Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-04

Il, hoed first time; June %, plonghed
with heel-scrape and gopher; June
30, hoed (; July 2, ploughed with
heel scrape and gopher. Corn was
ripe on August 80. Gathered Octo-
ber %, husked Monday, October 81,
sbelled and weighed October 81,
1902. Yield on Plot No. 2 was
about double that on Plot No. /.
The majority of stalks on Plot No. 2
had three ears, average about nine
ounces"
The good fortune resultant from
George Shaw's efforts in intensive
farming ought to serve as an object
lesson to farmers in general, but es-
pecially to the negroes of the State,
the majority of whom are nnfortu-
nately thriftless.
The following essay on "Farming,"
by the aforementioned prize win
ner, is also presented as being an in
teresting document in more ways
than one:
"Farming is the Most pleasant
Independent Avocations that the
Southern or any American Negro
can Engage his attention. why
should our people desire to reside in
the large cities. | Am not prepared
to say. When the country afford 80
m much pleasure and profit for the
Thrifty Industrious Agriculturist.
"There is no calling in life that
afford as much pleasure & profit.
let any man come out of the city
Give as Deligent study e. and labor
to farm as the Business man do to
his Business and live Economically
and in less than ten year he can own
a good farm All the pleasnr any rea-
sonable sane person desire. This
Writer remember with pleasure the
Halicon days when We use to have
the cribs full of corn, smoke houses
darken with meat, Barrels of lard,
sausage plentiful, homemade Sor-
ghum, Bins of wheat plenty to live
upon and some to spare. The above
is some of the present possibility of
Every Southern farmer. With our
Improved facilities We can raise hay
and with the moving machine we
save any quantity. Every 1-horse far
mer can Manage 2 Mich COWS. The
2 horse farmers can manage 3. 4
horse farmers 4. The vast milk &
slops can be fed to the pigs.
"and each farmer can kill from 90
Hogs & make from rs to 100 gallons
of home made Sorghum for family
use and sell of his surplus product to
the Manufacturing centers as his
location may be There is Thou
sands of Acres of fine Fertile land
Idle in These Southern States wait
ing for the touch of the Agriculturist
The Tenent farmer of this country
can make this our South land Bios
som as the rose.
"No land Owner is so reverse to
Modern Ideas that they would not be
Willing for his tenent put out fruit
trees let all the Tenents put out
say J acre fruit trees, and beautifie
the place where they stay take care
the land & Houses, stock & farming
Implements 81 be law-abiding citi-
zen and in ten years the people
would not let so much of the scum of
Foreign countries migrate to Our
Country.
"This writer made last year one
and one-half horse farm:
ego Ton pea vine and native Hay.
"4 Ton Corn Tops.
"40 Doz Bundle Wheat.
16 Doz Bundle Oats.
5000 Bushel Corn.
"024 Gallon Sorghum.
$4,000 lbs lint cotton.
"35 or 40 Bushel Sorghum Seed
Cotton Seed from the lint cotton.
81 furthermore Won by my farm
ing operations 100 dollars in cash
first prize offered by Crowell Pub
fishing Go to the one raising most
corn from one pound yellow Dent
Corn"