The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-03-15

in time get together good herd of COWS
with that best of milch blood-the Jersey
strong enough in their veins to make
them salcable and therefore profitable.
There is lots of So-calied waste land IN
the county that can be fenced and utilized
for pasturagc Don't have any waste
land. Senator Mayticld, who is a model
farmer. fences more or less land every
year All of his tenants keep COW OF
his selection. He grades up the native
stock, and makes it pay. With good pas
turarc and feed of cotton seed hullS a
COW can be kept in good condition, and
stock intended for the butcher can be fat
tened If your land is worn out, don't
allow it to lay by and grow up in noNious
weeds. Plant it in peas and pindars-
re-ferilizc the poverty-stricken soil. and
raise more hogs. which will fattcn Oh the
peas and pindars.
There were maHv bridges to cross be-
tween Bambcrg and Jenny's. Some of
them were in fairly good condition, but
the majority were poorly built and some
were positively dangerous to cross, eSpcc-
tally at night This should not be. Our
bridges should not be cheap makeshlfts,
but substantial and well-built structures.
One thing notable along the road, was
the number of mail boxes tackled up on
trees, gate posts, etc This means that
the people are readers, and keep abreast
of the times. With daily or every-other-
day mail delivered right at your door, as
will be done under Congressman Stokes's
rural mail delivery bill, the farmers should,
as the sporting people say, get gait on
Them" and forge to the front as progress
sive and intensive agriculturists. They
should ditch their land more thoroughly
and above all institute sub-soil plowing.
Try sandy patch with a clay foundation
with the sub-soil plow, thoroughly pulver-
ize the ground and harrow it well. You'll
be astonished at the results.
There is much sand in the roads, but 1t
is only on the surface There's clay at a
depth varying from two to at the most
eight inches. Clay and sand admixed
makes good road, if it is piked, rolled
and thoroughly drained by side bitches.
When you get good roads, and easy COM
munication to railroad points, don't begin
to cut off your timber. There has been
sinful waste in this direction of late years,
and if you keep on slaughtering the trees
there'll soon be a timber famine. Any
sort of fencing is better than none. The
old worm rail fence will do where you
have plenty of timber and plenty of time.
Barbed wire makes the ideal fence, how
ever, but when you put it up, be sure and
run guard rail along the top. 1t will
save your stock from injury, and the law
| requires it.
In many places I found the road mere
wagon trail with cultivated land on either
side. When a road is laid out it should
be to the full width required by law
twenty feet. DR.. S. D. NJ. Guess, of Den
mark, declares thirty feet, and has promls-
ell that when roads are run through his
property the commissioners are privileged
to make them of that width.
There are several good farmers along
the road noticeably Mr.. Mack Ray, Mr.. +.
G. Bruce, the Kearse's and others. BY the
way, Mr.. Bruce is the original terrace
man" in the low country, and he has saved
hundreds, yea thousands Of acres from
destruction through gully washing. AL
though there are many good farmers
through that section l noticed that the
majority of them are allowing their yard
fences, houses and outbuildingS to fall III
to decay. Mineral paint is cheap and 1t
preserves the wood. Not only that, but 1t
enhances the value of your property. II
your buildings are painted, and last, but
not least, a tastefully painted building is
much more pleasing to the eye, than a
ram battered, dingy structure, with flap
ping shutters and loose boards and ram
shackled piazzas.
The Sunny South Tobacco Factory is
an evidence of what can be done in tobac-
co in this country. Messrs. Young and
Bottoms are making success OF their
smoking tobacco, and a grocery drummer
whom met Jenny assured me that the
"Ehrhardt" brand was the best tobacco
for it's price on the market to-day. What
these gentlemen want to do is to push
their product. They showed me samples
of their tobacco which were equal to the
best grades on the market to-day.
The Kearses are all good farmers, SO
also is Magistrate J. G. Breeland, who has
his land all under fence, raises pork to
sell-in fact sells twice as much as he uses,
and don't feed his porkers corn. He feeds
them on ground nuts and peas and they
fatten well. He has begunto raise cattle,
and with plenty of good pasturage on
land that most farmers allow to lie idle,
finds that the industry pays.
rode up to the little cemetery on the
memorial grounds and said short prayer
over the seventeen gallant Confederates
who lie buried there. They were all
Georgians-my native State-and my eyes
moistened when I went back thirty-five
years and thought of the gallant defense
they made for the cause that was eventual
" lost. This little handful Of brave men,
skeleton brigade, composed of the Bed
and 47th Georgia Infantry, the 9th Re-