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South Carolina Landowners Assocta0 tion (By Geo. R. Wheeler, Manager) In order to bring real development to South Carolina, within a reasonable period, we should seek out the more important in the very long list of necessary changes in conditions and first take up those which will, when brought about, make the way easier for other activities. A state-wide highway system and extensive drainage stand out as two constructive features which must first daim our attention. We should profit by the experience of other states in highway construction and mainteTa cunt mi Hio vL'Vinlp thine in Iiouv^t AV OUiU U^/ W1V HHV** ??0 a few words, inso far as the road - proposition is concerned, the states that built hard surface roads of such materials and construction that stand up under heavy motor truck transportation have increased the business within the state; added to the population; increased the taxable wealth; iatroduced new industries; and reduced the cost of living in the towns and cities by causing a great increase in the supply of farm and dairy products. I think that the slogan used in 1 : rfgfcS $ i ' ' >'v <; - ;, ^ ^ byjjWI MN^H bmhhhbI j^a8B^H(wPBi^?&gL dBBjl#Op^^BB^.g| (A FLOCK OF < Maryland was a good one "Prosperity follows thd pike." The malarial mosquito makes us sick and uncomfortable. In fact, I believe that this pest has done more ^??^?* * Al-" flion Iueraegv w uic ovuui m 51.UV1 w ay other one thing:. We must get rid of the malarial mosquito and all kinds of mosquitoes and we can only do this by extensive drainage. There is no argument to be advanced adverse to drainage, therefore, no extensive argument is called for in behalf of extensive drainage. Only I do want to say this, that we have in the coastal plain of South Carolina 1,500,000 acres of potentially productive ^ land, as rich soil as can be found in fthy section of the world, which can and should be reclaimed by drainage. And I also want to say that this land could be profitably .reclaimed and there are thousands upon thousands of people who will buy and operate it after it is reclaimed and offered for * sale. The only way that we can finally eliminate the mosquito is by extensive drainage and if we are to expect the newcomer to move on these potentially productive low lands, we must get rid of the pest. We need a new drainage law in this State?a model drainage law, so let us asK me legislature to enact one that * will encourage drainage projects, one that will throw such protection around drainage bonds as will increase tbeir marketable value. The activities of the South Carolina Lando^ *ners Association covers a very broad field. It is an orgar.izaed group of broadminded men who, with love for the State of South Carolina in their hearts, are seeking to do everything they can to bring development to the 11,000,000 acres of idle land within the State, some of this great area of land should be protected from fire and kept clean in order that mother nature can assert herself and cause the young trees to soon become merchantable timber. We must, there fore have a fire control law. Some of the vast area of land referred to is suitable for pasturage and we must have extensive experiments in improved and new grasses and I must say that such experiments are sadly lacking right at this time; then there is the area which must be cleaned for intensive agriculture. All of this calls for bringing into the State new blood and ne v money to people and operate these Lands. I am very glad to state that tie Southern .Settlement & development Organization, with which this association is affiliated, as well as the other land owners associations in the other southern states has carefully If *d plans for bringing people to \ ' mn mr i fjk. yHBA (MR. GEO. R. WHEELER.) J (Manager, S. C. Landowners Association.) South Carolina. We must get ready for all of this and we can only get ready by doing real constructive work in building better roads, improving ry'i-M: -r ' ' . v.oc? ... ><. . . ^ >r m < v ' ' ? K WjT mR ^fflti iV^ I M K? ' 41 ^ -s ^t *| -fffiiir 9j5Bi|M -;:;j Jjjk SHEEP ON AN UP-TO-DATE SHEI rural schools and changing the health I conditions. If we are to expect the live stock industry to thrive and grow, we must j have a change made in the Chattel Mortgage Law in order that the banks i can lend more freely on live stock ' and we must have a Marks and Brands Law in order that the lender of money can be able to better identify his collateral. South Carolina was once known as a great sheep producing state, but the out-law dog has killed the sheep' * 1 ' A ^ ^ fkavn I | inausiry to me extent uiav tvuajr wi^.v. ; are more dogs in the State than there j are sheep. What are we to have "dog j meat or lamb chops?" When we speak | of a dog control law, we mean one that throws a great protection around : the dog that is lo'ved and fed and 1 cared for by his master and one that will control the dog that is not loved I and cared for by his master, the one that destroys the neighbors property in seeking foo.d. The South Carolina Landowners AsI sociation goes into the different com-1 munities in the State and lends its assistance in the establishing of home markets in order that the farmer, when he brings in some hogs or food, feed and forage crops, can sell them and go back home with a check. A good illustration of the work of the association along these lines can be 'found right in the town of Kingstree. A group of progressive men of that city and the county are taking hold of this proposition and are pushing it tnrough to a successful conclusion. I also want to say that a group of progressive men in Greelyville, Williamsburg County, got together a short I time ago. at one of the meetings, j called by the South Carolina Land ! owners Association and formed a | drainage project which will reclaim a ; large area of fine land and do much ! towards putting the mosquito out of business, thereby making Greelyville a better community in which to live. The actual work of digging the drain! age ditch is now well under way. While speaking of real constructive ' work, it might be well to call your attention to the plans, of the Southern Settlement and Development Organization, which were adopted at the meeting of the Board of Directors on December 1st, which provides for bringing into the South at different times on special trains groups of eastern bankers and representatives of the Breeders Associations and livestock men of the North and West, the newspaper men and merchants and manufacturers, in order that they might see and study at first hand the wonderful opportunities afforded in these Southern States. A nation-wide ' advertising and publicity plan was al-1 so adopted at that meeting which plan 1 carries with it "telling the world all about the South and its opportunities." The South Carolina Landowners Association invites every man, within j that State, to join in this well and i carefully planned organized movement to add to the happiness, prosperity and welfare of the entire State of! South Carolina. o The Fullness of Our Day ; "When every farmer in the South ! shall eat bread from his own fields I and meat from his own pastures and j disturbed by no creditor, and enslaved I by no debt, shall sit amid his teeming gadens, and orchards, and vineyards,? (and dairies, and barnyards, pitching | I his crops in his own wisdom and growing them in independence, making cotton his clean surplus, and selling it in his own time, and in his chosen market, and not at a master's bidding ?getting his pay in cash and not in a receipted- mortgage that discharges his uebt, but does not restore his freedom?then shall be breaking the fullness of our day."?Henry W Grady, 1888. I ? . mW.;. &,y.; | *> V \ | //-x >a vJURBM. * iyt 2P RANCH.) ' I Ligh I Per raj S WE ARE AGENTS FOR Sj LIGHTING OUTFIT AND N tf TION ONE OF THE "C. B. C." S WE ARE ABLE TO FURN] ?f WITH ALL EQUIPMENT TH $ WELL ADAPTED TO THE NE Sjjjj COMMUNITY. NO MODERN HOME C ? POWER. THOSE WHO HAV ? ? FROM US ARE HIGHLY PL If MENT. BY THE APPLICATI IT UNPLEASANT HOUSEHOLE J MACHINERY, SUCH AS WA $ WOOD, DRAWING WATER, 1 S TO SUBMIT ESTIMATES ON 0j CL'LAR NEEDS ON REQUEST S ??I JQ nmnivm >|nw^n??n? 4- put on $ 1 rj^ mS r*tt,pkcmn?Srr*4 I nq J & AUTO OWNERS 9 A 4? Call on us for exact aBk flfl 4* duplicate of your 4" broken spring, Qy fa and receive MKo 4* spring sat- j 4* isfaction ' r,? T 4- that is I _i i \ I * \i^\ tiAvr/i Tr nave TO FARMERS who know their Fertilizer, we ann ample supply* of fish scr want the genuine, original Fist ROTS FERTI . tram RC6J The Fertilizi Fish Sera F. S. ROYSTER G Norfolk, Va. Richmond, Va Charlotte, N. C. Washington, N. C. Atlanta Ga. 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C , Columbia, S. C. Spartanburg, S. C. lumbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. Toledo, Ohio. ? . Going 1 il LOIS UI wuin Kj stern Electric ? POWER * LIGHT S r you in the house?clean safe lights aH over & And it's going to do a good many chores for UL barn too ? should have one of these outfits. How about G urn? G irprised at the reasonableness Jp Burning coal oil, or kerosene, >ry small. Simple to operate, X M E it of order. Write or wire for B J \1 E KEROSENE RUNS IT"$ 5MALL AMOUNT SPENT IN REPAIRS NOW MAY jjj ^ WE ARE PREPARED TO MAKE REPAIRS ON 4? ? ? ??' ~ * mmnnvnM A /rnnciOADTrc" AF wA KGb YOUK 15 A1 AV^V/Doov/iviuo vi SPRINGS. ville Garag'e a GREELYVILLE, S. C. | ' ' ' -.-'."l-.VA, . I jj/j