The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-23

In which there was no mentlon OF pol
itics. This may seem. wonorous
strange, and it's remarkable, for there
we're men present who have had some
thing to do With the making Of the
politics of the State, but the only
mention Of politics that was made was
the plea that it should be eschewed.
There was no applause except when it
was on a hit about living at home and
raising food products on the planta-
ton. The Convention was good
one, and it has sown the seed for
much good. 1t has shown that there
is the dawn Of a new day in the agri-
culture of the State, brighter and a
better day.
Congressman a. c. Latimer was
asked to serve as temporary chairman,
and Mr.. Ma. Craig was selected as
secretary.
Then, without further ado, the ex-
perience meeting-that for which the
Convention met-started. Some one
present said that Mr.. 8. P. Roberts,
of Greenwood had just sold two hun
dred bushels Of wheat, and wanted his
yiews. Mr.. Roberts believes in deep
ploughing in preparing lands for
planting wheat, and mixes fertilizers
with his cotton seed on his lands;
made a yield Of 253 bushels on 16 or
Is acres; prefers the blue stem wheat
for this section for planting; has new
er been troubled with rust; always
soaks his seed in bluestone prepara-
zion over night; thinks it dangerous
not to soak as soon as he can after
frost, and keeps it up until after
Earistmas. He sold his wheat last
year for one dollar to one dollar and
twenty-6ve cents per bushel, and this
year for one dollar. He plants cotton
and wheat, and finds more money In
wheat than in cotton.
Mr.. Eldridge G. Addison, Of Nine
ty-Six. said that he had been studying
small grain for twenty years, and was
a great advocate Of the crop. he
thought that TIC time would come,
and the sooner the better, wheD not a
pound Of -four would be shipped into
this State, and when, on the other
hand, South Carolina would ship -four
outside Of the State limits. He made
wheat very successfully on lands that
dad been given up as worthless and
which aad been run down to the heel;
believed in stable manure on wheat;
wheat stands all kinds of weather. He
sowed ten bushels and made crop Of
three hundred and eight bushels.
Gould not advise planting on cotton
land, because the land could not we'll
be prepared in..time for the wheat crop;
preferred planting after peas or on
pasture land.
Mr. C. q. Jordan spoke in part as
follows:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentle
men: There is no occasion which is to
me more enjoyable and no compliment
which I esteem more highly than the
privilege of being with and talking to
the farmers Of my country. In the
discussion Of those problems, the solu-
ton Of which is essential to prosperi-
~ in our future farm work, subject
is presented in which We are now
most yitally interested. Conditions
which did not suggest themselves a
decade ago are becoming serious. and
formidable at the present time. While
personally a stranger to most of you |
feel that my own interests are identi-
cal with yours and that we are all en-
gagged in a common cause.
In advocating revolution in our
farming methods I shall not suggest
the adoption of anything which has
not heretofore been successfully un-
dertaken, and will give no advice
which is not capable Of practical ap-
plication. It is quite apparent to any
casual observer that our system Of do
ing business is decidedly contrary to
that which existed during the days OF
our greatest prosperity and consequent
independence. There was time, not
so far back in the past, when the
farmers Of the South supplied the
population Of the towns and cities
with the necessaries of life from the
varied products Of their farms. At
the present time a large majority Of
our farming classes are helplessly de-
dependent upon the merchants for
supplies not only for themselves but
fo- their stock as well. The heavy
staple supplies which the merchants
handle are grown in the far West, and