The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-05-24
TO tha Farmers.

or twelve cents for cotton and at
the same time furnish US plow
shovels, trace chains, plow stocks and
mowers at greatly reduced prices
from what We now get them is, at
best, an idle dream. The fact that
farming is the most lucrative, safe
and certain occupation is fully sus-
tanned by it's continued life and ex
istanee under management and direc
ton that would wreck any other
business on earth carried on in the
same bapless, slip-shod, improvident
WY. We continue to do things that
no other business men can sford to do,
and we fail to do what every other
business, successfully carried on,
makes imperative in its conduction.
We strive and delve hard to put
money iato phosphate films when. we
have on our lands ten thousand little
"guauo industries" that would pay
Ts q heavier dividend thar any fertl
Iizer company ever incorporated
under the laws Of South ClrCliDa
We have banks of ssfer inves tment
and paying higher interest than any
such institution that ever opened It's
books for deposits in this entire land
Tue merchant and the bankers are
men of business ard iu most cases
Indifferent and stiff in manners,
b .ar,less and ccld blcoded in execu-
tion but systematic and law abiding
in action and in working. They look
On their banks ss records of dealing.
and on their accounts, claims and
cash as the result Of care AID
economy, and as proof OF THEN
business skill and enterprise. In
this they see only business and
through these they expect success or
failure. Beyond this they have no
hope; without these they close their
doors. They look on their avoca:ion
as means of living. In it they see
only the material and the very nature
Of their position leads them usually
to these, conditions and the great
majority of the business world lose
sight of the imma'erial in their eager,
anxious pursuit Ct what is material
The architect without his square and
compass is entirely lost in the busy
world and is like a ship without a
rudder Beyond these all life Is
dark and gloomy, and all the future
hidden in cloud of confusion and
uncertainty.
With US these things should not
be. Continually we can be in COM
munion with nature in her beauty
and in her unseifsh home. We
hourly tread the highways in natures
vast domain and meet her in our
business and in all our little transac
>tions on the farm and should learn to
look up little niger than the fields
and forest around u.s..
Oar children see regularly the
wild flowers blossom near cur homes.
They behold the lilies Of the field
without toiling or spinning, a'rayed
more gloriously than the Prince OF
Hebrew Kings. They see all the
energy and power Of the place ar
raigned against the little blades OF
grass which set at defiance all efforts
for their destruction and hold on to
life with a resolution that is insplr
ing to any faint heart. Oar giiis
and boys have then that free and un
trammeled latitude of thought and
action; that full and natural develop
ment # bone and muscle which
render them dangerous competitors
10 any antagonist in the race for the
prize in all the pursuits of life. But
pleasant as are these thoughts and
elevatipg as are these privileges, they
are to be left to view the practical
points Of farm life.
10 the last article I wrote some OF
feeding and the different feeds. 1t
may be proper here that say scne-
thing further on the corn-feeding OF
hogs.
The hog commissioner Of Missouri
made some experiments a year or
two ago which tend to weaken our
rage on cornfed hogs. Several trials
were made and with a like result
Oue pen of hogs were feed entirely
on corn and ore on oats, wheat brand,
c,)lard leaves, &c. When ready to
kill, a board of experts were selected.
Tney used all the improved instru-
nents TO examine the condition CT
bone, muscle and blood. The hogs
f.d and tattened entirely On corn
had by actual measurement only
ahout oae-half the amount of blood