The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-05-17
10 My Fellow Farmers.


Had you thought that we hay
l ono of the most pleasant climate
!, in tho world to i've in here at tn
} foot of tho Bluc Ridge (thc alpin
, region of this S tato,) with Tn
, purcst and sweetest rrcc-stonr wa
: ter, and moro of it, i @ moro spring
: and wells, than amy othcr sections
with temperature lower, from G5 I,
| % is very common.
q In summer the thermometer vcr,
, rarely register 100 and almost IL.
f rarely registers below zero in win
ter. On top OF the Blue Ridge, ,h,
tomperat tlrr is about 70 to -. This
hcing the case it seems to mo W,
ought to do some bottrr farming
W" have some little as good LAND
rs amy country, Il great deal Of very
poor. Our state has record that
thn world has nrvrr beat i'm ruisinu
corn on single aero, 25l bushels.
and n pounds by Mr.. Drake of
Marlboro county, takinga Il $4,000
gold prize for the best aero i'm the
Cnltcd States. Thorr has been
| lhrco bales Of cotton raised per
acre, thirty to forty hushrls of
wheat and SC to 100 of oats. What
about Che sweet potato. There was
one in an adjoining county last
year that weighed thirteen pounds
and ) pounds of small ones on Che
same vine, have seen ten to ff-
teen pounds to the vine. Now fi- !
teen pounds is a peek two hundred |
and ten feet square is an acre. 3 feet !
rows give seventy to tho aero, cigh-
teen inches apart, gives you ono
hundred and forty vines to tho row,
II thirty five bushels of potatoes
or peck to the vino or two thou |
said, F"ur hundred and fifty bush-
els IN TN" seventy rows. Now it'll
sroms to mo that it is possible TO
grow half that amount, saw seven
and half pounds to tho vino, or
, ono-fourth worry easily six hundred
to tho aero, thus beating cotton
! easily. Thoy arc valuable for feed
for all stock, are being dried and
thus saved Independently.
| learn that Germany is trying
(and it seems successfully to feed
her army on dried peanuts or pind-
crs, by pressing tho oil out and
grinding into flour and grits. Thoy
believe it as nutricious as b ocf-
steak, but produces no fat, hence
is the dict for those over burdcncd
with adiposo tissue or fat. Can
we not help feed the world and
ourselves on either goohors or DO
tatoos, either grow finely hero?
| Wo have got to do bcttor farm
ing, clsc something serious will
happen IN tho near future. Our
5 eNtraVagant National government
3 must be maintained until we can
got it switched Off on another
track. This with bottcr farming
as ! SEQ it, must be closely looked
4 after; and both amended quick, or
o a little quicker, and heap of it.
r Our prospects aro good for a
: hard year, tho cold uttorly dcstoy-
8 Oh all fruit, and virtually all Dor.
f rlos, oven with many poach trees.
3 And greatly injured wheat and
, oats.
One thing for tho farmers to ro-
mombor, what is possible to do
and what little we aro doing in
farming. Tho average for our State
in corn is ton bushols per aero, and
other crops but little bottor. Ono
horse and two hands can cultivate
26 acres in corn, and make by the
above figures 25O bushels at so cts
per bushol Or $125.OO. How will
THIS do for wages? For those who
are not acquainted with our coun.
, sfy would say our history makos
no record Of fruit troas bo;,n LII.
ea by frost It was caused by an
, unusuall warm March to the 25th,