Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15

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disposition to come and 60, and to
get up side conversations. Formerly
it often happened that when lectu-
rer made a few statements that
sounded like ssfish tale" to some
farmer, or that ran counter to VIII t
some had seen their grandfathers do,
straightway some one of the talka-
tive kind would draw off crowd to
one side, and, pushing his hat 10 the
back of his head and his quid of to-
bacco to the other cheek, would We
hcmently declare that the speaker
was one of these shook fnr,ners" and
didn't know what he Sas talking
about. Then he would proceed &c
tell just how the thing should be
done.
This is the most intelligent look
ing set of farmers that have ever at
tended an institute here. They are
looking into things closely.
The farm implement companies
have much machinery here on exhi-
bition-traction engines, hay presses,
threshers, gasoline engines, cotton
planters, plows of all descriptions
and various other Implements.
Crowds are about these during the
intermissions. Many are interested
in the machinery used by the college.
The milking of the Clemson COWS
draws large crowd, while many go
to the dairy to see its workings.
Prof. j. N. Harper and Col. M. L.
Donaldson have just returned from
Kentucky, where they bought some
fine horses for the college. The two
German coach horses attract much
attention. 1t is the purpose of the
college to make experiments in the
raising of horses and mules.
There is always something new at
Clemson. This year the principal
addition has been a greenhouse,
which is to be used for class work.
1t is a very handsome building and
especially suited for the work.
The usual excursions are made to
the bottom corn and to the expert
ment station grounds.
CATTLE INDUSTRY.
DR.. G. A. Cary, State veterinarian
and director of Alabama farmers in
stitutes, spoke Tuesday night on the
cattle industry of the South.
The lack of live stock in the sys-
tenn of farming is characteristic. No
system of agriculture can live for
many years without live stock. The
chief deficiency in all Southern lands
is vegetable matter. No other method
of recuperating land has ever been
found that is equal to the live stock
method. When a man chases over
three acres of land for boil of cot.
ton he is wasting two-thirds of bis
time. The keynote to the reduction
of the cost of the production of cot
ton is live stock. Do not sell your
cotton seed, hay, etc., but feed it tc
the stock and then don't try to cult
vate 35 or 40 acres to the plow.
Can the average farmer still stick
to cotton and raise live stock? Tc
do eo it is necessary to divide hit
land 30 as to rotate and diversity hil
crops. Here the speaker gave the
proper divisions of a 40-acre farm
Ohio has 247 animals per square
mile; Iowa 1884. Even Texas hat
only SO. Nine Southern States av
erage SO animals per square mile
nine Northern States average 161
We send our money to Tennessee
for train loads of mules which We
ought to raise. An acre of Bermuds
grass will support as many cattle az
will an acre of Kentucky blue grass
1t is waste of time to be trying tt
get grasses from the North or from
Europe. We need to get into the
habit of furnishing the finished pro
duct to the market. Our system o
fattening on grass in summer ant
then letting the stock starve during
winter for five or six years is los
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