The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-11-02

sandy land will retain the bright color, =
Weigh them; the red clay OATS are the
heayiesl.sssFo For this reasonthes sfsrmer mfso
Culiivatee sandy land should oh nge ms
seed annually. The earlier soWn oats 100
| on the same auality OF land are heavier
when harvested than those sOwn earlier.
| Fourihly. and IN ost vitality. Abbeville
| County has exported this year perhaps
800 900 bushels Of oats Doubtless 300
090 bushels have gone from the Abbeyille
farmer to the low country farmer through
the merchants of this aud the other end
Of the line At whose cost, and to whose
profit? If I grow 1000 bushels Of oats
for sale, and you farmers of Sumter or
Orangeburg Counties want TO buy that
many to sow, why should sell to u mer
chant here TO be sent to n merchant there
both Of whom make a profit, before you
can SOW your orop2 To sny that mer-
chant should not deal in oats is nonsense
His money Is his own; let him buy and
sell what he pleases. and he is shrewed
enough to see ~ profit ih, such traffic, 1T is
his privilege TO take advant ,ee of H. aud
no one blumes him. Surely [ do not -
But when n farmer needs seed TO plant,
Ond knows that his fellow farmer grows
| such seed for sale; where fore the necessity
of having one, much less two men step in
between them md make net profit at the
expense OF DOtnl LOOR 1T IL mus. twenty
merchants in Abbeville buy 1000 bush
e Of oats at from 33c 10 $50 per bushel, an |
sell at from 38c to 40c per bushel, renlizing
an average net profit of only thr cents per
bushel say, the aggregate profit is $6,UOO
| or $500 ench in SIX weeks. The same pro-
fiji is made at the delivery end of the line
| These $4,000 al taken from the producers
unnecessarily. Had this nmoun, been re
tanned by them it would Perhaps have paid
their take, and the merchants could not
have tell that they were damaged to the
amount of n farthing.
But | may he asked how I would remedy
the evil if my complaint be just. BY the
easiest possible means. If the farmers were
organized as they should be they woulo
have constant and direct communication
with ench other, and all such necessary
commercial transactions as the buying nn,
selling the perishable products Of the ia, m
or supplying cnch other with seed and in
plemens. could be done without paying
heavy commission TO ~ third party.
Now l have advised to harrow sma!
grain, and already have been asked, 'tWhn
harro v would you advise me to use?' If
were 10 reply through your columns VIII,
would reap the benefit? | have gone it
considerable expense to secure the bcs
harrow and secured it by experience. Tt
'"o '"' 'he'o my eAPtilehce "ouiu oe lhFhl
liable; but the agent of the harrow manu-
1acIurer would be, perhaps, the first man t'
profit by ita publication. and rs apt as no.
lie would be dry goods merchant or
druggist. l can't see legitimate mcrchan
disc i'll such traffic myself others may, anG
l find no fault with them for their opinion
can very we'll see, however, that a re-
vival OF the Grange organization in South
Carolina could and would save TO the farm
ers of the Stale IL million of dollars II year,
and imjure no other profession n dime. But
who can organize the farmers to their own
protection? Echo
Very respectfully,
ID. Wy VT AIKEN