Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
DIVERSITY THAT D|VERSii;f|ES.

DIVERSITY. THAT D|VERSiFIES
Town People Must Hoip the Farmer
Diversity His Crops.
General Lee endorses an article by
Professor, w elborn, of the Agrioul-
tnral and Mechanical College, who
makes the point that. she town peo-
pie must help the farmer diversity
HE crops by furnishing fair market
for varied products Of the farm.
Under the caption of "Diversity
that Diversifies," Mr.. w. G. We'll
born, Professor of Agriculture of
the State Agricultural aud Mechani-
cal College, published the following
very interesting and timely article
in the Southern Farm Gazette, of
Starkville, Miss: ...
Snow, if VIC are oil in earnest
about advising our farmer friends to
diversity their crops, let us give
them a little substantial encourage
ment in some of the following ways
Keep up the good work of advising
them to diversity, MS we have all
been doing. They are about con-
vinced now. Then engage country
hams, bacon and lard. Make your
arrangements through spring and
summer, 80 the farmer will know
what to count on, and prepare to
grow what you want. Instead of
cutting tho price on these delicious
country hams, give him tho full
market price of those you have been
buying from Chicago and St. Louis.
Offer him from 1 to 2 cents mere q
pound for his lard than you pay for
the adultorated article gotten in the
North-it will go one-fourth further.
Give him better price for his bacon
by 2 or cents than you pay for the
picked pork that has lad the grecs sc
pressed out and water nade to take
its place. Buy good, pure country
butter, and thus encourage the good
housewives to make an abundant
supply for home and for market.
Remember, nine times out of ten,
the grocer is charging you full butter
prices for some beef tallow, mutton
suet and cotton seed oil, made into a
compound oleomargine or buttorine.
The grocer would rather sell it, be-
cause he makes 100 per cent on it.
IF you keep a livery stable, or
have horses or COWS or other stock,
and have to buy hay, engage good
peavine or lepsedeza or other good
hay from your farmer friends. The
timothy hay that is shipped here at
a cost of $12 to $40 a ton is vastly
inferior to our good native hay. In
buying $15 ton of timothy, you
get IS worth of hay, and $40 worth
of freight, commissions, etc. En-
gage all you need from your neigh
Dor, and he will grow it, and this
will prove the most profitable move
you and he ever made.
"Encourage your farmer friend to
keep a small flock of sheep for the
purpose of supplying you and your
neighbors quarter of good mutton
now and then. Buy his chickens
and eggs under regular contract,
so he will know what to depend on,
and thus produce them cheaper and
better.
"Don't let your grocers send off
and buy adulterated molasses, or if
they do let them keep it, and you en-
gage the pure unadulterated, deli
cious, homemade article.
"Depend on home markets for
everything that can be grown at
home. Our merchonts and city peo-
pie, and some of the farmers, love
to buy in the big markets and away
off from home, when they could
get things better and cheaper at
home. .'.
"Encourage the farmer to diver
sify in this practical and substantial
way, and no will do moro and love
you botter."--Atlanta Journal.
Ladies desiring n oontonted and happy
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