The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 15, 1967, Image 7
The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, June 15, 1967—PAGE 7
PROPERTY
TRANSFERS
Newberry No. 1
James 0. Cook to J. Ray
Holliday and Mildred K. Holli
day, one lot and one building,
916 Glenn St., $5.
Perry Bennie Harmon and
Mozelle Ruby Harmon to Hal
Kohn Sr., one lot and one
building on Drayton St., $5.
Bloomer Frank Hawkins to
George R. Owens, one lot and
one building, 2019 Nance St.,
$5.00.
B. J. Jackson to Clifton H.
Hattaway, one lot and one
building, 310 Werts St., $5.
Albert J. McCaughrrin to
Eugene C. Griffith, one lot
Digby St., $5.
Newberry No. 1 Outside
E. B. Purcell, Thomas H.
Pope and Pinckney N. Abrams
as executors of the estate of
J. Dave Caldwell, to J. Ed.
Young, one lot $850.
Thomas HL Pope and Pinck
ney N. Abrams, executors of
the estate of J. Dave Caldwell,
to B. M. Davis, one lot on Pris
cilla St., $1000.
Richard Coleman to Nath
aniel Pitts Jr., 1.79 acres $5.
Richland Enterprises, Inc. to
Thurston Motor Lines, Inc. two
lots and one building, $5 and
assumption of a mortgage.
Silverstreet No. 2
Effie B. Hendrix to James
Winston Hendrix, five acres
and six buildings, $5 love and
affection.
Whitmire No. 4 Outside
Lunette Boyd and Azilee
Reed, one lot $10.
Prosperity No. 7
S. C. Electric & Gas Co. to
Thelma Rawl, .99 acre $1.
A. S. Shealy to Gene K.
Shealy, 2.02 acres, $5 love and
affection.
James Lindsay to James H.
Lindsay, one lot $1 love and
affection.
W. M. Harris to Suburbia
Water System, Inc., two lots,
$5.00.
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Newberry, S. C.
Dial 276-5660
Ralph B. Baker Pinckney N. Abrams
Louis C. Floyd Thomas H. Pope
R. Aubrey Harley
County Agent
reviews local
dairy far
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Income from Dairying con
tinues to lead the parade of
products of Agriculture for
which Newberry County is
noted.
Last year Newberry County
Dairy farmers sold 38,1-2
million pounds of milk or
approximately 4, 1-2 million
gallons. This amount to a daily
production of two quarts of
milk for every man, woman and
child living in Newberry Coun
ty. For this volume of milk pro
duced last year, Newberry
farmers received $2,346,000.
Newberry County now ranks
first in South Carolina in
commerical egg production and
second in total milk produced.
In recent years, income from
eggs has climbed past the two
million dollar mark and now
stands almost equal to Dairy
ing as a big income for our
County’s farmers; Few counties
in Piedmont South Carolina
have income from tv/o Agri
cultural products of over two
million dollars.
A drastic reduction in number
of Dairy farms has occured in
Newberry County in recent
years. Unstable marketing con
ditions and rising costs of pro
duction are mostly blamed for
this decline in dairy farms. The
important fact is that we are
now producing more milk than
ever before. Our 60 remaining ,
dairy farms have increased pro
duction by adding more cows,
and improving their feeding
and management practices.
A Dairy Specialist from
Clemson remarked recently,
“We’ve made more change in
Dairying in South Carolina
during the past five years than
we have ever made before.”
This change is perhaps most
illustrated by silos now evident
On many dairy farms there
are small silos standing along
side much bigger ones. The
small silos represent the past
on practically all dairy farms,
in Dairying, while the big ones
represent the modem trend.
Not only does Dairy farming
today require much bigger and
more expensive silos. New milk
ing systems, free-stall housing
barns, concrete feed lots, and
automatic feeding equipment
have come to be regarded as
necessity on today’s Dairy farm.
All this adds up to tremendous
investment.
Our 60 Dairy farms can be
regarded as 60 small to medium
-sized business firms scattered
over Newberry County. These
milk production business firms
have investments ranging
generally from $50,000 to $200,
000 each. Some will exceed
this figure. These Dairy firms
hire labor, purchase machinery,
make capital improvements,
pay for repairs, buy trucks,
autos, tires, fuel and oil, and
many many other farm supplies.
They pay taxes, buy insurance,
electricity, borrow money and
pay interest. In fact, they buy
goods and services from just
about everybody in business.
Our best estimates of total
cash operating costs of our
Newberry Dairy farmers is two
jmid one-half million dollars
annually. At the present time
this figure for expenses exceeds
total income, due to high
operating costs and big expen
ses for modern improvements.
Dairying farming these days
is a high risk business. Cows
don’t take vacations—they must
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be milked every day and this
creates labor problems. Milk
marketing is still beset with
instability. Dairy farmers don’t
sell milk—they ship it to their
distributor on consignment.
The usage the distributor makes
of the milk finally determines
the price the farmers receives
for his total supply of milk.
Milk price wars disrupt usage
and thereby lower the price of
milk to the dairy farmers. Our
Newberry Dairy farmers suff
ered loss of thousands of dollars
income during milk price wars
of recent years.
Newberry County Dairy
farming boasts a proud history.
A few of these historic high
lights are worthy to mention
here. Newberry farmers were
among the first in South
Carolina to turn from cotton
farming to livestock and poul
try, including Dairying. Pion
eers of Dairying including
Wright Dennis, J. F. Hawkins
and T. Collier Neel were in
strumental in obtaining a Dairy
Specialists to work with Dairy
farmers. R. D. Steer was em
ployed as the first County
Dairy Specialists, followed by
Tom Cooley. These two promot
ed grassland farming, including
the first annual grazing crops
to be used by Dairy farmers in
South Carolina. Newberry
farmers were among the first
in this State to use silo and to
plant extensive acreage of
forage crops, such as Alfalfa.
Artificial Breeding was quickly
accepted by Newberry Dairy
farmers who by now were used
to looking toward new methods
of increasing production and
efficiency.
More recent notable Dairy
achievements would have to in
clude these items of local in
terest. The Guernsey herd at
Myrtledale Farm, developed by
J. F. Hawkins and now owned
by Marvin Hamm and Sons is
one of the top Guernsey herds
of the entire state.
It has been said that New
berry County has more register
ed, production tested Jerseys
than any other county in the
Nation. Several of these Jersey
herds have made notable
achievements. Headspring Farm
has the highest production of
any Jersey herd in the Nation
for its size—over 250 milking
cows. C. T. Smith’s Jersey
herd has for two consecutive
years attained the highest
butterfat production of any
dairy in the State. A registered
Jersey cow at the Dave Waldrop
Farm set a World’s record for
Butterfat production three
years ago.
As a producer of milk—nat
ure’s most nearly perfect food
—Newberry County stands tall.
Nearly every major milk mar
ket in South Carolina as well as
the large milk market of
Charlotte, North Carolina, is
dependent upon Newberry pro
duced milk. We are proud to
join in a salute to our Dairy
farm families during June
Dairy Month. We believe that
for many years to come, dairy
farming will have a significant
impact on the economy
GIFTS FOR...
on SUNDAY, JUNE 18th
Men’s Brush & Comb Sets..$l to $6.00
Old Spice Sets $1 up to $10
STAG Sets $2.75, $3.00, $3.50, $4.50
and $5.50
Mennen Sets $1.30 up to $3.50
Mister L Shave Lotion. _...$4.00
Mister L Cologne — $5.00
Shoe Shine Kits $4.95 and $5.95
Men’s Billfolds $3.95 to $10.00
Good Assortment of Mens
Pipes and Pouches
Shave Kits.. $1.29, $1.98, $2.98 to $7.55
Remington Elec. Razors....$23.95,
Remington Electric Razors—
$23.95 and $24.95
Shave Sets by Yardley — $1.25 up
Sets in Currier & Ives, Spanish
Galleon, Russian Leather,
Sportsman, Woodbury & Gillette
MEN’S CIARETTE LIGHTERS—
Zippo, Vue Lighters and Butane
Lighters $3.50 to $7.95
TEL 276-3412
Main Street Newberry, S. C.