The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-04-19
SWINGING ROM. III! Circle.
People and Places Within 20
Miles of Bamberg.
FARMERS AND THEIR FARMS.
What a Staff Correspondent Of The
Herald Saw and Heard Along the
County's Highways and Byways.
DENMARK, S. c.. April II, 1900.

| county highways anu by ways.
DENMARK, S. c., April II, 1900.
The Danes are very much enthuseC
over the latest reports from their project
Ell cotton factory. Senator Maytield, who
recently returned from the North declare:
that the erection of the mill buildings anC
the launching of the enterprise is only q
question of short time. A sutficicncy
of Northern capital to assure its success
has already been subscribed, and before
the summer really begins, work upon the
enterprise will be commenced. The fac
tory will be located near the new town,
so as to take advantage of all the railroad
facilities there offered, and will not be
built at old Grahams, as some people have
asserted.
doubt if one could find man, woman
or child in the Denmark school district
who is not enthusiastically in favor of
good roads. The rchabilitated thorough
fares leading to that town from all points
of the compass, which Township Com
missioner Charles MGiever has, in spite
of all obstacles, succeeded in laying Oil
for the people, have been object lessons
of the highest Importance, and as one
man put it, you can trOt all round Den
mark now, and your horse wont turn a
hair" And yet remember when most
of these roads were either boys Of sand or
ouagmires of sticky mud. If intelligent
and persistent efforts can accomplish so
much for Dcnmark's roads, equally
praiseworthy results can be obtained in
all Otlier sections of the county. Senator
Mavticld's road bill puts upon them a
mandatory tax of three mills for road
PURPOSES. This tax would have been
made mandatory in every school district
in the county, particularly III Bamberg, If
the balance of the legislative delegation
had urged it. Failure to do this was
grave mistake, for We must and will have
good roads.
have announced myself as candi
date for coroner of Bamberg county. |
hope Mr.. Knight will allow this to go in,
although it's against the rules>of the paper,
for if lie don't it will spoil my text and
ruin my sermon l was really forced to
do it in sheer sclf-defence. Everywhere
that I have been there has been dinnCd
into my ears the stereOtyped query:
What are you a candidate for% got
tired of making the equally stereotyped
answer: 81 am candidate only for your
good opinion" and of explaining to the
querists that was interested. only in
good roads, good schools, and TIE BAN
BERG HERALD. Not more than half Of
them believed me; hence the candidacy.
1t must not be thought, therefore, that
with the candidates suave and oily
tongue, I am about to speak of men that
I have met, or that l have single ulte-
rior motive in bestowing praise where
praise is due.
of which have made thor
ough canvass. I mentioned inciden-
tally in my last letter that they
were good people down there-hospita-
bic, kindly, progressive-wedded to the
good roads movement, and strongly in
favor of all those good and perfect gifts
that will fall to our portion if we make
an effort to obtain them. There are some
mighty good farmers in Buford's Bridge
p-the Hartzogs, Kirklands, Lam
casters, Morrises, kearses, ProveauXs,
McMillans Rices, Dowlings, ct al, and
they are up-to-date in matters agricultur-
IL. They raise cotton, it is true, but they
make their land produce all those crops
that give living to the farmer, and in
this custom they show their good sense
md far-sightedness.
Within five miles radius of this town
notice large increase in wheat acre
age. That is good sign, and smacks OF
and prosperity. Of course
we can't hope to compete with the great
Western states as wheat growing sec
lion, but we can raise our own bread, and
that is clear saving. for it is only the
man who gets his living out of his land
who is really successful ,as raiser Of
purely money crops. With the increased
wheat acreage there is more attention be-
inc paid to stock raising. This is an
ideal stock country, and there are thous-
ands of acres of land along the Edisto,
Bic and Little Salkehatchies-now prac-
tically useless and valueless-whlch can
be profitably utilized for stock raising
purposes. If the farmers along any of
,hese streams would turn their attention
to the raising of mich COWS, for instance,
and would combine and establish cheese
they would find that it would
paw, for the capital invested, much better
than even seven cents cotton.
The lower end of Buford's Bridge
township possesses the finest OF soils for
truck farming and small fruit raising.
The establishment of canning factory at
Olar or any other railroad point in that
section would open up to profitable cultl-
yation hundreds of acres of rich land that
ire now practically waste spots l refer
10 the beds of old ponds and low swamp
lands that can be easily and cheaply
drained and converted into arabic fields.
There is an immense amount of profit IN
canning and picking vegetables and par
in the manufacture of Jellles and
Jams from small fruits. / hope to see a
combination canning, picking, and jam
factory established in Bamberg county in
the near future.
Everybody knows that this is one of
the best horse and mule markets insthe
South. The annual sales made by trad
ers at the county seat, and at several
other of the more enterprlslng towns IN
SamOCrg are enormous. IlolsCo anu
mules are brought here by the carload
from. Mississippi, Tennessee and Ken
tucky, and they find ready sale. The an
imals so disposed of are young and
healthy, in most cases, and under ordinary
would last for years. Do
they do this? No! Our sandy soil and
hot climate wears them out, oftentimes
in one season, and next year the farmer
is obliged to purchase fresh supply OF
plough and carriage stock. Native raised
horses and mules, however, are tougher.
They have a congenital stamina and con-
enables them to thrive in
our hot climate, and Withstand the wear
ing privations that are indigenous to our
sandy soil. 1t is profitable therefore to
cultivate the native breed of horses and
mules. They last longer than imported
stock, and they do better work. Some OF
our wide-awake farmers have begun to
realize this fact, and I find many native
horses and mules throughout the county,
which is healthy sign of progress and