Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-11
lMPRouEp FARM POOLS.

"The farmers Of York county are
quicker to take on to the use Of i'm
proved agricultural implements, and
are making better use Of them than are
the farmers Of any other county In the
state"
This observation was made to the
reporter a few days ago by q local
dealer in farm implements Of various
kinds, and as this particular dealer has
travelled the state enough to set very
good idea of conditions In all sections
1t is fair. to assume that he knows
what he is talking about.
II believe" said another dealer, dis
cussing the same subject, that more
improved plows are being sold from
Yorkville just now than from any other
town of twice or three times Its size
within a hundred miles. It is simply
astonishing. 1t has not been a great
many years since II was the height OF
folly for any local dealer to bring to
this place more than a dozen or Sc
two-horse plows at time. Now some
of the dealers buy these plows by the
carload and II frequently happens that
they have to supplement even orders
like that before the close Of the season
In fact, we have reached point where
there is hardly any limit to the sea-
son. Plows continue to sell all along
It was because Of the easily notice
able growing importance OF the local
plow trade, that the reporter under
took a few specific inquiries into the
matter and tine remarks quoted above
are some of the most striking that
were made to him during his talks
with various dealers. The PROPOSE
tions laid down have the assent OF
practically all the local dealers.
The growth Of the popularity OF I'M
proved plows is a matter Of slow de-
velopment. The first iron beam two
horse turn plow made its appearance
In this section as far back as thirty or
forty years ago, and while 1t came 10
stay, 1t did not come into popularity all
at once. Its popularity was a matter
of slow but steady growth, which was
hardly noticeable until within the past
fifteen years: but since then the de-
mand has been steadily increasing un-
II. now, the modern plow Is all the go,
and the prospect Is that within a few
years more the old fashioned imple-
ments formerly used for the cultivation
of all kinds of crops will have become
curious relics of a less progressive
age.
Among the local people who are
plows are the Yorkville Bug
gy company, Messrs. Glenn & Allison,
the Yorkville Banking and Mercantile
company, the York Supply company,
the Yorkville Hardware company, and
Messrs. Carroll Bros. Each firm Is
selling a different make Of implement,
of course, and each firm holds its par
implement as the best or as
good as the best. All are we'll up on
the talking points of their respective
leaders. And they are selling them.
Every local dealer seems to be thor
oughly satisfied with what he Is do
ing, and that of itself is to be taken
as one Of the best evidences OF the
Of the business.
Messrs. Carroll Bros. have the York
county agency for the oliver plow, one
of the, first, of the improved plows TO
be introduced into this section, and
they are selling as many as a carload
a year Mr.. M. L. Carroll said last
that he believed that his firm
alone has sold during the last three
years as many lInpTONtu plO"o do "SiS
sold in all of York county up to that
time, since the days Of their original
TT Is no trouble at all
to sell them now," he said. You don't
even have to talk them. People come
and ask for them the same as for axes,
hoes or shovels. We have some GUS
toners who have as high as two, three
and four each, and who will have
nothing else. When we bought out the
York Implement company few years
ago they had on hand ten oliver mid
Only two or three OF
these plows had been sold up to that
time Since then we have sold more
than $50 and the demand continues to
increase steadily"
The York Hardware company han
dies the Lynchburg plow. 1t has only
been selling plows about year and
before the Hardware company took
them up, no Lynchburgs had been sold
in this section. Mr.. George W. Brown
said he sold about twenty last fall, and
since then the demand has been grow