The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-10
TO THE FRONT.
Secretary Wilson Greatly Inn
pressed BY Our Progress.
SUGGESTIONS TO FARMERS.
Their Privilege to Furnish Spring
Lamb to the Nerth. ExceIlent
Oalriss But Not Enough
Of Them.

A dispatch from Washington says
the secretary Of agriculture returned
Wednesday morning from visit to
South Carolina, where he has studied
the conditions Of agriculture and Of
truck gardening along the coast, the
manufacturing industries, the tea cul-
ture, the agricultural college Of South
Carolina and other matters Of interest.
In an interview the secretary said
that South Carolina is making rapid
progress in all these directions. The
farmers are learning how to take better
cure of their soil, how to fertilize and
cultivate it with more profit. The d.
versiGcation Of crops has not extended
50 far as it should or 50 far as it very
soon will, but the people are gradually
working to that end.
The State manufactures about one
third Of the cotton produced, and the
most striking development of South
Carolina is perhaps found in that direc-
tion. Home enterprise, and to great
extent, home capital, has been utilizing
the great rivers of the State in the
manufacture Of cotton through electric
appliances. Wires extend from the
rivers as far as IA miles, up to the tops
Of the hills, where healthy conditions
are found and great factories costing as
much as million dollars are located.
This work is going on and will continue
to progress until the State msnufac-
lures all the raw cotton produced with
in it's limits. Eighteen years age,
when the attention Of the South Caro-
lima people was drawn to the manufac-
ture Of cotton, s3s0,0OO was paid to
labor. Now the State is paying
s6,000,0 900 annually, which is about
tWo-ffths Of all the manufacturing of
the southern State along cotton lines.
The secretary said that with little
exception white labor is being used in
the mills. In the city Of Charleston
the experiment Of colored labor is be-
ing tried and it is hoped the plan will
succeed. It is still an open question,
however, and is being watched with
great interest. He said that other cot
ton manufacturers will have to take
note Of the progress being made along
this line in the south. They are getting
the very newest machinery; their hands
work probably somewhat longer hours,
and perhaps for a little lower wages.
The southern people seem to be entire
ly satisfied with home labor, and evince
no desire for immigration. The farm
ers throughout the State are getting
better markets for their produc s, re-
ceiving large per cent. Of the So, ,@0,-
900 paid to the mill hands. This en-
courages the keeping Of dairy COWS, the
feeding Of hogs and the raising Of
chickens to supply the demand Of the
factory people in villages.
Mr.. Wilson said the tobacco indus
try has been taken hold Of and is max
ing good progress. The people are
studying this plant and its products, in
order to ascertain how they can produce
it more proftsbly.
The individual farmers are giving at
tention to the production Of fine horses,
such as bring big prices, not only at
home, but in foreign couatries-gaited
horses, hunted horses, fine carriage
horses. The southern people have q
taste along this line and will certainly
succeed.
There are not enough dairy COWS in
the State, Of course, but encouraging
progress is being made in that direction
also, the secretary said. They have
some as fine dairy COWS as are to be
found anywhere. They make as fine
butter as is to be found in the north.
"They keep sheep in the South. but
not enough" said he. "Tbey have
not quite realized that it is peculiarly
their privilege to furnish early spring
lambs for the northern markets, where
they sell at very high price.
"The conditions in the South are en-
tirely favorable to the production Of the
bacon hog. The people in the great
corn belt Of the Mississippi valley want
market for their corn and feed the hog
as long as he will make any gain. The
producer Of the bacon hog, however,
disposes Of the animal sooner, at
younger age.
'As soon as the Southern people
give attention to the dairy industry
there will be great Increase in its pro-
ducts
The secretary made point of i'm
pressing upon the people Of the State
the wisdom ofincressing their pastures,
and Of setting their wood locks to work
to produce grass for the colt and the
dairy COW, the mutton sheep and the
hog.
Great progress has been made, he
said at the agricultural college. They
are doing work there that is probably
not being done anywhere else.
The department Of agriculture for the
last two years has been conducting ma
tion-wide experiments to ascertain
whether the people Of the United States
can produce their own sugar from their
own sugar beets. The matter has gone
so far that the secretary has no doubt
whatever Of the success of the industry.
About score Of mills were running last
tall. auo her score is beisy bu,lt, and
IA time complete success will come and
che 500. 900 now paid out for sugar
will be saved and kept at home.
The secretary is also sure now that
the people Of the latitude Of South
Carolina can produce all the tea needed
by the American people, just as he was
sure, two years ago, that the sugar
needed for nome consu nption could be
produced from the sugar beet, inde-
pendent of all other sources.
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