Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-02-23

and we furnish them with the cow
feed. iwould like to see the Ame-
rioan farmer turning his attention to
something more exalted than pro-
duoing cow feed for any COWS but
his own. The great Northwest is
represented bore to-day by many of
the most Intelligent farmers. They
are we'll assured that tho only profit
that comes from agriculture is that
that comes from turning raw mate
rials into higher selling product.
The United States wae supplied
last year from the Missiseippi valley
with grains for homo use and for
many other purposes, and exported
over 2O0,000,000 bushels of corn.
That corn should have been turned
into higher selling product in the
United States. Our mill feeds went
abroad also. We produced flax be-
cause we want oil for painting our
buildings, the United States being
the great painting nation. But we
did not fully realize that the nitro
genous matter of the flax plant
should be kept at home to balance
tho carbonaceous corn plant. We
sent our mill feeds abroad to dairy
men, to horse producers, to cattle
men, to sheep men, TO poultry men,
when we might just as well feed
these things at home and send the
higher selling product to the for
eigner, after we have not only ap-
piled laborious days in tho corn field,
and the wheat field, and the oat
field, but, after wo have added the
skill of the farm, and of tho factory
to the raw material. That $3O,00O,-
900 worth of butter sold in Great
Britain by Denmark is the result of
skill applied to our raw material.
| tHE SOUfHElSN FARMERS.
| earnestly advise the Southern
farmer to turn his attention to indus
tries that will make his land q little
better every year, instead of making
it little poorer. The nearer the
farmer can get to independence of
other farmers the better for him. in
these days we cannot, of course, be-
come independent of the factory and
weave our cloth, knit our socks pro-
per, and all that; but there is no
reason why the South should not
produce all the grain it needs and
have money crops along the lines l
have suggested.
The time has come when the in
telligcnt management Of the farm
promises as we'll as any other voca-
ton in life. twill beat politics and
be a neck ahead of the professions
when all things are considered. This
intelligent management Of the farm
comprehcnds the training of your
labor to do what is most profitable
to you and what will add to the COM
fort Of the worker. A South Caro-.
lima gentleman gets his tea leaves
picked at the right time by gather
ing the young people into school
to acquire the elementary studies.
Your labor can be taught to milk
COWS and care for them, grow the
crop they require, feed the calves and
run the separator, ohurn and butter
worker, pack the butter and market
it, make cheese under your supervi-
sion, care for sheep and lamb, shear
them in season and become as expert
along these lines as they now are
with cotton.
This diversifcation of farm work
will bring money to the State from
consumers in our large cities. 1t will
create a demand for farm literature
and become an educative process
that will lead along over pleasant
paths to more productive fields, bet
ter farm conveniences, more com.
Portable houses and higher ideals of
lifo