Newberry County
“I pledge honest, sincere, courteous service if elected
to this office.”
Attended The Citadel where he studied business ad
ministration and has been a successful business man in
Whitmire for the past 20 years.
Be sure to write in the name of John C. Walker when
you vote Nov. 4.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1952
tenant farmers, “Let’s not plant
any cotton the coming year. I’ll
go out and buy each of you ten
bales and we will hold the cotton
and sell it in the fall.” The cotton
was purchased for 17 cents and
sold for 25 cents giving them a
profit of eight cents per pound.
However, he said that the tenants
after seeing cotton pickers on
nearby farms said: “Boss, how
about us going back to cotton
next year,” to which Mr. Long
agreed.
Mr. Long uses five tractors,
three mowers, several combines,
other modern farm equipment and
still has two mules. These latter
he states, have done very little
work this year.
Due to the fine job of terracing
done by the Soil Conservation
service, Mr. Long is able to drive
his car over the entire cultivated
land. Since there are no roads he
drives anywhere over the farm
where he desires to go. With five
in the car he carried your corres
pondent and three others over
every section of his pasture, and
cultivated land, doing this with
hardly ever changing the gears.
When asked how Newberry
County compares with other coun
ties in the state as to soil conser
vation work Mr. Long stated that
he considers this county far ahead
of the other counties. The Long
farm is typical of what the soil
conservation is doing for many
farms throughout Newberry Coun
ty. Mr. Long is high in his praise
bf what the soil conservation serv
ice has helped him to accomplish
in the changeover from cotton
farming to the growing of cover
crops and grain enabling him with
his cattle and hogs to produce a
livelihood with less worry and
more cash. A sign leading up to
the Long farm reads: “Something
to Sell Everyday in the Year”
which Mr. Long says means every
day excepting Sunday.
Mr. Long was born in a two
room house on the farm where he
resides. His lovely two story brick
home with all modern conven
iences including a fine heating
system stands within a few feet
of his birthplace. The surround
ing rolling land which can be seen
for miles forms a picturesque
scene. Despite his age, Mr. Long
ik much younger in appearance
and quite active. As Mrs. Long
said to your reporter, “he is the
brains of this farm.” Another
thing that probably helps to keep
Mr. Long much younger than his
years is the fact that he is affiliat
ed with so many organizations and
does not have time to stop and
grow old.
He is a charter member of the
Newberry Farm Bureau, is a past
president of the organization and
a director of the State Farm Bu
reau which he helped organize.
He is a member of the Newberry
Rotary club, the Chamber of Com
merce, being chairman of its agri
culture committee; district super
visor of the soil conservation serv
ice; a member of the Newberry
County Board of Directors of the
REA; a directors of the South Car
olina Forestry Service and a mem-
Did
You
Say,
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GUESS WHO? .
the front pages this falL Give up?
She is Bliss America, Neva Jane
Langley, Lakeland, Fla^ si the
age of 18 months.
ber of the Sllverstreet Lutheran
Church where he has served on <
the church council, now being a
life member.
Mrs. Long shares with Mr. Long
an interest in outside activities.
She has been a member of the
county council of Farm Women
for a number of years, the United
Daughters of the Confederacy and
is also a member of the Silver-
street Lutheran church where she
has been active in church work.
She maintains' a keen interest in
the farm operations and is well
read on the progress being made
along agricultural lines.
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The Last Republican President’s Administration Gave Us:
5c Cotton, 12c Tobacco, $ 1 - A-Da
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Wages, Busted Banks and Starvation!
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Remember The Facts — Be Sure to Vote November 4th
America is a bifp country. At the beginning of 1952
there were 156,000,000 of us-—with 7,000 newcomers
daily.
Feeding that many mouths is a big job—a job that
rests squarely on our nation’s farmers.
We can’t have a healthy people or a healthy eco
nomy, unless our farmers prosper. Today they are
prospering and we all benefit by it.
But it didn’t just happen. It wasn’t always this way.
1932: Povetry And Chaos
In 1932 kh« average farmer earned 80 eente a day. .The price
of wheat was tha lewaat In 300 years. .Com fall to leas than
15 cents, cotton and wool to 5 cents, sugar to 3 cents and beef
to 2y a eente.
It wae cheaper to burn corn for fuel in the Midweek than to
try to sell It and buy coal.
The Demooratto Party tackled the problem head-in.
The Road Tb Prosperity
Here’s how the Party strengthened America by building up
Its farm economy.
1. Encouraged farmers to raise adequate supplies. Insured
them against price drops that could wipe them out, destroy
their productivity. Today basic farm products are supported
at 90% of parity.
2. Established crop insurance.
. 3. Established soil conservation oorvlce. Today four out of
five of the nation’s farms arc included in the program. Almost
78 million acres of farm and paatura land have been restored,
protected and improved under Democratic admlniatration pro
grams.
4. Helped farmers to own their own farms. For 50 years
the trend had bean tha other way—toward tenant farming.
More than 2,000,000 farmers have been encouraged to own their
farms by loan help from the Farmers Homs Administration.
5. Brought electricity to the farm. In 1932 only one farm
out of ten had electric power. Today only one out of ton does
not have it. The Rural Electrification Administration did the
job.
6. Extended farm credit at moderate interest rates so
that farmers could improve and expand their production.
7. Expanded Federal agricultural research.
A Great Day For America
The results have bean:
Our farm output has increased 60% since 1932. In 1920
there were only 920,000 tractors on American farms. Today
there are 4,100,000. Today there are Zy 2 times at many trucks,
10 times as many mechanical cornpickera and 13 times as many
grain combines on America’s farms as there were in 1930.
Net income for the average farmer stood at nearly $2,800
in 1951—almost ten times What It was in 1932. Allowing for the
rise in prices farmers pay, the average farmer’s Income is four
times what it was in 1932 and double What it was in 1929—the
peak year of Republican prosperity.
Farm prosperity has been matched by the rest of our
economy. People have jobs. Business is prospering. There is
money to buy what our farms produce. Increased farm income
has sent millions of rural Americana into the market-place to
buy what our cities product.
We’re eating more and eating better. Though we have
grown by 30 million people eineo 1932 our per capita consump
tion of all foods la 13% higher than the 1936-39 average!
Republicans Against The Farmer
Where did the Republican Party fit into this march of pro
gress? Here is what It did:
1. Reduced the number of commodities on which definite
price supports was assured. (80th Congress).
2. Reduoed parity for several important commodities. (80th
Congress).
3. Reduced price floors by putting in sliding scale of 60 to
90 per cent of parity. (80th Congress).
4. Prevented the Commodity Credit Corporation from ac
quiring now storage facilities to enable farmers to get price
support loans. (80th Congress).
5. Voted against an improved Boll Conservation Act in
1936. Voted to welch on conservation payments in 1943. The
80th Congress voted to abolish soil conservation in 1946. The
80th Congress voted to cut the program in half. ^
6. Voted to kill tha farm ownership loan program in 1947.
7. Voted to out off one-third of the staff of the Rural Electri
fication Administration in 1947.
8. Voted to cut the budget of the Research and Marketing
Administration by one half.
Whether you’re a farmer, worker, businessman or profession
al man—no matter how or whore you earn your living, you’re
better off today because farmers ara prospering.
Which party had tha foresight and courage to do the Job?
You can aae for yourself.
Vote This
Pemocratic
Ticket
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JOHN J. SPARKMAN
The S. C. Democratic Con
vention Endorsed the Steven
son - Sparkman Ticket and
Pledged These Electors to it:
Neville Bennett
Wilton E. Hall
R. B. Hallman
Edward K. Pritchard
EL P. Riley
Collins A. Spivey,
Margaret Suber
Felix Wheeler
What Did The Republicans Do
About Soil Conservation?
They voted against it. (The record: 79% of Senate
Republicans voted to cut soil conservation funds by
nearly one half in 1952).
What Did The Republicans Do
To Keep Prices Down?
They voted against inflation controls. (The record: 59% of
House Republicans and 61% of Senate Republicana voted
against extending rent, price and credit controls in the 1952 De
fense Production Act. 79% of House Republicans voted to end
ail price controls in 1952).
What Did The Republicans Do
About Better Housing?
They voted against low Income housing, middle income hous
ing, farm housing. (The record: 85% of House Republicans
voted to stop aid to low-rent housing in 1949. 83% of Senate Re
publicans and 91% of House Republicana voted against more
middle income housing through long term loans to housing
cooperatives in 1950. 76% of Senate Republicans voted against
aid to farm housing in 1948).
What Did The Republicans Do
About Social Security?
They voted against expansion of Social Security. (The
record: 80% of House Republicana voted to deny Social Se
curity to more than a half million people, to eliminate insurance
to the disabled and to prevent increased benefits for each year
of contribution).
What Did The Republicans Do
About Flood Control?
They voted against it. (The record: 64% of Senate Repub
licans voted to cut flood control funds in half in 1951).
What Did The Republicans Do
To Keep America’s Farms Prosperous?
They voted against a strong farm price support program.
(The record: 56% of House Republicana voted this year against
continuing price supports at 90% of parity through 1955).
What Did The Republicans Do
To Help Small Businessmen?
They voted against loans to small business.^(The record: 35
of 40 voting Republicans in the Senate voted on April 22, 1952,
to abolish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Since 1947
this agency has made 19,580 loans to small businessmen. Its
record of repayment la 99%).
What Did The Republicans Do
To Stop Big Business Monopoly?
They voted against controlling monopolistic mergers. (The
record: 59% of Senate Republicana voted against the anti-
merger bill in 1950. This bill plugged up a serious loophole in
anti-trust laws, prevented large corporations from making mo
nopolistic mergers by purchasing assets rather than stock of
corporation).
What Did .The Republicans Do
To Stop Communist Expansion?
They voted against any help to our aflies in 1951. (The rec
ord: 54% of House Republicana in 1951 voted to block any help
—military, economic or technical—to enable our allies and
friends to strengthen themselves against the threat of Com
munism).
What Did The Republicans Do
To Strengthen South Korea?
They voted against military help to Korea in 1949. (The rec
ord: 65% of House Republicans voted against sending arms to
Korea in 1949).
What Did The Republicans Do
To Make America Strong And Safe?
They voted to cut defense. (The record 94% of
House Republicans voted to limit defense expenditures
in 1953 to $46 billion, to reduce our number of new
medium tanks from 3,400 to 300, to slow Air Force
and Navy readiness by two years).
Time after time Republicana In the Senate and in the House
of Representatives have voted against measures to strengthen
America—to bring prosperity, peace and security to our people.
They voted against low-coat power, against expansion of
farm telephone service, against reciprocal trade and expansion
of our world markets.
No wonder they’re busy attacking the Democrats. Their own
record can’t stand a good, honeat examination by the American
people.
Now you’ve had a look at it. Next time you hear a Repub
lican speaker criticizing tha Democrats Just ask him—“What
has your party done? What have you got to offer?’’
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