The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-11-22
Sunmertou News
Editor The Manning Times:

Editor The Manning Times:
The origin and the growth and the
facts which enter into the making OF a
CITY have always been and always will
be OF supreme interest TO students OF
human institutions the world around:
and the reasons for the existence OF a
municipal corporations are so very mul-
tiplex, the liberal student will hardly
ever be able to name one Individual
fact. as the prime and single reason for
either the birth or growth OF town;
however, it is always possible TO men,
tion with safety certain specific econo-
mic phenomina which have played a
very important part in bringing to-
eetner sufficient number OF. people in
such close peculiar relationship as that
the situation thereby created Will ne
cessitate the existence of a municipal
;tv; for instance, the student OF human
affairs may well reason, that the fact OF
people of the republic having decided
upon one central locality whereat the
governmental affairs should be admin
istered, has entered very materially
into the creation of the beauty and
grandeur of the city of Washington:
again, we may we'll say, that the splen-
did port facilities of New York have
played supreme importance in making
this city the import and export trade
exchange of the world: and when we
come to the consideration of our little
town of Summerton. no one will deny,
that the energetic farmers and the
fertile farming lands OF this section,
supply the nurture and form the back
ground for the beautiful little town we
are building here on the banks OF the
Santee.
The size of the farms hereabout
ranges anywhere from 100 acres to
| ]. 900 acres: most of them have good
subsoil OF clay and will fetch in the open
market not less than $50. per acre,
although your correspondent knows OF
one energetic young farmer of this
town, who refused a cash payment OF
$40, 900 for his small farm OF not quite
100 acres.
The average farming lands of this
section yield as much as a 500 pound
bale of cotton per acre and year after
wear these same lands will bless the
GOOD farmer by making fully forty
bushels of corn per acre: your CORES.
pondent has heard the report that
certain planters hereabout made as
much as three bales of cotton or one
hundred bushels OF corn per acre, but
this statement is subject to investiga-
tion and must perforce be treated in
separate article, since at this writing
we are not dealing with myths.
Agriculture in this section has un-
dergone during the past twenty live
wears what we might call no less than
| a revolution: 3 quarter OF 3. century
ago, the farmer plowed shallow, dump
ed his cotton seed into the river, haul
ed his cotton and corn stalks into the
nearby forest or else burned them, cul-
vivated his crop with the hoe, on high
ridges, alter plowing a deep center
furrow, and knew very little or moth
inc relative to the science of fertilizing:
TODAY, the farmer of this community is
is a student and a scientist as well: he
subscribes to the agricultural bulletin
and corsuits the authorities on the
best methods of farming: he prepares
his land preliminary to planting by
plowing deep. turning up the clay
verify thereby: he rOtates his crop,
uses his cotton seed and cotton and
corn stalks for fertilizer and cultivates
the growing crop with fat plow and
by blowing shallow: furthermore, every
farmer hereabout knows somewhat OF
the science OF soil analysis and plants
and fertiliZes with the view OF keeping
his land in good shape for the next