Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-11-19
The Pumpkin state Of the South.

Our State contemporaries, always in
teresting and instructive, are deyotinl
less attention these days to politics ant
more to the material things of life. The
Barnwell People, for example, thinks
that it would pay the farmers of that
county TO get an expert to spend some
time among them as tobacco mission,
ary," the lands of Barnwell county being
well adapted to the cultivation of the
best money crop now produced in South
Carolina. The People is also trying to
! arouse public interest ia the passage OF
a law that will Grid the country of worth
less dogs and give the people chance to
eat mutton occasionally"
lt also reports some remarkable thinfts
about agricultural affairs in its county,
and declares that "Farmer Howard
Hair. of Rosemary, eighteen years old,
and as good as anybody, sent in potato
weighing u pounds last week." and that
Mr.. G.. w. q. @. Gill left at the Peoples
office last Monday samples of three story
potatoes, and remarks in passing that,
"The Baptist Courier, for whose senior
editor more pantry keys have been used
than. for any other editor in the State,
speaks in the highest terms of the splen-
did hospitality extended by the good
people of Mount Calvary church to the
recent Baptist Association" tits good
thing to live in q county which is not
solid for the yellow dog and produces
three story potatoes. When the German
Immigration Society is organized there
will be splendid opening in Barnwell
county for the new settlers.
The Keoweo Courier reports that Mr..
j. ID. Isbell, of Oconee county, "makes
good crops Of all kinds" that he got a
yield of four hundred bushels of turnips
from third of an acre two years ago,
will do better this year, and that one of
these vegetables, large fine rutabaga,
grown this year. weighed 81 pounds.
Tho Courier adds that "Oconee beats
things in the field crop and vegetable
line," and in proof of this statement
says that e. p. Wood got forty-seven
good sized pumpkins, the largest OF
which weighed So pounds, from one vine
growing back of his stables. The vine
covered plat OF ground 23x27 yards in
diameter and tho fortyseven pumpkins
aggregated S93 pounds in weight. And
yet there ARE lot of people living in
Connecticut who think that is the only
pumpkin State in the Union. We venture
to say that the single County of Oconee
South Carolina, could easily raise more
pumpkins than the whole State of Con
necticut.
The Timmonsville Enterprise reports
GudI J"o JOUdCCO ldTIucTS III lUS S8CUlOT
sold 5000 pounds of tobacco at q gooC
price in that market last week. 1t also
reports that there are number of farm
ers about Latta who have made this yeal
from 1928 to $50 an acre on their to
bacco crops, that III. K. III. Smith anC
Laurens Bethea, of the Buck SWAMP
section, sold their entire crop of about
so 600 pounds at $15 hundred pound,
in the rough. j. r. Reeves of the same
spCtinn Gold hic nf fwn lya
at about Sl4O per acre. The buyer of tn,
Smith and Bethea crops cleared S1,5Ot
on his purchase, so that tobacco growing
not only pays the farmer, who grows it
but the seller who handles it.
The attention which our contempora
ries are giving to industrial affairs il
bound to attract the home-seeking ant
| investing world to this State. There il
| no other in the South which offers 81
many valuable money. making opportu
mites to Industrious men.-News ant
Courier, November 7th.