The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-09-04
Points Well Taken.

renS county ana expresses the senti-
ment of a great many farmers.
One question THE ADVERTISER wants
to ask is, Why is it that so many peo-
pie have no respect for another's pro-
perty rights? There is a law against
trespass but nobody pays the least re-
gard to it. Those people who have
good pasture fences can not keep them
up by reason of tresspassers riding
them down. We need in this country
a healthy public sentiment that will re-
spect the law and punish offenders.
Judging from the number of people
who have been in to speak to the editor
about it, the matter of turning out
cattle after the crops have been gath
cred is n of the Invest subjects that
has been touched upon in the Enquirer
in quite a while.
"No good farmer wants cattle run
ming on his land at any time" said one
farmer to the reporter. '"The place for
CATTLE" he continued, "is in the pas
ture, and if yoh have no pasture you
should not try to keep cattle"
Another farmer came along with this
resolution:
eff there is no law making it a mis-
demeanor for a farmer to turn his
stock out, there ought to be-"
The farmer made the statement with
such a positiveness of conviction as to
arousc the reporter to argument, and
he said:
"Inasmuch as the law allows you to
take up stock that tresspasses on your
land, and make the owner pay the tx
penses, | don't see why you want any
law to make it a misdemeanor for him
to turn his stock out, You don't care
50 long as the stock does not come on
your land, you have a remedy"
"But what if the stock is on my
neighbours land, and no fence between,
have l got to sit down and guard my
place until they come on it, losing a
whole lot of time before | can do any
thing?"
"No, if you will go about your bust.
ness, and if the cattle damage you in
the meantime lou will collect the dam,
age off the owner"
"But I've got to take the cattle W
before can collect damage, haven
II" asked the farmer, "and if tn,
stock do the damage and go away be
fore | get back, what then? Agar
suppose it is hogs. 1t is no trouble t,
take up cattle and pen them; but how
are you going to catch hogs? You ar
not allowed to dog thcm?"
The reporter colud not answer tn,
last question.
81 like to be a good neighbour" sal,
another farmer. II am willing to len,
my tools, my wagon and my stock un
( der certain circumstances, and | am al
ways glad to do anything l can in cas-,
Of sickness; but when it comes to al
lowing my neighbours cattle to run o.
the fields l c%ultivnte l draw the line.
Eyes, | know what all this involves,
d. he continued. 81 have paid the pen
atty more than once l have incurre,
hard feelings and got the reputation o
= being mean; but | can't help it. IT..
to respect everybody's right and
want people to respect my right a
least in some things. My eXpcrienc
= is that to allow cattle to run on you
= land especially in winter, is ruinous t
. know any Better Baf Ha lht9aar 4 4#ifh Whit"
: paid to learn that whenever an ami
l mails foot goes down in wet soil Their
is going to be a clod, and thousands 0
, tracks make thousands of clods, an,
thousands of clods reduce production {,
almost nothing.
years ago when | first began farm
} ing, conceived the idea of using m
: cotton and corn land for winter pas
l ture. | figured that the manure woul
add to it's productiveness. The mex
I cIop was smaller than that of the yea
} before: | did not know what the trou
; BILE was. The next years crop was s.
much smaller as to suggest that tn
} land was not worth another trial
From what others told me as tallyin,
Z with my w experience, concluded
at last that ~pastupage was the trouble
and so | just fenced the whole business
as a pasture and quit allowing stool
on cultivated lands. After two year,
l plowed the pasture up and found i
better than ever. But no more cattl,
on my cultivated lands, if you please
| have taken up my neighbours cattle
time and again, but | have never
charged anybody for damage. But
tell you honestly, rather than allow
cattle to run on my land ever in winter
after the crops are off-and | mean my
neighbors' cattle, for l never allow m,
own to do anything of the kind
would take them up and feed them al
my W expense all winter. This, OF
course, is provided there not enough tc
break me up"